Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Visual effects workers scored a historic victory to unionize in a unanimous vote with the National Labor Relations Board.

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SAS Software

JANUARY 22, 2024

Cast your vote by Friday, Feb. The post 2024 SAS Customer Recognition Awards – It’s Time to Vote! 2 to determine winners of the 2024 SAS Customer Recognition Awards. appeared first on SAS Blogs.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I Vote on Plagiarism Cases at Harvard College. Gay’s Getting off Easy. Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

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FlowingData

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Connie Hanzhang Jin and Kaitlyn Radde, for NPR, used illustrations to explain how ranked-choice voting works. Tags: comic , NPR , voting. Instead of picking a single candidate, you can rank your choices, and if someone does not win outright, the rankings kick in.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The media artists union SAG-AFTRA has voted to expand its ongoing Hollywood strike to encompass the games industry.

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FlowingData

JUNE 8, 2023

With New York 2023 elections coming up, The City and NY1 put together a straightforward guide for information and voting history for each district. I want something like this for my area, a vast improvement over the paper mailers that can be difficult to navigate. Thanks, Scott] Tags: election , NY1 , The City

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SAS Software

JUNE 12, 2023

Now it’s your turn to cast your vote for the best in each category. The post SAS Customer Recognition Awards – It’s time to vote! Entries are in. appeared first on SAS Blogs.

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Ocean Protocol

JULY 24, 2023

Punchline OceanDAO is a grants DAO where anyone can propose a project, and each OCEAN holder can vote “yes” or “no” for a project. It’s great for the Ocean ecosystem if OCEAN holders thoughtfully vote “yes” and “no” on OceanDAO proposals, to curate towards projects with the best chance of growing the Ocean ecosystem (“thoughtful” voting).

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FlowingData

JUNE 22, 2021

Bloomberg used a Sankey diagram to show the path of over a thousand voting bills, classifying them as restrictive, mixed effect, or expansive : Across the country, Republican state lawmakers proposed more than 300 bills this year to restrict voting and dozens more that would restrict in some ways and expand in others.

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Hacker News

MAY 24, 2023

… The post Building Cicada: Private on-chain voting using time-lock puzzles appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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FlowingData

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

By Angie Waller, this table shows how Facebook thinks you’ll vote based on what you like. It’s a straightforward view that’s fun to look at. In particular, I like the excluded audiences for certain topics marked with an x.

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Hacker News

APRIL 16, 2024

A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 16, 2024

In a move crucial for safeguarding the democratic process, the company asserts its commitment to preventing the abuse of AI-generated content, enhancing transparency, and providing accurate voting information. OpenAI addresses […] The post How OpenAI is Fighting Election Misinformation in 2024 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Hacker News

APRIL 17, 2024

The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit how the government can purchase data from third parties — legislation that scored a vote after negotiations with a group of GOP colleagues who briefly tanked a vote on warrantless spy powers. Dubbed the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale, the legislation passed 219-199.

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Hacker News

MARCH 27, 2024

New York City’s congestion pricing program, the first of its kind in the nation, still faces challenges from five lawsuits before it can begin in mid-June.

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Hacker News

MARCH 5, 2024

A joint session of Parliament voted to adopt a constitutional reform to protect the 'freedom of women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy, which is guaranteed.'

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Heading into Paris in the comfort of a big car may become an expensive exercise, with drivers facing parking fees in excess of €100 ($108) for just a few hours of shopping or errands.

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Hacker News

JUNE 16, 2023

Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today with most phones, but that wasn't always the case. Read Entire Article

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Seine-Port is introducing restrictions on phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do

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Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2024

abstained from the vote on a resolution calling for a halt to fighting in Gaza for the month of Ramadan, breaking a five-month impasse.

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Hacker News

APRIL 20, 2024

Women Who Code, which had hundreds of thousands of members globally, has dissolved after a board vote.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 23, 2024

The deceptive calls urged recipients not to vote in Tuesday’s primary, sparking investigations by the New Hampshire attorney general’s office. In an unprecedented move, New Hampshire voters faced a disturbing attempt at voter suppression through AI-generated robocalls, mimicking the voice of President Joe Biden.

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Flipboard

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A California State Bar committee is calling for state lawmakers to consider regulations on non-lawyer use of AI legal products and recommending guidance for attorneys who use the technology.

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 13, 2022

It uses a voting mechanism to identify bad examples of objects inside a given class of forms. This voting mechanism is carried out in […]. Introduction The Hough transform (HT) is a feature extraction approach in image analysis, computer vision, and digital image processing [1].

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Hacker News

APRIL 20, 2024

The Senate voted after a midnight deadline to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse.

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Hacker News

APRIL 25, 2024

Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality."

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Hacker News

MAY 21, 2024

If you are a Lisper and like dashes, just vote for your next favorite.… In the odd case that you are an experienced programmer who doesn't have a preference over using camel case or underscores for identifiers, try making up your mind now. Try choosing independently of (language) convention, habit or type of the identifiers.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

TOMORROW, 9/7 at 6 PT/9 ET: Get info, strategize & VOTE YES to reshape the industry. This strike authorization vote occurs amid a broader movement to unionize the video game industry. Earlier this year, SEGA of America’s workers voted to unionize. Voting on the matter will conclude on September 25.

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Hacker News

JULY 24, 2023

This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive. Traffic Votes Posts Traffic table Posts table Votes table The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of days.

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Hacker News

APRIL 27, 2024

This is why we engage in rituals like "humming" instead of voting. However, more and more of our actions are now indistinguishable from voting, and quite often we are letting the majority win the day without consideration of minority concerns.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After more than 32,000 votes, and a team of language experts, the Oxford Word of the Year 2023 is finally here! Learn more about the this year's winner.

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Flipboard

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Following Sam Altman's rollercoaster of a return as OpenAI's CEO, the company announced that it will now include Microsoft as a non-voting observer on its board. The exec also explains why Quora's CEO gets to stay on the board. The question remains as to why the firm's largest investor wasn't on its …

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Hacker News

APRIL 22, 2024

A 19th-century tale of hermaphrodite flowers, Charles Darwin, and women’s right to vote.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It is very similar to the voting ensembles but also assigns the weights to the machine learning algorithms, where two layers of models are […]. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Stacking is one of the most used and best-performing ensemble techniques used in the field of machine learning.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 1, 2023

Senate has approved a large-scale defense bill that includes provisions to bar intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA from denying security clearances to applicants solely due to their past marijuana use.

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MARCH 30, 2023

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Hacker News

AUGUST 7, 2023

On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE.

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