skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we smash Florida and have enough data in Penn it will be called quick.

Despite Florida being one of the worst most disgusting states in terms of suppressing the vote - DeSantis allowed county supervisors to start counting mail ballots basically immediately.

Over 3.3 million have already returned ballots and 1.3 have already voted in person.

Pennsylvania on the other hand... I don't think they can count ballots until after polls close.

But maybe we get lucky and there are enough in person votes, the margin is big, and polling shows no drastic changes in VBM then it will get called.

Even without Pennsylvania if Trump loses Florida and then loses the midwest, doesn't flip Nevada etc it will be called quick.

Basically I'm looking at Florida asap and very very worried about it...

I would have bet Trump was ahead 8 weeks ago. Now I think maybe Biden by a point or two max.
For a site supposedly about easy css editing, it is surprisingly unreadable on mobile. This does not give me faith in their product.
I understand why people don't want to use Google Chrome, and I agree with them completely. But I don't get why people want to use Firefox. Not today, at least.

Firefox came out in 2002, when Internet Explorer had 90% of the market share. It would take 8 years for Firefox's popularity to peak, capturing about 1/3rd of the market, still leaving about 50% to IE.

2010 was also about a year after the first release of Google Chrome. It's been a downward slide ever since then. Chrome passed it within 2 years. In another 2 years, Chrome passed IE. Now, Firefox currently sits at 4%.

4% of the market, and yet the bug reports I get on my open source projects are almost all from Firefox users. They are issues of Firefox not implementing the full spec of one Web standard or another. (Oh, and the reporters are usually not particularly nice about it, either). One might argue the particular parts that aren't implemented haven't completed the standardization process. That is true, for many APIs. But it's a ridiculous state of affairs. A lot of these APIs have been locked up in the standardization process for years. For example, WebRTC took nearly 8 years to get a finalized standard.

The reason for this foot-dragging? "Lack of consensus on implementations". It has been Mozilla's inability to compete that has held the Web back. I run headlong into issues with Firefox nearly every day that have a BugZilla ticket attached that dates back 5, sometimes 10 years. Often, the answer to why it's not been fixed: "this is really hard". Well, if you had started, maybe you'd be done by now.

As a long-time web developer, having lived through the death of Netscape, the dominance of IE, the rise of Chromium, I understand the importance of having multiple, competing browser vendors. We need diversity. We need competition. Standards are supposed to make that possible. Mozilla is not giving it to us.

People say that the Chromium hegemony is going to hold the Web back. I think it's Mozilla, failing to be good stewards of their products, that is holding the Web back.
It's hard to appreciate the value of restarts if you haven't seen it fully integrated into the environment like on an old lisp machine. Given any exceptional condition deep down in a program, assuming appropriate restarts are bound, it can pop the debugger and let you choose how to proceed, but handlers can also be bound to handle conditions / invoke restarts programmatically. Restarts may be bound at different layers of granularity so if you had a command operating on a set of files, one one of them fails to open, the avaiable restarts might be "Retry command", "Skip this file", "Retry open", "Provide alternate filename", etc. It's sort of a missing link between interactive and batch/scriptable environments that current operating systems are missing.

(My Common Lisp is getting rusty, sorry if I've slightly jubmled the condition/handler/restart lingo)
Why do I have to sign in using Google?
Thanks for sharing. I have very little experience with game engines but React/Vue always resembled them to me a bit. Here's the data, render when changed. I just don't think it's needed in most Web cases.

Sure, if you attach behavior code to every interactive element directly, all of which are controlling the same portion of the screen and depending on each other, it's a recipe for a mess.

If, however, you call somewhat generalized functions on those events, with basic DRY strategies in mind, it's all very clear and manageable well into the thousands of lines, with no need of running a gaming engine in JS, creating a templating language that must be transpiled, etc.

edit:
>less manual code

jQuery code if often smaller and clearer, I mean check this classic:

jQuery:
https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/jq...

React:
https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/re...
https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/re...
https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/re...
https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/re...
https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/re...
> You can have your personal opinion and can share them from your personal email address/social networking site. But expressing his political opinion from official email/business is plain wrong.

I'm not sure how I feel about this Expensify situation. I don't immediately see that there is a line that was crossed, that it was "plain wrong". It seems convenient, perhaps, to insist on moral silence from the world, but I'm not sure that this (imo absolutely tiny as can be) inconvenience is wrong, or something we shouldn't do? Why do you think it is?

You ask "Am I missing something?!" but I have taken a big strong bold position of denial, of refusal, & I don't understand what or why you feel that way? Especially so strongly?

> I think this company is going to be in lot of trouble for forcing thier view on all of their customers and dropping emails to their offical mailboxes

Oh I hope some customers try to react a ruckus. Some people are going to be loud, going to be obnoxious, going to trumpet loudly that they demand their safe, neutral spaces.

Alas, those people live on planet earth, with other people, and short of going off into the woods, I don't think they should nor will get the emotional isolation they seem to be demanding of the world from it. They have been thrown into the world, & they have choices about what kind of person they want to be as they meet the world.

I don't think this is "forcing their views". This is sharing, this is communication. It's a human activity. It's why the tribes of humanity rose above the animals, because we shared, because we communicated, because we created sense & values where there were none. This is modest, this is reasonable. This is small.

> This is total invasion of privacy.

It absolutely is not in any way at all an invasion of privacy. You have your private world to yourself still. That you have had to glimpse some of the real world is a different matter.
Super clean very good work
What phoe-krk mentions is indeed the main thing that blocks “real” integration into existing languages with exceptions: they always unwind before executing the handler. (JWZ even complained about this while writing about Java.)

To expand on their comment: if `throw` in Java or C++ is similar to `error` in CL (or `throw` in some special cases), a `catch` clause in Java or C++ is equivalent to a label, where the `try` binds a handler that exits to it immediately. There's no equivalent of putting code in the handler other than a single unwind-and-jump, and there's no equivalent of restarts.

In CL, a condition handler gets called on top of the existing stack and can inspect what's going on before choosing where to exit to. Other functions in the call stack can provide alternative exits (restarts), like “continue processing anyway” or “substitute a placeholder value”; these are dynamically named, rather than lexically bound like `catch` . So there's a lot more possible decoupling, at least in theory. The equivalent of `finally`/destructors is `unwind-protect`, which has to interoperate with the condition mechanism but doesn't deal with conditions itself.

In C++ or Java, you could implement the restarts with a (thread-local) stack of restart descriptions plus try/finally or constructor/destructor, and the same for handlers, and then do your nonlocal exits with specialized throwables. I did something similar in Lua, in fact, while trying to extend it into a fancier language. But a “normal” `throw` will bypass all of that. That's not dangerous if you do the unwind-protects properly, but none of your existing libraries will be built for it, and the results will be kind of anemic.

In the Java-style objects+throw/catch world, similar things can be achieved by toggling “what to do if X happens” state or plumbing callback pointers through the object graph beforehand, which is similar but more ad-hoc, and possibly harder to add to existing systems. That said, the CL style proper is very tied to the call stack, which can also make things tricky.
I usually ride my motorcycle through winters in the upper midwest. No, it's not Canada, but at highway speeds in freezing weather it gets cold very quickly. I can't cover my whole face with cloth, or my breath will fog up and freeze over my glasses and visor. I apply vaseline over all of my exposed skin before riding. It does a great job of protecting my skin. I also do this when bicycling through extremely cold weather.
No strong opinions on Cook but a Ballmer of the current era is Sundar Pichai. Google of the last few years is utterly rudderless, losing all the mojo and goodwill they once had. That shows in the Stock price, in (a lack of) successful new products, in Google’s loss of reputation as the “coolest company to be at”, in the bloated middle management occupied in turf wars, in essentially most of the things that matter.
Layman's question: if we know the precise shapes of two molecules, is that enough information for us to compute every interesting detail about how they'll interact?
What's "DDD"?
> I feel this seriously limits what developers can do with Twitter.

As much as I agree with you that it's a great shame the limits are so tight and fees so high, I think their API price model suggests some developers are doing things with the API - and paying Twitter for it.

Maybe not fun, interesting hacks, but something of value to someone.
The polls aren't wrong and the state polls in 2016 weren't on the whole wrong either - one problem is there were too few.

Right now there are a tons of Florida polls and they are basically all within the margin right now.
If they get no value from it they're free to delete it
Willo: Ghost-themed Pico-8 game with Metal Gear Solid stealth mechanics
I'd never considered that, so thanks. Looking into that now (have to put a hitch on my car first).

More important for city living, the trailer doesn't make the vehicle fundamentally more difficult to parallel park in a tight spot.
Which says to me that he was a good candidate for real treatment.
Tesla 'full self-driving' vehicles can't drive themselves
There's also "Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP": https://leanpub.com/mlaphp (but leanpub seems to be down right now lol)
> Now, do people like me lean one way? "Get out of my face and leave me alone" people might plausibly lean toward Trump, but I wouldn't be dogmatic about it. Even more, I wouldn't claim that it's statistically significant.

The "shy Trump voter" hypothesis is not that there are lots of people who won't answer polls, but that there's a bias in the response rate and truthfulness of the responses received, and that pollsters are not able to accurately correct for that bias. So whether or not you answer polls doesn't speak to the validity or plausibility of that hypothesis. What is relevant is only the bit you say "might plausibly lean toward Trump"; clearly, your a priori opinion of that hypothesis is also fairly low.

> We've had four years of the media relentlessly telling us how stupid, evil, and wrong Trump is, and how stupid and racist all his supporters are. We've seen the media twist the facts to support this narrative.

You're talking specifically about the media that Trump supporters largely avoid watching and do not give any credence to. There's plenty of other evidence that Trump voters aren't ashamed of publicly expressing their support, and not much reason to believe that they would be much more shy about it when answering polls than when going about their daily lives.
“Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.”
The problem with the west is that it is largely leaderless. Actions happen due to some interest group getting their way.

China on the other hand is very much lead. I think the west constantly bringing up Chinese demographic and other issues is just the west being lazy and ignoring reality. China is becoming unstoppable.

Democratic nations banding together or building new supply chains are pipe dreams.
That's just inspiration for more screaming.
Does it? I always thought of it as a burnout recovery (sometimes paid) with guaranteed reinstatement.
One thing I've learned is that what often looks like overengineering is actually underengineering -- it's much "easier" to throw together a complicated system than really think things through and develop something that accomplishes the same objectives in a simpler (but possibly more complex) manner.
Note the careful use of language. All of the sources you quote refer to your “stay permit” or your “stay” being automatically extended. Your permission to stay is indeed extended, since they are promising not to fine you for overstaying (which is what the law that was passed to enable this actually says). This is not the same thing as your visa being automatically extended. To understand why the distinction matters, see the reply I’m about to write to your sibling comment.
Windows 10 Forced Restarts
What will be more interesting is when the polls are wrong again on election day,
Pfft! It's the Fermi Paradox writ large.

No other intelligent species has a word for "war".

The aliens have us in quarantine.

The Martians evacuated as soon as they realized that Percival Lowell could see them.
It’s an example of the company trying to avoid kneecapping the cash cow when experimenting. I really liked the Workpad z50, which was really the first netbook. Its windows CE runtime was light and useful, and booted instantly with execute-in-place. Its flaws were, in my opinion, entirely due to Microsoft not wanting to let CE become a viable alternative to NT. (That, and using a mask ROM instead of flash).
And Pennsylvania. But yeah if Trump loses Florida it's really hard.
> The problem and point of what we are saying is what RESULTS from that occurring not a discussion on how it occurred.

Explanations of both the cause and the results have been offered, and I have given arguments on both of those points, which you have responded to with irrelevancies as to arguments you imagine I might want to make about how good or bad the Republicans are (and then, bizarrely, having raised that imaginary argument, complained that I reacted to it and described it as misplaced and said it was an "undisputed point" that I was "trying to debate", when literally the reverse was true: it was a point I never made that you were trying to debate.)
Thanks for making this. I am hoping this is responsive.
Agreed. Would renaming it vertical-split or vertical-alternating reduce confusion?
I favourite them - as simple as that. It keeps things contained on HN and connected to HN and that's how I prefer it. Also I have them handy when I'm on the site and can look things up when writing my own comments. When I'm not on HN I don't need the favourites and should HN ever die I'll probably not need them anymore anyway. I think you can easily fetch them as JSON with the API should you want to have them offline. Only downside I can think off is if you want to remember a comment privately for some reason, but that never happened to me so far.
I asked this elsewhere, but does anyone use ROOT outside of physics? It reads to me as "this development is useful to society at large!" while society at large has its own data stacks that are pretty much completely independent. Likewise for most of your other items.
The table is somewhat misleading. The companies themselves aren't permitted to donate money. These are from employees of the company, either directly or through a PAC.

When you make a political donation you're required to name your employer. That's intended to prevent companies from directing people how to donate: if the SEC sees a suspicious amount of money going to one candidate, they can investigate. "Suspicious" would be millions, an amount large enough to actually sway a candidate, not a few thousand.

That's the thing here: the table is from 2015 to now, and that's just not a lot of money to a politician running for national office. They need to raise millions to get re-elected.

You can't buy a senator to do the opposite of what you want, not for that kind of money. All you can do is get the senator elected who is already predisposed to think like you.

I do wish OpenSecrets wouldn't summarize by employer this way, since it's misleading. AT&T and Verizon employees gave to Thune because they like Thune. The fact is Thune was always going to win in a walk, and he crushed his opponent by a 2:1 margin. They just like him there. He raised $10 million in that election, of which the tens of thousands donated by employees of one industry just didn't make a differnce.

Thune voted for this because he's pro-business and anti... well, you don't need to hear what I think of Thune. But it's not as if he's doing the opposite of what his constituents want. They're perfectly thrilled that he's doing this, and in two years he's going to crush his opponent again.

I say this not to defend Thune or the system we're in. I'm deeply aggrieved at it. But it's not the outright bribery that OpenSecrets implies that it is. It's ideologues donating to, and voting for, the ideologues who agree with them.
Meanwhile, I'm finding that gaming on Linux is easier than ever (at least on the limited selection, older titles I tend to play), and I no longer need to keep a Windows partition for that purpose. I still have a Windows 10 PC around, but I'm not really sure why I keep it.
UP doesn't really apply here. The data the underlies the reconstructions requires massive averaging of individual objects as part of the tomography (see Radon transform for the core approach). In addition those objects/particles need to have the requisite symmetry/similarity/regularity in structure (not universally applicable), or the population of them needs to be completely homogeneous (hard to achieve). I suspect that there are now better techniques for detecting outliers so homogeneity might not be as important.
I liked the first part (technically first 2 parts) of Seveneves. But then [POTENTIAL SOMEWHAT SPOILER] it felt like vastly unlikely events come to pass and Stephenson spends the back part of the book telling the completely different story he wanted to tell.
Companies are immortal (*so long as they don't get themselves killed or eaten), massively wealthy juggernauts that dominate this planet.

How companies orient themselves politically is extremely important. How they choose to align themselves with the other happenings & governings of the world is one of the most defining ways the world is shaped.

I feel like CEOs probably SHOULD express political views. They should be subject to scrutiny, should have the authority of their wealth & power made visible, and reciprocally, be questioned.
They've only just added a default browser setting, give them a moment on this one
I would not dream of telling a pollster anything about my vote. I’m voting for Trump, but I don’t talk about it because I don’t wanna be canceled and my life destroyed by the mob.
Great question. The site may not be clear but the reality is anything but handwavy. The higher rated the song, the higher the probability it will show up in a set of songs to rank. This means more exposure since ranking sets of songs is the primary mechanism with which users find new songs on LaunchSong!
As others have pointed out already... this is a blatant rip off of CSS Scan https://getcssscan.com/

not only is the website text copied, the look and feel of the product is ripped off as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was some sort of malware.
Direct Detection Device.
Are there reasons to go back to npm? I switched back when yarn came out and haven't looked back. Been super happy with yarn. Can't say the same about npm.
> I wonder what exactly causes "instability" when overclocking/undervolting in a processor. Transistors don't have enough time to switch, but it matters where it happens.

Not x86, but in college a series of courses used a battery powered embedded system with a Motorolla 68HC11. When the batteries ran low, conditional branches would never branch, which was very confusing. Everything else seemed to work fine though.
An analogy with airplanes: you pay cubic dollars to fly faster at the high end.

That is, it's easy to build an airplane that flies at 90 knots. You can then clean up the aerodynamics a bit, burn a bit more fuel to get a bit more power to fly 110 knots. If you want to fly 130 knots, you probably need to add fairings and wheel pants and put in a bigger engine that burns even more fuel. It's very hard to get to 150 knots without retractable landing gear, a massive engine, or removing seats. To get to 200 knots you need 50% more cylinders or a turbocharger. To go past that you usually start looking at a turboprop at 10x the cost and 4x the fuel burn, then jets (...etc.)

Back to computers... doubling your power consumption and heat output for a 100% speed improvement is a perfect, linear improvement. If you need more performance, it's a fair trade. Even if you care about battery life, you should still make the trade, because drawing half as much power for twice as long still burns the same amount of total energy, so you don't gain anything by slowing down.

But would you double your power consumption and heat output for a 50% speed improvement? What about a 20% improvement?

It's the same idea. If the chip makers are setting voltages near the high-end, exponential cost, diminishing returns side of the curve, then you'll get more total "value" back by going back to the linear part of the curve, assuming you care about all of the variables, and not just "more speed at any cost."
What do you find weird about it?
> You say bold, I say stupid. Windows is still a big chunk of earnings and all that Nadella/Panos have managed to do is piss off long-standing customers by producing a half-assed Windows 10 version every six months.

I don't know if you're joking or not. The "successes" prior to Satya were Windows 8 and Vista :)

Windows is much better now than it ever was.
You can see this difference in the the films produced by him and his studio versus the american-produced ones. Every Frame a Painting has a good video on this. [0]

Typically for films the shooting portion takes only a few weeks to finish, so lots of retakes = money lost. Jackie Chan does a lot of random flourishes in his films that end up with him needing a lot of takes. For example, how he scales fences. [1]

The way he scales the castle wall in Wheels on Meals (1984) is probably my favorite example.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOjjdttsHy4