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> my state had early voting for weeks so there really isn't a "voting day" issue here. (Georgia).

Except for the massive campaigns to disenfranchise voters.

Which you didn't bother to mention as a problem. You did mention the boogeyman of voter fraud though, good job.
"Just contact sales@zulipchat.com and we’d be happy to discuss your situation!" (https://zulipchat.com/plans/)

That's what I did. Thanks again to them, I really appreciate it.
> Within huge portions of nearby suburbs, you can buy a sizable 3+ bedroom house for <400k in a town with a train stop and a good school district that takes you directly to the office.

A train which sometimes get you there in 45 minutes, sometimes in 60 minutes, sometimes gets cancelled because of (Amtrak signal problems | disabled Amtrak equipment in the Hudson tunnel | overhead wire damage | $ PROBLEM_OF_THE_DAY).

He says while crammed in to an NJTransit train.
The Klan still exists, and I don't blame someone who lived through Jim Crow for retaining the fear, just as Depression-era folks often tend to scrimp and save despite nearly a century of relative economic stability.
I'll take a fast food or farmhand job! But I need an email address of somebody who can give me that job.

If you tell me the email address of somebody who can offer me food and shelter, I'll rewrite my résumé for them. But I need to know that there is somebody who cares if I do that. Because I've had a lot of résumé advice that was just complaining, and didn't lead to a job. I need a job, an introduction, an interview. At least a rejection letter! I don't need a choice of 20 résumés, I already have 3.
See elm and rust for examples of compilers with good error messages.
I'm pretty sure my Samsung smart TV that I never gave my wifi password has gotten internet access via the attached Roku.
>Des Moines favors people that want to settle down and have a quiet, comfortable suburban life.

I'm 24, but that is definitely what appeals to me. The mere thought of working in NYC or other tech hubs is nauseating. I'd feel totally out of place culturally.
The nice thing about NYC in comparison to the Bay Area is that we're not afraid of building more housing here, so supply increases every year and has a dampening effect on rent increases. Also, mass transit is much better, so if you live even 30 minutes away on a subway line the rents will be much lower. If you're willing to commute an hour each way (which is still less than a lot of people who drive every day on I-101 put up with) then rents are a fraction of what they are in nice areas of Manhattan, or the Bay Area for that matter.

Though personally I don't like relying on the subway (which increasingly has problems these days), hence I live in biking distance.
You can for any reason, unless the reason is discrimination against a protected class. But do not pretend that it is for breaking the law, because it's only up to the court to determine whether I broke a law or not.

So if AT&T want to disconnect a customer for an arbitrary reason, fine: but they need to make it more clear initially, while considering their utility status.
Far-right white supremacist militia groups specifically threatened to use force if Georgia's black female Governor candidate won the election.

Also, the law enforcement community does recognize such far-right extremists as a legitimate threat.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/militia-threatens-enemies-like...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesvi...
Forcing people ot wait hours for voting is a tactic used to discourage voters and more effectively disenfranchise groups you don't want voting. White majority area has 15 minute lines, black majority has 2 hours.
I was thinking net neutrality, not copyright reform. I agree, copyright is a huge political mess.
Thank you :)

Really nice designs.
> console-quality games

What console-quality games actually ship on the iPad?

The problem with games is that to actually match an Xbox One S's graphics you don't just need to match its 5 year old hardware in performance. You also need to have the capacity to actually fit the game & its textures. All 40-80GB of it.

Who is going to ship an actual console-quality game at console-quality sizes on a device whose base model can't even hold it?

And Apple is notoriously stingy with RAM. This new one bumps it up to 6GB, which is nice, but still less than the 8GB in an Xbox One S. How much does iOS reserve of that, and how much do the games actually get?
If you are willing to consider gig work:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15...
I don't know at first glance if this is inappropriate. I do know at first glance that overseeing an election in which you are a candidate is a conflict of interest that should not happen.
Sorry, I read your comment wrong. Looks like I'm missing the point.
The license is only needed if you want to transmit. If you are not interested in talking to random people, there is a lot of fun to be had from just picking up signals and listening. There are hobbyists who enjoy picking up distant AM radio stations, listening to all kinds of voice or machine traffic on shortwave, tracking aircraft by their beacon signals, or just listening to local police on scanners.

As a listener myself ("SWLer") my next project is to make a radio to pick up telemetry from small cubesats.
Broadcast memes to aliens obviously.
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I think it depends on how we delineate physical vs non-physical. In this case, I'm taking a simple definition of "physical" to mean "anything amenable to scientific inquiry" or "any phenomenon that is, in principle, part of consensus reality".

Actually, I'm confused what we'd even be claiming by calling intelligence purely non-physical. Perhaps you're thinking of the qualia of intelligence?

Regarding the article you wrote, I think the concept of "partial oracle", while coherent, isn't super helpful. Or rather, it's too broad of a characterization. The halting problem doesn't claim that Turing machines can't solve some halting problems, it's that there's no finite class of turing machines which can together solve any halting problem.

It's not precisely news that some Turing machines can solve the halting problem for certain (infinite) classes of machines. Case in point, regular languages.

Anyway, meta-discussion-wise, I'm super happy to find kindred souls that also enjoy thinking about these things. I recently came across the Complexity Zoo[0] website, and if you're anything like me, I suspect you'll enjoy it too!

[0]:https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Complexity_Zoo
Do the likes of CHP still promise that kind of pension?

I have a relative who's retired civil service in Southern California and there was a big dropoff in plan quality after his era.
NYC is such a big city that you can find everything and everyone here. You're more likely to feel out of place culturally in a small city if you can't find your subculture there, whereas in NYC your subculture is guaranteed to exist. How many hacker groups, meetups, and conventions does random small city have, for example? Or gaming? Or anime? Or comics? We've got all that in spades.
A republic which partially uses representative democracy, but mostly exists to ensure power to the landowning minority. Nowadays it's not about land of course, but it still exists to serve the wants of the powerful and only the powerful.

Even the one part that was supposed to be actually representative isn't.

Start over. No more senate. Elected president. Representative parliament.
Does anyone else notice the length of a moment changing? I especially notice a difference if something causes me to trigger an adrenaline rush; I noticed it a lot when playing DDR and similar, since the physical motion would trigger adrenaline, and then the tempo of whatever I was playing would appear to slow.

It was like ... to use a game developer's terms, like my perception was suddenly running at a higher framerate. Of course as a musician this meant the music felt "wrong" somehow after that. "Why is it so slow? Was this song always this easy?" and relatedly, "Why is it harder to move my legs quickly?" etc. This persisted for maybe 20 minutes and then returned to normal gradually. Once I pieced together the criteria, I started to notice that sort of tempo... kind of a "beat" in everything that I do. I feel it especially when I'm visually analyzing a scene, as it's the speed at which I can control my eyes darting about a room. If I'm tired that slows down considerably.

The brain is just... so fascinating.
But you should right?
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It's typical for fintech programmers at top-tier firms. Not typical across SWE jobs in general in NYC, of course.

The thing about fintech though is they get worked really hard. It's very much a "You eat what you kill" mentality. On an hourly basis you might be better off "only" making $300K at a FAANG and working normal 40 hour work-weeks.
Would you mind elaborating a bit? This is something I've recently been trying to get more intimately familiar with and new metaphors are a really helpful rubric.
Except the US was founded on the idea of a limited franchise.
> No special "TSDB" needed.

I think that is a large simplification. I recommend this (relatively) short article: https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e

The first graph is particularly salient.
As long as this data release honours requests to keep names and addresses silent, I see no problem with it. You already register to vote, that information is publicly available. The assumption that it’s inconvenient to uncover is false: that’s security through assumed laziness.

The moment this crosses the line and people start publishing the names and addresses of people who have asked that their details remain unpublished, that should be a crime. Doing so exposes vulnerable people to harassment and death, often at the hands of domestic abusers or drug gangs they’ve been trying to escape.
We're already in a world where you really need to rely on external date+time libraries to apply a locale-specific temporally-varying offset from UTC.

I don't see it as being a significant implementation difference if that offset changes a smaller amount at midnight on a short sequence of days vs. a larger amount at midnight on just one of those days.

Either way you need to be leap-aware.
The technology hasn't leveled the playing field at all, it just tilted all the power towards large organizations with lots of technologists sitting around.
Way more than 5% of my coworkers at Google NYC own their own place.

You're also off on the stats for the Bay Area as well.
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Except millions more people showed up to vote against Trump, against the republicans, and they got no power to show for it.

Voting matters, but the US system is fundamentally broken. That's what happens when you have a system that was designed from the start to work only for a small ruling class of white landowners.
Great comment. I think this is an underappreciated trend. Technology is enabling actions that were previously unfathomable, due to limited resources and circumstantial practicalities.

Modern systems are much more powerful (in certain ways), enabling potential injustices that no one ever considered possible, and thus of course made no effort to protect against. We are only beginning to consider all of the ramifications of these new systems, what new abuses are available, what the impacts could may be, and how to properly account for new abuses.

We have to work hard to make sure our systems don't enable large-scale automated injustice.
I am curious if this has any relation to saccades. It feels to me like it would be easier to retain attention on a moving object than a stationary one.

Not substantial but found this in a quick search of any support for this conjecture: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0004953760825526...
Ask HN: What are some recs for a high school student interested in programming?
My friend's son is interested in programming, but his high school doesn't offer any computer science courses. What are some online resources that I can send his way for him to 1) learn what programming is/what a programmer does, 2) learn about career options if you get a degree in CS and 3) learn how to code?

I think the free lectures available online for introductory CS classes are a good start (for example, cs106a from stanford: https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=84A56BC7F4A1F852 ). What else would be good?
this quickly escalates into "poisoning the youth" arguments that work in china to censor works of media. Not saying anything cant be done but to say certain means of appealing to the consumer should be banned has been a much larger thing in practice.
Privacy derangement syndrome is big now. People even question license plates.
You're way off on your compensation figures and comparisons.

New Federal workers don't even get a pension, and the max pay band in the highest CoL areas is $164,200/year. Note that it would typically take decades of experience to reach that, as tenure factors in a lot on which pay band you're in.

You're also vastly overestimating how much police and firefighters make. You're looking at the outlier figures and acting as if it's the norm.
The parties want it, they have given themselves special privileges and don't want non-members to share.
Well, there's me. I passed their interview gauntlet, but their initial offer was well under what I currently make, and their second barely matched it. They also badly down-leveled me (which is partially my fault for not insisting on an L5 interview loop).

From my direct experience, and talking to other people who have negotiated with Google, the only ways to get a good offer out of them is to either come from a FAANG or get a competing offer from one.
What kind of technology department do you need to make a mail merge out of an excel file?
Agreed, I'm pretty excited to wire up some prod apps.
My cofounder from 2010-12 is an amazing product manager. Here's he giving a 5-minute talk on “How $40 Saved Us 9 Months and $2MM” https://vimeo.com/24749599

The short version is that we were looking at building a complex social experience that had Facebook newsfeed items as a key component. We used GreaseMonkey to fake it entirely: user testers would log in to Facebook on our tricked-out computer, a GreaseMonkey script would steal faces and names from below the fold, and then insert fake news items into their feed that were apparently from their real friends. (At the end of the user test we'd come clean so they weren't confused.)

What we learned is that people hated the idea. So that meant I never had to write a line of production-grade code for this. Some of our competitors had very similar ideas and ended up building full products to learn the same lesson. What they built was way more scalable, of course. But that's not a virtue in a code base that just gets thrown out.
NYC is the largest city in the nation and is the main hub of many industries including finance, fashion, network TV, publishing, and advertising. The population of the overall NYC metropolitan area is 24 million.

The only way to change it into as much of a monoculture as Silicon Valley would be to add tens of millions of tech workers, without adding any attendant employees to service industries. Not gonna happen.
Because they want you to buy a phone, a tablet, a laptop, a pc.

Sure - one device could do everything, but that doesn't drive sales or profit.
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Unfortunately 9-5 is deeply ingrained in our culture as the "standard working hours", despite the 8-hour workday being a relic of the past.
Yeah, I get that.

But wealthy New York City, where Democrats run the election commission, was a notable shit show in the recent election.

Dealing with the unequal provision of resources is a big deal, I don't mean to dismiss it, it just isn't the only issue.
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Playing the "Steve would never have done this" game is always dangerous, but in the past apple has been much more focused on having obvious product differentiators.

I think Tim tries to extract all the possible pennies from the supply chain possible. In a vacuum it's a responsible way to run a business, but it has left apple selling some products they should be ashamed to feature and customers unsure which product is built for their needs. When apple sells old iphones more cheaply the number in the name gives people an clear indication they are trading price for newness. The mac line is a confusing mess of exactly what you get when you put down hard earned money.

It's a weird combination of some devices with touch id, how many usb-c you get and whether the usb-c port is also tb3 or not. For those really out of the loop what the hell a touchbar is. The fact every laptop apple makes is thin, light and retina doesn't help.

For something as core to the experience as touch id it really should have triggered across the board refreshes, but apple seems interested only in substantial updates (though I would certainly consider the addition of touch id very substantial).

There is a lot to be said for shipping incremental updates on a regular basis so customers know the expensive product they spend their money on is being given attention. I don't need each revision to blow me away and every customer might not buy every refresh, but every time a product is refreshed it's a strong indicator if I buy this product it will continue to see investment. When it is time for me to put down my hard earned money I can be confident I'm getting good value and not missing some key improvement that is available but not on this particular line yet.

I'm experiencing this problem with ipad mini right now. Adore my ipad mini. Adored the 1st one. 2nd one was a huge upgrade so got that. 3rd and 4th didn't justify the cost, but now that my mini 2 is really showing age buying a 4 doesn't offer very good value when it's unchanged for 3 years. There are finally rumours a new one might be coming, but when? Do I move to a different size class (that I don't really like)? Continue to stick it out for a product I have no reason to believe apple intends to continue developing?
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There are often old guys chatting on 75 meters in the evenings. Most of their contacts are a few dozen or a few hundred miles away at most. They typically park on the same frequency every night and shoot the breeze.

This is a very small part of ham radio, but sometimes people who are new to it encounter those signals first because of how strong the signals are (3.5 MHz signals are often extremely strong after dark over a distance of a few hundred miles).

If you are new to radio and you start tuning around the HF bands without much of antenna, these might be some of the only signals you are aware of, and because of this the uninitiated sometimes generalize that this is all that hams are/do.

And because of the high average age of amateurs, the data point of 75 meters seems to be a case in point that all hams are old/crotchety and/or survivalist/conservative.

But in reality, there are so many dimensions to the hobby that making the generalization about a few geezers is extremely off base. For some, the fun is in building the gear and then making a few contacts to test it out. For others it is radiosport contests or moonbounce, for others it's mountain tops or trail friendly setups, for others it's meteor scatter, restoring antique circuits, etc.

So if it were a book and had a cover, the cover might be the 75 meter pig farmers, but there is a lot more going on that is worth exploring if one has some innate interest in the subject.
> This is nuts. The iPad Pro is so massively ahead of the game, it's even hard to believe. It is faster than the MBP 2017 and ALMOST as fast as the MBP 2018. We're talking a device that is 5.9mm thick and is battery-powered!

The MBP's are also battery-powered & thin?

But you seem to be taking geekbench 4 here as gospel. I'd take that with a grain of salt. A really, really big grain of salt.

Even with that said I'm not even seeing any MBP 2017 results in the article...?
My recollection is different. The only thing I could find on Youtube substantiates your claim. I was wrong. Thank you for pointing this out. I think my overall point still stands though.
You gave many reasons why an employer may be unwilling, but it's the same outcome regardless: an unwillingness to train or pay more.
I'm sure you probably realize this, but it's hard to believe that she would be the only one to have this type of routine. It seems fairly common...
Just switch.

Google is fully capable of providing excellent results. Today they'd rather please governments, media cartels, and biased employees. Google can get away with this because they aren't hurting for money. Search quality is no longer a priority. Google will treat you like a horse with blinders, or like a small child. Google would rather you not decide things for yourself.

Duckduckgo and Bing are decent. Both may seem wonderful if you now try them, but really you've just been getting accustomed to declining quality from Google.
95% of Googlers in NYC who insist on living in Manhattan. Hell, not even then.
How sustainable are those retirement benefits/pensions given the finances of many states and municipalities? There is already news about pension cuts, etc in several places and it will likely get worse in the future.

Basically you depend on the local government to make good financial decisions (the fact that your pension is so high might be a counter-signal to that).

If you work in top tech companies and save enough, possibly with the option to relocate to cheaper areas when retired, you can have more ensured returns from investing judiciously in bonds/stocks.

Should you trust your own responsibility to manage finances or the local government you work for?
Yeah. I guess if portability is a plus, that would be better than an iMac. I move once a year so that wouldn’t really be a problem for me, but if you need a Mac for portability, why not just get a MacBook?

I think the Mac mini is at an awkward price point. You need a monitor, keyboard and mouse which cost you extra. At that point you can get a base MacBook Pro.

I think it would only really make sense for businesses
But does the typical voter have anybody they trust who _can_ check the math? It's analogous to people trusting FOSS software despite lacking the skills or time to check the code -- they trust it because they trust people who are able to check the code.
Do you have any links you could share? Or are you using zulip for internal comms only?
Parallelization you say? 5 seconds is constant time, and a pretty optimistic one. How many license plates are visible from any given intersection in my town, NYC? Somewhere between 5 and 50. There is always motion, so what should the frame rate be? You probably can't commit much of a crime in 15 seconds, but you can drive an 8th of a mile (at 30 mph), about two intersections. So let's settle on a frame rate of 5 seconds. You still won't have much precision with cameras only at each intersection, so let's put them 10 feet apart, and let's have 4 at each point. Honestly, that's a minimum. At 10 feet apart, for NYCs 6074 miles of road, that's 12,828,288 computerized cameras. That's about $12B. And I still bet that the error rate will be too high to be useful.

I'm not arguing that it will never be possible, I'm arguing that the original claim, and the mass surveillance that make people nervous, is not happening today.
Computer generated faces trained on 50,000 images from a photo booth
A large solar flare/CME and/or comet impact will destroy a system like this.
I think this is the most sane answer. Yes we do not want 'smart TVs' and we should vote with our wallet... But when all else fails why not 'hack'[1] it?

[1]https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hack