skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brits really really fucked things up (along with the other european countries drawing up the borders). That bad border drawing messed things up.

Other countries mess things up too of course, including the us. For example, the us just caused major problems with suddenly moving out of the way of the turkey invasion to the kurds. Maybe the us declined to get in a war with turkey to stop it or whatever it was, but we fucked things up by moving out of the way.
> So to really get away from the poisonous political polarization of our times, ranked choice is necessary, but it needs to be Borda or similar, not IRV.

All these fancy vote counting methods will only give you some scattered "third party" (actually more like independent, no party) candidates here and there. They will not give you a multi-party system. Only proportional voting can do that.
I literally can't wait.
I don't think it's obvious that FPTP is the worst. It has the advantage that it forces coalitions of voters to figure out their bargain before the election rather than after. The party that can eliminate factional infighting will stand a better chance at winning elections than two sets of people with substantial overlap but who are still trying to beat on each other.

That is part of what was at stake in the 2016 US Presidential election. Both sides were deeply divided, but one side decided to pull behind its candidate despite that, and the other one was still at odds with itself. The third candidate wasn't on the ballot, but his supporters were still carping from the sidelines. That would have been even louder had he actually been on the ballot. It's possible that some alternative system would have brought out enough additional voters to put one or the other over the top*, but it seems at least as likely that they'd develop even more bad blood in public.

You could explain to them that an approval or second choice for their semi-aligned opponent would leave them better off, but the longer they continued to fight, the more likely they'd just consider each other enemies rather than friends. Either way, their opponents who came behind their candidate would have an easier time attacking both at once.

My point isn't that the alternative systems are bad, but that in the end every election has exactly one winner, and that winner will always represent a coalition since people never see exactly eye to eye. They have to work out the rules of that compromise at some point, and the advantage of FPTP is that they get to do so among themselves rather than mixing it in with the broader contest. Those who do so will find themselves at an advantage regardless of the system.

[0] And yeah, that's made even more complex by the weird double-aggregation system they have going on, but that's a somewhat separate issue.
It's impossible for me to pass Google Recaptcha V3, so sites that use it are sites that I cannot use.
Saw that, but wondered if there would be indirect impact from, say, our Sun getting pushed around during the event.
Looking at the video, yes. But not in the form of something colliding with the Sun. I would guess the most likely interaction would be perturbations of orbits as the solar system deals with these freight trains going by. That could result in anything from planets changing orbits as they follow the changes in the Sun's orbit around the galactic center, to having the entire solar system ejected on its own path away from the galaxy (that first pass "collision" is going to impart a lot of momentum on different systems. It shows a 'spray' of things going out from the galaxy but those things are stars with their nominally attached planetary bodies!)
Source/go-to link? The website doesn't seem to mention any hiring.
Perot pulled roughly evenly from across the political spectrum. There is no reason to assume it would have changed any result.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111651?seq=1#metadata_info_tab...
Graphical Programming - You have an ever increasing number of people needing to perform computational tasks but lack education in coding. As WYSIWYG/GUI transformed personal computers, the GUI will eventually transform the way we program as well.
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Not every service will be targeted by sophisticated bots. What kind of service are we talking about? Is it even social? Is it even a service or just a public website?

OP did not provide a threat model or any description of the service really.

Talking about this "in general" is awful and leads to stupid bullshit like endless CloudFlare captchas on literally STATIC blogs.
We don't cover this exact combination of features directly in the book; this falls out of composing the "pattern match" feature with the "range" feature.

It's also possible that you're reading a version of the book before the ..= syntax was introduced; it hasn't been there since 1.0.
I've heard so much about Estonia's digital economy, but I struggle to see the effect it has on it's own economy. Now, my data might be bad, but a cursory look at Estonia's GDP growth rate shows perfectly normal growth alongside Lithuania and Latvia [0]. Using Latvia and Lithuania to control for a digital economy, Estonia should see greater growth, but it doesn't. If going head-first into a digital economy had a significant pay-off, it should show up in the data. Until it does, I'm still sceptical.

0: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
This is an important point but it's hardly that Central London is accessible to disabled people today.

Cities that get this right have good adaptations for disabled travellers - generally by permitting them as exceptional traffic (and not through traffic).

Plus, for example, door-to-door bike lanes are also good for powerchairs. You will see a lot more wheelchair users getting about anywhere in the Netherlands than you do anywhere in the UK.
You could say that for any captcha library though.
Most relevant: https://80000hours.org

80,000 Hours is roughly how many hours a typical person will spend working. It's an organization that answers this question: How can you best use them to help solve the world’s most pressing problems?
You can’t have a community without community space
Most people leave McKinsey willingly for greener pastures, not because they were not considered partner material and were forced out. People join consulting mostly for the exit opportunities, not because they strive to be lifers there
I’m curious to what you think the application will be?

All of those I’ve seen seen so far have been terminally hopeless.
>If they have an existing chassis, than I would assume actually delivering a laptop isn't that difficult (famous last words, I understand).

From what I can tell there are three distinct groups involved:

1) Slimbook -- an existing small laptop vendor. I'm not sure if they have an active engineering role with their amd64 motherboards or if they're more of an integrator, but I believe ~~they do the engineering for their laptop chassis (unlike some other linux laptop "manufacturers" who sell rebranded Clevo notebooks)~~. Edit: It appears that the Slimbook laptops are likely also rebranded Clevo PCs. That's pretty disappointing.

2) ACube Systems -- an existing PowerPC board designer / vendor, whose engineers will do the actual work under contract(?) from Power Progress Community.

3) Power Progress Community -- PowerPC enthusiasts, the group soliciting donations, and writing the specs. It seems they plan to function as an integrator using Slimbook chassis and Acube Systems motherboards.

All that is to say that I don't think the engineers working on the PPC board are the same ones who did the amd64 one.
Still able to XSS with link 2.
Sure, which is the fault of the people and the government, as far as I’m concerned. If an elected official is corrupted or doing something we disagree with, it’s our job to fix it.
> or something very close to it.

Mandating that some large corporations award some stock to their employees may be socialism in your eyes, but that's not actually socialism, it's just a FUD talking point.
Where am I being whiny and entitled in any of my responses? I have no issue at all with people having different opinions. My issue is when their complaints don't line up with what they're saying. Namely, that their choice in preference is a failure with Catalina rather than simply something that doesn't fit their need. That distinction doesn't make Catalina a failure or controversial.
I'd recommend Vue. JSX is great but felt alien to me, who was coming from HTML + JQuery. And then you have no consensus on how to write CSS, and inline styles is still an abomination to me.
The vast majority of the stars will pass through each other; what I'm curious about is what happens at the galactic cores, and how many solar systems will end up being swallowed by the super-massive black holes at the center of each galaxy. Also, what are the side effects of two black holes merging? Have we ever observed such a thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMNlt2FnHDg
In a way, physical comedy still exists, but it's not official. The popularity of "instant karma" gifs or subreddit, youtube pranks, freak accidents. I think the last great slapstick actor was Jackie Chan though. I mean the need is there, but no one caters to it.
I use Firefox all the time and don't have to solve the image problems, however I always have Google cookies and Javascript enabled.
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We're talking about utility companies. It wouldn't surprise me if the answer is "Please use Internet Explorer 8"
> the symbolism has no point whatsoever but Judeo-Christian dogma is “foreign and cool“

All those wasted hours in Geocities pages during the late 90s looking for interpretations and explanations...
Depends where the humans live. Some areas of the world this is great work: good pay and safe work conditions.

Also depends on whether there is a limit to this work. It seems there is plenty to go around given the enormous amount of training data ML needs.

And as ML becomes more widespread the value of this work will increase and pay will go up.

Also, the current paradigm is a simple active learning approach. There may be a large variety of ways humans can contribute at various skill and hence pay levels. E.g. compare the work of original 'computers' to today's enormously well paid software developers. As one example consider the FoldIt protein folding game, which was very successful.
No - that’s incorrect. From a civil time
perspective, the UK keeps to GMT during the winter but BST during the summer.

The difference (such as it is) is that GMT is a time zone and UTC is technically not: it is a time standard.
Maybe the portal software was priced by user count?
E-mail confirmations are easy to circumvent.
I believe that counts as "school business" if you're a student.
I'd hardly call myself a "good" hacker, but I do find this to be interesting, and therefore on-topic.
The real power of this is if you combine it with open primaries.

If you're in a competitive district, ranked choice allows you to prefer a less traditional candidate with no penalty, instead of worrying that you'll give away the election.

If you're not in a competitive district, open primaries mean that instead of voting for the candidate from the party you prefer (who is destined to lose no matter what), you can vote for whichever candidate you feel more comfortable with and have an impact.

With both, the more primary seats you allow in your open primary, and given ranked choice voting, the more likely you are to elect a candidate who genuinely lies somewhere near the middle of the spectrum of the electorate, instead of lying at the extreme of whichever party is in the majority of the electorate.
The point about the accountants is interesting - might be a good opportunity to reach out to the professional association for Estonian accountants (if such a thing exists) to give some feedback.
Exactly what I was thinking when writing this question. Seems to me there really is a big demand for something proper, secure and open source. Kind of like how letsencrypt help secure the net
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even if there were tens or even hundreds of UNIVAC installations, who’s going to run the telegraph lines for all the teletype terminals this would require??
Asciident Open-world sci-fi game with design completely made by text characters
Is there a version of this for chrome?
Does this help with streaming? In particular I have always had issues with twitch and firefox.
You can have conflicts even if you have a single-commit local change, that's less than an hour old.

Long running branches are a bad idea. Try not to do that.

Not everything in a long running branch can be merged; selective things will end up cherry-picked (which is a generalization of rebase). Suppose the trunk maintainers like 75% of what was done in the branch. They might go through the commits one by one and take what is relevant.

When you merge a branch, and want to follow a good SCM process, you must treat it as a closed topic; do not commit anything more to that branch. Start a new branch, even for a closely-related continuation of the same work.

The correct way to merge a branch is to rework every single commit onto the new baseline. That is true whether that rework is represented as a merge, or a cherry-pick. Therefore, we can't avoid the issue that every change turns into a new object with a different hash.

What we can do is put tracking information in the commit message to correlate these together. The Gerrit review system uses a Change-Id: line for this. Each commit has random ID which is not a content digest; it stays the same across cherry picks.

If I'm debugging a problem on trunk T, across some commits that came from a branch R, I do not care what those commits looked like in R. Only in a very rare case will I be interested how a change looked like there. I want every commit that came from R to be reworked on T, as if it was originally developed on T. If I find the problem and have a hunch that it was introduced during the merge, then I might out of curiosity find the commit's cousin in the original R branch just to see how it looked like there. Other than that, I'm shipping T, not R, so that's what I'm debugging.
In my experience it doesn't work at all if you're blocking scripts.
That's really good, I even tried olden English to an extent to Spanish, and it still went through.
You need to frame it in terms of the times. The web was relatively new, and there was a dramatic shortage of talent. Remote work was pretty rare, and the infrastructure to support it was very nascent.

Web development wasn't very mature: just knowing HTML could net you a nice paycheck. You could go even farther with basic spaghetti-code skills in languages like PHP, ColdFusion, and ASP. Frameworks really weren't a thing. Javascript wasn't used for much more than form validation, so you could go to your favorite "DHTML" website and find scripts to copy.

Couple this with the high pay, and there were a TON of "developers" who were one- or two-trick ponies. Someone who honestly was better suited for sales or management were writing code and making big bucks, and assumed this was their life path. For many, they turned into developers. Many didn't, and left.

In my experience, if you knew more than one backend language, and were happy working in boring fields (often in boring locations) like travel or healthcare or energy, you probably didn't go without work for long. (I was at Sabre at the time, working in their HR department, and 9/11 affected me more than the dot-com bubble)
>it does affect other people and it is a perfectly valid concern

It most certainly does not affect them if they don't choose to update. That's exactly my issue with this whole thread. You're all straw-manning my response as if my complaint is with the person's desire to write an article about their opinion. That's not my issue. My issue is with the fact that their complaint doesn't line up with the statements they've made in the article and the fact that they're treating an optional update as some kind of requirement that points to a fault in the OS.

And, frankly, I think your statement about reeking of "fanpersonism" is unfair considering that the only time the site in question has ever posted to HN is to complain about Apple and/or their products. That, to me, is fanpersonism.
I have been prompt by google captcha many times here by the HN login.
Could you clarify? I'm not sure what you're objecting to.
and IRV is widely acknowledged to be the next worst. There are known-better systems out there.
I understand why it might seem that way. I personally don't think it would be trivial to wire up a working solution (including generating the correct solution strings); if you do, I certainly would welcome you to post your solution.
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I thought we liked to assume country folks were poor? Now they're stupid and rich?
Apparently Anno is particularly passionate about Matisse EB. He uses it so many other places outside of NGE that it's become not just a "NGE font" but also a "Hideaki Anno font".
Where is there too much regulation of utilities? Particularly considering the issue with PG&E, it seems unlikely this would be the case in the US; the money in the US is being squeezed toward bonuses and the like.
"The sort of interesting thing is it's really hard to be objective about this,"

And beyond that, words do not mean the same things over time.

The following quote from the 1972 Democratic Party platform would be read quite differently in 1972 versus 2019.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/1972-democratic-pa...

Family planning services, including the education, comprehensive medical and social services necessary to permit individuals freely to determine and achieve the number and spacing of their children, should be available to all, regardless of sex, age, marital status, economic group or ethnic origin, and should be administered in a non-coercive and non-discriminatory manner.
Study stats and convex optimization. If you understand logistic regression and MLE, you're mostly there.
The biggest benefit, and the biggest reason it will never happen, is that it would break the "two party system". There are many people who have an interest in keeping that alive.
The fundamental reason for this: IRV doesn't care what your preferences are other than your top choice, until your top choice is eliminated.

Until choice A is eliminated, votes for A>B>C and votes for A>C>B are treated identically, and neither one will affect whether B or C gets eliminated first.

Better systems take all preferences into account from the beginning.
I give a regular journalist even more weight than the EB.
What are you talking about?

A statically typed language would be hard to reason about without types and it would dramatically impact compilation times.

Why would you include lifetime annotations in a GC'd scripting language? These are features for the compiler and the human to reason about. The language and compiler are intertwined.

While you could divorce the language from the compiler, it would be misguided to do so for many languages and problem domains.

You can hold up TypeScript as an example of a scripting language with types that upholds your philosophy, but its advantage is primarily for humans. I'm unaware of any performance benefits or optimizations it provides. It wasn't carefully spec'd out with a compiler in mind. It's a well thought out cross-compiled superset language. This isn't the case with languages designed for bare metal.

edit: I can't reply with a comment thread this nested. Compilers absolutely inform language design and vice-versa. Bad language design leads to horrible compilers (C++). A good language design process works in lockstep with its compiler design, with careful attention to the AST, the number of passes, analysis, etc. If we didn't think about compilers, we couldn't design languages that could be compiled.
Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (http://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/) is another way of looking at different options, and IRV compares very poorly by it
The strength from having a reusable medium (docker or otherwise) is when there are integrations on top to manage deployment, failover, DNS, load balancing, certificates, etc... none of which is handled by docker. You must have noticed since you had to implement some of these.

Kubernetes is getting adoption because it's helping with that. That's where the hard work and the value is.

Docker by itself is not notable, it's a fancy zip/rpm file.
Lest we forget, in around 5bn years the Sun will become a red giant. I doubt humanity will make it that far.

Cool images though
I actually prefer to rent software, since I don't have to pay a huge amount for software that I will only use occasionally (hello Photoshop), and I know the developers will have the resources to improve their products.
Exactly what I was thinking. Also, the gravitational waves detected from LIGO were thought to be from a collision of two black holes.
Email tracking pixel support
I agree It's pretty amazing what a resource the web has become, but I don't think it's all that clear what trade-offs have been made, and if the implications of those are just mere annoyances.
Why would you want minority representation?

The goal is optimizing happiness. That necessarily means optimizing the majority's happiness.
Man.. I wish I knew what you know.

These are the things I need at my current role, and I'm woefully overwhelmed. Tying together processes spread out over multiple systems is a large portion of my role.

I'm having trouble tracking all the various scripts running on different versions of my own packages, and reacting to breaking changes on 3rd party sites. I definitely need a dashboard to tie all these automations together.

I'd love to chat if you're up for it.
Having DNS issues with s3-us-west-2 as well.
Most of their funding comes from Google, in return for making Google search the default search engine on Firefox
AR will replace every display in the world. There's nothing special about it, it's just a better form-factor.

You would probably use the same kind of applications, but you'll be able to have 1000 windows open at the same time, located all around your room, easily accessible (just turn your head).

All those gimmicky 'AR applications' are gimmicks. The real use case is replacing our tiny displays.
They don't have to be formally forced out, just realize that they're not likely to win the competition to be partner and move to other companies out of self-interest.
The Ever-Present Glow of LED Greenhouses
A parody is something like Dual! Parallel Trouble Saga.
Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization