skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've now gotten the facts about Maine's RCV wrong multiple times, it's to the point I won't continue discussing this with somebody who can't even critically read and understand the sources I've provided.

The Maine legislature passed RCV for both the primary and general presidential election[1]. I don't really care if you don't think national primaries don't matter they obviously do; otherwise the Republican party in Maine wouldn't have fought tooth and nail to not have to do RCV for their primaries.

1. https://www.legislature.maine.gov/lawlibrary/ranked-choice-v...
The first three cover basically 99% of browsers.
A lot of times it's not for the content itself but the interaction with the producer... similar to donations on twitch or what have you.
All the people I know that are still active on Twitter because they need to be "informed" are constantly sending me alarmist "news" that breaks on Twitter that, far more often than not, turns out to be wrong.
> Now, the web is mostly an SEO-optimized

I don't really think that's true. I think most of the web you find from Google is mostly SEO-optimized. There are a lot of web pages. And a lot of them, Google does not promote.

I have had a really good experience with web search since I switched to Kagi last year. Like, I've genuinely been able to find things that I have been unable to find with other search engines.
The ones I've seen are definitely not Android. But I don't have any data to argue which OS is most common among in flight entertainment systems.
Typst wants to compete with LaTeX.

They both face the same problem, namely that the web and paper work completely differently and there are untranslatable concepts. So you have to define some way in which your typesetting gracefully settles into a different environment.

If typst had targeted html immediately it certainly would have made their life a lot easier, but it would have been nothing more than an overly complex site generator. Targeting PDF first means that they actually want to compete with LaTeX.
Is there a connection to decriminalization of marijuana in the US?
I reckon it's reasonable to say we shouldn't use AI (LLMs) in places where we're looking for accurate information, yeah. Expectations for accuracy are higher in a seemingly curated summary.
Gnome is kind of junk nowdays, right? Haven't used since slack 7.
You have missed the point entirely. The problem isn’t that you have a hurtful opinion. It’s that you’re being an ass about it.
Thank you, I put median in italics and everything.

The point of citing the median is that, by definition, the top 15% do not affect it, except by virtue of existing.
The optimization process adjusts the weights of a computational graph until the numeric outputs align with some baseline statistics of a large data set. There is no "punishment" or "reward", gradient descent isn't even necessary as there are methods for modifying the weights in other ways and the optimization still converges to a desired distribution which people claim is "intelligent".

The converse is that people are "just" statistical distributions of the signals produced by them but I don't know if there are people who claim they are nothing more than statistical distributions.

I think people are confused because they do not really understand how software and computers work. I'd say they should learn some computability theory to gain some clarity but I doubt they'd listen.
Discussion (27 points, 2 days ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000091

Older discussion (21 points, 5 months ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39566804
I had that same one. If loading a file crashed the kernel module, could it have been exploitable? Or was there a different exploitable bug in there?

Did any nation states/other groups have 0-days on this?

Did this event reveal something known to the public, or did this screw up accidentally protect us from someone finding + exploiting this in the future?
Graphene OS web based installer, works well. Of course they only need to support one type of phone with various hardware, not hundreds different ones. The only thing I'm upset with while using Graphene is lack of NFC payments because Google Pay claims this phone isn't "secure enough"
A cross-linker would be required for that to work. If you use a cross-linker with D, it should work.
The outage was not because of the OS. It was a kernel driver that attempted to use invalid memory.

The same thing crash could happen with any kernel driver in any operating system.

You've never seen Linux crash because of a driver bug?
https://archive.ph/dREa4
Same. I have no issues at all on Mastodon. I’m quite happy with it.
> Every Mastodon instance is slow beyond reason and it’s still confusing to regular users in terms of how it works.

I'll concede the confusing part but all the major Mastodon servers I interact with regularly are pretty quick so I'm not sure where that part comes from.
So all the things they've been doing haven't been to improve their product, but just to make a ton of money. It certainly explains why they've been adding all these odd features instead of fixing their current ones.

Sad though.
D has a lot of compatibility with C++'s type system. But not with everything - for example, D does not have a `volatile` type. What is missing that you're interested in?
A fellow exif fan I see
Devuan? Void? MX? Guix?
https://www.wikimediastatus.net/
It's shocking to me how many people on HN are not understanding this concept that Windows had nothing to do with it.

It's just a likely they could crash a Linux machine by releasing an update to their Linux software that also referenced invalid memory.

Am I the only one that's seen drivers in Linux cause a kernel panic?
So anyone want to hazard to guess if the node shrinks are going to go more than seven ignoring the half steps?

If the article is correct that the major semis are going to kind of forge their own paths, in my opinion, that means marketing lots of even 1/3 or quarter steps.
Okay, this is super cool. Thanks for sharing.

In a similar vein, jart's Cosmopolitan libc has a really fun collection of tables that compare various constants across platforms, e.g. syscalls, syscall flags, error numbers, etc. It includes (variants of) Linux, XNU, NT, and the BSDs.

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/c...

In the off chance you haven't heard of Cosmopolitan yet, I hope you find the discovery as much fun as I have.
What are the good resources to know about Angel Investing?
I wanted to know the resources and communities about the angel investing. How to get company profiles, structure, vision etc?
Operator_precedence_parsing: C89 expressions parsed with the shunting yard algo
Article source: Millions may not be paid on time as IT outage hits payroll systems https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/wages-mig...

An "impact of CrowdStrike outage" article
> ChatGPT is also plugged into a search engine, so maybe it's plugged in... more? Not sure.

I haven't used ChatGPT search, but I have used Perplexity. The way that it works, it will potentially do like a dozen searches to try to understand your question (if it needs to), search individual topics in the question, search joint topics in the question, and then take 20 results or so, including web pages and videos, and synthesize an answer to your question.

> If anyone makes an LLM which only knows what's in Wikipedia, and doesn't hallucinate anything else, they would clean up.

Kagi has a "lens" feature that lets you scope down web results to certain sources. It's supposed to be able to be used in their AI assistant, but it's currently ignored / broken there. They are working on a large overhaul (I think it's supposed to be out by the end of this month?), hopefully that works after that. You could achieve what you described using that then.
It looks incredible I love it.

But don't those aesthetics belong to the desktop environment as opposed to the distro? I must misunderstand something somewhere.
Nothing else than taking some peasants and giving them a bodyguard uniform and now they feel more entitled than the building landord himself.
> Are those systems going to roll back every file ever to try to recover themselves?

Isn't that totally feasible with things like Btrfs snapshots?
I don’t understand why there isn’t some marginally plausible review text in there? It’d cost you $0.01 to generate something vaguely plausible with chatgpt…
Yjs has a bootstrap problem. To get ot to sync you need to define the root schema and add data, otherwise updates ignore arbitrary keys.

The best way to manage is starting with a raw empty doc, defind all the keys, then update that with a custom blob.

Once you have this doc on your clients, its just a matter of applying the latest updates.

But yeah, Yjs has an eccentric code structure which is impossible to parse without understanding the ops rrquired.

Id look at indexeddb and webrtc plugins
I raise you 49 lines of typescript

https://stackblitz.com/edit/gridgame-minesweeper?file=index....
> And is Bluesky still invite only?

Not since February. But it's for the best that the Eternal September has remained quarantined on Twitter.
It’s significant to my dev roots too. I had both the OS itself as well as several apps customized, with the most extensively modded being a totally rebranded Netscape Communicator with custom iconography. I also used it to mod games, doing things like changing sounds something silly or replacing 2D characters with pixel-versions of my siblings.

It was always a bit disappointing to come across the odd program (usually cross platform stuff) that had little or nothing that could be edited in ResEdit.
I think the Mac App Store is firmly in the ‘A’ stage of the LPA cycle that is so prevalent of big tech nowadays. (Launch, get Promoted, Abandon)
> No need to be snarky, pal.

Interesting time to choose to be snarky.
Client first also supports users in poor networked areas.
How is this better than motion? Or really the other big competitors in the space? Seems like there's a good spectrum between motion (performance and simple API) to the more complex frameworks out there. How does yours actually distinguish yourself between these?

Targets is specifically not novel, as every animation framework I've used has the same ideas exposed in the same ways (declaratively).

Not trying to insult the project, but there's a lot of crowd here and I'm passionate about performance, simple animations that I don't feel like anyone have quite nailed yet.
Oxytocin and Longevity: Evidence-Based Analysis of Health Benefits
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2
It is not so bad with Mastodon but much fedi software gets slower the longer it's been running. "Akkoma Rot" is the one that's typically most talked about but the universe of misskey forks experiences the same problems, and Mastodon can sometimes absolutely crunch to a halt on 4GB of ram even for a single user instance.
A Nash equilibrium is a pair of strategies (or, one strategy for each player) such that no player can get a better result on average from deviating from it.

If one player isn’t playing a strategy that is part of any Nash equilibrium, then the best response might also not be part of any Nash equilibrium.

If all other players are playing a strategy from a given Nash equilibrium, then you can’t do better (in expectation) than you would if you were to play the strategy for you in that Nash equilibrium.

(A game may have multiple Nash equilibria. Possibly one such equilibrium could be better for you (or for everyone) than another.)
I have worked at a few Windows places and they did not allow live updates. All updates were managed by IT and tested before being pushed out.

This situation was caused basically by an anti virus definition update.

Without any information, my guess is that CrowdStrike specifically doesn't provide a means for enterprises to manage the CrowdStrike updates because that would cause potentially weeks or months of delays for critical anti virus updates to be released.

I'm more curious why they need CrowdStrike on every system in the first place. I can understand employee computers but servers and critical systems should have other security measures in place to make them less available to attack in the first place.
Well that’s kinda awesome to see, at long last it’s coming out of the development pipeline and now there are legitimate solid state batteries in consumer available products…
Relatedly, it's crazy to me how many people still get their news from X. I mean serious people, not just Joe Schmoe.

The probable spam thing was nuts to me too. My guess was it's maybe trying to detect users with lower engagement. Like people who aren't moving the investigation forward but are trying to follow it and be in the discussion.
Shockingly it turns out that installing a rootkit can have some negative security implications.
Yeah, options exist but it's not a very diverse ecosystem in practice.
I'm excited and optimistic about ladybird for that reason. We need more options.
Isn't plasma killing it primarily because of aesthetics? Isn't popOS or whatever popular due to its aesthetics? Elementary OS?

I'll never know if XFCE is any good because it looks like shit.

I don't think that Linux users generally have a fondness for 1990s UI.
>A few Markdown documents I've converted to PDFs:

These aren't Markdowns converted to PDFs. These are HTML websites rendered as PDF, where at some early point some text with basic formatting was fed in.

>keeping presentation logic and content completely separated while having precise control over layout

Does anyone really want that? I certainly wouldn't want that separation. I want to create some document and not a sophisticated template, so I am always willing to sacrifice generality over momentary needs, if I can't force the layout, then I need to waste time to implement some generality, which I don't need. Completely the wrong approach to document creation.

This looks like you really want to have a web framework, not a document creation system.
This website contains (via "related") many very similar articles about resource forks. AI-generated?
Yes, I'm well aware. I wasn't trying to conflate a CrowdStrike problem with a Microsoft problem. Having said that, in this particular incident, the problems were specifically limited to Windows OS.
Meanwhile, in functional economic systems in the world, companies charge money for licenses and then don't get weird about it.
Maybe the experience varies depending on where the user is located. Users near Mastodon servers (possibly on the US East or West Coast) may not feel the slowness as much as users in other parts of the world. I notice noticeably slower response times when I use Mastodon in my location (Korea).
Open Wallets, Empty Hearts
I'd guess that they started doing them by hand, saw that they weren't getting caught (no one minding the store), and so didn't bother.
There is absolutely no doubt that the Cuban economy is suffering through a severe crisis. However, mass emigration offers some benefits to the Communist regime. Many of the migrants who work in the USA send money back to their families in Cuba in the form of remittances, which provide valuable foreign exchange reserves to help pay for essential imports. Moreover, emigration provides an escape for those people who might otherwise form a potentially powerful class of under-employed and politically discontent civilians. If Cuba’s emigrants were still living on the island, then the Communist regime would have good reason to worry about a mass revolution, as shown by the experience of the Arab Spring, when authoritarian governments in Syria, Libya and Egypt, each struggling with rising demographic pressures and economic stagnation, were destabilized by popular rebellion. The Communist elite is certainly aware of the dangers to its regime from a potential “Cuban Spring,” and thus likely regards mass emigration as a welcome alternative, despite the obvious social liabilities of losing so much human capital.
The question I gave is a literal textbook example of abstract reasoning. LLMs are just very advanced text prediction, but they are also provably capable of abstract reasoning. If you think that those statements are contradictory, I would encourage you to read up on the Bayesian hypotheses in cognitive science - it is highly plausible that our brains are also just very advanced prediction models.
> Category Theory is easy because it starts from nothing, literally. You can learn it at any age and with no almost no prior education. Same with various formal logics.

I disagree, you need to have capacity for abstract thought for abstract topics, most especially with category theory. Normal people have quite difficulty understanding abstractness, you either have the aptitude for it, or work your brain hard enough that it becomes somewhat easier. Children and younger people especially have difficulty understanding non-concrete topics.
Let me just say, your comments have not been the most constructive I’ve read.
Out of curiosity: In the old days, SoftIce could have been used which was a kernel mode debugger. What tool can be used these days?
I renovated and reopened an old theater in San Francisco years ago. Google maps still lists my theater as “Chinatown's 1925 cinematic home to kung fu & opera films is closed but reopens for film festivals.” Which has not been accurate for a decade. I’ve claimed the location and updated everything I can of the Google maps description but this seems editorialized and there’s no place to edit it or mark it as invalid. I’ve tried reporting the listing multiple times but there’s no way to get a response from a human or get any changes made.

I know it’s not that related to the article but Google is broken and so many little ways, it’s not surprising it adds up to a slowly crumbling quality overall.
Older generations are "aging in place" and occupying entire 4 bedroom houses instead of a single apartment or room in their children's' homes.
That's why normally private keys (like when used with ssh for example) are paired with something like a passphrase that should offer an additional layer of protection. But still, you (the owner of the private key) can access it. You should keep both your key and your passphrase secret. Not sure what passkeys are doing about it, but I still don't see any valid reason for the owner not to have full access to the key.

If someone has sufficient access to your computer (like being able to keylog and stuff) - it's somewhat late to worry about keys being compromised.
I had to log in to see responses. Pretty sure that’s how they still have users.
The hard part is the deploying. Yes if you can get control of the crowdstrike deployment machinery, you can do whatever you want on hundreds of millions of machines. but you don’t need any vulnerabilities in the crowdstrike deployed software for that only the deploying servers.
"Bzzt, wrong answer! It's Alphabet!"
CSS Stuff I'm Excited After the Last Csswg Meeting
Time-Reversal Simulator Outperforms Classical Methods
No, I didn't miss that point.

To be honest I would tell you that I don't care about "being an ass", but that would be a lie. I want OP to stop developing this nonsense and spend his time elsewhere. Obviously getting some pushback is necessary for that.

There is no way of saying "you completely wasted your time and should delete your project before someone uses it", without "being an ass".
Wikipedia calls it Liquid Democracy but I've never seen nor heard that term outside and I don't think it's used anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
"configuration" is tricky in this case because nothing on the surface changed. The driver didn't get updated, only one of the files it read did.
Is the propaganda really effective when a photo from an average cuban street says it all? (walking dead tier even in the heart of the capital)
Mastodon is a PERFECT replacement. But it'll never win because there isn't a business propping it up and there is inherent complexity, mixed with the biggest problem, cost.

No one wants to pay for anything, and that's the true root of every issue around this. People complain YouTube has ads, but wont buy premium. People hate Elon and Twitter but won't take even an ounce of temporary inconvenience to try and solve it.

Threads exists, I'm happy they integrate with Activity Pub, which should give us the best of both worlds. Why don't people use Threads? I'd a little more popular outside the US but personally, I think the "algorithm" pushes a lot of engagement bait nonsense.
Scholar of religion's decline faces his own church's closure
Can you explain this? I'm pretty sure Cuban migrants to the US can't remit money to Cuba; that's one of the key points of the sanctions.
I use X solely for the AI discussions and I actively curate who I follow, but where is there a better platform to join in conversations with the top 500 people in a particular field?

I always assumed that the reason legit answers often fall under "Show probable spam" is because of the inevitable reports coming in on controversial topics. It seems like the community notes feature works well most of the time.
Do you mean 1968? The Alhambra decree of 1492 in which Jews were ordered expelled from Spain was not formally rescinded until 1968.

https://www.nytimes.com/1968/12/17/archives/1492-ban-on-jews...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree
Title summarized from “As a scholar, he’s charted the decline in religion. Now the church he pastors is closing its doors” due to character limits.
Ask HN: My broken app got Google clicks. I just found out
Hey HN,

So, my app has been broken for almost a year. I realized it was getting huge traffic last weekend when I created a new app. I added it to Simple Analytics and noticed my other app had thousands of views. I checked Google Search Console and saw it had been getting thousands of clicks this whole time! I finally fixed it, but now I need your help.

How should I analyze the traffic and what pages should I create to maintain the traction without scaring Google off? Any tools or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Also, a co-author of the Raft consensus algorithm.
It's a Silicon Valley HBO series reference
> Threads is boomer chat with an instagram requirement.

You're being too dismissive of Threads. It's fine, there are adults there.

What weirdo doesn't have an insta?
On that point, I would dispute the premise that "it's impossible to have true language skills without implicitly having a representation of self and environment". I don't see any contradiction between the following two ideas:

1. LLMs inherently lack any form of consciousness, subjective experience, emotions, or will

2. A sufficiently advanced LLM with sufficient compute resources would perform on par with human intelligence at any given task, insofar as the task is applicable to LLMs
Now I don't know what the parent said, but if you mean frightening as in taking up people's time, worry not, as commonly in small orgs such meetings don't take place in reality even though the minutes might indicate so. These minutes may be signed by the attendees via email (or mail) without ever meeting up in reality.

This is very common for small orgs where communication is already daily or the matter is trivial in the first place. The reason minutes are signed at all in such cases is to have a paper trail of the decisions and a date for the meeting held, as that might be a legal requirement.

As an example in our company when approving accounts, all of us have already seen the accounts multiple times. We have been there when the accounts were being made. The minutes of the meeting are more like a formal paper stating that we know what the accounts contain and approve their content, but it's not like we usually schedule an actual meeting just to waste each other's time.

Of course if there's say disagreement with the matter amongst attendees, it is essential to hold a proper meeting.
Could just as easily be accessing an uninitialized pointer, especially given there is a null check immediately before.