skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first link there does actually compare against ranked choice. It is just called IRV. There's a larger comparison that includes more types of ranked choice (also called "ordinal") here[0]. Though I particularly like this animation[1]. I'll also add that there is a lot of nuance to voting and VSE isn't everything. There's a lot of factors to consider including: how do strategies work? Is it scalable? Can it easily be counted and/or verified statistically? How easy is it for voters? How effective are (strong and weak) spoiler candidates? And many more questions. For the most part cardinal methods (like Approval) fair better on all these accounts. There is a slight tradeoff to VSE. Note STAR in [0] has a slightly lower VSE than RP/Schulz (ranked), but a tighter grouping (better vs strategies). But also STAR is more complex for voters and counting than Approval is (I'd still argue STAR is easier for voters and counters than ordinal systems). So these are the types of tradeoffs you're making

[0] https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FXLQoLDBA
See the top definition here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/self-centered

"Egotistically obsessed with oneself."

Using "self-centered" in a neutral way is significantly less common than using it in a derogatory way, hence the previous poster's response to the phrase.
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First we do search. After retrieval comes question answering based on the retrieved snippets. Then comes multi-hop question answering with the need to correlate information between multiple sources. Just watched a video showing how it can be done https://youtu.be/-ethT5YDVmo?t=1256
How would the opposite not be true? "an appeal to the modern". Just because something like palm oil is new, must it be better?
Consider that for years the "new" advice was to recommend aspirin to prevent heart attacks. [https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000678]
If you ignored this advice some smarmy pill pusher would say you're appealing to nature. What about non-addictive painkillers like oxycotton.
From wikipedia: "A genetically engineered rapeseed that is tolerant to the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate)".
"Exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides and risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma: A meta-analysis and supporting evidence" [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13835...].
So from the beginning the product is tainted.
Then the oil is bleached for a more palatable color. It refined like other industrials oils and often interchangeable for machining uses.

Mouse experiments showed weight gain and memory loss/alzheimers [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17373-3]

While mice are not humans, American obesity has grown since the use of seed oils has grown.

Seed oil advocates themselves appeal to "the good ol days", as many peoples have allegedly used rape seed oil over history.
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> In the areas in which I excel, I often exude great confidence, which is sometimes mistaken for arrogance.

Isn't that how the article defines swagger?
Almost every influencer starts out as a "random person." Trump started out as just another random B-lister - a larger audience than a non-celebrity anybody, but hardly the audience he ended up with. Social media, with its broadcasting of things to everybody instead of just to a particular small-to-medium sized group of forum participants, enables them to gain massive audiences. Getting that audience as a forum poster would have been far more difficult. The path looked more like "author at a online magazine" than "now has millions on millions of Twitter followers."
IMO AMP was still a problem. It’s a version of HTML de facto controlled by Google. There’s window dressing of a foundation or whatever but Google calls the shots on what it does and does not do. To me that made AMP a five alarm fire right from the start.
So far I enjoy this exclusive internet. So many more cool people, so much less shitty commercialization and user-hostility.

Of course it’s not 100% ready for everyone yet, but I don’t think it’s very far. Like the early internet, it’s currently full of early adopters and still a little awkward to use. I don’t think it will stay that way forever.
I've seen approval voting up close, approval and top 3 make it to council seats.

One issue seems to be domination by majority?

For example, let's say 55% of electorate is hard left, 45% moderate to conservative.

Under approval those 55% can vote for all 3 lets say hard left candidates, no moderate's make it in?

RCV, once someone has gotten their candidate in, their vote is exhausted. Seems to come out much better. Still might end up with 2 hard left, one moderate, but that seems fairer to me.
> naturalistic fallacy or the "good old days"

This is not a fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Ray Peat has been warning about seed oils for decades, I'm not sure if its bullet-proof but at least its interesting: https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
> Most people will already know this, but LAPD

s/most people/most americans/

plus some non americans of course, but it's not a global association by any means.
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This is a strategy, but it typically falls apart against clever attackers who are targeting you specifically. Hackers have been performing return-to-libc attacks forever where they don't actually get to write any code at all, just sequence code that already exists in your binary.

Java also tried this in a slightly more rigorous manner with the SecurityManager and that just ended up being a botch.
> Another thing is, how many of the machines in any given factory are that specialized?

As always: it depends. An automotive factory may have highly computerized systems in the hundreds for a dozen or so employees.

Or you may have mostly simple machines entirely serviceable by the factory personnel.

And anything in between.
I’m increasingly fatalistic about computer security. It seems like your options are carefully auditing all dependencies (difficult and maybe impossible if the dependencies are highly technical or the malicious code is sufficiently subtle or obfuscated) every time you update, not updating at all (which leaves you vulnerable to all the bugs and other security issues in the version you choose to pin), or not using dependencies at all (by spending months or years totally rewriting the libraries and tools you need, and of course your own code will have bugs too).

Fixing the points addressed in this article helps by making it harder to slip these backdoors in, but will never be foolproof unless every single library has a maintainer with the skills to detect subtle bugs and security issues, who audits every line of code.

Even then the marketplace for unreported zero day vulnerabilities means that there are probably undiscovered vulnerabilities somewhere in your dependencies (or in the code for your IDE or OS or Spotify app or mouse driver...) that can be exploited by someone.

I’m reminded of the Commonwealth series by Peter Hamilton, in which the invading aliens have no machines, and quickly discover that ours are full of bugs that can be exploited to turn against us. I don’t know what the solution is. Sandboxing your development in a codespace like Gitpod is a big improvement for sure, but even in Gitpod a lot of people import credentials and environment variables that can be stolen. (And what dependencies is Gitpod itself running?)
I think that if you tracked S&P 500 since inception years you made about 10-11% year on average.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
It's a good point. There is a feature which allows the sender to "reserve times" in a one-off meeting. That way, they don't get booked before you have an opportunity to select a time.
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Kudus to you and Monzo. It’s great you wanted to write and publish this and it says a lot about Monzo that they let you do it.
Funny, because hazelnut spread without palm oil tastes 500% better than with.
You missed the context. I am not telling you to go sail the high seas on the most modern video games released. If you wanna play a video game which is no longer available and there is no way for you to legally play it. If you cannot buy it the Devs aren't getting paid for the product and if you pirate it still the devs aren't getting paid. Either way its lose lose.

PS, I know this is a weak argument but do you really think you buying a video game legally, directly fills the devs pocket or just the top management getting salary bonuses every year with the profit ?
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Google changed their SEO tack, allowing non-AMP pages to benefit in the same way AMP pages do. It’s all their push around “Core Web Vitals” that track page performance no matter what the page is made with.

As to what fuelled the change, those of us outside will never know. Quite plausible this was always the plan and page metric functionality needed to catch up first. Equally plausible that Google backed off once they sensed regulatory action would be coming their way if they didn’t.
Barely growing? I don't know which stats you're looking at, but the Fediverse Observer charts[0] show that the number of users, servers, and posts have all doubled since the start of 2020.

[0] https://fediverse.observer/stats
What does "up to date" even mean in this context? It's not like there is a new version of Kmail every day. Why do you care if your version is a bit older?

That said, the exception is a browser, where I would prefer to use the upstream version for security reasons.
There is more and more effort in the automatic development of high-performance linear algebra kernels.
But based on my experience, it would certainly be a big challenge to have a tool able to exploit the subtle differences in the assembly languages of different architectures, if the aim is to match or even exceed an expert-crafted assembly kernel.

Anyway, that's surely a very promising active research direction.
You should consider the possibility that your perceptions are the result of your not understanding the problem that these procedures are designed to solve rather than the people who instituted them being idiots.
Agreed. Perhaps it's less about the nice words one uses and more about the features (embed in a website, embed times in an email) that reduce the work for the person trying to book a meeting.
This situation almost screams for web indexing as a service. Would love to see some search engine innovation, especially advanced curation, classification, archival and filtering(!) abilities.
"There's no evidence that it was seen as religious or mysterious"

That is not what I meant. I meant that for combatting diseases, religion and magic was used as often as things like quarantine and few people would try to hash out what was more efficient and what less.
It was terrible for end users as well.
> "The post was reviewed, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards"

They're not lying, nor they're not doing their job: Facebook is supporting islamist organizations so of course they won't suppress posts spreading that ideology. The same goes for Twitter, which is fine being a platform for Talibans, ISIS and other terrorist groups but which sensor Western politicians at the slightest (perfectly legal) tweet that displease them. Somehow for the wokists in charge, muslims are always oppressed even when firing first, and the white man being the enemy any allies is good for them.
Inefficient in what way? Surely the small amount of computing power needed to process the ballots and determine the winner is not significant when compared to the increased democratic power of the system.

Or do you mean inefficient in the sense of "more effort for voters"? You could always just rank your favorite candidate as 1 and leave the rest blank, which should give you the same amount of voting power you had in a single-vote system.
Considering the article is about the UK, I'm not sure how relevent US utilisation is in relation to it.

That aside, I didn't say low utilisation, I said no utilisation. This has a good chance of your card being cancelled by the card issuer, which has a negative effect on your credit.

Bottom line is, unless you plan to use the card, there are better methods of increasing your credit score, so it's not a good idea to get one.
For me (student) 5€/month is the no-brainer price for a useful service I use semi-daily. Beyond that it starts to hurt.
I don't think anyone is particularly concerned with putting out false info for 1960s-era spy photography anymore. But I could be wrong. Or simply part of the coverup operation.
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> "humans often are just not equipped to fight cancer."

blanket statements like this are almost never correct. our bodies are certainly equipped to fight cancer, having evolved a number of mechanisms in that regard, it's just that cancer is relentless and the cumulative probabilities tend to catch up with a number of us eventually, which necessarily skews mortalities older.

with that said, we're certainly unlikely to naturally evolve ourselves out of cancer risk in the next few millenia, so yes, technology is one of our best bets (along with developing tech to reduce novel carcinogen risks).
Couple of areas to consider:

- emerging tech - it was lucrative being a mobile app developer when iOS first released its native app SDKs because everybody wanted an app but companies generally didn't have the skills for it internally yet.

- niche/specialized tech - deep knowledge and expertise with things companies often stumble on. For a long term, being an RDBMS expert a "DBA" gave you the ability to print money.

- dregs tech - it's no longer the new shiny thing, but there's still a lot of demand to keep systems running. So a COBOL master or an enterprise Java guy (especially someone with the ability to come in and fix large systems without taking them offline).

So today, skills sets could be embedded/IoT, crypto/blockchain, AI/machine learning, etc. You can bet on something that is becoming popular but still emerging, and then move on once it becomes ubiquitous, or you can establish yourself early and stay with it long term and just be really good at it.

At the end of the day, though, you're looking to add a lot of value and to be easier than a company just doing the same internally. So it can be pretty much anything if you have a good value proposition.
Yeah, I don't have a great answer to that question, but it certainly feels like there's a tangible wealth difference between "I can retire at standard retirement age" vs. "I can retire 15 years early".

It's the same a 20-year-old owning a house vs. a 40-year-old owning a house. Same assets, but the former stands out as exceptionally well-off.
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Take the time to buy quality appliances, you get what you pay for. I bought Viking appliances 15 years ago. They've been so durable I've moved them to new houses twice without issue.
> humans often are just not equipped to fight cancer

But we are? The immune system is constantly at work killing malignant (or otherwise dysfunctional) cells. Cells themselves have mechanisms to commit suicide (apoptosis) if they are not working properly.

It's only when the several mechanisms we have get defeated at the same time (often due to mutations) that cancer can even develop.

If you mean, we are not as equipped as elephants or whales to fight cancer, then that's true.

> there’s little survival advantage for people who can effectively fight cancer after their reproductive age

There's some advantage, but as far as nature's concerned, there's indeed diminishing returns. As in, for the individual that has already reproduced there's no reason to stay alive, but this is beneficial for the offspring - until they are adults. So there's some selective pressures there, specially if you are competing against another group.
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>The unfortunate reality is that group level differences in characteristics associated with intelligence are measurable. It is pretty much an open secret in genomics.

Do you have any evidence to support these assertions?

We don't even have a reliable way to measure intelligence (a concept that is troublesome enough to even define), much less conclude that there are so-called "group level differences."
in the case of scientology in particular it's quite a lot more sinister, they basically subject the low level 'employees' to forced labour under bogus contracts and physical and mental abuse

https://theweek.com/articles/495686/scientologys-slave-labor...
So the theoretical thing would be to account for the observed effects.
Regardless of political affiliation, it does seem like going forward, technology is going to play an important role in elections.

And it doesn't seem like we've developed a rigorous standard for it yet.
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Thanks for sharing that. This comment below the article stood out:

Imagine all those budgets that were spent on implementing AMP on major websites. Yikes.

Reminds me of the bogus "Facebook feed will be all video in 5 years" baloney that Zuck et al started promoting in 2016, which resulted in publishers firing journalists and retooling newsrooms for video ... and getting massively burned later when the farce was revealed.

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-video-five-years#IOpNs...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/was-the-medias-big-p...

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/03/13/facebook-is-killing...
> Am I just spoiled and lazy?

How do you define lazy? I like to re-frame that term somewhat positively, in that you could do the bare minimum to get by, and being creative in avoiding conflict or drama. You could also re-frame it as avoiding stress, getting adequate delicious sleep, and being well fed on a low-budget. There is a saying I often refer to:

'Avoiding work is oftentimes the most hardest of all work. Looking busy is a whole art-form in itself'.
And it had to be proxied through Google's servers. To hell with it.
How would switching to GPL affect support questions?
Group level differences in IQ and its components are measurable. As someone not remotely progressive and who simply does not care about their values, I don’t believe any of these things actually amount to a workable definition of intelligence. I base this on my experiences with the very well-sifted meritocrats I encounter daily.
Related: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallp...

edit: Wow downvotes for linking to an event related to small pox. I figured it was important especially the timing. How many other small pox events do you remember in recent history?

It's simply an interview about smallpox that happened recently. All I said was it was related.
I was trying to give some grace that a lightweight terrible AMP page might be better than a 100Mb newsorg.com page.
Multi-winner elections are different from single-winner elections. Approval voting doesn't work there, because as you note, people with fewer acceptable preferences get fewer votes.
> It's tough and messy and absolutely ends up being largely arbitrary

This is precisely why no one has the right to force their vision of the good on others. Doing so is indistinguishable from tyranny.

If you can tell my why people are owed the cooperation of others I'm glad to change my mind. But kindly don't patronize me.
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Well, you give yourself a whole lot of extra work by attempting to create a Python to C transpiler, basically creating an even less mature and less popular language ecosystem than Nim has, when you could use Nim and get most of the benefits (statically typed, compiled to C) out of the box and enjoy their growing ecosystem. It seems that Prometeo is currently more limited than Nim.

Maybe I'm not understanding your use case well enough and maybe your approach is actually a locally optimal solution, and I honestly greatly respect your effort and want to see your project succeed, cuz I love Python too. I even wanted to make a faster python myself at some point. Just, the more I learn about Nim, the more I appreciate its design decisions and think to myself: this is the faster version of python I'm looking for. Now, we just need the large package ecosystem that python has, but I'm willing to both wait and participate in making it come about.

This presentation about writing keyboard firmware in Nim may be helpful, if you're willing to give Nim some more consideration:

https://youtu.be/dcHEhO4J29U

There is also another talk about embedded programming in Nim from the same conference, here:

https://youtu.be/rlZ4ALGAU1M
I disagree given that it’s impossible to know the intentions of the gun wielder, and there is lots of precedent for people who look just like that (white man carrying an AR15) being a mass shooter. If I was marching around (legally) carrying a big ass knife, I’d think I’d also possess enough awareness to realize that some folks might be uncertain of my intentions.
And also things can directly cause cancer by directly damaging DNA in the right places at the right time.

No need to take the optimistic route.

If it makes you feel better: some cancers.
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Voting for 0 has always been acceptable.
even developer incremental builds don't have to be too bad when caching (like with ccache or run-vcpkg on github) and use smaller C files (unless you change some header file which triggers make world).
Yep, the combination is highly reflective. I cited another work (by a physics research group) in a comment that modelled and tested this effect comprehensively.
That's probably a case of assuming that it's well known, the ANT Catalog leak was a pretty big thing around the time of the Snowden leaks [1]. If you're deep in a topic it's easy to lose sight of what's common knowledge and what isn't.

Of course by now you can just buy similar devices on the free market, what used to be expensive high-tech in 2008 is now possible with commodity hardware.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
This is really awesome.

We’ve come to the same conclusion in my business, buyers want to buy not be sold to. This means they need information to make a decision on their own. With many people involved in that decision.

For us, that’s half of the battle. The other half is social proof and case studies. Many businesses want to see proof that others like them found value. Oddly, this is usually something like G2 reviews.

Unfortunately social proof is a catch 22 but someone will “take a chance” and I bet a workspace like this would go a long ways in building trust. I’m excited to see how this goes.
How about zig? From what I've heard, zig is supposed to be a "better" drop in replacement for C.
I made a small amount too, with a much smaller amount of effort :-). Very promising initial study on forecasting scientific replications with a prediction market.
Starting from about 6 years ago, Palm Oil began showing up in practically everything, even those foods you wouldn't expect to find it. Check the ingredient list in that jar of peanut or almond butter. I make a point of buying peanut or almond butter that has only one ingredient.
Everything at this market contains substances known to the State of California to cause cancer
A hidden camera which detects ToF sensors
Yes research is collective, but , still, individuals prove key insights.
So I can serve video on demand with no bandwidth charges?