skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I worry that if we get into disputes over which alternative voting system is better, that momentum will be lost and we won't change at all

I worry that history will repeat itself and that we'll try it for awhile and then turn back because it does not resolve the things people care about (multi-parties and strong spoilers).

> I don't know if you're from the US or not

I am and demonstrated knowledge about this idiom. My comment was that the idiom is inappropriate for the conversation at hand, not that it is inappropriate for all circumstances. Why else do you think I quoted Plato?

> I want n-candidate elections to actually have n candidates.

Then you want a system that is scalable, transparent (i.e. low computational complexity, trivially parallelizable, and trivially verifiable from statistical subsets).

> It's true that you can be a bullet voter on a ranked ballot, but there's no incentive to (that I can think of).

Don't explain it to me, explain this to yourself. Why is the logic for "no incentive" invalidating in one case but not another? I argued that these are nearly identical situations and have several comments noting that there is no incentive to vote in the way you are suggesting. You are not being consistent in your logic and I'm trying to explain but it is frustrating. Maybe I am being too liberal in using my links and expecting others to read. So let me state it explicitly: there is no incentive to not give your top candidate the maximal score. So your logic is inconsistent. On the other hand, I don't expect all voters to be rational but I do expect (and have linked to experiments with people) a convergence to rationality (also consider what rational means. It doesn't mean smart but that people will play near optimally. We mix normal language and game theory language and this can create a lot of confusion).
> how expensive construction is in the US

We're in a pit of success. Our workers cost a lot, and that's generally a good thing.

We could lighten regulations and import immigrant workers, but the real turnaround will be when automation finally teaches construction. AGI or robotics or whatever. Give it 50 years and costs will come right back down.
Total revenue remains constant as long as X=X. Without an increase in total revenue, there is no reason to incur the costs of renting out a unit.

So, if I have 4,000 units and I let 100 stay empty to raise rents 8%, I win.
Discussed at the time:

Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20798033 - Aug 2019 (107 comments)
reminds me of a slightly different scenario - I used to run a rootless Sparcstation SLC that would boot over the network and become an alarm clock.
It's a sign of the times that there is only one 2022 phone officially supported.
That's true, it's always been like that
The idea is that the "default" is the easy thing, which is usually optimized by the compiler.
Nice.

One thing that would be handy would be to encode the settings in the URL. Then people can share a link to this with others who need the same set of time zones (eg, colleagues) and have the time zones already be set up.
This is one of those late-night-dorm-conversation topics that is fun but pretty much hypothetical. We will not have any bases on the moon for a long, long time. We can't even manage powering our society here on earth.
This is where I was trying to use sorting networks as a fun example. Without independent compare/swap units, they will go slower than sequential sorting. Despite not necessarily "branching."
First of all, the amount in question is 20 million dollars down to 10 million? That is really insignificant, and this feels meaningless in the context of discussing Twitter's performance. It's not a large sum to write down.

They also agreed to the Twitter deal in March/April. If a fund manager bought Twitter 1 month ago, or looks like the write down was from the price it was 2 months ago, then they needed to get their head checked, no one would touch Twitter at $44 Billion in October.
20 waisted years in my humble opinion.

When EU countries could have been forging ahead, building on the natural base of social democracy and technological advancement, e.g. to become world leaders in future energy . Instead they have spend 20 years dealing with the internal inconsistencies and self imposed limitations of a single currency without a single fiscal / monetary policy.

I don't see it changing, but who knows.

EDIT. I do wish people would post counterpoint, rather than vote down something that I explicitly stated was my own humble opinion, and indeed ended on a conciliatory sentence.
Down votes really should be used for trolling, or off topic to the poster they are replying to, not as a lazy way of replying.
The full lyrics to 'Auld Lang Syne' so you don't mumble your way through it
This is a super super great looking set of tools!

One thing I'd like to see here is a little more explicit connection to ServiceWorkers. These various worker runtimes are patterned off the client's http serving capabilities, ServiceWorker, and ideally many/most of these tools should be useful there too. Making that more explicit/clear & a visible goal would be great.

Really impressive list here though. With hope this is where http handling really starts going.
Song for reference [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_6Vs8pADrQ
Can you please make your substantive points without breaking the site guidelines? You did that here with your last paragraph, and worse at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197958.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
One day later: some more thoughts on this, I think the biggest reason to pick Borland was bluntly put the price. There was simply nothing else that came even close to being that affordable and, more importantly, that would run on my relatively anemic machine. I was dirt poor back then, my computer didn't even have a case, it was essentially a motherboard and a power supply bolted to a steel frame of one of those office folder hanger carts (I don't know what those are called in English, but they were pretty common in the days of paper file folders). I just plugged cards into the top and a harddrive (a 20 MB MFM Seagate which cost as much as my car) was sitting loose on the same base with some cables to keep it connected to the motherboard. It was about as ugly as it could be but it worked and I was pretty happy with it.

Happy New Year by the way, if you are still up and reading this!
Did you mean to respond to me?
I'm amazed to search this whole conversation and not find anyone using Liferea. Simple, free, and effective. I have no complaints.
> Anti-features: macros

Is there a different mechanism for compile-time programming?
Country home in the mountains with my family, father, nieces and nephews, sisters and brothers, brothers and sisters in law and the presence of my beloved mother. We spend more than New Year's eve here.

I know I have my best sleep here. It is incredible, just incredible sleep. I love it because I write code, read, and enjoy the greenery and the sun all while surrounded by my family.
Is this part of your dystopian novel?
How infeasible would it be to deploy an HVDC cable that actually connects opposite sides of the moon and sidesteps most of the storage issue? The longest one on earth is 2500km so it seems within the realm.

You could hypothetically split the conductors east/west, eliminating the need for most insulation. Conductors could potentially be deployed from space and stitched together with robots or something.
"Users who have turned on" implies that they opted in. Is this behavior opt-in or opt-out?
Yes, tech support can be difficult and it seems like your statistics are similar to ours. We receive around 5,000 support tickets per day and we simply cannot satisfy everyone. Sometimes we have to "fire" a customer who becomes disrespectful towards one of our attendants.
Something often said: 'We don't use the word crazy around here'. I'm sorry but bandying around that word is vague and misleading. Authors really need to be more specific. This is why we have distinct terms like ADHD, Neurodiverse, Eccentricity, etc.
Christine Lagarde?
Oh yeah, the older I get, the more every month feels like this. NYE already? I was just sitting on my tailgate watching Fourth Of July fireworks last month... I'd swear it.
It’s not RICO.
Tell HN: Happy New Year
Either I'm late or I missed it but just in case, Happy 2023 to all of you and yours.
I’m surprised the Proleptic Gregorian calendar (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar) isn’t used by default.
I am not a supplier
Same here. I tend to use my Mac as a consistently “crisp” way of getting to a shell prompt. I use iterm2, while I’m in love with alacritty, etc … (and rust) - I just haven’t switched.

Combined with a pretty consistent decades old dotfile repo, good apps like Obsidian, vscode, and the crap corporate makes me use… I could really do fine with a Linux machine, but I always feel like the windowing envs are one “ctrl+alt+backspace” from me waking up in 1997’s days slackware and video res/driver hell.
> Prolog is a pretty standard functional programming language, just hidden in a backtracking query runner.

Disagree. The fundamental difference (to me) is that in a functional language you write functions that have inputs and outputs. You can write code like this in Prolog, but Prolog encourages the idea that there's no such thing as an input or an output; there are only relations. If you write a function such as

c = a + b

in a functional language you cannot just say "here are c and a; tell me what b is." That idea makes no sense in a functional language, but Prolog will simply tell you what b is. You can even say "here is c; give me an assortment of a's and b's that make the relation true" and Prolog will start listing them off (albeit probably not very efficiently, and one does not typically use this capability for simple arithmetic).

This is a very different way of thinking about functions because they are inherently "bidirectional" and it's one of the things that makes Prolog feel more like a magical query language than a functional language.
Please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately. Seriously not cool, and well past the line at which we start banning the account.

I don't want to ban you, but if you keep this up, we'll have to. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.
Why link to a link?
Hashes are binary values internally, so "z" (or it’s ASCII byte value) already exists as a prefix in SHA-1 hashes (any hash that begins with 7a). The real problem is that existing code assumes that hashes are always exactly 20 bytes in size, and any 20-byte value is a valid SHA-1 hash. There is no way to indicate a non-SHA-1 hash in the binary Git data formats and internal representations processed by existing code. The task is to change those formats and representations, and the related code, to enable such an indication.
The supply of land is fixed. If we're talking about the US then most of what you pay for when you buy is the land.

The current setup hasn't exactly been great at generating new housing. Juicing speculation increases nimbyism just as much as it increases developer interest.
Construction costs are only one aspect of the US economy.

Silicon Valley would not have happened elsewhere. Neither would the dot-com era, or a viable electric car industry (proved out by Tesla). Every FAANG is American and their only viable competition is in China.

I don’t know what the next transformative industry is going to be, but I’d be shocked if it came from a risk-averse place like Western Europe.
Yes, it's a great book, going through it now.

https://zero2prod.com
That depends, at least in the Nordics shipments from Germany usually arrive fast.
It's a bit unfair to project your judgement on to others about what living situations are healthy or not for them. Who's forcing monogamy upon us these days? Different relationship styles or more prevalent than ever before, with a possible exception being the bisexual orgy free-for-all that was Roman times.

A "healthy" situation for one person often may not translate to healthy for another, these norms exist across a wide spectrum. This is one reason it's nice to not live in a house with 30+ people sharing a single room. Human creatures are made of the same matter but are vastly different in terms of needs, experience, emotions, and mentalities.

Edit: @Fezzik who forced the people you mention into the ascribed situations? It sounds like they chose it themselves and went on to regret their decision. While an unfortunate outcome, they've exercised their own agency. Nobody can force you to take the red pill.
Sorta? My understanding is most of the cost is in regulatory compliance, combined with less exercise of imminent domain.

That is, construction was cheaper back when we had no regard for the people that owned or had interest in the land we were constructing on. The so called "spite mounds" of the Seattle regrade are a good example. Some were literally for an owner that was out of town. Not sure that kind of crap should fly.
In an earlier meltdown in October 2021, cancellation of over 2,000 flights was said by the Dallas Morning News to cost the airline $75 million.

The December 2022 meltdown is roughly 3x as many flights.
Perhaps thing outside the tool/app along lines of default app/program values?
aka utilize different 'software' abstraction levels to acomplish something is one definition of 'software art'

X11 configuration files to make xwindows resemble a PC os ( https://zorin.com/os/ )

.login / .logout or dot file to customize how use/interact with ?? shell, xwindows, program(s)

does using unicode / ascii character set to 'redo' graphic format count as software art?

Is abusing a programming language to do something language was not setup/intended to do count as software art? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod... )

Does writting a working OS in piet count as 'software art' ( https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html )

Getting multiple programs on the voyager 1 & 2 space craft to run in few k of available memory count at 'software art'?
or is the ability to remotely debug/trouble shoot from millions of miles away a 'software art'?

Is literate programming a 'software art'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
Having a common currency makes more sense if you can easily move to places that the monetary policy controlling supply of the currency benefits. US monetary policy is made to benefit US states, and Croatians cannot easily move there.
A grand value slashed of $10 million of a fund in November that had assets of $36 Billion.
50 Years of Eco-Pocalyptic Predictions
I remember getting a new lease on life with Factorio when I gave myself permission to start again as much as I wanted. Before that I would overcommit to every base, thinking that the "real game" only began after you get past the bootstrap phase, but in fact there is a lot of joy in just putting marks on the page.

Also, having things be small enough to fit in your head, as things tend to be at the beginning, is a boon for learning. I thought the early game was pointless, but in fact working with small factories made me realise that there were foundational practices that I had yet to learn which helped me to level up significantly at the game.
You can't go wrong with Tetris, and Tetris Effect is the best version of it. It must be experienced. It's impossible to describe what it feels like to be in the "zone" with this game. It's one of those games you can pick up for a five minute game and then notice that you've been playing it for three hours. Good headphones are a must.

My problem isn't finding games worth playing, it's having the time to do so. Elden Ring, Dark Souls 1/2/3, Bloodborne, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Dishonored 1/2, Prey.

I'd love to have time to get into the adventure games again, like Grim Fandango or the Monkey Island games. Adventure games have always been some of my favorite experiences on a PC, going back to Sierra and LucasArts games.
Canonic – The back to your front end
Check out the demo scene, they are still going strong after 4 decades and producing stuff that is just as mindblowing as it was when it all began.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4

That's 256 bytes.
Not as interesting as the "Jodorowsky's Tron" posted here a month ago [0,1]. I do like the way Midjourney does technical stuff like the big red droids here[2] though. I like the one R2 droid with what looks like a stormtrooper helmet for a head.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33752684

[1]https://www.djfood.org/fantasy-jodorowsky-tron-visualisation...
Right. And consumers get none of this benefit. When was the last time you scored cheap gas because of station's property tax?
Pre-conditioning and avoiding cold soaking your battery is so important in sub-freezing temperatures if you want to maximize range.

Drawing 4kWh from the grid to get every surface in your car toasty is a great way to make driving more comfortable, and reduce the amount of battery you spend on heating the cabin while driving.
Yeah, Denmark is the wrong example. Sweden is the right one: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=SEK&view=10Y
Minze – JavaScript framework for native web components
I'm big into exploration and survival games, ideally with friends. My top games this past year were outer wilds, grounded^, valheim, pathfinder kingmaker^, and detroit become human was a fun variant on my usual game. If you have a partner to play with it takes two is great for a couch game.

My top games in recent years were outerwilds, stardew valley^, subnautica.

I'm hopefully steam will refresh the now generally index as I'm waiting for gen 2 to buy & get into vr gaming.

(^Not competed)
We could, yeah. I'm sure you're capable of re-writing everything you do twice. It's just a huge waste of time.

You get just as much benefit by assigning a performance refactor to an engineer when needed vs literally halving or worse the whole teams productivity.
Its possible to get into FAANG even with things not going perfectly – my journey
I wanted to share my story of finishing up high school, being lost, and starting my career in tech, in hopes to inspire others who might be in a similar situation.

Ask me anything if you have any questions, will try to answer everything :)
What set of processors would your recommend putting in Perseverance with a 110 watt power budget? Or on JWST with its heat dissipation requirements?
This arguably touches on one of the most important aspect of being an adult. Our education system is designed to ignore it. Most interesting things in life are difficult. Difficult things mean you will fail many times. One of the most important habits you can learn as an adult is recovery from failure. This means looking at failure in analytical way - to get feedback from it, adjust, retry.
Given the absurd amount of optimization that goes into high-level play, a better question might be if you could make one without it.
2 months ago, no one in their right mind would buy Twitter at a $44B price. No management would sign off on it. But then it was 20 million out of a 36B fund. Do the math, if it was important in their books. Likely, was just randomly purchased as part of the index, or bought as an insignificant investment.
Faang is definitionally American. :)

Silicone valley would probably also not be possible with modern regulations. But... That has a name. Regulatory capture is far from new. And doesn't require crazy people.

Looking at tech and ignoring how much brain and money power was thrown at nuclear technology is doing a disservice to why the US was so far ahead in many fields for a long while.
The country where they still openly celebrate faschism is rewarded with both Eurozone membership and Schengen zone?!

Call me not surprised. After all, they were by far the closest friends of Nazis during the WWII.
> There are still parliaments in EU countries, they still debate and vote laws.

Greece cannot pass laws through parliament without Brussels approval. Italy, effectively need to stay in-line with the EU's program otherwise the EU aid will stop... so effectively these parliaments vote whatever they're told by Brussels to vote.

> Yeah, some matters are also discussed at the EU level. That's what happens when different entities make and join a club. They have to collaborate.

I don't see much collaboration happening tbh (energy, immigration, etc.). I could point articles but I think we have a completely different view on how's Europe actually governed right now.
take on software art : https://www.creativeapplications.net/
Worth noting is that this whole scam is arguably illegal under the Fair Housing Act.

Prop 13 rewards long time landowning families. Who's that? White people. Even if the law wasn't explicitly racist originally it's impact has been. And only impact matters in the law.

Here's a link to a good paper on it

https://twitter.com/jarosenthal/status/1328136286159261698

If the current court weren't a joke I think this would be worth pursuing.
>Also, an older Italian gentleman I spoke to once told me that after their switch to Euros, their prices shot up but wages didn't. Curious how true this is and if the same could happen in Croatia.

On the euro-conversion day, 1 EUR = 1,936.27 ITLira = 1 Deutschmark (at the time).
So, prices went up ie a L1,000 coffee became €1 - it doubled, because a) it was easy and b) people just couldn't be bothered. Businesses had no problem, being bothered, of course - wood from Germany that used to cost DM1,000, now cost €1,000 in Italy when it should have been 1,000/1,936.27 = 516 Euro....but it didn't. I knew a guy that was building a house and it was cheaper to purchase a lot of things from Germany (even with the exchange rates, paperwork etc), and boy did they get burned. Equally, an Italian company they originally called had also doubled their prices, so it would have cost twice as much again to purchase locally.

Italy was just the victim of a series of rounding errors, except when it came to wages, as they didn't double.

To me, it's just like shopping in the states. A dollar is a dollar, but state, local, county etc taxes sure make it far more interesting than it should be.
Just because it's extremely rare to hear a dissenting opinion about it: I love reading, I love RPGs, I didn't like DE. I really tried and played for many hours, but the writing just felt meandering. Pointless and full of filler. Like a book that had great ideas, but needed an editor to tighten it down. Like Patrick Rothfuss second book.

Again, this seems to be a rarely held opinion, and most people love it, but if you don't, you aren't alone ;)
Brave browser (basically Chrome) on Windows 10, and same behavior on Safari on iOS.
The single currency was an enormous boon to surplus countries (i.e. net exporters) and an enormous detriment to deficit countries. Couple to that the atrocious, almost criminal handling of the Eurozone crisis.