skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Okay I'll bite - how does Google manipulate elections?

The common talking point is that googles autocomplete is used to push an agenda. Censoring certain results and terms while making others more prominent.
I used to work security and making rounds in a place like this would give me chills. Running into thieves at 3 in the morning is one of the most terrifying things you will ever experience.
> creative work that presents itself as journalism or nonfiction but introduces fictional elements with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience.

A good time to mention the SCP wiki and some types of analog horror. It was this kind of thing that led me to discover "hard science fiction" which is distinct but related to the previous two.
This story is about California. One would expect it's own laws to be internally consistent.
Is their coverage of climate change in 2024 any better?
We have a few roundabouts where I live in the USA now, and they are absolutely wonderful, apart from the occasional clueless driver who doesn’t know how to use them, which seem to come in two varieties: 1) blast right into them without yielding or even slowing, or 2) Going the wrong way. In their defense, they probably have never seen them or never learned about them in driving school.
To the contrary, the ex-Amazon managers I’ve worked with explicitly tell me they avoid implementing ideas from Amazon in terms of management.
It’s funny that you think the tech industry is relatively far-left.
Can you expand and maybe give an example of what you are saying?
Lightweight umbrellas.
Make a personal search engine, starting with one for hacker news… of course !!!
Well what kind of builder are you?
You think Jeffrey Zeldman is parroting a corporate mission statement or is being cowed into posting this? Damn, the youths today.
> Now, your run-of-the-mill LLM can breeze through the turing test.

Can they? You can ask arbitrary questions in the Turing test. I doubt many models would be able successfully imitate humans in such adversarial conditions. Note that the Turing test doesn't require to judge to be unsophisticated or unknowledgeable about AI's capabilities or weaknesses. I believe that AI's are closer than ever passing the Turing test, but I'm sceptical until I see it.
> story is about California. One would expect it's own laws to be internally consistent

Sacramento has made it clear it doesn’t believe in an individual right to arms. It’s internally consistent in the same way Wyoming’s (and most red states’) voter ID + free-for-all gun show rules are.
1. I made no comment as to your lifestyle, only that I recognize your attempt to justify whatever it is, which again I did not specify, by attempting to zero in on a perceived hypocrisy. Whether or not you understand your behavior to be defensive is none of my concern.

2. At no time did I say that meat eaters are brainwashed. This is a straw man argument from you.

What I said was that America eats far, far too much meat, and that is objectively true based on certain indicators such as the effect of the scale of our industrial farming on the climate or animal welfare. If hearing this triggers you, it says more about yourself than anyone else. Facts don't care about your feelings, I'm sorry.

If that's all you had to cherry-pick from my last comment, then I think we're done here. Please stop trying to extend this argument.
How do you prove to a prospective employer that you intend to stick around for a while, if you hopped around for the first few years of your career and are expecting a “Senior” promotion around year 4 or 5, which is the norm in the industry these days? Serious question
They are used in different flight regimes, so not really comparable, but nonetheless, I found it interesting to compare it to the US version of the strange ball navigation thing.

https://www.righto.com/2024/09/f4-attitude-indicator.html
You are correct. Don’t give up!
I run a cheap tiny PC and OpenBSD, if you want a more hands-on config process.
I've always wondered how expensive a good insurance policy is. One that is actually good for you the policy holder and enforced by contract. Like no haggling over market value because the items are insured for specific amounts.
RepairBench: Leaderboard of Frontier Models for Program Repair
This excerpt from Torvald's email summarizes the issue:

> I was hoping and expecting that bcachefs being mainlined would actually help development. It has not. You're still basically the only developer, there's no real sign that that will change, and you seem to feel like sending me untested stuff that nobody else has ever seen the day before the next rc release is just fine.
Where are you getting the viewpoints thing from?
How did you deal with such terrifying situations?
Apparently the great slave lake was named after the indigenous dene people, who were called the slave tribe by their enemy tribe the Cree.
This isn't true. I've flown MEL->SIN. They also fly SYD->SIN
Bill Atkinson, developer of MacPaint, on the art of developing software
My favorite other emirates banned item is “attaché cases”. Never could figure out why. Please satisfy my curiosity.
That is a good way to have an accident - I know since I've done it. While "looking one way" on a USA counterclockwise roundabout you are looking left to see traffic already on the roundabout and if clear you go and run smack into the back of the vehicle ahead of you who for some reason stalled or hesitated or just judged the traffic differently. However it will be a low speed accident.
The specific location was kept out of publications for a while but unfortunately the cat is now out of the bag. It looks like an earlier story from near the end of August also divulged that info. Hopefully they are given space next year but there is a real risk that many people will now drive to that spot for a sighting. It was quite impressive that the location was kept out of publications for as long as it was but eventually someone had to ruin that.
Something I think people in tech sometimes don’t realize is that the complexity of modern software generally requires a lot of money to be thrown at it to get meaningful amounts of stuff done, and that money is getting thrown at open source by the giants, who may have whole teams dedicated to advancing it. That means they’re the ones directing the R&D and advancing the state of the art, so your little indie/hobby/crowdfunded/grassroots thing isn’t going to be able to keep up, probably. Call me cynical, but that’s just what I seem to see right now.
It's not satire. If you have some function with several inputs, the Jacobian is a matrix of all the partial derivatives of this function with respect to each input variable[1]. Since derivatives give the slope of a function, if you think about your function as being like a bumpy surface with the height at each point being the output, this matrix tells you which way (and how far) to change any input if you want to go "up" or "down" in the output.

Backpropogation is a way to optimise a neural network. You want to know how best to nudge the weights of the network to optimise some loss function, so what you do is compute the gradient (ie partial derivative) of that function with respect to each of the weights. This allows you to then tweak the weights of the function so your network gets better at whatever task you're trying to get it to learn. See [2] to understand how this works and and [3] to understand how this relates to the Jacobian, but generally if you're trying to go "downhill" in your loss function it's easy to see intuitively that knowing which way the function slopes (ie the effect of tweaking each of the weights) is important and that's what the Jacobian tells you.

The inverse of a matrix[4] and its transpose[5] are two different operations in linear algebra. Transpose turns rows into columns and columns into rows and the inverse of a matrix is a little harder to grasp maybe without background, but you could think of multiplying one matrix by the inverse of another as a little like division (since you can't actually divide matrices).[6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_matrix_and_determinan...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeHLnjs5U8

[4] https://math.libretexts.org/Workbench/1250_Draft_4/07%3A_Mat...

[5] https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Linear_Algebra/Funda...

[6] algebraists please don't shoot me for that.
> This is retarded.

That word is generally universally recognized as bigoted and discriminatory, so please don’t use it.

> Copyright is slavery.

No, slavery is slavery.

And you are, at best, incredibly insensitive, and at worst, an actual bigot.
Having to pay the fence to get your stuff back is so California. In the more civilized states pawnbrokers are expected to know the risks of buying potentially stolen property, and if they do they get to eat it.

Maybe that's why property crimes short of grand theft aren't really enforced in California?
It has strong perl vibes and it brings back ptsd :D. Maybe this overshortification of things is a personnel or intelligence indicator of some sorts.
They watched too many spy/thriller movies?
The gaming industry wants to bring their existing marketplaces and platforms and even when that's not explicitly prohibited Apple wants 30% of their gross revenue and requires each game implement their in-app purchases to collect it, so they are at an impasse.
Because there are hundreds of conditions that need to was Trent that insurance, even great insurance, barely covers and leaves you with thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt.
I wonder if an insurance company operated as a co-op would be a better arrangement. Interested parties pooling money to pay out to the one unfortunate one who has a disaster. Could potentially invest the pool in super low risk investments as well for a little upside.
By becoming even more clever:

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/in...
No, it's just easy to burn yourself sucking a hot liquid through a straw.
For example - Britain's most notorious roundabout https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5622263,-1.7713205,3a,48.7y,...
Every K program ought to end in QED, and then I remember that KQED is also a thing, and I wonder if their two worlds have ever overlapped.

(KQED is the Bay Area PBS partner. PBS is the US public television org.)
So they should report anything anyone says?

Because selecting whom to report is editorializing by your standards. It creates a bias and gives importance aome over others.

Woke Derangement Syndrome has taken the best of us.
Congrats on the launch!
Just a quick heads-up - have you noticed that the increment and decrement buttons on the main page are slightly inclined?
You should be able to do it in under 20 lines using the same matrix operations as the K code via numpy.
I guess that's somewhere quite remote? I don't see any pedestrian infrastructure and I don't understand how a pedestrian would cross this road safely
The lack of turn signal usage in the region also makes funky roundabouts much harder to navigate. Like you have to wait until there is a large enough gap in the cars to enter the circle, even if none of the cars actually end up intersecting your path.
Nah, meta-art is not that interesting tbh and the meta art culture is quite shallow in itself. Real art has always been about sharing an experience or an idea with the viewer and the production is completely irrelevant for this.

In other words if I take an AI drawing and lie the end user would still have the same experience as if I was telling the truth. My lie would only affect the meta culture not the art piece or viewers experience.
The international code of insurances says goods cannot be insured for more than their worth. The intent was to avoid perverse incentives, the result is our current society.
Personally I appreciate how straightforward and dead-simple environment variables are. Easy to check values with `env | grep ...', I'm content.

This looks rather complicated. What is the advantage here, i.e. Why is my existing configuration "dumb" and "unsafe" (the opposite of what dnmo purports to be)?
Yeah, let's make desktops unusable toys as well
Wi-Fi router security could be improved by per-device passwords and micro-segmentation, as seen in OSS https://github.com/spr-networks/super.

VLAN for insecure IoT devices is a fallback.
I suspect that if you're fluent in the language, understanding an expression written in it comes just as easily and quickly as reading a sentence in a book does to me.
No we really don't.

What we actually need is to do all over again what has been done for the last 30 years on computers: developing and reverse engineering open source versions of the various drivers for mobile devices' hardware. Without them you will be forced to pray for ABI compatibility at every update and you will never get to know your actual hardware
In turn, I'm having difficulty finding motivation to continue the fight.

Please don't quit fighting. That's exactly what they want you to do - quit. And as difficult as things may seem now, consider the wisdom embedded in a couple of old sayings:

The night is darkest before the dawn -- Thomas Fuller

I didn't hear no bell -- Rocky Balboa
Discussion (1052 points, 2 days ago, 976 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41740965
We already had not one, but multiple. They lost to android. I imagine there were multiple reasons, really, but one of them seems pretty basic: simple SDKs. Even when there was no Android apps, making one was easier, than making... whatever. Now, when there are thousands (maybe millions? I have no idea) Android apps, I don't really see anything else catching on. To be fair, now there is this react-native approach, but still, all these permission frameworks, drivers, really necessary apps nobody will port and everybody needs...
Also try nandgame.com
Yes, that's unfortunate. In that case, the Google Nature paper doesn't belong in Nature. Google is definitely free to claim that they revolutionized their business, but without scientific evidence this is just marketing.
Fanless 10GbE is pricy.

OPNsense is based on FreeBSD, runs on $100 micro PCs with PCIe quad NIC, https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...
Thats such a political argument, this is ecology, your POV on origins isn't correct in this case.
Introducing a new species that has never lived somewhere could maybe introduce really bad side effects?
Imagine a new predator that somehow eats everything and reproduce 10x more than any other species in the introduced ecosystem, causing it to simply be destroyed?
Same goes with plants, why do you think airports prevents you from importing fruits and seeds? Because they could cause irreversible damages.
You can Google tons of cases of invasive insects being mistakenly imported being a bane to farmers and the like.
We don't need a non-android ecosystem. The compatibility is nice. The security features are nice.

What we need is more devices that allow unlocking the bootloader and rewriting the keys.
I've given up on ever expecting an open source phone. Apple likely spends more money developing just the keyboard than these OSS companies have to spend on the entire phone, software and hardware. There is just no way they can release something that's even usable, let alone competitive.

Did have an unexpected win in the form of the Steam Deck though. Never thought I'd have a powerful hand held, desktop linux gaming machine at an affordable price. Back in the day I was following the Dragonbox Pyra project and really liked the idea, but couldn't justify spending so much on a device that couldn't really do anything.
Yep. Canada suburbs here. We're starting to see roundabouts used more often for what would be higher traffic four-ways or inconvenient lights. They're great, both as a driver and as a cyclist. Lower conflict risk, simple rules to proceed.

IMO all smaller 4 way stops should become what I've described as trash can roundabouts. Small island to circle around. So much better than stop signs.
> But if someone is motivated enough by the scant risk-reward balance of fraudulently voting, they’re not going to be deterred by having to buy a fake ID.

Buying a fake ID is orders of magnitude more difficult than looking up a name and using it when voting, isn't it?

And it's only a scant risk-reward balance if voting individually. If something organized and can send 10k-20k votes, that can tip plenty of elections IIRC.
How Much Traffic a $6 VPS Server Can Handle?
Would you mind posting a link as well? Would be much appreciated.
Interesting, just watched a guy that turned cooking oils into plastic (with a catalyst like iron). And he got into how canola oil, was a rebranded industrial lubricant that needed a new market post wwII. (just with lowered toxicity levels)

"Seed Oil converts to PLASTIC"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_tCL5-4c0&t=1s

And earlier listened to Robert Kennedy on a podcast where he discussed how offshore wind farms, have turbines placed in the ocean with giant blades that can explode and pollute water with shards that close beaches and kill Whales. While significantly more expensive than terrestrial wind farms.

Public opinion is often swayed by such labels like "environmentally friendly", "reusable", "pro environment". Who could not support such things ...
Turns out environmentally friendly products, often are just a swindle to get massive amount of subsidy money from government ... for bad ideas.
It's a form of corruption, as politicians that approve these things often benefit in some way. While public loses.
And it's a cycle. Supply and demand are partially driven by pricing models used by hedge funds, and variants of Black Scholes is one of those.
The parent said, "Russia does not have forced conscription."

The parent was corrected.
Does OPNsense GUI support configuration of the router as a VPN client to commercial servers? Most of the docs cover site-to-site VPNs.
i've only seen these style of languages commented after a contest is over on stack programming challenges. I have no idea how one would learn all this stuff from code in the wild (like i learned most of python, for example). then again, i don't go searching github for k, apl, or perl for that matter.

I'm sure each of those languages makes some guarantee about the sorts of errors that can be introduced - as opposed to C (let me pick on it) where the errors you know you can introduce, and the errors that are introduced aren't a large union. However i have a hard enough time typing english consistently, so the various "symbol-y" languages just glaze my eyes, unfortunately.

It almost "feels" like these languages are an overreaction to the chestnut "they must get paid by LoC".
* Stationary at places like Itoya in Ginza (if that counts as tools).
* Go to Yodabashi camera and just have a look around and you will find things you suddenly _need_. I bought an alarm clock and had literally hundreds to choose from.
* Nail clippers, tweezers, etc. you can get from just a general drug store are all very high quality (or so packaging showing them being hand sharpened leads me to believe).
For most clothing items, there are the luxury name brands, but then there are also affordable options like Uniqlo which sell basically the same thing for a very reasonable price.

For sunglasses, at least in Australia, you get the sunglasses stores that have $200-$400 nice looking sunglasses, and then $30 speed dealer sunnies at the servo. There's nothing in between and no one cloning the name brand styles for cheap.
Whats not mentioned in the article is that this particular intersection has a

(15mph residential access road - top right)
(25 mph farmland road - bottom)
(50mph country highway - left and right)

Previously, only drivers from the 15mph and 25mph roads had to stop!

Visibility coming from the south would also be terrible to check for incoming highway drivers (left is blocked by foliage, right the road curves out of sight), so getting the highway drivers to slow down is a welcome improvement here.

There is also not enough space to add at the intersection here either, its seemingly bordered entirely by private land.
So cool. One of these days I really have got to learn Tone.js.
Itoya is already on my list. I love fountain pens (or rather the inks) and want to get a few.
At least I know I'm right to avoid anything with a camera on it. You're not crazy if they're after you. I also try to avoid chinese products, but we all know that's not completely possible anymore.
Do they typically stay charged for only a few days at most?
IIRC Texas has put up bounties for feral hogs, but I'm not sure how much it's helped.
August 2024, "Zero-click Windows TCP/IP RCE impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled", https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/zero-click-w...

> the bug in TCP/IP that would allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to get elevated code execution just by sending specially crafted IPv6 packets to an affected target .. That means it's wormable
Your opinion here is at odds with the record for higher traffic throughput and better safety for roundabouts. They are better in pretty much every way, for appropriate situations.

Here the situation is uneven road size, through traffic on the highway and odd angles. Perfect roundabout application.
I bought one bc I travel a lot and it's been a game changer for me. Both in terms of watching movies and also getting some work done.

Having the something similar to a multi monitor setup in a portable setup is amazing.

the negatives are the battery and the weight after couple hours. I can do a max of two 2-3 hour sessions per day and anything more would be pretty rough. Ideally I just do one 3 hour session and the rest on MacBook.

is it cool...yep! is it a necessity? nope. would I recommend it? nope. do I love it and use it a lot? yep

I can't wait to see what Apple does with this after 2-3 generations. i still think VR is looking for that killer app.
Thanks for taking the time to explain, I was chasing my tail looking for something visual
Sadly that isn’t really enough today - since many applications will refuse to function if SafetyNet fails because you have some non-standard image running.
August 2024, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41754925
> Not to mention tight roundabouts always have horrible curbs that trucks have to smash into to try and jump over to make the turns, and they are never gentle bumps, they are always tire and curb damaging trash, especially for heavy loads which are primarily the vehicles that need to jump the curbs.

I'm not a fan of roundabouts, but the recent WSDOT roundabouts I'm subjected to have gentle curbs, at least for now, so that part isn't so bad. The part where I actually need to look left and right simultaneously to see if there's room for me to join the flow, and also watch for pedestrians (if present) isn't so great.

And I'm really not a fan of the unbounded wait when there is a large flow that crosses my entrance, which could result in a very long wait when the large flow comes from rush hour conditions or a ferry offloading.
Yeah, but if you're a bully, you've probably been in multiple fights. You sometimes relish fighting. Sometimes you have a "pain wish". And if you're part of a gang, it might turn out badly for the person who fights, because they will later gang up on this person outside of school, and they don't have any honor to fight fairly 1on1:

https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/news/student-hospitalized-afte...

https://mustreadalaska.com/watch-video-clark-middle-school-s...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/lxxbjv/my_12...

And also, you can get in trouble yourself for fighting, especially if you're a male and the bully is a female that's in a group that "picks on" you:

https://utahparentcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/EleE...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646992

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647094

Wouldn't it be better to just tell your parents and involve the authorities at the school or police?