skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flaw is actually in the use of first past the post voting, which causes more powerful political parties, because the math induces a two party system.

Use score voting or approval voting and you'll have more parties that each have less power.
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"The company's spokesperson emphasized that the high volatility associated with cryptocurrencies does not align with Vanguard's investment philosophy, which prioritizes long-term returns over speculative bets."

Seems pretty reasonable to me. Bitcoin is the antithesis of Vanguard's investment philosophy. I don't blame them wanting to be "tainted" by it.
You can hear Shahed 136s pretty clearly, and they still do a lot of damage.

I know from experience.
Hacker news is not a court of law, and I don't think it's fair to make up an arbitrary rule from outside hacker news and then try to apply it here.

Try to meet other people in the middle?
Surprised to see such heavy reliance on shell history. I view shell history as a liability. Too much chance of capturing passwords or other secrets and shell history files are the first place an intruder will look for those.

My shell history has a limit of 25 commands and is not saved after logout. I very rarely find that to be too short. In almost every case, if I want to repeat a command it's either the previous one or no more than a few prior than that.

Anything I need to do repeatedly I put in an alias or script or function.
2nd this haha, firebase wasnt always a google product...they ended up buying them out because it was a truly innovative framework (at the time). How they've maintained the product since is debatable but the tech is solid.

I've used firebase for many apps - albeit not enterprise level - and they have been very performant and efficient. No issues tbh. But ive never paid for firebase so i cannot speak to the paid teir.

All it is under the hood is websockets, no sql db, oauth, and html/js. Yes you COULD write those integrations yourself, but doing it for many apps or for POCs would be tedious and difficult to maintain.
firebase was a great playground to go from idea to code to prod quickly.

Is it the best cloud solution for enterprise production or multi tenant saas platforms... Probably not lol
Yeah, I realize, and I am looking forward to having multiple options to choose from that all have the same license compatibility. It's nice that there's a short-term solution that's available for people who need to ship things soon, and it's nice that there's a longstanding library (ring) that'll long-term will be capable of providing a compatible solution as well.
I mean, why not go full bore and do the Singaporean system? An effective dictatorship? It's a great example of a stable, healthy system (until it isn't).
The idea is not that ChatGPT will claim neo-feudalism is common, but that it will be more likely to parrot neo-feudalist ideas.
Spot on! Lot of voice assistants have been following "if we could" line instead of "if we should line". For many straightforward applications, clicking through well defined interface can be the least error prone way to get the job done.
How does the user experience compare right now between arch Linux and fedora on silicon Macs? Do these new changes benefit both?
I think I'll order the "double chin reduction bandage" https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Innovative-Facial-Bandage...
So if you buy stolen goods from someone who bought the stolen goods from the thief, and you knew the goods were stolen, you are doing nothing unethical. That’s all you’re saying, which is a position you can have, but it is a sad one. And you are, in fact, contributing to bad acts. The initial buyer may not have bought the investment if they knew there wasn’t a rube down the line that would take it off their hands.
Yes, Post Office Ltd is a private company. It was privatized at the turn of the 21st century, and there are odd holdovers from the four centuries of it being a royal monopoly with sweeping powers, more on which at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969076.
It's called midlibrary, not "midilibrary" fortunately or that would be very confusing.
That's true to an extent, but you're viewing it in too black and white a way.

A system with checks and balances can be subverted, but it's still better than a system without them.
I think the article is more about professional mathematicians communicating among themselves, not teaching in a classroom.
“They’re going to keep the chickens in horrific conditions whether I buy the chickens or not, so I may as well buy them, becuase ‘yum!’ Chickens.”

Your vote may be paltry, but it’s still your vote. Use it wisely. It matters.
I think using text to interface with computers is a genius idea and if it didn't exist someone would have ro invent it. But the way text interfaces on computers look nowadays are mostly shaped the way they are for historical reasons.

It doesn't need much. First the text should be editable like other text on the OS, the cursor needs to be reactive ro mouse input. Second expected shortcuts should work, that means things like Ctrl+A to select all, Home to go to start of line, Ctrl+C for copy, Escape to cancel things, etc.

I know there are reasons to everything and I am used to terminal shortcuts as well, but there is literally no reasons why we can't ensure they are the same there as everywhere else.

Next thing would be the startup experience. If you start a terminal the first time, it should offer you some introduction. Sure, a seasoned user like me would be annoyed by that, but if you make it so it can be ignored by the likes of us or people that set the right environment variable, cool.

Lastly, maybe it also a bit about the colors and fonts. I like bright on dark, but I can see how people who see this for the first time get flashbackanof every hacker scene they ever saw in any movie. And the subtext there always was: "You only understand this if you sacrifice all your social life". Imagine how a terminal would look like if it was made for kids and how that would make people judge their own ability to get this instead.

I think a lot of the reason why terminals still look the way the do (apart from the fact it just works), is gatekeeping. Some nerds like that this is arcane, secret knowledge that looks as if it is hard to aquire. They don't like others to understand unless those others are also nerds.
This is sweet. I'm learning RoR now and am curious how this is deployed. Is it a webapp?
Well if they weigh under 40kg and live less than 8km from school and have really good grip strength yes.
(Archive links are welcome in the comments but it's best if the top level URL shows the original site.)
It's remarkable the contortions I see to avoid blaming Amazon for anything. Surely we can't blame them for obvious scams on their platform. After all, they cater to humans.
But they do spend time complaining about it and pushing code designed only to insult potential readers.

I went looking through threads looking for misbehavior and what I found was instances with hundreds of comments and 2 flagged people being assholes. This is on the overall damn fine work for a public forum.
Passthrough also is pretty poor quality, enough to navigate a room but too blurry to read text and the cameras don't handle phone screens that well. Definitely usable but you'll notice you're still wearing a headset.
Fun to see that you can just write a script to make the proxy component of the tool rewrite traffic flowing through it on-the-fly.
The whole thing is basically parasitic in nature, and would de without and banking system behind it. The value is hiding money, the motivation is mostly committing crime, fraud, etc. The majority is owned by conservative people willing to send us back into feudalism.

Censorship seems to be a property of any system, see the US. To this day, they are so stupid they censor nipples.
It sounds like your setup works for you.

In other cases a room can't keep it's temperature stable and might need the blinds open or closed to help regulate the temperature.
To be fair, they have to deal with a lot of returns fraud.
As a white water kayaker i believe we’ve killed a lot of rivers with our construction in and around them, especially in the European Alps

Obviously I’m biased to say this as these constructions also prevent me doing my favorite sport in many places
> Received wisdom from KVR Audio (and in fact, most online forums) is worth less than the distance than a flea could throw it.

Depends on the forum, I guess. Lately I've been following the developer subforum of KVR, where folks talk about filter and oscillator algorithms using math I'll never understand. Discussions there seem well-reasoned and entirely civil. I haven't really seen them talk about performance optimizations, though. And I can't say anything about the rest of KVR.
Your comment appears to be sick fanfic. I don't know how you could possibly think this.

How about some links?
They are still smart to the extent you can schedule things to play on it at certain time from another device.

I didn't really value voice control until I had young kids.
For many artists this is not about "getting a payday" and is instead about "not being replaced by AI". So the outcome you describe would probably sound great to those artists.
It’s an interesting example of a new technology that is inferior to the old one because the old one is superior in important ways (speed, ease of manipulation, and established toolsets).
It is all about where to put your if then else statement.
To speak to this directly in a scientific setting I find one of the most beneficial thing I can do when exploring a new domain is to NOT read works first. But instead to first ponder how I would go about solving the problem, maybe do some naive attempts, and THEN read. An iterative cycle of this becomes successful because of a few typical outcomes: you spend more time but generally come away with a deep understanding of motivation and why the field has moved in the direction that it now exists in (which helps you understand where to go next!) and/or in this process you find assumptions made to simplify a problem but has been forgotten and can be readdressed (at worse you have a deeper appreciation for the naive assumption). I do think this process is slower, but I find it frequently results in deeper understanding. It is (for me) faster if your intent is to understand, but slower if your intent is to do things quickly. I find that with the typical method of review to catchup without the struggling generally results in me not having a good understanding of many of the underlying assumptions or nuance at play (I think this is a common outcome, beyond my own experience). YMMV and it may vary dependent on your goals with a specific area and cross-domain knowledge. But I find great pleasure in it because it causes me to consider many things beautiful and genius where I would have otherwise saw them as obvious and and mundane. That alone is enough for me because research is a grueling task with endless and frequent failure but this helps keep me motivated and keeps things "fun" (in the way I think Feynman was describing). It's not dissimilar from doing your homework, checking someone else's work/a solution manual, and then trying to figure out where your mistakes are rather than simply correcting them. Similarly, time constraints are a pain so such a process isn't always possible and certainly not as often as I'd like.
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I don't see how things like real time lighting will be solved by this. That is one of the most important aspects of 3D rendering.
Surprised it actually still needs a pilot, although they do mention it can save previously flown routes, not sure how much that automates flying the same route over and over again?
You've made this same comment in multiple threads, genuinely curious why you feel so strongly about this. I can only imagine you're relatively new to the working world or have never been in a layoff situation.

Her reaction is perfectly normal and as a manager or HR rep you're basically there to be yelled at on behalf of the company, as the company is not actually a person and it's not satisfying to yell at the abstract concept of Cloudflare that just fired you.

Scheduling a followup call feels like an incredibly low-EQ move
How can a beacon service that can detect whether other iPhones in your general area are in your contacts be totally private secure and totally anonymous and to anyone let alone the local government's intelligence service?

Have you ever used airdrop? I don't understand why anyone would expect a high degree of privacy from this application.

I think it demonstrates how when you are a large enough entity you get totally blamed for everything no matter what. Make it totally anonymous to send to everyone and you get blamed for creepers sending anonymous dick pics. Don't make it anonymous and you get blamed for the government spying on users en masse because they can track you within bluetooth radius.
If we’re nitpicking the gunplay (which I am perfectly okay with doing), how about adding in the fact that reloading with one in the chamber doesn’t give you a +1 round either? It’s like the concept of a chamber is completely ignored.
It would be epic if the DDoS was from a swarm of KnightOS infected calculators. Even more if they were able to do it because Drew made a workable network stack. lol
Cygwin switched to the LGPL back in 2016. That's very useful; it means there is a POSIX run-time on Windows that programs using a wide range of licensing schemes can use.

When I saw the announcement on the Cygwin mailing list, I immediately set off to make a fork of the main Cygwin DLL which brings Windows-like behaviors.

https://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/
There are obviously cases where CUIs work well: while driving if you don’t have a physical button to do the thing you want, the CUI is better than a screen UI, and if it’s a complex thing, you would never have a physical button for it anyways. In the home when you want to control devices in the morning “open all the shades” or “open the north shades”, unlock the door and start the car, etc…

Not really conversations though, more like accessible commands. I don’t think we get conversations until the tech improves and the latency goes way down, meaning on device processing of speech at the very least.
You should have read the more-on-which first. (-:
A significant portion of the training set for most image generation tools is stuff made in the last 10-20 years harvested from the internet, if not the last 5 years. We're not talking about 150 years of copyright protection here, we're talking about the time frames you suggest. Artists want to protect their own work and their livelihood, and AI is being trained on the work they're actively putting out right now. You would have to shorten copyright duration to something like 5 years to come remotely close to making modern image generation models possible without violating artist copyrights.

Text is different and much less difficult since its history as a medium is much longer - if you excluded the last 10-20 years of prose from your LLM it would probably still be very good at writing. But excluding the last 20 years of digital illustration and photography would be limiting yourself to a much lower-fidelity training set.
No I made it up. Let’s see when AI models pick it up and act like it’s been a thing all along.
It's woefully impractical for a laptop, specifically because it CAN'T be flexibly positioned where many people would want it. Plus, you'd have to lug an additional and cumbersome device around with you, occupy a USB port with it, and deal with a wire.

All of that makes the trackpad a much better option.
One way to solve the noise problem is a drone flying high and dropping the parcel on a long rope.
There’s not much. For a bit you could get some people to gift you an emulator for retail mode via a testing link. But that was cracked down on. Xbox is pretty locked down
The subpixels are entirely hidden on any display that isn't complete garbage. I just had a look at my phone screen through a good zoom microscope and I needed at least 8x magnification before I could start seeing hints of RGB color. At the same level of magnification, I can easily see individual grains of toner and strands of wood fiber on a printed page.

The "existing convention" is a legacy from the days when 72ppi was accepted as the "standard" display resolution. Anything with an acceptably high-resolution display can do whatever it likes with the subpixel arrangement and it won't make a bit of difference.
Idk, I’ve got an old house with chickenwire in the walls. Off the shelf mesh routers have made my life better.
The federal reserve raised interest rates to put people out of work and it was successful. Rising wages were a threat to corporate profitablity in the form of "inflation." The quality of workers has not dropped, but the quality of work products has, mainly due to cost cutting and short sightedness.
Does Amazon have no review/verification for what gets uploaded on their store?
Is forced-perspective AI even possible with LLMs? Seems like you'd hit the fundamental GIGO issue fairly quickly when planning the project.
A tank is basically a tractor with a gun attached :)
Strange - trying to legitimize provenance for an artform that explicitly defies provenance by being randomly and secretly distributed in public places.

Seems, I don't know, contrived? insincere? convoluted?

What does it say on a certificate? "This secretly created art by a secret person and given away with no paper trail, is the real thing by the real guy"? What does that even mean?
Yeah I cant even get into my firebase dashboard for that app, haha.
There is a winch mode, and it can counter swings, so a solid set of overalls should allow safe and effective payload delivery.
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Cluster stability is a good heuristic that should be more well-known:

For a given k:

for n=30 or 100 or 300 trials:
subsample 80% of the points
cluster them
compute Fowlkes-Mallow score (available in sklearn) of the subset to the original, restricting only to the instances in the subset (otherwise you can't compute it)
output the average f-m score

This essentially measure how "stable" the clusters are. The Fowlkes-Mallow score decreases when instances pop over to other clusters in the subset.

If you do this and plot the average score versus k, you'll see a sharp dropoff at some point. That's the maximal plausible k.

edit: Here's code

def stability(Z, k):
kmeans = KMeans(n_clusters=k, n_init="auto")
kmeans.fit(Z)
scores = []
for i in range(100):
# Randomly select 80% of the data, with replacement
# TODO: without
idx = np.random.choice(Z.shape[0], int(Z.shape[0]*0.8))
kmeans2 = KMeans(n_clusters=k, n_init="auto")
kmeans2.fit(Z[idx])

# Compare the two clusterings
score = fowlkes_mallows_score(kmeans.labels_[idx], kmeans2.labels_)
scores.append(score)
scores = np.array(scores)
return np.mean(scores), np.std(scores)
Given the SpaceX unrivaled space launch powers Elon can deploy a number of Rods of God and play God.
> I'm not talking about 20 year old pixel density here, but modern ultra-wide or UHD monitors

Because the monitor industry largely got to 4K and said "eh that'll do", a lot of those "ultrawide" and UHD displays with large sizes literally do have twenty year old DPI.

Increasing physical panel size (usually) used to translate to higher resolution, but at some point the majority of manufacturers stopped doing this, so you get the same 4K resolution at ever stretched physical sizes, and ever decreasing DPI.
It's not decades old. They just revamped it a couple of years ago. That makes it merely a years-long bug
Software engineer. I understand the burnout feeling. The repetitiveness is especially taxing for me.

One benefit of working at a school is the free classes
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Vanguard doesn’t allow leveraged or inverse ETFs either, this is in line with Vanguard’s investment philosophy.

For what it’s worth, my Roth IRA is a Vanguard account.
> You're blind to how many people love you. Also, they don't dare to say it given the culture you're in.

You don't need any drugs to realize this. You just need better reasons to get out more.
Thing is, making you write what you hear improves meomory and info retention and retrieval.

PDFs Are a nice tool for the big books where you need lots of texts, images and diagrams. The scribbles are more for helping to remember past lectures.

But when everything is a PDF, knowledge becomes too fleeting to even remember past the exams.
Alessandro presented revng at the 2016 llvm Bay area dev conf.

video https://youtu.be/5CbuU4KwBCE?si=eUN_UGr7cjat3P8U

slides https://www.llvm.org/devmtg/2016-11/Slides/DiFederico-rev.ng...
I have zero demand for a "virtual partner".
I tried it a few months ago and most of the articles it linked me to or suggested were paywalled, each with their own subscriptions. In Apple News, you pay one subscription and get all of them unlocked. It was a no-brainer which reader to use.
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Just curious, have you actually profiled this against running on a single large-memory machine?
Just wait until more jobs are outsourced to Canada - there won’t be any difference
IDA Pro Free version (5.x). I use it because I'm more familiar with it than Ghidra.
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This was a fantastic write-up!

Loops are hard and its even more amusing how optimistic CS2.exe runs when you supply the server to connect to.
I imagine this is how the jerk unit (rate at which acceleration changes) got made up
It's sad that the West doesn't at least set up a few new production lines for air defense rockets and help Ukraine eliminate the Russian drones (at least the big ones), missiles, helicopters and airplanes.
Post Office Ltd is not "the state". At least nominally. It was privatized at the turn of the 21st century. As I just said, one of the things that this has highlighted for people is that a private company has a normal practice of pursuing criminal prosecutions (for fraud in this case) privately, rather than via the Crown Prosecution Service which is normal practice for almost every other private company or organization when it comes to criminal matters.

More on which, again, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969076. And more on the expected consequences of this coming to widespread public attention, and another private organization that is a prolific private prosecutor, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969548.
I think it grossly mischaracterizes what copyright protects to describe is as "most of the knowledge, research and learning materials". Still I agree, that the extensions of copyright length and the behavior/incentives of publishers works against the original intent of copyright. Having said that, publishers only have control of copyright because authors give it to them. Copyright rests with the creator — the system where people are compelled to sign this over to publishers is a different (but of course related) problem. Scientists who are tired of the predatory behavior of publishers have other choices today. It's not clear what alternative you are proposing.
I see what you did there, and raise you an octave.
Maybe it is a real word from 2525?
Isn’t the embedding step much slower than clustering? How many documents are you dealing with?

For I news aggregator I worked on I disregarded k-means because you have to know the number of clusters in advance, and I think it will cluster every document, which is bad for the actual outliers in a dataset.

Agglomerative clustering yielded the best results for us. HDBSCAN was promising but doing weird things with some docs.