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I agree that algorithmic redistricting based entirely on population density would be the best way to do strict single-member geographic representation. But even neutrally drawn districts give more power to the party that is less concentrated geographically.

Proportional representation solves this, but if you still value the notion that local communities should be able to have their collective power represented, then you need a solution that combines the two.

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, multi-member districts with proportional representation are a good way to do this without needing to change the Constitution. The gist is, split states into a smaller number of larger districts, each of which gets multiple representatives. The representatives are allocated proportionally to the vote in each large district. So if the district has 5 representatives, party X gets 63% of the vote, and party Y gets 37% of the vote, then party X gets 3 members and party Y gets 2 members.

Political scientist Lee Drutman is actively promoting this approach, and recently founded Fix Our House (https://www.fixourhouse.org).

If I could rewrite the Constitution, I'd get rid of the rounding error by weighting the votes of individual members of Congress. E.g., if there were only two candidates in a district, candidate X got 60% of the vote, and candidate Y got 40% of the vote, send them both to Congress, with X getting 0.6 of a vote and Y getting 0.4 of a vote.

Of course all of this is better when combined with instant runoffs (aka ranked choice).
Banning teens from using corporate, for-profit, surveillance capitalism, data-mining machines fronting as "social" "networking" sites? Yeah, I'm down. Kids can move over to decentralized, federated services and take those to the next level. Where do I sign? Ban everyone. Ban the sites completely. They're corrosive and trash.
I also had a HD 7850, and though I had pushed it less than you I never noticed any huge issues.

It was in a uniquely terrible position of being one of the last cards released supported by radeon when all the development had moved to amdgpu, which it supposedly could run if you jumped through the right hurdles. I remember the xorg feature table having several things working for older and newer models but not the 7850.

Still, my experience with it led to another AMD card that I've also been quite happy with.
Biofire exits stealth-mode to bring smart guns to market
That's orthogonal to the parent's question.

My understanding as well was that the bulk of the kernel space driver was previously only available as a binary blob, with only a small shim layer open sourced that loaded the rest of the kernel module and translated all of the internal kernel calls. I heard a rumor this was actually core to their internal legal theory about why they could have a binary blob kernel driver.

Required firmware blobs and the user space libraries are ultimately different components in the stack.
This isn't the same as the source previously provided with the drivers. This is a completely new kernel module.
This isn't a counterargument as such, but you could apply similar logic to, say, banks and COBOL? I'm not in banking, but I imagine there are many good reasons to keep writing and maintaining COBOL, and these companies may have similar stories to tell about Ruby.
Well, we'll see what the upgrade situation is like in 19 months!

I may just opt to keep the 5a until the security updates stop coming, especially if the Adaptive Charging works as advertised to preserve battery capacity.
> What does "upstreamable" mean in this context? Is this good or bad?

"Upstream" is the kernel source tree maintained by Linus (and friends). As Linux is open source, anyone can fork it for any reason, and a lot of people do. However, Linus still maintains the common base that people use to build on top of. "Upstreaming" is the process of getting your code included in these official releases. It's significant because there are no stable interfaces inside the kernel. That is, in any release the Linux developers can change any internal system of the kernel in any way they please, with the only caveat that to get that change included they have to fix up any breakage it causes, but only inside upstream. Or, if you are building your own kernels with your own patch sets, any release of the kernel can completely break your build.

Because of this, if you want your code to be actually used by real people, upstreaming it is considered extremely good, to the point of being almost a necessity. However, it can be a significant hurdle to overcome. Partly because there are fairly strict code quality/style requirements (as any kernel dev is supposed to be able to jump into your code to fix issues they caused by modifications elsewhere), but mostly because unlike inside the kernel itself, all interfaces between kernel and userspace are stable. That is, if you start supporting some operation from userspace, you need to be able to support it in perpetuity. Also, the kernel devs are extremely reluctant to add any kind of interface to the kernel where the only thing that uses it is some specific non-free binary blob on the userspace side.

Currently the main reason the code is not upstreamable as is is that it needs a very substantial userspace program to function, which currently only exists as nonfree, and nVidia doesn't think that the interface used to connect to it is well-enough decided they want to freeze it.

So the main hurdle for upstreaming is developing that interface until they are happy with it, and then develop some free version of the userspace portion of their graphics stack that can plug into that same interface.
> any expected future contributors deserve, in comparison, pennies?

No, they don't deserve pennies. Facebook has given its code to the world - if anyone wants to keep that code maintained, then they can do so, but (I'd have thought needless to say) Facebook does not owe them a penny to maintain it just because they were kind enough to donate that version of their code. They can update it if they benefit from doing so.

Seriously, is this where we've got to? You can't open source your code unless you're able to pay for its maintenance in perpetuity? How is this in the spirit of openness? And, more to the point, how in the hell does this (incomprehensibly entitled) attitude encourage open source development?
Equality feels like persecution to those hold all the privileges.

I'm not sure why having different colored emojis has triggered an essay to redefine inclusivity as persecution for some hypothetical "dominant" demographic, but you are proving my point.

By using weak words to avoiding naming the demographic you feel is actually persecuted here, you're turning a blind eye to centuries of prejudicial conflict and injustice - context that defeats your attempt at semantics.
The 2x was based on an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) benchmark that is based on industry standard TPC-C benchmark in our own testing.
This being Hacker News: The reason the digit 7 seems important here is that these are actually Octal. Under the hood this is a digital system, but the user interface is four octal digits ie 0000 to 7777 is a 12-bit value.

Most modern aircraft are capable of providing a lot more data over their radio transponder, including a system unique identifier, but it turns out that "squawking" a four digit code is a useful amount of discretion to give humans. If you could do it over maybe a decimal code would have been better, but too late now.
I'm not sure any economy is fully behind what you describe as neoliberalism though? Even the USA has welfare, tax and many other not purely Laissez-faire institutions.

You'll note that I never even actually argued for neoliberalism. I think social democracies are far better than unfettered neoliberal capitalism.

However, I think the way that people answered those questions is completely compatible with social democracy too. They never asked do you want inequality and perfect markets above all else. Modern social democracy is much closer to neoliberalism than it is to communism or even 70s style socialism.

One way or interpreting these poll results is that living under a neoliberal world order has increased support for inequality because people are, on the whole, happy with how it changed their lives. Sure, some rich people are absurdly, unfairly rich, but in many ways the average person's life drastically improved from the 70s to now at far quicker rate than ever before in history.

Perhaps many people accept that increased inequality is a fair price to pay for the way they feel life has improved?

Certainly speaking for myself, I don't particularly care that Elon Musk is so rich that he could buy every superyacht in the world, provided that I have all my basic needs met and the economic resources to try and achieve what makes me happy. I'm not jealous of the wealth of others. Looking at what happened to my family under the economic policies of the 70s in the UK, I am pretty glad to have grown up in the 90s.

I'm aware that not everyone is as lucky as me to have all their basic needs met. I think that's a great shame and as far as inequality goes, I think it's fine if someone is 100000x as wealthy as someone else PROVIDED THAT person on the bottom has a house, food, heating, healthcare etc. which certainly is not the case right now.

Ultimately, I'd prefer to be the poorest well fed person in Britain rather than starving in the same boat with everyone else.
I vouched for your comment after it was killed. I think it's a valid point. Certainly nuance is vital when talking about mental health.
I can't even read the original article anyway because they keep giving me a page saying they detected unusual activity from my IP. I've tried pressing and holding their captcha button to no avail and this is just another reason why these paywalled sites suck. Thank you for the mirror!
The difference is getting blurry. Apus have generally better communication/latency/shared resources with the CPU.
The ultimate ideal of an APU is to have a unified memory with the CPU, which is the case in e.g the PS3/PS4
Despite progress in heterogenous computing (the neglected HSA), in SOCs, 3D ingerposers, high bandwidth buses interconnects and 3D memory such as HBM, the PC platform has yet to see a proper APU. In fact the M1 is probably the closest thing to an ideal APU on the market.
But yes the more time pass, the more the term IGPU denote APU.
AMD bought ATI because of the fusion vision, the idea that sharing silicon, resources and memory between the CPU and the GPU would be the future of computing.

An unrelated but very underrated is the egpu.
Egpus are external to the pc unlike a dgpu.
So you can buy a thin laptop, connect it via Thunderbolt to a rtx 3080 and enjoy faster gpu performance than allowed on any laptop on the market, and enjoy a thin lightweight, silent laptop the rest of the time.
Disclaimer Thunderbolt is still a moderate limiting factor in reaching peak performance.
For what it's worth, swapping out material/ updating parts and not changing model numbers already happens a lot in consumer tech. Making changes after launch and initial mass production runs in order to average down cost or fix known issues is a fairly common practice at large hardware companies (Apple/Google/Samsung/Tesla). It's seldom changing the display or battery size or anything immediately customer facing, but there's hundreds of components that each act as a knob for performance and cost that get tweaked over time.
there are only about a million teenagers in minnesota per this https://www.mncompass.org/profiles/state/minnesota/age

so in practice you could make a dedicated platform for minnesota teens and never hit the '1M account holders' limit

also not sure how your content is going to 'appear in a chronological manner' without algorithms
> Yeah, no. Even if you are current, it could be months away, or it could be years. 2 years is not uncommon these days, even if your country is theoretically 'current'.

My case took a bit over 18 months, from PERM to Green card. Even worse, there was a gap of 20 days between my visa expiration date, and the arrival of my EAD, so I had to be put on unpaid leave.

The USCIS has been a complete shit show since the Trump administration took over, and COVID made it even worse.
SCOTUS hasn't used the ninth amendment much, and it wasn't the basis for Roe (though I think RBG would have preferred that it was).

I think intellectual honesty would lead most people to think that Roe had to go. The only question was: do we fix it with better reasoning (if some Constitutional basis does exist), or throw it out. Casey tried to do the former but didn't quite seem to do it. So now it's gone and left to the states.

I suspect only a few states will go extreme. And they'll have to see the consequences and try to make it work, or answer to the electorate.
Don't tell the IMCF that medieval times have ended, they will laugh at you.
Tether trades at 0.993, lowest since June 2020
Title.

Source:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
Because there are strong incentives to persevere. Shipping a foundational spec is a major achievement, so it's easy to think that the stress is worth the goal. There's a cultural pressure to "suck it up" and not be "weak". Quitting can hurt your career and finances. So you try your best for as long as you can… until you can't.
Anyone who watched the Andromeda Strain movie but didn't read the book (preferably at an impressionable age) really missed out on some awesome sauce.
Nope, the valuation happens at the time of grant.

So you are granted a number of shares valued at $X. Then you can’t sell those shares until they vest, by which time they may have gained or lost value.
> but the guy who landed the plane obviously holds up well in stressful situations

Thats what you need a cool head when everyone else is losing theirs. Not only that if the pilot had any sense he would give any passenger in the front a TLDR for emergencies just as a common courtesy. TBH I'm surprised the various Aviation Authorities have not mandated some sort of TLDR emergency/safety guide for small planes and their passengers, unless of course they dont really care if one drops out of the sky killing everyone!?!

Not a pilot, but taken control of a biplane, & helicopter, biplane is so easy, doing the nose dives like you see in the old war movies, bringing them up to stalling point etc, the plane even makes the same noise as you here in the movies, but its bloody cold even with your sheepskin coat on.

Helicopters, now they are sensitive and the pilot wouldnt let me do the pedals, but it was a hover test, ie seeing how long I could keep it hovering.

Have flown with ex red arrows doing the same stunts as a passenger, I think they tried their best to get me to use their sick back but they didnt succeed, haven't done any fighter jets yet, or any Air Racing but never say never!

I would imagine the acceleration from a flight deck catapult must be on a par with a Porsche 911 Turbo S on launch control, maybe a bit better who knows?
I belive this is talking about radeonhd/radeon/ati circa 2015 or earlier.

Around then, you still had to install the corresponding X11 portion of the drivers, though the nvidia eqiuvalent had the same limitation.

radeon/radeonhd, or fglrx (which was the propriertary AMD graphics) absolutely worked worse than nouveau or the proprietary nvidia drivers at that time. It was only a couple of years into amdgpu where the tables turned.

At this point it would be nice if they'd backport their Linux drivers to Windows, as I'm now on my third AMD GPU in 12-13 years (HD 5770, r9 290x, 6900XT) to have issues where the driver will randomly crash when playing hardware accelerated video on one monitor while playing a directx game on another monitor under Windows.
From the bill's text, as quoted by the article:

> (b) The social media platform is liable to an individual account holder who received user-generated content through a social media algorithm while the individual account holder was under the age of 18 and was using the individual account holder’s own account, if the social media platform knew or had reason to know that the individual account holder was under the age of 18 and located in Minnesota. [...]

Sounds like they're not requiring unreasonable knowledge of faked ages.
Alaska switched to a non-partisan top 4 RCV primary. This seems much more likely type of primary to actually benefit moderate candidates and voters. We've had moderate candidates get primaried and have to run and win write-in campaigns to stay in office. This means that reasonably popular moderate candidates will at least always get to run in the general election.
I think we should fill most elected positions basically at random, and eliminate the presidency.

Populations make great quantitative judgements, but not qualitative. It seems that selecting at random would be best to get voices of folks experiencing homelessness and poverty. Rich folks would still get a couple of seats.

My guess is less war, more money for anti-poverty and education programs.
I had no idea! I'd be curious to look at founding documents to see what Boy Scouts was before it was corrupted.
Multiple origins are probably more common than we think. We tend to be biased to want to see singular causes of things, but language is often a murky soup full of feedback cycles.

In the example you gave, if it is not an origin, it could at least be a lingual context that supports the expression, because it does not contradict it.

Language evolution must be full of nuances like that, that we can barely observe.
Hey jQuery is still used a lot, still developed, still updated. And besides, if you can manage to learn that, you can manage to switch it up to vanilla js if you have to, or pick up other stuff.
> best way to increase the absolute value of your assets is to encourage large scale societal innovation

but from a company & shareholder perspective, this sort of societal innovation and improvement is not privately capturable. Back in the 70-80's, Bell labs did this sort of innovation, but they were funded directly via a gov't subsidy (because they are given a monopoly on telecommunications), and so management didn't have to care that the expenditure on R&D returned profit, as long as it is innovative.

I wish we could return to those days, but i dont believe it is possible today.
Did dart eventually add sum types? That's basically the one thing holding me from trying flutter.
Double standards or higher standards? I'm pretty sure people in India would react horribly to such a hypothetical situation. But if that's the standard you want to hold Americans and the American government to that's fine but perhaps then the USA should stop preaching to the world and exporting its "values" and "freedoms" and taking the moral high ground in pretty much every conflict around the world.
I don't think it would ban minors from the Internet.

I actually tend to avoid the types of services proscribed by this proposal myself! There's still plenty of Internet left for me.
We're tackling this problem at ReadySet. TLDR, ReadySet connects to your existing relational database and caches SQL query results at the edge based on the actual traffic patterns in those regions. Our goal is to augment rather than replace the database as the source of truth. You can sign up for our early access list here: https://readyset.io
What a low effort comment.

Yes, words have meanings.

Company A May decide telemetry exposes too much internal information to a potential competitor.

Company B May decide that telemetry does not release anything they want kept secret.

Those are subjective opinions. If I want the data to be kept secret and somebody takes it without my explicit approval, that is a privacy violation. If I don’t care, it’s not. Same thing with spying. If I deem it a secret, it is now spying to take it from me.
Ah, Fragomen. They also screwed my application to the point where I temporarily lost my job.
>But those who have received the meme tend to understand "republic" as having a far more specific definition (centering on Birch Society political philosophy)

This is not how I used the word, so please don't speak for me.
You have confused Operating System with Content Management System here...POSIX has nothing to do with CMS; as its name stands POSIX means "Portable Operating System Interface".
Not in Alaska, anyone can assert any affiliation in our primary: "If a candidate is registered as affiliated with a political party or group, it does not imply the candidate is nominated by, endorsed by, approved of, or associated with that particular party or group."
Indeed. All the second-hand clothing stores are on instagram. All the drug dealers are on telegram.
For me - isn't problem. Because as i said machine isn't used for browsing.

To be honest i have friend of mine that have small furniture manufacturing. They have CNC machine with Windows98.
maybe for the user space then.
EB doesn't lead to Green Card as far as I know. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. That'd mean you'll need to be on EB permanently, which is not unlike being on H for 20+ years.
Yep. We got burned out on the lies RHEL8 pushed to serious orgs (utilities, gov agencies, etc.) around podman readiness & replaceability over docker. I'm glad people are getting their bonuses and good for docker to have competition, but don't abuse your trusted advisor & monopoly position to mess with societal infrastructure and the admins keeping it going. Before we promoted other OS's for our AI users as a matter of general GPU readiness but were game for supporting RHEL, but now we actively recommend against it as too untrustworthy going forward.
I agree with the article author.

Their Full Site Editing move became a lagging factor on their adoption. Specially when they complicated it further by marrying with React as their front-end counterpart.

I consider WordPress a legacy codebase, because they seem to be unable to drop PHP 5.6 support. Anything that doesn't conform to that standard when submitting a new plugin to their repository, gets rejected immediately (I've seen this first hand).

I understand that breaking with their PHP 5.6 past implies being reborn into a next generation CMS, because many shared hostings that are able to run WordPress are set up that way, that'd break a great part of that 42.9% of the Internet. It requires a complete rewrite and marking the current one as a legacy product. It's what holds them back, technologically-wise.

WordPress became the dinosaur it sought to destroy when Matt Mullenweg forked it from b2/cafelog.
Is there any reason to think breakthroughs like this and similar could one day lead to quantum computers being applied to general computation? It's been explained to me that there's no point in asking questions like "when will quantum computers be able to run Doom?" because they will never be used for non-specialized tasks.
I would say under 5 years.

If you get a PR through express entry it should be 6 months, then 3 years living as a PR in Canada, then apply for citizenship, and a year later you are a citizen.

And express entry is "simple" to apply, you fill boxes, get points, every month they publish the points threshold, if you are above it, you get a PR!
I feel like that around anything after icq and msn messenger.
To be fair, it's the Americans disowning the notions that made America such a success. For example, successful entrepreneurs are routinely excoriated and demonized. Politicians get elected on promises of confiscating their success.