skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California has a top-two primary system, not IRV, which as far as I can tell is the same as the "two-round system" you link to. So the primary is a free-for-all and the actual election has the top two polling candidates from the primaries, regardless of party affiliation.

This was sold as a way of breaking the two-party duopoly, which it did, but not in the expected way. Instead of getting third parties or independents into that second spot, in heavily blue areas like SF they instead typically get the democratic vote split among two candidates, who go on to compete against each other in the general election. So now instead of third parties being locked by the mechanics of FPTP voting, they get third parties and republicans locked out! Went from a duopoly to a monopoly.

(E.g. the last senate election in California was between Dianne Feinstein and Kevin de León, both establishment dems. Nancy Pelosi also faced a democrat in 2020.)
Thank you for the laughs. The way some people make a living out of utter BS never fails to amaze me.
Those are all just buyers themselves in the context of FOSS. They invest in open source software, which everyone can benefit from. To them, it's a cost of the products and services they sell.
100% web based.
I think they know too.

But techno-utopianism is a form of art in Silicon Valley.

Your average SV techbro feels superior to regular people who enjoy other forms of art such as music or sports or poetry or even film making.

Label those activities as a "waste of time" but they end up completely falling for the BS performance art that scum like Elon Musk and Elizabeth Holmes put up.

And they elevate them too! Where normal people see art in an Hendrix solo or an Eminem verse they see it in the obnoxious self-promoting BS spewed by such characters.

Of course the window dressing for all the above is nonesense marketing terms such as : "showing passion" or "produce a strong narrative" or even "tell your story to the world"
The majority of school boards and other local-government structures in the USA are conservative / on the right.

Which means that they'll levy the most censorship / control over the academics. Its the nature of the beast. If local school boards want to force the teachers to teach "intelligent design" and remove references to Thomas Jefferson, it will happen (and does happen regularly).

The whole "Critical Race Theory" stuff going on is just the newest push by the right to reshape education into their mold. Whether this works or fails, we can be certain that in a year or two, another educational issue will pop up and the right will use it as a rallying cry to change education again.

Thomas Jefferson, Intelligent Design / Creationism, Critical Race Theory. Just a few of the culture wars that the right has waged in the past decade and more will come.

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Welcome to educational politics. We didn't start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning. This "censorship" stuff has been going on for decades.
Unfortunately doubling your production capacity doesn't equal doubling your sales. Tesla can only do that for so many years before they're like GM or Ford: selling a commodity item, competing with others selling similar items, with decreasing margins, and shareholders demanding dividends and employees forming unions.
Can you tell a layman more about these surveillance systems?
This is a very miscalculated take, please avoid.
Sorry to see you getting downvoted, its an interesting perspective.

That said, even rappers seem to retire to "safer" places then these "lively" options you describe. So something about being safe appeals to many people, not just the socially incompetents'.
Then I don't understand something. (Or several somethings...)

I thought you said that going to antimatter meant that you reversed chirality, and that right-handed chirality meant that a particle did not take part in the weak interaction. I interpreted that to mean that it didn't take part at all, not with any probability. But the CP violation article seems to be saying that CP violation is a matter of differences in probabilities.

By the way, that article talks about anti-neutrinos, which from your initial post, I thought you were saying were impossible to detect if they existed?

I'm confused... can you make any of this clearer? I'm mis-understanding something - can you tell what?
>It seems like your options are carefully auditing all dependencies

"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

Rust has an eyeball problem. Not saying this solves everything, but it certainly isn't helping. NPM has had several catastrophic security failures, but they all seem to be noticed rather quickly due only to the staggering number of people using JS.
You don't need an integration at all: you just call the other company smart contract to see if the user has a specific type of equipment defined by an NFT.

Problem is that this information should be private.

If I know you are a heavy user of some other game, maybe I can sell you something to advance in the game quickly instead of having to play a lot.

Is it desirable? For a game company, maybe. But for an insurance firm?

I am not so sure.
The headline (from the source article) needs the word "chip" before "designs", that word would make a lot of the information in the article redundant.
> even from famous scientists in the field whom you'd expect to be super busy.

On a given Tuesday, are famous scientists in the field super-busy?

I honestly have no guess and would believe either answer.
Unfortunately statistics show that the highest rates of vehicular accidents that result in hospitalizations or death are caused by women on prescription anti-depressants (please, no intention of calling out any gender, just stating facts)
> Both the Perl and Python tests are implementing binary trees in vanilla Perl and Python.

Well, that's how you judge a language. You write code in it, as opposed to writing it in some different language not under consideration.

But a much worse problem seems to be the fact that binary-trees is not much of a representative benchmark. It's mostly a benchmark of your memory management. Unless your programs spend 80% of their time managing memory, they'll probably not match the results of binary-trees.
For the moment, using higher-level languages seems a natural go-to. It's comfortable, and energy and hardware are abundant.

But this won't last. Many energy sources and metals are peaking and I can imagine a day when efficiency will count heavily.
> they will take action before that happen

It would be nice to think so, but I'm not so sure anymore.
That’s what I mean. Go has small memory and CPU usage which is one reason it’s good for cloud stuff, but the results indicate opposite. It’s even higher than Haskell which is strange.
I had a problem with a large appliance. Guy came and looked at it and recommended a course of action that was free and I took it. The problem came back after a month. When he found out his advice didn’t hold, he came immediately to perform a repair because, as he put it, he didn’t want his reputation to be damaged in my eyes.

He offered what he thought was best. When that wasn’t it, he wasted no time getting to the next step. I tipped him more than I otherwise would because his concern over getting it right seemed genuine, and I care more about that than I do getting it right the first time without really caring one way or the other.
I am near getting banned on my personal FB account of over 13 years because I posted the Hitler wearing pink with love hearts joke image about 8 years ago and it finally got automatically removed as a serious violation, violation of what? I don't know, they didn't say. Hitler is scrubbed from the platform though in all forms... which is a shame since it's blatant censorship.

The other reason I'm near getting banned is because I told someone to please not be racist in the Subtle Asian Traits group. They were being extremely racist and it's quite common in that group, I tried to cool it down by asking them not to be racist and I got striked again for violating terms, but no idea what I did wrong.

Eventually everyone will have their original accounts deleted if they engage in any actual form of discussion, it's just a matter of when the AI will get you.

This is the image: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fw...
PHP maybe worth learning and using for building websites, but PHP is one of the worst languages to learn for someone who is interested in learning programming as a hobby, interest or career.
Really tried to get a demo video out in time for this launch so people could see before jumping into a trial or eval but still working on shipping something!

Nailed it with the collaborative Asana-like product though.

If you want to play around in a demo environment though I’m happy to set it up for you and send your way. Feel free to ping at ross @ inaccord if you’d like!
> Perlubie

Found the Australian.
Noble goal, but I really don't understand what advantage you gain from selecting contributors with NFTs.

To be honest, I hope it fails. Developer communities are one of the very few places in crypto that aren't totally infested by Ponzi grifters and where you can find honest conversation, so I wasn't exactly thrilled when I saw this pop up. We don't need more wonky centrally-managed incentives. Incentives can be harmful. It most often reduces to a simple Ponzi.
Use Nim FTW on both fronts!
masto.host has a great deal of restrictive, somewhat arbitrary content moderation policies for what is basically just a server host[0].

Since that the original problem is that admins may want to override built-in censorship policies to suit their instance's needs and values, I don't think an even more censorious centralized authority is a great example of a solution.

[0]: https://masto.host/tos/
Blockchains are easily censored. It sounds like you want cash.

Things to think about: how does this prevent embargos? If you’re in the US, any means of doing business with someone on the watchlist is a legal hazard. If you’re in a country which doesn’t follow that, you have other options. Changing the tech doesn’t change the law.

As for alleged censor-resistance, consider what happens when major exchanges are required to follow the laws. Coins become tainted once they’ve been used for illegal transactions, reducing both the number of potential buyers dramatically and how much they’re willing to pay. Miners in countries party to international agreements may even refuse to process them. The fact that the first transaction couldn’t be blocked doesn’t mean everyone’s just giving up.
Looking at those screenshots, I can definitely see your point.

For me, all the greys date it a little, but other than that it’s a simple, clean, elegant and highly consistent UI!

The consistency is most notable. We’ve lost so much of that in modern operating systems (mainly Windows and macOS).

It feels very approachable.

EDIT: Now having watched the SerenityOS video(!) all the same comments above apply. Really nice work.
I've seen his videos a few times via HN - how close is the OS to being able to use GCC or CLANG and say, compile all Debian packages.... which is one of the largest repos. I mean for this to really be usable it would have to be able to work well w/existing millions of lines of C/C++ code...
I once re-wrote a non-trivial program in ruby that was originally written in C. The performance and scale of the ruby version was considerably better.

Could it have been even better in C? Probably, but it was a lot easier to conceptualize and properly choose the architectural features that made the difference using ruby.

These days I would have done the rewrite in golang, and had the best of both worlds.
1) HN shoudn't be dependant on JS

2) There is a gopher proxy for HN: gopher://gopherddit.com

3) Use CLI tools, avoid JS ridden apps. If so, download the video and use mpv offline. Many times less power wasting.
I really appreciate how Slack handles things by scaling down your payment month by month based on how many users are actually using the service. I wish more SaaS providers, especially big ones with the capacity to develop the feature, would do this rather than lean on people or companies forgetting to remove seats.
The Search for Life Around Alpha Centauri Just Took a Major Leap Forward
The typical mono-si solar panel is about 20-22% efficiency. For poly-si this drops to about 15%, but are cheaper and therefore still sees a lot of demand. Solar water-splitting at 13.8% is well in the range of feasible competitiveness as long as it is cheap to build.
Wow, thanks for the endorsement! I'm happy to have found a way to share my love for programming with so many people, and it's even cooler when it helps someone improve their skills :)
How Turntide Is Driving Sustainability (Switched Reluctance Motor, SRM)
You're not lazy, you're burnt out. I experienced a very similar thing. I quit, but I was in a position to do that.

New job would probably fix some things, for a while. A change of scenery can do a lot. Working on code you haven't been staring at every day, solving different types of problems, working on a legacy codebase, etc.

I say just smoke some pot and chill out. Enjoy your family. Explore other perspectives. The job really isn't that important. In fact, maybe that's why you feel how you do.

Best wishes.
> A person does not need $50,000 cash to move into a rental unit

The downpayment is indeed a hurdle to get into ownership. There are times/banks which will allow a much lower downpayment, though that has its risks.

> let alone the cost of taxes, upkeep and maintenance

The renter is of course paying for all of those, as the landlord is passing on all the costs and making a profit on top.
> As a former software engineer who’s mostly worked with C programming, and to a lesser extent assembler, I know in my heart that those are the two most efficient programming languages since they are so close to the hardware.

one could argue, that programming languages that are more close to the mind are more efficient. At least when looking at 2nd to n-th order efficiency effects, not just pure runtime performance.
How is that any better than, like, an API and a database?
If you're worried about the environment, avoid researching how microprocessors are made with respect to chemicals used for lithography and how much waste water is generated when making a modern microprocessor.
NFTs are pure capitalist ideology. They introduce artificial scarcity for no good reason, without providing any actual value.

You can have the exact same bytes without an NFT backing it up and have functionally the same goods - as demonstrated here.

Cryptowarriors will come along and say something about how the NFT proves "ownership" or "provenance", but that's just ideological blindness. All NFTs do is wrap an pointless market layer around a digital good, for no reason and with no benefit to anyone, while using up electricity and killing the planet to power the insanity. Ideology at its worst.
Not just fired, but executed.
A bank account is 10-12 digits... there's no new things going on there.
Came here to say this. The planet is programmed in C - it's just the unimportant parts that aren't.
Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
That's why I started https://github.com/mimoo/cargo-dephell and https://github.com/diem/whackadep btw, to try to get a sense of the risk in our Rust dependencies. Whackadep runs a a webserver that updates periodically and shows you what's up with your dependencies. If there's a new update, the idea is to estimate a sense of urgency (are we lagging behind? Is it a major version change? Is there a RUSTSEC advisory?) and a sense of risk. For example, it'll tell you if a new dependency version touches a `build.rs` file. I wanted to add more rules, like the ones mentioned in the article, but never had the time to do it.
Keywords: Switched Reluctance Motor, SRM, Turntide Technologies

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_reluctance_motor

https://turntide.com/

Apparently Switched Reluctance Generators (SRG's) -- also exist, e.g.:

https://www.maccon.de/fileadmin/redaktion/downloads/Produkte...
Bitcoin Gaming Fintech Zebedee and Viker Partner for Mobile Bitcoin Games
> No voting system is perfect (Arrow's impossibility theorem)

Arrow's impossibility theorem only says that no _ranked_ voting system is perfect, so it doesn't apply to cardinal methods such as Approval or Score.

> That they have some edge conditions that could be theoretically exploited belies that fact that plurality voting (ie, FPTP / one person one vote) is a complete train wreck for spoilers and favoring extreme voting.

I agree, but I think the nature of the exploitation should still be considered. For IRV, we would be introducing a dependence on unauditable voting machines to tabulate votes, which would make it harder to verify the integrity of future elections.
South Korea’s climate targets will mean remaking its economy
Agreed, the Handmade Seattle event was fantastic! They have started posting recordings of this year's event to the website, so you'll be able to watch all the talks there soon (AFAIK) :)
Nice to see ya posting around here. Always a pleasure.

I'm not as pro-Hydrogen as you but I see some potential benefits for sure :-)
Oh ok. Well thank you for making this prediction, that's got to be why out of all the companies that fielded Hydrogen cars all but two have now switched entirely to BEVs. We must have a different definition of disrupted.
and this means, any mistake in the software is also replicated to those devices. let's say e.g. buffer overflows... and then efficiency is faster gone than achieved.
What if "Web4" made it impossible to turn off a specific portion of content without turning all of Web4 off.

That would put policy people in a dilemma wouldn't it?
He was a living proof that general ai is extremely dangerous as he was basically Skynet from Terminator movies in human form.
Because otherwise you’re on the hook to support N versions of the software instead of just one.

It’s vastly easier, simpler and cheaper to support hosted software.
I love Rust, but it's particularly frustrating to me how it (nearly) forces you to use a single centralized package repository. Shameless plug for an issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10045

I don't have a gripe with crates.io per se, but that the tooling doesn't work offline and works poorly without crates.io is a real problem.
Yeah, maybe taken in isolation they are more efficient, but if your recompiling every minute in development, that's probably gonna add up.
May be not affordable but fantastic in its own right if you want to learn about autonomous driving in a hands on manner.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25323435
I've written about this topic before and I think this is not right. Scroll down to "Environmental Impact".

https://towardsdatascience.com/high-performance-code-pays-di...

"The climate crisis threatens human civilization on a grand scale and electricity is frequently produced from fossil fuel. Electricity is then consumed by the operation of computer code. Google alone used 12.8 Terrawatt-hours in 2019 according to its 2020 environmental report, more than many countries and more than several US states. It seems intuitive that improving code efficiency should reduce environmental impact. Does it?

The answer is not at all clear and must be considered on a system by system basis. The main reason is induced demand.

...it will take a centrally coordinated process at both national and international levels that can allocate energy to different industrial and consumer sectors and manage the energy production mix on behalf of the whole of society. Only then we can solve this problem in a rational way that doesn’t depend on luck.

In fairness, software companies aren’t power companies, it’s a little ridiculous to expect them to build their own generation. What we can more expect from them is to pay taxes, divest from fossil fuel companies if they hold securities, and hold their total energy consumption under a ceiling set by a regulator while the society changes the energy mix as fast as possible."
Vitalik Buterin's blog often talks about developments in tokenomics and governance, including the game theory behind it and new projects that are implementing it.
If you have special performance requirements you should do your own queue in userland where you can not only control how big it is but also completely avoid context switches and system calls.
Yes, that is their shortcoming for now, but for solar storage and such they are an interesting option.
> And houses take a while to build -- four months minimum, nine+ more typical. So even if overbuilding started today, there's still a good year or so before that stuff comes on the market.

Tract builders target 100 days to complete a home from ground up. The permitting, zoning, and land acquisition is the slowest part, but once all of the paperwork is done, they can pump out entire neighborhoods in a couple years max.
Yes, and the exact same will be true of NFTs.

Just like physical art, the vast majority that ever gets produced is garbage that won't be preserved.

It takes decades and centuries to really weed out the truly valuable gems from the chaff. That's why "investing" in NFTs (or any art for that matter) is a sucker's game or a game for rich people who have the time and resources to promote their favorite patronized artist and keep their work elevated in our collective consciousness.
Arabic is a lingua franca across the Islamic world. Even in Indonesia, they study the Koran in Arabic, they discuss religion in Arabic. Are you quite sure about the conclusions you're jumping to?
It’s only unusual if you read things online without a healthy sense a humor.
This comes from an academic who doesn’t support any code. Why would I spend the time as a developer to do manual memory management under the guise of efficiency, when instead I can support twice (arbitrary) as many apps making a computer do it for me? This is a human, whose carbon footprint is terrible compared to a little memory overhead. SMH. Silly articles.
Virtual cards solve this. Create a card with $1 limit. Problem solved.
Binary-trees is just an exceptional case for Go (and an unnatural/unusual program to boot). If you look into the paper (https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle..., page 261, Figure 2, bottom left chart), you'll see a different benchmark yielding much better results relative to other languages. You'll find overall results on page 263 in Table 4 which aggregates 27 different benchmarks. There you see that time-wise, Go is roughly comparable to Pascal or C#.
The more the merrier! And I would love to see more alternative browser engines as well :^)
That’s helpful feedback around the pitch - trying to stay away from “close plan” since it’s intended to be much more bi-directional and transparently showing what the typical process to purchase and onboard looks like vs just get the deal done.

Hopefully shipping a demo video in the coming weeks will help with bringing more clarity to both how the product works and the why behind it.

Using the word Partner has been polarizing but haven’t been able to frame the aspirations of what the buyer <> seller relationship should be building towards. Open to suggestions!
You softened "condemn" to "relate misconduct."

I'm going to rankly speculate you did this because, "I am a Hacker News and I can condemn anyone for any reason I goddamned please," while a valid counterargument, would have been a bad look.
I think there is another alternative: slightly goofy but also interesting research.
Probably just buys the thing on Alibaba. For most goods, it's gonna be close enough.
Best practices for developers – Localization at Mozilla
I realize this discussion is probably tongue-in-cheek, but if we take it at face value, I think it's failing to recognize that energy supply is not unbounded. An app, no matter how widely installed, cannot consume more energy than is produced.
What Is Woke, Anyway?
I think it’s kitschy in a cool way! Kind of like mmm.page
i think open is a verb here not a noun.