skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just in 2018, the Italian regions of Lazio and Lombardy had three elections together: 2 nationals (representatives/senators) plus the regional elections.
And within a political system that is much much more fragmented than the US one.

Still, it was all done on paper, and we got the results overnight. It's not rocket science, really.
Not sure we can talk about the west's morals or soft-spokenness with a straight face any more.

More like carry a big stick and wave it around wildly while yelling loudly, threatening and bashing people, giving sticks to our enemies' enemies and encouraging them to bash one another and hoping they don't use them on us or our friends later. Also make money selling lots of (slightly smaller) sticks to other people to bash one another with, stirring everyone up with beatings and fear of beatings to help our sales.

But yeah it would be be better for the west if we stay as far ahead of the likes of China and Russia as possible. If nothing else than because we don't want to be on the receiving end of what we've done to others. And when I say "we've done" I don't mean the common person, I'm talking about the warmongering ruling class who privatize the profits from their wars and meddling and socialize the costs and blame for it.
You're just speculating. Have you ever considered that home prices didn't go up, that inflation went up. Perhaps what needs to balance things out, isn't home prices coming down, but wages going up to keep up with inflation?

Such events have happened in other countries, and if it happens here, home prices will keep going up, wages will go up, and folks will at best be able to afford the same things but most likely less.
At the same time, the higher interest rate will causes existing home-owners to "stay put" rather than jump to another home and pay 5% (unless they are down-sizing and able to make a cash offer).

So the supply problem is not addressed.

Might make new construction cheaper though?
> Blood sacrifices and invocations to see who can summon the cutest and fiercest beast. You show your demon to the camera and get votes on it and on the chants you did to bring it from the depths.

Really suspected this was just a metaphor for showing off your kids on camera. But then I read the rest, and I'm not sure any more.
The thing about these cookies and the privacy is that those cookies are accessible by everyone. And some websites can place cross site cookies and continue tracking you in detail just because you clicked that one link on that one website.

One reason the EU did this is to bring to light the tracking habits of websites and give some power to the user. Much like Apple did with their do not track me button on IPhone. A lot of people opted to not be tracked but before just didn’t have the option or were oblivious to being tracked to begin with. And trust me being as secretive as possible for tracking is by design. It’s scary the amount of info a website can get from your browser.
Risk of birth defects increases a lot with age of both parents. The number (and percentage) of advanced age pregnancies (I think it's defined as >35) has increased over that time[1].

This confounder is virtually guaranteed to account for a lot of that doubling. How much? No idea. Back to my overarching point.

[1] https://evidencebasedbirth.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fi...
Got one from steelcase with a mesh back, mesh headrest and a cushion seat. Its comfortable and airy.
Paging @georgespencer (who hasn't posted or commented for a couple of years).

But seriously, Instagram has been Facebook's Youtube. 1.4B users: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...
I've said this before on here and elsewhere, but I wonder if evil is actually a worse environment because of its utility.

Most attempts at vim modes in other applications seem to be insert or "move" mode, with practically no functionality in what they call normal mode. Whereas evil emulates largely most of vim(far behind normal and insert modes too), but when it does eventually fall down you're really not expecting it. My go-to example for this is using the expression register, the number of times I've typed a vim expression in to emacs when using the expression register is ridiculous.

When tools aren't so functional you're basically always expecting them to fail, so it isn't such a shock when you can't even ciw or whatever. My point -- or perhaps question -- is what is really the better solution; one which almost 100% seamless or one which is practically useless from the outset.
Static Site Generator in 86 Lines
Hey guys,

I wrote this very simple SSG, and would like to receive feedback on how to simplify code.

Also, I would be happy to fix any bug.
Ideally you wouldn't. But until operating systems default to using DoH with a trusted resolver themselves, this approach is the lesser of the evils.
I believe the US has a national ID scheme, just not a mandatory one. You need to request an ID card (though the vast majority of people just use their driving license), but just like you need to proactively get your ID card issued and renewed in France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_document#United_State...
Even assuming this is fair (which I don't believe it is) that doesn't explain the localized problems per city that we're discussing.
Just to be accurate, we do not write anything, you gather an envelope and take 12 pieces of paper (one for each candidate), then in the booth, you fill the envelope with your chosen candidate.

There is a bin to dispose of the other papers, or dispose of them elsewhere for complete anonymous. Most people just take the one they want, or the few they are still undecided before getting in the booth.
> Other team members either don’t read these entirely or just skim them.

I'm a senior who's been here for a while on a team of folks who are less experienced or are comparatively new to the company. My team has started doing a brief (few sentence) drop into Slack every few days and I couldn't be happier because it means I know when people are stuck and need a hand.
I liked "The Long Distance Leader" by Kevin Eikenberry. It had several tactical tricks related to communication medium that I found useful.
The solution, when dealing with an odd number of folks, is to do a 'three-way' handshake. Some times you have to think outside the box.
This, but with every pop up.

I suspect it's not legally binding when you never clicked agree or deny as well.
I got in just under the wire, closed at 3.125% (refi from 4% 2yrs ago). Considering rates in the 80s were like 11% it's still all "relatively" cheap financing, but home prices per se are another thing altogether.
I bought all the house I could, not because I plan on flipping or renting but because the money supply is ridiculous. So much money has been pumped into the economy that I firmly believe inflation is here to stay. If inflation stays that will put upwards pressure on price of everything, houses included too.
IIRC https://nikolamotor.com/
Don't touch any HTML element is my rule of thumb. Have everything as bare-bones as possible, and tack on something like water.css[0] if you need some rudimentary styling.

[0] https://watercss.kognise.dev/
I’ve studied it.

“Matthew Prince, Cloudflare’s chief executive. “It’s dangerous for infrastructure companies to be making what are editorial decisions,” he said.”

Not dangerous enough apparently.
There's also a category of tabletop RPGs meant to be played just by yourself. It's "solo RPGs." It's a pretty big category and growing fast.

If you're willing to pay to play online, I'd recommend https://startplaying.games. I believe it's a YC alumn, even.
This is why I don't like to put predictions in writing. It's very hard to predict events over a 10 year time period. (you don't know what you don't know)
I believe you can set a different proxy on a per container basis, so you could for example have a VPN container and a work container that send traffic via different places.
> I get a ton of value out of not attending them, but then pulling them up in my own time and playing them back at 2x speed.

i used to enjoy this too until i realised that not everybody can do it and i am probably beeing a dick for doing it.

idk your specific situation; it might make sense temporarily, but try to be emphatic.
>but playing a slave-catcher is seriously problematic

Then don't play it?
The systems are completely different and your comment is just plain ignorance.

Elections in France are on a Sunday, when almost everyone is off work.(in US it's always Tuesday?)

Photo IDs are low cost there and mandatory. Everyone has a photo ID.

Polling stations are not a "million miles away", you will not see regular multi hour lines in France.

And finally - you cannot win, unless you get at least 50% + 1 vote. In US and UK - a simple plurality of votes makes you a winner.
There's still a day left for it all to fall apart for Instagram.
This is a good time to remind people that these prompts not only concern cookies (or even all cookies), but any form of non-essential visitor tracking.

Some tracking methods will more effectively be able to track you across the boundaries of your "incognito" sessions.

For example, the modern browser has a huge API surface that makes accurate finger printing using tuples of individually only moderately narrowing information possible for as long as you allow it to execute JavaScript.
No. Which is very frustrating, because bp seem to be storeable as a json sort of thing which you can copy paste into text, but gets saved to get as a binary thing.
I sort by new with showdead on. I do it because there are some interesting topics that get flagged, and some that can be vouched for.
I too blame the FLQ. Toronto was well prepared to be Canada's second city. But completely unprepared to be her first.

We didn't build a single subway station for decades.
I'm genuinely curious what I'm supposed to take away from that. Is or is not Instagram one of the best tech acquisitions of the last 10 years?
> playing a slave-catcher is seriously problematic

Whew, glad that playing a murderous grave robber necromancer isn't.
> Unlike rates on credit cards or other types of loans, mortgage rates move early and dramatically in anticipation of what the market expects

Interesting piece of information for tracking economic movements. I wonder what the ratio is on adjustable rate mortgages vs. fixed. If there are a lot of ARM out there then there might be potential for a bubble popping where people can't afford the mortgage and fixed rates are also higher where a re-fi won't help.
This page is likely more approachable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rul...
I disagree on the hobbies I like trying to get to excel on the ones that stick and then suddenly. Once I prove I can do it I relaxed. For example on photography went on the competition cycle and ended with some winners and with one picture on a good museum for awhile.

After that the pressure was off and now I just do dog photo's for instagram from the dog park :)
"Based" is similar to some uses of "cool" - it's a kind of generic positive adjective. You can read it as "sounds pretty good to me" / "sounds pretty cool to me".

It has nothing at all to do with "biased".
Can you elaborate on why you think DoT is better than DoH? Aside from DoT being easier for an adversary to block (which is really bad since blocking it forces a silent fallback to insecure DNS), what material differences are there between them?
I believe they are talking about the EARN IT act:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/353...
It’s just not true on the coasts in big cities. People buy stuff in all cash out here.
noteworthy that outside from presidential elections, candidates need to purchase and provide these paper ballots (plus official flyers mailed to registered voters) on their own cost and only get reimboursed if they score more than 5%.
You might be already in the minority here (even in the USA !), as it looks like that the cell carriers there now overwhelmingly run on IPv6, and tunneling IPv4, which doesn't always work well ?

https://old.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/97ifsv/issues_with...
Right now I am working on something of my own, so don't have that exact problem. Hence I said "here for ideas". Was just curious if people do have come up with something, because it seems like a recurring and wide ranging problem, solving which can make office work easier. For a manager to tell me how they work, there are better ways than 1 on 1, since it would be same across the team. Same goes for teammates.
I am not sure what you are afraid of since every reply seems to narrow the gap in our differences of opinion.

At what point cottages cease to be “way to make real money with some capital in the middle class” and we firmly enter the territory of “make a buck while fuck everyone else”? One or two is probably the former. 80,000 properties we all probably agree is the latter.
Well, I agree with what you say but there's the small issue that russia both doctrinally and economically is not in a position to do that in the near future. The RuAF is really in a pitiful state hindered by decades of corruption and the political will of mantaining way too many legacy aircraft
This comment is too bleak.

If they refinanced in 2020 then they likely bought in 2019 or earlier. If prices fell to 2019 levels it would be a crash —- and probably merit all sorts of government response including lowering interest rates. No one that entered the market before 2020 is “screwed”.

Housing prices even in the markets hit hardest by 2008 recovered in ten years. You aren’t stuck living in your current home forever.

If you bought an investment property then relax, there’s no indicator that rents are going to decrease anytime soon.
There’s no email or anywhere to fill it in the first place during/after purchase, just a screen with the license code. An invoice or purchase confirmation mail would have been nice… I do hope there’s a way to retrieve the license for clumsy people like me. :)
In Sweden there is a rule that new loans must be amortized 1% per annum (2% if your principal is more than 60% of the value), so I guess that’s basically saying “pay it in 100 years”?

Edit: actually the rule is 1% if principal to value is above I think 40%, so not even that is true. We are basically not expected to pay it off entirely unless we want to.
5% is that bad when you’re combining it with doubled house prices over the last 2 years
I click "Disagree" by default, because why would you click agree by default?

If the site starts getting complicated due to my decision of clicking "Disagree", it signals to me the website doesn't really care about its users and is trying to make me go away. If I don't care much about the content, that's what I do.

Hopefully they're measuring their bounce rate, happy to vote with my feet in those cases.
I’ve recently started moving over to https://helix-editor.com after using neovim as my main editor for a few years, and despite being more like kakoune than vim (first comes selection, than the action), it’s been relatively intuitive and more pleasant to use in default configuration even than fully customized (neo)vim. I recommend anyone who has the time to try that editing model.
Because your ISP can block a "raw" DNS request, regardless of what server you configure. Your ISP can even inspect your DNS request, and choose to give a fake response or block the request based on the domain you are requesting.
Of course. The value of this (as in any RPG set in a universe based on an existing property) is that the rule book and supplements will provide lots of additional background for the universe that wasn't already defined. I remember playing the West End Games Star Wars RPG in the 1990s before the prequels and I loved how the books expanded upon that universe beyond the original three movies.
Would it surprise you to hear that in Canada, we accept a very broad range of ID (a bank statement and a lease agreement for an apartment would do)? And even if you don't have any of that, you can still vote if another registered voter vouches for you?

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&do...

You can also register on election night. I did this a couple years ago when there was a provincial election shortly after we moved.

And yet we don't have widespread electoral fraud.
Standard social media virtue signaling
I have shellfish on my ipad and it’s pretty good. I also hav Textastic and Working Copy and with that you can do fixes if you need to.
What do you do if your VPN goes down and you need access to your server to debug it? Is physical access required or do you have other contingency plans?
> Honestly, when I first heard how US handles voting I couldn't believe how open to abuse it is. In a way, I'm surprised that election integrity hasn't been questioned sooner.

I'm surprised why voter ID has become such a partisan issue, specifically how intense the Democratic opposition to it has been. It's a sensible policy and it seems the concerns about "[X] not having ID" should be addressed by solving the problems preventing [X] from getting an ID. I mean it shouldn't be too hard: setup some government agency to help people with the bureaucratic labor around confirming identity and send people akin to census takers around to onboard people into the ID-getting process.
Many employees are frustrated by their leaders and this is negatively affecting their enjoyment on the job.

That is a yes then, brief and to the point - not what I normally expect from HR
That no matter what, you probably need more than 640K of RAM.
That this one guy was WRONG
Don't agree with this, it took a few weeks of physics classes to get used to using greek letters as variables, and without them you'd drown in re-used letters.
Particle Swarm Optimization is a simple 2 function algorithm that is fun to play with and watch.

You can do it in an excel spreadsheet with one particle and watch it solve it - spooky effective.
Shadowrun's system is awful, in my opinion.

If I had to try and play Bladerunner without using this particular system, I think I'd go for Shadow of the Beanstalk first.
They're saying it isn't one of the best acquisitions. Turns out it was for FB
I'm still not convinced it isn't partially related to the word "base" as in "bad" or "cool" which has been used for a pretty long time.
@nabla9: just curious, how did you find this and remembered?
Uh, well.. I do. Do I need to show you my project files to prove it?
https://www.marekdlugos.com/
There's a lot to improve there but I'd be curious to see what other people think. The goal was to give a good overview of who I am. The part with "what I do" is something I want to improve for sure.
>I get not doing mail-in-voting but what's wrong with early voting? I remember there was a huge line in front of the french embassy here last elections because there's no exception to that rule for expats.

I assume that their "proxy" system addresses this problem sufficiently for internal voters. Also, the actual voting process is far more streamlined:

https://www.pret-a-voyager.com/2017/05/french-lessons-voting...

so the throughput at polling places is much better. The central mechanism of voter suppression in the United States is lines (ok, also felony disenfranchisement), and every reform the Democrats propose is trying to end-run that system so that the lines won't matter.
Even if you're wrong, I think it's a fun exercise from an anthropological perspective about what people thought and predicted based on the evidence available at the time.

Big fan of https://longbets.org/ as well for similar reasons.
Isn't this standard in most of the world? Well some countries add mail-in voting, but that's about it, almost no countries use machines like US.
it’s cute how people predict the housing market going down / crashing every time something happens.

I don’t think a crash will happen (maybe it’s going down, maybe not, but definitely not a crash) and I believe we are moving in a direction where less and less people will own the home they are living in. It’s sad really but this is what late stage capitalism looks like.

As for people that want to buy a home? buy one if you can afford it. don’t try to time the market, don’t worry about crashes and bad deals. Just do it. In 10 years what happens right now will not matter.
Because it's like signing a contract without reading it's contents.

I usually zap them with uBlock Origin or leave the website if I can't do that.
Most people want ipv6? What % of people even know what ipv6 is?
Speaking from a developer-manager & developer-experience point of view, using Wwise was awful for us -- it remains one of the worst decisions we made on our debut game release. I'm sure it's great for larger studios/shops or for AAA budget titles, but it was a nightmare for our small team.

Stuff like rare crashes on certain semi-obscure hardware, where the crash dumps clearly indicated issues deep within the Wwise (native code) stack, were extremely difficult (or impossible) to debug. Wwise provides zero support for their base licensing fee, you have to pay for service on top of licensing to get any support at all.

Their Unity "SDK" / user-land code was awful, too, and basically had to be 80% rewritten to be usable at the most moderate level of scale. That's more of a gripe, working with their native side more directly wasn't that bad -- and they've perhaps improved their default C#/user-land code since then.

Another grip is that WWISE devs/designers/engineers are expensive, and making any change requires firing up their application.

Overall, the entire experience was poor, especially since we paid for the privilege. My advice would be that you can't seriously consider WWISE for your project unless you have an audio engineer on staff and intend to keep them on staff for the duration of your project (plus a year or two for support).

TLDR: IMO Wwise may be a solid product, but only for projects with a minimum budget of approximately 7 figures.
GNU Octave 7.1.0 Released
The problem here is that when a corporation like 3M sets up a chemical production system, they want to control costs, and dealing with the pollution stream is a cost they don't want to absorb. Now, ideally they'd run a 'green' process which in practice really means a zero-waste process. If you're producing one molecule of toxic waste for every molecule of desirable product, that's not a green process. Sometimes that's unavoidable with current technology, however.

The thing is, there's always a solution available to the waste problem that doesn't involve dumping the gunk into the water, air and soil. Those solutions are typically expensive, i.e. you have to build a whole backend processing plant to deal with the waste. I'd guess high-intensity UV can be used to break strong C-F bonds, for example.

The article states 3M (an ex-employer of mine incidentally, though in a completely unrelated area) will now do this:

> "We have also put in place new controls in Zwijndrecht, including technology to control air emissions, and capture, dispose, and treat PFAS in water. These investments, along with appropriate collaboration with the relevant authorities, help us bring idled processes back online enabling European production of essential products for our customers around the world."

What's ridiculous is that flourinated hydrocarbon waste has been a known serious pollution issue for decades, and yet chemical manufacturers have been allowed to keep dumping without being forced to build such back-end processing plants to deal with it.
In our example here the argument `pfds` to the addition operator in the expression `pfds + p` is (presumably) a perfectly valid pointer. And `p` is a perfectly valid `int`. So there are no invalid pointers passed as arguments to the addition operation. You might think the result of the addition expression is an invalid pointer, but the result is simply undefined behaviour.

Typically an invalid pointer is created by deallocating some memory, which transforms previously valid pointers to the memory into invalid pointers without the pointer values themselves changing their value.