skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for being open-minded. I mentioned in my other reply (to your other reply) why Condorcet isn't strictly ideal. Discussing the edge-cases where STAR does not support the Condorcet candidate is too long a discussion, I can't get into it here.

One short point: the primary problem with not electing Condorcet is that coordinated strategic majority could, in hindsight and for future elections, force the Condorcet by refusing to support later preferences. In STAR, that strategy is risky and unpredictable. If the Condorcet is a strong case, it will win STAR anyway. If it's an edge case, nobody knows in advance if it will be the true majority or just a bit less, so strategically zeroing all by the favorite is so risky in that edge case, most people won't do it (it could backfire for them to refuse to support their 2nd favorites if their hail-mary hope that they just might have a Condorcet turns out to be wrong). No strategies with STAR are reliable. The best outcomes come from just being honest.

Note: STAR doesn't use rank as a tie-breaker only. It can flat-out overrule a score difference with the 2nd-highest scoring candidate winning. It's not just for ties.

> I do agree that it looks probably better than IRV, but I’m not yet convinced that it’s a really good system

Well, since IRV gets pushed for real elections and STAR is better on a large number of factors, and both are better than FPTP…

You otherwise want to promote 3-2-1 https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/3-2-1_voting or approval or maybe some good PR approach like PLACE voting https://medium.com/@jameson.quinn/place-voting-the-elevator-...

If you want to discuss this stuff more with other folks, https://forum.electionscience.org is the place to go, btw
Forget the term courts. An ISP is within their rights to refuse to do business with you on the suspicion that you are a suspected pirate. If you then decide to go through their process they are also within their rights to continue not doing business with you until you voluntarily turn over evidence that you were in-fact not pirating content.

And since, for me at least, if I got my internet shut off I would pretty much have to move that's plenty of coercive power.
"ring exposes a Rust API and is written in a hybrid of Rust, C, and assembly language."
Chicken Scheme 5.0
CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces portable and efficient C and supports the R5RS and R7RS (work in progress) standards, and many extensions. More info at https://www.call-cc.org/

A new major version has just been released. See the announcement message here: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2018-11/msg00006.html
The Road to GraphQL
No, country names are very commonly used as synecdoches.
It may sound ridiculous but it is an interesting idea.
Normally an adaptive immune reaction has two phases, one where T-cells are aggressively deployed and another where it slows down (resolution phase).
Many chronic diseases involve some kind of "immune vicious circle" with no resolution phase.
T-cells are "educated" mainly in the thymus, if it was possible to alter the education mechanism, we could better manage auto-immune diseases.
At least your suggestion is yummy food for thought, thanks!
I think there's some nuance about charging for the thing as if it were not a prototype - so the prototype part is (somewhat) hidden to the user. People just respond differently, and you get market testing.

Somehow in hardware this seems crazy and there's a million reasons not to actually sell the product (certification, hard to change in the field, it's expensive!), so I think it's done less often.
The stuff you speak about it easily dismissed. The time it usually takes a mediocre reporter to invent that headline is the same amount of time it takes to disprove the point. It gets easier when you practice for a bit.

>> "Big government wastes our taxes and taxes are too high"

but I know that reducing taxes will probably not fix the local bridge over there.

>> "Our country is the only developed nation without socialized healthcare."

but this is also one of the only countries in the world with a working legal system

>> It's normal in America to have two cars in a family or to take an annual vacation by airplane.

but I have two kids, a loving wife and a set of friends who live locally and provide me better than that vacation to Mallorca

>> Guns don't kill people, etc."

but people are vastly more efficient at killing with guns.

More importantly, by openning any of those headlines I pretty much know what's going to be written there anyway. So there's no value in that - the value is in education.
Who has taught people today to lack confidence? I found my first software job out of high school by simply lying about my experience. I believed I was capable of doing the job advertised, so I said that I had ten years of experience (the requirement). I was called back, interviewed, and hired.

What is the big deal here? If you believe you can do it, then who cares what the job description says; just apply. If you don't believe you can do it, apply anyway. There is literally no drawback to applying for a job and there is little draw back to lying about it. When I was finally offered the job, I told the HR person that I had lied on my resume, and he said that he admired by chutzpah.

No one is going to fire you for coming clean after being given a promise of employment. And, if they do decide not to offer the job to you, you still haven't lost anything.
It feels very close to the weapon in the Schwarzenegger film Eraser.
No clicking problems on Linux. However I have noticed (not sure how recent this is) that Google is NOT redirecting the results with Google urls anymore! which is good news.
The list of topics is too long to scroll through. For example, under general on zulip.org. A better UI would be if it just showed a few that it thought you might be interested in, and had autocomplete-type search for others.
I detect the sarcasm there.

and you're right! you can totally bail and go to the competition... like HughesNet. They're just the same, right?

(also more sarcasm)
If you don't think about how you will sustain an open source project, your project will not be sustainable. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail."

Building a business model on top of my open source Sidekiq[0] project was the best decision I've ever made. That doesn't mean my approach will work for all (or even many) projects but anyone who is trying to build a popular project needs to consider: if I succeed, what will the project look like five years from now? Will you or a core team still be helping users every day?

[0]: https://sidekiq.org
They are technically working if people you know talk to you about something they were exposed to via ads.
I suspect that most of programming languages in common use today started out as academic exercises that weren’t used for real-world programming and that most people didn’t enjoy programming in.
I encountered an interesting one at $bigcorp which required everyone in the corp to install shady certificates, and which would then inject <script> tags in all HTTP responses, including in XML and JSON REST responses. That was fun to debug.
Anecdotally, my kids (all under 5), have already decided to ignore the time change.
Church spires are an artifact of history, when they performed functions beyond advertising mass times. Still, they're mostly unobtrusive, and in the noise of modern cities, one barely even notices them. If society was a body, then church spires would be freckles. Funny, but not dangerous and you stop noticing them quickly. Ads would be cancerous growths.
For those of you who think you can't tell the difference, or it's very "subtle", are you properly inhaling the drink? Make sure you inhale the fumes slowly and with agitation of the drink in your mouth, and exhale slowly while the drink covers your tongue. I also suggest doing this with chilled bottle or can; fountain beverages add a lot of randomness to the mix.

Human variance being what it is, I'm sure the result will still be indistinguishable to some people, but I also think there's a lot of people who will suddenly be able to tell the difference quite strongly after this exercise. They're certainly in the same "genre" of drink, but quite substantially different. After this exercise you may also understand why Coke is strongly favored for mixed drink applications. (I mean, to the extent that either is favored. Still, "Rum and Coke" is a thing; "Rum and Pepsi", well, it may get you what you ask for, but you may get a bit of a "look" from the bartender.)

(I was raised fairly typically midwest American, and the injunction to keep your mouth closed while eating was rigorously enforced. I have often wondered if the resulting non-inhalation of the food's volatiles has contributed to the generally poor quality of American cuisine at the time, and its slow progress since then. I've also wondered if "don't inhale your food!", which figuratively means not to eat it too rapidly, also has the literal meaning resonate in our brains and prevent us from doing the good and proper kind of inhalation.)
Chompsky just visited Lula..here's his take
Have to disagree here, you can have very different performances from different CDNs for the same user at the same time. Some CDNs have their own backbone (or at least partially), a lot of them are using different routes, and a lot of the time, the issue is not with the backbone, but with peering inter-connections, which can be different between each ISP & CDN. And a CDN's capacity is shared between all its customers, so if you get a huge peak from one of them, it can impact the others too.
Old but good example: Before Apple started building out its own CDN, it was using the leading commercial one, and when Apple was doing its iOS/MacOS updates, other broadcasters were having big troubles delivering their streams at the same time because the CDN was overloaded - but it doesn't mean that other CDNs were also all down.
That's also why most video broadcasters are now doing multi-CDN for their biggest live events like Superbowl or the world cup - to be able to distribute the load on several networks.
If anyone has tried G Suite Chat, it looks like they've added "threads" at some recent point but the UX has some ways to go.
One of the most intriguing models to fund OSS that I've seen lately is ICOs. The only downside to it being that it fits a narrow band of software which can have a marketplace. So if you're developing the next coreutils "ls", I doubt you could fund it with an ICO.

Another model is that of sqlite, where the core code is open but unit tests aren't available. In effect, this is somewhat similar to selling consulting but with fewer chances of you having to complicate your software.

At the end of the day, what's important is that the base computing be available in an OSS fashion. Base Computing = Decent OS with GUI + An App store. I think that's the direction Canonical should be going in and attempt to make money by hosting an App store for Ubuntu, just like Google makes money off PlayStore.
I guess Swift is quicker as C.
It wasn't that long ago I realised that the company "voted best SME" or whatever just bought that award in many cases, sometimes they created the "Society for Careful Scrutiny" (!) that gave the award.

Want a certificate from an official body? If you've got money create the official body in order to get the award. People seldom look past the austere logo anyway.
I've enjoyed all the Diablo games prior to this. I will not be playing Diablo: Immortal out of principle.
>Apple doesn't really care much about backwards compatibility

Depends on what you mean by "much". They have made good backwards compatibility an important part of every single architecture transition so far, and on the Mac there were good 3-4 year official transitions at least (the 68k emu still ran under Blue Box/Classic Environment so it lasted through 10.4 Tiger, Rosetta lasted through 10.6 Snow Leopard). And that's official, in practice there have continued to be longer last options.

It's certainly not the degree that Microsoft has traditionally cared, but it's not at all been blown off either.
It's pretty common for these devices to require you to install their generated CA cert on every machine in the corporation. Administrators deploy it to the domain with a group policy object IIRC.

Firefox users end up having to install it by hand, or else every website comes up as "you are being attacked by a MITM!!!!", which is technically true.
If you were a patient who paid for something and didn't get it.. this is malpractice. There's a chance that if you were in the 60% that had no positive effect, you might've had the effect if you had the treatment. A reasonable person would sue, and a reasonable jury would compensate.
> As to specific implementations I cannot say, but that's true with both OTR and PGP.

That's exactly the root of the problem. When you say you use pgp, there's a very high chance you're using gnupg from the command line, ie the one that has been reviewed by every security expert who has wanted any bit of recognition. When you say you're using OTR, everything depends on the specific implementation, so there are infinitely more ways your setup can be compromised.

I do agree that from a purely technical point of view OTR is better than PGP (except maybe the need for both parties to be online at the same time, but that's a minor inconvenience when comparing to the additional security OTR provides). But in this case the technical merits are not really important, what is really important is the complete system, and in that view the old, crufty, hard-to-use PGP wins.
Well, what if your image editor used an interpreter and the nondestructive edits were recorded in the document as scripts which, when replayed, construct that layer of the image. That way you can change the application all you want as long as you don't break the interpreter.

As for Google Tilt Brush, well that's just a failure to use proper caching.
Pretty off-topic but I'm going to throw it out there anyways. I play a game call Factorio, a quick run down it is a procedurally generated, top-down (2.5D ish) game where you can move around your character to mine materials, build things, etc. A huge part of the game is automating the creation of various items. For example iron gears are used in a number of lower-level items and while when you go to craft an item it will automatically build all the intermediate items (providing you have the materials) this becomes tedious very quickly (by design).

I find that playing the game requires a healthy balance between #AutomateAllTheThings and "Don't waste time building a huge factory for something you need very little of OR you don't know how much of it you will need". This same experience/way-of-thinking applies heavily to development/programming in the form of "Premature Optimization". In my first Factorio game I spent WAY too much time building massive factories to pump up every single item I needed. This lead to a boring grind and wasn't efficient at all. I was overwhelmed with making sure I always had a chest full of X item ready for me that I wasted a bunch of time (which, to be fair, in Factorio I didn't exactly waste the time as I had fun).

For me this resonates heavily with as it lead to a sort of "analysis paralysis" that I immediately recognized from my attempts at a side business. The next thing I attempt I am going to make a conscious effort to focus on a MVP above all else and ignore scale completely. My last attempts at building a side business have spiraled out of control quickly as I attempt to right all the wrongs, foresee all the potential issues, side steps all the mistakes I saw happen at work, etc.

In some ways I really miss my days in high school when I would open up a blank php file and start coding instead of wasting HOURS looking into various tech stacks/frameworks/libraries/etc in an attempt to "future proof" my setup. I realize now it's a fool's errand. That's not to say you should never think about how you would scale but at the same time don't let the idea of future success keep you from creating the exact things you are trying to future proof.
Why not? Document functionality and possibly showing examples is great (in general I'm a big advocate for examples), but those don't preclude explaining concepts.

Some of the best documentation I've experienced covers concepts, some of the worst doesn't.
Everyone who wants a job at the wage employers are offering has a job.

The unemployment rate doesn't count people who aren't looking for work.

The labor force participation rate measures the percentage of the working-age population between 16 and 64 who are either working or looking for work.

That's currently about 62%.

If wages were higher, then more people would be willing to work.
I did. Also mattermost and matrix. Few years ago. Ended up with matrix instance. But it really depends on specific scale and usecase.

From what i remember
- Rocketchat was based on meteor, which seemed dying at the time + it was computing hungry and clients were especially hungry.
- Mattermost worked for a time but you were not able to get mobile notifications without paying for license (not sure about now). Sounds suprising but it was just problem.
- Zullip too many dependencies and complicated install.

Matrix is more of a standard than anything. The first server implementation is called Matrix Synapse written in python twisted. I had it running without issues on 512mb vps for 30 people org with SQLITE. When you need bigger scale Matrix has some go and rust server implementations, you can also use postgres etc.

I guess you should start with what scale you need and what features you need and go from there.
Unreal Engine 4.21 Released
I can relate to that. I build up how good the article could be in my head, but it never lives up to it. Probably best to consume then save the good ones!
Because 0% of this has affected by day-to-day life and use of the device, which just works for what I need it for? I'll concede the fact that this is personal preference which is really the whole point of my response. (I like Apples, you like Oranges, stop telling me to change my taste buds, etc). I have tried both Android and iOS, and actually like things about both of them. At the end of the day, my preference just happens to fall on the iOS side of the line

1 - Haven't run into an issue where this is a problem. I do not feel I am missing out on any unallowed apps.

2, 3 - Yes I do not like this and think it's dumb, BUT it's not important or significant enough for me to care or get a different device. Safari + content blockers is a completely reasonable, fast, good-enough experience.

4 - Very rarely has this been an issue for me, other than Lightning costs being inflated (I guess) but most of the accessories I use are bluetooth

5 - Sure, like 2 and 3, I don't appreciate their way of approaching this either, but I bought the phone because it's my preference of device/OS overall, not to maintain philosophical purity - in other words, I am willing to sacrifice some things for others and I still prefer iOS devices to the alternatives

Newer iPhones (and even non-Apple phones) missing headphone jacks is WAY more offensive to me than anything you outlined.
I have a feeling that most of the people who frequent this site would be more interested in Anandtech's A12 deep dive that was part of their iPhone XS review than a PR interview on the A12X that is light on performance or power use metrics.

CPU:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...

GPU:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
With respect, no, that is not what it is. My summary is glib and phrased in non-mathematical terms, but closer.

A true Solomonoff Inductor would be wildly, wildly smarter than a human being, if it could get over the problem that such a machine would also consume super-exponentially more resources than the universe has.
I love Zulip and wish it the best.

But this comment on the zuplipchat web site https://zulipchat.com/security/ feels like a pretty gross generalisation and detracts from Zulip's vibe IMO:

> With many SaaS providers, essentially all engineers have direct shell access to production servers storing user data. Zulip Cloud is different: only a small handful of security-trained engineers have access to production servers or to sensitive customer data.
If the Diablo gameplay mechanic were defined by a single attribute it would be: constant motion. Running, exploration, fighting, collecting. All in one fluid, relentless, unending motion. To the point you are almost leaning into your PC input controls to extract even more performance.

This gets lost on mobile devices and doesn't quite translate. Even from the trailer the world seems constrained. The combat scripted. Playing Diablo in 4K with all that extra screen real estate to move around in would be intense.

Myself, I may be moving on to fighting games, which some argue we are living in a renaissance or "golden age". There was something immensely satisfying with reeling in Superman with Batman's grappling hook in Injustice 2. Soul Calibur VI combat is perfect, down to each individual render frame. And I think the imminent release of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros Ultimate, a mere month awaited, may be a cultural sensation.
Is there still a lot of energy being devoted to voice assistants? We seem to have hit a very deep trough on the hype cycle. And I'm not really surprised.
You make this sound like an inevitability, but you discount the radical idea of rights and due process evolved over hundreds of years specifically to claw back investigative power. The King used to be able to search anything he wanted because it was all "his" anyways.
I'm not arguing against white men's privilege. And by the way, the term "white men" can be found nowhere in the article or in my comment, and I don't know why you are dragging race into this.

And no, I'm not arguing against the privileges of men. I'm criticizing the use of that word, in comparison to the rest of the article, as a covert gendered judgment. Just because men continue to have a "privilege" doesn't mean they will continue to want that privilege. When there's no incentive, why exactly would a man or a woman want the responsibilities that come with a high-flying career, dating, marriage, having a family, home ownership, retirement planning, et cetera et cetera? What this journalist sees as "perplexing" is hardly inexplicable.

Yes, those challenges indeed apply to most if not all people. Just because other people have things worse than others doesn't mean that one privileged group's behavior can't be explained by their own disenfranchisement. The fact that nobody can answer the question I've repeatedly asked demonstrates my point; the benefits of the man's privilege is in decline, hence men aren't going to participate in the economy the same way they used to. Why is it that you are redirecting the discussion to those(unnamed) with relatively worse privation?
> One of the most common digital applications of adjustment potentiometers is the control of time delay in an integrated circuit monostable (page 87).

My introduction to the humble potentiometer was when my father (in the mid-1970s) became the first man in our street to have (home-made) variable-speed windscreen wipers in his car. He would have loved this book!
> I’m sure many of us believe in following and enforcing laws (even flawed laws like 150yr copyright)

Actually no, why the fuck would I? Retarded laws must be broken as much and as hard as possible until the government has no choice but to change or drop them. Pressure must be exerted from the lowest ranks of the population.
Sure, but if you already know the city just a little bit, you'll know which end 3rd ave is close to. You don't have to memorize the location of a zillion randomly named streets (where is the intersection of Grove Lane and Daffodil St?) You just have to know which direction streets increase in, which avenues increase in, and roughly how far between each. That's the benefit of the grid.