skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never understood why it's somehow considered more 'consensus'-oriented than say FPTP. Biden won his election with 51% of the vote...

Odd example here. That election wasn't FPTP, it just happened to work out that way.
Overall people don't think FPTP is consensus because you have to vote pragmatically for people you don't necessarily like. Therefore the winner is not the consensus "favorite" choice of everyone who voted.
The threat of starvation can absolutely create a successful system, not necessarily in agreement with the morality of it.

And capitalism often does reward hard work. Most of the really successful people I know are just somewhat smart but work crazy hard.
That's the question!

<6% mortgage interest rates were only available for a short period of time since the 1970s; from 2010-2019 they were kept low because the federal reserve wasn't seeing the inflation it was looking for. We finally found a decade of inflation.

But 6% mortgage rates may be a best case scenario for the long term.
you could be on to something here given recent news headlines. Who doesn't want immigration advertised?

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/1122671582/twitter-whistleblo...
I wouldn't.

This method of ranked choice voting is really bad. FPTP is awful. IRV is awful-1%.

Why not choose something good like range or approval voting that doesn't have all these bizarre gotchas and strategies about who is 3rd?

Score and range are even simpler to tabulate than IRV.
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Using AI and open cameras, Dries Depoorter is matching influencers’ Insta pics to behind-the-scenes video footage. Not everyone is happy.
The best acronym will get you banned in many places.
Well, a roundabout with a traffic light is hardly aboloshing traffic lights.
Can you go to your management/HR and ask for an unpaid sabbatical? If I was a manager I'd say yes, rather than lose someone.
Reverse Osmosis is the gold standard
This came up recently in another thread on HN.

Safety stands dictate what happens if you collide with a pedestrian. These days, ever car has a sloped front-end. It's not just for aerodynamics, but it's designed to push pedestrians up and onto the hood, whereas the old "stylish" cars had completely flat front-ends, which made it like getting hit by a wall.

Even worse, some older cars had a front end that had negative slopes. If they hit a pedestrian, they'd be pushed down and under the car.
How is FPTP with > 2 candidates a Condorcet vote? A Condorcet method seeks to pick the candidate who would beat all other candidates in a 1-on-1 election. An N-way FPTP election is by definition not a 1-on-1 election.
Adobe ran Flash into the ground. Flash was developing at such a rapid pace until it was acquired, and then quickly stagnated. Adobe too way too long to get Adobe Air performant and the tooling was abysmal.

If Flash was in capable hands, it would have become a major player in the game development space, which is where most of its strengths were.
You have to factor in everything. It's not just rent payment vs. mortgage payment, it's everything you spend on housing (taxes, repairs, etc.) in two scenarios.

In any situation where the rental scenario results in extra cash flow that you then invest, you can end up ahead in total, sometimes significantly so. It's all complicated by the fact that you are rarely comparing rent vs. buy on the actual same property.

Remember also in the "buy" scenario you have to include closing costs etc. which can affect your timeline. Your 1yr is unrealistic, you'll eat 5-10% of sale price on just that, typically, which may be way more than rent.
The funny part is, I thought that if I did a bunch of real transactions and then reversed them all, that our account might get flagged!

That's in addition to explaining to our investors that we ended our launch day at -$1,000 due to all the chargeback fees because some dumb developer doesn't know what a testing environment is. And in addition to the fact that Stripe recommends against you testing in that way.

I did get a full end-to-end experience, in my production environment, with literally one variable changed: using the testing Stripe API key instead of the production one.

I don't know, it didn't seem like a crazy way of testing at the time. When you consider that the testing environment worked perfectly, and there was no indication, whatsoever, anywhere that we would not be able to charge cards, it kind of felt like how you're supposed to do it.

But clearly I was wrong :) The way you find out if your account has any issues is by charging a real card, and if it works, reversing it, and if it doesn't work, waiting a couple weeks with no information on what's going on. Lesson learned!
I can't quite put my finger on what felt wrong to me. I think it was partly the verbosity, but in the end I talked myself in to being annoyed at having to get to the end which was never going to help.

As for Nutshell, it looks like exactly the type of story I'd love to enjoy. I'm going to pick it up, then move on to kevmarsden and teh_klev's tips if it pans out.

Thanks peeps!
Not to mention the several instances where pc will come into threads like this and outright lie about reaching out to customers, or will ask them to reach out then ghost them again, etc.
> "...the most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys, they'll be machines - the remote descendants of today's computers. Now the present day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation. They will start to think and eventually they will completely out think their makers. Is this depressing? I don't see why it should be. We superseded the cro-magnon and neanderthal men and we presume we're an improvement. I think we should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things." -Arthur C. Clark

https://youtu.be/YwELr8ir9qM?t=259
It makes voting so complex you can't follow it, allowing manipulation.

It's much simpler to have one vote from one person for one candidate.

You shouldn't have to have a degree in stats (and that doesn't help much) to calculate the winner.

Voters should be confident in the system and that means being able to verify it yourself with simple addition.

Ranked choice voting is like the current tax code, full of exceptions and rules for the elite to manipulate while the common person gets boned.
Sure, you can sell the coins off an exchange. But they're worth a lot less if so many entities won't touch them.
They aren't mutually exclusive in your life! I walk fast on the treadmill in the morning and take my time strolling through the public garden next door. This is valuable insight for people trying to use walking as a golden ticket to good cardiovascular health.
Thanks. I would prefer something which can be read offline though, preferably a PDF.
I'm not sure either, but I'm guessing IMF is their immigration authority, and FMM is a type of (tourist?) visa.
Right, I'll open my digital newsletter then where the information is crystal clear and made by experts who clearly proved they know their shit a few years ago when things went bad.

If you think you know where the experts are at then please tell us so we can test your hypothesis.
If a company fires all human customer service and leaves you only with bots to interact with, it's a great saving for them, it's the worst case scenario for human customers.
I think most tourist visa's in most countries which are likely to have this issue are at most 3 months. If a country chooses to allow back to back tourist visa's like that then they sort of know what's going on and have accepted it as a net benefit overall. If they don't permit back to back then after 3 months you've got to up and move somewhere else which many people do, but realistically they're not that much different from a tourist in practical terms.
I guess in this discussion I was talking more about the national housing market, rates, and rent and not specific cities.
Absolutely hearsay here but a family member worked for SNCF as a mechanic for TGV trains (but not the locomotive) and has said that the pantograph was the limiting factor they had designed the last generation around. That it was designed as a wear part and the top and optimal speeds were chosen based on thresholds for unacceptable wear on the transmission lines themselves, which are much more difficult and expensive to replace. He told me never to expect TGV speeds to increase significantly until we saw them ripping out the powerlines and replacing them with an entirely new system.

Again I don't know if this is true! But it seems reasonable enough to me. That conversation was about twenty years ago and plenty has changed with TGV in the mean time but sure enough no top speeds have increased on any line in the system in that timeframe, and new lines are deployed with the same speeds as the older ones.
I moved to what is universally referred to as "The Sydney of America": San Francisco.
I'm from New Zealand where we have lots of roundabouts. My observation is that they work well, even with heavy traffic except some unbalanced conditions that can happen at rush hours.

Imagine this. Driving on the right.
Roundabout with four exits. North, East, South, West.
Heavy streams of traffic entering from north and west.
Most traffic exits at east therefore nothing to slow north enterers.
West enterers hopefully get the breaks in north entering traffic.
Trying to enter from south is really difficult because north and west enterers keep it full.
Am I out of touch? Are people happily using old versions of Python? No! It's the kids who are wrong!
I use Remove Sticky bookmarklet (so not even an extension) - https://lolfi.com/posts/removesticky/
Perhaps American companies could invent something instead of stealing from Chinese? ;-)
I found that "I don't care about cookies" blocks a lot more popups, especially from German websites. Maybe because the developer is based in Europe.
This is 100% correct.

The biggest risk is the remote country coming after the employee and/or employer. If you are the employer, and you are 100% sure you are never going to do business in the country, you MAY be ok. However, there are tax treaties at play as well and that can complicate things.

If the remote country goes after the employee, it may get ugly especially if the employee is still there. That indirectly also impacts the employer.

So if you or your employees are going to work from a different country, read their regulations and be very careful about staying longer than the time period that they consider you a resident for tax purposes.

This is quite an interesting space for some future startup.
I’m not terribly upset because I think it could be worse if others bought them, but I think they’ve stagnated and had lots of stability problems since the purchase.
I'm pretty confident I could find any HN post that I remember with the search box at the bottom, or by googling it with site:news.ycombinator.com.

With, half of the blogs that I liked I can't remember the name of the blog, it's probably either been dropped from search engine indexes for being older than a year or two or pushed to the 10th page by better SEO, or the site has simply vanished.
It’s not going to stop. It’s going to get much worse. And you will be happy.
>Usually when you get government "transparency" it is in the form of a PDF of poorly photocopied documents as images which are effectively useless from a analysis standpoint, unless you have many humans ready to read/transcribe.

Of the largest 20 cities in the US, all but one have open data sites where you can programmatically pull down datasets. I feel like this is more becoming the norm rather than the exception. Maybe it's just smaller municipalities that don't have open data sites?
Can you safely "pickle" Python objects across different architectures and Python version (assuming we forget about Python 2)?
I don't agree- Begich wins with 61.4% against Palin, as mentioned above? It seems clear that he would've prevailed in a primary
I'm handicapped.

The bike vision of the future features all of these tanned, lean people cycling everywhere (and even making turn signals with their hands, which happens so infrequently IRL that I generally note it at once a year), and I guess everyone else just hopes they don't get stabbed if they ride our quasi-subway.
HTML inputs have APIs for checking their validation state. The input returning "" in invalid state is easy to test for:

const num = numInput.checkValidity()
? numInput.value
: 0; // or some other default
I'd appreciate it if you could provide some evidence for your claim that comparative advantage is "lost in the noise."

Efficient allocation of scarce resources is best achieved with comparative advantages. A commercial software team has shared context, management, and knowledge that cannot be as efficiently achieved by a decentralized community of contributors. So the commercial team can produce the same software at a cheaper cost. This is a good thing for the economy.
It's not meant to be more concensus oriented. It's meant to give third parties/candidates a chance while preventing the spoiler effect.

With the current US political climate, a third party would likely win a lot of the time if we were simply doing pair preferences like you laid out, because people are essentially voting by party for the lesser evil in most elections these days.
Yeah, but we should push back against this, lest it poison every attempt at getting better non-IRV RCV implemented.
Selection bias? Have you been learning lisp recently?

I've been playing with Emacs lisp so I'm naturally drawn to clicking on anything lispy on HN. But I haven't noticed it elsewhere.
$70M in Art at MoMA to Be Sold to Extend Museum’s Digital Reach
The Devil Is in the Hairdo
And in the case that the malicious supermajority isn't breaking the rules? In the stated instance where they're omitting certain transactions, what rule would they be breaking?
Any old data for comparison points?
Interesting. What will be the provider you recommend? Any local banks?
Is there physical space for this?
Demos in the site are behind the current version and not being updated to the latest one [1]. And updating the demos will take a while since I have to take resizing containers into consideration. So the current version is 2.x.x while the last one was 3.7.0. Sorry about that.

[1] - https://github.com/dflex-js/dflex/pull/573
Can you prove out the math on that one please?
Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line
The argument is that he wins against Palin due to Democrats, who wouldn't have voted in the primary, preferring Begich over Palin.
I agree, Ubuntu's seems far more legible than the others. The "new Windows console" design still seems a lot closer than the pathological example they show than it does to the Ubuntu text. It is certainly a step toward being more legible but the contrast still doesn't work for me.
I am surprised that Peter Thiel has walked the talk.
All anecdotal but hey: The roundabouts I've seen fail (we have many) are those with not enough and too much obstruction. The versions with some form of gradual grace (curved edges around a center platform or lots of grass and a bump) tend to work best. One of the worst ones was a very large one with a meter high round wall as center barrier which caused lots of damage to those who made a mistake. The too small ones are just intersections with minor obstacles to navigate.
History suggests that's not a recipe for long-term success.
Did you check out: https://fengari.io/ by any chance?
It might depend on your bank, but if you request it, it should be possible for them to issue a new card on the same account without cancelling the old card.

That's a good point. I guess I should call them and see if that's an option. If so, that sounds like the best of both worlds.

I could also buy a phone that has NFC / tap to pay support, and link my card to Google Wallet and use that. An awful lot of the place I shop support that these days...
In case of Ethereum that wasn't true afaik, a lot of it was mined in the US for example. Since Ethereum wasn't all ASICs like Bitcoin, there was more decentralization in that sense with individuals running miners from home, not always at the highest efficiency. Your first paragraph is correct regarding profitability for most miners though, based on the numbers I've seen.

One thing that I find interesting in the electricity debates is that if we took the gaming example and looked at the collective consumption of all people playing video games around the world, you'd arrive at even larger numbers of power usage and emissions. Yet this isn't ever discussed, even though an immutable public ledger like Bitcoin arguably has more utility for society than playing games. A lot of HN users probably play video games, CO2 emissions are of course mainly an issue caused by other people and activities oneself doesn't take part in. In Europe, there's also a trend of public anger against SUVs and there are groups slashing tires of cars, simply based on the shape and ignoring the actual energy efficiency. Happened to a friend of mine who couldn't understand why they targeted her car and left 30 year old gas guzzlers in the same street alone. I think a lot of it has to do with emotions more than rational considerations around sustainability.
Why does this frustrate you? Do you look at your home directory as a carefully-tended garden, and the translucent dotfiles are cluttering it up? Why are you attached to your home directory like that?

Also, this is why the registry was invented, but as we all know, that's a "bad idea" (because it's an old idea, which makes it bad, because being old makes ideas badder).
How do you handle recurring subscriptions with this setup?
I don't think it's that. Supposing an employee had access to approve and pay invoices for a US company, and then moved to a country that had no extradition treaty with the US.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were worries about someone working from a sanctioned country as well. Would paying their wages break sanctions?
Why not redesign highways so it is easy for self driving vehicles to follow? You could even have it set up that vehicles are only allowed to self drive when conditions are right. Maybe signage on the road itself enables or disable self driving.

To me this feels like this could be done immediately, and at least we would have self driving for the most monotonous part of the driving experience, long hours of highway driving.
It's worse than ponzi, its securities fraud.
> I would really like to keep my primary Discord account, is there anything I can do about it?

Why? Discord has no obligation to its users, and it's a volatile platform to conduct any mission-critical or business-related communications. The best thing to do is to stop using it.
don't encourage them
Only the first time. They never told me why my other accounts -- which were following all of the rules -- were frozen.
Don't commit crimes aside from crimes
They are going to be spending a lot of time and money on wrongful-termination lawsuits.
Except they don't - heavier objects fall at the same rate (G - 9.8m/s^2) as lighter ones. You can experiment with this yourself - try rolling a ping pong ball and baseball down the same incline. You'll see they hit the bottom at the same speed (wind resistance is a thing, hence the incline, and you'll get more accurate results indoors).

Don't feel bad though - Aristotle got this wrong and it took until Galileo to get it right.

Don't take my word for it though, here's a Scientific American article about it from 2013: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-hom...
> radical anti-immigration Sweden Democrats

What does "radical" mean? A return to pre-1975 immigration policy? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Sweden#1968%E2%...

> The party has also undergone an extensive rebranding: replacing its burning flame logo with a more innocent-looking flower and scrapping its "Keep Sweden Swedish" slogan.

The Overton window has shifted so far that an indigenous people cannot even keep one small corner of the world to themselves without being called "radical". Anything short of enthusiastically cheering for your country to be reduced to an economic zone for the global population to compete in is now far right.
Some ranked choice people might tell you that's a feature not a bug, they usually cite increased ability for third parties to win which implies less mainstream appeal to everyone, i.e. not the "least of evils" candidate who beats others.
Ask HN: Can I avoid being nuked by Stripe?
I have a Stripe account that has been going along nicely, regular transactions at a steady but moderate pace -- a few transactions a week at a consistent amounts. I'm a one-person-shop, not a developer, and I integrate with Stripe through my invoicing software. I've been building momentum towards a new product launch that will hopefully change that transaction velocity to dozens, hopefully a couple hundred transactions per day, through a storefront.

Now, I am concerned that a significant change in velocity/volume like this is going to set off a flag with Stripe, and I fear that my Stripe account will get nuked, kill the launch, all the momentum I've been building, my reputation, and all my regular business to boot -- if I lose access to Stripe I lose a very significant portion of my business. Even if its just for a couple weeks while I'm "being reviewed".

There seem to be many threads here on HN about getting killed by Stripe without explanation, without easy recourse, without customer support or quick resolution -- especially as a small fry like me.

Are there any suggestions for a non developer, one-person-shop to avoid this seemingly common pitfall?

Why do I think I'll get flagged? In recent history had one invoice that was unusually large for my transaction history -- I landed a really good project. I feared this would set off a trigger with Stripe, and sure enough I was flagged "as a part of our ongoing account review process".

Stripe sent very vague and *very "phishy"* seeming emails. After logging into Stripe I had to give access to my bank accounts and get through a "review" of my business.

I really feared I was going to be cut off then. So, I harbor no illusions that it will happen again next time should I enjoy a modicum of unusual success. I certainly learned that in the future I have to invoice large projects in smaller incremental chunks and not in the one-lump that the client preferred.

But I don't know how to handle if the velocity of transactions changes.
It is lazy. It is lazy to just stop people on the street who look "sketchy" instead of actually investigating crimes. That is the moral equivalent of our current financial system. We used to have the right to look sketchy but we pissed that away years ago.
It isn't terrible, it is just not suitable for cryptographic applications. I suspect most of the time that people want a random number up to some value, it is not for cryptographic purposes.
With increasing housing costs and property taxes; it's getting easier and easier to surpass the standard deduction. If your state has income taxes, even easier.

Example scenario: New >$3000/mo mortgage, $2000/mo to interest and property taxes = $24k. Have a 5% state income tax?, on $60k, that's another $3k deduction.
These (not official)
spreadsheets may interest you

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TtnlrfCMs9C4exLsKhzp...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vpSCiNFolwtG765Lxe92...
That was a hit and they basically obliterated Sun.

But if you’re looking at lost value, AOL buying TimeWarner (and the Sun parts of Netscape).
Well, those early eukaryotic mixings did involve an exchange of genetic material though perhaps it was less "injection" than letting things drift back and forth between the two cells for a while.

Of course by then viruses were already busy doing their genetic injection thing, but we tend not to consider it sexual, even though it is reproduction. Humans love to be bigoted about these kinds of distinctions!
I see two links, including one to the Coinbase blog.