skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can still do that tactic in RCV by simply voting for a single candidate and leaving the rest blank. I'm not sure why people keep talking about this strategy as if it is unique or a coup d'etat. Additionally, no system is invulnerable to a strategy or candidates manipulating voters. So pointing out one strategy is an ineffective means of argument because you need to compare the results of strategies across different systems and the harm that they can cause (see favorite betrayer as one that causes a lot of harm and what I think the vast majority of voter concerns are with. I'll let you see how cardinal systems vs ordinal systems handle this). The issue I see with voting discussions is people don't realize how complex social choice is but just latch onto a few CGP Gray videos and defend their preference with a resolve well beyond their experience.

That manipulation is also an easy to overcome strategy as you can bullet vote your favorite candidates. There actually isn't any real strategic advantage to not voting your preference (albeit minor ones). There's no concept of tossing your vote away by scoring your preferred candidate high (the most common strategy is to weight your safe candidate the same or just below, but above your actual preference). Yes, you have to teach people how to vote under this new system but that's no difference than teaching them to rank candidates (instead we teach to give them a ?/5 star review. A concept people are highly familiar with).
It appears to be a (90 day) free trial rather than a (long-term) free tier.
Great solution, I wouldn't have thought of this. Did you ever get complaints about the charge description looking different month to month, or did both processors pass the same description to the customer's credit card?
Having a low sprung weight is important for pantographs, and getting the 25kV off a rotating contactor would introduce another unhelpful electrical interface I suspect.

If you want to know far more than you did before about overhead line electric systems for railways, from a predominantly British perspective, I can strongly recommend Gary Keenor's (free) book:

https://archive.org/details/overhead-line-electrification-fo...
Stupid question. If you don't use input[number] on such fields, how do you get a number keypad input on mobile keyboards for them? It's annoying, as a user, to switch to numbers and use the tiny row of numbers to enter credit card info.
The paint of the lines contains little glass beads that reflect your headlights back to you [0]. If the water film is higher than the part of the beads sticking out of the paint, the light bounces off further away from you.

Maybe it also depends on the roughness of the asphalt of the surface gets uniformly wet or not?

Bott's dots are better in that aspect but they stick out considerably...

[0] https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1yRIhHpXXXXXUXFXXq6xXFXXXr/220...
Are you employed by your employer, or are you contracting with tax residency in SE Asia?
Pickle could in theory could be architecture dependent since __getstate__, and __setstate__ are user provided options. But you would have to try to do that on purpose.

And you don't even have to forget about Python 2! If you use format version 2 you can pickle objects from every version from Python 2.3+ and all pickle format are promised to be backwards compatible. If you only care about Python 3 then you can use version 3 and it will work for all Python 3.0+.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#data-stream-fo...

The reason against using pickle hasn't changed though, if you wouldn't exec() it, don't unpickle it. If you're going to send it over the network use MAC use MAC use MAC. Seriously, it's built in -- the hmac module.
That's more or less what the data you linked to[1] demonstrates: a us average 3.5% increase per year. Not a median though, a mean. The median increase is probably more like 2% per year, but a lot of that seems to be localized to areas that didn't recover after 2008. If your area recovered after 2008, we can assume it's in demand and likely to continue to appreciate faster than the median, or closer to the 3% figure.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-years-of-home-price-chan...
>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.

Turnabout should be fair play here. Dang's continual low-value abuse of users to enforce suppression of seibelj and others' speech should be met with flagging and every possible option to reduce the effect of these threats.

If it is possible to ban dang, we need to be finding ways to do so. If not, consider his abuse behavior like the payment processor 'Stripe.' Robust alternatives must be used to minimize the deterretive effect of threats.

Either way, we should stop cutting slack to Dang's efforts and focus on how to ensure adjusting of behavior is bilateral. Our slack for Dang is not infinite. If Dang does not enjoy the comments of others perhaps he should move to another platform :)
Timezone is the most noticeable one, but that can be solved by going north or south.

If you go too far of course, then your workmates might notice that it's winter when it should be summer.

And anyone with the login details can see where your login pings are from.
Very cool. My first go was similar:

"West Virginia" to "Austria-Hungary"

Time: 50.962 Seconds

Number of links visited: 8

The path you took:
["West Virginia", "United States", "North America", "Continent", "Eurasia", "Europe", "World war", "World War I", "Austria-Hungary" ]
Not to put on too much tinfoil but the government probably benefits from opaque ban processes in large oligopolistic private companies. “It’s private enterprise, sure we may request it periodically but their cooperation is entirely voluntary based on their civic pride.”
Most assuredly - the article is only comparing "walking" to "no walking", not any other activity. Any exercise is better than no exercise, and harder forms of exercise are better (up to a point which casual people won't reach). These results shouldn't be surprising.

Given that cycling usually involves higher heart rates, a larger range of resistance, a larger range of joint movement, more balancing skills, and increased attention requirements, for the same period of time I would expect cycling to be better. And in most American cities, you can actually cycle from your home to another destination, whereas walking will not. Of course, cycling involves greater costs and danger.
“a few thousand transactions per second” is all of Visa+Mastercard. Bitcoin is just “a few” and ETH is barely “a dozen”.

Edit: Sorry folks, that claim was based on outdated data! The latest figures for both Visa and Mastercard are ~5,000 transactions per second each.
Capitalism, baby! Companies have figured out they can take more of your money if they extract it little by little instead of in chunks.
Another alternative to fully preparing a separate billing pipeline (which could be quite a lot of work) would be to add a “free switch” you can hit which allows users to sign up m, have them confirm a plan, and gives them access to the product, to be billed at a later date.

That means that in a crisis you can still sign users up, and take a few days to sort out the billing situation.

Could save some time up front, and if Stripe ends up never causing a problem you didn’t waste effort on unneeded complexity.
I would put higher odds on Alaska repealing and going back to FPTP. That's what happened in a few US cities that have experienced controversial Condorcet failures with RCV, e.g. Burlington Vermont. The right-wing media machine is drumming up support for a repeal right now.
Apple isn't deserving of a slice of revenue from game developers because of questionable gaming practices. If anything it makes them complicit. Like a mafia syndicate, they will allow these types of gaming practices if they are given their share.

The whole point of Epic side loading apps was to avoid the gatekeeping of the primary stores and their ‘review’ process. Was it a terrible failure because Epic is incapable of creating functioning software? Or was it a failure because it's near impossible to circumvent the limited developer 'sandbox' with APIs that all run through Google services? Are apps listed on Google Play free of security vulnerabilities? Who’s to say this information wasn’t disseminated throughout the public and media by Google or Apple themselves attempting to sway opinions against the so called evils of installing your own software.

As far as Epic vs Apple, whether the judge ruled Apple a monopoly or not isn’t of great concern. What’s more important is that she ruled Apple must provide other payment options to developers. It's in the user's interest that alternative payment methods are made available as it (in theory) will decrease the cost of app purchases. Apple's not in any hurry to implement it through.
Mephisto. A pair I bought in 1983 (factory rebuilt c. 2005) are my favorites.
Forget the Fly.io part; SQLite is what's interesting here. I agree in advance that it's unlikely anyone's going to convert a large app from Postgres to SQLite; if full-stack SQLite succeeds as a trend, it'll be with new apps that grow up using it.
That's how AMEX shut us our corporate credit card account overnight. We launched a new shopping cart and tested it live in production with our own AMEX card. Mind you that we used that card for over $250k a month (never a late payment) and this was a $99 charge that we simply forgot to refund.

No appeal process, nothing. Caused significant short term cash flow issues. So be very careful using your own card.
Adobe has XD, which is a direct competitor to Figma as a vector based design tool that includes prototyping functionality.
I was part of the first wave of animators who found Flash and mucked around in it - I made a cartoon early on that went viral before that was a thing.
An exe file as an attachment to an email, that went round the world. Crazy days.
Every single genuine contractor I know now works in-scope of IR35. They pay their business costs out of their deemed salary, which is insane.

That is a silly situation I agree. But it's a situation that perpetuates in part because too many contractors tolerate it.

If you read the stats published by some of the more open agencies the majority of contractors are still strongly preferring outside IR35 contracts and the clients who still have blanket umbrella policies are finding it harder to hire. Some of the big names who pay high enough rates will get away with it because of those rates of course but further down the list things aren't looking so great apparently.

If that pressure keeps up then eventually the ones who determine status properly (and increase rates accordingly for inside IR35 work via umbrellas) will be the ones that attract the good people.
> doing it would destroy confidence in the coin and absolute tank the price

People seem to say that but there's no evidence of this in fact. A price will only tank if lots of other holders rush to sell before the thief sells his stolen billions.
As you go deeper into transonic and supersonic pointy nose is lower drag.
" the first test phase will start in the Czech Republic at the end of 2022."

Interestingly, while we have 0 km of passenger high-speed rail in CZ, we have a testing facility that half of Europe uses when testing their high-speed trains. [0].

Hey, at least something.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velim_railway_test_circuit
Right. What I meant is you can get the loans against the balance before putting it into the trust and after the trust itself provides the income.
Sorry for the bad experience and thanks for the feedback.
Bitcoin is by no mean a modern technology at this point.
Picking different bits doesn't solve modulo bias.

This is more likely a memory of the warning concerning the low quality of the randomness in the low bits (e.g. in LCGs where it always alternates in the lowest bit), or the fact the high bits of rand(3) were often zero due to a small RAND_MAX.
Well, it was fun while it lasted!

See you in the dark ages …
I'm sorry this is impacting your business, but I can't help but notice something missing from your account: a clear claim that your business (and your customers' businesses) are fully compliant [to the best of your knowledge] with Stripe's ToS.

That might be an oversight on your part or "something that goes without saying", but when your counter to the accounts being flagged "as not in compliance with Stripe's ToS" does not include "hell yes, they're/we're in compliance with the ToS", it leaves me wondering whether you're in a grey or dark grey area here.
Berkey filters look like a scam to me: https://archive.ph/ixmXD

The fact that they refuse to get certified / conduct any independent rigorous testing (like in NSF/ANSI certification) should have clued you in.

"We also cut open a pair of Black Berkey filters to see how they are constructed and to look for evidence that, as Berkey marketing claims, they contain “at least” six different filtering elements. We found that though the Berkey filters are larger and denser than filters from Brita and 3M Filtrete, they appear to share their filtration mechanisms: activated charcoal impregnated with an ion-exchange resin."
Yes? That’s why I specifically noted it doesn’t usually apply to charities in my comment? Parent commenter was expressing concern about dead people exercising indefinite control over funds. The Rule Against Perpetuities was developed specifically to address that concern. We’ve since carved the rule up with all kinds of exceptions. As I also noted... I’m not sure where you think I’ve mislead you?
> But then people will write them with As, Bs, Es, etc. attached.

This is fairly commonly used for multi-unit dwellings, especially when someone turns a "normal" house (with a purely numeric street address) into multiple units, including renting out their basement.

In subdivisions the houses are often consecutive numbers (with odd/even numbers on opposite sides of the road), and it's not like the city is going to re-number every other house on the street.
That particular VP wasn't very good at his job, and at the time he wrote that, the foundation was still considerably understaffed, and simply wasn't keeping up with the needs of any part of the community (readers, editors, volunteer developers).

I'm really tired of your argument that hosting costs $2.4m a year. It's disinformation at best, because you're leaving out salaries of the folks who keep it running.
One thing that is almost impossible to do on your own is to get a merchant account that you will be using to process payments on behalf of others. So if that is your business model, you are almost certainly in for the fight of your life with banks and merchant providers, along with some stupidly high reserve funds.

Stripe makes this super easy, but it is a house of cards based on stories like this one. So I agree, you still need to get your own merchant account, and not rely on stripe as you get larger, but depending on your business model it might be taking more of your time generating due diligence documents than an acquisition.
I don't think the math really needs to be explained - just telling people how to operate it. Millions of Australians vote via a similar system and they're not all constantly scratching their head over the Condorcet paradox.
> This isn't really a problem with IR35 in principle though.

It is, because the situation would have not happened before the changes. Basically now, thanks to the legislation, the client has the power to force a legitimate business into employment. If you are not a skilled worker you don't have any position to bargain, so it's umbrella or nothing.

> it can't be normal for them to go after someone who honestly believed they'd been properly employed and had all of the deductions properly collected just because someone completely different has ripped off HMRC?

It is their default behaviour unfortunately. It is cheaper to go after the worker, as ultimately it is their personal tax and they have no money to defend themselves in court. "You should have chosen the umbrella more wisely or you should have taken the work elsewhere". This is even on their official guidance pages, that the worker is responsible for their tax even if someone up the chain pulls a scam.

> I'm surprised the agency seem to be walking away untouched though if they set up the deal and actively pushed your friend towards a dodgy umbrella employer.

You would have to prove that they knew the umbrella is going to pull the scam and that they acted in bad faith, which is probably not possible. Having a PSL is also legal and the worker could always have walked away. They could also ask if she has logged in to the HMRC portal to see if her tax was being paid etc. and that is her fault for not taking due dilligence.

> HMRC do make mistakes but do also want to get the right money from the right people so if something has gone wrong here it's worth following up.

That's not true. For instance, read about the Loan Charge scandal.

HMRC is pretending they are doing anything about it - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mini-umbrella-company-fraud - they post some examples there.

> HMRC has deregistered tens of thousands of mini umbrella companies who they believed were involved in one or both of the following:
>exploiting the VAT Flat Rate scheme
>exploiting Employment Allowance

That's just two things out of many they should be focusing on and imagine they have already "deregistered" _tens_of_thousands_ of mini umbrellas.

Add to that the government is not interested in any regulation of umbrellas and any concerns about IR35 are dismissed by both government and HMRC.
Not many countries rely on income taxes. For example, Thailand has about 11% tax revenue from personal income tax: https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-asia-... Mexico is 20%: https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-latin... Vietnam is 8%: https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-asia-...

It is very hard to collect personal income tax in developing countries. OP's tax revenue claim just doesn't match the data. On the other hand, corporate tax and VAT are very easy to collect. Digital nomads are very good for these revenue streams.

It is true these digital nomads don't contribute to social security benefits. But they also rarely take from it. So it is a mixed bag.
It's doing the same thing for me. I asked on my Phone.
Bridges are not really the issue, they have a lot of space to dissipate the shockwave.

However the manufacturer might be expecting a significant business through the alps, given the base tunnels Switzerland has been digging.

That would make high-speed tunnel entry a larger concern than it’s historically been for the french market (most of the tall mountains are on the edges of france so high speed lines don’t have a surfeit of tunnels, probably unlike japan which is rather mountainous).
You can connect in Lille, France for TGV service to Montpellier and Marseilles.
They were trotting out "quiet quitting" as some sort of a negative, when its just doing as much as you are paid for.
They do this for us as well, no reason not to. Otherwise you just sit there for a while when nobody is coming.

They switch to blinking red / blinking yellow to indicate stop / yield.
This is the next iteration to make Cloud Spanner more accessible for developers to start using a scalable relational database that values consistency AND availability.

If anyone wants to try out Spanner without cost, this is a great option. There's also a pretty cool starting experience in terms of in-console tutorial to set up a sample app on Spanner.

I'd love to get feedback on getting started with Spanner.

Disclaimer: as my username suggest, I work at Google, quite closely with the Cloud Spanner team.
Almost certain that AWS uses HAProxy behind their ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) service. But if you know HAProxy, you feel very limited when using ELB.
I've noticed a lot more evil choose-your-own-adventure phone menus these days resort to "Sorry, I couldn't understand" / "Sorry, I still couldn't understand" / "Sorry, your input could not be processed. Goodbye."
Oh wow! I just ordered one to mess around with some machine learning stuff.
Arguably, NeXT lives on in Apple.
CryptoKitties was a great initial introduction (for me) into the mechanics of setting up a wallet, transferring funds, trading nfts,etc. The wild monetary value swings definitely captured the BeanieBaby mentality they were aiming for as well.
I've also seen people who had to transfer in a month and couldn't find a team and were simply terminated- because no other team wanted them.
I'm not a big fan of Adobe. Many years ago, I spent about $600 on their Creative Suite. A few months later I bought a new camera only to realize Photoshop didn't support the RAW format, and I needed to purchase an upgrade to the latest version of Photoshop that had just been released. $600 software that I purchased less than a year ago and it was already obsolete...

That being said, I always wished Figma had the ability to import/export PSD files.
yes, but also look at the age of the trees in the coastal forest (or the age of the trees which didn't get cut down by us). Suggests that they might be a different "micro" climate; also note the earlier comments that they create fog.
It’s just conjecture but if there’s already an ongoing investigation it could help.

You can report stuff to the FBI and they will ignore most of it.
I wouldn't have a career without it, that's for sure. I made a cartoon called The Pygmy Shrew which went round the world and led to me going to Monaco to record Roger Moore!
Depends if it has mushroom in it
I’d interpret your response as being more emotional than the parent’s comment.
Ask HN: How much do you use uppercase vs. lowercase characters in your code?
some programmers use lowercase exclusively. SOME USE UPPERCASE EXCLUSIVELY. Some only capitalize the initial of variable names. What's your preference?
This is interesting because it's probably due to exactly how the candidates stack against each other to the respective political groups.

I think Condorcet kind of fails here because people are voting "not Palin" more than they are voting for anyone with their second choice.

If there were primaries, Palin beats Begich, not by much, but she does. In which case, the general is Palin and Peltola. Palin is a particularly odious candidate to Democrats. Very few Democrats are going to vote for her. So Peltola will win any general election that's just them two.

So Republicans are split among Begich > Peltola > Palin; Palin > Begich > Peltola; and possibly some degree of others. Probably some degree of Begich > Palin > Peltola as well.

Democrats are mostly going to be Peltola > Begich > Palin. Because while they would prefer Peltola, they absolutely do not want Palin.

Independents are going to independent.

So I think that's what we're seeing. Condorcet is showing us results for elections we would never actually see. Palin against just Begich in an election where Democrats can vote just doesn't happen.

To address your point about why IRV is seen as more consensus based than FPTP is because FPTP doesn't care about 50%+1. If Alaska was FPTP, then Peltola still wins the election here, because she had the highest vote tally in the initial round. But then she wins with only about 40% of the vote. With IRV, you don't stop until someone gets to 50%+1.

I think the biggest problem with Condorcet is simply math. Already, Condorcet is very "set-theory" based. And once you hit an edge case, you all of a sudden get dropped into a whole world of combinatorics.

Another issue is that the expectation is that your down ranked choice can't cause your first rank choice to lose. But that's what happens in Condorcet. The people who voted Peltola > Begich > Palin are the ones causing Begich to win even though they prefer Peltola.

Every voting method is imperfect when things are split near the middle. And hilariously enough, they're all perfectly fine when most people want something in particular.