skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, maybe. Or disillusionment with IRV might spoil the waters for other attempts at reform, when people start to realize all the claims about ranked-choice eliminating the spoiler effect are actually false.

Certainly that's what happened in Burlington, VT where a spoiler candidate swung the 2009 mayoral election, and IRV was subsequently repealed. They didn't say "oh oops, well this experiment failed, let's try approval voting instead"; they just went back to plurality voting and that was that.
May be it's possible to encode some kind of low-res compressed image in QR-code? I did not run the math. Or may be it's even possible to scan photo from smartphone display, run some kind of image hash and compare it to hash inside QR-code. This way it would be possible to work completely offline. I think it's called perceptual hashing, though I'm not sure if it's cryptographically secure.
List different translations and links to evidence for each.
Order by some metric of “this has best evidence, or this is most common understanding
There's a big gap between finding the work you're actually doing kinda boring, and the massive effort required for me (the narration which believes itself to be the executive) to make progress of any kind at all when the rest of my internal processes don't feel like playing ball. Even with meds.
On that same note, if you decide to express offensive views, you should be willing to accept the social backlash for doing so.

Your right to speak isn't infringed by allowing others to exercise their own right to speak against you.

Letting go of the idea that offending people is harmful is probably a good thing, but you will also need to let go of the idea that people aren't permitted to be offended by what you say.

If you cannot accept the consequence of offending others, you should keep your mouth shut. Free speech doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want and hear nothing in return.
I think the thing that excites me the most about this, is the non-personalized search results.

Ironically, I end up using DDG for more accuracy, because a lot of the time on Google I am unable to get to articles or information I'm looking for, no matter how I search.

I think this is a result of personalized search results - i.e. Google "guessing" based on ML models what my interests are. Many times I don't want this, I just want to see pages that use the more classic PageRank algorithm.

Honestly, sometimes when I search it feels like Google is "preaching" to me in a way - rather than showing me what I search for, it shows me what it thinks I ought to be viewing. I don't get this from DDG, it feels like the results there are a lot more objective?
"Worst possible" might be a bit strong, but an important property that a voting system should have is that it finds the Condorcet winner if one exists. The Condorcet winner is the candidate who beats every other candidate in a head-to-head election. IRV is not guaranteed to find a Condorcet winner.

The problem with IRV is that you can have a candidate who is everyone's second choice, but then loses out on the first ballot because too few people ranked them first.
I never said you could. I said that you didn't need to defrag manually, and that with the rise of SSDs doing so would be actively harmful.
You have the same performance as when you were working 5 days or you are 4/5 as productive? If it’s the former, why did you take a pay cut?
Interesting tidbit, this painting was one of the required pieces of Soviet school in late USSR, I think in grade 4 or 5 in the Russian language curriculum. We were assigned this painting - and a few others over the school year - as a topic of essay, where you had to describe what was depicted and its meaning to you and your country. The minimal accepted size of essay was 3 pages, I believe.

I remember doing a very careful study of all the fine details on the jackets and various arms that cossacks had in the painting reproduction that I happened to have in some nicer book, the schoolbook picture was too tiny to really appreciate.

Another Ilya Repin picture that was assigned as that kind of essay target was Barge Haulers on the Volga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge_Haulers_on_the_Volga)
> If you don't consider these eyewitness accounts as evidence, then I can only assume you have your blinders on.

Not only does that violate HN guidelines, and is irrational and ignorant, it's just propaganda against me. Have a nice day.
Oh no, voting for representatives really is like a kind of "winner-take-all" filter.
> They go quiet or form a tiny invite only groups to hide after an attempt to do something good that backfired because their skin is the wrong colour or they aren’t trans. They have panic attacks over the guilt and stress

This right here is your indicator that this comment is an entirely made up story about hypothetical friends, with the sole intention of ragging on “liberals.”

Basically, it’s contrarian conservatism that criticizes not-very-controversial values (e.g., general equality) for incredibly vague reasons.

It’s even more ignorant than plain old bigotry because it’s so devoid of ideology. It’s just contrarianism for the sake of not doing what the “liberals” do.

The anti-masking movement of 2020 is the perfect demonstration of that contrarian ideology. Conservatives don’t even know why they oppose masks except that the liberals were putting them on.

It’s pretty sad considering that the first two sentences about ML and online identity were relatively productive conversation that could have gone somewhere thought provoking.
Guix/Nix does this better across many programming languages. Unlike language-specific package managers, Guix is fully recursively reproducible ("bootstrappable"). And Nix isn't terribly far behind, either.

Julia itself is not even reproducible: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25900 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/34753
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

― Bill Gates
Lexapro made me feel like I was on the come up for LSD or MDMA for the first two weeks I took it. It was, for lack of better explanation, as if I were plugged into an electric socket.

After the first two weeks or so, things evened out and I felt much more normal but all of the good things Lexapro brought to me remained. This, from my understanding, is normal and you simply did not give your body/mind enough time to adjust to the dosage.
People have written decorators that do tail call optimization, e.g. https://code.activestate.com/recipes/474088-tail-call-optimi...

I think the "pythonic" way to handle it though is to not use recursion in the first place, and write the loops into your functions directly
Bob and Alice should both feel resentment toward Joe’s son who inherited millions and owns the majority of stock in the company Bob and Alice are desperately trying to apply to.

Unless you’re wealthy, the enemy is very clearly the rich and not those at or below you on the socioeconomic ladder.
The result accuracy actually seems pretty good thus far. Although I have mixed feelings about Brave as a company, I may have to switch over from DDG/SP.
New York City is the one driving the news cycle right now (and rightfully so as 8 million people have the potential to use RCV for the first time). And people view NYC as pretty liberal.

But a great thing about RCV is that it's not inherently partisan or favoring of left or right. As a result, in addition to being used in places like New York City, San Francisco, and Maine...it recently passed for use in Alaska and nearly two dozen cities in Utah. That's a pretty diverse set of locales across the U.S.

Article on Alaska: https://www.vox.com/2020/11/19/21537126/alaska-measure-2-ran...

Article on Utah:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/05/11/many-utahns-...
It looks like the article got the Australian implementation somewhat wrong.

Under cons, it says that voters have to rank all candidates on the ballot paper.

In reality you have a choice. You can either rank all, or if you are lazier you can just select your favourite candidate and then your first choice candidate's preferences will be used instead.

Also for some larger ballots (usually the senate with nearly 100 options) there is now a requirement to only rank say the top 10 or so for the ballot to count, so you don't need to number all 100.

This is one of the best features of the Australian system. If you want to do the basic effort you can just tick one box, but if you care about the ordering you can also make your preferences count if you so choose.

As an outsider looking in to American politics, I feel changing to preferential voting is the best bang for buck change to move away from extreme politics. Hopefully this catches on elsewhere.
But which is more accurate google or bing? Having used DDG (~bing) for a few years now, at first I felt it was inferior, but I stuck with it for the privacy. Now I feel it's roughly equal, depending on the query. Google is full of spammy SEO content, where as DDG elevates niche content (probably more because it's not targeted by SEO spam, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt)

I feel it's somewhat impossible to discern accuracy in search results, as you can't see what's missing. But by the time you feel the results are missing something, they're likely missing ALOT.
I don't like instant runoff. It seems like it systematically rejects compromise, and I think finding the proper compromise is an important goal of a voting system.

For instance, imagine a sectarian society split roughly equally between 3 religions, with 4 candidates running. The first three push theocracy favoring their respective religion, while the fourth favors tolerance and secular government.

If, statistically, most of the citizens favor their flavor of theocracy, are happy to put up with secular tolerance, and are vehemently (maybe violently) opposed to living under another religions theocracy, it seems that clearly the best choice is that fourth candidate.

If everyone votes their honest preferences, the first thing IRV does is throw away that fourth candidate.

The vote might not go that way if enough people recognize the situation and vote strategically, ranking what they see as the proper compromise artificially high. But that's true of any voting system and undermines major selling points of RCV.
I very much want dumb people to have representation.
It's unfortunate that NPR isn't aware that there are ranked-choice voting methods other than IRV, which is what they describe in this article.† Australia, for example, uses a variant of Hare-Clark STV, which is a much better ranked-choice voting method than IRV (though it reduces to IRV in single-winner elections), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method is a ranked-choice voting method used by many organizations which guarantees that the Condorcet winner, if any, wins—a property STV lacks.

All these methods are vulnerable to Arrow's paradox, but many of them would produce better results in practice than IRV or especially the antiquated first-past-the-post method normally used in the US.

In general, though, you can't expect democratic elections to produce results of higher quality than the voters, and the last year and a half of covid response has made it clear that the voters are of very low quality—not just in New York, but worldwide. As long as your healthcare, retirement, and policing are run by people who believe in astrology, creationism, witchcraft, Holocaust denial, vaccine-caused autism, and global-warming denial, they aren't going to be run well. Democracy is much less bad than the alternatives, but even democratic governments are spectacularly incompetent. Putting them in charge of anything important is like giving a machete to a chimpanzee.

https://www.pewresearch.org/2010/09/30/why-should-we-care-wh... (25% of USAns believed in astrology, 68% in creationism)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-birther-myth-stuck-... (34% of USAns think Obama was born in Kenya)

https://news.gallup.com/poll/276929/fewer-continue-vaccines-... (10% of USAns think vaccines cause autism)

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/10/millennials-holocau... (63% of USAns couldn't place the Holocaust's Jewish death toll to within a factor of 3)

https://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/papers/passivity.htm Michael Huemer's classic paper covering a lot of such figures, and their implications for public policy; quoting Delli Karpini and Keeter:

> The most commonly known fact about George [H.W.] Bush’s opinions while he was president was that he hated broccoli. During the 1992 presidential campaign 89 percent of the public knew that Vice President Quayle was feuding with the television character Murphy Brown, but only 19 percent could characterize Bill Clinton’s record on the environment. Also during that campaign, 86 percent of the public knew that the Bushes’ dog was named Millie, yet only 15 percent knew that both presidential candidates supported the death penalty. Judge Wapner (host of the television series “The People’s Court”) was identified by more people than were Chief Justices Burger or Rehnquist.

It might sound like I'm picking on the US in particular here, but the US is just where we have the most data. The situation is nearly as bad, or even worse, everywhere else.

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† Perhaps they are aware but assume their public is too dumb to understand the difference.
Yep: as broke students in early 90s we ran VGA on a 1970s era amber terminal display.
By weight?! Wow yeah, by far surely. Though by some sort of hand-wavy measure of 'amount you use', vanilla might take the lead.

Ignoring the whopping (!) 10g bulk buy, cheapest I can get from Ocado in the UK is £4.68 for a gram. Vanilla pods start at £3 each (and no cheaper on Amazon other than in big bags, happened to be looking recently) and when you use one you use one; whereas the saffron probably won't be used all at once, again for a hand-wavy notion of 'similar sort of style/quantity' thing (despite obviously being totally different if one has vanilla and the other saffron..).
A C++ object can be perfectly safe to copy in one situation and conjure up nasal demons in another situation. I don't think rule of 5 would help in that case.
part of the accuracy comes from google knowing who you are and what you typically search for.
Limiting yourself to the likely candidates requires a level of awareness around polling - that information is practically forced down our throats since voting in America pretty much requires it, but polling information (what other people think of the candidate) isn't an important piece of information for the voter - it's their opinion the system ideally wants them to express.

RCV is, at a maximum, equally as complicated as FPTP style voting since you have the option to elect only a single choice on your ballot (unless they're doing something weird). The form of the ballot may be visually more overwhelming but that's just from unfamiliarity.
It sounds like what you are experiencing is way beyond anything I can comment on, but I'll put these anecdotes here in the hope that they contribute to the eventual solution.

There was recently a blog posted here (which I can't find) that was nominally about video game development, but had a great post about the burnout and subsequent recovery from burnout by one of the game's developers. It answered for me a lot of the questions about how to get beyond burnout that I had been experiencing. To summarize, the author stepped away from coding for a couple of months. Only later, when his interest drove him, did he begin to dabble in it again, and slowly take on more again. I think the abstract solution is that there needs to be a recovery period where the source of stress and anxiety has been removed and the body and mind have a chance to get back to 'normal'.

Personally I've found that major attention and prioritization to sleep and exercise and lots of time off (much less than 2 mo) has made a big difference. Also, finding a solution to the cause of all this for me, which was too much work brought on by others leaving, has really helped. I've also spent time thinking a lot about the 'why' I want to do what I do. I has been really good to ponder these thoughts (and think about the feelings they invoke) and I've found my motivation returning again since.

Best of luck to you in figuring this out.
I don't have data at hand as I have not researched this topic in a long time, but from everything we know, people tend to not do only min or max. From everything we know, the majority of people don't vote purely strategically, specially when the voting system gives you serious disincentives to do so.

There is a clear intensive not to do that as it seriously hurts your overall preference. And Star Voting makes this even stronger compared to normal score voting because of the run-off.

Even if you assume that everybody is a 100% total party zealot it still only breaks down to approval voting and that is still a pretty good system.

> Given how polarizing politics tends to be,

Politics is polarized because of the voting system, if you look at actual data of preferences then you would see that there is far more agreement then can be expressed.

> 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.

You would lose that wager. Most people are not party activists.
The people waging wars already had enough women for themselves in all likelihood.
Vertigo – an old 3D flight simulator for modern Linux
i did things like this in high school tool...
> ...a way of demanding that everyone treat existing, women-centric feminism as already solving men's problems without having to think about them or, indeed, really treat men as people.

A few years back, I was friends with several very feminist people [1] who expressed exactly that thought in about as many words. In other cases, they were very much of the belief that group-members should be followed as advocates for their own group. The big glaring exception was men, and they didn't grasp the contradiction or their blind spot.

[1] It was a mixed group who's strongest ideological commitment was to feminism and related ideologies. The men definitely put the women's perspectives above their own.
It's sad that Christians don't use historical context when interpreting verses.
Definitely saved plenty of lives already. You should watch that video from yesterday
I also recommend Scott Alexander's blog post on ADHD medication:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines

If you're not familiar with the author, he's an incredibly talented blogger whose day job is as a psychiatrist.
How much time must people be putting into politics that they have such nuanced views that make it impossible to express a clear opinion on 4 top candidates and stick a major party candidate in spot 5? I guess New York politics must be vastly different from the West coast, because it's pretty uncommon to see a single race with more than 5 candidates in the first place, and truly unheard of for there to be 5 candidates that have any chance of winning in my experience. Having such strong opinions that this qualifies as "really unfortunate" sounds absolutely exhausting to me.
Any evidence of this claim? It hasn't been my experience. For instance, I believe that politeness is more valued in Asian countries like Japan and Korea and I would disagree with your assertion.

Anecdotally, I've found Russians to be the frankest and corruption is rampant there, so I am not sure what the basis of your assertion is.

Politeness is about respecting others. You can communicate difficult things while still being polite.
It only ever comes up in toy examples. Working programmers do not encounter it, so in practice it is never the cause of a problem.
If electoral systems interest you, I highly recommend William Poundstone's "Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)". It focuses on the USA, so it's maybe better appreciated by American readers, but I found it highly entertaining and edifying, as I have several of the author's other works.
I'll do you one better. If you learn the history of media, then you'll realize why you see propaganda everywhere. Even more simply, one only has to ask why would anyone create a media company? Why did Trump threaten to create a media company after losing the election? To get the "truth" out there? Or get his propaganda out there? Every mainstream media company, in the US, Europe, China, Russia, etc was created the wealthy or politically elite. Once you understand this, everything falls into place and you can move on with your life. It's sad so many people waste their lives over news/media that exists to manipulate and control them. How many relationships, friendships, lives have been ruined by media?
He started tweeting about this like months ago
Even if they didn't limit it to 5, you still need to engage in tactical voting in IRV if you don't want to risk throwing your vote away. The spoiler effect is actually still there, it's just harder to understand. The problem is that your second choice only counts if your first choice is eliminated, so it's very possible that none of your rankings matter and have no influence on the outcome if you don't pick one of the top two candidates as your first choice.
The P550 core in the title is actually a 3 way issue OOO core with near A76 performance, but fair point on the dev boards. Hopefully Intel's dev board or some alternative will provide a lower cost option.
Not a 90s programmer, but I think one of the greater fallacies of the optimistic 90s and early naughts was a belief that technology in general and Internet (cyberspace) in particular will be able to remedy many of humanity's woes. It turned out that, at the end of the day, even very sophisticated technology is infinitely inferior to quite simple and very well understood economic forces and political will.
> Brave Search beta is based on an independent index, the first of its kind.

That's... an interesting way to put it. I can't really twist and turn it into the truth though. Smells like it was put through a lot of PR.

>However, for some queries, Brave can anonymously check our search results against third-party results, and mix them on the results page.

This is something almost all of the search engines outside Google and Bing does. DDG does this with Bing for example.

As far as I can tell the only "new" in this will be that the same thing is done again by another company.
> built, managed, sold, advised

advised

Thanks for the snark though.
I was too busy studying to meet girls in college. Of course, it helps that I’m non-white and unattractive too.
Free speech includes calling your employer and telling them what you said online.

Your employer doesn't have to listen or do anything about it. Should they choose to fire you, it's because whatever you said online was deemed worth firing you for.

If the things you want to say online could get you fired, find a new job before opening your mouth. If you like your job, don't do things that will get you fired.

Free speech doesn't mean that people have to be forced to tolerate what you say. If your words make it to your employer's ears, and they decide to terminate your employment, that's because your employer no longer views your employment as worthwhile, which is entirely their choice to make.

Most of America is at-will employment. If you want to establish the right to work, fight for that - otherwise, accept that your employment comes with certain terms.
This is fork of Vertigo 0.26 with minor fixes to allow compilation in modern Linux.

Here is HN discussion on original Vertigo.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098599
Worst possible ranked choice alternative, not worst possible voting method (i.e., still better than FPTP, but not without its weaknesses). Frustrating as there are more straightforward, and objectively better mechanisms which are ignored in favor of IRV. It's hard not to feel conspiratorial that maybe the Powers That Be want worse voting mechanisms.

This page is a good explainer of IRV's weaknesses and shows some of the alternatives: https://ncase.me/ballot/