skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an open problem
It's nice to see this is at least recognized.

All the proposed solutions are an invitation to or an implementation of tyranny.
Such a categorical claim (universal Quantifier!) from someone that probably has zero background in voting theory and not enough in epistemology e.g cognitive biases and logical fallacies.

You make such a powerful claim but honestly, in all sincerity:
All the proposed solutions
How many alternatives are you aware? 1? Dictature ?
Two maybe ?

You don't know what you don't know and me neither but at least I know that I don't know what I don't know.
The best solution to me is the one I co-designed with my brother, it is not public and will only be when I'll have a mature software implementation.
But public solutions that are still an improvement would be for exemple an epistocracy semi-direct.
I can explain it to you if you're open to the possibility of changing your mind about "representative" democracy being the least worst governing system.

There's also ethical questions around whether solving the problem is even something any human is entitled to do.
No.
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Steam's DRM (CEG) customizes the executables so it won't play without the Steam client running and logged in to the correct account. There are lots of not-DRM-enabled games on Steam, but they're decidedly in the minority.
As an example: 16 bit x86 puts the interrupt table at linear address 0.

On later x86 you can map that page to whatever you want in kernel mode and it will work. But expect C programs to do weird things for what should be crashing bugs.
I agree that the internet is a more liquid and prone to winner-takes-all market. That’s why regulators tend to apply different rules.

I’m not sure if MySpace could be considered a giant at the time. Sure, it had popularity and market share, but it was not spraying billions around buying up competition or consolidating its business (Instagram, Whatsapp).

So Facebook didn’t take down any giants, instead it won a fair market competition. That was my point.
Great example. Cities are prevented from having sensible gun control because rural voters who don't care about their needs* prevent it.

* But love cashing their welfare checks sent from urban citizens.
Third-wave feminism is about including and respecting everybody who has been made unequal by systems of power and privilege, and that very much includes men.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/01/feminism-now/
The reactor on the Seawolf has a shaft horsepower output of 45,000 shp or 34 MW.

So yeah 80KW won’t be enough to power the lights.
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As far as I know, the secret ballot is present in every state within the USA. Could you please cite your sources if you have different info (I've lived in 9 different states)?
Perhaps. But when I know that there are people with a partisan axe to grind pushing for it, I think arguments for "fair" should be regarded with a certain amount of skepticism...
There are discussions about the electoral college favoring small states. Some people think that's bad, some people think it's good.

However, there's a more important issue: that's not really what the electoral college does. It gives a small edge to small states[0]. The much bigger effect is that in every given election, it favors a handful of battleground states over all the rest.

If you live in Wyoming, the electoral college does not help you, because your vote is secure. Ditto for Vermont. But if you live in Ohio or Florida, presidential candidates will spend all their time in your state, trying to get your vote.

While you can concoct a semi-coherent case for rural voters needing special protection, no one can explain why Ohio is more or less important than North Carolina, or Florida than Texas.

[0] Which, if you're paying attention, is at least correlated with being rural, but only partially--another lazy generalization that surrounds this subject.
Surely you must be joking to relate a sports game with American democracy.
Tools are provided with some starting points of benchmark analyses. I know for sure that is the case with Atlas open data.
To your arguement about why do LA residents count less. I say it's not neccesarily less. Just differently. Do you want someone who has never farmed in their lives. Probably never even picked up a shovel, have a say in the rules and regs about agriculture throughout the midwest? Same goes vice versa. Country folk who hate living in concrete jungles shouldn't make rules for city dwellers. Thus an equal vote, isn't equal. Because my one vote for some other industry I don't know isn't fair for someone who lives it.

That was the original point to electoral votes and a representative government system. It's not that the system doesn't work, it's been perverted. If we can end the gerrymandering and other political machine issues, we'd have a better system. Not perfect. But I think its steered the wrong way with political affiliation as platform rather than constituent needs.
In my opinion there is no real issue with requiring ID in the US, they are inexpensive and not hard to get. If someone doesn't want to spend $20-$30 and take the time to get an ID, they don't want to vote very much. Although I strongly believe in progressive taxation, this is such a small sum for such an important part of civic life it is a strange hill to die on.

I very much think the right does attempt to exclude certain voters, and does use Voter ID regulations as part of a larger strategy regarding voter disenfranchisement. But it is a relatively easy fix that could be calmly resolved with common sense regulations, like other commenters in this thread have mentioned regarding requirements for physical location and hours of operation for voter registration/id centers. So it sometimes appears people (in this case the left) would rather have something to cry about than just calmly fix the loophole the opposition is trying to exploit.

In brief, the real issue is that actual attempts to cooperate and govern have died, to be replaced by grandstanding (when not in power) and scorched earth practices (when in power). I blame first past the post systems, and think this is an inevitable result. I would welcome the existential requirement for political parties to cooperate which comes with a larger spectrum of parties in power, as a natural effect of more effective proportional representation.
The electoral college was created to strike a balance between valuing a diversity of perspectives and popularity of perspectives. The probability that a geographically restricted monoculture gets it right is very close to zero.
No, it isn’t. Pipelines spill far more than rail.
I think it's weird that you think patriotism is weird.
Two things:

1) That's America. Europeans actually save money.

2) This isn't about retail investors (normal people). These bonds are for governments, large corporations, huge business deals, etc.
About a decade ago, I was offered a gig that ended up being implementation of a national firewall-- exactly like the ultra-censorship one that supposedly keeps Saudi men from seeing what girls look like, or how the rest of the world manages to function without constant brainwashing rituals.

As soon as I found out what it was, I said there wasn't a pay rate that would make it worthwhile for me. I cannot bring myself down to that level.
CA has 53 districts. Those districts are under representative because they each get 2/53 of a Senator and WY district gets 2. State borders are fictions.
I don't see how you can draw a logical equivalency here? There is one president representing every single American. There are 100 senators, each of whom represents a particular state and subset of Americans. In fact, all you've managed to do is further substantiate NPV, by rightly pointing out that there already exists a body of federal government having control of the legislative process that reflects an equal representation of states. Whether this is appropriate or not is its own separate question, unrelated to issues surrounding the electoral college.
This happened end of June, they should have had ample time to reach out to @viss, make amends and change their process.
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I have had a developer account for almost 3 years and was also subjected to the extended wait time. Not sure how google can deny this....
No, that was not the point, why do people keep saying this? The framers were very open about the purpose. They thought that the average voter could not be trusted to choose a president, and that a direct election would result in "tumult and disorder". Instead, the decision would be made by "men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station", who would not be so easily swayed by the "heats and ferments" of the people.

Also, the framers expected that most of the time, there would be too many candidates for any to win a majority. In that case, the House would select a winner from the candidates.

A system where electors do not make their own decisions, and one candidate always wins a majority, was simply not conceived of.

https://www.constitution.org/fed/federa68.htm

This is the most easily digestible evidence, but Hamilton is obviously not the only one who thought this way. He is representing the position of most of the framers, that's why the system he describes here is what ended up in the constitution. Note that there is no mention at all of rural vs. urban, underrepresented communities, states' rights, anything like that. Those factors contributed to the creation of the Senate and the House, but not the electoral college. That was entirely due to the men writing the constitution not trusting the men they were allowing to vote.
If you take a look at any of our benchmarks, you’ll see that this is not the case. PostgreSQL in fact can scale quite well for time-series analytics, if architected correctly.

But why don’t you just try out TimescaleDB and see for yourself?
It could probably be done using conditional builds for which there is support for in cargo, though that would require the programmer to write two versions of the same code. I doubt that it is possible for the compiler to do this optimisation automatically.

Recall that dynamic dispatch does not need you as a programmer to know which implementation is being used for a given polymorphic method or function - I find it difficult to see how the compiler would be able to reason what implementation is being referred to in code to generate static polymorphic code without the programmer being explicit. If that were the case, there would be no need to be explicit at all (and consequently no need for static dispatch in Rust code), and all you would need to do for polymorphism is to use dynamic dispatch. However, although this would be incredibly convenient and ergonomic, unfortunately the Rust compiler is not capable of magic.
Tampering with voting machines software is easier, less noticeable and doesn't even require a cooperation from staff at the polling station (which ballot stuffing requires). You just need cooperation from the manufacturer.
Nicotine only makes me sick. I've tried gums, vapes, and nicotine salt pouches. I smoke a tobacco pipe when I want to relax.

There are MAOIs in tobacco smoke. I'm not sure that's what makes me feel calm though.
Thanks again for the primer and the comment :)

>"all" graphics software is quite the sweeping statement.

I meant virtually all popular vector graphics programs with a GUI that let users draw curves. I am not aware of a single one that doesn't have a Bezier curve tool - even MSPaint has had it in Windows 3.11.

Can't say much for CNC packages, except that Bezier curves were literally made for CNC. I'd guess that they accept CAD designs which were made with software where Bezier curves exist, but are converted to poly-lines in the output.

Surely, specialized software without Bezier is out there; but that's how you draw curves in Photoshop and Illustrator :)

> It's currently about 100 pages, so essentially what you'd be expected to read "before the next class" in university

Ha! Spotted someone blessed with not having to teach an intro math class to 100 freshmen :D

FWIW Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds is about the same size, and it's a semester-long course[1].

>twice the current size (.. but not any time soon!)

..I'll keep hitting F5 in the meantime :)

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On that note, a request. In the figure where you talk about curvature matching, you are effectively tracing out the Evolute[2]: the intersection points of nearby normal lines trace out the evolute in the limit (the locus of centers of curvature of the curve).

I think that actually drawing the evolute would be a good addition to the text (and would improve the reader's understanding of the concept of curvature).

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[1]http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/spivak-calc-manifold...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolute
This would give even more power to special interests, as they only need to influence a governor (or a small number of state reps) to get their senate choice, rather than all the voters in the state. I can’t see why that’s better, since at least now senators have to pretend to represent constituents.
Yes, any state always gets a minimum of three since the number of senators is two and representatives is one (the minimum).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_Stat...
I don't know where to start. Your knowledge of these systems may not be broad enough to draw meaningful conclusions. For example, you can apply for and receive government services with only a Social Security card. A state-issued ID is not needed.

Millions of eligible voters do not have state-issued ID. Estimates put it at 10-20 million Americans. The primary utility of a state-issued ID is to drive on public roads and there are 10's of millions of Americans who do not drive on a regular basis.

The suggestion you make, that we should make it easier for people to get IDs, falls apart when we recognize that every state sets up their own system of issuing IDs. It would take a very strong federal law to bring states in line to the point where we could have confidence that every eligible voter in America could obtain an ID for free and regardless of individual circumstances.

As for Russia "subverting our Democracy", there is zero evidence that Russia or any other foreign entity used the lack of voter ID laws in some states to influence any elections.
Softbank is currently making up the valuation, and by doing so, setting the value for their existing holdings. Take those valuations with a large grain of salt, it's not like a publicly traded security where you can be reasonably sure of getting around that market value if you decided to sell right now.
Coincidentally chatted with an expert in this space recently and he talked about the feast and famine cycles for the mortgage lending business. The sentiment was that we are definitely feasting and there wasn't much indication of a near term change to famine.

Somewhat tangential comment but feels like it is in line with OP article...
I don't think it will "accomplish this", because it's too low a threshold. This mechanism doesn't add up to "getting everyone to agree". It adds up to "getting 50% + 1 of the electoral votes", which is not the same thing. It's going to leave far too many people feeling bypassed and marginalized. In today's political environment, those people might become problematic.
What do you mean by seamless GPU integration, is it some specific package?
Thank you for the citations.
I'm not an expert and expect this to have flaws but here goes:

Fiat currency is backed by value (not gold, but also not nothing like some people say). It's worth what we all collectively think it's worth and that's going to depend on the underlying assets of a nation.

Lets say there are $1T dollars floating around the economy and this year the Fed wants to print another 100bn. That's totally ok (and necessary) so long as there was that much value created this year. New factories have been built, businesses created, etc. This has created more underlying value in America and so it's ok that we print some more money. Your $1 bill still holds the same amount.

That's how I look at it at least.
A stated reason is:

https://django-best-practices.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appli...

A common pattern in MVC-style programming is to build thick/fat models and thin controllers. For Django this translates to building models with lots of small methods attached to them and views which use those methods to keep their logic as minimal as possible. There are lots of benefits to this approach.

DRY: Rather than repeating the same logic in multiple views, it is defined once on the model.

Testable: Breaking up logic into small methods on the model makes your code easier to unit test.
Seems like a really impressive number, based on the 170% compounded annual growth rate referenced in their last funding round[1].

Huge assumption but if they started at 1,000,000 ARR in 2015 (which seems generous if sales just started then), 170% yearly growth over 4 years is ~$8.5 million ARR today. Over a 100x multiple!

1. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/06/12/186761...
There's some impressive logical bootstrapping here.

"States aren't autonomous anymore, so let's make the legal situation match that."

Except, wait, why are you even spending your time talking about this? Because it impacts federal elections, right? Seems like some states are still autonomous, you just don't think they're legitimately so.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-03-04
> Unsurprisingly, given that almost every state government to pass the National Popular Vote compact was completely controlled by Democrats,

It kinda feels like this part keeps getting glossed over when people talk about this. I don't think those signing on have really thought it through, and are just reacting to the 2016 election results. Of course the party that lost wants to change the system in a way that, that time, they may have ended up winning - especially with all the open hate for Trump.
The House is the chamber with actual power, while the Senate was intended to act as a check on the House and the executive. That's why the 17th amendment made such a mess: they were supposed to represent state interests, and especially having a balanced budget is much more a state interest than a popular interest.

In particular, for any bill requiring spending, the Senate can only amend a bill that started in the House. Impeachment must start in the house and is then tried in the Senate. The Senate can't nominate someone to office, they can only confirm a nominee presented by the executive.
>>>they looked much different than their photograph<<<

You know, I hear this a lot. One thing I learned early on in dating was to, from someone’s photographs, figure out how they look in real life. It’s comes down to this: Are they hiding something in the photographs? If there are no full-body pictures of them simply standing in front of the camera, you have no idea what they look like until you meet them.
The electoral college gives extra votes to certain people. Why stop at rural vs urban? Why not give extra votes to people shorter than 5 feet? To people with black hair and blue eyes? To people who can wiggle their ears and roll their tongues at the same time?
Nicotine is a poison and will unquestionably kill you at high doses. Same thing with water. Drink enough and you'll die. The relevant question is, what are the negative effects of nicotine at common therapeutic doses?
The vulnerability can often be discerned from the patch. Burying it amidst lots of unrelated bogus changes and not calling out its security relevance is going to annoy your users.
Performance culture has you measure the actual performance implications, then make an informed decision. Is the code on a performance-critical path? Maybe some of your serialization code is, but it's extremely unlikely that a dynamic dispatch when parsing command line args is the reason your app is slow. Also be aware that highly inlined code does nicely in microbenchmarks but might have significantly negative performance implications in a larger system when it blows out the I-cache.
Why can't one party campaign like the rules were written down beforehand, instead of hanging out running up the score in California?

Getting rid of the electoral college won't necessarily make Hilary win this time around. It will be a different vote entirely. Republicans will actually contest California and some others. They'll try to run up the score in Texas. They'll shift a couple issues left.

The only sure thing from this change would be ignoring the spread out population.
I found the best way to play Sim City was to take a loan at the start. Then pause the game while zoning a lot and building a power plant. You need the economy to go Fast when unpaused in order to repay the loan. Then play debt free.

That's what debt is for - short term improvement for longer term gain. The notion of continually refinancing debt only serves the lenders.
No. We're not capable of making Mars habitable.

If we were capable of that, we'd also be capable of fixing the Earth's trends which are making it become less inhabitable. (excess atmospheric CO2, loss of snowpack which reduces fresh-water river flows, oxygen-poor 'dead zones' in the sea, etc, etc.)
You think Lyme borreliosis in its entirety is a hallucination?

I guess you wouldn't mind if I dumped a bunch of Lyme-carrying ticks in your home, then.
It says everything. Even if undefined behavior works one way on all platforms today, it could work differently tomorrow in a way that introduces bugs.
It's nonsensical to blame the compiler for conforming to the standard in a way that breaks code using undefined behavior.
I just downloaded and installed Geant4 from their website yesterday, it's also on GitHub
Uber isn't tech, it is a taxi company.

Stripe isn't tech, it is a payment processor.

Airbnb isn't tech, it is a hotel.

SpaceX isn't tech, it is a defense contractor.
But it is an easy fix. I agree that there should be universal voter registration, and see no reason why we can't issue voter registration cards with a photo on them, which then serve as a valid form of identification for whatever information we choose to make publicly available on them.
No, they are performing the task as outlined by the constitution, which is the “correct” method, and which the people are free to amend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_Stat...
The states agreed to the Constitution with the Electoral College provision. If there's national will to change it, it should be through the amendment process described in the Constitution.

Having some states band together to subvert the intention of the EC fundamentally breaks the compact of the Constitution. What is the authority of a President chosen through subversion of the Constitution?
You can kind of hack a shared cache using cargo workspaces (put all your rust projects in one directory as part of a workspace) but that is far from ideal. All your projects will share a target directory and Cargo.lock.

I agree though. I don't mind binary sizes in the single megabytes for a release build, and I don't mind clean/rebuild build times that are a few dozen seconds. I do mind the 500MB of build artifacts in a single target directory, multiplied by all the projects I have that share the same version of serde/winapi/syn/quote/insert-common-dependency-here.
I'm not in favor of the electoral college, but wouldn't its elimination merely shift this problem to politicians only visiting the most poulated states (e.g. California) anyway?