skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A political duopoly is the inevitable consequence of a first-past-the-post voting system existing at every layer of government. Compare to some parliamentary systems, where proportional voting means that no vote is ever "wasted" as long as you can scrape together the bare minimum for at least a single MP.
The police will tell you that 100% of the killed were about to harm others.
Approval voting collapses to FPTP once the parties tell their voters "just mark one box".

This is an unavoidable vulnerability in any scheme that doesn't involve an exhaustive and exlusive ranking.
I think the phenomena of swatters is really highlighting how the police can be dangerous towards innocent people.

> keep in mind that if you did this in a thousand neighborhoods

Sure, but if so few people can cause so much damage only with a phone, do you really think the police is still not part of the cause of the problem?

I don't think it's worth it to have the police react this way to a call. I'd rather see criminals get away than innocent die because of swatters.

> People are not perfect.

Exactly, and that's the same for swatters, you will always have a good supply of people idiot enough to do that.

So what is the solution, putting future idiots in jail and let future innocents die of swatting?

I'm not american and I often hear about police issues in the US.
Golang, how dare you handle my checks! [critique]
There are no shortage of precedents when "winner takes all" systems were broken square and fair, keep trying
Junghans - I'll take a look thanks!
The original pixel has it, recently bought it myself, and extremely affordable (but I imagine this would vary in different countries).
I don't think so. I played last night and my TV did not automatically switch to HDR mode and there is nothing in the settings that indicates it can be toggled either. Bummer. The new lighting is really nice though. Huge improvement over FO4.
Where are the adjudicated results of these incidents available where there are reasonable and transparent investigatory and evidentiary standards in place? Otherwise we’re relying on a biased parties description of events alone.

What would be an acceptable figure of those that aren’t immediately at risk of harming others being killed? What about injured? The media rightly tends to focus on killings, but what about unnecessary shootings or use of force that don’t result in death.

Currently that’s a non-zero number and we know that the man killed in this case was not a threat as well.
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Currently you either get an email with pictures or go to your dashboard online or in app. Ironically for packages you can get a text notification, but no picture to see who it's from. Would you be willing to forward the emails and get a text notification with the pictures?
Why would the voters listen to them if they did in fact approve of multiple candidates?
>As a senator calls for a nationwide review of the forced sterilization of Indigenous women

A review?! WHAT. I hope I am missing something here. But what-the-actual-fuck is this nonsense?

There is nothing to review. Don't do that. Stop it. Just... Stop.
> Are people really that attached to their old wired headphones?

I'm sorry if wanting to spend half as much for better sound offends you, but yes; I much prefer my wired headphones over any bluetooth headphones. Perhaps some $300 bose headphones would win me over, but I doubt they would sound any better than my $150 wired cans. Not to mention that I can plug my headphones into my amp/dac setup when I get home and get sound quality that bluetooth headphones can't even dream of.

I don't really like bending over to the will of the greed-infested industry, and I really don't like that the average person does, but I'll stand for my values as long as I can. I won't buy a phone without a 3.5mm headphone jack until I literally have to.
Caller area code.

Easily spoofed, and the phone company will laugh in your face if you ask them for the billing address of the person who called you at 10:37pm on Nov 12, 2018.
Interesting to note that someone used an Atari TT:http://cookie.paris/images/2017/_MG_0081.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TT030
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Link summary: The Go2 draft design for error handling fails in 7 different ways.
> I think the phenomena of swatters is really highlighting how the police can be dangerous towards innocent people.

The phenomenon of police shooting innocent people without a SWATter being involved seems to be a more powerful and direct illustration of that, but, sure.
In a focused area, sure. In general, not really. Take all law enforcement in America, combine that with the entire US Military, and then just look at able-bodied adults in, say, the 20-60 age group. The civilians vastly outnumber law enforcement, and there are enough guns in America already to arm every last one of them.
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Ranked choice is simple to explain and understand.

Approval voting would encourage people to NOT vote for people they would accept, for fear that it would hurt their favorite.
Except that hasn't been true for years in certain circumstances, particularly where the value of an app running user-created code is educational in nature. See Pythonista, Codea, Swift Playgrounds, or hell, Shortcuts.
And its still horrible in terms of optimization, never having been fixed after launch.
This[1] is probably the closest you'll get. Made by the guy who runs the computational photography group at Google.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/synthcam/id412992079
Nope. I’ve just been here for a while. If you take the conversations on HN and put the them through a Bayesian Network, you can tell as soon as “deregulation” appears, the conversation will take a turn for “people will die” worse.
We should strive to make it a non-zero number, but saying "policemen should not be able to use deadly force against aggressors" just because the number is >0 is profoundly retarded.
I'm not american, but this kind of detail is not encouraging me to think about living in the US.
This is really great to learn about, thank you. It's nothing like that here, primarily because we have such a fragmented system. If one is poor, you will qualify for medicaid, which will vary wildly in terms of quality and access depending on the state in which you live. Even with medicaid, you'll have out of pocket expenses, because of the way our insurance system works in the US. If you are homeless or someone who is working poor, even the smallest co-pay is a barrier.

The semi-independent communal home concept is what I generally have in my head as being the right alternative to what we have now, and I'm glad to hear it already has some proof points. Look forward to reading more about it.
Create 10 different "4 hour X" and next thing you know you're working 40 hours a week!
Yes..they do a great deal; outside activities that get you sun (Vitamin D) and the high fat (good fats not lard) give your body the raw material to make T. Exercise boosts it as well as anything involving moderate levels of fear/stress. Along with sleep.
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My first Linux distro was SLS, sporting Linux kernel version 0.99pl12, and it came on 15 5.25in floppies. I only had Usenet at the time, so I wasn't able to download it directly, and had to pay some random person to mail me the floppies.

I was then setting up my own little TCP/IP network with a NFS server on my two machines, connected via coax Ethernet using NE2000 network cards.

Thank goodness for CD-ROMs. Only a few years after that, I was able to just go into a computer store and just buy a single CD with Yggdrasil (or RH or Slackware) which made the whole process much easier. As long as your system could boot off of CD-ROM... sometimes you still needed to make a boot disk.
Based on my knowledge of operations research, there is likely no AI involved in solving any of these problems. This is just a pure math problem, one that someone who knows excel really well could solve. While you may not understand the math involved, that doesn't mean that this is a black box.

This type of work has been put into practice for longer than the author has been alive. I don't think we need to reflect upon the changes it will bring to society since it's already old hat. I will admit that "What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach us About Junior year Undergraduate Mathematics" doesn't have the same ring to it.
Wired headphones don't require power & just work with a simple plugging in action.

Cheap Bluetooth devices have fiddly and unreliable stacks, sometimes lack enough power to transmit reliably from my pocket to my headphones, and the necessary audio compression introduces noticeable artifacts into certain types of music.
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Parliaments are not defined by proportional representation; the defining feature is that government is formed on the floor of the lower house.

Parliaments which have proportional lower houses tend to be a mess. Executive government needs at least some stability, so single-member electorates for the lower house and multi-member electorates for the upper house is a reasonable compromise.
My experience too, we've just started switched 100+ PCs at work over to Linux Mint as a result of this maturation - it's just plain better than Windows now, no ads, no upgrade ruining everything, no telemetry, no ignoring and resetting of user settings. Best of all: consistent software deployment via package management that actually works and does not include malware, adware and other janky sideloaded stuff.
A big recent thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18301745
> I have to assume they reached that solution after exhausting every other option

I assume that the 68000 was so powerful for its price (probably much cheaper than the existing mainframe CPUs) that it made this a viable solution. Or maybe the company had promised their customers a 68k-based Unix system (with the 68451 MMU) and the 68010 was delayed or too expensive and they had to find a quick solution? (I have no idea)

Btw, I was probably wrong about Sun being the company behind this. Apollo and MassComp have been mentioned in mailing lists.
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What if the public prefers some ideas from one party, and other ideas from the other party?
Is ranked choice voting not susceptible to strategic voting?
Perfect play as is currently used in the chess world means you don't make moves that result in you losing your advantage or giving the other player an advantage, given current computational resources to evaluate a position. If both sides play perfectly then the game results in a draw.

I think most of the games that are possible (ie games in game space) in chess are draws but this is just my sense of it.
It does include a high quality adapter in the box.
Tell us how you can trade stock derivatives without a intermediary like a broker.
Dear Leader has been chastened on the world stage, a collective narcissistic wound.
The jury is still out on cryptocurrencies. The blockchain hype is priced into Bitcoin and other crypto. It will remain around in some form but not even close to its peaks.

It's ridiculously expensive per transaction, your account can be wiped out if someone gets your token, it's not "untraceable", etc.
Prescriptions #3 are nice in spirit, but there are practical constraints to consider. For one thing, in addition to geographical boundaries, congressional districts also need to conform to existing administrative boundaries like county lines. These, in turn, are tied to services, taxes, etc. Not to say whether it can or cannot be done, nor whether it should or should not, but it's far from simple to just redraw congressional districts.

For anyone interested in gerrymandering and related issues, I've found this to be a nice resource: https://sites.duke.edu/quantifyinggerrymandering . (In full disclosure, I know some of the people responsible for this but am not involved in the work.)
For the same reason they don't vote for a third-party candidate in the general, even if they like that candidate much more - they want to maximize the chance of winning for the "lesser evil" and not risk the "greater evil" winning.

I do like approval voting as well, for the same mentioned reasons, but I worry that after a few elections people would start voting strategically, and then it could take another few decades to change the voting system again.

The more important part isn't ranked choice or approval voting anyway - both are single-winner voting systems which are far from ideal for elections involving Congress/Parliaments and local legislature. It's much preferable to have a proportional representation voting system for those.
If what you mean by 'life' is bacterium, sure. That's all that was here for 3 billion years. I don't think we'd find that very exciting.

Eukaryotes are basically a fluke. The symbiosis event that created Eukaryotes from a random combination of Archaea and Bacteria appears to have happened only _once_ in the entire history of the earth.

It's arrogant to assume that life as we know it is both inevitable and inevitably complex in a manner similar to our complexity.

A practically infinite universe means potentially infinite diversity, including phenomenon that may not recognize as life at all to us, but should be equally interesting.
That is really interesting. Thank you.
I’d say the lesser evil of these two is the one that can be switched off faster and doesn’t any extremely long lasting side effects even if it’s less green “right now”. There are various alternatives to nuclear power that are getting better quickly and will get only more popular as fossil fuels get less attractive.
Do you think it has to do with generating income? Like if someone is homeless the odds of getting them to pay a fine is next to nothing. But snag a guy walking out of a bar pissing on the wall you're going to get some money out of it.
In my experience if there's one thing absolutely guaranteed it's that unit tests decrease the performance of whatever they're testing (Because it eventually leads to local wins that are big losses for the program as a whole, because this encourages doing idiotic stuff like allocating large buffers and keeping enormous non-shared caches and maps)

Now in the example given, performance does not matter, so I do wonder why you'd mention it at all.

How about you just answer me this question: Did you still see significant bug volumes after implementing the unit tests for the FileProcessor ?

Obviously I believe the answer to be "yes". I feel like your statement that changes were made "very easily and often" sort of implies that yes, there were many bugs.

Note that testing based on past bugs is not called unit testing. That is, as you might guess, regression testing (and has the important distinction that it's a VERY good practice to go back through your regression tests once a year, and throw out the ones that don't make sense anymore, which should be about half of them)

Besides, I've very rarely seen tests actually catch bugs. Bugs come from pieces of code not doing what developers expect them to do in 2 ways :

1) outright lack of understanding what the code does (this can also mean that they understand the code, but not the problem it's trying to solve, and so code and tests ... are simply both wrong)

2) lack of consideration for edge cases

3) lack of consideration for the environment the code runs in (e.g. scaling issues. Optimizing business logic that processes a 10M file then executing it on 50G of data)

None of these has a good chance of getting caught by unit tests in my experience.

But developers seem to mostly hate integration tests. Tests that start up the whole system, or even multiple copies of it, and then rapidly run past input through the whole system. When it fails, it takes a while to find why it fails. It may fail, despite all components, potentially written by different people, being "correctly written" just not taking each other into account. It may fail because of memory, cpu starvation, filesystem setup. It may fail occassionally because the backend database decided to VACUUM, and the app is not backing off. It may fail after a firmware upgrade on equipment it uses.

The problem I have with these "issues" is simple: they represent reality. They will occur in production.

And in some ways I feel like this is a fair description: unit tests are about "proving you're right", even, and perhaps especially, if you're wrong. "You see, it isn't my code ! Not my fault !".
Here is correct link which doesn't require sign-in: https://medium.com/@reillychase/ghostifi-python-sqlalchemy-t...
It's known to work on Pixel 1st and 2nd gen phones (I installed it on my gen 1 XL no problem) but it's not as straightforward for other devices/brands.
There are a ton of apps already that do this. What is edabit bringing to the table that codewars or any of those other sites is not? IMO they are bringing nothing different to the table or it's too subtle to matter.
> I don't expect politics to allow sharing of fusion energy to help other countries.

You are very wrong. ITER is a $20B international collaboration to construct an energy positive fusion reactor. The participants, including China the underwriter of the experiment detailed in this thread's article, are very much sharing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
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That would be nice
In MIT's ARC design, the reactor is designed so you can easily open it up and replace the inner vessel. The vessel is 3D-printed and replaced once a year. Surrounding the inner vessel is a molten salt mixture which breeds more fuel from lithium but is otherwise unaffected by neutron radiation.

This is a regular tokamak design, with a high chance of success since we understand tokamaks very well at this point. Various startups have more speculative designs that deal with the issue in other ways.
> Oh, and Ubuntu siphons data to Amazon.

Does it really?
IRV is only awful in irrelevant corner cases that only political science wonks care about.

When the electorate's preferences is a statistical tie, it doesn't matter who wins, as long as one party isn't forcing all the tiebreaks to go their way.
I've played skyrim on both an up to date patched pc version and a release version on my dad's unnetworked PS3. The difference was ridiculous. My dad never ended up finishing because of game breaking bugs. I couldn't handle playing it for long. It would lag or freeze randomly sometimes you'd have to just hold the power on the ps3 until it rebooted. A bunch of missions had bugs that stopped them from being completed. Tons of clipping errors that would leave you trapped or outside the gamemap.

My updated one had a few of these but I could play for more than 20 minutes at a time.

Also, I never played the release version of it but apparently my dad gave up on fallout 3 on his ps3 when a hacking glitch gave him unlimited stats and made the game pointless.
First, because the parties will say "don't risk your vote!" and deliberately muddy the waters. Second, because in a voluntary voting situation the voter population is dominated by partisans, who are more motivated to vote.

This isn't a hypothetical. Queensland introduced "optional" preferential voting and one of the majors promptly campaigned on "Just Vote 1" in order to wedge the opposing coalition.
I would answer "yes" to your rhetorical question - People really are that attached to wired headphones. Not having to charge them is a pretty huge benefit. One wonders why we don't all use wireless mice. Same reason.
Ok, yeah, you can exaggerate the desire for backwards compatibility, but when you change to NOT use the standard that's not the same thing at all. I believe wired headphones to still be the standard item of choice for listening, as evidenced by the extremely common need for a dongle.
So as soon as someone moves from being classified as "homeless" to "homed", you have to shuffle around all the budgets for every service you're providing to them? This seems like a good way to increase bureaucratic overhead and ways for people to fall through the gaps, with the only advantage being neater numbers for bean-counting.
You can query by android: https://www.mobile-patterns.com/search/patterns?q=android:pl...

But they are all Kitkat and older from the screenshots
Violating your privacy does not require all of your data.

https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-pri...
> Once we stop judging addicts as being intrinsically bad people and see it as a mental health issue, we can solve a lot of this problem.

I suspect what mental health issues mean to most people is you now have a vaguely scientific explanation of why someone is intrinsically bad.
I remember autocad 12 + extensions on floppies... loading for a lab. Man that was the series of installs that just wouldn't end. IIRC win9x on floppy was almost as bad.
There was one game (I think one of the really old Unreal Tournament games) that had all the sound files as .wav files, which made the game huge. Many people were still on dialup at the time, so pirating it would have taken over a week to download it.

Well, one pirate group compressed all the .wav files into MP3s and wrote a quick batch script to decompress them all back into the .wav's. Turned a 700 megabyte download into a little under 100 megabytes.
There's a range of acceptance strictness among people. Some would only vote for their favorite. Some would vote for their favorite and someone who they're willing to accept.

That naturally leads to the same ability to discern support for compromise candidates as ranked choice. Each individual voter can't express that but the population as a whole will.
The difference here would be if Apple competitors made phones that worked with apple software.
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Also, I don't know if it's just my phone. But it's been the most unreliable and miserable bluetooth experience I've had in years.
I think this is a cool project idea, but I would not use this as a primary means to filter air unless you can't afford a proper hepa filter unit and you happen to have parts laying around to cobble this together. Smoke and mold are dangerous to breath and you only get one life. This is probably a good way to augment your existing filters, in my opinion.
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I am seeing more and more of this on youtube now. The people who advise others like this are usually flawed in their business dealings. These people usually tend to focus on soft skills without any emphasis on other skills. The soft skills is usually convincing people and leans more towards conning people with sweet talk and forceful marketing.
Like those two women doing the newspaper delivery during the Dorner manhunt: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-no-charges-lapd-...
Criminals have guns in the UK just the same.

Unless the US police is worried about being shot by innoscent civilians that is no justification. And if they are then why on earth aren’t they doing a better job of verifying credible threat in these situations before they enter?
I think the unsustainable part is increasing consumerism. From this thread I gathered that palm oil is more edficient than e.g. coconut oil. So if people drop palm oil and switch to coconut oil, the sustainability problem will get worse.
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I had a friend that only used two floppies... one installing on a new computer, the other downloading the next disk... (isdn line) It actually worked out pretty well.
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The New York City marathon goes thought the Bronx.

Most of the runners hate it, there are not many trees, not many people come out to cheer runners on.

There is not a single bookshop in the Bronx.
I don't want cheap headphones, I want high quality ones. Are they readily available for mobile?