skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "By the 1880s, their numbers had plummeted from around 30 million to a mere 325"

I thought that must've been a typo upon first reading. Even 325,000 would be shocking. Amazing that the conservation efforts seem to have worked well.
> wait, is poettering literally deciding how the core of linux userland should work, while also working at microsoft as an employee?

Only if we let him. Viva la open source!
What would be the best manner to help a EU resident who works for a US co.?

Green card?
Visa?
Remote?

Any suggestions would be very helpful. Specifically regarding taxes of income.
You're right, it doesn't negate the question though.
Never mind those looming clouds or that biting breeze that just picked up, it's been sunny for a whole week -- it's sure to last forever this time! /s

Those last 50 years were a side effect from one of two global powers catastrophically collapsing. The tensions that drive modern history didn't dissolve when that happened, they were just tabled as numerous contending powers with their own visions of the world reorganized and regrouped. Maybe we can all diplomatically navigate our way past the worst outcomes along the way, but the next 50 years simply aren't going to look like the last 50.
> In making the decision, the college said it had been persuaded by research that found that standardized testing was a valuable tool to identify promising students in disadvantaged environments and struggling schools, especially when paired with other credentials.

Was this research not available when the universities decided to make the tests optional in the first place? The listed benefits of standardized testing should have been well-known. There seems to be a lack of reflection here about just what went wrong in the decision-making process.
Text of the bill: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB886/id/2832517
If think listening audio books is a significantly different experience than reading a book. The narrator’s voice always add interpretation to the text, no matter how neutral they try to be. A monotone voice change how you interpret a character shouting or distressed.

It might be a less intrusive interpretation of a written book than, e.g., a film adaptation. But it’s still very different from reading it.

Braille, I presume, it’s the same. Nothing interpreting the words except your own mind.
I don't think it's an issue for this application with a dryer because it's not cutting power to a running motor.

The problem with switching an inductive load using a small relay (like the ones in smart plugs) is that the magnetic field collapses in the motor as soon as the relay contacts open. This causes a very large flyback voltage to build across the contacts as the relay is still in the process of opening (mechanically driven by a spring) and so you get arcing which damages the contacts and results in carbon deposits (with higher resistance than clean metal).

In this application the smart plug is already switched on (contacts closed) when the dryer is started and the smart plug doesn't switch off while the dryer is running. Instead, the smart plug's only job is to monitor the power usage of the dryer and send a notification when it drops below 10W.
Jesus, that's insane! The rule of inheritance is no more than 3 levels deep. 3!!
I also have my reservations and in particular the lack of indexability is a big problem. However, a red flag is an overstatement. You have to pick your battles.

Discord is an excellent place to collaborate. It’s easy to use for non-techies. The level of community is consistently high, better than old Reddit imo. Being realtime it’s conducive to ad hoc chatter.
We Just Got a Glimpse of What Will Happen When the Sun Dies
The original article [1], from 2019, briefly explains the concept:

> Building Internet-connected things seems obvious today, but what about when there’s no Internet?

> The concept often feels like something out of a science fiction movie or a doomsday prepper’s handbook- and while this device can work in both scenarios, it’s also about understanding resiliency for your projects and being a good steward of the systems in place today.

[1] https://www.doscher.com/work-recovery-kit/
It makes the presence of those libraries optional: you no longer need them to execute the relevant tool at all. It'll just mean you can't use features which depend on those libraries. For libraries that are only pulled in for less-commonly used features it makes a lot of sense (the specific case they are doing it for is generating the initrd, which needs a copy of any libraries used by anything running in the initrd, which is almost always going to include systemd, but the systemd in the initrd is very unlikely to use any of these optional features)
Harvard's New Programmable Liquid Shifts Its Properties on Demand
It’s almost always the driver’s fault for speeding or not paying attention – people say “they jumped in front of me” but almost any time the police look for camera footage or find witnesses, it turns out that the driver wasn’t paying attention.

The problem is that if someone is killed, they aren’t around to argue their side of the story and most cases simply aren’t investigated.
One of the Oldest Surviving Books Is for Sale
Hey Peter, appreciate the offer!

What advice would you give to a talented teenager who is looking to get to the U.S. under a B1/B2 visa for a short period (under 3 months) to engage as a volunteer in activities for a non-profit in the US (the organisation covers living expenses for the duration of their stay) and has failed a few times to get a visa approved? what would you advise them to do? Is the visa type incorrect?

For context the activities would be in the likes of content creation, helping organise events and perhaps open source software development.
My only reason for not using SearXNG is it seems like the complete opposite of what you want for a search engine replacement. The one shining point of using Kagi, Google, Bing or DDG is that only ONE search engine is getting my search query. With SearXNG you've now taken your search query and sent it all over the place which I don't personally believe is better. My goal is to get my searches OUT of other companies hands, not thrust it directly to all of them all the time.

Additionally, by running a private instance you have effectively given all these companies a spotlight onto YOU. Only your searches are going to come from that instance and these companies already have enough information they can figure out WHO is making that search pretty much right after you click through the first result.

Just from the available public instances you can quickly see that other search engines may block your requests for one reason or another but your server will be constantly retrying to query them from time to time. Last thing I want is to find my IP addresses on some sort of "naughty list" because I wasn't honoring some 403 error my server was getting every time I searched something.

There is nothing that says other search engines won't wise up and figure out how to stop searx from "abusing" their search functions so it almost feels like the only sure way to ensure search privacy is to run your own crawler, for better or worse.
But when he created his pattern, he found that he had three stones left over. Finally, it dawned upon him that the surplus came from counting the corners of the triangle twice.

[...]

Bochner welcomed the rediscovery of this "discrepancy" so many years after he had created the artwork. Yet he also wondered "about the unwillingness to assume that I already knew what they had just discovered (do mathematicians still think all artists are dumb?).

Apparently so, because he failed to understand that what was being commented on was not the absence of three stones (or wallnuts), but rather of significantly more.
> Whatever the amount of stolen money, currency theft on its own it will never rise to the objective moral and logical base-level required to apply the death penalty

If we take it as a given that people spend large parts of their lives, mostly forced (as in they would not work if they didn't have to), we can see money as being a direct representation of human life.

If someone stole X dollars, you could extrapolate it to entire lives that were stolen. How many suicides happen over money for this very reason?

Making a case for the death penalty given those priors is not hard, especially for stealing from the impoverished.
Is student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy?
>and would have preferred the less boring alternative

Work pays a wage and you're actually doing something objectively useful. That money can be used to make the time you're not at work much better.

School [for the people who don't need to be there] does not pay and you're doing nothing objectively useful; it's a time-suck that leaves you broke anyway.
> it works if you know the right trigger words and how it expects you to ask the question

I don't think we should discount this. There's something to be said for a product that works in a specific way, and if you use it in that way, it actually works. I don't need Siri to divine my hidden meaning regardless of how casually or ambiguously I phrase something... but I do want to know the phrase that works 100% of the time, and then I'll use that 100% of the time, and I'll be happy.

What I hate is how Siri fails at even that basic requirement a lot of the time. It's the worst for HomeKit scenes: "Set the scene 'In The Basement'" bounces between working and failing with an inscrutable error, release to release. Sometimes just saying "In the basement" works, other times it lists all the lights in the basement and asks me what it should do. I have a "Bed Time" scene that starts lullaby music in my kids' bedrooms, but sometimes Siri thinks "Bed Time" really means "Good Night", and turns off all of the lights in my house instead. Which is super great when my wife is in the kitchen trying to prepare things and suddenly the whole house goes dark.

For me, the biggest problem with Siri and other assistants is the opposite of what you describe: The product is sold as "natural language", which really means that it fuzzily matches what you're saying to its discrete list of features, and that fuzziness is only partially accurate, leading to broken use cases some non-zero percent of the time. LLM's are likely to be even worse here... maybe you've used a certain phrase every time you wanted it to do something, then some model update comes along and it decides to do something else with this phrase, and you'll have to constantly re-discover what works every time it updates.
Yes, Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels in Putty connection options.

Add a dynamic tunnel there.

Start the session.

Then enter 127.0.0.1 and the port you've chosen as a SOCKS v5 proxy in Firefox options.

Congratulations! Your poor man's VPN is ready :)
I've only recently had to touch any kind of JS framework in my almost 6 years working. I'm trained far closer to hardware and I love hacking on embedded devices.

I only got medicated as an adult because I'm just not designed to do the same thing day after day. I had a break at work where I was able to design basically a toy for some recruiting. Did the PCB design, firmware, handled manufacturing, designed 3d printed programming jigs, wrote the flashing scripts, etc. All in a span of about 3 months. I was born to prototype widgets and gadgets but society doesn't have a lot of use for that kind of interdisciplinary skillset.

Folks will say "join a startup" but I needed a month to recover from the burnout of that push, so I don't think it'd be healthy for me to go somewhere that expects that LOE year round.
Yeah in this case the company (PTT) paid a TON of money to Henson, so much that they eventually had to re-brand to Greenpoint (which mustn't have been cheap). Their logo was all green.

They were pretty bad at marketing in those days, they only got better in the 00's when they had moved from a state-owned telco to a private one. They had some hit adverts like one based on common spelling mistakes when texting on the old mobile phones in those days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuW6Q0NQmps (If you don't speak Dutch you won't get it though)
>you could have scraped together a few thousand dollars and gone to Germany

Perfect solution, US citizens should burden the German taxpayer to pay for their education, instead of their own country. /s
The systemd notification protocol has been stable and documented as such for years (probably even a decade at this point): https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/
Cheating. And I'm actually not a developer, so I had to look up how to open dev tools.
My head cannon is that Cristal exists only for money laundering.
Its probably more straightforward to introduce those genes into the plant directly
DuckDuckGo team member here - Personal Information Removal fully automates the process of opting out from data broker sites, all from your device. So you don't need to contact companies yourself. More about how that works at https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy-pro/per...
> Cascading does help. When you want to design a document. If you want an application like interface or the same constraints as a magazine page, cascading is the wrong tool for the job.

I agree. This sounds like saying cascading helps in simple cases but when it gets more complex it doesn't help.

I don't think anyone really has a big problem writing maintainable CSS for a document. It works fine there. Most CSS methodologies (like BEM) and frameworks (like Bootstrap, Tailwind) are there to help write maintainable CSS code for complex non-document web designs, where a big part of that is taming cascading.

I think a lot of pushback against approaches like Tailwind and JS frameworks are from people that are mostly styling documents. Complex landing pages and UIs are where the real headaches are.
I'm not convinced it's actually that complicated.

Google search has been bad for a long time. It's clear they serve their customers (advertisers) quite well, but as a user of their search, they're not particularly impressive.

The biggest problem is a problem of scale: being the biggest search provider means Google are targeted by SEO, so it's harder for Google to sift out the AI-generated garbage--Kagi just isn't involved in the arms race that Google is. But as a user that's not my problem; I'm not going to tolerate bad search results out of some sense of "fairness" to a corporation. And Kagi is delivering real user-centered features which are, frankly, obvious, i.e. Google should be embarrassed that they don't let you filter/prioritize domains or search within lenses like Kagi does.
Google kills "One" VPN service, says "people simply weren't using it"
Hey Peter, I'm a foreigner residing abroad with an american spouse of 10 years and we have kids holding American Passports. I'm currently working as a contractor for a company in the US, but I'm thinking of moving to the US and applying for the IR1 visa due to family reasons. I am the primary earner of the household.

What are my limitations in this case? Can I keep the contract I'm currently in while the visa process chugs along? What about proof of income?
I don't think Google is pretending. Its linking is legitimate. Also, it feels strange to draw an equivalence between Google downranking a spam website and the government charging to link to things.
"You are right, banning foreign equipment in your telecoms are the sign of authoritarian regimes"

That's distorted, wrong, and frankly a bit of whining
UNM scientists find blue light makes buildings more deadly to migrating birds
I don’t see any claims that they are unethical. “Losing faith” seems to be being used more like losing hope or something. People are worried that they are doing things that seem a bit wasteful because they don’t want them to fail.
The triangle is not right, its wrong.
Hytera sanctioned, can not engage in radio business in the USA [pdf]
“Exodus”, what a great name for this project. Very cool.
DDG is like that. If it can't find any more matches it seems to spam random results.

I tried Kagi and really enjoyed it but the pricing tier doesn't sit right with me, it's not that much better than DDG for my purposes. All these monthly subs start to add up. I'd be happier if there was a lifetime tier.
Ask HN: How do you decide who/what to vote for?
Over the past few election cycles (local, state, and national), I've generally had a difficult time gathering enough information to determine which political initiatives or representatives align with my notion of a high-functioning government.

Why is there no platform that contains the political history of candidates (what they voted for, recent remarks, etc.) and similar information for ballots? Does something like this exist that I'm simply not aware of?

So, how do you gather information to vote on candidates and ballot measures? Do you find a publication with similar political views as yours and vote for their recommendations? (e.g., https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/california-primary-election-endorsements/#us-senate-full-term-anchor)
This would have been not at all noteworthy had the Kagi CEO simply resisted the urge to reply and walked away. The blogger's first reply could be interpreted as antagonistic and he should have recognized that and chosen not to engage.

My advice for anyone who runs a company (or may): make an active effort to learn about (healthy) human interactions, as well as how to figuratively take one on the chin. Like much of life, you can't choose how you'll feel about circumstances you find yourself in, but you absolutely can consciously decide how you'll respond.
Comparing multiple large language models in one pass
This article explains how to remove the guesswork of comparing open source models for a particular task.
At least Adobe is asking for consent instead of scraping a bunch of questionably copyrighted things without the consent of their creators.

If you did that to Disney then you'd be in jail, but since it's the little guys getting fucked I guess it doesn't matter.
OTCWiki is the Wikipedia for stocks traded on the OTC exchange. OTCWiki is an online free content site aimed at facilitating the sharing of information and opinions about OTC stocks
It looks like you and your wife will have multiple green card paths available to you either through your wife or through you, such as the EB2 national interest waiver path or the EB1 extraordinary ability or outstanding researcher path. Shorter (non green card) paths include the O-1 for both of you and the H-1B for her, among others. The exact paths will require a discussion.
> political extremists on the left or on the right

One of these two groups actively courts such extremists while the other shuns them.
> This is a good step towards student loan reform

I'd argue quite the opposite. By "fixing" the problem with half measures like this ensures the problem will continue.
>Lots of things already `dlopen`, lots of things already obscure their true dependencies by doing so. This RFC only provides a new section for those things to declare their dependencies without making the OS responsible for loading them.

The OS should be responsible for opening dependencies. Otherwise you get an unaccountable mess. The ELF note shit is just giving users a false sense of security.

>Anyone is welcome to make contributions to Linux or the surrounding ecosystem.

Ha! This certainly isn't true. Even if it was, the source of "contributions" deserves scrutiny.
Work, really?
It is a bit expensive for what it is, and maybe predates the waning of IoT hype, but by far the best that I have come across in a single volume is "Handbook of Industry 4.0 and SMART Systems" (978-1032103433). It is readable by someone who is not involved in all aspects of manufacturing tech, but understands enough about more modern stuff, and importantly, what you would want things to look like.
The latest Ken Burns documenatary, "The American Buffalo" tells the story of the near-total extermination of the Bison, and by extension, the Native American Indian way of life, and includes many of these photos. I felt like it was a better presentation of the reality of the West in 3 hours than the 8-episode "The West" from the 1990s, which only spent a scant few minutes on the Bison. Highly recommended.
At my company, I feel just the opposite. Our frontend JS projects are lacking in enough unit, integration, and e2e that most of those devs are scared to touch any dependencies.

Where on our backends, we have such high code coverage, quality integration tests, the backend devs are never nervous about updating dependencies.

EDIT: I will also say, we are purely microservices so that does help in this regard.
Now that generative AI is here, there will be artists who will try to differentiate themselves from AI, and artists that will embrace it to explore new possibilities. It's not a matter of protecting artists, but of choosing what artists to protect, the first or second group? Should we ban photography as well, how about synthesizers, should home owners band new construction in their neighborhood to protect their investments?

In my opinion any attempt at restricting AI training is also restricting people who would use it to create new things. And it will backfire spectacularly, by scanning for derivative works in AI we automatically need to do the same for every work claimed to be created by a human, because we don't know who's using AI secretly.

And it will create a chilling effect, incidental similarity would be too high a risk to take. Even old works will be revealed, their secret influences laid bare for everyone to see. Excessive scrutiny could deter artists from experimenting with new forms of expression, possibly leading to a homogenized art world where innovation is curtailed.
You mean on some individual person's laptop when that person remembers to run it?
It would be nice if they stopped with the false color, and just scaled it to whatever color an astrounaut might see from that point of view.
> The arrival of horses, originally brought by the Spanish, revolutionized hunting techniques. By the early 1700s, horses had become integral to the nomadic hunting cultures of Indigenous groups.

...

> Attracted by previously unimagined hunting possibilities, Native Americans poured into the Plains from all directions, creating one of most renowned hunting cultures in history.

Does the author mean to imply that the plains were unihabited until the spanish introduction of horses?
it is interesting to think about, but this analysis leaves out too much useful work to draw any meaningful conclusions from. as you point out, raising and caring for children is important work that is mostly uncompensated. the quality of care is also important (doing a bad job at it can easily be a net negative contribution) and hard to measure.

there's also the issue that compensation doesn't actually track contributions to society very well. I build things at huge scale that are at least somewhat useful. I now make about 10x what I made heating up $2 slices of pizza, which seems about right. but I could get paid the same or possibly more to optimize ad clickthrough, which doesn't seem quite right. a lot of money gets spent on trying to win red queen races. I don't really fault the individuals involved for following the local incentive gradient, but they're essentially getting paid to break each other's windows and then fix them. there's no net value there.
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Harvard will require test scores for admission again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40003251 - April 2024 (177 comments)

Lots more at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40005939
I've seen that same problem sans a deep inheritance hierarchy.
What does ORPO stand for? Can't seem to find related links.
> glaring conflict of interest

Can you expand on that?
Let's not pretend that other car manufacturers didn't do the same exact thing. [1]

Volkswagen was a good scape goat out of which US law firms could pull huge sums. People in Europe didn't get such generous refunds as the people in the US did.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/gm-accused-cheating-d...