skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Elections should absolutely be questioned and audited regularly.

Sure there's no problem with that. But that's not what Trump and his team did.

Trump claimed there was fraud so loudly not because he wanted to find actual fraud (which he had no reason to believe existed), but because he wanted people to be very concerned with the idea the election was potentially fraudulent. He wanted people to be concerned with this idea because it legitimized his true motivations - he wanted power for himself.

Trump's team didn't actually want to find fraud; no, their goal was to create an environment of suspicion about fraud, but they had absolutely no intention whatsoever to prove their case. We know this because in all of the 60+ court cases they brought, they never alleged fraud, let alone attempted to prove it. If they did, they would have revealed they had zero evidence for their claims. Of course for this reason, they lost every single case (except I think an early PA case that didn't even relate to claims of fraud).

And it needs to be said that the elections were investigated. Georgia investigated every claim made by the President, and found none of them credible. If Trump were genuinely concerned with finding fraud and simply questioning the results of the election, he would have been satisfied with their process. But the process didn't end up with him winning Georgia, so he wasn't satisfied, to the point that he threatened Georgia elections officials with prosecution when they refused to overturn his loss there.

So yes, when it comes to elections generally, they should absolutely be questioned and audited regularly. But we must also say in the same breath that we cannot let disingenuous concerns about "election integrity" actually undermine elections. That's a problem too, which has demonstrably lead to a coup attempt and violent insurrection. So I would say "voter fraud hysteria" is actually a worse problem than voter fraud itself, which is proven to be rare and hasn't caused any coups or insurrections.
Human living conditions are nowhere near those of livestock.

If we want to drop antibiotics, we're going to end up with significantly increased prices of meat due to increased land usage requirements. This would be ecologically good, but socially disastrous.
If history is any indicator, the last group of middle class professionals who decided to take this question into their own hands ended up getting executed by the state or exiled to penal colonies[1].

The rest of them, and their families, ended up dying in utter destitution. That's what "we" will probably do again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite#Government_response
You cannot "strip off and rewrite" headers without destroying the email message's DKIM signature -- which is the primary assurance of authenticity of incoming email!

Also, you are ensuring that emails from your domain can never reach anyone who has a "forwarding" email address (which is anyone managing any significant number of domains). These people use Cloudflare, etc. to manage the MX for these domains, and forwarding incoming email to their central email address (which remains hidden).

You can't get away from email forwarding; its sort of baked into the underlying assumptions of SMTP, which you are unlikely to single-handedly defeat and replace with something better.

In the mean time, email from your domain will appear "broken" to a vast multitude of the world's email-receiving population.

Your domain, not theirs.
Time preference. People can't think in enough detail about the future or prefer pain later over pain now.

What's worse, the entire economy modifies itself to suit the needs of the borrowers. The price of goods increases for people who are paying cash because they are now competing with those who will borrow. Then policy is tailored to their needs via inflationary currency.

There is a reason ancient societies banned lending or had regular debt jubilees.
I just keep pressing 0 until a live person answers.
Also in the same vein,
Big Pharma doesn't want to cure you - they would lose a customer.
California storms erase extreme drought from nearly all of state
> I am not saying you should not hold them accountable

You did imply exactly that.

> Do we make them pay a huge fine and climate change is averted? This seems pure distraction to me.

If holding them accountable is a distraction, that implies we shouldn't be doing it.

So yeah, you did kind of say it.

I don't really care about fines. I think the people in charge at that time should be investigated, their internal communication, coordination, and fraud should be exposed, and then they should be put in jail for fraud, if they're still alive. You call this a distraction. I call it making a point.
It’s easier to get ChatGPT to reply to things he refuses to reply if you ask him in French. It’s probably less training data to make it boring in French.
Hmm, it depends on whether you do want to talk to others over a call. If yes, then I need ti figure out a way to force people to get together and talk. If not, then the project would probably not be useful for you.
I see two big problems with GPT:

1. It presents information really well that is completely false. I don't know exactly how it works under the hood, but sometimes it spits out paragraphs that read like the fever dreams of a flat earther.

2. It will cause our communication skills to further atrophy. Maybe in an innocuous way (no one memorizes epic poems anymore), but with GPT I think it will make people less likely to have the ability to be persuasive.
Huh, that hasn't been my experience, at least not yet. Are you talking about newer movies and shows?
Perhaps with the 49 million per year they can purchase the world's smallest violin.
Author here: I did not write that I was proud of not knowing Python. I just wrote that I don't know Python. The thought of trying to understand 2k lines of it looking to see where Memgraph 'cheated' to make their product look good and the other bad was beyond my current capabilities.
Intel’s new desktop processor reaches 6GHz without overclocking
I feel this, but maybe a little different. I love programming, but I don’t love all the framework stuff that you end up constantly managing in a more mature app or the initial set up of all the dependency stuff overwhelms me.

Figuring out why some cloud formation stack BS isn’t working just isn’t fun to me. I prefer the kind of work where I can solve the problem by surfing through the actual code and figuring it out.
FTC Proposes Rule to Ban Noncompete Clauses, Which Hurt Workers
> it's never a compiler bug

I wish this was true. It would have made my job of writing compilers so much easier.
Can you plz elaborate?
> and not making so many mistakes that it damages their reputation.

And that's the difference! Human authors are incentivized to return reliable information. Reliability is not ChatGPT's concern at all, believability is. It can't even cite a source!
Agriculture may be a small constituency, but you’d rather the food supply continues to flow.
At the rate people are using ChatGPT, there won't really be a search engine to do SEO if ChatGPT and competition keeps getting better.

If chatbots become popular, the ad space would go from search engine to product placement in chatbots replies.
> more about just making everything noticeably a bit worse.

Hit the nail on the head. ChatGPT will replace the wrong things, and probably create a world where we still need to solve problems ChatGPT has become attached to.

It's all noise, I can't perceive a signal at this point.
You might want to become some kind of technically minded product manager? Good people seem to be especially rare (therefore valuable) in product management.
Big Tech giving European consumers what they deny Americans
These are very good points (I would add cockroaches to the list of winners in case of a massive problem), that reinforce my point that we do not use enough dinosaurs in the teaching of evolution. Having the perspective you mentioned challenges preconceptions (notably the "humans bright, dinosaurs stupid")

Thanks for your comments.
How can laws made by democratically elected parliaments be totalitarian.

The argument is unintelligible.

...

There is absolutely no difference in between private feudal lords dominating large percentages of the media and their editors-in-pay deciding what people see, and an actual totalitarian dictatorship.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/five-reason...

When one's 6-figure paycheck depends on 'agreeing' with the views of who writes that check, press ends up just like how it is in the US. And Murdoch above is the blatant, honest example. Others are far worse in their censorship - just hire people who are a 'good fit' for your media organization and fire those who are no longer 'a good fit' and voila.
I would not be surprised if TAL is still used for https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/nonstop.html boxen.

Similarly, https://www.unisys.com/client-education/clearpath-forward-li... probably still uses its bespoke languages ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems#ALGOL ) in places.
Our CTO is already asking why we devs aren’t using it to be more efficient. Such a stupid and early conclusion to come to about the tool
Basically replies of subscribers get pushed to the top, so if you do a quick scroll you’ll see as if everyone is subscribed. If you expand, you’ll see everyone else.
You get paid an up front amount for enrolling, and then you get paid a per-event amount for complying, as well as different amounts for e.g. testing, having smart monitoring, etc.
Not Blink the cheap alternative to Slack?
By accessing an external client do you count as a monetizable user?
Ladybird Browser Year in Review: What We Did in 2022
Regarding 1, it's well known that LLMs are pretty good at hallucinating.
Sounds like you should join an early stage startup - like 5-15 people in the whole company. There will be lots of rapid development of new features, lots of outages, and minimal process. There will still be some refactoring/rearchitecting, but with a lot less code and a lot less users you can do it a lot faster.

You could also consider agency work. There will be more process, a lot more checking in with stakeholders, but you’ll build a wide variety of greenfield projects, and sounds like that’s important to you.
UAC offers almost no additional security for single user systems. You’re trying to protect your data and passwords and stuff, not the ability to install device drivers.
Reddit's usage is heavily oriented toward silos though, being the subreddits that people subscribe to, and the most controversial are excluded from the All feed.

It doesn't have the same dynamics as Facebook and Twitter in terms of how posts/tweets/ideas get spread out all over the network.
Except for the people who answer badly due to stress and discover they've wasted 3 years off the back of a few bad hours.
That would have sucked to install that way. I did OS/2 2.0 that way and it did suck.
Yeah, I tend to work mostly within the JS ecosystem, but I’ve used Django before and its admin panel definitely makes me jealous.

That said — if I’m just looking at data, it usually takes me a pretty long time to outgrow poking around the database with a read-only user.
This soooo BASIC!!

Why aren't the processes either manual or automated in place to check for things like this?

Aren't there some tests in place to check for such basic functionality errors?

Doesn't kernel development process mandate much facilities? I'm sure the NSA, Unit 8200 and GCHQ have tests like this in place but don't share their findings.

Is it a matter of funding or leadership philosophy and priorities?
Yeah, I’m not paying to be lectured by a language model
I think you might be overestimating the liquidity of the used camera market a little bit.
As I have had 3 occurrences of mononucleosis from EBV, the last of which had me feeling fine at noon on one day, feeling like flu 6 hours later out of the blue, and then literally bedridden, in significant pain, and unable to work for 27 days(around 20 days with high fever), count me also among those who would really prefer to not have EBV gone from myself.
Actually traffic didn't really move elsewhere. This road was never overly congested but it is a main artery between 2nd and Merle Hay. Now that they've done this stupidity you either travel about a mile out of your way to go to another main artery or you just deal with it.

When this was a 4 lane road it was not very wide, there was no shoulder only a curb and probably met the bare minimum for acceptable lane width. So people naturally drove the speed limit or a little slower. Now that they've reduced it to a two-lane street with a middle turning lane the lanes are very much wider. Wider lanes make people more comfortable at going fast a middle turn lane someone turning left is no longer blocking a lane of traffic while they wait to turn left. So it absolutely makes sense that people are more comfortable driving a little bit faster and a little bit over the speed limit than they were before.

The stupidity of the city planners in Des Moines is just amazing. The idea to remove a major artery that connects one half of the city to the other when the only options are something more than a mile out of your way is stupidity of the highest order. Especially when thinking that this is going to cause people to slow down or take another route. In order for people to take another route that doesn't go past large residential sections you have to first provide the alternate path which doesn't exist.
The ASCII Gamecube Controller is very relaxing for this reason too.
I double down and press 0 while shouting "Agent!"
> Some ISP DNS services do use NXDOMAINs for search ("Did you mean ...")

Which is one of big reasons why people switch away from them. Fucking with DNS
Mostly videos I stream online. YouTube is a good example, but I've noticed an uptick in bad subtitles on other streaming platforms that stream content with higher production values.
There was the highly regarded English teacher at my high school in whose class I couldn't get better than a "D" on a test because I just read too much on my own and had too many examples to work with to be able to write essays according to her formula.

There were times later on when I made most of my income from writing, so I'm sure she was wrong.
This piece is kinda stupid written from a not-so-good understanding of what really goes on. Something a career blogger or grifter would write.

Or maybe its written by ChatGPT, who knows!

This piece lacks insight and depth of understanding.

For example, SO volume should not be taken into account at all as the primary place for PyTorch discussions is the PyTorch forums.

Another thing TF users and even founders like to gloat on is pip install numbers. PyTorch suggests conda and that's the default on their site. For TF, it's pip.

For any reasonably complicated workflow, TF would still be the way to go, and same is the case from edge AI deployments.

The biggest pro for TF is not the API, or the ease, or any inherent good-ness, it's its ecosystem. Google payrolls a lot of people to float and maintain the ecosystem. I know a bunch of them.

The biggest pro of PyTorch is its inherent goodness, and it is by far the better thing to use for your deep learning experiments or prototype.

I have written PyTorch production code before, and it keeps getting easier. And worked flawlessly on simple enough systems, out of the box, even 2.5/3 years ago.

If you are a researcher, or anyhow, an experiementer in any way, PyTorch is no-brainer.

For TF, the use case is in end-user facing applications.

Even new research from Google AI/Brain/DeepMind doesn't use TF in almost any projects, they use JAX or something written on top of it, like Haiku, Flax, etc.

Personal note: the early libraries got real sweet "hacker" feeling to them. The core engineers always respond to your problems, they ship features based on requests, and spinning something up based on JAX feels real easy and nice.

It’s a PyTorch and/or JAX future now.

Julia gets a lot of love on HN, but very little amount of people even think about it Deep Learning academia/industry.
Dall-e 2 is completely overpriced and almost obsolete since MidJourney v4.
Yeah, it kind of taints the whole transaction. We got our house insulation replaced and I could never really get the salesman to talk frankly about the marginal benefit of dense pack insulation on the sloped portions of our ceilings.

When the sale was in the initial stages and might not go through, he was fine saying it could be omitted from the work order. After I partially committed and asked him what the marginal benefit was, all I could get was, "it might be cooler in the rooms without it...its your house." Some would say, "what did you expect?" but for a not-small job I'd hoped there could be a bit more rapport.

Also, there's a very real scarcity mindset right now due to economic downturn.
I'm in the UK, fraud is perfectly covered for debit cards.
"Representative! ... Representative! ... Representative!"
I tend to like engineering, but that's because I'm sort of a completionist. I like finishing stuff. I like getting to the point where I no longer have to worry about it, and I do a good job, the first time, so I no longer have to worry about it.

I like to F^3: Finite, Focused, and Finished:

- Finite: I know what "done" looks like. Tasks have a discrete beginning and end, though the schedule may be fuzzy.

- Focused: No distractions. I stay on beam, and devote full attention to the task at hand.

- Finished: I don't stop, until I have reached a point that I can wrap things. I usually punctuate this with a final tagged commit.

I've come to realize that this is kind of an aberration.

I cover it, in a way, in this post: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...
Place secret bits in each copy that identifies the purchaser, then sue when the next version comes out.
This is so wrong!!
>what's the point?
Speed, just want to visualize the data and don't want to take hands off of the keyboard and not have to refocus on another window.
Does anybody enjoy the boring, non-programming bits of software engineering?

I look at it like professional sports. There's a saying: you're paid to practice, 'cause the actual games are fun.

That's the way I look at it. I'd write code for free, more or less. My employer is paying me for all the other crap I slog through: gnarly legacy code, weird bugs, endless meetings, etc.
Rebates on appliances at least are happening: the Inflation Reduction Act has $4.5 billion set aside for rebates on new electric appliances. There's not a new tax at this point but I don't think tax/rebate and banning new gas installations are necessarily mutually exclusive.

> I just installed a new gas boiler (I wanted to go electric but it was massively economically disadvantageous). That thing is probably going to run for 20 years.

You're making a bet that gas will remain economically advantageous over electric for 20 years. I don't know about you, but the way the winds are shifting, that doesn't sound like a good bet.
He's also done a lot of other translations from Chinese (Broken Stars anthology for example) that I don't think have the same problems.
In the UK. That doesn't exist here... nowhere would require a credit card over a debit card.
No problems for me with a homegrown app that uses some parts of twitter API.
Sure, totally agree with you on that for truly cold climates. My only note would be that using natural gas as a backup/emergency source for cold climates only makes sense if you have existing gas infrastructure there... and it still makes sense to upgrade to a heat pump assuming that you don't live in a climate where it's just frozen constantly (e.g., parts of Canada, Alaska, etc)

Even just routing a new gas pipe to your HVAC closet can easily be $5-10k, which would erode all potential savings during the truly cold parts of the year... not to mention the additional cost of a furnace + emergency heat wiring etc.
12 open source data science projects to watch in 2023
I'm the opposite, haha. I guess that's what makes good teams tho!
I'm racking my brain trying to remember where I heard it, but I've heard it roughly summarized as: Companies are founded by people who are loyal to a vision, but tend to promote people who are loyal to the company. Eventually the people who are loyal to the company have all of the power. The people loyal to the vision are only left in the lower ranks, if at all.
This question is basically what the article linked in my comment above is all about.
Navy or Marines?
Same. But I also never had problem with payment (I cancelled[or returned] purchase less than 4 times in my life, I can only thinking 1 or 2). Almost all credit card benefits are even out the production of incentives it drives. It's hard to prove if you spend 5% more with 3% cash back or not.
Love jart’s work
When will ChatGPT replace C-suite executives, I wonder? Just think of the savings!
One trick I’ve learned from the mobile game world is to make sure your localization files are separate resources — don’t compile them in. They way, when your game is first cracked, you’ll get a pretty decent Russian translation immediately that you can, with no moral concerns, “steal” back for your next update — and within only a few weeks you’ll have a pretty rich set of languages floating around for your distribution. I do recommend testing with CJK text first to set up your free labor for success.
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi

https://kristall.random-projects.net/
An aside, but I have a recurring nightmare - today is the day when an English paper is due. I failed to write it. It's happening less since I graduated nearly 20 years ago, but still does. I wonder if it means I agree with the author..
> research that Exxon funded that didn't just confirm what climate scientists were saying but used more than a dozen different computer models that forecast the coming warming with precision equal to or better than government and academic scientists

I didn't read the paper in question, but I think (just from this description) that this is a bit disingenuous. Exxon is no angel, but big companies fund thousands of researchers on thousands of grants, and I don't expect management to pay attention to everything that that comes out of that with equal priority.

Maybe there's some wishful thinking going on in management, some malfeasance, but "a study they funded shows they're doing bad things" is not something that surprising; thousands of studies come out every day alleging some wrongdoing by somebody or another, and we don't find out what's signal and what's noise until much later.
That's one of my favorite things to ask it at the moment, something like "If I wanted you to generate an interesting article on X, how should I write a prompt?" The results are usually pretty interesting.
> totally worth keeping 5-10 person engineering team

I've worked in AI/ML for a long time, and I can tell you that in all but the rarest of exceptions nobody has sat down and done the math to really determine if that value is there. In my experience, most cases it's not.

I've seen teams like you describe and then asked them "what's the difference in value between what our model does today and the theoretical optimum"? The answer, which nobody liked, was fractions of a penny per user. That means if the team achieved perfection it wouldn't really matter in practice.

We're going to see a lot of the AI/ML teams disappear as companies are forced to focus on determining the real value add being provided.
kinda surprising the devs of limewire didn't put some block on downloading any file with the phrase 'limewire' in the file name.