skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people vote in Alameda county? Was building software to automate the counting really more efficient than doing it by hand with piles of ballots?

In Australia RCV for a single electorate is done by hand. Each candidate can nominate a "scrutineer" to observe the process. Compared to doing it in a computer, it's like single stepping through the algorithm in a debugger. It's transparent as can be and a problem like this would be caught instantly.

It scales fine! The process is roughly O(viable_candidates * voters). It's rare for more than 3 candidates to be viable, so in practice it reduces to O(voters) =~ O(electoral_workers) =~ O(population).

As a "computer person" I'm a big fan of the manual process, but the implementation can be lacking: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/missing-wa-sen...
Does the scribe not support the @kindle.com send document facility? Not that I trust Amazon to keep that around
I'm Scottish and British. Without getting too far into the politics of it, Scotland is literally on the island of Great Britain. From a purely geographical standpoint, Scottish people are British.

What other term would you use to describe people from the constituent nations of Great Britain?
> Pretty much anything that’s a constitutional amendment shouldn’t even be on the ballot, and the more elected officials there are

Do you believe those should be on different ballots or do you just oppose the concept of referendum in general?
That's the difference between format and content. Web servers make sure the format is correct, they won't inspect the content
This is great.

Reminded me of Pink Trombone https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
This seems like a simple problem to solve if all the ballots are simply public. The voter isn’t relevant, only the full suite of ballot data.

Then each campaign can run their own cross check to ensure the tally is performed per the actual rules. At the end of the day it’s the votes that matter, not the voter.
This is really sad. I used to watch Louis when he was coming up. I didn't even own an Apple device, I just liked how he'd treat customers and show all of us his approach, and how to do it, for free.

The corrupt government ruined him. It turned a beautiful young mind ready to change the world into a really bitter person. That's not a knock against him, but against the NYS Government. Glad he moved away, and hope he has more success in other districts.
Look at the conditions on his bail disposition from the detention hearing.

https://ia804708.us.archive.org/26/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...

https://ia804708.us.archive.org/26/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...

He does not need approval for raising money for legal or court costs. How can people commenting be sure he is using the money for something else.

Not sure why people commenting online are getting this wrong, both on Redditt and Twitter. One Twitter user, "BowTiedIguana", who was cited in a Yahoo article, is confusing the magistrate judge at the detention hearing with the district judge, Abrams, who recused herself weeks before her scheduled hearing with SBF on 3 Jan 2023. SBF has never met Abrams.

The question no one is answering is who are the two unnamed sureties that signed off on his release and allowed SBF to post bond. It stands to reason those folks are paying his lawyers, too. SBF's bond was $250M. There is no way his parents' property is worth even close to that amount, so these unnamed persons were essential for SBF's release. One of them is not a family member.

Who and why is this person taking sides with SBF.
> he who types statically types twice the amount and thus half as fast.

If you mean by this, "static typing is not worth the effort", the zeitgeist is definitely not with you on this one.

> There's honestly no need for static typing in Elixir.

I'd love for that to to be the case! Is the only way for me to find out for me to give it a try, or are there somethings you can say to help me believe?
> There is also the risk (which cannot really be made to go away) that the longer hashes used with SHA-256 may break tools developed outside of the Git project

Easy fix if that is really an issue, just truncate sha-256. The length of the hash is not the issue that needs fixing (even if its a nice side benefit).

> that is only the first step in the development of a successful attack. Finding a collision of any type is hard; finding one that is still working code, that has the functionality the attacker is after, and that looks reasonable to both humans and compilers is quite a bit harder — if it is possible at all.

I mean, if you have any sort of binary files in your repo, that's pretty doubtful.

The way you mostly do this, is the colliding part is a short binary blob which is embedded, and then the file has code outside the colliding part that does different things depending on the value of the blob.

Yeah, getting that past human review with a source code file is going to be tricky. Otoh if you have any sort of binary assets in your git, (this might even include images depending on the attack goals, e.g. goatse attack) this seems a lot more plausible

P.s. to be clear, i agree that sha-1dc variant removes most of the urgency.
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also related to I-90 and east of Seattle: https://conservationnw.org/our-work/habitat/i-90/
Very honestly I hope that these maids shit in the food of their employer or use their toothbrushes to clean the toilets when their are not looking.
My assumption has to be that they want to push you into the recommendation stream.
It's shows just how pointless it is to have this much money and only bad things come from it.

Tax anything above 1 billion at 100%. If that isn't realized gains do not allow them to borrow against it. No loop holes.

The US and others managed to set a global minimum coorperate tax so this is doable.
> representative democracies / absolute democracies

The dichotomy above is impossible to interpret. What does that even mean. So when a democracy is representative, the minority's will can override the majority's will? Then what does the representation part in the representative democracy mean.
your example clearly has nothing to do with the OP's claims.
Yes, poor chap has exceeded their bandwidth limit for that site.
Are you, perhaps, conflating Britain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? There’s a potential upcoming referendum about the latter, not the former.
> Many languages have libraries for ANSI color support and pretty printing, but no other language has Rich:

https://github.com/ajalt/mordant
They want to avoid the following situation. X% of the time a plane crashes and costs $Y. It costs $Z to cancel/delay a flight due to penalties and compensation. $Z > X% of $Y, therefore fly the unsafe flight. So they lower $Y in the case that it's a safety issue to save lives.
That’s a good example of how this could be written ambiguously, thank you!
Passthrough MR history: 10 years ago Canon announced the HM-A1 headset
That's great for those who want to do so, however I'm not going to spend my limited time in this universe dealing with political squabbles.
I'm describing a problem, the fact that the books are free and that this problem causes a minor inconvenience doesn't make it not a problem. It's important to be aware of these things.
It is ok-ish, given how low level nim is.
Annoyingly you can’t set “very magic” only “magic”. So I have written some vimscript to try and ensure when I start a pattern it starts with “\v” though I’d hesitate to call it robust.
SQLite – Clustered Indexes and the Without Rowid Optimization
Show HN is to show off stuff you've worked on. In this case it's paid but that is not against the rules.
I don’t know anything about Canadian travel law, but I assume there is no question that the airline must deliver the service you paid for.

It reads to me like this law was intended to provide additional compensation to passengers who are delayed. The EU has something similar.
Nothing is left in Erlang/Elixir from Prolog. Except some of the Erlang syntax.
Nice political response, well done. However you didn't address the issue of canaries and canaries being removed by you directly.
California is what happens when you take New York, get rid of the amazing public transit, then add a fake smile.
Is this an academic who is celebrated and is a fraud or an academic who was defrauded. The second would be deliciously ironic. The first alas could describe entire economics sub fields
> Xi, like all his predecessors, wants to be the leader who finally annexes Taiwan.

This is the more straightforward issue. The decision to invade Taiwan will not be a strategic decision, it will be an emotional decision. Just as Putin invaded Ukraine for emotional reasons, so too Xi is likely to invade Taiwan.

What's different to his predecessors is that Xi has accrued more power to himself, changed the rules to extend his rule, and removed any opposition, just as Putin did in Russia. China is running out of people to say "no" to Xi, just as Russia ran out of people to say "no" to Putin.

Xi will be feeling his age. He will want the annexation of Taiwan to be his legacy, just like Putin wanted the annexation of Ukraine to be his legacy.
Moving goalposts, you were asking who said it, the language authors did.

If they are right or not, it is another matter.
Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
"engineers who design these things don't clean their own houses, and don't talk to the people who do"

I have long harboured similar suspicions regarding the design of kitchen utensils. Clearly designed by people who've never washed the dishes and have overlooked (or blatantly ignored) the fact that these things -- made with all sorts of joins and crevices that are hard to clean by any means -- are meant to come into contact with our food!
Does body expanding also count if you are a philosophical monist? ;) Overcoming Gravity 2 - buy this book and a pair of gymnastic rings and you are set for life in terms of fitness (...ok, you should also do squats and deadlifts with weights)
I mean,if you want compact just use ECC key instead of rsa. It will be much shorter (and arguably more secure)
Amazon should introduce a progressive scale similar to the ones widely used in tax bracketing. The higher rates only kick in at price points that ensure the sale of a higher priced e-book will always result in more revenue for the author, even if the general trend is to take a bigger cut of higher priced items.

(Not that I am a fan of Amazon's publishing model - it just seems they are tripping over an already solved problem.)
Your mom would get arrested now. Even if she wanted to let you.

I've a 12 year old... Last year I was reading at a table in the library, and he was less than 20 feet away from me in the children's section reading quietly on a couch. A security guard came up to me and told me I had to have him always in my sight.

When I do groceries I typically give my kids one half of the list and a cart, and they go off. I can't count how many times they've been asked where their parent is. I've trained them to ask the asker "Where is your parent?"
If you want A or B to win, but you really prefer A to B, then should you approve of B at all or not approve of them?

This preference situation happens in every election, and approval voting has no answer to it. It's completely unclear what a voter should do to get the result they want.
I really enjoyed a piece of coursework that I was given on a discrete mathematics course that consisted of implementing RSA using the math theory taught in class. It's a very clever algorithm.
I think American history tinges its culture, as this has almost always been a state driven by fear of boogeymen, whether those boogeymen were witches, sin, foreigners, minorities, communists, satanists, terrorists, etc.

I agree with your premise that it certainly was recognized and capitalized upon at that time again that fear, hysteria, crises, etc were good ways to get what you want out of people.
Gp was saying their biggest complaint is better in JS and Ruby, so aren’t those just as good for velocity and not for scale?
Why? it got the correct answer (guess #3 was arguably correct, albeit phrased a bit misleadingly)
I think what comes to people as a surprise is that the government, by default, considers any activity that it, the government, is not doing to be suspicious. The government, as entity, functions to extend its reach and not to serve citizens. This is by design.

The government could care less if you lost access to your money if it means they have more control over the financial system. The tiniest gain of control is worth it for the bureaucracy even if it means locking hundreds of thousands of people out of their savings.
Futuristic Vertical Farming Startups Are Struggling in the Tech Downturn
This tech worker may have been directly inspired by Office Space, but the scheme was around for long before (I first heard about shuffling roundings from my parents).
The ongoing issues with Drop trait stabilization show otherwise.

Having a GC is an option alongside the other ones, an option that both Epic and Microsoft think it is worth enough money to spend development resources on.

And Google as well, actually, as Chrome uses a C++ GC, seen as way to fix security issues, Olipan.
The launch vehicles listed in the parent comment have never flown. Rocketlab do have a lot of experience launching its smaller vehicle, Electron.
https://archive.vn/yvrk0
Can we presume a premise that having Javascript disabled is the dominant condition, and therefore does not make a browser stand out from the herd? What if having it disabled is true of only a small percentage of browsers?.

If we assume that the user-agent string is set to whatever is "most common", and Javascript is disabled, are there no other identifiable bits of information? What about CSS fingerprinting?

Perhaps the expected adversaries are not sufficiently motivated to try to sort somebody into a cohort based on lack of Javascript, and the remaining observable data?

(But not saying NoScript has no uses.)
I am a strong believer in climate change, but I feel many are pulling the "causes climate change" card in their arguments like "think of the children!"—a subtly dishonest way to trap their interlocutor because no one sane would want harm to come to the children, or to climate.
> In the meantime I don’t know what people have against using @spec.

It's not ergonomic enough (you end up writing function definitions twice).

And there's very little tooling to help automate the process: if you return the result of a function call, good luck figuring out the spec for that if that function is in a library somewhere
> Pick whatever system you prefer for resolving one candidate getting picked multiple times, eg give them extra voting power in parliament

That is a really interesting idea.
Previously discussed with hundreds of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31851755
I see three comments saying it was there before 9/11, but really, the fear dial was amped to 11 then. It was a milestone in that sense. Furthermore, journalism changed dramatically. Instead of more open ended questions, especially TV interviews started treating guests like enemies for example “Why didn’t you do X?” to a guest, instead of saying “Can you tell us what you did?”

Also more subtle changes in how media reports things in general. I haven’t seen a study on this, but it would be an interesting subject.
The curation you're relying on is probably not delivering what you hope. If you picked a Rust crate by looking at a SO answer from say 2020, you're probably getting a similar quality of "curation" in Python's standard libraries.

Not because the Python maintainers are intentionally doing a bad job, it's just that their mission isn't to substitute for your research. To them, "Does last year's Python script still work?" is always higher priority than "What's the best way to do it today?".

And what Python's security team decide constitutes a reasonable security fix may conflict pretty badly with what you need.
have you ever tried to do that? I paid $19,000 once to sue a company for $8500…

The reason was more to force their hand, but you don’t just “sue a large company” they will play games like ediscovery, and crazy-weird jurisdiction stuff
Bucky and Lilian Gilbreth—my two biggest design heroes!

In 2015, I convinced Brown to digitize her PhD thesis (industrial psychology), which had been lost. More here:
https://bobemiliani.com/the-back-story-eliminating-waste-in-...
(a) 20 is far too large a class. AFAIK the knee in the curve is somewhere under 12 students, and 2-3 students is optimal.

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system#Oxbridge

(b) In the US, schools and teachers are a dependent variable, as the students' parents self-select to domicile within the "good school district".
If you legitimately have the buffer length then it doesn't matter how the allocation is aligned. The extra time to read the next page with no errors doesn't need to be avoided, since it's rare and you're very likely to use that data anyway. The only thing you need is certainty that you have the buffer length.
Surviving disillusionment (2020)
Maybe they intentionally want to keep books below 10 dollars?

Maybe they figured that in the end they have a lot more cheap books than a few that might be more than double because of the non-progressive scale.
You don't seem to understand what "counterparty risk" means. If all FTX users had used a non custodial exchange to purchase crypto, the CEO of that non-custodial exchange would not have access to any customer funds, so he would not be able to commit any crime like that.
Polars has basic SQL support already, it’s just not that well documented. You’ll need to compile Polars with the ‘sql’ feature flag.

Not sure what the process looks like through the Python API. Maybe @ritchie46 can chime in?
Truncating the sha256 hashes does sound like a reasonable intermediate step and should also enable interoperability (a guess from my side - if it is only about referencing objects, it probably does not matter how the keys were generated).
At some point one could then transition to the full hashes and make the truncated ones an option.

I‘m wondering what tooling is heavily dependent on the length of the hashes. Potentially if you want to keep the size of the transmitted data small (at work, we once considered git as a versioned database for an IoT use case…).
I like good sql projects like this. I use duckdb for almost everything.
Pure majoritarianism isn't necessarily best either, it just always takes the majority's side in disputes where a strongly-held minority opinion comes in conflict with a weakly-held majority one. Like, it's obvious that you should take the side of the majority when it's "we'd rather not be slightly inconvenienced by paying for rent-seekers" regardless of how intensely the minority of rent-seekers want to rent-seek, but it's much less obvious that we should have zero handouts to narrow interests when it's "please spend $10000 per life saved via rare-disease research and treatment, I don't care how little the general public is aware of and cares about it and would generally prefer lower taxes"
Because by law it is forbidden to say if they are forced to give access by law. The removal of the canary together with that message without addressing that directly can be seen as strong hint that the where forced to give access.
It just needs a bit of rewording to sound more encouraging.

If you failed the last new years resolution, then reduce the scope of the goal and then start today. Lumping goals into the new year tends to make them too difficult to achieve. Start small and snowball. Don't wait.
Maybe not my expertise, but it's rare to see this kind of content

so if you want to learn something like: PCI/CXL/USB/x86/ARM/DRAM/SAS/AHCI/NVM/SATA/Virtualization/UEFI/Thunderbolt

then I've seen this https://www.mindshare.com/ being recommended
This seems more like an attempt to punish the rich for their privilege than to solve an actual problem. I won't argue that private jets are more polluting than other forms of transportation, but the solution is to tax all forms of transportation at a rate that covers the damage they do, not just to focus on the super-rich.
After GDPR was passed I've got pretty much no "legal" spam. "Unsubscribe" links in emails actually work. If they didn't - then companies sending those emails would get huge fines. The only spam that I receive now is from "Nigerian princes", but GDPR can't stop those anyway.
I was curious what would go wrong, this just worked for me:

py -3 -m pip install tokenizers

...

Building wheel for tokenizers (pyproject.toml) ... done

Created wheel for tokenizers: filename=tokenizers-0.13.2-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl
Summarisethis: A Twitter bot using OpenAI GPT-3 to summarise long threads
Hello Hacker News community!

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But beyond the technical skills, I also learned a lot about the potential and limitations of AI models like GPT-3. While it's capable of producing human-like text, it's important to remember that it's not a replacement for human judgment and nuance.

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If you're interested in trying out @summarisethis for yourself, simply mention it in a reply to a Twitter thread you'd like summarized. I hope you find it as useful as I do!

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"They’re handling it admirably, but we really did them dirty."

Because of social media?
It would have been nice to have a list with an example for each of the 23 tasks. Have I missed it?
Got a couple shelf’s of em, but the book in question is Breyer - Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970

Useful because it (brief, but extant) coverage of nations like Brazil, Spain, and Greece, which don’t tend to get much coverage.
But unfortunately pretty routine. In two out of two cases where I've claimed compensation for delayed/cancelled flights under the EU law, the airlines have outright lied about the causes and denied compensation.

In both cases, they were forced to pay out in arbitration after the arbitor determined that their stated causes were false (e.g. providing the tail number for a different aircraft that was legitimately delayed) , but there was no penalty for lying.

In such an environment, it's quite rational for them to lie and deny.
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The limit is 100kph during the day, and 130kph at night. The reason isn't so much emissions as it is a royal fuckup on all sides around nitrogen compounds and biodiversity.

There are also a few cities where speed limits drop below a 100 when passing through. That is about health. Specifically noise and fine particles.

None of this is about greenhouse gasses.