skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m in the opposite scenario - my vote will not matter since my county/state is not close to 50/50.

It’s a laughably depressing system. I think (without any supporting evidence) the national election system was designed to fit to the standards of transportation and communication 200+ years ago. It was actually feasible to vote per state then send one dude on horseback to DC to cast the vote for the whole state. That’s an OK system for the time.

But the fact that each state is given an approximate weight for its vote (electoral college system), is evidence to how we are trying get to something that looks like a nationally counted winner take all election. We’re just doing it terribly.

If we fixed these issues then election campaigns couldn’t just focus on swing states and ignore everyone else. The game theory would then shift to just needing to convince a majority of all voters to vote for you.
Good to know, thanks. I knew it made synthetic events, but thought it was all still 1:1. I see I was completely wrong. I gotta say, yuck. Don't like it, wish they'd taken a more polyfill-like approach.
Libgen, Anna's archive, xlib and scihub.

All OSM data and openaddresses data.
Particularly if you do not publicly disclose the cert you signed it with: I'd be willing to bet there's some way to make it so you can produce a signing cert that'll claim you filled in any data you wish.

E.g. have your signature data be a class of values based on vote possibilities, but have all produce the same final signature. You could produce anything for anyone that way. I'm not sure if that'd be "forward secrecy" or "deniable encryption" or what, but there are a variety of systems that do similar things.

I am not a cryptographer and I don't know any concrete implementations that would have all the properties I want, but pieces of pretty much all things you could reasonably want in a voting system do already exist. And pretty often they can be layered together. The bigger problems in practice seem to be "people won't trust it" (which is defensible), "some of the fancier crypto is too new and not thoroughly proven" (which is very true, e.g. zero-knowledge proofs), and "implementers so far have been stunningly incompetent" (undeniable).

(edit: or I guess more easily, just sign the data after encryption, and throw away your encryption key. then you can claim whatever you like - it's encrypted, they can't know, and you can still show that it wasn't changed)
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Excel problems and errors are everywhere too.
Especially when data imports are necessary.

I don’t want to know how many decisions are made based on faulty Excel spreadsheets.
Does that mean it cannot be exploited through WebGL?
Sounds like you work well outside of the domain.

Auditors don’t show up to critique your formulas. They are looking at business processes, which means usually the data that flows between things. If it gets to the point where they are digging that deep, they have a finding and are trying to assess the severity.

Software, including major business systems are often fucked up. There are major companies using RPA software to robotically use excel to correct some fubar in Oracle financials that wont get fixed for a few years.

The beauty of excel is that the business speaks it.
Bro, Chinese auto factory workers make like $300 per month: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas...

Compare that to US workers making about $30 per hour: https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm

As for the engineering costs: I think reusing existing designs is a way of cutting costs for US companies. Chinese companies and Tesla designed very different stuff from scratch because they had no choice I think. Remember, existing designs are proven over potentially decades, comply with various laws, etc.
There's a corollary to the fallacy of appeal to authority, which is that it's also a fallacy of rejecting an idea outright on the grounds it doesn't come from an authority. It's an insightful observation whether or not you like Bezos.
There's no reason in principle why

name + " is " + age + " years old."

couldn't compile to exactly the same. (Other than maybe `string.Format` having some additional customizable behavior, I don't know C# that well.)
The company is just going to buy the robot directly. Why would they middle man things like that? Alternatively if they just need the robots for shifts, they will rent them out from some central provider.
> As you said, no standardization, which means all precincts reports on wildly different time intervals

There is standardization within all precincts of a county. And from my past experience as a poll worker, I can tell you why precinct reporting times can vary wildly within a county.

(Note things I say here are specific to the county where I worked.)

Anyone in line to vote by 8PM is allowed to vote. We (the other poll workers and I) could not start closing the polls until every voter had voted. If the local community did not trust vote-by-mail, then that polling place will likely see delays in closing due to lines.

One polling place often covered multiple precincts, so you'll see multiple precincts delayed simultaneously.

After that, boxes go from one queue to another, with multiple queues consolidating into one or two. So, a one-minute delay in dropping off your box to a collection point, may mean a two-hour delay in that box being processed.

> if you can interfere with just tallying

First off, that would require a remarkable amount of fraud. Second, that's why there are observers. It doesn't matter if it's 2AM on the Wednesday after election day: If tabulating is happening, you are allowed to observe.
> at the level of the best psychopathic con men

Technology permits scale. The Marquis de Sade already observed the limitations of the theater medium to transmit sexually graphic content (which he saw as useful for social and political control). You could only pack so many people in a theater, and the further away you are, the less visible the stage. The world had to wait for the motion picture and even the VHS tape to give pornography effective delivery mechanisms. The internet only made this more effective, first by making porn even more accessible, but also through targeting by observing user behavior patterns. AI can even better tailor the content by matching behavior data and generating new content to taste. Collecting and interpreting face data only contributes to this spiral toward total domination.
We could make more batteries in the US too but higher wages and environmental regulations put us at a disadvantage. The same applies to practically anything you can think of.
>Meanwhile tribes of hunter-gatherers in Africa get 15-80% of their daily calories from honey during certain seasons; why aren't they obese and diabetic?

I'd be willing to entertain a hypothesis that the demographic cohort of T2D Americans aren't getting most of their sugar in the form of organic, unprocessed honey taken directly from the hive.
Do you also believe Walmart is marketing chocolate cookies to hate groups or is the price an unfortunate coincidence when they do it?

https://www.walmart.com/ip/President-s-Choice-The-Decadent-C...
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Let's see if they recommend the fixed version by Monday or Tuesday at the latest
CSV is a simple data interchange format. Better than excel in that context.

PDF is the canonical way to preserve formatting where that is important. A court document electronically filed in PDF in 1999 is identically rendered today. The source .doc or WordPerfect file is not.
What was so special about Sunset?
Apologies, but this strikes me as a rather silly question. What I would keep in the event of a prolonged network outage would be of minimal significance.

What I'd really be concerned about would be our modern society. Purchasing food, water, fuel, clothes and other necessities would be near impossible. Supply chains would not just have problems, but literally fall apart. Money would stop moving.

If anything is "too big to fail" it would be the internet.
> fear that AI will be naturally good a persuasion

It seems like many AI programs are built to do that. Look at all the software that makes its output look human - which is usually unnecessary unless the software is intended to con or persuade people.

For example, AI interfaces could say:

INPUT:

OUTPUT:

... instead of looking like, for example, a text chat with a human.

Also, it seems the human tone could be taken out, such as the engaging niceties, but I wonder: If the model is built on human writing, could the AI be designed to simply and flatly state facts?
Depends on who's not supposed to be eating them.

A lot of things in plants are there to repel insects but we like it or they're nutritious for us. Caffeine, for example.

But the problem with seed oils is supposed to be that they're inflammatory and can oxidize (ie go rancid.)
This is fantastic! You packed great playability, interesting insights, and made a fun game, more than just a small one.
We already have highly specialized robots. They’re usually built for specific situations and are expensive and immobile. The goal here is to provide a robot that can fill as many roles as possible and the best template for that is humans around which the entire world has been built.
So far, I've never had Copilot "solve a problem" for me.

It has regularly autocompleted what I was going to type anyway.

It has saved me typing time more than it has saved me critical thinking time. Which has value, but not in the same way.
> 60 year old CFO

As a 59-year-old, I am extremely disappointed in your insinuation that people our age are unfamiliar with modern technology. We built the foundations for all the cool stuff you whippersnappers take for granted, including Excel.
VR38DETT is unlikely to be useful to the average consumer.

I don't know why they are using low/high on the article. It's just tiered like yesteryear's i5 vs i7 for mobile chip; but using i5 vs i7 was highly misleading to consumers because it would lead people to think that there is some great gap between the two chips (when they were the same chip at different clock speeds).
Sure, they had a choice in which engine to use, but that's not the point. Your logic regarding sales figures and percentages is also missing context and is probably a bit too generous when it comes to how much money has been made.

The point here is that they started out with a certain set of terms: Unity wasn't a significant cost, nor was it ever expected to be, but now they've switched up the terms of the deal more or less unilaterally. This is not good business. No one wants an essential supplier or vendor to go out of business if they can't be easily replaced, and this can be leveraged in negotiations for terms that satisfy both parties, but dictating terms like this leaves a sour taste.

You also assume that every copy has sold for 40 dollars, but a huge chunk of sales will be from early on when pricing was low or during promotional pricing events. You also don't know how fat or thin the margins are, and using percentages of overall revenue doesn't reflect how much a change like this could be affecting their bottom line. If their margin is 10%, a rise in cost of 1% of overall revenue eats a tenth of their profits. If we use less liberal assumptions about their revenue, we might go as high as half their bottom line being taken out by a mandatory spend figure such as this.
Sure, nine is a lot,
but your comment says "more than 1 font". Without arguing the semantics of what you meant by "font", hopefully using different font sizes and emphasis (bold/italics) do make sense to you. If those make sense, then using a different font entirely shouldn't be too complicated to see as a feature that an Excel user who's not using it for graphics design reasonably want.

Legibility is an important consideration, and with Excel, the size of sheets tend to grow until there are too many columns. So now you have the normal regular size font and you use a different font that's more legible at small sizes, especially when rotated 90.

There have been umpteen attempts to replace Excel. User interviews to understand how customers actually use the tool are important. Having the hubris to say customers are doing it wrong without even bothering to understand their use case is the first step to failing at replacing Excel.

Don't get me wrong, I cringe every time I fire up a spreadsheet and it grows past a reasonable size or length of use, or any number of shortcomings. Sometimes I even switch tools or write my own when that happens but lately I find Airtable's a pretty good replacement for most human (aka not finance) use of spreadsheets.
Beyond technical aspects I don't see the added value. In fact gumroad kept some earnings because when it came time for payout I had to (re￶)qualify under stripe's terms. Who was the scammer in that siuation? I'd say gumroad was.

I've processed with added value high risk processor platforms who'll handle hair extension transactions. For 15%. All it required technically was an html widget link.

That processor also used to not require the annual mcvisa fee. Amazing loophole lasted for a decade. They do require the fee now. Progress.

As for the main topic of touchy feely confessions that is 100% directly out of the communist struggle session playbook.
Were they human controlled or just human voiced?
The pitch of indoor/vertical farming is to make for the extra cost of light by significantly reducing other (water/pesticide/fertilizer) costs and higher yields. The math is really hard to make work though like you’re saying.
I'd like to argue for YC in the same way as I would argue when someone brings up my alma mater (or an Ivy League uni) - it's not the uni that shines, it's the people you're studying with.

YC's huge advantage is that they have an internal network of startups who support each other with YC money as customers, which then get pushed to VCs as revenue growth numbers. VCs have learnt to get in on the gravy train early, because the brand-name still carries value downstream. For no-name startups and no-name founders with no fancy universities (who are increasingly being ignored), this is a huge disadvantage.

If you want to look at YC's actual success rate, take a look at any of their public market companies' performance. Hint, none of them have outperformed their IPO price. In fact, many of them only found their ways into exits through the SPAC frenzy of 2021.
I learned how to cook rice properly from my Mom. Pot, 2x water, boil then turn to low, add rice, 18 minutes, done. My only gripe is that I'm still trying to find a good rice pot with the little steam vent in the lid.

The rice cookers I've seen take twice as long to make rice that is by no means twice as good.

To each, their own. My Mom loves the rice cooker I gave back to her because it took too long to cook rice. =)
On a manual it's the opposite. Put it in 1st gear, let it settle into place, only then parking brake.

1st will hold the car by itself if the parking brake slips.
They are fairly efficient but we used to be efficient too. We simply cannot compete on cost because wages are so low there. Even if we had 100% automation we could not do it.

Let me put it another way. It is literally cheaper to ship basic materials like wood to China and have them send us back popsicle sticks. Does that sound like a cutting-edge efficiency problem, or is it a wage problem?? The same can be said about all kinds of things from food to pig iron. We're not talking about tech in any sense. The US mastered every single industry it sent to China with great efficiency, but the exchange rate situation and low wages there make it very difficult for a US company to compete.

Also, China protects its markets much better than we do. In order to sell in China you have to set up a 51% Chinese-owned outfit just to do that. Meanwhile they dump all their products on the world market with very few reciprocal relationships. Imagine how different things would be if we required Chinese companies to do the 51% US-owned franchise thing here. We could even require them to build factories here. Of course, there is no point doing that. If they did it, the goods would be just as expensive as 100% American companies. That's why we don't bother. They on the other hand do it mainly to swipe whatever knowledge they can from foreign companies. I've seen many accounts of this from US companies. You can get the Chinese to make lots of things, but if you send your design there then you risk knockoffs putting you out of business in only a few years.
68.25 GB/s

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/09/compared-apple-si...
Excel sheets are built visually so there is absolutely no sane way to parse them. Just the same thing as trying to restructure a pdf at the end of the day.
The study you linked to defines the "high fat diet" as 55 % fat/25 % saturated fat/27 % carbohydrate.

Besides the fact that these figures add up to 107%, 27% of a 2000 kcal/d diet is 540 calories. At 4 calories per gram of carbohydrates, that works out to 135g of carbohydrates. Even if they were only eating 1200 kcal/d, that's still 81g of carbs.

Most ketogenic diets recommend no more than 20g of net carbohydrates per day (net carbs = total carbs - fiber - certain sugar alcohols).

This study may be valid, but I'd bet money there wasn't a single participant actually in a state of ketosis for this study, which makes it moot as a response to the parent comment you're refuting, which specifically mentions ketosis, not just a "high fat diet" that also contains 80g+ of carbs daily.
This is a job that currently employs a massive number of humans in Amazon warehouses. When you order a product on Amazon, they currently have autonomous robots that bring in entire shelves of that product up to a person standing at a counter, who picks the product from the shelf, puts it into a box and sends it off for shipping. This could take all those jobs away.
According to Mark Gurman (who's usually fairly accurate) - mid to late 2025.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/08/gurman-heres-when-to-expect-m...
Maybe the best answer would be to just create a system where only people who are legally allowed to vote, and those that aren't allowed can't, and the provenance of any given ballot is very clear and secure.
> The greater the delay, the more annoyed folks become.

Where's the problem with waiting? This is not some customer service to optimize for profit, there's no harm in waiting a bit.
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Well, going forward is undefined (i.e., redo history loss), unless you implement "linearized" history [1], which anecdotally is very confusing for most people.

[1]: https://www.felesatra.moe/blog/2019/08/04/emacs-undo
Denmark has a smaller population than New York City, America is a very large place.
Sounds like maybe it would be good to push for accurate voter rolls!
I love my InstantPot, but never use it for rice. The few times I've tried, I haven't liked the results. Boiled/steamed on the stove ftw. :)

Now soups, veggies, artichokes, enchiladas, ... For those things, the instant pot is awesome. =)
That does sound a bit like Peircian semiotic so I’m with you so far as the general concept of meaning being a sort of iterative construct.

Where I don’t follow is how a bitmap approximation captures that in a semiotic way. As far as I can tell the semiosis still is all occurring in the human observer of the machine’s output. The mathematics still hasn’t captured the interpretant so far as I can see.

Regardless of my possible incomprehension, I appreciate your elucidation. Thanks!
video compression can be pretty good, and for an editor which is gonna be mostly a static image with just elements switched on and off, surely it can't be "that much". it can't be worse than some github pages with dozens of huge pngs
I mean I guess it's a viewpoint on who ought to set the rules. I actually don't even disagree with you, and I'm a sworn Republican. However, the moral hazard and threat to democracy of bureaucrat and officials overriding legislative policy is something I dislike basically universally, especially for elections
I wrote a VB macro that displays the formula for a cell, next to the cell. Granted you have to add a cell (typically a column) to make space for it. It returns either a formula, or "constant" if the cell doesn't contain a formula. I could make it more sophisticated, but just those two things are enough to make spreadsheets a lot easier for me to follow.

Following spreadsheets is like trying to find something in my garage if all of the boxes have lids. But if the boxes are all open, I can find stuff in a jiffy, even if the boxes are disorganized.
Clearly it’s not easy to solve the folding machine problem because otherwise we would have one of those already. I absolutely wouldn’t mind a robot helper walking around the house and going what my maid currently does.
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Just pointing out that what you're paying for is actually 3x these resources. By default you get a primary server and two replicas with whatever specification you choose. This is primarily for data durability, but you can also send queries to your replicas.
> What is at stake for you here?

Well, for instance in some circles quoting Latour and showing that you are fully in agreement with his work is a way to really improve your chances to get cold, hard grant money. I know a lot of students who are forced to read Latour through their class and have to take it pretty much as gospel, in Concordia University in Montreal.
> Specifically, I posit that it is harder to check a spreadsheet, than it is to check a "traditional" program in a normal programming language, which works on pure data.

I don't think I can agree with this. The average codebase I see is pretty terrible readability-wise. Nasty levels of function nesting, tons of variation of behavior based on arguments passed into functions, etc. I assume the average Excel spreadsheet is also pretty nasty, but it has the advantage of having a debugger "built in" vs looking at the code generally without actually seeing the data flowing through it (e.g. who runs every code review they do through a debugger?).

I also think this ignores that a "traditional" program replacing Excel would still need to get data from somewhere, which commonly implies a SQL database or a data warehouse that speaks SQL these days, and complex SQL is itself NASTY to verify/fully grok through reading alone.
I'm surprised no one has said Wikipedia yet.
And what a diversity of election results those states have had since then!
TFA does say so:

> During the following 10 years or so, Sacks took a prodigious amount of amphetamines and psychotropics – “every dose an overdose” – with one trip producing visions of the “neurological heavens” so intense it inspired him to write his first book, Migraine (1970).

That time frame matches the NPR episode you cited:

> One chapter, called "Altered States," described his own experiments with mind-altering drugs in the '60s when he was a neurology resident.