skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a concern at all. Colorado has had mail-in voting for years by default, with the option to show up at a precinct. Every ballot is bar coded. I get an email when it's mailed. I get an email soon after I've dropped it off at an official drop box.

Every current and past Secretary of State from each state will tell you election fraud happens, and that it's rare enough it doesn't have an effect on the outcome.

Trump is lying when he said there is a 100% certainty of a rigged election if there's widespread mail-in ballots. Be clear about what he means by rigged. A system-wide fraud that influences the outcome of an election.

It's the same kind of lie about 3 million voters being "illegals" in 2016 and why he lost the popular vote. It's the same kind of lie he told about buses being shipped up from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to explain why he lost New Hampshire. The same lies about "you will not believe what my people are finding in Hawaii" about Obama's birth certificate. And the thousands of people cheering on 9/11. And the hundreds of people he knew who died on 9/11 yet went to no funerals, zero zip.

And it's the same tactic he used in 2016 to set the stage for his loss. When asked if he would accept election results if he lost he refused to say yes, he only said he'd accept the election results if he won.

He excels at creating doubt and confusion. That's his entire life history way before he was in politics.

He's an asshole. He's a complete waste of space. He's a whiny little bitch. He's always been this way. It's not new. He was this way when he was a Democrat too. As president. As candidate. Before he was even in politics. He has always been a piece of shit asshole. He will always be a piece of shit asshole. And hilariously this is a completely unremarkable observation. The absurd claim would be that he's a compassionate person of strong ethical and moral character, a role model you want your kids to look up to, mimic, and be like when they grow up.
> you're being obtuse

No name-calling on HN, please. It's specifically against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The more polarized things become, the more all of us here need to breathe and treat each other well.
It's not that the truth has become relative - nobody is saying "you have your beliefs, I have mine." We are at each others' throats because there's vanishingly few shared facts.

There's hardly any mechanisms left to bring about shared truth. Even a life-threatening pandemic falls short.
Those laws are democratically accountable though, so it's not the same thing as what I am talking about.
> The class acts as the place to hold the parameters needed for it and the result if/when it is computed. There's nothing wrong with that.

Right, and the constness problem can be overcome by making some fields mutable. This is exactly what "mutable" is for.

If the requirement is to have a lazy, memoized computation, then a class is good. If the requirement is to have an eager, non-memoized computation, a function is good. The article keeps shifting the goalposts and beating strawmen that implement different specifications. It's not very good at making the point it thinks it's making.
> What is your evidence that children actually do transmit the virus efficiently?

OP's point is about if children transmit the virus. Either they do or don't.

But your question is about the efficiency of how children transmit the virus. It's an entirely different question although your personal choice of weasel words makes it look differently.

It makes no sense to waste time talking about efficiency if you're talking about a known virus transmission vector.
You're reacting to just the word "absolute" and misinterpreting what he meant. In that sentence it just means "very much". You could delete it without changing the argument.
Or anything that needs validation before you try to run the main part. e.g. the init() method may give you a shopping list of data you're going to need to pass to run() but which couldn't have been deduced until init() validated its parameters.

Sure, you could handle this the functional way by passing a getData() function to run() so it can do so itself but I'm not sure that's any more readable.
I think bringing back the CompuServe model would be a good thing. I remember the discussions being unusually free at the time, but was not aware that there was legal reasoning that enforced that freedom.
> DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's MongoDB

DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's broken MongoDB
Metropolitan Sydney (upload is temporarily disabled)

Paying A$89 for TPG 100Mbps plan

Server location: Sydney
Down 93.6Mbps
Latency: 14.9ms
Jitter: 4.97ms

Before students went back to school, upload bandwidth was throttled at 4~8Mbps (due to the congestion caused by nation wide WFH), now speedtest / fast.com reports 30~40Mbps...

Surprisingly, download bandwidth has not been affected like Optus Cable before (experienced 10Mbps or less for 100Mbps/2Mbps plan), facepalm.
Uber to move APAC headquarters to Hong Kong
The 9th circuit are wrong and I am right.
Add tailwind css or another utility class css framework and you can do the whole frontend in html :)
who has on multiple occasions called Trump a nazi and more

Regardless of what you might think about Trump it's a bad look for Twitter to have put someone so obviously partisan in that position https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/head-of-twitter-site...

They have definitely stepped over the line of "we're just a platform" and into "we are taking editorial stances on things now".

Kathy Griffin, who recently called for Trump to be injected with a syringe of air, still has her account and still has her blue checkmark.
> Stay on top of your numbers. Keep the calculator close by—now you can choose to keep the Calculator app on top of everything.

This would be brilliant... if the Windows 10 Calculator app wasn't the size of a small country.
Depends very much on gates. They would have to be idealized, with constant non-zero input-to-output propagation time. Best approach is then to simulate them, perhaps in Lisp.
I agree with Zuckerberg. Fact checking isn't possible as most of these things aren't "facts" twitter can prove or disprove. The illegal or threat of harm test seems like a much more reasonable one.
"Just heard from the Image Search team that this is an oversight and they'll add the feature! Sorry about that and thanks for the report!"

https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/1265688067706245120
>When I use it, what do you think makes more sense :
> (...)

None of your examples make any sense to me. Why not name it simply "game"?
Not just C#. IronRuby and IronPython both got subsumed into Silverlight, and a lot of work went into a dynamic language runtime layer to allow that to happen. That whole era was full of "could have been"s that ended up not being because someone lost on the Microsoft internal politics merry-go-round.
I am also amazed by amount of dirt, not by the fact it is covered (it came by process of top soil formation ); but by the sheer amount of it. If that was just after 2-3 thousand years, it makes me wonder what other things can we dig which are much deeper?
But again not prehistoric kind of deep, more in range of last million years.
Digital Gardens
out of curiosity: when did Thiel ever claim that we ought to do that? O.o
I have to disagree with you about Facebook/Twitter comparison. To me it looks like Facebook is obliviously annoying everyone at the same time. Twitter doesn’t look great but does at least seem to be aware of this and trying to improve.
I know this isn't the point you're making, but the right dent patterns can increase fuel efficiency and make cars more desirable to some buyers.
Just yesterday the EU announced a massive stimulus, to be repaid over 30 years, perhaps partially by EU-wide taxes. What makes you way they are heading away from more integration?
yeah, old (by todays standards anyway) infosec hacker here. "cyber" has always a fed/consultant tip off
My point was about representing people who can't vote. Direct sampling ignores them entirely.
Ummm... Reddit permanently banned theDonald using dubious reasoning. By “coincidence”, in the election year.
The GitHub Support Community has a new look and feel
And in other news Trump signs yet another meaningless piece of paper.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me
Ok. Let’s not play coy.

Is there a particular case where you felt a Democrat fact check was warranted? Frankly I don’t think the democrats lie as much (of course democrats do lie though) as the republican representatives. Furthermore, there’s no democrat with a platform like trump using it as abusively as he is. Trump is in a unique position, and if anyone needs to be fact checked, it’s him. There’s no question in my mind that trump is doing nasty things with his office and his reach, and I’d take a biased fact checker over no fact checker 9 times out of 10.
Well, when you target Windows or Mac it's a mess anyway: when your project reaches certain level of complexity then you probably build Qt alongside with it.

But I think that adding friction to the "download binaries from some site" is doing nothing more than alienating Windows developers. Qt just must add something like "Sign in with Google/Facebook with one click" because this audience cares about convenience.
I switched to Outlook email. I've been considering changing to Fastmail (considered a few others too), but this is the reason i thought emails are hopeless now. Most people I know are on Gmail.
So they should just ban him and anyone else? That seems like the obvious solution to avoid any claim of them editorializing content. There's multiple cases where he violated long standing rules on Twitter.

I fail to see how this is any different than that bakery years ago that refused to make a cake for that gay couple. Or a business refusing service because you're saying things against them. Or many of the other reasons a company might decide you cant shop or be a customer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23333496

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23332177
> Well, this was after a Democrat won a Senate election in that state thanks in large part to the Native American population. Most Native Americans live on reservations in that state and part of living on the reservations is a lack of physical mailing addresses.

There is nothing about a reservation that prevents it from having a mailing address. People on reservations receive mail all the time. Even someone who doesn't currently know what it is can find out. And it seems like a pretty crappy voter suppression method if it at best only works until people figure out what their mailing address is.

> Nothing about having a physical address is going to make voter fraud less likely.

Having a physical address proves you live in the district. It prevents people from making a mistake and voting in the wrong elections, or voting in the wrong elections on purpose. It gives the government something to investigate if they suspect fraud. The perpetrator will either have to give their real address (leading investigators right to them) or a fake address (allowing investigators to prove that person doesn't live there).

> It's plain as day that Republicans are just interested in suppressing the votes of people who vote against them.

The Democrats do the same thing. They regularly e.g. schedule school board elections off-cycle (a separate election day than the major elections for statewide offices) so that most people don't show up, which allows the election to be dominated by teachers unions. And there isn't even a pretext for doing that -- it has no other purpose, and wastes a ton of money to hold a separate election.
The posts I made were simply a description of what I had built and a link to my app. There are two things to focus on in your post: 1) do not use marketing speak and 2) talk about the features in the app that would be the most valuable to those users and why.
The trouble is the very first time this happens, they already manage to mess it up. The fact checked article contained errors too. I also think it's truly stupid to use a partisan news organisation as a fact checker. You really can't claim any impartiality. In that case you aren't a fact checker, just showing the other side of the argument. But then don't call it facts.
Why do people keep getting this wrong‽
Ultra-simple integration with the HMS ML Kit to capture the maxsize small face
You're a funny guy.
He should sign an executive order to stop the Corona virus.
Patterns and antipatterns are important, but naming is even more important. Calling "using a class when a function would suffice" "the OO antipattern" isn't going to help anybody.

I wish we wouldn't let today's tendency towards clickbait titles extend into engineering terminology.
IE11 Mainstream End of Life in Oct 2020
Reliability was one problem. The other was that for many of us it was uncomfortable to use. I would actually feel some pain in my hands/wrists after using this keyboard for a while. Both the older keyboard and the newer keyboard are fine for some reason.
I'm not excited for such sophistry.

You can read an essay by Mussolini on the topic here [0], but consider practice vs theory. Fascism is usually cited in reference to Nazi Germany / Fascist Italy, both of aspired towards totalitarianism, featured callous disregard for human life, and possessed collectivist tendencies. Is the US you live in?

The use of fascism here isn't correct as it misses magnitude. Trump's authoritarian tendencies and nationalism is certainly aligned, but falls far short. It's the same way that 'socialism' isn't an appropriate way to describe the policies of Bernie Sanders.

But please continue to abuse language, knowing full well the power of connotation. You'll water them down to meaninglessness.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_of_Fascism
Almost all voting is mail-in here. But then again, we basically have a one-person one-vote system; from the outside, it seems your "electoral college" is voter fraud on a far grander (and far more institutionalised) scale than either gerrymandering or individual bad actors.

Then again, the US is strange: we can all agree that single-party states are bad, yet the US insists their two party state is somehow better than a multi-party state?

(mOzg, would you mind terribly answering my question about convertible rubles in "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311253
спс!)
But the children!
Freud and Faith (2007)
I believe you describing at least one of two cases:
1. There are multiple methods on the object (not counting constructor)
2. There are arguments passed to the methods.

Either of these cases are different from the provided example: The example will only ever compute a single value per object, always returning that value from a single method with no arguments (other than self).
Comparing deaths from previous years for the same month(s) (of the pandemic), along with the expected number of deaths (projected) for 2020, is how this sort of calculation is made, on a preliminary basis.

There is an (older) Financial Times article that did an excellent analysis on this (free to read): https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...

But, this article (also free to read) came out today from the Financial Times and is way better. The UK is doing far worse than the US interestingly: https://www.ft.com/content/6b4c784e-c259-4ca4-9a82-648ffde71...

Countries like France, Spain, and Italy (Mediterranean countries) in particular rank badly (besides having an uncontrollable infection problem) for the calculation of total excess deaths (compared to previous years) because they have some of the highest average lifespans in the world, largest percentages of elderly populations, and have extremely high quality universal healthcare (for example, the third leading cause of death in the US is actually preventable medical errors, so we really do not have phenomenal healthcare, even if you have “great insurance” and “can pay for it”).
What about something like "in_order_traversal", which is an algorithm and you need to keep track of the traversed stack. You could either write it with functions in which case you would need to pass the stack as a parameter and have a constructor/initial state version of the function that passes the stack to the main function, or have a functor/function class that keeps the stack internally.
Then build a function from validated parameters (or partially apply some parameters).
As for similar opinions, see Stephen Colbert on "truthiness".
This will actually backfire on him spectacularly, as the social media platforms will go all-in in every way they can think of to defeat the leagues of bots promoting his message and therefore hinder his opportunity to get re-elected.

It’s as if a President in the late 1800s-early 1900s declared war on the printed press.

They’re going to reject his targeted ads, they’re going to aid Democrats in swing states to persuade the undecided swing-voters... it’s going to be mayhem.
I agree - it's baity and misleading, and so should be changed (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). I've replaced it with the article's phrase for what it's really about.
Alan Kay's answer
C# is slowly moving away from "everything is a class". Static classes with static imports is basically a module or namespace. C# also allows stand-alone functions inside methods. But you still have to declare a static class to hold "top-level" functions, which is somewhat ugly.

Given the current development of C# I expect we see stand-alone functions in the future.
There's nothing prohibiting you from running a forum on the CompuServe model today - Section 230 permits a forum operator to moderate but does not require them to do so.

There are less-moderated forums out there, but they see less popular in the free market. I think the main argument for Section 230 is it made no sense to legally require the CompuServe model - both CompuServe and Prodigy should have been free to operate as they were doing.
The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527481

The cutoff for reposts is a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
If you like that layout, citizenfreepress is significantly better, it _appears_ Matt sold the site long ago.
I'd love to hear all the more important things a doctor has to do than check whether someone needs a potentially dangerous supplement and that it isn't going to harm them.
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
Mysterious fast radio bursts helped detect missing matter in the universe
Not necessarily. What I said can apply to even a class with with 1 method that takes no arguments... though you might often recognize it as a more sophisticated kind of iterator:

class BFS(object):
def __init__(self, origin): self.origin = origin; ...
def next(self): ...
Moderation by the users themselves could work, but that might not toe the line that HN wants to showcase (but may have to accept if they don't want to get sued and keep it running). On other platforms, advertiser may have to incentivize (monetarily or otherwise) users to post the kind of USG they want their ads nearby (assuming they still want to advertise on the platform).
Classes in OOP are type dependent namespaces. That's the entire reason why classes even exist. You can now reuse function and member names inside classes instead of having to globally qualify them to prevent name collisions. In C you would do something like class_name_function_name(var, par1, par2). The OOP counterpart would look like this in Java: ClassName var = new ClassName(); var.functionName(par1, par2).

Now you might be asking if this is really such a big deal. I mean it is pretty obvious that this can be useful even if you limit yourself to static dispatch and completely avoid inheritance and polymorphism. The reality is that functional programming languages like Haskell don't support type dependent namespaces. When you name a field in a Haskell record then no other record is allowed to have a field with the same name.
no worries, but I was talking about entity extraction from text using NLP and perhaps other techniques.

cool links though! thanks for sharing
My apologies, I replied in that brief interval of time this was posted before the links to discussions going on elsewhere were posted.
Future of political art in Hong Kong uncertain as Beijing tightens grip
The US government deliberately limits its speech monopoly via the 1st amendment, but outside that that limitation it does have a speech monopoly enforced by prison sentences.

You can read about exceptions here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex...
In my opinion when it comes to elections politicians should be fact checked.
likely "game" would be something that would be about the whole game, including graphics, sounds, etc.
The funny thing is that SMR is perfect for storing large immutable files like photos, music, videos or game resources. What we need is a controlled way of relaying the SMR properties further up the chain. Anything that is “drive managed” is bound to fall apart sooner rather than later. I have the first Seagate 8TB SMR “Archive” HDD, and I have yet to find a way to tell the controller to “TRIM” the complete drive and start over. Without this SMR-drives essentially become WORM-drives.

The “read-modify-write” nature of copy-on-write file systems are a perfect marriage with “host managed SMR”. There was a couple of sessions on SMR during the OpenZFS summit: “Host aware SMR” [1] and “HGST SMR” [2]

[1] : https://openzfs.org/w/images/2/2a/Host-Aware_SMR-Tim_Feldman... and https://youtu.be/b1yqjV8qemU
[2] : https://youtu.be/a2lnMxMUxyc
I am not a lawyer. I just read the draft.

Publishers are absolutely allowed to comment on the validity of the content they've published - why are you asking?

Twitter is benefiting from the fact they're classed as a _platform_. Platform != Publisher.

It's up to the courts to decide whether annotating content in the way Twitter has is editorial. Twitter opened a can of worms here.
But /r/conservative and plenty of other pro-Trump subreddits are doing just fine. Is there an ideology that has been censored from Reddit, or just behavior?

No platform should be obligated to keep disruptive users around simply because those users happen to have a certain political belief.
Blizzard sells retired World of Warcraft servers as collectibles
It’s a cross-party issue in the sense that Democrat Eric Holder, former US Attorney General, has been raising money for candidates who support citizen redistributing through the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. You don’t have to be a Democratic Party candidate to be a part.

I know there are also Republicans who care about this issue, but I don’t know of a better plan to fix it than this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Redistrict...

https://democraticredistricting.com/chairman/
That statements assumes that all black people have a problem with Trump, which is definitely not true. So what about the black people that support Trump, are they stupid, are they bad people? It also implies all black people are the same, which is also patently false, and seems pretty racist. We don't generally like someone judging people based on an immutable characteristic like their skin color, and Biden is doing that.

Now you could make the argument that is was supposed to be a joke, but then it comes off as offensive and maybe not that racist. Just the casual racism of an old person who grew up in a different era. It certainly doesn't provide much confidence in him as president though.