skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People do vote for these things, but if you split voters is a particular way you can ensure that the minority hold on to power (Gerrymandering and the Electoral College).
Trump's chances of winning will drastically increase with another Republican Supreme Court Justice.

The election will likely be contested. When some strategically selected counties in Florida start anulling mail-in votes the Republicans will be glad to have a person who will dispute in their favour.
I think I’ve seen that movie before; Gaining control of two branches and then using that power to cement absolute control by seizing the third is what the bad guys do.
That's true, but the united states is the big prize, which means the US is where greed and corruption is playing hardest. Having lived in the US and out of it, I believe that other places and not less selfish or petty, but there are places where greed and corruption just doesn't have it's shit together.
I’ve been in board meetings with top tier, very well known VC board members where the CFO basically showed them the CEO was lying to them. The next two meetings the finance guy wasn’t allowed to present and then he quit. The board members never looked into it. It was like they didn’t want to know.
It's not a technicality. It's the law. The popular vote means nothing in regards to the Presidential election.

* The House is voted in by the people.

* The Senate is voted in by the states.

* The President is voted in by both.

No one is being held hostage. This system was created purposefully, and has been the same since its inception.

Your opinion on the matter is meaningless.
It was hardly an abuse. It was business as usual.
> What do you think?

I think you can follow all the laws and still get hacked, so I don't think the fact that they got hacked tells us much about whether they were following the rules
Mandatory vacations of certain length without system access is another common one.
Can you host the netboot server from a workstation by chance? This is something I had never considered and it would really change things up for me, how does that even work? Is it just an installed distro or just a network image on the device it's booting from? I'm somewhat familiar with netbooting an installer but I've never setup a server just used the tech to install an OS from the network to hardware.

I did bump into these docs:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

Are these the gist of it, or did you do a little more?
When? Was she to have perfect foresight in the first two years of Obama's two terms that that was her only window?
After watching a 2018 documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and seeing her work as a lawyer in the 70's, fighting and making and winning cases for pure social justice in the highest court of the land, RBG became an instant hero to me.

She will always inspire me, here or not, to fight for justice and what my conscience tells me is right. I have a great deal to say and a great deal to fight for. When it gets tough, she will be there to keep me standing.

Thank you, Ruth, for being such a fully self-actualised individual. You have shown the way. I am forever grateful.

A giant has fallen.
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Does wear and weathering matter if you're just going to shred it and melt it down anyway?
Pikabu.ru releases full dataset with 3M users, 7M posts, and 153M comments
RIP. 2020 just keeps getting worse.

Also, the US needs a maximum age limit for SCOTUS justices.
Which is also why I find it so hard to trust these technology giants, especially on the topic of privacy and personal data.
The minority is even smaller if you consider how few states determine the outcome, especially with primaries.
GPU accelerated direct storage access was previously part of Telsa/DGX-2 as a feature named "GPUDirect storage" https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/.

It's a feature the new consoles are doing so it'll be widely supported.
Both sides abuse civil rights when it suits them.

Uninformed sterilization has happened in the past in this country too. Look at doctors at some Native American reservations. It's quite abhorrent to stereotype an entire of party based on the sensationalism of an extremely small subset of actors.

Also the 'band wagon' effect is a widely documented cognitive bias - so there is merit to the idea that "likes" can create bias.
DHS publishes the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide which includes a national channel plan for calling, simplex and deployable repeater operation.

Each state/county/etc. may have different licensing, but they are also encouraged to program the NIFOG channel plans when space is available on radios.
People don't "enter" the draft, that's why it's called conscription. And you would think after decades of having opinions on similar issues she might have expressed a view at some point.
This wastes more fuel per capita than most.
It is also violation of free association, because social apps have a community aspect.
Not obvious which you think is which.
That's not where they were wrong.
Paying people to vote is pretty out there. I think we should at least put election day on a weekend. Spread it over both days, even. This feels to me like a relatively easy small step that would really help make voting easier in a way that doesn't open itself up to voter fraud arguments (as far as I know).
Or even the voters for voting for said lawmakers.
That’s just the Senate deciding internally what its procedures are. Either way, the Senate is making the choice.
Can confirm the read only. Indeed had it with 2 cards now. It's really annoying because the OS still caches writes in RAM so you only find out when you reboot and all your changes are lost.

Still, not quite as bad as completely corrupting I suppose...
No. See: https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/03/neil-gorsuch-supreme-...
We should come to some agreement and maybe give some people 3/5ths of their rights, as has been done prior. That should solve these "extreme" positions with some much needed compromise.
Paul Graham’s “Same Way”
Unsurprising. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/18/reaction-...

> Breaking: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who refused to consider President Obama’s choice months before the 2016 election, said in a statement Friday hours after Ginsburg’s death: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
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Yes, right before a massive civil war broke out that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. I don't think you're making the point that you think you're making.
Too bad that wasn't actually the way you win a Presidential election. There is an actual rationale for the Electoral college. Go ahead and argue for different rules but pointing out that the results would have been different if the rules were different isn't that informative.
Connections[0], The Day the Universe Changed [1], and Industrial Revelations [2] are other very good choices in this area. These series are very old (1978, 1985, and 2002 respectively) but their age gives them a level of quality that modern, dumbed-down, documentaries do not have.

They're probably more readily available through forms of through non-monetary cultural exchange rather than by paying streaming service danegeld, however.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Universe_Changed
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revelations
Do not make the mistake of thinking the politicians who represent you are particularly principled people.

The left has been talking about stacking the supreme court since Kavanaugh. Democratic senators played games with the filibuster. There are plenty of other examples of weaponizing politics that I could cite (from both sides).

I would like to see Senate Republicans show some fair play and wait for after the election, though there is some wisdom in wanting to avoid the possibility of a split decision should this election go to the supreme court.
> mass hysterectomies in ICE camps

All I found was two allegations against a single doctor. That's horrible if true, but it seems like a typical case of medical malpractice that has nothing whatsoever to do with the administration.
The useful thing about seeing 'Democrat' in a comment is that it is immediately obvious which way their bias leans.
About the only thing that has in common is it's military related.
You are comparing people who committed genocide to Apple. It's not a strong comparison,its a completely stupid comparison
Imagine what you could do with a newspaper where the editor has editorial control. Oh the horrors!
Yeah, but now acrimony’s at webscale.
How do you define or enforce a "modern C++ codebase", this seems like an arbitrary comment to discount the parent's point.
Why don't you live somewhere else for 10+ years and then report back how much better it is over there. Until then your opinion is not worth much.
The whole reason most people join that side is that it’s no longer safe to publicly express any opinion that isn’t either anodyne or extreme. This generates constant, subtle pressure which - over years - drives increasingly extreme behaviour.

Yes, I think the far right have gone much further than the far left in that regard; however, IMO its a question of when, rather than if, social progressives take up arms (given the path I see social media taking).

We need to get off public-by-default platforms that feel semiprivate. Everyone gets bad/wrong ideas; talking about them with our friends is how we stop them before they become part of our identity, but it’s no longer safe to do that.
Such a lack of empathy from him.

I am deeply disappointed at anyone celebrating her loss.
Ah yes, wishing for a successor that does not undo your life's work is definitely what I would call "playing politics up until the end".
Honestly, no. The USA is uniquely fucked up. Seriously, everyone else in the rest of the stable world-leading countries is looking in with disbelief every week
Which fraud are you referring to?
To be fair, there was only one doctor forcibly sterilizing women, and it appeared to be for personal profit rather than some eugenics directive from above. It's bad, but it's quite as bad as you're making it out to be.
While the courts have said it is theoretically possible for a company with 50% market share to have monopoly power, I haven't seen any court cases where this has actually occurred. Feel free to point one out.

> "which does not require a monopoly"

Do you see how your original statement was misleading? Monopoly power is in fact required in order to pursue a refusal to deal.

In the future when you see someone use the term "monopoly power", you should interpret that to mean "significant and durable market power" instead of "a literal monopoly". It will reduce confusion.
So if RISC-V adopts WASM would that give it an interesting edge? I'm not a hardware guy, all software, but definitely would love to see a little more diversity in consumer grade hardware.
"Maybe don't to straight for code examples?"

Pretty sure that isn't just me. It's a common path that works better if you have the docs for it, versus "download this tar.gz file".

Had I been on my desktop, that would have worked okayish. My mobile doesn't like tar.gz files, so I was stuck.

It's an opportunity to grow with mimimal effort.
I think the patch including a general election is good. But I think say every 5 or 10 years a justice is given an approval vote-have it rotate across the bench and one or two per year, not many. I’d they get less than 67% approval then they’re removed until after the next general election-no fillers until then. Give a time lag to let people consider their first choice before the second choice is made.
The reason for that is that Starmer is a corporate stooge who doesn't present any threat to the merciless extraction of value from the working class. Of course they have no objection to the kind of competition which would have no adverse effect on their interests if it prevailed; their praise is evidence of Starner's complete lack of merit.

The media besmirched Corbyn BECAUSE he was a decent man with the interests of the public at heart, which is unacceptable to the owners of the media apparatus.
> and more importantly, the code will look idiomatic.

That's the kicker.

Whether a thing is possible or not is a far cry from whether it's a good idea. And when you consider what someone who opens up the code 5-7 years later without any frame of reference to start from will think (which can just as well include the original author if the original author has moved on to other things), familiar syntax goes a long way.
The plane was destroyed on an abandoned runway within a few hundred metres of a 747 junkyard. I think it's fair to say that transportation was less difficult in this situation than most.
Getting a conservative justice on the court is a massive draw for Trump's reelection. That's why he released a list of candidates before both elections.
At what point should a President, especially in their first term running for re-election, stop being able to fulfill parts of their duties?

Declaring war? Responding to an attack? Talking to other world leaders? Advocating Congress to act on matters? Signing bills into laws? Naming post offices? Being allowed into the Oval Office?

Independent of this specific situation, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. And that line is Inauguration Day. (A case could be made that some powers cease on Election Day for a lame duck President.)
McConnell is on the record saying he would seat a justice during Trump's reelection.

There are no principles, just power struggles.

If HRC was president, McConnell would follow his 2016 policy. With Trump president he'll make a new policy.

There are no repercussions for bringing home the bacon to your constituents at any cost.
Sounds much like the "PayPal blocking all mentions of tardigrade".

An overreaction is sometimes an overreaction, not a good defence.
Correct, and if a US political party outsources their IT management to white folks overseas in eastern Europe (outside of EU) / Russia or former Russian states where US law does not apply they'd be equally idiotic.
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The proper response to this cynical argument is to pack the court.
Well, that's instructions on how to setup a Pi itself to be the netboot server. That will work fine, but your DHCP server still needs to be configurable to emit the correct responses to find the TFTP server, if you don't want to use a Pi itself as your DHCP server, which I would imagine most people don't.

My DHCP server is pfSense, and I'm using a FreeNAS server as the TFTP/NFS server.

The Pi netboot procedure is documented in more general terms, here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
I've been living abroad for almost 6 years. I definitely recommend anyone interested to try the same. It's not without challenges.
It's my understanding that anything can be a JoJo reference if you want it to be.
But they didn't follow it. They had no duty to consent, but they had a duty to advise, even if in the negative.
Joe Lieberman killed the public option in Obamacare. He threatened to vote against the bill if a public option was included.
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Western business do not have good market access. Just look at what’s happened with Disney. Spend years and years censoring movies and gaining favour of the CCP to get access to the market and a single movie ends up destroying their reputation overnight.
That's a very western philosophical way of viewing it. Many eastern philosophies believe the best answer lies between the opposing positions.
That's the basic problem. All the motivation and encourgement is towards extreme, attention grabbing content.
This doesn't make sense to me. There absolutely was a "like count". There were votes for decisions and there were citations for opinions. Academia is bitter for that reason. Yet, with the same incentives and much higher stakes they remained friends.
Mitch McConnell has been consistent on this since 2016, and he just made the following statement today regarding RBG's death:

> The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life.

> Justice Ginsburg overcame one personal challenge and professional barrier after another. She climbed from a modest Brooklyn upbringing to a seat on our nation’s highest court and into the pages of American history. Justice Ginsburg was thoroughly dedicated to the legal profession and to her 27 years of service on the Supreme Court. Her intelligence and determination earned her respect and admiration throughout the legal world, and indeed throughout the entire nation, which now grieves alongside her family, friends, and colleagues.

> In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.

> By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise.

> President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.

It's happening whether we like it or not, and there's no "precedent" we can appeal to in order to stop it.
You didn't answer any of my questions.
I’m stuck in a big city where those real world hobbies you mentioned are prohibitively expensive. I remember it was about 5 years ago when I realized activities I did offline started to feel like like self indulgent frivolity and anything that mattered long term mostly happened or started in front of a computer (or phone/computer combo). This is an insane shift to me from even 10-15 years ago where the physical world still felt real and the internet was more a fun diversion.
Actually, just tested on my local network, got ~940 Mbps sending and receiving. Pi4 has real Gbit now, not limited by the USB bandwidth any more.
"We should pay people to vote"

Reminds of me of 3rd grade when kids would make a christmas tree out of their scantron tests. That is what we need -- randomness added to voting.
Just tried this on my account (around 12 folders and 45 designs); it worked pretty well and is definitely useful.

It did crash on several different projects. The first was one where I'd imported a bunch of very detailed model parts for a Raspberry Pi. I just skipped over that project in subsequent runs. (Probably was from this link: https://gallery.autodesk.com/fusion360/projects/124986/raspb... )

However, it still crashed on some other runs with much simpler models. (It was a Fusion360 crash, with 0 bytes in the timestamp.txt log file. In each case, it seemed like it exported an entire design but crashed while loading and before exporting any file types of the next one.)

I tried to find a reproducible case, but didn't get to an entirely reproducible case. Along the path, I did find a (stops script, but doesn't crash F360) error "ascii codec can't encode character '\u2019' in position 20: ordinal not in range (128)"

I presume that was on a project named "Name's phone" (where the apostrophe is a right-single-quotation-mark), however that project does appear to have successfully exported on a prior run before I tried to find a repro case for it. That exported into a directory named with a right-single-quotation-mark while the relevant files in that directory had the mark changed to ascii 0x27 (single-quote).

It also only exports visible bodies. I will sometimes have a project with multiple bodies and if the visibility is set to 0, they seem to not be exported by this process. If they're all set to 1, they're exported as a single output stl/step. Not a deal-breaker, but is something to be aware of. Still awesome/thanks!
In this case I don't see why it needs to be an adjective.

By analogy, you'll more often hear "Texas senator Mr Bean" (using the singular noun) vs "Texan senator Mr Bean" (using the adjective).

In any case, it's not something anyone should get worked up over.
Republicans do not always win but do play more hardball, and that is not a compliment. They aggressively use anti (small d) democratic tactics like gerrymandering, disfranchisement, etc. They also enjoy a large structural advantage in the Senate, because the average State is more rural and much more white than the average American.

Should Democrats win the Presidency and a Senate majority, they should prioritize (small d) democratic reforms, stuff that cannot be easily undone in 2024. In particular, make Washington DC a state. This is not hardball, it's just basic fairness: DC metro has one of the highest percentages of Black people, and DC statehood will make the Senate more representative of America (only partially - red states will still have an advantage).

My sense is that the Democratic party has an appetite for this. Should they gain power, they won't make the same mistakes. See HR 1.

I feel terrible for viewing this sad event through the lens of electoral politics, but RBG was a champion for voting rights.
"I've yet to see [React] used seriously at a BigCo" you realize Facebook a) sponsors its development and b) just rewrote their core product in it?
Huh? The Democrats have had two, 2 term presidencies since Reagan. 16 years in the last 32.
Given how broadly the United States exerts influence around the world, I feel obligated to stay and work to make things better.
"Advice and Consent". I'm pretty sure "consent" is where we get the need for Senate confirmation, and you'd have to strike that word to allow a direct appointment.
The "easily" in that sentence is an important word...
I agree that Alex Jones is a scoundrel and possibly a loony.

However .. this quote from H.L.Mencken:

> “For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

I know we're not talking about laws here (for the most part) but the principle applies.
They did. Reid's cloture vote to end the filibuster applied to federal judges, not Supreme Court justices. Before the vote on Kavanaugh there was a cloture vote to end the filibuster.
Useless. Paywall.
I made a minesweeper clone in JS and CSS, it's not as hard as you'd think and just a few hundred lines of code. I still want to attempt a multiplayer minesweeper, which might benefit more from something like Vue.

A dashboard is usually for me the primary use case for one of these reactive frameworks.
Generic Sensor API Playground
I've just discovered that he's already made a statement regarding RBG's death:

"President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate."

https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/press-relea...
I wonder how friendly they would have been if Scalia had managed to overturn abortion.
Trump released a list before he was even elected.