skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Both are miles beyond first past the post,

Actually, that's debatable. There was an interesting simulation done awhile back [1] that compared voting systems, and they found that if people voted honestly then IRV is better, but if people vote strategically the result isn't any more democratically optimal than FPTP. Which is what we should probably expect to happen when voters figure out that it's only safe to put your first choice first when they're the overwhelming favorite to win or they have no hope of winning. Otherwise it's complicated: you could cause your favorite candidate to lose by ranking them too high.

Obviously this is one simulation and results would be different with different assumptions. But I think it's worth pushing back on the idea that IRV is way better. It solves the problem of minor candidates being spoilers, but what if people actually start voting for minor candidates and they become major candidates? With 3 or more major candidates IRV starts looking like not such a great system.

The problem with talking about this is that the problems with FPTP are readily apparent and easy to explain. The problems with IRV aren't obvious and are harder to explain.

[1] https://electionscience.org/library/tactical-voting-basics/
It was an XR, which is 15mg immediately, and another 15mg 4 hours later.

I was euphoric off the first 15.
It's still a request from the user; the user consents to issuing these requests on behalf of Brave Search when they opt-in to Fallback Mixing. Anybody can issue calls to Google's search engine.
> Companies don't pay you for being a "developer" or "labor", they pay for specific skills and the ability to apply them effectively and competently.

Companies tend to be way too specific about the skills required and any learning curve is not permitted. I've used just about every desktop UI framework under the sun and a whole bunch of web ones, but companies that need react developers won't look at me for instance. There might be some highly specialized skills that can command a premium but those are mostly rare exceptions.

Along with companies not training there's also been a shift away from specialized roles and requiring all devs be experts in every tech the company uses past, present and future. When they hire someone that knows x "just in case" they're shrinking the talent pool available.
It's an interesting one. Considering that the athlete competed as a junior I assume she also tried to get in to the Olympic team prior to her transition but was unsuccessful. Now she is ranked 4th in the world for her division. As I see it there's only two possible reasons for her current success despite being 43. That transitioning has not nullified all advantages or that the number of women weightlifters is lower and thus less competitive. Most likely some combination of the two.

Another interesting aspect is that New Zealand now has a much better chance to get a medal in this event. Given the importance that some countries give to winning the games, e.g China and Russia, might they push to have more MtF athletes of their own.
To be rich or to be king (2008)
When a trans athlete wins an Olympic gold medal, it will surely encourage more to try. As rare as they might be, they could easily come to dominate at the elite level in strength and speed events, and crowd out women who don't have the hormonal advantages.
So we are glitchyowl and kickscondor - this is a collaboration between us - an attempt to make 'blogging' more expressive and visual, possibly to break a piece off and reboot it, now that it's fallen out of fashion.

The Web seems to have converged on a color called 'gwalb' - gray with a little blue. We've gone from home pages - which users could dump endless animated gifs and marquees on to - to giving everyone a roughly 680x680 square to put a picture or some unstyled, unlinked text into. We think being on the Web can still be expressive and casual.

Multiverse is a place for creating visual essays and collages - closer to comics or slideshows than to a 'blog' on Medium or Substack or Wordpress - which are very close to essays. You can also design colorful frames for your posts, to increase the sense of identity, beyond a name and an avatar.

We're not trying to go head-to-head with social media here - just offering a new tool that breaks ranks from the other software out there. We know many of you care about the Web - it has a very fun and freewheeling side to it that we want to help foster, as well as standards like RSS and Webmentions that still make sense! And it's still a great place to meet people and make memories. We've spent the past six months on this. We will probably offer a paid plan if it becomes interesting to people. Are we on the right track here?

- glitchyowl & kicks
It's sad that critics of Christianity don't use primary sources to inform themselves.
Hard work is a type of luck.

There are two types of luck.

One just happens. Like just walking down the street and you find 5 dollar on the curb. That's like what country you were born, may makes things easier or harder for you.

The second type of luck you have to buy a ticket to get a chance to win. Like the lottery, you can only win if you buy a ticket. That is your hard work, education etc. It enables you to be in the lucky draw and/or increases your chances, but still not guaranteed.
Vote Sanders and Clinton. Or Sanders, Clinton, and Kasich. Or just Sanders.

Vote for as many as you approve of. Simple.
Not sure what your point is?

> no one became an oil tycoon by or started an ISP or laid underseas cables by tripping into it.

Lots of people worked extremely hard and were competing with said-Tycoon, but didn't become an Oil Tycoon. This is luck.
> the implication is that the same is true for testosterone

Testosterone actually is one of the aforementioned steroids. The first sentence of the article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone (at the time of this comment) is

> Testosterone is the primary sex hormone and anabolic steroid in males.
By the way, the common myth is misleading. Toxoplasmosis is almost always caused by undercooked meat, which is why it's so much more common in France. You can get it from cats but it's almost always stray cats, not house cats.
If your goal is to educate people, a billion dollars educates more people than your tireless efforts ever could.

You could instead focus on some sort of personal goal, but if you are actually doing that you won't care how much money someone else has.
But we had just that... we had scientists and doctors telling us just last year (at the beginning of "the plague") that masks are useless for healthy people, and that they even present a higher risk to wearers, because they touch the mask and their face more.

And then, one random saturday (in my country atleast), masks became mandatory, along with gloves to enter the stores. Some media outlets have even removed the previous newsstories (not edit and say "whoops, now we know better", but remove completely), and everybody acts as if that didn't happen.

Same with trump + wuhan lab theory... at first it was a bannable offence on facebook to promote such idea... and now after trump, there are serious inquiries if that really happened, and we're allowed to discuss this again.

Basically, whoever is in charge (government, media platform, moderator,...) will moderate, censor and ban, until the preferable (for them) reality is set.
Checking in for accountability like this is a really REALLY common ADHD coping skill.
> Basically, approval voting has its place, but it should be within RCV.

An "approval-within-RCV" system would replicate multiple score voting (aka range voting). Why not skip the charade and advocate for a score voting system like STAR instead?
The non-monotonicity is actually pretty important and we have real world examples of this. Clay mentions the Alaska race in this comment[0]. We've seen this issue in Southern states that used this to disadvantage black voters. This is also the reason Bernie would spoil Biden (and vise versa). So I'm not sure what you're getting at.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598975
Yes, despite slavery being horrendous and very common there was basically 1 successful slave revolt in all recorded history Haiti. Gaspar Yagna's Rebellion was arguable as they hid and became independent. Spartacus grew to ~120,000 then failed, Zanj Rebellion came closer and still failed.

This is also why killing all the intellectuals after a successful revolution is so popular.
I thought Anna Vanbellinghen was very well said. It's not about questioning someone's identity, or their right to live openly. But this is about acknowledging physical reality.

One thing I'd like to add is that this is, by definition, a hard problem. The fact is sex and gender exists on a continuum, even if 99% of the time it seems binary. Anyone who says that the "other side" in this situation (regardless of which side they are on) is being idiotic is ignoring a lot of inconveniently difficult truths.
Semi-related: "Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they'll run out of people to employ, according to a new report"

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-turnover-wo...

(HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524637)
Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste.

-- Patches O'Houlihan
Indeed, we lean heavily on Bing for image search. With time and maturation, this will change I'm sure. That said, when Bing lacked "tank man" results recently, Brave Search still yielded results (although the quality wasn't what we'd like to see; still a beta product. Screenshots here: https://twitter.com/BraveSampson/status/1400926207416410113). Crawl, walk, run. We're just getting started
You're being snarky about someone not getting your snarky joke about how someone else didn't get someone else's other snarky joke... too much snark.
> I said that Bing is one source used to derive the results DDG returns.

No, you said it was one of many. Implying that there are other sources that users are likely to actually encounter in practice feeding the search results page. That's what your repliers are saying is untrue.
Ran out of room (and apologies if my formatting is hard to read!) but happy to elaborate on any of the points here as well.

One worth mentioning is the career stuff. I'm far less motivated by work than she is; for me, as a developer, I'm happy if I'm working in just about anything full-stack (React Native + some sorta backend), and I prefer working alone. So I could work on just about anything, so long as the pay is good. I also work best in afternoons and evenings (3pm -7pm are my deep work 'sweet spot' hours), so I already do a lot of housework / errands in the morning and during the day. I also enjoy this sorta thing; tidying, making coffees for both of us, doing the washing give me some weird spark of joy that we need to capitalise on! I do earn more money (I currently bill at $1k/day) so I'm in a pretty lucky position.

For her, she works amazingly well in a collaborative environment, and a lot of her best work is done through co-design. She gets so much from working in a values-driven company with great people. Because of this she's much more tied to 9 - 5 working hours.

She's highly energetic and throws a lot of herself into her work. I think part of her concern is that motherhood will destroy her body + her mind, and will make it impossible for her to get back into work.

Other concerns that we both have is her losing a lot of her identity through having kids. As she puts it: "I'm worried my body will never be truly mine ever again". She's also concerned about something we both saw a lot of with our parents in the 90s - mothers whose whole identity comes from having kids, who then get divorced and become quite lost. Women over 45 are at fastest growing group at risk of homelessness in Australia [1], I want to ensure her superannuation (retirement savings) is equal to mine at the very least.

I know we can't plan ahead for much of this, but we would like to find ways to make sure doesn't lose everything to childbirth, as well as ways for me to give the best contributions that I can.

[1]: https://theconversation.com/400-000-women-over-45-are-at-ris...
You're welcome.

I'm working on ssi/DIDKit, at Spruce:

https://github.com/spruceid/ssi

https://github.com/spruceid/didkit
I won't risk saying this in real life or anywhere where my real identity is known, but I do wonder if the end result will be similar to what's common in many parts of Asia: a third/fourth gender.

Instead of saying trans people are 100% identical to the gender they identify as, they'll be seen as something different. E.g., In Thailand there's the concept of kathoey (westerners refer to them as ladyboys). The Indian subcontinent and culturally related areas have hijra. They're not seen as the same as women, but they're not seen as men either. They're something else, and it's okay.

I've also seen a lot of westerners trying to push their ideas of gender globally and getting enraged when it doesn't fit. Some people get enraged when, for example, Thai kathoey aren't simply referred to as women, but for a lot of those people in Thailand, they don't see themselves as identical to women. So while trying to stop people from misgendering people, they overstep and misgender people who weren't being misgendered.
Yup - finally this has reached the point where gender politics crashes into reality.

I’m not against any gender doing what they wish.

But really, the point is when you (by nature) have testosterone coursing through your bloodstream… even if you transitioned, by the very nature of things you have an advantage of strength, agility, speed and desire over your female peers.

As much as we would love to believe it, men are wildly physically different from women. And that’s how nature intended it for whatever reasons nature intended.

You can see it in the sports stats very clearly for every sport where women and men compete.

Men and woman are not the same and can never be. Each has strengths and weaknesses which make them fit very well together.

I understand the need to transition. But sports is one of those examples that we can’t put our head in the sand and believe we live in a world of make-believe.
Because '#!' is a hash followed by a bang.
> Throwing from a constructor?

Actually, that’s what you are supposed to do, as this is the only way for a constructor to let the caller know that something went wrong.
> The purpose of the axiom and lesson is for children to learn how to deal with those types of situations.

That is a noble purpose, but I don't think it's a particularly powerful tool to tell a child "Well, at least they only insulted and threatened you, they haven't actually broken any of your bones yet."

I agree that children need better tools for dealing with verbal aggression, and maybe modern societies are relying on simplistic approaches that don't build resilient minds; I just think that teaching kids that they are in the wrong for feeling hurt when they're insulted is letting them down too.
Getting started feels like climbing the steepest mountain, so I’ve learned to just open the damn thing in front of me and tell someone I’ll send it over to force myself to start (forced accountability). It works 99% of the time if I think the person is sitting there waiting for it anxiously. ADHD is living life as a knowledge worker on nightmare mode compared to neurotypicals with functioning executive memory.
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Why are people presenting examples from parliamentary systems for an American voting process?

The two systems are so dramatically different that no cautionary tale would ever be meaningful.
I think a lot of that is just playing to a base. The Dem base is upset that they cannot achieve "a dream scenario" prog agenda, so the mainstream Dems throws them a bone. On the Repub side, the mainstream would throw the 'repeal ACA bone' in lieu of not being able to deliver their own "dream scenario."

But I don't think that's classic redirection to avoid revolution Cuba-style. In those places it's eternally the day-after the revolution. Marches, efforts, pronouncements, denouncements, mobilizations, speeches, external scapegoating, etc.)
I think most people who haven't tried it before wouldn't object to the taste of natto as much as its texture, it's got a very unusual kind of slimy+sticky quality that lets you pull long strings of slime between the soybeans. But people usually eat it with rice, and if you mix it up it's not quite as odd. I don't mind it, but I rarely eat it...
not a comment? I feel like most of the people on this forum do not actually care about anything unless there is a business angle. That's my two sense.
At what levels would this apply? Would we actually blood test 14 year olds?

What about trans men who where assigned female at birth? Are they allowed to take testosterone and still compete against XX women?
Because it's cheating with unfair advantage?
Transmen wanting to play male sports is left out intentionally because it's the highest level of competition of human being. Male sports became male sports simply because female could not compete and it's unfair for female, any human think they can compete at that level is welcome to try, there won't be any complains.
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All physical aspects? No probably not, the movements and motions that make up almost all sports? Yes, and that’s just reality.

I am struggling to come up with any that women as a generalized block might be naturally better at. Maybe some fineness movements like some forms of dance or balance.

Another user above nailed it, this is a newly self-inflicted problem.
I didn’t realize Brave had become a “hate figure” here but it seems like the discussion in this thread took a hard turn to the kind of conspiratorial, reactionary, nasty “gotcha” reply behavior I come to Hackernews specifically to avoid. In this thread are multiple examples of the Brave employee saying Thing A and just getting mean-spirited responses reframing A as negatively as possible as if it’s an argument retort.

Example: “Oh this person works for Brave, don’t trust them.” Or in reply to the post explaining what sounds like a bug in the application being misread as a way to grift money from traffic, “No revenue made? So you got caught before you got paid?” Or the clarification that Brave browser ads are confined to the browser and OS UI followed by repetition of the same insisted point that they “block then replace browser ads,” while the rep seems to have explained quite clearly opt-in browser ads are not presented inline to the webpage content. It is, sorry to use a tired comparison, “Reddit behavior.”

I recently saw a note by dang in a Bitcoin thread about how crypto tends to generate repetitive arguments on HN and it seems like that blind spot for the community may have eclipsed Brave by association (maybe in addition to HN’s negativity towards anything ad related). I keep scrolling further expecting to learn something salient about why I shouldn’t trust Brave but instead I see a bunch of people beating on a community rep.
> At its very core, the exclusion is seen as a form of "well you're not really a woman".

For the supporters of trans-women being women, is there a canonical / generally accepted list of criteria which would classify people "objectively" as a woman? If there is such a thing as a group of people that can be called "women", how would membership in that group be established?

I.e., what really is a woman?
> RISC-V into ARM by locking it up in patents while at the same time holding the keys to the ratification of the various extensions

Would you please provide a direct link to some of those patents or discussion?

The thread at [1] if I read it carefully does not mention patents, but seems to be a prelude to submitting the RISCV kvm stuff to staging that Greg KH complained about a while ago.
They are supposed to approve of each candidate individually. This avoids problems such as the one you allude to in your example where Sanders may lose to Clinton despite more total people approving of Sanders, simply because Clinton supporters (the larger group) rank Clinton>Sanders while Sanders supporters (a minority of voters) only rank Sanders.
> There's definitely some influence there, but the twitter's importance and impact on the world is severely overhyped.

I'm not sure I would make the same claim. Twitter is wildly popular among journalists, pundits, and other members of the media. Due to its outsized importance within these groups of people, I can easily see Twitter playing a large role in shaping media narratives.
give up the "side" and the labels like "conservatives" and "red states". those are cognitive traps.

you'll never be able to reconcile all the beliefs of a "side" with your own, or another side with your "opponents", so are relegated to either paralysis by cognitive dissonance or selective rationality.

most people are generally decent and most people have some odd beliefs and proclivities. that's just life. it's not reducible to some "sides", much less two sides, no matter what the dominant mediopolitical narratives want you to believe.

two sides are chosen by tribal groups like political parties because it simplifies the quest for power. 2 is the lowest common denominator of power, and it's chosen exactly to simplify choices, and neatly bypass the inherent frictions of nuance and humanity. it's done for power, not to realistically represent the world or to cleanly align with your beliefs. instead, each side exerts pressure on you to conform to it (that is, coalescing its own power). in exchange, you get little random hits of dopamine, which is oddly as lopsided as it is surprisingly effective.
Children aren't property.

Children are responsibility and responsibility must come with certain rights.
It’s incredibly telling that a whole bunch of commenters here, when confronted with the plain evidence that hard work doesn’t work, immediately retreat to the Noble Lie theory: ok, it doesn’t work, but it’s better if people think it does. Cui bono?
Minor nit: I believe only party members vote on party leadership, and it's actually difficult to get into the party. Also, I'm under the impression that the voting is multi-tiered, where you vote on your level and region on which member gets elevated to the next level.

It's actually an interesting system, and as usual, it seems adding indirection solves some problems while introducing others.
Opinion from an anonymous west coast VC guy
VCs do not like founders who "build in public" on Twitter. It is highly self-congratulatory. Most of the time, founders who end up creating really big things worth investing in don't "tweet" 3 times per day or even submit their startups to websites like product hunt. 99% of the time we invest in fairly stealth companies.
> It is fundamentally about how Google should increase diversity

Well, it was fundamentally about how Google should stop all efforts to recruit or promote women or non-white men, because Damore believed those efforts were "discrimination" against himself.
I fail to see the problem here.
Here's an interactive explainer for Ranked Choice voting and more: https://www.smartvotesim.com/irv

Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to see another great interactive explainer by Harry Stevens in the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/ran...