skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went back and looked at the 2000 election (as a Gore supporter at the time) and I think it was a step on this path.

Gore tried to lawyer his way to victory in an unseemly way: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/publications/working_pa...

After losing two automatic recounts, he insisted on hand recounts—but only in precincts that had heavily favored him in the first place. The whole point is that hand recounts find more votes than machine counts (they can read votes the machine would reject). If you only seek hand recounts in precincts where each newly readable vote is twice as likely to be a Gore vote, then you can quickly close the gap

Then the Florida Supreme Court completely lost its mind, doing stuff like allowing Gore to count vote gains so far in partial recounts in Gore-favoring states. See pp. 22-24 above the above.

The Supreme Court agreed 7-2 that the Florida recount process violated the equal protection law. Democrats invoked that President against Trump after the 2020 election. Nonetheless, they waged a campaign to delegitimize Bush and delegitimize the Supreme Court, based on a mess that arose out of Gore’s own sneaky efforts to litigate his away around a loss in Florida.
Unit tests are used to test functions that have only defined inputs, and whose outputs depend only on those inputs.

You can extract a lot of business logic into those kinds of functions. There's a whole art in writing "unit testable code". Those unit tests have value.

What's left is the pile code and scenarios that need to be tested in other ways. But part of the art is in shrinking down that pile as much as possible.
7 weeks past since you last posted about the sale (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059219), have you contacted anybody in the meantime? Can you contact any employees that might have had significant share (received any kind of payout)?

A strong worded letter by a lawyer is probably a good investment. You have shares and demand to know what happened to them.
>Apple could also push out an update tomorrow that would end this once and for all by utilizing device attestation and leveraging Secure Enclave, but this would potentially lock out older devices, something they were willing to do when they upgraded the FaceTime protocol a couple of years ago, but they might not want to do that this time around.

Just give it a couple more hardware generations to ensure the largest % of older hardware upgrades. Anything pre-secure enclave chip would need to be in the low digits I'm guessing. Then again, if they are going to block Messages, that might be the incentive to get these older device users to upgrade.
Why not let the government intervene here? Typically my reason for wanting government to not do stuff is because it could affect me, but none of us will never be a trillionaire corporate entity, so anything done to Apple wouldn't apply to us as a precedent. If anything, you could argue that part of the purpose of the government is to stand up to these giant businesses that the average person can do nothing to.
This is quite possibly due to most of these patients already receiving DNA-damaging chemo before CAR-T therapy. It also represents only 20 cases out of tens of thousands of doses.
Where can I find these writings?
LTE hotspots have not been a viable option since..well, basically any time. They have extremely high costs vs the amount of data you get. I guess it's better than absolutely nothing and may be manageable if you don't stream video, but it's not considered home broadband for a good reason
(Not a fan of politics articles on HN, but anyhow)

Yea, most Thai dislike the current monarch. This is a major reason why youth have been protesting against the Monarchy and Military Junta since 2020 [0], and why the progressive Move Forward Party won by a landslide [1] in the 2023 elections, but ended up getting blocked by the establishment.

Thailand is essentially an oligarchy of a Military Junta, the Royal Family, and a small ethic Chinese business elite where each oligarch essentially owns an entire sector (eg. CP Group and food, King Power and retail, Chue Chin Hua and construction, etc). It's basically 1930s Japan's political structure, which was a deliberate move by the Thai elite in the 1930s-50s. It's also helped attract Japanese+Korean FDI as lecherous Japanese+Korean boomer execs have experience managing businesses in these kinds of business conditions before the 80s in their home countries.

The Thai model of Military Junta+Business Oligarchy+Figurehead Political Family ruling elite giving scraps via a large welfare state is the primary political model across mainland SEA in Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, though some (eg. Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia) manage it better than others (eg. Myanmar, Laos)

Most Thai dislike the impunity of the oligarchy now thanks to awareness in social media, especially after the heir to the RedBull fortune ran over a police officer and was let go with no punishment [2], as well as memories of the repression of the Red Shirt Movement (though the leader was himself an oligarch in the telecom space).

At least the old king/"emperor" wasn't as bad as the new one. The new guy just plain sucks and shows his disdain to his subjects publicly why Bhumiol at least hid it well via his personality cult.

The lese majeste laws in Thailand are primarily used as a quick way for the de facto ruling Military Junta to do away with pesky troublemakers asking for democracy, accountability, and other stuff authoritarian oligarchs don't like.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Thai_prote...

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Thai_general_election

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wichian_Klanprasert
In Memory of Anton Logvynenko: Digital Artist and Aviation Enthusiast
Honestly, until the headline says "permanently" or "destroyed" I just assume it's a glitch they'll spend a few weeks 24/7 investigating.
Vivaldi (from the people who brought you Opera). It's light, robust, nice UI, tweakable. I used to use Brave but don't really trust it since they went down the crypto route.
Canceling the payment method, easiest if using a virtual card, in the past has resulting in them just canceling service and the full year obligation
My guess as to why it was over engineered was to be reusable, or at the start maybe an unknown complexity was foreseen requiring unreasonableness flexibility.

Like many, I early in my career once rewrote a partial implementation of windows workflow foundation to work out of MySQL with db functions. It was .. beautiful. :) And the problem learned to behave and not need it again. Still running years later and reasonably refactorable.
>Also, we've probably all had bosses who were a bit too drunk with power.

Yeah, exactly. This type of real-world experiment is being done inside corporations and other bureaucratic fiefdoms.

I think there's some truth to our order-following, obedient nature but people also seemed to put way too much stock into this particular study. It's just one study.
Very interesting question, I also asked this and have no idea.
I will collect the data i get and plot it one day, but i expect the numerical method we use is not ideal in that strange thing happen when the BU pairs reach the poles.

my conjecture is these are uniformly distributed over a year, but that is a guess. other planets might have different andwers.
> This doesn't necessarily mean that the whole principle of unquestioning obedience when it comes to being asked to do immoral/unethical acts is false.

The article didn't claim that the study's conclusion was false. The article only points out that the study was flawed, and therefore cannot be relied upon to draw any conclusions either way. The article is about replication issues in modern science, not about whether people in uniforms can be mean to people.
and yet likely more than a few people will be sweating for close to two days.
On his website: https://mitchellh.com/zig
> The reason they’re not doing that is because it could have unintended consequences as some are using someone else’s actual device serial number and those people would be inconvenienced.

One is supposed to try to find a plausible (follows certain rules) but invalid serial to use for hackintoshing and not use real serials, but of course in practice there’s always some number of careless users…
It actually knows the difference between the British version of the middle finger (the V) and the peace sign

(Peace sign has palm facing out, 'fuck you' sign has palm facing in)
Not the OP, but in Chrome, with my camera permission disabled (i.e. set to "Don't allow sites to use your camera"), I also just get that "Model loading" forever. Once I turned it on manually, it loaded instantly.

Maybe there could be a permissions check and an error message if it's disabled? https://jamesburnside.github.io/blog/detecting-camera-permis...
Thank you! I was just trying to remember the book, it is excellent!
Semi related. I got a smart watch with a phone number but I can’t text from it.

Can this product or a different product let me enter my number and let me participate in texting? Maybe a paid app?

(Could I build this with service otherwise?)
This was a great time, and I indeed miss XMPP, with proper federation to lots of different servers, including Google Talk, and Jingle videocalls!

Modern XMPP is really great, Conversations is a fantastic client, supports E2E encryption, is open source, and makes minimal use of resources.
Yes. The banal answer is the coffee shop wifi company injecting ads into the page, which https trivially defeats, but other injections are possible.
at some point Serial Box will have a list of valid/invalid hardware serial numbers. or, someone will crack the code to generate valid codes.

oh wait. i drifted off back to the 90s software cracking days.
Good. 75% of water resistant products contain PFAS. The less PFAS is used, the better:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/26/water-re...

Drinking water also needs to be cleaned up:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/pfas-and-lead-lurk-in-us-dri...
I would try piranha before trying more heat as the piranha is less likely to warp or discolor the stainless.

If you know what you're doing the equation boils down to determining if the container's worth more than the piranha solution will cost you to make in time/money spent. https://drs.illinois.edu/Page/SafetyLibrary/PiranhaSolutions
Fair, in that it provides null evidence. My understanding is that there have been several studies that showed that the results specifically did not replicate. Complicating things, this has been somewhat seen as something that is not "universal" and that the general upbringing of the test subjects matters a ton into how they will react to instructions.
No I mean a beeper alternative that uses the iMessage backend. The tricky part with beeper is that they have their own notification server that gets the notifications from Apple and turns them into what android understands. That should be self-hosted by each person because it would contain the FairPlay key.
What's the point of mentioning company stocks in a vaccine article?
Thanks you actually made me laugh out loud with the uno reference. I did say a little bit more. I guess I played another turn in the uno game.
Talk. To. An. Attorney.

If you don't know any (which would be weird if you founded a startup) call the State Bar wherever you live and ask them for referrals. You should absolutely not be trying to to open-source the solutions to your private legal problem. You're just setting yourself up for a counter-suit for defamation or suchlike.
Understanding meaning what?
While it wasn't popularly debunked until 2018, I actually remember hearing the Freakonomics guys actually talked about this way back in 2014:

> LEVITT: Yeah, he said it was real, too. But a lot of times what I’ve found is that that when I try to do experiments as an economist that work great for psychologists, I cannot get them to work. And I really have come to believe that it’s because the people in the study are so keen on doing what the researcher wants them to do, and they think that the psychologist wants them to behave in one way, and they think the economist wants them to behave in a different way, and so it’s hard to reproduce some of those psychological findings. I’d love to do the prison study, and I’d love to do it in a way that was unbiased. And I just, it’s one thing, I would bet a lot of money that things wouldn’t turn out the way that they did in that old Zimbardo study.

> DUBNER: Well, you know, let me read you, here’s what a couple of the volunteers who played guards back then 40-some years ago. Here’s what they said recently. One said that he was playing a role from the outset trying to create drama to quote, “give the researchers something to work with.” And another guard said, “I didn’t think it was ever meant to go the full two weeks. I think Zimbardo wanted to create a dramatic crescendo and then end it as quickly as possible. I felt that throughout the experiment, he knew what he wanted and tried to shape the experiment by how it was constructed and how it played out to fit the conclusion that he had already worked out. He wanted to be able to say that college students, people from middle-class backgrounds, that people will turn on each other just because they are given a role and given power.”

> LEVITT: So people won’t believe me, I have never heard those quotes, I didn’t know anyone else thought that way, what I said before was just my intuition that that was not human behavior what got revealed in those studies.

To give credit where it's due, Levitt basically made a whole career out of showing the replication problems of psychology experiments.
A ridiculously huge and powerful array of antennas spread across the planet.

NASA has a dashboard online for the Deep Space Network and you can see live which spacecraft we're communicating with. The Voyagers are usually active any time I look.
Call site attribution:pinpoint rogue SQL queries throttling database performance
I eventually found out about xdg-open, but I'm glad that I didn't know about it from the start. I learned to open things the more "normal" way (eg `soffice document.doc`).
> Over time, they develop a sophisticated understanding of language, not by direct instruction of underlying rules, but through pattern recognition and contextual inference from these outputs.

Kids learn through supervised learning. Children don't develop strong language skills without parents or other people to correct them when they use language incorrectly.

We don't use supervised learning on LLMs. There is no way we can train an LLM by using human supervisors to rate every output. It works for humans since humans learn with so few examples, supervising a kids language learning doesn't take much effort, a single person can easily manage it while doing it for an LLM would consume the whole worlds workforce for many years.
Yelling At My Laptop
I feel like you and the parent are saying a company pays well if you master COBOL as opposed to just "learning" COBOL.
I specified what I meant by inputs and outputs in my original comment. Whether it rained today, whether it was cloudy yesterday, how hot is it going to get, that sort of thing, are the observable weather, the things most people care about when checking a weather forecast. But you can't only train on those things and expect to come up with accurate predictions. You also need to train on the things that cause that observable weather (air currents, warm fronts, etc.)
In a world where most of the applications people care about are SaaS, the OS is almost irrelevant to the user be he/she a business user or a consumer. There are a few exclusive applications with high user numbers on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh but the majority are available on all three, and those have far smaller numbers than SaaS applications delivered through the web browser.
And on the way down, there was an unholy congress between SharePoint and OneDrive to create a new eldritch horror.
iMessage is the only app that matters in the US.
Wouldnt call it faux ignorance, the section of society without one is likely quite large. It was before youtube and co took off and the number of viewers very likely went down afterwards.
I can't speak to the "great company" part but Adam (and co's) current endeavor may interest you: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...

tl;dr = https://github.com/systeminit/si#readme
This is where Beeper 100% loses me in this fight. If you're using a 3rd party service as the backbone of your system that you turn around and charge people for, that's just total bullshit business plan. If you're doing this as a free service, I'd be much more interested. If you have a for-profit business, you need to be paying for the 3rd party thing that makes you possible.
Plus a lot funds aren't trying to beat the market but instead reduce variance.
To unspin your statement, Beeper is providing Apple users with more functionality by way of giving them the ability to send iMessages to their Android-user friends. This is beneficial for Apple users, but Apple has a financial incentive to restrict their users so that the only way for other people to interact with them is to purchase an Apple device, so they are harming their own Apple device users by trying to cut off this functionality.
No. Signals work with a weak map of references, not a graph. So in my Pizza example, when pizza changes, totalPrice would recalculate twice: once on a signal from pizza, once on a signal from tip. Explicitly constructing the graph dramatically reduces needless recalculation in bigger systems.
That's a really good question. I don't know enough about SYCL to be able to tell you the answer, but I've heard rumblings that it may be the thing to watch. I think there may be some other limitations, for example SYCL 2020 depends on unified shared memory, and that is definitely not something you can depend on in compute shader land (in some cases you can get some of it, for example with resizable BAR, but it depends).

In researching this answer, I came across a really interesting thread[1] on diagnosing performance problems with USM in SYCL (running on AMD HIP in this case). It's a good tour of why this is hard, and why for the vast majority of users it's far better to just use CUDA and not have to deal with any of this bullshit - things pretty much just work.

When targeting compute shaders, you pretty much have to manage buffers manually, and also do copying between host and device memory explicitly (when needed - on hardware such as Apple Silicon, you prefer to not copy). I personally don't have a problem with this, as I like things being explicit, but it is definitely one of the ergonomic advantages of modern CUDA, and one of the reasons why fully automated conversion to other runtimes is not going to work well.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76700305/4000-performanc...
GE Demonstrates Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet with Rotating Detonation Combustion
Windows still uses WINS and NetBIOS when DNS is unavailable.
I reached out to my co-founder but haven't heard anything from him.

I also asked around and heard through the grapevine that the startup was sold for less than liquidation preference. But I don't know how reliable this is.

I suppose my main hesitation in hiring a lawyer is that it would cost me a bunch of money, only to find out that the startup was sold for less than liquidation preference. If I did get a lawyer to send a "strongly worded letter", would the company be required to provide details about the acquisition? Given that my co-founder is not being cooperative, I suspect he wouldn't share anything that he isn't legally required to
I think it’s political. It’s untenable to tell the public that it will work for “15 years with a 95% confidence interval” and have it fail after 14 years. There would be congressional hearings.

But you must give a number, so sandbagging makes sense.

It’s the same thing with telling your wife when you’ll be home…if you say 7pm and it’s 7:05, you’re late and dinner is cold. But if you say 8:30 and it’s 7:05, you’re a hero.

Today, Voyager 1 leaves a hero.
Hey! I love this, thanks for making it. One suggestion: the editor color scheme is very hard for me to read. There's not a lot of contrast between the light, pastel colors and the white background.

Personally, I would really appreciate either a) a way to change the theme, or b) a more accessible default theme.

I'm a bit late to the party, but thanks!
> Though you'll have to enlighten me what exactly it is they are stealing from Apple since Apple doesn't charge money for iMessage for there to be any theft or loss of revenue for them. Unless your definition of theft is "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR?!"

Apple doesn't charge money for iMessage in much the same way Microsoft doesn't charge money for MS Paint. iMessage is included as part of an Apple hardware purchase. Running a messaging system that likely handles billions of messages—with photo and video attachments—every day is not free. Apple's device sales subsidize the cost Apple pays to run this system.

Beeper using this system by exploiting a technical loophole is theft in a much more direct way than pirating a copy of an audio track is, I think.
I discontinued using Apple products primarily due to their ecosystem-centric design philosophy. Many features appear tailored exclusively for users fully committed to Apple's ecosystem. While it's common for platforms to have exclusive features, Apple's approach feels more pronounced. In contrast, Google, for instance, offers Android-specific features, yet their services function well across various platforms, including mobile and desktop, and this compatibility extends to Apple devices as well.
Yep, I am following them already. Cheers! :)
Congrats on leaving!
The thing I always most respected about Mitchell was that he was actually often coding. So many "leaders" these days, are all talk and no action or skill. Maybe they had some git commits once upon a time, but I always felt like Mitchell was always coding throughout.
Too bad what happened with the licensing stuff at the company though.
Oh weird haha idk why that link doesn't show the later scores but the Model Y and Model S both score 98/100 in Safety Assist:

* https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/tesla/model+y/46618

* https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/tesla/model+s/47760

which is by far the highest out of all models tested.
Not really. Very large improbabilities require a lot more time than what the universe has been around for.
Firefox Nightly, although LibreWolf is looking really nice.
I think it's not so much a question of deliberate overspeccing, but more that each of these missions is its own prototype. You're asked to design something to do a small part of the task, but you won't get a chance to try again if it goes wrong. You really really don't want your part to be the reason the mission fails. And you don't get to test your part in the real deployment environment and find out everything you need to know before your design the production part. So you have to design for every eventuality you can foresee, and then add some margin for the events you cannot foresee. So even if the spec is exactly right, to ensure you satisfy the spec first time with the uncertainties of the production environment, you end up producing a part that has as much margin for error as you can get away with in the mass and financial budget. Everyone involved does the same thing, because no-one really knows what the production environment will be like, and no-one wants to be the reason the mission fails. And so you end up with a spacecraft that is as overengineered as possible given the budget, even if it isn't specced that way.
Check out your local community college! I'm in my 30s and taking a physics I-III class series, just as a fun exploration/challenge. I found the social aspect of going to school more engaging than self-teaching, since I work from home all day.
https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/Clients/Mast/Portal.htm...