skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How swiftly the meme has changed from "If we don't win, democracy dies!" to "Since we didn't win, let's get rid of elections!" See also "Our candidate didn't win because of the electoral college, so let's get rid of that" and "Let's make people vote on Brexit again, since they voted wrong the last time."

These people are almost charmingly shameless. Rather than do better, they just want to put the fix in for the next time.
I just tried on a Raspberry Pi Model 3B, BCM2835 ARMv7, 4 cores, Raspbian Linux 4.9.59-v7+ armv7l; "time ./lua build.lua ../LeanQt -P HAVE_GUI" reported 65 minutes (rounded).
It's nice to see one of the first things they did was to enable SELinux in Enforcing mode. I appreciate them leading by example. Perhaps they can document any speed-bumps they ran into and document any custom rules they needed to create so that others can enable it on their instances.
One reason corruption might increase with sortition is that it would be much cheaper to successfully bribe a representative. Most politicians are rich so it’s very expensive to make a bribe worthwhile to them. But if people with less money are in power, they might be swayed by smaller bribes.

Also, they don’t have as much to lose if they’re caught accepting a bribe. If a career politician is caught accepting a bribe, their career as a politician is over. But if a mechanic is caught accepting a bribe during their 2 year stint as a representative, they would suffer minimal reputational damage and could just go back to being a mechanic.

You also mentioned that you could prevent this with harsh penalties and long term audits, but I think it would be pretty easy to circumvent an audit. Like, if I wanted to bribe someone elected by sortition, I would just offer them free stuff instead of money so it’s harder to trace. Like free hotel stays or prepaid gift cards.

I could imagine apolitical people treating a sortition win like winning the lottery and expecting to get money out of it. And just auctioning their vote off to the highest bidder.

With all that said though, there would be a lot of advantages to sortition so the risk of corruption and bribery might still be worth it and would still probably be better than our current system.
> Not only would this make more than two parties viable.

All political parties are filled with petty power seekers. From the article: "Though once a member of Australia’s Green Party, inspired by its commitment to grassroots democracy, he grew disenchanted with party politics." "he made his way into the activist circles of Occupy Wall Street after college but likewise became disillusioned." One of the biggest advantages of random selection is that you select people who are not actively seeking power.

Another inherent problem with party politics is that if there are election campaigns that cost money, there's corruption built into the system.
I quite like sortition and citizens assemblies, but it's amazing how much pushback there is to even minor moves towards further democracy (proportional representation etc.) and how much energy is spent undermining the limited democracy that exists so I feel uncomfortable with the headline.
Note if the author reads this (perfect is the enemy of good, feel free to ignore): You can make udev run systemd services directly, replacing RUN=... by e.g. TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="foo.service"

That might require you also remove the 'enabled = true' for the service, and make sure gphoto2 dies when the camera is unplugged?

Anyway, it was a nice read :)
Democracy by lottery is a very ancient idea, one that was tried in Athens and quickly abandoned because it resulted in disastrous consequences for the city. The consequences were so bad that the idea was never seriously considered again until now.
Among the consequences:

- The lot was usually determined by birth, so it tended to perpetuate privilege.

- People who didn't want to serve often found ways to get out of it, so the people who ended up serving were often the ones who didn't want to.

- It resulted in a lot of incompetent people in positions of power.

- And perhaps worst of all, it tended to breed a culture of resentment and envy, since the people who were chosen by lot often felt that they didn't deserve it and the people who weren't chosen often felt that they did.

The idea that democracy by lottery is a good idea is simply absurd.
I do agree with you about people's attitude to how they did in technical tests. But I also think all interviewers having a veto is the wrong approach. However, I don't think companies really have time or inclination to do it any other way.

I think I do well on both technical tests and the conversational side. I'm basing that on ratio of offers.
That cannot be answered in general because it depends on the jurisdiction, the circumstances, and the settings. For example, in some European countries you need to get permission from the people you photograph unless they are persons of public interest. There may also be considerations about the motorbike (esp. logo and brand names on it) and things like buildings in the background, etc. To give another example, 3d car models in racing games need to be licensed by the car manufacturer, that's why e.g. Forza Horizon lacks certain car brands entirely.

But in any case, the difference is huge between writing a one-sentence prompt and choosing and arranging a motive, arranging the photo setting & lighting (unless it's a Paparazzi snapshot), getting and paying the models, and so on. If you compare this to prompt-based AI, some complex prompts may be judged as creative work, others are too simple to count as it. Changing the color, contrast and sharpness of an existing image also doesn't necessarily count as original artwork (but see some of Andy Warhol's work for differing opinions, of course).
Numbers are placed in an image according to their prime numbers
It caused a flame war, so #1 factor is not negligible.
Source code is indeed meant to be read, and at least to me, low information density seriously hurts readability. I prefer both Python-style indentation based syntax and multiple parens at the end of the line over C-style syntax with closing braces alone on a line. If I write code in a language with curly brace syntax and I don’t have to share the code with others, I prefer to use multiple closing braces on the same line – like Lisp parens – because of improved readability.
Look into the elections for the Doge of Venice: (via https://www.rangevoting.org/VenHist.html)

> Thus the process for electing the Doge, as of 1268 (when it was employed for the election of Lorenzo Tiepolo), had reached this amazing almost-final form [Lane p.111; also described by Lines p.156]:

> - Choose 30 of the Great Council members (of whom there were 1000-to-1500, typically; all male) by a random process;

> - Reduce them to 9 by random processes;

> - The 9 name 40 nominees;

> - The 40 are reduced to 12 by a random process;

> - the 12 name 25 nominees;

> - Reduce them to 9 by random processes;

> - The 9 name 45 nominees;

> - Reduce them to 11 by random processes;

> - The 11 named 41 (all of whom had to be age≥40 years);

> - The 41 elected the Doge (from among nominees they chose; any of the 41 could write a name on a slip of paper, and from then onward, that name was a candidate) by range3 voting!

> - This choice theoretically was subject to approval or veto by the mass of the people (assembly) but I am unaware of any instance in which that veto was exercised. This perhaps meant this step was a mere formality with the People not really having any power. But another interpretation is that the threat of a veto kept the Grand Council honest in its choice – they refused to risk the embarrassment of a veto.
An interesting thing I learned in the interview process was that the AI and automation that was supposedly powering the new efficient global shipping was actually 95% humans doing the normal human work, not some great technical system.

But to be fair, I also worked for an "AI" startup which was going to revolutionize a certain type of business payment processing system with AI, but in fact it was just another paypal or stripe.

Talk big, and maybe if you get enough funding and have enough time you can actually fulfill the promises you've made. If not, maybe you can at least get a nice exit. $$$.
I wonder what would happen if you do the same thing but using an autoencoder instead of UMAP
> However, the rest of us have a name for "bypassing government regulations" - we call it "crime".

Yeah, like hiding Jews during Holocaust was a capital offense. Pretty dumb argument.
Nifty, but that font rendering burns my eyes. Might it workout both technically and philosophically to pipe all the text output through LaTeX or some similar thing?
This phenomenon is not limited to the US. Real estate prices in some European countries skyrocketed in the past couple of years to the point where middle class families with two sources of income are unable to afford a two-bedroom apartment in a medium-sized city, and can barely afford renting it too.

Good luck getting a bank loan for around half a million dollars to buy a three bedroom apartment in a country where the average income before taxes is well below €50k/year.

Something happened to the world economy after mid-2010s where demand for real estate grew like crazy as a kind of store of value/hoarding investment. The scapegoat keeps on shifting, from Airbnb to work-from-home to whatever lame excuse, but it's the same phenomenon everywhere.
Why are male testosterone levels falling?
Yeah let’s appoint leadership that on day 1 asks “what should we do?”. What could go wrong there?

Love it or hate it but a minority of better organized elites will always run the show in every organization from a local bake sale to government.
CRT object files which contain process startup routines are not in a fixed directory. Unfortunately compilers have to be hard-coded to contain an appropriate directory name.
I was thinking about the idea of being considered a luddite for opting out of 'smart things' yesterday. I don't think that deciding not to use intrusive surveillance in my home should qualify. I still extensively use technology. I don't consider the mining of my data as a trade for voice controlled searching to be technological progress. Give me the same solution-- one I can trust-- one that I can fully control and I will use it. Let me understand and alter the technology as I see fit. To me, that's the opposite of a luddite. I am not going to let the marketing departments of these advertising agencies manipulate me into thinking otherwise.
Haha, I bet! If you happen to have the link, I’d be curious!

(And let me take the opportunity to give kudos, this looks super cool!)
Btw, that's precisely the conclusion of the article.
> So someone with a certain experience or training in these techniques will be able to write better laws. Also, legislation necessarily works through specialization and work in committees.

Lawmakers today rarely write the legislation they vote on. They have support staff and experts who assist them in drafting legislation. Nothing prevents providing similar infrastructure to representatives selected by sortition rather than elections.

> Finally, this whole thing reeks of identity politics. Representation as a proxy of good decision making or even just good intent. But think about what this would do to minorities. It would be quite unlikely to chose, e.g., transsexuals or people with rare illnesses.

Um... What? Minorities would unequivocally be better represented under sortition than under elections. Poor people would be better represented, women would be better represented, young people would be better represented. The primary group that would loser it's massive overrepresentation is the old rich white lawyers who dominate our current house and senate. Your argument here makes no sense.
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I am telling the secret to make a basic point as forcefully as I can:
Secrecy itself, especially the power of a few designated "experts" to declare some topics off limits, contributes to a political climate in which the nuclear establishment can conduct business as usual, protecting and perpetuating the production of these horror weapons.
You can’t decouple Siri from the OS. It needs deep access in to sensitive areas of the OS. Decoupling it would just result in mass abuse of user data far beyond the problems of music links.
> The average citizen is more principled and less prone to corruption than the average modern politician.

This claim needs some back up. I don't think there's an innate difference between an "average citizen" and an "average modern politician". What separates them is the opportunity, and having a system in place that works to keep people honest. I'm watching my fellow citizens litter and help themselves to "free stuff", and the behavior of freshly minted "politicians" who get voted in by disgruntled voters of formerly fringe parties (or formerly fringe wings of established parties).

I'd like to hear how you propose to keep the "average citizen" principled in the face of increased access to opportunity and power.
Blaming an internet moderator for driving someone to suicide by simply enforcing community standards is extremely callous. You're actually doing more damage with your moral judgement by trying to bring down someone else.

Now I read many of Terry's comments without ever turning on showdead. Even if he were hellbanned, it would've been a consequence of his actions regardless of the reasons behind them.

But maybe it's not even worth responding to somebody who creates a throwaway to make such statements.
campaign donations aren't such a big deal in the UK, so the main form of legal bribery is "do us a favour and we'll give you a cushy non-executive directorship for the rest of your natural life". this would still be an issue with sortitioning, possibly even more than in the current system, as the representatives are less likely to be rich in the first place

I still like the idea, but something would need to be done about this. a fat pension perhaps. or anonymity. but that leads to its own issues
> KrakenRF notes that if you must use an FM signal, pick a heavy-metal station “since heavy metal is closer to white noise.”

Does a white noise correlation analysis exist for other musical genres?
That seems to be a typo
Ponzi schemes are not obvious, until they’re totally obvious. That’s why they keep happening.

A lot of people will explain to others that it’s a Ponzi scheme, but those people are making so much money that hey don’t want to hear it.

Crypto is a Ponzi scheme, and it always was. I’m not just talking about these companies, being Ponzi schemes, I’m talking about the whole ecosystem being a Ponzi scheme.

You can either listen to those of us telling you cook those a Ponzi scheme or you can focus on your greed. Your choice.
If you go to this event then the recommendation is to take a burner phone and install just that app. The Qatari authorities demand you install a couple of apps for COVID and ticketing apparently.
It's an unfortunate side effect of progress. Just like when journalist were displaced by mommy bloggers.
>Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p

Is this the case on the "4k" version as well? i have both the original (1080p) and 4K version on my newer TV's and havent noticed it "choking"?
Unfortunately I don't see how that would stop big industries just turning up on day two with their lobbying for the outcomes they want, and we end up in a very similar world anyway.
Supporters of sortition have been pushing it a lot longer than the current election cycle.

Rather than dismissing "these people", perhaps you would benefit from engaging intellectually with the idea. If you did, you would probably find that the supporters of this idea are very different from what you are imagining.
To be in a cult you only need to spew their Shibboleth, you don't need to actually believe it.

Seems that he always benefited from membership in the cult.
The basic problem is that the constituents of a constituency want opposing things. It’s an intractable problem that is only managed via laws.

The result is that even in homogenous societies that have shared history and values have trouble reaching consensus.

Moreover even with the best intentions and actions one cannot predict unintended consequences or future events that are unaddressed by the past.
> Most politicians are rich so it’s very expensive to make a bribe worthwhile to them.

The question is, bribe them to do what? Usually, you're bribing them to follow the preferences of the wealthy. Which already happens if the politician is wealthy! They're already voting for self-serving legislation. So in a sense, bribing the wealthy is more redundant than expensive. However, you might be surprised how little you have to contribute to a politician's reelection campaign to get the politician to do stuff for you.

> If a career politician is caught accepting a bribe, their career as a politician is over.

They go to jail. This has happened a number of times. Bribery is illegal.

> I would just offer them free stuff instead of money so it’s harder to trace. Like free hotel stays or prepaid gift cards.

This happens with politicians too. But they still get caught. Anyway, it's no harder or easier than doing the same thing with elected politicians.
>they would suffer minimal reputational damage and could just go back to being a mechanic

presumably they would also go to prison
Armatron
You do realize that by having more parties, you split the vote further and run an increased risk of no one having a majority.

Would you rather see politicians be elected with only a plurality of the votes?
Jellyfin's support for Audiobooks is still fairly rudimentary. Most of the features mentioned depend on the client app's level of support.

There's a feature request that details some of the support already in place: https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/243/audiobook-support

Support for resuming Audiobooks appears to have been added:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/2084

Sadly offline playback isn't really supported. The app can download files to your phone's Downloads folder but you'd have to play them elsewhere. There's no way of so through Jellyfin at the moment.
No, the situation in Seoul is not “natural.” It’s not about tight communities or tourism, because those very high costs apply to Koreans renting long-term as well. Renting an apartment can cost tens of thousands of dollars in up-front deposits, and getting a mortgage (actually just a loan) to buy a house/apartment requires putting up a large asset that you already own as collateral.

In practice, both of those things mean that your parents need to be well off and willing to put tens of thousands of dollars and/or their house up as collateral for you to be able to find a place to live. It’s an insanely broken system that encourages economic stratification and keeps the vast majority of the population from ever hoping to own or even rent in the city.
This is the typical hyper-reactionary behavior of many companies, not just SV. They are playing a game that is more about pleasing investors than actually building performant companies.

That's why you'll see insane hiring phases (and hear stories of so many new people with nothing to do and no onboarding systems yet in place), and a couple of years later you'll see huge layoffs when there are big public economic fears.
That’s actually very useful. It’d allow one to hedge risks with new synthetic derivatives instead of creating weird proxies with stocks.
> The size of the legislatures wouldn't necessarily change, so it's the same number of people at any given time, and since there's no reelection, it ends up being a larger number of people overall.

Except that the people in the legislature would have little to no knowledge about how things work, and so would heavily rely on the advice and expertise of the bureaucrats and lobbyists to know how to move on various topics.

With experienced legislatures they know the system and when someone is trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Some people bemoan "career politicians", but in what other profession does (more experience = bad)? Carpenters, pilots, developers?
That's a very good question.

Lack of automated and timely updates made me uninstall LibreWolf pretty quickly from my Windows boxes.

I won't touch this fork if its more hassle to keep secure than vanilla Firefox.
I don't know, it's of course very popular to bash on politicians, no one likes them. Me neither.

But at least in my country and city, if decisions were made by the average citizen, we would be living as in the 80s. Every time they remove a parking spot to make room for a bike lane or a wider sidewalk, people complain (even if in the long term, many end up seeing the benefits). Maybe it depends on the country, but at least in my place the average citizen is very, very reactionary. They want everything as it always was.

Politicians, with all their failures (we have plenty of corrupt ones here), tend to have more long-term thinking that Joe Sixpack.
Consumer spending and big enterprise accounts, which in a recession..
I'm sure there are many piles of ready lobby cash that will happily build new relationships in no time at all
> Humans also interpolate human work.

Humans, artists aren't the machines other human created, they interpret or copy, not interpolate.
I would also add Bitstamp to the reputable exchanges list. It's operating since 2011 and holds many operating licences across EU and US.
Thanks for sharing these cases. And you are right to point out that they represent a real problem in DeFi currently, which is that some protocols are poorly designed.

These examples are best categorized as hacks, though, which are important to distinguish from losses incurred due to bad debt.

The distinction is important because the question at stake is whether DeFi in general has value. If you look at more mainstream protocols like Aave, you don’t see these same problems. In the mid- to long-term, after the technology has stabilized, all the benefits of DeFi will accrue to users without the risks that you are pointing out.

With regards to Square: yes, you can get your money wired to you at the end of the day—if you are willing to pay an extra 1.5% fee.

This is more akin to very expensive financing—having an annualized interest rate in excess of 300%!—than “instantaneous settlement”. It’s also not standard. Square’s standard settlement process is as I described:

https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5438-next-business-d...
Ranked choice voting will help but the most important thing is to limit the amount of money you can spend on elections.
I want to pay my taxes in BTC or ETH. I remain hopeful that one day I will be able to. Until then, fiat taxes it is.
Great news!

Wish you well. Do you have a donation link?

Since everyone is sharing their xmas list, here is mind:

- containers builtin and improved

- torrent download built in

- forget site built in

- tab group buit in

- private tab instead of private window, like in portable ff

- restore form built in

- profile switcher built in
Interesting. In my case, according to `zprof`, 80% of my startup time came from nvm_auto from nvm (node version manager)
It pains me greatly to not be sarcastic about this but I cannot help but think this article would not be making it to the front page of HN a day after the Democrats clinched the Senate majority, had the midterm elections favored the Republican party as everyone expected.
Can’t say I’m getting particularly positive vibes from you but this is a limited way of communicating of course. I wish you all the best.