skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine, go STAR or Score/Range. Honestly I prefer those systems (in that order and I'd argue most people that are pro cardinal systems have that same preference[0]). Nice benefit is that people can bullet vote and we collapse to Approval which is a "good enough" system.

> but would still strongly prefer over one-or-more other candidates?

In fact, this is why I argue for STAR or score. It encodes information for better than a ranked (ordinal) system. In any ranked system you encode your preference with equidistant from one another. Where as when you score you can indicate a much stronger preference.

Here's an example. Let's say I REALLY like candidate A, moderately like candidate B, and strongly dislike candidate C.

Ranked:

A > B > C (with my encoding I'm saying that my preference of A over B is the same as my preference of B over C)

Scoring

A: 10, B: 7, C:0 (with this encoding I can indicate that my preference of A over B is not as large as my preference of B over C. Obviously we are capturing more information here)

Let's just encode information better, I agree. But also let's consider other factors like how easy it is to count the votes (which every cardinal system is going to beat ranked systems).

[0] That same preference where the distance between STAR, Score, and Approval is smaller than the distance between preference of Approval over IRV (e.g. STAR: 10, Score: 8, Approval: 7, IRV: 3, Plurality: 0).
My cat acted like she wanted to spoon, but her dastardly plan was to seize the exact center of the bed, and she was relentless at it. Like a chess player. Every night I'd wake up curled around the edges.

So I guess I must be the first person dominated by the iron whim of a cat.
It's no different from job hunting or college admissions. We're all commodities. The more important question is whether the commodity is worth the effort. In online dating, the reasonable answer for all but a few people, certain special considerations notwithstanding, would be "No". Instead the average American male is either better off leveraging his under-appreciated qualities internationally in some from of sexual arbitrage or waiting until sexbots arrive.
>They took away a service (evictions) that you were expecting the government to provide to assist your business dealings.

That's not a service. The government requires you to do so by law, because they don't want landlords doing it themselves. They didn't take away some notary service you could get done by AAA -- they took away a fundamental means of doing business.

It's like claiming that the government took away a service (police) that you were expecting to have around. The police literally exist, and are required to be used, because they've already removed the option of self-policing.
There's a good number of religious users. I'm not Christian, but I think Bible commentary is fascinating. Things like linking a few words to a whole database of knowledge. It doesn't apply to things that aren't scripture.
You wouldn't be happy with the Unmatched. At 1.2 GHz, it's slower than a Rpi4. Even a Beagleboard-X15 (2 core armv7) is faster.
or both! /s
You did not actually prove how exactly launching criticisms of the writing style over the content is not cheap. You can hate and critique the writing style all you want, but focusing on that in your HN comments is in fact the very notion of cheap commentary.

So, would you like to try again? Are you intellectually capable of providing a proper retort?
This is pretty mindblowing, especially for something he wrote as a high school kid.

The UI alone is pretty amazing, given the time and platform.
That's purely because the Olympics got rid of the poetry, town planning and similar events

https://www.planetizen.com/node/87885/going-gold-when-town-p...
So the XX group on anabolic steroids won’t be an issue?
The bill's language is very simple and reasonable, e.g. "members of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race or sex." I don't really see where this bill attempts to demonize anything.
He was born in 1912. There was a lot of celebration in 2012 relating to the 100th anniversary of his birth. Not just the 2014 movie.
Who cares? The implicit idea behind employment is that the employer always pays less than they think you are worth.

There is no shame or immorality in occasionally bringing down output enough that you sometimes find where that crossover point is. Or, surprisingly, perhaps you find there _is_ no crossover point?

At any rate, stick with it while you can stay sane, then jump ship to something new and exciting. Done.
> they don't have any reasons why they can't succeed yet they almost never do anyway

This seems like a failure of imagination to me.

Having adequate food and shelter is a long way from being able to start a profitable business, and it can even be the case that as society becomes more prosperous it becomes HARDER to start a business. Example: try starting a restaurant with the regulations today vs 1950.
Sure, if you aren't ready for the cat taking guardianship role - my nephew grew up with the cat taking position beside him in his crib from the very first days he was brought home from the hospital.
> In response to speech that makes you uncomfortable

It is not in response to speech that makes people feel uncomfortable.

Instead it is in response to people attempting to dox you, target your friends and family and children, as well as possibly people's workplaces, and in the most extreme cases, make threats or attempts on one's life.

> The arena of public discourse is still open to all comers.

If your family gets threatened, and your children get stalked, due to things that you say, then in those cases I would not describe the area of public discourse being open.

All the things that I have described, are a threat to free speech, even if it isn't literally the government stalking down children, due to dislike of things that people are saying.
The math behind ML is far from simple. Look at manifold learning and the math behind learning theory. I agree with the general point tho
Tom Stoltman wins world’s strongest man
The problem with recreating the original Project Oberon system hardware on a current FPGA board is that Prof. Wirth's original design for the Xilinx Spartan 3 starter kit board (https://reference.digilentinc.com/spartan-3/spartan-3) relied on the fact that this board had 1 MB of fast, 32 bit wide, asynchronous SRAM, which is easy to handle. Thus, the CPU clocked at 25 MHz didn't require a cache and even had cycles to spare for the framebuffer accesses.

The OberonStation board replicated this design by using two 16-bit wide SRAMs. All other current boards using SRAM only have a single 16-bit wide SRAM, so all accesses to machine words such as the RISC5 instructions would take two cycles; often, the RAM is also too small, e.g. the BlackIce (https://mystorm.uk) has only 512 kB.

Most of the boards on the market today have SRAM or DDR RAM, which makes controlling the external memory much more complex and requires significant changes to the nice and simple Project Oberon hardware. There are ports using SDRAM, e.g. for the ulx3s (https://radiona.org/ulx3s/, https://github.com/emard/oberon) or FleaFPGA and Papilio Pro (https://opencores.org/projects/oberon_sdram).

On a really large FPGA, you could get by using on-chip block RAM only, but FPGAs with 1 MB of block RAM are still quite expensive...
I joke about a conspiracy theory of this being the reason that IRV is propositioned instead of a more representative and better system like cardinal voting but honestly I believe that the reason is just because it gained more momentum early on. There's been CGP Grey videos on IRV (which proposes the exact misunderstandings I'm discussing in these threads), Hasan Minhaj (ditto), and others. There's been no major celebrity that is advocating for cardinal style voting. And at the end of the day understanding why cardinal is better than ordinal is not trivial to understand, unless you understand information encoding but that's not common knowledge (though it should be here and I'm surprised it isn't).
This "pyramid of control" observation is extremely under-appreciated. We are living in a time of extreme polarization and division, not just between parties but within them, as societies try to deal with an increasingly complex world where shifting battlefronts no longer align with traditional ideological boundaries, all while we're being mesmerized by the novel psychological environment that social media creates.

Even if the "pyramid of control" doesn't drive parties towards extremes, it perhaps drives them towards memes; that is, simplistic but clear ideas that stand out among the noise. Unfortunately, while that might be enough to create a coherent identity for a party, it doesn't do anything to guarantee that the party has any sort of broad support from the population, which further alienates people from politics.
> Well, at the very minimum the target function can be something like "make sure everyone is not worse than right now and as many people as possible are better".

Not everyone wants that either. Some enjoy having inferiors.

> Here's another option. Imagine, people come to you and say: hey, dale_glass, you're smart we trust you. Please pick the target function. You can put there whatever you want with whatever weight you want.

What does that have to do with science or what we were talking about? That's extremely subjective.
It's typically after you end up in the public eye for some other reason that someone becomes motivated to hunt for material from your past.

Today you're a random internet commentator; tomorrow you're in a fight with your kid's school board, publishing a popular book, who knows.
I would have said he looks like a sadder version of Christian IX: https://www.alamy.com/christian-ix-of-denmark-1818-1906-imag...
Certainly Musk isn’t the only beneficiary of corporate welfare. I don’t know the background of those other CEOs, but it’s safe to say if you’re getting billions in government handouts, you already have a good deal of personal wealth and connections.
Curious, what kind of arbitrages do succesful people use?
So in which context does "shebang" refer to a ! without a # ? I can't find any definition like that online.
What if the the 4th guy was second most preferred candidate of all voters?

https://electionscience.org/library/the-center-squeeze-effec...
I reviewed Vivaldi back in 2019 on Twitter (see https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11653581559220592...), and later again for an official blog post (see https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff...). It was indeed much better than many of the other top browsers. Brave does, however, still come out on top when you consider Vivaldi proxies few, if any, requests to Google.

On the topic of telemetry, I just updated it and launched a new window to find an immediate call to vialdi.com/rep/rep passing along 25 distinct pieces of information, including what appears to be a distinct 16-character ID (key: _id). Another 6-character ID (key: pv_id) was also passed along for the ride. I'd have to take a closer look into the traffic to determine how sticky these are to the user, device, or browser instance.

Anybody interested can download Telerik Fiddler (or the HTTP Toolkit) and conduct a cursory review of the network activity as well. Vivaldi does still come out near the top of the list of browsers though. For example, they don't send keystrokes to Google or Bing behind the scenes as you type. That's a unique restraint not commonly observed in browsers today.
As much as I know you want to chime in here, I'm not going to play any games where you draw the goalposts. My current options are the following:

1. I can continue to use Vivaldi and uBlock origin as a completely open-source and so far flawless combo

or

2. Go out of my way to switch to a browser with dubious privacy claims, a goddamn personal cryptocurrency and (the cherry on top) a developer who spent the better half of his afternoon tracking me down and asking me why I don't like their browser.

I think I'm good.
'Offense' - its definition changes based on person's emotional state, their ideology, their background, how much sleep they had last night, or simply they're trolls, or get offended because they want to play a victim, etc.

So, if we follow your template of society, it would be impossible to not offend someone. Society would come to a complete halt.

A society where expression is nulled by people that follow this ideology would have no art, no expression, no culture and a single authoritarian mindset of following the line and never deviating from it. The ministry of emotional well-being will be keeping an eye on you. At best it would be a boring stagnant society, at worst it will be dangerous and impossible to protest against it.

It's a destructive concept and I'd like to question who determines the line that you walk on. I hope you can reflect a little bit and it should be easy how this can be problematic.
This is good advice but it’s going to vary by human more than pet. I have a lot better track record developing patience and a good discipline relationship with my pets by actively engaging, because I’m cognitively (ADHD, ASD) incapable of ignoring a lot of things and trying to force it brings out my worst, least intentional self.
We can change the title if someone suggests a better one. That means: accurate, neutral, and preferably using representative language from the article itself.
The automotive industry famously received billions in government bailouts. Musk just joined them in the gravy train.
VT100 -> Net terminal, Web Page -> Web App. It'll move to "native apps" as mobile and desktop OSes merge, and then it'll go full-remote back to the VT100s. The circle of life...
> Can one still benchmark Windows? Most proprietary software requires explicit authorization from the seller nowadays.

Yes, you can still find Windows benchmarks, they're all over the web in fact. The Phoronix test suite supports Windows for example, and Phoronix have a whole series comparing performance between Windows and various Linux distributions: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Windows%20vs.

They've also tested NTFS vs. other file systems before, although this was using the Linux NTFS driver: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4....

More recently they did at least one I/O bound test with Windows vs Linux, a SQLite insertion test: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows-... Linux + EXT4 crushed Windows + NTFS, but obviously I'd like to see a more well-rounded test. And of course none of these cover the question of whether Windows performance would improve running in a Linux VM.
An illustrative example is a string set which remembers its insertion order. In C++ you may write:

struct OrderedSet {
deque<string> storage;
set<string_view> vals;
}

The deque holds the string contents, and the set holds views of those contents. This is safe because the deque has iterator stability, and it's pleasant because the `vals` set can just be a regular set.

As you say Rust does not allow this; its answer is IndexSet, and it is implemented differently, like:

struct OrderedSet {
Vec<String> buckets;
RawTable<usize> hashToBucketIndex;
}

RawTable is a hash table that doesn't know how to compute a hash or determine equality. Instead, you provide it with closures to do those tasks, but at the call site (not construction time).

Basically Rust achieves the same thing through a layer of indirection involving indexes, which is a common pattern.
What if you had super rich parents and you decided to become a school teacher (~$60k/yr in the US)?

Being raised rich taught you that wealth isn't everything, in fact it can be quite toxic and maddening.

So you end up owning a house and some retirement investments after 40 years, but most of all feel proud of the work you've done and the lives you've bettered.

To be called the biggest loser in the world seems like a stretch.
*Rus
Well a solution that satisfies everyone is impossible, but most people derive the vast majority of their income from labor, not capital assets, so policies that prevent expansion of the labor supply will benefit the vast majority of citizens.
> and by extension the author.

I love how idiots on HN are justifying blatant ad hominem attacks in their commentary as being perfectly valid.

WTF is HN becoming? Are people really getting this stupid?
Count yourself lucky to wake up to that end.
Oh my cat did this too! I just happen to like sleeping that way.
There are other ways to reduce the influence of luck other than the European safety model.

For example, reduce regulation, improve education, enforce anti-trust laws (which I see as a different thing than general regulation that is regressive toward small business), increase access to capital, reduce legal and administrative costs of business, etc. Reduce the influence of crony capitalism.
Sorry about that, I could have made that point more constructively and will edit my post accordingly.
> 90% of the german military were destroyed by the Soviets in the eastern front

This is probably true of the Germany army, but not the air force, and certainly not the navy.

Furthermore, it does not demonstrate your point that "Bletchley Park ... had no material impact on the war", which is demonstrably false. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra for a list of some contributions; but it is surely obvious that reading the enemy's communications is going to be of great help in a war.

> Germany had no chance of winning.

True once they were fighting UK + USSR + USA; the odds against them were too great.
Artificial Proteins Never Seen in the Natural World Are Becoming New Medicines
It might be better to have hormone classes in sports the way boxing has weight classes. You could have Mike Tyson class all the way through Betty White class, and as a side benefit you'd be able to put women's sports teams in with appropriately matched men. As another side benefit a lot of people who were simply born with the wrong stuff to compete could rise to the top of their class by hard work. Since there's not that much value in "gene grading" people, when all the heroism comes from training and dedication, getting away from the birth lottery sports system could be helpful to the sports documentary industry, along with the human soul.

;)
> The thing is to have a common Trusted Third Party, and somehow keep the number of such parties large enough.

Aye, there's the rub. What's to stop most sites from only allowing Google/Facebook as the Trusted Third Party? And you also need to worry about security breaches, or one company quietly buying up all the independents, or governments legislating in back doors, or every service you use ganging up behind the scenes to try and collate your "anonymous" public keys back into a single identity.

Don't get me wrong, I do think there's a way forward, but it's not going to be easy.
It really was the most convenient messaging has ever been with Google. Basically equivalent to iMessage, with the added convenience that I knew way more people on Hangouts than iMessage anyway. Plus the Google Fi integration was perfect.
Show HN: Urltron – represent JSON as clean url query parameters
I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? ... Bandits.
Why did the takedown notice have text in Arabic when Iranians speak Persian? This is what made me think it was fake, at first.
Γερμανια – Ουγγαρια, προγνωστικα στοιχηματος Euro 2020
Χωρίς ακόμα να έχει διασφαλίσει την πρόκριση στους τελευταίους 16 του Euro 2020, η Γερμανία αντιμετωπίζει την αντίπαλη ομάδα του έκτου ομίλου την Ουγγαρία στο Μόναχο την Τετάρτη, όπου με ένα θετικό αποτέλεσμα που απαιτείται θα το πετύχει. Αφού έχασαν το εναρκτήριο παιχνίδι τους, και οι δύο εθνικές έρχονται τώρα σε αυτό το σημαντικό παιχνίδι με έντονη διάθεση, αφού οι Ούγγροι κατέκτησαν την ισοπαλία εναντίον της Γαλλίας το περασμένο Σαββατοκύριακο, ενώ οι άντρες του Γιοάχιμ Λεβ νίκησαν εντυπωσιακά την κάτοχο Πορτογαλία με σκορ 4-2
"an essential ingredient of learning is feedback, often received in the form of grades"

"Recommend resources for learning"

The best thing someone can do to help another learner is to teach them how to evaluate their own work. If there is an answer key to the book, that's great. If there isn't, then they should learn how to use the worked examples to evaluate their learning.

Feedback is important as you say, but having a long time delay between completing something and the evaluation through a grade isn't helpful. It can be demotivating, lead to reinforcing or practicing bad habits, or not making the connection between seeing continuous improvement.
And who'da thunk that all modern language ecosystems would completely ignore the few good parts of CPAN?
That’s good to know!

For clarity, I wasn’t trying to say DDG is better than Brave, rather agreeing with the parent that there are smarter tools for gathering information rather than relying solely on a search engine.
But it's truly "everywhere". There are too many photos of those crazy presentations come out almost every week. Maybe you think it's not widely spread. But those crazy nuts are being adopted by many places. Parents are rightfully concerned.
Thank you for the correction. I used to call them hash-bangs (not sure where I picked up that habit in my ~25 years of industry experience), until I started seeing more people refer to them as shebangs. Oddly enough, while reading them out I would always say "bang, <identifier>". I'll try to refer to them simply as bangs (or perhaps something like search/filter bangs) from now on
Somebody send a copy of this to Putin, as per the Ukraine-Russia conflict still raging on . . . .
This is very neat. I love the design. Stripe should hire the author on the stripe payment link team (if they want to be hired that is).
> unspecified

how is that different from undefined?
One of it's big downsides is that you can, in some cases, cause a candidate to lose by ranking them too highly. In voting-theory terminology, it fails the monotonicity criterion. In at least that one respect it's worse than first-past-the-post. (I mean, imagine if people could say "Gore would have won in 2000 if only a few less people had voted for him". That sounds nonsensical, but that's how IRV works sometimes.)

Wikipedia has an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Instant...

I think first-past-the-post and IRV are both bad voting systems that are unsuitable for real-world use in elections with more than 2 candidates. Approval voting is simpler than IRV and (as far as I know) it isn't worse than FPTP in any way, so I think we should push for that.
Mishandling of novel or virulent pathogens that cause widespread outbreaks do not in fact occur all the time. It's not hard to see why it matters how C19 happened: if it was in fact a lab leak, that would suggest strongly that it's problematic to site this kind of research in densely populated areas (contra the stereotypes, Wuhan, "the Chicago of China", is a densely populated metropolis). Had novel coronavirus research been centered in Casper, Wyoming, and an outbreak occurred there, we wouldn't much have to wonder where the virus came from.
> Is 95% really not acceptable?

No: When you use web search for professional work, such as searching for error messages or description of bugs of some software, any miss of somebod having encountered and solved them before can cost you days of work.

From my experience, Google is currently still the best at finding those.
It's an obvious answer but people are going to get upset over hearing it.
Everyone is doing it.

And if you’re not, congratulations… you’re being paid enough.