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> That really can't be noted enough. That the count took so long is specifically because several legislatures decided to not allow any preprocessing of mail ballots, and to count mail ballots last.

Indeed this bears repeating.

The whole process mounting to the election day was engineered to sabotage and outright throw out votes from the opposition, even if that comes at the expense of the core principles of the whole political system.
That study has references to the data sources, including web-archived snapshots of official government websites. What is bias the US national media which published totally wrong polls that predicted a democratic "blue-wave" and is ignoring all of the fraud evidence.
Most of these claims are easily debunked.

Wisconsin[1] and Michigan had turnout in the low 70s, not close to 100% as claimed. Turnout was high, but only a few points higher than recent years.

There legitimately are some batches of votes where Biden got close to 100% of the votes due to segregation and mail-in votes being counted separately. The mail-in votes in a predominately black area should be expected to be close to 100% for Biden. It would be suspicious if they weren't.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/05/fac...

[2] https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/...
I implemented a content marketing strategy to generate revenues as a dev
Thanks for the heads up @niea_11

For some reason a deployment failed due to a dependency which caused some issues. Could you please try again and let me know if it now works?
> Until leaders can lead on the strength of their conviction and experience instead of second guessing themselves and their staff based on the inadequacy of data.

I agree with the article in general, but “strength of their conviction and experience“ isn’t better than bad data is it? At least with a data driven approach you can try to figure out what the data you’re actually looking for is instead of just hoping your personal views on the situation map to reality.
My working hypothesis is that major media companies are basically selling dashboards to marketers. The more complicated their work, the more steps they have to do, the more it looks like they are busy, the happer they are , and their bosses as well. The ROI from advertising seems to be following a sigmoid pattern but nobody knows how wide or tall it is.
> Moreover, the segregated votes were not included in this projection

False. That was fake news put out by the New York Times.
I agree. I was referring to the recent murder that caused the protests, which did not use a weapon, but a restrained person did die.
It's not just the rebuild,some storage software (CEPH for example) also validate the data on the disks from time to time, and since the iops is quite limited on spindles, it takes more and more of that iops bucket just to verify the data that you have on the disks.
GraphQL to me seems the exact same as opening an SQL interface to a db, and properly manage permissions :-)

How would you handle schema changes in GraphQL? How to you administer who queries what?
Is there any interest in the effects of deliberate modulation of blinking?
You can disagree without making baseless assumptions about my voting record, lady.
> Square these two sentences, because you can't accidentally "only pay lip service to the scientific method". Are you or aren't you claiming that scientists feign their rigor?

You can do everything right, follow the scientific method, but be answering the wrong question.

Eg, asking which of these 3 drugs is best for such and such a disease. Ie you are excluding fasting or other alternatives. You will build up a load of data on those 3 drugs perhaps, but fasting might be best of all. You just don't know.

But a scientist will say that there is no evidence to support fasting. So the scientific method has studiously ignored inconvenient (unmarketable) options.

So is the scientist giving the best information here? Are his/her answers biased?

> > And, be honest, you don't even need them to provide evidence for you to accept whatever they state.

> I suggest that you stop such insinuation.

If you skim articles, watch TV, and don't do research to satisfy yourself, you don't have evidence. You don't know. You may think you know. And thinking you know, when you don't, is dangerous. This is a point worth considering - in my opinion it covers 99.99% of what passes for knowledge.

You may find that you have lots of belief and very little actual knowledge just a compound and rigid set of mutually reinforcing beliefs. (This is akin to religion in fact). Which is at least an honest assessment of what most 'scientists' are practising! They believe that there is a body of evidence that supports what they think, and can take that for granted. No one is checking that the foundations are as solid as they believe!

And that is the point of education.
Very impressive, and it's obvious the maker has a lot of love for the show. Thought this was show hn at first
That's nice, and he gets a great depth effect.

I also like this one, where they combine an infinity mirror with a pepper's ghost effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR80TuOCoic

Here's a link to the finished thing: https://youtu.be/oR80TuOCoic?t=1158
The rules of the world, of democracy, are only made possible through human belief in them. Indoctrinating a large group of people with false/misleading information to try to weaken/de legitimize the rules and systems of democracy will more or less lead to breaking of them, at that point who cares what the supreme court believes, it probably won't have any effect, the damage is already done. I wish we had an educated, critical thinking, rationality driven humanity but the fact is a majority of them (on either side) are not but right now, only one side (not even most of R's, just Trump and his hardcore fans) is trying to weaken the democratic process by lying.
Ah, Project Veritas, an organization whose founder has been convicted of fraud and who has a history of falsying and modifying evidence.

Fox News and One America refused to air these videos because they couldn't track down any of these supposed whistleblowers and in fact, Fox News said they couldn't find any proof that these supposed postal workers even exist.

Also, you do know that the USPS Postmaster is a huge Trump Supporter so any allegations of backdating involving the Postmaster would relate to backdating Republican ballots, not Democratic ballots? And in such case, Project Veritas has provided evidence of voter fraud by the current sitting president of the USPS.

Next time, you may want to think before you link.
Because my eyes & ears are lying to me? SMH when the narrative is more "real" than raw video footage to some people. Reminds me of a cult.

Let's see if the United States Supreme Court sees reality the same way that you do, because it looks like Project Veritas will be providing some evidence for the case ;-)
Did you read the article? They specifically out out the "The traditional disciplines of engineering" which includes electrical engineering.
> The game uses Unity3D, it might only be a matter of ... recompilation :D

It's not. It's a matter of porting, QAing, and then indefinitely supporting a platform that will not bring enough revenue even to cover the developer's time.
States like Oregon and Colorado imposed signature requirements in mail in voting systems designed in the last few decades. Switzerland requires signatures for mail in votes too.
"Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It gets blurry as to what is specifically a direct call for violence versus "plain old hate speech".
Any recommendations on good books that cover FPGA programming?
I wouldn’t be so salty. Codemasters has devolved into pumping out racing games, which any big company with funding could do at this point. Gone are the days of the innovative Operation: Flashpoint games. Better to sell the studio before it buckles and give another British studio a shot.
Downvoting is also about disagreeing with opinion in discussion. You are wondering about ill effect of decriminalization of drug users - most people including me cannot fathom why the heck should users be criminalized. This policy is pure evil, didn't make any real measurable benefit to society, just filled US prisons with normal citizens who like to smoke weed or maybe do some psychedelics from time to time (clue, in country like Switzerland, around 10% of population smokes regularly and nobody really cares, its not causing any harm to society). Its great if you run a private prison or have shares of it though.

I go one step beyond and argue that soft drugs should be legal and limits should be same as for alcohol - if cigarettes and alcohol are legal, so should be weed and its variants. Or ban them all if you want to be properly fair and scientific and brace yourself for mass riots. Of course no politician would do that, thats suicide.
Well sure, if you want to print wirelessly, you're going to need wireless (LAN is enough, no need for WAN though) :)
Ask HN: Why are all the HN posts about the presidential election result flagged?
Is this not significant news?
Yes, something like

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types: [...],
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Panix.com has a feature that sidesteps that problem. It accepts any email address that looks like: hackernews@myname.users.panix.com, where you can customize "hackernews" to be a mailing list, company, or any text; and "myname" is your actual email address, eg myname@panix.com. No charge. Works great. Easily filtered.

Disclaimer: just a satisfied customer.
Nice but Basic emulation is way too imprecise.
Need some improve but I like a lot this idea: Commdore Basic was far easier to grasp then current ecosystem.
Only Smalltak has similar experience (look at Squeak Smalltak).
When I say RPC i actually mean JSON RPC. So it's more or less the same approach. You can use CURL to use a WunderGraph API.
Well I must say, after coming back to check the thread later on I've learned a lot about HP's awful business practices. Based on the article (and the fact that I've had the same HP printer for over a decade now) I had no idea that they were using DRM in their ink cartridges. I guess when I finally update my printer I'll be switching to a different brand.
The difference is primaries vs general election. Politicians take their political positions based on primaries, since that’s the gating, and often, the deciding event for their election.
You keep posting the same link and repeating the same comments. Let’s check the top results at DDG:

Debunked once:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rumor-alert-biden-michigan...

Debunked twice:
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/4/21549710/biden-michigan...

Someone else posted Politifact if you want Debunked thrice...

Also a Bonus Debunking for that link you keep posting which hinges on the premise “Wisconsin voter turnout is over 89% and statistically impossible!” https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/donald-tru...
No they absolutely were not.

News and media has manufactured consent and outrage since their inception.

They're directly responsible for uncovering heinous crimes and for causing them.
You can whitelist queries!
Yes, this does seem like a pompous way to glorify hunch-based decision making.
Other usable ideas could be as an "Internet Radio" listening device if you can cobble together a descent front panel display and software stack.

Another could be some type of a Twitter ticker tape display for your front room.
Time being a factor is exactly why you capitalize R&D, which means make it an asset on your balance sheet. The second question is definitely an interesting one however I usually look at businesses more from an outside in view -so it’s not what I think about every day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I assume people believe it doesn't fall under the guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon[...]. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

and

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
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What business is it of yours if your neighbor is doing heroin? We could get people off the streets if we gave them treatment. A drug addicts are sick; Locking them in jail shouldn’t be the answer
BidenHarris Wins Election2020
What you're describing is true for most "business intelligence"
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> third wave" of Progressive activism, which is based on expanding the civil rights movement.

> The first wave Progressives wanted nothing to do with civil rights, and most were virulent and unrepentant racists

> All three groups advocate for nearly identical policies

All three of these statements can't be true at once.
Why post your comment?
It is 'significant news' but...

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Downvoters: So it isn't significant news then and it doesn't go against the HN guidelines shown in [0]? Care to explain then?
If Apple had gone with Smalltalk for the Mac instead of making something that merely looked like it we’d be living a better future.
Apparently a president winning the electoral college without winning the popular vote is on topic, but a president just winning outright is not.

Seems fair. Trump is definitely a hack.

Edit: please keep down voting this comment. I hear it increases Biden's share of the vote in Georgia.
Advertising in a competitive market has all participants locked in a prisoners dilemma. Cokes ROI is probably pretty bad, if they cut ad spend then Pepsi's ROI would go up.
Thank you HN for not being completely dominated by this topic over the last few days.
But to frame it as the reason the organization was created is fallacious.
That's true. But sometimes you just want to move things from Windows to Windows. Then cygwin rsync isn't up to it. (scp isn't either.)

That's different from MacOS, where there's a Mac-native version of rsync to transfer attributes that don't exist on $another_os.
> That's extremely ignorant and irresponsible of you to say,

Is it? Please tell me more about my friends and family.

> I'm referring to the facts stated in the article.

> mindlessness and narcisism and sociopathy

> you are hell-bent on fighting for your right to party

> other people die all around you.

Where can I find these facts in the article, which is about a university thousands of kilometers from me?
The reasoning behind Reagan era war on drugs is incredibly complicated but mostly horse shit.

The appearance of doing something actionable/hard lining, voter suppression, shady money, international politics, religion, misguided beliefs, big pharma, etc.

No doubt there are some real debatable concerns under all the B.S. but they aren’t the “real” why behind it.
I knew my comment would get voted down. Never criticise React of GraphQL.
I called 1-888-5-OPTOUT and told all 3 credit agencies to stop sending me pre-approved offers. Since then, junk postal mail is almost zero.
Japan is a different country, with different cultures, values and history. Answering ‘whataboutism’ type of questions almost always leads to an endless loop of accomplishing nothing.

What about Russia? What about China? Etc... There is no value in these questions when they have no relation to the original statement being made.
Fair enough to have those rules, but I feel this is big enough and with far-reaching enough effects that there should be at least one thread. It has relevance to pretty much anyone in any industry. HN clearly wants to discuss it. That's why I'm here right now, and I've never even been to America.
GTA 6 - Britain, cast of players from Snatch (movie), and one star cops being unarmed, would be a fun game tho.
This might be late but thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed response.
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US
While I do see the value of such a service, I wouldn't trust anyone with unsubscribe links I receive.

I have seen companies generating an API key for the unsubscribe button, where the key can be used to perform other actions and lead to account takeover
We learned that capitalism and communism are the extremes, and we need something in the middle, with regulated capitalism mixed with socialism. And very strong transparency to avoid elites to embed in the middle and suck wealth and influence without providing societal value in return.
Debian Stable runs quite a bit lighter than any Ubuntu derivative in my experience. Though you do need a minimum of 1GB RAM plus swap space for web browsing workloads, so the original Asus 700 netbooks would not be useful.
Homeless are the symptoms, not the disease
It usually hit the nerve sparking uncivil discussion.

I truly appreciate it's flagged and removed, keeping HN as very low anxiety place. Great HN guidelines other media should learn!

Have great weekend everyone
An incumbent U.S. president losing re-election is an interesting rare phenomenon.
And then 50 people stuff data into different "buckets" and call them "integration points" and you spend months refactoring their horrible choices after you have identified why your services can't scale.

Non sexy "wrong" tech is exactly that. Pick smart tools that do the work for you so that you don't have to babysit your teams choices and micromanage every project.

I have weighed the trade offs, and it is literally my job to identify the problems that come from them.
"Most" being a key word there.
Think you just need to make the case in how you discuss it. Make it into a discussion that people can contribute to in a way that brings out how it is a new phenomenon showing a big change, and in a way that people who frequent this site can add insight to beyond what is in the media.
I don't like what you are implying, I voted for Biden and I'm happy about the result and I DO NOT want to see these posts here.

I come to HN to discuss tech with techies.

I can have arguments about politics anywhere else on the net. They go sideways here just as quickly and they don't belong.
I assumed it's because it's premature for the networks to call it. The results are close in several states and are in recounts or being challenged.
The restrictions of the GPL only kick in when you distribute your binaries. You have the freedom to run and modify the source as you wish. The only rule is, "The source code travels with the binaries" - meaning /if/ you choose to distribute it, and you may choose who you distribute it to, that those who receive the binaries must also receive the source code and can take full advantage of the GPL just as you have.
The only data Politicians use is campaign donation data.

When you have several different industries that rely on a steady flow of meat into the grinder (Prison, Police Unions, Lawyers, Probation Officers/Administrative, etc) and they give generous support and campaign donations , well you know why it has taken so long to end this useless "War on Drugs". Millions of Tax dollars were spent incarcerating people for having a $20 of drugs on them. It is beyond fucking insane destroying the life of a 18 year old over a joint or sending someone away for life (3 strikes and your out) for a few dollars of weed.

I don't use but I don't want to see a single penny of my tax dollars spent on destroying the lives of users. Unfortunately in my State (TX), the Industries I mentioned above are the ones making decisions for the Politicians and not the voters.

The only way to fix this is to legalize it all and treat the folks who require help.
PBA = police officers’ union (for those like me who didn’t know)
> It could not.

The entire point of clinical trials is to see if a specific drug is a good option and a great many of them fail, which is the drug company saying nope try something else. In specific cases they actually do compare them to other treatments like exercise. It’s mostly a question of what’s the current treatment, if they wanted to sell a post operation drug you can bet they would need to test exercise.

Edit: Now I agree drug companies would not make a big deal about advertising that result, but that’s a different story.

There are any number of studies in the effect of exercise and physical therapy currently uses motion not drugs to help people recover from surgery. Diet and exercise are actually prescribed to manage many health issues, it’s also recognized that people will often ignore such advice. We don’t do gastric bypass surgery etc for people who need to lose 10 pounds, but when people simply don’t follow medical advice there are simply fewer options.

So, a huge body of evidence suggests this deeply held belief of yours is wrong.

PS: there were approximately 210,900 physical therapists employed in the United States Exercise is actually the most commonly prescribed and studied treatment.
He made Twitter relevant again/for many people who didn't get it back then.
I mean it's not. I've written this from the angle of having only ever worked for smaller brands. Marketers (myself included) like to think we're making decisions based on accurate data and thorough analysis but we might as well just be blindly throwing darts at a dartboard. We'd have the same amount of success.
It depends on the function that you are trying to approximate.

I can give you a function that a shallow nnet would approximate better and functions that deep nets approximate exponentially better even with one more layer (in terms of number of neurons n). In the limit n->\infty, both reach arbitrary small errors (obviously often with different number of parameters).
I am not going to be so kind to folks who send try to send me spam.
It drives me bonkers. I absolutely hate the syntax… we already had an awesome powerful querying language in SQL. Not modern enough? Fine, give us something at least familiar with some structure like JSON or even YAML for crying out loud.

I feel like whomever wrote the syntax of GraphQL was just concerned with getting it working with the least effort possible.

(non-zero that person(s) is right here and reading this. I'm sure you're smarter than I am and I just haven't fully immersed myself into this world yet. It's happened before.)
It wasn't a threat, just a suggestion that denigrating some extremely useful tech that is saving organizations tons of time and money may not be a winning career strategy.
Even premature for AP to call it?
False. That was actual facts put out by the Pennsylvania secretary of state, and reiterated by the local officials in every single district in the state of Pennsylvania.

All of the ballot-counting has been under the watch of observers on both sides of the aisle, including especially multiple Republican observers. Republican observers have confirmed that ballots that arrived after the deadline have either not been counted or have been counted separately from votes received on/by election day. If those segregated ballots were included in the count, Biden's lead would exceed 100k in PA.

The actual Republican partisans on the ground with actual knowledge of what's going on acknowledge that nothing illegal has happened in the PA vote count.

Your guy lost fair and square. Accept it and move on.
We rolled our own.
Maybe so, but you need to make the case in a way that's compelling enough that it doesn't get flagged by HN people as off-topic I guess. E.g. there is an unflagged story about president and twitter currently in the new queue.
Getting a mailing address is, to a first approximation, a challenge in inverse proportion to the importance of sending money.

An advantage of prepaid card is that the recipient can pass it along easily. Anonymity (not privacy) is another advantage.