skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nationalized industries are nationalized because they shouldn't have to care about profits and losses beyond a basic duty to use resources efficiently. The existence of the nationalized service is deemed to be so important that it must be run by the state to prevent any possible instability or interruptions.

With that being said, the situation of the USPS is not simple - it's been suffering political interference from elected officials for literally centuries. A very good example of why giving too much oversight power to elected officials and having too many political appointees is very dangerous.
Its great, all the prompts in one place. Perhaps, you can start a discord server to have a community that creates prompts like these, would be really cool
People who want voter ID are wrong because they ignore the racist history of using voter ID requirements to disenfranchise voters and/or don’t understand how voter registration or ballot tracking work.

Voter ID is simply not something that will add security to the voting process but it will disenfranchise voters.

ID is already verified when registering and names are recorded when submitting ballots. Anyone seeking to cast ballots in the name of registered non-voters would need an army of individuals that won’t be recognized by poll workers and perfect knowledge of who is registered and not voting.

If a single registered voter name tries to cast two ballots that will trigger an investigation that will unravel the conspiracy. It doesn’t scale. It’s a problem made up by people who want to disenfranchise voters and is eaten up because it sounds “common sense”.

People who don’t think anonymity in voting is important lack imagination and historical knowledge. Fear of retaliation from the government, political fanatics, your family, or friends is perfectly rational and is why voting must be anonymous. This is an especially reasonable concern in an election where one of the candidates refers to voters as “the enemy within”. Consider voting for a Communist when Senator McCarthy was on his witch hunts. People are right to be scared of retaliation.
Just someone willing to build a full ARM emulator with VGA and IO in redstone.

Once you can get Linux booting, you can start writing kernel modules to support the various redstone IO devices.

Once that’s all hooked up, you try compiling Java. Once Java is running you’re off.

It’d probably be terribly slow though, unless you made a redstone optimized CPU. Then you’d need to get Linux building on that.
> She started getting frustrated, “it’s my fault, I don’t know how to use this thing properly.”

This is heartbreaking. The woman is being excluded through no fault of her own, and she blames herself. I find this to be a common for people who don’t think of themselves as disabled but are made disabled by bad interfaces. They think there must be something wrong with themselves because everyone else has such an easy time, when really it’s the technology.
Also, cruise ships must be extremely boring to be on. You're basically held captive inside a floating shopping mall for weeks.

I wonder how many people book a second trip.
That's patently false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_2008%E2%80%9320...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...
Seriously. The amount of suspicion for computerized scanning and counting systems here is surprising.

I realize state of the art, modern, high-performance systems are incredibly complex... but that doesn't mean all systems have to be incredibly complex.

Simple computerized systems are incredibly accurate and reliable, easily moreso than humans.

And critically, it's feasible to perform attestation on electronic systems: something that's completely impossible with humans. You have no idea if Joe or Sally are randomly slipping in a few miscounts (or the people auditing them, or the people auditing them). If you're careful, you can be sure that only specific code is executing.

I'd be fascinated to get a breakdown of trust in computerized voting systems, from programming professionals, by programming speciality. I have a suspicion you'd get different answers from firmware/RT folks vs js front-end, to pick a couple of examples.
Elixir/erlang/gleam also have the advantage that many libraries are written as servers and so automatically gain the benefits and resilience. Something all these actor frameworks can’t give you.
Unsaturated oils are less chemically stable, they oxidize quickly
>The latter is also where touch screens shine - the UI can evolve over time.

Yeah no thanks.
I think you meant "man pages", but "ma pages" works for me.
Dishwasher, same thing. Half the time it won't register a press when I need it to turn on. Yet the cat can start a cycle when he decides he wants to have a climb.
4chan, reddit, and HN because they were humanity's only honest repositories. linkedin might be useful as our species' first attempt to create a simulation and to generate a a set of things people in an economy do.

we could probably rebuild civilization just from 3blue1brown.
Does this change anything for notifications? I've had to pause using Matrix (self-hosted Synapse plus Schidichat for Android after Element had the same issues) to talk to my friends because we routinely get shit like:

- Message is sent to the server but nobody else's phone gets notified about it for minutes / hours

- Message just can't be sent to the server even though the sending phone has Internet and a desktop web client on the same account works great
> complaining that not everyone can buy a house

In my ex-Soviet country you were guaranteed to get a free apartment provided by the government. Everyone I know who lived in a city got one, right up to 1991. All you needed to do was to register in a queue and wait for a few years (2-5 depending on several factors like family status — single moms were prioritized, for example). Now we're complaining that "not everyone" can buy an apartment (forget a house), just like you. Not just "not everyone", it's out of reach for most people, and things keep getting worse. At least we have jeans and burgers instead, I guess.
Yes, my point is that “rogue election” as a term is using the language of deniers. Every election has mistakes, and the pandemic especially created novel challenges, but that’s a strong term to use if the best you can say is that a statistically insignificant number of ballots were challenged with no evidence of misconduct.
They never explained why words cannot ever be considered violence. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence ,

"...some definitions are somewhat broader, such as the World Health Organization's definition, as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened[2] or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation."

Words used to intimidate someone by threatening violence ("give me your money or I will beat you up") or resulting in maldevelopment (a childhood along the lines of "you are a horrible kid and I wish I had never given birth to you") could easily fit into those examples of verbal violence.

> Only slightly more than a third of Americans (37%) think citizens should have the right to use profanity when speaking to elected officials.

That needs to be plotted over time. I think that belief used to be far higher, with actual laws to enforce it. Also, the use of profanity can be regulated and is not absolute. I would not suggest that a defendant in a courtroom use profanity to demean an elected judge.

> 87% said American citizens definitely or probably should have the right to speak freely during a public comment session, and only 8% said they definitely or probably should not.

Public comments, like at a school board meeting, are also not absolute rights. Someone cannot use that as a forum to call for violence - that is not a protected free speech right.

There's also the ambiguity of what "speak freely" means in the question. Does it apply only to the government officials who run the meeting (who are bound by First Amendment concerns) or does it also mean being free from social consequences by others in the community (where freedom of association is also a First Amendment right)?

> 48% said American citizens definitely or probably should have the right to take a ballot selfie, and 34% said they definitely or probably should not.

Which is why the ballot box has multiple ballots - even if you take a picture, as part of a vote selling campaign, for example, they need more than a selfie to be sure you haven't faked the selfie while actually casting another ballot.
Measuring Walking Quality Through iPhone Mobility Metrics [pdf]
A timeline of the winding down of post WWII rationing in UK [1]

TLDR, it was a gradual process, rationing of sugar ended in September 1953, rationing of meat almost a year latter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdo...
Speaking of fast: https://redman.xyz/git/turbowc/tree/turbowc.c seems to be really fast (it is not a replacement for wc, however).
With a scantron voting system every single voter becomes an auditor. That’s orders of magnitude more auditing than will ever be achieved by randomized barcode audits and it will catch far smaller discrepancies. Even if a machine made only one mistake ever, it would stand a chance of getting caught. Not so with barcodes.

Seems a pretty substantial difference to me.
Severe irritability in children and teens: A new understanding
I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so I built one
Primitive Tech is more useful than 3B1B from that perspective.
They're faster? They must have been working on performance then, maybe I should take another look at how that project has been maturing.

When I last looked 'dd' was significantly slower, though I did make it a bit closer a while back - https://jackson.dev/post/rust-coreutils-dd/

A lot of the Rust coreutils were written by people learning the language, and the code is often _more_ complicated than the corresponding code for the Unix utils. They don't seem to get enough experienced programmers fixing them up or usage for me to actually recommend anybody use them, but maybe that's changing.
Of course they knew it. But they __also__ knew that buyers wouldn't figure it out until after buying the car.

Fast forward a decade, and now buyers want buttons.
You also apparently need to wipe out the profit occasionally or else the company gets sucked dry of functional capability out of greed.

Perhaps we need a cycle of allowing capitalists to remove waste, nationalization to remove profit, and then capitalists to be allowed to begin again removing waste.
Very exciting! I'm particularly pleased to see the invisible encryption stuff mentioned.

One of the biggest pain points I had when setting up a self-hosted Matrix instance and getting all my devices signed in was the crypto stuff. At least in the client I use, Element, I was bombarded with tons of popups with vague "Upgrade your encryption!" prompts upon logging in the first time. The copywriting on the "Security & Privacy" page was less than helpful in illuminating what I was actually "upgrading" or setting up, since specific technical terms (e.g. recovery key/security phrase/security key) were all used more or less interchangeably. If that kind of confusion can be reduced or swept under the rug for end-users, it'd be a huge improvement on user experience.
I can escalate my privilege to be higher than the kernel's?
Spoiler: this article doesn’t contain the answer. It covers speculation and ongoing work, sourced from various people they asked the same question to. I’m not sure how serious some of these answers are though:

> For example, Tom Campbell’s group at ColyPoly is trying to run some experiments to show that that a conscious observer is needed to collapse the quantum probability wave through a series of double-slit eraser experiments

Ok this sounds interesting and serious, but the person answering only mentions it in passing.

And then a few sentences later…

> Stephen Wolfram is working on models which derive physical laws from types of cellular automata and hypergraphs—i.e. computation.

I am not sure why cellular automata are the answer to everything. Wolfram has been trying to make them the center of science for 20+ years (see new kind of science). But the mention of them undermines the seriousness of these other explorations that are mentioned.
Except everyone wants microservices each with its own database.
The cool thing is these were physical plastic models rather than CGI renders.
Thanks for your comment!

Yes, this project began as an internal initiative motivated by the current state of auth documentation — fragmented and inconsistent in quality. The goal was to create a centralized, high-quality website that is independent of Logto’s product content, providing value to the wider community.

While it's hypocritical to deny the potential benefits for SEO and brand awareness, the main goal remains (and will continue to be): to provide valuable and independent knowledge for everyone developing or interested in auth and identity.
Wow, this is definitely the worst example. At least it's not in a security sensitive context.
I believe SaaS analytics domain (revenue, retention, marketing, sales, etc. analytics) deserves this level of meticulousness in details.
My first reaction after buying my Garmin watch was to disable the touchscreen since it already has buttons. For tracking different sports, the touchscreen adds a potential risk of accidental touches, which could affect measurements and performance. Plus, I'm not certain, but it may consume more battery. I chose this watch for its impressive battery life (including solar charging), so minimizing unnecessary battery use is important to me.

On the other hand, I find it unnatural to have physical buttons on a tablet. My brain takes a moment to adjust to the fact that the volume up and volume down buttons on the iPad reverse their behavior based on the device’s orientation. I would also prefer if fingerprint detection on the iPad were integrated into the display, as seen in some Samsung phones.
That's a good idea, but I think at least part of the reason it's more complicated is that you have to design and fabricate a new face plate for the dashboard, and get a new set of controls every time you want to change something on it. Say you wanted to add a new button on a particular trim level only, because it has a feature that the other levels don't. You'd need to either redesign that whole part of the console for just that trim level, or else sell everyone at a lower trim level a console with an extra button that does nothing. Multiply that by N, for every tiny feature you want to sell on the higher trim levels. If you've got a digital display, of course, you can just go crazy and add all the UI elements (and features) you want.
Off topic but I love the YouTube player interface. Instead of loading it by default (and adding invasive Google tracking to the page), you get the option to opt in. Very nice.
I think the added complexity is in areas where it doesn't really matter. The stuff the driver actually cares about is still the same as it was then. You can just put the rest in a bluetooth phone app. If it is more complicated than a button press, people probably shouldn't be messing with it while driving anyway.
The horseshoe principle applies on the malice/incompetence dimension. Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence. (Disguising ill intent by as incompetent design is one of the strongest deniability approaches.) But also any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. (A bad actor can fully compromise an incompetently designed system as well as if the vulnerabilities had been intentional.)
if the product is the best fit for me, I don't really care that he's behind it
> Yes I do prefer analog controls. Dials for heat. Open close flaps for vents. On off switches.

Dials and switches can be fully digital (e.g., dials can be free-spinning, without locks at each end of a setting). So preferring dials and switches seems reasonable. But flaps for vents are very difficult to automate. Returning to manual flaps in cars would mean losing modern cars' ability to associate and restore HVAC vent preferences with driver profiles. It would mean returning to the time when it was actually necessary to adjust the HVAC vents every time you swapped drivers. While setting vent preferences on the screen may take a second or two longer than manually setting them, thanks to the setting being associated with my driver profile, it's a set-once-and-forget-forever setting. The net time and annoyance savings is large.
Totally agree. The controllability of my Nef induction hobs was excellent, but the controls were horrendous. E.g. going from a level 9 rapid heat-up to a level 2 simmer is seven distinct touches. Each with an annoying beep. Related to this is the lack of a single-tap hob-off for an individual hob.

For medical reasons [1] I had to transition from the induction hob to a ceramic hob, and had to choose the Nef equivalent because it had the same physical footprint. So now I have the same crap controls with much worse response time to the control inputs themselves. The ceramic hob also can't detect when a pan has been removed so will leave a hob dangerously hot but not glowing. I've got used to it now but it is very frustrating and still catches me out sometimes.

[1] I have an implanted defibrillator whose sensor is nulled out by an inductions hob's magnetic fields.
Or cats. Waking up in the middle of the night because the stove is beeping is not my favorite thing.
Opinion: I would rather prefer OCaml or just C (instead of say, Rust or Python).
You're mistakenly throwing books and music into the same bag.

I often download books before buying them because I otherwise have no reasonable means to judge their content. This is not much different from flipping through the pages of a book in a library before buying it. The appeal of reading from an actual physical book is not something that any digital form can replace, so the book being available in digital form won't stop me from buying a copy. I also have no interest in Kindles and DRM.

Music, on the other hand, might be a different story except for select audiophiles who prefer vinyl.

So I don't think we can generalize to "product" like you do in your argument. Details and facts actually matter.
The site only gives entry-level information. I do not know why it exists when you could all that get info using wikipedia/chatgpt etc. It even does not mention XACML in the ABAC section.
Don't give up. There are still 5 or 6 years in the decade. We are not even half way through.
Logging Is a Way of Life in Appalachia. It's Hanging on by a Thread.
Are you criticizing the entire concept of a boycott?
https://archive.ph/a9q9x
Hehe you disproved your own claim. Mail-in voting does not “allow” vote buying any more than any other method of voting. It’s simply not possible for the voting system itself to prevent vote buying, if that were actually a serious problem. But where’s the evidence that vote buying is a widespread problem in the US? Imagining that something is possible doesn’t mean it’s happening, nor make it likely, nor make it a serious problem to solve. And on the flip side, the more technology we add in the name of security, the easier it is to influence elections without people knowing and without having to buy votes.

If you don’t want it to be possible for people to buy or sell votes, then you need to make sure every citizen is engaged and cares about casting their own vote, and you need to make sure the government has a stable and trustworthy system of checks and balances. And why not just make it illegal with massive fines to buy votes and post a huge bounty for anyone tattling on a vote buyer that gets prosecuted? It doesn’t seem that complicated to disincentivize vote buying in a way that eliminates any concerns about the method of voting.

Oh, hey, look: vote buying is already illegal in the US. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597
Had a similar situation and decided to leave. In the hindsight that was a correct decision. In the end one works for a manager, not a whole company. At least it feels like that for an individual contributor.
It's a little deeper than this, software for each module is typically provided by a tier 1 or tier 2 supplier according to a spec provided by the OEM. Sometimes the tier 1 or tier 2 supplier is also subbing out the software or stuck with some system on chip that sucks.

So for a made-up example, GM wants to build a smart dash in the latest SUV, maybe Bosch or Continental has one with a SoC inside and their own software hell. OEM works with supplier to integrate, bugfix, skin, and customize. But they don't write it from scratch.
Its so great when you know where the buttons are located, that you can touch them in the darkness without them suddenly selecting anything. When you need to make sure "is this the second one from the left?", then apply some force to actually change its value.
Re-ranking search results on the client side
Do cars really have that much more functionality that it requires everything to be thrown into a touch screen?

I have a 2017 Chevy Sonic with a built in touchscreen and I basically never have to touch it other than to input an address into Android auto.

I haven't found any pieces of the car functionality I cannot access through a button somewhere on the dash or steering wheel

I doubt a 2024 car has that much more functionality than my 2017
A peugeot (e308?) I rented for a few weeks had that. Absolutely bonkers. When driving I normally feel my way ("max heating to get rid of fog is the third button to the left"), but with this I would also activate all other kinds of stuff all the time.

Recently changed offices at work. The new one has the same kind of buttons for the keypad. Just a flat surface with 9 numbers. I accidentally double press all the time, as it's hard to feel with no tactile feedback what you're doing and it's a bit delayed in the "beeps". So then you have to wait a few seconds and try again. Drives me mad.
Bill Watterson:'Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled'
My Treo with a physical keyboard was the last mobile device I had that typing wasn't a chore with. Touch screen primacy has turned mobile devices from content creation to content consumption devices.
Software lag isn't unique to touchscreens. Software lag is always a terrible thing, and developers who de-prioritize performance should be ashamed, but that is true regardless of what input is used.
You don't need to make your own radar and go through the FCC licensing on your own, though. There are commercially made hobbyist modules like https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/st-engineering-ur... that are already licensed: https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/VECHB100
I long for an editor like this to have very, very expansive support for all of the weird text editor choices. Ie the ability to effectively, not literally recreate Vim, Helix, etc in it. Sounds insane i know.. but i adore this editor and despite that, i just can't give up Helix for "vim bindings".

I don't know if i'm ever going to get out of the terminal at this rate :s
Related: Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37599510
I understood that reference.

But it just reinforces my point that there are no absolute rules. You have to think.
does remoting work with the REPL or notebooks yet?
These stupid touchscreen controls are one of the main things that convinced me modern designers simply don't both testing and using the products they produce. If you take a touchscreen stove top and use it for more than about 5 minutes, you quickly find yourself wishing for the knobs back.