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I don't want microseconds, i want to see seconds and how the markets perform in general.

I can't compete in microseconds (ever), i can in seconds :p
I wish we could just try something. Ok, so maybe IRV is worse than some other things, or maybe it's better. Let's try it. Or let's try range voting. Or approval. Or Condorcet IRV. Or whatever.

We have lots of choices of voting systems. If we only had a way to decide! I hope the irony is not lost on all you bikeshedders out there.

Quit bikeshedding. Start advocating for change. Start at the local level. Get your city or town to switch to the system of your choice. Don't just post on the internet about it.
Depends is your partner driving you to the ER in an emergency?

Or is your partner offering emergency services to the public in exchange for money? If so is your partner properly licensed and registered to provide those services? Is your partner insured to provide those services?
Why we learn more from our successes than our failures
You're posting flamewar-style again! Could you please stop this like we've already asked?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, yeah. I think the point was they ought to be your concerns.
Just because a company loses its competitive edge doesn't mean that they weren't better at what they did at one point. Sears just filed bankruptcy, but that doesn't take away the impact they had on retail throughout the 20th century.
the goal of every social order is to produce individuals that are its willing subjects, whether it does this softly or not.
If you had started such a scheme in 1999 or 2000 you would be bankrupt by now.
Limited to the Smith set, but sure. Same as lots of places do with FPTP and a tie; no Condorcet winner is effectively a “Condorcet tie” between the members of the Smith set, each of whom beats every candidate outside the set, but where victory within the set is undeterminable.
You're right, that's the way it should be. But reality is different. Remember the video clip of Gates riding around in a golf cart with Clinton, and then the DoJ eased off?
How is that reasonable ? With an infinite timeout, you are liable to have dead connections pile up forever on any network event that causes the peer to go silent

Or you have to handle timeouts at another level in your code, which is reasonable - but can make things a lot more complicated.
This is not strictly accurate. There is some daily mail science about “super humans” who need less than 7-8 hours. And while some people survive like this, your body needs sleep for 7-8 no exceptions. Deep sleep (as important as light sleep) only occurs during long uninterrupted phases. During those phases your body does some amazing things. Amongst other things the production of things like cancer fighting cells and repairing all the physical and mental streses of the day. While not fully understood exactly what, we know the why and lots of good studies prove the correlation between regular quality sleep and better mental and physical well being.
You should have known better than to try and impress HN. You could have made $1M/day as an infant and people here will still poo-poo it.

I, for one, enjoyed the article. Wondering if you have any recommendations for discovering opportunities like this in a repeatable/systematic way.
Right, I'm saying it's a stable but stale form where candidates optimize being tepid. May seem fine but I see how it would lead to further entrenchment of a ruling class
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Maybe this is just a simple case of "know what you customer wants". Maybe Tesla customers do want 0-60 in 2.5, and don't care much about AM radio.
How would an answer based on fundamentals even look like? Nobody can predict the future.
Is your comment satire?
Some interesting data about the efficacy of the experimental vaccine that is being used to try to control the outbreak.

> Merck's Jakub Simon, MD, MS, addressing a session at the American Society of Tropical Medicine's (ASTMH) annual meeting here, showed two charts tracking Ebola during this past spring's outbreak in the DRC's Equateur province and the subsequent one now raging in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces. In both, health workers on the ground have been using the Merck vaccine in a so-called ring vaccination strategy to contain the epidemic. Although not yet formally approved for marketing, the vaccine has been cleared for emergency use.

> In Equateur, immediately after vaccination began with the Merck product, the outbreak petered out.

> But the experience in North Kivu and Ituri has been quite different. Although new cases dropped significantly after vaccination began in early August, they never approached zero, and 2 months later they rocketed back to the level seen before vaccinations began.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/astmh/76018
I'm a student of software freedom, not a preacher, not a teacher, and not by any stretch a philosopher.

There are things the FSF has written and done that I fail to understand, try as I may. For example, I don't understand their position on "private changes", especially within very large organizations. And I don't understand their position on the proper scope and strength of copyleft rules. I'm missing something.

I've written some of my thoughts and questions here:

https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/09/14/free-to-take-freedom...
I commented on this ticket over a year ago, and frequently get updates about how other users are switching over to other platforms due to this issue. The comments are highly enjoyable in sharing our frustration with the lack of response from Atlassian.
All HVAC systems must pull fresh air in from outside. Even if the ground is colder than the house, it is warmer than the air outside and so is useful to pre-heat the air.

For example, if it's -10F outside, and the tubes are below the frost line, that can warm it up to 32F before needing an active heater to boost it the rest of the way.
The problem with difficulty to understand isn't a simple logistical fear. It's fear that voters won't understand what their vote means.
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> 100% of Windows media players are garbage.

You might want to take a look at Daum Pot Player.

I can't bear to use VLC anymore. It is just that much better.

I haven't tried it for your use case though.
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How do you measure this? I would wager that, at best, you're hiring the top 5% of applicants based on interview performance. It's likely you know little or nothing about what that says vis a vis job performance, because your interview probably doesn't exercise skills used on the job, except in a very tangential way.
If everyone has impostor syndrome, does anyone have impostor syndrome?
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Ballots typically do not have "none of the above" options on them. This has a few consequences.

You can put in "noone" in the write-in, but someone could legally make that their name. Not a valid way to mark none of the above.

You could leave the entry unmarked. However, that is also ambiguous. Did you really mean to leave it unmarked, or did you make a mistake? It also leaves the possibility that someone could put a mark on there for you after the fact.

Because of the lack of voter id, and problems such as ambiguous ballots, how would you show there was fraud or not unless you caught someone red handed? Of course, if you don't need to show an id, how would a monitor prove that the wrong person is voting. Some states do require an id, by my state does not and there are always strange unexplained results.
Yes. I don't know the correct terminology but to me a 'state' can be viewed as a thing that enforces a social construct on its citizens. If the citizens can openly shape and agree with the social construct, so much the better.
Any sources for that? I believe it, but I've been unsuccessful at convincing my employer's HR department...
Ask HN: Why hasn't the USA moved all voting online?
After standing in a line for an hour to vote I am trying to wrap my head around why online voting isn't an option in the United States.

Is it security? Most people consider their money more valuable than their vote and we all support online shopping.

Is it identification related? In my state they scan your driver's license when you show to vote, which I can do on my phone.

The older I get the more I realize that the whole voting process is an enormous amount of time waste that doesn't need to occur.
I think it's more a variation on Selection Sort. I agree on O(n*n)
You can disable secure boot on T2 machines which will allow booting whatever you want.
You shouldn't assume something is no big deal just because it doesn't affect you personally.
Cokeing coal for making steel is a different grade then what is typically burned at power power plants.
99% in SPY, 1% in 80% SPY Put option should cover your downside.
Why Your Retrospective Have Become Unproductive?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heat_pump
Ask HN: How to accept that life is unfair?
How do I become ok with life being unfair? What bothers me the most is my mortality; if it takes me x years longer to find love/dream job/etc. than other people, then that is x years I will never get back.
You would definitely need a random source that everyone can verify.
I definitely had that in Florence after Assassin’s Creed II.
You don't think politicians try to analyze the variables influencing voter turnout? You don't think they are paying pollsters to find out what "must vote" issues and positions are? Any politicians that stupid don't deserve to be making decisions for me.

Also, do you think I'm going to sit on the sidelines if a candidate makes reforming voting, eliminating the two party system, doing away with the electoral college, reforming fund-raising and eliminating gerrymandering their entire platform (with a reasonable plan for execution)?

As someone who isn't represented by either party of a two party system, my only option to shape society is protest. Supporting a candidate that doesn't represent my views just reinforces the status quo.
Thorough enough to make the person on the other side of the phone think they were talking to the intended gender. The point of the experiment is to control for gender, not other factors like style of speech. That would need a separate test.
Well, over the last 90 years the USA moved from important regional power to the economic and military hegemon of the world. That's quite the wave to be riding as a US stock market investor. It's also quite a hard act to repeat.

To maintain the historical growth rate, you have to believe one of the following two things, or some combination of them:

1. The US will continue to amass a larger share of the world's wealth, indefinitely.

2. The economy of the world at large will begin to also grow ~10% a year, a number far in excess of the historical average or any well-informed estimate.

Personally, I wouldn't make that bet.
I like IRV, but it leads to longer ballots and more-complicated voter ranking decisions, and hard-to-predict results in corner cases.

I'd prefer a variant I've not seen discussed elsewhere, but I'll call "Candidate-Delegated Instant Runoff Voting". Rather than allowing each voter to supply a unique 2nd, 3rd, etc choice, each candidate may select another candidate that's considered the "next choice" of 'their' voters, if the selecting candidate is eliminated. They'd have to irrevocably declare this "backup choice" before voting started.

That is: each voter still only selects a single candidate. But in the event that candidate is eliminated, there's a predictable, known-before-hand other candidate to whom their votes get re-assigned in the instant-runoff. There's greater predictability as to who will be helped by a certain vote, and the full result is calculable from the 1st tally of direct votes (or somewhat forecastable from an accurate pre-election poll of voters' top choices).
My personal position, which I tried not to voice in the post, is that the FSF has compromised too much. In particular, I think their position on private changes, their unwillingness to cross the line exemplified by situations like libgcc, and their unwillingness to deploy legal developments strengthening copyleft in their licenses all cripple them, strategically.

The closest I've come to a post on the subject is here:

https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/05/13/commons-club.html
The one thing I can't understand is why people aren't more excited about the possibility for IBM to completely transform into an open-source-forward organization.

IBM does work for EVERY Fortune 100 company. I can't comment on the working conditions but as a person who regularly works with IBM I can tell you that they aren't much worse than any other 400K employee sized company. There are a lot of folks there that love process and a bunch that are IBM lifers.

Still, the potential to push open-source further into enterprise in a HUGE way, particularly in private cloud, and give a company that might not stomach a strategic relationship with a smaller organization like RedHat.

Please also don't forget that IBM is contributing to open source projects (Istio comes to mind) that align with their strategic direction.
> What Totrov came up with were 26 unchanging indicators as a model for identifying U.S. intelligence officers overseas.

Terrible. That's a lot of signal.
In case it wasn't clear, user 21 was responding to user garblegarble with alternatives to the Intel NUC8i7BEH (~$484 in the US), not the Mac Mini.

But yes, the decked-out i7 Mac Mini is really expensive! As noted elsewhere in the comments (and in the article), a big chunk of that cost is in Apple's 1TB SSD pricing - ticking that option adds $800 over the 128GB SSD for some reason.
> Hanlon's Razor states that the mostly likely explanation is not conspiracy, but stupidity. Most of the time, your interviewers are just dumb/inexperienced/busy/assholes.

What are the odds that everyone in your interview is dumb/inexperienced/busy or an asshole versus the odds that it's just you?
Here's an ArsTechnica article with more specifics:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/how-s...
I'm glad you're glad. :)

Re. "the main thing", it would really help me out if you could provide some examples of issues that relate to being a man, that a women cannot advise a man on.
Whilst they're doing that how about adding caret-placement sensitivity:

When I click just after the initial letter (pipe representing caret that would be) eg "w|orking" the chances of me wanting to type "worked" are pretty slim; instead it should offer "Dorking" (a UK placename), "borking" and such; according to my frecency scores.

Similarly if I click to place the caret at "work|s" I'm probably after "words" or "worts" (beer stuff), or similar. Again "working|" and I'm probably going to change to a different suffix - works, workers, worked.

I'm amazed that gboard (Google's Android keyboard) doesn't already do that? Perhaps I missed a setting.
As an software engineer, NO you did not (unless you actually suck at it). Part of the problem with software dev as a profession is that often the people responsible for resource allocation are out of touch and the overall process is complex enough that you can acquire a lot of technical debt for a short term gain. this makes bad managers look good while creating a lot of problems in long term. Since acquiring technical debt does not really breaks anything in short term its really hard to create a budget line item that allocates resources to it. this continues until something gives and then you have a crisis somebody can fix and take credit.

Until there are leaders 'woke' enough to proactively do the right thing I dont see anything change in computing industry.
My model of the OP (or writer of the piece rather) is that he felt he'd reached safe harbor at Red Hat, especially under his personally difficult circumstances.

Imagine feeling that, then hearing your employer was being acquired by pretty much the antithesis of that culture, on a decline and happy to destroy anyone for a perceived bump in their falling stock price.

It may be different if your perspective is that of a principal from some failed startup IBM bought. They were nice enough as long as the handcuffs lasted, you didn't care about the bogus 401k match, and your large-ish check cleared.
*Lieutenant General Michael Flynn

No comment on his later antics, because they, ah, rather throw his judgment into question:

He utterly beclowned himself with hilariously sloppy op-sec. From being caught planning to exfiltrate a Turkish dissident in the US to Turkey to gobbling up every Russian carrot waggled in front of him, his repeated face-plants forced even the willfully ignorant Trump administration to fire him.

That all said, I wouldn't be shocked if that is representative of our boldest, most forward-thinking intelligence agents
He needs to find companies that are fully remote already, as they will have those positions available.
That's cool. What was your fundamental valuation of concurrency? How did you do it? How did you know you were correct?

The link you provided is for a prediction market, and not really useful for fundamental valuation.
In my experience, no company is uniquely talented forever. The reasons for that are complex as well (Christensen did a good job of sketching the mechanisms in the Innovator's Dilemma). Every time you have a CEO change there is a new vision of the "secret of this company's success" which is likely not the same as the previous CEOs vision. As a result different things get emphasized, or priorities get shifted, and then the next thing you know that center of excellence isn't as excellent as it once was.

From an organizational dynamics point of view it really shows the value of process as a means of preserving institutional integrity and durability, but we're humans and communities change. So companies change, some employees leave, some new ones show up, and the mix may not be as effective as the previous mix in getting stuff done.

I really admire Dan Warmenhoven's management philosophy which was very low politics. People serve their ambition in one of two ways, by lifting up the community around them or by pushing everyone but themselves down. The latter type destroy companies and senior management's role is to be the antibody that detects and then removes the offending folks.

So you need to build a healthy community of employees who are working toward lifting the company further. The people who do that, and the community itself, however move on eventually, and the special quality of the group can erode over time.
Also, it's that they won't have a basis for respecting the result when their candidate loses.
A serious economic downturn is likely to sink the fund entirely anyhow, so you might as well optimize for the case where that doesn't happen. This is one of the serious principle-agent problems in investing in general - equity holders and management aren't incentivized to preserve value for creditors, so they take more risk than is ideal for the overall capital structure.
Yes, UK elections use coin tosses on ties. It’s pretty rare to get an exact tie when thousands of people are voting, though, and it’s also hard to argue against the coin toss when literally nothing separates the two candidates.

The Smith set tie would occur more often, and in complex scenarios where it really isn’t clear that it actually is a dead heat.
This might be true or not but sadly is nothing unheard of, it will be keep like that until a seriously injured worker is sent back to work only to have his condition worsened and a skillful lawyer pulls a chunk of money from mr Musk then suddenly he will start liking yellow stripes and beeping forklifts.
I have seen people supply sources at least twice, frankly I'm amazed given this comes up 5 times per day here that we have to keep explaining it.

Here is one source, again:
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/attachments/content/attachmen...

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7544-7nm-5nm-3nm-logi...
This is a really weird device. The mac mini has long been used as a home theater pc of the apple ecosystem, due to it's formfactor and being the one apple device that didn't come with its own 20 inch screen or 3 foot tall tower. Apple tv, for all it's shortcomings, has sort of supplanted that and you're much better off sticking that under your tv and running your plex server somewhere else. So now we have a mac mini which is too expensive to be a home theater pc or to be stuck in a closet serving media, and is comparably priced with macs that have actual screens. So its like good for someone who for some reason doesn't want to carry a macbook around but wants a semi-portable workstation? or someone who wants an iMac with a bigger screen? It's not useful as a mac mini, and it's pretty redundant thanks to every use case being covered by an existing mac. Who is this device for? Who is buying this over a macbook or imac?
It makes things universally worse imo. Everything was by touch for me previously, including adjusting sound. I had the keyboard memorized. Now I constantly have to look down. A keyboard shouldn't require me to change my focus, that defeats the entire purpose.
I'm going out on a limb here but I think they were serious in a way that's bad.
I really appreciate the offer. I got the go-ahead to share this information, where should I direct it?
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Thanks. I’ve heard this podcast[1] with Ashraf Eassa, which I recommend listening, but IMO still fails to paint the complete picture. Maybe we’ll only know for sure in a few years.

[1]https://overcast.fm/+K8lh8cyNY
As someone who interviews people I can speak for myself. No I dont look for best fit.

I look for someone who will be able to grow inside the company and fill gaps. Like to see them do smart things they are hired to do without being told what to do.
Or just maybe, blogging is the startup itself these days..
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Proud student of an old and noble school of thought!

I wrote in my post:

> Permissive developers, riding a decade of adoption success and wary of copyleft to begin with, wonder now more than ever whether why they abide copyleft complexity and politics. Permissive points register all the more strongly, with copyleft developers too busy recriminating to answer them.
I kinda see range voting as the solution. To explain my intuition... Technically it's not condorcet, because a pair-wise winner doesn't always win, but if you relax the definition of "pair-wise winner" to allow for each voter to scale down the strength (weight) of their vote, then range voting does in fact always select the candidate which wins all weighted-pairwise competitions. I think whether you buy this intuition has to do with whether you think preference/utility is fundamentally ordinal or cardinal.
Yo! I just bought an E485 from Lenovo, and it's definitely not "low". 4C/8T 2.5 GHz, Vega 10 graphics, 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD and 1080p 14" matte display.

The A485 is better spec'ed with docking capability, ports, and an external battery.

Linux works on it with some tweaks, and in 4.20 full support is added.

Granted, it's harder to find, but I am hopeful that with Ryzen performing well, and their Vega GPU beating the crap out of Intel integrated and competing with Nvidia MX150, that we'll see more respect from laptop makers.

tl;dr Buy a thinkpad.