skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Range voting is arguably the general case of approval voting and it has the same problem: candidates have no incentive to be honest about how the voting system works and most will campaign on "just mark 1" or "just give me the max score" in order to convert back to a FPTP.

This is not a hypothetical concern, something like this has already occurred in Australian politics. Queensland switched from exhaustive preferential (IRV where all candidates must be ranked) to optional preferential (1-n candidates may be ranked) and then ran "just vote 1" as their campaign slogan. In doing so they obliterated the centre-right and further-right parties that traditionally operate as a coalition in Parliament.

Relying on voters to be aware of the mathematics of a voting system and on candidates to represent those honestly is problematic. IRV is simple to explain, works well enough and can be efficiently hand-counted.
My guess on this is that people will pretty readily accept it if it provides something valuable to them, something they can't really get without it. The amount of privacy that people have given up using internet tech is what leads me to believe that this will be no different. I remember when people were afraid to use their own names nearly anywhere. Then they began to post their real identities in facebook (and elsewhere) feeling that they could choose who viewed the information. Now people post their real identities, pictures of themselves and even their children on publicly viewable instagram accounts. This sticks out to me because I remember thinking in the past that there was some barrier between what people posted publicly vs privately in particular with regards to their children. Not everyone is so open but it is not something I hear discussed amongst my non-programmer friends and a large number of them share in this behavior.
This apparently resulted in a very distinct blip in $SNAP: https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1186740313081159680
no—this is something that likely shouldn't ever even be committed into a codebase. It's just something you throw in while testing to check why the performance of something is acting up.

The default is really important for something like this. Much more important than consistency.
When I think secure I think

import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std@v0.19.0/http/server.ts";

It would be better to integrate something into Node.js instead of inflating a new economy balloon!
IntelliJ is just a very well written IDE. Searching for methods still feels better in IntelliJ. Or the refactoring possibilities like - move an interface/function/class into a separate file and IntelliJ will fix all imports to the reference for you. Under the hood they nowaday also use the language services (like typescript), but there are so many features on top.
> (It does reduce to an ordinal system in a two-choice election though!)

Yes. There was recently a two-choice election in the UK for the leader of a party that has ordinal voting as one of its policies. Amusingly, voters still ranked their choices rather than treating the election as FPTP.
Yeah because Catalina switch the default Safari search bar search to it.
The origin server might be set up to serve everything through cgi. That would mean loading the entire framework just to spit out a 404 for the favicon. If all the other pages cache just fine, you could hit 100% load on favicons when you'd otherwise be at 10%.

It's not an ideal design but I wouldn't call it 'horrible'.
Behold the self-destructive power of fake news and misinformation.

I imagine something similar could happen today where a fake news tweet/story ignites violence between two political/religious/ethnic groups that are on edge with each other.
Computer Security. Lots of software and hardware is getting shipped everyday and all of it is full of vulnerabilities.
"We couldn't find /<requested-page>, were you maybe looking for one of these similar pages? <list>" is something that I've seen before
There's a finite amount of history you can teach young kids in a short time span. You've got to prioritize.

There's a million interesting stories in history.
Oklo Fabricates Prototype Fuel
VSCode is great at the things you just mentioned. I agree IntelliJ is excellent for Java, but even multi-ecosystem tools tend to be biased towards certain use cases.
The sad state of language translation in Firefox
No, surprisingly not. There's life in places that even nukes won't reach.

Example: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490451.2019.16...
Jackie Chan's "fight" scenes are actually dances. If you watch carefully, you'll realize that they are choreographed to metronome precision.

Next time you watch one, try tapping your feet to the moves. You'll see :-)
We've observed the same... we started seeing this at ~9am et this morning so this has now been going on for over 8 hours.
Looks like they used to have one, but it's been closed since 2016. https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-gear-store-s-last-day/74...

I imagine it either cost too much to run or didn't bring in enough to justify keeping it going unfortunately.
Seems silly for the SEC to allow that. A media embargo isn’t something legally binding...it’s more like a gentleman’s handshake AFAIK
I visited Cuba this year. I can confirm.
Voting tactically will give a false impression of endorsement. If all the third party voters voted for Hillary, it would send a hugely wrong message about what the people actually want.
It is still true that most cloud-provider datacenters house racks of commodity hardware? If so, I could definitely imagine a shift to hardware that was designed to support running virtualized environments while keeping power and cooling costs down.

I'm not sure what that would look like. Mainframe-esque, perhaps?
There's actually a tree that does. Paulownia. Reason is that it is also the only nitrogen fixing tree, so it can grow at a much more rapid rate.
I think Google's Widevine (which is used for a lot of these DRM'd streams) is only available for Chrome. I think we'd need Google to provide a Chrome for PPC binary, which would require them to bundle a WideVine for PPC binary.

https://www.widevine.com/
Usage metrics are poor for discerning quality though. Claps implied some implicit subjective quality judgment from the reader perhaps, but still a poor binary proxy for quality information.

Neither metric optimizes for better content. Usage metrics optimize for raw quantity of content, irrespective of quality. Binary "quality" metrics like claps optimize for "engagement" which isn't at all isomorphic to quality, as multiple social media algorithms continue to show.
> The 3rd rewrite of your nodejs app still has technical debt. It still has flaws and still is buggy. Every time you redo it, you repeat the same mistakes over and over and over again never knowing how to make things better.

Oh really? Well that's good news too, because now I can just save myself those rewrites, because they're pointless. That's a 3x improvement right there.

> It's a myth that Haskell is slower. The speed I would say is the same because Haskell you would require significantly less testing and validation.

If you have wizards, that is.

> Haskell is about safety and good design. If these two things are not critical to your program, then you shouldn't go the way of Haskell.

They certainly aren't critical to your run-of-the-mill NodeJS/Angular project which, I must remind, is the alternative that we are discussing here.

> If Haskell has a critical flaw it's the learning curve. But that's a one time deal.

No, it's a "one time per hire" deal.

> Also don't call us wizards. We're not... Haskell isn't that hard.

I'm certainly not calling all Haskell programmers wizards, I'm referring to that "team of experienced developers that had built large applications in other languages (and then arrived at Haskell as a better solution)" that the original commenter saw as a requirement for success.

Of course it's not impossible to assemble such a team for a run-of-the-mill project. It's just impractical.

> Becoming an expert database SQL ninja admin on postgresql is probably just as hard as becoming one on haskell.

See, that's another kind of expert that I definitely don't want to need on the team. I want people who have a basic understanding of SQL, with a reluctance to learn the ins and outs of it. That'll dramatically lower the chances of them trying to be smart with SQL.
No need. Use Incognito/Private Browsing.

With the usual provisos, of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
From the photon's point of view, when it does reach something else it IS instant.
Quantum supremacy from Google? Not so fast, says IBM
How do you envisage the impact that these greenhouses will have on the environment surrounding them? I often wonder about polytunnels and how they shut out quite a bit of wildlife. Something like this view in Almeria, Spain - https://lh6.ggpht.com/-IHVqCZRVzzo/UiGekR4rgEI/AAAAAAAAr6M/e... - concerns me given broader issues such as the collapse in the number of insects - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalyps... (although pesticides seem likely to be the main culprit there).
I seriously have doubts about it becoming widespread.

It reminds me of the Meyers Briggs personality test that was also snake oil that got pushed onto companies. Pretty soon, people figured out how to game the test to guarantee the best possible outcome. If this thing ever goes bigger, people will do the same, especially with tech already existing.

And of course, no self respecting company will ever use this.
Thankfully we don't have tattoos in our foreheads advertising what other people think of us :).

I'm sure some arrogant ass somewhere is telling themselves that the great ones become partners at McKinsey & the washouts become CEO of Google. Kind if like that quote "Anyone can aspire to be President of the United States, but few have any hope of becoming president of the Bohemian Club." [1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-26-mn-2818-s...
I'm having trouble telling whether this is satirical.
not to mention all the people that will be affected when they inevitably default on their real estate obligations. Contractors, security, cleaning crew, small lenders... a lot of people will get hurt through no fault of their own. this kind of stuff has consequences.
Freedom Dividend Endorsement by Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw [video]
Even if 70% of people Bullet vote Approval still has a very high Voter Satisfaction Efficiency. Its simplicity makes it very robust to tactical voting.
A third party running against two polarizing candidates is a pathological case (as are two polarizing candidates alone).

IRV gets better when there are more candidates, because they can form alliances and trade preferences. It goes further than that by /encouraging/ new candidates too because they can align themselves with other candidates and band together against competition.

FPTP voting doesn’t encourage new candidates, because they’re competing against the big two. That’s why American politics sucks so much, both in its staleness and how the opponents treat each other.
I had hoped that the notification API would just silently not send a notification if the user had explicitly denied this. Unfortunately that's not the case: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...

It's a shame the designers of this feature didn't think of the abuse potential.
This hypothetical is so far from the 2000 election as to be unrecognisable. If I'd written "If Nader takes enough votes from Bush..." it would be about as realistic.

In any case, if Gore preferences flow to Bush over Nader, that's because those voters are expressing their preference for Bush over Nader. That's not spoiling: it's literally the entire point of providing a full ranking, is so that nobody's vote is ever discarded and so that any winning candidate must have accumulated an absolute majority.
Oh yes and no I guess. A certain Schadenfreude would ensue for sure. But as I'm pretty sure it's too late to save our civilisation now, it'll be a lot of chaos & suffering for not much.
Mark Zuckerberg's Testimony on Libra to Committee on Financial Services [pdf]
If that's your worry, look at OpenBSD.
> Correct if I'm wrong but from what I know the entire linux ecosystem is geared toward X86/64

That's not been my observation. I mean sure, AMD64 tends to be the primary platform for most desktop Linux users but Linux has been ported to so many different platforms and used in a lot more exotic hardware outside of the desktop domain.

Also this has reminded me one of the game servers myself and some friends on IRC used regularly was an old PowerPC desktop running Linux. Though that was a little while ago now.
Take a really simple example. Say you are looking for a new pair of trousers. You go to the high street and you see lots of mannequins in the window that are the opposite (heterosexual-stereotype gender of you). You read in an ad that this shop also sells clothes for your body type— but how comfortable are you going in, as opposed to the window that has a variation of mannequins and outfits in the window? And that's how we encourage everyone to get involved, by letting them know there is no clique or stereotype they need to worry about being part of. We should work hard at this, especially for something as critical as technology, and its design and communication.
Well this is the thing I'm confused about, having worked on some cloudfront stuff last month, documents like https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope... gave me the clear impression that every header cloudfront passes to the origin will be considered a cache key. In particular if you configure it to "forward all headers", which is what would surely be needed to pass this custom "X-Oversized-Header" onwards, it would effectively disable all caching.

I'm clearly going to have to spend another day staring at the cloudfront documentation.
That's a feature, not a bug. Fair minority representation requires multi-member districts. I understand democracy as implying majority rule, and where there is only one winner, that should have majority support.

There should be multi-member districts where possible to avoid one-party domination, but in cases where there can be only one winner, isn't it democratic to allow a party with majority support to win?
Can someone walk me through this system? I'm thinking of the Presidential election of 1992, in which the plurality winner of popular votes (not majority winner), Bill Clinton, beat Bush & Perot. The final numbers were:

Clinton: 43%

Bush: 37%

Perot: 19%

I've always felt that the will of the people was that a conservative should be elected, whereas a minority of the population actually voted for Clinton. Under our system, of course, Clinton was the clear winner with 370 Electoral votes, but given the controversy surrounding the 2016 results, it bears reexamination.

With ranked voting, it stands to reason that most people would vote along ideological lines; most conservatives would rank Bush #1 and Perot as #2 or vice versa, while liberals would rank Clinton as #1. In this scenario, would Clinton still have won? Or would the ranked approach have awarded the Presidency to one of the conservative candidates? If the will of the people was that a conservative be President, then a parliamentary system would reflect that more accurately than our winner-takes-all approach.
Local, personal generation is usually incredibly inefficient due to loading factors (you need to buy a generator that can handle most of your peak load, but they are only efficient at roughly half that - so your idle load is a huge waste, and when near peak you will be horribly inefficient).

Maintenance is also a huge pain - I've got an off grid cabin, and I can assure you, you will quickly tire of dealing with it if you are using it as your day to day power source.

Backup (propane or natural gas) generators that auto kick in aren't a bad option, but are much more expensive (about an order of magnitude higher).
If that were true the night sky would be glowing like the surface of a star. In fact the overwhelming majority of rays cast intersect only the cosmic background, which was the primordial plasma at the time of recombination[1], long before any stars formed.

[1] That is, when the hot gas cooled down enough to convert from free electrons and protons (and some helium nucleii) that scatter photons into neutral atoms that don't.
That was clearly sarcasm. I never said anything about diversity
It was Brian Eno, here's the quote:

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/649039-whatever-you-now-fin...
Not sure this is a result of crash planning, or that good deals are hard to find at the top and he won't pony up unless it's a good deal.
What do you think is happening when you `npm install` or `yarn add` a package?
There's one really easy step you could take that would make a huge dent in those phishing schemes:

Detect and block phishing emails that are forwarded through your service. Right now, I get several messages forwarded per day from "Sam at Mailgun" (actually a variety of external senders) trying to get me to log in to review various (nonexistent) problems with my account.
It typically takes a reduction in interest rates of 4% to pull the economy out of a recession. Interest rates are at 2% right now so if we enter a recession, it'll be a doozy. Europe has been testing out negative interest rates and are finding out that negative interest rates are not stimulating the economy. The fed is expected to try out quantitative easing mostly by buying various dated treasuries from the open market and a lesser amount of the toxic debt banks are holding like CDOs or mortgage backed securities just like they did in 2008/2009. This all assumes a recession will happen which is debatable. If a recession was guaranteed, the stock market, which functions as a leading indicator, would already be down and it's not -- it's relatively flat.
The government was entitled to seize the goods under civil asset forfeiture regardless of whether Hobby Lobby did anything wrong. (All that matters was whether the goods were actually looted, not whether Hobby Lobby knew anything about that.)

As to settling for $3 million, it could easily cost that much money to litigate the case. Critically, the government didn't get Hobby Lobby to admit to anything in the stipulated settlement. The government typically pushes for some admissions as part of a settlement. In the HSBC case, for example, there area a whole raft of admissions: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/legacy/2012/....
Probably agriculture. There is an opinion that food will become much more valuable and rare than it is today.
Is climate change really tied to wealth inequality or are you just looking for a way to rationalize your blood lust?
VSE is based on simulation and gee whiz, seems to favour those awfully enthusiastic range voter folks who assume we're all going to do some calculus in the voting booth.

IRV has actually been used. Thousands of times. At multi-mega-votes scale.
I'd imagine in most developed countries you can do everything online. In New Zealand over the last year I've renewed my passport, setup a company, renewed my drivers license, re-registered my car, opened a business bank account, renewed my mortgage, handled my taxes, etc. All online. The only thing that you can do online in Estonia which I can't do here that I can think of is vote.

Of course NZ is usually ranked as either 1 or 2 on the "ease of doing business" rankings and has low levels of bureaucracy so that might not be typical but I'm also a UK citizen and I renewed my passport from NZ online with no fuss.
> I have little doubt that a POWER architecture could theoretically do it just as well, if not better since it should presumably be a much faster chip. I think it's mostly going to come down to support from both the vendor and the community, but I wouldn't write it off entirely.

I actually think it'll come down to the validity of that first sentence I quoted. A Pi 4 definitely has relatively decent specs for a small server or low end laptop.

If this isn't a Power9 (aka the series that the G5 and the latest Power arch chips are a part of) then all this has going for it is the openness of it. Is it more open than a Pi 4? If they release a successor to the Compute Module 3+ with better specs and someone builds a laptop chassis around it, is there any reason I shouldn't just buy that?
You can through an about:config/user.js flag:

user_pref("extensions.pocket.enabled", false);
How on earth did you get that from what I said?

I think they are a hateful group because they so vehemently wanted to deny medical access through their mandated healthcare program.
Automation Engineer. It's a broad term, but does carry the idea that you know how to program, and do so in a way that automates normally manual processes. Also doesn't hurt to list yourself on a resume as an Automation/Software Engineer. That gets the idea across that you also understand how software is written, not just how code is cranked out.
Of course it's valid. Look for patterns. If 100 Apache Helicopters sign up for your app, congratulations, you just uncovered a new and very specific marketing segment to target.
I would recommend anyone who have seen all the material to watch The Curse of Evangelion (39min) [1]

It meta analyzes the series and movies in chronological order. It explains the director's message to the fans about escapism from reality and the dangers of it.

The first EVA series had a massive impact on the anime industry in a bad way; It create more obsessed fans who escape from reality with it and make their lives miserable, even though the series talks about the dangers of it.

Rebuild (released 14 years later) criticizes the impact and how fans misinterpreted the earlier series. He sends a message that you (the obsessed fan) can rebuild your life for the better and stop escaping reality.

As a somewhat obsessed anime watcher it hit pretty close to home. I think the director is sad how early EVA and the impact it had, helped create more hikikomoris[2] instead of less.

I might remembered some stuff wrong above, it was a while ago I saw it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIvs0Q-uKI
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
Attorneys general investigate Facebook for antitrust violations
Or you do what parliamentary systems do and have the executive position be chosen by the elected representatives, and try to set it up so that minority representation still has to be taken into account to "form a government" as the Brits say.
I've got a story about how we were spec'd at handling 50% of incoming workload, hit 60% on the first iteration, customer got so excited that we pushed, and project ended up being canned when we failed to hit the (then) final 95% target.

Taught me a big lesson about realistic messaging and never up-negotiating expectations.
This comment from the other thread may be useful in mitigating your issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21328285
> it's an opinion from someone who is most certainly not unbiased.

What on earth do you think an "opinion" is?

Can you give an example of an unbiased opinion?