skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> eligible population of around 176,344

That's misleading. It's the 158,476 registered voters that matter. Also has a very large unaffiliated voter base of 57,808 (36.5%).

> The district had 158,476 registered voters as of July 1, 2021, of whom 57,808 (36.5%) were registered as unaffiliated, 57,660 (36.4%) were registered as Democrats, 40,620 (25.6%) were registered as Republicans, and 2,388 (1.5%) were registered to other parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_3rd_legislative...
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-many-facts-pointing-to-hal-finn...
Consensus is one thing, taking action on that consensus is another. We have failed to significantly increase the supply of housing so the cost of the existing housing has been on an unending march upwards. The solutions people are willing to implement are half measures and avoid the supply-demand causes of this problem.
How about authoritarianism?
GM. No really. Hear me out.

Great work/life balance, benefits, and management structure.

They're transitioning to remote work if your job allows it. A large percentage of the company is already work from home. I just got permission to go lower 48 US remote a few days ago.

And they're doing a lot of really cool shit. Ultium. Cruise. Brightdrop. Almost no matter what your specialty, GM has it.

I'm challenged every day. My coworkers are smart and driven. If you don't like what you're doing, you can move. A year ago I was a hands-on mechanical engineer with little coding experience who wanted to transfer to software. Now I'm a fully remote controls engineer.

Mary Barra is a hell of a CEO. She's forward-thinking and isn't afraid to push the company in the direction she thinks it should go in, and so far, she's been right on the money. She champions diversity, and it's not just for show. Barra has transformed GM from a stodgy good-old-boys garbage-producing shitshow into an innovation powerhouse, the world hasn't recognized it yet.
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The homeless crisis is a drug epidemic caused by the law of unintended consequences.

Marijuana being legalized forced Mexican drug cartels to pivot into making synthetic meth (P2P meth)

Synthetic meth is much cheaper to make and is hard to regulate because it can be made from a cocktail of various household products, (the older meth was made from ephedra, and could be somewhat regulated by curbing the sale of large amounts of ephedra)

Whereas P2P meth can be made cheaply in large quantities with ubiquitous household chemicals

Unfortunately P2P causes psychosis at a much faster and more prevalent rate than ephedra based Meth.

So that’s what’s going on, there’s a huge influx of synthetic meth coming into America and really destroying a lot of lives. And homelessness is exploding

For further reading https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
So the real world-crippling result of Covid is that some people are wearing masks?
will still use C*.
NJ's debt per taxpayer is multiple standard deviations above the norm. On the order of $60k per taxpayer versus $10k to $20k in other states. That is just at the state level, who knows what is going at the city level, and there are a ton of tiny fiefdoms with highly paid personnel.

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/FSOS-Bookle...

I do not see anyway out of repaying these debts from previous decades with higher taxes compared to other states.
>how 'dead' is 'dead', in the context of being an organ donor?

Doctors occasionally jump the gun: https://www.fox6now.com/news/father-accused-in-hours-long-st...
Is jail appropriate for litterers? Seems extreme, but I might be able to get behind it. Let's start with the folks who throw fast food wrappers out on the interstate though, not the homeless we wish to criminalize.

Throwing them in jail seems like the worst of both worlds... it burns my tax dollars and does nothing to rehabilitate anyone.
I actually wonder how viable it would be to devise a targeted ballot spoiling attack.

Picture this:

Have a canvasser or harvester pick up mail in ballots. They take it to a safe house and open the envelopes. If it’s a vote for the candidate they don’t like, put marks on it so it doesn’t get counted. Place it in a new return envelope.

You’ve just cancelled that person’s vote. If someone checked that their vote was counted they wouldn’t be able to see that it was spoilt.

You could potentially just throw away the ballot too, I doubt most people check that they were actually received. But it does seem slightly more likely to raise eyebrows. I’m sure you could chalk it up to just getting lost at the post office.
50W seems rather low for a a 1m^2 panel. I have some older 250W panels (1.6m^2) and get around 220W in the summer.

Also, how are you measuring a 10-15W load? When plugged in, the charger is going to pull it's rated load from your battery bank (I'm seeing ~84W including inverter losses).
Red Hat.

Worked there as an intern during college, continued for few more years and returned there after a brief stint at a startup.

Work/life balance is great, most code public has so many advantages and colleagues are friendly and decent humans.

Some teams might be worse than what I experienced, but even if I was growing mildly frustrated (i.e. pressure from product people to push product out of hte gate before it was ready and I was one of hte damned QA people), the robust internal transfer system meant, I could just move to a team where I felt my contribution was more valued even from non-programmers ;)
People seem to say this (or similar remarks) when talking about Lua but even more specifically, LuaJIT in particular but it seems like Lua is already a pretty niche language so am I just missing something? Like you can embed Lua in other languages but why use Lua instead of something like mruby for all the warm fuzzy feelings you get when writing Ruby?

Just curious, appreciate any context you can provide!
Have you ever considered why there is a strong correlation between beliefs in healthcare, unions and college and a belief in gun control laws?
It is most certainly illegal to use hollow points in any instance in a case of self defense

What the hell else am I supposed to do with hollow points but shoot someone? Target practice? That's a waste of good ammo and money. I lean left enough to feel that our gun laws are way too lax, but this particular law as described is just pointless posturing. It reminds me of "cop killer bullets". Umm, you mean rifle rounds, that can penetrate an armored vest? No, you mean a Teflon coating?[0] Well, turns out...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teflon-coated_bullet
I highly doubt that some of the more shady deals like selling to the KSA weren’t greenlit if not brokered by the US.

About 10 years ago Israel sold Hermes drones to KSA through South Africa, that deal was pretty much openly brokered by the US because KSA wanted drones with attack capability and the US didn’t want to supply them with predator drones and the UK which is primary arms supplier to KSA didn’t had anything to export either.

Israel or not if these companies posed any actual threat to US interests yet alone national security they wouldn’t exist either through political pressure or by much stronger actions than putting them on a sanctioned list.

What will likely happen is that they’ll reform as other entities with sufficient separation from to avoid sanction or Israel would shift that capacity to some of the larger defense contractors like Elbit which the US will not sanction.

As long as there is a market for these services and there is sufficient political will in the west and the US specifically to supply “allies” with controlled offensive cyber capability there will be countries like Israel that would fulfill this demand.

The main challenge of establishing a company like NSO isn’t the human capital you can find people with the right skills pretty much anywhere it’s the connections and the government backing needed to make these deals.
As I've gotten older I've realized that there's something to be said for the discouraging effect that laws have on certain behaviors. Yes, people are still going to do drugs if they're illegal; but some proportion of the population is less likely to take the risk. Is it enough to justify the drug war? Maybe not. But I don't think it's quite as cut an dry as "legalize all drugs to end drug abuse" or "ban all drugs to end drug use".

Perhaps it was only an implementation problem, and the answer lies in saner but still restrictive drug laws. There's no excuse for example for the scheduling of marijuana and mushrooms which precludes research.
The best way how to make money on a war is to stay neutral and supply both sides for cash.
> major organizations and industries won't use a programming platform that is entirely at the whims of a company they have no real control over

100% this, the biggest issue I see with dotnet and Swift is that they're spending too much time trying to be appealing to people who don't want to use them. Swift, as a language, really only makes sense to use if you're extensively targeting Apple systems and planning to skip Windows/Linux altogether. That's a pretty shit deal, from the perspective of developers who want to deliver software to the largest possible audience. Similarly, writing an entire program in dotnet used to be a death sentence until Mono finally got thrown together. Even still it's not a very attractive framework for most cases, which just goes to show how important open governance can be when developing such a complex system.
Seattle city primaries look nothing like federal congressional/presidential primaries.

They are best described as two-round run-off elections, which, while not perfect, are generally preferable to first-past-the-post.
2/3 of murders were with guns. Would people still kill each if they didn't have guns? obviously. Would they do it less? Hard to say since research into gun violence is banned by the government.
Seconding this. This description sounds like severe dyslexia to me, and the good news is there are a lot of resources and therapies out there which might be able to greatly improve your quality of life if you choose to seek them out.

Definitely worth speaking with an appropriate medical professional for diagnosis.
> I think Carter is definitely an underrated president who likely would have been re-elected had the Iranian hostage crisis not happened

Yep. The October Surprise by Team Reagan worked very well.
I wasn't referring to masks in that statement. I was referring to vaccine mandates.
Modern day Fast & Furious. Dom and the Family moved on from VHS and Panasonic tvs to EVGA gpus!
I’m not going to pretend I am an OSS champion.

I am not.

I want to use tools built by people who are paid and supported. I don’t care if it’s commercial or OSS.

I want to pay for my lunch.

I want my interests and the person making my lunch to have an aligned interest in making me a good lunch.

With that, I actually like that Julia focuses on revenue, but I hated the sudden decision to remove dotnet watch.

I thought it was a stupid and pointless distraction to a bigger cloud strategy.

I’m not saying Microsoft needs to kill Visual Studio, but they should start talking about a DNR at some point in the future.

I hope this promotion will make it easier for her to focus on the right revenue streams so she’ll feel less compelled to save legacy revenue streams.

She needs to focus on making it easy to make and deploy OSS software. Everything will fall into place and the revenue opportunities will be there.

Microsoft has incredible people in their R&D. Cloud based tools will make it a lot easier to take the fruit of their research and bring it to market so much faster.

There’s so much opportunity for amazing new products that can and should be billed monthly (or by usage) on my employer’s Azure/GitHub account.

Just stop hanging to the old software licensing model. IT organizations loathe software licensing game Microsoft insists on playing, but we will piss money away on cloud services and SaaS solutions.
Sorry if it's a bit sensationalized. I wanted to give some color as to why this release might be interesting and took this tweet I saw at face value
https://twitter.com/rbranson/status/1455923426359578631
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http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/ - Pure Java X Window System Server under GPL

They also had closed version http://www.jcraft.com/wiredx/ that supports antialiasing for core protocol (something X.org/XFree86 claimed to be impossible)
There is a language [1] that type check by adding comments instead of fixing Lua (like Flow comment syntax [2]), I wonder if the Luau team has considered this language.

[1] https://github.com/devcat-studio/kailua

[2] https://flow.org/blog/2015/02/20/Flow-Comments/
It's important to realise that when I'm talking about transaction costs I'm not referring to the inbuilt transaction fees in the protocol - those are bitcoin-denominated and so are an internal transfer within the ecosystem (likewise for the block rewards).

I'm taking about examples like when someone uses bitcoin to transfer money, by converting an external currency into bitcoin, sending the bitcoin somewhere then converting it back into an external currency. Whatever loss of value they see from that overall transaction has been transferred into the bitcoin system as a whole.
Explain that to the kids that died or the older relatives that got sick from the infected kids.
New York and specifically, New York City has the same issue. Year long application approvals with concealed carry permits granted at the discretion of the NYPD. There were supreme court arguments about this very issue today.
When 15% of world gun deaths are coming from the USA which has just 4.25% of the world population, perhaps it's time to focus on national level issues instead of using excuses.
Tim Pool is "best-friends-with-nazis" and a known liar, and not living in New Jersey (instead, in a remote compound in Maryland). There is no reason at all to believe he has a change in belief, much less any reason at all to mention him, especially using his 'experience' as a pro-gun argument.
I've seen it enough from enough from enough different diverse sources for it to count as something resembling data - the thing is, the two crunch periods for COVID, are the times the data gets the blurriest, because the people who collect it are so busy.
Cool! I was expecting to see this implemented with the go/ast package, but I guess gofmt makes this easy enough to parse out by just matching lines.
As a non native English speaker, why is that offensive?
Thanks, I've tried a few USB Cardoid mics already, and it still picks my wife up loud and clear. I haven't yet tried a supercardoid, or to get a mic amp that allows gain adjustment. So might give that a try.
I was surprised to learn that independent Texas actually maintained a diplomatic mission in London. The building still exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Legation
Hah, this is great. I think I’ll start telling people to keep their monkeys :)
Don't companies insure shipments? What if the truck bursted into flames?
Startups don't stay small though. They're aiming to get really big or have some kind of big exit in a hurry. Some of them are a lot of fun, some stay good even as they grow, others turn into depressing places to work.
Ask HN: Is the Covid-19 saga coming to a close?
A decade is a long time in your seventies.
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> "Diverse" people use what ever panders to their race or sexuality the most, and Google panders to them far more than Mozilla ever could.

At the risk of sounding ignorant, how the fuck can a browser, the most universal platform we have right now, cater to any specific minority group? I'd get it if you were talking about accessibility, but what does the browser have to do with your race or sexuality?
I am not form the U.S.

I think the problem is not that average citizen managed to beat the career politician, that is (possibly?) the good part.

In my view the problem is that this average citizen now has to deal with other career politicians and if he doesn't have the experience in these dealings, his constituents will probably end up worse off.

What is the solution?

I don't know, I am an average citizen so I would prefer someone who has more knowledge about these things to work on it and then present options to us average citizens in a clear and unbiased manner.
That is because it's trying to load from experimentalstuff.com which is(or seems to be) gone.
> these figures are competitive for high-tech or other specialized work

They are about what I'd expect. Should they be underpaid like much of labor? Is it the worker's fault that the roads are in bad shape? I doubt it.
The mayor, Jenny Durkan was not progressive, either in platform, or in what she did (which was mostly sit around on the sidelines) over the past four years.

So, not much changed with the mayor's office.
Are you seriously suggesting we compare the deaths (you can include injuries if you like) from guns in the US with those caused by knives in the UK? Do you understand how this comparison is going to come out?
> Hard to say since research into gun violence is banned by the government.

It's not banned. The government isn't going to fund it, but you've jumped the shark if you think that means it is banned.

And part of the reason it's not being funded is that this is political in nature. How do you look at the hundreds of thousands of assaults that were thwarted with guns used in self-defense? Guns are primarily used for self-defense. How do you measure the lives saved? And when an attacker is shot and killed, is that a life saved or a life lost? This is a political debate not a scientific debate. Once you accept that the rapist shot to death and the person who commits suicide as being the same as some random person shot to death, then you've already politicized the work.

It's also far outside the purview of the CDC, which is what this "banned" canard is about - the left wanted the CDC to treat "gun violence" as a thing -- like "fist violence" -- or "knife violence" -- why do they always want to classify disagreement as a "disease"? Everything is a "safety" or "health" issue with them, amenable to handing our public policies over to some bureaucrat. Fortunately there was sufficient pushback to block funding of that. That is what your outrage is about.

But don't worry, there is a push to classify racism as a disease and have the CDC lab coats study it, so you will get some politicized "public health" research to tide you over.

In the meantime, you are welcome to donate to one of the many think-tanks that do these studies on guns, violence, and criminality - of all political persuasions. There are lots of studies even without bringing the public health bureaucracies into the mix.
> That's the reason you've lost empathy for them, because they are humans who have to shit and are denied access to toilets?

Oxytocin--the hormone critically involved in empathy and social behaviors--has been linked to toxin-elicited and socially-mediated disgust [1]. If that link holds, it suggests why public defecation is the emerging turning point of the debate.

Rhetorically, this means trivializing the problem is unlikely to be successful. People will lose empathy for people who shit on their street. On the flip side, this offers a well-scoped beachhead. Solving the public defecation problem could rebuild empathy for San Francisco's homeless and give political oxygen to the broader, more-intractable problem of homelessness overall.

(I'm honestly shocked nobody has run for office in San Francisco on a vision zero-esque pledge to eliminate public defecation.)

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/gbb.12...
If people who exploit this sort of thing for financial gain would spend a fraction of their problem solving on developing a constructive solution that solves a real world problem they would probably have more money
> they appear to be proud to wear them

Being proud to be "obedient" is not always a good thing. Also this cannot be generalized. Plus it doesn't make something being mandatory right, especially when looking at people's smiles is crucial for kids development.
I think it varies wildly by area, too. The teachers in my area appear to make a reasonable salary once you include pension. Admittedly, the stress level of the job comes into play, too...
For those unaware, Murphy (D, incumbent) was ~20% up back in July.

It's shocking its even close.
GTK doesn't support it because nobody implemented it. IIRC the Qt support is also pretty buggy and doesn't work on some compositors.
>> "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

>> "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

I am, of course, talking about the occasional article that makes noise outside NYC. I'm nowhere near NYC. I have never really noticed which "section" a story in the NYT or Bloomberg is in when it finds its way to me. If it had stayed local, I obviously wouldn't have anything to say about it since I never would have seen it.

That was not a rant, much less one about "the media." That was a gentle rib at New York City media's tendency to self-aggrandize and spill outside in a way that isn't self-aware. I buy all my camera and computer stuff from a little corner shop in NYC and wouldn't mind visiting some day, so this is all in good fun.
That's a great idea!

I hope that the idea takes hold.
The advantage that Lua has is that it has about the simplest possible binding interface you can imagine for a Language.

There's no manifests, no class definitions, no anything really. It's as simple as calling lua_newstate to create a state, calling lua_pushcfunction to register some functions that expose your desired engine functionality, and calling lua_loadstring with a script to run.

That means you can use Lua in your engine for something as simple as a CLI interface that just exposes a couple dozen functions, and it's still worth it. Where with any other scripting language you'd have to be doing a lot more with it to make the setup cost worthwhile.

Having LuaJIT available if you end up wanting to do more with it later is the icing on the cake.
> Anyone who asserts an election was subject to fraud is attacking democracy itself. /s

I trust you are referring to problems with the 2020 election? I would appreciate learning what analogies you see between mob-like coercion and the election
Yes, but it can be based on more objective statistics though, like the local hospital being overrun with COVID patients, as ours was over the summer.
You're right.

Their expression (simplified) was: *target = pixels[j] << 24, where pixels contains items of type unsigned char.

I hadn't realized that the pixels[j] was being promoted to an int rather than unsigned int. Eeep.

> I really dislike the promotion logic in C.

Agreed. I'll add that to my list of C dislikes.

I still think that even with manually promoting to the appropriate unsigned type isn't sufficient. Because target has type long*, so coercing the result of (unsigned int)pixels[j] << 24 to long still causes overflow and therefore UB... unless there's yet more I've missed.

Edit: Damn it, again, that's what the discussion says (https://github.com/glfw/glfw/pull/1986#issuecomment-95800024...).