skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What legal theory exactly would lead to the outcome you describe. After the Congress certifies the vote, that’s it. Constitutionally, the process is done. The Congress can’t reverse it because they are the ones who would have made it happen. How would congress undo that? By taking it to court? Well that’s a separation of powers issue. Even if they were to overturn the result, well now SCOTUS is accused of interfering with the election as they did in 2000. I mean… no matter how you slice it, such an event would destroy democracy. How do you have another free and fair election after that?

At the point where 50% of the Congress is voting against democracy, and the people are assaulting the Capitol, it strikes me as naive to expect institutions like scotus to save us at long last.

If you value American democracy, 2024 is the last stand. Sorry you feel this perspective is breathless, but also you don’t seem to have a grasp of the severity of what happened. Which is why I’m imploring you to watch.
I wish browser companies would just optimize for building a good browser.

When they have too much money and not enough ideas, they end up writing hipster manifestos and end up like Mozilla.
I mean, I have a similar experience, where I can be demotivated because I took a summer to deploy a website which has one button on it, and a service to write a bit when the button is pushed.

I felt like I could have built out the project in a weekend with php, and I don't even know much php.

But then, in the "productionalization step" there was a lot of leverage from being at bigCo. I could get it internationalized super easily. I got security, encryption keys, done. I got a hostname with a few clicks. I got redundant deployments, and separate release / dev environments. I have metrics and monitoring. My DB is backed up and region sharded and all kinds of stuff I don't care about. Users can delete their accounts and my db can get purged.

So building the "demo" version felt a lot slower, but transitioning it to the production version was a lot faster than me working on my own.
That's absolutely an S-curve. Any animal population will eventually run out of resources.
Have you gone into your bank and asked about additional security measures? For my credit union, I have a call center password I have to give them and mom's maiden name is not mom's maiden name. I think—I'd have to double check—but I think I had them put a note in my file that I would have to go into unlock my account and show 2 forms of ID
> asserting that most people want to run their own generators

Also, lots of people specifically have generators to cover when the grid fails them. Like, I'm actually okay with the claim, because that's an argument in favor of local development.
The list of people actually convicted of treason in the US is very short, and a subsequent execution hasn't happened since the mid 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_convicted_of_tr...
Clojure uses a custom classloader to compile and load bytecode at runtime.
For anyone that does decide to learn Haskell, you can easily get a job afterwards working on the Cardano blockchain. Smart contract devs are in high demand, and Cardano uses a variant of Haskell that is relatively unique to the space.
all true, yet it's a fact that if we want stable prices (1-2% inflation) and doesn't want to pay more taxes then we run into the allocation problem.

at some point instead of more people crawling around in a tunnel around Geneva we need more people installing wind turbines on the sea.

of course real life is not some Sims game, the cost of switching from that to this is far from negligible (and of course ideally we would cut back on people digging up dead plankton, people wasting time in traffic while burning it, also military spending - but as the current real life example in Ukraine shows, sometimes shit does indeed hits the fan)
Currently, there are many (>> 10,000 per national election) documented cases of voter disenfranchisement, and almost no (single digit, per national election) documented cases of fraudulent voting.

The voter ID laws make voter disenfranchisement easier and fraudulent voting harder, so they greatly increase the total number of incorrectly cast / denied ballots per election. Therefore, they do a small, bounded, amount of good, and a large, unbounded, amount of harm.
But there is not justice to victims or society if the government is bankrupted by the judgement.

Money doesn’t erase the harm.
All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients

This fantasy has been pushed since at least 1996 but that really died off when mainframes were no longer the only option. Sure, my old Wyse terminal fits the bill but I have not powered that thing on since ... actually I don't remember where I left it. Cloud providers will always be a thing and local software daemons will always be a thing. There is a time and purpose for both.

Anyway, I tried to convince some development teams to go this route some time ago and use Chromebooks with Citrix farms so that their work remains in a safe location. That idea died faster than I came up with it. There were entire teams that would have outright quit had I forced the issue. We did use that concept for some sensitive customer data debugging but never for development or staging.

General purpose computation on your own machine is probably going to be illegal in 20 years...

Some companies would love for us to believe that. Maybe some day politicians will be lobbied into making some services cloud-only. Unless their business model already fits being cloud-only I would expect such legislation to bankrupt some businesses or hurt them enough that the SEC or someone else that cares about tax revenue intervenes.

Microsoft has been trying to move Windows in this direction, to require an internet connection and connectivity to their cloud and accounts on their public AD servers. The latest IBM/Redhat Fedora Beta hints at moving in this direction as well. I do not participate in such things but that is my personal preference.
Not everyone has ID that meets the requirements laid out by voter ID proposals, and sometimes getting those IDs can be extremely expensive. Defenders like to say that the ID is free but when you point out the cost of getting birth certificates and proof of name change (common in marriage) they disappear quick.

And if it can't be shown that the number of people prevented from voting is fewer than the number of fraudulent votes, the policy is bad and should not be pursued.
I’ve never seen anyone actually using atom, so would hardly say it defined anything much less than the whole industry.
That is not my experience. Systems of 2 linear equations ("intersecting lines") and quadratics were definitely part of Algebra I (and maybe even pre-Algebra).

I'm 95+% sure that basic exponentiation was also part of Algebra I.
I think it is very counterintuitive---even to professional programmers---that you can compute things without letting the computer know them. I literally had to go through the entire paper to understand that this can actually work as long as human in the loop doesn't screw up (see my summary [1], which was revised multiple times at that time).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28223141
You don't need Leviathan to do that. You could have a cultural custom so that anyone reaching a certain level of power or wealth or social status must give enough of it up to come back to the normal level.
>There is a reason that the US has anomalously high HDI, income and wealth stats for a country that large.

To put another way, every country with higher average per capita GDP than the US (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...>) has a population smaller than that of Orange County, California.
That seems to frequently be the surprising thing about these corruption cases. I'm reminded of the fascinating case where journalists in Chicago bought a bar to investigate corruption. They were shocked at $10 bribes getting things done for them (30+ years ago, but still a small sum).
https://interactive.wttw.com/timemachine/mirage-tavern

Many of us would assume the sums of money needed to bribe officials would be huge, but unfortunately many people don't consider corruption to be a big deal, so small payments can make an impact.
It's just one example of an impediment. If all the major platforms used a consistent standards-based graphics API, you could have one implementation of the drawing layer shared between all platforms.

All these little wedges add up.
$5T, by report. Minted plenty of US billionaires, although existing billionaires probably piled on most of it.
I really hope they would release the game on Steam soon so that people would just buy the game and the donations won't be necessary.

I understand that they might want to polish it but I'm not sure if polishing is actually worth. The original game has been continuously getting updates IIUC, so it might be totally OK to release sooner and then use the same model in Steam.
It seems republicans have moved further to the right than democrats have to the left:

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/151975976283299430...
I'd love to get my hands on old Windows API docs. Are they available online somewhere?
Yes, I used to do two big monitors, and now prefer just the laptop screen. I always hated how things changed around between the monitors and the laptop screen. Virtual desktops/spaces are enough for me to organize windows effectively. I would say Mac’s trackpad gestures are pretty key to my working this way.
> Modifying files in place seems to be very rare outside of OS.

It’s difficult to tell how common it is, but it is trivial by either using seek() and write() or by mmap()-ing a file. I’ve done the former for the purpose of simulating virtual memory to work with multi-gigabyte data structures in 32-bit memory space. Dropbox does it when syncing changed blocks within a file. Databases usually do it.
Apple’s closed-source system leaves users with zero recourse when the settings app gets worse. With Haiku, at least there is the possibility of a fork. (And it seems quite doubtful that they’d ever put ads for services into Haiku, given that there are no shareholders to appease!)
This is why I work at ~20 people startups.

Occasionally, these jobs end suddenly, but I gladly accept that risk.
The output is always going to be fixed size.

The nicer way to look at homomorphic encryption is like math, but the more literal way is like a bunch of logic gates. There are N output wires. You control the bits on the input wires. Nothing you do will change the number of wires.
Ad domains being cloaked through CNAME records is really common nowadays (actively used by Adobe, Criteo and Eulerian, etc), and most analytics and ad software providers employ these tactics.

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/web-trackers-using-cname-...

https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disg...
There's got to be more than 2 public charge points in your city, assuming you're in the UK. I mean my local Tesco has 4 and it's not even that big.

Have a look on https://www.carwow.co.uk/electric-cars/charging-points I bet there's more around than you think.

Given that fast charging and electric cars with ranges of 400 miles are available right now I don't think that the 2030 deadline is all that crazy given that the number of charge points is only going to grow.
It's a factor among many. The other POV is that single parenthood matters less than you might expect, because others in the broader family or community can contribute to raising those kids. Which might actually work if you had that community orientation in the first place!
If you like and believe in something you heard, own it; don't reference the source.
work at managed service provider

everything is a ticket

ssl is expiring,

- make a ticket for the customer,

- request a quotation,

- wait for approval,

- finally issue the cert manually,

- finally deploy it (manually, using some tool of course)
> 2.4 kilobytes per second (the UK's current average broadband speed is more than 21,000 times faster).

Is that figure right, and not mixing up bits and bytes?

That's actually heck of a lot, especially for the era: it's a whopping 19.2 kbps. Today, you could use some wide-band voice codecs at that rate.

Consumers didn't have 19.2 kbps modems until 1990 something.
As a computational physics student, I am recently moving to fully embrace the model describing in the article. I work on multiple HPCs, and now I use a machine (m720q) as proxy that SSH onto HPCs and run code-server there. From my laptop, I just visit the website on this m720q machine, and everything is done via a browser. Besides code-server, I also run a JupyterLab instance on the machine because we are not allowed to run jupyter on HPC's login nodes. All scripting / terminal is now done through the code-server (similar to GitHub Codespace). Tailscale allows me to access this proxy server outside home.

On embracing this this model avoids moving large files GB+ from remote to local machines via SFTP, and I can avoid typing SSH commands every time I go from home to school. Code-server allows me to run more things on HPCs instead of local machines. Previously I used VSCode Remote, the latency might interrupt the connection, and now with code-server this is no longer a problem.
> Everything is limited by physics.

Everything is controlled by the maths of physics and chemistry.
As naive as it is, I always kinda liked MySQL's query cache invalidation strategy: blow away the whole cache anytime a mutating statement arrives at the server.

Simple. Effective. But it obviously doesn't work for everything.
> When we are calling for an end to "gifted" programs in New York, it is not because we "hate smart kids" but because we want resources to be evenly divided so that everyone can get a well funded well rounded education, not just the rich kids in gifted classes. This is not a single issue but is a larger component of an attempt to dismantle segregation in public schools.

Ok, then that's what you should ask for. Ask for a more even distribution of resources.

If you single out the elimination of a specific program as a proxy for what you really want, you shouldn't be surprised when the discourse fixates on your targeting that program -- especially when it's a program for gifted students. By doing that you've made it very easy for your opponents to portray you as someone who would rather bring all students down to the same level than allow differences in ability to be cultivated.
Easy to do? Probably, they only pay judge of elections about minimum wage. Not exactly positions of high standing. Easy to get away with? Not really, that's why he's been caught and pleading guilty.
I absolutely disagree, it's very poor quality. The best example I've gathered incidentally is "what's this song" regressing between versions to replying with an admonishment to turn off the music or podcast, no matter how quiet it is. Then the one time I've tried to set a reminder, Siri confirmed it was set, and it never actually worked.

Considering how many years it's been around, these sorts of inexplicable failures are really inexcusable. Sure, I understand nobody tests their software anymore, but "predictable" is not the term I would use to describe Siri.
That summary on Quora is pretty decent and supports my statement of center-left positioning and that social democrats are probably the closest match.
Some things like free tuition, free school meals are not really far left, but center-left at most.
Some things like improving the voting system are not really applicable here, since we have somewhat less problematic voting systems compared to US.
Other things like holding big tech accountable is less obviously placed, since it kinda has support and opposition from both ends of the spectrum.

Not sure what your point about abortion is, but kinda seems to me like that is mostly aligned with Europe too?
And neither are race and gender issues far-left issues here, but that's also more centrist and only the far-right really fighting against it (depending on what is meant exactly.. kinda broad topic).
We’re not averse to the concept, but didn’t want to introduce a feature like that which has so much community impact when our resources for moderating the community were limited. We since launched playlists for sharing apps, and will be building onto that for more discovery features in the future. The short answer is, there are a lot of externalities to consider when launching social features like this, so we took our time on purpose.
Although this blog post focuses on learning small toy examples, I could see the approach scaling up to real problems in natural language processing.

At one point, Google's own speech recognition system was built on a C++ finite state transducer library [1][2]. FSTs were used to represent the language model, reverse dictionary (map from phonemes to words), hidden markov models, and so on. Although FSTs were a common abstraction used at runtime, at training time, we still needed special-purpose ML algorithms to create models that were later "compiled" into FSTs. [3]

So I could see how a general-purpose differentiable FSM, if scaled up, could actually produce a really powerful simplification -- you would just need one end-to-end learning algorithm to subsume all these various models.

[1] https://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/FST/WebHome

[2] Much of this has obviously changed since the popularization of deep learning -- this is the 2011-era system.

[3] A finite state transducer is a finite state machine with input and output labels, so that it translates between two regular languages
> and the left (Who could hardly stop repeating "Koch Brothers" whenever they could) needs to realize that there are powerful forces out their intentionally trying to harm society.

That's a weird comment—the left recognizing that there are powerful forces out there intentionally trying to harm society is why they keep on about the Koch brothers.
Getting approval from a doctor, requiring a justified medical requirement, is not remotely trivial. I think you’re very unfamiliar with what some of the pro-abortion people are pushing in the US.
It’s one of those stories people can turn into whatever conclusion they want:

- DF is still a great game, so good UX in games doesn’t mean anything.

- DF is still a niche game, so good UX in games is essential.

Caveat: I’m a UX designer who absolutely loves DF and is saddened by how many people may never find out how great it is.
I just bought boxyfans.com...goig to sell a bunch of box fans. Kthx.
This is interesting. I wonder how Emacs solves that, given that it's one of, if not THE most, extensible editor out there. I'd think that is a good thing, but never considered the drawbacks, besides performance and plugin interop that is.
I don't think UI really cares about resigned vs quit.

Looking at Texas's site [1], they explicitly say if your employer asks for a resignation it counts as being fired. There are also a bunch of ways for quitting to be eligible (i.e. "Significant changes in hiring agreement").

[1]: https://www.twc.texas.gov/jobseekers/eligibility-benefit-amo...
redux is another part of the 'gene transfer idea', nobody used reducers for anything except maybe rich hickey
Why did you choose to look the other way? Pretty amazing that you'd openly admit to having proof of this and not back it up. We had a presidential candidate go to court over this and not present any evidence of this wide-scale election fraud nor would they even admit to this massive fraud in a court of law.

Still, shame on you.
Like a DOB?
My quick take on "gifted" programs.
* These are really supposed to be for kids that learn differently, not necessarily "smarter".
* The percentage of kids in these programs is higher than should be expected.
* The number of kids that happen to have teacher parents or some possible inside track seems high.

I think people hear "gifted" and think they are being left out, but that's not supposed to be the case. Sort of the difference between classroom and home school, sometimes one works better for a kid than the other, not that one is necessarily better than the other.
An outlier for Philadelphia? Probably not.

For example

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Union boss John Dougherty and Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon were both found guilty of conspiracy and multiple counts of honest services wire fraud in their federal corruption trial.

In all, Dougherty was found guilty of eight of 11 charges against him. Henon was found guilty of 10 of 18 charges against him.

Prosecutors said Dougherty kept Henon, a union electrician-turned-Philadelphia City Council member, on the payroll of a $70,000 no-show job to help his union keep a tight grip on construction jobs.

https://6abc.com/jury-deliberations-bobby-henon-johnny-dough...
I don't understand what this means, sorry.
This:

"the irrational pretense of a meritocracy"

and this:

"most academically successful students will do well regardless of the curriculum or instructor"

Are contradictory - if the smarter students do well regardless, then it's not something in the school, home, or environment, that are making them do better. They are simply smarter, and that's not something you can create in other people.
Don't get me wrong I do too. I'd prefer it if everything just used USB C.

I just wanted to point out that it's not universally superior to micro USB or lightning, and there are places it could be improved.
I've always done well at big companies because I'm good at going around and talking to people trying to smooth the friction. Consider looking at the friction like some detective work and the opportunity to get some exercise
It's not a conspiracy theory, but an empirically validated fact, as the study in my link showed. It is not the only one with such findings:

Ceci et al. (1985) found a similar pattern. Research proposals hypothesizing either "reverse discrimination" (i.e., against White males) or conventional discrimination (i.e., against ethnic minorities) were submitted to 150 Internal Review Boards. Everything else about the proposals was held constant. The "reverse discrimination" proposals were approved less often than the conventional discrimination proposals. - https://jsis.washington.edu/global/wp-content/uploads/sites/...
It's suggesting a disagreement as to what counts as "main result". That's quite normal and need not imply any conspiracy.
I know, when you run out of any arguments of merit, you call the other side "aggressive". But the truth is, you have nothing to say.

Okay, you can set up a whole container so you can recompile your kernel to your heart's delight. Fine. How does it scale? How do you distribute your new shiny kernel to hundreds of machines and keep track which is running which? What if you make a mistake, is it easy to roll back? How easy is it?

Also, need I remind you that a world where you don't have to (but can if you really really want to) compile things to get the results you want is infinitely better than a world where you have to compile things?
Great post. I'm in the early days of trying to get DiffLens (https://github.com/marketplace/difflens) off the ground and saw myself nodding along to so many points! Having a boring backend service that pays is a gold mine.
What if it's a ToS violation to enter into my site with false information?
Sure, but now your program needs to use this library everywhere, or implement Monad transformers etc. to interoperate with existing code.
I'm fairly confident you can't accurately quantify "very likely".
Don't get me wrong: I empathize with not wanting to do parts of a job that feel pointless, but it's still not doing the job.