skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fulton County Election Board Member Testifies ‘No Signature Verification Was Done in 2020’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fulton-county-electi...
I’ve found it empowering to say “this is fascinating to me, and I would enjoy spending significant time diving into it, but I choose not to prioritize that right now.”

This works much better for me than simply griping that “I don’t have time to X”. It acknowledges that I COULD make time for X, but it isn’t worth the current cost.
This is correct, I don't know why I said South Africa.
Show HN: DiscoGrad – Automatically differentiate across branches in C++ programs
We just pushed a new-and-improved version of DiscoGrad, a tool to do automatic differentiation across C++ programs with parameter-dependent control flow ("if (f(x) < c) { ... }") and randomness. This is needed to accelerate solving various optimization problems involving simulations, where plain autodiff is often useless.

In essence, DiscoGrad applies an (LLVM-based) source-to-source transformation to your C++ program that adds some calls to our header library, which then handles the gradient calculation. The main difference to similar tools/estimators is that it's fully automatic (no need to come up with a differentiable problem formulation/reparametrization) and that the branch condition can be any function of the program inputs (no need to know upfront what distribution the condition follows).

We're currently a team of two working on DiscoGrad as part of a research project, so don't expect production-grade code quality, but we do intend for it to be more than a throwaway research prototype. Use cases we've successfully tested include calibrating simulation models of epidemics or evacuation scenarios via gradient descent, and combining simulations with neural networks.

We hope you find this interesting/useful and are happy to answer questions!
Is Automattic big enough to achieve that? You'd think they would be making a pretty penny from Wordpress.com and Tumblr, but these days you wouldn't pick either one over the competition (Wix, Squarespace Threads, IG etc).
If you bought the game for the multiplayer then it does not in fact work fine.
Fwiw this is how I use Loki most of the time. Pick an app label, pick a time period, look at raw logs. The LogQL for this ends up something like `{app="workload-foo"}`. Loki is excellent at that.

Then if I know which pod I'll filter down to a specific pod with `{pod="workload-foo-1234"}`, sometimes I'll search for a specific term (error message etc) with `{pod="workload-foo-1234"} |= "error message"` then look at the logs around that. There's really no point writing complicated queries unless you need to.
Fairphone Fairbuds launch with replaceable batteries, titanium drivers and ANC
japanese metro trains with crazy high ridership numbers still have fabric seats (the yamanote line in Tokyo for sure), with swift and certain enforcement of existing rules, the US could have nice things again too
I wonder how texts.com and the matrix apps will work together.

I’ve dug deep into both products —- texts.com basically is browser in browser app that pulls in messages from your logged in session, while matrix you have to deploy bridges that pulls messages and sync to a db in the cloud, and app then syncs to that.

Matrix was a bit pain in the ass to work with, and texts.com was more straight forward
API Dash – A Postman Alternative
Because of this, do you believe anger should always be suppressed, and never expressed or engaged with?
You think every parent who buys a console for their 8 years kid watches whoever Scott the Woz is?
I feel the opposite though for lots of internal communication. I often see so much time that (to me) feels wasted when employees do tons of "polish" for slide decks for internal teams. Like you're just communicating to other employees, the goal is just to get the information across, not make it a work of art.

With a video I can quickly just say what needs to be communicated, but then with some highlighted bullets (which I'm assuming Vids will make it easy to timestamp) to make it easier to reference.

Again, I think it really depends on the audience and purpose, but if used efficiently I think lots of time wasted on slide deck prep could be regained.
US Army – new policy to drive adoption of agile software development practices
My impression, corroborated by https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/l4.html , is that HURD looked at L4 but never actually jumped from mach.
Tiger: Neuralink for Your AI Agents
Don’t let having to tap “x” a single time ruin your day. You’re missing out on a lot of good stuff.
Whatever this is, it is not objective journalism.

"It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens. You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.

"What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media."

EDIT: NPR is presenting to us information, masquerading as objective journalism, that is not. There is a certain amount of groupthink that maintains this functional fascade.
Nintendo clearly stopped caring about the Wii U other than as a source of free money from the eshop as soon as the switch released. They did do some stuff with the 3DS for a bit after the switch launched but not a ton of
Yes. Why not? Would you be confused about what someone meant if they said that statement?

My critique of your original post is that you're treating English like it's a computer language where words mean very specific things. But the reality is that English is a cobbled-together bunch of words with imprecise meanings that arise from common usage. Let me reiterate: usage determines meaning, not the other way around.

You're approaching this conversation with your own preconceived notions about what the words mean and trying to force your preconceived notions onto everyone else instead of trying to understand what the other person means. It's a rude way to treat people trying to communicate with you.

I mean, it's clear that you understand the idea because you're coming up with examples that show that you understand it. Communication was successful. There's no problem with the communication. The problem is that you decided, after communication was successful, to force your preferred usage of the words on other people.

This is an extremely common interpersonal mistake that technical people make because unlike English, computer languages have very specific, objective meanings. But expecting that same objective specificity from humans speaking English isn't realistic, kind, or polite. It's one of the main reasons technical people are widely perceived as socially inept. Behaving like this hurts our careers, friendships, and romantic relationships. Doing this on HN is just a minor annoyance to everyone else, but if you do this in your life as a whole, the person you're harming most is yourself, because you're making it a pain in the ass to communicate with you.

I'm asking you to be a better reader and listener.

And look, maybe you can get skybrian or me to change the way we communicate to suit your preferences, but why? Nothing is gained. And if you spend your life trying to force people to communicate a certain way instead of trying to understand people, it's just going to be an endless war, where the only meaningful result you'll achieve is that it's harder for people to communicate with you. Is that what you want for yourself?

If you'd approached this from the perspective of "hey I think people would understand you better if you said it this other way", that would be fine. I think it's great to improve communication, and it's both up to speaker/writer and listener/reader to meet in the middle: both sides of this interaction can improve. But that's a pretty big difference between coming at someone like "you're wrong".
Since the article opens with discussion of RTSs in the (late) 90s, I feel it would be a crime to not include Dune 2[0], largely considered to be the first "modern" RTS.

Edit: Dune2 came out in 1992, so it's understandable that it's not mentioned, I meant more in the broader discussion of RTSs.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_II
Theoretically speaking, it's broadly the same money taken from broadly the same people.

If society decides to take $6/year from every citizen to fund Rural Digital Access, it doesn't matter if they do it by raising broadband prices by 50 cents per month, or by raising income tax rates by 0.01%. They both mean the same thing: You, the average citizen, handing over $6 per year.

The only differences are sleight of hand, where politicians "haven't raised taxes" and yet have more of your money at their disposal; and whether it's applied progressively, so the rich pay a bigger share.
When I formed these opinions I was working on Materialize, which is basically the polar opposite of "simple and non-distributed". However it was still quite common that I knew exactly which process was doing something weird and unexpected.
I loved this feature but the game crashes if you use it with >2 monitors :(
And also to express them to others. This is where I think it gets tricky, or has for me. I built an app for micro-journaling how I felt and I got really good at answering "How do I feel?" "What's happening?" And yet when I say these things to others, it can cause huge conflicts because they don't want us to talk about how we feel and I do. A suppression vs expression fight and it seems to happen with almost everyone I meet.

So for me, I feel confident to process and accept them by myself, it's when I communicate them with others it can bring lots of conflict, and yet, if I only express them to myself and not to others, they don't often achieve their function of communication, which I think may be one of the core functions of emotions.
Studies show that Claude AI's OpenDyslexic Font has no Effect
The world is nothing but edge cases. Expressing anger requires cooperation. If someone doesn’t want to listen, and you express anger at them anyway, is it not abuse?
No mention of inductive switches, that's odd! Typing this on my topre keyboard :P
Good for both products, Beeper and Texts, but seems like there will be layoffs coming
> people will create videos, people will stop attending meeting because "I'll just watch the video offline"

This is why I have a strong “no recordings” rule for any meeting that benefits from back-and-forth conversation. Especially if it’s a knowledge sharing opportunity like an internal tech talk, brown bag discussion, or similar.

Nothing sucks more than presenting a talk to 3 blank squares, getting no questions, and having 30 people ask for a recording. No.
You mean cheap for the user, right?

In that case, I beg to differ, it is not cheap. When we are talking about highly addictive platforms, this is a zero-sum game (in which every second spent benefits the platform and only the platform in detriment of the user's own health).
Google. See https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2023-e... and below.
The Open Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration Project
Nice, I needed to do this task recently for large CSVs (15gb) and didn’t come across this tool.

Under the hood it manipulates the CSV using pandas data frames, then finally dumps the data frame into sqlite using `dataframe.to_sql(sqlite_conn)`. I wonder how fast this is, if it has to take each row from the data frame through Python it can’t be that quick but maybe there’s something smart happening under the hood that can punch a native-to-native pathway through the Python abstractions.

I ended up writing my own in Golang since the ones I found in C and other languages didn’t use threads or did too much memory copying.
Adobe Stock is selling shitty Midjourney photos for $70
That's fine then just don't blame Airbus for doing it even worse since you've already established the manufacturer isn't responsible. That's the original context.
> username has to be part of SSH URLs

No? Usernames are optional in SSH URLs.
Is it possible for you to think objectively when you're feeling sad? Or afraid? Or tired? Or horny? Or in love?
Sure, for that semantics of "inside" that is used in "inside job".
German car companies all have partnerships with local Chinese auto companies for their factories in China. Tarifs in Europe would mean a tit-for-tat for German cars in China ruining them. That's why they don't want tariffs, to protect themselves from retaliation..

What German companies will probably do in Europe is import Chinese EV designs from their partners, and rebadge them locally the same way Renault does with the Dacia Spring.
Beeper is now available, no waitlist – Beeper Blog
It absolutely does. I'll translate the relevant parts of the brazilian constitution for you:

> The expression of thought is free

> The expression of intellectual, artistic, scientific and communication activities are free, independently of censure or license

> The manifestation of thought, of creation, of expression and of information, in any form and by any process or vehicle, shall suffer no restriction

> Any and all censorship of political, ideological and artistic nature is prohibited

The problem is these judges.
> The Consumer Product Safety Commission says that when a person is hospitalized, the societal cost per table saw injury exceeds $500,000 when you also factor in loss of income and pain and suffering.

Seems fishy[0][1], so I checked the study:

> Overall, medical costs and work losses account for about 30 percent of these costs, or about $1.2 billion. The intangible costs associated with pain and suffering account for the remaining 70 percent of injury costs.

So the actual cost of each injury which results in hospitalization is (allegedly) $150,000, and they only get to the $500,000 figure by adding $350,000 in intangible "costs" tacked on. Totally legit.

> Because of the substantial societal costs attributable to blade-contact injuries, and the expected high rate of effectiveness of the proposed requirement in preventing blade-contact injuries, the estimated net benefits (i.e. benefits minus costs) for the market as a whole averaged $1,500 to $4,000 per saw.

There is no cost to the regulation, but rather a "net benefit", because the cost (in real dollars) of the saw-stop devices is more than offset by the savings (in intangible pain-and-suffering-dollars)! Based on this obviously, intentionally misleading "math", they include this canard in the summary:

> The Commission estimates that the proposed rule's aggregate net benefits on an annual basis could range from about $625 million to about $2,300 million.

Did you catch that? They didn't include so much as a hint that these dollar savings are, in fact, not dollars, but pain in suffering, measured in dollars!

In this life, only three things are certain: death, taxes, and being lied to by the United States federal government.

[0] https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb261-Most-Expen...
[1] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Day-Laborer-Salary
Wait, this is a surprise that China steals technology??
Google published PUE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness) numbers a while ago, I haven’t seen anything that specific from Amazon.

It’s difficult to quantify emissions because the power generation is mixed and changes based on demand. Water consumption should also be a factor, but there’s even less data available for that.
Hi folks - I'm also a co-founder here. Excited to hear folks' suggestions and feedback.

Feel free to message me on Twitter if you want to chat more about this: https://twitter.com/bengusberg
Supreme Commander is a great start

Personally, I'd also recommend Homeworld and the Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War series

On the free-and-open-source front there is Zero-K (which I don't care for) and Beyond All Reason, both of these are Spring Engine games, and Spring Engine started out as a 'modernization' of Total Annihilation. Most games built with it don't fall too far from the original

Homeworld 3 comes out in May, I can't wait :D :D :D

ps- I'd be remiss to omit Command & Conquer... Red Alert 2 and Generals are my favorites. I don't care for Starcraft but that series is worth mentioning too.
I get confused by the way people use the word "forgiveness".

For me, forgiveness can only occur when I understand someone's point of view and determine that there was information I wasn't aware of or they made a mistake and what they did isn't really who they are.

But when I read about forgiveness it seems like people also use the term to refer to a process of gaslighting yourself and/or making up a fake story to detach yourself from reality.

Frankly, I see a lot of therapy this way. Some people go through terrible things, and some people's lives suck, but a lot of therapy sounds like brainwashing yourself to deal with it.
Continue.dev allows for this. You can even mix hosted Chat options like GPT-4 (via API) with local completion. I typically use a smaller model for faster text completion and a larger model (with a bigger context) for chat.

https://github.com/continuedev/continue
and how you quantify enough hell in their heads which will never change for sure and for forever?
Tool Use/Function Calling for Groq API
> Funerals exist for the survivors, and for the sake of society.

Exactly. Every living person in Amsterdam knows that somebody will be there at their funeral.
Hi, I'm the author of almost all of those VTE performance improvements. I wrote them because the latency in gnome-terminal, which I've used for well over twenty years, was starting to make me miss-type due to how slow the feedback was on Wayland.

Simple as that.
> Beeper thought it was good idea to piss off Apple…

Publicity stunt to raise their visibility in hopes of acquisition. Today’s news shows it worked.
It's odd to me that they wanted to make a whole new "app" for this, rather than building in some sort of timeline into slides. Powerpoint supports automatically transitioning slides and auto playing video, so with some fancy magic in the export where they slice the video for each slide, you could even do everything in a "compatible" way. Slides would of course be able to keep the video on top of the slides + transitions, playing at all times.

Though to be fair, this could just be slides' codebase, with some extra UI changes on top of it. Just feels like an odd way to brand it though, especially with the market penetration + built up institutional knowledge of slides' UI.
>Anyway, I think it's important that nobody is left to their final resting place without witnesses, and I also find avoiding that is a good way to engage with your community...

Funerals, like life, are for the living. The dead don't care -- they're dead.

This seems like a ghoulish way to make oneself feel more compassionate and caring, and does absolutely nothing for the deceased. As I said, they're dead -- they don't care.

That said, if using a dead person as as a prop to make you feel better about yourself, go for it. The dead person doesn't care -- they're dead. But pretending that it somehow makes a difference to the dead person is rather silly -- they're dead, they don't care.

Edit: Fixed prose.
Good thing this idea isn't mutually exclusive with helping people before they die.

Edit: Curious at the downvoters, do you think this is mutually exclusive or something? What am I missing?
Angular Signals: Best Practices
Used to use mint.com, have been looking for a decade for an alternative. But throwing in the AI-gen photos makes me rly distrustful of this type of service, esp one that requires you to link bank accounts.

Can you have me link a test bank account first?
Welcome to our incredible journey: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Check out Vector for shipping logs from Docker. It might work out for you https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/dock...

I use Podman for all of my container stuff and there are issues with how Podman produces JSON logs

https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/issues/6807
https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/16317

which needs to get fixed before I can use it for my workloads.
The very fact that you believe that anger leads to verbal and physical fights proves OP’s point. When anger can be let out without the culture at large thinking of it as a threat that needs to be neutralized, and instead a charge that needs to be addressed, anger isn’t harmful, it’s constructive and instrumental.

Anger normally points out a boundary that’s being breached in which valuable things to a self - like autonomy, comfort, connection - are compromised. That we have so many angry people and that our culture encourages anger management rather than anger processing points to its rejection writ large
Searchcode – search 75B lines of code from 40M projects
Apparently they moved out of Github, https://github.com/AmbiML/we-moved
HashiCorp versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly
Disabling JavaScript helps with that (sometimes they don't show the full article if JS is disabled though).
Does anyone know how the texts.com iMessage integration works?

EDIT - It’s macOS only. Nothing new to see here, I’m afraid.
Checkout tabby: https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby

Blog post on repository context: https://tabby.tabbyml.com/blog/2023/10/16/repository-context...

(Disclaimer: I started this project)
> internet latency seems to be just barely sufficient

What? I played Quake 1-3, TFC over 56k with 300ms latency, on a CPU at least 20x slower than modern CPUs. Tribes 2 with 63 other players. Arguably more fun than the prescriptive matchmaking in games these days.

Games are a product of their environment. You don't let a pesky think like lag stop people having fun.
This will just make gaps between sectors bigger, lowering capacity given standard bitrate and rotation speed.

The point of zone bit recording (ZBR) / zoned constant linear velocity (ZCLV) is to pack mode data on the outside (longer) cylinders. Doing some back of napkin calculations the most Outer track has circumference of ~27 cm while inner is ~18cm long. Outer track should be able to fit 1.5 x magnetic flips while staying in spec.

If you want even more data you go GCR all the way to RLL encoding. Fantastic dev blog documenting implementation of 3.5 Inch HD (2.7)RLL Floppy Controller for use in MEGA65 project: https://c65gs.blogspot.com/2022/01/more-work-on-hd-floppies-...
Over 3MB out of standard 1.44MB drive/floppy by combining both zone recording and RLL.
Google Trends for "Eyes Hurt" – Total Eclipse
Yeah, I know, it sucks
Barbados is working on something similar "Reclaiming Our Atlantic Destiny (ROAD) Project" ... "it includes a massive digitization project, the creation of a memorial to enslaved people by Adjaye Associates, and the planning for a new heritage district to incorporate a museum and archives, performing arts venues, and associated amenities". Not working with the Internet Archive, at least as far as I know.

https://www.maxwellanderson.com/artscoping/2021/12/11/episod...
It's even less impressive than that. That we can parse a subset of C. That's all there is to see here.
This is not the point of meetings though. Meetings are for Aligning Stakeholders or Collaborating Across Teams at least in my world. Do you regularly attend meetings to be an audience member?
Thanks for posting this. Could you please post the non-paywalled link as _the_ link in the future?
"As it nears / Its goal of longing in the realms above / The pilgrim spirit sees a vision"

Dante 'borrowed' heavily from mystic traditions, sometimes without fully understanding the material. This much is clear given his sectarian tendencies in the choices of his assignments in his work, that his vision, in fact, was incomplete and partly in error. Regrettably his occluded vision deeply impressed itself upon the Western soul with the consequences that we see today: a rather 'mixed' record ..