mjangle1985

I still have an M1 Air. I love it.

I considered upgrading but it’s hard to care to cause my M1 is just so good for what I need it for.

WPF is probably your best bet for desktop UI if you want to stay in the MS ecosystem.

"A lot" of the data wasn't sourced from Open Elections. Derek's claim is not true. As far as I know one user used Open Elections data for a portion of their total contributions (and attributed it in their PR).

"Many" of the contributors (myself included) used primary sources for their data.

The one contributor that used OE data cited it and it was a small portion of their overall contributions.

Join the discord and hit them with some questions. I'm sure they'll be happy to answer you.

New York is a great example of weirdness.

New York allows candidates to be the nominees even if the candidates aren't in that party. So you had Joe Biden as the nominee for the Democratic Party and then Joe Biden also listed as the nominee for the Working Families party.

Just weirdness like that abounds in the data in almost every state.

In addition a lot of the reporting for precincts was county level, so states wouldn't have a csv that contained all precinct level voting data so you have to go to each county to get that data. Some states have a lot of counties. PA for example has 67 and each county publishes data in a different format with different values.

It's tedious and honestly impossible to automate (at least in the case of PA).

It's divided based upon total additions to the final data set I believe. They have github repo for their bounty board that shows that calculation I think.

I think the final calculation is based on the percent you've added to the final dataset.

edit:

yeah here's the repo that calculates the final payment. https://github.com/dolthub/bounties

Hospital data bounty is the only one they have running right now but that one is still early so there's lots left to do and plenty of data left to source.

They are launching another bounty later this week for college course data.

So data was accepted via pull requests.

The maintainer will review a PR and either accept the PR or ask you to modify it to better fit their requirements or reject it.

For example one of their requirements were no 0 vote rows. So that's a pretty simple SQL query on the database and can be checked before the maintainer does a merge.

All data was required to be sourced. I got most of my data from state and county websites so those links were included with the comments in the PR.

In addition I was in communication with the team via their discord so they would ask for changes to PRs from there also.

I participated in this bounty, it was a blast.

The team at Dolthub is great and extremely accessible on their discord. These bounties seem like a great use case for their tech.

If you're into git and data (like I am) then these bounties are just awesome.

>then why should physical life develop them?

The comparison I've always liked is the "steam whistle set off by a locomotive". The steam whistle has no causal efficacy on the locomotive but is a waste byproduct of a steam engine.

Consciousness shouldn't have any causal effect on physical processes (assuming a strictly materialist framework), if it's explained as a byproduct of functioning physical processes it tends to deal with the issues 'consciousness' has that are in inherently in conflict with strict materialism.

>t's also been effectively disproven since the cognitive revolution at least.

How so?

>Since we can understand ideas, take in / generate perceptions, and act in meaningful ways based on what we've understood

That's not necessarily 'proof' of consciousness or free will.

>some kind of raw behavioural conditioning is not a valid explanation for our behavior. Nor the behavior of most higher animals.

Behaviorism isn't epiphenomenalism. I'm concerned you might not understand what epiphenomenalism is.

Thoughts about Epiphenominal explanations of the mind?

I'm a former philosophy student that had general interests Philo of Mind and that always stuck out to me as the most reasonable explanation for consciousness.

As someone who likes sites like reddit for the content sharing but hates the time sink the comments section becomes I love Pocket for delivering me highish quality articles and news that I don't have to worry about gettin sucked into some flame war over.

uBlock and Pi-hole.

Name a more iconic duo.

> The rest of it is proprietary NVidia stuff.

If you're using a Nvidia GPU sure, but it's still supported so I'm not sure what you were talking about in your original comment? Windows Nvidia drivers are also proprietary.

>GUI and gaming - barely supports what Windows did 5 years ago.

You can't be serious? Linux has had workspaces for forever, a feature that Windows finally enacted in Windows 10. Native tiling window manager support is nonexistent in Windows.

The more recent adoption of things like WSL and Windows Package Manager are just a few of the ways Windows trails behind Linux innovations that have existed for years.

The GUI experience in Linux is infinitely more customizable and frankly better than any experience I've had on Windows. Far less bloated and more open in it's overall design.

In terms of gaming I haven't had a snag in forever since Wine or Lutris can do pretty much everything I need.

If you're tech illiterate I can see why someone would think that Windows was superior in terms of innovation, otherwise its pretty clear that Linux has beat out Windows in most interactive user experiences over the past few years.

If you're a developer (which most users of HN are which was what my initial comment was based on) there's virtually no reason to use Windows over Linux.

Linux has support for most GPU options.

Most ML is done on Linux so it better well have GPU support.

Collective wage and benefit bargaining tends to be the main focus of many unions. I'd say in the instance of this particular Nurses Union the union also advocated well and often for the safety of their nurses. So yes they do ensure worker safety but I don't think it's thought of as much as collective bargaining.

Just very generally speaking, a friend of mine works in a nursing home and is part of a nursing union. They work in PA where we had the same kinds of orders.

Generally their working conditions have been safer than I've read about in other homes and hospitals. They did not allow staff to interact with patients unmasked, as opposed to non-union work environments that required nurses to work unmasked or with insufficient PPE (often times forced to work with covid positive or suspected positive patients)

They established isolation units for covid suspected patients and provided proper PPE for those units (as opposed to other nursing homes that did not do this and allowed covid suspected cases to interact with other patients). Additionally the union worked independently to attempt to acquire PPE for their union members above what nursing homes/hospitals provided.

While that's only one example of a union environment my impression is that these things were not the norm during the start of the pandemic and existed primarily in union nursing environments.

All that said it wouldn't surprise me at all if the effect found in the study was caused by having a union.

What are you talking about?

Is this a Mac vs Windows thing?

I feel like OP was implying people should use Linux.

Some sysadmin is worrying about keeping their job right now.

So they're going to delete their location transmitting and tracking app Maps?

>It's when people are working till 11pm and someone says "I need to leave at 6 to make food for my kids" that the resentment happens. If everyone got off at 6, there wouldn't be any resentment.

What would you propose then? The parents starve their children? What an absurd thing to have resentment over. Do you believe the parents don't feel guilt over having to duck out early while others without children continue to work? I know when I have to do it I do.

It's a pretty terrible place to be stuck between letting your kids down and letting your coworkers down.

What an awful thing to build resentment over.

Exactly, I very much doubt when OP was planning to have children they considered that very well established social norms that make our modern society possible (like traditional schooling and daycare) would not be an option in the future.

Why not just use a rubber band on your wrist and a sting each time? It provides the same conditioned response to not doing your work but you don't have to pay for it.