skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had this in Australia since day 1 of Federation.

One important factor the article didn't quite emphasise is how this voting system can break up the two party duopoly without creating 1920s-Reichstag-esque anarchy.

It's completely normal to put a third party as your first preference, while still indicating that you'd prefer Kodos to Kang.

In practical terms, it means the Dems would actually have to do some work in order to win the black vote, and likewise for the Republicans and working class white people.
IIRC in some applications of ranked choice voting it's possible to rank an arbitrary number of choices. So even voting the old-fashioned way would be fine.
Any references/recommendations on the best practices to analyze a network, weights, etc.?
Yes, it is.

"As Media Matters has previously noted, Fox News’ current obsession with “critical race theory” has been a year in making. What once was a slow trickle of monthly mentions has developed into a full blown assault. Since February, month over month mentions of the theory have more than doubled on Fox News as the network has begun to spin an illusion of what it is and where it’s being taught (in reality, critical race theory is not generally taught in K-12). Coverage of the theory sharply increased in March, with 107 mentions on the network according to data from Kinetiq media monitoring service. The following month, network figures and guests mentioned it 226 times, and by May, the number had increased to 537 mentions. Not even halfway through June, there’s already been 408 mentions on the network.

Just last week, Fox mentioned “critical race theory” a record 244 times -- an increase from the previous record high of 170 mentions the week before."

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-has-mentioned-crit...
The issue here might be the fact that the Wikipedia article is about the painting, but includes a purported text of ‘the letter’ - presumably of the letter in the painting - but there’s no citation given for where that particular text is sourced or it’s translation.
> Being wrong is part of the path to being right. If you are cancelled for being wrong, you'll never be right. You'll just have to be quiet.

Well put.
> and aren't using Visual Studio

OK, I tried this in Notepad, and it did not work.
I know strong women in security. I cringe when I see “awards” for women in IT. It’s like they are saying “congrats for your success even though your a woman!”

I’ll go one more. Pride month. Who you care to love is meaningless within the context of our professional relationship. I don’t care. Isn’t that the goal?
It's more than convention though.

if you run those commands in bash with `set -e` then the script will exit early when a command exits non-zero.

I often run: `set -euo noglob -o pipefail` which is a way of preventing cascading catastrophes with bash scripts.
Then there ought to be a way tp cheaply produce verified but ephemeral identities, which may be discarded after a particular transaction.

User: I want to use this site.

Site: we need your trusted identity.

User: Trusted Third Party, please make an anonymous identity for me.

TTP: I know you, user; here's your new identity.

User: Site, look here, TTP which you trust says I'm legit.

Site: OK, transaction completed. '

User: (destroys the identity's private key.)

It's not very different from TLS certificates, or OAuth tokens, or even ephemeral credit card numbers. The thing is to have a common Trusted Third Party, and somehow keep the number of such parties large enough.
> an obscure candidate has won when too many top vs fixates split the first choice votes and someone relegated to the floor vacuums up all the throwaway votes

That’s the point. The compromise candidate won. If the top candidates had spent less time mud slinging they may have remained in others’ top two or three.
There are multiple vendors now selling RISC-V products that compete with ARM-A as well.

Its not as far alone as the lower end but it defiantly happening as well.
Mistakes on the way to 34 years old
> they were told to mark deaths as COVID related if the patient had a positive test result, even when cause of death was not specifically COVID related

What's "specifically Covid related"? If a cancer patient catches Covid and takes a turn for the worse, it's fair to call Covid the cause of death. Did a sudden surge of people with asymptomatic Covid die in car crashes and cause LA to run out of crematoria capacity in January and February?

The unbiased way to look at it is excess deaths, since Covid was the only new major cause of death last year. Going by that, about 40k people died of Covid in California in 2020, or about 0.1% of the state's population.[1] The actual number is probably higher than that because flu deaths are way down in 2020 due to Covid countermeasures. And California had about 5k flu deaths in 2019.[2]

1. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/27/40000-excess-deaths-i...

2. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/flu_pneumonia_mort...
If Brave is just another ad company (quote in their blog post) how is this different than Google?
I kid you not, I spent a full working day debugging this exact same issue (taking a pointer to a vector element, before adding more elements).
Very obvious if you understand how C++ and vectors work, yet it took me forever to realize, and it was miserable…
well the thing is, I flew with ryanair multiple times and never had problems. well I had, but basically I was too stupid and made a small mistake inside my name and it costed me like 10€ for the call! (yeah they take like 2€ per minute for support calls)
but well you get what you ask a cheap flight with exactly the details you booked. but you can fly tons of locations, even once that bigger airlines have cancelled long time ago because they aren't worth it.
They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They’re Battling Outbreaks
Racing Game in ClojureScript
Do you have any data around how many people in practice rank candidates between 2 and 4 (assuming a 1-5 scale)?

Given how polarizing politics tends to be, especially in a two party system such as America, I’d wager that most people put all 5’s for candidates of their party and all 1’s for candidates of the other party.
Online Colorscheme Configurator for i3, i3status, dmenu
Also plausible that a significant source of variance in pharmacological drugs' effects are due to differences in diet.

Ex. are there statistically significant differences in the effects of SSRIs between patients with (high || low) use of black pepper/turmeric in their diets?
He forgot one mistake: never take down your existing infrastructure before the new one is up.
Broadly speaking, more signed messages can get you more points on the curve you're trying to guess.

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~amchilds/teaching/w08/l03.pdf

May help if you're actually interested.

Edit: More signed transactions help with the classical and not the quantum part of schor.

Edit2: Schor has not yet even been able to factor the integer 35 with current quantum hardware, too much interference.
The whole point is to allow this. Why don't you like it?
"I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything."

- David St. Hubbins
The problem with trans jokes is there's basically only one of them that most comedians tell. It's just degrees of incredulity about the variety of things that people identify as.

Patton Oswalt's version got chuckles out of me though. His take was basically "I'm on your side, I'm just old and don't know what you're talking about", which is at least poking fun at the incredulity, rather than the variety.
What kinds of community problems do you have in mind?
The verification app needs to maintain a set of trusted certificates. More details on the trust model can be found here: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-trust/blob/main...

Infrastructure for code generation and signing is probably country-specific, though I imagine most countries will establish centralized systems dealing with this and integrate with other systems that track vaccination or test records on various levels (some countries delegate vaccination efforts to their states, others handle it nationally, etc.)
Ah, interesting. Even within that dichotomy, I'd think that if references aren't invalidated on mutation, then dereferencing iterators would be valid, but incrementing them would not be.
Any specific resources that took you to the advanced level?
Your logic is very very strange. Because Fox mentioned it, it must be created by Fox?
It's because he published a memo pertinent to a hot topic at the company and rather than engage him on the merits of his ideas leadership decided to fire him. Is it unsettling that the employees at a company with a global monopoly on information retrieval seem to not tolerate dissent within their ranks?
Democracy is an experiment. Trying out RCV may open the avenue for new systems to be tried.
Because the ARM core still has a large market and not every application need the maximum performance so having competition in that market is not good.

And you are not 'supposed to' care. You can care if you want, and ignore it if you want. So I don't really get your attitude here.
Explosive versus Implosive Cultural Modes
I'm (at Google) one of those "technical leaders" - peer to a manager of ~50 with an informal title of "Uber TL", and no reports of my own. Though for us at least, responsibility still accrues to the manager - I'm a consultant in some sense, with impact through my ability to influence rather than any direct authority.

I'd love to see the end of this road, if other companies have taken it further. I personally offer guidance to the TLs in my scope (and that of my director, to a lesser extent), but have no technical leadership above me. And I think that's where it gets really hard - finding folk capable of being TLs for say 500 to 1000 people is hard.
Yeah, as a senior IC, I have a lot of flexibility compared to an exec who probably has most of their day scheduled including late night calls. And I fully appreciate this when I'm on a "road trip" of some sort when I'm pretty much scheduled from breakfast through post-dinner.

And sure, a senior exec has freedom to say that this AM doesn't work for me--reschedule things. But there are still a lot of meetings/calls at odd hours.
Ya I mean, clearly there are women in cyber security but I mean, I'm non-confrontational and I know that wouldn't be a good fit for me. Unless I knew the woman was up to it I certainly wouldn't recommend most of my female acquaintances to go into just for, say, the money. It must suck being the one to delay a deployment because of risks, or being a road block all the time.
Most people do go to college, and the proportion has been increasing for years, in the united states.
Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices
Let's say I post something online. And let's say that 100 people decide, not just that they disagree, but that they want to destroy me. They send anonymous rants and threats to my employer, my family, my neighbors, and my friends. They dox me, so that I have to worry about physical harm from any random nutcase who agrees with them and decides to bother.

What consequences do they face? Does anyone go to their boss (times 100) and say, what this person is doing isn't right, and is making your company look bad? Does anyone dox the doxxers?

I'm not saying it doesn't happen to Social Justice types. I'm saying, whoever it's done to, do the people doing it face consequences of their own? (If the Social Justice types are doing this themselves, then in their case the answer is yes.)

It's easy for a group of 100 angry people to cover one person they decide to destroy. It's less easy for the one person to return the favor to all 100 of them.

You say (paraphrased) that free speech still has the consequences of the feedback. That's fine. But the feedback has to also have the consequences of feedback.
Think about your market, talk to your would-be users, and look at your competition. Without much in the way of detail nobody can tell you much. It may be that the particular area you are working in is more used to working with REST and therefore you would reduce adaptation barrier by also choosing REST.
This'll be the restructuring that fixes it...
Here I had assumed it was a Ricky Martin reference.
I don't disagree it's not ideal if you have more than 5 choices you like, but let's not over criticize a small flaw without appreciating the massive progress here. I read "horrible and unfortunate" and can see how people would take that to mean "back to FPTP".

I voted today and put 3 small candidates and two who "have a chance". I'm really excited to see how those 3 candidates shake out in the rounds, and that alone might give them a lot more power next race. That's super exciting to me and I think we can celebrate that and then push to improve the issues after :)
In the old days, they were called "wooden nickels".
I'm Israeli and I was recently shocked to learn the rest of the world trusts electronic voting and vote by mail. We have a very simple and strict voting process here - the key feature which builds the trust in voting is that every 4 poll workers are responsible for the integrity of only up to 800 votes. We don't have fraud allegations because you would have to blame over 150 different people simultaneously (and often much more, on the order of hundreds of people, when you take into consideration the practical constrains) to change a single seat. It's very simple to convince a person of the integrity that this process. We have a high turnout which completely contradicts the claim that mail / electronic voting increases turnout. Electronic voting / mail voting give the power of changing the results to a handful of people who control the voting machines / know the voter rolls. Whether they will or had abused it is anyone's guess - but pretending that controversy over election process is inevitable is plainly wrong. The entire premise of elections is to prove to the losing side that the process was fair, so I find it unbelievable so many countries overlook that and give things like convenience and corona safety a priority.
Explanatory note: King County is the county in which Seattle is located.
> 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."

No comments on smell were noted, but she did get comments about not being hairy.
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Jumping on the footgun bandwagon, one I had always known, but never realized how bad of a design decision it was was "the c++ rvalue lifetime disaster" [0]. The talk linked in [0] has a different conclusion, but describes the problem well.

Basically, the lifetime aspects of r/l-values are improperly coupled to the "can I scavenge the internals?" aspect (via const). R-values should not have been promoted to const-ref (I think it was a legacy behavior?) because then this const-ref can be passed around (e.g. returned) as if it were going to outlive the original reference's frame!

This was the first time I realized what a mess C++ can be (although I still use it a lot). This is a subtle error that I have seen seasoned experts miss in code review (especially in templated code). You can't work around it like you can the underperforming parts of the stdlib (Abseil and Folly help out a lot!). This promotion choice of auto&& -> auto const& is really baked into the language and I don't see a path to change it.

The other "biggest foot cannon" has gotta be the incredibly subtle ways one can violate the ABI, e.g. executable A linking against libs B and C, each of which bundle an ABI-incompatible implementation of the same parent dep D (versions 1.1 and 2.1). You never know which type of object you're really passing around with D::SomeType!

[0] https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2020/03/04/rvalue-lifetim...
Spoiler alert: they don't argue what's best.

Very weak evidence offered but the motivation behind the article was near the top.

"They also appeal to more ideological voters—especially on the left—by arguing that they can express their views with more precision in a ranked-choice system."
The moment I see:
- shutdown
- backup + restore anew
- bring up

This triggers shivers. Nononono.

- backup (while your current gif is running)
- restore and test—verify (via a separate vhost)
- delta-backup, delta-restore and test-verify
- stop, delta-backup, delta restore, start at new place

This way you minimize the amount of unexpected. Of course can be infeasible in some contexts…
I really hate that Instant Runoff Voting, which is almost literally the worst possible voting method with ranked choice ballots, has somehow gotten the name “Ranked Choice Voting” stuck to it.

It’s like if “Democratic Elections” became a specific name for Plurality voting.
Can you find a reference to that song by Sherman?
Alan Turing's Google NGram certainly supports your impression that "general public knowledge of Turing's life and work has increased over the years."

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Alan+Turing&ye...
Well, the scene graph code wasn't code I wrote, and this was back in 2014. But sure, obviously it was an error on my part... we are talking about footguns afterall, I'm the one that pulled the trigger.
Fellow Aussie and RCV-enthusiast here, but minor correction: RCV was introduced in 1918 in response to elections where a minority candidate won due to vote splitting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Australia#...
Nobody has tried to have a serious conversation on Twitter in 5 years. It's nothing but performance of your team allegiance.
At first I thought that was a domain and not an org file. :)

Looks like footguns.com is taken but footguns.org is still available.
But why perform for an audience full of people who won't enjoy it? In my experience, performances hosted at colleges overwhelmingly attract audiences of students. It's nobody's fault that his humor doesn't land with that audience, but it is his fault that he's blaming the students for it.
Lol. FYI it’s the same in any slavic/Balkan language.
My father and ex husband both wrote poems. There's nothing inherently gendered about writing rhymes.

It was rare, most of them told me, for a man to write at such length, much less to write with consideration and investment.

To me, that boils down to what I tried to say above: women expect commitment and evidence that you will stick around. "Writing at length" is, in part, simply a matter of putting in the time.
Yes 10000x.
Your also forgetting since children study many subjects, they probably only study fewer than 6 hours of maths a week. And half of that is probably low quality study.
> I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

But how would you actually implement that in this app? People fundamentally disagree about the meanings of many verses.
main points are

1. may decrease voter turnout by 5-6%

2. not as obviously fair as traditional voting

3. increases existing divides

I personally think none of them are good enough points, they can all be dealt with. And 3 just means you can vote for who you like best, not just the ones in power.
I found my partner through a common interest and I'd suggest it as a preferable route for most folks looking. Do the things you enjoy and be open to friendships and other relationships with the people you enjoy doing it with.

I would admit that I'm rather introverted and never really felt the need to seek a relationship specifically - I was pretty happy existing on my own until I found a good partner.
> with land trusts and co-ops

The hardest part with this - as with many other similarly noble undertakings - is to find a person who's willing to do all the job of setting things up and then step aside.

As we empirically see, there are not many people like that, otherwise this country would be full of land trusts.
> I don’t like tank [sic] 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.

Why do you consider that the "wrong" outcome?
> When I don’t get the results I hoped I just use !g

I use !sp instead, same results and no Google tracking

(!sp searches on Startpage which in turn uses results from Google; according to both Privacy Badger and Brave Shields there are no trackers on SP)
Twitter is the public square more than it a news source. The effects of loud voices there lead to global, real world change. Journalists talk to and police each other there. Celebrities influence millions of people there, enough to where people pay them to tweet certain things advantageous to them (“buy these cool Nike shoes!”).

4chan is an anonymous, interest-based forum that is more or less irrelevant to most non-internet people.
I wish I was like you. I volunteer to get involved in lots of projects then fail at half of them and end up burnt out.
"Things your parents don't want you to know about" is like catnip for teenagers. A kind of Streisand effect.
Yes yes yes to all of this!

I was fortunate to have a local medical school with a psychiatry department that has an Adult ADHD clinic where I could seek a diagnosis at the age of 42. Unlike many adults who suspect they have ADHD, I was taken seriously and did not encounter any skepticism on the part of my healthcare providers. I even expressed concern that my problem could be anxiety or depression instead, and my psychiatrist said "If you have undiagnosed ADHD, of course you're going to be anxious and depressed." Find the most expert ADHD person you can for diagnosis and prescribing medication, I really think this is key.

I also agree on not giving up on medication, I had to try three before I found one that worked without also having negative side effects. There's at least one other one I'd like to try, mostly out of curiosity.

I've worked with both a therapist with ADHD expertise and an ADHD coach. My therapist helps me accept my ADHD brain, my coach helps me figure out how to work with it instead of against it. I agree coaching is more helpful but it works best if you can accept the way your brain works instead of trying to fight or change it, so seeing a therapist first to work through that might be a good idea.

I've been listening to a lot of ADHD audiobooks lately. The one I've liked best so far is Nancy Ratey's _The Disorganized Mind_ -- she has ADHD herself and she's the wife of John Ratey, co-author of Driven to Distraction. She kind of invented ADHD coaching and the book is about how to coach yourself.
Salaries are a function or location. Who would have thought?
If gold stopped being used as a store of value, we could use the gold uselessly stored in vaults (~80% of all potential mineable gold on Earth) to make things. Even if 1% of gold reserves were sold off each year that's far greater than the current industrial demand and the price would crater.
I think, all things considered, the way it works is probably the best way, since you might want to use "auto" to actually make a copy. It's just very surprising, because when I have explicit types I'm used to looking for that sort of error, but with an auto I wasn't (at the time) used to looking for that.