skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never voted for the POTUS and I expect I never will. From my POV I don't really care who wins but I think my preference leans to Trump. That has mostly to do with the Democrats being overly populistic about all the concerns, without offering any solutions. If you push through the endless barrage of misinformation from both sides, it does seem that the conservatives have a better understanding on how to progress the USA in a reasonable manner.

Unfortunately, in the online, and also in the educated world, this is an incredibly unpopular opinion. I've been labeled a racist, xenophobe, women-hater, and bigot so many times, it's a bit stale by now.

I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-guns, I love science, I think the Trump administration royally messed up the COVID-19 response, and I also think anyone in his stead would have done a terrible job (albeit slightly better from an advisory POV). Still, a Democratic POTUS wouldn't get any of the Republican voters to listen to them. So that would've ended in disaster as well.

Trump is a vile person. But from the two available options, he's the lesser of two evils. I've grown up being a left-wing ideologist and I consider myself a centrist today. It just took people like AOC to push me all the way over into the realm of, well, not falling victim to populist rhetoric that is based in the realm of fantasy.

By that I mean, of course, her ridiculous Green New Deal plan. Luckily a plan that Biden doesn't support, his one redeeming quality from the last debate.
I can confirm that, uh, the Index exists and is good. Not sure what else you want to know.
Some of these have aged so perfectly that I only need substitute a few letters:

> Python —"the infantile disorder"—, by now nearly 30 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to JS: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

> The use of Java cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.

The quotes about languages were always controversial, weren't they? But it's clear now in retrospect what Dijkstra was complaining about. He found FORTRAN to trick people into thinking that programming was merely about specifying arithmetic operations in a certain order, considered BASIC to require mental models which rendered folks memetically blind to actual machine behaviors, and thought COBOL tried to be legible to management but ended up being confusing to everybody.

> Many companies that have made themselves dependent on AWS-equipment (and in doing so have sold their soul to the devil) will collapse under the sheer weight of the unmastered complexity of their data processing systems.

Yep.

> In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to Python, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Reproducibility is a real problem, and sharing code is just the first step. It's an embarrassment to physics and mathematics that we don't have a single holistic repository of algorithms, but have to rebuild everything from scratch every time. (Perlis would tell Dijkstra that this is an inevitable facet of computing, and Dijkstra would reply that Perlis is too accepting of humanity's tendency to avoid effort.)

> You would rather that I had not disturbed you by sending you this.

Heh, yeah, let's see what the comment section is like.
Still as relevant 15 years later, as we still live in a world in which aging can be addressed via the construction of rejuvenation therapies, but most people are simply disinterested in the prospect, the science, and doing anything other than crumbling, suffering, and dying like their parents and grandparents.

The one big difference between the present and 15 years ago: the first rejuvenation therapies worthy of the name now exist in the form of senolytic treatments that selectively destroy senescent cells. Pretty much everyone over the age of 50 should be taking them once a year or so, and would have a better life as a result. It makes the pathos of the situation somewhat greater than it was.
I think the most worrying aspect is an emerging strain of political thought in the US that USA is merely a republic but not a democracy. I find it quite shocking that it has gained a great deal of acceptance.
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Except for the half a century after WWII where the US shaped international law and democratic values, and heavily shaded modern international trade and its norms and values.
I think it's good to add to the discussion here for other HN readers that the reason I mentioned it was that some people are suggesting this is a measure put in-place by facebook to reduce election interference (as it's happening right now in the US). That may be the case, it may also not be since everyone (doesn't matter where from) seems to be getting banned alike.
A completely different company owned by Softbank and Alibaba.
I have never in my entire life waited longer than five minutes to vote in any election in a municipal, provincial or federal election. That includes early voting or election day voting. I walk over to a school near my house (or community center, or church) and vote. I can't understand how anyone in the US accepts the status quo of their terrible and flawed election system.

Make it a terrible experience, especially in lower income and minority communities, and you don't really have to worry about courting those people since many won't be willing, or able to vote.
Before everyone gets outraged, reading through the whole pep (proposal, like an RFC) is pretty quick. What is interesting in how it changes the semantic weight of comments, good use of Wadler's Law.
The lack of voting booths does seem a bit silly, in the UK during elections there is usually voting booths in pretty much every church, school and town hall so you'd struggle to live more than a mile away from one.

I once got called a "god botherer" by some kid after leaving to vote in a church, that was a bit bizarre.
Case in point, she is a woman. She's oversimplified her world so much that she thinks she's found THE answer
Yeah, it does. If you want to learn more about it, check this: http://learn-dmn-in-15-minutes.com (it's a quick course I created to cover DMN on Kogito world)
Yes, sorry I posted it before it was accepted by the medium publication. Here is the link to the article on itnext:
https://itnext.io/why-everyone-builds-internal-kubernetes-pl...
I’m just waiting for an open source solution. All these closed source payment requires apps kinda scare me with the permissions they need -
Like you just know they’re hacked together scripts that are likely storing and transmitting your tokens in plain text.
Many people still will buy. There is a reason we use representative democracy rather than direct democracy - qualified people should outlaw some bad things the crowd can't resist itself.
Depending on how such things are defined, it's absolutely the case, and that is how the system was designed.
Why would you wait in line 11 hours to vote when you can drop off your ballot at a ballot box?
1 could happen at a lifestyle company, theyre out there but rare (and never hiring obv)
If enough people use it, and if they don't defend their trademark enough, it'll probably get genericized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
- Political memes in the masses are making fact-based and rational political conversation difficult to impossible.

- Teenagers should not be on social networks.

- Teenagers who aren't old enough to vote who want to post political memes - that's like 10x me less caring whether they're banned from Facebook.

I have no problem with the ban.

However, Facebook should separate out its identity service from its social networking service. It might make more money doing this because more people would stick to its services. There's no reason why I shouldn't be able to authenticate with a Facebook account even though Facebook deems me unworthy of participating in its social network.
This is the GOP playbook. Break the laws, lie that they are "just doing what the Democrats are doing" (not true, ballot harvesting != fake drop boxes, very different things), then cry "victim" or "election interference" if they are challenged or if the boxes are removed. It's all a ploy to try to disrupt the results of CA which they knew they can't win fairly.

It makes me sick that I ever associated with this party or believed they actually stood for the things they claimed (lied) they did.

inb4 "How could you not see it"? I'm talking about my views when I was in high school and my first year or so in college. Parental indoctrination is a hell of a drug, so is cognitive dissonance.
Thanks! I actually did it that way on purpose. Reason being is that in multiplayer, you get points clicking around the blurry shape. So, competitive function with multiple players, and there's a risk of misclicking in the rush and nailing a mine.

I do however have an update coming up (sigh after this ... month ... eventually) which will address what you just said, and also try to make sure your first click always hits a hole. But not sure how it'll turn out just yet. I'm a romantic when it comes to random number generators so I didn't want to mess with a pre-generated board just to create a hole. Plan is to shift the entire board by X,Y tiles from where you click, and as you can imagine geometry of irregular shapes is a bit tricky.
True, but not relevant to my point.

Empire is violence, and so is revolution.

If you don’t have an alternative, and you support either one, then you are advocating for violence.

You seem to be advocating for more violence.
> On the other hand, changing the docker user to non root might introduce some failure scenarios (eg file ownership)

If you application needs root to execute, with very few exceptions, it is already wrong.
ARKit 3.5, RealityKit, and the LiDAR Scanner on iPhone and iPad Pro [video]
Many people would love to see literally all of these reforms. You correctly identified the problem, though:

> If you think one party doesn't make it harder to vote in areas where they have a disadvantage you're crazy.

Difficult to enact meaningful reform when the people in power have an existential need to prevent it.
We don't have either of those things in the UK and I've never had to queue to vote - the whole process only takes a couple of minutes.
Curious: why did you move from Hugo to Jekyll?
I eyeballed a few people making that very same argument right here on HN but draped in the typical and disgusting line about “personal responsibility” when someone was lamenting how difficult some states are making it to even get registered.
That's a bold assumption: let's make sure it's correct by testing against all floats, instead of only the ones you consider interesting, in the process making any float as boring as any other float again.
> Is it really possible we only have <5 terror plots against our country in a given year

That depends on your definition. If you're talking about organized 9/11 style attacks, absolutely. It's hard to bring plans like that together no matter how strong your convictions. If you're talking "random mentally ill person unleashes devastation on a group of US citizens" then no, there's certainly far more. That said, situations like that are best handled by local authorities. The Stoneman Douglas High School shooting is a prime example of that because as the story unraveled it became clear that the shooter had a history that was well known to the local police (and FBI if I recall?).
Nor was it ever designed to do so.
When it comes to realizing an offshore wind farm, Europe doesn’t have the Byzantine multilevel and multiagency permitting process that the US does. Permitting delays and complexity are largely what’s holding back offshore wind in the US.
This is very much a "We've investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong" situation.
Voter suppression is very real and it is very sad. Those in power say they are in power by a majority but that's false. They aren't. Senators in majority represent minority of voters. A President is in the White House who received less votes than the challenger. This so called majority make laws and claims they can do so because they represent the majority of voices in this country, that is completely false.
a bit off topic, but know any easy to use vector art program for kids?

Really looking for something my kids can get into!

Krita supports vector layers, but it's for simple shapes/text overlays
The state of Texas won't give you a mail in ballot except under verify specific an restrictive rules. Then the governor has restricted ballot drop offs to one per county including very large counties with millions of people. Anything to restrict the number of voters that may not vote in their favor.
So, these lines are not representative of an actual election day. Actual election day is November 3, 2020.

Some states are in early voting right now [0]. That typically means that there's a very limited number of polling stations open. For instance, in Pinellas County, FL there's only 5 early voting locations, compared to 301 poll locations during election day. That's a 60x discrepancy! This is for 713,000 registered voters. Pinellas county early voting also doesn't start until next Monday, October 19.

I think there was likely not much thought put into the number of early voting locations. It's always been viewed as a low-budget, customer-friendly alternative to voting on election day. That probably should have been re-evaluated given the pandemic and the likelihood of greater numbers of early voters.

And by far, the biggest problem is that election day is always on a Tuesday and is not a national holiday. IMO this would be the best change to make first, to enable more people to be available for voting.

[0] The availability and dates of early voting are determined at a state level.
With all her flaws, India's elections and its election commission does a stellar job.

Just look at the stats for 2019 elections [1] (copying few of them):

1.035 million: The total number of polling booths across India.

2: The maximum distance in kilometres from any given voter’s house to he nearest polling booth

3.96 million: Number of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in use this election

1.7 million: Paper trail or voter-verifiable paper audit trail machines. It is a documentary record of the voter having exercised his franchise

11 million: Election personnel being deployed to conduct polls

15,256: Height of the world’s highest polling station, in Tashigang, Himachal Pradesh, in feet

35: Kilometres an election team travels just so the only resident of the remote Gir National Forest in Gujarat, where Asiatic lions outnumber humans, can vote. The temple priest gets his own polling station, complete with an EVM

[1] https://qz.com/india/1591214/indian-election-2019s-voters-po...
This article is an incredibly misleading, fake positive framing of what is in reality a rapidly failing democratic system. An 11-hour wait to vote is absolutely prohibitive to many of the people who most need change, on top of being terrible for everyone else; not that that is anything new for the US. It's basically a poll tax, which is one of the most regressively anti-democratic tools, but applied unevenly by location. There is not close to a technical need for this, even if we used completely low-tech voting and had all the necessary COVID-19 safety measures. As Glenn Greenwald tweeted, "Few things function efficiently in Brazil. And yet -- in a country just a little smaller & way poorer than the US -- elections work smoothly. Held on a Sunday, mandatory voting, automatic registration at 16, polls open at 7am, close at 5pm, all votes reliably counted by 8:30 pm."

The article is the election version of "feel-good" stories about people who work into their late 80s or 90s in low-paying jobs and are given some token gift like a car by their boss, in response for years and years of life stolen from them. Infuriating.
As far as I understand it, there's three account states you can be in:

- Active = Normal
- Deactivated = Deactivated/Not In-Use/Asked to deactivate
- Deleted = After asking for deletion, wait (don't log in) for a period of 60? days and your account is deleted.

In my particular scenario, I downloaded my data, went through deletion, waited the period and then confirmed the account was deleted (5y ago).
HP Reverb 2 is coming soon with much higher resolution, though lower refresh rate. Whats better depends on if you're planning on playing sims or action games really.
Even if it did, I don't think they would say it stopped an attack. They don't want to encourage terrorists to move to more advanced methods.
Perhaps a more accurate take on this would be "California Republican Party Admits Treasonous Attempt to Undermine the Constitution".

Misleading headline, here.
Facebook, their "real name" policy, and their ban policy when combined with hardware like Oculus seem like a series of really bad product decisions. Like with combining messengers between Instagram and Facebook, the business reason is probably to make Oculus harder to split off in the event of anti-trust action. Pretty gross.
"eduction in economic activity preceded lockdowns."

In Montreal, the coffee shops were almost empty when the PM's wife was diagnosed, some time before the official shut downs.

It may very well be that social interaction is only partly controlled by 'shut downs'.

I suggest that there is probably a 'form of staying open' that would actually limit COVID spread, and that if the communications used by government were more effective (i.e. 'instead of going to the coffee shop, make sure to buy coffee takeout) - we may have been able to 'have our cake and eat it' which is to say keep the economy running while limiting infections.

The economic shock is real, I don't think people realize how upside down our system is right now. We've been basically avoiding total social meltdown by printing money out of thin air in historical proportions.

If we don't play our cards right, and we screw this up, it will be 'Weimar Republic' all over again and things could melt down very badly. Someone much worse than Trump will come along and take advantage of that.

Have a look here [1]

In 10 years the US Fed has gone from 800B in assets to 7 Trillion. It's very scary.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Keep them away from the container and use one or more of the following:

- A vault (Conjur, HCV, something else)

- A built-in credential service that comes with your cloud

- A sidecar that injects credentials or authenticates connections to the backend directly (Secretless Broker, service meshes, etc)

If you are doing a poor man's solution, mounted tmpfs volumes that contain secrets are not terrible (but they're not really that much safer than env vars).
Over here voting takes one morning (population 11M), results are in by evening. I can't see why it wouldn't scale.
In the case of HN, I assume that being once in top 30 would add a minimum number to the vote count. So a simpler query would be "sort by date and hide all the hits which have below 100 votes".

The real "have never been shown in the top 30" would need an actual event tag added to each post when they reach top 30. Then Algolia can search that I guess. Hidden tag search is a common practice.
I'm sure there's a matter of article length if every claim requires writing extensively about a country's policy. You can look up articles on your own to corroborate these claims. For example, Brazil's Bolsonaro's stance was pretty much a mirror of the US response (down to the president downplaying the seriousness of the problem and subsequently getting infected and all)

Canada provides another interesting data point. They have very strict quarantine policies for incoming travelers, but now that domestic flights are at full capacity again, schools are reopening and the general public is getting more lax, they're seeing an uptick in cases again.
Very cool, does it support multiple currencies in the same account or just one currency per account?
Habits of Highly Successful People
I hate to be that guy, but if you’re looking for an open source alternative to Algolia, Typesense is another alternative to consider: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

It doesn’t have fancy “AI” features, but has all the other fundamentals for fast and performant search covered, including UI components.
You should be able to read it here: https://itnext.io/why-everyone-builds-internal-kubernetes-pl...
Parkinson's Law and friends
Its not silly, its by design to disenfranchise voting, which benefits one party in particular.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/us/texas-election-ballot-drop...

One ballot box per county in some counties means waiting hours in line for that too.
Don't forget that it's not a single instance game.

The more Netflix pulls shows, the more it develops a reputation for pulling shows.

That decreases viewer investment in new shows, as they're incentivized to wait and see if the show lasts, or whether they're going to be left with narrative tension and no payoff after a cancellation.

And with decreased viewer investment in new shows, more shows get cancelled because the numbers don't look good. It's pro-cyclical and it burns goodwill.
there are no ballot boxes in many locations and long lines form at them too.
The saying is you die twice - once when you stop breathing and again, a bit later on, when people stop flaming you on usenet ;_)
IIRC their client detects FUSE and friends. People have used iSCSI or ATAoE to bypass this, but that comes with it's own limitations. Most people don't bother.
Zoom is mouse wheel, says on the front page.
I personally really enjoyed the last two seasons of The Office US. Sure the transition was a bit dodgy but once it got it's stride it was enjoyable. Hell I'd even rate the final season as among the best overall.
How could anyone expect anything they use the device for to be private when it is owned and serviced by Facebook?

Apple’s investment in Privacy is going to pay off so big.

I wonder if Facebook can spin off a company that includes Oculus and competes with Apple on Privacy.

I’d guess no.
Hanlon's razor applies here. Many people here and elsewhere on the net are quick to point out corruption or voter suppression, but I think a more realistic explanation is plain old incompetence from the people running these places.
Because where they do exist, it's really hard to tell if that ballot box is real.

Because one political party has decided to install fake ballot boxes.
If your requirement changes so that the price break is at 11 rather than 10, then I expect the process to go:

* Change the (or shared test code) that has the price break specification from 10 to 11
* Run it, see the failures
* Update the source code appropriately

The updated source code is the same in both our cases. In my case the changed test code is testing the ShoppingCart interface and in yours it's a unit test of something lower down. There's not extra cost, it's just in a different place.

Or are you suggesting that your tests don't know about 10 vs 11 at all? There's a reasonable architecture where such data comes from outside your system, and the spec for your system is 'price breaks should reflect this data input' and then you mock that data input and test it, but that's a different thing.
In the US, one can vote for any party (preferential voting). There are other parties in America but you seldom hear about them. Two examples are the Green Party and the Libertarian party.
Surprised me too. I guess they must be, although I can't believe it's that much. I imagine probably the reason it still happens is that it's incredibly low effort and so therefore worth it even for meagre gains.
Alright, so he bought it 4 years ago. Bu in the EU you have 2 years to start an RMA if a product is not working as expected under normal use. I reckon one would be able to turn it in to their retailer to get a new Oculus.