skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rules are decided by each state on its own. You can blame the constitution for deferring election procedures to each state.

In PA, for example, the legislature (which is GOP I might add) forbid counting mail-in ballots until election day. That basically guarantees delays.

Have you been around for Gore vs Bush? I'm not sure why you're claiming this is one of the worst elections. Most close elections aren't called on election day. Almost every state continues counting past election day. It's just you're only hearing about the ones that are close.
One number you're missing there is the total homeless population estimated in 2019 to be around 8000 people [1], which works out to around $45k per homeless resident.

1. https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDRep...
I’ve had tons of issues with amd graphics drivers, and it seems fairly widespread. I think they said it had been a focus this generation.
That's over-simplifying by leaving out the "or more" part (which presumably exists because they only want to count full blocks). I do understand the gist of what they are saying but there's got to be a better way to word it.

I also wonder if theres a good statistical reason for only counting full blocks. Why not just stop at 30k?
I grepped the article for "Amdahl" before reading, didn't see it and stopped reading.

It's my version of not reading specifications for perpetual motion machines.
AP and Fox made a mistake and don’t want to walk it back. The other news agencies haven’t called it yet.
Covid immune response faster and stronger post-infection, scientists say
Most organizations have not called Arizona's result yet:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/upshot/networ...
> Certainly they would not have been able to be sold on any legitimate exchange.

May I ask why? (Genuine, not a crypto expert). Do exchanges by default trace any bitcoins back and see if they were connected with illegality? Is there a list of tainted bitcoin addresses that are effectively worthless?
The people who need to speak to reporters to release counts are the same people overseeing the counting itself. So if hourly updates mean counting goes on until Sunday, while daily updates means we get final numbers Friday or Saturday, I'll take the daily updates.
This is misleading. The UN was responding to China asking if this or that person would be present in this or that event. The people concerned were outside of China and already known to China, and their presence at any event wasn't a secret.

The UN said that they did so for other countries so.

i24news.tv does not seem like a reliable website for the claim in the title, which is probably why they don't substantiate them.
> But again, bzr and launchpad are their own tools. If they are bad it's not an argument for snap.

This logic makes no sense whatsoever. If the previous tools are cumbersome and bad, and Canonical releases a new mechanism that is easier to develop/use/release. How the hell is that not an argument for the new mechanism?

What is this logic?

Nevermind that this new process is already integrated into several CI pipelines at Microsoft, VLC, Mozilla, Google, Amazon, JetBrains, KDE and Spotify.
I'd place that blame towards website owners. Both Facebook and Twitter are pretty open where they read that info from, and an owner can pretty easily pass those fields (it's just some <meta> tags in the <head> element).

They also have their own validators: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator and https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

The only issue I'm aware of is that Facebook's crawler breaks about every two months or so.
Yeah. I strongly support things like removing minimum parking requirements and taxing based on land rather than the improvement, incentivizing building housing rather than flat parking lots.
The middle classes are getting goods and services in return. The jobs for the middle class is also being provided by the big companies. Thereby creating a tax base for a govt whose only job is to maintain law and order, build infrastructure and maintain public utilities while conducting fair elections.

But we see so much bloat that they can’t ever get out of a deficit. That only keeps growing. A hungry maw that never shuts without ever solving any problem.

If 350 million dollars spent over 12 months can’t solve homelessness in SF. How much will it take? 600 million? 1 billion? 1.5 billion? What’s that “magic” number?
Your attitude seems to mirror this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1597/ and I honestly never understood it.

I'm by no means a git expert (I've actually just recently learned about bisect for instance), but I have never in my entire career been in a state where I'd just delete the repo and recreate it from scratch.

I've only ever used a handful of commands, the most advanced of which could be probably considered `reflog` when I wanted to revert some changes; or `rebase` (because strictly speaking, it is more complex than merge I guess), but I never ran a command I did not understand or had to memorize.

I actually do share the sentiment about the tool getting out of your way, and my knee-jerk reaction to learning about git internals is just repulsion, because you're right! I'm not there to tinker around with version control, I'm there to solve problems. That said, I've never felt like Git got in my way.
How's do you you deal with Firefox updates where it refuses to load any pages until you restart?
Also, I suspect many of us here "spent" time learning programming as children/teenagers and honed it as early twenty-somethings.

At those stages of life time is essentially free and unlimited. You can easily pull allnighters and 40 hour hacking weekends and 80 hour weeks - and you do it because it's exciting and fun, and it has only very minor opportunity costs - you might miss a school or college assignment deadline, or a few shifts at your minimum wage part time job. Your bedroom at your parents house or you college dorm is paid for already (even if just by usurious student loans).

Once you get to the "disillusioned with the damned tech industry" stage of your life though, you have responsibilities and rent/loans/bills to pay and probably family you need/want to spend time with and a circle of friends who're in the same stage of life who can't on zero notice order in pizza and mountain dew and hack from 6pm on Friday thru to midnight Sunday catching only naps on the couch as needed.

I reckon there's almost as much of a hill to climb for a "woodworker since junior high" looking at programming as a way out of a woodworking career they've become jaded with - as there is for a thirty-something software engineer dreaming of building timber boats for a living instead of being part of "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." -- Jeff Hammerbacher

(But yeah, you don't need to buy new timber when you accidentally "move fast and break things" as a programmer. On the other hand, at least the tools you buy as a woodworker will still work and be useful in a decade or century's time...)
Isn't there the assumption in this article that tasks will come in faster than one person can deal with them, which of course leads to an exponential/snowball effect.

They are coming in at exactly the speed that one person can deal with them. Which means that in the long run the worker is always working, and lines can get arbitrarily long. That is what causes his "quadratic".

A second worker makes the odds of a long line drop dramatically.
> we have a city where getting a job is a solved problem.

This is the case for the tech industry, not categorically. Important distinction there.
You'd need to do that with a container too, if the volume mount for /var/lib/posgresql/data still has the older version of posgres data then if you update the container then that needs to be done too. Alternatively a dump and reimport.
>Everything is pre-configured: You don’t have to worry about setting up tags, or YouCompleteMe, or NERDTree. I can’t tell you how many times I open a new project, perhaps in a different language, and everything works great out of the box. It’s a total sigh of relief.

I agree 100% here, if you value these types of IDE tools I don't recommend going to Vim. It frankly sucks at this stuff, it wasn't meant for it and it's not the type of things you can easily tack onto a codebase not meant for it. Doesn't stop people from trying of course, and some do an amazing job at it, but it rarely reaches the same level of polish and simplicity as good IDE solutions.

But on the other hand, please consider the Zen of dumb tools: I code all day in Vim and I don't use YouCompleteMe, NERDTree or anything like that. I use dumb, language-agnostic completion and dumb, language-agnostic FZF and Rg for searching and navigating the source code. If I'm feeling fancy I use universal-ctags, but if it's not here FZF and Rg do a good enough job.

Is it as fancy and fully featured as an IDE? No. But like the author I like when stuff just works, and dumb tools work reliably regardless of what I'm editing. It works in emails, it works in man pages, it works in custom DSLs, it works in config files, it works in HN comments if I decide to edit them there. And it's always instant.
A young earth creationist takes the early chapters of Genesis at face value; that is, God created the heavens and the earth in six literal 24-hour days, approximately 10,000 years ago.

Back in the fourth century there was a controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. Pelagius took what I think is fair to call the common sense view: people can decide to become a Christian after evaluating the evidence the same way they can decide to buy a Nikon camera rather than a Canon. It seems to me that he wanted to be able to chide those who failed to become Christians and could only consistently do that if it was ultimately in their power to do it. Augustine took the opposing viewpoint, saying that one can only believe if the Holy Spirit gives grace to believe. And Jesus, I think, is on Augustine's side: "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day" (John 6.44).

I am a big fan of the English Puritan John Owen. He basically says that the Holy Spirit reveals to each believer that the Scriptures are the word of God -- and once you know that the Bible is the word of God, you know that its assertions are true.

But I certainly think that God uses evidences and natural revelation (i.e., the character of God based on what He has made). But most Jews at the time of Christ failed to believe in him even though they witnessed a multitude of miracles. So miracles alone won't do it -- even though many unbelievers today say that is exactly what it would take for them to believe.
Philadelphia normally goes for the Democratic candidate by around 80%, and mail-in voters this year are disproportionately Democratic, so it is not unusual that some blocks of main-in ballots in Philadelphia county would be 90% Biden. Note that the total vote (mail-in + election day) in Philadelphia county for Biden is exactly 80%, so there doesn't seem to be anything anomalous here.
I went through a similar experience recently. Got laid off, was unemployed for 2 months, recently just started a new job. I went through the same leetcode humiliation as well. My only advice as far as the job search goes is to "git gud". Really, what else can you do? Keep grinding and doing as many problems as you can. Interviewing is a numbers game, and eventually your stars will align where you'll either get problems you've seen before or can solve reasonably well on the spot. But the important thing is to keep doing those problems.

Aside from that, you need to take care of your mental health. Being unemployed and getting wrecked in every interview was seriously depressing. Develop a strong support network of friends and family that you can vent to. I didn't have friends to refer me to companies but I had friends who would listen to me whine and complain about how life was shitty. And that helped me a lot. Exercise every day, eat clean, get a good night's sleep. That's all I've got for you. Now get back to leetcoding.
>I bet in 2016, you were screaming at the top of your lungs that "Trump stole the election".

Actually, no. But your liberal strawman is as expected as it is tedious.

No, the "both-sides are equal" thing isn't going to work. On the one hand, you have a quote by Hillary Clinton which is proving kind of correct in hindsight, on the other, literal armed mobs of Trump supporters threatening to stop the counting of votes by force, lawsuits, attempts to "override" the vote, and hoaxes perpetrated by Trump's own family.

These things are not equal.
Here is a simple script to grab election results from AP via The Guardian. No API key required. No over-enegineered "ELEX" Python scripts. Just request the JSON and do whatever you want with the numbers.

Usage: 1.sh [2-letter state abbrev uppercase]

Example: 1.sh PA

cat > 1.sh

#!/bin/sh

x=$(curl https://interactive.guim.co.uk/2020/11/us-general-election-data/prod/last_updated.json|sed -n '/"time":/{s/{"time":"//;s/"}//;p;}')
curl https://interactive.guim.co.uk/2020/11/us-general-election-data/prod/data-out/$x/president_details.json|sed 's/.*\"'"$1"'\"://;s/\"[A-Z][A-Z]\":.*//;s/,/\
/g;s/"candidates":\[//;'

echo $x

^D
Why is it causing one of the worst elections in American history? I’ve heard that the votes received after the day, but postmarked on time, only number in the hundreds. If that’s true, they may not be consequential. States are still processing ballots which were received on time, like you say. So that’s not even a factor in why it’s taking so long yet.

The difference between PA and OR is that PA could not begin processing its mail-in ballots earlier than Election Day. Additionally, Oregon has had decades to perfect its mail-in system. Other states are processing the most mail-in ballots they’ve ever gotten, so we should expect that it won’t be very fast or smooth yet.

Additionally, if CA was a swing state, we’d be in the same position here. It’s still counting ballots and still releasing updates. It just doesn’t have a razor thin margin like the rest of the states, so it was projected to go blue very early.

What we’re seeing is expected given how tight the races are in each state, as well as how many more people voted by mail this year!
It wouldn't be a README if it wasn't out of date and inaccurate.
Yeah, but what that definitely doesnt say is "Congress shall make no law requiring that the electors be chosen on a specific timetable"
> In my home state of Oregon, ballot results are released pretty much immediately, because the ballot deadline for receipt is 8 pm on election day.

Oregon is still counting, with a little under 90% of ballots counted by the latest numbers I can find.

> The same was true of California when I lived there.

It hasn't been in the 40+ years I've lived here, so I don't know what you're on about. Yes, since California did a quick flip between being a Republican lock and a Democratic lock in Presidential elections, you usually have a projected Presidential winner immediately. But the actual vote count usually takes quite a few days.

That's just California being noncompetitive in Presidential elections, not especially fast at vote counting.

> Why are the rules suddenly changed?

To the extent rules were changed for this election, it was because of a major public health emergency that raised concerns about the danger to both individual voters and the wider community from the usual level of in-person voting in places that don't already have predominantly mail-in elections.

> Did no one foresee that this would cause one of the worst elections in American history?

Nothing about the actual election itself, other than the abuse of the Postal Service in an attempt to prevent delivery of lawful votes, has been particularly bad. Yes, the fact that results are close in a number of states means that there isn't a projected electoral college winner yet. That's not a big deal.
I really really like Crisp. You can get the full package for $100, but even on the smaller one there is no limit on # of customers or seats (essential as we have a free offering used by many individuals, and we also want everyone to participate in conversations with users).
Not sure about reproducibility.
If the HD fails, sure, restore from backup. But what if the motherboard fails, and you buy/build a completely new machine. Does a backup work then, even if all the hardware is different? That's where a container makes restoring easier.
yes and no.

Most instructions have 3-20 cycle latency. A lot of what CPU do on many programs is wait for an instruction to complete so they can use its result to chase some pointer - and in the mean time, find an instruction that doesn't depend on it to execute. So many "simple" moves and register renames are practically free, as they happen in these waiting-for-result slots.

HPC code is most definitely not like that - but it's only found in specialized parts of software (game rendering paths, maths stuff, some NumPy code, etc). But most code spends most of its time with the CPU waiting.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21535103/when-will-w...

tl;dr is that many of the remaining votes are in parts of the state that are more liberal than the parts of the state that have already been counted. If Biden wins a county that is 50/50 D/R, then they're assuming that he will also win a county that is 60/40 D/R (oversimplifying a bit because turnout can very from county to county and mail-in ballots might have different demographics than in person voters). However it was a bit controversial that Fox called AZ as early as they did, I don't think any of the other TV channels have followed suit
> The deadline is December 8th.

Indeed. The process is outlined here:

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/roles#meeting

EDIT - it should be made clear that this is when the electors vote. Each individual state must finish their counting before that so they know which electors are voting on December 8. Each state is free to decide when they stop counting - and they each have their own laws regarding that. The Federal government has no say - the US constitution prohibits the Federal government from getting involved.
Relying on the type system for code insight and bug catching means one have not carefully studied the code, which is what causes most bugs. If the code base is too large for anyone to digest, then break up responsibility.
"It's election day" doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. Absentee and other mail ballots have always been allowed to arrive late in the majority of states. There just aren't normally enough of them to make the difference in a close race like this one.

When I lived in California, it was common for military ballots to arrive up to two weeks after Election Day. That never mattered for the presidential race, but other races weren't officially records until everything was counted.
The old codebase was also in Rust. So I don't think this applies here.
Still have a first-generation iPod Touch running iOS 3. Works like a charm, can even download some apps from the App Store. Bit of a shock how both primitive and advanced the early versions of iOS were.
But bitcoin is a currency. If I lost $100,000 to something like this and it took a few years to resolve, I would expect to get back $100,000, not some other form of currency that was worth $100,000 at the time. What I'm saying is that MtGox can't claim they're making people "whole" from their losses by giving them what their money was worth at the time. Plenty of those people would have held on to the bitcoins and had their full value.

Sure, I don't expect MtGox to be able to make everyone whole. I just don't think it's accurate to say they're doing so by giving them their 2014 dollar equivalents.
I personally really enjoy trying new productivity tools and will often move between services just to try them out; but I will have to agree with everything else.

In addition to ctvo's points:

- there is a lack of good and real examples on how to use the product. "@joe please start working on the #design #todo", "@ed admin training", and "@someone write a report on last project #research" are not good task examples in my mind.

- the tags are not explained well, are they grouping the tasks? if so why is #todo and #ongoing tags? these are not groups, they are states.

- the process is also not explained. what do I see when I open the app? how do I mark something as done? does that remove the #todo tag the author added? what are other statuses I can add?

- "They are fully encrypted using asymmetric algorithms connected that depend on your data (like a password, for example) - this really doesn't make much sense to me. You are holding the keys and the encrypted data, so what's the point?
Pkg.go.dev Redesign
Not if there's only one post-hole digger.

And if they have a standup meeting beforehand to give status updates and "identify blockers," it's going to take even longer.
Having a consistent, managed experience with good top down controls is, in my world, far more efficient than tackling each service like a brand new problem to manage & operate independently.
Let be real here. Facebook wanted to shut it down and then looked for excuses. Violence, hate speech, etc. They would have found whatever they were looking for. This is pretty much the standard big tech M.O. No amount of calling for "violence" will shut down pages they like.

Also, doesn't this just incentivize political adversaries to join groups they don't like and make threats just to have pages shut down?

Sadly, this is just going to add gasoline to the fire. It's just going to antagonize and rile up these people more than anything.
Can you really do an enormous SRAM on a bigger node without it occupying a huge surface? Would 14nm be cheap enough for that to be interesting? If so, why not also use it for other big structures?
> Likewise the public transit system is pretty great if you’re a transit worker, or someone who wants an indoor third space but whose appearance/behavior/smell would tend to get you thrown out of Starbucks, or if your best alternative is to walk.

A public transit system is a huge advantage for upper middle class professionals, and even more so when them homeless are housed. This can be seen in developed countries that have good public transit systems.
Is there a pundit who is still alive and uses that as a pseudonym?