skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An individual person might not be able to coordinate such a thing, but you can bet that campaign strategists are going to be very interested in crafting their messages to get the results they want. I mean, right now we have campaigns and PACs that sometimes promote a minor candidate they're ideologically opposed to because they'll siphon votes away from their major-party opponent.

What strategies will they employ in RCV elections? I don't know, but given the way campaigns already operate with continuous polling, elaborate voter databases, and modern ad-tech that can target exactly the right message to exactly the right people to influence their behavior slightly, I see election systems with wonky outcomes as an attack surface against democracy.

> The system has too much chaos.

There's too much fog-of-war for individual voters to make optimal strategic voting choices, but the Cambridge Analyticas of the world can use that to their advantage. I don't like that information asymmetry, and it seems the best way to defend against it is to have voting systems that are as close to the ideal (which is that candidates win by having the most public support) as possible.
Thanks for your excellent comment, that all makes sense!
I'm expecting more and more of these finding.

Just how much human behaviour is driven by parasites, mycology and hormones of neighbouring animals/plants/fungi?
From Biden to Congress, Big Tech is under mounting pressure
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Rights group: Facebook amplified Myanmar military propaganda
Is it possible to write a kernel module, if loaded will blow the PC speaker?
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Even if censorship / canceling / doxing were out of the picture, there is still another source of danger: The combination of surveillance and persistence.

I often cringe when I read things I wrote several years ago. I have evolved, my views have changed. Had I posted that somewhere on the Internet it would be out there “forever”. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that someone (or worse, some shitty “AI”) would be able to pick that up years later and mis-interpret it into biased conclusions, with real-world consequences.

The Internet has become a huge Petri dish for social dynamics, power struggles, and human psychology. I'm sure we have only just scratched the surface of what effects that will have on society and individuals.
Unless rules are made to enforce division based on sex and not gender, then it's just a matter of time until transgender athletes are the only winners in Women's events.

Be prepared to see a lot of dropouts/boycotts by various nations in the Olympics. Eastern nations are not going to stand by silently. Some will shrug and directly enlist straight men in Women's events.
Iran likely had failed rocket launch, preparing for another
Using satellites come with their own problems.

First, this requires high resolution imagery to make out fine details. You have providers who can provide imagery with 0.3-2m resolution, but these can be expensive and not so easy to obtain. Satellite imagery for true colour is also affected by atmospheric conditions such as presence of clouds, which can occlude the view. Infrared bands can peer through this cover, but then they are not much use in surveying. Besides, you will need to wait for the satellite to make a pass over the target area to obtain the image, so the imagery can be out of date or captured at the wrong time e.g. if land is submerged under floods, so details are not visible. There is of course the upside that satellite imagery can cover huge swathes of land at once.

Drones are cheaper and can be flown over the target area on demand to generate true orthophotos from overlapping photos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthophoto).
DDG also makes it very to download images, unlike Google that now makes you go though to whatever site and have to scroll around in the page to find the image
I wonder if they can communicate a reason to unionise this time, that seemed to be lacking in the previous attempt...
I had a vague feeling that std::deque is a "heavy" thing which you shouldn't have a million of, but iterating through a couple big ones is pretty fast. 1–4K batches wouldn't hurt my feelings. Looked up GCC, it's actually slightly less heavy at 512 bytes per node[1]. But the MSVC part — that caught me completely off guard.

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/47749c43acb460ac8f410...
Met my wife while volunteering (running a fundraising quiz night) for a youth breast cancer charity. Ratio there was pretty favourable.
My favourite is:

struct Dummy {
Dummy(int) {}
};

struct World {
World(const Dummy &) {}
void hello() {}
};

int main() {
int value = 42;
World world(Dummy(value)); // fails to compile
// World world(Dummy(42)); // works
world.hello();
return 0;
}
That article is not saying that Apple installs security updates automatically. It downloads data files and configurations, which doesn’t fix security vulnerabilities.
It looks quite familiar, it generates a plain data structure and reacts on a set of user inputs. I‘d have to look up how this communicates with threejs (which is done via a wrapper library) and what the semantics of that is, but otherwise the code looks clean and simple to me.

Edit: here https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber
> but then forget that the reason G's results are so good is because they add little bits of context in through their profiling

I disagree. I've tried to switch to DDG several times too, and always go back to StartPage, which is a proxy for Google, and the results were always better even without profiling. There is a case to be made for Google having better results globally from aggregate user behaviour though.
Why? I would argue rhat the consumer might get harmed (higher prices) or the business (higher wage costs) but the employee? How?
Tax evader
A mortgage is different, because it is based on the price of homes inflated by speculation. Decades ago before speculation was so common, both homes and mortgages were very cheap relative to wages.

I’d happily pay everything besides the mortgage, it’d be far cheaper than my rent. Most months it’d even be zero. I could absolutely afford all maintenance costs, while I can’t afford the speculation-inflated price of the home I live in.
Also EverNote.
https://github.com/ertugrulcetin/racing-game-cljs/blob/maste...

I know indentation is subjective, but is this file the canonical way of indenting Clojure? I find it hard to read.
Not just as strong, but there does remain an advantage. TFA goes into this:

> Vanbellinghen, 27, whose qualifying efforts were disrupted by injury, pointed out that the retained benefit of taking steroids, even years earlier, is widely known.

It's easier to regain lost muscle mass than it is to gain it in the first place.
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The string,
Have to agree with this. It’s like someone calling me the N word. Arguable the word is “established” and probably reasonable to the sayer. Still hella disrespectful to me though.
Developers need to keep in mind that the target area for the URL bar is much larger than the env(safe-area-inset-bottom) suggests and in my testing might be dependent on how an interactive element is placed (e.g. position sticky, fixed or freely flowing).

In my testing, to prevent the URL bar from showing or needing the user to double-tap, a 44px height button needs an additional bottom margin of at least 30px + env(safe-area-inset-bottom). That's pretty high up from the bottom.

And... you need an actual device to test these tap issues out reliably.
I used about:performance; I'm not stupid. Is there no expectation of good faith here?
> “Sex” could be interpreted to mean a statement about chromosomes.

Yes, it could - by people who don't know what the word "sex" means. Sex isn't about chromosomes, it's about gametes, and sex chromosome variants aren't separate sexes. For example, people with Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY) are male. This isn't hard.

https://colinwright.substack.com/p/sex-chromosome-variants-a...
A lot of busy, smart people have seemingly random side-projects. For example, Von Neumann:

"A professor of Byzantine history at Princeton once said that von Neumann had greater expertise in Byzantine history than he did" [1]

I don't know for sure why, but I think two possibilities are likely: (1) An extremely strong, natural intellectual curiosity and/or (2) Working on other things allows them to bring fresh ideas/insights to their "main" work, and in this sense is also rejuvenating.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
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Apple totally broke IndexedDB in the latest version of Safari. It bit me recently and broke a ton of websites that use IndexedDB:

> Apple's WebKit team has managed to break the popular IndexedDB JavaScript API in the latest version of Safari (14.1.1) on macOS 11.4 and iOS 14.6.

> The bug, first reported on June 2, 2021, only manifests when applications first try to use IndexedDB NoSQL manager to store data. Reloading a web page or app implementing the API resolves the issue, according to several bug reports.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/apple_safari_indexedd...

Here are a few more recent examples:

https://twitter.com/feross/status/1386835131780931587

https://twitter.com/feross/status/1392671684419735552

https://twitter.com/feross/status/1263544033135038464

I mean, look at this list of IndexedDB issues in Safari and tell me this is a reasonable platform to develop for: https://gist.github.com/pesterhazy/4de96193af89a6dd5ce682ce2...
Strike is phasing USDT out

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/strike-phasing-usdt-bitcoin-b...
Just want to point out for appreciation: Using in fine in an English sentence is fantastic and not done enough.
This particular blog post gets reposted and debunked almost monthly on hacker news.
The need to avoid overloading the system exists regardless of whether it’s public, private, or a mixture of the two. Just look at New York and India for examples from very different cultures and political systems.

Edit: not to mention Italy’s early example also
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Your assertion is that "one derives joy out of the endeavor itself", in reference to the cultivation of a hobby, "can and does go wrong more often than not"?

I kinda stopped reading after this part. Best of luck in your search I guess.
In a world with ~8 billion, a sports audience of a few million is considered quite niche.
I'm using something we use at work: https://github.com/ertugrulcetin/racing-game-cljs/blob/maste...
Yes, Swiss federal parliamentary elections have a similar system. The name of the other parties your vote goes to if the one you voted for didn’t pass is printed on the voting bulletin.

The system is a bit more complex, since it’s for the parliament and you aren’t really voting for parties, but for lists, and the votes get transferred depending on how many seats the list filled, but the basic idea is here.

This actually influenced my voting choice. I went for a more niche party who had little chance to get a seat. I knew that if it didn’t get enough votes to get a seat, my vote wouldn’t go to waste. It would go to the larger party which already has many seats but doesn’t align with my political views as well as the niche one.

It turned out well since the niche party got a seat despite the polling predictions.
Bravo Bjarne! You've done it again!
It's unfortunate you got downvoted. It's a legit question.

I guess there is a (unrealistic) expectation from "lay" people that the law is clear and easy to decide. That's a lie. The fact is, human society is extremely complicated, and laws are an attempt to codify the various (often conflicting) rules and customs in society. Some lawyers/judges/academics like to pretend that the law is objective and not subject to political/economic reality, and that's kind of an ideal to strive for for the legal profession, but in reality this can't be avoided.

In addition, courts of this level are usually asked to decide the most contentious issues (due to survivor bias - if the outcome is clear, the party expecting to lose most likely won't bother to appeal).
Amazon "deciding" that warehouse needs to be relocated after a unionization vote should be an automatic 5m+ for every worker in that facility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_nickel -- the similarities are startling.
My question would be what would happen? Would he retain all of his strength or would the transition render him the strength we expect of a woman who also trained like he did. It seems weird to me that we say such things as if we definitely know the outcome. I must have missed a Science class where this was taught or maybe it’s coming sense? Is there even a paper study these results?
Oh. I see what happened here. No wonder nobody noticed this… I submitted it and it fell flat like a pancake, because either I screwed up the URL or HN has a rule to automatically remove hashtag anchors.

The goal is to submit to HN one of the replies in that thread, not the main page: https://github.com/google/jax/issues/2108#issuecomment-86623...

Without that anchor, I see no possible way to submit it to HN, because the anchor is vital. I swear I submitted it correctly, but maybe I derped.

Hmm. I should try to submit it again, then if the anchor vanishes, click edit and add the anchor… I bet that would bypass the rule. But, shall I now, or wait until morning?

Pfft, I’ll do it now. I always believed the “when should I submit to HN?” analysis posts were dumb. Maybe it matters, but who cares.

EDIT: I tried again here, which also failed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27602092
Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to address my problem, however me having to change the country manually sounds like an additional workaround. I wish you the best luck though with your search!
At least in some European countries we use a dot instead (which doesn't look like a variable named "x").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_operator#Notation_and_term...
By your tone alone and the wording, I feel like downvoting you too, despite probably agreeing to your main point.

That means, I agree we live in a time, that is pretending to be based on science - but the debates are way more about how all the people feel about certain things and words and happily ignore or fight against all the facts, if they don't fit.
Do you take specific steps to improve your gut bacteria and if so what?
The real problem with lisp programs is each of them has its own DSL (the macros) so you have to learn one language per program. (I think that's the reason also why the library ecosystem is lacking)
You are misunderstanding. Folks marching in BLM Marches aren't speaking for the Black community.

The poster is talking about things more akin to, say, a non-trans person speaking about the experience of being trans or someone who has never went to college speaking for college graduates - when really, they shouldn't try to speak for groups they aren't a party to.

In other words, I can talk about prejudice and racism I've experienced and witnessed, but this doesn't mean that I have the credentials to talk about what it is like to, say, have dark skin in the US and experience that sort of racism. It just isn't the same, and I don't have that experience. After all, I can (in the US) basically just be a face in the crown in a small town.
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Or, this is him telling us that JavaScript will save the world afterall.
Sex chromosome variants aren't separate sexes. You're male, and develop a male body producing male gametes, if you have a Y chromosome:

* X – Female

* XX – Female

* XXY – Male

* XY – Male

* XYY – Male

* XXXY – Male

https://colinwright.substack.com/p/sex-chromosome-variants-a...
Strange. It shows only 1.7MB on FF 89.0 (Linux, x64). That's why I thought you're checking the total memory. Then again the total in there is far smaller than what the system usage is, so this manager is unreliable.
It pains me to see how someone could see no value in having a medium of exchange outside of any government currency control. One of my ex-coworkers had his family's fortune wiped out twice in Argentina due to government seizure and hyperinflation before they fled to Canada.
Dingoes?
The chemistry of cold-brew coffee is so hot (2020)
> a future AI is built with the goal of [something good]

Er, no, the idea is that someone hypothesizes the (malicious) AI, and then is compelled to (intentionally) build it by threat of being tortured if anyone else builds and they did not. The AI is working as designed.

See also prisoner's dilemma and tragedy of the commons; Roko's Basilisk is only concerning because of the reasoning that someone else will ruin things for everyone, so you had better ruin things first.
Org mode next, please.
> Pity it doesn’t use XDG paths

Yes!! Can we all just agree to make that illegal? If a developer writes an app that automatically defaults to having configs right in the home dir or if they don't separate their cache from their persistent data, they go to jail for a week to think about what they did.

All joking aside, it really is a shame so many things don't stick to the standard. The ability to just copy .config to another machine and have it be pretty much a carbon copy of the original would be really useful. I guess I should just finally switch ti Nix, huh?
They aren't too great if your job is compiling all day, otherwise I mostly agree.
You wouldn't been down voted so harshly if you didn't bring "misogyny" into the argument. Don't you know it's a sin to talk against the feminist propaganda in a world full of simps and cucks?
> Everyone has had their lives interrupted for a year to save the old and weak

It is a bit ignorant to say that only the old and weak needed saving from covid-19. You won't know if you are strong enough against covid until you are one step away from hospitalization, whether you are 20 or 60.
This is also what bothers me. The example before the one you mentioned looked the best to me. And it seemed to reliably detect numbers and operators as well, so I don't see why this approach should not be able to resolve the equation like the last example did.

Writing in monospace is not only unnatural, but the approach shown even makes it one step worse: you need to write in the cells. You're completely giving up the flexibility of handwriting, you need to know your equation before you write it down, otherwise you're risking running out of "cells" on the left or right.
I know we don’t do this here but this made me chuckle. Favoriting this.
Curl: 25 years and 200 releases later
I must be living on the other side of the planet! Is there a place where keeping a cat outside is illegal? Poor cats :(

I have a garden and sandbox for kids and the soultion for cat poop was a dog. Is there a similiar research for dogs?
If the price of gold hit zero, you would still have a lump of pretty, malleable metal.

When bitcoin hits zero, what exactly will anybody actually have? At least with other manias like tulip bulbs you could grow a flower.

You can't even wipe your bum with bitcoin.
> ADHD people can sit there yelling at themselves to "do the thing" that they _know_ they need to do and still be completely incapable of starting regardless of how "easy" it is to actually do it once something forces them to actually start.

Isn't that basically how everyone behaves?
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In this case, most people will write the variable x with curved ends (𝑥) and the operator with straight ends.
I worked through this book and I think is a fine way to get your feet wet with C.

When I learn a new language, I like learning something else in the way, because language learning tends to be samey once you have gone through a couple.
This book was right up my alley, cause you get a sense of language design and the very basics of C.

After reading the book I managed to write some cli programs in C, modifying someone else's code.

The main caveat about the book: It Is an introduction in both it's topics. I know the bare minimum of C and I could not design a language. Yes, the lisp you build... Well I would not use for anything.

But is well written and it has exercises, and I believe exercises is how you learn.
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Would you be surprised to learn that the NHS is cheaper (both in terms of cost per person treated and as a proportion of GDP) than the healthcare systems of France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Japan? Its also way, way cheaper than what they have in the USA but I guess that isn't surprising.

Basically every comparable country has a more expensive healthcare system than the NHS. The NHS is incredibly efficient (or systematically underfunded, take your pick).

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
Torture is/was definitely part of even standard military training ie prior to Vietnam deployment for common soldiers. Electric wires on genitalia for example. I would expect that if one dictator sends their spec-ops personnel for US training, the goal is not to improve their techniques of ironing beds or polishing boots, rather more practical topics useful to that dictator.

I can easily see how an additional training in torture, logistics etc. could have helped perpetrators organize and perform the act. Although they would probably managed to kill him even without it in some way or the other.

One of the things I would hate if living in US - not such a great feeling knowing some part of your taxes goes into directly supporting things like this, whether you like it or not...
In other words, you want to abolish women's sports. At least you admitted it clearly.
I would love to be able to see these…if only there want a pay wall. Now reader mode takes all that beauty and effort out.
It’s technically correct in the sense that allowing users to run arbitrary code is a security nightmare. From my own usage and assessment, flatpak seems to be more secure than traditional package managers.
Because of stuff like this: https://f5n.org/blog/2021/dell-latitude-5130/

And I've heard the same stories from people with XPS. Same widespread coil whine, probably the same weird docking stations.
I appreciate you keeping an open mind. But I would also nitpick, and make the argument that the middle-ground between two widely divergent positions is not always right. I would argue we should never undermine the freedom to contract, which labor unions urge us to do when they advocate laws preventing employers from choosing to not associate with them.

Their premise, that corporate power can sometimes be abusive, can have some validity, without their solution, which is limitations on the right to freely contract, being correct.
I (and I think most users) don't care about how much memory an individual webpage uses, as long as it feels fast.

I'm sure there are many like you who want applications to be frugal with memory and cpu consumptions, but I think most users don't really give a damn.
Actually using asterisks for multiplications is something you do on computers not when writing on paper, or at least this is how I was taught at school and university
I was going to post

> That is a lot of sudden data loss.

But you can run this device in a mirrored config. I think this has a narrow use case of moving a lot of AI training data, which means it should have built in encryption.
White (genetic) male wins olympic womens gold medal. White male privelage at work once again, or are they just better at being women than women are?
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