skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling the average voter doesn’t actually have a preference for more than one candidate, much less ranking all of them. The whole appeal of RCV is supposedly to help
Third Parties, but that hasn’t really come to fruition. Many voters are partisan, and don’t feel like ranking a RINO/DINO as their second choice. RCV ballots state that you can choose to vote for only one candidate.

People are used to casting ballots for their main choice, and if pressed I doubt most of the electorate would be able to describe the instant runoff process RCV enabled and you would be hard pressed to find a layman able to flesh out all the different scenarios of how their ballot would be counted in any particular close race.
This is great, thanks. I'll have to remember it next time someone makes that bizarre claim.
The rate for that seems to depend on the person, and IIRC has been suggested to only happen for women.
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It was the first one and it spawned many offspring. Some are identical, some are chain forks, some code forks. Some change, add or remove features. It created the category “cryptocurrency” and shares all of its features with other cryptocurrencies.

This “buh buh buh Bitcoin isn’t a crypto!” meme that’s popped up since the last major crash is childish.
I don't get it - how does the court get to decide what is a controlled substance and what is not? Shouldn't that be up to some government agency?
With Pixel 7's Built-In VPN, Google's Giving You a Security Boost
And to the original question "Why doesn’t HN have quality discussion around crypto?". The hacker news readership loves technology, loves anything new (not that crypto is really new), is protective of their latest enthusiasm, and is very quick to stomp on critical comments. We tend towards pointless yelling and cherry picking, rather than nuanced discussion. I guess it's partly the nature of the medium and partly the audience.
Preach. You described this perfectly. A get-rich-quick scheme for disenfranchised zoomers - a modern Amway, if you know what that is.

Everyone I know that is into Bitcoin, immediately tries to sell you on buying some. Which is a huge red flag for me - pyramid scheme vibes for sure.

The one thing I will say, is that I paid a freelancer in Nigeria with some Bitcoin. It was their preferred payment method. That made my take a step back, and really take a second look after initially discounting it. However, after heavy research (running a Lightning node, taking a look at what the tech offered in 2022)... I was very disappointed in not just the tech itself, but the community.

Shilling. Endless shilling.
MDs with hundreds or thousands of publications is usually not a good sign. Factory scientists tend to publish too many tiny or extremely incremental studies. I know of one who's expert at smearing the results of a study over half dozen papers.
Thats true for most fish, but not all -- sardines have much lower levels of heavy metals, and are gererally more sudtainable. Canned sardines have been a cheap, easy way to add health fish to my diet, with (relative to salmon, etc...) has minimal environment impact.
Her parents were probably just like the many "happy", middle-class families with kids I know - "it's so hard to be the only kid without a smartphone, and since the pandemic, it helps her keep in touch with her friends. And the school has an app now, and there are so many educational games!".

GD I hate what "tech" has done to us.
I'm building an app using fly.io and SQLite and it's pretty interesting.

this indie-stack shows how to use the remix framework, fly.io, SQLite and Prisma together.

https://github.com/remix-run/indie-stack

I think fly.io will only expand their SQLite features with the creator of Litestream onboard. Exciting stuff!

https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
What you mentioned is something closed primaries are designed to counteract.
Also microplastics, dioxins…
A 10x engineer writes code, and a lot of it. We can debate the quality, but the 10x part is about concrete output. Political Staff+ engineers live in meetings, documents, presentations, standards, etc. with little if any of their own output.
> - you need to be a fellow voting systems nerd to understand when you may want to vote tactically in RCV, so approximately zero people will vote insincerely

I don't think this is true. Consider a hypothetical voter whose sincere party preference order is "Constitution > Libertarian > Republican > Green > Democrat > Socialist > Communist". It doesn't take very big of a logical leap to say "it basically always seems to be a Republican or Democrat who wins, so for my vote to count the most, I should vote Republican > Constitution > Libertarian > Green > Socialist > Communist > Democrat."
Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing

https://www.cec.uchile.cl/cinetica/pcordero/MC_libros/Numeri...
Have you seen https://stacker.news ?

It's... not as good as HN. Literally 1/100th of the value add.

Shilling. Endless shilling.
Maybe I'm missing something but doing good things and getting rewarded by the popular vote seems like the way the system should work.

Contrast that with doing bad things and then trying to prevent people from voting so you can cling to power.
> When one accepts a presidential pardon, he or she is not admitting guilt or waiving habeas rights.

This seems to be saying the exact opposite.
Yes they were! I remember a lot of Usborne books in the house generally.
Wasn’t there a paper showing that if you buy his picks and hold them short term you make money in the long run? ie: his picks have a short term positive impact on the price.

EDIT: I think this is the one: https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/engelberg/pub/portfo...
Only if your offense occurs after the pardon.
I don't think you understand how modern naval mines work. In relatively shallow waters, bottom mines can be employed, which are not visible on sonar, and they use a variety of sensors so that it is incredibly difficult to trick them into detonating. Others burrow underground at higher depths still and then fire a torpedo at passing ships. So generally modern mines have to be disabled one-by-one, and without firing on Chinese forces, the Chinese would be laying more mines than the US Navy can disable. It will definitely take weeks if a path is ever completed.

Even fairly primitive mines in relatively smaller numbers (scarcely more than a thousand - China has at least 100,000) in the Iraq War were able to score a mission kill and a major hit on US ships. And that was without US ships actually docking in Iraq.

Do you know how long it took to sweep just over 1000 of those quite primitive mines in Iraq? Around 3 months.
Cement production is one of the biggest carbon emitters. There's also the issue of using PVC for the form. None of this seems eco-friendly.

Why not 3d print homes at that point? At least you can get the rebar and other forms in place ahead of the print, and you get more flexibility in the final design of the structure.
Vegetables and grain are not vegan unless they’re organic.

Crops are sprayed with glyphosate and all the commercial formulations include animal tallow.
On every forum there is always someone who can't help but make things up.

This one seems harmless.

The worst IMHO are the men (it's always men) who fake their death for attention, and then create a girlfriend in mourning.
We built a benchmark [Housekeep] to evaluate commonsense in simulated AI agents
See full twitter thread below :)

https://twitter.com/yash2kant/status/1573742455312228355?s=2...
> We use modified electric vehicles and can be anywhere on a given floor within eight and a half minutes.

At this point I'm picturing a huge walrus of a guy, hung with armored plating like a pine cone, speeding towards a crime scene at 5 kph on a mobility scooter.
Both of these can be had for free at your local library. And to be pedantic, you don't even need a desk to study you can do it on a park table or the sidewalk. If someone doesn't have access to a desk (they're homeless?) or an internet connection, I doubt they're even taking the SAT.
I'm not sure that quite follows. Yes, cryptocurrencies are currently a wild west, and there are a lot of scams, but I don't think it's fair to paint the whole space with the brush of a single particularly-blatant scam. It's like... when the whole Theranos thing came crashing down, it wouldn't be fair to say "well of course, most claimed medical advances are scams"; Theranos was a scam, and had some fairly major signs of being a scam, but that doesn't mean that most medical advances are scams. Likewise, Celsius was a scam, and AIUI looked like a scam pretty early on, just like a lot of other things in cryptocurrency are scams, but that doesn't mean "people involved in crypto" == "scam artists".
This is the origin of the term "mall ninja"

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mall_ninja
Assyrian Soft Power
If you cannot provide supporting documents how can you prove your identity?

If you don’t have documents you have no business voting.
Actually that's not the only invulnerable system; there's also "Asset Voting", which I've mentioned in a comment above[0]. It also obligates you to bullet vote, since the voter's honest first preference is the only information needed, but it avoids the spoiler problems of FPTP, and is thus superior to it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117670
This was bound to happen the moment they decided to use a public ledger system to make transactions.
This device is not capable of putting anything into orbit. Orbits require velocity tangent to a sphere around the parent body (approximately). This device imparts velocity at very nearly a right angle to that.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117192 for more discussion

"If you just want the executive summary, here it is: these are definitely interesting algorithms from an arithmetic complexity theory standpoint – especially for the case of 4×4 matrices over finite fields, where (to the best of my knowledge) Strassen’s algorithm from 1969 was still the reigning champion.

These algorithms are also practically relevant, meaning that not only do they have better asymptotic lower bounds than Strassen’s algorithm, they are still algorithms you might actually use in practice, unlike essentially everything else that has been written on the topic in the last 50 years: these algorithms are correct, and will in principle win over Strassen’s algorithm with large enough matrices, but that cut-off is well beyond the sizes that anyone is actually doing computations with."
27 years later we’re still BFF
It’s up to Congress to make the law. Congress frequently assigns some of that power to agencies, and the courts get to review whether the agencies are following any applicable laws.
Tesla Aims to Deliver First Semitrailer Trucks in December to PepsiCo
It’s hard to answer this question hypothetically because if you don’t have kids, you don’t pay attention to how the school system works. It’s a beast.

If you have kids and send them to the public schools, you can’t just move into the neighborhood next to the school you want your kid to attend. There’s an entire placement system you have to learn about that takes into account where you live, stated preferences, etc. It’s possible you live next to a school, but your kid has to go to a completely different school in a different neighborhood.

If don’t want to subject yourself to that then you can send kids to private schools that cost between $15k-$45k/year. On top of that these schools hit you up for more money at fundraisers, etc.

Middle School and High School is another can of worms.

I’m also skipping past the huge budget shortfalls SFUSD is facing and the possibility the state of CA takes over.

At some point it just gets exhausting having to think through all this stuff.

A big reason I moved out of SF to a nearby town is because I knew all the schools were great from K-12 in my district and I just don’t have to think through the insane logistics people have to worry about in SF.

Maybe I overthink my child’s education, but for me it didn’t sit well with how much was left up to chance in public education, the expense of private education, and all the logistics and hassle involved for both options.
Thanks! These pointers will be very helpful.
To be fair to them, it was the court that compelled them to do this. They didn't choose to do it.
I can't tell if the guy is serious or just plain crazy. A mall cop duct taping shields to his back because he expects multiple 308 shots from the back? Husband and wife tag team in this situation... Plan A to shield from the shots with the vest while the wife assembles something more sturdy.. Which mall is this supposed to be? I would rather someone shuts down the mall at such a high risk location. If it is supposed to be preparation for a once in a life time occurrence, without regular tactical training and drills (not feasible for a mall cop org), the vests are going to be useless in an actual emergency. Relax and let SWAT handle the situation if/when it occurs.
This has to be a prank or some walrus mall cop's fantasy.
Is the "Find an expensive alternative to a substance which is easily available/cheap" uniquely an american thing ?
Milk?
Nah we have almond milk/soya milk/xyz milk.

Cottage cheese ?
Nah we have tofu,

protein through meat ?
Nah we have beans,

Omega 3 by just eating a goddamn fish which is available in the grocery store ?

Nah I am gonna eat some processed capsule.
The Left recognizes the importance of education in forming Americans’ ideology. The Left takes a long-term view. The Left accepts partial victories.
> it is a stepping stone to proportional representation (achieved by adopting both RCV and multi-member districts), which is much more important than which single-winner voting system is chosen

There are proportional methods for STAR and approval as well, there's no reason they couldn't be the stepping stones from this perspective

> you need to be a fellow voting systems nerd to understand when you may want to vote tactically in RCV, so approximately zero people will vote insincerely

Yet that doesn't try and stop people from duping voters into eg only ranking Palin, even though RCV is basically the only system where there is practically 0 reason to not rank additional candidates. Your point mostly makes sense but in practice I wouldn't expect high amounts of tactical voting in STAR either for similar reasons. And from another perspective - if someone were to eg bullet vote in STAR to help their first choice win, is that really tactical voting, or just an honest vote/admission that they care so much about their first choice that all other opponents are equally bad? In my opinion, being forced to grapple with compromise would be good for society.

> it is really obvious that voting tactically is an option in approval voting, and so lots of people will vote insincerely and this will undermine the confidence in the voting system

Possibly, although I think bullet voting is much less common than people think it would be. That said, people want to be able to express preferences so I think the best use of approval is in primaries where the top two candidates proceed to the general. Outside of that I'm kind of meh on approval, and if people have to choose between approval vs RCV or approval vs STAR, I expect RCV/STAR to win almost every time.

> while single-winner RCV may not result in many more third-party winners (we need multi-winner RCV, i.e. proportional representation for that), it will change the kinds of winners for the two dominant parties, which is just as important. This point is always under appreciated.

Will it? With RCV the two dominant parties no longer have to worry about the spoiler effect, so there is even less incentive to reach across the aisle and receive influence from a third party than before. Whereas before you might want to take some token talking points from a third party and siphon some votes from them, with RCV you might be able to assume you'll get those voter's 2nd choices for free.
Thank god the millennials working at Twitter have the wisdom, grace and benevolence to determine who the rest of us stupid plebes are allowed to listen to so we aren't exposed to any dangerous or offensive ideas.
It's definitely not unreasonable, but nor is /not/ growing the business in order to control one's own working hours.
This, as usual, was your crypto being held by someone else. That’s why people say "not your keys, not your crypto"
History of the earth and humans and our understanding of the cosmos. I think technology is not that interesting in the grand scheme, other than a record of how far we got.

I guess you would make many replicas on the moon for redundancy against meteorites. They could also broadcast signals to space, altough surely they would be relatively shortlived without maintenance.

I would like to read a story about it.
>We used linear regression models to relate Omega-3 fatty acid concentrations to brain MRI measures (i.e., total brain, total gray matter, hippocampal, and white matter hyperintensity volumes) and cognitive function (i.e., episodic memory, processing speed, executive function, and abstract reasoning) adjusting for potential confounders.

https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2022/10/05/WNL.0000000...

Unless you have good reason you ought not be so uncharitable. Have you good reason?
LOL in Singapore, some of the cables are shown to terminate at a prison complex! Completely inaccurate.
A coal plant at Fukushima would have killed zero people if we spent $200 billion on containing its pollution, which is what it will cost to clean up the radiation from the disaster.
Isn't there a massive difference in wall thickness between what the Romans did and what we do today?
The same thing applies to cryptocurrency. You can call up people with guns to do that too.
Marge Simpson cutting her hair off, by aleXsandro Palombo
#Iran
Heart damage resulting from vaccine-induced myocarditis can cause or contribute to heart attacks weeks, months, or years later, long after the acute symptoms of heart inflammation have seemingly resolved. And myocarditis isn't an on-off thing. The symptoms can be so severe and alarming that an individual will seek treatment immediately or mild enough that they ascribe them to a less serious issue (e.g. heartburn/indigestion) and "tough it out" without seeking care. Whether they get care or not, the acute symptoms may dissipate but permanent damage may have been done to their heart.

Under the unusual circumstances prevailing in many developed nations over the past couple of years, with the authorities and medical professions coercing entire populations into indiscriminately receiving experimental injections that have turned out to damage some low-covid-risk-persons' hearts, there is a generalized reluctance on the part of the same groups (government and medical bureaucracies) to acknowledge the damage their actions have inflicted. Your belief that vaccine-related fatalities are restricted to a period of a few days post-shot, is a result of the authorities' grudging admissions (and those only because the deaths are undeniable) rather than an accurate picture of what's going on.

Here's a link to a Danish study about the longer-term outlook for patients with acute myocarditis who were hospitalized, using pre-covid, pre-covid-shot data ("Long-term prognosis following hospitalization for acute myocarditis – a matched nationwide cohort study"): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14017431.2021.1...

From the abstract:

Prognosis in patients with apparently uncomplicated myocarditis is in general perceived as good, but data on long-term outcomes are sparse.

A bit further down...

Myocarditis in younger patients without prior cardiac disease was associated with a long-term excess risk of HF hospitalization, and death, even in patients free of events and HF medication 1 year after discharge.

Many nations are seeing a large increase in non-covid excess deaths of working-age persons and the magnitude of the effect seems to correlate with the uptake of mRNA and adenovirus-vector covid shots and boosters. It's hard to get to the bottom of what's going on now because the same people responsible for investigating this sort of thing have gone all-in on forcing shots onto people who mostly (non-elderly/non-direly-ill) aren't at risk of severe covid. Until the members of that cohort of experts and officials move on, retire, or are fired, I'm afraid that this will all continue to be either "baffling"/"mysterious" or falsely normalized.
Become a human Generative Adversarial Network.

Reductio ad absurdium.
The attention I got through LinkedIn wasn't really worth it. They'd notify me of a shiny new job, I'd notify them of a hard $$$$ salary floor, and they'd laugh their way out of the conversation. Other channels like CodeFights, Triplebyte, and Google's foobar were a lot lower effort and a lot more fun for substantially greater dividends, and now waiting for former co-workers to recruit me is about as far as the search goes.
I had to read this comment to find out.
This is... not my experience with marijuana. I couldn't imagine driving while high. I don't even like walking while I'm high because my balance and reaction times get really messed up.
Uh ... Im pro vax, and vaxxed, but this is pretty shocking. Take a look from the other side for a second.
Making so many games work has been a decade long effort. It's been worked on forever.

That it works so well is as close to a miracle as you can get with software.

What is needed is not "Linux making it work", it's developers making it work on Linux. And it's actually happening, albeit at a slow pace.

Recently the Steam Deck has been very successful at convincing game devs to put in an effort - for the benefit of all Linux users.

If Linux had MS Office and the Adobe suite, there would hardly be a reason to stay on Windows anymore.

I'm sure Microsoft's reluctance to bring office over - despite their self-proclaimed "love of linux" is because they know it would be a nail in Window's coffin.
BPF as a safer kernel programming environment
In the sense that "stuff is happening in the world of crypto" there is a lot to discuss.

In the context that its all moving deck-chairs on the titanic, there's not much new to say.

On the one hand you can get all excited about the mechanics of crypto, on the other the lack of any actual utility - or progress on the utility of it is like an elephant in the room.

The titanic won't sink in this case, but equally it doesn't appear to be going anywhere. Sure it _could_ go somewhere maybe, and sure just sailing around can be its own pleasure, but it's devouring investments with no clear (legal) use case.
"localedge"
Do non-US entities tend to have more assets in USD or more debts? I'd assume the former, which means that a US interest rate increase is actually net beneficial to non-US entities.
Probably none.

RFCs are about implementation specifics and details. Developers should be aware they exist, but don't waste your time until you need to implement or use something specific.

Better to spend your time getting a good general understanding of machine-code and assembler, compilers, network protocols, database mechanisms, etc. Then you'll be able to make sense of, and maybe implement, RFCs.
I made it as far as "I am a Master of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls. "

before I realized I was being trolled.
shame on me.
This doesn't sound normal. Your other comment mentions something critical:

> I got thrown on something like this almost a decade ago when I fought alongside the YPG, a US backed Kurdish militia that fought against literal ISIS.
DHS/CBP put me on some fucked up list and now everytime I re-enter the US I get detained, accused of crimes, tossed in holding cell.

So, you're in some kind of a black/gray list possibly caused by involvement in a military conflict. Granted, it sounds absurd they would do this given you were on the US-backed side of the conflict, but still. Your experience is not representative of anything remotely close to what most people go through.