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It seems there are people in the Democratic establishment that would rather have 4 more years of Trump than elect a non-establishment Democrat they can't control. At least with Trump they can spend 4 years pointing to him and saying what a disaster he is to better position themselves for next election.

Here's an Op-Ed piece that makes that argument:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/15/it-clear-estab...

And I would even argue that it's not always best to go with the person who gets the most votes amongst the Democrats. Most Democrats and Republicans will vote for their party in the election, no matter who the nominee is.

So I would think the best person to win the election would be a candidate that is able to get the most support from across the aisle, from Independents and Republicans.

This election, it seems like the top candidates for that are Yang, Biden, or Tulsi, based on what few articles I can find on the matter.

https://www.businessinsider.com/right-leaning-voters-support...

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/476265-poll-gop-voters-dra...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/tulsi-gabbards-suppo...

But it doesn't seem like the DNC cares about that as much as long as one of the establishment candidates wins the nomination (Biden, Buttigieg, Warren, Kloubuchar).
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Still, the infastructure (if old) has been dimensioned for max 250 W per lamp post, if recent (LED lamps) for 80-100 W at the most.

So, the increase in power need (according to your 1 kW) is between 4 and 10 times.

Also if a lamp post is every 30 meters and each car takes 5 meters, each post needs to serve 6 cars.

And we are already between 24 and 40 times.

Besides, how long is the cable of an electric car (the one on-board)?

You will need to have a 20 m cable on board if you happen to park in a spot mid-way betwen two 30 m spaced lamp posts.
Note that a value is not a functor, its type is. When some type T is a functor, this means that T contains (as part of its definition) a type variable which you can change by mapping functions over values of type T.

For instance, the list type `[a]` and the option type `Maybe a` are both functors. The associated type variable is `a`. This type variable can be manipulated by using `map` to apply some function `f : a -> b` over values of both `[a]` and `Maybe a`. Applying `f` using `map` over such values would yield values of new types, namely `[b]` and `Maybe b`.

This implies that `map f` is a general way of expressing the application of function `f` to values of any functor type. The notion of functor types is therefore supposed to represent any kind of abstract containment relationship. In other words, any time you have the situation of an arbitrary type being wrapped in some kind of "wrapper" (list of..., set of..., range of..., optionally present..., etc), you are dealing with a functor type.

The functor abstraction allows you to apply ordinary functions to such values in a uniform way, regardless of which particular kind of container or wrapper we are dealing with.
Oh my dear sweet summer child. Are you in Britain? Get ready to drop your kecks.
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Very simple new tab replacement with todos for Firefox using vanilla js.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newtabtodo/
I thought that was already fairly well known via things like "IP over Avian Carriers".
It seems like it would be much, much easier to cheat, no? Yes a few people have to be in on it, but if the history of American politics has shown us anything; that's doable.
Current forecasts are than we'll add about 3 billion human beings before population stabilises.

If you also take into account that the majority of human beings are poor by Western standards you can see that, IMO, sustainable global prosperity is likely impossible with these numbers, not least if we want to keep at least some wilderness on this planet.
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The UK, and in particular the north east are well worth looking into here. All paper ballots, no counting machinery, 30,000 voters (smaller than Iowa but of a similar order of magnitude), voting from across the constituency (no cramming into halls), pretty much zero fraud. Accurate results within two hours of the polls closing.

The ballots are also kept and can be verified by the voters after the fact.

No state in America has any excuse for running an election less effectively than Sunderland.
Apps could be a valuable tool if we were willing to really change how we vote: put candidates in order of preference. Doing that on paper is not intuitive. The problem is, established politicians and politicos know and prefer the complex game that they know: one vote + electoral college.
but if someone loaned out money to somebody else, you'd expect that they'd ask for interest payment.

negative interest rates seems like it's an impossibility (in the sense that only a central bank is willing and able to charge negative rates) for normal commercial loans. And if a bank charged negative rates on deposits (higher than it costs to keep cash safe in a secure safe!), then i suspect people will just withdraw their cash, unless something forces them to keep it in (like the abolishment of cash by central authorities).
I believe this too. Highly untapped potential
Madtracker is a bit better imho. https://www.madtracker.org/about.php Has full .xm fasttracker 2 compatibility, plus a more powerful .mt2 format that supports vsti/vst and built-in effects, automation etc.

Renoise is the kitchen sink, its probably the most powerful tracker you can get, a bit overwhelming even to someone like me that spent over 10 years every day using them:
https://www.renoise.com/
Actually, this sound like a perfect job for open source to me.
I've heard this complaint -- that the property prices are high -- however, isn't there an opportunity to put a tech hub right on the border with Seattle? Make the commute even smaller and set up a whole border town? Just wondering why a developer doesn't make it a great place to live bring cafes, housing etc.
It stands to be seen how many of them will go back to US when the immigration policy becomes favorable. Canada is still plan B for high skilled immigrants. If H4 work authorization is removed, there will be a surge to Canada. Many US skilled workers do a soft landing to get their PR cards as a plan B. Canada should stop issuing PR cards for soft landers who are playing Canada's immigration system.
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Do the Math is one of my favorite sites on the internet for the value and perspective it brings. I had a few great conversations with its author on my podcast http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/tom-murphy.

I found this report valuable too: Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability: https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked.
I would also ad to that, timezone. Some employees are flexible on country as long as you fit into a certain timezone range.
From story in the Guardian [1] "State party officials had said they would not be sending the new mobile app to precinct chairs for downloading until just before the caucuses to narrow the window for any interference."

Brilliant plan.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/03/smartphone-a...
It's actually really hard, because the ballots are kept and can be verified by the voters. Keeping a full paper trail is a great protection against fraud.
Does anyone have screenshots or more info about this app?
For each problem a technical solution solves, 2 harder to solve problems are created.
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Well I think he was hostile and resentful and that’s not cool. I also sincerely and in good faith can’t wait to see less people exploited for cheap labor and more of my fellow Britons employed with a decent wage for once.
> Human ingenuity is key

That's a bet that many of us are not willing to take. Sure, you can imagine that a future technology we haven't thought of yet will save growth, but I think it's very important to think about scenarios when that won't happen. Are we really wanting to bet humanity's future on just "technology"?

If you read Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed[1], you'll realize that socities that did collapse were over confident. Let's no repeat that mistake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse%3A_How_Societies_Choo...
I wonder if the subject matter changes to match the weather. It goes from Film Noir, dark rainy detective scenes to Westerns with expansive outdoor scenes.
I checked out the rendering of those scales, beautifully done!
Actually it's super easy, barely an inconvenience, since the raw memory bandwidth you get per core is around 1 byte per cycle and half that per thread. A 3900X with 12 cores / 24 threads getting a total memory bandwidth of 57.6 GB/s (using DDR4-3600) has just 0.6 bytes / cycle and thread. Meanwhile the CPU can actually achieve ALU throughputs that are 20 times greater than that. Even encryption algorithms are much faster than that.

The saving grace is not that there is a lot of memory bandwidth to go around; there isn't; the saving grace is that a lot of processing either doesn't use too much data (making caches effective) or is complex enough to not be limited by memory bandwidth. Rarely using all cores and threads at the same time helps a lot as well.
I miss the tracker scene, somehow I migrated from trackers to buzz to fruity loops and I guess I've been on that journey ever since.

But the simplicity of being able to so swiftly move notes around in a spreadsheet-type format is something I've never really seen since (outside of trackers themselves at least, and I have used a few modern variants). It's like a piano roll on steroids.

I owe my love of creating music today to the tracker and demoscene of the early 90's, and it's great that it's still alive and well :)
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I am reminded of Senator Romney's campaign's ill-fated ORCA[0] from 2012, which was apparently not well-tested prior to rollout. Seems like technical-project failure does not respect party lines.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCA_(computer_system)
"Employees with experience negotiating deals around the country anticipated problems, but their red flags were ignored by those eager to please Bezos"

... this is eerily similar to one of the major drawbacks of an authoritarian regime, where everyone tries to please the Great Leader while no-one dares to express any unpleasant truth.
Biggest thing that worries me is how and in what way is Pete Buttigieg related to the app.

First off could this be more out of an Austin Powers movie? Literally the company is Shadow Inc. That just wreaks of 'shady'.

Next info on the corp is almost as shady as a Shell Corp.

Here's gist from this article:

* IA Caucus mobile app was created by Shadow Inc.

* Shadow website has scant info except that they worked for Hillary's campaign.

* Related to Groundbase started in 2017 by Gerard Niemara who's twitter is private. According to LI he worked w/ Clinton's campaign in 2015-2016.

* Raised money from Higher Ground Labs - "investors, partners, collaborators, trainers of tech for progressives"

* Tuesday Higher Ground labs no longer listed Groundbase[1] as portfolio company but cached version in google search does (Jan 18th) [2]

* 01/2019 Nonprofit Acronymn announced it acquired Groundbase [3]

* Niemara served as CTO of Acronym while running Groundbase

* Affiliated with Pacronym a political action committee

* Also invests in https://lockwoodstrategy.com and https://couriernewsroom.com/

* David Plouffe Former Obama campaign manager and Acronym board member disavows knowledge of Shadow [4]

* "In a blog post introducing Shadow now only visible via the Internet Archive[5], Niemira wrote: “Acronym is thrilled to announce the launch of Shadow, a new technology company that will exist under the Acronym umbrella and build accessible technological infrastructure and tools to enable campaigns to better harness, integrate, and manage data across the platforms and technologies they all use."

* Dem campaigns using Shadow include: Mayor Pete, Joe Biden, and Kirsten Gillibrand. Also the TX Dem Party, and Super PAC 'For Our Future', and NV Dem Party [6]

[1] https://highergroundlabs.com/companies/groundbase/

[2] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9nALhm...

[3] https://twitter.com/taraemcg/status/1085980913467564033

[4] https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1224585857832816641

[5] https://web.archive.org/web/20190415130443/https://www.anoth...

[6] https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/04/after-epic-nigh...
In my precinct (suburb west of Des Moines) there were observers from the Buttigieg, Yang, Sanders, and Warren campaign. After the first tally, the precinct captains for the campaigns (the people working the room for votes) would run to the back of the room where the observers were standing and report their tally. The Yang and Buttigieg observers would then use some app on their phone, presumably to report these numbers to their campaign.

None of that seems abnormal, Buttigieg's claim to victory is based on him winning by the equivalent of an exit poll.
Elements of Programming seems to be approaching the limits of advanced programming techniques. It has the reputation of being mathematically rigorous. What else can you study at that point regarding the mathematics of programming? My concern is that software engineering will be slow to graduate into a science, and we will be stuck as merely an artform for the foreseeable future.
Growth is good but we are entering an economic environment where countries and companies are growing simply to show growth. It’s inorganic. In the past this type of behavior would result in boom and bust cycles, now the easy money has made it possible for us to go on indefinitely.

This all started with Wall Street. I want to make that ABSOLUTELY clear.
The alternative interpretation is that Firefox is a particularly effective toolkit for finding OS bugs.

No OS should ever fall over because of a misbehaving application. That's one of their fundamental jobs, and failing at it is a defect. The fact that all the major OSes do doesn't vindicate them; nor is it particularly surprising that Catalina doesn't pull away from the pack. It is, however, disappointing.
Sweden is one of the most digitalized countries in the world, yet we count votes by hand. Do like Sweden, count votes by hand :)
Your situation is a bit ambiguous. Do you mean they turn to their respective left (in that case their trajectories should not intersect), or to the same left? Not sure about USA, but where I am from the right of the way belongs to the driver who turns to the same side as the side of the road they are on, i.e. to his right (we drive on the right side).
Depending on what you use for video editing the CPU really isn't much of a factor.
[Standard disclaimer that Physic is an experimental science and everything can change in the future.]

Spin is more complicated! That the reason that force the sum of the four 1/2 spin particles to have spin 0, 1 or 2. It has a nice mathematical reason that is the SU(2) group representations.

All the experiments so far agree with this rules. The rule for four 1/2 particles can be tested with electron in small molecules or light atoms. The extension to other amount of electron and particles with spin 1/2 have also been tested. (The technical name is "fermions", IIRC this includes also particles with spin 3/2.)

The theory includes also rules for particles with spin 1 (like the photon), and the extended rules also agree with the experiments. I'd be more surprised that the rules for spin have to be changed than the other claims in this paper (that are also quite surprising).
Have you actually measured? The overhead isn't the socket, but the marshaling and unmarshaling, and you need these things for sockets, shared memory, or any other IPC.
I use the AIO water cooler on my home system because I can get the system essentially silent (0.5m from my ears) at reasonable temps. They are also a lot less fiddily to deal with (install, ram access, etc...) compared to the huge air cooler you would need for comparable performance IMO.
I’d argue not that we’re ‘stuck’ here on Earth (just) because it’s hard, but because there’s been no major incentive to do otherwise for decades.

The original incentives for the space race were political during the Cold War - rockets, satellites, then landing on the moon. Since then, NASA has mostly stagnated without a clear vision to deliver. Likewise (until recently) the major aerospace providers were happy just doing well enough to make some dollars from their lobbying and ‘cost-plus’ contracts.

The only game-changer is SpaceX, set up to deliver the vision of a slightly eccentric multi-millionaire (now billionaire, of course). But I’d argue that SpaceX isn’t doing anything so revolutionary that it couldn’t have been done earlier by various others (including NASA itself) if they’d had the right vision and incentives. Sad, really - all of that money, time, effort, and human potential effectively wasted.
It's not?

Putting numbers 1-5 in boxes isn't intuitive?
You might not need a pension if you have a robot that is highly productive towards you. Everything might be so cheap. All the externalities that one needs to pay for a lot today, might be vastly available tomorrow. I think it is hard to predict the future.
It's a diffult situation and not easy to find the true culprit, because the society we live in is a cascade of hacks of nature that started aprox. 10k years ago with the dawn of civilization and agriculture.

Nomadic tribes intrinsically self regulate, what can't be carried can't be possesed beyond group boundaries and falls back to the environment automatically.
I'll just steal one of the comments from the article.
"It isn't new, and it's just as overstated as previous studies. The 80% accurate identification rate applies only within the 5,000 subjects. The identification rate will plummet when the pool of writers expands to everyone who can write in English"
Like I said, if you can narrow the pool to a small amount of people, than you probably could accomplish this (but even then, there's always the chance two people have similar writing styles.)
You don't see much evil to handicapping the entire human race?
Thank you for this advice! I’ll have build with 3950X in close future and was keen on installing liquid cooling solution. But now I’ll end with classic fan+heatsink for longevity. Current system is an old FX-8350.
Heads up: I'm using Firefox, and the posts do not appear until I move the mouse cursor.
Having built an app that was used for a one time event by a group of people that weren't necessarily tech savvy, I do empathize with the situation.

However, If I had $63,000 to build a solution (a price mentioned in a wsj article), I think there are better ways to do this without an app. The problem with relying on an app for a one-time, time-sensitive event is that you'll ultimately run into people that don't know how to download the app, have a phone that can't run the app, don't remember how to authenticate, or are simply confused as to how to use it. No matter how many emails you send out before hand reminding people to install the app and how to use it, some amount of people simply ignore it.
> This person had a Ph.D.

So sad but funny
I don't think that your African simile holds historically, as the slave traders were IIRC typically Arabs, not Africans, who just went on slaving expeditions into the interior, and had no scruples doing so.
Part of it is that, if you're single and renting, you're probably more likely to move closer to a new job to avoid even a relatively modest increase in commute time. Whereas, if you own a place--especially if there are other considerations like a partner or kids--you'll likely just suck up a longer commute to stay where you are.
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The question is whether the problem is a question of misunderstood usage (by the users) or an inability for the backend to handle the load. If it was the former, that’s at least understandable, for the reasons you said, though they still should have practiced it. If it’s the latter, that’s pretty inexcusable, given that they knew precisely the amount of load and that it’s a fairly low amount. I’m pretty sure a naive implementation of any backend for this could handle the load (1600 precincts each reporting a picture over the course of an hour), unless there’s some requirement of this that I’m missing.

Either way, this is a pretty good indictment of this entire idea. Stick with what worked for hundreds of years, don’t try “solutions” to non-problems.
>you would need to continuously improve efficiency and that's hard.

You can't improve efficiency without creating growth. If you find a way to create widget X twice as efficiently using less resources, that will show up in GDP growth (or at least idealised GDP; obviously the actual number is subject to approximation error).
This doesn't seem to be comparing anything like the same thing. Does the Haskell version really do the same thing as the C version? Does it handle all of the same error cases, providing the same quality of error messages if they occur? Does it handle localization? If not, that makes the comparison very skewed, as unhammer already pointed out. Sure, if you strip out all of the things that the people who wrote wc actually spent all that time on then you can go faster, but failing to note the differences is simply dishonest.
Prosperity is subjective. Growth is not or relative. Can we turn a long string into a boolean? So no. The question itself is logically flawed.
Billionaires trying to out-compete each other in the size of the public handouts they're receiving :))

I never understood why in the US (and in more and more other places as well) it's considered legitimate to give billions to private profit-seeking corporations so they can do the kind of stuff that private profit-seeking corporations do anyway: hire people, build stuff etc.
Yes. "Destroying C". The whole post feels like youthful bravado untempered by experience.
The vtable layout is much smaller and much more stable than C++ as a whole. COM has a ton of value.
The HN title still misrepresents the plan described at the linked document:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-compatibility-firef...

> We are currently building support for an initial selection of Recommended Extensions for Firefox Preview. These extensions are expected to be officially supported for Firefox Preview during the first half of 2020.
How is there not widespread open source software for voting out there? It seems like this type of problem could be avoided by creating public software.
> Yes, 60% because they gave the other 40% to the existing employees.

The article mentions no numbers, buy it does specifically say the current employees have a combined majority stake. Where did you get these numbers from?
But that's an RFC, so it carries (very slightly) more weight than an Internet Draft. In the real world, what matters is whether it's implemented: https://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup/
Stating the obvious but the hash is a hex, that leaves lots of characters for a one character prefix for sha256 hashes. Like the character "s" for instance.
Oh whoops. Had both tabs open. That’s what I get for not paying attention. Thanks for the catch.
It's worked in the UK for centuries
Reporting bias, not every precinct has candidate support and the precincts with support are the ones most likely to report those numbers back to the campaign.
Eh, mine was in a heavy-duty steel tower and it definitely wasn't fit for purpose.

Maybe you just got lucky... or perhaps double-check that you aren't accidentally under-volting :)
Bruce Schneier thinks that the best compromise is to to have paper ballots that can be counted by a machine or by hand. If all observers agree the vote was right, machine count stands. If someone challenges the vote, you count by hand.