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I love RCV where we are.

* You can vote for the random third party candidate without worrying about throwing away your vote.

* You seem to get a bit more moderation where we are if you also have an open primary / no primary type voting which gets really nice.

California does top two past the pole of any party inf the general which means even republican votes can matter in a dem on dem election (common out here) or dem votes can pull back things in a R vs R general (rarer but does happen).
Whew thanks for looking this up! I was afraid I'd have to add yet another entry to my gigantic C++ footguns.org document. It's getting so big now that Emacs struggles a bit to load it due to inline code examples!
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-stor...

I actually agree with you that as a person he wasn't "only in it for the money" - I am only arguing that his wage-setting policies were purely about the money.
This is roughly how some places do it with distinct management chains and technical leaders along the chain. So nominally leadership is the management, but the technical people under your directors are responsible for technical direction.
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I think my comment generally still holds: after their pivot they received more commercial interest.

But no, I wasn't aware that they had failed to keep military interest, thank you.
There is a really good scientific research presentation on the matter...

https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA
I don’t like rank choice voting because it can result in someone with fewer first place votes than the first or second candidate to win if the conditions are right.

We’ve seen surprise results where an obscure candidate has won when too many top choices split the first choice votes and someone relegated to the floor vacuums up all the throwaway votes (people think they have to “spend” all their votes)
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> These women wanted to be wooed by language. They weren't going to meet a strange man without measuring him first, and they weren't going to waste a meal or even a cup of coffee on a suitor who couldn't be bothered to craft a few lines beforehand. I was happy to oblige. The seductive effect of a well-written letter or, better yet, a well-chosen poem, on a strange woman's mind was often strong and sometimes hilariously so, even to the women involved, who were quite aware and ready to laugh about the effect distracting missives could have on them. One date told me, long after she'd dated Ned [the author's male alter ego] and learned his secret, that a coworker, reading one of Ned's e-mails over her shoulder, had said "Shit. He's sending you poems? You'd better fuck this man."

> Ned made an impression not just because he gave these women at least a pale version of the reading material they seemed to crave, but because he did it so willingly. It was rare, most of them told me, for a man to write at such length, much less to write with consideration and investment.
If it's also tied to open primary system it tends to make right wing places more left and left wing places more moderate.

Otherwise you get a pyramid of control that drives towards extremes.

Historically, let's say dems = 51% of voters, everyone votes party line.

Dems have a primary, and someone (usually pretty far left) motivates base and gets 30% of primary vote and wins primary with most votes.

Let's assume a 10% of dem's vote in primaries.

So you have 10% * 50% * 30% = 1.5% of voters voting for the primary winner.

They then go onto a matchup in general, but because it's a dem district, they win there as well (republicans usually also pick someone further right).

So 1.5% of more extreme / activist voters end up really deciding, because by the time you get to general there is no more competition.
Ranked Choice Voting is not really a good idea. It has very strange unintuitive behavior.

Doing Score based voting is just much better and arguably simpler and less work.

I specially like the Star-Voting, where they do a runoff at the end to cover some extra cases. They also have a few variants for multi-winner and representational voting.

Its also much more familiar for people from real live, like online review.

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

P.S: Wow a lot of down-votes. RCV is just the alternative that got the most marketing, but once you start looking into the different systems I really don't understand people can stick with RCV just because its slightly better then the system before. If you are gone invest all this effort in improving the system, why not go to something easier and objectively better.

This video shows the issue very well (one of the people involved in Star voting made it):

https://youtu.be/-4FXLQoLDBA
That cargo hold is pressurised and heated. Some animals would fly in it if not suitable to carry on the cabin.
Oof, this video makes me think I may have ADHD. I just cannot get boring things done, and I get more stressed the more I procrastinate, and it just spirals.

What has helped me is something that the video mentions too, and that's working with a coworker. Not so much pairing (as in, looking at each other's screen), but just saying "I'm working on X now" and feeling like someone else is working on their thing alongside you/simultaneously. That has produced great results for me.
Not to be nitpicking, but we actually show up to 20 results (not counting infobox, videos, news, places, instance answer, etc.) in a single page, which would correspond to 2 pages of other search engines (they usually show up to 10 results per page).

The idea is that most people will never go beyond first or (very rarely) second page. And as said in another comment, if you did not find what you were looking for in the top 20 results, changes are you will not find it in following results.

We do have plans for a feature which would allow community-based alterations of our core ranking algorithm which might help here. You can read about it here: https://brave.com/goggles/

Disclaimer: I work on Brave Search.
This type of voting usually leads to more centrist politicians taking office because they are the second choice of the majority.
They liked their landlord; maybe they didn't want to (effectively) steal tens of thousands of dollars from him.
the term "stablecoin" is some diabolical newspeak.
Pretending to be a man to see how its like to court women online? Sounds reasonable.

Pretending to be a man, irl, wearing a disguise? I'm not sure that translates to anything. Saying women rejected her for not being masculine enough could easily be a nice way of saying "while I wouldn't dare question whether you are, in fact, a man, here in front of me, something about this feels off putting for me".
Yes, you lost SMS in Hangouts. But you didn't lose SMS on the web. The deprecation of SMS in Hangouts was delayed (for Fi subscribers only) until the replacement web SMS solution was ready.

I agree, as I mentioned, that the loss of Gmail integration is annoying. But the ability to use SMS on the web, without requiring a connection to your phone at all, is still there. There was no time period where Web SMS wasn't available for Fi subscribers.
Worth considering the argument against ranked-choice voting: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ranked-choice-voting-is-second-...
I don't agree with everything Jordan says. In fact, as a religious person, I find his attempts to redefine religion as a form of atheism with psychology-based respect for religious instinct to be offensive. But, I don't believe a single thing you just said. I believe Jordan has and continues to do more good than I ever will in 100 of my own lifetimes, despite his flaws.
Just like with any belief system, there are many more moderates than zealots. The problem is, zealots help the leaders of those belief systems gain more power. Moderates, for the most part, just want things to keep working and not to feel the lash on their back. When the zealots can't let this happen and the powers that be lose control of the zealots, that's usually when revolution happens =(
I believe the teslas involved in those collisions were versions that were using radar.
> You can interpret this as evidence that one thing contributing to problems in the online dating landscape is that women don't know what they want.

I suppose you can! It's intensely bizarre that you would, though.

Another way to interpret it would be to say that there's a certain minimum level of communication skills that some of us aren't quite meeting.
i don't think that's an example of the frequency illusion. it's only a bias if you are actively dismissing the counter arguments.
in the example of car salesman, i don't think it's controversial to say that they do in fact employ tactics that makes you more likely to purchase a car.
If you want to get involved bringing RCV to vote in your state, all 50 states have an RCV movement. You can find and join your states movement here: https://www.rankthevote.us/states
Personality and writing style or communication style tend to be related.

Meeting in person exposes you to many factors more than just looks. Smell is a big thing that people are often not consciously aware of but if you are a heterosexual female and you meet a woman dressed as a man, you may subconsciously react to "This doesn't smell like a man. Something ain't right."

Voice tone is another. It has nothing to do with communication style, but her voice just may not be deep enough for a heterosexual woman to go "Yeah, I would hit that."

People seem to think it boils down to "looks" or something and that doesn't really fit with what I understand about life, the universe and everything.
It frankly forced me to research more candidates than I would have. The amount of familiarity I have for every e.g. City Council candidate (which were RCV) versus DA candidate (who were standard voted) is night and day.
Great to see this on Hacker News! I'm a former YC Founder who's been working with NYC on voter education for this year's elections through RankedVote (https://www.rankedvote.co).

You can get a sense for what it's like to vote in a ranked-choice election here:
https://app.rankedvote.co/elections/7568/Best-NYC-Pizza-Topp...

And you can see the results visualized here (over 20K people voted in this one!):
https://app.rankedvote.co/elections/7568/Best-NYC-Pizza-Topp...

And you can see Mayor Bill de Blasio eating a pepperoni pizza as a result of this here:
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1404809865235767315
OP here. You're free to contribute too. I'm of the opinion that the '90s was a massively successful if not revolutionary showing for tech towards both consumers and insiders (academics, startups, working programmers, et al.) as well as a heyday for irrational exuberance. I don't think that was the case in the '70s and '80s where, for example, most who came in contact with computers treated them as flashy typewriters, toys, or defense industry lab projects. There didn't seem to be much in the way of "something new" aside from Usenet or BBSs. Maybe early 3D ray tracing, Hypercard, A/V capabilities (i.e. MIDI, Genlocks, 16-bit color), etc. But all in all, the 70's and 80's seemed more like an era of standardization than an era of realized experimentation (Amiga excluded). If there was a revolution in the making, it was (outside of insider circles or corporations) bubbling underneath rather than exploding into view. But I could be mistaken in my assessment if you'll enlighten me.
Well, if marriage is the "purchase", you should also include the case that people are finding the terms of the purchase itself to be not worth it.
This is why things like std::list still have value: iterator stability. You even get this in most map/sets too.

But vector is usually what one should reach for unless one has a good reason not to. The only danger really comes when the lifetime of iterators and the thing they point to become a bit decoupled, even due to insertion!
In RCV your first point is not actually true. Its better then First Pass the Post (like literally anything else). Score based voting actually does have the effect you want.
Alaska is now also using RCV for general elections and even has open primaries.

I'm hoping RCV spreads quickly enough to more states to break the political gridlock and intense partisanship.
interesting! do you have a good entry point into said better research and knowledge?
> Consider the possibility of retaliation against western outlets by China

Are Western outlets generally allowed Chinese domains without active involvement of and censorship by the Chinese government?
It gets rid of "I wanna vote for X, but they don't have a chance" and thus leads to more honest votes. IMO the major downside is complexity.
Why is Python recursion so expensive and what can we do about it?
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Stinky tofu in Taiwan smelt as though someone had burried their colostomy bag (adding maybe rubbish and some milk to curdle it) for a couple of months and opened it at the dinner table. Fetid doesn’t even cover it. I’m amazed you ate it. Natto by comparison is just a bit like gross cheese.
That’s a stereotype. I tend red sometimes, but have no question who won the election. Maybe the issue is you see things that way due to what you see in the media and are told instead of from actual interactions with people from opposing viewpoints?
An Australian comic author has written an easy to understand comic about exactly this. Let Dennis the election koala explain it, with a worked example: https://www.chickennation.com/voting/
No. Isolation has always been a security feature, not a reliability feature.

Consider that local privilege escalations are generally (and I'd say correctly) treated as critical severity issues. Any general purpose process memory read-isolation leak is a quick route to a local privilege escalation, so how could isolation be anything other than a security feature? In its absence, you might as well run everything as root and there would be no point whatsoever to caring about privilege escalations.
> I think the more likely approach is that companies are going to be more open to remote contracting in places like Eastern Europe, South America, India, and Southeast Asia. There are a lot of examples of this not working so well in the past, but there were also a lot of examples of WFH not working so well, until there was no choice and companies figured out how to make it work.

It’s very hard to hire and coordinate good developers abroad. We have some devs in India and Spain, but some directors spent weeks there talking to consultancies and ensuring they were hiring good candidates. They are cheaper local consultancies, but not much cheaper than local individual contractors.

One who plans to hire randos in east Asia and pay them peanuts, should prepare for troubles.
Good developers may be a bit cheaper in India than in the UK, but they don’t come for free and they require non-negligible coordination costs.
I was suspended from Reddit for suggesting the organization should be “burned to the ground” (advocating violence). I appealed and got a perma-ban.

Off-topic, I know, just funny.
Here's a few companies built only on no-code/low-code products:
1. Makerpad
2. Lambda school
3. Ondeck

There are a lot of consulting services exclusively focused on building for Outsystems, Mendix, Webflow, Bubble, Zapier, Wix.com, IBM Apex, Appsheet, and Shopify platforms.

The number of entrepreneurs building on low code/no code platforms probably runs into hundred of thousands. Maybe even more if you count the consulting businesses built for the Salesforce Lightning platform.

I run an open source low code platform to build internal apps called Appsmith[0]. We know dozens of consulting companies who've built Appsmith apps for their clients. I bet every fast growing low code/no code product has small businesses built on it because the tech consulting market is just so huge.

[0]https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
Ok, but how do we handle this until we completely remake the world in precisely the way that lucian1900 thinks it should be?
Ask HN: Best resources to learn Python from scratch?
Hi there. I've decided i want to learn coding from scratch. But i only intend to make it a hobby. I've come to the conclusion that python is the best place to start. Again since this is a hobby, i want to keep my cost low, so a want to hear from the community.

a) am i deluding myself in thinking i can teach myself how to code?

b)is python the right choice? I want to learn general coding, so which language overlaps the most with every other language out there?

c)What are the best books/ resources available to learn computer theory and the python language?
Here's a good and poignant clip about "mail snooping" from Little Murders (1971): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16InStip5k
A lot of people are rightly complaining in this thread about how unfair this is to those who sacrificed to make good their obligation to pay rent. However the fair option, where everyone is paid would have an even greater distorting economic effect: because a huge amount of this money will just go into paying mortgages, little will go into circulation; and ends up being really a bail out for banks (while also probably saving the really poor from another pointless bankruptcy). If $20k was just given to everyone, it’d have a massive inflationary effect.

I personally don’t like either solution: landlords should have taken a haircut. But it’s really hard to force landlords to take haircuts because the housing market is so incredibly illiquid; selling a house is a difficult transaction, once you’ve found a buyer you then need surveyors, who can delay the process long enough to cause the deal to fall through and the cycle to start over (and in LA the whole grandfathered housing tax creates even more perverse incentives). This way housing ends up being a bit of a unique asset class because selling up when faced with cash flow issues almost never makes economic sense. This ends up being a bit of a viscous cycle because it makes individual housing transactions extremely volatile.

It’s somewhat perverse that there aren’t real market makers in the domestic housing market.

It would be fantastic if there was some state market maker providing a buyer of last resort, that would have the economies of scale to make it work. It would allow the housing market to actually function as a market. In this case, if a landlord was having cash flow problems, they would be able to immediately liquidate. They’d take their haircut at a fair price that way. Right now, distressed property is a microeconomic quagmire.
Heresy!

Speaking more seriously, most churches these days are very ecumenical since they have realized they have much more in common with each other than secular culture.
Betteridge's law strikes again!
Rust takes the approach of flat-out not letting you mutate any collection while you have any references to its contents. It eliminates all dangling pointer bugs... I don't know if it rules out any useful use cases of collections with iterator stability. I think any C++ collection holding unique_ptr is stable (pushing to the collection doesn't invalidate the target of the unique_ptr), and Rust doesn't have an safe ergonomic way to achieve that (perhaps Pin<Box<MagicCell<T>>>, but we don't yet have a MagicCell that makes &mut MagicCell<T> not noalias).
Permissioned legacy technology is not advanced. The stronger, harder money wins. Good luck with your guess.
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I found a good match via online dating recently, but only after about half a decade of usage. I honestly cannot stand online dating. In all my years real-life dating, online dating had substantially worse experiences.

Last winter on a 'Zoom date' one match multi-tasked while I was trying to talk with her. She was literally shopping.

Another 'left the chat' after I said I wasn't a property developer, I was a software developer. I hesitate to even mention this because it practically reveals my identity to friends who know that story.

I've met women who chatted for a while, and setup a date, only to finally reveal at the 11th hour that they are seeing someone. Sorry! I've also met women who used very, very misleading photographs in their profiles.

I've had 'matches' who return curt answers to very simple conversational questions, as if how dare you attempt to grace their presence with your messages. I'd take a non-reply over that sort of signal. I would not be texting them in the first place if they hadn't also swiped right on me.

My real life experiences dating someone from Meetup/College/Work had substantially more honesty and humanity. In online dating, I truly feel there's a loss of treating others like human beings instead of a disposable item. And to be fair, I am guilty of that sin as well.

But for all the talk I've heard from my female friends about how guys are awful on online dating (and I believe it), I can assure you that it's not any easier on this side.
Can you summarize or provide a non-paywall link?

It’s frustrating that they claim RCV is second best but (presumably) put what they argue is best below the fold.
Placing sanctions on Iran is good for the planet, since it reduces oil production (Iran's oil exports are down 70% since 2017).

Keeping the price of oil high will encourage the transition to EVs.
If you work 3 hours a day but you deliver decent code and you are not on the way, you are not a problem for your manager. He knows that you are slow, but you don't give him problems, so he is ok.

A hyper motivated developers who starts lots of projects and don't finish them, or who writes buggy code, or who creates social problems in the team, will raise more red flags than a "slow but consistent developer".
Norah Vincent is also a professional writer, and a lesbian.

Not surprising that she's good at wooing women with the written word.
For large N, that could make some sense. For a lot of (company, job) pairs, though, that'll be an N of 1. That seems unrealistic.

Of course we can determine some threshold below which it doesn't apply, but then there are games to be played around how jobs are grouped, etc.

I'm not saying there's no solution down that path, but I don't think it's "easy".
> It exists for both reasons.

I believe this is correct. Here's [0] some old Boost documentation on Boost's make_shared which inspired the C++ standard's make_shared. It mentions both reasons.

[0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_67_0/libs/smart_ptr/doc/htm...
I post and edit. It's become an obsession frankly.
Real puerh is very good for you. Anecdotal obviously but descendants on my father's side eat healthy and drink a lot of puerh daily, regularly live to 100+.
We can go back and forth about what constitutes a "COVID death," but if you look at excess mortality for 2020/2021 you will see that if anything, we are under-counting COVID deaths.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

I'm not sure what you're trying to say about the false positive PCR tests in asymptomatic patients, but false positives in PCR tests are rare and would barely impact the numerator.
I'm sure Emo Philips could design an UX for that.
The really unfortunate thing about NYC's ranked choice voting is that you're limited to ranking only 5 candidates. This means you still need to engage in tactical voting.

You can't just rank the candidates you like, in the order you like them, because your genuine top 5 choices might not include the people who are most likely to win. You'll be "throwing your vote away" unless you include the most-likely-to-win candidates - that is, unless you vote tactically.

I've seen lots of discussion in NYC where people are trying to figure out the right tactical voting to do given their views and given the fact that they can only rank 5 candidates. Ranked choice voting is supposed to make tactical voting essentially irrelevant, so this is disappointing.