skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian, Ukrainian and Chinese wiki have an article about “Power of a phone call” (Law by a phone call), which is when in a corrupted state you can solve any problem by calling someone powerful you’re connected to.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%84...

https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%...
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Fantastic. Thanks for link.

Would screening for a condorcet winner (beats all winner) FIRST then proceeding to RCV address this concern sufficiently?

Ballot completion would remain unchanged.
Yes, that's not good. I will take a closer look. Thanks for remaining kind and helpful, even when it's not easy.
So has anyone minted an NFT for the bitcoin PDF yet?
Can someone please tell me how important this topic based on the amount of news time and eyeballs it attracts relative to the number of people that it affects?

The numbers I can find for US citizens is: 0.6% or 1,988,696 out 331,449,281 of people total for the entirety of the US in 2021.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...

In the UK where the featured article took place the latest poll I could find comes counts the number of people who selected "other" when choosing a sex at 0.4% or 224,632 people out of 64,596,800.

>https://practicalandrogyny.com/2014/12/16/how-many-people-in...

Personally I don't think this is very important compared to other topics. There are more blind people than trans people. There are more people with Alzheimer's than trans people. There are more people in the US who have lost a limb than trans people.

I don't mean to downplay what is happening because it is happening but do you not think the amount of outrage this topic generates surpasses the level of impact we can have assuming we fix it? It just feels like we're being distracted.
John McAfee Dead
Getting Epstein "suicide" vibes from this.
Why couldn't it? The statement has nothing to do with current tropes, but rather is an implicit accusation of a confirmation bias on a single person. You can make a claim, and regardless of what it is I can reply with "well, you're saying that because you have an a priori belief and you were looking for any evidence to confirm it".
I did not claim Musk is alone in receiving corporate welfare. My argument is that he’s positioned to receive corporate welfare due to his being in the right place at the right time with PayPal. Plenty of other mediocre people are also receiving billions in taxpayer handouts.
From McAffee in 2019, "Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm.
"

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...
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I have that exact situation at work, twice in fact. One woman's nickname is Pookie. Some people are uncomfortable with using that term and they use her legal name. It doesn't bother her. Another man insisted on people calling him "PawPaw". Nobody was comfortable with that, especially the women he borderline harassed every day. He was fired for stealing food out of the break room before the name situation came to a head.

You don't have the right to compel speech in other people in any way. You don't even have the right to make people call you by your birth name. Some jurisdictions like NYC have laws against malicious miss-naming by an employer or landlord, but even that only applies if they essentially make it a harassment campaign.
I have 3 kids in college right now, actually one just graduated with a computer science degree. All 3 of my kids have talked about how much gender ideology has creeped into the classroom at the college level, to the point where virtually every class including computer science, engineering and science courses, has to start off with addressing pronoun preferences. It is a political hot-topic for sure, and those often go horribly in online forums but to say that it's not related to software development and startup culture is a bit disingenuous. It is effecting higher education in a big way, and it is creeping into corporate culture.
No one can escape the reptiles!
I wish he had some more sense in him. And that he used a little less coke.
> They believe that dictionary definitions of woman are prescriptive, declared at the chromosomes during birth, rather than descriptive, as in how one presents in both dress and phenotype.

If you were responsible for compiling a dictionary, what is the accurate definition of "woman" that you would provide?
Technically still a free man. No convictions against him as related to the extradition request.
Because it is something they felt the need to repress for a potentially long portion of their life. Coming out is the start of a process to release the pressure that has built up from that repression and letting the person's personal view of themselves realign with the public view of themselves.

Also, yes it is weird that sexuality and identity are intertwined, but that is not something that is new and it is something that is tied to all sexualities, including heterosexuals.
Can't agree more - on both of your points.

It is interesting to look at the Economist like their BigMac index - an encapsulation of something complex that is weirdly reliable
Sad ending of one of the first innovators of the new technology era.

Rest In Peace.
In practice I have not found that running destructor is problematic. In many cases the destructor is the default one that just destructs the fields. When the destructor should be non-default the constructor can leave the object in the move out state either explicitly or via hacks like using T tmp(std::move((*this)) on the error return in the constructor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609146
I choose to remember him like this:

"How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" => https://youtu.be/bKgf5PaBzyg
I'm in the same boat. Its a bit tiresome and I feel it's getting worse (?)

Fwiw, current college student. My school isn't particularly "woke" beyond having a LGBT support center, but that strikes me as common decency rather than wokeness.
> He was a free man until the end.

He literally died in jail.
This news comes shortly after Spain agreed to extradite him to the United States for various financial crimes and tax evasion. It seems that this news was relayed to John and he decided that he'd much rather see things out on his own terms, as opposed to the terms of the American judicial system.
Yes EU does not have more VC money or crazy startup unicorns but also it has a lot less bums dying on the street and people ruined by medical bills.

There is no need to help Elon Musk or Travis Kalanick to take chances. There is a need for average Joe to be able to say "f*k it I am quitting" so he can get something better.

That is why topic of this submission is about equalizing society.

So we want to have a society where people are not dying on the streets but maybe going to Mars will take us longer.
I’d like to think there would be immense blowback, but there was less than I expected and hoped for from his revelations. I’m still surprised by public figures denouncing him as a traitor.

My thought processes seem to be nowhere near normal when it comes to politics. I’m not ASD (AFAICT), but I am definitely not neurotypical either.
Absolutely agree about Open. It's without a doubt the very best tennis autobiography (written with an NYT writer) I've ever seen, and I've seen a ton of them. (Jack Kramer's The Game is pretty good too.)
"Shot and a Ghost" by James Wilstrop, a top pro squash player (they make about as much money as the No.200 tennis player), is pretty good too about the mental struggle.
It's a question of how much effort someone wants to put in and how much information they can gather: you can trace all of the transactions in and out, and you can try to get information the operators or other parties involved. Since the goal of the crooks is to spend that money, simply looking at high volumes going from tumblers to exchanges would make it hard to conceal that much money unless they're willing to sit on it for a long time.

Someone laundering a small amount of money probably won't get that much effort but $3.6B is a much harder problem because it's an unusually amount of money to launder and it's enough to get law enforcement involved. It's not inconceivable to image _everyone_ receiving bitcoin traceable back to the tumbler being asked to prove that they weren't involved. That factor limits the total volume going through a tumbler and increases the cost since everyone using it is risking being targeted as an accessory.
I disagree with this only because I frequently get downvoted for comments that don't "fit the narrative." Could I be a little less brash in the way I word it? Sure, but I keep vulgarities at a minimum to at least come across as somewhat refined.

People like me are very much liberal, left leaning, and dislike fascism. But as of now, it feels like freedom of speech is more of "freedom to speak about only certain things." Simply because so many people are kowtowing to these zealots. Of course you're going to get more vocal people opposed to this line of thinking. It's the exact same thing left leaning people like myself got away from in our psychotic religious upbringings. Only for us to see the exact same thing on the left, but with even more drastic and unfair measures.
My point was that this is not about how personally difficult it is for you to respect someone else's preferences. It's actually very easy and we do it all the time for other things, like nicknames. If you're so against trans people having similar status as you then you shouldn't claim that it's because trans people are causing you a burden.
The value of a currency is not measured by the least useful thing that can be bought with it, but by the most useful. Dollars were still good for getting my kitchen remodeled this spring.
Sounds like a man woefully unaware of his own privilege, and dangerously unaware of the systemic challenges faced by minorities.

In my opinion, this is not a thoughtful article.
These are true statements. Cis-women can be raped and impregnated by people with penises is also a true statement. Perhaps the complete solution is to house all in-mates in separate cells regardless of sex or gender. I do not think that creating situations where female prisoners can be sexually assaulted and impregnated by their cell mate is a positive step forward.
Amusing this definition of "the ability to do things the person next to you can't or won't do" basically contradicts the idea that DO THINGS can possibly be a great equalizer. Any equality that only some people can have, is pretty much by definition not equality.
It is also done with people you want to bully. Also, this mocking relationship is very often one way instead of symmetric.
Jail is detention before trial, not imprisonment in a penitentiary.
Yeah, pre-rendered tiles are typically more performant on any device. It’s basically downloading and displaying a png. In my experience, download times were not the bottleneck for vector tiles, but rather all the on-device rendering. This is especially true when you consider that most of the time, the tiles are already cached on your device.

I believe the reason most companies moved to vector had more to do with the other stuff gp mentioned: ability to rotate, dynamically show/hide features, etc.
She was allowed to speak far more than any trans people has been allowed to speak - she is speaking on The Economist. I do not see any trans people speaking on The Economist. The same applies across the entirety of published British media. That you willfully ignore this epistemological injustice, does not render it irrelevant.

The university ground is one of the very few places where real transgender people, along with other socially marginalised groups, are generally allowed to speak, and allowed to speak for themselves. They are particularly visible on campus, precisely because they are effectly not allowed to speak in other places. Such as The Economist and other print media.

And yes, certain "debates" are quite dirty. Debates are not neutral fields of free intellectual inquiry, but potent manifestation of prevailing epistemological injustices. It is shocking and depressing, that certain people must again and again defend their own existence in "debates" premised on a claim to the absurdity of their condition. It is shocking and depressing, that sincere experiences of trans people are not taken, but rather must be put under the forensic lens of "debate" to be constantly challenged and invalidated. These "debates" are dirty constructs, serving as a powerful mechanism of collective gaslighting.
For someone looking for something like this, Id recommend taking a look at Microsoft math solver built into edge [1].
That's the closest I found to something that actually works, and recognizes my (disaster of a) handwriting first try.

[1]. https://imgur.com/a/8aiEszk
The question isn't whether women should assume that a transperson is less likely to rape them than any other stranger. That's not what "bathroom bills" are about.

The question is whether bathroom bills forcing transpeople who wish to not break the law (potential rapists are obviously not part of this set...) into men's bathrooms, and a surrounding climate of generalised hostility towards anyone with any remotely masculine element of their physique or style in women's bathrooms actually meaningfully reduces the risk of rape, or just makes the environment more intimidating for everyone.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h9mp8cWP7GQfrthZ1A4ccTfrHlx...

Looks like Baltimore bit big into the charter school idea, where the cost-per-student at the school level is apparently somewhat higher (30%, $10,000 vs $7,900 judging by the first couple of pages of the per-school table). Administration is about 11% of the expenses. Interestingly, the City Schools' "District Offices" average $174,000 per "Full-Time Equivalent" for whatever that's worth.
It's the truth. Trans women are not real women as they do not have the same DNA and cannot birth children (amongst many other differences).

I may be offended when people talk negatively about my under-performing sports team, but that doesn't give me a right to delete their comments just because I perceive them to be hurtful.
Everyone seems to forget that he likely had his neighbor tortured and killed: https://www.theregister.com/2019/03/20/mcafee_25m_lawsuit_ne...
Tweet from last week:

"My friends evaporated through fear of association.

I have nothing.

Yet, I regret nothing."
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Ok, but do you understand why it's incorrect to consider it a slur in this context?
If you don't trust them to abide by their contracts and agreements, don't use their services. That seems like a minimum requirement to do business with any party.

No point complaining that other people are willing to do business with them.
Most of the perceived "fiddly" parts of Nim are due to it being statically typed and compiled, in my experience.

Nim intentionally gives you very spartan objects. It is by no means an OOP-first or even an OOP-heavy language. The object type is little more than a storage container for named values, and should be treated as such. There is no magic like what you get with Python objects.

I've said it before, but the frequently thrown around, "it's just like Python but typed and compiled" has probably been a net negative for the language. It is syntatically similar, but once you get beyond those initial appearances it is a very, very different beast. So if you try to write Pythonesque Nim, you're not going to have a good time with it. It's no different than trying to write JavaScript like Python - they're just different languages that don't work the same way.

The macro chapter in Nim by Example is a good tutorial for writing a macro, but I don't know that it's a big improvement. For the most part, it just allows you to remove the `self: ObjectType` from methods that act on an object. I guess that's okay? But even Python makes you include the `self` in class methods.
John McAfee found dead in prison after Spanish court allows extradition
"Are we talking status relative to others or relative to the starting position?"

And what of it? There has never been a time in human history where starting position has mattered less. NONE!

Don't just take my word for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOiQgleiRtU

Also - think of what a better place it would be if that Don Lemon who was tired of race bating had survived and had got his wish? How sad we are where we are today - and ironically he's one of the front line contributors to it too!
> Intelligence, conscientiousness, affluence/social capital

Agreed that these are important factors in success, but in practice they don't seem to be equivalent in importance.

An unsuccessful person who lacks intelligence or conscientiousness but was born into affluence in the US is more likely to remain higher on the socioeconomic ladder than a successful person who has both intelligence and conscientiousness but was born poor.

That said, I believe that with hard work and intelligence it is possible for someone to move up no matter their starting point and we should celebrate the famous outliers who lept up the ladder. But it's also responsible to acknowledge that they are famous because they are outliers and that most people seem to end up within a rung or two of their parents.
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It's literally in response to the posit that trans women would rape strangers in changing rooms. I've tried to make it as far from a strawman as possible by arguing against even a single occurrence of that happening.

Cis women can perpetuate rape. Should we ban them from changing rooms too? How far through the looking glass does this have to go?!
Yes this! Both most recent companies I’ve been at have/had problems retaining good people, especially past 4 years. At this point I think there must be some adage among leadership that is better to get fresh meat after a while.

That said I have known peers to go in and say they are looking at leaving and all of a sudden a solution is found…
I think they meant to say "use" not "read".
TERF is not a slur, lol. what?
He was going to be extradited back to the empire, and die in a US prison.
Presumption of innocence is a legal presumption, and it exists there for very good reasons that would take too long to get into. Requiring such a presumption outside of a legal context in the way you're suggesting would undermine a different fundamental right, the freedom of association. People should have the right to associate (and disassociate) with whomever they like for whatever reasons they like, no matter how arbitrary or petty.
He lived his life the way he wanted and he even decided how to die.
The oligarchs have been working to detroy the middle class for a long time now (see the Norman Dodd interview or The Leipzig Connection), and education is a key piece of that work, because it truly can be a great equalizer. You will notice not just different curriculum, but entirely different methods being used at a posh place for the elite like Eton, vs a (US) public school or even most upper middle class private schools.

Class war is real, the rich are winning, and education is a key part of that war.
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If you don't want to read the topic, ignore it and move on. I'm not interested in Django but I don't try to stifle conversations on it.

Why are there so many gatekeeping people around that want to prevent discussions on topics that they aren't interested in?
By that line of reasoning every inmate should be held in solitary confinement by virtue of the fact that rape is possible between every possible pair of gender identities.
> Max Payne ran on a PIII @1GHZ with 128 of RAM

There was a port to the original Xbox, which had only 64 MB of RAM!
He also raped a business partner.
People no longer trust their government, on a fundamental level. There has always been some degree of skepticism, but now trust has broken down completely. Politicians were always seen as crooked, but they were at least somewhat capable of "keeping the lights on." Increasingly in recent years, it has become clear they can barely even do this anymore. Add to this an accompanying complete breakdown in trust for institutions like the media and academia, and you have half your answer.

The other half is that shit's bad. Corona, soaring wealth inequality, tumbling quality of physical goods and art/entertainment. Everything feels like it's a hollowed out facade now, whether it's the job you're working, the food you're buying, or the movie you're watching.

Put these two together, and you get a population that is being forced to realize The End is coming. Or at least A end. Chaos and upheaval is at hand, and the government might not be able (or interested in) protecting you. In such a circumstance, buying a gun and learning to use it is one of many obvious responses.
Are you going to lose your shit, call my boss and try to get me fired when I call you Michael because it's what's written down for everyone to see?
English translation by Google (via archive.is): https://archive.is/pxc4H
As cynical as it might seem, there is an alternative possibility: in spite of getting a tattoo saying he would not kill himself, and in spite of posting a tweet saying he would not kill himself, he went ahead and killed himself.
That's called being an asshole
What a strange life he lived. I'm not going to make a value judgement about whether or not he was a 'good' person, but I do applaud the fact that he dared to deviate from the norm.

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."

-- Hunter S Thompson

RIP
> There’s this thing with marginalized communities where people outside of the communities “just want to have a discussion” but the stakes of that conversation are way too high for marginalized people.

Presumably the "high stakes" are that they might fall out with the majority population, right? In that case why not do all you can to engage productively with them? There was a time when civil rights activists wished for good faith participation.

> The best thing to do in situations like this is to let the marginalized people figure out what they need and then quietly listen to their conclusions.

There are a couple of problems here.

The first is that "their conclusions" are often the conclusions of certain activists and not the marginalized people in question (e.g., "defund the police"). I find this to be the most repulsive kind of rhetoric, because it exploits marginalized groups to the harm of everyone else and to the exclusive benefit of the activist and their ideological comrades.

The second is that it dehumanizes everyone else: others are to simply keep quiet and listen to the marginalized group's needs; to acquiesce. We are all (aspirationally, at least) equal participants in a free society, and we need to find something that works for all of us. Debate is how we do that, even if the topic hits closer to home for some than others.
IMO bringing statistical likelihoods into it is a dangerous road to go down and could lead to some seriously problematic outcomes.

For example, what if people in certain socioeconomic groups are more likely to commit rape? Or people of certain ethnicities?

Would it make sense to require them to use separate bathrooms? Or is it only ok to slice and dice the stats based on certain characteristics? To me it's kind of a scary idea— just because a certain demographic is more likely to commit a crime doesn't mean we should make life difficult for all members of that demographic. Even if their facilities are, in theory, separate but equal.
Having read the whole thing, I wholeheartedly disagree. I went in expecting something vaguely phreaky, and I was not disappointed.