skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Currently you have Alaska being majority red but Pelosi losing to a Democrat, I wonder how that happened.

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> But certain people when they lose want to change things, whether it's advocating abolishing the Electoral College or implementing a complex RCV system to create arbitrary rules to tip the scales to candidates they favor.

So you're mad that a candidate that had less popular support won the election in Alaska but the system where there's been one Republican popular vote winner and 3 Republican presidents in the past 30 years is sacrosanct?
>Lots of places have been using RCV for some time. It is not hard to understand.

>These concerns about the importance of the "perception of fairness" are never brought up when it comes to issues like voter ID laws, elections being on work days, election holidays, publicly funded elections, etc.

Lots of places on Earth have solved all these issues: an easily available ID, election holiday or at least early voting, public funding, automatic voter registration, etc.

To those places, IRV is arguably not a very good idea, and people who live there might note this even on HN. You shouldn't reduce everything to US partisan politics.
That still does not excuse the total information blackout.
You are probably thinking of issues with networked filesystems like nfs, 9p, or vboxsf where you can't mmap a file and actually share memory. Basically any other real filesystem that 2 processes actually open the same file on will allow shared memory.
Checking to make sure you're not illegally discriminating in the layoffs process is not "considering protected characteristics." FFS...

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32857237
It means you hired an anti-racism consultant who charged you probably hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell you that you're anti-racist.

What else would it practically mean?
This seems like straight fraud.
Extremely important observation.

The two-tier primary/general election system produces more extreme-position winners, exactly by this mechanism.

And consider another common outcome - shift the odds very slightly here and the Palin-esque candidate wins the primary, and the general, even though the eliminated primary candidate (Begich in this case) would have been more acceptable to the electorate at large.
You don't have to go all the way to Ohio. In the (former farmland) of Morgan Hill they are turning out subdivisions. Mountain View keeps looking more built up. Just not much progress in San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Atherton.
My "cheap trick" to do this with my own home server is to use a Raspberry Pi which stays always on and is wired into same LAN as my homelab server. Then, I have a small shell script that uses the etherwake Linux CLI tool to send a Wake-on-LAN magic packet to wake my server when it's sleeping. For full server reboots, I have the server on a remote-accessible power switch that can be cycled from the same Raspberry Pi. I network all the devices together using ZeroTier.

I have to admit, though, that the idea of the computer being inside the server box (similar to a Dell iDRAC in a colo environment) is appealing, and also opens up the opportunity for things like "direct KVM" keyboard/display access. That said, for my homelab use cases, the ability to reboot the server, suspend/unsuspend, and bastion SSH through the Raspberry Pi has been good enough.
> Why do you think that other companies will see an uptick in users from this?

Because the number of people who are saying "Adobe is going to ruin Figma".

While companies aren't going to renegotitate, freelancers and designers doing personal work will just switch to another freemium tool. And tools end up in the work toolchain by the employees using them and suggesting.
That's a bit different, as it's 32 bit floating point, not integer. 32 bit float is often used for summing and that's what's going on here. Those are done by having 2 (or more) parallel ADCs (usually 24 or 16 bit) with the input voltage scaled lower on each successive one, and then they are digitally re-scaled and mixed together using a 32 bit float format into a single stream (double that paragraph for stereo).

The big benefit from 32bit float is you can go "above" 0db, so your digital operations can't "clip" in the analog sense. I definitely see the benefits of 32 bit float hardware, especially for field recordings (zoom aren't lying, it does work). But it's a different format and the internals are relying on the integer based format and don't exceed 24 bit integers.
There needs to be a plaintiff. There's going to be a couple high hurdles to overcome:

For standing, the plaintiff has to be someone who can demonstrate that they specifically were specifically harmed by these policies.

Maybe even harder, you have to find someone who is willing to take the heaps of public scrutiny that's going to come with claiming white victim-hood.
I think this is a very valid concern, not only for the peaceful transition of power, but also for the pragmatic fact that we will never get off FPTP by replacing it with methods that seem worse to many people. This problem has already happened once in Burlington, VT, where RCV was repealed shortly after it was implemented due to (arguably valid) perceptions of unfairness in the 2009 election there.

Say what you want about Approval voting, but this is also one of the areas where Approval voting is clearly better. It's very easy to understand, and much simpler to tabulate the results when it's still just "the person with the most votes wins".
> First, many miners simply pointed their hardware to mine other cryptocurrencies such as ETHW or ETC. For example we have evidence that about a quarter of Ethereum's mining farms moved to ETC over the last 24h.

We'll see if this is maintainable.

Miners can't mine if the reward doesn't cover their costs. So, the only way the mining remains sustainable is if these tokens rise drastically in value.

It is possible that many miners are huge holders of ETH, in which case we may see them massively dump ETH and buy ETC to try to invert the price and keep their business going.
Cold Turkey is one of the most effective ways. Close the old account and open an entirely new one if that's still on the table. Honestly all the problems that accrue with social media are net negative and are best avoided 100%. No point to reinflating the bubble again - because it WILL.

I went cold turkey on both Reddit and Quora and have zero plans to ever return to either. I proceeded to delete all posts I'd made in the last 10-20 years. Best decision ever! I could trivially recreate the content on different platforms if I ever really wanted to and it would be better the 2nd time.

I saw how these platforms treated me as akin to being bullied, having the bully demand I apologize for being beat up and then making money on my good will and contributions on top of that.

The obvious answer is to delete it all to deny them any benefit from the content and to stop the beatings and bullying. Life is too short for anything else.
Please do tell your alternative plan for allowing anyone to join the market (permissionless) while also preventing counterfeiting
You will be happy to know that there was no post election violence in Alaska after their special election to replace Don Young.
I think it might be provable that you'll eventually hit a loop.

EDIT: I suppose one disproof would be the existence of articles that don't have a second link.
Sep 15 Updates to Twilio's Legal Terms and Conditions
Pointy noses in military craft are to reduce the radar cross section - it actually performs worse.

A round nose has a flat bit at the front which reflects radar direct back towards the enemy that you're flying towards. Military planes generally have no surfaces facing directly forwards for that reason - even surfaces made of plastics reflect some radar when they get wet.
Adobe posted earnings today.
If you think it's unfair to make $500 per inch less for the same work, try making 12.5% less, per breast.

Until we solve the inter gender pay gap, I'm not really interest in the intra gender height gap.
The redwood forests around south bay / santa cruz are showing stress. There are many dead ones in parks in silicon valley. Here's an article about drought and albino redwoods from last year:

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/California-a...

This year was even drier.
Why do you think this phrase, which describes the outcome, makes the action any less illegal?
You don't really need to run an experiment on Alaska. There is a long history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_use_of_instant-r...
That's so funny! A study in the OG encryption.
It was a political decision back than. German stopped being great long time ago and the Transrapid cancellation was just the beginning of German downturn. The energy crisis will be the last episode of Germany's long depression.
I would think a platform for some kind of micro-consulting would be more interesting, rather than just question answering, because such questions may be so niche that you're unlikely to find someone who can just answer off the top of their head, but you might find someone who could provide a reasonable answer with a few hours of research and investigation.

As for your specific question, why would you assume that "running a Lua compiler in the browser" is an easy thing to do ? I would say that unless someone has already developed that integration and made it available chances are that it would actually be a significant project to implement.

Perhaps fengari, as suggested by another commenter, would do what you need. Presumably it must include a Lua byte compiler, so the question is whether it provides access to the byte compiled code (though why anyone would need to byte compile Lua in the browser but not run that code is beyond me).
It sometimes completes whole functions for me, from which I just have to make minor corrections afterwards. Some of which would have required me to lookup syntax 2 or 3 times. So it saves a lot of time in that way.

I do find it's much better in some languages though. And probably especially with languages you're new in. It doesn't do much for me in PHP, but does a lot in JavaScript.
I’m really surprised that they’re allowed to operate this opaquely as a money transmitter. I’m not familiar with the specific regulations of holding a MTL, but you’d think with the amount of tight regulation we have in other areas (eg real estate) that money transmission would at least require disclosure of account status in a timely manner.
I generally feel the same. (I usually ride my bike at the higher end of my comfortable speed range, though, and do other moderate-intensity exercise.)

It's worth remembering that whatever physical activity you feel best doing might be the best for you. We aren't just physical robots. Mental well-being is also part of health, and it affects your physical health to some degree as well. Not to mention that we're a lot likely to do things we find pleasurable, and physical activity that you do is healthier than activity you don't do.

It's best to bear in mind that quantitative research doesn't take into account those subjective differences. It's probably not a good idea to singularly optimize for what's statistically shown by evidence. It's not like we're all data points on a neatly fitting curve.
No it’s not. It’s illegal to discriminate based on that consideration. It’s not illegal to take someone’s race, sexuality, or any other protected class into consideration.

When you hire a man, it’s not like you don’t know they’re a man. The issue would be if you ONLY hire men (intentionally or not).
Isn't Australia also highly divisive over politics? I mean you all have coalitions and that's great and all because more parties but I'm not sure I see that as meaningfully different than what the US has where coalitions just call themselves a party (let's be real, AOC and Biden are not in the same "party" but they are definitely the same coalition). I've always seen Australia as a example of how ordinal systems still perpetuate the two party/coalition system.
Definitely prefer single high quality monitor and laptop only when on the go or traveling.
FPTP never has > 2 candidates because everyone realizes that creates a spoiler.
pi zero size zeuromorphic chip systems should obliviate the neeto be internet connected to do accurate real, time speach/translation processing aka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPdvo6fF0zc

perhaps take that phone call via contact lens display & get a transcript of that discussion tuned out while on phone?

Full color AR contact lens [2] with a resolution high enough to replace the badge display [1] / avoid google glass stigma issues [3]

*****

[1] https://satellitedisplay.com/
[2] https://www.mojo.vision/mojo-lens / https://xrai.glass
[3] https://nerdist.com/article/google-ar-glasses-live-translati... / https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/google-tra...
Yep. Everybody has a price.

It's not that Figma was worth $20 billion.

It's that Adobe was likely seeing subscription revenue take hit from customers that realized there's no need for creative cloud subscription.
The problem is that Stripe has identified you as possibly being a fraudster. Any information that they give you about what they suspect and why is information that a real fraudster could use next time to try and evade the detection algorithms.

It is like this with virtually any security system. Adding feedback you can use for debugging also makes the system much easier to compromise.
If you keep posting this sort of low-value flamewar comment we are going to have to ban you. We have cut you miles of slack for years, but the slack is not infinite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I know this sounds harsh, but there's a ton of history here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29687129.
Which bit of the BSA?

edit: As I re-read the thread I see that I am thinking more of onboarding KYC, as opposed to this case which would be ongoing-activity investigation. So that would explain the difference in expectations here. Still interested in learning more about the regs for ongoing investigations if you have time to share!
TBH that doesn't sound too complicated or overengineered, and pretty performant too. Nice solution!
There are more places than Burlington where RCV has been used.
SFO flights usually get cancelled because of cross winds, not fog.
It would not be illegal for Twilio to share the pay of all Twilio employees with all Twilio employees.
>My 80 parents still have no idea how it works

This last election demonstrated that nobody knows how it works - because of the complexity and unwritten "norms", and therefore we end up leaving up to judges to decide the election.
This is why I endorse STAR voting: https://www.equal.vote/star. The explanation behind it is simple enough for most people to understand, because it's a combination of 5 star ratings, which are everywhere in society, and FPTP.
Actually a briliant marketing move to call it a DEI thing.
Gotta beat the dead horse some more I guess
>For standing, the plaintiff has to be someone who can demonstrate that they specifically were specifically harmed by these policies.

That's what discovery is for
"the slow-but-simple implementation in module dbm.dumb will be used"

No kidding.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/dbm/dumb.py

It uses a text file to store keys and pointers into a binary file for values. It works .. most of the time .. but yeah, that's not going to win any speed awards.
A thread from yesterday had discussion about the legality of all this. [1] Turns out affirmative action can be legal in uni admissions but not generally in employment. So analogies to education are not particularly apt.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837802
> RCV [...] is not hard to understand.

But it's not as easy to understand as "count the pottery shards, biggest number wins." To ensure peaceful transitions of power, an election should be perceived as fair by the greatest number of people possible, not merely to those who are comfortable with math.

> voter ID laws

Laws which disenfranchise part of the population threaten the perception of fairness, threatening the peaceful transition of power. I therefore oppose voter ID laws at least until every single citizen can be given a free national voter ID. I hope this affirmation of Democratic values assuages your 'concern trolling' concerns.
It seems like you just want to argue. You seem frustrated and deeply unhappy with your current job. I was that way, for times, too, so I get it.

You need to focus on what makes you happy. I don't want to dissuade you. But think long and hard about the change. Grass isn't always greener. But it can be. It may work out, it may not. The point is, it isn't a slam dunk.

Best of luck!
I was a big proponent of ranked choice voting until I got a chance to talk with a number of voters in New Hampshire and Maine in the runup to the 2020 election. One of those states has ranked-choice and the other doesn't, so whenever I got a chance I would bring up the topic.

I was surprised at how negative a reaction some voters had to the scheme. Digging in a bit, their perception of unfairness seemed to come from the fact that some people's votes would be counted more than others'. That is, if you voted for a series of fringe candidates in increasing likelihood of electability, your vote might be counted several times, while someone who voted for the mainstream candidate would just get their vote counted once.

This kind of folk analysis of ranked-choice voting makes some people very mistrustful of the method and is hard to counter. Since elections are a social phenomenon, and not just a mathematical exercise, and given our current atmosphere of mistrust and attacks against the electoral process itself, I think the interest in having a crystal clear criterion for winning ("most votes wins") outweighs the many theoretical advantages of ranked choice.
This is 100% right. Fireworks was Sketch with better bitmap/filter/styling support. Removing it was a cost saving move right as Sketch/Figma were coming to own UI design.
Show HN: A simple UI for curating awesome music
This felt like a lot of words with little substance. What is the "hand-off" vision?
The 2000 US presidential election where Ralph Nader spoiled for Al Gore seems like a notable counterexample.
The demo works on my phone. I did not expect that.
By now designing and mass producing the smart traffic light should be possible for not too much extra beyond the cost of the dumb traffic light. A smart traffic light system could effectively eliminate most traffic. A traffic light that is aware of oncoming traffic or the absence of it will remove the annoying instances of being stopped at a traffic light when there is no cross traffic, or of remaining on a timed green waiting for traffic that isn't there. Some cars nearly drive themselves now. Everything has a computer in it, why not traffic lights and intersections? Why hasn't traffic light technology advanced beyond timers and switches in the road? They need to have eyes and decent logic built into them. Imagine the fuel/cost/carbon savings alone if we had these things widely installed 20 years ago.
The present sucks too, so...
Hopefully nobody would read my comment as a suggestion to start taking it.
I live in the US but I keep up with the home country.

Australian politics is, relative to US politics, a hugging contest with the parties all singing kumbaya with perfect choristry.

As for the two-party system, it's not perpetuated by how you count the vote. It's perpetuated by the economics of capturing single-member electorates. Australia has multi-member electorates for its Senate and most state upper houses and, unsurprisingly, that's where minor parties largely succeed in gaining representation.
If you’d like to simulate traffic light abolishment with no replacement, visit beautiful Denver, Colorado, where the sun is strong, the beer is cold, and the red lights are purely decorative.
Micro-consulting sounds like hell. Sales are a huge drag on any expert trying to capitalise. By the very nature of their business they need fewer but larger deals.
> He claimed that the old, so-called “imperial” standard was not only “more perfect” than the alternative—a highly dubious claim at best...

What a slur. Division into twelfths (and sixtieths) was quite common in measurements and currencies around the world because of the convenient affordances of all the factors. Most also relied heavily on powers of two (most notably the US version of the "imperial" system) which are extremely convenient. The reliance on rational numbers makes computation in the head very easy.

And the units are more "humane" for customary activity (a stair riser is 2/3 of a foot; a cup is a common quantum for food consumption, a mile is roughly a thousand paces etc). A mm or cc is way too small and a meter is kind of gigantic (yards are less common than feet). A litre works fine though.

There's a lot to like about the si system, but division by ten was a disaster, and the lack of convenient units is a persistent bug.
All companies run everything by their lawyers and still they are found doing illegal stuff from time to time.
Robert Bosch Stiftung
howdy hn

for a couple years now ive had an itch to curate my favorite music outside of the major music platforms in order to facilitate sharing with my friends who are all devoted to different apps. finally i got to scratching last month and am pleased with the first iteration. its uncluttered, straightforward, and provides flexibility in how the music is organized/categorized

the app is built with nextjs and is currently frontend only. im not entirely sure what the next step for this project is. there is a good chance it will remain as is for the foreseeable future with the exception of adding more music. however depending on the feedback, i may continue iterating and possibly even split out into a dedicated service for others to take advantage in an easier fashion than forking

a link to the code below:

https://github.com/clumsycomputer/clumsy-website/tree/produc...
Fantastic news. I'm really looking forward to Godot 4.0 exposing more of the ENet wrapper into GDScript etc. I've been writing a game server in Erlang and very much looking forward to offering ENet as an option in addition to WebSockets!
…which apparently doesn’t apply to US Senators
Extending Go Backward Compatibility
Why punish value creation when you can punish rent-seeking? It is a strictly better substitute.
As a cryptocurrency veteran, I consider this to be the most concise (1:12 long) explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4APcgsRdW6w
Deliberately targeting layoffs based on class reminds me of Soviet Russia. https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor. Communists decided to take the land of wealthy and productive kulak farmers; it resulted in mass starvation.
Twitter has 7500 employees. Its absurd. You could fire 7000 of them and still run the infrastructure just fine.
> No, it's simple addition for all candidates.

Which can lead a candidate with a dedicated but small fanbase getting 30% of the vote but winning because the other side has a couple candidates running. The precise sort of problem you're currently grumping about.
But as we've seen in the UK, and the US it leaves a great deal of people, especially those in safe (or gerrymandered) districts feeling unrepresented.

UKIP getting 13% of the vote in a general election, showing a large amount of support, but not winning a single seat is, in my opinion, a travesty (and I vehemently disagree with their platform and what they stand for). It left 13% of the electorate feeling that their views were not represented in any way whatsoever .