skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-digital systems have claims of fake ballots being inserted all the time. I don't think the answer to people being suspicious of digital systems is to abandon them. It's to either disprove their suspicion or add controls so they become disproven.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ballot+stuffing+2020

https://www.google.com/search?q=ballot+stuffing+2016

https://www.google.com/search?q=ballot+stuffing+2012
Does it work with USB cameras? It would be great if it can just interface with /dev/video0 for example.
there were so many 'waves', so many years apart, that I have a hard time lumping them all together.

aol and yahoo, maybe. aol was much earlier, but they both hit max valuation at around the same 2000-01 period.

myspace hit max valuation at 05-06. 5 years might as well have been a century at that point in history with the amount of flux in that industry.

my first wave was the tail end of BBSs and the beginning of the walled gardens of compuserve and aol. a bit later came The Palace, The Well, and various other (incredibly formative and impactful) social cliques.

The social aspects was what separated the 'waves' for me, and the gradual shift from an idealist concept to something more corporate.
I have an EV. I always charge at home-- other than on longer trips or just at free chargers that happen to be at the right place.

When I got the EV I just installed the charger, it wasn't even a thing I thought much about: I saw it as just part of having an EV. The ability to charge overnight at home was a reason to have an EV or at least a reason that having an EV wouldn't stink.

And I am shocked by the fact that I can talk to a dozen EV owners and not encounter a single other one who charges at home.

Sometimes it's because the owner doesn't own their home and can't add an outlet. Other times they do but believe they are blocked by city permitting, or they abandoned the idea after an electrician quoted them thousands of dollars. Less often it's because they've tried using the 120v 12a or whatever charger thing that came with the car and found it unhelpfully slow and don't know that charging at 240v/40a would be oodles faster.

I think it's insane. But in my experience it is the vast majority.

Presumably the people selling EVs downplay the importance of charging at home since the extra requirement would cost some sales? No idea.
Also see the "blood in the water" water polo game between Russia and Hungary just after Russia invaded Hungary in 1956.
One interesting fact about the game. We designed all the levels around Lua, which was officially banned from the App Store when we were making it. I remember deciding with the other main developer, that we should rename all our .lua files, .cfg (.configure) to buy us some time.

Ultimately, Apple eventually changed the rules to allow for this.
I know this project is just for fun, but I did once work on a website backend that genuinely used Visual Basic 6 to generate dynamic webpages. This was not a small, internal product either, and it was in this century. I think they moved it all to .NET eventually, but for a while it was Frankensteined out of .NET and VB6.

The main thing I remember was trying to debug questionnaire functionality and getting very nearly nowhere: it was an entire questionnaire engine implemented in VB6, which was probably why it hadn't been ported to .NET yet. I'm sure PHP of the same vintage would have been equally gnarly, mind you.
GORILLA.BAS, no?

That being said, exactly the same here. My first program that was ever used by anyone other than me was a National Lottery number picker for my grandad :) saved him 20 minutes a week...
You can, but it's quite slow to charge within the confines an an ordinary outlet.
I don't know enough about those two examples to authoritatively comment but I do know housing prices can be quite sticky, and the zoning and permitting is the problem most of the time but it's the problem in the sense that it is causing less than ideal supply situations, which allows prices to be driven up. There can also be situations where there is a supply mismatch where rural or urban is oversupplied. France looks like it might partially have that, as it has a very high percentage of rural housing vs the rest of the oecd (which also makes me wonder where this subsidized housing investment vehicle stuff is being built, as it could be a situation where the city is still under supplied, especially if it has rent controls, which almost always restrict supply if they are biting) I know nothing about Bulgaria so no comment.
The chart is raw counts, not a percentage

> Even though failure rates (as a percentage) are the most consequential, I think showing the absolute number of failures illustrates our experience best
Typically you want votes to be non-identifiable so you can't show that Person A voted for Candidate 1.

This is why your mail in ballots in the US have the double envelope system. The outer envelope identifies the ballot (but not your vote) and if there's only 1 submission then it's likely legit. At that point the inner ballot can be counted along with other legit ballots and it won't be identifiable back to you.
way to go Zhang Shan, that seems tangentially relevant to the statement. Its own independent issue about the subsequent split, not changing anything about my statement in a scatterplot of all absolute records, and nothing to do with whether a statement in 1869 was misogyny.
>Perhaps culturally and historically, the US has been a prosperous high-trust society that did not have to worry too much about people skimming a percentage off the top for providing a service.

When was the US ever a high-trust society? I don't think it ever was in my lifetime (and I'm not young). I feel like the US sees itself as a high-trust society (or a former one, not so long ago), but the reality is quite different. I'd say, at best, the US was a medium-trust society, with highly variable levels of corruption by locality, and is getting steadily worse.
And in 100 years people will criticize you as well.

What your generation did to the environment, biodiversity, the climate, will be offensive to them.

Maybe you said something in favor or against AI and that then backfires. Because if AI is used to dominate humanity tech people who made it possible will be the most hated.

Or who knows, maybe you ate an animal or used too many kWh in your house.
They seem to be sold out for quite a while, sadly. Good for them, though, I hope they means they’ll grow.
How would absolute numbers mean anything at all without the percentages? Did they spend their time making a useless graph?
Haven: Protect personal spaces and possessions, via Android device sensors
This looks fantastic.

Just the notion of a hyperlinked code-playground is fantastic. Not to mention the content of the book.

And a side project at that? Wow. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
Do you know who wins all the marathons?

People in wheelchairs. It's not even close. They have to put them in a different category from the, um, able-bodied people, so that the able-bodied can also win.
FWIW, it's now possible to retrofit later model year batteries to older Leafs, giving you a replacement path which is much cheaper than the factory solution and will substantially expand your capacity-- something to keep in mind as you tire of fighting with the diminishing range. :)
They cover that down the page under the "Failure Rates in Context" section

> Everything I’ve shown you so far is our raw number of failures, but what matters most is failure rate percentages. Let’s look at total failure rates in the context of multiple generations and with comparison to AMD Ryzen CPUs.
Slavery accepted by the enslaved.
99% of proper good science is "Nothing solid. Work in progress.", it doesn't make it any less valuable. I prefer this honest and clear communication a hundred-fold over what comes out of universities' PR departments.
I never understood why people compare places like Houston and Tokyo... Do these people lack any form of logical reasoning? It's the reason why the saying "apples to oranges" exists.

Do you know how dumb it sounds to compare two entirely different places as if they should relate?
Notation design and how it affects thought
It would be nice if it sorted events by time. Then I could enter

12PM Lunch
8AM Dr Astro
3PM Nap and see them as

8AM Dr Astro
12PM Lunch
3PM Nap
It's not just a reaction to the fashion of the older generation. They occupy different mental spaces. Facebook is broadcast, to everyone you know, permanently. Snapchat is 1:1, and transient. Sending the same text message on different platforms can have significantly different connotations.
Being a worker is a fireable offense. Don’t do this, but also don’t pretend you have any safety whatsoever just because you follow master’s rules. Your working relationship is tenuous in perpetuity.
Lots of tools already provide this info in a dense and easy to consume form. How is doing it through a chatbot better?
Both sites killed third party apps, Reddit took control from moderators, Twitter fucked up the verification system and turned it into an entry level advertising tier.
This is only a dozen years or so away from being a defense of Hitler.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, I guess?
Correct - a lot of the blander varieties have pushed their way into local seed markets. You should check out heirloom seed vendors for old style tomatoes. There are also some modern boutique hybrids that are absolutely fabulous. My favorites are Sun Sugar if you like cherry tomatoes, and "Pineapple Tomato" if you like that rich "tomato" flavor in a full-sized. (Both are also pulp-heavy, which in my opinion are a feature common to better tasting tomatoes.)
Got any good data to cite for that number? I've seen the Edison phone survey, but not sure a phone survey is a reliable way to measure internet use.
> I use it for ingesting RTP streams I generate from usb webcams and then playing it with very low latency in the browser.

Do you have any write up about this? I did try Janus years ago, it wasn’t great, slow, and buggy, but I don’t know about its current state now.
Mechanical hard drives are absolutely on the same, or higher, level of reliability. It's mind boggling what we can achieve when we really focus on quality outcomes.
Tauri won't work with those. For example, on Linux, the .deb has dependencies on a version of webview that's not available on Ubuntu 20.04.
I'm guessing you didn't read the article? You can't see the difference between someone opening a PR Linus doesn't like and a company actively lying about a security breach? They should absolutely be criticized, but I would not verbally harass a coworker over a PR.

Wild that you both made an account for this and dug through my comments just to comment on a comment on an article you didn't read.
Sounds similar to the efficacy of topical caffeine.
https://www.adaderm.com/caffeine-and-its-impact-on-hair-loss
This reasoning for fintech is mostly wrong. The people who have alpha and are trading are very rarely the people who have data engineering and infrastructure skills.

Your hypothesis is essentially that Bloomberg, as a company, doesn't make sense.
ARM continues to innovate (“work”). They release new core IPs every year. It’s gotten to the point that companies stopped making their own implementations and just license ARM’s versions.
> failing is maintaining the right corporate culture

Would you please share some good links to read about it?
Relevant stand-up bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbXmGgJePsk
Belgium showed black people in a zoo until the 60s, and women did not have voting rights in “enlightened” Switzerland until 1971. Holier than thou attitudes in Europe are a product of fairly recent brainwashing.
The problem with the FOSS options for these services is that they're a PITA to set up or use, and they usually cost money. It's not like using a FOSS alternative to Photoshop, where you just download Krita or Gimp and run it locally on your PC: with a service like Mastodon, it needs always-running servers, so you either have to have your own server on the internet (not really viable for most people), rent one from a colocation provider or other service ($$$), or pay a subscription fee to keep your instance on someone else's server ($). Now compare this to using Facebook, which is free. And since there's zero interoperability between different SNS services, you have to go where all your friends are.
Eh, there's voter fraud in the US. Some of it is very ironic too [1].

> He voted by absentee ballot and again in person on election day but claimed in social media posts that he did it to show how insecure absentee voting is. He pleaded guilty to one of the charges and was sentenced to 6 months of probation and ordered to complete 40 hours of community service and pay $500 in restitution. [1] [2]

However, I didn't see any cases for 10+ votes as a deceased person for 2020. There is somebody that voted 26 times using alive people though [3].

The overall moral is though, there is fraud and it does get caught. When you think there's "widespread" fraud that isn't being detected it ends up always being a simple explanation (i.e. people lived in the state at the time of the election and moved afterwards).

[1]: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search?combine=&state=Al...

[2]: herit.ag/3WpMOb9

[3]: herit.ag/3yE3mD3
Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'
I think South (and Central) America kinda has gotten its shit together though. I've personally worked with great devs from Costa Rica and Argentina. Lots more offshoring to Eastern Europe as well because there are still a good couple hours of overlap during the business day where it's easy to communicate.
Most captchas don't even come off as actual abuse protection, but rather seem to exist because someone wanted to check some box for more cargo cult "security". I can understand captchas being on login pages, ideally only after a few failed logins. But most usage seems to involve gating simple pages, often on sites that should want to be publishing their data far and wide (like ecommerce). And if your site implementation is that bloated that serving what should be static pages creates significant load, you should work on fixing that rather than adding band-aids that make your site even less usable.
You can't beat biology.

The world record for the women's 100m sprint was set in 1988 at 10.49s by Florence Joyner at 29. [0]

High school boys in the US easily beat those times. [1]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_athle...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_high_sch...
Blaming missing the AI boom on your revenues just shouldn't fly as an excuse.
Good hardware makers should be innovating in other ways not just focusing / relying purely on AI and other tech trends for their revenue.
Fucking troll user profile created five minutes ago. The site is for individuals who would like to engage in respectful discussion based in science. Get your political shit out of here.
No, you opened with this

> Only those instances make the news. And then get repeated time and time again. It's a super-biased view not at all representative of his day-to-day behaviour.

You certainly can't represent your post as "I've only seen what I've seen" with that opener. You were claiming the OP was spreading misinformation. That is the lie. Which is why I provided an instance of Linus's tirades that doesn't match up with what you said.

Don't call someone "super-biased" and then be surprised when people don't roll over for you.

> Your post is extremely aggressive, pretty darn toxic, and explicitly the sort of stuff that's not appropriate here.

It's ironic that my mild comment is upsetting you while you defend a mans right to say his employees should've been aborted. Is it just because he's famous? Or because you think the employees were being stupid? Have you considered that "doing stupid" is a subjective assessment that people use as a cudgel to act poorly? What if I thought you were doing stupid, could I say the things Linus says?

Here's some more for you: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495
No way!! I used to play the original one on my Nokia phone (E61i - I was called a dork for using such a chonky device back then, but I needed that sweet WiFi!) for hours! It was this and another game from iDreams that were my favorites.
From what I understand (and I could be wrong), Kandahar is the modern name of Gandhara.
There Is No Single Mental Model for Programming
We need more things that connect the world this way, but they only work if you can set aside the cynicism a bit or at least see the good and the bad and enjoy the good when appropriate and try to fix the bad when appropriate. It's been genuinely fun watching this year and just enjoying the competition and surrounding celebration and coverage.
The Raymond Smullyan puzzle books might work.

I think the first part of The Lady or the Tiger might be fun.

To Mock A Mockingbird might work too, but the initial learning curve might be too steep. The Island of Knights and Knaves part could work.

Satan, Cantor and Infinity has some good parts, too.
It's pure hubris to assume you know what the concerns and cultural fads will be important to people of the future. You don't know what they'll care about any more than I do.
> This reasoning for fintech is mostly wrong.

If it is wrong, what is right?

> The people who have alpha and are trading are very rarely the people who have data engineering and infrastructure skills.

How do you know this? Can you cite some useful information?

> Your hypothesis is essentially that Bloomberg, as a company, doesn't make sense.

Providing pickaxes to miners has been a viable business model since the dawn of the modern age. But that's not what (mis)using LLMs for picking stocks is, unless you are in the shitty tool business. Bloomberg's tools are top of the line.
This kind of ignorance serves no one but hate mongers.
It is released by both OpenAI and Anthropic each to one of their key partners(large hedge fund) with exclusive access. I have inside sources at both that have told me as much.
I don’t understand what point you are trying to make. Are you saying women should be exactly the same as men?
Yup, his idea of perfection is most certainly imperfect by our standards, why even try to dress it up? Are we going to extol the virtues of Margaret Sanger and John Money next?
It's almost like it wasn't depicting the Last Supper because that has zero relevance to the Olympic ceremonies or culture.
I’ve not been myself but I’ve heard that in Japan it’s common to give fruit as a gift and that as a result there’s very high end fruit available for purchase. You can go into a store and spend the equivalent of $50 on the best looking and tasting melon you’ve ever had.
I'm sure there were two variants of this ad, and some data-driven A/B testing picked this one.

Perhaps the alternative was something like: "Motivated student writes letter to Nobel laureate scientist with the help of AI", or similar.

I can't imagine there's mass-scale relatable examples that are easy to come up with right now -- "programmer quickly instantiates test suite for existing codebase rapidly using AI" doesn't quite corroborate the "AI is more important than fire/electricity" hype coming from top leadership.
China, supposedly.
I’ve written a library as well as a toy compiler in Rhombus. I occasionally work with Matthew Flatt. I’m happy to try to answer any questions! :)

One of the biggest things that make Rhombus an interesting language is its “shrubbery” notation. In languages with macros, you typically get faced with a trade-off: if you want to operate on an AST, then the syntax going into the macro needs to be parsable by the host language, thus limiting what kind of syntax you can have in a macro. On the other hand, you can pass a token stream, which gives you a lot more flexibility; the problem now is that you need some parser to recover binding syntax when you want it, which complicates things.

Rhombus does a little bit of parsing, but leaves subterms unparsed until later. This gives you flexibility in your macro syntax without the complications of using a raw token stream.

There’s a lot of other interesting stuff like its ability to bind macros in different spaces (a macro can have one expansion when used on the left of an assignment and a different one in expression position), the ability to attach static information to identifiers at compile time and have that propagate to use sites, etc.

Here’s my compiler: https://codeberg.org/ashton314/rhombus-compiler

Here’s the library: https://github.com/ashton314/rhombus_dyn

Motivation for building the library: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-07-15_type_tailoring/
I’m a software developer and rooting my kindle genuinely took a couple hours from googling to it working. It’s definitely not for the light hearted
Fremont Older Sends Ruef to Prison (Then Regrets It)
Also on track to generate more solar than the state would consume, destined for new data centers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40445159
Eurovision is the same. Though yearly, limited to Europe, and not taken anywhere near as seriously as the olympics, it's an important political event imo. The late disqualification and the voting this year had me on the edge of my seat. Russia haven't been able to show up without being drowned out by booing for a decade, for their anti-LGBT law changes and then for their invasion of Ukraine amongst other things. No so-called miracles on ice happen at Eurovision but the politics run a lot deeper than just countries keeping to their voting blocs lol.

The politics are always going to be a part of these kinds of events
Delaney - I second this. Can you write a book on this? Blog posts. Podcasts? I’d read/listen to them all.
Hexadecimal?
Some of the extroverts get offended when we choose elsewhere
> Modern drives only access one platter at a time

Do you mean only one side (top/bottom) of one platter?
How's battery life?

Have you compared sessions where you're principally, say, reading books with a bookreader app vs. Web browsing, or using other apps?

My experience on the BOOX, an E-ink device, is that web browsing (Einkbro) consumes battery at ~10x the hourly rate that reading books (Neoreader) does. How much of that is active display, and how much is other CPU usage, I don't know.
I must have applied to hundreds or even a thousand jobs in the months after graduating college. Besides the standard good GPA etc. I had a significantly above average amount of experience and knowledge at the time, glowing recommendations from my internship, my own website/github stuff/etc., all stuff that's baseline on this website but was far and above the norm for my average classmate.

Honest question, am I vastly underestimating the average student and vastly overestimating myself at the time, or was this above the norm for a new grad? https://external-preview.redd.it/Sfx4gvcEZXKXr8cxBseyyW2ycGP...

It was radio silence for almost a year until I eventually lucked out and got contacted by a recruiter for Tata Consultancy Services. From what I hear they only really cared about GPA and it may have only been part of a hiring glut that had something to do with increasing on-shore employment numbers for some political reason.

Once I was actually in I was able to luckily get a great career going and join another company some years down the road.
My experience says that applying to jobs as a general activity is a total waste of time, you can essentially only get a job through luck and increasing the surface area of that luck with networking. Even now I dread the thought of having to job search again. It's like none of the postings are real, for reasons such as the posting is only there to satisfy a legal or HR requirement but they already had a specific person in mind. I've never had anything good come of sending in a resume. I have no reproducible steps to give advice to anyone coming into the field how to get a job though except to apply to something like Tata.