skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're making an assumption about the assumptions of the person you're replying to.

Many voter beliefs are implicit and how we express our political preferences can sometimes be reducible to a simple matter of group allegiance.

People don't need to be highly informed to effectively participate if the voter's top priority is to support a certain group interest (i.e., a union member supporting labour) rather than individual legislators or laws.
I suspect that many oil rich countries have been anticipating this development and have been heavily investing elsewhere.
I intend to keep the mask on at the grocery store even after the pandemic. I hope it won't be stigmatized.
Yeah, that's (unfortunately) exactly what I'm saying.
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I simply don't get why the person preferring A doesn't rank A first. This scenario only works if you have exactly 3 candidates and the numbers are tight and everyone is tactically voting instead of voting their conscience.

In reality most preferential voting schemes have many candidates, and there's too much chaos to coordinate this kind of scenario.

Meanwhile plurality voting has candidates winning with way less than 50% of the vote, and claiming some mandate from god.

The sooner we ditch FPTP the sooner we get to something like Condorcet, or STV with multimember districts.
Excuse me? The only concept blockchain introduced was a distributed ledger. Most of those advantages you listed were already present in distributed computing way before blockchain paper was out, it's what blockchain was based on, not what it brought about. Distributed databases like Cassandra were using those even before bitcoin, please educate yourself before spreading misinformation.
Have you read Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments? It applies the same kind of thinking found in Wealth of Nations (deriving systemic social principles from individual human motivations) to the moral sphere. He first introduced the phrase "invisible hand" in this, earlier book.

https://www.adamsmith.org/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments
That's completely missing the point. The point is, do you accept that unpleasant Truth, do you reject it, or do you weigh whatever other values you have against that truth and ignore it.

That's what that question is.
This is a great idea in theory, but human nature is a pretty strong driver to be the best, fastest, strongest, and winningest when competing against others. Competition is hard-wired into us, and I'm skeptical that systems that strip that out will be viable or entertaining in the long term.
Good thing there are voices of reason in those dumpster fire comments. It amazes me how most developers can't think beyond "me, my, mine":

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/o5k8gb/rant_i_cant_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/o5k8gb/rant_i_cant_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/o5k8gb/rant_i_cant_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/o5k8gb/rant_i_cant_...
It’s an easier mode for me when standing and holding the iPad with one hand and the stylus in the other. The keyboard is nice when sitting and using both hands for sure. Same was true when using my old thinkpad tablet in the same way.
> the more accurate is the representation of the whole

Accurate representation is not a goal. The goal is freedom, wealth, stability, happiness, etc.

Also, people who vote for a random names just because they are forced to, are not exactly represented by those who they are technically voted for.
There is a really interesting dynamic where the Saudis have basically pushed the line of thinking that they have a special relationship with us going back to WWII or WWI. I generally am a bit skeptical of Cato Institute but they had a great podcast with Prof Robert Vitalis about this that shed a ton of light on exactly this question for me.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/americas-oil-myths/id1...
This video [0] argues that most Australians fail to understand how the system works and that the mainstream political parties actively mislead voters into thinking that their voice is "wasted" if they vote for a 3rd party

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bleyX4oMCgM
> I’m FIGBERT, an Israeli-American high school student

They've got probably half a decade of youthful mistakes to make yet before they'll darken your recruiting door. Give em a break.

(At their age I think I was still bashing on Locksmith to copy AppleII game floppies, and I turned out OK enough to be managing the devops team where I work now...)
It could very well be location. I'm in the UK for reference
I encourage anyone interested in this subject to read this[0] article, it is a comprehensive analysis of the subject. If not the whole thing, at least the final sections "Recommendations and Conclusions" and "Executive Summary". It really underlines how complex this is.

[0]: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/shades-of-gray-sex-gend...
Just go back to any college. If the degree is not relevant, you can just get accepted anywhere you want and take whatever classes you want. No one’s going to bother you to stay on track and finish a major.
Ask HN: Can't multitask, slow reader, forgetful
Here's my typical day. Log on, think about how I should start to go through my email. Notice I have some PRs to review. Start to work on one. I'm a slow reader, and it takes me a while to grok. I feel there's a better way, so I do some searching or fire up a term to provide actionable feedback. Meeting is starting.

After, I notice I have another in a couple hours i need to prepare for. Memory sucks, so preparing really helps me. While doing that, I noticed a couple messages have come in asking me for things. I don't have an immediate answer -- it takes time and effort to load up what they're talking about into RAM -- but eventually I point them in the right direction.

Second meeting. After that I have a block on my calendar for heads down work. But oops, I never finished that first PR review. And there's another PR review waiting after that one. Diving back into the first PR, I don't remember where I was. It takes time to get back into it. Heads down time went by without me having a second to sit and think.

During my next meeting, I try to answer some of the other messages that are waiting for my response.

Realize last week I promised to review someone's doc and never got to it. Oops. Apologize and dive in and manage to review about half of it.

End of the day, still have that other PR. Start working on it, but it's the end of the day and i have family commitments.

Realize I never cracked my email open. I wonder if there was anything important. Tomorrow i guess.

This is the hell I'm living, most days. I need to be contributing meaningfully (in terms of code or design) to my own projects. But the context switching is absolutely killing me. The worst part is that there are people around me who kick ass at it. Make it look easy.

I see these other threads about ADHD.. I don't think that's what I have. I can focus when I have the chance to. I am just slow at task switching, and my memory isn't great. But I don't know what to do about it.
Yeah, my biggest problem with the web is that most sites do not know exactly who I am and there isn't a central authority providing verification.

We are doomed
It's mostly because of absentee votes.
Unless you and the teacher both have rock solid, low latency internet connections, you'll probably have a better time if you split video from audio.

The best is if you can both use real landlines for audio. Audio bandwidth is terrible (8kHz), but latency and jitter should be very low. As I understand it, if you can get ISDN audio calling, that's even better, but like good luck convincing your teacher and your phone company (and their phone company) to get that installed.

If you don't have real landlines available, try voip landlines (using G.711u or G.722.2 if that's supported) or cell phones.

Whatever you do, definitely don't use anything wifi or bluetooth at all.
Pretty easy to answer. A women is someone who can naturally create a child inside of them, or naturally possesses the organs to do so.

It’s amazing our collective intelligence has dropped this far. We solved this problem quite a long time ago…
> In what way is Vanbellinghen not questioning Hubbard's identity?

Not all women are allowed to participate in powerlifting competitions. For example, people not qualified couldn't. People that are known steroids abusers couldn't. That doesn't make them less women.
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It doesn't go without saying. Which is why you said it. The pro-trans movement starts from the assumption that any disagreement with their ideology is "harm". They've bullied everyone into accepting what is transparently a ridiculous situation; often by alleging bad faith. I'm very happy to see someone from professional women's weightlifting refer to this as a "bad joke".
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It requires you to go with a very different axiom of equity over equality, basically. Asians do well at exams for some reason, therefore to ensure that there is an equitable distribution, we then sacrifice the level playing ground of equality in favour of the outcome driven goal of equity.
> By giving everyone the cash, people who made prudent decisions are not punished

No one is being punished here. If you managed to pay rent, your pay-out was not having to deal with sudden mass homelessness from mass evictions, and all the downstream problems that would create for you.

The government forced landlords to house people who couldn't pay. This is about making the landlords whole, not renters.
What if women compete with/against men based on weight, or perhaps muscle mass class or something like that, could a gender-neutral competition be possible?
Patching a few things in chrome is radically easier than maintaining and improving a completely different browser engine. And just because Google pays some money to firefox for their own selfish reason to not be caught in monopoly busting doesn’t create any twisted incentives for Firefox. It is the privacy-oriented browser fighting for a worthy case. Also, it is improving all the time - it’s just that for some reason the few missteps are way overpronounced.
Have you tried cis-cat? I think it was designed explicitly for that, to scan for local OS vulnerabilities.
Basically, yeah. There's no expectation of permanence like there is with social media. Recording/transcribing and publishing would be a gross violation of trust.

Someone could point a directional microphone at you in the park, too, but one doesn't typically worry about that.
I don't resent people for being wealthy. My feelings towards them depend on the things they do with it.

Then we agree. I don't resent people for having their rent debt forgiven, I resent them for having it forgiven when they had the ability to pay it all along.
> searx

I just gave the docker image a try. It works out of the box but the search time feels slightly more than that of Google - which is one of the reasons I gave up on DDG.

Also, I am curious - if I am hosting it on my own server and using Google as one of the engines - does that not mean my search ultimately goes to Google and they can still profile me?
You're missing the point. These public servants work public servant hours, aka, a very small subset of the total day during which a lot of people who are on public assistance are either working or are being pressured into finding work. They literally are not available when a lot of people on public assistance are free to communicate with them. The companies that limit their customer service hours to normal working hours are usually either small or financial institutions. Everyone else handles customers whenever customers have issues.
Apple installs security updates in background. E.g.:

> Your Mac automatically installs background updates for the security configuration and data files used by macOS.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207005
> What good is the First Amendment if citizens themselves see free speech as a dangerous transgression?

Well, first and foremost, the First is about the government interfering with speech. I don't think that applies to what you're complaining about, which appears to be an increase of intolerance of intolerance.

And your usage of "religious" to those of that ilk is sloppy whataboutism. Religion is about believing is something that can't be proven, and countless atrocities have occurred in its name. Equating that to somebody who says "black lives matter" and believes that to be true is flat out dishonest.
You know how I know you're lying?
I'd err on the side of Amazon because the free market is more likely to address their practices.

My hunch is that corruption, bullying, etc don't go away. Organizations don't stop doing those things unless they lose their power.

On the other hand, if a company like Amazon is treating workers poorly, then a competitive environment should fix that in the long run. E.g. if Amazon overworks its people while other companies don't, either Amazon has to pay more and more if its working conditions are worse and worse (relative to peers), or it'll have to improve working conditions to keep its workers.
yeah but it doesn’t make your body exactly like someone with different chromosomes than you that lived with that hormone set their entire life through puberty etc, and with a different bone structure and musculature
From first principles, transwomen feel like they should be just as much of a woman born biologically female, but they just happened to be born biologically male. This dysphoria causes a great deal of angst and I don't think the benefits of othering them as any kind of second-class woman can outweigh that.
My original submission had many more tasks and interruptions throughout the day. I had to take them out to come in under the character limit.

I feel like I'm burning out without even accomplishing anything. Does anyone else feel this way?
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I sometimes wonder if that 5% is something DDG and others can realistically solve. Perhaps the issue has less to do with engineering and more to do with Google being the dominant player over the previous 20-years (give or take). That's an awfully long time for one company to effectively own a product category and build expectations among users about how it should work.

FWIW I do get good results from DDG (sometimes better than Google) but that does require me to be a bit more thoughtful with my queries.
Maybe, but even on desktop I nearly always prefer a native app over a web app.
Firejail can easily suffer from some of the same issues, if it's not configured properly. Some of the issues listed here are not specific to Flatpak, and need to be addressed with any sandboxing mechanism.
Wouldn't not paying rent (regardless of the reason) cause your credit score to decline, and make it harder for you to rent in the future?

Also, would you rather deal with the large amount of homelessness that would result in landlords having to mass-evict everyone who couldn't pay?
Assuming the lab leak actually did happen, seems like there’ll never be definitive proof. Just a lot of he said/she said. Or maybe a smoking gun will be found but it’ll get lost in the endless news cycle.

Because now, even an objective fact can still become irrelevant if it transmogrifies into a political football or gets tainted by becoming a totem of the conspiracy crowd.
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> The big difference is that religion usually believes in some kind of forgiveness and repentance

Usually? There's boatloads of sermons recorded out that that preach hate and fear. Very selective reasoning on both sides of this equation.
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Why Vivaldi over Firefox?
Where is the EU in this case ? Here's a company that is intentionally crippling a public standard that governments use to deliver their services all over the EU, and denormalizing it. Some public-facing APIs like web notifications should be mandatory and required to work in all browsers . A public body like the W3C could be making this kind of recommendations.
An oft-repeated mantra is also that "gender is a social construct." I think up until now, American society has for the most part retained some pretty strict images of gender roles and stereotypes. Turn on a TV and it's bumbling, fat father and smart, responsible wife or buff, rugged masculine hero and sexy seductress on nearly every channel. Not much of a middle in the public eye.

Now that it's being normalized that you don't have to be in either of those groups or even try to be anything like them, kids a generation from now might grow up with a different standard. Plus, honestly, despite what people try to say, kids put things into distinct groups. With a growing presence of trans people in media, I do wonder whether kids will grow up with the idea that "this is fine, but different." The trans people simply being the male/female gender they identify as is a social thing that we're taught to accept, which could very well change because the next generation doesn't think of it that way anymore.

See also: America's formerly strict ideas of race. Not long ago, you were white, black, or asian and society decided what you were. Now we accept that there are in betweens and people outside those labels, and none of them are bad identities to have.
speaking about shared_ptr, they have a reference count that is done as an atomic counter, because you could use the shared_ptr instance from multiple threads, so that it has to be as general as possible. Now that atomic counter was not needed in my case, as the objects were only accessed from the same thread; however it had some surprisingly adverse effects on performance, in my projects at least...

i think they should add some template argument to determine if an atomic counter is used or not, exactly for the cases where the shared_ptr object is used exclusively from a single thread; but they didn't do that in the standard.
You mean the factory function has to return some invalid state of the class? Not so.

The factory could return std::optional<Foo> or std::unique_ptr<Foo> or std::variant<Foo, Error> or absl::StatusOr<Foo> .
Maybe it's the other direction, and Apple is trying to get website builders to realize that you can just serve an HTML page with a simple stylesheet, some images, and some forms, and it can be a great User Experience (UX).
Rule of three is such a common C++ concept though, I would be surprised if anyone with more than a few weeks experience with the language is still running into such issues.
The highly volatile & speculative nature of the Crypto market, which puts the country’s economic position at stake to an extent, a factor that makes the Chinese authorities uncomfortable, a country that cannot stand anything outside its control.

Know more about the bitcoin crash in the medium article
Hence 'beware the lock-in'.
FYI: the author (Jeremy Evans) is the lead developer of Sequel, Roda and Rodauth, a solid Rubyist.
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I always thought this category of problem would become acute when people with a disability became sufficiently augmented (with an advanced prosthesis for example) that they could compete with and eventually beat non-disabled athletes. At that juncture it would be necessary to create a new kind of Olympics for augmented people, because nobody wants to box with someone who has a terminator arm.
> Another favorite “criticism” I have of C++ goes along the lines of “but someone could overload operator+ to be division!” I have only seen that as a contrived critic’s example, or a joke.

Yeah there's definitely criticisms you can throw at C++, but this always struck me as stupid. You could also write an `add` method that divides in Java.

I've never liked the idea of 'operators' in the first place, tbh. Scheme opened my eyes in that they're all just procedures. And then with Smalltalk and Scala I saw that they can all just be methods as well.
> Really looking forward to having it explained

We have satellites in space regularly scanning the whole planet. If you can see it from below you ought to be able to see it from above.
Somilarly, the strategy for the Conservative Party in the UK for many years has been to systematically underfund the NHS so that the cracks start to show and they have to fly in with private healthcare or private healthcare insurance provisions. Many party members hate the NHS, but the UK public love it. So they're stuck making claims to support it, but in reality funding per head in real terms falls and falls.

They just have to make it bad enough.
> If the voting public prefers a weak moderate candidate with no agenda

No voting public prefers other candidates, and moderate candidate as backup.

I give you an example I posted in another thread:

* 60% want a dem candidate to win

* 40% want a rep candidate to win

* 70% are willing to join strategic voting to avoid allowing other party to win

In this case, the dem candidate looks like a correct winner.

With ranked choice the the dem candidate would win.

But with approval voting strategic "moderate" candidate wins. If they are moderate, that's good. But they can easily be just weak nobody.

It is not exactly what voting public prefers. That choice is a fake choice, like a girl, do you want to go to bed or be thrown into a forest with angry wolves.

> if there's no particularly compelling reason for people to want that person to be president.

The reason is to not let opposing party win. Strategic voting.

> If both major parties (assuming there are two, maybe there'll be more...) nominate not-so-great candidates, then the voters have an option to elect someone like Tom Hanks.

And they will if it is some form of ranked choice, but not just approval.
Per another Reddit thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/o5r4hw/sped_up_shangh...), there's a nightly lightshow in Shanghai this month in celebration of the CCP's 100th anniversary: https://twitter.com/shen_shiwei/status/1407341364858261512
I do automation consulting as part of my job (amongst other consulting for logistics) and can anecdotally say that automation enquiries have gone down slightly.

Business cases for logistics automation work best when you have stable demand (so you can get good utilisation out of the kit, and know how much you need to build) and the level of uncertainty means it’s tough to work out what your order pattern might look like in the future. It’s also much harder to scale up an automated site during growth periods compared to a manual one.

I suspect there will be a lag on investment as companies work out what post-covid demand patterns look like.
Welp, it looks like the iMac is as doomed as the iPod and iPhone
I, on the other hand, appreciate Safari not being an utter resource-hog and a battery drainer. I don't need all these shiny features. I'm ok with "dumbed down" static sites.
Do they anonymously check Google though? Maybe they'll just use bing like all the others
Their vocal harmonies are out of this world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyquqw6GeXk
Daryl Davis has been successful in teaching adult KKK members to stop being racists.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinc...