skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real way to make politics less crazy is to create barriers to voting, actually.

The real problem with our politics is that the more informed members of the populace make up their minds early on, leaving the lowest common denominator voters as the only votes left to be swayed. Which causes our political cycle to be driven by abject stupidity rather than useful information and policy discussion.

Imagine how much better things could become if we could find some fair, reasonable way to create a truly representative voting base that were required to be actually quantitatively informed on policy and policy consequences.
Don’t you mean half-full?
It will be interesting to see if Google Docs undergoes a feature explosion and achieves parity with MS Word after the rendering engine enhancements.

I wonder what competitive pressures Google is responding to with this decision. My guess would be adding features taht facilitate selling into businesses that have significant dependency on MS Office.
Being able to vote “nothing” might solve that, with the benefit of serving as an indicator whether the subject is clear enough. Wishful thinking though
Bad name to google because of SideFX Houdini.
I think you got the point most people miss - apple had a unique ability to profile every app on the Mac and iOS App Store, possibly in an automated way, as part of the app submission pipeline. Intel and AMD could go out and profile real work applications, and I’m sure they do, but to get to the same level of breadth is probably not possible.
I'd be willing to guess that the common denominator in those scenes is that the GP encountered them as teenagers. I've met plenty of introspective and self-aware Goths, but self-aware teenagers are rare.
Here’s a fun quote from his book, via Chip Huyen’s blog (https://huyenchip.com/2019/03/11/silicon-valley-misogyny.htm...)

> “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they’d become precisely the sort of useless baggage you’d trade for a box of shotgun shells or a jerry can of diesel.”

I’m also not sure if his stance on privacy will fit in well at Apple:

> “Most people don’t care about privacy. Media elites care about it, underemployed Eurocrats care about it. And the entire privacy-industrial complex — there’s an entire set of very loud voices who are constantly beating the drum and building media careers around this.”
Brooklyn hipster came to town

In an '83 Mercedes,

Slapped a moustache on his lip

And belted out "Mmmm'ladies."
Where do you see the showcase?
Intel greatly improved their divider implementation between Skylake and Icelake. The measurements in the OP are on Skylake-SP, prior to these improvements.
I'm not sure the voters that decide early are really doing it based on being 'more informed'.
That's a fair point and one I'm willing to accept, but this has been going on for at least half a decade if not longer. I guess at some point, the sort of meta-conversation you and I are having will have to be had.
We were never opposed to a rpi port, but it was much more difficult in the days of rpi1/2, yes, and the BeagleBoard was the initial target instead. These days there is some rpi4 code in the tree, but nobody found the time or motivation to work on it seriously, I guess.
I'm about half your age and I don't know much about anything but, I think I'd agree based on my experience so far. I realized a while back that I'm some sort of chemical soup and I don't know where my thoughts or emotions even originate from. I don't seem to produce them voluntarily – they just bubble up out of the silence inside me. I have some moment of control, though it doesn't seem very effective a lot of the time. However I fail or succeed appears to be largely determined by abilities I don't have much control over in the first place. I mean, how the hell can I read? Why am I able to speak and understand language? My heart keeps beating, my cells repair themselves, I somehow remember to breathe. I understand math, programming, but none of the internal mechanisms which make that possible.

I've come to the conclusion that my emotions are something to observe a lot before allowing responses, to whatever degree I can accomplish that, because I don't truly understand where they came from or why later on, let alone in the moment. The truth I'm living is a very arbitrary and subjective one at all times.

Like you say, these feelings and reactions are often based on "facts" that aren't really true anyways. Reality is a very thin veil over something I can hardly comprehend the physics or magic of.

If I can manage to develop better temperance and courage to restrain my reactions and questions my thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, I think I'll be pretty content with that. The sense of sleepwalking through life is very apt. I've felt very alive, focused, and attuned to reality at many points in my life while being very much completely out of tune and dead to the rest of the world. I didn't know who I was, what was going on, anything. And I still don't.

Here's to trying to figure it out I guess!
True, but if you are so mistrustful of your elected officials that you are worried about the paper trails they write, you should be more concerned with voting them out at the next election than watchdogging every document they post.
> Are there examples of how a failure at a power plant could affect the national grid?

A failure at any single power plant is very unlikely to cause cascading failures in the rest of the grid because one power plant usually can't generate enough power relative to its grid.

Gross oversimplification but all of the power plants in a national grid are essentially coupled together [1] as a giant circuit made up of a ton of electromagnets - the generators converting coal/natgas powered steam or water/wind to electricity. These electromagnets are all operating at the same frequency in phase with each other which literally means that the generators spin in sync at ~60hz. These generators are often (usually?) heavy turbines with a lot of angular momentum so normally when you connect a power plant, it stays in phase just due to the sheer inertia of the rest of the grid because power follows phase [2].

When the phase changes suddenly - like when connecting a generator that is out of phase with the grid - all that inertia of the generator essentially slams into the electromagnetic force generated by the incoming current. If the rest of the grid (of hundreds/thousands of other generators) produces significantly more power, it'll just destroy the connecting one as if you brought a turbine powered jet engine to an instantaneous dead stop - the momentum of the blades will literally rip them off of the shaft. However, if the newly connected generators are producing a significant amount of power relative to the rest of the grid, like when a corona mass ejection hits or a large islanded subgrid is poorly reconnected, the resulting differential can generate a wave (again, gross simplification) that travels through the grid with enough power to destroy every single generator connected to it.

A single power plant just can't generate enough power to do damage to the rest of the grid [3] but if a natural disaster severed the connection between two regions of a grid and they drift out of phase, they must be carefully reconnected because they might have enough power to seriously damage other power plants.

[1] Some parts of a grid might be separated by HVDC which in effect isolates the parts

[2] Power flows from the faster generators to the slower ones, speeding them up until they hit equilibrium.

[3] There are exceptions depending on grid topology, but generally grids are designed to avoid them
> Can everyone be code literate?

Why not, for the same reason that everyone can be - to reasonable standards - be literate?

This is merely a new and powerful form of literacy that has become relevant due to a particular set of technological circumstances, but structurally it's not that different from the printing press preceding widespread literacy of the regular sort.

And no doubt this form of literacy is powerful. It relates to an understanding of how to describe the processing of information in various contexts. In an increasingly information overloaded world, the ability to use the tool of your time to process the information you need will become a critical ability.

I think one fallacy we can implicitly succumb to is the notion that "everybody knowing how to program" somehow relates to everyone being a programmer.

Everyone knowing how to read and write doesn't mean everyone is an author or a technical writer. But everyone _does_ use their ability to read and write to make their own work more productive within their contexts. And even in a personal context, being able to read an ingredients list, or write a shopping list, is underpinned by literacy.

What's so hard to imagine about a future where everyone knows how to build small useful programs for themselves, and just as everyone has access to post it notes and notepads, everyone having access to a few small devices that allow them to use that literacy to build programs that are useful to them in their day to day activities?

It's hard to imagine the specifics of how that might be applied, but it seems easy to imagine the transformative power of that sort of a casual power being not just available to the masses, but understood and able to be exercised by all of them.
I always assumed that CPUs used Newton's method, though that could be wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_algorithm#Newton%E2%8...

Edit: Yeah, that's only used for floating point. Looks like integer division is usually an algorithm called SRT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_algorithm#SRT_divisio...
People love to badmouth politicians, but they're just mirrors of our collective id. If we don't like what see, that's on us.
>“Don't be misled by union organizers wearing Amazon vests--they are not part of Amazon,”

Sounds like a reasonable statement to me. Imagine if Amazon management dressed up in union garb...
My thought is, 30 years isn't enough. In 30 years you need to open the reactor and swap out the fuel, which is too tricky an operation (securing the fuel going in & out) to do cheaply and at scale. 30 years is within the lifetime of most people, so people are hesitant to cause a problem that they'll have to deal with. If these things can be buried in lead & concrete for 60+ years then maybe it'll happen.
Nerds/geeks. If you want to reduce it down to teen-movie-level stereotypes, then people in both the "popular" and "counterculture" groups are making decisions about what to wear and how to act based on what other people do or don't see as popular or trendy. The nerds and geeks are the ones who ignored all of that: band geeks, computer nerds, anime nerds, whatever. Of course they still try to "fit in" within their respective groups but their groups are centered around a shared interest, rather than solely what is or isn't popular.
I can't imagine what tribalized group think in american politics could possibly look like.

Sorry. Couldn't resists. Snide aside, they could have it work how corporate voting works, wherein each share gets a vote and each voting session you log in and look at the issues to be voted on, and you are given the choices, alongside which choice is the Board's recommendation, along with the rationale behind it.

This could help. Let each party pitch why their choice is the best for each candidate/issue. This doesn't fix the problem of parties lying here, but it's not like we don't already have that problem. That way people can cold-vote and at least have... something to go on. Whereas right now I think people generally just vote R or D.

Perfect is the enemy of good here, I think, since what we currently have is fairly pitiful, at least in my opinion. Most voters are uninformed, or perhaps worse, primarily informed by paid advertising and/or Reddit/4chan.
> “do I want a production Python deployment and all the headaches of deploying, managing, scaling, etc. that come with it?”

What “headaches” have you encountered with Python/Flask in relation to deploying, managing, scaling? Specifically, what headaches have you encountered that are not present in every platform/language? Are you a NodeJS dev?
in all fairness, if the stories on Japan are true there isn't such thing as a healthy work/life balance period.

At that point, if I'm gonna spend half my life (and 90% of my waking life) at work, I may as well try and like doing what I do.
Except that you need to survive in order to successfully steal the fuel. And you won't survive. QED
Yup, Trump was very good at motivating a lot of folks who don't normally vote. Careful what you wish for.
Forced participation would not create another party.

Party infrastructure is something that needs to be built up, from local level all the way to the National level. Not impossible but it would require a lot of money, people and drive.
In the US, they dont vote for the flashiest, they vote with their tribe. The percentage of people that are "independent" and "undecided" is minuscule, which is why our choice in 2020 was between a orange-colored crazy "republican" (who was a democrat for most of his life) and a barely sentient milquetoast "democrat"
> Since we're taking Silicon Valley metrics seriously

Umm... Colorado?

We're more than a thousand miles as the crow flies or 20 hours of driving away from Silicon Valley.

More to the point: If the rest of the team is in US time zones, coordinating with an Eastern European developer is much harder. It means someone has to stay up really late or get up really early, and typically you still don't get much overlap.

Granted if such a brilliant developer who needed very little input from the rest of the team were to apply, they'd do well to hire them. But as the other comment mentions, how do you find such a developer on demand?
The good news is we can already test this hypothesis by looking at the countries that already enforce compulsory voting [1]:

Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Ecuador
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Nauru
North Korea
Peru
Pitcairn Islands
Samoa
Singapore
Swiss canton of Schaffhausen
Uruguay

Which one of these is a democratic paradise that the author would like to emulate?

Australia is probably the best of the bunch but it's demography and geography are not comparable to the US, a lot of things that work there don't translate here and vice versa.

The author theorizes:

> When the only question voters face is whose ideas they prefer, politicians will naturally focus on developing and debating real world ideas rather than fantasies, and democracy can live up to its moral and practical potential.

O RLY? Is that the situation in Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador? TL;DR: No.

This article also presumes the bedrock of democracy is elections, but in fact that's just one dimension and not necessarily the most important one -- rule of law, civil institutions, a functioning state are all equally if not more important than the selection of specific leaders.

Good book on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Guns-Votes-Democracy-Dangerous/d...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting#:~:text=15)%...
If it helped me think at 90 wpm that'd be even better.
It would be helpful if you could clearly spell out the opinions the rules actually apply to.

I've been guessing wrong lately, it seems.
> Why bother arguing based on policy when you know that 40-60% of the electorate won't care and simply vote for whoever is the flashiest?

I think a strong argument could be made that this is already the case.
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It’s probably more complicated than this in practice, but one huge benefit to compulsory voting would be the elimination of voter suppression.
You would have a greater point if our current system wasn't based around tricking as much of that 40-60% that doesn't care into showing up anyway.
Hmm I have one that kills mosquito's - instead of squirting every x minutes it should listen to the sound in the room filtering out my snoring and wife talking to herself , the cats moving about and figure out how many actual mosquito's there are.
Not OP but as a hobby I created and ran one of the most active backpacking/nomad group on fb and also a site wikinomad.

FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AussieBackpacking

The major issues with creating a one size fit all site is the bureaucracy of visas/immigration that depends on the user's location/passport/country of birth etc.

Then, it's hard to run a business from a different country. Its easier to visit as tourist but running a business is extra complicated.

If you have remote teams, timezones are major pain.

Apart from that the best place I found was Hawaii & Toronto. Australia is also really first class with free public amenities everywhere.
Australia's Wright launches lawsuit over $5.7 bln Bitcoin haul
It wasn't designed to, it grew bit by bit with new features gradually being tacked on, so the APIs are inconsistent (For example,NodeList, HTMLCollection, and Array all have different methods and naming conventions) and poorly designed.
> they vote with their tribe

The current voters do; we don't necessarily know how people who don't currently vote would behave.
The act of voting lends legitimacy to those organizing the election. Mandatory voting removes that measure of approval. A few democracies have mandatory voting but I bet the fraction of dictatorships that do is higher.

This article is also confused in that it discusses voting and democracy in universal terms but includes the paperwork for “registering” as the first example of obstacles for voting.

I think so long as “registering” is required, and it requires “paperwork” then there is likely much easier fixes for making politics less crazy.
This is why I love HN. :-)

However, I can't claim credit (or blame, but I would argue mostly credit) for that code. There have been three generations of the Docs editor that I know of:

1. The original, which I was involved in, was an unholy mess perched shakily atop contenteditable. As such, it contained no layout or rendering code (but did all sorts of horrid things under the hood to massage the HTML created by the various browser contenteditable engines and thus work around various problems, notably compatibility issues when users on different browsers are editing the same document). Originally launched in 2005.

2. In the early 2010s, an offshoot of the Google Sheets team launched a complete rewrite of the Docs engine which did its own editing, layout, and rendering based using low-level DOM manipulation. This was more robust, supported layout features not available in contenteditable (e.g. pagination), and generally was a much better platform. My primary contribution to this effort was to incorrectly suggest that it was unlikely to pan out. (I was worried that the primitives available via the DOM would be insufficient; for instance, to deal with mixed-directional text.)

3. This canvas-based engine, which I learned about a few hours ago when this post popped up on HN.

I don't know whether #3 is an evolution of #2 or a complete rewrite; for all I know there was another generation in between. But I imagine you were looking at some iteration of #2.
> Why bother arguing based on policy when you know that 40-60% of the electorate won't care and simply vote for whoever is the flashiest?

You say this as if the last administration somehow didn't exist? Analysis of the mobilization power of the Trump campaigns will go on for decades and decades, but among the reasons for his appeal the notion that it was somehow due to consistent and well-explained policy positions has to be dead last. I mean, please.
I think that would backfire, since the most successful forms of stupidity are also the most compelling and enervating. :P

Also, voting isn't a privilege, it's a bare-minimum consolation-prize for the power the government wields over you. It would be immoral to create barriers.
It is, but at least most of the "don't care" demographic is staying at home today. Non-voters and indifferent voters are a large enough bloc that spending your entire campaign budget on targeting just them would ensure a win, and that is eventually what every politician's strategy would become.
There are old stone tsunami markers in coastal areas around Japan. "Don't build below this point."

The Fukushima nuclear facility was built below that point.

> "It takes about three generations for people to forget. Those that experience the disaster themselves pass it to their children and their grandchildren, but then the memory fades," Fumihiko Imamura, a professor in disaster planning at Tohoku University, told the AP.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnin...
It most definitely does not.
We would need election/ballot reform to make that happen. A 2 party system is the expected outcome with FPTP/simple plurality voting.

Proportional elections or some flavor of preference voting would allow a 3rd party.

In the US, this has led to a literal 2-party system. In the UK and Canada, only the 2 largest/most popular parties of a given time period are typically able to form governments.
How is he an "independent contractor" when everyone -- not everyone here, but he himself and his, ahem, employers -- is talking about him as an employee, and he's been there for years? Never mind the GitHub commits, analyse how many times in the last year he's had to hunt for next month's gig.
AccessQuint – Outsourced cybersecurity support and managed services
FastAPI happily supports both options in a gradual manner. Just start out sync and convert to async if you want on a per-route basis.
Lundum Dare 48 was a couple weeks ago and since I was aware of the jam from its promotion on pygame.org and I'm a python guy I wanted to make something in pygame. Come to find out, replit has a pygame enabled environment.

It's not very fast. It worked for some simple animations and a stupid little turn based colony building simulator but I dunno if it could handle something more arcade style.

I wouldn't call the IDE great. It's all on the web and subject to unsurprising latency. I ran into a couple of weird bugs.

But I spent zero time setting up my environment. Zero time building binaries. Zero time on cross platform testing. Publishing (to the jam) was literally pasting the link to the replit on my jam page. Everybody got my source code and a place to hack on it. That is pretty damn cool.

For the curious: https://replit.com/@BrianDavis7/A-Disguised-Far-Muse
How many family members are you insuring? What kind of insurance? Those all play a pivotal role.
> position you think would be better left to a human instead of an app

Customer service? Imagine having to fill out a support ticket because a robot brought the wrong kind of juice to your table. I think the act of actually bringing the food out could be automated for sure, but in most places with servers this is solved by having some staff only focus on delivering the food while the servers handle individual table issues and "onboard" new customers. Ultimately people choose to dine-in rather than go through drive-thrus for 1) food quality and 2) the social atmosphere. A restaurant with no servers is just a room with a bunch of tables - a cafeteria, if you will. And of course some people are happy with cafeterias, but if you're spending big I think you expect more than just a cafeteria, and with that comes the human element of being able to interact with others.
Makepad kinda has a minimum GPU spec. It's aging-out for the people who don't have this, but some people still don't have gpu's that can bitblit their screen with a solid color.