skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone concerned about timescale here?

"We have worked on a few recent main efforts on Calls: adding a calls history, allowing the Contacts app to dial numbers, and enabling the system to receive calls when the shell is locked."

Call History, dialing from Contacts and receiving calls when locked seem like really, really low-hanging fruit. For this to be the stage of development worries me. I'm not saying they will take the money and run, they've got an impressive record on delivering, but I don't know about "We are preparing everything for the Librem 5 to be delivered soon"
It's not just farmers who are effected by crop failures. Loss of crops means an increase in food prices. And when people can't afford food, they tend to take action. What would you do if suddenly, food was either 10x as expensive, or even no longer available in your state? Acute food shortages have been the reality for Mexico & Central Americas for the past decade.

There are many factors at play, but climate change is a a common threat to each of them. Crop failures and loss of arable land cause downstream effects which can result in political instability. Since the food price crisis of 2008, several regions all over the world have erupted in conflict. The Arab Spring was ignited by food shortages. The civil wars in Yemen and Sudan both broke out after severe droughts.

The last Central American migration crisis that the US faced coincided with an El Nino drought in 2014.
I think a lot of people forget that US = United States. That is, states that are united. The electoral college attempts to "balance" the power that each STATE has to elect a president.

The election is a state-level function. In my opinion, to switch to a popular-vote-wins system is to basically say "hey everyone in other states, go ahead and decide for our actual citizens".
> Well then, how is materialism falsifiable? If it isn't, how is it a scientific hypothesis?

It isn't a scientific hypothesis.

You use the word "materialism" to segregate yourself philosophically, but I haven't made a philosophical argument.

Let's suppose your "hypothesis" is true, but given that it is beyond physical observation, we can never hope to know that it is true or even know the probability of it being true. Then what would be the benefit in assuming that it is true?

We could conceivably save some time on trying to figure out AGI and instead do something "more productive". However, that's true of almost any endeavor. Anything you do in life has a chance of failure and an opportunity cost. Just imagine what could have become of us, had we not bothered to write HN comments!
yikes, sounds like a high maintenence client. I hope you're charging appropriately!!
> The House hasn't increased total size since the reapportionment after the 1910 census, which is probably what you are thinking of.

Doesn't this effectively make it impossible to correctly reapportion by population though, because without a change in size a number of low population states "should" have < 1 member?
>Can we migrate the software process that runs a ball of plasma to compatible hardware?

That's kind of what people who build tokamaks are trying to do when they run plasma simulations.
Spatial metaphors are not illustrative. Please give some examples of what you mean.
Intel has a new name idea for a future chipset now
Here in Russia, every candidate can assign up to 2 observers to every polling station (and also one person to the election committee). As the people are chosen by a candidate, we can assume that they are motivated and you cannot easily bribe them.

Also, with presidential elections in 2018, there were no prior notifications and the government didn't know who was going to become an observer before the voting day, which was nice.

Sadly, you cannot become an observer by yourself, I don't like that.

I haven't heard about bribes or threats, but there were cases when an observer was taken away by police for allegedly being too loud and obstructing the voting. In recent elections, independent observers used a Telegram chat for coordination, so that they could ask for consultation or ask someone else to come to the polling station if something happened.

In Russia fraud is usually committed by election staff who often are public school employees, social care or government workers, people who are paid by the government. And typically they prefer to falsify results when there is no observers, they don't want to appear in Youtube videos.

Of course, in other countries the situation may be different.
They're just the results of surveys. They get revised twice after the first report, and there's also a yearly adjustment based on unemployment benefits numbers. Revisions of over 100,000 are not that uncommon. (500,000 is pretty rare though!) https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/jobs-report-growth-unem...
We at VictoriaMetrics recognized importance of splitting up storage and query nodes as well. We went even further -- separated insert nodes from storage nodes. So for cluster version we have 3 types of nodes:

* vminsert (stateless)
* vmselect (stateless)
* vmstorage (stateful)

However, we found out that PostgreSQL storage layer takes incredibly huge amount of space -- 28 bytes/metrics versus 0.4 b/m with VictoriaMetrics (70x difference!) for typical real-world data. That's why we didn't consider PostgreSQL for our storage layer, which otherwise could be awesome.

(see Disk Usage benchmark graph at [1])

That also hurts not only storage, but performance, as queries bottleneck becomes disk IO, check out this benchmark we conducted with TimescaleDB v1.2.2: [2]

Good job on going multi-node in v2! Can't wait to benchmark it with VM cluster version :)

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/measuring-vertical-scalability-f...

[2] https://medium.com/@valyala/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks...
Because of the EC I would argue that in most states, including California, your vote effectively doesn't matter at all.

Unless you are in a purple state you basically don't have a vote, and politicians can ignore your entire State.

So while the EC does empower some rural voters, in reality it effectively disenfranchises most of the country.
This is one of those magazines that comes in this thisck premium paper - perhaps to give a sense of important content where there is little.
> The founders had a very good rationale for putting it in.

Yeah, slavery. How would you have a popular vote if you're allowing slaves to count as 3/5ths of a person for vote share? They obviously wouldn't have allowed them to vote. Fortunately, we no longer have slavery as an official institution, so it may be time to revise why we're doing it.
The Connecticut Compromise is good and all, but I think it's about time we discard it as an artifact of the days when communication was difficult and states had expectations around operating as semi-autonomous bodies. States used to be a strong identity tie than the nation but our general mindset has shifted toward identifying as Americans before Delawareans.
What you described is precisely the intended effect of the pact.
A fair number of people who follow politics avidly would have known that Epstein was radioactive even before his conviction. However, that's a tiny number of people. Many more people who follow politics would have been aware after that conviction, but that's still a very small number of people. Now, however, everyone knows.
> There are only eight states in America that have more people than Los Angeles county.[2] Why are the concerns of the people living in LAC less important than the concerns of the people in Nevada or Arkansas? What is it about their geography that makes their issues unimportant?

Why would Arkansas or Nevada have joined a union of states where their votes mean essentially nothing?
why not google form?
Raising money from, coinvesting with and visiting the multiple homes of someone isn't "impersonal business transactions". It's a deep relationship with someone who was already convicted of raping a child.

You should read Ethan Zuckerman's resignation post as it offers much more information: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...

Ito was warned against getting involved with Epstein and he ignored those warnings.
In the context of the rest of the article it seems that the author composed that forgetting that their personal vantage point isn't the default. They seem to be saying that he tends to give CPR to figureheads of dying cultures not for the benefit of the author's social segment but for the benefit of the cult of Rogan.

I personally agree, but also find it hard to blame the guy too much. Anyone who has honestly engaged with trying to fundamentally change who they are knows that it's hard as shit. Can you blame the man for still being the brotastic brody bro that he was a few years ago? It turns out that yes, yes you can. I personally don't, but it is a terribly valid point to say that some comfortably privileged person's curiosity (or desire to satisfy their privileged preconceptions, depending on who you ask) should be outweighed by school shootings or the validation of the experiences of women and other minorities.

It really seems like there is such a disparate and massive quantity of fact and opinion out there nowadays that it's hard as hell even getting it all to fit together, much less managing to connect whatever views you cobble together with those that others wind up with. Cohesifying society in the midst of all of this feels like trying to put together a themed potluck by giving everyone literally a billion ingredients and hoping that their selections just each happen to be all taco themed or whatever. What a fucking mess.
> Even though I live in a giant urban area, I wouldn't want to feel pressured to due so due to lack of political stake if I move elsewhere.

This makes no sense. You've just made an error in thinking.

The pro-EC argument is people who tend to live rural have a different set of issues, and also tend to be a relative minority of people, and thus those issues aren't given due weight with 1-person-1-vote.

Deciding to move to a rural area does not decrease the power of your vote in a non-EC system - your vote has equal power.
The city dweller isn't earning money off of their land.
There will still be the Senate - 2 senators per state regardless of population.
I mean politically it's a hot topic.
It's not confusing if you ditch the cynicism. Many people genuinely believe that a system wherein the president is elected after winning fewer voters then their opponent on a regular basis is a system that should be changed.
There's a great reply to this in Pod Save America, the gist of which is: politicians ALREADY don't go to Wyoming or Montana or Central California or Upstate New York. Presidential hopefuls, especially in the GE, go to swing states.

The question we should be asking is, why are Ohio, PA, Michigan and Florida more important than any other state?
I've been waiting a million years for another branded sale on YubiKeys like the last time GitHub did one. Those things are so expensive.

Seems like a cool thing to sponsor, too - as long as it's tied to accounts to prevent underhanded measures.
> a clear example of the role of operator error in safety

>The big take away here is that systems need to be safe even though people are going to make bad decisions for bad reasons.

This is why I don't like the phrase "operator error". All too often, it's used to excuse systemic failings and avoid investigating the deeper causes of safety incidents.
You could view it as: equality of vote per person _and square mile_.
Sounds like it was more of a lung function test. Maybe 68% of a healthy adult? Who knows what metric or baseline.
Nice liberal shithole you have here
That alternative is that the rural vote doesn’t count at all.

Urban cities form extremely powerful electoral blocks in Congress which can pass huge amount of pro-urban legislation and pro-urban budgets. The rural areas have much less representation but at least enough so that they can perhaps dog-trade for policies that are important to them.

Remember that laws pass on majority or super-majority rules in Congress. So once you have enough to form a coalition your vote “matters” or not.
Thanks for this. I've been using Jabba[0] for Java which works pretty well, but I'd be curious to check this out. Although I don't know about everything SDKMAN supports, but it seems a lot of these are better handled elsewhere in most cases. For example, Maven via mvnw, gradle via gradlew, sbt can specify its own version, etc. That said, I'm sure there are good use cases for managing these things via SDKMAN.

[0] https://github.com/shyiko/jabba
Why doesn’t this same logic also apply to, say, black people? The percentages are about the same. Why do we dedicate the entire shape of our system to ensuring that rural Americans aren’t forgotten, as opposed to any other group of that size?
That doesn't seem any more likely to me than Californians moving to Wyoming to make their vote count today.
I was going to cite the USDA as my primary example. I have been hearing a lot of this from ARS, FSA and NRRL, and although their specific problems are different there is a definitely a common theme. The USDA NRRL type culture collection is currently slated to be autoclaved and shut down, which would destroy the only known publically available reference samples of many industrially and medically important microorganisms, including many that are critical to food safety testing and the original source of antibiotic compounds (the original source of pennicillin is in that collection).
You have no idea what vietnam is like. Someone capable of spewing such garbage with confidence has no credibility about anything
Same. Sustained performance is also a lot better for me if I disable turbo boost.
If you were raising money from Epstein, investing with him and visiting his houses, it's safe to say you were one of the people that were aware of his background. Ethan Zuckerman explicitly stated he warned Ito about Epstein and Ito chose to ignore it: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...
So, is it just me, or have we as a society/economy learned absolutely nothing from the Fiscal Crisis?
If there is a collapse of civillzation the last thing anyone is going to be worried about is their investment returns.

Gold as an asset class does well in periods of low real interest rates. All signs suggest we are going to be in a low real interest rate environment for sometime.

One of the nice things about investing in gold miners over just gold is in trying to find the best ones. There is real alpha in this as not all gold mines and gold miners are equal.
DC optimizers seem to be DC to DC converters, you rarely do those with MCU in professional setting, there are dedicated chips for it. Googling pictures of PCBs there are a ton of products with Aluminum electrolytic capacitors, those are rated at up to 10K hours at 105C, thats probably less than 5 years of sun divided by days whole thing gets cooked on the roof. Still that would merely lead to product failing to output power, MLCC and tantalum capacitors are the real problem, those love to short HARD under mechanical stresses, and temp cycling is a perfect environment to induce it.

mlcc fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rvAoO-MIA , causes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKY5QWehME
all i can think reading this is, "well the capitalist in me says that money is money, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, all that matters is where it goes to and what good it can do". i understand wanting to disavow oneself of unsavory characters, that's just fairly common political and business acumen. but, just accepting money from someone doesn't make you complicit in their behaviors, nor does it mean you condone anything they have done. it literally just means an transfer of finances occurred between two parties (which may itself have other ulterior motives, but ultimately that has nothing to do with how the money is distributed).

i honestly think in situations like this, when you get money from an awful person, the only place that that money should go is somewhere where it can do good in the world to offset the negative influence of the individual that provided it. just sending it back is basically saying "i worry more about maintaining my image than potentially helping people here and now when I can". sure, the whole "im going to work to match all the donations" thing is a good way to hedge your bets, but really, DRY should be a virtue in more than just coding. reduplication of effort is a bad code smell, and I'm sure that inefficiency extends to other domains in some analogous manner as well
I saw, my understanding is that you basically have a sort on device, then time: this helps some for individual queries devices to some extend (but prob hurts when you are inserts at 500 places instead of 1 or when you have queries that span too many instruments).

Point wast (and the others's i think) was the you often have as very hot segment and yesterday's data is only used at night for example. and you can have a hot device (eg, top 10 symbols). the parting doesn't help a lot there until you can spread the time around and rejoin (netezza used to do something similar and it wasn't very good at it). Do you ever rebalance the partitions? getting you top 10 symbols accidentally stuck on the same partition would be painful especially without a way to control it.

splaying the record column-wise helps in this, but i'm not sure if you are doing this.
"Sexism" is a fuzzy concept. I came from a department with rampant problems with sexism (by personal observation as well as legal decisions), and I never heard anyone express anything about women being inferior. The way the sexism was manifested was far more indirect and subtle.

One way this occurred was in discussions about sex-differentiated choices. So, for example, a big problem the department had (has?) was (is?) groups of male faculty deciding that the choice to have children is a choice against a career. The implied assumption was that women stay home, and men have no reason for family leave or any impact on their working. This eventually led to sex discrimination lawsuits by men as well as women surrounding family leave and promotion policies surrounding tenure, but the problems didn't entirely go away.

The far biggest problem that I saw though was what I'd call indirect sex biases, where the biases were against sex-differentiated interpersonal styles. So the bias wasn't against gender per se, but against traits that females differed from males in on average. This struck me the most clearly when we were hiring faculty one year; the female faculty candidates tended to be more polite, calm, and deferential in research talks, but no less competent; the male candidates tended to be more aggressive and dominant. The hiring faculty in the audience, though, would see the female interpersonal style as a sign of weakness, and become more aggressive in their questioning, later concluding that the female candidates were less competent, when they were subject to much more stringent questioning the male candidates were never subject to, solely because the male candidates were more aggressive in their responses. This came up in other ways as well, such as in promotions; the department lost a sex discrimination lawsuit after women who were objectively more accomplished were less successful in tenure promotions primarily because they were seen as not socially dominant or attention-seeking enough.

I could go on and on.

We are seeing a lot of evidence that academics is increasingly a narcissistic pissing contest. I suspect a lot of women just get out while they can because they see it for what it is, and are on the losing end of a game whose rules they disagree with to begin with. Some of it is outright sexism, but some of it is bias that affects women differentially because of average group differences.
Criminal background checks on investors is considered basic due diligence for any fund.
I would assume that if someone went to the trouble of getting an ID primarily just for voting, also registering wouldn't be a big burden.
Conceded, and removed that wording.
You can quit working at a company. Most people can't quit living in their countries.

You can keep working at the company, and access company-monitored/blocked sites in your own time with your own devices at home. No such option when the government is mandating monitoring/blocking.
My assumption is that someone with a score less than 700 probably had late payments on some of their debt.
An individual voter in Wyoming should have more say over what happens in Wyoming than an individual voter in New York.

Given the geographic clustering of opinions, it is not adequate to give every individual equal say over every area.
The problem is that "Sellers outnumber buyers as equity markets fall" and "Buyers outnumber sellers as equity markets post gains" are not compelling headlines.

As you've noted, financial news is post-hoc analysis. It is narrative-based, and not fact-based. Sometimes the narratives and facts coincide, though.
That sounds insane.
That's the wrong way to look at the problem.

The real core issue is: the president and the federal govt has way too much power. There is no reason why a centralized authority should decide on policies for both rural and urban communities.

If political power was surrendered back down to where it naturally belongs, i.e. to the state, or even better to the city level, and the fed was stripped and left with little to no political power, this whole electoral college charade would become entirely moot.
Gamedev falls squarely into my "smallish subset of use cases". It does legitimately need non-DOM UI, but it's not a huge part of the Web (yet).

As for designers, thank you for finding a much more diplomatic phrasing than the one I was about to write.
In Canada we do this because it allows more representation in minority populations provinces. Very small provinces or Quebec get slightly overrepresented in seats. Rural areas have less people per riding but greater distances makes it logical to do that. If the person who represents you has to travel 100 miles by plane to meet up with small 500 people villiages compared to walking a few blocks in a big city to reach everyone. It doesn't make sense to make them ridings/counties equal.

On that same note the 500 person community will have different needs compared to other 500 person communities in the same riding. In a big city the issues will be very similiar citywide.
And the electors of a congressional district are elected by popular vote of their state already. Kind of like an MP.
"It's going to be about 68% by 2050 and about 85% by 2100"

If the trend doesn't change for the next 80 years. Which is a big if.
From the linked article:

While a driver’s license is the most common form of ID in the state, Bentley said anyone without a driver’s license can go to any county register’s office and have a photo ID made and the closing of the DMV offices will not change that fact.

Bentley also pointed out that every probate judge in the state has the authority to renew driver’s licenses and the closing of the DMV offices will not change that fact.

Bentley said not only is the state not engaged in any effort to curtail voting, it is doing all it can to make sure anyone who wants to vote will be able to register to vote.

“We will go to people’s houses to have their picture made if they don’t have a photo ID in the state of Alabama,” said Bentley. “We’re not ever going to do anything to keep people in the state of Alabama from voting. And for them to jump to a conclusion like that, that is politics at its worst.”