skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every voting system causes people to vote strategically, the best ones are when the strategic vote and and an individual’s actual preferences line up.

I want A, and if not A then
I guess B, and if not B I guess C isn’t that complicated. Determining a system to tally those votes in a way that represents everyone’s preferences faithfully is when you start needing math.
Mostly Lua, it seems.
I think it will happen, to combine with new Freeform.
All I can say is, good luck navigating the Minesweeper field that are the caniuse.com tables for browser feature cross-compatibility. At least Flash worked everywhere, even on Android.
> In fact, this seems like the perfect example of ranked-choice voting giving people the outcome they preferred.

52.5% of people preferred Begich to Peltola. That majority of voters did not get the outcome they preferred.

Imagine an election with 6 candidates. 5 candidates each get 20% of the 1st round voting, and 1 candidate gets 0% of the 1st round voting, but everybody marks him as their 2nd choice. He is nobody's favorite, but everyone likes him over their alternatives to their favorite.

It seems reasonable to me that a good voting system should select this guy who is broadly approved by everyone. But in IRV, he is eliminated in the first round.

The recent Alaska election was much less egregious version of this same failure mode.
> IMO, we're already doing a form of ranked choice everywhere.

Then why introduce the complicated system if we're already doing it in your opinion?

> Primaries promote extremism.

Wow what a statement, please elaborate. Personally that's the only time I've seen issues talked about the majority of the time. Otherwise it's just non-answers and pandering.

> Polling is inaccurate.

That has nothing to do with the voting system and everything to do with the media and pollsters.

> When candidates drop out early, they take away choices from voters.

Not really and it's not relevant, if they didn't survive the primary, if they drop out of the race they would have been a bad representative anyway.

> Ranked choice results in the best outcome.

Saying it doesn't make it true. It's overly complicated and you haven't said anything of substance to make it worth switching over from the simple voting system.
In the US, "right on red" should be abolished. It's abused way too much at this point.
In light of this sad news– who's working on a NON-Adobe version to take its place?
Just wondering if there is a betting market somewhere that would show odds for e.g. such a bug in the PoS that Ethereum needs to roll back to PoW within the next 6 months?
Background: Adnan Syed was convicted of killing Hae Min Lee in 2016. The case was the subject of an in-depth investigation in the popular podcast Serial (Season 1).[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(podcast)#Season_1_(201...
Depending on the area, lawyers (as outside representation) may not be allowed in small claims court, too. At that point, I believe they generally have to send someone working for the company who can represent them directly.
I think you forgot "contributing to climate change by using as much energy as a small country" which may not apply to ethereum anymore, but it sure still applies to bitcoin
It would be great to have some simple text from the artist connected to the artist’s images. Things like, artist’s name, title, subject matter… Many of my images (drawings and paintings) aren’t associated with my name and instead are associated with different drugs and psychology and other things. It would be better to have the opportunity to somehow to enhance that. To influence the future prompt results. I feel like it would make Ai more intelligent.
You move to San Fransisco and pretend you are better than everyone else and can solve all the worlds problems.
Lol thanks, whippersnappers. I’ll try these totally legit treatments for my totally legit disorder
>In IRV, wouldn't someone whose first choice was a Republican candidate almost definitely pick another Republican candidate as their second choice?

Evidently not. Or at least many of them didn't in this case.
First past the post (the default in most US elections) is very problematic because it usually fails to elect the candidate that would make the average voter most happy. We need innovation in how we elect our representatives if we want our democracy to continue to thrive.

I think IRV is an interesting step towards an alternative to FPTP, but as others have noted, it also has serious flaws. Condorcet methods (of which there are many) and approval voting / score voting much better, and I wish we would see more adoption of these.

I would encourage you to look at approval voting, which is as simple as FPTP (the only difference is that you can vote for as many candidates as you want, instead of just one), but produces much better outcomes.

https://ncase.me/ballot/ is a good explainer of different voting methods.
To give some perspective, I relied somewhat heavily on my broker. According to them, over time, variable rate mortgage holders end up paying less. I'll be very interested to see how this fares as time goes on, so far we're paying a lot more per month.

One factor for the decision was that as a first time home buyer, our ability to get favourable long-term rates was basically non-existent. I would expect that to change when it comes time for a renewal.
Mayor issue here seems to be not validating and sanitizing inputs before a DB insert.
This is a feature, not a bug. Once you learn the general philosophy, you will be fine. For a 2-lane roundabout: Use right lane if you want to turn right. Use left lane if you want to turn left. Either lane is fine if you want to go straight.

It's like when you approach a traditional 4-way intersection, some of which add a left-turn-only lane and some of which add a right-turn-only lane: once you learn the general philosophy, you will be fine.
Even though we are producing more food than ever before
Switch to Clover products. They're great!
I am sorry, but what is the problem? So somebody already pays crazy taxes in their home country, then pays rent in another country (including taxes), sales taxes and likely spends much more than locals in the foreign economy. The foreign taxman gets a wind of possible more money, starts taxing those folks on top of what they already pay and they just move out, spread the word, weakening the economy further. If they overstay 180 days or whatever is needed for a tax domicile then yeah, they should pay taxes there, but with the current tax regimes that might not be technically possible. What prevents folks to stay 179 days in Mexico and 179 days in Costa Rica?
I agree 100%. The perception of fairness is the most important thing. Elections need to be transparent and simple enough that even idiots and skeptics of government still must begrudgingly acknowledge the results.
This is the next olympic sport.

"National Collegiate Athletic Association" to "Myanmar"

Time: 63.695 Seconds

Number of links visited: 6

The path you took:
[ "National Collegiate Athletic Association", "Student athlete", "Amateur", "Olympic Games", "International Olympic Committee", "Thailand", "Myanmar" ]
It does seem like a small percentage of bad actors will ruin remote work for everyone.
I’m quite suprised you are willing to hire people who you know are lying to you.

To me, someone like that has demonstrated that they can’t be trusted and I would remove them from the business ASAP.

You can fix a lot of things with an employee/employer relationship, but those things require trust. You just don’t ever know where you stand with someone who lies.
Username checks out gloriously for assisting with my drastic medical condition
It's not bitcoin if it uses proof of stake
No because the system is overly complicated, thus the lack of trust in the system because it can't be validated by a common person.

But if a heavy blue state elected a red governor (especially with a popular blue opponent) out of nowhere immediately after switching to a new voting system people here would be suspicious right?

But because it happens that blue candidates are winning in areas they weren't before, everyone here is fine looking the other way and even defending it.
Welcome to the world of anti-crime finance rules.

You are guilty until someone decides otherwise on their whim.
I'm sure their bevy of lawyers has reviewed the TOS which absolves them from anything ever.

You're better off spending the effort on having a backup replacement ready to go (or even balance between them in normal operation).
I won't name them out of privacy concerns, but I went from a major coastal city (metro population over 3 million) in a state that reliably votes blue to a small city (metro population under half a million) in a state that reliably votes red.
Sure but you are a tiny minority. Most people are outright selfish when it comes to (not only) money, hence laws are required. More often than not they create an alternate reality where they justify their actions by whatever mental trick their subconsiousness deems necessary (ie I pay enough already, it wont matter anyway, I put the money into kids etc etc etc).
These apps are dead to me. Life is short and it feels unjust to dignify these games with any attention beyond swift deletion.
I totally agree with you. I guess most non-programmers would roll their eyes reading this, but honestly, stop trying to make every single web page a native app replacement.
And it's nuts how far we've gone into this. Companies don't want you to run their software natively, which is fair enough. But, somehow THIS is the best anyone comes up with.

It's really, quite a sad state of affairs.
So Palin managed to split the republican vote even with IRV. Somehow I find that really funny.
'due process' concerns around sudden blocking of routine traffic -- should platforms give notice, are they required to justify the ban in terms of their TOS + enforcement history, what is the time scale of appeals, can customers appeal to an independent body, and reporting transparency for enforcement
Honestly compared to all other cloud platforms I've used I find AWS documentation to be amazing. I use AWS all day every day in my job and the only resource I've needed 95% of the time is the AWS docs. It's my first and last stop mostly.
What does ‘confidential’ mean? It would be illegal for Twilio to tell their employees they cannot discuss pay.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...
It's patently illegal based on the Civil Rights Act.
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bro I didn't go to github, or use your username to get your info. Well if you're not from UCSB, then someone else is getting a nice surprise in the next couple of weeks.
Why would you pick out voting when our entire political system is complicated and has a direct impact on people's lives? Look at the electoral college. My 80-year-old parents still have no idea how it works, and IMHO it is just as important as voting to ensure faith in the system. How can we trust voting when a governor can appoint electors and subvert the will of the people?

EDIT: Grammar: my parents are 80 years old, I don't have 80 parents.
The entire world generates about 25,000 TWh of electricity every year.

Finland consumes about 87 TWh of electricity every year.

An entire Finland of electricity use thinly distributed over the entire planet disappearing is a negligible rounding error on the grand scheme of things. It's about a ~0.3% change.

News media uses word imagery like "an entire Finland of electricity use" because it sounds huge and scary to the average person who doesn't understand that absolute numbers are meaningless out of context. Zooming out, you realize that while Finland is big from an individual human scale, it barely exists in the wider cacophony of human civilization.

And that's just looking at electricity, which is a percentage total human energy use. Much more energy use comes from transportation, industry, and heating, which is much more carbon intensive than electricity generation, since much of our electricity comes from hydro, nuclear, and increasingly solar and wind.
In order to use Stripe, you agree to use arbitration rather than courts. Pretty standard from most T&Cs for online services. So, no probably not.
For sure not triple digit legitimate competitors. To be legitimate competitor means some very mature software / service. I can think of Sketch and Adobe XD, maybe Balsamiq but not quite the same. What are these 100 extra well formed alternatives?
I assume on a train or everything else that is supposed to be on the ground you want downforce, whereas on a plain you might not mind less downforce and more lift? I would guess the shape helps with that.
I’ve only done that trip a once by rail. I was blown away by the rail option, it was great. Despite Gare du Nord being disorganised and gross, it was the best international travel I’ve ever done by a huge margin.

One is likely to need a connection at both ends and connecting from a rail hub is a lot simpler than from an airport (and less subject to rip off airport pricing). I loved the space, the comfort, the views and the display showing the speed.
They're alligator polos, you rugrat!
Good luck, not going to happen.

Democratic systems won't change these laws because there is no popular support for change - there is a reasonably large 'law-and-order' and 'corruption-as-main-concern' voter demographic who strongly support these laws, and the niche of HN techies and libertarians who'd oppose them is insignificantly small in comparison; and authoritarian systems won't change these laws because their leadership supports them even more.
Unfortunately, it would likely take a lot more than one lawsuit. Colleges have been repeatedly sued for racist practices during admissions and keep finding a new ways to legally implement racial bias.

The court of public opinion is a lot better at fighting against things like this than the courts of law - it was really what brought down Jim Crow in the US (the law followed the popular opinion).
«its only valid use cases were illicit transactions and speculation»

Crytocurrencies have many valid use cases. For one, they are the only system that allows sending money truly anywhere in the world, to anyone, anytime, and near-instantly. No other system accomplishes this. My most poignant example was being able to send money to a then-homeless unbanked friend, on a sunday, and he even converted it to cash in hands within 1 hour as he was near a bitcoin ATM. In such an emergency, no other system would have worked. We briefly considered Western Union but he was banned from them due to previous financial issues. So the permissionless aspect of Bitcoin was another benefit.

It's a little puzzling that you were an early adopter, and yet did not appreciate the qualities. Perhaps you think crypto isn't useful to you personally, therefore it has no use cases for anyone else.
Affirmative action in the private sector is 100% illegal.
How does this acquisition conflict with a free market? Figma isn't being forced to sell i.e. this isn't a hostile takeover. Figma is free to continue to compete. There's not a 100% clear antitrust case although the $20B buyout could be viewed as anticompetitive behavior (perhaps contradicting my previous statement).
They have a pure web version.
My favorite part about the whole Twilio layoffs is how they spent boatloads of money on events with some celebrities like Sting in there for days like Christmas, and now they are doing this. [1] As someone who has had their pay messed with by celebrity endorsement before, I can understand when I hear people who have been laid off are pissed about this.

[1] https://www.drurydesign.com/twilio-year-in-revue
"dynamic"?
Time to transaction finality in Crypto vs Banking:

Solana: 0.12 seconds

Bitcoin: 1.2 seconds (on Lightning)

Ethereum: 12.0 seconds

Banking System: ~30 days (2 hours to 5 days for usable funds)

Payment Card Industry: 180 days (2 seconds to a few minutes for usable funds)
There is usually a 1 year cliff. So as long as you stay longer than a year, you're not losing out on any stock options.
Is the "USB-PC" port to forward the server's serial console or doesn't it have a port for that? PiKVM seems to support IPMI SoL.
I think you have it backwards. That's why you'd want a Lisp-2 over a Lisp-1.
> what's going to happen when people who bought a house during the last 12-18 months need to move?

They'll maybe need to rent out their houses instead selling; which might include them finding a smaller temporary housing.

But this should be a minimum exception of people, right? Sure, relative to the quick flips, 7 years is a long time, but the majority bought to stay, right?
> Also, I've never really dug into what's going on, but the dbm implementation is pretty slow on Windows, at least when I've tried to use it.

Seems like this would be why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32852333
>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.

What do you mean indigenous? Sami? SD doesn't not even think they are swedish.
I am skeptical that a company the size of Twilio wouldn't run this by employment lawyers first. Do you have any sources to cite here?
I don't think that's accurate.

I do some payments that are ridiculously suspect but legal.

I have never been completely blackholed and given robot responses, any time a problem comes up.

Stripe is lower margin than other banks/payment providers, so they don't look very hard.

They have a very strong incentive to throw away troublesome customers, which they do.

I don't think it's right to say Stripe's "hands are tied".

They could spend more to identify false positives, but they don't.

If I used Stripe for all of my transactions I would be blocked. I know this because I have 100% confirmed this from an inside source at Stripe and at a countries central bank.

Yet somehow I have and continue to maintain accounts with other banks without breaking the law.
That's most of it; having clients that have their own sub-stripe accounts that are triggering fraud detection and not mentioning the business.

It's not much to go on but it's all we have.
The same can be said about illegal immigrants and temporary visa holders in the United States. An H1B worker pays taxes, pays into social security, etc, but isn't going to get a penny back out of it.

And yet, for some reason, a lot of people really dislike[1] H1Bs...

[1] Last election cycle, I've received a beautiful election pamphlet from a frothing-at-the-mouth state politician-want-to-be who spent most of his 250 words assuring me that H1Bs are robbing the country by mooching all of its services while not paying any taxes. He, uh, got 40% of the vote.
Sue the shit out of this CEO.

Sincerely,
A non white person.
Wouldn’t you have better luck speculating if you just used your money to buy the coins directly, instead of buying GPUs and then paying more than the cost of the coin in electricity to mine it?
GP didn't say sugary drinks, but rather water with sugary fruit (all fruit is sugary). Big difference!
Would income taxes from digital nomads make housing prices go down? There would be more money going to those governments but it's unclear that those governments could help offset most of the increase in costs.
"Synonym" to "Cantons of Switzerland"
Time: 79.737 Seconds

Number of links visited: 10

The path you took:
[ "Synonym", "Morpheme", "Linguistics", "Language", "Language family", "Indo-European languages", "Germanic languages", "German language", "Swiss Standard German", "Switzerland", "Cantons of Switzerland" ]
Wait, do you need a subscription to send SOS messages? If that's true, it's an awful idea and is obviously going to result in tons of awful PR.
That’s a checksum algorithm. You could easily devise something similar for a word based on the characters in it. That doesn’t make it a number.

GP is right. You never do math with two credit card numbers as inputs. You can’t negate a credit card number, or find its absolute value, or square, etc.

It’s just a string of digits.
I work at a large Silicon Valley company and a portion of Directory/VP bonus is earned by ensuring hiring meets certain "diversity" quotas. There have been many internal stories of managers hiring based on race to make sure they receive their full bonus. Not sure how this isn't illegal.
Efficiency, well... Sometimes / somewhere they seem set up to maximize driving time and pollution by turning the next light to red when one has just gone green. I wish they could use computer vision to turn traffic lights to red only when two cars approach the intersection from perpendicular directions.
In the IRV version, what spoiler effects are left? Since they're eliminating the lowest voted candidates in each round, you're essentially left with a two candidate election where it's possible to have 100% of voters voting for one or the other.
Knowledge also forms a loop going from: Knowledge -> Procedural knowledge -> Descriptive knowledge -> Knowledge.
Well Alaska had open primaries before (only 9 states have truly closed primaries). So it's not necessarily the case that Dems wouldn't be voting in the Republican primary- or more likely, independent voters who lean left on some issues. That independent point is key, because you don't know that everyone who voted for the Dem candidate is necessarily a Dem
But why is the pop music industry stagnant, though?

There are fewer producers, executives, and financial/logistical obstacles to creatively expressing ourselves with music than ever.

Has everything been expressed? Are we as a people becoming less inspired? Is this part of an inevitable process with any medium of expression? If so, has our collective muse moved somewhere other than music? Will technological progress be found somewhere other than digital hardware?
What is the alternative? I had the same issue with Paypal.
The two stage design from IIRC phase II of Shuttle project was a marvel
Kinda off topic, but this reminds me of a racing game I played which had a track that featured a roundabout with a bump just perfect for Dukes of Hazarding it.

So ideally the roundabout also doesn't encourage sweet jumps. (Unless there's a very well-designed designated landing spot that prevents damage to the vehicle. Probably tax dollars can be spent on better things.)
https://mobile.twitter.com/ercwl/status/1555719147941683200
I grew up in Sacramento. The fog has gone from ubiquitous to nearly completely gone.
I'm the founder of TinyPilot, a project that operates in the same space.

I haven't really been following BliKVM, but some alarm bells are going off as I follow the links here:

1. BliKVM advertises themselves as open hardware, but the hardware repo[0] contains no sources / schematics that would allow anyone to reproduce the hardware.

2. When I looked for the hardware sources, I realized that BliKVM is redistributing TinyPilot code in violation of TinyPilot's license. [1], [2] We're licensed under MIT, so BliKVM is allowed to redistribute and modify freely, but they have to preserve our license and copyright notice.

If BliKVM actually is open hardware, that would be wonderful, and I'd be interested in collaborating with them, but it doesn't seem like honest advertising at this point.

[0] https://github.com/ThomasVon2021/pikvm-board

[1] https://github.com/ThomasVon2021/pikvm-board/blob/master/src... vs. TinyPilot's code: https://github.com/tiny-pilot/tinypilot/blob/609b36faf2352cb...

[2] https://github.com/ThomasVon2021/blikvm/blob/master/package/... vs. TinyPilot's code: https://github.com/tiny-pilot/ansible-role-tinypilot/blob/ma...
This is great.

I've been building my game on the Godot 4 alphas and the improvements in networking and rendering have more than made up for any instability or keeping up with changes. That said, more stability will be welcome and a focus on bug fixing instead of feature proposals will be key to a strong 4.0 release.