skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the issue wasn't fundamentally about putting a thumb on one side of the scale or the other, this would be a relatively easy to solve problem. Make it part of the FEC charter to issue voting ID at no cost, tracking people down like the census does. Fund them appropriately, of course. And make sure that there is adequate opportunity to vote in person (multiple days, lots of locations, etc). In theory, this should make both sides happy.
> One specific Linux issue I ran into repeatedly is that Chrome and Chromium by default refuse to trust Linux graphics drivers and instead do software rendering.

https://i.imgur.com/u1sKBiu.png
I am extremely scientific and I believe in god. Not quite Spinoza's, more of a pantheistic view.

If you think about it, the universe is conscious, because our conscious minds are part of it. And it's learning about itself.
well they're definitely never gonna say goodbye
that's a pretty significant title error
No, this is more like if you asked the landlord to let you in, and then they did, without the permission of the tenant. The tenant would completely be within their rights to be angry about that. Both at you and the landlord.
These countries should start by reading the book "The Invisible Rainbow: A history of electricity and life".
The British public is exceptionally stupid
Even then, there was a 0.1% reduction in voter turnout, but the reduction was primarily among white voters. Although this isn’t the negative outcome that myself and other opponents of voter ID laws were worried about, any policy that reduces voter engagement is bad - even if it doesn’t lead to racial inequality.
You can find racists and rebels anywhere. If you order a sweet tea in any restaurant in Missouri they will look at you like you have three heads.
Voting on Saturday would work just fine in the US. There's little difference between the two weekend days in the US when it comes to some people working or not on those days (if you work Saturdays, you often also work Sundays; you're typically on a weekend shift in that case). Culturally it's an exceptionally obvious and easy compromise.
Cool stuff. I hope they make it onto the road. What was really interesting to me is that the page suggests that most of their on road testing is done in the US. Michelin is a French company and there are lots of good European card companies. Does anyone know why they wouldn't do their testing in Europe?
> there was no option to decode Social Security numbers for all educators in the system all at once

Sure, but this was an application where you could search for any licensed educator and get their social security number in the response. This is about as bad a PII leak as can happen to a state government.
> Ubuntu should have taken a page from CoreOS, NixOS and even Arch. CoreOS with their immutable system partitions (and two of them so it can revert to a good one if the current can't boot). NixOS with the immutable packages (and the split between user and system packages). And even Arch with its release model.

Actually Ubuntu Core is an edition of Ubuntu that has exactly these properties. It runs read-only, with packages that can be added and removed cleanly.

This does involve moving away from apt/deb, which is fundamentally incapable of this. I don't know of any plans to do this for the main Ubuntu distro itself, but consider the resistance if this were on the roadmap.
Americanism is liberalism in the classical (Lockean) sense: individualism above all. This trumps our sense of patriotism/tribalism/nationalism/collectivism at almost every turn.

In America, individual opinions are sacred proof of mind and soul. Being part of an intellectual consensus is frowned upon, because it suggests you aren't thinking for yourself. Americans do not value consensus, and in fact tend to value discord and disagreement--because it implies the existence of multiple differentiated individual opinions. That's why everything is polarized. It's a feature, not a bug.

It's easy to observe: most "Republican" voters aren't really enthusiastic members of the GOP, they just hate the Blue politicians more than the Red politicians. Likewise for the Democratic Party towards the GOP. "Red" voters are actually "not-Blue" voters.

So of course Americans will buy the cheap imported product. It's in their individual microeconomic interest, and that matters far more than any political or national interest.

My point is that reducing American cultural discontent to "tribalism" disguises the fact that Americans are perhaps the least collective-minded population on the planet.
I recommend you try LXDE or Xfce with Ubuntu or any other distro. They are the closest I've used to "just clone Windows 95 with a few enhancements and leave it alone", which I like.
Inconvergent [0] (maker of Weir) sells art [1] and it’s beautiful! I bought a piece from him and I proudly hang it up next to my Lisp machines.

His code is very much his own personal playground. He hacks on it like crazy to make it do the artistic things he wants. He’s very aware the code isn’t the prettiest, and sometimes mocks himself [2] about it on Twitter. What’s neat is that the code is a sort of continuously living experiment in techniques for doing high-quality generative art. I love seeing the demos he puts out from time to time. I even had the gumption to make a small PR to the code when he decided to open-source it. :)

Props to him for caring most about the end result, and only occasionally incidentally about the cool tool he uses as a part of that process.

[0] https://twitter.com/inconvergent?s=21

[1] https://img.inconvergent.net/

[2] https://twitter.com/inconvergent/status/1448741464582803459?...
Snowpack uses esbuild under the hood:

"Snowpack already uses esbuild internally as our default single-file builder for JavaScript, TypeScript and JSX files."

https://www.snowpack.dev/posts/2021-01-13-snowpack-3-0#built...
Pneumatic tires can also be retreaded. But we generally don't do it for passenger cars. I'm not sure of the reasons why so I can't say whether these tires address any of them. I'd want to see some explanation before I believe it.
How is that analogy wrong? Both in terms of the technical implementation and the subjective user experience, you're making separate requests for a document each time.

Analogies are always going to be imperfect, but I can't see the argument that the "separate request" analogy is any worse than yours, let alone "wrong".
> Also, what states have the individual find themselves on the voter roll? I've always had to provide the proof of my ID/address to a person at the polling station and they would find my ballot.

In my state you show up and give a poll worker your name, and they look it up in a binder with the list of registered voters for the polling station and cross it off. The binder's open on a card table, so if you have good eyes and can read upside down you could get a name. I'm pretty sure there was a Murphy Brown episode where the title character actually committed vote fraud in this way (to vote before she was old enough).

States do provide voter databases of registered voters (at least to the major parties for electioneering), so if you had access to one you could find a name to use. My state definitely does, because I once got election mail with my voting history for the last 5 or 6 federal elections.
I was referring to the US, specifically.
I mean this is the reason why Twitter won’t employ AI for racist posts detection right? It would auto-ban half the politicians on there.

Same with this guy. Another lies-spewing Tory was autodetected as talking nonsense. Colour me surprised.
Looks like all the CVEs are fixed in Debian Sid at least.

Edit: Not all, apparently. The whole bottom of that Chromium CVE list is still unfixed in Bookworm/Sid.
Feels like a pretty big stretch to claim that only technologists use Android devices.
classic bug into feature
What is so great about Arch? Is it just gentoo for the younger generation? I used to use gentoo and build all my own stuff, but I just don't care about that anymore and want it to just work. That's why I use Ubuntu after using Linux for 20 years :)
You will be surprised. Do a "Inspect Element" and have fun filtering on "XHR requests". Notice that JSON that a lot of those requests return. but sshhhh, you didn't hear this from me.
Oh, I really wish macOS and Windows were more zero-config.

On Linux, I can install many dev tools at once. It's easiest to dev on Linux. Harder on Windows. Hardest on macOS. Yes, I did spend many hours debugging macOS to show local website at work.

macOS and Windows shows all kinds of extra confirmation questions if I try to run executeable I compiled.
Most countries have IDs though… you can’t do anything in most European countries without your ID. If we had to have a specific document to vote that we never need for anything else, we would be having the same arguments as you guys
Savaged by systemd
I got mine in April and it involved standing in line for an hour before being let into the DMV to sit in line inside. It cost something like $50, too. I wouldn't call it convenient.
"The truth" is such a vague term.

You can say things that are true, but are also misleading, simply by omitting pertinent information.

I think most people's position when they're offended by a "truth snippet" is "this is immoral because it's misleading / incomplete / biased, etc.".

In this case, they omitted many sports where men and women are much more level competitors like curling, darts, bowling, equestrian, motor bike racing, marathon swimming, sailing, etc. And ignored marathon swimming where women routinely beat men.

And they didn't pick a diverse cross-section of sports that focused on various attributes like upper body strength, lower body strength, accuracy, agility, dexterity, flexibility, endurance, efficiency, artistic movement, decision making, etc. They just published a chart of the more male dominated sports where strength is of outsized importance and said that the male advantage is "insurmountable" as justification for banning transgender athletes (based on testosterone levels) from all female sports.

So, people aren't debating what's in the chart, they're debating what's not in the chart.
I’m not sure I 100% follow. By “undocumented” I mean that their license has been revoked (and thus they have no insurance), or they never got one. They lack the document to legally drive.

> If you require it, then you should enforce it, and you should not refuse to enforce it because you think that enforcing it does more harm than good.

There’s a third situation: that enforcement is difficult. The last time I was pulled over was 19 years ago. If that situation had resulted in my license being revoked, I could have continued driving without my license for the next 19 years with no consequences (maybe registering my car under a family member’s name). But regardless, how would this be enforced on a wide scale? The authorities don’t have the resources to check that every person behind a wheel is carrying a license. So, these checks generally occur after an infraction.

My point is simply that revoking a license doesn’t necessarily take those people off the road.
The fact that security by user/group ID with a default of accessing almost everything still is the norm baffles me.

The US dollar backed by nothing still keeps going, thanks to Petrodollar Recycling. On top of this is the 0% effective interest rate for the Banking class, with no effective reserve requirements, and socialized risk.

The Bitcoin boom fascinates me.

The Stock Market, that most famous graph of rich people's feelings, has been overrun with front-running profiteers, yet pretends to be trustworthy.

How the working class haven't strung up the rich yet escapes me.

Civilization takes a huge amount of labor to keep going, yet we have yahoos cheering on the end of it all because G*d will sort it all out, and they'll be in Heaven... yeah, right.
It's more an issue that there is no unified, universal ID system in the US. Different states do things differently and have different requirements. I'd be more in favor of an ID requirement if there was a universal, free, accessible ID system in place, but there isn't, and implementing one is a similarly fraught political question.
> I don't think anything is that secret about their business model. You see this same model with legacy enterprise software and other long tail recurring revenue soures. You largely give up on growth, but drop costs to near zero if you can and buyout based on the tail that will stick for a while.

Just because it's common doesn't mean it's OK. You destroy sometimes perfectly viable businesses and abuse their loyal customers, just for a quick buck.
Well, they're never gonna let him go, that's for sure.

And they may also hurt him.
* https://oa.mo.gov/commissioners-office/news/state-missouri-a...

The State labeling a reporter as "a hacker".

* https://dese.mo.gov/media/pdf/educator-data-incident-commiss...
* https://twitter.com/mocommissioner

State Education Commissioner refers to reporter only as a "individual". The Commissioner signs the letterhead "PhD". Sarcastically, I presume the PhD corresponds to the increase in level of correctness, from "hacker" to "individual".
I paint with oil on linen.

I use blender and python for reference.

Here's an example: https://ridaayed.github.io/posts/shark-flower-sunrise-venice...
I'm not sure it's a main reason, but it is indeed a key property of having full control over your own system that you are welcome to do this. But this level of control also comes with a curse: if you break your system, then you get to keep the pieces. I find it quite upsetting to be blamed instead.
It depends.

Some countries won’t let banks refuse to open an account.

I’m sure some people lie to their bank (or continue to hold accounts from before they would ask these questions). But it’s more complicated if your place of birth is USA. But that could be bypassable too if you have the right documents.
Even if on its implementation free and open ID is available and quick to get it might not stay that way into the future. It is a common strategy to under fund institutions to undermine their ability to function. Opening up to ID where there isn't sufficient fraud to warrant it simply opens up another mechanism for abuse by those in power. This sorts of changes should be rejected by default by the populace especially if they aren't shown to be genuinely necessary as political opponents may very well misuse them in the future with little awareness from the public.
I found a similar vulnerability in one of our vendors' online order system. I noticed after placing an order an integer in the order confirmation page URL. I reduced it by one and refreshed the page. Sure enough, I got all the order details of the previous customer's sale. Reducing _that_ URL by one got the next previous sale details etc. I notified the company about it. They fixed it, and in gratitude sent me a small package containing a pen and other office kitsch branded with their logo. Not much of a bug bounty, but the pen has proven useful.
I think you just missed the joke of the comment you replied to...
Not for things like ISA's in the UK
It's true that for static workloads/databases, you don't need continuous tuning.

But as you add new app features, grow database size, upgrade DBMS versions, and make other changes, OtterTune tracks your system to make sure you are always using the best config. This is problem is even harder with 1000s of individual database instances. Customers have told us that they want something can tune database continuously in a way that is not possible with DBAs and existing monitoring tools.

Knob tuning is also the first step in the kind of automation that we are working on using OtterTune's ML-based approach.
Mint and Pop are still Ubuntu based, not to ignore the Debian underpinnings of Ubuntu.

I've stuck with xUbuntu because it seems to be the most sane of the bunch when it comes to defaults and preinstalled software. Once installed, it does a good job of staying out of my way UI wise.
See, this is why Linux distributions piss me off. You have an upgrade path that breaks, and when it does the response is "oh, you used your Linux distribution in a way we said you could in our docs? why would you think the upgrade would work after that?!"

Distros just don't care about the user experience. They care about making it look fancy, or shifting around designs, or introducing brand new components that break old functionality. But they don't care if people actually have problems using it.

Every bug is the user's fault, and every reinvention-of-the-wheel (that actually works worse than the previous wheel) is a praiseworthy accomplishment. Regressions are nonexistent, hardware compatibility/stability is a guessing game, solving common problems is left to the user to Google, all the interfaces and apps are inconsistent, there are no interactive guides to design changes, and just getting some basic hardware like a Bluetooth adapter to work is a multi-day adventure. (And I'm a 20+ year Linux veteran.)

I still use Linux because I know that my hardware will mostly work, and that once I get past a month of fixing bugs on a new install, I can basically make it do what I want. But it's so frustrating to use compared to Windows. The only reason I don't use Windows instead is performance and troubleshooting is worse there (for the most part) and security is scarier. But I want to throw both Linux and Windows in the trash. And I won't buy a Mac because the price and incompatibility is absurd.
In much (most? all?) of the United States, life insurance contracts generally cover suicide, except that individual policies will typically have 2-3 year exclusion period.

My individual term life policy has a 2-year exclusion period, but otherwise covers suicide. I can't track down the precise reasons for this, whether its related to case law, state statutes, etc. Closest hit I found for California was Insurance Code § 11066(h), but that's for policies issued by fraternal societies. (It probably echoes some other statute or case law.) There are endless Google hits from law and insurance web sites stating this general fact.
> wholly accurate & backed up with the latest scientific evidence.

Much of the problem comes down to the fact that the "science" changes quite frequently. When new evidence appears, which updates our Bayesian Priors ( airborne vs aerosol/fomites, vaccine type effectiveness, delta variant transmittivity, ventilator usefulness, lab leak hypothesis, comorbidity statistics, etc ) the Powers That Be rely on the pre-update "science" to determine if censorship is warranted.

One can argue if censorship of "disinformation" is a societal good, and I won't litigate that general matter here, but it becomes a particular point of contention if what is classified as disinformation changes with every Lancet publication.
.NET Foundation Crisis – What Is Happening, Why, and What Now
I take your point, but I think you could fairly say that JS has been going through growing pains since its inception 25 years ago. It's always been a fast-moving, inconsistently-implemented language. (E.g. Netscape / Mozilla vs. IE support for browser features).

Maybe things are going to calm down a bit? I could believe it. But I just don't see the churn stopping. The browser-as-OS is going to keep getting new features, which JS must bind to. And some users are going to use old browsers that don't support them. So the runtime is inexorably fragmented, vs. say a server-side environment where you mostly write code for a well-known runtime that you get to define.

And what about when everybody starts using wasm to compile other languages into JS? Another explosion of tooling and changes to how we do web development is just round the corner.

Regardless of whether we're coming to the end of it, I think it's more specific than just "growing pains" though - it's not just that we're fixing issues, it's that we're repeatedly throwing away old tools in favor of smaller, more-focused new tools, that then in turn grow in scope over time.

I'm not even mad at all this; I think it's a fundamental part of how software languages and communities make progress; there's no real path for a language/tool/framework to get _smaller_, so they either increase in scope or stay the same, with the latter being quite rare, and both options giving a path for some other thing to supersede them.

I just think it's most pronounced in the JS ecosystem, and find it amusing that we've come full circle on so many of these points, again - although I believe with genuine improvements on the previous iterations. (So more like a spiral; the same location in some dimensions, but with a higher elevation.)
This video is awesome for what it sounds like you're trying to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8Ol2n4o4A
If people wanted to encourage voting, it's hard to beat Oregon's system in the US. There is very little fraud.
Well the objective is to get as many people to vote as possible, so it does make sense to make that as easy as possible.
Just as another data point, to be honest, I've had nothing but similar issues with Ubuntu. It always found new, weird, sometimes downright bizarre ways to break, often in ways I never could figure out how to fix. Mind you, that was back when I didn't even do anything unusual and didn't know how to really dig into the nuts and bolts of linux... I just installed fairly normal apps from the repository with no custom configuration. ...That was all pre-snap.

Ironically, I tried again post-snap thinking that would make things harder to break. The first app I tried to install failed in some bizarre way. I fixed it eventually, but it left a pretty sour taste in my mouth. I've had upgrades pre 20.0x that basically nuked my whole server. I just can't in good faith recommend ubuntu to beginners anymore. Mind you, that's for desktop... The 20.04 server is actually pretty nice for a headless linux box, though usually I just run it in a container from a debian system via lxc.

Conversely, I've never broken my Arch or debian systems beyond repair despite really hacking the ever-loving shit out of them. I think I had one package I had to fix the version on and no other significant issues.
Storm brews over 46x price markup of Merck’s Thor-inspired Covid pill
Is that right? From reading the third document you linked:

"IRC 877A imposes a mark-to-market regime, which generally means that all property of a covered expatriate is deemed sold for its fair market value on the day before the expatriation date."

Unless this document is leaving something out, the gains would not be taxed at the marginal income rate unless they are short term gains. Presumably most people with large amounts of unrealized gains would be paying long term capital gains taxes, which are currently a 20% rate.

I thought this provision was simply to ensure that you didn't make large amounts of wealth in the US then skip out on paying taxes on your gains. That seems very reasonable to me, although perhaps I am missing something.
> Most countries have id requirements, and it's not viewed as a slippery slope towards voter suppression.

Other countries have actual ID cards. They are issued for free to and required of every single citizen. The US does not: it has a long history of suspicion of national government IDs.

Because of this, a "voter ID" in US states can mean whatever the state legislature wants it to mean, and republican legislatures are often accused of restricting valid forms of identification to specifically those which republican voters have more often than democrat voters.
Do you think something like this would be made available for motorcycle tires? Motorcycles are significantly more vulnerable to tire-caused crashes because a motorcycle whose one tire violently decompresses on a highway or autobahn is very likely to have a crash since it can no longer balance, while a car that loses a tire still has 3 other tires and will still have plenty of traction and balance left to pull over. Something like this that makes violent decompression impossible would be a fairly big improvement to motorcycle safety.
What state laws have they broken?