skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...

Republicans in state legislatures submitted 425 bills that would restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states—with 33 of these bills enacted across 19 states so far, by October 2021.

It would seem to me a rather unified reaction to the election. Like as if they may have seen things in their state or other states which indicate they don't believe the election was fair.

Personally, I saw many things which left my perception that this was absolutely not a fair election. Perception is what matters here, not actual results because that's impossible to gauge.

When in Detroit you throw out all republican challengers/observers, lock the doors, and board up the windows. I have no manner of saying they cheated, but the perception is that cheating occurred.

But more importantly, Biden straight up said the Democrats have "most extensive VOTER FRAUD organization” in history." You can watch the original, it's not modified, it's not any sort of deepfake going on.

After he said this, you cannot just brush it off as a verbal gaff or misspeak in that he meant VOTER PROTECTION. Nope, no way. It was upon the entire democratic party to fix the perception. If indeed they don't have an extensive voter fraud organization... it's their responsibility to prove it. They had to prove a negative... or realistically the gaff is that he shouldn't have admitted to it publicly.
If what you’re calling “human progress” involved something other than continued concentration of capital in the hands of the few at the expense of the many, then I would agree with you. To me, it seems more like the rich using technology to steal from the poor.
A ton of these comments are cynical or defeatist. It’s like they think that music is already a dying art and this is the final nail in the coffin.

There’s tons of amazing, wonderful music being made all the time, to a degree that is staggeringly incomprehensible, and nothing about AI generated music is going to stop people from making beautiful art “by hand”
There are indeed 2 religions. Data oriented or Code oriented.

Both are making very different choices as they have diverging trade offs.

I wrote something along the lines. Not the same, but very similar given enough abstraction

https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/08/07/two-programming-religions-c...
Whatever remaining notable demand isn't directly for Itanium, but rather for legacy installations of HPUX and VMS. Where Itanium, despite the age, is still the most current platform.
The way he explains "pushing `for`s down" is obvious. Restating it would be: only do something you need in a for loop and not something you could do once. But that has nothing to do with what he means by "pushing `if`s up" which is about making `if`s appear es early as possible in the control flow. It doesn't matter if `for`s are early or late in the control flow. What matters is that only things that need to be done n times with n being the loop count of the for loop are in the for loop and everything else is not. And I disagree with "push ifs up" stated unqualified.
He is using an open source app called tldraw and this is the prompt used:

https://github.com/tldraw/draw-a-ui/blob/2ac633bbbd5fda39e59...
VS is an expert tool. Not a word processor for the masses.
this is getting philosophical, but maybe humans are sophisticated tools
Sure, but 64-bit x86 did materialize and killed Itanium, there is little reason to think it wouldn't have killed those archs too.
Probably a question to the guy above, but there is immediate psychological reward in any act of kindness or generosity (at least in healthy, thriving individuals).
I'd say its the other way round. You want updates for your million-dollar business critical hardware, you can bloody well pay for it.
This doesn't sound like a simple solution from your fellow devs. It appears to have been an easy solution. If the distinction isn't familiar to you, there is a great talk of Rich Hickey [0], that explains that distinction and some more. The talk is definitely not only applicable to Clojure.

YAGNI is a great slogan, but must not be a dogma. If you already know, that you are going to need custom rules. Then prepare for it. But, if --- for example --- the current rules are almost trivial, and you don't know yet, which rule engine will be the right fit later on. Then it might be a good idea to postpone the decision about the rule engine, until you know more. In the meantime a hard-coded solution could be enough.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtk3HCgTa8
Psychotic and autistic traits among magicians:relationship with creative beliefs
It’s a theme of Dr. Hiliruk’s last speech in One Piece as well
>Can we please stop posting twitter links?

Friendly fyi... the moderator allows Twitter links and previously explained the reasoning:

>We're not going to ban Twitter because, like it or not, it's the source of some of the most intellectually interesting material that gets posted here. -- from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430760

There's also a related moderator's post about allowing "paywall" articles : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Circling the last survivor?
I shop online because grocery stores allow dogs inside! Everything at ground level is contaminated with saliva, dog hair, urine, excrements and general dirt from streets!
Ask HN: Where to find good indie authors/books?
I have a very good funnel for finding indie music on SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Youtube, etc.

But I have no clue how to find small/unknown authors. I've scoured pretty much everything on https://ooh.directory, but very few bloggers publish books. Also couldn't find any funnels on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Goodreads, or Reddit. Any suggestions?
The only people I see supporting Russia against Ukraine are rightwingers.
Did they just invent Microsoft front page but with 10000x more power used?
> At the time of Wonder Bread's introduction, many adults could still recall when products were being sold "from the cracker barrel", mixed homogenously and exposed to pests.

I cannot remember this. (And wasn't around for the introduction of Wonder Bread.)

But I was disturbed to see recent commentary saying "why in the world does food come inside so much disposable packaging?"

That answer should be obvious to everyone. Modern food comes inside disposable packaging because the other way spreads disease. You could argue that we should have less of that, or more of it. But if you can't even imagine why the shrinkwrap is there... how do you get through the day?
Looking at the archives of the netbsd-ia64 mailing list, it doesn't seem like the netbsd ia64 port is particularly healthy. The most recent discussion thread is a thread that was cross-posted to various ia64 related mailing lists, by the person that now removed the Linux kernel support. And AFAICS with no comments from any people involved in the netbsd port. Before that, the previous activity on that mailing list was a few message back in 2020. And before that, a few messages in 2016.

It's dead, Jim.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-ia64/
> most line-of-business software needs to optimise for changeability and correctness ("programming over time") not performance

These are not mutually exclusive, in fact, more often than not, they are correlated.

Maybe the most important aspect of performance is to make things small. Small code, small data structures, small number of executed instructions. Writing small code is what "thinking about the instruction cache" essentially is, btw.

And as it turns out, the smaller the code, the less room there is for bugs, the more you can understand at once, and the easier it is to get good coverage, good for correctness. As for changeability, the smaller the code, the smaller the changes. The same applies to data.

Now, some optimization techniques can make the code more complicated, for example parallelization, caching, some low level optimization, etc... but these only represent a fraction of what optimizing for performance is. And no serious performance conscious programmer will do that without proper profiling/analysis.

Then there are things that make the code faster with limited impact (positive and negative), and this is what the article is about. Functionally, if/for is not really different from for/if, but one is faster than the other, so why pick the slow one? And even if the compiler optimizes that for you, why rely on the compiler if you can do it properly at no cost. Just like looping over 2D arrays, it is good to know that there are two ways of doing it, and while they look equivalent, one is fast and one is slow, so that you don't pick the slow one by accident.
Not everything is on Spotify, though. I have a lot of CDs I've had to look for second-hand because they're not on any streaming services or digital stores, and long out of print. I'd probably been able to find a lot of them on OiNK or What.CD and nowhere else online.

It's difficult and expensive sometimes, and it also feels wrong not to be able to share them with others.
True. Not hard to see it in view-source:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38287917 though (HN doesn't understand that "view-source:" is part of the address).
The great minds of the past were hilarious wrong a lot of times, too.

Asking questions is the easy part. Figuring out what good questions and answers are is the hard part.
In theory it is fantastic and yes this is great.

I think the negativity comes from the fact that our economic reality isn't currently structured to handle the consequences.

In an idyllic society, this might be all one needs to say about generative AI: "how wonderful, a new way to express ourselves!" I think the backlash stems from the fact that we do not live in such a society. Many people already barely scratch out a meagre existence through self-expression. Now major companies that posses far more power than individuals, that take people's work and data without doing due diligence or asking, that effectively impose the shape of the technical landscape from top down, are introducing tools that threaten the ability of people to survive.

It's kind of hard to paint a completely rosy picture when that's the way these tools are being developed and introduced.
Almost. Pollard captained the Two Brothers on his return…which promptly sank. Then he quit.

Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson and others returned to sea multiple times.
Yes! Once you create a preview environment, ongoing code changes will be represented there and accessible to reviewers.
So is the off the cuff, stream of consciousness chatter humans use to talk. We still manage to write good scientific papers (sometimes...), not because we think extra hard and then write a good scientific treatment in one go without edits, research or revisions. Instead we we have a whole text structure, revision process, standardised techniques of analysis, searchable research data collections, critique and correction by colleagues, searchable previous findings all "hyperlinked" together by references, and social structures like peer review. That process turns out high-quality, high-information work product at the end, without a significant cognitive adjustment to the humans doing the work aside from just learning the new information required.

I think if we put resources and engineering time into trying to build a "research lab" or "working scientist tool access and support network" with every intelligent actor involved emulated with LLMs, we could probably get much, much more rigorous results out the other end of that process. Approaches like this exist in a sort of embryonic form with LLM strategies like expert debate.
Not an 'A for effort' but 'effort for initial validation'. It shouldn't lead to automatic approval but zero effort is less of a signal than some effort and probably a weaker signal than 'a lot of effort' assuming the basic skills are present.

Photography is interesting because it has very subtle parallels with for instance painting. One of the more interesting ones to me is that it ranges the gamut from 'technical documentation' through 'personal memento' all the way up to very high end art. The big thing missing in photography is spirituality, which arguably was the driver (and often the patron in a financial sense) of lots of great art in paint.
I said in the goverment. Typically having a minister is the definition of being in the government. That they are not a larger part is of course a good thing.

The protests were not about the genocide and apartheid. They were mostly about the interal power struggle, which is all well and good, but not protesting against genocide and apartheid per se.
That’s hilarious, it’s almost like we’re trying to figure out what motivates it.
Look at the end of the article with some security footage of a shoplifter, looks suspiciously like Bezos ...
Mamoru Oshii's style seems to heavily include this kind of sequences.

Your link is from Innocence, right? The original Ghost in the Shell also has a sequence of Motoko simply walking and riding a boat, doing nothing but staring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTLckN9e7I
(I love this movie!)
This gives me hope, my current idea I work on is osal planned for a two-core Postgres cloud instance from Hetzner.
Why not add the context to that page?
I have been using Firefox on Wayland for a long time now. It's even nicer than with X, since pinch-to-zoom on touchscreens and touchpads is fantastic, but a Wayland-only feature.

Very neat!
I thought it was a marketing gimmick to get big iron competitors off homebrew risc solutions. Because Intel.
I've been to a cajun restaurant and I've been to a Jamaican restaurant.

Based on those, it would be no great loss if cajun cuisine was completely forgotten, though it's possible it was just a terrible restaurant.

There really is a problem with American food, and it's the people who design and eat it. For many years I've watched Indian restaurants open locally with great food, and then get blander and blander and blander over time. I can only assume they do it because their guests complain when the food they serve has detectable flavors.
The destruction of knowledge and culture wrought by copyright lawyers amounts to at least 1000 Libraries Alexandria.
The culpability of association in a thorny question.

As you say, millions of Israelis (and the Jewish diaspora) don't support these people.

... but, parts of the Israeli government do.

So how should responsibility/blame be apportioned in a democracy with a vocal opposition minority?

I don't know. But it'd be a useful answer for every other country with voting in the world too (US, UK, Russia, etc).
A few percent is the normal. The link below says the current 6.1% of car borrowers who are behind on payments is unprecedented.

When a payer defaults they usually loose the item that is being financed, although they have paid far more than the value they've got out of it. Selling and expecting a 40% losses means your selling to people you know won't be able to afford the payments - and (in my opinion) should be treated as fraud.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/10/21/ame...
Yep it's from Innocence, and yep that's also an amazing scene. I much prefer these atmospheric daily life scenes to action or dialogue.
However, OP argued that global warming is suffering from people NOT getting immediate rewards for their actions. Your argument basically says OP is wrong, and there is no need to counteract peoples tendency to prefer short-term rewards over long-term because they are supposed to get enough incentive by just knowing they have been kind. I doubt that.
In the documentary about Wim Hof (by Vice think), he was friends with a guy with terminal cancer who said doing the cold plunges made the cancer bearable and changed his life.
> How about we pick income, including capital gains, and land, and buildings, and IP?

Only one of those is income.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231102065031/https://www.thegu...
"Grab a can opener, readers. Today, we’ll be cracking open the history of all things tinned."

For an article making that claim, there's a BIG omission: the history of can openers.

According to The Wiki (and article) it was around ~1800 that canned food became somewhat commonplace.

But it wasn't until ~1850 that general purpose can openers came around.

So those first (thick, heavy!) cans had to be opened using whatever tools were on hand. Think chisel + hammer. Later cans came with some kind of 'key' to peel away a strip of metal.

But can openers as we know them, didn't come around until decades after the cans themselves.

If you're diving into the history of canned food, certainly this tidbit deserves mention.
"executing it correctly" requires consensus on the goals and direction. Maybe I'm reading too much between the lines, but you seem to think that building consensus implies a voting process with a unanimous outcome. That's not the case, especially not in hierarchical organizations.

The root of consensus is the word consent: it's about buy-in, not about unanimous agreement. It is customary to choose the direction with a small team -- but you still need the rest of the people to understand those decisions and why they were made. If people don't understand the context of the work they're doing, it's impossible for them to make the correct judgement calls for the tasks they're working on.

To get people in larger teams to work together efficiently, you need either consensus building or micro-management. I know which one I prefer.
> As I mentioned in a peer comment I'm more interested in tropical | equatorial performance

Perhaps you should qualify your statements, because this:

> Currently panels drop to 80% efficacy after 10 years and are doorstops in 20

This is an unqualified factual statement and is simply not true.

> Your average degradation figures are the figures from big meta studies

The big meta studies do show that degradation is a bit faster in higher temp environments for some kinds of panels. There is however zero evidence that solar panels will be "door stops in 20".
Governments: if it moves regulate it, if it doesn’t then tax it.
Google will make fake AI products to help you find real gifts
> And yet people are doing that to LLMs. "Haha, look at that LLM hallucinating", where half the time the prompt is misleading or wrong.

I mean... I ask it to give me Python code and it gives me code that doesn't work and makes up libraries that don't actually exist. That's not a prompt problem. A human would understand there's an implicit "code that actually works and isn't pulled out of your ass".
All shapes and sizes of people receive vaccines... most from a very young age.
Why Linux Scheduler is hard-coded to optimize scheduling for 8 cores
I gave it a mockup from a FB interview question (two lists of checkboxes with two buttons to swap checked items between them) and it nailed it: https://gist.github.com/milesrichardson/2a2f77d4bfb19c3b28dc...
The article mentions that they convert to digital from the massive physical archive they have. I think it's a matter of turning those hundreds of thousands for records that they have into digital is a massive effort.

I can see why they dont save the physical copies, but I think the problem is physical record input rate > digitize rate leading to tons of inventory space.
Did you see the video of that US Senator challenging a committee witness to a fist fight? Happened in the last week. All in person.
Maybe lack of integrity?
We are 18 months into war, but electric grid and rail network are still functional. You can go to Kiev for weekend break from Poland in overnight train...
> About the only real "success" of Itanium was wiping out the competing architectures.

Arguably x86-64 would have wiped those out anyway, with or without Itanium.
Most of today's popular music is heavily computer based.

Previous musicians said the same things, electric guitars are not musical instruments, synthesizers have no soul, music made on computer DAWs is artificial and of no value, ....

The kids will embrace 100% AI generated music, the parents will be "they don't make music like they used to", forgetting that their parents said the same things about their music.
I think it's a combination of both.

Talent does exist, even though effort is certainly a major contributor to the result. If you task two people, with and without talent, with accomplishing the same project, one will complete it better than the other, given both place reasonable effort into it.
I have relatively technically incompetent family members, but my will instructs them to talk to any of 3 different technically competent friends that I trust (ideally more than 1 of them, all together in person with my estate providing funds for it) to guide them through shit like crypto private keys, password managers and encrypted archives that I could never imagine my very normal sister or mother dealing with. I check in with my friends every year to make sure that they're OK with the arrangement still, and the reason it's 3 is in case I'm involved in some kind of accident with 1 or more of them.

If by some freak accident all 4 of us die at once (at a bachelor party or something), I trust my heirs' competency to find someone who can guide them through it. I specify more than 1 because while I trust all the technical advisers, shit like gambling addiction can happen that I don't know about.

In return, I'm written in to help with similar circumstances for them.

The hard part is setting this up, but now it's just an annual email.
Microsoft launches Windows App for accessing PCs in the cloud from any device
Great attitude!

You may have to destroy the harddrives for legal reasons.

Or secure erase them but then you may as well pull them (still, that would save someone another parts hunt). If you go this route check out to see if there are still any old installation media and hardcopy docs that can go with them, that might be worth almost as much as the machines to the recipient.
Desktop: "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"
If you're able to let your imagination run wild you'll see that the depth of depravity of NSFW AI content generated by user input probably has no end.
YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement
My inner compulsive optimist would say that means they'd be especially happy about volunteers with access to actual hardware.

But it's possible there's just not many people interested in this platform. Hardware was expensive, and most of it is rather large and power-hungry. HP did build Itanium workstations, but I think they stopped a long time ago.
Interesting—what do you use for document storage in Germany? I'm always on the lookout for new storage ideas for managing all my crap.
Printed robots with bones, ligaments, and tendons
Heh I know right? I think it freaked everyone out a little bit. Startled everyone as it had a whiff of LE…
Very cool! I've built a similar platform for GB, GBA and SNES at https://afterplay.io I've thought about adding DOS support in the future. What emulator did you end up using? Very nice implementation :)
Physicists don't want to be formal to the level that mathematicians require. It'll really slow them down.

Chemists ... (xkcd)
We're picking up pennies on the sidewalk. Each individually is valuable, but there are just so many of them that every day we go home with the overwhelming majority of them go uncollected. And occasionally one is made of gold.

(or the old story about throwing back starfish)
Except it would more likely be “no more software to run this? Such a shame <off goes the hardware>”
Even the archive link wants a WSJ subscription now
> It's also legal for the US to decide to shoot them down.

Why? It would be analogous to international waters. Is it legal for the US to sink a Swedish ship in international waters just because it dislikes its position?

> at a high altitude that doesn't interfere with air traffic

Which would mean outside of the scope of FAA's jurisdiction?