skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to put in a good word for n8n and I am not the author. App does what it says on the box. Jan and team are easy to work with. They have done a good job of accepting my PRs as well.

They have a ways to go in terms of improving UX, but I think that is coming.
Yes, but why does the US have a structural duopoly. There may be certain features of the system that promote it, but I don't think it is close to provable that the US's system of government innately requires a duopoly. The duopoly exists for historic and cultural reasons.

> Name one country that does so with a strong, separately elected (not by the legislature) executive who is elected (directly or indirectly) by a method which doesn't involve ranked choices and uses single-member national legislative districts with majority/runoff or plurality elections.

First of all the US has a two round system in most states (most states are open primaries). So France falls into this category.

> Because some of us have actually studied comparative government and the structural incentives and effects of different electoral systems.

And some of us have actually lived under the electoral process and politics of other countries (in addition to studying them).

> The duopoly problem is 100% institutional

No problem is 100% institutional. That is facile. Culture obviously plays a role in some regard (why is the opinion on whether "12 Years a Slave" should have won an Oscar a partisan thing?).
> The Roman Catholic Church (is "Papist" some kind of dogwhistle slur these days?) would often be thought of as economically leftist.

It isn't leftist, it's anti-leftist, given that it has a decree against Communism:

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

Also, "Papist" is a traditional Conservative term, as per the very Conservative Protestants and Anglicans. I didn't realize a Conservative word would cause offense.
I also did a talk on Flatpak (part of what's being used under the covers for Pressure Vessel) and OSTree a while back if you want to know how the underlying tech works for it: https://youtu.be/KFwBu-_k3rM?t=705. Flatpak-specific things start at 26:51.
Ah, reminds me of messing with my friends by piping the output to a write message on their terminals. Super annoying because it just scrolls through the terminal frame by frame.
I think they could still make some new iteration of Steam Machines work (although, they should probably come up with a different name to avoid the baggage of the first generation's failure).

They would need to follow some of the lessons of the other consoles though:

1. They need to have a standardized base implementation against which developers can test, and be confident enough to say systems that at least meet that base configuration will playable.

2. They need to manufacture or have someone manufacture a version that's as easy (or easier) to setup and use as game console.
Simplifying greatly, tactical voting in RCV gets super complex, and STAR does a much better job at rewarding honest voting.

In STAR voting, the optimal strategy is almost always to vote how you actually feel. This isn't the case with pure RCV.
If you're communicating between two systems, gRPC has a few benefits:
* keeps a socket open between them (HTTP/2) and puts all your method calls on that connection. So you don't have to set up connections on each call or handle your own pooling.
* comes with builtin fast (de &)serialization using protobuf.
* uses a definition language to generate SDKs for a whole bunch of languages.
* makes testing super easy because your testing team, if you have a separate one, can make an SDK in their preferred language and write tests.

Much better developer experience and performance writing HTTP services and code to call them.

Cons are
* not being able to use Postman / firebug, nothing on the wire is human-readable
* load balancer support is sketchy because of the use of HTTP trailers and full path HTTP/2. That's why AWS ALB supporting it is news.
* The auth story isn't very clear. Do you use the out of band setup or add tokens in every single RPC?
France is in a similar position. Granted France is 2-round, but arguably the US is too.
Are there a lot of situations where it is a strict choice between following the law and doing what other drivers expect?

I don't think there are that many really. Speeding is one, but most of the time following the speed limit doesn't dramatically increase the risk of accidents. Then you have stuff like turn signals. Using them isn't going to hurt anything, whether drivers expect them or not.
Multiple people have been suspended for doping in tennis, but their past achievements were not impacted.
It does run in both directions, but notice which side has the predominant position and representation at the top tech companies that are doing the information policing. It's certainly happening in conservative communities, but the established information channels are almost all controlled or dominated by the left. And they never call out their own. When was the last time you saw reddit for example shut down propaganda, say, on r/sino? Or prevent it from affecting other subreddits? It's blatantly obvious that pro far left astroturfing and gaslighting are the norm on most of the popular social media.
> It doesn't make sense to compare the US to "other countries" that have different political systems. We don't have a parliamentary system.

Sure it does, that's how you understand the effect of political systems.

What doesn't make sense is ignoring the differences in the electoral structures and pretending that because something works with a radically different electoral structure in one country, the reason it can't happen in the US must not be because of the US electoral system.
This is what the article was missing -- real examples that you can see how to implement and why the differences help!
On passing around objects, would the gravity wave create an interference pattern that we would be able to detect given enough detectors?

Also I feel that sentence structure is horrible. If anyone can offer alternatives that are easier to read I would appreciate it.
Very early but also super advanced. Check out the jewelry they made with precision-drilled holes etc: https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0100-s...
I think I might have misunderstood your original argument. If what you meant by "property rights online" is that users should have property rights over their data, on this we agree. I am in favor of laws that would e.g. mandate any website that collects PII to provide tools to manage/export/delete/control the collected data. What I thought you meant was that users would inherent property rights over the website itself, that is what I disagree with.
External import would work as you expect - simple use "import Whatever from 'https://unpkg.com/pkgname/file.js'" or alternatively use the shorthand `//` for the package name and the system will do it's best to fetch the package, like so: "import Whatever from '//package-name/package.file.ext'
Now make Google Search with date restriction before 1 April 2020.

"After two days of intense debate"
"the United Methodist Church has agreed to"
"one that is expected to end"
"in the creation of a new denomination"

and so on...

Do you understand now what GPT-3 thinks about Yann LeCun? GPT-3 is plagiarism scam.
Can you help me validate this assumption I've formed based on what you said: The only time this seems to be impactful is when you rank two candidates with the same preference [0].

It seems that otherwise this just creates a roughly equivalent ranking structure. I think that's interesting in a system with many candidates or very similar ideologies, but in this example I would probably expect the same result.

Edit:

[0] After reading more, I now realize that the initial selection is also the sum of preference votes, so someone could rank Bernie 5, Hillary 4, Trump 0 which could create changes in who the run-off candidates are.
In 1972 the Nova 1200 Jump-to-Subroutine wrote the Program Counter contents above the subroutine address and thus Subroutine-Return was a short jump via that address. It was possible at compile-time to check if this mechanism was enough. Otherwise the subroutine call was three words, because it was possible to make one word Pushs and Pops in that advanced architecture.

I made lisp-interpreter and toyed with compiler.
Assume for the sake of argument that the policy of the "third" party is just like that of the "second" of the two "main" parties. In that case, it's true that the second party could be eliminated in the initial round of voting. However, all its votes would then transfer to the third party. In that case the third party very well could beat the "first" party, satisfying supporters of both the second and third parties.

It's true that third parties would be unlikely to map to the current political spectrum in such a "pure" fashion. However, that just means that voters reject the political choices currently on offer. Voters really should have that option.
> Real nature is not happy fluffy bunnies and cuddly wolf pups. It is heartless and uncaring. And majestic, awe inspiring and wonderous.

Right, which is why I like it.

I don't live on the east coast because I'm afraid of wolves or nature. I've done a lot of things in my life that were far more dangerous than living near wolves.
That’s a bit horrifying to be honest. King of Kong was my favourite documentary ever until 5 minutes ago. I feel so dirty now
The fastest .NET library is ASP.NET Core, which is a standard, mature, off the shelf framework.

Compared to the golang version using fasthttp, which is non-standard and makes compromises to achieve speed, and I'd avoid it for production.
Asteroid samples sealed in OSIRIS-Rex return capsule
I agree that there are some downsides, but regarding the conservative party leadership contests, it's probably fairly likely that the "who?" response would've happened under FPTP.

2017, likely that Bernier would've won, but I'm not convinced that he was more well-known than Scheer. Happy to be proven wrong here.

The 2020 result would likely have been the same as it is now. A small contingent of Sloan/Lewis supporters strategically voting would have tipped it to O'Toole.
Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models
Waymo customers have confirmed that the car currently does behave very similar to a human in situations like yellow lights. It will keep going quickly if it makes more sense to do that than stop abruptly. A lot of times that is actually the only safe way to handle it.

That doesn't mean that it can't still get rear-ended by being more cautious than some impatient and unsafe human drivers, for example when it decided there is plenty of time to stop safely.
These games still exist today, but come from small passion studies (much like early-mid Sierra)...and today, the number of games published is much, much greater than it ever was then. That is to say, generally only indie- or genre- enthusiasts know where to find the "good stuff" for any given category good, because the small studios don't have the marketing dollars to compete with the larger players or to cut through from "sleeper genre hit" to "genre hit," let alone from "genre hit" to "mainstream hit."

The genre games that do make it to mainstream are typically backed by distasteful in-app purchase schemes.

Many people have heard about "Dwarf Fortress" at this point since it's been around so long, but mostly only the "traditional roguelike" fanbase is even aware of games like "Cogmind" (an ascii game with incredible attention to detail that extends beyond being just a great game to things like thoughtfully implemented accessibility features and lovely crafted ascii graphics using its own open sourced ascii engine, RexPaint). Within that enthusiast crowd, though, it's one of those obvious 'oh yeah I know that game' games.

(Okay so my reply started out in good faith but then I couldn't help but use it as an excuse to gush about Cogmind[0] and the work of its author.)

But anyway, as a genre- enthusiast I don't really know what the best forums are for finding other hits in other genres. But occasionally I watch YouTube videos reviewing games similar execution to, say, King's Quest 6, and I really do think there's a rich library of high quality new games coming out in that genre.

Steam's recommendation engine has gotten better at helping you find what you're looking for, fwiw, but you still have to go looking.

A bookstore is probably a good analogy for the experience today. If you only looked at the books in the front of a bookstore, or only read the "popular" books, you might come to the conclusion that most books being written are crap. It helps to go into a bookstore armed with knowledge of what genres you like and which authors are respected for quality before you even get to the browsing stage.

[0] - https://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/
IIRC, that java was self-contained. I think the applet zip file contained the textfile, which I used to make my own local viewer. FWIW, the text file has changed over time (which I guess is fair, it's not like Lucas hasn't changed his versions over time)
This comment is uninformed. A nice property of RCV is that an individual can choose to entirely ignore it and vote as though it were still FPTP: all you need to do is fill in exactly one box for the candidate you want and ignore the rest. There's no mandate that you rank all the candidates.
In high school we would put vacuum tubes in the tube tester and rapidly adjust up the heater voltage. Turns out those babies would launch like rockets if you cranked it way past nominal. Our electronics teacher was not pleased.
Wow, that is way more in depth than I was expecting. Thank you for the link!
Ok, armchair theory here, let's for a moment assume Einstein's belief that time is the fourth dimension.

We use our senses to detect/experience dimensions, right? I mean, we use sight, hearing, touch to detect 3-D space, for example (not forgetting taste and smell too).

If time is the fourth dimension, maybe these cells are our evolutionary attempt to sense/detect and operate within that dimension.

Which explains how the experience of time travel could be possible in at least one way - if we can change/affect our sense/perception of time (um.. navigating time?), it can seem to us like time travel. I'm not saying we would be affecting the timeline itself in this case, I mean more like messing with the sense of time that causes us to "experience" time travel.

Ok sorry, that does too sound like too much armchair pseudoscience, but this article and some of the other comments just got me thinking.
How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
It wasn't about designing and LGBT-themed cake. They didn't discuss the design of the cake at all [1]. It was about making a cake that would be used by gays at their wedding.

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16-111...
Any cell can become a human if it is placed in a favorable environment. My argument is not about intrinsic value of sperm cell, fetus, or a newborn, my argument is about maximizing the amount of life in general. Every human alive by simply pursuing his own selfish goals, makes lives of everyone else better, by increasing the usefulness of research.
Descript's “Overdub” for videos is quite something
Have there been made digital models that mimic the sound characteristics of these tubes based on descriptions of their mechanics? That might be an interesting project: emulate different manufacturers tubes based on the exact physical differences between them. Tubes are very interesting, they are amplifiers, switches, resonators, diodes, microphones, sources of interesting particles and even speakers when used creatively.
If you know CSS well, I find this useful:

https://devhints.io/xpath

The problem with xpath is that you rarely use it, so you forget how to do certain things. Then you have to go and re-learn when you need it. Rinse and repeat.
The documentary Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade is a nice companion piece to King of Kong. It has interviews with a lot of the same people.
The assumption here is, the censors have the ability to "critically think" and others do not. I'm not sure that is very honest.
Neat! Thank you for the pointers.

That makes me really happy.

I'll narrow my request to a suggestion for something easier (indeed, easy enough I can do a bit myself): more documentation and tutorials. I think I'll get on that (although on my own pages; I'm not ambitious enough this month to contribute upstream). I did a fair bit of searching at one point, and didn't find this stuff. Now, I can try to come up with good kids activities.

I will also mention: Most kids can do pretty advanced stuff, if introduced correctly. We've been wedded to a particular order of teaching math for a very long time, which places things like convolutions as late college-level math, and long division as late elementary. In fact, convolution is a lot easier than long division. That's true for a lot of "advanced" math.
This is great! Can't wait for the follow-up studies. If anyone's in Seattle, there's a group there trying to make Approval Voting happen for city elections: http://seattleapproves.org/
Totally OT: apologies but gen220 you don't have contact info in your profile.

You mentioned in an old thread a few months back about using pandoc for versioned documentation in your organisation. I'm looking at doing that now -- converting to markdown, putting files in git. What we really want to do is allow users to comment their copies and the comments be kept across versions. I wondered if you had ideas on that. Currently we use PDF but Acrobat pins comments to page numbers and so they can be completely in the wrong place of pages are removed. We're using manuals that are 1000+ pages.
> The only argument where this holds water is with executive elections (president, governor)

If you concede this point then I don't think there's much more to argue about. Nobody argues about the many third parties in the US that just endorse some major party candidate for the chief executive positions. When they run their own candidates for these positions is when they become spoilers.
How is it related to SOAP in any way?
I think there's a solid chance that a 'near human capable' driving system will handle slippery roads better than the human average. The system will be in a modern vehicle with traction control and likely make conservative judgments about road condition.
I absolutely don't agree with you. But you're one the few who's honest about his endgame. I see all jabs against farmers in this light though. And they do too.
Expanding operations can quickly turn into managerial empire building. Pumping more capital into a business may or may not yield proportionate returns.

If the money is returned to shareholders, they are now free to deploy the capital how they see fit. This could be for personal consumption, investing in new companies or funding R&D. All of these are positive outcomes for society at large.

But I fail to see what positives can come from putting $425MM into a volatile and mostly speculative digital asset.
Did life on earth "evolve" from inorganic chemicals or did some essential components just drop from the sky. The common assumption is the former but until someone shows it is possible, it remains an unproven assumption.

Either way, we are made from stardust.
I'm not sure they'd lose elections though.
Right, because he's telling his supporters to go out and loot and riot.
COBOL Exhibit at the Smithsonian
Blocking malicious psychological manipulation seems perfectly reasonable to me. Not all speech is protected free speech.
"The Humble Programmer" is an exercise in self-mockery, as Dijkstra has always been very conscious of the value of his work. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...
I don't disagree with your assessment, but I don't know enough about it to take a strong position on it. That said, I'm concerned about the idea of policing information. On the other hand the amount of manipulation I see via media, on both the right and the left, has me concerned too.
What comes after the late-stage capitalist death cult?
Billions of light years?

I thought the energy would be too faint, but given they found tens of mergers, it makes sense its actually billions, I don't suppose there are that many black hole mergers in our galaxy in this timeframe.
> Importantly for us, Roam differs from other webapps in that it doesn't store all state and history in its backend. Instead, Roam's backend just stores a snapshotted Datascript database (updated ~daily as far as I can tell) and the list of transactions since that last snapshot.

If I'm reading this right...
A) OP was hosed if they didn't finish this within ~24 hours. That's fun.
B) I now know why Roam takes a long time to load -- it's replaying every edit I made since its last snapshot!

Edit:

> When a message is more than 16KB, it's split into multiple messages without wrapping - so we'll need to stitch these bigger messages together. One way to detect a non-split-message is to just try and parse it as JSON - if it's valid, we can say it's non-split. (There's an edge case we're unlikely to hit here: if the 16KB chunk just so happens to be valid JSON as well we'll be out of luck. Lucky for us, I didn't run into this!)

This is an extremely inconsequential detail to focus on, but I don't see the edge here at all. What's an example 16KB string that OP's method would actually fail to parse? (Maybe I'm failing to grok what "without wrapping" means here.)
And apparently an even better solution is just putting the size in the format itself. No need to parse when you can just seek.

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/fc9203f7c72a4532b1ae51d0...
Glenn Greenwald is a hack. He stumbled into his one big scoop (Snowden) and since then has not really distinguished himself or shown that one case to be anything more than a lucky break. He is not independent of partisan politics, he is simply partisan on an anti-establishment axis.
What’s so exciting about Postgres?
Most desktops have a removable flash chip. For laptops, you can desolder the chip and run magnet wire outside the case. With a little work, you could attach the magnet wire to the SD cardreader contacts inside the case.

There are also chips with fuses you can blow to make them write once. Somewhere back in my comments is a link to a datasheet.

But all of that doesn't really matter, because OEM's don't ship firmware images with checksums or signatures.
Nice to see this again, but the viridis colormap and the related talks were spread widely a few years ago. What does the Nature article mean now, is the publishing process really this slow?
In Germany they stopped using these fences in a lot places because deer got stuck in them. And wolves just created holes below the fences and still killed lots of livestock.

Empty slogans like "Build the fence" only work for politicians and activists.
Surprisingly I don’t think gif making tools have improved very much inspite of corporate interest from giphy(FB) and tenor (Goog). That said no shame in spending too much time making a gif. During quarantine I made a gif using watercolors that took up a few hours. (https://twitter.com/bnlcas/status/1253075048975351808?s=21)
>"We live in a winner take all system." Yeah, so does everyone else.

But they really don't compared to the US. If I vote Green in the US, in most locales (discounting Seattle and Portland here..) that person isn't going to get elected. If I vote Green in Germany (for example), there's a very real possibility that Greens will end up in a coalition government.

>My suspicion is that ranked choice voting isn't going to fix anything in the US,

Agreed!

>The US's problems are 90% cultural and institutional.

Yes. Money talks. If someone said "I'm forming a Progressive Party" or "I'm forming an Eisenhower Republicans Party", they would have enough philosophical supporters to make it happen, but they would need name-brand donors and name-brand candidates to have a meaningful impact. So far, that hasn't happened.