skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We investigated 'russia' election interference allegations. Some 'interference' was found, largely pushing down HRC and aiding (even if indirectly) Trump.

We investigated claims of 'stolen election' (Arizona, other states) and found marginally more votes for Biden in subsequent recounts. Even if that had been reversed, the numbers would have not have been impactful.

Other investigations in the last few years have turned up smatterings of 'voter fraud', and it usually seems to be Trump supporters voting fraudulently.

My opinion is that we've always had small bits of 'bad' votes (intentional or not), but with continued drumbeats on that topic, it's motivating some Trump supporters to commit fraud in an effort to try to balance out what they believe (wrongly) to be 'the other side' committing fraud.

I had a friend die on Election Day 2020. He'd cast an early ballot. I often think of him when we get these refrains of "dead people voting!!! it's fraud!!!". I do not know if his vote was counted or not (I assume it would have been) - this was in southeastern PA, so there may have been some recounts that removed ballots like that???
I do not need to even read the article to sigh and think, "can spot it _today_."

Obviously for reasons both benign and not so benign, we are going to enjoy an arms race with one side ever bettering verisimilitude (for any media you like), and another devising ever more esoteric and expensive techniques to try to discern the real.

Against a moving backdrop in which the innocuous evolution of technologies which make the nominal separation between the the real and un-real increasingly vague.

My picture is already touched up by god knows much AI before I see it as a compressed image on my phone. My video too. That's before I even selectively apply a filter or hit the Better button. If I record myself I'm going through a tool chain which already might do all sorts of things to transmute my voice. It's only a matter of time before we see ever-more nuanced targeted application of ML to replace "compression" with "confabulation", I mean, see today's other headline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32907494

Soon confabulation may be the norm. The real will retreat like a god of the gaps to face-to-face interaction exclusively.

Can researchers (sic) still find specific landmarks or meta-properties today which are tells? Sure! Sometimes. For now.
Inexperience is not stupidity.

I will die on that hill.
> in the future hope to buy a Tesla in large part to avoid that experience

And see Tesla knows this, which is why the margin on their cars is higher than most.

You may have disliked that sales experience with a dealer or used car salesperson, but it quite likely got you a slightly better deal than had you tried to negotiate yourself.
> maybe having a phone should not be a priority

I just wanted to highlight the ridiculousness of this statement.
The thing is that the military housing is designed to be moved multiple times, for a house there's really no need to make it fancy and expandable like that; if you can save some money by shipping it in a box that needs some basic assembly you should probably go that way, even though it looks cool to watch it build itself.
The last 20 or 30 years (i.e., the last 2 or 3 redistrictings) have seen the use of increasing amounts of data and computation to produce more accurately and more optimally gerrymandered districts. It's fundamentally the same practice that goes back to 1812, but the details actually matter in a quantitative sense.
Ask for donations. Say you have a blog with a thousand regular users, what do you get maybe $1 for that many views on an ad? One user donating $20 once a month otoh would make you a lot more money per user on average than relying on ads.
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Electricity is already priced negatively in some markets at some times of the day because of the mismatch between demand and supply from intermittent wind and solar generation. The trick here is how to design an energy storage solution that can exploit that mismatch. It’s the ultimate buy-low sell-high opportunity.
It's not a proxy war because the US and EU are using a proxy?
> the process of effective contention and coalition building drives everything into two sides.

This doesn't seem right.

First, there are a lot of political systems with more than one "side", and in which coalitions are at least somewhat fluid. This is even true in the United States; if you have ever served on a board that proposes a bond issue or tax increase, you know that that coalitions are quite local and easy to fragment (need to build a new school on the south side, but the north side has lots of tax hawks? Include a new football stadium on the north side as part of the issue).

Second, think about conflict outside of politics. There is a lot of conflict in markets, for example, but most markets do not tend toward duopoly.
If I have 2 file explorer windows open, why wouldn't I want to 2 icons so I can quickly switch between them? Combining only makes sense if you have an unmanageable number of Windows open.

But then I'm probably the ultimate outlier: I have my Win10 taskbar configured Win95 style -- showing the full window title and one tab per window. I do not know why the "dock" style of desktop window navigation is so popular.
> false information

Can we normalize just saying "lies" when things are lies?
It's just starting to kick in.

Most miners stuck it out to the bitter end. Hashrate was only down around 20% from the peak at the switch to PoS. Then it takes a few days to take apart the rigs and get them ready for listing. And that's only for the ones that aren't trying to mine something else, or simply are in denial.

But the main counterpoint to the GPU supply increase is the pent up demand from two years of usurious GPU pricing. A lot of people are ready to finally upgrade as soon as prices are reasonable.

Expect the market to soften - and it is, 3060ti prices are down like $40 over a couple days on eBay - but I also wouldn't expect bargain prices.
Not everywhere. For example, most (maybe all? not sure.) school districts in Ohio can levy different income taxes. Here is a 5 page PDF listing the different rates: https://tax.ohio.gov/static/tax_analysis/tax_data_series/sch...
Yes. Consider that Spectre allowed reading browser memory that wasn’t exposed to JavaScript from within the JS sandbox. Something similar probably would have been possible with WASM, if Spectre hadn’t already been found and mitigated.

I love capability based limits like this (and in Deno), but they’re not a panacea.
Yeah, Russiagate is QAnon for liberals.
There is no widespread right answer to this.

The best strategy to invest (with the goal to make money) at any period in economic cycles is have more accurate information than other people.

If you are worried about economic outlook, instead of investing money into financial instruments, invest time and some money into increasing your own personal value by learning new skills.
Agreed with your observations about the difference between the libraries and databases. Maybe for a follow-up article? It's nice to see some independent research on the topic, tho.
Sometime similar once happened to me, the moral is to not install the insiders version unless you have a legitimate reason to. Getting access to preview features before they’re ready on will get you in that kind of trouble.
only with a regedit. afaik
> For what reason should Apple ban TikTok but not Facebook or Instagram?

I misread this as you asking me why apple should ban tiktok while Facebook and Instagram should not ban tiktok.

so go ahead and use your multiple accounts to downvote me more, ok?

mistakes are not permitted here, or I'd be able to go back and edit after 2 hours. the last thing I want to do when arguing with someone on the internet is go back and check my spelling and grammar and interact more with the person I have had zero pleasant interaction with, which is why i did not catch the mistake.

fucking delete my account @dang
The FP32 comparisons show only a very incomplete image about the RTX 40 series vs. server GPUs.

Both the NVIDIA and the AMD server GPUs are about 30 times faster at FP64 operations. At equal FP32 Tflops, the server GPUs would be 32 times faster at FP64 operations.

A 16 factor comes from having an 1:2 FP64/FP32 speed ratio instead of an 1:32 ratio, and an additional factor of 2 comes because the server GPUs have FP64 matrix operations, which do not exist in consumer GPUs.

So the difference in FP64 speed is really huge. Moreover, the server GPUs have ECC memory. When you have a computation that takes a week, you would not want it to provide wrong results, forcing you to redo it.
"We would just be sending in 'fake' electoral votes to Pence so that 'someone' in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the 'fake' votes should be counted," Jack Wilenchik, a Phoenix-based lawyer who helped organize the pro-Trump electors in Arizona, wrote in a Dec. 8, 2020, email to Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser for the Trump campaign.

In a follow-up email, Mr. Wilenchik wrote that "'alternative' votes is probably a better term than 'fake' votes," adding a smiley face emoji." [1]

[^1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/politics/trump-fake-el...
I've been looking at the HUD-1 "kit" homes from Home Depot. One example is $33k for an unfinished 450 sq ft multi-room home, but you can put it together yourself in 2-3 weekends. Would have to compare to that a "custom" home from a contractor. Did you consider these type options when you were looking?
Why would you do that? Proof verification is pretty much a solved problem.
And carry the huge expensive loan on it...
There is truly no good justification for this.
At this point in time, on this planet - not as far as I know. It's against human nature. It's why I love Star Trek TNG, as cheeky as it can be at times, it's always reasoning about human behavior and defining its shortcomings. And trying to overcome those.

Maybe the Swiss with their voting on all issues system, are a step in the right direction.
I quit using Windows 7 and moved to Linux a few years ago. Joined a new job and got a Windows 11 laptop. I cannot describe in words what I’m going through. It is absolutely appalling and at this point Windows 11 isn’t an operating system anymore. It’s malware.
Not in this economy
Diverse income streams. Those relying on a single income and then complaining they're not being paid enough will suffer the most. If inflation means it forces people to diversify their income(s), then this is a positive thing.
I am in their "Porsche buyer" category as I bought 1x RTX A6000, 1x Titan RTX and 4x RTX 3090 for Deep Learning, but I am staying away from 4090 until they get some sense with pricing.

From my point of view, 2x NVLinked 3090s give me the same benefit as one 4090 at 150W higher power consumption and nothing is super appealing about 4090 until drivers on Linux and PyTorch/TensorFlow implementation get stable enough for production use which took like 6 months last time, so there is no pressure in buying it.
One data point: I made a banking app (Creator Cash) and it's 37.1 MB on the App Store.

- Used React Native

- More features than you'd expect from a typical bank (card issuing/ management, sending payments, invoicing, CRM of contacts to pay/invoice, push debit to fund your Creator Cash account from your brick and mortar without having to send from the brick and mortar, data viz for earnings by platform, earned wage access aka cash advances, and more)

- Uses Stripe Treasury for BaaS

I could speculate, but I'm not really sure what causes that much bloat in other banking apps.
Hrm... that article just says "protestors" - doesn't mention party affiliation.
Founder here! JITX today is pretty tightly positioned at a group of professional folks that find it very valuable. We'll be opening up more fully later this year, and we'll relaunch then with some pretty jaw dropping stuff.
.. and maybe in 2050 the favorites / Quick access is allways visible.
Nobody likes spinach but you eat it because it's good for you. Interpret that as you will for standups...
To be fair to them, $ per sq ft is not the best comparison unless you factor for square feet - a 560 sf ft house is much more "dense" than a 2,000 sq ft house, and much of the extra sq footage is pretty cheap. For example, expanding a living room ten feet deeper to add 100 sq ft is the cost of additional foundation, roofing, and flooring and a bit of electrical/heat/cooling load; the cost of an additional bathroom might be much more for the same square footage.
These are good questions! Here's some answers from the corner of the world I know best as a Wasmtime contributor at Fastly:

1. Spidermonkey.wasm is the basis of Fastly's JavaScript on Compute@Edge support. We have found it to be faster than QuickJS. The source code is here: https://github.com/fastly/js-compute-runtime.

2. Fastly Compute@Edge is built on wasmtime. You can develop web services for it in Rust, JS, and Go: https://developer.fastly.com/learning/compute/

3. Fastly's multi-tenant platform is closed source, but our single-tenant local development platform, which also uses wasmtime under the hood as well, is open source: https://github.com/fastly/viceroy. It isn't a big leap to make viceroy multi-tenant: Wasmtime provides everything you need, and all Viceroy would have to do is dispatch on e.g. HTTP host header to the correct tenant. Our multi-tenant platform is closed source because it is very specialized for use on Fastly's edge, not because the multi-tenant aspect is special.
Are you sure tabbed browsing was Opera? I mean, Mozilla browser (predating Firefox) had it in 1998.
> Another part is that the name should be a) unique, so you could make it a trademark, b) distinct, so the patient won't tell their other doctor they take a wrong drug (less important now with electronic databases but still important) and c) shouldn't mean anything to the patient, because they aren't the one deciding whether to take it or not - but they will be the ones taking it

a) The official (that is, generic) drug name is guaranteed to be unique, but they cannot be trademarked. That's one part of why drugs are typically marketed under names other than the official name ("Lipitor" is a market name, "atorvastatin" is the actual drug name).

b) Most patients don't know the names of the drugs they are taking, and what they do know are as often as not, not the official name, but a marketing name. Ask any doctor why they ask patients to bring their prescriptions with them to office visits (hint: because in m any cases, it's the only way to get an accurate picture of what a patient is actually taking.)

c) I don't follow this at all. It's a bad think that I know that the three drugs I take are a diuretic, a beta blocker, and an angiotensin receptor blocker?

I think it's interesting to compare drug naming with other medical interventions. We don't call a Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy a "gandalf" or "vartafoprodson." We use medically meaningful names. Why is "losartan" better than "angiotension receptor blocker 95-1" (first ARB approved in 1995)?
From the spec "they are preempted when they block on I/O or synchronization.". That's nice but if you write some inefficient loop, your virtual thread won't be pre-empted.

Also, Kotlin co-routines will obviously use Loom when it is available and offer the same benefits. All that takes is a few tweaks in the co-routines library. Mostly, that should not even be needed because Loom is API compatible with the old threadpool and thread APIs which already have extension functions to turn them into coroutine scopes. So, a lot of stuff should just benefit from Loom just by upgrading the JVM. Which is great of course.
That way, your language can use any toolkit, such as WebKit or Gecko.
That's true, but as long as you have one money generator that takes a lot of pressure off of you to go and set up another one. Not to mention having to put resources on maintaining the money generator versus just having more people pursuing innovation, increasing the odds you hit on another money generator.
China is in fact a capitalist country, despite the "Communist" in it's party's name.
This!

Spotify is based in Sweden... I'm based in Canada and I cant access this?
This "US Only" makes no sense.

So tired of "geofencing".
> having those windows in the taskbar is a big productivity booster

I sympathize with people that feel like this makes a big difference in productivity but you would have to be swapping between windows an absurd amount of times in a day for this to make an actual difference in productivity.

It takes (rough estimate) about an extra 200ms to hover the task bar icon and select the window you want.

So you lose a minute of time for every 300 times you do it. Doesn't add up to much unless you are switching windows hundreds or thousands of times a day.

Not to mention the fact that selecting icons from your taskbar isn't even the most efficient way of switching windows, which would be win+number or alt+tab.
I would think it’s also against the spirit of the bill of rights, yet here we are in America, with secret courts reviewing secret surveillance and meta data.
You're probably not going to get totally away from significant rewrites. That being said, having independent build scripts (as in actual shell scripts) to run your pipelines would be helpful. This way you would just launch the script instead of rewriting everything in the CI's language of choice. Also making it as modular and well documented as possible helps.
Not for you, but for lurkers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_effect
Congrats on the 1.0 release! Wasmtime has a world class team of developers and I truly believe that WASM will play an important part in many industries. I'm pretty excited for what's to come. We've barely scratched the surface yet.
I am going to sit this one out, though very much looking forward to RDNA3.

Absolutely hate how 4080 16GB and 4080 12GB are completely different products under the same name. That's good old nvidia for you.
My rule is that if I spend an hour a week (on average) using a source, they deserve a bit of money.

There's a videogame streamer I like. I probably watch 4-8 hours of her content, as she live translates Japanese games while playing them. At $5/mo, that is the cheapest source of entertainment available aside from used books.

For blogs I read once a blue moon, I don't typically contribute unless it's worth supporting.
To echo every other comment here: $400K+ / 540sqft = $740/sqft, which is beyond astronomical. That’s on par with the most expensive neighborhoods in the most expensive cities in the US (e.g. Georgetown, DC).

But if you like the design, Den Outdoors sells similar house plans: https://denoutdoors.com/collections/small-modern-farmhouse-p...
As usual, there's a middle ground. As we rely more and more on electrical devices, and fewer and fewer of them use disposable batteries, we load the grid beyond what it was originally designed to do. There are a lot of people who simply work on figuring out "how far can we push the existing infrastructure" because there's no money around to upgrade it. No one technology is responsible for the increase in demand in electricity, it's many technologies coming together. Many are moving all their natural gas appliances to electric (especially here in the PNW where power is cheap thanks to hydroelectric dams). Electric cars, electric buses, electric ferries, etc are all going to increase demand for electricity, and the utilities are going to need a lot of money to upgrade the grid to keep up. Many say the US should upgrade all of its trains to electric, with overhead wires. Where is the power going to come from? Extensive studies would be needed for even short low-traffic lines to be built. When the Great Northern Railroad electrified their tunnel through the Cascade mountains, they had to build a hydroelectric dam to power it (luckily there was a river nearby).

Luckily GPU mining is dead. I heard someone say that it accounted for 0.1% of all electrical power usage worldwide; if true that's pretty insane.
Same here - we've been much more productive on the development side with LiveView than with our previous React iteration.
Sure, but it destroys all historical and archeological value.
I switch between Scala and Python all the time.

My trick is to use different editors with different color schemes. IntelliJ for Scala, VSCode for Python. My brain switches immediately.
I think they're referring to the NPC programming that people receive through media/authority figures, and only have those views because "my fellow tribe member on Fox News/CNN said so"

You can't really blame them though, the average person simply doesn't have the time to be well researched on a given topic, and so are going to default to tribal thinking that when you poke at, falls apart.

It has nothing to do with inability to articulate their position, and everything to do with the fact that there simply isn't enough time for most people to become well informed on a given topic.
Aha, but the issue is that the wealthy people are choosing who to hire/promote.
To clarify, I maintain that testimonials from people who give their full names (and thus can be contacted after) are perceived as solid evidence. A common real-life example of named testimonials seen as credible by recruiters are written LinkedIn endorsements from named people who are connections on a person's profile. However, I agree that nameless or semi-anonymized testimonials are less valuable and give the entire term of "testimonial" a poor reputation, because their truthfulness can't be verified.

On the second point, what you wrote is true, but the Airbnb mention was pretty short; your comment is probably around the same length as Graham's mention. The Airbnb mention in full consists of: "[4] The Airbnbs were particularly good at listening — partly because they were flexible and disciplined, but also because they'd had such a rough time during the preceding year. They were ready to listen."

I could find no mentions of other named companies involved with YC in the article, and the Airbnb mention was quite brief (the assertion was that they listened to YC's advice, and the implication is that this was the reason behind its success).
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Bought a car via carwoo back when it was in business. The service let you message dealership salespeople and get quotes back. I met the guy that sold me my car for about 15 seconds total in the entire process.

By far the swiftest and best large product purchasing experience I ever had. I was sad to see them close.
You just described a retiree in CA. Except, they don't have income and are probably cash-strapped. And they're old. Unless they have an existing HELOC, they aren't going to be able to finance a $400k+ ADU ($400k for the prefab unit, unclear if that exclusive of installation/foundation/etc).