skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they don't talk about the Senate because it's not gerrymandered because it's a statewide position not subject to districting.

We already have the bundled-population representation in a senator, the House uses a different strategy explicitly because it's different for the benefits of competing means of representation to even out power.
I read "I don't think I've ever seen Flutter in the wild" to include mobile, but maybe I misinterpreted
I'm with you on the ranked choice voting, but I would say that the general is the duopoly. This can enable more viable parties and the death to the duopoly.

And having more representatives (districts) will help immensely as well. The current limit is capped by statute and can be changed, this would especially help counter the over-representation of unpopulated states.
As a point of clarification, lest anyone think you are actually being serious...

The threat being addressed here is the proliferation of VPNs that also install a local trusted root[1], rogue roots being installed at border crossings[2], and entire countries mandating a MitM root to egress traffic[3].

I do believe they could have done a lot more to improve the developer experience, but this does address a legitimate security concern for millions of users.

1. https://www.techradar.com/news/new-research-reveals-surfshar...

2. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neayxd/anti-virus-companies-...

3. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-r...
It isn’t against change, it’s about making the correct change and correct amount of change to achieve the desired result, which can often be no change.

It’s against wanton and unwise change.

Considering nuance in qualification “disclaimed into oblivion” is needlessly derisive.
Ah, interesting.

I'd definitely recommend playing against humans if you can, I never found the computers quite as fun to play against.

Which may have helped me avoid that issue, by the time I ever played against a computer they were pretty easy just because I'd played my friends a lot.

If there's any big advice I'd give though, it's just definitely focus on expanding your production and planets as quickly as you can near the beginning.
U.S. Challenged to Defend Against Chinese Missiles
This is a valid point -- HN's algorithm is one of the few that is good at discouraging flamewars without being explicitly chronological.
The irony is that "the kids" is always the primary argument put forward to pass legislations that have little to do with "the kids", while the one time we had to worry about "the kids" and their mental well being, adults just decided to sacrifice them to avoid getting a bad flu.
https://about.google/stories/making-conversation-more-access...

Took about 2 minutes.
there's been word of them requiring 2FA for a while now. i remember 2-3 years ago the general speculation of them forcing 2FA onto every account holder was a thing that was supposed to happen within the next year or so. until now, i was actually under the impression this is something that had already been done, considering how much they seemed to be pushing it before.

forcing the world to use 2FA would be an astounding resolution to more than a few issues. they've suggested, asked, and no doubt told every account holder multiple times, so i give Google kudos for this move, regardless of how "disgusting" it may come across.

don't get me wrong, i am not a fan and i know how much power Google has. i say that completely ignorant to everything about them, just like every other person in this world. a global conglomerate who has built their own infrastructure from the ground up, as an empire, making sure they literally control and own everything should have never been a possibility.

if this is indeed what is happening with these notifications then i think that everyone should be be thankful, no matter what their underlying nefarious intentions could be. not just people who use their services, either, because the entire planet could use a wake-up call. letting users know how easy it is to protect themselves online, as they will no doubt bitch, moan, and ask "Why?" is inherently a good thing. it could lead into an inquisition into just what they need to protect themselves from, which, in turn will shed a big light on a big problem. the big problem with big tech and big data making our big lack of privacy even bigger by the second.

what's wrong with being treated like you don't matter when it's for the greater good? the fact is we don't matter and it's never going to change unless something drastic stirs up enough controversy that it draws the attention of the global masses. then, and only then will we, as a global population, stand a chan.... welp, 15 minutes is up. what was that about the wrong size shoes being sold across various department stores in northeast ohio?
There's rule by majority and then there's individual rights. Pure democracy prioritizes majority rule and does not guarantee any right to individuals. A Republic has a constitution that usually lays out the fundamental rights of a person and laws are valid only if those rights are not violated.
> No, this is just a trite straw man repeated every single time free speech comes up.

It is no strawman argument but fundamental to the argument about free speech.

Forcing a publisher (Twitter) to publish content is as bad as forcing a publisher to not publish content. Free speech demands that Twitter be allowed to publish what it wants.
Color me skeptical on BERTopic. Without human validation, I'm not convinced that it's an improvement over existing methods.

I'm an author on a recent paper about automated topic model evaluation [1], and we found that current metrics do not line up with human judgements as well as previously thought. To my knowledge, BERTopic has only been evaluated on these automated metrics.

For datasets of under a few hundred thousand documents, Mallet (LDA estimated with Gibbs sampling) can produce stable, high-quality outputs in minutes on a laptop [2]. Even larger datasets remain tractable, although depending on your use case you may be better off subsampling.

It's possible that I've missed something, but I'm not clear on what benefits BERTopic has that existing methods do not. I don't mean to be overly negative---it has a nice API and the approach seems reasonable---I'm just wondering what's really new here.

[1]: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/0f83556a305d7...
[2]: https://mimno.github.io/Mallet/
[3]: https://maartengr.github.io/BERTopic/faq.html#why-are-the-re...
That only works if the elected official from a particular voting district has complete say over the law in that district, which they do not. They go on to represent their district in a larger body, which may then vote against that district's wishes.
If Android + Chrome is the majority of computer users in the country (which it probably is), this might force the hand of the government
Connecticut enacts Data Privacy law
Terminals should not be sending telemetry.

Imagine if every .exe and every .dll did that! That's not OK!
Interesting timing, Fedora 36 released today.

RHEL 9 is surprisingly modern, being based on Fedora 34 which itself still has about a month of support remaining.
Fiat currency can be and is used by people who don't live in the country that issues it.

Think of prisoners using cigarettes for currency - it's not necessary for the tobacco companies to be involved or even care.
if you enable to choose districts freely this can be mass gamed.
I'm using "republic" here to point out that a district is acting like an elected representative.
None of these observations seem impossible for someone who is able to maintain low stress levels, think rationally and understand the overall general mechanics of how planes fly and what is important - altitude, speed, etc.
I think minors joining social media or forums should require parent permission. There’s too many weirdos out there, and too much self harm from sharing too much information.
Why would you want this exactly? Fixing the problems with social media so it becomes more appealing to use… so that you end up using it more?

Why not just go outside?
I think the other side of the argument has value though. If Twitter is large enough that it has such huge social impact rivalling that of governments, why should a single ceo or board be able to make these decisions.

We shouldn’t be expecting or perhaps even allowing twitter to make these calls at this scale. Twitter is beyond just a private company offering a product. It’s now a serious utility.
Not sure about the plane from the original post; it looks pretty hefty. And lateral weight is so close to the center of mass that it's unlikely to have much effect. What's more of a concern is having a bunch of weight far from the plane's center of mass, where the weight tries to lever the plane end over end, increasing the risk of a stall. I heard about a crash where the pilot's seat adjuster didn't lock, so when he took off his seat slid all the way back (just a few inches) but that was enough to cause a crash. Could theoretically happen to any size plane, but matters more with little light planes like those in general aviation.

I have no idea if "Spirit Airlines weight distribution issue" actually happened, but it's funny so I'll share: https://youtu.be/YvfYK0EEhK4

Magnetic variation in my area is +20° (west) off true north. So if I want to follow longitude line true north I need to fly such that the compass reads 20° NEN. And don't forget to account for the hunks of metal inside the airplane, which can affect the compass differently depending on your heading.
> Apple should follow MS's example and open source its Terminal.app

This is bellyaching about nothing. Instead, Microsoft should follow Apple's example and open source the operating system. The only part of macOS that is not open source is the GUI, i.e. Quartz Compositor, and the gui applications. Microsoft, meanwhile, is an incredible slouch when it comes to open source, only very recently changing their hostile "embrace, extend, extinguish" stance towards OSS.
> Gerrymandering is to draw districts according to political party affiliations.

That not really what it is. It's to draw districts in order to give a particular party an advantage. Usually the way to do that is not to draw them along party lines, but to mix voters of different affiliations in the same district such that your party comes out with a majority in as many districts as possible.
> He then moved a rubber band from one pulley onto another.

Hah, that's a good one.

> But on the other hand, they did produce some really good kit and software [...]

Yeah, agreed (though really they did all of their best work well before my time, so I only know ~some of the history).
Before they lock in the language, could we talk them into mandating static HTML... pretty please? :-)
Cloud Functions for Firebase v2 preview
> I'm bashing the EU because they are trying to create a surveillance state.

If that was true, we would all be worried.

Have you ever thought that your paranoia is not proof of anything?

Meanwhile:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Uni...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...

I am still worried about facts, especially those carried out by agencies working secretively under practically no control by the people, that sometimes also spy on those same people they are sworn to protect.

Anyway, EU is not a State, so EU can't technically build a surveillance State.

EU is not the NSA.
Using the word "coasting" as "the opposite of overwork" already hints at a problem.
Increasing membership of the House has the effect of reducing the advantage less-populous states have (both in the house and in the electoral college). That might make it politically infeasible to pass.
Nvidia has been providing ARM drivers for a little while and they work on Ampere Altra.
Radeons have the same issue, tho.
> such as electrical insulators.

I'd worry much more about the medical sector.
If GDPR is possible, this is also possible.
The interesting thing is that Masters advocates for it, not Warren. A living wage has been a common refrain from the US left since the early 1900s. It was a core goal for FDR, as well.
Wow, that would be such an incredible historical resource.

Archive.org often has a scrape of the data, but the URL it was once hosted at is lost to time.
Yes, actually, if you commute by car, or if you don't live in a ~fully-green energy state.

20 hours of flight is ~10,000 flight miles. A 737 gets ~80 mpg per passenger seat. Takeoff is an extra ~20% in an average flight's fuel consumption.
I think rbanffy is referring to vttest[1], but I'm not certain.

[1]: https://www.invisible-island.net/vttest/

EDIT to add: vttest is maintained by the current maintainer of xterm. It's the "torturiest" VT test I know of.
That's called Nouveau.
Freedom of speech is just a loose concept. The first amendment is an implementation of freedom of speech. It’s still accurate for a business to say they support and implement freedom of speech even if they are not legally obligated to.
I, for one, think that extremely D and extremely D and even somewhere in the middle are all equally problematic.

As long as 3rd parties are not electable, we're stuck with some right wing, corporate-backed politician regardless of who wins.

All the talk of gerrymandering is just a partisan distraction.
Worth watching Casey Muratori's series of videos on terminals, and how to implement them, where he often makes specific comparison to Windows Terminal. He has some specific criticisms that are easy to disagree with, but the vast majority are well warranted. His broader series of videos on the topic are even worthwhile from a purely "software engineering education" standpoint.

https://youtu.be/hxM8QmyZXtg

I feel a bit bad about posting comments about it relatively frequently on HN, but it's just so very very good, and snark aside, his perspective is extremely valuable.
PhD in math, US perspective, 20ish years working.

Members from my class (including +/- a couple of years) went to startups, think tanks, SEC, NSA, trading, hedge funds, digital media, academia, postdocs, consulting, and commercial research labs that are incubators within larger corporations.

You didn't indicate your specialty, but it probably does not matter. Many current DS and related jobs list PhD in a STEM field as baseline or preferred requirement. I know logicians who got non-academic work (this is not a dig at logic, they were really worried about this).

If you want to go the software developer route, at this point you do know how to study for leetcode type puzzles. But you are in direct competition with many others who specialize in that, and a PhD in math will not carry much extra weight in the hiring decision.

Watching my own and my peers careers evolve over time, the impact of one's network should not be underestimated.

Finally, assume you will never be asked about your dissertation. Ever.
The incredible machinery required to collect the current amount of taxes suggests so. Each percentage point requires increasingly more complex tax administration, and with each point more people will try hard to evade it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
How does that explain the new NY map that was recently tossed because it was so obviously gerrymandered in favor of Democrats? I believe the same happened in Maryland a couple months ago as well.
Because it might be possible to stand out in a crowd of 500 but not 5,000. And it certainly is not possible to do deals other than "this is good for everyone".

It would almost certainly end political parties. Lead to good ideas being debated openly by people who have no chance of hanging together long enough to force a direction.

My god man what are you thinking !

(/s)
Passenger who got to hold the stick for a bit. Flying the plane is easy. Flying it roughly at some altitude in a rough direction you're given is also easy.

Now, landing it? That's an entirely different beast for sure.
It's pretty much universal. Etymologists and lexicographers know that most words were in use for some time before being written -- anywhere from years to centuries. They try to make inferences by other means, as best they can.

They gradually expand the corpus they can search. A lot of words that are attributed to Shakespeare are gradually finding earlier sources, often in manuscripts. They knew all along that Shakespeare wasn't the first person to use a word (a common myth), but that his works were widely printed and thus survived.

Those manuscripts still don't include spoken usages, and show only the use by the class of people who could write. But it is solid data, before they go off into more tenuous hypotheses.
I think in the context of the parent post, 1800s is recent.

There’s a different between someone having narcissistic traits and being diagnosed with NPD, but we casually say both of them are narcissists. Everyone has some of those traits, they just don’t run their lives. All language is fundamentally shorthand for real or imagined phenomena, and can be both descriptive and misleading. Clusters of personality traits can be enlightening even in the context of gossip!
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.

Seems entirely fair and reasonable? And not in anyway against their free speech. All speech there is theirs. Be it inciting violence or illegal graphical material. Some gets past their censor they are responsible also.
Kids will lie about their age. They already do. You aren't supposed to sign up until you are 13. There are lots of pre-teens on Social Media.

Stopping that would mean a KYC process for every social media signup. I don't think that works either.
> So in the end the only difference is the inconvenience of the paperwork that you worked on very rarely. The rest of the time you were enjoying life in the US.

I'd disagree with that assessment. The issue really isn't the amount or the effort of paperwork - for most people it's the uncertainty. There's the very real possibility that at the end of that very long process you do not get a green card. The making money hand over fist also only applies to a certain proportion of Indian applicants, especially in tech. There are plenty of other Indian applicants who make nowhere near as much money and face just as much (if not more) of an uphill task. For example, I'm an Indian working as a postdoctoral researcher in Developmental Biology & cancer and yet make probably less than a tenth of what this guy does. Nor does the US offer substantially better pay in this field as compared to say, Europe (worse in some ways). Yet for me it still feels worth it because the work here is just better in my field, but at some level the system feels incredibly unfair. My European colleagues are able to apply and get an EB3 green card in a few months that's very little paperwork while the only reasonable pathway for me is an EB1 petition that's exponentially harder and a lot more paperwork. My European colleagues could go directly from a J1 visa to an EB3 visa simply because their petition will be processed in a few months. For an Indian in my position that's not possible - I must first secure an H1B/O1 before I can think of an EB1/2 petition. All the Indians I know in my field who have green cards have had to make EB1 petitions while none of the Europeans have had to.

Here's the practical considerations - very few companies in my field offer immigration support. The Europeans tend to apply for an EB3 after about a year or two of postdoctoral experience and move into industry with their prompt green cards. For Indians and Chinese postdocs, they tend to work for an average of 6 years before they've accrued enough publications to wrangle an EB1 petition. That's 6 years of grueling work at very very low pay and a very uncertain future at the end of it - but only for the Indians/Chinese.
sph's reaction when someone puts network volumes in the wrong spot:

D:
Similar in that they're both managed relational databases aimed at scaling for intense workloads. AlloyDB has specific optimizations around PG that means it runs more efficiently than Aurora for Postgres.
Nvidia Transitioning to Official, Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Driver
They did this before but it has gotten extremely hard to work with customer support for things like this. Bad CS alone has driven me more towards hotels for even longer stays.
The no true Scotsman of grilling meat as a libertarian (to not be impacting other's freedoms)

1. You raise the cow (on a non corn diet that you grow)

2. You harvest the methane from the cow (crop waste, maybe even your own waste)

3. You use the harvested methane from crop, cow, and self waste to grill

Otherwise, you're not accounting for your externalities (unless you pay for the same)

4. You replenish the soil to repeat
While Germany is mentioned in the article, they don't mention the best features of the German system: two choices -- one for the candidate who will represent your district, one for the party you prefer. So you get someone who truly represents the district, and you also guarantee that the party that wins the most votes gets the most seats.
Fixing the problem would just be removing the RT / Share button. That’s it. Then we would all use it less because it wouldn’t be that interesting at all.
The same could be said of a lot of Nvidia IP which was leaked a few months ago.

But this is different, it's voluntary.
There are martial arts where even in competition, concussion is relatively rare. E.g. grappling sports like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu don't usually involve impacts of that intensity, to the head or otherwise.
Quite the opposite actually -- the goal is to make it less appealing. Social media is designed to be addictive and prey on base psychological impulses.
I finally got Twitter after years of not getting it
edit: was describing a jungle primary
This is true of basically all laws. You just noticed in this case because it's an area where you're familiar.
Similar here....I remember becoming a proper adult, putting my huge PC Magazine DOS Power Tools book away and getting OS/2 Warp running, playing with Rexx. You could do Presentation Manager windows and things direct from Rexx, right? It seemed pretty neat at the time.

Should have kept the DOS batch files around, for all the good it did. I missed all my non-OS/2-compatible games at home, and got hired doing Novell IT all day at work.

(It also didn't help that all the OS/2 admins at work, accountants who worked on an OS/2-based vending system, talked to us Windows / Novell admins as if we were complete morons. Fire phasers!)
Given that parties don't restrict membership in the US, in places that are majority one party, you effectively get an open primary. I'm registered as $MAJORITY_PARTY_IN_MY_DISTRICT because the primary election is essentially the only one that matters.
> Have they already tried to ban phones in schools?

My eldest is 12 and in his school they are not allowed to use their phones during school time, and I fully support this.

Due to some genius government policy here involving "digital classrooms", every child in his year has been handed an iPad to use during lessons. Guess what? Kids end up watching junk on YouTube during lessons, then get their devices confiscated.

I wonder if the policy wonks in government have met (m)any 12 year olds...