skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They plainly cannot.

If that's really true, then we as a country are screwed, because the money the federal government is spending on all this stuff comes from us. We can't pay ourselves more money than we have, and if we all get paid equally, then we're all just getting back what we paid and nothing is actually happening. So basically what you're describing is localities fighting over who gets to take money from whom. And the argument about popular vote is then just an argument that the most populous localities should be the ones taking from everyone else.
All the real money is already on the side of preserving the electoral college. You should examine why this is and reassess.
Yes shady shenanigans happen. First hand experience. You should be upvoted.
Relative wealth then.

HK has long had a GDP per capita on par with western nations. Versus China which has had a GDP per capita on par with developing nations until fairly recently.
I know a lot of the article is tongue in cheek...it's Mcsweeney's after all. Yet, the absence of Peter Singer from the discussion disappoints me. Utilitarianism is not a 19th century fossil and Singer's utilitarian reasoning is arguably (in an academic sense, not just because it's the internet) one of the most important positions in 20th century moral philosophy.

It's hard to name another philosopher from the past fifty years who has had similar impact on people's behavior and secular moral discourse.
Can anyone here say anything about the quality of this UT Austin online CS masters program? (The online masters programs I've looked at previously I haven't been very impressed by.)
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California and New York only have about 25% of Americans. Check my math, but i think that's less than a majority.

The Electoral College is apportioned by population already (with a slight bias). If California and New York had a mojority of the voters, they would already have a majority of EC votes.

California and New York also aren't monolithic. Remember: the electoral college is a lie. People in states don't actually all have the same opinions. Californians supported Trump by 40%.
I do like Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton, though they're probably not mainstream/radio country.

Somewhat related - I don't know much enough bluegrass to distinguish between good and bad bluegrass, but I really like Billy Strings, who I discovered recently. He's great.[0]

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6CyQftidOw
I'll defer to you on that, you seem more informed on the subject than me. Makes me want to revisit my biology reading list.
Aside from hunting and clothing (which a not-insignificant portion of families still partake in) these are still modern concerns? Homeownership isn't exactly a life of leisure.

It's a a plain fact that there are far more feast days and ecclesiastical holidays than federal holiday. In America, you're lucky to get a guaranteed 10 days off.
I was sure most of this existed so I looked it up... Mostly centers around adding row_to_json() to the query. Using the example from the github repo:

$ psql -P pager -nqtc "select row_to_json(pg_database) from pg_database where datname = 'template0'" | jq
{
"datname": "template0",
...
"datacl": [
"=c/postgres",
"postgres=CTc/postgres"
]
}
You’re making an effort. That’s good!

I’ve been lucky that most of my coworkers and bosses are pretty good at communication
Web Authentication is basically generating and proving ownership of a private key. You have some hardware/software that manages these keys - it will generate a key at registration time, and then prove ownership as part of authentication. The keys are tied to a web domain and the domain is also included on the challenge/response, which breaks active phishing attempts.

When you are using WebAuthn as a second factor with a hardware key, you are typically using non-resident keys. These are keys that aren't being stored by the authenticator, only by the relying party (in this case GitHub). A "handle" is given at registration, which must be re-supplied at authentication. This is actually how the U2F keys work - the handle has the only copy of the exported, encrypted keys or key material, so the authenticator can't understand a request for authentication without getting that handle.

So, in this case even though it is the same physical hardware authenticator, you have done two registrations, which have generated two separate generated key pair, each with a key handle. Those key handles are saved to different accounts. When I use the authenticator as a second factor, only key handles associated with that account are used for the authentication challenge.

There are wrinkles here because of the diverse ecosystem, of course.

Some software implementations (like Windows Hello) have no premium on storage, so they will still store second factor keys. These still need to behave as above, but Windows will technically know it has been used multiple times on the same site.

Also, when using Web Authentication for primary authentication, you use what is called a resident key. In this case, the key is saved in memory along with metadata on which site it was generated for. The challenge doesn't include handles, but is effectively asking "do you have anything perhaps for GitHub.com?".

In this case, some authenticators simply won't support multiple accounts. Others will, and the browser or operating system will take responsibility for selecting which key is shared, via native UI.
> By definition insecure...

I take "secure voting" to mean a process where every participant can later individually audit that their vote was counted without betraying the confidentiality of any other voter.

For that, what would you think about a system where the election board published all the votes after the fact without any names, but placing each vote alongside a secret, a key, shared with that voter?

So, as a voter, I could perform a few operations on this published list of results. (1) I could search for my row indicated by my shared secret key to confirm my vote was recorded correctly. (2) I could add all the votes to confirm election officials added all recorded votes. (3) I could confirm that the number of rows is equal to the turnout reported on the day, possibly by district, so no ballot boxes could suddenly be lost or added after the fact.

> If the software is malicious, it can receive one input and produce a different result.

Sure, but all of cryptography is about solving for bad middlemen. The trick to secure multiparty computation is forcing the system to show enough of its work to verify, like above. Just publish the votes with the individual voters strongly masked.

Part of me worries that any voting system without public key cryptography is insecure, but our standards are so low we're just settling for paper, assuming that's the best we can do.

But I'm not sure what attacks paper advocates are trying to prevent, so I'm probably missing something. If I think my local election officials threw out my vote, how do I use my receipt to detect that from home?

But I agree with you if your main points are:
1) Current electronic implementations are terrible.
2) Paper never hurts.

N.b. - Vote selling could be an issue with either paper receipts or my protocol above. The best solution for either is probably outside the system (criminal penalties and significant whistle-blower rewards). You might be able to add deniability to the toy protocol above, but things would get complicated.
And Windows has useful account-based file encryption too.
The closer your work is to the actual benefit it provides, the more gratifying it is.
Except that it's prevented all sorts of things, including the two biggest-ticket items in Trump's agenda --- the repeal of "Obamacare" and the construction of a wall on the southern border. I'd extend the argument by observing that the widespread belief in the Republican party that anything and everything was on the table ended up royally screwing them; it is, for instance, why they failed to repeal the ACA.
They absolutely intend to stay in business. I have that from a chance, frank conversation with someone high enough in that industry to know.

Let's be honest. It is great money. People do not give that up. It gets taken from them.
May be same could be said of your perspective and the comment thereof. It’s all relative. Your idea of you and you working is totally relative too. You are nothing but a collection of cells which never stop working until they all do together. By that logic nobody ever had free time.
>I think a lot of people who were born in the west don't understand that, when you're very poor, economic circumstances matter more than political freedom. After all, having money (or not) affects what you can or cannot do far more than whoever's in charge.

Economic concerns elected Trump.
He is probably confusing it for a Hindu belief which prohibits them from eating beef because Hindus worship cows!
What's great about the electoral college is you need to have cross-regional appeal to win. So its less about which states are going to be battleground but that you generally can't just appeal to 1 or 2 regions and win. In a goal of preserving the union, it's better to have a system that pushes cross-regional appeal than a system based strictly on number of votes IMO.
Both of those are untrue.

Super delegates have never decided a Democratic primary, and Obama got more votes in 2008 (the official tally excludes Washington, Michigan, and Florida, who went for Obama but didnt publish vote tallies)

The delegate system is proportional, not winner-take-all, it is utterly unlike the electoral college.
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I didn’t say a single one of those things. You just made some big assumptions.

Tell me more about Canada, this implies you may be mistaken. https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&do...
Waymo Testing Driverless Vehicles During Florida’s Hurricane Season
Probably could have worded it better. I didn't mean, "only use a little bit of async," I agree that doesn't make sense. I meant, "use async if your problem really needs it, otherwise avoid it."
Wake me up when it's 35 states. Before that, it's just a political stunt - blue states promise to vote for popular vote winner, thinking it would be a Democrat, which they'd be voting for anyway.
Why aren't we talking about the Cambridge Analytica scandal example? Another issue of the Electoral colleges is that a candidate could target only a few amount of people (70k according to the documentary) for changing the course of the election.
Even if this has been fixed by Facebook. Shouldn't it be considered as a major flaw of the election system?

Source: "The great Hack" - Netflix doc.
That 0.5% improvement can help a lot when it's inside the Javascript engine or the Python interpreter.
For cases like this, I use pl/pgsql functions and dynamic queries. Dynamic queries take extra care and aren't the most pleasant things to write, but they can handle the GET /things with 10 parameters endpoints quite well.
When I did dating I hated it. It was painful and stressful.

It took me like three years of active going through it to find my wife, who by the way is wonderful.

I hope I will never have to do it again.

Looking at it in retrospective, I think maybe I did it wrong, because it’s supposed to be enjoyable, I think. But I was clueless back then. Who knows.
Illegal voting is extremely rare. A bigger problem is election fraud.
Have any UAVs been developed for close air support? Seems like one of the riskier tasks for human pilots. I wonder if command latency is more of an issue for low-and-slow gun runs?

EDIT: Looks like DARPA is working on it, sort of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_Close_Air_Support
I'm not sure how you read all that into my comment. I was simply asking for examples of good articles to send to them.
Doing exercise and martial arts does make you know yourself better.

Especially martial arts; there's a reason martial arts is often mixed with religion / mysticism for instance. Think Shaolin monks.
Here is some more recent data (from 2014): https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours

I'm glad I live and work in Norway where the average is between 1300 and 1500 hours a year.
Uber is a tech company because their primary business is providing an app

Uber’s primary business is finding and exploiting legal loopholes, and ignoring regulators. They happen to have an app, that’s all.

An analogy would be a pizza company where you order a pizza with an app but it actually gets made in some random person’s house.
A Small Town with Big City Problems – Only Cubed
How is NPV "unfair"? It is more in the spirit of the 14th than the winner-take-all system, where your vote means more or less depending on where you live (which was a core part of the 14th amendment logic of Gore v Bush)
Why not? Programming language grammar is fixed by the compiler, but idioms and stylistic preferences change over time based on usage as well.
*Kowtow
It doesn't seem that way to me at all. You can create software that does things that were previously not possible or not practical. That is the creation of technology. Software and information are products just as valid as cars and robots.
I don't claim they are. I claim they would be, if Wyoming had 1 vote and California 70. Right Wyoming specifically has a little more influence than it would have in purely population-based system. That was by design - otherwise large urban conglomerates would totally dominate all the politics and more rural states would have no chance to influence politics at all. Now they have a larger chance, while still being very far from any dominancy, but at least they have guaranteed minimum influence of 3 votes.
It's hard to compare, but those who try usually say we have about 30x the income now.

So the extra effort is worth it!
> That was a short-term artifact of political realignments starting in the 1930s (New Deal Coalition) and—before that one had fully stabilized—1960s (Civil Rights).

To be fair, there were only four elections in the previous 70 years that resulted in a Democrat winning. I think that avoiding something that like in the future is probably worthwhile, which is a minor argument against the electoral college based on past results.
Same here after seeing whole of Kashmir as part of India in all the maps for my entire, I couldn’t understand and felt even angry that the west and other countries don’t recognize this.

I now understand how it spurs nationalism and cause misunderstandings.
You're joking, right? They only recently figured out how to make a proper ball-point pen.
'Rural' is not a protected minority. States, however, are an important part of the United States of America.

> Should African Americans ger 3.6x the vote as White Americans because there are fewer of them?

Because it's not the United Races of America.
How would those solve the instances mentioned in the article?

>One woman claims that after spending an evening with a friend, she was “raped and sodomized” by her Lyft driver in his home. In 2016, another woman ordered a Lyft after a night out. Hours later, her friends walked in on her Lyft driver allegedly raping her in her bedroom.
I've never understood how Asian regional free trade agreements and China providing loans to developing countries is really a threat to the west.

Why exactly should the World Bank and the US/Europe be the only top players in the game again?

Has all the strings attached to that help really made the world a better place?

As far as I'm concerned extreme poverty or simply poverty is enough of a goal to target. Attempting to forcefully push country's local politics and governance forward without solving the basic problems of quality of life and all of the luxuries that allow people to focus on less local problems affecting their lives directly, like what they are going to eat next, freeing people up to focus on government and community. That seems like an essential first step.

Otherwise youre just mining the same small group of influential people already in those countries and expecting different outcomes. Not changing leadership or reducing corruption organically through education and the empowerment an influential middle class brings to politics.
Well sure, I agree that there are only 2 smartphone OSes on the market. But how is that an argument for breaking up the tech companies? Breaking up the tech companies is not going to produce more smartphone OSes.
Umm, everyone?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_lease#Dry_lease
Please stop spouting nonsense, none of this is true.

Faithless electors are electors who vote contrary to the opinion of their state. In some states this is legal, in other states it isn't, the constitution has nothing to do with it.

The states are free to outlaw faithless electors and many of them already do.
There is, and it might even win eventually, but students could use the material now.
Language design and compiler implementation are definetely high-competency skills, but they don't necessarily correlate with library design skills.

For instance, http client and server libraries are often in this gray area of uncertainty about whether they should be in the stdlib or not. Is this something language designers or compiler implementors have a lot of experience in? I would say not; sending and serving http requests are not something compilers need to do. Or take GUI libraries, what do language designers know about that?

I also know of many bad third party libraries, but there are tons of examples of really awful parts of standard libraries. The original date/time APIs in Java are a mess (they finally fixed this by in essence bringing in a third party API). The ssl bindings in the Ruby stdlib were a common source of bugs back when I was paying attention to this (maybe they've fixed it), same thing for the built in http stuff. Someone else mentioned the similar weakness of python's built in http, such that most people use a third party library instead. Even the java collections APIs are pretty poor such that people often augment them with things like guava or apache libraries.

My point is just that developing good libraries is a hard thing and I don't see any reason to think language designers or compiler maintainers are any better (or worse!) at it than other people. There isn't really a shortcut, you can't just cede authority to the powers that be on the core language teams, you just have to evaluate the quality of libraries for your use case yourself.
I post this quote a lot, but I your point made me think of it again: "It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of society as a whole." - Ursula K LeGuin
Sure, many spend 8 hours at the office. But do they do 8 hours of work? Probably not. There are diminishing returns on time spent working, and it probably starts around the third hour.

https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/978019087...

Many industries would probably suffer negligible losses (and maybe gains) by transitioning to 20 hour work weeks.
I frankly see less wrong with that headline than I see wrong with most headlines today. The term "Post-Truth" as an accurate descriptor of College Daily seems to have come directly from Lin:

> Pressed to articulate the identity of his publication, Lin used the phrase “post-truth,” which he attributed to the New York Times, to express his belief that the true essence of things is fundamentally unknowable and that the meaning of the news of the day depends on the spin one chooses to put on it.

EDIT:
The article itself also makes a point of including Chinese with perspectives on College Daily.
I'll go ahead and note that this doesn't require a blockchain. Each TLD is controlled by a single entity. Anything a site would store on a blockchain, they could easily submit to that single entity to be published.
> Show me one that's been investigated by responsible, neutral journalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scandal
Trump has been able to get almost nothing done. He got a tax cut, which was billed as radical but mostly just brings our corporate taxes in line with Western Europe. And he put tariffs on China—one of the few things the President can do without the support of Congress.
The urban/rural thing is a red herring. The Electoral college doesn't give more power to rural areas. It gives power to purple states, where the election is close. How many people are in the state doesn't matter.
Diminishing Returns – Working More Does Not Mean Getting More Done
How is this "advanced" linear algebra? This was all covered my freshman linear algebra course.
Just add these filters to ublock. Don't waste your time with people who, because they are no longer capable of finding what they do intrinsically rewarding, try to give their lives meaning by imagining themselves in some kind of grand historical good guy vs bad guy narrative. At the end of the day you are just providing them with just the entertainment they wanted.

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I live in Vietnam, people here say Trump’s Chinese tariffs have built many people’s new houses.
Yeah, I wouldn't do that. Security costs for physical gold are already low if you have a way to securely store a shotgun, most of what you're dealing with is a wider buy/sell spread, which is pretty small overall.

The problem with "paper gold" of various sorts is that it usually winds up being a promise to give you a certain number of dollars based on the spot price of gold. This is a problem if dollars stop being of practical use.

There's still a hell of a lot of things that are better to do before buying physical gold here, of course. Bigger risk-mitigation moves are like, minor emergency preparedness, own-occupation disability insurance, term life insurance, and dumping a ton of money into the stock market for getting enough long-term price appreciation.
You are free to make that argument, and you are free to change the system.

That said, it is counterproductive to make that case in the instance where someone is trying to use public money to provide a public good. The correct place to protest is when the university sends you your tuition bill or when they decline you admission. The instructors have no access to or control over the billions in their university’s endowment fund.

Right now, our options are to either fund this effort or not to fund it. I hope that we fund it.
There are lots of freedoms you can't contract away. It's not particularly odd to view DRM with that same lens.

And as a practical matter, while many services require DRM when it's easy to do so, in a world without DRM almost none would shut down.
Is was my understanding it moves our nominal rates in line with the rest of the world, but this reduces our effective rates to below the rest of the world.
This is why I chose the word "anachronistic". It seems of another time, because it is. It's definitely hard to figure out what will and won't be timeless, but it isn't hard to look back with hindsight and point out things that definetely weren't.
Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration [pdf]
It is the tragedy of the commons: an equilibrium of bad choices, where if one state does the right thing alone, then it loses all of its influence to the competition (see Maine and Nebraska).

The solution to the tragedy of the commons is coordination: if everyone does the right thing at the same time, nobody gets screwed for being first. Thus the NPVIC.
And the office is called "President of the United States", not "President of Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and Pennsylvania".