skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting study, cheers for that, a few points of note that sprang out at me:

- In Australia, where voting is compulsory, around 5% of votes are informal, not counting toward the outcome.

So, compulsory voting (> 95% of those that can vote do vote) plus low (5%) informal voting ==> way more people vote effectively in Australia than in the USofA (by a long shot).

- The abstract quote differs from the main body quote of the same:

> Between 2004–2016, 32% of electorates received more informal votes than those in the margin between the winner and runner-up.

Or, in other words: 32% of electorates were closely contested and could have been swayed by the ineffective votes of those that didn't pay attention to detail (is this what we want?).

What isn't expanded on (in my quick skim, I could be wrong) - is that these electorates were close AFTER ranking votes were counted and less popular candidates discarded with second and third preferences thrown in.

Your "conclusion"
> The fact that as many as a third of seats would have a different winner if every vote was counted, though, has to undermine confidence in the democratic process.

is hasty - it assumes that the informal votes, had they been proper votes (rather than drawings of a dick, etc) would have made a decisive and coordinated swing bloc large enough to tip the balance .. when, in truth, they could have been evenly split across the field and had no decisive weight.

(And there are other issues, but that'll suffice for now).
Real estate isn't my full-time job at the moment, so I'm the wrong person to ask! All I can say is there's still a ton of cash sloshing around Silicon Valley. It could be awhile before is dried out, if ever. The VCs still have a ton of dry powder and they aren't moving out of Sandhill.
Solution. Stop government funding.
You're probably right about the currently known processes. But there are companies working on chemical engineering processes that are more efficient.

Here is one : https://hazer.wpmudev.host/about/#hazerprocess
Also, how RAID works, and how ECC memory works.
Also, the top institutions also offer substantial need-based aid, so the top-line tuition number is really only applicable to households with income over ~$200-$250K. At Harvard a family with $150K income will pay $15K, see https://college.harvard.edu/guides/financial-aid-fact-sheet I think this is typical across the Ivies. That's basically in-state tuition at UMass https://www.umass.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/co...
Some progressives are waking up and taking action:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply-side_progressivism
Binance to Sell Rest of FTX Token Holdings
vs more than a billion smartphones sold, 300 million PCs, 30 million monitors...
Cryptography. Honestly, all sources (news outlets, self publishing celebrities, etc.) should start cryptographically signing their content one way or another. Including video and audio. (I haven't looked up whether there are existing, easy to use/practical schemes for this, but I guess there are and no need to reinvent the wheel. Even if the actual tools are missing.)
Hydrogen inherits a lot of infrastructure problems without the advantages of batteries.

Charging an EV at home is slow, but it's a reliable fallback you can use all the time. With no EV infrastructure, I could happily own one today.

With no hydrogen infrastructure...I'm just stuck. There's no path forward at the moment to refueling with H2 at home.
It’s part of my bug out bag. You can cook with that thing and one bowl.
Well spotted!

> This is a modification of IBM's Plex font.

https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/tree/master/iA%20Writer%20...
The obvious solution wasn't to bring back the old system, but to ask the team whos hours to cut and who to let go. If tickets only take "3" minutes to solve, and the shop only gets 40 tickets a day, that's only 2 hrs of work. George gets demoted to part-time and everyone else can go home.
I went to high school in the mid/late 00s. Phones, Gameboys, etc were all banned. They'd immediate take it away for the day if they saw you. It was fine. Do kids really just use their iPhones in plain sight now?
If we're being pedantic, the "2k Km" is simply incorrect.

See 6.1.5 here: https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-...

If it were Kelvin-meters, it would either be written "K m" or, preferred, "K·m"
Is there a historical precedent for this? An distributed version of a centralized system winning? My only example is email and it's horrible.
It likely has nothing to do with it.

I'd blame this more on overblown headcount combined with the new built-in privacy features on both Apple and Android phones for hitting adtech revenue. But one could have seen that coming a year in advance, when these features were being prepared.

Oh, and for Meta specifically, this outsized bet on the "metaverse".
It's a poor law that doesn't have exceptions; in this case the exceptions are many other countries in the G20 .. eg: Australia, three major parties, numerous minor parties and at any time in the past several decades there has been sitting houses with members from more than two parties.

I guess that puts a ding in "mathematically impossible" (given the stability of the Australian political system for 100+ years).
That’s a good point. Something close to a "properly fitted proportional version of iA Quattro" might be Nitti Grotesk. https://www.boldmonday.com/typeface/nitti-grotesk/
At my last company, the team's budget for merit increases was based upon the size of the team. More headcount meant more money available for promotions and fixing historical pay imbalances. It was not a good system that directly caused good employees to leave.
Throw some white vinegar. Boil. Rince.
Clean.
Isn't the whole point of monospaced fonts columnar alignment (e.g. the table in the article)? Seems like "almost" defeats the point.

Then again, I don't see values lined up much these days:

{
"someKey": "someValue",
"someOtherKey:" "someOtherValue,

and if you only care about leading whitespace (that is, the whitespace before a character appears on the line), maybe it doesn't matter how your font is spaced.

I suspect numbers in these almost-mono fonts are monospaced, so numerical values should still have nice rhythm too.
assuming we can make the cost something more affordable:
Regions of the world DO have excess amounts of renewable energy, they have no way to move that energy to locations that dont have excess renewable energy. thats why turning it into hydrogen might be a part of the solution.

on top of that, there are lots locations around the world that are underdeveloped but do have the potential for turning their renewable resources into an export. That would be an almost silver bullet. to uplift developing nations by selling developed nations green energy.

If we can get the conversion cost effective, and the transport and storage reliable and cost effective then we can change the world for in a bigger way than the internet has.
options are a whole different ball game. You can short shares but I'm guessing that wasn't an option?
TV, internet, and phones are subsidized for a reason and it isn't to help people but to keep them under control.
Not everybody gets their news or hackernews links the same way you do.
You also expect to see financial returns from subsidies. The meaning isn't totally different. They are just a type of investment.
I'm assuming you're asking because the electricity required to generate the hydrogen to power the car would be (much) more efficiently used to directly power the car. ie. electricity is being used as a process mid-point rather than end-result.

I hear a bit of cynicism about hydrogen being touted by traditional automotive and fossil fuel companies because the business case around it is essentially the same as fossil fuels, where re-charging an electric car can be done at home "for free" (pending a number of dependencies being met), and I agree that it could be a half-step forwards rather than a full-step. But I also believe that it's best to have more than one option, and there are likely to be wildly varying use cases in which each option can an obvious stand-out for different use cases.

What other trade-offs are there in hydrogen vs electric engines? (dependence on rare-earths being one negative on the electric side, but are there also rare-earths required for hydrogen engines or the generation of hydrogen?)

What are the use cases? city driving, country driving, buses, trucks, towing, rail, light aircraft, passenger aircraft, military.
Why is "sudo 1.8.0 through 1.9.12" affected, but rhel8 shipping sudo 1.8.29 and rhel9 shipping sudo 1.9.5, are not affected?

<https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43995>

Description:
... Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.9.12 ...
Statement:
The sudo package as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and 9 is not affected by this issue as it currently doesn't ship the affected code.

<https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/sudo/x86_64/pack...>

1.9.5p2-7.el9
1.8.29-8.el8
The Weight of the Evidence: Diets do not work (2015)
One of the problems with deep fakes is that they open the door for plausible deniability in case of hidden cam/mic recordings of wrongdoings of public figures. (Think celebrities, politicians.)
That would be awesome. I know some indie bands do that (buy our CD, get free downloads) but it would be better to see an industry effort, the same way we have MoviesAnywhere for films on disc
So much for ‘free speech’, LOL
Just guessing, but I suppose it's following the lead of i18n?
It is time to pray. If you pray you will have food.
The western lockdowns were a manmade disaster. I look forward to history's harsh judgement on this.
My referenced program is just proven for input sizes.

If I wanted to do something to validate an entire program subset similarly, I'd make a type with the bounds I needed that gets fed into that algorithm which is proved for those ranges. This isolates the proved code from user input, but the newtype with range ensures those checks are done prior to being fed into the algorithm. You can't "prove" user input, there has to be validation, but you can force that validation prior to entering the proofed code.
Hiring freezes aside, it is possible to be laying off people and hiring.

Laying off your costly senior employees, while replacing them with cheaper entry-level employees, can be a huge cost saving and the loss in quality or performance may be immaterial.

This will of course depend on what the employees were doing and how many experienced/senior people you keep to supervise and mentor the new employees.

Even in "hiring freeze" situations, this can be done by replacing employees with cheaper contractors.

Yes, it sucks, but it's the reality of the market.
> They don't have less political power, they are either choosing or neglecting to use the power they were provided.

That sounds like victim blaming. If more people "neglect" to use their power, or if the people who "neglect" to use their power are those who disproportionately prefer one party over another, then you're changing the outcome of elections based on the new voting system's inability to capture the true intent of voters (rather than improving its accuracy).

> if that's not your implication than what's the point in bringing it up?

I think it is still on-topic for this article/discussion to suggest that other reforms would be even better, but I also think that some people under RCV will be worse off than other people, and they will be different people to those who were worse off under FPTP. Like I say, that might be a price worth paying if there are fewer worse-off people under RCV, but we need to be honest with ourselves about that (and aim for voting systems where the fewest possible people have less voting power than their fellow citizens).
In addition, the developer of Neovide proposed collaboration a while back: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/39
OR to change that hydrogen into something that stores and transports easier... Ammonia is one way, I have also read that the germans have developed something called powerpaste that essentially makes it inert for safe and simple transport.

These are just the beginning. I am bullish on Hydrogen. I suspect it going to be very big in the future. It may not be a silver bullet (or THE solution) but its definitely going to be a big player.
It does, verified accounts get prioritized ranking and are listed first in tweet responses.
Assuming hydrogen engines become viable, does hydrogen have any feasible distribution mechanism comparable to electricity? With the rollout of EVs, charging stations can be placed pretty much anywhere but we can’t say the same for hydrogen. Are we assuming existing gas stations can be converted or Will natural gas distribution improve to allow people to fill up at home?
>high quality rips

I cannot unhear the Flintstones now...
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Evidently not, as seen by the linked post: https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?48320-CD-Drive-A...

The data seems to be based on telemetry collected for a CD ripping software, which I'm slightly more inclined to believe is real than some mumbo jumbo about vinyl warmth or whatever.
We don't know for sure that's why he tried to get out of the deal. Maybe he decided he actually wanted to focus on Tesla/SpaceX, or was trying to gain leverage for a lower acquisition price.

If he didn't think he could improve on the status quo for Twitter, the thing to do would be to trim as much staff as possible to cut costs and then continue with the current ad revenue based model, without making any changes or introducing new features. Twitter was making on the order of $5B/year in ad revenue. Pushing costs below $5B/year should not be difficult given the nature of the service provided.

Alternatively, if what you say is true and he doesn't think he can make it work, he could try to "back out" by flipping Twitter to another buyer, or just take it public again. Revealed preferences suggest he thinks he can outperform those alternatives.
What a terrible take. How do you equate sharing child porn with speech though? That’s literally complicity in illegal activity. Speech would be more like discussing the merits of such a law and what not.

> For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror

Or you know, colluding with the government to censor facts they don’t like.
Thanks. Exactly my thought, it’s data with a checksum at this point.
You can confirm the copy.
Nitti is the OG monospaced writing font for me. Soon as I experienced it on those older versions of iA Writer I was hooked. I do love IBM Plex and these derivatives but I also miss Nitti. Might have to pick that one up from Bold Monday for old times' sake.
What Is a Blood Moon?
Serious question: is COVID-19 still a thing? From wherever on Earth and whoever I see, life is completely back to normal though I have no friends in China.

Is COVID still impacting work in China?
Artist in the Laboratory: Edelfelt's Unconventional Portrait of Louis Pasteur
Amazing to see how quickly people forget an egregious fumble when they like the team.

6mo ago all the health and environmental types were (rightfully) calling the status quo a disgrace. The usual pro-“cut the .gov slack that no other entity would be afforded” cheerleaders were nowhere to be found because even they knew the government was in the wrong on this one. But here’s we are one stroke of a pen later and people are acting like this is an example of the system working satisfactory.
I don't drink the bean juice personally, so I've got no skin in the game. To me it definitely seems like a drip coffee maker could make a cup of Joe just about as good as most other methods. I do think it's a combination of the burner burning the coffee after and also a coolness factor (that's how my parents did it, gross!) that drives a lot of the hipness of alternative brewing methods in the US.

But as mentioned I don't really have a horse in this race to begin with. Drink what makes you happy however you brew it. :)
Are you saying you’ve declined your employer sponsored healthcare and just signed up at healthcare.gov and it ended up being cheaper?
Yes, avoiding loops in DNS name decompression is the first thing I check in new DNS code. I think Julia updated this post after publication with a caveat about compression loops and other potential problems. (I think the only other missing thing is checking the name is not too long.) So from my point of view this tutorial passes with flying colours because it clearly says that name compression is the worst part of the DNS wire format, and that there are lurking dangers if you are writing something more serious than experimental code for learning.
The same sunlight and wind energy could be used directly as electricity in homes and EV batteries. There is a significant cost to storing the energy as hydrogen, and there's no benefit.
That stands out because when you look at the clock and it's something uninteresting, you just forget about it.
yep. Literally with so many people reneging, working multiple jobs, doing what's required of them, a company has no loyalty to their engineers. The opposite is also true, an engineer shouldn't have too much loyalty to their company. Considering these dudes were making over 200k a year I'm sure they'll be fine and land their next job.
Regarding section 4.1 and 8 in this paper, it uses several software implementations of MSB and gives a performance comparison between the VList and RAOTS from which it was derived. It doesn't utilize hardware instructions which can improve the MSB calculation and eliminate branches (eg, clz/lzcnt or bsr). It's worth having another look at RAOTS using an optimized MSB which will leverage instructions available in modern hardware, and see how its performance compares to the VList.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~imunro/cs840/ResizableArrays.pdf
Works great, got some good answers and useful links within just three searches on different variations of the same theme. (for reference looked up variations on 'observer pattern')
Let me bring out the same argument people have been using for the last few years while disagreeing voices were silenced on Twitter and elsewhere on the internet: Twitter is a private company. It has no obligation to let you post your opinion on its platform. If you don't like it, go make your own Twitter, or buy it from Elon Musk.
China has far more restrictions than others when there are outbreaks of cases.

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-maintain-zero-covid-po...
Kagi results are suspiciously similar to Google's. I don't think it's possible they're using their own index, at least not entirely. They must just be re-ranking Google results.
Eyes are not focused at 2cm in VR, that's ridiculous. The focus distance is several meters but it varies between sets. You notice this when objects get close to you and your natural instinct causes you to focus closer, making the entire field of view go out of focus.
You are commenting on a press release where apple is saying that covid19 is impacting the factories where their iPhones are made.

Yes. Covid is still impacting work in China.
USPS uses a payment it to validate change of address requests.
So look at how the data is broken down:

> Drive: HL-DT-ST - BD-RE BH14NS48 (116 users): Submissions: 10260 accurate, 23 inaccurate, 99.7763 % accuracy

23 of these submissions come from a broken drive, or the disc is damaged to the point a correct read cannot be made. It's not that the drive is producing 99.7% accurate data, there are 10260 100% accurate submissions and there are 23 wrong submissions.

It's a binary state, either the drive is functional and the CD in decent condition, or the drive is broken/CD is damaged. Some drives may have a higher failure rate than other drives, but every drive is either 100% accurate or busted, there is no 95% accurate drive. That's just a broken drive.
It was only fifteen years ago that the original iPhone launched with 6 million units sold.

Look, I’m not necessarily claiming Quest VR headsets will be the next iPhone. But I think it’s pretty likely this will be a big and important product over the next few years.
What's powering their IT infra a nd trains then?
I'm going to have to disagree with you there.

"Twitter’s now former head of accessibility confirmed that the company cut the accessibility experience team, which improved the product for people with disabilities. The team appears to have had a lot still in the works before it was disbanded."

I hope you never have the misfortune of losing one or more of your senses. It's already a pretty shitty world for such people due to attitudes considering them as irrelevant, an unprofitable minority, etc.

Accessibility is the unprofitable thing we do as a basic human courtesy to other people as an affirmation that life doesn't have to be that bad.
Mean, variance, and linear regression lines are all the similar for the datasets that look very different when graphed.

Probably a great statistics book that covers this but it’s also in books that teach machine learning. For example, this book covers this and many other fundamentals:

https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html

See section 2.2.6: Limitations of summary statistics
I doubt we live in the same place so I won't recommend anything specific. But I would find local roasters and try to buy beans that were roasted in the last couple of days. Freshness makes a pretty big difference. Finding specific ones you really like will take a bit of trial and error. Single origin if you want interesting/specific flavours, blends if you want something a bit more consistent.
I'd love to interview as a ' developer '. But I'm a crappy leet coder so I never get to that. I've blown quite a few FAANG interviews due to this.

To be fair, I'm self taught so I don't have a great data structure background. I've still had a good career though.
Europe != EU, they are not interchangeable.
Weaker versions have been proven, even for higher dimensions.
This! My experience working with underprivileged (what a strange word) kids is that for many of them, their phone is the only thing in their life that they have at least some control over and that they can consider theirs, and taking it away can solicit extremely negative and even violent reaction, so when I read that the kids did not mind, my first question was "What kind of economic background did they come from?".
If you can believe their advertising, it means exactly to the original specs - all of them. Shape, material, paint, pickup, everything.
Getting rid of the accessibility team could be a problem down the line if Twitter becomes less accessible in the future.

There are federal laws regarding accessibility; companies have had to payout millions in damages.

For example:

“Target to pay $6 million to settle site accessibility suit”: https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/08/target-to-pay-...
The comment I replied to said the U.S. was limited to around 1100W which is why The U.S. doesn't use tea kettles.

I reply with a very commonly used device that uses over 63% more power than 1100W showing that obviously isn't the reason the U.S. doesn't use tea kettles.

And you reply with essentially, "Oh, but that's because the hair dryer isn't used continuously for 3 hours". Did you think a tea kettle is used for 3 hours continuously?
> Are you using it to challenge ideas you disagree with?

If someone says something dumb you call them a slur and move on. So yeah, actually.
> the largest carmaker seems very much to believe it will be the future

Tesla are arguably a long way ahead on electric cars, so it would make sense for the, currently, largest carmaker to be touting something else.

It maintains a 'normal' that's more similar to the status quo than electric cars, and being the largest carmaker, change would not be something they'd like to encourage. This being closer to the current status quo could help it greatly if fossil fuel logistics and infrastructure could be minimally re-worked to cater to hydrogen.

It also could end being stupidly fiercely politically aligned where democrats are all supporting and driving electric and republicans hydrogen.