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I think it would be better if every election was for multiple offices, and the top 2-5 candidates got those offices. For example, Presidential elections first place would become president, second place would become vice president, and third place would become speaker.

Another nice thing we could do is stop listing party on the ballot. Just list names in alphabetical order.

Though I think the biggest thing we could do to be "more democratic" is get rid of the 435 limit for the house, and go back one seat per 30,000 people. If we had 10,000 congressmen, they would all more closely represent the area they're from. Maybe up the senate to 10 per state while we're at it.

And while I'm throwing out wacky ideas, why not have regional governments that encompass multiple states?. If America was a company, we would be overdue for middle management.
An intuitive, quick-to-learn-but-hard-to-master successor to the WC3 map Warlocks (simple top-down multiplayer shooter with varied, strong mechanics).

There was an attempt, called "Spellsworn", which flopped very hard. Battlerite was also somewhat similar, but more cluttered and degraded very quickly.

It doesn't even have to be fantasy-based, in fact, I would like even more a successor to Comet Busters versus mode.
Career tips I wish I knew
This is always said, but never true.

After you have built out enough renewables for day load and to charge storage, you build out storage. Not batteries, those are super expensive. Stuff that is super-cheap, instead. There are lots of choices. But you don't need to choose immediately. Prices are plummeting at different rates, and nobody knows which will be cheapest by then.
In Switzerland it works. Maybe the Swiss are perceptually less moronic than the USians?

It's not "by denfinition problematic".
My dream is a lot more narrow: I want a mod or an official game mode for Deep Rock Galactic where two teams of 4 dwarves race to the center of a cave for resources and have to take it back to the drop pod. It should disincentivize players from fighting each other directly, but instead deploy traps and waves of bugs against each other.

It's SUCH a good game as it is. I think it could only improve with the addition of creative PvP modes.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast...
> prominent national third-parties have been run so poorly they've made people more likely to anyone (including independents) over third parties

Could you elaborate on this? It's not clear to me that they are poorly run, especially relative to the two major parties.

(I do agree with your overall point though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31503188)
Are you involved in the hiring process? It sounds like you're hiring juniors when you want intermediate/seniors

Juniors are cheaper but you have to factor in training costs if you want them trained lol
Warcrafts 4-9
Well, yes, but actually no. Its true that you get a spherical planets, but their size is still small like any other RTS
> we managed to elect Eric Adams in NYC despite him being the worst option

“Worst” as in favoured by every borough except the Manhattan political elite, with “Garcia’s support [being] strongly correlated with median household income…she topped 40 percent in each of the city’s five wealthiest Assembly districts” [1]. (Disclaimer: I probably align with the Manhattan political elite.)

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-eric-adams-won-the-...
Australia has a robust ranked voting system but still has very dominant 2 major parties.

I think you're still correct but other factors can be powerful too. For example, people struggle to understand how ranked preferences work, so they are still irrationally afraid of 'wasting their vote' if they preference for a minor party that has no chance of winning. I suspect mandatory voting also encourages people that dont really care about politics (or understand ranked voting) to vote based on propaganda, reinforcing the major two parties.
You stumbled upon one issue some people have. You can declutter but they use that opportunity to refill and somethings grow even further. Sometimes it is best to leave in place. Unless you get to the root of the issue of why are they keeping it all.

I have this issue currently in my home. My wife does not want to go through anything but will not let me touch it either. "no dear my shoebox sized matchbox cars collection is not worth anything to me and I am not going to play with them lets get rid of it". I leave it be, as is, as it is at least in easy to get rid of boxes now. That was at least a step forward. My parents have filled every possible storage area in their house top to bottom with stuff. Some of it has not seen the light of day in 40 years. It is at least 'neat' but it will be an interesting challenge to pull it all out and sort it. I leave that one be as they have filled the storage areas and they have no more room to still be neat and tidy but grab more items.
For an overview of alternate voting systems, I found this video from Primer highly informative:

https://youtu.be/yhO6jfHPFQU
So true.

Hardware/Physical innovation also takes 20 years delay "lab to fab" - you can't cheat it or speed it up. It simply takes time.

And more importantly: if you don't continuously (not continually) fund that 20 years of work (financially, human effort, etc.), the delay goes to infinity.

In general, that "pipeline" has emptied out in the US as manufacturing was outsourced overseas. And so anything you start today merely starts the 20 year clock but if and only if you have the infrastructure in place to support it.
Cookie banner alone has probably done more harm in terms of wasted human life than anything else combined. 4.66 billion active internet users, 92% of which are web users, spending 5 secs per day on clicking all cookies allowed. That's 680 human years wasted per DAY on these banners.
Kimchi Making at Home Was Going Out of Style. Rural Towns to the Rescue. (2020)
Reposted by other user with an URL a few minutes later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31503290
To compost my vegi cuttings and yard clippings is to allow critters to eat it and leave behind their waste. Compost of organic matter is not magic.

By the same reasoning if critters evolve to eat plastic then the plastic becomes compostable. At the end of a compost cycle we would have a pile of their poop. It wouldn't be magic it would be "Bugs are evolving to eat plastic"
I want to take cyberpunk 2077 and get rid of the current story, then replace it with I Am Legend on an epic scale.

I would settle for the omega man.
A few days ago in these very pages, I dissed the UI of an oscilloscope. But using one yesterday, I realized an advantage: I could operate it with one hand while holding the probe with the other. Even software interfaces for instrumentation, that use the keyboard and mouse, are physically awkward and your computer has to be positioned just right.

A couple more advantages:

* A small interface makes small things small. A voltmeter doesn't need to be as big as a computer, and there are lots of gadgets that are smaller.

* One-foot operation, such as the page turning pedals that musicians are now using for their sheet music.
I have a few ideas that I will almost certainly never develop. If someone wants to use them, please do. These are games I wish existed.

Here they are:

The first one is a game where you play as Mormons, and the goal of the game is to be nice to people no matter the cost. It would start out with fairly easy things, but then you come across increasingly hostile or dangerous circumstances where you have to choose between negotiation or fleeing. You can't "die" in the game because, if you are about to die, either God or the angel Moroni will intervene. At that point, you must restart a mission. Then again, I'm not that opposed to the player dying either. I know not that much about Mormonism other than that I've known Mormons throughout my life. :)

Another idea I have is for a game I call "Monkey Town". It's somewhere between Sim City and The Sims, and takes place in a world where monkeys and various apes take the place of humans. They are as intelligent as present-day humans, but they do thinks in their own monkey ways. You are the mayor of Monkey Town, and you must build it up and maintain it. There are problems you have to deal with like monkeys pooping everywhere, political corruption, ape speciesism, infrastructure failures, monkeys rioting, monkey insurrections, etc. The monkey culture would have some differences from human society like knoodling being allowed in public, networks of vines are used for monkeys to swing between neighborhoods, bananas as currency, and so on.

My third idea is a game called "Shut Me Up", which I think of as more of a short arcade style game where your job as the player is to harass and scream at people so those people start telling you to shut up. But you keep doing it so that they start physically attacking you to get you to shut up.
Social/political MMORPG sandbox, where players are allowed to make their own rules and means of enforcing them, with AI blended into population
disco elysium! Best writing in a game ever.
For the coffee machine, it would be shitty UI if every function had a physical button. You don’t need a dedicated button to run the descale cycle since you do it twice a year, but it’s also a bit crap to have to pull out a manual to work out which order of buttons to press and for how long and what all the blinking lights mean. A touch screen executes this perfectly. It doesn’t have to blink led 2 to tell you of an error, it can just show the error on the screen.
That’s not a wacky idea it’s how presidential elections were originally specified in the Constitution. Look at how badly Jefferson undermined Adams as his VP to see why that was quickly discovered to be a bad idea.
Such a meaningless article as it does not take battery size into account...

Sure your EQS has 444 km but have fun recharging that 107 kwh monster battery...

The name of the game is efficiency and here are the result in that test:

| Model | Range KM | Battery (kwh) | Efficiency |
| ------------------------- | -------- | ------------- | ---------- |
| Tesla Model 3 Performance | 337 | 75 | 222.55 |
| Mercedes EQS | 444 | 107.8 | 242.79 |
| VW ID.4 GTX | 332 | 82 | 246.99 |
| VW ID.4 Pro | 328 | 82 | 250 |
| Audi Q4 e-tron 40 | 326 | 82 | 251.53 |
| Audi RS e-tron GT | 367 | 93.4 | 254.5 |
| BMW iX xDrive 50 | 434 | 111.5 | 256.91 |
| Skoda Enyaq iV80 | 316 | 82 | 259.49 |
| Porsche Taycan 4S | 352 | 93.4 | 265.34 |
| Ford Mach-E GT | 367 | 98.8 | 269.21 |

The real winner is Tesla by a large margin and LR and SR version are ever more efficient than this.

Also I find the result of the EQS suspicious low given the weight of the vehicule, whereas the Tesla's consumption is surprisingly high. I don't think it should be over 200wh/km at 130km/h under normal conditions.
half-life 3
I can't see where they criticize the term "black box". So, ironically, this is just a complaint that they used some terminology you don't approve of.
> Your average web based word processor with cloud storage performs about the same as Microsoft Word did on Windows 3.1 on a 486 saving onto a floppy.

It is now trivial to embed high definition photographs in a document. There is a figure-creation tool right there in the application. I can make notes and comments and mark up a document. I have an automatic and recoverable record of the history of my document. I can collaboratively edit that document with people from across the world. I have spellcheck that works across dozens (perhaps hundreds) of languages.

In the sense that we have a WISIWYG editor whose primary interaction is a keyboard typing letters - sure. But I wouldn't describe this as "about the same."
A true "MMORPG".

Back in the day when the genre was new, people were fascinated by the potential of virtual worlds and virtual societies. Social scientists did online studies on player behavior and the interactions people had online, on spontaneous self-governance coming into existence, on how communities formed and developed, and many other similar topics. That potential was never fulfilled.

Today - some twenty years later - the MMORPG has become a genre of checking off boxes and making numbers go up, along a linear way as laid out by the developers for you. Apart from PvP and maybe some forced grouping, most games would play absolutely identical mechanically, if you were playing all alone on your own private server. You'd do the same quests, fight the same enemies, get the same loot. All the other players you get to meet online - they don't actually influence the game mechanics at all.

You play next to each other. Not actually with each other.

I'd like to see a game, where the sum of players (and their interactions) are greater than just the sum of it's parts. A game with a virtual economy, a virtual society, etc. - that advance and evolve in a player-driven fashion. A simulated game world that dynamically adapts. Some glimpses of this sort of thing can be seen in games like EvE. Old games (pre-WoW) like UO and SWG had some of that magic as well - but were marred by limitations of the technology of the day. This kind of stuff has evolved very, very little since then.

I would assume that with today's technology we should be able to get a lot closer to fulfilling that potential.
Supabase free tier is hard to beat. Worth checking out!
> Zaitsev pointed out that if you look at the rankings on DB-Engines, which combines mentions, job ads and social media data, Oracle is always the top RDBMS.

If you have just the name of the company + the word database, oracle database on Google shows 1,360,000,000 (or more than 1 billion results). Somehow I doubt those results are all human-created.
Yossi Kreinen (the C++ Frequently Questioned Answers guy) has a good post or two about choosing battles or projects.
Does anybody have sources they want to share for getting components for classic interfaces like these today?

I'd imagine production has plummeted since the glory days, but there ought to be stock of some things around still and people salvaging nice parts?

I don't do any hardware work worth mentioning, but I hope to get around to amending that soon, and I'd find it attractive to use interfaces appropriate to the task (which, as people here have noted, will mean the ones on topic in a very substantial share of the cases).
'I stopped using the internet - and why you should too'
no, government is not a synonym for "cabinet"

the term "government" includes government departments (Whitehall), which are mostly staffed by civil servants

meanwhile the state ("The Crown") is something completely different again
A stealth based Terminator game. Most Terminator games were cookie cutter 2D platformers (in the 90s) or generic FPS games where you play a resistance fighter/Kyle Reese and fight terminators or you play as T-800 and fight bikers and other terminators.

What I'd like to play, is a Hitman/Dishonored like Terminator game. You play as T-1000, you should avoid suspicion, shapeshift to gain access to restricted areas. You can do combat, but it should be avoided because it will make achieving your goals harder.
I think that this means you don’t have to download a copy of the file locally?
Gee, it sure is lucky that no one could just create another account to get around the time limitation!
I’m not sure how fuschia does it, or how feature-based capabilities work, but Cheri[1] uses capabilities for memory management and isolation.

It uses a couple of techniques, like wide/tagged pointers, object ids, and a special hardware managed bit to track illegal modifications.

If I had to hazard a guess, those object ids are probably useful for general capability systems.

I think apple (maybe as just an arm feature?) can do encrypted pointers, with a per application key tracked by the kernel.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
Amazing how many simps show up in these threads to cry that their dear sweet Apple might have to face democracy.
Мор утопия. It has English but I can not google, sorry. Second version is almost same as first but on Unity.
Any effort that may be applied to reclaiming v4 address space will always be better directed to expanding global v6 connectivity.
The article also references syscalls that are marked with TODOs for validation of those calls.
Without doubt - StarCraft FPS!
I don’t mind a small screen that isn’t involved in common cabin features.

I have a 2018 Mazda3 and I like the backup camera. But I can control the climate control and temperature with physical buttons. The seat warmers have buttons. I can control the volume with a knob or on the steering wheel.

The radio, unfortunately, is software. Seems like that much is unavoidable. But the small screen that is there is secondary to everything else I want to control while driving and I don’t ever need to use while driving. I’m typically using Apple CarPlay (or previously Android Auto) so if I do need to do something, I can use voice controls and at least keep my eyes on the road.

I don’t mind small screens, as you said, they’re not going away. What I don’t want is a giant screen that controls everything.
(Tom) Knight says that fixing problems requires you to understand what's going on, and you can't just blindly turn a machine off and on again and hope it'll fix things.

In the novice's particular case, Knight understands what is actually wrong with the machine, and that in this case it will be fixed by turning it off and on again, so he does that.

The idea that in such a situation the machine wouldn't be fixed by power-cycling it when the novice does it, but would when an expert with deep understanding does it, is a joke.

The joke is mimicing the form of a Zen koan. Koans often play with contradiction, I think with the idea of shaking the reader out of simplistic black-and-white thinking into something more holistic and less dichotomizing. I don't think "you need to understand things deeply and not just make random easy changes in the hope of fixing them, but sometimes it happens that those random easy changes are what's actually required" really counts as the sort of holistic non-dichotomizing thing Zen is trying to teach, but it's kinda in the right ballpark.
The planets in Planetary Annihilation always feel too small to me. 80x80 maps in SupCom feel bigger to me than a series of (what feels like) golf balls.
Thanks for recommending! I was reading it today. In the book, the author actually had the very same problem as I am facing right now:
“It’s also a big time commitment to ask from the customer before you’re in a position to show them anything in return. In the early days, asking for the first conversation was simply impossible for me. I wasn’t credible enough, so nobody wanted to take a meeting just to talk to me about their day.”
Show HN: Contribution Graph as a Git Command
The first problem with the EC as a target for voting reform is that voting reform, since it goes against the personal interest of elected officials, needs very broad popular support to succeed. (This tends to be true of changing any political system.) But the EC means that some regions will likely oppose voting reform quite vigorously.

The second problem is that the EC basically only affects the Presidential election (unless you restructure the Senate, but just look at the filibuster debate to see how that goes), but most candidates get to there downstream of other elections. And in the other elections, some depressingly large proportion of legislative districts and even some entire states are lock-ins for one party. All of that is most feasibly addressed by state-level reforms that won't be part of an EC change.

So it's very hard, and it's not enough. That's not great.
Downvote all you like, it is bad code all the same.
> another way of saying that an individual in a smaller state is more important than an individual in a large city

An individual in the country is more able to rebel than an individual in the country. Territorial integrity was the original motivation for the system. It still has arguments for it, though the massive shift in relative economic productivity makes the college, in my opinion, obsolete.
I agree. You should only use Flex box when you need it, like when you have differing width children and wrapping.
Maybe before starting to teach others, you should teach yourself how to cleanly package your software into OS packages, instead of peddling around MS-DOS style shell scripts with a .sh extension. Didn't anybody teach you that UNIX-like operating systems purposely do not use extensions, in order to abstract the implementation language of the executable from the user?

How the hell are you going to properly teach others, if you have such knowledge gaps yourselves?

It's blind leading the blind again; boy does this make me mad.
I have a 2017 Honda Civic. That particular model year, they chose to remove the volume knob for a capacitive little slider thing (in addition to the buttons on the wheel). The very next year, they put it back. Turns out it's pretty useful to be able to control the volume of your stereo without taking your eyes off the road when operating a car. They did a similar thing for the air controls, except they left some of them as actual knobs and buttons.

Sometimes the old ways are better and have lasted so long for a reason.
Interesting stuff between the lines for old timers on the ecosystem.

The whole set of BUILD sessions related to Project Volterra, avoid talking about the fact that it is Microsoft catching up with what Apple and Google mobile platforms already offer for the last couple of generations.

They talk about WinUI 3.0 as the modern way of developing applications, naturally without mentioning the sad state of affairs regarding bugs, and regressions on the developer experience versus UWP (.NET Native, C++/CX and GUI designer).

They keep repeating open at every occasion, as if the only thing Windows has to offer is to allow any kind of development tool, whatever one feels like installing, and the 80% desktop usage isn't seen as something that Microsoft is assured to keep around, given the mobile/hybrid threat.

Ah and naturally many of those features are only available on the Windows 11, that most devs that might want it, can't have it.

On the other hand Google's announcement at IO to bring their own Android store into Windows, proves they aren't very keen to seen Amazon collaborating with Microsoft on their store.

Finally, the agenda is mostly about Azure anyway, so it is increasingly clear where the cash is coming from nowadays.
I want a game to play together with my young kids (nonviolent, cooperative, easy controls) but that isn't mind-numbingly boring to play as an adult. Not only a large sandbox to explore, but one that feels alive with NPCs to interact with, like a "baby's first MMO" without grind/fetch quests. It's a game I'm building in my spare time.
> Is there a specific reason you are focusing on this issue, out of all of the thousands of issues you could choose to care about?

I am not focusing on it. I am just bringing it up on a thread where it seemed appropriate to. One person can care about more than just one issue at a time.
I have two game themes to call out:

1. A first-person puzzler in the spirit of Portal. No guns, no violence, just… elegantly designed puzzles that requires logic and real world physics to solve.

How Portal didn’t immediately launch a sub-genre of platform puzzlers I’ll never know.

2. I wish there was a game where time travel was a core mechanic. When we die or get stuck in current games, we revert back to a save point, why not lean into that some more to build a compelling game experience?
And structured programming is just sugar over GOTOs.

Polymorphism is just sugar over type inspection and branching.

Recursion-free function calls are just sugar over variable renaming and text movement.