skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m from NZ which changed from FPP to MMP in 1993.

Two big problems:

1. Half of the politicians that make it into parliament are from the party list (which is chosen by the party) and are not voted for individually. I believe much of the power of democracy is the ability to vote people out, and the party list mostly prevents that.

2. There is a lot of talk of strategic voting. I guess all systems can be gamed, but MMP seems to encourage it.

https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/what-is-new-zealands-sy... “Every candidate who wins an electorate gets a seat in Parliament. They are called electorate MPs. The remaining seats are filled from party lists. Every party has a party list, which is a list of candidates ranked in the order the party wants those candidates to be elected to Parliament. Candidates elected from a party list are called list MPs.”
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En Marche benefitted from the peculiarity of France's electoral system, which combines proportional representation in a 1st round with a "sudden death" 2nd round for the powerful presidency with only the two best-polling parties taking part. When it became clear that the far-right would be the largest single party, people ditched traditional party allegiances to back a candidate they found tolerable.

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(Apologies for posting my half-mangled recollections without checking and thanks to the commenters who fixed my incorrect claims).

France's electoral system is not well-suited to its current political landscape.
IMHO, don't chase the next fad thing.

Be an expert in two to three things. Currently, I concentrate on React, TypeScript, GraphQL, APIs (Axios). This keeps me busy and continue to be for next couple of years.
"forward" means "progress" which means "left". I don't really see the point there :P I've seen many parties claim "we are not left-wing or right-wing" but they evidently have to be either.
That is Bubble Sort, not surprising.
FFS. I vote we make those illegal now.
Sparks no, but a spall can be hot. Fabric will not spall but whether by spark or spall, bullets hitting solid objects can generate enough heat to ignite things they touch.
Looking through the pictures again it suggests those staple holes are smaller than pin holes and might be "filled in" with a single coat of paint.
Nickelodeon All Star Brawl Is Out
I call it the ADD-anxiety-depression circle. Can't do what you want, get anxious about it, get depressed from it, repeat.

But there are other causes for depression. It can simply be a brain with too little of a neurotransmitter or other. SSRIs actually work great for many people, Gabapentin for others.

Even in the above example, "ADD" can easily be replaced with "poverty" and you can add some drug addiction in the mix.

After years, it just becomes chronic, your new normal and it's very doubtful that you can be normal without serious external help.
Funny. It was the French Revolution that paved the way for modern democracies in the West. If I remember correctly, the American Revolutionary Army received quite some assistance from them. It is ironic so, the the French ended up with an Emperor so, I have to agree. Not comparing anything to Nazi Germany, but didn't the US have a pretty nasty Civil War?

Also, changing things based on the whim of the population is pretty much the core believe of democracy. As long as that change is following some process and is happening peacefully. Just a disclaimer, demonstrations that end in some violence are still what I would consider "peaceful", as opposed to outright anarchy or civil wars.

EDIT: Yep, the French revolution happened after the American one. The French helped the US as reaction to the Seven Year war, basically to stick it to the British. That Napoleon became Emperor was also caused by the various wars the French Republic fought against the various European monarchies. History is ironic sometimes.
It still suffers from spoiler effect
That's because carbone capture has a lack of funding, I'd call most of those schemes R&D at best. That's not an indication if it will work or not.
> 15. Two 12-inch pizzas have less pizza than one 18-inch pizza.

That is surprising, because it's not true. Any calculator will confirm that 2 (2 π×6) > 2 π×9. Or am I missing something?
This is actually not true at all, especially if you consider wings or movements within the two dominant parties. Examining American political history over the past century reveals all sorts of differing views on the Founding, including a president that was openly hostile to many of their thoughts and ideals (Wilson).

Part of the general trend of radical adherence to the Founding is an understanding of the equally radical philosophies they championed and that many (if not all) of these are universal and timeless. Rights like being able to say just about anything without being detained or killed by your government don’t expire — they’re central to liberty, period.

Also, the Enlightenment was a movement very much based in rational thinking. There’s lots of American political rhetoric based in emotion, but respect and adoration for the Founding is hardly the worst of it.
I think that you just have to read up about IPMI and find out some undocumented values for your board that you can find on some forum.
I'm not impressed about how Supermicro handles fans, but I guess that this doesn't matter in a server room where there are no limits on how much noise the server produces.
I suspect a huge part of Macron's success was his opponent. France elections have a top-2 runoff, and I wouldn't be surprised if many electors were like "I don't like Macron but I really don't want Le Pen to win".

The whole "socially progressive, economically middle of the road" political coalition that would win every election on HN is extremely unpopular in the real world.
There was another Bitcoin SV scam article just a week ago. It looks like Craig Wright is paying people to continue with it again. Maybe he has a new court appearance coming up, although I’m not following what’s happening to him.
Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems for a time in the 1990s
"We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health"

As always these people seems to prevaricate we all know he means "We care deeply about profits and any issue that can impede our growth."

"Many of the claims don't make any sense. If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place?:

C'mon you allowed the research in a hope that if they produce fruitful result you can show off to the world. And as you were trying to roll instagram for kids such research were essential. And you hide those research from public which means you don't care about child safety or whatever.

I guess I am now tired of reading Zuck fantasies.
"The research actually demonstrated that many teens we heard from feel that using Instagram helps them when they are struggling with the kinds of hard moments and issues teenagers have always faced. In fact, in 11 of 12 areas on the slide referenced by the Journal -- including serious areas like loneliness, anxiety, sadness and eating issues -- more teenage girls who said they struggled with that issue also said Instagram made those difficult times better rather than worse."

Does this translate as "Instagram is good for kids" though?
I mean, as a kid/teenager/young-adult I'd tell you chocolate and burgers are great sustenance and that there's nothing wrong with playing video games 16hours a day sitting down, etc...

I'm genuinely curious if that research is based entirely on feedback from the target audience, if so on instinct, I disbelieve it.
The strawberries remind me of the pricing of long-term bonds.

Let’s say newly issued 100yr Treasuries pay a 1% coupon today, but tomorrow the coupon will be 2%, how much does the price of the older bond change?

The answer is a near 50% loss, simply because this is required to bump the yield of the older bond to 2%.

(If we include the discounted principal payment the exact answer becomes a 41.3% loss)
It's not just your tech stack in the narrow sense, your software also can't talk to anything that changes: no browser, no third party service. Systems are rarely that isolated anymore.
One meal a day combined with keto helped me to lose 30 kg in 9 months practically without effort. As soon as I went off it (because of changes in life) I gained back 6 kg, now I'm at least trying to do OMAD but it's hard without keto, because the sugars make me hungry.
It is about deliberate practice. Being able to write code that compiles successfully without needing to test against the compiler is mostly the same skill as writing code that does what you intend it to without need for debugging. However practicing writing code that compiles the first time is a ton easier than practicing writing code that has no other bugs the first time, so you go practice that. It isn't perfect, but it is low hanging fruit that takes a few days to learn so why not.

Or another perspective, the compiler throwing errors at you for your code implies that your intuitive mental model for the language isn't 100% accurate. If you write code the compiler accepts then you most likely have a near perfect understanding of how the language works.
That's the formula for circumfence, not area.
Area is calculated using pi*r^2:

2 * pi * 6^2 < pi * 9^2
I don't think he's got it. These are esoteric issues few people ultimately care about.
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Firstly, I stopped taking this article seriously at "modern language (Java)". Apart from that, "we can decide to not put bugs in the code" is the most non-sensical thing I've ever read. OK, sure, you can eventually flush some or most bugs out before your code goes in for proper testing from formally-trained QA people, but unless all you're writing is "Hello World" applications or walking skeletons then writing bug-free code is not possible, hence the existance of an entire industry that revolves around finding bugs. Just because YOU can't find any more bugs in your own code, that doesn't mean there aren't any bugs in the code, which is why QA people are trained to employ methodical test techniques. This is commonly known as the "Absence-Of-Errors Fallacy".

Secondly, there's this concept called "Independence Of Testing", which essentially states that the more independent the tester is from the code, the more likely they are to find defects. The opposite of that is also true, the less independend the tester is, e.g. if the tester is the developer, then the less likely they are to find defects in their own code. Read mode here (section 5.1.1): https://www.istqb.org/downloads/send/2-foundation-level-docu...

Lastly, this article is essentially saying that proper testing by QA people is useless, which not only I strongly disagree with but also is something that a terrible developer would say.
I use Monte Carlo simulations because I am not that great at doing complex statistics.

It sounds fancier to say modeled using a Monte Carlo simulation, but in reality it is much easier than working with joint and conditional probabilities.
> rudimentary check on truthiness

Did you miss the part where they lie pretty much all the time nowadays to advance political agendas? The argument being made by this "whistleblower" is merely that FB should be required to do the same. The only "whistle" she's really "blowing" here is that of the DNC. I'm sure Zuck is smart enough to see how detrimental this is to his company's long term success, or even existence. Founders and executives: background check your future employees and screen them for activist backgrounds. If they have any of that - do not hire. They themselves say political affiliation is not a protected category. They are dangerous for business. Let them taste their own medicine.
The kind of bugs I write these days are quite different from the ones I made decades ago. My mistakes these days are from high level misunderstandings, rather than low level ones.
Some infinite scroll-type pages consume ridiculous amounts of memory the further you scroll (and if the page disallows direct navigation to a point in history and you need to find something older that you didn't save a direct link for, you've got no choice but to scroll, and scroll, and scroll…), so limitless caching isn't quite the right answer, either…
"Some" - but importantly - not "all"
We believe BSV is an excellent blockchain to build products on, because of its scalability, sustainability, transparency, and instant transaction. Its TPS is unlimited, block size unbounded, and the average network fee is $0.0004.

Also community is very important to us. BSV is being used in daily lives of many people, far more than other major cryptocurrencies, thanks to its scalability. And a lot of pioneer developers of Bitcoin & blockchain are developing on BSV. These make one very healthy community that is likely succeed.
Thanks tdeck, that means a lot. :)
And it didn't get rid of the spoiler effect exactly. Every system has tradeoffs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/27/new-yorke...
The study you linked can't be described as rigorous. They only have 2 groups, without a control group. And they only give them the advice to eat between 12pm till 8pm, and the other group to eat 3 meals a day.

They found there was significant decrease in weight for intermittent fasting group.

The reason they give that intermittent fasting has no effect is because the other group also lost weight, although less.

But since both groups got instructions the study is lacking a control group.

Therefor we shouldn't compare both groups. What is left is to look at intermittent fasting by itself. And there they found what they call significant decrease in weight.
Because Electronic Voting is generally considered too attack-prone to be trusted.

Relevant Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
No, you misunderstand.

Capturing CO₂ from typical atmosphere is a very difficult problem, and it's a big problem too. Talking about that distracts from a problem that's much smaller and more accessible, namely capturing CO₂ from the parts of the atmosphere where there's very much CO₂.

The photo shows a number of pipelines that guide CO₂ up and release it. Capturing it at the top of the photo, in the open air, is very much more difficult and expensive than capturing it near the middle, in those big vertical things.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TfTxDMlqODtgyGkRG6-j9Y-Sv50=...

If you start thinking about how to capture it in the middle of the photo, you very quickly also consider other ways of achieving the same goal at the same site. Capturing CO₂ is damned expensive compared to those other ways, and the discussion is a distraction.

IMO capturing old CO₂ is necessary (as the article says) but when discussed it's usually contrasted to current emissions rather than old emissions, and it's hopelessly inefficient compared to current emissions. We can't go back in time and avoid old emissions, so avoiding capture isn't IMO possible. For the time being it's irrelevant because there current level of emissions (the highest of all time) presents us with very much to do that's both simpler and cheaper.
The fallacy in the argument is that, first choice only, NO candidate has even a slim majority, let alone a strong one.

If you decay the hypothetical 3 party set of options by eliminating the least popular candidate then you're back to first past the post which is the current status quo in the US.

Schulze and similar methods use the ranked lists to evaluate pairs of candidates and eliminate the candidates that are universally the worst first / retain candidates that rank well in isolation. This is more likely to result in a compromise that works best for the most people.
>As of October 2021 IBM has a market cap of $128.91 Billion. This makes IBM the world's 112th most valuable company by market cap according to our data.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/ibm/marketcap/
I've seen now from other comments that I'm not alone in finding this algorithm intuitive.

Can you share with us your intuition as to why it works?
If the business model is fundamentally wrong no amount of good will, governance or resources can turn things around. The only way (I can think of) for private, for-profit, social media to "trully care" (actually, just care a tiny bit more) is if their users (rather than advertisers / other third parties) were to become the paying clients.

This is about as feasible as a brain transplant. People have been conditioned that social media are "free", the gigantic valuations are based on personal data based adtech revenue, their true clients don't seem to give a damn about what kind of society and economy they engineered, and "markets" just cheer on.

So thats where we are.
> > Their section on reliable replications can be resolved by keeping a log of the changes made to the database rather than a log of the queries.

> You'd need to define a representation of that log, which ends up being equivalent to writing a NoSQL datastore.

I think this covered by relational DBs redo/rollback/write-ahead log; whatever you want to call it.
I am not a scientist but I don't think that's right. A decay and rot situation should put some amount of carbon in the ground. Where else would all the peat that formed coal have come from otherwise?

Obviously violent combustion will put a great percentage in the air, but I don't see a strong reason to believe that a rotting tree trunk will completely put carbon in the air and none of it in the ground.
Depending on the walls, generally at least in my country walls are made of clay bricks, so any hammer drill will work, but if you want to drill too close to the ceiling, or the ceiling you will need something better.

I ended up buying a rotary hammer because of this, holes on the floor (doorstoppers), ceiling, or walls right close to the ceiling was impossible with the cheap hammer drill, along with a good SDS+ drill bit feels like butter now.
Dall's porpoise is from the North Pacific. Harbour porpoise is the only porpoise that could enter in the Loch Ness. The Californian porpoise was even smaller.
Couples in Israel can marry abroad (often in Cyprus) and Israel recognises their marriage for the purpose of immigration, inheritance etc (nearly every purpose).
That's a great list, thanks a lot.

For the first case and third cases, as far as I know casting to void is the offical, supported, language-proper way to say "this value is not being used" so no compiler improvement should break that.

The draft C18 standard says:

If a function call is evaluated as an expression statement for its side effects only, the discarding of its value can
be made explicit by converting the expression to a void expression by means of a cast

and (in 6.3.2.2 Void):

If an expression of any other type is evaluated as a void expression, its value or designator is
discarded. (A void expression is evaluated for its side effects.)

So that sounds like the proper solution, at least for those problems.

Regarding the alignment, I haven't seen that warning I think. This SO answer [1] recommends casting via void *, but that might count as an "obfuscation"; I would count it as just that, a "I'm know what I'm doing"-statement. :)

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33218873/how-to-properly...
No, it doesn't. I've cycled for 50km on weekends, I've "hiked" 17km (walked between cities lol) a few times to try it. Yeah, it feels good at the end. And then it's back to the normal depressed state.
https://archive.is/Loyt8
I'm seeing a lot of deflecting without addressing the core issues. Yeah we know they have a lot of people and spend a lot of time on content moderation, but one major issue is that they gave a lot of people exceptional treatment. It took years of Trump's reign and that of 'fake news' / misinformation before they even started to flag these things, and I'm convinced flagging content works as reinforcement for a lot of people - "look, the MSM is trying to suppress the Truth!"
Ouch, that first one is definitely a bug. As for duration, that's definitely something that's missing and we can fix it by showing a proper timeline. You can already click on someone's profile to listen only to their answers, but we could make that easier to find and do as well.

Thanks for this!
it's true but really what they're missing is the number and variety of toppings on these pizzas.
In order to qualify for the run-off, Macron had to end up in the top 2 first. Which he did. And that En Marche got the parliament as well was a bit of a surprise. Curious to see how things play out next year so.
How to get employees to (actually) participate in wellbeing programs
Ah, got it. I misunderstood. My anecdata suggests the 11 year old is correct and that it is important. Social media adoption is driven by children.
Ahhhh, of course. facepalms
If you mean a current version (i.e. not 68 or earlier), then it's not really possible – both because I think there's no option to configure Firefox's tab unloading itself except by recompiling, but also because now that Firefox loads tabs in separate content process, those separate content processes are an easy prey for the OS low-memory killer. Even the most-agressive memory optimiser won't kill the current foreground app itself, but anything else including content processes for unused (from the OS point of view) tabs may be fair game, even if that doesn't actually improve the ultimate user experience...

If your phone is known for aggressive memory management (https://dontkillmyapp.com/), maybe exempting Firefox from its memory optimisations (if that's possible) might help a little, but no guarantees.
While I am happy for the progress people make in bringing databases to container orchestrators, I don't see myself going off the dedicated virtual machine for the database. I find it easier/safer to run it this way.

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Lol, why wouldn't they do it now and give them pacifying medication?
Both things we should absolutely do. Thanks!
Thank you. I feel kind of stupid now.
Ex-convict programmer leak 40gb videos and photos of torture in Russian prisons
Russian language source: https://zona.media/news/2021/10/04/otb-1

"Gulagu.net (Russian human rights organization dedicated to the protection of prisoners' rights) received a video from a former prisoner - programmer, who "was beaten and tortured, and then prison's administration decided to use him in his professional capacity"
> Adding code and microchips to enforce serial paring of batteries, screens and camera modules to the device it was originally installed in... is a cost cutting measure?

This absolutely can be the case. What is the engineering cost of supporting third party components?

What happens to apples image if a crucial calibration is not performed after swapping a component? They might lose that customer forever because “Face-ID doesn’t work”.

What is the cost if your PR image is damaged as a result of third party battery fires? “iPhones explode” would be the headline and third-party batteries would be the footnote.
Yes it's an obvious gateway to real harm as you said. Which is why, last I checked, it was outlawed in Britain. You aren't allowed to skirt the law by using artistic representations of criminal acts. Which led to the tragi-comic episode of a man being locked up for forwarding a porno featuring an actor in a Tony the Tiger costume.