skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of two simple ways to vote:

Preferential voting. If your sincere choice (ie Greens) didn't win, your vote goes toward the second choice until a candidate gets clear majority.

Proportional voting, people can vote for their sincere choice and there's a pool of 10 representatives. That means each candidate needs at least 10% of vote. If over 10% people in the state for Greens but rest vote for Democrats/Republicans. Thats 1 Greens and 9 Democrats/Republicans.

In USA, it is not possible to have a sincere choice. Also known as the illusion of choice.
11gb isn't some bug fix, this is asset overhauls. Be it models, texture, audio etc. This is a result of Bethesda overworking employees and crunching like there's no tomorrow. The reason for the download being this size is because they aren't technically capable of making it smaller, and just wrongly assume everyone has the network capability to download it instead. It would take 3 days on my non-fibre internet to download though, so this is a purchase I won't be making.
They're both, I have lived in Van. The politics aren't great there, but they were actually worse in prairie cities I've lived in. It's just that the geography prevented old buildings from being replaced so frequently in cities that were able to expand in every direction, which helped the poor quite inadvertently, yet considerably.
AFAIK that's only true if you're using crostini. I think older machines that don't get crostini support also won't get docker support with the standard kernel, so not a solution if you want/need to stay with crouton.
study, eat, destroy. In no particular order.
Coming of age in America’s heartlands
I worked on a Flash implementation called Spaceport in 2012 or so. We had the most complete implementation apart from Adobe, with all kinds of goodies like actual hardware-accelerated graphics on mobile (far better than the buggy AIR). Tried to get Mozilla to buy us out, since they were looking for a way to incorporate an open Flash implementation more complete than Shumway, but they didn’t bite. Ended up acquihired by Facebook, product abandoned. I sometimes wonder, if things had gone differently, whether we could have given new life to the Flash ecosystem. Oh well.
This is a pretty good one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGnYu88A2Ws
One of my first games was Baldur's Gate 2. That was 6 cdroms iirc.

Oh well look on the bright side: its better than no patches. Bethesda has a history of ignoring bugs. They let Skyrim on PS3 wither on the vine.
Product lessons we can learn from Google+ (2014)
The oil is in the fruit of the tree not the trunk, they don't cut down the palms to extract the oil, they cut down the rainforest to make room for the palms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil
Agree - 'patterns' suggests generic templates rather than specific examples (going back to the GoF design patterns book). The sub-heading 'Inspirational UI UX Patterns That Work' is closer, although it still has that misleading 'patterns' word.

Although perhaps I'm just showing my desktop-focussed anti-app age by obsessing about 'patterns'. I have to say that the overall page - while technically really well done - actually left me feeling saddened at the brilliance of the designers whose goal is attracting and then harvesting our attention.

(Okay, now I'll get off my own lawn and go back indoors).
Hotelling's law is at work here.

Changing the voting system doesn't actually solve that, either.
I seem to recall that Sanders' proposals could not be funded at current tax levels. That was the start of Venezuela's road to ruin. They proceeded to raise taxes to try to get the revenue, but it wasn't enough. So they started expropriating (taking) corporate property. So companies left, and revenue went down. So they funded the government by printing money, and inflation went out of control.

I'm shooting from memory here about Sanders' proposals, and can't cite a source, so someone feel free to correct with hard data if you've got it...
AdoptOpenJDK is the much larger project with broad community backing (We even have Amazon contribute) from IBM, Red Hat, Azul, Ocado, Microsoft etc. It's got a fully open and auditable build and test pipeline and supports a massive number of platforms (arm32/64, AIX, s390, Mac, Windows, Linux x86, PPC etc) and versions (8, 9, 10, 11, amber, 12 beta et al). We've already had over 2M downloads and are definitely in production in a lot of places.

We'll be working with Amazon to make sure there's some consistency between the two, no point in fragmenting.

Corretto is an obvious choice if you're an AWS user, for everything else Adopt is also a decent choice.
"that there are sacrifices is given, now we must decide who", which guarantees divisiveness, one could say "let us make choices as a society which mean that no person a priori need be sacrificed."

Your first quote describes reality, your second is nonsense. If there were an outcome where everyone's needs are met and nothing need be sacrificed, there would be no opposition to the changes. Every decision comes at a cost, we don't have unlimited resources so we should reach for tools that attempt to maximize what we are willing to spend. If you believe that no one needs to sacrifice in order to solve society's problems, you are living in a fantasy.
Firstly, that is not what devonkim said, so he probably doesn't mean that. Secondly, that is also wrong.

Trump is a good example of this sort of thing - a reporter just has to look at him sideways to get told that black unemployment is at a record low, and over the last 2 years he's pulled a couple of pro-black political stunts. About half the media will still call him a racist, because he has _no_ control over who he gets associated with.

I expect this point would come up in a debate so I'll address it - a 'Muslim travel ban' is only racist to someone who is very confused about what 'race' means. Given the pain Bush & Obama have delivered to the Middle East in particular, and the Muslim world in general, this is a distasteful but certainly not inconsistent choice for US foreign policy.

> politicians who accept donations from racist organizations are the racist politicians.

Maybe in the abstract, but who are there "racist organizations" that are making political donations to influence politicans? Assuming we are still talking US politics, the last scandal [0] involving the KKK (only racist organisation I know of) was in 1991! Everything since is literally throwaway one-line comments of no real significance.

I don't think racist organisations are active in politics, they'd make candidates unelectable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_United_States_politi...
Firefox web browser:

[X] Can install extensions without my knowledge or consent that do not explain their functionality, and were added based on pressure from the marketing team. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956325

Edit: Am I being unfair here?
democracy used to be the optimal system because it processed information faster than authoritarianism. advences in technology reverse this relationship. whoever gets to the steering wheel has the potential to stay there for a long while with a very efficient (in terms of policing behavior per person employed) police. this all sounds like a bad joke but it is happening as we speak in china.
Fast line-following robots
Or AdoptOpenjDK https://www.adoptopenjdk.net
This is kind of like the boy that cried wolf:

Thy are listing the PS4 and XBox as a "a little creepy"
They are listing Apple iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Apple Air Pods, Roku, ChromeCast, and Kindle as "somewhat creepy".

I am concerned about my privacy and avoid "smart" speakers, appliances, etc, but do not find the devices I listed above "creepy".
Firebase Test Lab launches full support for iOS, Robo improvements
Here's the voting system I would like to see implemented:
Every voter still gets a single vote in each race, but you can have your vote apply either toward or against a single candidate. The candidate with the highest total of "# of 'against' votes" subtracted from "# of 'for' votes" wins.

This would allow voters more freedom of expression than the current system, while being simpler than ranked voting. I understand that it could conceivably (and probably frequently would) result in the winner being the person with the smaller negative number of votes. But at least then they couldn't claim a "mandate for change" based on a broad support of the populace.
Depends on what you think their game is. If you think their game is to fix the economy, yes, they definitely have bigger fish to fry. But if you think their game is to stay in power, then it makes perfect sense.
Nothing special here. Programming problems to teach beginners how to code. Same approach practically every other site takes. Surprised by the amount of upvotes.
I feel like Facebook is burning the furniture to heat the house at this point.
Food Blockchain: Just Hype, or True Path to Food Transparency?
Research that goes beyond self-reports echoes the sentiment that homelessness is overwhelmingly an economic issue. That's not to understate the impact that health, substance abuse and domestic violence play, either.

This is important to recognize, because families are falling victim to homelessness due to loss of jobs, insufficient income and the rising cost of living.

You could probably shake a few alcoholics out of that population, just like you could with the general population, but the overwhelming majority of them became homeless because of economic reasons. Those reasons, from here[1], include lack of affordable housing, unemployment, poverty, and low wages, in that order.

I have an uncle that became homeless after his divorce. It's a hole anyone can fall into if just the right bad things happen.

There's plenty of research available. I implore anyone who is reading this to Google "causes of homelessness", or start here[2] and continue researching by checking out the citations.

[1] https://www.nlchp.org/documents/Homeless_Stats_Fact_Sheet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
Yep, it's abandoned. No commits since 29 Mar 2016.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18057320
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The Datacenter as a computer: designing warehouse-scale machines
> Mark Zuckerberg built an online facebook for Harvard students. It became popular, and he turned it into a company with a vision “to make the world more open and connected,” and now it is enabling mob violence in India and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and election interference in the U.S. and corporate emotional manipulation and the transformation of the news media and also probably just making people sad a lot.

This is the most accurate description of what's wrong with Facebook in a single paragraph.

... I'm going to go post it on Facebook.
Yes 'Engine' is an all-encompassing concept, taken from the car where of course the engine is made up of many components. It drives the vehicle forward, but the drivers don't see it or know how it works. Until something goes wrong.
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Ech, down-voted for humor. Sometimes I wonder if the HN crowd has a minority contingency of hunchbacks licking salt and sucking on dewy moss for sustenance.
AdoptOpenJDK will be working with Amazon and the other providers to make sure there's some consistency between the binaries, no point in fragmenting all over the place, consumers expect to be able to drop in replacements.
Zuck's always been a sore loser.
Exactly, the project managers and management had to hit a date, the game wasn't ready.

So we live in the world of ship it broken/incomplete, just so a PM can hit their date, quality of the game be damned.

I prefer Valve Time to make sure things are as quality, complete and correct as possible [1].

The worst part about these 50GB games and 'patches' is that it takes a few days to get it down sometimes with the data capped/throttled ISP 'networks' we have settled for milking us out of transfer, and big games like this really let them hinder your 'network' for a few days, knocking you offline, data/packet loss and more as they think you are doing something malicious with their 'smart' 'network' throttling.

[1] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
Love it. Don’t really love the idea of audio contents of conversations being routed to a cloud server for processing though — needs to stay on-device for privacy.
Probably not. There isn’t enough revenue to counteract the detriment to their goodwill and other hits the company would take. China offers over a billion reasons to reconsider one’s positions.
NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job
csvkit includes csvsql, which does this. I’ve used it and liked it. https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.3/tutorial/3_power_tool...
Diet and exercise do wonders. Best drug by far. Every other remedy is pain management.
I'm not sure how you thought it was ok to comment like this here, but it isn't, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For many Americans, large parking lots/being carbound are facts of life. Half the land area in non-residential zoned properties is required to be parking in many municipalities, which helps to make these areas unfriendly to commute in for any mode, pushing buildings significantly further apart for little benefit.

Cars have been the least worst way to get around these hostile environments for a long time, though I think eBikes are starting to become more popular as they can cut around the horrifyingly bad traffic in many of these places, while not requiring one to join the lycra crowd.
I wish somebody could bring Walter into C standard committee
Modern HTML Explained For Dinosaurs
Along with what eigenspace said, check out SQLite's Testing page: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html (the project has 711 times as much test code and scripts, as code). You can go really far... and still miss things on occasion.
Rows upon rows of headphones in stores everywhere beg to differ. It's an emerging standard, absolutely, but I have no desire to have to charge me headphones.
If Tim cook believed this why is he taking billions from google to be the default search engine? Why not pick a more privacy friendly search engine?
And don't forget that Sony and Microsoft need the infrastructure in place for handling millions of people patching the game at the same time...
Survivor bias!
Wonder if the Nintendo corporate culture got built around cartridge releases, so once released they were pretty much frozen forever. Less of a need for that now but corporate cultures are very persistent.
To others thinking about doing this: keep in mind this is against the law in the United States. Even if it's for a "good cause", you can't just "pen-test" (hack) anyone you want.

Granted, I really doubt anyone would prosecute over something like this, but a bigger company? Absolutely possible.
I think they get that, but it's a kind of carrot-and-stick tactic. You don't really get an option; you get a guarantee that you either vote for 1: pure, eldritch evil, 2: milquetoast status quo with vague promises of reform that you aren't really enthused for but at least it's not Satan himself, or 3: throwing your vote directly into a landfill for a foolish ideal that is literally impossible under the current system.

Pragmatists should vote for the realistic option that benefits us the most, but that's not how most people work. People aren't really rational actors. If you continuously prove to the public that real reform is a stupid dream and that they must play the game and take the shitty carrot instead of the incredibly shitty stick, they rebel--even if it's not in their best interest. It's not reasonable to point out that they shouldn't do this. Of course they shouldn't, but they always will.

For authoritarians, they see options 1: and 2: from the first paragraph switched around relative to progressives. They aren't the same at all--not even a little--yet still there isn't really any meaningful choice to be made. There is only a vicious, cynical threat. Vote for what your region's culture considers least evil or watch as Armageddon devours you and your loved ones.

The constant near-perfect tie races are suspicious as hell. Haven't you ever noticed that? It's always 51-49 or somewhere thereabouts after the electoral college, gerrymandering and all the other forms of sophistry obfuscate the direct vote tallies--which always differ far more. Always. Also notice the incumbency rate compared to approval ratings. Incumbency is nearly perfect, even though approval is always sub-20%. Often it's far lower than 20%. This should obviously be impossible in pure democracy, but it should also be incredibly rare in our representative republic. But it's the rule, not the exception. In my opinion this is a smoking gun that just can't be dismissed.

This is rigged. Not the same way that crude authoritarian regimes fake their elections, with blatant but effective mafia tactics. This is structurally rigged. This is a hateful ploy that is designed to make real reform impossible, or at least slow enough for existing power structures to readjust and maintain full ownership of new trends, and furthermore to make us grateful for the barest minimum of political functioning: simply that we aren't living under a violent totalitarian state.

Both sides are certainly not the same. But the structure within which both sides operate is not designed with the best interests of the American people or the world in mind. I don't think it's some shadowy conspiracy that was masterminded by a single agent, it's just a ludicrously shitty system that naturally evolved out of our country and was taken advantage of by various opportunists. Our market style makes that very easy and very rewarding. Or at least it was at the outset, before power structures ossified and became strongly entrenched.
The issue is that it's not isolated to just streamers. Given an infinite number of possibilities of how a situation can occur (and given an infinite number of GIVEN POSSIBILITIES by the "swatter") how do you solve the issue of putting together a response team in as little time as possible to respond to a threat while at the same time not undermining the idea that it could very well be a real threat?

What I mean is, it's very easy to say that they can't put themselves in these completely unknown situations. Unfortunately that simply is the job of the response teams and often of local law enforcement. How do you verify quickly and accurately that a call is not a trap? How do you do so consistently -- that is, how do I know the NEXT call is NOT a trap? A streamer whitelist does no good if swatting can be done to anyone.

I don't mean to assume that there aren't already answers to these questions, but to say that they are being irresponsible when dispatching officers and teams is making light of the issues.
Remember, it's not that you're rolling 1 billion dice expecting to get all sixes. It's that you're constantly re-rolling the dice that aren't sixes to get sixes.
I sense that there may be a bipartisan crapping on FB next year; it seems like no one much is very happy with them.
Makes me think about the quote ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!’
Of course they don’t care about anything but profit and growth because it’s what makes them richer.
I was working for Nickelodeon on HTML5 gaming around that time and I think I remember seeing your product. You might have interacted with some of the same people I did!

Does Facebook own your IP? Might be worth investigating whether you can loose it from where ever it lives. There will likely be a flash gaming revival over the next decade as all the kids try to revisit their childhood memories.
The article didn’t present it as “white citizens have an outsized influence” but as “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” A smaller number of VERY upset people makes a bigger impact than a large number of moderately happier people. It seems like the author, the press, the school district etc. overreacted in the face of pressure.
Sounds like the project was missing a capable project manager. Project managers are kinda unpopular among programmers (for various, valid reasons). But making sure the stakeholders are involved with the project is actually one of the duties which has undisputedly a positive effect on most projects.
My previous comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059535

> "start times is something the district had wanted to do for a long time" So, was the real motivation here one of efficiency and cost-savings then?

and the response was:

"No, as far as I know having later school start times for high schoolers was the main objective, and that was the strongest one in the solution that was chosen by Boston when they used our algorithm."

"It clearly stated that cost-savings was one of the outcomes to be balanced, but not the motivation."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059535

However, I'm still not entirely convinced this was purely done "for the students".

even in this article it claims it "started as a cost-calculation algorithm".

So please, no, you don't get to change the motivation from cost-calculation/savings to "later times for students" by trying to re-purpose such an algorithm, even if it does benefit students in such a way (albiet with other negatives that the community felt outweighed the benefit to students).

Although, what i didn't understand was that the opposition was "15 percent the public school population" and only from wealthy families, which changes the perspective somewhat.
They don't get options, they get RSU grants.
The same way people have been predicting the death of IBM, Microsoft etc. for past couple decades?
But you don't know that they aren't using cgroups or a proxy to throttle traffic or cpu access, right? To me, it seemed that your message was overly dramatic when you didn't really prove anything. Depending on their set-up indeed. I just don't see the compromise in your analysis.
I guess making it up in volume isn’t working out recently.
Are you suggesting dispatchers use simple statistics to determine whether or not a call is real or not?
Experts visualise what living on the Red Planet would be like for humans
What a strange, cynical comment.

Car parks are a mere part of greater reality - what sense of quality does it imbue that is more or less worthy than any other where perchancing on another is concerned?
Honestly, I don't see the big deal. I never buy a game when it first releases. From anyone. AAA or indie. I always wait a month or so. That's when the bugs the devs never saw coming typically get ticketed and patched. I don't understand the big deal of "OMG I have to have this game now!".

Personally, I like the fact that they are patching and continuously patch. This strikes me as the devs want to make sure there are as few problems as possible and will do everything they feasibly can. Instead of "Oh well, it's shipped, it is what it is."
Far as I know, a passport card does exactly what I want it to do except be free. There are people that are at the poverty level or below, and some right above the cut-off, who can't afford $100+ dollars in fees.
I mean, sure, fat pointers are the "right" solution, but the point of "low-fat" pointers in the original paper [1] is for greater compatibility with existing C code, including at the ABI level. Adding fat pointers to C (which is what your proposal is) is incompatible with those goals. Page 2 of the paper discusses this.

[1]: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~gregory/papers/ndss17stack.pdf
Simple financial strategy even geeks like you and me could apply
I said talking points. There's a certain class of users, thankfully a small minority, who have passionate pre-existing agendas and show up to argue grand claims about race/nation/religion/etc. with details about the pan-Turkic East Turkestan Liberation Organization or whatever. Your account shows signs of being like that. Please don't on HN. It's both tedious and destructive—quite a double whammy for the rest of us.