skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or that people would making a different vote if it was counted differently?

Two changes would happen. A lot of people who don't vote today because their state either heavily favours the 'wrong' candidate or the 'right' candidate will already win by a massive margin, would start voting, since all of sudden their vote matters a lot more.

Secondly, and more importantly, candidates would campaign very differently. In todays system gaining 1-2 percentage points in swing states like Arizona, Georgia or North Carolina is worth infinitely more than gaining 5 percentage point in California, New York or Massachusetts, and politicians on both sides campaign accordingly. In a popular vote scenario those extra 5 points in California could swing the election which would change the entire focus of not only the campaign, but possibly even the type of policy and even candidates that the parties put forwards.
I wasn't aware there were Ubuntu users who wanted this. I assumed most people thought of the release cycle/stability as a "feature", particularly if their desktop is running some mission-critical service and can't risk it breaking with a random update. If they wanted rolling release or bleeding-edge kernel, I'd assume they'd go to something like Arch, or perhaps to a lesser degree, Fedora.
> Don't numb it, master it and let it lead under control. Empathy is an incredible virtue, but it must be disciplined.

Disciplined empathy is no longer empathy. And it is no longer virtuous. You are close to understanding, but keep going.

Giving birth and nourishing,
making without possessing,
expecting nothing in return.
To grow, yet not to control:
This is the mysterious virtue.

Chapter 10, Dao De Ching
Unfortunately it's still way worse than Google maps in the few European countries that I've tried it. The routing is worse. Searching for a type of shop (e.g. "supermarket") doesn't work well and it doesn't have accurate opening hours of shops. And in The Netherlands it doesn't support cycling, which makes it pretty much useless for the many people who use that as their mode of transport.

I install Apple Maps every once in a while to see if it has become useful, but always remove the app after a few days because it hasn't.
Why can't he just leave and claim victory?

Does anyone remember George Bush on the aircraft carrier with a giant banner behind him saying mission accomplished? This was before the insurgency and most US soldiers that would die had died. I'm not sure anymore but it may also have been even before Sadam was captured. The war was far from over nor finished but he just claimed it was so.

I don't see anything from preventing Putin to just claim victory. The people that are brainwashed at home will believe anything.
IIRC Telegram is banned in Russia, and its CEO is not in good terms with the Russian government.
Why does stress make more empathetic people less kind, but has little effect on others? We believe this is due to a set of linked phenomena. The first is publish or perish. When a researcher needs a publication, his or her cortisol levels increase. This reduces the researcher's ability to empathize with the victims of useless scientific results, or their own future self when their work turns out to be a dead end. A second cause is the garden of forking paths. When a main effect fails to reach significance, it is all too easy to find an interaction or sample subset where it is significant. For example, if stress didn't affect charitable donations, you can always check the result among high-empathy people, or women, or nursing students. These root causes come together in p hacking, where desperate researchers kid themselves that they always meant to run that particular interaction, and absurdly pretend that their p values and careers have some meaning...

[Not TFA, obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised.]
>Doesn't pretty much every western democracy have anonymous voting so people can pick what they actually want to without without fear of reprisal?

Yes, but Debian principles are transparency.

Like I completely understand and agree that the change to secret voting is counter to their project.

But I also understand why they suddenly need secrecy.
As someone who hasn't really touched the Java ecosystem since around the time of Java 7, where would you recommend starting?

Pick up Kotlin first, then Spring Boot? Or the reverse? And is the free version of IntelliJ good enough? I noticed on the features list that Spring support wasn't listed
> If you aren't paying Google, then they are harvesting your attention, activities, preferences, and future spending habits to eventually sell to the highest bidder.

And paying them won't guarantee that they won't do those things either. Look at what Microsoft is doing with Windows.
I was unable to scroll through that page without hearing Vangelis' "Blade Runner" theme music in my head.
The US Federal Communications Commission has added Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab to its list of entities that pose an “unacceptable risk to US national security,” according to a report from Bloomberg. This is the first time a Russian company has been added to the list, which is otherwise made up of Chinese companies, like Huawei and ZTE.
That's something else, that's known plaintext analysis using cribs. If you know that a certain text may be present in the messages then you can try a bunch of different keys and stop searching if your decrypt contains that text to inspect for a 'hit'.

Network analysis or traffic analysis is this:

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

It allows for instance for the de-anonymization of network nodes based on known nodes and it allows for determining which nodes in the network are more important than others.
The InfoSec industry is a status economy. Attention is the most important currency.

If you're already trading on your real name in order to eat, then you have to continue down that road.
Bismuth might be in a decent spot for optimizing price/density/boiling point/safety if the thruster can be made of molybdenum. I'm not sure if there are more delicate components required to withstand the boiling point of the mass source that can't be made of structural metal.
> For example, students who come into a course with little prior knowledge earn lower grades at the start, which means they get a lower final average, even if they ultimately master the material.

I'm not sure this is the worst flaw with grading (the equity issues may be worse), but it's certainly the dumbest flaw. A scoring system for scholastic ability that disadvantages those that start off with little knowledge, even when they do well by the end of the course, is ridiculous on its face.
Good! Although 20 years too late
If you ignore the way frontend is made (JS + rest api ws. server-side rendered html) and how stuff is deployed (containers vs. war-files); amazingly little has changed in Java the past 10-15 years.
> "even if you did you wouldn't know what it meant in terms of law"

I think by far this is the biggest issue with EULAs and fine print: you really have no idea what anything means because it's all been crafted to cover legal concepts for which you have no prior knowledge.
It's okay to have a different opinion, but personally I'd never work at a place that did that. Java is already on thin ice and this is simply how I tolerate it and how I've seen successful java teams operate in cloud environments. If you are really seeing dramatic build times, I don't blame you for investigating them, but I'm not going to forgo years of DX improvements just because I heard on the internet one time that it's slower. I'm not going to keep arguing against your Kotlin vendetta, just don't use it, I don't care.
This has some info, though not a huge amount post-2011.

https://www.tarahunt.com/about#bio
To be honest, it is hard to refuse free things.

But I prefer to work part time on simple non-prestigious jobs, to fill my needs, to be independent, and all other time work on future projects.

This is not only question of pride, but this is absolutely other view on world.

And I could only be responsible for my own behavior. For others, I know from experience, that large percent of people play fair, but not all, and need some measures against those people, who don't want to play fair.
Who interested, google free-rider problem.
I wonder what other infections and substances we'd find that cause these sorts of issues if we looked hard enough?
It's mentioned in the article house much the cinematographer of Blade Runner influenced the artist
> And most people didn’t get that you could buy it and not worry about needing to buy berries or diamonds for real world money. Not worry about your child spending hundreds of real world dollars when playing on your phone.

People already figured how to not allow kids to pay real money in games. They don't worry about that. You just don't attach card to account or require password.
I strongly agree with you. But at least these are some of the best examples of this type of photography I’ve seen. Most just crank the pseudo-HDR effect and saturation, maybe add some split-toning, and look now it’s Bladerunner! But these are actually quite good if this is the aesthetic you’re going for.
As expected appears that the poster has gotten relieved of his job, and has now created a post about his firing on HN
Live in the Future. Challenge your mortality with the help of cryonics
No worries. FWIW I agree with you.
> I wouldn't bike, either. Distances are too long

Well, optimally, light transit would carry you to and from heavy public transit.

The problem is that this requires good heavy public transit available. On places that rely on cars, it's normally not there.
>Public interest doesn’t automatically protect the release of private materials

Did this fired guy release private materials, or dig through already-published materials for something relevant to his interests to highlight?
Based on a misreading of the title, I thought this was going to be about organizing what you've learned about other people and how to remember the things that are important to them. That would be really cool.
At least with Alexa, you don’t need to talk to a device to manipulate smart-home devices. The mobile app has controls in it for you to use.
The biggest advantage of vim, besides the language for editing text in normal mode, is that you are really fast and it just feels like you never have to wait for your computer anymore.
Because your preference requires onerous restrictions on your neighbor's right to the use of their own private property.

Say your neighbor wants to build a duplex. You might not like it, but that's as far as your harm goes. To enforce your preference, though, you have to restrict your neighbor's behavior. The metaphorical "lines" here are pretty easy to draw, because they're literally property lines with direct physical representations.
HP bets big on future of hybrid work with $3.3bn Poly buy
According to Suncoast Motion Picture Company, where we got many of our anime VHS tapes back in the day, if it was animated and sexy or violent, it was anime. That's why you could see Æon Flux, a Western animation created by a person of Korean descent, in the anime section.

Personally, I think in order to be anime, it has to be Japanese animation in the Japanese style. This is still very broad, but it rules out things like ThunderCats, which was animated in Japan for a Western studio using Western character designs and animation tropes. It also rules out "amerime", which is Western animation done in the anime style (so like Teen Titans, or Totally Spies which isn't even American (it's French I think)).
'I don't care what he thinks': Biden pushes back on reporters over Putin remark
Goodbye Colocated Data Centers: How We Moved Postmark to AWS (2021)
> not free from problems

is a massive understatement…
Specification of DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections – Draft
Empathy is great for the society, a burden for the individual. Very empathetic people have a hard time minding their own path in life for they get caught in the suffering of others. Regardless of setbacks and disilussionments, empathetic people feel good when helping others.
money, dept, ownership

inefficiency at its best, humanity would transcend faster into the next Age without these primate level concepts
"Big Tech" has exactly as much power as we give them. As long as we decide to stay on Facebook or Twitter or PayPal rather than embracing open and federated alternatives like ActivityPub and cryptocurrencies -- or at least smaller and more diverse alternatives -- then we are giving away freedom in the name of convenience, speed, or the dopamine hit of seeing who has liked our latest posts.
The judgement is a reaction to yours, that "if it is not being translated into English, there are big chances it is not worth reading". This is a textbook example of being close-minded, and implies two things: a narrow view of the world, "things that don't cross cultural borders to reach the english-speaking/reading population are rarely worth reading" ; and the lack of any language-specific things.

> My reading goals are mostly whitepapers from few scientifical areas I am trying to follow, what can be more open-minded?

Considering that things can be both out of your reach and worth reading would be more open-minded than your current stance.

> Of course, if you are talking about some sophisticated fiction, you are going to experience giant losses of content, usefullness of which may be not so high for such me then for you.

This is not only about "some sophisticated fiction". An example from the tech world: "Le Langage Caml", a textbook on OCaml, doesn't have an English version. This leaves a hole for people interested in OCaml that can't read French, since this book is a great way to start with the language, and there aren't many book on the topic in the first place.

> And by the way, if it is needed to read something being translated from a language I do not know, I'd rather search for the one has been translated into my mother language.

That's fair, but as I've said, often some things are lost in translation. People from different countries will not always speak in ways that map perfectly well to English. Even with a relatively close culture and language here in France, translating the degrees of formality/informality that people have when talking together is hard. This is why sometimes people take entire movies and transpose them to another country: you can't just translate everything. This is even happening with the UK and the USA, two countries that mostly share a language. But just sharing that language isn't enough to understand how people live, how they think, how they express themselves, what they value.

Now, you may not be interested in all of that. That's fine. But don't dismiss it as "not worth".
You may well be looking at an instance of 'parallel construction', at the time that article was written it was not yet known that the NSA had passed information regarding the sat phone to the Russians. I do believe that the plane was already airborne at the time the call was initiated because the Russians were on one side of that call and made a play for peace talks keeping him on the phone longer than would have happened otherwise.
I think it's a good idea, you just have to be really careful with:

> “Will you tell me where I stand?” My comments on your work, and our conferences, should give you a good sense of how you’re progressing in the class.

As an undergraduate student I had the experience of thinking I was doing just fine for an entire term (and to a lesser extent an entire year), only to find out at the end that I was doing so badly my professors actually wanted me to drop out of my course (despite my exam grades being ok-ish passing grades).

I'm sure they thought they were communicating clearly, but they weren't. It probably didn't help that I spent my entire school career having teachers tell me I needed to put more effort into my homework only to get straight-A's in my exams. So similar messages in university didn't seem like a big deal.
I'd love if chat apps had the option to notify you only once per contact in the span of a a minute. Bonus point for delaying the notification by 10s after the last message, in case another one is following.

A colleague just sent me a single question in 11 messages (and yes the first one was "hello"). People use the enter key as punctuation, which shouldn't be a problem and is fixable by software. But as of now it spams notifications.
Definitely not banned in Russia: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/19/last-apps-standing-...
The video you cited made me feel both ill and annoyed. The smug proclamations from some guy who judges everyone else was nauseating. It's also based on urban life within a city. Cities with invariably flat landscapes with no hills. The Netherland you cite is basically flat compared to Scotland.

Scotland is _very_ hilly. And cold. And _rainy_. Your proposals would NOT work here. Apart from Glasgow and Edinburgh, most towns, villages and other cities here are not suitable to forgoing cars in favour of cycles - electric or not - and that's not down to a lack of cycle lanes or tracks, it's down to the practicalities of life here.

Your Utopia cannot happen, and in fact would eventually turn into a dystopia.
Eclipse as IDE (actually STS - Spring Tools Suite edition) for both Spring Boot and JBoss Tools (yes there's enough work for JEE - WildFly or JBoss EAP). The build would be most of the time Maven (including the assembly plugin) and sometimes would create native Quarkus images for cloud tools (read serverless).
Capitalism for me but not for thee.
The idea seems to be that if you care 3x as much, you'll keep buying votes until the marginal cost of each new vote is 3x greater. The marginal cost is linear, the total cost is the integral of that which is quadratic.

The fact that you have a finite budget, so you can't just arbitrarily keep buying votes until some threshold is met, seems like a big flaw in the argument.
I went from a company of 900 people to a company of 80 and wow what a difference. There was so much noise in the larger company that I'd spend probably 2 hours a day reading slacks (and they rarely threaded messages even). Fast forward to here and it's like a breath of fresh air. They're very conscious about threading and while I now have time to read every thread I can tell at a glance if I should. Doesn't really help your problem except to say that assiduous threading does seem to make it easier at a certain scale to know which messages to ignore.
> it works just fine in reality

There are multiple equilibria. At-will favors agility.

On the other end of the spectrum we find economies where most of the workforce is informally or short-term employed and where new-firm formation is limited by employers' aversion to hiring and senior employees' reluctance to leave cushy jobs from which it is nigh-impossible to be fired.

> paraphrase a rather decent well and septic guy on TikTok

They are quoting Lee Iacocca.
Yes. Perhaps to add to this, use a modern asynchronous IO framework. If you use Spring Boot, ignore some of the legacy stuff that still comes with it and make sure you use webflux with Kotlin co-routines. Also use Asynchronous IO for talking to your database, queues, etc. Kotlin makes all of this easy. Hibernate is something I tend to avoid for various reasons but apparently recent versions of that now also support asynchronous IO. And it is still very popular.

If you feel more adventurous. Ktor is also quite nice and a lot more lightweight than spring. They have a pretty big 2.0 release coming up for that with a lot of nice improvements. Ktor is also a nice alternative for doing http clients. Kotlinx serialization is the way to for serialization; especially if you are interested in multiplatform. Spring supports that as well since a few releases.

If you use Kotlin, stick with Gradle and use the kotlin scripting variety. Maven is very much a second class citizen in that ecosystem. It's supported (grudgingly) but not that actually that widely used. A lot of older Spring projects might still use it because they started out as maven/java projects and only later added Kotlin. However, if you start from scratch, just use gradle and take the path of the least amount of resistance. You'll have an easier time and essentially all of the Kotlin documentation assumes you use gradle. For things like kotlin multi-platform, maven is an afterthought. I'd be surprised it works at all actually for that.
I had the same experience, but in the last week it seems like something broke, or a different switch was flipped.

I'm back to getting 4-10 robocalls every day. One text. Some are detected as spam by Verizon, but my phone still rings.
Google Slapped with French Fine over Abusive App Store Practices
Huh, that is pretty nice to hear! I'll probably need to download it sometime and try it out again.

I last did 1-2 years ago and it still wasn't quite passable in a Java project with 4000-5000 source files, though maybe that's because of the plugins involved (e.g. myBatis for ORM which has Java interfaces and XML mappers for SQL queries) or mixing technologies like JSP/JSF and also having JS files with front end resources in the same codebase.

Of course, i'm talking about the full Eclipse with the JDT package and a bunch of other stuff, some folks have more slim installs: https://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ In that regard you can indeed have a lot of flexibility. Oh and i think that a while ago they also tried having lightweight solutions like Che and Theia as well.

Recently i've actually started splitting up the old legacy projects into multiple monorepos (e.g. "back-end" and "front-end" folders with the occasional supporting service in there as well, not necessarily everything in a single repo) and the impact has been pretty noticeable!

For starters, separate instances of IntelliJ and WebStorm for different kinds of code (Java and JavaScript/TypeScript) seem to work far more quickly, the builds also are generated faster (since fewer resources to copy) and i don't need to cry when i forget to tell the IDE to ignore node_modules.
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Retail _and_ food, not retail food. I had to read it a few times as well.

Retail food & beverage is $850bn while groceries is $800bn, so that makes about $1.6tn combined.
Extracurriculars like research, robotics competitions, math camp, etc. are absolutely considered heavily by MIT. SATs and grades are way too saturated at the top end of the curve to make reasonable admissions decisions, and performing highly at a particular extracurricular can be an important signal for future success in itself.

I get what you're saying though, being a typical jack of all trades high school overachiever isn't the best strategy for getting into MIT. I don't think that's because they don't consider personality though - heck one of the admissions short answers is "what do you do for fun?". I think it's actually because they are trying to avoid the type that does things just to get into college or just because it's the thing to do at their school. If you're an absolute prodigy then it probably doesn't matter either way, but if you're borderline MIT is definitely the top school that tries the hardest to take the kid that seems more genuinely passionate and not like a social climber.

MIT also does the best job of considering context of all the elite schools. If you went to a great private high school you better have taken full advantage of those opportunities, whereas most other elite schools will just see the better overall resume/prior education. This is pretty clearly reflected in the schools' respective demographics.
But then how can governments sneak in their targeted exploits?