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What do you mean by fraud?

By voters? Every investigation of postal ballots have shown it to be very rare. Most problems are simple mistakes.

By administrators? Postal balloting is neither more or less prone to cheating than the other electronic voting and tabulation systems. Meaning terrible.

Typically, the vulnerable parts are voter registration (eg caging, purges), signature verification, ballot scanning ahead of election day, and adjudication.

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I opposed my state and county switching to all postal balloting.

My #1 concern was that it'd disenfranchise more people (eg USPS loses/misdelivers ~1% of all ballots, some ~40k voters have their signatures challenged every election), resulting in reduced turnout and long-term participation.

On this I was proven wrong. Turnout increased.

Another concern is that postal balloting enables ballot chasing. Which increases the cost of campaigning as well as leads to voter fatigue and alienation.

This appears to be true.

But as long as turnout remains higher, the tradeoff seems worthwhile.
Simple: when you use the default search in a browser, you immediately see who is providing search results. If you have a problem with Google, for instance, you see that it's Google and you go and change it.

Mozilla decided to turn on DoH by default, without asking, without prompting, without any indication whatsoever. Even if you configure a canary domain, that doesn't disable the DoH preference - it just temporarily turns it off.

Organizations making unilateral decisions about sharing my private information with an untrusted, for-profit company that has a history of abuse and social irresponsibility is a very bad thing, not a good one.
All that’s true, but affordability is affordability.

If someone can just afford a $800,000 mortgage payment at 2% they won’t be able to afford $800,000 at 6%.
Congrats on launching - hope things work out for you guys!
The big dig is actually a pretty phenomenal example of what we're talking about. It was a dumb project that was extremely expensive, incapable of fixing the problems it was supposed to fix, highly disruptive to locals, and it still got built.

Meanwhile complaints from a tiny number of affected people completely scuppered the high speed rail planned between Los Angeles and San Francisco before any track got laid.

Governments pull out the stops to complete car-centric infrastructure even over the loud complaints of the populace, but flinch the moment there is any push back against any public transit. Heck, trading on street parking for a bike lane is often a herculean effort.

Oh, and there's this little gem about the Big Dig "As of 2021, promised projects to extend the Green Line beyond Lechmere, to connect the Red and Blue subway lines, and to restore the Green Line streetcar service to the Arborway in Jamaica Plain have not been completed. Construction of the extension beyond Lechmere has begun.[20] The Red and Blue subway line connection underwent initial design,[21] but no funding has been designated for the project. The Arborway Line restoration has been abandoned, following a final court decision in 2011.[22]".

So once again, governments promised the moon about public transit and then did a rug pull once the highways were done. They in fact used this as an opportunity to destroy existing streetcar service. Exactly what we've been talking about.

> Or the new Kosciuszko Bridge?

Completed in 3 years. Again, we are really capable of building stuff, so long as that stuff supports cars.
Sometimes two circles get stacked on top of each other and there's a blank space where one used to be. Is that a bug or part of the unwritten rules?
Ask HN: Doubious Remote Work Policy?
I'm in the last stage of an interview and they have handed me over an offer later where it states that I can work remotely but on certain occasions I will have to travel to the office. These occasions are: important company-wide announcements, team events, roadmap events. They cannot predict how often these events will happen, but they say it could be roughly once per quarter.

I have asked them many times about their remote work policy and they honestly say that they are not 100% sure how it will turn out in the future. Right now they are 100% remote, but they cannot assure me it will stay as such in the future. It may be that for people who live in a city where they have offices, then an hybrid model may be applied (I don't live in a city where they have an office).

I understand that they cannot guarantee me anything regarding the future if they actually don't know (many companies are still figuring this whole WFH situation out).

My gut feelings tell me: don't accept if 100% remote is not guaranteed... but somehow I think I'm being too pessimistic (the people I have interviewed with are normal and nice, no red flags. Also the project looks interesting). Any opinions?
Funny, I reported a bug to Mozilla about their NextDNS offering being mis-configured, and it leaked DNS queries. I turned it on by going to Preferences > General > Network Setting and then fired up Wireshark, and all the queries were sent in the clear, even with NextDNS set to 'Enabled'. They seem to have fixed it. Lesson here: sniff your network traffic and don't blindly trust that DoH is configured properly.
I’m quite sure Microsoft has enough applicants to filter such candidates and only go with experienced or competent web developers.
I often pull out developer tools and delete anything I find annoying on the website. If that does not work (because, lets say, authors used fancy way of disabling scrolling) then I open separate firefox session running in podman container with different fingerprint. I do this because I don't want to be tracked (though, of course, refusing to play the cookie game will not prevent anybody from fingerprinting my browser..)
> Like gnome's big shift circa 2014 to tablet first interfaces.

It took a long time to work itself out, but today Linux+GNOME is the only mainstream system that's usable for real productive work on a pure tablet or palmtop device. Far more so in fact than even Apple's iPad. And it got done without having to write and test separate apps, everything has a responsive interface that works throughout the range, from a small handheld to a big desktop screen. That's a remarkable feat.
This doesn’t account for all the people who can afford to pay in cash. That will shift the equilibrium.
If only the younger generations had more political power, there’d be no government intervention in the event of a crash. The older generations that bought houses and then pulled ladders up in order to politically engineer constant wealth growth should be left to deal with it on their own for once. The house of cards is going to completely collapse eventually, so the sooner the better.
> As a user ... I really don't care what they use, the app runs well or it doesn't and I don't care why.

Well, Facebook almost lost the game completely because they were using a hybrid app.. Users cannot articulate why something si ruining performance (maybe not their app, because it simply has a higher priority set..)
Although Blade Runner is often called cyberpunk, it isn't really. There's basically no computers whatsoever (unless you want to call Deckard's photo editing tool a computer) and no cyberspace. I think the only connections with cyberpunk is that Blade Runner's setting is gritty and it's implied that Asia has taken over from the US/Europe as the primary culture.
So simple yet so complex
Kinda sad that the internet never seems to remember the guys who make insightful, prescient comments, but boy do they remember the comically incorrect predictions. Random music fan who thought the "new" iPod looked lame compared to his Creative Zen? Lives forever in infamy. HN SysAdmin who thought DropBox was silly because he can write his own backup scripts in Bash with rsync? That guy will be the face of "Linux Users Who Don't Understand The Average Consumer" for decades to come.
AMD's Future CPUs Could Feature a 3D-Stacked ML Accelerator
If this helps stops high earners from buying second or third homes, as seems common in the sections of the software engineer community in my area, I am all for it.
I've never seen it used as "cool", it's much more commonly used as synonym for "conservative" or "unique going own way despite popular opinion".

EDIT: Other poster explained it maybe better as "being yourself and not caring what others think of you".
New insights into fermentation enzyme will lower industry's carbon footprint
I think Electron won out because Microsoft kept pulling the rug out from under Windows developers as they went from Win32, to Windows.Forms, to WPF, to UWP, to WinUI 3. Why take the risk on the most modern Windows framework when you could just go Electron, have a broader pool of developers, and get Mac & Linux support as well?
Are you doing anything with the back button behavior I’m not able to return to the previous site on mobile safari. It’s quite frustrating.

Other than that it seems nice and responsive. The popups for level complete are immersion breaking, perhaps a little more subtlety there.
Not and still hit what is right behind what they have steered around.
> Haven’t figured out PC audio to my receiver though. I’ve basically given up.

While most motherboards do not have s/pdif connectors, most of them has pins on the board itself. Check out the manual of your mobo. If it has, you can use an s/pdif backplate, or a makeshift coax cable to hook it up to the receiver.

This is usually the best and cheapest way to get clear digital sound signal out of the PC case, and you can even pass through DTS and the likes.
Seems like proper solution would be to just issue IDs to people, maybe do it like in Czechia and dispense them against other proof of eligibility, like birth certificate, with an administrative charge for the paperwork.

From where I sit it's a win. Administrative work will be easier, all cases of fraud will be harder, and arguments of nutjobs weakened. Not to mention the fact that people would trust the election process more, with all the added benefits.

Really, voter IDs seem like a stupid hill to die on. Especially if you are already dealing with low trust in political system and cultural divides.
Mapillary had object verification tasks for benches in the past, but I'm not sure they're part of their public dataset.
Yup. That's the vibe of facebook. Profit makes the hype believable to the point people can no longer distinguish hype from the concrete positives.

There's also the salty ones who, in private, will admit they loathe the company but aren't against working for it anyway.

Dunno what else to tell you. Try to keep your head on straight because the valley conformity game just got turned up to 11.
I gave you an upvote for local info. But here in Toronto, we elected Rob Ford who canceled every transit project in flight, and anyone who wants to tear down a rotting house to put up a four-flex faces a 10 year fight.
You’re confusing some basic points. An addictive -substance- does need to be a substance, yes. But video games also come “in through your senses”.

I do not need an appeal to “the literature” without a cogent argument to begin with. Video game addiction (and other forms of non-substance addictions) are real.
> but what's wrong with early voting?

In France and most European countries, the electoral campaign is highly regulated and designed in principle so that citizens can make a rational decision, and no candidate can unduly influence the vote.

All (major, which is based on the latest parliamentary election) candidates must by law be given equal air time, election funds are limited and checked by the state, the campaign must start at a particular date and end the day before the vote, etc.

Early voting flies in the face of most of this: maybe on day X of the campaign some candidate makes a claim that convinces people to cast their votes then and there. On day X+2, some other candidate claims that the first one was lying. Now, even people who are convinced by the second candidate are unlikely to go and rectify their votes (if this is even allowed). So, early voting favors emotional campaigns and dirty tricks over a reasoned decision.

Of course, this is all in theory - but measuring the results in practice is probably much more difficult.
I was thinking Lyft, but that makes more sense.
Mass mail in voting is a disaster, and people in the US now largely support it because of politics, not because it improves the integrity of elections.
In reality X (who are actually citizens, part of the issue with statistics is that people have been playing games with the border and 1/10 X are not from here now which actually does disproportionately affect X but no one wants to talk about it since it's not popular (or part of the common PR.)) tends to have an ID and the suggestion that it's difficult for them is a little condescending.
> "standard deviation" has a special meaning for Gaussian distributions,

I have a master's degree in statistics and this is the first I'm hearing about it.

> Our detector is 99%+-3% efficient. Obviously a detector can't be 102% efficient.

In the absence of any other context I'd guess that they're using an approximation to a confidence interval that might be perfectly fine if the estimated value was nearer the center of the allowable range.
How do ±6.4 and ±6.9 combine to ±9.4 and not ±13.3 ?
I think its origin is being high on crack cocaine (freebase) and feeling good as a result
The companies can also try to do creative things through bankruptcy courts to avoid any negative consequences, like Johnson & Johnson is doing right now:

> J&J, which also makes products such as Tylenol and Band-Aid, assigned legal liability for the complaints to the spinoff company, which immediately filed for bankruptcy — a maneuver dubbed the "Texas two-step."

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083061992/johnson-johnson-wi...
That might even be ideal insofar as the chipset is driver compatible with equivalent from the time. Via wasn't anything special but they were super common and thus decently supported IIRC.
I use Brave in incognito modus and accept all your stinking cookies which will last for exactly the duration of my current browser session.

My "serious" browser I use only for these "10" sites where I need state (authentication or preferences).
The traffic already flows through their browser. If they wanted to filter content, they could do it now at render time. There’s nothing stopping a browser from doing content analysis before it chooses to display it to you. The fact that they haven’t, is a pretty good sign.
The issue is the doubling of housing prices though, not the interest rates. Historical evidence suggests that 5% is more than low enough to fuel a house-building boom.

Plus, if you buy into the idea that interest rates dictate housing prices, then 5% rates should lower housing prices. I personally don't see this happening in our specific climate, but there's ample evidence that the two are negatively correlated.
How does one deal with ground water pollution when just leaving trash in the ground? It must be much easier to clean pollutants like heavy metals from gases , than it is to clean whatever the rain dissolves out from under a landfill? Being Swedish, the idea of leaving trash in a hole at all feels strange. But then I'm assuming incineration is reasonably "clean" in the sense that pollutants can be filtered.
Why aren't you ready to go somewhere without fire ants, mosquitoes, mosquito spraying, love bugs, huge roaches, spiders the size of you hands, near constant heat and humidity, consist afternoon rain which makes the heat and humidity so much worse, hurricanes, sink holes, and whatever else I forgot?
People forget that for a VAST majority of computer users, they may have never seen a GUI, or barely used a Mac for awhile. Many people went from DOS -> Windows 95 without stopping at Windows 3.1.
If you are risk averse -- that is, you want to remain risk averse -- you cannot do it

If you want to fight the good fight and are open to walking away from the job at any moment in the future, then take it
Maybe you could find the Google Hashcode problems to be interesting for a weekend project
> Owner-operators do, but they also get to set their own rates, so they’re in control

Sometimes. 1099 mislabeling is rampant in trucking, as is locking "owner operators" to a single company via owing outrageous sums for training (that get forgiven over 2-3 years) or from leasing the trucks directly from their sole customer.

At the very least, a company seeking shipping services almost certainly goes through a dispatching company, not directly to an owner-operator. So there's not really negotiating there. Sure, maybe you can refuse routes, but maybe you stop getting asked to perform them.

John Oliver just put out a piece on the abuse of 1099s in the trucking industry this past Sunday. You should check it out. I'm not saying you should take what he says as the gospel truth, but it's a more reliable source than nothing.
Yeah that’s half the reason I went with Sony over LG, Sony still pays for a DTS license. My favorite part of this whole thing is how Atmos can be either Dolby Digital Plus with metadata, Dolby TrueHD with metadata, or Dolby MAT, which is just a PCM stream with metadata. The latter being what Xbox and Apple TV use.

Also yes, from what I’ve read trying to get PC audio into an AVR in any sort of predictable fashion will drive you to an asylum.
More info about the mentioned research is available from the Babraham Institute at Cambridge:

https://www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2022/04/new-technique-rewind...
For most professionals, landing a decent job offer is a multi-month process.
I concur. I am looking forward to hearing the response to the justification of the last two years that it was ok for prices to go up because interest rates had fallen and payments were the same. Seemed like bullshit to me then and now with rates increasing I don’t think prices are going to collapse to “keep payments the same”.
This is really irrelevant and not helpful to the discussion. You are also ignoring the fact that there are totally possible natural sources for a virus like this while there are no possible natural sources of PFAS chemicals.
Probably do the same thing that the Linux Kernel did when it wanted to move to a newer version of C.[0] Make the change, see what breaks.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/885941/
Honest question do you need a home right now? I too have been looking and when interest rates jumped I decided I was going to sit on the sidelines for the next 1 to 2 years and just stack cash/invest in various markets.
The Canadian government knows what they're doing. They're more afraid of a crash than they want to rein in prices.
I'm starting to wish Apple would ban Electron apps on macOS. They'd all be so much better if I never had to look at them.
Both have the same loincloth design and short hair.
The SD card in the Raspberry has to be purchased + wears out pretty fast if you utilize it.

The VPS power bill is already paid with its price.
For the Raspberry you have to pay the power bill.

Here in Germany we now reach 40 Euro Cents/kWh.
5 Watts 24/7 are 17.52 Euro/Year
10 Watts 24/7 are 35.04 Euro/Year.
The Raspberry is somewhere between.

That is the reason why I replaced my Dell t30 Server with two Contabo VPS servers.
I also don't have to worry about my ISP screwing up my connection.
How many businesses are open in France on Sundays? Wikipedia tells me "large super markets" can open for up to six hours. Does that mean that in practice all small businesses and other stores, like huge book stores are closed?

I know in Germany voting also happens on Sunday and everything but restaurants and gas stations used to be closed on Sundays.
Many high-end laptops these days have touch screens that can be flipped over to use them as tablets. That's exactly the kind of use GNOME 3 was developed for.
Reading through this, I imagined writing a comedic novel romance where the protagonist ends up at a sex party with tech tycoon Jack Buckerzerg, ends up having something forgettable, but then can't forget it because of the deluge of connect us requests from his multi billion dollar social app FriendHook, it's sort of a cross between You've Got Mail, Russian Doll, and hopefully at the end, a slasher film.

None of the people discussed in this post are based on actual people - whether living or horribly lifelike simulacra.
> Are non citizens allowed to vote in state and federal elections?

No. I kinda lost sight of the context.

Also, IIRC, passports are one of the harder and more expensive forms of ID to get.
> “Our recent report found high levels of persistent organic pollutants like dioxins or furans around waste incinerators in three countries.”

Three incinerators out of...? And why a potential violation of EU regulation would mean that incineration as a hole is bad?

There are plenty of incredibly clean incinerators, with emissions of dioxins and furans so low that you need to accumulate them over multiple days to be able to even detect them sometimes. If you use that recovered energy for heating, you probably avoid emitting other pollutants (even dioxins and furans).

The alternative is landfill disposal of non-inert waste, which is way worse than any kind of incineration, and it is very hard and complex to manage properly. There are plenty of landfill disasters.
There's about one polling station for 1000 voters in France, hours are from 8am to 6 to 8pm depending on location and election. So 36-43 seconds per voter if everyone shows up, which never happens (highest is about 85%):

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstention_%C3%A9lectorale_en_...
You realize home ownership rates are near all time highs?
You can calculate the mean μ and the standard deviation σ of a dice roll. You get μ=3.5, σ=sqrt(105/36)~=1.707... . It's not very similar to a Gaussian, but sometimes these numbers are useful anyway.

It's more interesting if you calculate the distribution of the sum of rolling 100 dices. It's easy to calculate, becuase μ=100*3.5=35, σ=sqrt(100*105/36)~=17.07... But now the distribution is very similar to a Gaussian with μ=100*3.5=35 and σ=sqrt(100*105/36)~=17.07... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem They are not equal because the sum of the roll of 100 dices is bounded between 100 and 600 and the Gaussian is not bounded. For most applications, you can just use the Gaussian instead of the exact distribution.
States have property taxes. You can argue how they're implemented, every state is different, but to completely dismiss that they exist doesn't help. If your solution is to unfortunately destroy a large group of people than maybe you don't have the best solution.
They're not pulling the brakes hard enough, it's just still insanely stupid out there.

As it is now, I could sell my little hobby farm here in Ontario and buy several properties in Edmonton where my family is and real estate is still a bit depressed (cuz oil prices were low for so long). But I'm tied down here.
In many parts of the world it's no IPv6 on mobile, just CGNAT with probably thousands of customers sharing one ip.
If you ran something like Headscale, Netmaker, or Netbird (WG mesh network managers), then all your traffic is direct point to point and you don't need to care about the limits imposed by a VPS.
I don't believe that there's a problem with requiring a photo ID per se(other than paranoid people, who don't want government IDs at all).

The primary issue is that the photo IDs are not easily accessible(time and money) in US. So Voter ID laws, without provisions to make them more accessible, are suppressive towards people who don't have resources to spare on the IDs.
Based is the opposite of cringe, the usage started with 4chan and continues on /pol/ to this day.
Well sure, if you already have your own IPv4 address(es) - but not everyone has !

You forget about the opportunity cost that comes from our broken Internet where you cannot assume end-to-end network connectivity because you might have to deal with NAT and especially CGNAT ! (How many protocols end up overcomplicated (=expensive) and dead in the water because of that ?)