skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> paper votes can be re-counted as often as needed

That's not exactly what happened in Florida 24 years ago.

In principle I don't really disagree, but just saying the problems run rather deeper than just hand-counting vs. electronic voting. The one time a recount actually would have been useful it was stopped for highly legalistic reasons that are hard to explain to a normal person. Not only that, it's highly likely – perhaps even probable – that Gore won Florida, although we'll never know for sure.

I see no reason it would play out any different today. We all saw what happened during the last election.

Not only that, with the full-on cult of Trump and the perceived victimhood of his supporters, I'm not really sure to what degree hand counts can always be trusted. Given the very small margins in some states, even a very small error rate (malicious or otherwise) can really matter. Perhaps this is paranoid, but I fully expect Trumpdroids to try to cheat. Any idiot can cheat a handcount "by accident" (prove it otherwise), but actually tampering with voting machines is operationally much more complex, and not something any ol' yahoo can easily pull off (need not just technical knowledge, but also physical access).

tl;dr: it's all pretty fucked no matter what.
Well at this rate the dishes will be done sometime next week.
I don’t think it’s fixable. Excel enables chaotic “development” and it just happens. In the end we either left them with a system they ordered or bailed out cause it wasn’t worth it.

Edit: to clear misunderstandings, I didn’t fix their spreadsheets. I extracted knowledge and processes from there and from users and built a new system after discussing how it all and their ideas check together.
> (i.e. also back through the ground wire) are unequal.

You mean neutral or return wire. No current should be normally passing through the ground wire. In fact in the US at least, GFCIs can be used on grandfathered ungrounded outlets. When you buy GFCI outlets they come with little stickers: “No Equipment Ground” to affix on the outlet in that case.
Make :) echo "$(x) plus $(y) equals $(shell echo "$x+$y" | bc)"

I'm guessing this is the reason for the :) but to be clear for anyone else: Make is only doing half of the work, whatever comes after "shell" is being passed to another executable, then make captures its stdout and interpolates that. The other executable is "sh" by default but can be changed to whatever.
ABS are usually ASIL D rated (ISO 26262) which means they have an on board watchdog, redundant processor with voting system, etc. so this failure mode (locked up and still sending) is considered impossible by design.
You don't simmer for twenty minutes. You simmer for ten and remove it from the heat for the remaining ten. The rice never burns because it is still quite wet when you remove it from the heat. Start with twice as much water as rice (by volume) and it comes out perfectly. I've been cooking rice like this for thirty years and it's always great.
And does an equivalent in React work? Because I don't believe React does any of the papering-over you describe. My understanding (as a non-user) is that React does, logically, essentially nothing special around event handling.
I would agree with you if Intel didn't have a PE ratio of over 100. Nvidia is only at 66 and i thought that was high.
Does AQI capture the experience of walking around the street?
C4 still smokes them both, doesn't it?
Meanwhile, some companies are building products with Prisma and are enjoying their choice. I love Prisma with Postgresql and Typescript, it's a very productive tool.

My first opinion wasn't very far from yours, but then I adopted it. It has served me well after a year and multiple projects.
> Can we call a website minimalist if it requires javascript.

yes
It's just a lot of money for someone starting out. If I had to do it over again I wouldn't have purchased it.
Isn't bash supposed to act like sh when executed with that name?
Love this! And love what they did with ERAPI. Do we know specifically who created that?
Virginia purged 1600 non-citizens from their voter rolls and a Chinese student actually voted in Michigan. Clearly requiring citizenship to register as a voter is not sufficient. Poll volunteers should be verifying citizenship.
If you're interested then click the link in my first reply (which is to a newer post). The first video shows the working car reaching 8000rpm (about 80km/h) around six seconds after the accelerator was released. The second video shows the speed creeping steadily from 38km/h to 44km/h (~2600rpm) after switching to Neutral (before we got nervous again and touched the brake).

(I don't really understand it, but I also haven't managed to think of a safety issue here for normal car use: the broken driveshaft is just a bit scary as the motor spins unloaded at >10,000rpm for a while. The only other time this seems likely to happen is if a mechanic puts the car in Drive on a hoist, and it'll stop as soon as they tap the brake.)
This is great!

Locality of Behaviour is of special interest to me.

How is your experience with currentScript.parentElement?

Last month I did a quick research and my impression is that it wasn't reliable in some probably niche case but I can't remember when.

But I didn't investigate much and I'm glad you made it work!

If I load 3 consecutive scripts currentScript.parentElement should still work in all browsers right? As long as it is not async or module, which is fine with me.

SvelteKit had this conversation and they ended up implementing random ids for elements to set their targets:

https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/2221
Latour actually kinda apologized for that.

http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-I...

(You can tell he's a continental philosopher because this is five times as long as it should be due to every sentence being filled with synonyms.)

Of course, he also once said that Ramses II couldn't have died of tuberculosis because science hadn't invented the concept of "dying of tuberculosis" yet.
Think of it as asynchronous cooking. You turn it on, walk away, come back whenever you're ready and you've got rice waiting for you.
To add, I really try to minimize external deps but if first-load speed were absolutely critical loading from jQuery CDN would increase odds of it already being cached..

Meh for most places I've worked though.
Does a simple selection query count the same as a 50 line query joining many tables and doing aggregates?
So why do red states who have every incentive to remove vote-by-mail entirely not do so? You can vote by mail in every state, lots of red states are no-excuse.
Maybe the confusion was the other way, more like "why is that funny/interesting?"

An attempt to answer that: In English, mixing ?! at the end of a question is a way of indicating bewilderment. Like "What was that?!"
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That's synchronous cooking. Think of a rice cooker as asynchronous cooking. You turn it on, walk away, come back whenever you're ready and you've got rice waiting for you. It is extremely convenient.
Right now it looks like Oasis is only trained on Minecraft. Imagine if it was trained in thousands of hours of other games as well, of different genres and styles.

Ostensibly, a game designer can then just "prompt" a new game concept they want to experiment with, and Oasis can dream it into a playable game.

For example, "an isometric top-down shooter, with Maniac mechanics, and Valheim graphics and worldcrafting, set in an ancient Nordic country"

And then the game studio will start building the actual game based on some final iteration of the concept prompt. A similar workflow already to concept art being "seeded" through Midjourney/SD/flux today.
I have a patent on morse code entry to a smartphone:

Patent 6418323 Wireless mobile phone with Morse code and related capabilities

I see there are at least two of us!

The purpose is so you can secretly text other people under the table while in a boring meeting.
One person voting who is not allowed is as bad (in terms of fidelity of the vote to legal voters' intentions) as one person being kept from voting who is allowed. There is copious evidence that these purges, and the atmosphere of fear they create, cause far more harm than they prevent.
The 15-year-old blind quarterback hoping to reach the NFL (2021)
I suggest re-reading the original comment with fresh eyes. The author didn't put forth a theory or "made up a story" as you suggest. They asked a genuinely curious comment that was obvious as such.
You may be right. But a Kreg is on the entry-level end (about $300) and with the price of lumber these days ... $300 is not a big ask.
One constant problem I run into is that Prisma does not return the IDs not the full rows when doing a batch insert. It only returns the counts.
I wouldn't be surprised if the slowest part of the system is the API call to a legacy warehouse management system that takes several seconds to respond to get the next bin to target.
this comment section has been the most useful and interesting thing I've seen for my own work in a very long time. And completely random, too. Really not bad. To me this represents the godly nature of this website. Where you have extremely well informed people posting high quality technical comments that would be hard to find anywhere else on the web. +100 to all contributors.
As in “does anyone recognize the degrees awarded”, I think.
At the end of the day, everything is a people problem. I tried checking the other comment but I couldn't find it (I thought I replied to it actually but it seems it was a different one about non-integrated ERPs).

We are not a conglomerate of 10+ nation size (slightly below that; also not the best measure but trying to toe the line with sharing but not naming gets harder with detail) but I suppose since we had to pivot from financial services to CPG a while ago and B2C retail in our segment at that time really demanded extremely low lag&lead-times for user changes and onboarding of products and services (well, VAS.. but who's counting), we engineered our way out of it, including logistics, SCADA, web, mobile apps, people-onboarding and M&A onboarding.

Having neat BI is more a side-effect than a primary goal. That goal came much later since it was the last remaining driver of shadow processes as it lead to many opportunities of bad engineering, even if it was seen as valuable in the short term (it never was worth it in the long run). It wasn't even about spreadsheets (or excel specifically), it became a real-time streaming issue where you couldn't have a fully manual process in the loop any more and we couldn't hire extra people fast enough to keep the existing processes running at the rate we needed. We don't have data entry positions anymore for the same reason; it's not that we don't receive new data, it's just that we had all B2B contacts agree that they will not send or receive files between humans if it's regarding an automated streaming process.

Having our data architecture being based on real time streaming (and some periodic sanity checks and shadow reconciliation as that is mandated by some record keeping laws) means we beat practically everyone in the same market segment on speed and delivery.

But perhaps this ties in to us being more homogeneous than some other conglomerates. We're not doing more than 5 countries and don't have our acquisitions result in extra divisions as we tend to aim for competitors in the segments we want to grow in (we want the data, the people and the customers, not the systems). This means that the people that operate the business (be it the business processes or the actual product processes) don't really get 'extra' software as a result.
Having query timeouts instantly makes me write this solution off.

Companies, especially smaller ones starting out, will run analytics in the same DB as the application DB.

A major plus of using a Postgres DB is the flexibility of doing analytics and serving apps. It can do it all. Analytics queries will often easily exceed your timeout limits.
I have downloaded nearly 2TB in archives from the interweb, just in case the whole civilization thing were to “go down tomorrow.”

If you would like to begin preparing for your tomorrows, this is a good place to start: https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/
> because we don't have any tests,...

Right there ^^^
This reminds me of a side project that got me multiple peer bonuses from strangers at Google. At some point the company decided to switch software for the performance eval system, and decided that everyone would have to copy their past review manually, piece by piece, into all the form fields of the new tool. In the FAQ they said that people asked if they could do this automatically and it wasn't practical to automate this process.

So I took a few hours one day and made a Chrome extension that did it for you. Wasn't hard to write. Saved people maybe 5 minutes. Some folks appreciated that so much they spent the 5 minutes nominating me for a peer bonus! I never really capitalized on that in any lasting way though.
A timer doesn't work because it takes longer to boil three cups of water compared to one. The bimetallic mechanism is agnostic of the amount of rice being cooked.
At least the links have nofollow on them (so only the ignorant/lazy/fraudulent SEO bottomfeeders will try to abuse this. Which I guess, to a first approximation, is "all of them"...)
> What do you mean “accepted”?

Universities have to be accredited for other universities to accept their transfer credits.

If companies want you to have a four-year degree then they have to believe you when you say you have one.

> Is it illegal to learn in a country even if it’s a dictatorship?

It's illegal for US citizens to do a lot of things with North Korea specifically, if you don't have permission first. That's how economic sanctions work.
> rather than letting the private sector take the wheel.

China's growth came from letting the private sector take the wheel.
Can we build an OS version of this and make it easy for solo dev to self host / roll their own?
That's the intent of the document - to reach people for guidance. The document under discussion is requesting comment from industry.
> I had that intrusive feeling you sometimes get when driving where you think, "I could just close my eyes and see what happens", "Or that clif is so close and the guardrail doesn't really extend far enough"

L’appel du vide
It seems more likely that this is just test data, based on the time being the exact same for all of the datapoints and there being a currently null column for “post url”, suggesting that these will all be sourced to a social media post which at least significantly increases the complexity of faking it, especially when there are bound to be plenty of posts claiming incidents.
When steam and coal engines gave way to gas and electric engines in factories, it took decades before factories were reconfigured to adjust to the smaller sized engines that didn't require one major axle running through the entire factory. As a consequence the first gas engines were huge - over time they shrunk. I bet the same will happen with robotics, where humanoid will be the primary form factor at first for general tasks, then more efficient forms will emerge as processes are updated.
There is a "here's ours" link in the first sentence on the homepage. Sadly the css hides all it's link styling. (Proper "brutalist webdesign" would have that as underlined blue text)
How can you assert so confidently you know the cause and effect?

Certainly computers allow more complexity, so there is interplay between what it enables and what’s driven by good engineering.
https://archive.is/6zvNN
For anyone interested in a contemporary implementation, SELF is a spectral element library in object-oriented fortran [1]. The devs here at Fluid Numerics have upcoming benchmarks on our MI300A system and other cool hardware.

[1] https://github.com/FluidNumerics/SELF
Excel is great but there’s a large audience who would benefit from something simpler and more intuitive. That’s what we are trying to build at Klaro (klaroapp.com)
> I could build something superior to this with an ancient laptop, an internet connection, and spreadsheets. It would take me a month tops.

^^^ Then do it... and then strangler fig the original.
Listening in on the Mysterious Marbled Murrelet
If it’s treated strictly as simple concatenation syntactic sugar then you are allowing something like print(“foo { func() );
Which seems janky af.

> just very simple syntactic sugar for normal string concatenation.

Maybe. There’s also possibly a string conversion. It seems reasonable to want to disallow implicit string conversion in a concatenation operator context (especially if overloading +) while allowing it in the interpolation case.
Also see: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/women-cancel...
Oh, this is much worse satire. It didn't even put the effort to add details into The One Big Diagram.

(But yeah, this one I know is for real. The other one that feels like a joke, but looks real is harder to decide.)
There’s OpenSkill https://github.com/philihp/openskill.js

Also Microsoft’s TrueSkill
I remember hearing polls workers saying "here comes another good republican". Next year they had monitors at the polls.
> They're mostly only used in developer-controlled situations (hash maps etc) where you probably control the keys (if you don't.. well you're at risk).

It's very common for keys to contain user input.
Wow, if you go to the Nvidia drivers website, they are still pushing the vulnerable 565.90 version as the "stable version" for creatives. It's only the gamer version that has been updated to 566.03 with the fixes. Incredible.
FEM runs on the same math and theories those bridges were designed on on paper.
Bimetallic strips are still used these days, but it is often not the only trigger.

The bimetallic strip is for overcurrent protection over a period of time. For example, if you are running an appliance using a constant 15A on a 10A breaker. The breaker will pop, but not instantly, and I guess you may have to wait a bit for the metal to cool down, though it never happened to me.

But there is also a short-circuit protection, it uses a solenoid to quickly trip the breaker when the current is way over its rating. The fancier types (with GFCI) also pop if the return current is not the same as the input current, this is to prevent electrocution.
This is just a Q-anon level conspiracy theory.

The ADL has a database full of “hate symbols” that nobody uses or some random person on the internet used one time. It’s a joke and the ADL uses it to bully other groups and people into silence.
my mom would make me take a lot of deep breaths when i couldn't sleep. taught me mindfulness breathing without realizing it.
Before that changed I LOVED turning the attendants away as I grabbed my Diesel hose and started pumping. I loved telling them when they didn't know.
Have you tried WezTerm? It is a modern, performant, and full-featured cross-platform terminal written in Rust.

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html
I'm an engineer/scientist and I find it super hard to follow other people's excel files. All you see if some data/numbers instead of the actual code/calculations.
Yes, as I already said that requires buying 2 months service which will be somewhere between $15-30 total, but Tracfone is a good carrier on the Verizon network with no contracts and incredibly low prices- so it's somewhat hard for me to see that as an extra expense if you need service anyways. I think I was previously paying about $8/month for them, but switched to another cheap carrier that includes unlimited data.

You can get a Tracfone SE for $100- I've seen them that cheap on the website, in person in box stores, and on eBay, but you have to hunt around. It would be $219 total right now for an SE3 and 2 months service on the website.
This is true, although it was notable as an early application of Euler-Bernoulli beam theory in structural engineering, which helped to prove the usefulness of that method.
The director equivalents I know ("distinguished engineeer") still do plenty of individual work if they want to; it's simply expected that they know how to do things in a way that has the same leverage as a director. And yes, that can include temporarily recruiting people to do work outside their team.
Both. Almost everything today uses some form of it. I think the term stuck with rice cookers because they were advertised that way as an advancement from the binary type cooker described in the article. In that sense, it's a buzzword of sorts. There's a lot of examples of that, like it still being called Unleaded Gas despite it having been so by default for how many decades?

Is it useful? Hard for me to answer - I don't like rice, but most of my family does. They all swear by their Zojirushis and Tigers, so I have to imagine it provides a better cook than the old style.
There is sometimes value in a private or silent channel. If public use becomes more common, I definitely hope not to hear people dictating to their devices.
When he wrote that comment I hadn't added that yet. I do need to make sure the link is underlined though.
> Mail-in ballots are worst of all, and the people who advocate for their expansion will regret it when they see entire church memberships filling out their ballots together, checking each other to make sure they voted correctly, and shunning, expelling, or firing people who don’t participate.

Firing people for not cooperating with something that is a crime under both federal and state law is a strategy that…doesn’t work very long for the criminals.

(Giving a large group of people who you don’t trust to vote your way that kind of criminal leverage over you in general is a pretty self-defeating strategy even without the intense incentives produced when you pile termination of employment on top of it.)

Also, near-universal mail-in voting isn’t some novel untested practice. Oregon has been doing it for more than two decades, Washington and Colorado for a decade, and even more states have adopted it between 2019 and 2022.