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You're right to point out that attempts at electoral reform often fail because of issues of "too much change, or too complex" (even if those are narratives that are disingenuously pushed to trigger the illusory truth effect in citizens' minds).

Given the failures of campaigns in the UK and Canada to change the voting system, I think that a requirement for proposed systems has to be that the ballot papers (and voter instructions) must be the same as FPTP, and the constituency/district boundaries (and number of representatives) have to stay unaltered too.

That may seem like too stringent a set of requirements, but as you say, a top-two run-off system does satisfy them. Unfortunately, such a system can still be attacked on the basis of cost, since having two election days is roughly twice as expensive as having just one. Not only is there the administrative cost to the government, but the time cost for voters themselves.

The only remaining solution that I have found is Asset Voting, in which votes are cast and tallied just as in FPTP, but then the candidate with the fewest votes gets to reassign their votes to one of the remaining candidates, with this process repeating until a candidate has a majority. This should remove the problems of spoiler candidates and tactical voting.
It seems that the tag mappings will need to live in separate physical RAM, so that info could be pulled from the tagmap RAM chips at the same time as the data is pulled from the data RAM chips.

Using multiple RAM chips to increase throughput is an old computer engineering technique; it was, for instance, the entire justification for planar graphics modes in early graphics hardware.
Interesting read. It does highlight though that this style of investing is very much dependent on hitting home runs and grand slams—-whereas you’re typical SPY investment is a series of steady base hits. All is well until you miss a few pitches, then the potential big upside flips to a big potential downside whereas base hit guy keeps truckin’ along.

Just like with hedge funds you tend to hear about the ones that did well, and not so much about the ones that lost their shirt. Also like hedge funds while there are a few recognized skilled investors for many others there’s not a whole lot of solid evidence that the “winner” investors were really smarter than the rest, just probably luckier. (Just under 50% of people betting black in roulette will double their money... that doesn’t make them good investors). Like hedge funds there are lots of, often untold, stories of people getting super lucky with returns, thinking they are “skilled” and then going out and losing a ton the next few times around.
Lex is a good interviewer, he's thoughtful and goes into depth. I've enjoyed many of his interviews. It's like he's a more stoic version of Joe Rogan.

Some of his guests, however, are a very bad choice. In particular I am thinking of Eric Weinstein who has been on TWICE. Weinstein is a master-class bullshtter, who opines on his theory of everything yet has NOTHING to show for it. He also manages to pull in politics, academia, culture, and the kitchen sink, all obfuscated by turgid rhetoric.
I always see Americans with these crazy quotes for healthy food. I'm very curious what you spend the 2k on.

Here are some prices for central Europe. Kg of rice is 1 euro. Kg of oats is 1 euro. Potatoes and other tubers and root vegetables, even less. Cherry tomatoes, maybe 4 euros per kg. Lentils, peas, chickpeas less than 2 euros per kg. Whole chicken maybe 4 euros per kg. Chicken breasts are like 7 euros per kg if you don't want to bother with cutting it up. I think meat in general is cheaper in the USA (but quality may differ).

Do you guys eat a literal ton of vegetables a month, or do we have different ideas of what healthy food refers to?
> The system’s sole source of fertility is leguminous cover crops
This is correct. Its not an education problem (most farmers agree with these no-till sustainable practices), its an incentive problem.

No sane farmer who derives their living from farming is going to take such a huge risk when annualized corn-soy production is heavily subsidized by the government (rightly or wrongly) on the _possibility_ of these practices maybe paying off (someday).

https://thinkingagriculture.io/incentivizing-regenerative-ag...

edit: There is a carefully crafted statement on the OP link saying increased yields in dry years. Outside of 2020 and 2012, the Midwest has been anything but dry. Can't expect people to adapt unprofitable practices
> Sometimes I have to reply to those company and especially in a Mail client setup it becomes difficult to reply from <company-name>@mydomain.tld

This was very easy with Unix mail clients twenty years ago — what is wrong with Mail that it doesn't support this functionality?
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The one thing "constant" about Microsoft is that when they try to force you to use OneDrive, Skype, Edge, Windows Store, whatever, they annoy people enough that they reject it and MS eventually gives up.
What are you referring to when you mention hydro cut stone? A quick google shows gemstone cutting, small subtractive milling of gargoyles and cutting/etching of thin decorative stone.

Are you talking about a quarrying process? I've got a little bit of knowledge about quarrying as there are many active limestone quarries in my area, but always interested to learn more.
I didn't know such a problem may be coming.

Would everyone composting solve this?

If anyone was unaware, urine is high in nitrogen and when added to compost is like "adding gas to fire, but slower". I never had an issue with Nitrogen in my compost.

I can see nitrogen going to waste if food ends up in a landfill, but I imagine our sewage systems recycle this for profit.

Is this manageable with habit changes?
Where do you draw the line? Econophysics takes the natural science physics and tries to solve economic problems with it. There's also some application in the finance sector.
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Fair point — I was just rehashing a very simple thought experiment that showed why the acceleration should be the same for heavy and light objects alike, but you are totally correct, it isn’t really ok for me to count all bradyons as equivalent.
Fibre reinforced concrete is not really "news", we were using the one or the other forms more than 30 years ago, exactly to prevent cracks, the issue in real life applications is to distribute the fibres (be them metallic or plastic).

But this, see the actual picture of the lattice on the article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026412752...

look more like traditional reinforced or mesh reinforced concrete.

ABS is not such a great material for construction due to its sensibility to UV rays, surely there are "better" plastics for this use even if maybe not suited to 3D printing.
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I know for a fact that 3 isn't even used on national-cup event in France, at least for sailing, canoe and kayak events. Or rather, that the club and physical preparators from this club advise against anything other than supplements, and even the French Kayak champion (Joly) only take a few of those, only 1/3rd of a year.
What do you mean by "style is questionable" ?
Angela Merkel is not president of Germany. It's funny you mention this since I lived in South America for most of my life and only recently moved to Germany, so I can see the differences in the way things are done over there and over here.
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Their letters section does a nice job at backstopping them in that regard.

I’d love to see some examples of flagrant omissions gone unchecked.
Maybe it didn’t came out that way, but I just wanted to say that you need to be at a certain level of wealth to not seek profit from such an investment and to see it as an honor.

Sorry if I didn’t express myself clearer.
I think the Rodale people are well intentioned but off in their approach. Need to focus less on the technological aspect or more on the economic and scaling aspect.

The reason people don't do this isn't because they aren't aware of such practices, they don't do it because you have to thread a needle as far as precise management is concerned to simply turn a profit. Not that much room for margin in today's agriculture landscape
I find them pretty easy to deal with now, they used to be annoying when you needed a specific app to scan them though.
Then they spend a few days refreshing a webpage to get an appointment to register a vehicle, three weeks from now.
Seems sensible behavior for protocol-level authentication: user is not authenticated, so ask for authentication first.
And if they don't, then the firmware is open and the community for retro games loves allowing the people to play their "backups".

Honestly as a whole the retro gaming hardware community is amazing. I'm part of one that's focuses on gameboys, and one member reverse engineered the firmware for a cartridge flasher because the main one from the manufacturer is so bad. now we have a new flasher and less buggy firmware.

I can't wait to see what we do to the Pocket.
That's a very impressive list. Tried several times and all demos (maybe except one) were genuinely awesome!

Are you compiling this list by hand?
No, the scale of agriculture is too big for residential solutions to move the needle. Need economic incentives for these eco-friendly practices.
Similarly, one of the more "evil" things Microsoft has done in recent years is stop automatic updates for Windows 7 sometime in 2017-2018 and force people to manually get the updates from the "browser" - where the browser actually meant the default IE8 and they kept pretending they weren't aware the downloads don't work in Chrome/Firefox.

Mind you this was way before the "official expiration" of Windows 7 updates in 2020.

That was a big FU to their Windows 7 users throwing them under the exploitation bus just to force people to move to Windows 10 already.
Nah, of course not! It's fair game (otherwise you'd first have to invent the universe). It was just the speech synth API was pretty new when I did that, so it felt sneaky ;)

Also - p01, you are a hero to us all. MONOSPACE is beautiful, congrats on the Assembly win!
Of course. Although his run was upheld by the supreme court (which is biased towards his party), there was a referendum held the year before which basically asked 'should Evo be allowed to run again, although it's currently unconstitutional?' and the people decided against him. Him running again was literally unconstitutional and he running again puts his presidency's (and thus, his parties) legitimacy in question
It wouldn't take long to confirm that XSS vulnerability, which, by itself, would warrant disabling embeds from that domain.
This sounds great for those with sight disabilities.
It's cool you guy fixed it so fast and deserve some good PR here for that but I'm surprised you paid out $5k for an RCE. That's unspeakably cheap for something that could have fucked over many of your users.

I work at a very small company, so small that a security researcher would never accidentally stumble on our products to test them and if my boss asked me what would be an appropriate pay out for this, I'd say easily $25k, but more likely 30-35k if we can afford it.

What you guys have accomplished here is set a precedence that you pay so little that researchers should either a) not bother with discord or b) should sell on the darknet.

As a discord app user, I'm very concerned about both of those cases.
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We don’t regularly have hospital ITUs stuffed full of people with influenza, threatening to overwhelm capacity

Who/where is we, here? Because that's absolutely not true for many countries, where seasonal flu is routinely reported by the press as creating overloaded hospitals. Here are some examples:

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20190205/bad-...

"Bad flu seasons test US hospitals: Hospitals in the United States have implemented new policies based on last year’s severe influenza season, but infectious disease experts agree that America’s health care systems would still be seriously challenged by another bad influenza season."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-winter-p...

"NHS winter pressure: Hospitals report 99 per cent capacity over festive period as flu season looms"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5279685/Californi...

"Flu drives hospitals into 'war zone' conditions: Tents on the street in California, 'state of emergency' in Alabama, and Boston is using GATORADE to plug shortage of IV drips"

https://www.thelocal.fr/20170111/french-hospitals-stretched-...

"Hospitals in France at breaking point as flu epidemic spreads"

etc. Reports like this are common across the world. Partly it's that the press like reporting crisis stories and in any large medical system they can always find health workers willing to give them dramatic quotes. Partly it's that surge capacity is always inherently limited.

every single post mentioning COVID is full of these shallow armchair analyses that seem to think rejecting all prevailing wisdom is an inherent good

I've not seen anyone claim that rejecting all prevailing wisdom is inherently good. That seems like a strawman. The posts arguing about COVID aren't rejecting panic just for the sake of it, they're arguing about it because they disagree that the severity of the problem supports the consequent social policies.

HN is also full of people posting comments decrying the awful people who double check what government officials are claiming against data, facts and logic. Those are equally aggravating to those of us who don't see a problem with critical thinking: especially when the "prevailing wisdom" is a subjective assessment of who thinks what. One that's being seriously distorted by media hype and censorship, to boot. The "wisdom" many governments are listening to is sadly very far from wise.
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Ask HN: What are some ways to improve listening skills over Zoom?
I've noticed I've been cutting people off in virtual meetings. Not sure if it's a zoom-based error but never had this issue in irl meetings. Perhaps it's because it's less easy to read body language cues when the person is finishing.

Has anyone else had this problem? And what are some suggestions to improve your listening style over Zoom?

I researched some historical threads about "active listening" which I will be reading and checking out the resources, but haven't found anything zoom specific. TY!
>The results show that our approach yields an average 3.38x performance improvement over C++ STL sort, which is an optimized Quick- sort hybrid, 1.49x improvement over sequential Radix Sort, and 5.54x improvement over a C++ implementation of Tim- sort, which is the default sorting function for Java and Python.

This is a lot
My Bose headphones are wired and much bulkier and heavy. They are good if you do not move around.

The Adidas are much lighter. They are designed to be worn while you are active. You can even disassemble and wash them.

I know Bose has a wireless version but I don't own it.
I was always wondering if there is a way of distinguishing a straight line in a curved space from a curved line in a flat space, given that you cannot 'look' at space time from the outside. Would that be possible?
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Title is actually optional “if the document is an iframe srcdoc document or if title information is available from a higher-level protocol” (such as email). So the minimal valid HTML document is actually just <!doctype html>.
Facebook says it rejected 2.2m ads for breaking political campaigning rules
I keep reading this complaint and I do not understand it at all. For me Lex's delivery is refreshing. He is sincere, naive, full of wonder and never interjects himself as a subject. His obvious decency is for sure part of the reason he can get such wonderful guests. I hope he changes very little about his delivery.
Hello, RSS
Speaking of politics, that's often why Wikidata is not linked to Wikipedia. Most of the smaller language Wikipedias are eager to use Wikidata, as it provides data on a scale they couldn't achieve on their own. But the biggest Wikipedia, the English one, is very resistant to implementing Wikidata support, as they feel their local info is better maintained than Wikidata info. Which is true, but ignores the likelihood that Wikidata would improve very quickly if enwiki started using it. A very short-sighted and selfish attitude.
I think I'm in between somewhere. I do love named intermediate results as documentation. I love that functional code composes so well that you don't have to give names to every value... but I hate when people abuse it to eliminate all names.

Oftentimes, if I have a one or two line function that is only used in one place, I prefer to have it inline and use a named intermediate value to document its meaning.

grades_with_end_of_semester_adjustment = grades.map(x =>
code code code
code code code code code
)

odd_adjusted_grades = grades_with_end_of_semester_adjustment.filter(x =>
x % 2 != 0
)
On a similar topic, XSLT is still an excellent way to turn structured data into a page. It even works with RSS, ATOM, and OPML.

And you can even mix-and-match it with SPAs, and Vue.js with it's "hydration" system. That's an very power trick to slash data consumption, and improve cache hits for a "portal" style website. One showstopper: gazillion XSLT/XML bugs in Chrome left unfixed for 10+ years.

Another particularly interesting application is that you can turn XML data into SVG visualisation solely with XSLT, or you can add some JS with interactivity cod into XSL to run on the client side as a finishing step.
Regardless of the actual reason why they cant use the 200M hardware, isnt int kinda funny that they even assumed that they could make money from the full capacity at day 1. Who the heck would be the customer of cloud storage hardware worth 200M at day 1. Clearly demand grows over time, that cant be skipped. Reward "miners" for whatever they provide even if no one uses it - sound unsustainable.
Bill Bryson has a delightful book about walking these routes through England: https://boook.link/Road-to-Little-Dribbling
Personally I'd prefer text. I can't skim/speedread audio or video.
It will do when the Spanish attack.
Oh, my conclusion is not about politics

> This deeply offended him. He then accused ...

> I think his response was "Fuck off"

Unfortunately I've seen been in such situations. I've politely asked to act in good faith of each other or close the topic. Some people feel better after arguing, I don't.
I bought two Poang chairs roughly 20 years ago, and they are still fine. Wonderful product.
Having sold off various types of old furniture on various Craigslist equivalents, it's kind of amazing how much faster anything with "IKEA UMLÅUT" in the title sells than anything else. Like McD's, they're known quantities, the buyer knows exactly what they're getting and what it's worth.
You're gonna need at least that much to run the Electron apps of 20 years from now...
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Only if dyed organically.
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Under most modes, I agree the setting should be turned on, but some advanced local only code bases / programs might require this option turned off/on
Who knows, maybe the policy extends as far as not having any friends using Chrome.
We have been using wikidata on pantheon.world to measure collective memory. In our case we start with all instances of human, trim the last to only the people with 15 or more language editions on Wikipedia and rank them based on an index. More info here: https://pantheon.world/data/faq
And thus the term "chess playing buttplug" is used for the very first time in history...
On average I'd rate him a pretty good interviewer however it seems like the quality has declined recently. E.g., his interview with Michael Malice a few weeks ago, where he (Lex) confessed to pulling an all-nighter before the interview, and so wasn't on his game. It showed. Hopefully the lesson he took from that experience is he shouldn't pull all-nighters before an interview.

As the commenter above said, lots of 'meaning of life' questions that just aren't that interesting.
Yet Carousell (the local Craigslist) is still massively popular.
I lived in South America and the amount of Bolivian emigrants, and people in general who leave the country temporarily to use other countries' resources (collecting welfare from other countries and taking advantage of public healthcare in some other South American countries, particularly Argentina) is enough proof for me that Bolivia is not doing very well, whether it is a socialist state or not.
Search for nitrogen in the original article, it definitely reduces the need for added nitrogen. Adding lots of cheap nitrogen is something we've become addicted to ... farmers used to rotate crops etc.

There is another article on this site about how corn will uptake far more nitrogen than it needs, so cheap, abundant nitrogen isn't really as necessary as we believe.
and it saves you a lot for the long run by shortening your life expectancy !

Cutting traffic means that you are taking risks, in some parts of Europe motorcycles are expected to drive like a car hence they are not saving you in traffic.
On the contrary, Weinsten is a genius, a contrarian and a patriot who is not afraid to call a spade a spade. Thank the deity that there are still people like that and they can reach the rest of us with little mediation by establishment types.
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Duck tape:

Originally came from the thought that seals on ammo boxes would cost soldiers precious time on the battlefield.

Today it's used for seal and repair in everyday life.
I understand, but the corollary of time appearing to speed up close to gravity well (article explains this is not a field per se) is that it would appear to slow down further away. Is there a minimum speed of time relative to earth?
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Ben Thompson is one of those rare people who can actually do "fair and balanced" in a way that doesn't treat atrocious views as a simple and innocent matter of opinion.

I used to be all aboard the "social media is the problem" train, but...

>> "The point of this is not to debate whether or not the email story was true, or Hunter Biden’s laptop story. Rather, it’s to establish that while social media publishes everything, from mountains of misinformation and conspiracy theories to critical information about an impending pandemic, making something matter requires more than manufacturing zero marginal cost content. The New York Times has that power by default, while Twitter and Facebook only has that power to the extent they do the opposite of what most expect from them (which is to act as a utility for the conveyance of information)."

It really does seem like a long list of Very Serious News Organizations taking it seriously enough to publish hundreds of articles on these things does more harm than it floating out there in the goofball ether. No one should have taken a tabloid seriously. They're still going to, because it's profitable, so the solution is probably not "block it" or "don't write about it." The article has some good ideas.

edit: in particular the comparison between responses from Twitter and Facebook. Facebook slowed rather than blocked. That gave fact checkers time to warm up without dumping go juice into the conspiracy loop. I haven't heard the same apoplectic screaming about Facebook.
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