skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a foreigner, I'll just note that I haven't seen a US election without ballot/machine issues, or the widespread fear of issues, in at least 20 years - every time the losers have talked about structural election issues like ballot harvesting.

The problem is that the desire to fix this is entirely partisan and the party in power always mocks the other party, even if this was their issue for the last cycle.

The USA has a problem. The process (of voting) isn't just supposed to provide an answer, but an answer you can trust. There's no transparency in the process and if people ever do ask a question ("why was that seemingly extra bag of ballots pulled out of a closet at 1am?") they get mocked as idiots who don't intimately understand the process.

Looking at the process of voting and counting in the USA there are a lot of things I'd fix to make the process more visible. In any industry where people monitor workers by video (casinos especially) they have them work in very standard ways, hand motions, card locations, etc, all chosen to make cheating hard and easy to detect.
I do wish someone would put up the paid for magic documents that allegedly contain the actual reasoning behind the choice of the E-series. I think this SE answer coould be true, but it feels a little contrived- and, at least to me, this is one of electronics history’s greatest mysteries.
1/7 ≈ 1/8.2 + 1/47 gives about half the error (<.3%) with half the resistor count.
> it's not realistic to enforce unit test coverage % with a project at the scale of OpenSSL, right?

Why not?

You can enforce that all new files should be covered (at the very least line-covered). It requires some setup effort (collecting code coverage and either sending it to a tool which perform the correlation or correlating yourself), but once that's done... it does its thing.

Then you can work on increasing coverage for existing files, and ratcheting requirements.
The flaws I see in this logic are:

1) It ignores the existence of critical thresholds. I can keep cooling water by 1 degree and it will keep being water until suddenly it is not. We have no reason to believe consciousness does or doesn't work the same way.

2) Pain and pleasure are both motivators for an agent to react to. There is nothing to differentiate the two in n NPCs code. Is it pain they are running away from, or pleasure they are running toward? It doesn't make sense to speculate because really it's just some number causing some predetermined animation to run. A grain of sand is more computationally complex than a video game NPC.

Subjective experience is a great platform for evolution to build survival tools on: pleasure, pain, fear, etc. Any of these is possible:

1) Evolution stumbled upon subjectivity as an architectural abnormality, and built tools on top of it.

2) Evolution stumbled on subjectivity as a critical threshold of processing power, and built tools on top of it.

3) Evolution built tools and subjectivity is a byproduct.
I don't think the point is that everything is a cult. Rather, the point is for you to reflect if maybe you are part of something cult-like. And no, I don't think HN is a cult or most startups are a cult.

Yesterday was Sunday. I have a kid, meaning I have little time and I'm frequently tired. I was driving around town and I saw throngs of people out to attend Sunday mass. And it got me thinking. These people spend multiple hours every Sunday going to worship something they have no evidence exists. The only reason most of them do so is because their parents told them this thing exists. And their parents only do so because they were told my their parents, etc. And this practice has continued on for thousands of years, all because people regard a particular ancient book as true, despite being able to articulate why. And there I was, tired and longing for just a few hours of solace.

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. But blindly following a ceremony your entire life, indoctrinating your kids, etc. definitely feels cult-like to me. Maybe not the worst cult ever, though.
Is it just me who can't muster any enthusiasm over it because the rocket is so wasteful? Not very Tintin to trash the entire booster and everything for every launch.
Virgin Atlantic also dropped their gender neutral flight uniforms going to Qatar.
No one is asking for that. But this is code that did one thing: punycode decoding, with millions of well documented test vectors. The code had zero dependencies on anything OpenSSL related. It is a very simple "text in, text out" problem, the most trivial thing to write unit tests for. At the same time, it's code that parses externally provided buffers and has to deal with things like unicode in C - there should be a massive red flashing warning light in every developers head here.
Further down thread he confirms the plan:

"We are mostly dealing with the waves of new users right now and keeping everything scaling but interop and activitypub are ASAP."

https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1594587024245260289

With them adding ActivityPub I feel like it's 2008 again and the vision of interconnected social media, mashups and alternative apps for your accounts is alive!
Horrible development, just yet another reason why I use Linux on all my privately owned computers.
Does this mean anything? What is something inherently spatial or partial temporal?
> The really neat thing about a BSP tree, which Fuchs, Kedem, and Naylor stress several times, is that it only has to be constructed once. This is somewhat surprising, but the same BSP tree can be used to render a scene no matter where the camera viewpoint is. The BSP tree remains valid as long as the polygons in the scene don’t move. This is why the BSP tree is so useful for real-time rendering—all the hard work that goes into constructing the tree can be done beforehand rather than during rendering.

I can't visualize why it's true
For people not reading the whole thing (reasonable, it is long): the author comes to the conclusion that it was not so “genius” after all, given the prior art, and that he read it in a computer graphics book. He still gives Carmack props for doing his homework and getting a working implementation built in a novel game engine.
I certainly do!
Yes - the traditional liberties of the City are long-standing and fought for. I'm not sure that being mentioned by name in Magna Carta was reason enough to leave it unreformed. The Cinque Ports have been reduced to essentially ceremonial status despite their mention (and the large majority of Magna Carta has simply been repealed over the years[0] - it's not a constitutional document in the sense that it's ever been entrenched).

[0]: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9
It's cheating a bit and using `saturation + brightness / 5` as radius. This separates colors with the same saturation and hue, in particular grays.

// Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/54522007/91238 .
// I've tweaked it to spread out some of the colors (especially they greys)
// that don't fit well into a true H/S wheel.
let colorRadius = (s + v/5)*0.75 * radius;
let colorAngle = h/360 * 2 * Math.PI;
Backups. Not divulging my strategy because it's too lengthy, but it involved lots of tinkering with ZFS snapshots, LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), RAID, and various cloud storage providers.
That's a fair point but from the top 10 law schools POV, they have no incentive to care about this. On the flip side, this is the sort of self-reinforcing feedback loop that allows top ranked schools to collect the best talent (or at least the kind of specific students that have the capacity to grind in the way that is necessary to succeed at Big Law firms).

If the new hires arent up to par, then this is something the the law firms should be incentivized to address. Since hiring practices generally haven't changed over the last 20 years, I'd guess that hiring from top law schools is perfectly fine (and maybe that is an indictment on the nature of work that happens at law firms).
Wait until they turn your physical space into an ad-delivery system.

Introducing HoloLens v10 ! it fits in contact lenses ! wear it everywhere !
> leading a new function for this org

Odds are that other manager thought they would get that function or was somewhere in the process of getting that function and now you have it.

One approach might be to sit down in a one on one and talk about how everyone wants new thing you manage to succeed and ask details about how they would approach new function, what they might be looking for and some background history about decisions, etc. I think establishing common ground of "we all want this to be awesome" and "I'm here because there is so much work to do in this space its a separate team" should be pretty straightforward at a startup/small company.
Thanks for the answer.

I meant with respect to x.

So if R1 to R100 were all prime for example, for that range I consider it 100% dense by my definition.

Instead if 0.0000000…00000009% dense by computing: 100/R100.

Hope that makes sense.

My definition of course may be at odds with mathematical conventions.
Are we back in the 90's where people try to download ram, only in this case it's, what, downloading a new engine? new shocks?

The vehicle is a physical thing and the maintenance of that physical thing is paid for by the consumer by taking it to a LOCAL shop. When I can get the software in my vehicle maintained by a local shop such that I choose the price points, then we can talk.

Until that happens, this is about profits and lockin and will eventually become illegal in the same way that it became illegal for car manufacturers to sell their own vehicles in many (most?) states.
It looks like a blank line (and not just a new line) is required to separate paragraphs.
\n Will a backslash and n start a new line?
> What possible motivation could exist for establishing a online reference using the media as the canonical and sole source of truth?

Because "the media" is... the best source we have?

To be clear, Wikipedia doesn't require that you cite mainstream media sources only. You can cite anything that's a primary source as fact (whether that be a work of investigative journalism, a book, a letter, a blog post by someone involved, a study described in a journal paper, etc); and anything that's a secondary source as an attributed quote (whether that be a work of editorial journalism, a magazine article, a blog post by someone who isn't involved, a meta-analysis described in a journal paper, etc.)

That's actually a very low bar. For example, people who are discouraged from "original research" on Wikipedia, can simply stick said original research onto a website they own, and then edit Wikipedia to cite that, and that's 100% allowed. (It's disincentivized to promote your own investigative reporting or quote your own words on Wikipedia, but if you did it all "by the book", nobody's going to revert the edit.)

In all cases, the only real requirement is that everything Wikipedia says has to be be attributable via citation to something, somewhere, that exists in the public sphere of semi-permanent accessibility, such that a reader could reasonably be expected to be able to fact-check the citation qua citation by "chasing the pointer" to its referent. So you can't cite a person (as a person won't necessarily give you the same answer twice); but you can cite an interview with said person recorded at a specific time and put into some form of public record (e.g. a court proceeding.)
That would upset an awful lot of people living in Northern Ireland, though. I'd be up for adopting "United Kingdomer".
Third party payroll verification would be an option.

This is the same way companies check for dual employment.

Companies like ADP/Equifax provide services that will confirm past and current employment, income, ect.
If done for effect yes, but if someone said "I reorganized my plates in the kitchen cabinet during the weekend to feed my OCD" ... and their kitchen was pretty okay before, then I'd say that it's a pretty valid sentence.

Is it the same thing that prevents people from leaving their house, because they get stuck at the door checking whether they really locked it? No, of course, but it's also not a thing with absolutely no commonality. I sometimes get stuck deciding how to re-organize things, try it this way, or maybe next month I try it that way ... then eventually but relatively quickly I get upset about it and then accept this imperfection of the world, and that's it. Is it OCD? No, and I don't use the term, but it's more OCD-like than what probably ~80-90% of the population does. And yes, of course it used to be that the clinical term was used for only the ~1% extreme end of the spectrum. (But then useful terms spread and now their use is more common and broader, and yes, it absolutely makes it less precise, dilutes their original meaning, etc. But "so ist das Leben", that's language for ya.)

And, in general, words' gravity is very context dependent. Cursing is almost like a requirement in some situations in the military, while it's absolutely forbidden in others. Or misusing religious words in a very religious setting, etc.
Perhaps they were not alone, and today someone would have documented the result?
Dittytoy
Dittytoy: an online platform that allows you to create music using a minimalistic javascript API. All music on Dittytoy is generated entirely in code.
It’s hard to infer the cause, but I wonder if the devices were set up under different accounts or not set within whatever Google defines as a home
The solution is to enable more mixed-use zoning and enable more dense development. The situation in North America is that we can only build low-productivity, high-cost, environmentally damaging suburbs. Which, in turn, leads to noisy, polluted cities with high levels of traffic congestion, collisions, and massive amounts of unproductive parking lots.

Plenty of European and Asian cities are good examples of how one can transform modern cities to be better balanced and pleasant for humans to live in.
It's kind of depressing that greenwashing is so effective: see companies like ConocoPhillips getting stellar ESG ratings despite their business models.
A SaaS founder makes $1M off those NFL highlight clips you see on Twitter
Arie Stavchansky owns Dataclay - maker of Templater for After Effects, a video automation software product used by ad agencies, sports media publishers, and many other companies. Netflix, Amazon, Apple, the NFL are all end users - but also small mom-and-pop media makers.
It's a hard year for internships. The school I work at has a CS co-op program which requires work terms. Several students a term just can't find jobs they are more excited about than an idea of their own. We often host them at the makerspace as "entrepreneurial co-op" terms. Having a portfolio project out of a term's effort might be worth more than a summer's salary if you can afford to do so.

Edit - Your calendar app is a nice start, btw! Showing users and impacts would be great.
And yet the theme of the Opening Ceremony was "tolerance, respect and inclusivity. Actual dialogue:

"With tolerance and respect we can live together under one big home" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/fy3jjN0D5iQ?t=99
Is that a tie wrap around the power cord of that 1909 toaster pictured at the end of the article? How old are those?

EDIT: Wikipedia (... yeah I know) says tie wraps were invented somewhere between 1956 and 1958. So the picture cannot be the earliest picture of the earliest toaster either I guess?

Goodness, I do not envy historians.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_tie
A few that come to mind for me:

Searchable local history (with selective reverting / diffing) is a large value add for me.

The debugging experience is quite good.

The git integration works well- especially blame / navigating through reflog with diffs.

Autocomplete suggestions / behavior is better than alternatives, in my experience.

Auto-fix suggestions / behavior is better than alternatives, in my experience.
There are non-physical attributes ascribed to humans besides intelligence that may be interesting to consider. Can there be such a thing as artificial wisdom? Artificial love? Artificial enlightenment? Artificial kindness? My initial reaction is that it feels like a categorical error to say that these might be characteristics of a Turing machine. There are a couple of ways to understand these phrases. If I were to ascribe "artificial enlightenment" to a human, I would be saying that they are faking something, engaging in a kind of subterfuge. On the other hand, I might be able to imagine a digital creation that has been given a sense of self, is aware of its own existence, has an ability or propensity for self-preservation, and yet reasons its way to a state of selfless kindness and generosity. I find myself in a state of "quantum superposition" as to which side of this issue I fall on!
Undefined Behaviour and Optimizations: GCC vs. Clang vs. MSC
well, i currently have 4k 240hz... so i agree in some tangential sense, but also mostly disagree in the sense that the comparison you posit is not really state-of-the-art-apples to state-of-the-art-apples, as it were. but, having had a 144hz monitor... i'll stick to 240, thanks. you guys can equivocate à la "no one can comprehend audio beyond 192kbps 16bit" all you want, and i'll stick to my "superhuman" abilities of perception over in this "you 'scientifically' cannot exist" corner"...
U.S.A. really doesn't have walkable smaller cities outside of college campuses. If anyone has any suggestions I'm open to them.
If we're digging up weird etymological trivia, I will contribute the fact that the old Celtic word Īweriū (from which we get the name Éire) was interpreted by the ancient Greeks as Iouerníā, leading to Tacitus calling the island Hibernia (influenced by the Latin word hībernus, thinking that it meant "land of winter").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernia
Are any of those required or sufficient? Because I see a lot of overlap in those "warning signs". I could probably whittle it down to just three observations about group dynamics:

- sharp distinction between in-group and out-group (covers 3, 4, 8)

- high degree of social control (covers 5, 6, 7, 10)

- truth is a social construct (covers 1, 2, 7, probably 9 as well)
I stopped using WhatsApp about two years ago.

It wasn't an easy decision to delete my WhatsApp account because I feared losing access to several friends.

Here's what I did. I checked who my friends were that I couldn't find on Signal or Telegram. I had sent them a message explaining that I would stop using WhatsApp and the reasons why I preferred to avoid using it. I also mentioned on which other platforms I was available and if they would consider being available there too. To my great surprise, most of these people made the move. (Particularly the ones I had often contact with.) For the rest, I'd sent another message in a few weeks saying that I'm uninstalling the app and asking them to send me an email to my email address so that I'd have their addresses.

I find that it's our responsibility to help non tech-savvy people understand their digital choices and set a good example through our very own choices.
I didn’t know about this 8 years ago. I’m glad I found out about it today - as the father of a young child - because this post was incredibly moving to me.

Thanks for sharing.
Include: Ericson, Real-Time Collision Detection https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/620505.Real_Time_Collisi...
> customer support in tumblr is truly terrible.

i think this is a very important piece of what’s happening to the wider social platform sphere. daily we see top voted posts talking about the non-existent customer service from a disturbing number of widely used platforms. whether it’s google, twitter, youtube, facebook, and on and on and on.

it’s pretty sad when we consider it normal to need to hunt down a back door to an actual human to get simple stuff looked at and fixed.

for all the rhetoric surrounding the fediverse, when we drill down, one of the most common things people rave about is that they can actually interact with humans who run the servers—that the experience actually feels more sane, more human.

i think this really says something about the cold non-human experience of certain platforms vs a warm more-human experience people are getting from the fediverse.
iOS and MacOS. It’s ok in chrome.
I've been experimenting with AI and other algorithms to expand and enhance my original leitmotif compositions. So I wrote the linked soundscape as backing for “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe.

Can any HN readers spot which parts are composed by a human (me!) and which by a machine?

And does it matter whether a computer writes the music or not?
They are colours that have names in CSS. You can access 16M colours with #RRGGBB syntax but these colours are aliases to specific values and can be specified by name.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/named-color
> consciousness is that you don't get sensation (colors, tastes, feels) from physical properties

There is no unexplained magic here, are you saying human experience of the world breaks cause and effect? Color is our interpretation of the frequency of light, taste the chemical composition, if by feel you mean touch, our skin can resolve nm scale bumps.

To say something is un-explainable is a cop out. Esp for the folks that say, "there has to be more" without showing why is unscientific.
Great little project! It's cool to see the skew towards red/green variants.
The kiss scene in Rise of Skywalker felt particularly pandering and purely a marketing thing. The scene was two unnamed characters that were easily edited out for more restrictive markets. Though I suppose that's the opposite of general woke based criticisms.
https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-K100-Optical-Mechanical-Gamin...
What do you mean by 'attack'? Is any criticism considered an attack?

The tweet is question is easily searchable:

> Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.
New York has one of the worst commute situations in the country, with an average of 36 minutes each way. The US average is 27 minutes. People commuting two hours a day are extreme outliers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/realestate/commuting-best...
It is not quite at the pleasure of His Majesty's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. It is defined in law that if there are grounds to believe it would pass they would be required to hold a border poll. This could be decided in court, as in if say opinion polling was at 70% and nationalist parts were winning 70% of the votes, and the Secretary of State refused to hold the poll. They could be brought to court and a judge could rule the secretary has no grounds to refuse.
https://www.naddod.com/products/18224.html that's the 2018 200g standard at over 1000$ a meter. Can't find public pricing but the new 400/800 gb/s are more expensive!
As an aphantasiac, I'm still fairly confident I'm conscious.

I suspect the same applies to other aphantasiacs.
It's realistic to reject a CR for a new parsing function without proof that it works, which usually comes in the form of a unit test
Yeah, now they wouldn't need to tell the story, they could just link the YouTube video.
The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Remote Work on U.S. Housing Markets
The GP wrote: <<a short train ride from the office>>

You then transformed it into <<suffer the commute on a train>>

I'm confused about that.
Seconded. Safari Version 16.0

Fine in Chrome. Thanks for this colour wheel, very handy reference.
Would it be reasonable to have fuzz testing around reasonably sized units in addition to e2e?
It's worth noting that coverage can be a deceptive metric sometimes.

You can have coverage on code that divides - it won't tell you if you ever divide by zero.

You can have coverage on code that follows a pointer - it won't tell you if you ever pass a bad pointer.
Come on, buddy. People may want to wear helmets for all I care. Doesn't mean I'd super eager to talk to them