skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all Western European nations have stricter voting laws / requirements than the US does

The UK* has never required voting ID for elections, and it is possible to walk into a local polling station and be given a ballot paper after just stating your name and address. Sadly that may no longer be the case for future elections, because the UK Conservative party has decided to introduce a voter ID requirement, modelled on the success that the Republicans have had with it at decreasing turnout especially among the poor and minorities.

The fact that other Western European nations have voter ID laws is likely because they generally have mandatory national ID cards already, and it makes to use those to record who voted (how many times). If Republicans were first pushing for mandatory state ID, then later requiring those IDs at polling time would not be seen as so suspicious.

> The same is true of immigration restrictions.

I'm sure it's possible to find examples of policies in some European countries which are worse than the equivalent US policy, but to provide some factual comparison for how welcoming the US is of (poor) immigrants, let me point out that Sweden hosts 8.52 refugees per 1,000 people while the US hosts 0.92, ranking 13th and 68th respectively on the global league table for this.[0]

But you're right, the US would receive criticism for adopting more bigoted policies, just as France was condemned for its bigoted face veil policy.[1] If you live in the US, it shouldn't be surprising that you hear (and are more sensitivity to) criticism of the US more than criticism of countries like France.

* Technically voter ID was trialled in some English constituencies recently, and it has long been standard in Northern Ireland, so perhaps "Scotland" is a better example of a "Western European nation" here. On the other hand, not every US state requires voter ID, so I hope it's still fair for me to say "the US does" require it.

[0] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/People/Migra...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-niqab...
I mean it doesn't necessarily mean staying at whatever job forever.

But a well-paying trade like Electrician, especially commercial pays better than many degrees.

We need a bootcamp for schools, there is just too much of a bullshit moat around degrees IMHO.
Getting rid of my laptop and internet for a few weeks and I expect to make a living how?
protip: New York City gets hit by hurricanes more than Miami

but its just a tiny current consistently protecting Miami at the last minute, for now
haha I mean not just china, but it's not like the worldwide AI pipeline is rife with innovation these days. Do you watch Yannic Kilcher's paper reviews?

I keep waiting for a model that will do something I want (image -> language with a transformer model that doesn't have a fixed token length during training). I have been waiting for about 3 years, haven't seen it yet.

You can't measure innovation by bulk flow of humans through a system. If anything if you force too many humans through a pipeline that needs innovation you risk kneecapping progress because the separation of wheat and chaff becomes quadratically harder, increasingly gamed, and the people who actually have talent and creativity inevitably burn out and fuck off to do something else.
> In particular, the ‘mandate’

The amount of electorates that swung, and the percentages that the winning representative (and party) received mean that's not true at all, in my opinion anyway. Happy to be convinced otherwise, but the "mandate" still exists.
Hey, this is Canada. We're in a housing bubble. Sorry 'bout that.
Um, oh how I've dreamt of this reality... despite all the problems they have caused, computers are just too damn useful to give up on. We just need to learn to control the larger system that produces them better.
True. Those with a budget for advertising, PR, and lobbying can make a hell of a dent in this world.
This is, in some form, the new normal. I'd suggest finding a way to make it work for you.
Well to be fair the US bans alcohol for native eskimos in the Alaskan bush.

EDIT: I guess in the 1980s the government allowed the villages to make their own decisions to be dry or not: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/is-proh...
Are you saying the original inhabitants of Australia didn't have their own form of Government and laws about what people could and could not do?

Or are you just saying ours are better, therefore it's fine to walk all over theirs?
Some sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently
Not so good with out of control house prices, fueled by safe-haven demand … at least we won’t run out of freshwater as fast as Oz will … still, Mosman is heaps above Kits / Point Grey in my opinion! NYC is really a dump though. West Coast is the best coast! If you’re from NZ you will likely love the areas around Vancouver, Whistler & Victoria BC!
Mandatory voting means it is mostly a logistical exercise.

"You participated in the process."

Like building Ikea furniture, you now think that the process is better and more valid. Less civil unrest that way. Of course, you are still allowed to say whatever you like about how stupid any politician is in any role - even the PM. But you are more likely to accept the authority invested in them by the process when you are part of it.

Thirdly, you can still donkey vote if you are desperate to make your vote meaningless.
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I think I'm agreeing with the OP, or perhaps with other past posts from OP, that with more swap free the calloc(4GB) should be ok. If available mem is clean bufpages would those be let go to make room for the calloc ?
Is your email private when recipient can take a screenshot and report it to the police? Is your snail mail private if recipient can take it to the police? The end to end encryption (or the envelope you put your snail mail into) only means that nobody but you and recipient(s) can read the content. It doesn’t mean that recipients can’t share said content with 3rd parties.
Thank you for this, it connects the dots between the economic value of carbon capture and its price. If it's worth it for a second tier city to spend $X billion on heat mitigation, then it's worth the similar amount to reduce the cause by the corresponding magnitude. There's some net-present-value math to be done, but that's for the CFOs.
>After acute exposure, cannabis induces dose-dependent tachycardia and, in some cases, decreased ventricular contractility, palpitations, atrial fibrillation and arrhythmia

i feel like this is saying what a lot of us already know about cannabis usage, more specifically about THC as this won't be found as much in low THC strains: higher doses have a tendency to cause anxiety sometimes. all of those symptoms tend to be, at least in my experience, pretty comorbid with a state of high anxiety, and more often than not, I would think, the more easily observable ones than the neurological or psychological effects associated therewith.
I'm a Kiwi who's lived in Australia for two thirds of my life.

New Zealand's economy and cost-of-living is markedly weaker and higher than Australia's; the property-is-the-only-investment idea is somehow even worse in NZ, at least lately

The day-to-day life in NZ is lovely though. At least where I'm from in Northland.

Australia and NZ are more similar than they are different, I feel.
This is part of the problem. People feel trapped in their ecosystems. Despite the value added, the technology is suffocating a lot of people (think broader than just "Tech Workers" too).
How Is the Media Still Screwing Up Covid Stories?
came to post this as a long time fastmail user. i like it a lot and got 10s of domains there but ughhh
I’d blame the device if other apps weren’t noticeably faster with similar UI/features. But it’s mostly that they’ve hijacked system level defaults, like what the intent of a remote control back button push is and obviously make it difficult to escape the app. Performance is salt in the wound.
Disagree with gone rogue except for some parts of East Texas
I don’t know why I’m unable to see a reply link to reply to the OP’s comment here. I visited the website and was excited to see the organization screenshots. However, I didn’t see anything else on the website and I have a bunch of questions.

Is this closed source or open source? Which browser engine and framework is this based on? Can I (or will I be able to in the future) install WebExtensions line in the popular browsers? Is it (or will it be) a paid product? Will it be a paid subscription? Will it start showing ads? What information does the browser collect and send back for telemetry or any other tracking purposes (I couldn’t find a privacy policy)?

If there are pages on the website with answers to these questions and more, please share those. If not, please document these on the website.
Thanks for commenting on the thread.

Can you refer us to your opinions on the matters expressed in the article in a public friendly fashion?
so this would allow binaries that would run on both alpine and glibc linuxes?
Wasn't this the plot to kill the machines in the Animatrix?
I’ll concede that advocates for defunding don’t have a great answer to violent criminals (although for some reason, the poor track record of our existing police is never called into question).

But by even the most generous of estimates, only around 4% of police time is actually spent on violent crime [1]. Surely we can start by defunding the 96% of situations that don’t require paramilitary personnel, and figure out how to deal with violence if and when we get to that last 4%.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/upshot/unrest-police-time...
Not even close when people were opening businesses just to get them, or fluffing theur payroll to get the max. They also just had to use X% for payroll, didn't say how much to whom, so you can just imagine how that panned out.

Incidentally you can look up what businesses have taken in loans.[1]

[1] https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/

edit to add- a lot of business owners including my own father took the max possible even though he didn't need it one bit, as not doing so was 'leaving money on the table'
The energy alternative: high greenhouse gas emissions or energy poverty
> And companies can't pay better wages because customers are conditioned on cheap meat.

Are customers conditioned to cheap meat, or no meat? These customers surely live in a market economy, and understand that no matter how much they may bitch on Facebook, prices... Fluctuate..?

The reason nobody wants to raise wages during a labour shortage isn't because they are afraid of hiking prices. Prices hike up all the time. It's because they are afraid of being stuck with high wages after the labour shortage ends. Wages are stickier than prices, and are much more difficult to lower.
As I pointed out, your "residences can't be investment properties" rule bans apartment houses.

If you intended to talk only about very short-term rentals, you should have made that clear a couple of messages ago.
> vaccine passports haven't been implemented in Australia yet.

The lack of vaccine passports is of little consolation when its citizens have already accepted this:

"The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...
Before their genius was recognized, how were the lives of those people?
This is pretty much the norm many FAANG companies * — mobility is a huge driver of competition among internal teams to create a great culture, provide growth opportunities and do impactful work. Downside is that some important but not sexy or hard to quantify work gets ignored or avoided because employees have a ton of choice to move (usually after a 1 year min stint)

* At least at Facebook and Google. At Apple I have heard that people are encouraged to stay in one area and become experts in that area. Mobility seems to be less of an emphasis.
This is what happens when you push all the risk/liability to the sellers/manufacturers, instead of the merchants in marketplaces.
When I was doing a lot of DBIx::Class work, I contemplated writing a plugin to allow me to lock and and unlock automatic relation fetches and die (throw) if one was attempted when locked. I would carefully prefetch my queries (auto-fill relations from a larger joined query) and if something changed or there was an edge case I missed that caused fetching deep in a loop, it might kill performance, but be hard to track down if not given the best directions on what caused it other than "this is slow".

It's one of those things that in the long run would have been much more time effective to write, but the debugging never quite took long enough each time to make me take the time.
Interesting. I found this:

>
ABSTRACT: When Alaska became a state in 1959, state laws removed control of
alcohol regulation from the federal government and Native communities. In 1981,
however, the state legislature changed alcohol laws to give residents broad powers to
regulate how alcohol comes into their communities via a local option referendum. By
mid-1999, 112 small communities had held 197 alcohol control elections under the state
law. Sixty-nine percent of these elections added new restrictions on alcohol, while 13%
removed restrictions previously imposed. The remaining 18% of elections did not receive
a majority vote needed to change the existing status. Most communities passing local
option restrictions chose to ban sale and importation. Although most of these elections
occurred during the first eight years after the law was passed, elections continue to
occur as the law evolves and as communities debate the merits of alcohol control.
Although growing evidence suggests that the local option law may reduce adverse
effects of alcohol abuse in Alaska Native communities, its most important contribution
may be to restore to these communities a limited form of self-government.

[0] https://iseralaska.org/static/legacy_publication_links/Alcoh...
But who else will save us from the tyrannical Apple cultists!?
You can say the same things about a lot of things in many countries, someone can probably say the same about the one you live in.

I suspect the censorship that you talk about are not as black and white as you seem to be trying to project. It's easy to cherry-pick the things that you don't like to get your own view across.

Not really sure what you are trying to achieve here than to push your own personal viewpoints on things that you don't like? I mean, I could say something like "I'm always kind of surprised by people who want to move to the US because the lack of gun laws", and what does that achieve?
I'd expect these shutdowns to be more-or-less randomly distributed across calendar years[1], and in aggregate, accounted for, on a macro level, in supply/demand projections.

[1] The examples you cited suffer from confirmation bias - a plant shutting down due to a fire when there isn't already a chip shortage, would not really make the news. And if it did, you wouldn't be actively looking for it!
So the first person in line to mumble "Johnson, Boris, 10 Downing St." gets his ballot? That can't be true in practice.
I think companies should be free to post their salary ranges. If you’re talented, and you care about posted salary ranges, and companies want talent, that could be a useful tool.

I don’t see any value in mandating it.
But I think the point is more about how does a regular web app in web land detect devtools? Not, how does an app with DevTools privileges (via a Chrome extension, or connecting to the remote debugging port) that controls V8 via debugging APIs detect/prevent if DevTools pane has been opened (there are even APIs/events for this in chrome remote debugging protocol), so no need to rely on the side effects bailout you mention if your goal is to detect DevTools panels and you have "control" over V8.

But maybe you're point was more about how would Chrome prevent this DevTools detection? I honestly don't think they would do this, but not because of "overhead"--simply because the console and debugging is useful, and it requires displaying elements, and inspecting those. So there will be no way around having actually printed out elements when DevTools is open. Except if you always printed them out whether it was open or not, but this would be too much overhead, as Chrome only lazily executes console commands (and optimizes things away if DevTools is not open).

This is hilarious I'm saying this to you because you work at Lighthouse---so I'm about to learn something I guess! :p ;) xx haha
I believe the IEEE 754 total ordering is identical to a classical recipe for fast FP comparison.[1] Of course, the handling of NaNs is only identical when the qNaN bit is at the MSB of the significand as recommended.

[1]: http://stereopsis.com/radix.html
And they either rent them at a high price or they lose money.

Like I wrote above, a friend of mine owns two houses. Under the proposed "no investment residences" rule, he can't, unless he leaves one of them vacant almost all of the year.

For some people, renting is the right thing. It's unclear how banning rental properties makes their life better.
That’s true, but “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” :)
No worries if you didn't do that, or if you can't reply about it. I still really appreciate your contribution here.

Teh niche aspect is definitely a big advantage. And if you're suggesting that a website, or posting to PH, or HN, or Reddit (or my other customary marketing channels) are not good for this niche product...well I would disagree simply because they've been very effective. My comment/post engagement there has driven in-bound leads that have led to paying customers. So while I do really appreciate your contributions here, it is slightly off the mark with regard to marketing being 'wasting time' talking to people who have no use for it. Because these people on HN, PH and Reddit have very definitely had a use for ViewFinder that they're willing to pay for. Sure, it's a wide net, but I haven't had any reach outs from people that had no idea what it was.

Moreover, everybody emailing me has had a clear idea what it could do for them, and they were correct. Amazingly. Whether that's down to my marketing prowess--hahah...or down to people being so dang intelligent. Let's just call it split between.

At the same time, I think I can enlarge/accelerate/amplify my 'marketing funnel' by constructing a dedicated outbound strategy--which I'm sort of in the process of doing.

It's OK you were wrong about that stuff, you just don't have the experience I do with it. I'm no expert but I guess I just knew more than you about this--because this is my business. It's OK you didn't know anything about it, but I still appreciate your contributions.

In this outbound case, I do very much think I want to minimize wasting time by focusing on customers for whom it's not a fit. And really laser-focused targeting clearly. So, yeah. Thank you, tho, I appreciated your comments. Very good energy for me! :)
I am counting on there being enough Starlink satellites to block out the Sun. Problem solved.
The machinery is already put in place in the US. All it takes is a switch to flip.
Its about setting proper expectations. Its not a failure if its expected. Get the politicians to commit to all 20 launches in advanced.
I highly doubt most non-voters are intentionally "witholding" their vote. I think it's more often just laziness or lack of access (voting during work day etc.).

It has to be incredibly more meaningful to have statistics on how many people intentionally said "screw you" with a vote for "ficus" or w/e.
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It might even mean having someone transition down so they can eventually transition up.

Anyone have a success story surrounding this they’d like to share? Asked another way: has anyone ever stepped down from leadership and gone on to be an IC within the same company?

I tried this at last job. Without pouring out all the details, the way the company handled it was poor, and shortly after I departed the company so did three other managers. One of which never wanted to be in a management or leadership position in the first place.
The only legal rentals under the proposed rule is as room mates.
I think that this is for certain true but the solution of the problem is where the onteresting part is because most people do not want to go and live im a cabin
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> But masks work (at least N95) at completely stopping transmission. The covid shot does not. If you have a breakthrough case you’re just as infectious.

No part of this sentence is true.

Masks (even N95) do not "completely stop transmission". We don't have great evidence that they work at all. The evidence for vaccines, on the other hand, is incredibly strong, and we know they are very effective at preventing transmission -- on the order of 70% against the Delta variant -- and much better than that at preventing severe illness (>90%). If you have a symptomatic breakthrough infection -- a huge if, as this isn't common -- all current evidence is that the vaccines will reduce your overall infectiveness.

This study out of Singapore is an excellent example of the advantages conferred by vaccination on breakthrough infections:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v...

They found that vaccination reduced severe disease (>90% reduction) and caused cycle counts to increase faster than in unvaccinated people.

The vaccines work, and work well. Masks...are maybe better than nothing.
The pandemic is forever. It will be 2040 and I guarantee you the Coronavirus will be here with various mutations.

For some reason people are not grasping the reality of how long this is going to last. Until we die, the masks are here to stay, the restrictions are here to stay.

Vaccine stocks are going to the moon because there is going to be a need for vaccines for many decades. We will be taking shots every year if not more frequently.
Source is I am a meteorologist who has studied climatology. The residence time of GHGs ensure that we will have elevated levels for at least a century, even if we do all the nice things like plant trees. The terrestrial biosphere is too small, and not a long-term solution. Here in California, carbon-credit forests are going up in smoke.

We have already committed to levels that I consider catastrophic. Particularly in the oceans, where CO2 partitioning into the oceans is bleaching coral and the habitats they create. In the terrestrial habitats, desertification widespread and rapid.

The long-term solution offered to us by the Earth system is getting carbon below the carbonate compensation depth to be buried, or at least dissolved into the entire ocean, and not just surface waters. But the ocean overturning time is 500 years, and our timescale is somewhat shorter.

I think how you look at catastrophe solely from a perspective of civilization is wrong, but even from the perspective of a state, things like the drought that caused the famine that caused the civil war in Syria which caused a refugee crisis in Europe are troubling. Imagine how much worse it will be when a massive typhoon hits Bangladesh. But from a human perspective people are already suffering loss of income, home, and lifestyle from climate-exacerbated natural disasters. And the biosphere has been hit hard — adaptation will happen, but the mass extinction means we will lose ecosystem services that will be hard to replace.