skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting and related problem is over-representation of swing-vote regions in public policy and the alienation this can cause in other regions. Let's use an example from the post:

> 2 districts each hold 100,000 blues

> 8 districts hold 50,000 blues and a 50,000 violets

In this situation, the government is considered to be unstable, since a small number of people changing their minds in the eight swing districts can decide elections.

This is an example that closely matches reality in which some regions tend to be "strongholds" while others have swing ridings. The strongholds always vote for the same party, so their parties are motivated to to ignore their interests and, instead, pour all their efforts into competing in the regions with swing ridings.

Why don't neglected regions gradually turn into swing regions? Sometimes they do, but sometimes the parties involved make region a part of politics. Say that, in the above example, the 2 districts with 100,000 blue supporters were in a regionally distinct part of the country. The violets discover that there is an undercurrent of mistrust about that region in the 8 other districts, and demonize the blues by claiming they have a secret agenda from the blue region.

This gives the violets an edge when it comes to winning in the 8 swing-vote districts, but it also frees up the blues to almost completely ignore the interests of their stronghold. Sure, citizens in the stronghold are free to vote for the violets, but if the violets actively demonize them in elections, why would they?

Instead, they might become disaffected from politics entirely, since elections are decided entirely in the other 8 districts according to the concerns of those districts, and not theirs. Even though the blues are more numerous overall in the country, there will frequently be governments with strong violet majorities in which the blue strongholds are completely neglected. It's easy to see how this can lead to alienation and even separatist sentiments.

If this seems far-fetched, take a look at "Western alienation" in Canada. Most Western provinces tend to vote overwhelmingly CPC on a consistent basis. The LPC has won majorities and now controls a coalition minority government with a smaller share of the popular vote because the East is dominated by swing ridings. In the past, they have smeared CPC leaders by saying they have "hidden Western agendas". The result today is disaffection from federal politics in the West, alienation, and, yes, some separatism.

Hence, getting rid of geographic representation might actually help reduce geographic alienation. Of course, in the case of Canada, why would people in swing-ridings, who currently control the outcome of elections, ever vote for candidates who are actually serious about electoral reform that might reduce their influence?
>How do you define parties in such a way that you can effectively outlaw them?

To start, you remove party designations from the ballot and any other official voting material. Then you block local governments from being able to assist political parties with primaries/caucuses/conventions - no governmental support for any of the party infrastructure.

People want to have informal parties (ie Tea Party, The Squad, Freedom Coalition, Congressional Black Caucus etc), you can't stop that without infringing on free speech. But government isn't required to support all of the party infrastructure outside of the general election ballot access rules. And with no political party designation on ballot, anybody who meets requirements could gain access, which means no need to fall in line with a party platform. People can vote their conscience.
There are various specialty ones - here’s one for parishes: https://4lpi.com/solutions/catholic-church-websites/

Some of these will be built on Wordpress, others custom, but once you notice one for an industry you’ll see it everywhere.
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They continue to recommend it for other developers. But it isn’t good enough for them?

And typical Google

> As part of this shift, Google in July put Material’s iOS libraries in “maintenance mode.”

Who is to say Flutter isn’t next? Google has the attention span of a coked up teenager.
WordPress is the most giant bowl of spaghetti code in existence ever!

One must wonder not why the market share is shrinking but why it is still a thing!

Not only it's buggy and hard to scale, but it's also costly! All the freemium plugins become very expensive! A nonprofit I was involved with had to pay thousands per year to keep an essential WooCommerce match at least 10% of the functionality of Shopify, which comes at a fraction of the price! Not to mention that WordPress still stores massive data structures as serialized arrays in single columns in old versions of MySQL, and the consistency of the data is only a matter of luck! Most plugins are written by amateurs and easily corrupt data! One such example is the famous (and expensive!) plugin GiveWP! With a very low-volume website, it kept corrupting the data. For months, their support tried to recover the data and couldn't!

The typical troubleshooting suggestion for any WordPress plugin is: to disable all plugins (in Production, yeah, with a capital "P" as it's scared) and give us full admin access to the site to troubleshoot! Unfortunately, when it comes to WordPress commercial plugins, it's the typical blame-the-others game - it's never the plugin that crashes. It's the other plugins that make it crush! It's so often to see the same jQuery plugin being loaded multiple times or multiple versions of it fighting with each other because different plugin vendors use different versions!

Please, do this world a favor and stop using WordPress!
The subjective part is "look good". I've sent at least a dozen small business to Squarespace and helped them get it tuned -- the look has always been "good enough" for them to move on to real business problems. It gets their information into Google (et al), provides the domain to link to from their IG, FB, Twitter, etc, etc -- so those traffic sources resolve to their own main truth.
Weird, did not mean to do that and not something I've ever seen from Bloomberg before. Hopefully admins can fix if it gets traction. Appreciate the archive link.
> On other hand if Twitter is publisher and control what is published. They should be held responsible both criminally and financially of everything they allow to be published on their platform.

It's fair that Twitter should be held accountable per US legislation, which is covered by Section 230:

> Section 230 is a section of Title 47 of the United States Code enacted as part of the United States Communications Decency Act, that generally provides immunity for website platforms with respect to third-party content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
WordPress... it's just in an odd space.

Most small businesses can just use social media / menu hosting service.

Larger businesses can afford real CMS tools.

WordPress has gotten better in recent years, but it's still at core a "blog" platform. And frankly that makes all the themes and features either annoying duct-tapped in add-ons, or backward looking.

I recently tried configuring a new site for a neighbor. And it was OK, but like... the neighbor asked for some simple things: ADA Compliance, and No User Comments anywhere.

It was a hack, like it was a lot more work than it should have been to get him to the point where his theme actually worked the way he wanted it to.

On top of that... like it was just tedious to get ADA Compliance with some of the themes. They didn't use ARIA tags, or have good color pickers... worse, like you'd pick the color for one font, and it would use the color in the footer or some other place. Totally frustrating. And fixing all the things needed to get the site live made sure that he would never be able to ever upgrade that theme or theme builder tool. Oof.

It's very much a disposable site. One that isn't factoring in modern needs... forcing users to download add-ons instead of just having easy to customize templates for each page type build in to the core system... by default you only get Blog Post, and Page... but like I just want "Staff Bio" and "Product" and "Store Locations" and a bunch of other simple page types.

In the end... I just ended up moving him over to Squarespace, where most everything just worked without any dated "must be a blog platform first" notions. Oh, and the page editor... holy hell don't get me started on how clunky WordPress' page editor is. It's gotten better... it's just not good. Feels like they are still letting volunteer developers do the UX instead of investing in real UX designers.

Meh, it's free... and you get what you pay for. Eh, you actually get a huge headache with WordPress. I hate using WordPress, I can't recommend it to anyone.

They need to just ditch the notion that anyone wants to use it as a blogging platform, and convert it to a CMS-first platform. Then they might have a shot.
I have been through the same too.
I still remember the click in my head, when something snapped in my brain after an unusually long week where I basically slept at the office to get a change request through change management.

It was excruciating company stupidity red tape hell on earth. But the fix was neccessary after a bug in our latest software that severly slowed down one of our big customers. And change management fascists dragged out a simple fix for a whole week from a different timezone than mine.

After that click I could all of a sudden enter the car park with groceries in my hands having no memory of going there, what was in the bags or where the car was.

I had trouble signing my name on credicard purchases.

I stopped sleeping and got into a state of perpetual constant stress, rage and fear.

I was entering clinical insanity.

I did not do therapy in the end.
I quit my job, found another with less pay but also less responsabilities and moved into a small flat. Rented out my own.
For a year I spent my time with one mattress, one glass, one dish and a small case of clothes.

Went to and from work walking and spent most my free time walking around with nature sound in my player. Water mostly.
Or excercising. Strength, yoga , cardio all kinds.

Changed eating habits to simple eating.

Not a diet per se but simple easy to make and eat foods. A little meat and potaoes. A dish of pasta. A fruit.
Always home made dishes.
That was part of the healing. Simple cooking.

About 3 months in I started sleeping again and it took a year before I had no longer that stress knot in my stomach.

Its been 6 years now and I will never be the same, something broke me at that job.

I do however stop immediatly if the stress knot is starting to return and pause.
What am I doing? Why am I stressed. Etc.

I find wfh relaxes me. I am less aware of office politics from home which is a huge stress trigger for me.
I started reading again. Learning how to enjoy simple things helped me a great deal.

Stop social media. I hung on to social media until the past 2 years.

reddit was by far my worst trigger for a while, next to facebook.
Cut down even on streaming.
Only a few select movies and series.

I cut out toxic people from my life, that included toxic co workers.

I would find ways of doing my job with a minuscule or zero amount of toxic co workers.

I asked to change teams when I realized I had a terrible boss.
Old me would have sucked it up.

New me went to HR and asked if I could move to another team.

Great team as it happened.

The old me is never coming back, the new me will rather wash dishes in a restaurant than go down that road again.

Also, I got a cash bonus of about 2000 dollars for that week that I finally broke. And the customer sent me a box of chocolates.

So that was the price tag for my mental health I guess…..
def seems related
Who is “we”? As a user I want highly polished, efficient apps. That pretty much rules out anything built with a cross platform toolkit. (Games are a major exception.)

As a developer, I personally want to make those kinds of programs too. I periodically check into the state of the cross platform toolkits and frankly they really aren’t any better than they were a decade ago.

Separating out a UI layer that is unique in each platform helps and writing with native toolkits helps, but there are still fundamental differences that you can’t really abstract away.

I think the biggest market for these toolkits is in enterprise software. There, lowering development costs seems to be more important than anything else.
The issue I have with analyses like this is that it's binary in some instances - if a district votes conservative 50.1% vs. 49.9% it's given the same weight as one that votes 99.9% vs 0.01%. The color coding skews the underlying dynamics.
I’ve noticed that a number of businesses that would have had Long abandoned websites now just have long abandoned Facebook pages.
Some computer systems were extensively planned in advance. Multics. Ada. CORBA.
I have a good friend who basically makes his living off of wordpress development and consulting. He hates WP but makes a solid living.
Yup I've used Vitest without Vite for a personal project. I replaced Jest as I was having a lot of trouble with ESM modules (it might be better now)
One of the biggest drawbacks in the community college experience is the cohort. Not that it's any better at a lot of universities either, but the one thing I learnt the most from in college was my peers. Some of the problems like poor course structure, aged curriculum, lack of effort from professors, repetition etc. exists even in top tier universities like Stanford or Berkeley. However, you get some of the smartest minds as your peers, TAs, dates or roommates. Not only do you learn through them in classes, homeworks, project groups etc., but a lot of them go out and work as interns in some of the biggest names in tech. They bring so much knowledge and exposure with them, you benefit from even the smallest of the interactions.

The only reason I learnt about git and aliasing commands in shell was because I was sitting next to this kid who did his internship at a cool tech company after their freshman year.
Your 'rounding error' solution just moves the circus to ballot access. Here in Michigan the parties decided that since they are well organized and have gotten people on previous ballots, they should have lesser requirements for getting on future ballots, so it isn't really hypothetical that it would happen.

Just increasing the number of representatives would have some impact on gerrymandering.
I see where I got confused — I misread the tense: I thought they were talking about a present/recent push to change the oil used in the fries, not the one from the 1980s (which resulted in replacing the beef tallow around 1990 or so).

Thanks for the clarification.
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It’s the default storage engine for FoundationDB - not sure many would agree that isn’t a “durable, distributed database”.
You're trying to refute the previous comment, but, by the definition of Stockholm Syndrome are actually strengthening it.
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Can Flutter/Dart dynamically load code yet for apps that need plugins?

Love the concept but eyeing it for b2b style apps that need extensibility.
Show HN: Internet Explorer or CSS3?
> Even taking all of those things into consideration, $200k in SF is better than $100k pretty much anywhere else.

I don't know if that's true. The cost of living, in say, Pittsburgh, is 50% that of San Francisco, so at best it's equivalent. And you can actually get a house and a yard there.

> I guess it depends on what "you think" tech jobs pay, but this has not been my experience. If you're even half-decent, there are countless remote software engineering opportunities that pay well above $100k, which is a great salary if you're not comparing it with the top end of the industry. Most companies right now are facing a labor shortage, so it's far easier to get a remote job as a SWE than ever before.

"You think" that there are a lot of "half-decent" engineers out there. There aren't. The types of engineers making big bucks are not easily replicable. If it was so easy to become a half decent engineer we wouldn't need the song and dance of tech interviews which are an absolute joke.

Companies have made the hiring process HARDER not EASIER. This tells that the market is flooded with subpar candidates.
Look at the cost of housing of Western European cities you'd actually want to live in. My understanding is they are as high, if not higher than the US.
In UK we have a ratio of about 1 MP to 100k people (600 MPs 60M citizens).
In US it's 1:1M (300:300M)
(all calculations to order of magnitude and from memory)

If you are literally one in a million, certain perks come with the trrritory.

I think we might get better results if we see our elective representatives as "cattle not pets"
I'm also very interested in physical books. Can you point me to anything that supports index entries well, regardless of the language they are written in?

I certainly agree about expecting to need to hack, whatever the tool.
If you’re a foreigner in China, they have no problem tracking exactly where you go and who you talk to after you enter the country. They don’t have much to lose by putting a happy face on their customs process.
And for those commenting "why does country of origin matter," certainly there is something which made one system of governance preferable for outcomes and perhaps too quickly importing from a single culture brings along things which are out of place in the new country.

To wit: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cisco-lawsuit/california-...
People are talking about a better developer experience, but hardly anyone is talking about the user experience with apps built with this tech.

I don't feel it's great, especially on older devices. Take google pay, a showcase flutter app. It's a laggy mess on an iPhone SE 2016, whereas the "old" google pay ran perfectly fine. On top of that, many google apps I use these days will just freeze and stop accepting touch inputs. I have no idea if it's all flutter, or just the weird stuff google does on mobile platforms, but other apps don't suffer from this.

I think flutter is good for a resource-scarce team trying to create mobile apps for multiple platforms, but otherwise it creates an inferior end product compared to a native app (let's please not get into the definition of "native", for iOS and Android you know what I mean). For google, who has enormous developer resources, I'm not sure why they would ever use it themselves unless it's for apps they don't care about.

https://flutter.dev/showcase/google-pay
To be fair: Dart is relatively straight forward and simple to learn.

You should have decently qualified developers be productive within a week.

But forcing a new language on people usually doesn't go well.
Every startup thinks their company is going to be successful. No matter what the person thinks who is working their, they don’t know when the investors will cut their losses or when the market isn’t hungry for money losing startups and the VCs have to put off going public…like now.
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At our club we had a mandatory passenger briefing but it's simply not possible to convey enough information to get them down safely. So it was basically a "don't touch anything" type of thing.

This is with the exception of auto return to base autopilots and parachute systems like Cirrus's. Those are safe to be operated by passengers. But we didn't have either of those, most of the planes didn't even have an autopilot.

The plane in the article was a Cessna 208 though and probably had one.
Seeing the quality of apps coming from the community especially with the latest updates in Ionic 6, I can’t agree with your framing at all. The team is highly receptive to specific feedback if you have anything we should improve or GitHub links
I’d like to shed some pessimism on a lot of the optimistic comments. Unless you did your phd in quite an applied area you may find it tough to get a job without extensive study. I graduated with a phd in pure math and had a very hard time even getting applied positions as I didn’t have the domain knowledge. I ended up in software and still have the nagging feel the grass was probably greener on the other side.
73 pages isnt that bad, I was thinking 500pg+ for some reason. Guess simplicity is paramount.
Not yet but they're apparently working on it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31346426
I probably won't, I don't have a signal account
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First of all, thanks for the awesome and comprehensive reply, I really appreciate it.

> Particularly electronic warfare, radar performance, modern beyond visible range tactics, modern weapons performance porifiles

Do you mean in, say, DCS F-18 the ECW systems and things like AIM-120 performance are fake, either because the devs don't have access to the real performance data or because they are under obligation not to make it too realistic? (That is, I would not be able to use the AIM-120 in real life in the same way it's used in DCS, because its performance is not the same?).

Regarding BVR combat, the other day I was watching a video teaching this on DCS F-18. The author explained the radar modes, explained what the radar of the F-18 was capable of and how many contacts were actually sent by data link from a nearby AWACS, also explained the tactics of firing the missile BVR before doing a sharp turn and trying to maintain the maximum angle between the nose cone and the target without breaking radar lock, then deployed countermeasures just in case, etc.

Give or take minor details, in this not the right BVR tactic in real life? If this person (from YouTube) had the required physical stamina, would he be able to shoot down a hostile aircraft by following the exact same steps? Or is there some classified step or tactic which is purposefully not being simulated in DCS?
What "situation" -- the one where you constantly doubt the story of someone you have never met, based on their "evidence of attitude" which is really just your opinion?

Are you employed?
Also born a US citizen. My experience was fortunately not as bad as yours, but it still gives me a bit of anxiety every time I return to the US. I can't imagine what it'd be like as non-white foreigner.

I was flying back from Peru through LAX and held by security for about two hours with no explanation. Eventually, a pair of officers came and after a bit of questioning, dumped the entirety of my 65L bag onto the floor. I had a few pill bottles—all labeled—just Advil, Ibuprofen, some other OTC thing for altitude sickness. They emptied them all out onto the table in front of me.

They took a few tablets of Advil with them for testing. About 20 minutes later, they returned and told me I was free to go (with everything still on the floor, the pills all over the table, no apology, etc).

The icing on the cake—as I re-entered the LAX domestic terminal, my hiking poles that I had just flown with were confiscated.