skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad there's plenty of people here mentioning the Condorcet Winner. Because that's the one and only voting property that I can't compromise on. If there is a Condorcet Winner, a voting system that doesn't choose it is useless. But it's not like IRV has to be entirely thrown out. As some have suggested, it would be just fine to use a hybrid system like "pick Condorcet Winner if it exists, use [IRV/STAR/etc] otherwise".

I'd like more people to talk about Ranked Pairs / Tideman. It satisfies a ridiculous number of voting criteria, even more than Schulze, but with the huge advantage that it's explainable to a layperson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_pairs
Yes, I fondly recall his speech he gave calling out the MAGA republicans as a danger to the country and right wing media losing their mind over the “fascist” speech.

Is the guy a doddering old fool or a dangerous demagogue? It can’t be both simultaneously
To be clear, you're suggesting that's the case, but that's not suggested by anything in the video.
Rocket Reach is a very popular vendor for such info.
> They also presume that peoples primary desire in communication with one another is truth.

Maybe. Or maybe it means that these sites don’t like people abusing their networks to spread garbage.
Then you are exactly who I want to talk to and learn from!!
Right, kpatch itself is open, but the infrastructure to run it is generally proprietary (except for Gentoo's) and the patches themselves are paywalled (and Gentoo produces no patches).
Not directly related but way back in the day I had a Handspring Visor and would use something (i can't remember now what it was called) to download websites to it when I would sync it and it would be available on it.

At the time i was super into fan stories about Ultima Online like PK Ghost and things and would download that and we would all pass the Handspring around to read them.

Dang this actually brought up some good memories for me thinking about.
D is consistently ranked, by TIOBE index, in the top 30s of programming languages. Zig is not even ranked in their top 100 nor has even achieved 1.0. Appears to be a number of years away from 1.0, which also means all kinds of things can happen and other languages can get more of a spotlight.

In Zig's near category, there are other languages like Odin, Jai, Vlang, Rust, etc... For example, by the time Zig reaches 1.0, Jai (which is in Beta) might be publicly released, others languages might have added some "killer" features, and/or others in development might have also reached production quality.

Zig has quite a long way to go, and if anything may never achieve the popularity or widespread usage of D. Examples of the difficulty of programming languages rising through the ranks, is Nim and Crystal. Both Nim (2008) after 14 years and Crystal (2014), have not even made it into the top 50.
I have a 2020 Honda Civic sans ultrasonic sensors but with a front camera for collision avoidance, and I can count on two hands the number of phantom breaking events I've had in two years. All it takes is a little rain and the sun at the right angle for the system to be fooled into thinking a wall lies dead ahead.

I consider myself lucky that each time there was no one behind me.

While the car gives me the option to turn of the feature, I leave it on because if I get into an accident with it off I am sure the insurance companies would have more leverage to deny my claims and find me at fault.
Might as well buy a trials bike. About the same size, still lightweight, and about 12 torquey horsepower. Only a few thou more expensive.

https://gasgas.com/en-us/models/trial/txt-gp/txt-gp-250-2023...
Hacker News: Children over ten should be able to walk around the town by themselves!

Also Hacker News: Children shouldn't be on the internet by themselves until sixteen!

Yeah I know they are not the same commenters, but come on.
> It's notably different if you have a cloud VM running linux and you're connecting to it with VScode or something over SSH. That's borderline acceptable.

Layer 4 beats layer 3 in my experience.

I also find that remote workspaces have advantages that offset the latency and performance issues.

Being able to quickly spin up or clone new workspaces and isolate software dependencies is a huge advantage. It can help a lot when dealing with multiple Python environments or JavaScript dependency trees.
Also, I suspect they won't work when the CyberTruck is "temporarily serving as a boat" - although maybe that's a good opportunity to throw on a sonar? [edit] Maybe even some kind of fish-finder.
Async Maximalism
I’m a bit confused. In NYC we recently completed the swap to Omny which supports any contactless payment - physical card, apple pay, google pay, etc. This is available in all trains and buses. The only exception is when transferring to the airport’s air train which still required a metro card though this will be remedied in the near future.

When I was in London this year I could do the same - tap in and tap out (with anything that supported tap to pay) since the cost depends on the distance.

Is there not a similar system available in France to replace the physical tickets?

Is the only option a special card you have to purchase ahead of time and then separately load money into?

Surprising this is poorly planned from the same country that was so quick to adopt the chip in credit cards.
Thanks, "Mr. Well Ackshually".

I'm speaking from the perspective of New York State. NYS completely overhauled its curriculum based on the Common Core Standard. NYS has and had already had one of the best funded primary education programs in the nation.

2018 was the first year that exiting high school students had to take the Common Core version of the algebra exam. Failure rates increased dramatically and that was the first year that the graduation rate (passed the Regents exam) dropped in 17 years.

In fact we had already seen this coming because failure rates at lower grade levels on standardized tests started spiking dramatically in 2014-2015.

Just last year we replaced the curriculum and common core standards entirely.
I'm curious if this will snowball into a more informed classification system.

It seems pretty clear that psychedelics and entactogens (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, 2-CB, etc.) have totally different characteristics than "these will ruin your life" drugs like heroin and fentanyl. A sensible drug policy would recognize those differences.

I've never been a fan of drug control, but the scheduling system is particularly absurd. Drugs that are widely consumed without negative connotations for society shouldn't be cause for imprisoning people.
The equivalent of $104M for Fahrenheit Execs.
Check out Repit.com. They’ve added the ability to add dependencies. Having an easy way to hack on some Java with Maven dependencies already installed is pretty great.

I think this is possible using GitHub Codespaces as well…if you have a Java project with a Maven POM, the deps in the POM will get loaded at runtime.

I haven’t tried Python yet, but would imagine it’s similar. It’s all containerized, so you effectively have CI/CD you just don’t see it.
This makes me think of an observation from (I think) the web-serial Worm. Being a super hero who shoots fire is very tough. Either your opponent is someone who is vulnerable to fire, in which case your power would burn them to death (which is not very heroic) or your opponent is not vulnerable to fire, in which case your powers are useless.

Similar thinking seems to apply here. Either your target is a modern, mobile, equipped army of professionals who will take minimal damage from chemical weapons, or they are a vulnerable population of civilians who will be massacred horribly if you use them.
Of who? What is he famous for?
Article mentions "short nutrient pulses result in step-like changes" which implies a discrete event, not like continuous leakage.

I wonder about distribution of the sizes of those pulses.

If all the pulses are basically the same size, then a trigger over the total is indistinguishable from "counting" the number of pulses.

Otherwise, yeah it's not really like "counting" at all.
Fedora ships proprietary firmware in their "FOSS" repos, so your first statement isn't entirely accurate. Debian will now install firmware by default too. I think the only distros that now don't are Guix and other FSF affiliated distros.
How about a look at Meta's app sales to prove that? I think this list of who the subpoena was served to is pretty hilarious, and it's even more hilarious that Apple's not on this list:

Alphabet Inc.

ByteDance Inc.

HTC America, Inc.

Huawei Technologies USA, Inc.

Nintendo of America Inc.

Panasonic Corporation of North America

Samsung Electronics America, Inc.

Simula VR, LLC

I think the malicious intent is all on Meta's side. They have a head start with Occulus, no one else is even close in the US.
The kind of wicked problems they talk about involve not everybody being on board with solving the problem (e.g. the drug addict who doesn't want to stop using, the billionaire who would be 100,000 times poorer if wealth was evenly distributed) or not seeing the problem the same way (the white person who would be at most 10% poorer if wealth was evenly distributed but sure gets scared when somebody kicks down the door at the gas station and steals all the green Newports.)
? Candidly I don't know what you mean, so I will share this anecdote about gold in trucks: there is a building in downtown Chicago, built at the height of the mob days, with an elevator which can lift an entire (full) armored car.

It can lift it several stories up, into the building, where the bank can unload it safely without risk of robbery.

Also, of course, you can't actually steal bitcoin, you can merely steal the keys. That is an actual distinction because possession of the article itself is meaningless without the other half of the cryptographic operation it takes to move it.
> 99% of people who are writing software have almost no clue how a CPU actually works, let alone the physics underlying transistor design.

My undergraduate education was in the early 90s, and at no point in my life have I ever had much of a clue regarding the physics underlying transistor design.

EDIT: also at one time I probably did have a reasonably solid grasp on how CPUs work, there's been an awful lot of advancement in the field over the decades, and I won't describe my understanding as anything more than a cartoon model.
That is incorrect, according to Congress, themselves:

“Both Congress and the Administration have the ability to alter marijuana’s status as a Schedule I substance.”

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11204
Is vacuum distillation a thing in food production?
"Had"? Or "Allocated money for it, but all the bureaucratic grifters stepped in and now all we have is this janky egg timer to flip the switch?"
How do larger teams handle async updates outside of text? Are people supposed to share video updates and everyone is just expected to watch them?
When was the last time that one of these university PR press releases turned into a real product?
I got a bunch of super cheap WikiReader devices and those were great for offline Wikipedia. I think I paid less than $5 per device.
> Asians aren’t well represented there either

What does this mean? Does it mean proportionally compared to the US population or does it mean proportional to their test scores?

[1] has data on US med school matriculants for MD granting institutions. It seems to show that of the approximately 22k matriculants to US med school between 2018-2019 and 2021-2022 admissions cycles, 5k (4,687 at the lowest and 5,151 at the highest) are Asian Only. So Asian Only is roughly 21 to 22% of med school matriculants.

US census results from 2020 seem to say Asians make up 6% of the population [2]. I know this isn't perfect because we really care about Asian population from those in the med school application age range, but I'm not familiar enough with US census data to find it.

Unfortunately I can't find data for DO schools or for GPA and MCAT scores for admissions by race.

[1] https://www.aamc.org/media/6031/download?attachment

[2] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/improved-race...
You're proposing that if something goes wrong on the ISS, the crew will need wikipedia to solve it? Not... talking to Houston or just taking the Soyuz back?
If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynam
It’s time for prohibition to end.
Native app , or, desktop app… it’s already there for decades….
This is the kind of thing that Elon can “fix”. Let anybody publish anything so that Twitter (quickly) heads to lowest common denominator.
if that truly is the case, then doesn't it seem odd that we're still going through the motions, still, in the Internet Age? why would dozens of people in this very thread continue to openly applaud actions that they are fully aware are mere gestures and nothing but, as (they also well know) is and has always been just par for the course, out in the open for all to see?

not only is it pathetic beyond reason, but it goes to show just how shallow and "actually just all in our heads" 99% of "politics" is.

did any of the supposed doom and gloom that the previous President was supposed to be the harbinger of ever come to fruition? where were the conversion therapy concentration camps? where were the existential threats to Women and Science that necessitated political marches opposing such looming threats?

or the President before that one, the First Black President. what did he end up doing for Black America, after eight years in office? are we supposed to look back on him fondly for all that he did for Black Americans, by virtue of getting elected President while Being Black, alone? is that really the level of gesture-accepting we're at, as a nation? as a species?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1576916509766451200

it's almost as though almost (but not quite) 100% of contemporary "politics" exists solely within the confines of our skulls, transmitted via media disseminated through news organizations complicit in the perpetuation of an ongoing political regime, where the role of the citizen electorate is to play along with the professional wrestling-tier storylines presented to them, at face value, because they've established themselves as Authoritative Sources on The News, which gives them free reign to emotionally manipulate said citizen electorate at a mass scale—especially through the use of the absurdly powerful emotion of fear.

if this is the case, why do we continue to play along with it, or at the very least consider it actively virtuous to play along with it? the house is burning but "this is fine"?

how did it get to this?
Politics I’ve seen almost everywhere but nepotism and cronyism are horrible. I’ve experienced that firsthand at a startup, when a new CIO hired his unqualified buddies into leadership roles. One was a young female and he was a much older divorcee and it made my skin crawl.
I have Minipedia installed on my iPhone and it does just that.
> I have a firm belief that presidents should be accomplishing these things in the legislature through party discipline and direct appeals to voters to help him rid himself of specific legislators

That’s exactly what he just did with the pardons. He’s signaling to voters that he wants to legalize it and needs the right partners in Congress to make it happen. From your other comments I don’t get the impression you’re open to discussing the implications so much as you just want to complain about Biden.
> I know Google have said they will support devices longer and I hope that is true but who really knows with Google. They said two months ago Stadia wasn’t going anywhere too.

As part of their sales documentation they have said they will support software for 5 years. That's not something they can renege on without serious legal consequences. It certainly doesn't mean they're guaranteed to provide support for all future Pixel phones for that long, but it does for the 7.
Wow. Radiation and having enough money drained from the public purse for cleanup to shut down every fossil fuel plant in the country is good for you acshuallly. That's a new one.

Props on winning the gaslighting olympics there.

Additionally 'negligible' in the context you used is still hundreds which is a great deal bigger than 1
The teams that I’ve worked on have always just done everything via messages but to touch on your point, we never had check ins in the first place. People are given complete autonomy and are responsible for outcomes. With issue tracking it’s easy to see who is blocking the work but that person usually pushes themselves on without any additional input. The whole thing is rather casual.
> we are obviously still a long way from replacing humans as drivers.

This is only because we as a society have an extremely low tolerance for errors in automated driving and essentially require by default superhuman performance (a self-driving car with an error rate of the median human would never be allowed to be set loose by itself). In scenarios where a 0.1% error rate, 1% error rate, or maybe even 10% error rate are acceptable, AI is making huge strides.

> Just understanding the requirements of software will stretch the capabilities of AI for a few more decades.

I hope so. I'm not sure. And for a variety of reasons that's scary. What gives you a timeline of a few more decades?
This action has one major thing going for it that many executive actions lately have not had: it's actually legal for the President to do this.
As opposed to the non-existent controversy over Carter pardoning draft dodgers?

Or the non-existent controversy over Clinton pardoning Patty Hearst and members of the Weather Underground?

Or the non-existent controversy over Clinton pardoning his half-brother?

Or the non-existent controversy over Obama commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning?
> And before you say "I don't need trust, validators have economic incentive to keep doing it, and if they don't someone else will", I have something to tell you about why people choose to work at banks (it's the salary).

This statement supports exactly the opposite of the point you're trying to make.

Think about it:

* Bankers have economic incentive to work at a bank (the salary)

* Validators have economic incentive to work on your chain (the block rewards)

That's literally the entire point. You don't need to trust any validator, only that the majority are self-interested, rational actors.
Yeah I mean we just had a whole college admissions scandal a few years back with rich parents trying to get their not-so-smart kids into elite colleges.
There is a reason we are getting robot dogs with guns on their backs at the same time AI is advancing; because once AI crosses a certain line it is going to be powerful enough to nullify most jobs. It's not science fiction.

What happens when you have a NN that understands how to integrate new physical input and render usable actions for creating outputs without human intervention? That's where we get machines building machines.

What happens when we start using AI to find the best recreational drugs? How about recreational drugs designed for specific kind of Overdoses - like crumple zones on a car? Or using AI to find the best cocktail of psychedelics that allow us all to work stoned and to maximum benefit all day long without diminishing returns?

Finally, what happens when these AI can layer themselves together through transfer protocols and problem solving distribution without us telling them to? A self-analyzing, self-correcting and self-improving system can be considered a kind of life.

We really are very close now.
Swapping billets doesn't add up. Derren talked to Simon on the phone with instructions to sign it and make sure no-one steals or switches it, and Simon opens it on camera straight from his wallet. So to switch it someone must have met Simon, and either figured out or pushed the exact same envelope/pen/signature location that Simon used, then went and had someone forge some new note the exact same, and then met Simon _again_ and somehow switched it while somehow Simon is convinced that no one has had access. This also must have happened well before the show since they already had to setup the room with BMX bike.

I mean or he could have just paid Simon, the actor, to act surprised.
Oh look it’s another episode of “USG and bigco collaborate for cartoon-villain style antics.”
I must be working on the wrong types of teams :(
That's past 80 characters, and I don't really think this is an interesting place to enforce the rules here — did your instincts tell you that HN readers are about to be bait-and-switched by the editorialized title?
Direct marketing doesn't seem like a very good method to attract people.

Linux needs to do one thing to make it a viable option: Make steam and all windows based steam games work out of the box.

Linux needs to do one thing to win the consumer market: Make all steam games work better than on windows out of the box.

If linux can do that, they can win a market that is not the server market. If Linux cannot do that, then people are trapped on Windows for the foreseeable future.

That is the "did we solve your problem. y/n?" of the desktop environment. It is the only question that matters. I don't see the purpose in marketing Linux for non server purposes until that hurdle has been jumped.
Microsoft subpoenaed MCI, AOL, Intel, Novell others, including all email messages related.
https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/amd-subpoenas-...
https://cyber.harvard.edu/msdoj/archive.html

In that case, "On September 18, 1998, believing that certain statements from Netscape employees reported in Lessons offered succor for its defense, Microsoft subpoenaed the professors' notes, tape recordings and transcripts of interviews, and correspondence with interview subjects. "
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-1st-circuit/1179769.html

Here is Google subpoenaing Microsoft, https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/microso...

AMD subpoenaing Microsoft,
https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/amd-subpoenas-...

Here is a judge standing up an squashing a Microsoft subpoena of Oracle and Sun ,
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2310247/microsoft-fails...

Oil Price Information Service, a Oil Industry trade publication was subponeaded in a price fixing case to hand over unpublished information,
https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/oil-industry-...
Please don't lazily copy/paste either I guess.
> It's like driving a car; you do not have to be a engineer to drive one; but the more you want to push the limits of performance, the more you need to know about the details.

This is a potential argument why users don't have to know the arcane details of how the internals of a CPU works, but on the other hand a good argument why programmers should better have a quite good knowledge about that.
>Traditionally on most linuxes (and bsds) you obtain trusted executables from a known good source (your distribution ) , whilst files from other sources are never run at all.

On the other hand, the vast majority of people installing applications by piping curl output to Bash are also on linuxes and bsds