skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a thing for US Congress races in a number of states, including Georgia and California, I believe. The issue that comes up is that it consistently rewards a stronger party - for instance, if the population is, let's say, 30% hardcore party A, 30% hardcore party B, and 40% who could go either way, what often happens is if party A runs 2 candidates only, and party B runs 5 with a diversity of ideas, party B could end up winning 60% of the vote overall, but at 12% per candidate, and party A could win just 40% spread across 2 candidates, but have both of their candidates easily make the runoff.

It may be better in a world where there's 5+ real parties who will never back down from each other, but even in that case, it seems like it rewards parliamentary-style coalitions where if you're polling at 5% or so, you just tell your supporters to support a stronger candidate you mostly agree with so that you don't get locked out of the final vote entirely, and you're back to essentially either a two-party system, or a two-party system with minor parties that mostly play spoiler to the main party by pulling off votes.

One of the biggest issues I tend to find with a lot of voting proposals is that they seem to assume that the parties and candidates will act only to serve their party/candidate directly, and not strategically run/withdraw in order to help/hurt other candidates, or collude with each other to game the system.
Not sure if these games exactly fit but they were the first to come to my mind. 1.Outer Wilds 2.Braid
Some persistent world NWN servers might fit the bill. Some are heavy on roleplaying, and are more of chat servers with optional combat rather than a traditional MMO setting.
Wasn't he a long distance runner. I wonder if he wore it then too.
Lots of people on HN work for advertising companies such as Google, Facebook etc, tech savvy or not has little to do with it.
For 2. I think Outer Wilds and Deathloop are good recent examples that heavily lean into time reversion, but another example is Quantum League. It involves multiple timelines interacting with each other, in a very basic sense.
that's a pretty toxic attitude you have there...
Hey, I recently wrote a post about an idea on this: https://blog.vslira.net/2022/05/negative-voting.html?m=1

What do you think? Basically second round stays the same, but on 1st you can either vote for or against a candidate, “against” votes simply deduct from their “for” votes
Hi HN!

A while ago I saw a CLI to display the GitHub contribution graph in a console, so I came up with the idea of a custom git command that made the exact same graph but based on the current repository.

If you like it or have any feedback about the tool itself and its code, just leave a comment. Thank you for your attention :)
This is why I buy the cheapest ones. They don't break and their buttons are intuitive, I don't need a Bachelor's in microwave UI to use one.
I have a full asymmetric ideal game in mind, but the actual gameplays in it are still very blurry.

Basically I would love a game where players HAVE TO cooperate.
The cooperation happens by having players playing different gameplays.

For instance, but, keep in mind that this is just ONE example: there's a war to fight, some players are drivers, some are fighters, some are medics...But also some players are in offices doing strategy stuff or logistics stuff, etc.

Of course, one could say: "you can have that in Arma 3 or Foxhole" and that's kinda true...but I don't know, there's something missing:
A lore, a story, a universe to feel part of...

Plus, the game I am imagining, does NOT have to be a simulation or "complex gaming" at all!
It could be kinda-casual without being too simple either: like For The King.

So in my ideal version of the game I am thinking about players play actually VERY DIFFERENT gameplays but cooperate in order to achieve common goals.
Some of the players have to interact, some of the players don't.
But in any case, everyone's actions will impact everybody else.

To sum it up: I would love a game with:
Persistent universe + very asymmetric gameplay + cooperation as a key factor of success

But the game would be without:
Grinding, farming, loot boxes, meaningless quests, basically a game where you don't have to redo the same things on and on to grind 128points of experience or reputation or obtain one piece of loot that does not fit your equipment set.

If you think this game already exists: do not hesitate to tell me :)
> using a 32 bit integer on a 64 bit platform?

Not about integers, but in general: maybe 64-bit is overkill. The trend in ML has been to reduce size:

"We have demonstrated DNN training [using nVidia GPUs] with 8-bit floating point numbers (FP8) that achieves 2−4× speedup [compared to FP32 computation] without compromise in accuracy [on most CNN/DNN test accuracy degradation is ~0% stochastically, but max 2% on specific ImageNet runs]."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08011
Tokens will have to get a bit cheaper, or software implementations will have to be more widely available and well known, and the storage will have to increase.

I would not be happy if I suddenly had to by several of these tokens, carry them around, and potentially manually swap them out, since many current ones only hold 25 keys or so.

I wonder if something simpler wouldn't be possible, that didn't involve storing keys on-chip, or storing them in encrypted form on the host.

Couldn't the token just generate the key as needed, seeded by hash(domainName, accountName, salt, internalSecret)?

It seems like YubiKey does something like this but some seem to actually store keys, or require some complex in browser or server side storage, adding points of failure.

And there seems to be some "resident key" feature that always stores data on the authenticator? Is that really necessary?
Are those fines given or fines collected? I remember reading that fines collected are really tiny portion of those given.
Adult Swim has a lot of American absurdist humour, like Tim and Eric, The Eric Andre Show, Rick and Morty, etc.
I agree. The beef I would add with those games is that they feel like theme parks. There's no real frontier. Elite Dangerous came close, it was a thrill to be the first one in a system. Genuinely don't know how you'd solve that, though.

One obstacle you have to overcome is that there has to be an investment that is risked by the players. There's not much of a cost to gank someone usually, or it's simply not allowed at all except in a controlled way. One thing that forces people into social cooperation is to protect against the potential for loss. As I understand it, confrontations with other players in EVE Online are dangerous because of that investment of time and/or money. That's part of what makes roguelikes and battle royales so compelling. That said, you have to balance it against being appealing enough to more casual players--how do you encourage investment without making it a boring grind or too expensive?
> The great benefit of a touch screen is unlimited update capabilities

You say this like it's a good thing. It's bad enough when apps get non-optional "updates" that make the experience worse. I don't want my car interface to go to shit because a designed wanted to add more padding to everything.

More realistically though, this means cars will stop getting updates after a few years but the remote access system will still be there providing a juicy attack surface for hackers.
> They put the phone microphone and speaker on the side of the device.

I actually drilled a few tiny holes in the side of my N-Gage so that I could hold it like a normal phone. The actual speaker was not near the edge, and was mounted such that its natural direction was towards the rear of the device. The N-Gage had a channel moving sound from the speaker out towards the side.

I have no idea why they engineered the device like that. It would have been easier to just put a grill right where I drilled my holes.
I don't understand why we're even talking about javascript? Responsiveness has always worked fine on css. Even without grid, you could easily make a good responsive layout
Mmmm, see Australia for their implementation of rank voting and two major political parties.
I think they were referring to companies like Accenture, IBM, or PwC. The "Professional Services" industry employs a ton of software developers and is fairly pro-cyclical.
I (25 years working with GNU/Linux) usually name my bash scripts `something.sh`.
I think it's debatable wether it's always good or bad, and when specifically it can be a good idea to leave out the `.sh`.

Also, it doesn't look like you looked into the game and came out with some conclusions. It looks more like you superficially had a look, you had a thougt and rushed to comment here about what you believe is a deadly sin. I personally never enjoy this kind of comment, as there's not much thought behind them.

I tried it (before recommending to a teammate) and I also noticed some things that could be improved. But it never crossed my mind to post a judgement on the project after trying it out for just five minutes.
The actual seats that are won are a better indication of the results and who has power. Results seem to be that the major 2 parties won 90% of the seats: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal-election-2022-res...
You don't know the human. You only know a character on TV. That character is intermediated for you by many hands. Maybe the character acts in reality as you think, or maybe they are literally acting to gain your approval. We don't know anything about the people presented to us.
How do you define loophole. Is is the code that explicitly gives a tax credit for children and dependence a tax loophole?

I don't think that you can make a coherent argument that a law operating as intended is considered a loophole.
I really never go to the GitHub home page. I’ve maybe been to GitHub.com five times in 15 years.

I go directly to projects and I find projects 95% through word of mouth, coworkers, friends, articles and 5% through GitHub search.

But my normal workflow is to go to work repos directly and do my job.

I never go to my “feed” page but it shows every once in a while after I do stuff like transfer repos and it’s just a bunch of meaningless noise.
I meant the originals should be in the Acropolis museum and replicas installed on the Acropolis itself, and in the British Museum if they want to.
Medieval castle building rts with 4x elements and actual siege strategies. Ie, a well thought out sieges or well thought out castle designs would allow for taking control of areas decisively or defending an area while expending few resources.
I didn't know about the gas masks being ubiquitous during the war; that makes that part a little less surprising. History can be sad.
Such an interesting, orthogonally-aligned set of game ideas. Being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I feel like I've been playing 'your game' my whole life!
Nike to Exit Russia as Resale Contracts End
No, it is caused by the presidential system. A parliamentary system even with first past the post would give you more than two parties.
There are more Egyptian obelisks outside Egypt (and Italy alone has almost as many as Egypt).
Not all customizations available, no Messenger support, no game support the list goes on and on. NoN sEnSe...
ipv6 is untenable. We need ipv4.1.

Just add another octlet at the start, but stored in the options field. Old stuff won't get confused, and new stuff will know that empty means 1.x.x.x.x.

Problem solved.
I collect phonograph records, generally from thrift/charity shops. It is always an interesting glimpse into someone's life when an entire record collection (minus anything actually valuable of course) ends up there after a house cleanout. Sometimes a bit of the personality shines through, and if there is a name I can often get more context.

I recently discovered an acetate home recording from the 1940s that had a name on it. I discovered that the family still lived in the area and a little research let me reach out to one of the children to return it to them. They had no idea of the recording's existence, it just went out with all the other stuff.

It's probably a great premise for an extreme cold case murder mystery.
Thanks to everyone who replied to this. I am thrilled to learn about these options.

To my Portal idea the closest I’ve found was Superliminal. There’s something wrong with the graphics though, it makes me nauseous to play.

But I will definitely check out your suggestions! Thanks again!
I'd think an easier change would be to bring back secret voting in Congress, which was effectively eliminated by the use of electronic voting introduced by changes in The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970.

It would accomplish two things: lobbyists wouldn't be able to tell who actually voted for legislation and party leadership wouldn't be able to effectively enforce party allegiance through committee assignment and campaign funding. I am sure there are some unforeseen consequences (like would lobbying just be replaced with some kind of real bribery behind the scenes), but not being under the influence of lobbyists and party leadership would allow congress members to truly vote on what they think is in their constituents best interests.
Hey all, the giant code block in the article is quite intimidating to read, so I figured I'd post another example here for something developers might be more familiar. See below for FizzBuzz in plain TeX:

% Save to fizzbuzz.tex and compile with pdftex, not pdflatex

\def\modulo#1#2{(#1-(#1/#2)*#2)} % a mod n = a-(a/n)*n where / is integer division

\newcount\X
\X=1
\loop
\ifnum \numexpr\modulo{\X}{15} = 0
FizzBuzz
\else
\ifnum \numexpr\modulo{\X}{3} = 0
Fizz
\else
\ifnum \numexpr\modulo{\X}{5} = 0
Buzz
\else
\the\X
\fi
\fi
\fi
\endgraf
\advance \X by 1
\unless \ifnum \X>100
\repeat
\bye
My friends like FPS but I am terrible at them. I love RTS and they can't be bothered to learn them. Would be great if we had a game to bridge that gap.

1) Asymmetric RTS / FPS. A group of FPS players play through a map against an RTS player who is controlling the tech, types and grouping of mobs, etc.

2) RTS / FP coop game sort of like Warcraft 3 where one player controls the base from an RTS view and another player(s) control a hero and a support army.

I don't enjoy MOBA's but they are super popular. I love Starcraft but it is too hard to get into. Takes tons of time and effort to get the basics of 'how to play'.

3) I think a game somewhere between Starcraft and LOL would be interesting. Clearly it is all about the details here and I don't have them - but I think you could capture a really big gaming market by trying to simplify the macro of Starcraft, keep the micro, army movement, base building, expanding etc. Controlling and upgrading lanes of a moba map?

I have no idea how any of these would really work out from a game development point of view but I think they have potential to be a lot of fun and bring some new life into the RTS world.
A couple of things:

1. Bootstrapped business are very good at cash management because they usually don't have a lot of cash.

2. Better to never be hired than hired for three weeks and laid off.

3. Software development is still an awesome industry to be in and there are still far too few developers than there are jobs at all levels.

4. Look for companies that have customers that continue to buy in a downturn if you fear recession. Companies that serve government, healthcare and energy industries tend to be safe, but they usually pay less than other industries.
From what I understand, the EC benefits ‘the States’ as landmasses, and since most of those lands are rural, and rural areas tend to vote GOP, the GOP ultimately benefit.

Obviously it wasn’t set up to be like this: the GOP just evolved to fill the niche of rural politics to get the power. If anything, maybe there was a bias towards physiocrats vs urban liberals in the founders’ day that now manifests as Red v Blue.

I’m not sure if I can see many first principles justifications for giving rural areas such a mechanism of power, but I also don’t see the entire US being dominated by LA and NYC as a good thing either.
Launched my career in early 2000. I was taking a bunch of short term contracts to build up experience.

Six months of multiple recruiters every day calling.
One day the calls stopped. 3 years before I could get a tech job.

Chilled at RadioShack during that time with other engineers who had way more experience than I did, but couldn't find work.
The facts are that there is an allegation without any proof right now. It only takes one person to make such an allegation. Tesla/Elon fanboyism side, I don't know how you are so sure of what really happened that you feel comfortable equating the defense of due legal process to supporting sexual harassment.
Interesting! Never heard about it. Can you give some sources or more info?
I think the system would be incredibly unfair without something to balance the votes among states. The real problem is that the president/federal government has too much power, things shouldn't change drastically from one president to the next.

Imagine if every time you had a block party everyone voted on the type of food, but there was one huge family that shared a dietary preference that most of the other families disliked. You would have to go with what they said every time, just because they aren't keeping their household population under control. Some might say it would be more fair to give every family a vote, but If someone lives alone their vote would count way more than someone living with 20 others. The next step would be something like the electoral college.

That said, they should definitely get rid winner-takes-all per state, and increase the amount of votes for every state.

I think it would be nice if every state had 100 electoral votes that mapped to the percentage points of who their population voted for.
This was a good article, and more such articles with examples are needed because understanding how pointer aliasing works can yield significant performance gains, since the compiler can be directed to make optimizations it would otherwise not make.
This, coupled with the previous answer that because the class A 127 had been reserved, it was hard to tell for backwards compatibility reasons what shenanigans had gone on in that whole subnet, seems to explain how we lost a whole class A subnet to the same function.
In the US we have the opposite problem - low turnout. Especially in primaries, we see that a small minority (15% maybe) pick the candidates. This is because it's the most motivated (potentially extreme) voters that show up to vote in primaries. Also, different states hold primaries on different days, so many of the presidential candidates drop after just a couple states vote.
The US exists because a far-away British majority oppressively over-taxed and over-regulated a minority group of colonies, leading to the Revolutionary War.

US states may not be countries, but there was a time in history where they had a choice to form the fledging United States. There were a number of compromises that everyone agreed to. One of the most important compromises was that the States had assurances that high population states would not be able to step all over the smaller colonies, and that the Federal government would not simply become another tyrannical monarchy.
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I'm puzzled by your statement that "Coaxing the engine to use an index is much harder, if not impossible in postgres so far". If this were true it would make Postgres pretty much unusable for any non-toy applications, which is clearly not the case. I'm assuming there are some qualifiers missing from this statement.
> two dials. One is time, the other is power cycle

This is the ideal design and no one can convince me otherwise. Same thing goes for ovens. All I care about is "how hot do I cook/bake this?" and "For how long?"

Two dials is perfect.
Google is your friend

https://www.unix.com/man-page/bsd/1/LEARN/
What I don't understand is why IPv6 only has a single loopback address, instead of a /8 or /16. This would enable cool things like the OS mapping each subdomain of localhost to a distinct IPv6 address.
The article you linked I agree with almost fully, nice work.

The only part I have issue with is when the teacher says “we fix things by "switching them off and on again"” as if that’s a bad thing. I see and agree with your actual point, but a power cycle is generally step one for almost all debugging.
There's no such thing as Python because other people write code that imports dependencies.
We'd probably get better results if we inverted your criteria honestly. Someone who didn't graduate high school and has a criminal record has first-hand experience with the worst our system has to offer, likely close ties to people it is failing badly right now.
These do exist in some states, under the name runoff elections. They cost campaigns and taxpayers a lot of money, and election turnout in the US is already bad enough without having people return to the polls a second time.

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/high-costs-and-low-turnout-for...
Even YouTube now has a REJECT ALL button.

Which is quite nice for folks like me, who always clear browsing data upon exit.
You are grossly misunderstanding the situation if you actually believe this to be the case.
Do you mean downwards, as in, become extremely cheap?
The Group comprises ten brands from five European countries: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, ŠKODA, SEAT, CUPRA, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Porsche and Ducati.

... so basically everything
You are making several big logical jumps here that I don't think are connected. This sounds more like a dinner table conversation among some conservatives validating each other's worldviews than a constructive discussion point.

There are arguably more opportunities now for learning things from a professional than in the past.

Public schooling has very rarely been about mentorship anyway. Arguably higher education always was to some extent, but it very often still is; you end up in debt nowadays, but it's still widely accessible.

And I don't see what loss of manufacturing has to do with anything. Some of those manufacturing jobs were in skilled trades, sure, but there are still plenty of opportunities still to learn skilled trades. And even then, I don't think that has much of anything to do with learning things from a book at the library vs. a course on the Web.
What in the actual eff. Anything except actually switching fully to ipv6, amirite?

Trying to see the most charitable position here - is there an aspect in which redefining 127/8 to 127/16 across billions of devices is actually feasible?
I feel like that would directly incentivize fighting each other, no?
I've been paying attention. Only Republicans are legitimate rulers in the USA. Only Republican policies and favored rights are legitimate in the USA. I was being a little sarcastic to try to emphasize that even though the current SCOTUS majority is ignoring precedent and has freed themselves from logic, they won't be labeled "activist" by any media, because the media lets Republicans frame issues and set agendas.
Equity is a fascinating and complex/weird body of law, and estoppel is a great introduction to it. For anyone interested in learning more, a good starting point is learning about the maxims of equity and their applications in real property.
Minecraft is indeed a great example of a game pushing the envelope on player freedom - and allowing emergent gameplay.

Tip of the hat to you, good sir!

Still, Minecraft is pretty limited mechanically. The game doesn't actually recognize any of the stuff you mention. The games' mechanics - all the technological progression and stuff - work perfectly fine in single-player. Also the number of players per server isn't quite on MMO levels...

But yes, some elements of Minecraft would be great ingredients of the game I'm proposing.