skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I don’t really get the issue then. If my business is making custom computers and I buy parts from Microcenter then they’re my supplier whether there’s a business agreement or not. And telling my client that a part they asked for is sold out and so there will be a delay isn’t fraud.

It’s not at all my issue if my client is frustrated at Microcenter because of the delay and it’s not my job to protect their reputation so long as I’m truthful.

If my order is delayed because the driver is stuck at the restaurant waiting for my order because the restaurant hadn’t stated yet then that’s on them. Had I driven there myself I would be just as annoyed.

If my order is delayed because they can’t find a driver or there’s a problem with the ordering then that’s on the delivery company.
Every killed sheep in The Netherlands is tested for wolf marks and DNA.
Still not a valid argument for why the US couldn't have a valid 3rd party. The same would be true here. No one who votes Green is going to vote for Libertarians or Constitutionalists.
The Roman Catholic Church (is "Papist" some kind of dogwhistle slur these days?) would often be thought of as economically leftist. Give large amounts of your money to the ruling institution, they spend it on helping the less fortunate.

Sure, it has corruption problems and much of the wealth doesn't make it to the needy. Same with many institutions on the left or right.

It's obviously also socially conservative.
A comparison of a few different voting systems that I found interesting: https://www.quiz2d.com/g2020/
This basically devolves to FPTP.
> This type of statement tends to shut down discussion instead of encouraging it.

...

You... do realize TFA is about censorship, that is, a attempt to actively and deliberately shut down discussion, right?
Every time someone uses this title format I think it's an employee leaving
Well, you have to start somewhere! It may as well be web dev.
I'm using n8n quite a bit but honestly I use huginn a lot more. It has a bit of a learning curve and not many integrations.

Still, I have some zaps from zapier that I'm going to move over to n8n. It's good enough.
The fact that Telnet is actually a protocol, and a weird one (mostly because it's ancient and actually predates UNIX). I believe the reason is that those keypresses are not interpreted by your terminal but instead sent over to the other side to be interpreted there. Obviously, they don't do anything there.

With "nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 23", on the other hand, they would work.
But does it send email?
Half-OT:

What's the main use-case for gRPC?

I had the impression RPC was seen as a mistake.

Sure, gRPC also uses a binary protocol, but that doesn't seem like a USP of gRPC. Why didn't they went fron non-RPC binary?

Serious question! It sounds a bit counterinuitive to me at the first glance.
Trytpamines are such a great way to look at the brain! Disruption of time / space / body / mind. Robin Carhart-Harris has done some great work, MAPS, etc.
FWIW I was considering switching to a paid plan. But I really only have 3 applets anyways, and I could easily live without them.

But their spam killed me. They started sending a new message asking me to subscribe what seemed like every day. I eventually clicked the unsubscribe link which seemed to reduce the flood but I still got a handful more. So now all of their mail goes directly to my spam bin.

I don't need to be giving money to a company that spams like that.
Yes, but there are still first-past-the-post governments with viable 3rd parties.
I think it is significant that one happened server-side using FB tooling and the other happens client-side without FB being complicit.

One was explicitly installed by the user, the other was foisted upon the unwitting user.

So, maybe some significant differences, depending on your POV.
Real-time ray tracing is finally here, in large part because of much better denoising technology. Similarly many types of stimulation are becoming vastly cheaper and more capable thanks to the use of machine learning. Image synthesis made huge leaps thanks to the invention of GANs in 2013.
It can have strange results when there isn’t a clear moderate.

Canada uses it for a lot of leadership elections. What often happens is that a candidate nobody knows or really wants wins because they got picked so their vote wouldn’t go to the main competing candidate.

So you get party leaders who nobody seriously examined as the more hardcore members just needed to park their votes.
The missing link to realtime user tracking with snowplow
> similar to how a lot of pivotal work on GC algorithms happened in the late 90's

Speaking of which, there's been great progress in low-pause garbage collection over the last few years, although it could be said that Azul was doing it a while back.
It's also maddening that a single mayoral election is apparently the slam dunk counterexample.

Meanwhile, Australia has been voting this way for a century. And over that time period, I think there have been fewer ugly paradoxes than in the US.
I've seen videos about this case on and off. Some of the things that seem particularly problematic for Billy's case are the conflict of interest in the fact that moderators were able to post records, the shady record trail for the DK run (only "seen" by one said moderator, who later was found to cheat, and the proof tape subsequently "disappearing"), and a claim that a run was done in real hardware despite video proof showing glitches that only happen in MAME (an emulator). He made claims that said video was adulterated after the fact without his knowledge, but hasn't provided any evidence for that claim (nor is it particularly believable that anyone would go through the trouble to do so).

There's also some surrounding circumstantial videos where Billy originally claims to change an arcade machine circuit board to a different game board in a very theatrical video, but then is called out for merely putting the same board back in (one can verify by looking at the circuit boards and cross-referencing with verified images of each alleged board), casting doubts into his motivations and general credibility.

There are also cracks in his main line of argument (decks and decks of "signed testimonials" from people who allegedly witnessed him doing the runs). Some of those witnesses have later come out claiming to having misrepresented, and would likely testify to that effect if ever called to stand.

Personally, I agree with the sentiment of the vast majority of the community that Billy is likely a cheat and that he sees this whole thing as "defamation" merely because it is a threat to his income model of milking sponsorships etc through his fame. I don't particularly see this as a good use of the courts' time, especially given how "productive to society" the monetary impact is here, but alas, he does have a right to pursue whatever crazy suit he wants if a judge hasn't thrown out his case.
> Can you put the same person for all of your choices?

No. That would invalidate your ballot. Unless you mean the degenerate case, where you only vote for one person.
WAGI: The Easiest Way to Build WebAssembly Microservices
> what XPath REALLY should have evolved into was a more format-flexible path language with format-specific extensions as needed.

You can probably already do that just fine: ignore attribute nodes, and e.g.

{"menu": {
"id": "file",
"value": "File",
"popup": {
"menuitem": [
{"value": "New", "onclick": "CreateNewDoc()"},
{"value": "Open", "onclick": "OpenDoc()"},
{"value": "Close", "onclick": "CloseDoc()"}
]
}
}}

/menu/popup/menuitem/*[last()]/preceding-sibling::*[1]/value

selects "Open". Something along those lines.

Maybe relax nodetypes so they can be pluggable per-language, but I'm not sure that's even useful or necessary.
It's a tricky example because the Republican was effectively the third party candidate in that election. But once you realize that, the spoiler effect is very easy to see; the Republicans would have mostly preferred the more centrist Democrat candidate over the progressive Independent candidate, and if they had strategically ranked the Democrat first on their ballots the Democrat would have won.

By voting honestly and putting their favorite candidate first, they screwed themselves over and threw away their vote, and were understandably bitter about it given that ranked choice is frequently claimed to solve this exact problem.
By the mid- to late-1990s, Sierra's publishing output was far more diversified than just adventure games. They owned a large number of subsidiary development companies (such as Dynamix, Impression, and Papyrus) that were creating games in a wide range of genres.

They also published a little-known game called Half-Life in 1998...
Hardware is hard, and, ironically, crowdfunding services make it even harder. I always feel bad for Hardware startups who go through crowdfunding services like Kickstarter. They almost always underestimate the cost of development of the final product, while at the same time giving (deep) discounts on that final product to early backers. In this way, they build up a huge amount liability because they burn through the Kickstarter cash real quick.
> It would hurt the current duopoly

I get that this is conventional wisdom, and a lot of smaller parties support rank choice voting because they think it helps them. But neither of the major parties like "spoiler" candidates, it seems like the ability to "collect" votes from the green or libertarian parties would be in their interest.

I suspect the reason it's not more widespread is more mundane. It isn't incomprehensible, but it's more complicated than what we have. If you're explaining you're losing. Also people are (perhaps rightly) cautious about messing with how elections happen. Finally, it doesn't ignite the same passions as abortion or police reform. The interest groups pushing most strongly for it are, by definition, small and not really powerful.
It would be very funny to watch foremost experts in relatively new fields being denied because they don't have phd students. I somehow doubt this is the case, though.
Dogs don't prey on people either. But still lots of people get bitten by dogs.
I agree, but given that nobody with any real-world credibility is saying that, the person making the claim that the "world enders" are evidence that scientists are crazy has to prove that they exist.
Anything is better than the status quo. Instant Runoff Voting has legit flaws, but it would still be an improvement.

I always point folks at this https://ncase.me/ballot/

I sincerely believe that a better voting system is one of the highest ROI changes we could make towards better government, and some systems are just so simple it’s crazy not to do it.

I personally prefer approval voting, because it’s still trivial to mark, count, and explain (speaking by analogy, it's just switching from radio buttons to checkboxes). It also doesn't have as bad failure modes as some other systems (see the link above for comparisons). But everything’s better than today’s FPTP system.
If Idaho can already do this now, how does that mesh with the argument for reducing federal protection of wolves? Seems like current regulations are not preventing Idaho from managing their population.
This is basically the "fire your low profit customers" advice that comes around perennially on HN ('yeah, but we didn't mean us!', lol).

I guess the gamble is will more than 20% of those who would pay $2 pay $10.

$10/mo is not much for a Western programmer. If they did their market research I could see them coming out on top.
Bored and have some free time? Help me QA my side project
Sadly it's because a lot of us have lost faith in people in general over the past 5/6 years. Initially when the internet came along we though "great, now we can share ideas and knowledge with total freedom and not worry about governments or the media". Without realizing what that freedom allowed for abject the checks and balances that were traditionally applied (editorial/peer review etc) and the sheer amount of exposure this gave to bad actors.

The past 5 years have shown us that as a society we have lost our common basis in fact (alternative facts, fake news etc.) and the whole thing worries me. It worries me even more that i can't see a way out of it other than censorship. Short of a massive change in education to focus on critical thinking and evaluating received information, but that takes years and the problems we have now are destroying western democracy.
Always happy to help ;)
For those not wanting to click a link without explanation: It's "Juice it or lose it", a talk about how adding simple effects to a game can make it much more immersive and fun. It's well made and inspiring talk, breaking down how much can be done with so little. Worth a watch.

I like the version hosted here, the slides are easier to see: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016487/Juice-It-or-Lose
I actually think ranked choice voting would destroy our relatively successful third party here in Canada (the NDP).

Essentially when you survey voters you'd find that there's three voting blocs:

a) First choice Conservative, Second choice Liberal

b) First choice Liberal, Second choice NDP

c) First choice NDP, Second choice Liberal

Given this, ranked voting would probably just produce permanent majorities for the Liberals, and wipe out the NDP almost entirely. The Liberals are the first or second choice for most voters.

I'm not sure why 'progressive' voters here in Canada often seem to prefer this voting methodology when advocating reform. Experience in Australia should show them what happens, where both major parties are now pretty close to the right and left wing options are basically off the table.

I'm not the only person who thinks this. When the Liberal gov't tried to push ranked ballots through a few years ago analysts in the NDP clearly saw this as a threat, and did everything they could to stop it (along with the Conservatives), seeing it as a nakedly cynical attempt to ensure nearly permanent Liberal majorities.

I would far, far prefer a mixed-member-proportional system like in Germany.

And so, yeah, I agree I don't think in the US it would do anything. The same forces of conformity towards the right would still happen. Effectively the US already has a kind of ranking choice through its primary system. The two parties shift and "become" representative of whatever plurality can capture and win the primary.
There is no reason coalitions could not be possible in the US legislative branch. You could argue that they existed here in the 1950s and 1960s, to some extent, when the parties were so race-scrambled that there were liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats (i.e. there were effectively 4 parties in the US at the time).
I do a bunch of of XML/XSLT work still. I use XPATH 1.0 basically everyday. It's also awesome for web scraping. Overall, it's a great tool that doesn't get a ton of exposure.
This is false for Maine. It is a valid way to vote for a single candidate and not rank the rest. The ballot advises you not to do this, but it doesn't explicitly invalidate your ballot. See slide #6:

https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/pdf/RCVMarkedBal...

You can vote for a single candidate across all your choices/rounds (across a single row), but voting for multiple candidates in the same choice will invalidate your ballot (down a single column). Multiples down a column would be like filling in all the circles for all candidates on a normal ballot, or even not filling any in. Same difference.
First off I’d say that medicating as an adult is an entirely different experience than as a child (I have children, but was not medicated as a child, so YMMV) mainly because you can almost immediately tell the difference and you have the language necessary to properly discuss pros/cons/adjustments with your doctor.

As well, we now know that like hormonal birth control there’s no one pill that’s right for everyone so it’s awesome to have people be open to the adjustment process.

From a life perspective, even without medication it’s been extremely helpful for me to see (for example) my lateness for what it mostly is: my brain is driven by the desire to be fully engaged. In the past I have been late not only because I forgot (which is easy(ish) to deal with by sticking to the calendar), but because in the “dead” time before a timed event I am driven to fill it with things I used to deem “worthwhile”, and would focus intently to turn up the engagement (obviously) thus lose track of time and suddenly find myself in a time crunch. Anything from “just a quick level” of a fast-paced fps, fast racing game, or sparkly new mobile game to picking up a sidelined woodworking project or (more often honestly) grabbing a work-task off the todo list.

And, I will say that it feels great to be fully engaged and “firing on all cylinders” (I’m really enjoying Space Pirate Trainer on quest this month), but in the past where I would say subconsciously to myself “This is what I’m made for!” and push other things aside, now I can recognize the drive to what’s unique or engaging as being just about those two things, and I can properly choose what my priorities are.
Sure! FairVote is a major organization, with various materials on RCV.

Get involved: https://www.fairvote.org/get_involved

State-specific groups: https://www.fairvote.org/state_based_coalition_partner_group...
> and very seldom hit the REPL

That was the problem right there. Not getting used to a REPL driven workflow in Clojure is like using TypeScript without an IDE. It'll negate all benefits.
Can somebody please explain to me why we would use gRPC?
Australian politics is dominated by policies aimed at the median voter. That's over a century of cases.
> It's not an exaggeration to say that a young researcher with these characteristics today would likely get fired from any high-ranked American research university before even coming up for tenure review.

He wouldn't even get in an university to get the chance to be fired. And that's not specific to the US, it applies to nearly all developed or developing countries.

That person wouldn't be able to get much past a PhD, even as a student.
I don't need companies to moderate for me. Give me tools to moderate my own content, thank you.
That's a fair point. Here's the new idea then: pedestrians have right of way on any road that was originally built with pedestrians in mind and has not since been updated with cars in mind.
I would recommend a chromium protocol based library for golang. Ginkgo is heavy and error prone.
it's use case is companies that want to use SOAP but don't want to say they use SOAP
YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
Sure, and teachers nourish the foundations of our next generation. And construction workers, aren't they literally the backbone of infrastructure? The farmhands in the fields, the masses of immigrants, aren't they also part of the foundations of food? Do these groups have lots of clout?

What explains the variation in clout?
The funniest part about "cancel culture" is that the same people who scream it's the worst and shouldn't be okay are the people who wanted to boycott the NFL when colin kaepernick kneeled to protest black violence.

The truth is, it's only "Cancel Culture" if it's against something they like
I'm very cautious when making left turns - way more than the average driver. If I'm not I'm liable to screw up in either direction and no one wants that.

No one has managed to rear end me, but I obviously don't have 6.5 million miles driven. And even if they did, I would trade a high speed t-bone for a low speed fender bender any day of the week.
Amazon is opening brand-new Razr boxes to fold the phones for safer shipping
Hey HN! We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017, but it was only for founders who were already actively working on building their companies. Since then we've heard from many folks considering in starting a company in the future, and we realized that a modified version of Startup School could be helpful for them as well. This requires some curriculum tweaks like a much stronger focus on finding and vetting ideas as well as thinking about co-founders.

We decided to work on that, and just announced that you can register for the new course today. It'll provide curriculum tailored for early founders as well as exercises to think through the decision to start a company or not.
There are three of them, two in the US and one in Italy. They can’t measure directionally individually, they just measure the gravitational waves at that location, but you can measure the different times a signal arrives at each and extrapolate from that.
Grit Capital
The multi member district approach is preferable to single member districts because it gives a more proportional result. The Australian example demonstrates this in the extreme with very large multi member Senate districts electing different parties and single member House districts which end up electing the usual two parties only, maintaining the duopoly.

Arguably multi member districts of between 3-5 members would be a better sweet spot.

Removing the need to rank all members is also an easy solution. If someone doesn’t want their vote to transfer beyond their first or second (etc) preference why should they be forced to? Where STV is used in NZ for local elections you just rank those you want to rank. The Australian requirement to rank all probably stems from their compulsory voting requirement.
Isn't that exactly the problem? People doing what they normally do kills 20k people in the USA every year. Google won't get away with that kind of blood-sacrifice. I look forward to the opposite: a generation of young drivers who copy the robots as examples and driver error plummets. Screw idiots who anticipate empty spaces that aren't actually there. Rear-ending someone is always your fault unless someone entered your lane.
You can watch any film in ASCII with VLC and a video file[0]:

vlc videofile.mp4 -V aa

[0] https://wiki.videolan.org/Video_Output/
So, what if you buy this and keep the car 2 years, and drive an hour and a half a day.

$10000/365 days/2 years/1.5 hours = $9.13 per hour.

That's probably about what you have to pay an Uber driver. Isn't self driving meant to be cheaper than people?

Minimum wage in the US is $7.25
That same question got actually also asked when I released https://n8n.io originally. Here the link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192243
The cause and effect is really tough to straighten out.

There's certainly an argument to be made that Sierra's demise was the final nail in adventure gaming and the genre might still be alive if Sierra themselves had survived (and/or if Roberta Williams was left with the budgets to keep making them). Sierra helped push the budgets of adventure games to the point where no one could compete with them (except maybe LucasArts, and LucasArts didn't seem interested in competing to the same costs) and then after setting that unreasonable market perspective of what a AAA adventure game "should" be, they died. Even today most of the controversy with the "nostalgic kickstarters" is that a Kickstarter can't approximate (adjusting for inflation) even a tenth of Sierra's final few adventure game budgets (much less a quarter to a half of LucasArts' last few).