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floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

In the EU there is already a similar system because, in the parliament, the number of MEPs is not really proportional to the population (Germany has 84,48 million inhabitants and 96 MEPs, so 1 every 880,000 people, while Malta has 553,000 people and 6 MEPs so 1 MEP every 92,000 people).

The difference is MEPs are appointed proportionally within each state (so if a party gets 40% in a state, it will get ca. 40% of the state's MEPs)

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

Ok yes maybe "easy" isn't exactly the correct term, but the way to appoint electors in each state doesn't need a 2/3 majority in every house + 3/4 of the states as it happens with Constitutional amendaments. So it's definitely an easier approach

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

Yours is a very good point of view actually. I initially hadn't thought about the tragedy of the commons situation where all the states agree to implement it and later one state decides to go back to winner take all system.

big-green-man wrote a good comment about that

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

As stated in other comments, it would be actually easy to implement as it doesn't require a change in the constitution.

Anyway, as I told in another comment, I'm not from the US, so my intention wasn't really to say how to implement the proposal. I just had this idea and wrote it down in a blog post.

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

Makes sense

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

Yes, it's easier to show with an example.

- California has 38,940,231 inhabitants and 54 electors. That means 1 elector every 721,115 inhabitants - Oklahoma has 4,053,824 inhabitants and 7 electors, so 1 elector every 579,117 people.

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

Yeah, spoiler vote brings to 2 parties (like the US). Although the current electoral college doesn't work well, I'm not sure the Americans would prefer to remove it completely and rather use directly popular vote because in the rural areas they don't want to be "governed" by the decisions of big cities.

What do you think about keeping the electoral college and use IRV instead?

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

>It has other benefits too, like reducing the prevalence of 2 parties in the house

Could you elaborate further?

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

I believe you're right, even if all the states agreed to make a similar change, this "equilibrium" state would be unstable. It would require an amendment to the US constitution to make it stable and that would require a huge majority.

Even if they decided to ament the constitution, you would still face another issue: now electoral system is written in the constitution, so it becomes even more difficult to change in the future.

What do you think about the system adopted by Maine and Nebraska instead?

floprioreon How to Fix the Electoral College

Hello, here is my proposal to improve the Electoral College. The basic idea is to allocate electors proportionally in each state with the Jefferson method (aka d'Hondt method) rather than using a "winner-take-all" system.

What do you think about it?

PS: I'm not from the US, so an American perspective on that would be extremely appreciated :)

floprioreon Hate Chatbots? You Aren't the Only One

> You could skip the generative part for the bot reply entirely

How could you remove the generative part from an LLM? (genuine question)

floprioreon Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x

Are there any ways to show the source of the information retrieved by the model? For instance, the LLM forms a sentence and it points to a stackoverflow answer with the same or similar content.

floprioreon Has LA cracked the code for building affordable housing?

If your dense housing leads to higher housing costs that's actually great news; it means that your city is enabling higher-productivity arrangements that boost local incomes

Take Milan as a counterexample. A single room in a shared flat costs around €700/month, a single-room studio €1200/month. Yet, people on average earn €30,000 a year, which means €24000 after taxes, or around €1800 per month. That's not what I would say increased salaries and productivity.

In Italy, there are serious problems with stagnating productivity and national, collective bargaining. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean rents do not skyrocket in big cities

floprioreon How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)

Anectodically speaking, it has always been extremely helpful not only reading texts and solving problems/exercises, but also: 1) repeating topics out loud and, if there were some formulas, writing them down while doing that 2) explaining something to your friend if they didn't understand it

floprioreon Ask HN: Tips for Moving to the Valley?

It would be extremely helpful!

floprioreon Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

If you want, I made a similar project in Flutter called "Foldie". It's based on adb, so it requires a cable. https://github.com/FLopriore/foldie

floprioreon Largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up

It seems very similar to what we study in "Computer Science and Engineering" in Italy, which is a different degree from "Computer Science". The former is considered engineering, the latter isn't (pretty strange tbh, but that's how it works)

floprioreon Ask HN: Is React Native still popular?

What about Flutter?

floprioreon Is Delaware the cheapest place to incorporate?

Could you share the article you wrote about why Delaware is a corporate haven?

floprioreon Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

Elon Musk's biography written by Walter Isaacson.

floprioreon Lorapaper: A connected e-paper device that runs on light

Do you have any blog post, video or anything that shows how to build your project?

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

Thanks, I already know Python for basic scripts. This tutorial looks awesome to build simple web apps, thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to studying "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", it truly looks like a gem

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

Thanks a lot

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

TBH I'm not a huge fan of results given by ChatGPT. I often found several mistakes, not only in programming. When you ask ChatGPT, then to check its answers you must google it anyway, I feel like you waste more time. In addition, I prefer fixing problems by myself. That's why I try not to use 3rd-party libraries so much when I'm learning a new language or framework. When I get familiar with it, I start using them obviously.

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

OOP isn't a problem at all since I already know Java well. Thx for DOM

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

> you need to build stuff as much as possible You're absolutely right, that's how you truly learn. I asked for some books to get a more "theoretical" perspective apart from building projects.

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

Nice, I will take a look at both of them for sure

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

Thanks a lot, that's definitely what I was looking for

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

Yeah I've read some parts of those docs, that's one of my main online sources.

floprioreon Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

Maybe I will read it later, for now I stay with the ones suggested by other users. You can't understand which practices you should and shouldn't follow unless you are an expert