skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because America has three elections for President:

1. Republican primaries

2. Democratic primaries

3. General election

The drawn-out part is the primaries, part of which are parties trying to get their candidates in the news for a while. Once the parties officially pick a candidate — July this year for the Republicans, August for Democrats — the election proceeds on a pretty quick timetable.

The UK doesn't do primary elections to the same extent, nor do most parliamentary democracies. So they're faster, since there's just a general election.

The concern about Kamala's "short" time to make a case for electing her to the presidency is that she didn't get to make use of the ~year+ news cycles of the primaries, and will only have the general election to convince voters. (There's also a specter of it being "undemocratic" since party nominees are typically elected by the party's voters, rather than chosen by officials, but since she was Biden's VP in 2020, and he won the election, IMO this is overblown: the entire point of a VP is to take over if the president is unable to function, which is what happened in this case. Her claim to democratic election is that voters chose the Biden/Harris ticket in a general election, which is pretty reasonable.)
Taiwan's Foxconn and Quanta boost AI server production
Is Gavin Newsome more likely as the Dem candidate now that the wealthiest members of the tech community got their preferred Republican VP candidate?
I would suggest that this kind of thing is contributing to the problem as opposed to solving it, even as someone who is not particularly near the center.
California state primaries are top-2, not FPTP turning the general election into essentially a run-off. Parties still dominate. Same with my city elections which use RCV.

I’m not sure why they would reduce party influence either. Features like being robust against spoilers would seem to most benefit major party candidates.
In the example I mentioned, ChatGPT 4 did keep all essential statements of my texts when reproducing shorter versions of them. For example, it often wrote one high-level sentence which skillfully summarized a paragraph of the original text. As far as I understand, this is what the author meant by 'summarizing' vs. 'shortening (while missing essential statements)'.

I was impressed at those high-level summaries. If I had assigned this task to several humans, I'm not sure how many would have been able to achieve similar results.
Dells run freebsd just fine. I've managed probably 25 years of rackmount Dell by preference. Not that I don't hate iDrac and how they wantonly reprogram the SAS hba.
I would say that the AMD preferability came along with Meltdown
Great Britain has a parliamentary system. In the US, the presidential election is drawn out but the campaigns for congress only heat up in the last months.
Cámara Poética: the original poetry camera?
Right, I know, all OSs have those same features. I always disable them on my own computers because they get in the way when triggered accidentally, like with gaming. The poster I replied to suggested it’s evil to do so, and I’m confused why.
Well, anointing the VP Humphrey as the new candidate, in a process that alienated a lot of the dem's base was a big mistake in retrospect.

I won't pretend to know the history well enough to know if there was any workable approach then, but the convention process in 1968 definitely didn't work to produce a candidate Dems were excited about at the end of it, the turnout was low and Humphrey lost in a landslide.

Also, I think some of it was happening right outside the convention site - Dan Rather was famously manhandled on national television by security guards while trying to interview someone leaving the convention.
Kill Dean's Inits!
> CrowdStrike’s falcon sensor

Oh god, is that falcon thing from crowdstrike as well?
Hacked account. I assume they used it to scam folks
> A typo on twitter and something that wasn't Trump?

That one was a response to "and his cult-like followers will just find the meaning kn what he said", because that is precisely what QAnon was/is: a bunch of people poring over Trump speeches and every tiny utterance of anyone in his circle to find "hidden meanings" like alleged raids on "pedos".

> Meanwhile, early this month, Biden called himself the first black woman to serve with a black president, as well as referred to "vice president Trump" when apparently talking about Harris.

He misspeaks and needs to correct himself. Yes. That's completely undeniable.

But hell, listen to a Trump speech and to a Biden speech. Trump is just a plain stream-of-consciousness braindump all the time, Biden at least generally manages to stick to the prompt.

Unfortunately, Trump has what I call the "entertainer instinct": he knows exactly and most especially instinctively how to entertain masses, how to make pictures and quotes. The best example is him getting shot - 99.999% of people would have fled, he raises his fist and yells "fight".

And in a political climate where it's not facts but pure and utter showmanship that wins an election, that's a problem.
As a liberal, I thoroughly despised Lieberman. I had a much more favorable opinion of McCain.

If my only two choices were McCain/Lieberman vs McCain/Palin, I would hold my nose and vote for the second.
Your agenda is to not be demonized or terrorized for the choices you made about your body, and your support for others in a similar situation.

Is that close?

I see the anti-trans movement as both horrifying and in a weird way encouraging. To address the latter, I find it encouraging in that it reflects that the previous anti movement (homophobia) has effectively failed and that ship has failed. Likewise, it's shown trans folk are everywhere and ultimately cannot be wished away.

This subject disgusts me (I'm cis) -- people's gender/identity/sexuality/etc are literally their own business and the weaponizing of fear/ignorance/distaste about the subject is the height of cruelty and the lowest of political trickery to manipulate the population to vote solely based on hate.
No fine-tuning is necessary. You can use something reasonably good at RAG that's small enough to run locally like the Command-R model run by Ollama and a small embedding model like Nomic. There are dozens of simple interfaces that will let you import files to create a RAG knowledgebase to interact with as you describe, AnythingLLM is a popular one. Just point it at your locally-running LLM or tell them to download one using the interface. Behind the scenes they store everything in LanceDB or similar and perform the searching for you when you submit a prompt in the simple chat interface.
Tax evasion hinges upon intent. If it's a mistake, it's not illegal.
I don't want to pay someone for software to do my taxes.
I’m curious: what do the Republicans align on, besides “Win at all cost” and “Liberals are bad”?

Trump doesn’t care about the budget, doesn’t care about protecting our allies, doesn’t care about abortion. I’d wager he doesn’t care about immigration, either, except as a way to get votes.
There was a school bus route in Washington that passed through Canada on its way to the school that got really screwed by the post-9/11 stricter border controls.
I do own one, owned both the Vero 4k and Vero V and they have been brilliant.

OSMC do very little marketing for some reason and are extremely underrated but their customer service and support has been exceptional, new features and patches roll out regularly and the hardware itself is powerful, silent and has a minimal form factor.

Support for mapping Dolby Vision (DV) to regular HDR was recently added and it works seamlessly for the few DV-only media files I have.

The largest file I have is 4K77 (https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/) at about ~80GB with a bitrate that can hit 120mbps during particularly grainy scenes and it works perfectly on both the Vero 4k and V.

The only problem I have is anime encoded as Hi10P which stutters slightly on the Vero V during playback because hardware decoding isn't supported for 10bit H264 (Hi10p and the anime encode scene is unusual like that as 10bit is usually reserved for H265).
I fully agree, and the approach of relying on the original ELF file headers of any kind seems very strange to me.

When a memory dump is taken, the program could have dynamically allocated memory, which will always be in segments of memory outside those described by the ELF file. (Even before main() executes)

The approach also ignores dynamic libraries loaded, and also won’t handle a relocatable ELF.

One really has to look at /proc/PID/maps to see the actual memory ranges used by the process.
Making a Legal AI App Unit Testable with Vitest
I suppose, but in practice nearly all systems I’ve seen allow the attacker to opt for SMS, on demand, unless you’ve been allowed to not put in a phone number on file. Which is not always the case.
The practical explanation is easy, people that seek power engage and work to change the rules to that end.
Hard to tell. My workplace is currently running on nothing but 13th Gen i5' HP Elitebooks. We haven't had any issues but then I suspect these would all be running CPUS from the same batch, possibly even the same wafer.
So should you also include flat earth and the moon landings and topics?
Congratulations, that makes you a member of the largest DNC voting demographic! But the DNC doesn't win elections based on internal pluralities; if it did, we'd be living in a very different political landscape.

(To be clear: in a sufficiently dire situation, I would also vote for a cross-party ticket. But I know a lot of people who wouldn't, and there's a basic sense that their lack of turnout matters much more than my tepid support.)
Ah, yes, just the people I ask for a sensible objective view on the world.

Like “well, this collection of the weirdest Silicon Valley people available took some time out of their busy schedule of hawking bitcoin or metaverses or magic robots or whatever to give a Very Important Opinion” is _not_ the world’s strongest argument.
I'm sorry but that comparison with tailwind and Storybook seems really pretentious.

They tick zero boxes? Then my expectations for your product are going to be very very high.
Pretty much all the early 8-bit computers had cassette storage. On the Apple ][ series, the interface to write to the cassette was identical to the speaker interface so you could load audio into memory from a cassette and play it back (at 1-bit resolution) on the internal speaker of the Apple ][. It sounded like crap (although a lot of cassette decks did too) but seemed like magic.
Yeah this is still second hand information though and there isn’t any data still. There may be confounding factors.

Lots of speculation that is all.

Someone (at intel) needs to get an incident management process around this and start doing some proper comms.
> what do the Republicans align on

Christianity, God Bless America, conservative immigration law, well-being of rural people and small towns, second amendment, Made in USA, white-normalized culture ...

Democrats very rarely align. They fight between factions about whether BLM, LGBT, or Stop Asian Hate is more important, ffs. They can't even come together and fight for all of the above.
Nested Dynamic Modules in NestJS
I never could find a direct quote of Biden himself saying he would be a single term president, but his campaign team said it regularly in public interviews.
I didn’t know that. I would like to know how to get more informed about these kind of structural differences on CPU generations.

Going back to the what you said, Intel selling the same silicon as two different generations (even if this is still just marketing terminology) is a bit lame on their side.
> probably Harris is the simplest answer

And probably the wrong answer. I don’t see her winning over swing voters. Gretchen Whitmer seems like the best option to me. I’d enjoy watching her debate Trump.
Literally whenever someone crosses my mind I shoot them a text, "Hey zokier, I was thinking about ya! Hope you're well!"

Trivially easy and people treat me like I have social super powers
We already have the X37 for unconventional nuke delivery. There is no need for a conspiracy with SpaceX for existing capabilities.
The slow ongoing death of Pax Americana is hardly his fault, and reviving it was likely in the cards for him - or anyone in his place
> The Republicans actually have it easy, they align and bond on lots of things.

I have seen some videos of Trump voters who are claiming that JD Vance is a traitor to the white race for marrying a non-white. And their kids have non-white names.

They are quite upset about this. Some of them are so disgusted by this that they might not vote at all. One can only hope.
Sounds like they were going to get your vote either way so why would the democratic party go for this?
The author’s assertion that models or systems can ignore important novel points when producing summaries/reductions makes complete sense, as average-ers of patterns indeed might even be expected. In any case it seems testable.
Almost universally those funds are stolen in the name of administrative overhead
And hear I was thinking I was the only one in these parts using old lit mags as monitor raisers.
Testing AI systems is challenging. We ran into this question collaborating on an AI system that revises sales contracts.

Some of the questions we had to answer were:

- What makes the advice output by an AI assistant "good legal advice"?

- How do we break down the output of our system into discrete steps that we can test?

- How do we map each of those discrete steps into our definition of "good legal advice" to make it measurable?

To do this we had to come up with a process, starting from breaking down the AI legal advisor into testable components, through transforming open ended legal and usability questions into measurable quantities, and concluding with writing unit tests using Vitest and Poyro (https://github.com/poyro/poyro), a Vitest plugin we built, to find where the system did not align with expectations.

The steps we ended up following to come up with the tests are applicable to non-legal AI apps.

The article (https://docs.poyro.dev/essays/unit-testing-a-legal-ai-app) provides runnable code examples for these tests that you can play with. Hope you find this interesting, we found it insightful and fun to walk through a concrete use case end to end.
> Number one was Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Surely many of these originate from deserialization of untrusted data (e.g., trusting a supplied length). It’s probably documented but I’m passively curious how they disambiguate these cases.
Western slacker movements never came close to deadma or the dedicated indifference in the face of samsara. You seem to have a lot of experience with the former and little of the latter two, but what do I know.

Every stereotype exists for a reason.
I honestly didn't have much faith in that polling. The media was scrambling after the debate to propose a different narrative and many in the party that were turning on Biden were promoting Harris.

The polling seemed too convenient. I don't have a link handy, but the best poll process I saw after the debate did show Harris doing better than Biden, but she was still worse off than a few of the other Democratic potentials.
From your lips to God's ears. As a non-American very much staring at tea leaves, I do worry stuffing the supreme court, or removing some of its power is the kind of act that could provoke a complete breakdown in the political system. Republican refusal to participate in the legislature, outright political violence that sort of thing. It's essential to save the democratic process at this point - but perhaps it's naïve to think that ship hasn't sailed. Kind of astonishing to see recent supreme court decisions like Chevron and presumptive immunity, happening with only nominal opposition - rather than say riots in the streets. Seems there's little mandate for radical change, and a democratic victory may simply delay the inevitable.
> against DIYing literally anything

I get your feeling but I largely disagree: I’ve seen too many DYI mini-projects that implemented just enough and became too much important, and when they broke no one was around to fix that (the implementer had left a long ago and left scarce to no documentation at all).

The nice thing about using an off-the-shelf product is that usually either it comes with support or there’s some kind of community where you can go and ask for help).

There is this insidious cognitive bias in (software?) engineers to only consider the happy path when thinking about the consequences of their actions.
Wait, do normal people really have conversations like that? WTF?
This is the other problem with this election cycle: Trump is saying truly deranged things, but they’re so far outside of what people think would be reasonable for a person to say that he’s not getting the kind of blowback for them he should be because nobody believes he’s actually saying them.

(A contributing factor is that he actually Has been misrepresented a few times by the media - the “bloodbath” comment was very clearly about the auto industry in context, so the right feels rightly aggrieved and the left & media lose credibility.)
A lot of the velocity you listed was not as quick as it seems.

Supersonic flight is a question of manufacturing processes more than anything; we could always scale engines to make more power, just that making them light while being producible to a specific degree of accuracy was difficult.

Nuclear fission was discovered in 1938 and implemented successfully in 1945. Of course nobody would have thought of it - just like how I would never have thought of a ladder if I never saw one and never had a need for one. It's a question of looking at the fundamental laws and materials of matter, finding their inner workings and theorizing more useful ways of using these inner workings. We didn't put a stupid amount of effort into nuclear fission relative to how much it changed the world - I'm willing to bet that more cost has been put into r&d for office furniture than for the nuclear bomb.

Chess is a simple game of calculation, not a sign of intelligence. It merely reflects the ability to calculate, which is the strength of scalable computers. It just so happens that we came up with computers and they work well in this space - there's no telling of things we haven't discovered because we haven't thought to implement anything to do with them.

Sure, computers can write symphonies, but they are very far away from inventing something like a symphony. Which I would describe as something close to sapiogenesis.

I maintain that intelligence won't be cracked in my lifetime, knowing that I could look silly doing so. We can't even quantify what intelligence is, let alone begin to work towards it.
I used to say, 'Never bet against Intel' but the last 5-10 years or so have not been kind to them. They have been kicking out the supports in the name of efficiency and we are seeing the impacts of this now.

Same issue that is plaguing Boeing. MBA is now a swear word.
Excellent talk. So long ago and what since?
Most LLMs behave very similarly IMO, the biggest difference is the formatting. Although in my language learning app I found Gemini Flash a bit better at explaining things. 'provide a summary of this text' will give you very generic responses usually in bullet points. It might be good enough but I recently started summarizing comment sections and you need a bit more prompting to give you the individual arguments raised and niche points.
I’m stuck with the “checking your browser” message on Safari for iPhone.
Christianity is a tough sell, given Trump.

Other than promoting coal, what has Trump done for rural America’s economy?

And the IRA was a huge investment in “Made in USA”, whereas Trump spent years promoting an infrastructure week that never materialized.
> It's just a lot of time and resources you're putting in here today in favor of the racist names, for someone who doesn't care particularly

I'm not "in favor of racist names", that's a disgraceful shortcut. I do think that:

- there are way more important issues;

- "racist names" are not so trivial to identify ([0] is an amusing example)

- even if we could identify and remove all racist names, it probably won't solve the actual issue (racial "hate" of various degrees).

> an apparently unpopular position on this website

It's important to understand that there are legitimate arguments against the removal of "racist names". The intentions behind removing them may be quite good, it doesn't mean that

(1) it's a good thing ("the road to hell is paved with good intentions");

(2) and even if it's a truly good thing, it doesn't mean not doing it is necessarily bad either.

Note that its work the other way as well: it's not because it's a bad thing that it's necessarily a bad thing for it to happen. And that's why, despite the fact that I think that it's an unwise choice, I still do not care about it happening: it may have a very positive role in the long-run, and I can't see that far.

> It's just not a compelling technical argument.

Note that it's not the argument I was making at all, as I'm not well-placed enough to have an opinion on this particular matter. It seems that we had a botanist in the thread making this argument thought.

[0]: https://www.digmandarin.com/confusing-chinese-n-word.html
The assassination attempt was suppressed until people had discussed it from all angles thoroughly elsewhere and gave up trying to discuss here. Definitely not allowed in the normal sense. But here it's nothing but an instant popup blue rally, for something was totally expected.
It would be extremely odd for anyone in your right-wing media bubble to be "excited" about Harris, how is this a relevant data point?
A more efficient solution is to have a stainless steel bathroom which rinses itself with bleach every 20 minutes unless an emergency call button is activated. If it is occupied past 20 minutes a hydraulic press ejects the contents of the bathroom to the outside.
Ask HN: Electronics curriculum: now and in the near future?
This question is piggy-backed off of the Galaksija thread [0] whose subject matter is firmly rooted in an 80s curriculum of DIY electronics, I suppose very much in the vein of Apple I, potentially Apple II. I’m assuming that back then there was an appetite for “this” sort of thing.

For background, I am self taught which is to say I pretend I know a thing or two but really I’m just reading data sheets and using an oscilloscope and a DMM and hoping I don’t shit the bed by short circuiting IC legs. An inductor is a wonderful thing of beauty and science fiction to me. Of course I have a soft spot for this basic assembly of prefabbed things, but it does pose a question and I wanted to ask the experienced HN EEs for their opinion.

Today we have plenty of kits to choose from thanks to companies like Velleman, Whadda, Elenco, all the way to fully assembled processors like Arduino, STM, and so on. Buy it, program it, flash it, you’re good to go. Clearly the landscape has changed, but a lot of it rhymes with the aforementioned 80s vision of putting black boxes together based on basic voltage/current/logic gates expectations. We still receive manuals of how to assemble the board, parts of the rudimentary components up to various ICs and transistors and we put them together with a bit of solder and some helping hands. Of course, cheap FR-4 boards, KiCad and all that is at our fingertips along with Digi-Key/Mouser, and so on if we want to get creative. And let’s not forget YouTube that covers just about everything.

How would you approach an electronics curriculum today? Is this the same way to go? What would you do differently? Do you see anything really changing in terms of the mode of operation or are we “stuck” doing V=IR, op amps and LCR topology configurations?

Feel free to go off tangent and ramble, I’m hoping an EE will step in and teach us a profound thing or two :-).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978894