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> vote by mail which helps alleviate the latter while, as far as I can tell, not being significantly worse than voting in person for security.

How anyone could state this with any particular confidence is beyond me. The truth is, when someone votes by mail, you have no idea who filled in the ballot. How could anyone possibly collect metrics? No one can possibly say what's going on, unless you trust the populace at large, which not everyone does. Many countries have systems for dealing with this. In many countries, they ink your finger to indicate you voted. Why not just do that at physical polling stations.

Honestly, mail-in ballots are very difficult for me. They get mailed to you, and by the time I finally have a chance to sit down, I often have to go searching for where it went / whether my toddler put it somewhere. On the other hand, when I voted in person, I would just go to the polling booth in the morning and be done. Super easy. I don't understand the desire for pure vote by mail.

One year, I didn't even receive my ballot, and it was difficult to get a replacement. Whereas, when I lived in CA, it didn't matter. You show up to the polling station (which is conspicuously noted), and just vote.
How would it be "impossible" to vote more than once when the volunteers who are enforcing that have been paid off to allow it to happen? That's exactly what happened in this case.
The highest level of income inequality in the US is in the region around New York City. It's also quite high in the "blue" states of California and Massachusetts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
Not profitable is not the same thing as ponzi. Ponzi means you rely on the next greater fool to buy your bags. If uber stock were advertised in the same way crypo is then you would be right

Although it is telling that the best cryptos are compared with failing and unprofitable companies
Indeed, not a lot of gold gets traded, compared to what is mined. People joke that the metal is dug out of the ground just to be buried back (in vaults).
Cloud development machines are great—-secure, consistent, etc.—-right up until you have a cloud outage and your entire team’s productivity goes to zero. That’s “zero productivity” as in an elementary school snow day.

Even when Github has gone down for hours, I’ve still managed to do code reviews with good old-fashioned `git format-patch` in chat.
> what advantage does it bring?

The advantage would be, that static typing is part of the language.
Don't you find it odd to use another language just for a missing language feature? For me it feels somewhat hacky and '// temp. solution!!! fix soon!'-worthy.
> Voter ID laws have different outcomes based on economic status. It’s especially difficult for poor people to exercise their rights.

Increasingly, Republicans are the party of the poor and Democrats the party of the rich. In the 2020 election, "the wealthiest parts of the country overwhelmingly voted for Biden and the poorest overwhelmingly for Trump". [0] In 2016, "the Republican Party won almost twice the share of votes in the nation’s most destitute counties — home to the poorest 10 percent of Americans — than it won in the richest". [1]

If voter ID requirements are all about suppressing the vote of the poor, does this mean that Democrats will start supporting them and Republicans start opposing them, now that the vote of the poor skews increasingly more Republican than Democratic? Or, could it be, that very many poor Americans have no trouble getting ID, and even support voter ID requirements?

Increasingly, even many poor minority voters vote Republican. Trump made significant gains in the 2020 election in Hispanic majority counties of southern Texas – which are also among the poorest areas in the state. [2]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-2020-election-reveal...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/27/business/econ...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/28/republica...
How to optimise Julia code: A practical guide
Sounds shitty - when there are personal relationships/nepotism/etc going on and it is impacting what gets done, then that is a major red flag for so many reasons. This time it sounds like someone gets to do what they want with database in production, but there can be so much more going on that is simply unseen, but could be much more odious (running the gamut from covering-up/ignoring harassment, right through to fraud or other criminality).

Regardless, I'd probably argue that a company with only 2400 employees let alone engineers is not what most people would consider "BigCo". In my mind, BigCo are thousands/tens-of-thousands of engineers - think FAANG, major Investment Banks, major technology companies (e.g. the IBMs, Microsofts, or Samsungs of the world). The sort of places that people (rightly or wrongly) aspire to work at, or at least have some common mind-share amongst the average person on the street.
Yeah, probably not worth wasting your time. Most code, outside of larger orgs with tons of documentation and structure, is worthless without the people who can operate and understand it.
Come to the Netherlands and see how it’s done. It was a car dominated culture till the 60s when they did the “stop murdering our children” campaign. Then, cities reorganized to minimize car use. I love not owning a car. So freeing.
It’s fraud also if it’s a forgery, even if the game worked. It was represented as an original when it was sold, not a high quality modern copy.
I didn't understand the tracing part. Is tracing 100% inside of polaris? If not does it start at the database? The first cache?

Does the invalidation need to be predictable before you can use tracing? What kind of parameters do you have so you don't have too much logging or too little?
not only is it entirely fair to ask how they work in practice, but we must do so. Do all children have equal access? maybe is your answer. The solution to get more access isn't to eliminate it. Its to educate parents in groups who "should" be in it but aren't.
It helps that TAO is a write through cache so clients can't really forget to invalidate, correct? If someone were to directly write to MySQL shards there would be stale data ~indefinitely.

I'm assuming the versioning is what ensures proper write, invalidation, and fetch ordering so that e.g. slow mysql writes/replication don't cause remote TAO clusters to receive an invalidation message and then read a stale value from a replica?
I have literally never seen or heard of a Lightning plug or port "getting bent or broken". However I have heard of the hidden-male-inside-of-female port of on-device USB-C ports breaking at which point your device is trash.
The first step to processing mail ballots is checking that the signature matches the voter's known signature (usually submitted at the time of voter registration). Are you proposing a conspiracy where crooks are somehow forging hundreds (if not thousands) of signatures? And there's no paper trail of communications or money changing hands to coordinate it all?
We ran fine on Linux until recently. We still do under Valve's emulation layer but there's no working native OpenXR runtime I seem to recall.

C# isn't the problem. Unity takes care of that.
For Houdini, you listed the price for the version used by major VFX studios.

Houdini Indie (with no feature limitations) is only $269 per year, and you can also learn Houdini for free too with Houdini Apprentice (again: no feature limitations).

Independent VFX artists earn well under the $100K/year revenue ceiling for Houdini Indie, so $269/year is their actual "cost."
Do you think there should policy one way or another? It was policy that got them their visa workers in the first place, and that supposedly to fill jobs they could not with stock workforce. If there are layoffs, there are local workers.
Maybe the spec should be more “trivial”. I like USB C over something like micro usb but micro usb is easy enough to use as a power source in my high school electronics class but i don’t think usb c would be.

Maybe apple had it right originally to have “thunderbolt” as a super powerful all-in-one cable (except add power) and we needed a simple “reversible micro usb” for everything else.
If a site needs to know my real information to provide its services. E.g. a sales site will need my address to ship things to me.
What's wrong with Google? I'm sure the origin (googolplex) is lost on most people, but it seems like a decent brand name to me. On top of which, consider if Yahoo! had won the search market, i don't think their brand would've become a universal verb.

Granted, I don't believe it was an explicit choice to have a "verbale" brand-name.

But you (and many others in this thread) are right that names often don't matter that much. A better product will normally win regardless of the name, and once it does it's name will become "normalized". Duckduckgo might be such an example.. terrible name (IMO), yet respected by many as a Google-alternative.

Your product likely won't fail because of a bad name, but it doesn't hurt to have a good one.
I don't think it's too much for him. He just finds it distasteful. I have such feeling for some technologies, like Oracle. It's not that they are super hard. I just don't want to touch it with 10ft pole.
IMHO, the "turbofish" syntax (popularized by Rust) is ugly and should not be used. The reasoning of syntax ambiguity is also a lame one because C# manages just fine without it. But to then say that:

> The above syntax is already valid JavaScript that users may rely on, so we cannot use this syntax as-is.

What users would be using said syntax? Why would one compare a function to a type? If we're making a backwards incompatible change, just say that `func < type` is a syntax error unless immediately followed by the rest of a call. IMO, in any spec committee, if a naysayer says that "someone may be using that syntax", they should be required to prove it. Prove that someone is comparing a function to be less than a type, and why they'd do such a thing.

Honestly, I don't see how this can be done in a backwards compatible way short of type annotations in comments. Just rip the bandaid off and have WHATWG say that TypeScript is a valid runtime and allow `<script src="..." type="typescript">`. Deno manages to have a TypeScript runtime just fine.
Also yes, in the case of collecting, the point is "acquire bragging rights about an old object just because it's an original copy"

If you wanted to just play it you'd just play it in an emulator.

I will point out that the history of video games is not that old in itself, meaning a several decade old game is falling into the "one of the first games made" vintage tier.
I think article is arguing that localhost still has cost when onboarding and maintenance cost that is not really that visible because maintenance happen while devs are doing other task - but usually it is included in some task to setup some config.

So I would agree localhost can be basically free, only that company has to keep developers in-house and not burn through 10 juniors each quarter.

If company wants to burn through people like Amazon in warehouses then having cloud dev-env is way to go.
> It's just not the same.

To you.
So bad such laws. It is good to promote equality and woman in boards and all, but here it is a prime to mediocrity. You will not get a board seat because you are the more competent but because you are a:
- woman
- hispanic
- a pinguin
- ...
> In reality it's more likely that the average Republican voter skews both lower income and rural which is the true causation of deaths.

The author's based their analysis on data; is there data for your claim? There is plenty of poverty in cities.

EDIT: Quoting another commenter who quoted the OP: "[r]egardless of whether we looked at urban or rural areas, people living in areas with Republican political preferences were more likely to die prematurely than those in areas with Democratic political preferences"
My guess based in my experience would a MUMPS developer for someone like Epic or Meditech. That code gives me nightmares whenever I see it.
Apple Leaks Surprise Upgrades in New iPhone Release
Oregon state?

Surely you mean the 3 square miles of Portland
It would be an EU directive, which means that member states will have to write new laws that accomplish this.

However don't get the wrong idea that this was just decided by someone in Brussels and it's a directive now. This is just a draft for a potential directive. This has not been approved by the European Parliament or the European Council. [1] Long way to go still.

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[1] "Once Parliament and Council have formally approved the agreement" https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/et/press-room/20220603IP...
I would be fine with that, as long as I get the nicest home of all.
I think those are primarily American cultural archetypes.
Under the authority of the EU parliament (assuming that this draft legislation eventually gets a majority there), given to it by the member states through the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

By the way, the directive's wording is actually gender-neutral, talking about an "under-represented sex". If a company has a board dominated by women, it becomes a quota for men.
This is great. Let the free market regulate parking.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069308
Oh thank the gods
Math, chess, and music seem to be domains in which child prodigies are not infrequently found.
Well no, unfortunately. Gerrymandering remains a massive problem that tips the scales in favor of more rural areas even as their population dwindles, leaving more power in the hands of fewer individuals. And often the people that suffer the most are the ones with the least opportunity.
The main mistake you made was not realizing artificial complexity exists, that it is not natural, and that it is a form of control, possibly the most important. Evidence A: C++.
It's okay if you follow enough people. I realized I follow like 6 people so it was disappointing.
Le toit! Le toit est en feuuuuu!
Got rid of it - did you sell it, donate it, throw it away?
I love this story. For me, it shows that software engineering can be done at any age and, most importantly, engineering passion really matters and this passion can override any constraints put on the person.
The fact that all of these are in pristine condition should have been a black flag earlier. The whole commercial grading system is a joke but if only a handful of copies exist at all then it's extremely surprising that all of them are mint or near mint in condition after more than 30 years.
If there are layoffs happening, that means there are workers available for jobs that are going to Visa holders. That does not make any sense to me.
Ask HN: Who where lived through the beginning of the personal computer era?
Whatever you understand by „the beginning“ of that era (didn‘t know a better way to phrase it).

I‘d love to hear any anecdotes, facts or cool memories. No matter if you were „in“ it or just observing (as a tech interested person)…

I just love hearing and reading stories like that & thought here would be a great place to ask.
I said basically the same in a sibling comment but I can't agree with you. VS Code doesn't start fast enough and it's not smooth to write with. It's not exactly bad but you definitely feel the slight delays and slowness all the time.

I went back to Sublime exactly to get faster startup and smoother writing than what VS Code was offering. So I'm pretty excited to see how Zed turns out!
This is negentropy (not my fav. word, but it is the term used). Indeed it's the signature of life, although I think there would be a threshold that all living creatures meet, but non-living systems do not. In other words life produces lots of negentropy, probably exponentially, unlike other systems like celestial bodies.
We almost had it with JavaScript 2/ECMAScript 4, but Microsoft and Google killed it. One because they didn’t want to update their JS engine and the other had just released v8. Adobe implemented it as ActionScript 3 and Firefox had most of it done too. Everything since then has been about incrementally add similar features into the existing code base without fixing the foundation.
> regurgitating Tucker Carlson and “just asking the questions” in bad faith

In my experience, non-conservatives tend to believe conservatives are 'regurgitating' Tucker Carlson. Most of Carlson's audience are actually democrats. Polls show that most conservatives distrust fox news. And the whole 'bad faith' thing is a way to dismiss people. You shouldn't every think that what people are telling you is in bad faith. If you think that what someone is telling you is so preposterous as to not possibly be in good faith, perhaps you need to recalibrate as to what is normal.

> And it just so happens that turnout is negatively correlated with republican election victories.

This is increasingly not true. The democrats have kind of maxed out on their voter turnout. It turns out that they mainly have voter turnout efforts for people who will vote democrat. They've ignored the non-democrats (not their fault of course), and these are the bulk of the people who don't vote. Several South Texas districts for example have seen higher turnout amongst formerly non-voting Hispanics, and most of these are new GOP voters.
>Multiple pieces of analysis

Cough them up, then.
I think the author misunderstands what entropy is. It's not a measure of complexity. If anything is the opposite.
While I don't know about the plugin ecosystem of Vim/Emacs, I definitely agree with the learning curve part.

In Emacs/Vim I can't even escape the program if I don't know a keyboard shortcut.

In Vscode even if I forgot Cmd+W/Q I can simply click the close button. Not to mention that all the shortcuts are just globally used shortcuts in all the other software.

While I respect praising by the community of Vim/Emacs, I really don't think it's beginner-friendly.

So anyone starting a software career virtually picks Vscode, gets used to it, and almost has no reason to switch to something else for now unless they need something extremely specific.
Depending what you want to do you do you might find it faster to prototype with the Python bindings: https://coremltools.readme.io/docs/model-prediction
Can you name a single state with voter id laws on the books that does not offer a free form of ID suitable to vote? Reminder: a _drivers license_ and state-issued ID are _not_ one and the same.
Is it redness of the state that makes people obese, or does obesity cause redness? Both are valid hypotheses we need to consider.
It's likely another example of pet peeve #208 https://xkcd.com/1138/
30 seconds seems awefully long indeed and it's probably not on a modern / 2022 computer, but RichText clipboard data in windows does a lot of processing to render in a way that fit context, eg copy a few excel row, paste them in whatsapp webapp and you have a picture, not text.

As a tech user, you quickly learn to fall in love with "paste as raw text", which skips all that and just give you text data.
Medicaid was expanded to cover those with low incomes in some states, not Medicare.
It would be great to be able to have access to types at runtime in order to change behavior based on types. That would make TypeScript so much more useful but it does require javascript support.
The voter list should contain canaries and honeypots. Known dead people or fake people, and if they vote then fraud has been detected.
now you can buy an In-&-Out burger + fries from the east coast for $100
> it should also be enforced by the language.

yes maybe with a 'use typestrict' directive or something.
He's in willful denial about the underlying causes of his recall. The currently highly motivated voter base in SF doesn't care about criminal justice reform. They want the DA to charge real criminals and see them prosecuted, and do so aggressively, so that criminals start to think twice.
Automata-Based Programming
If something political was in the title it would be flagged off of HN pretty quickly. This is a justice.gov article which are frequently posted to HN and election security is a common topic here, so it's pretty safe.
Getting rid of parking doesn't magically also get rid of the need for a car. And no, having public transit within half a mile does not replace a car.

All that's going to happen in these places is they'll make people miserable as they drive in circles looking for a parking place, or they'll park several streets over, making those neighbors annoyed they can't find a place, then they introduce residential parking permits, to make sure only the right people park.

Eventually home prices and types adjust so that only low income people who can't afford a car park there, or the opposite happens: they knock down a house or two, turn it into a parking lot and rent those spots out, increasing the cost for anyone who wants to live there.

I've lived in a place like that - not having a car was not an option, but it was all apartment buildings with no parking. They gave us a paper with the names of several local places with lots where we could rent a parking spot, which is what we did.

We moved away as soon as we could - who wants to live in a place like that?
And reduces livability, I have a friend who lives 10 minutes away by car, an hour away by bus, and despite living in a nice neighborhood, people keep getting stabbed, shot, or mugged at or near the busy bus station nearby.

Last time she came to visit, somebody got stabbed at the bus station an hour after she passed through. Someone got murdered on a bus within a few blocks of me two months ago.

I'm living in a very walkable neighborhood with only a moderate parking availability problem and similar groups of people are encouraging the police to do nothing while encouraging density nonsense through restricting parking.

If you want to create dense slums where the only people who don't leave are those who can't afford to, this is exactly what you should advocate.

I don't want to live somewhere where I have to worry about a guest's safety, cars achieve that to a significant degree. Fuck everybody who wants to ruin cities by cramming people in as close as possible.
> "Why can't we just admit it and quit trying to make people who are unique the same?"

Because we are dealing with a group which is motivated by ideology. It's a religion to them. Some of them have doubled down on woke-speak around "equity" for so long, that they cannot backtrack and accept that merit and performance exist. Doing this would put them at odds with their current in-group and likely their only source of meaning and "friendship" with anyone.

It's the same crowd of people who just lost their very progressive DA in San Francisco during last night's recall election outcome. They keep doubling down on their policing strategy (see: no policing strategy) and being soft on crime and consequently crime has increased significantly. The same group of people that plugs their ears to reason and reality on why policing is necessary are the same group of people that are always trying to drag everyone down to their same floor level.
It looks like an intentional cherry pick of this to avoid the fact it doesn't say what they suggest:

>What is perhaps most telling in our study is that while both Black and Hispanic Americans experienced largely similar gains in health regardless of what political environment they lived in, with Black residents of Democratic areas experiencing the greatest reduction in deaths rates of any major racial-ethnic group, the sharpest divide is seen among white Americans. In fact, the fourfold growth in the gap in death rates between white residents of Democratic and Republican areas seems to be driving most of the overall expanding chasm between Democratic and Republican areas.
Some are, here's the Win 1.0 and 2.0 SDK documentation:

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/windows-history/windows-library...
That's certainly a nice way to track people