skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also because residents of Germany have a duty to always maintain an accurate registration of their current address with the county. So the German state actually knows where its voters live, making voter registration superfluous.

In case that was sarcasm, then I have to disagree. The current German state has an excellent track record when it comes to voter enfranchisement. Its shortcomings with the democratic process lay elsewhere. The last really questionable action relating to elections was the questionable ban of the communist party - in 1956.
It isn't my experience either, having lived in various suburbs in Melbourne since 2012.

Power outages happen, but I've been through maybe half dozen in my time here.

Same with brown outs. Not unheard of but far from common.

Although I spend my days at the office so maybe I miss some things, but equally I get an email if my home UPS activates and that has happened perhaps twice.
Yeah that's a common result of forced learning by lets be polite mediocre folks. Utter hate of the whole topic for easily 2 decades too. Then finding slowly my own personal way back to them, despite school.

If anything, current (and this is valid globally) school system is not designed at excellence at its core, its about raising an army of obedient but not too stupid citizens. And its not missed expectation, just look at what type of work they expect to fill in. Don't expect massive changes unless society changes itself.

Some narrow excellence is not what our society at large values, those few that made it through made it despite their environment.
Don't Publish with IEEE (2005)
You’re absolutely right. The education system was meant to be a factory of production line workers, at the cost of missing out on geniuses who don’t care about other subjects.

This system is meant for a worker that no longer exists. If someone wants to specialize at the age of 13 and has shown reasonable aptitude in that subject, then let them do it. Sure, give them a well rounded education, but don’t weight those grades anywhere close to equally.
Obviously someone's burning
The music at many concerts and nightclubs is unfortunately loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss.

Ear plugs reduce the volume to a level where you can still hear the music, but the risk of long term damage is reduced. (You can get "musician's ear plugs" which attenuate all frequencies equally, so they don't make the music sound weird.)
range extender wartime style:

https://x.com/KyivPost/status/1608407902242635781?lang=en
I live in Melbourne (on Jemena’s distribution network) and this isn’t my experience.

Our power is very reliable and rarely goes out. Every few years a car hits a pole or something and we get a brief period of quiet time
Hindsight bias?
It's not poisoning, it's blocking.
Taming the buck with a Type III compensator
> little cache of your emails, throwaway passwords

I have five passwords in my Firefox manager. (More if I include the ones which are no longer valid, like a few ftp passwords, and passwords to routers I no longer use.)

I think I'm safe.

I avoid online services which require identity as much as I can, because yes, any data builds up. Which means, yes, I buy things in stores, not online, I use cash, not credit/debit/e-cash, and I don't use apps.

If you do use online services, apps, etc., then it sure feels like you are assuming that information leak doesn't matter to you, so it doesn't matter at all.
I can easily hear the difference between Lossless and AAC on my two IEMs (Blessing 2 Dusk + IE600) as well as my open-back Focal Clear. And even with Bluetooth via AptX HD.

With the quality of audio improving so much in recent years I would take a guess that almost anyone can appreciate the significant difference in sound quality for < $50.
TypeScript even took off after the earth had been salted by CoffeeScript. Many people were sceptical about TypeScript because they assumed it was as big of a buy-in as CoffeeScript - rather than it just being JS with some (mostly) strictly-additive syntax, that you would have been able to strip out without risk had TS never taken off.
I mean, TV is an audiovisual medium. Audio/Visual. 50/50. Blind people can still listen to the TV (though arguably not have half the experience). The real question is if deaf people get the same discount.
I used to think this, but it's no longer true. BBC radio is pretty good value. CBBC is valuable in having an ad-free service for children. But the rest of terrestrial BBC is .. tired. It's not really changed since the advent of streaming services and youtube, which have eaten its audience from younger ages.

And BBC politics is awful. Question Time is full of planted audience members. BBC journos give softball interviews to their friends in the Conservative party.

Personally I'd split the BBC into National Archive (all the material before 2000) and BBC Ongoing, and make the latter into a normal private company which sells streaming subscriptions. And abolish the absurdity of the TV license and its often oppressive enforcement against the very poor.
> xA5 for $670

No longer for sale (out of stock with no plan to restock https://www.nuand.com/product/bladerf-xa5/ )
Profile generation and data management with dbm
The stuff about dante/intero is quite outdated; HLS is the way to go these days.

The rest is still quite good advice for people starting out – in particular "ignore lens", "ignore nix" and "don't over-abstract".
you could always

(sleep 5m && sudo ufw disable) &
Ask HN: What do you think about AI assistants?
There are so many companies right now that are creating talking AI avatars. We are working on something like that as well. We think they can eventually substitute sales people: so basically a potential customer will talk to an AI avatar who will show a demo and answer all of the questions. What do you think about it? What other use cases can you think of?
These are the examples of the companies I'm talking about:
https://labs.heygen.com/interactive-avatar
https://avaturn.live/ (this is our solution but we haven't released it yet)
https://www.anam.ai/
>But imagine, if only people who can really understand written text, who can calculate, who understand how legal system works, who have basics of logic could vote.

wasn't it basically the original Greek democracy?
How long did it take modern humans to completely colonize Earth, such that there are few places you can go on Earth and not meet any humans? Less than 10k years for sure.

If we become a space-faring civilization, how long will it take us to colonize the galaxy, such that there are few places you can go and not find evidence of humans around? Not more than a million years or so.

So if intelligent life -- capable of becoming a space-faring civilization -- is common, why is the galaxy not colonized already?

Kursgesagt has a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM
No, this paper was edited yesterday. The original (you can verify on arxiv) contained this incredible section: "6.10 Optimised Routing and Pruning Operations (ORPO)"

The actual ORPO paper is "Odds Ratio Preference Optimisation" and it has nothing to do with pruning. This goes way beyond native language preference.
Any test you can imagine would still be used to favor the rich and powerful, and to oppress and disenfranchise undesirables.

It doesn't matter how rational it seems. Government - particularly the racist oligarchy that is the US government - cannot be trusted to act with rational benevolence.
Raku has a healthy and stable community that is making steady progress in developing the language. Joint us on IRC or Discord (see https://raku.org for details) to get a feel for the activity level. For me it is an opportunity to hang out wiht very deep knowledgable compiler core folk and I have learned tons.

The big effort going into v.6.e (ie the 5th major release of Perl6 == 6.e) is Raku AST which is now in PREVIEW and is a big boost for writing Slangs (Raku sub languages) since you can now use the built in Grammar parsing to generate AST code - and is the precursor to macros and improved JIT optimisation.

The Raku spec is actually the ROAST test suite https://github.com/Raku/roast and Raku has been compliant to this since 6.c which was the first production release.

Raku can run Perl5 CPAN modules (Inline::Perl5) and Python modules (Inline::Python) out of the box and it has deep FFI C NativeCall facilities. There are also a couple of Raku + Rust exemplars such as Dan::Polars (note: I am the author).

Raku also has some very nice modules - Red is an ORM that leverages traits to make OO/ORM seamless, Cro is a web server framework that uses concurrent features such as Supplies to enable pluggable middleware (think WebSockets).

As to larger adoption, I would say that this is still slow - there are some reputational concerns around the Perl to Raku transition and some points have been made about slow execution speed (although I would say that Raku is no slower than Python / Ruby were at this point in the development curve and of course there is no GIL limitation and many built in features for multi core such as hypers).

At the moment, I would say the "killer app" for Raku is the use of Grammars in conjunction with LLMs (language meets language) - take a look at the work of antononcube for some great use cases... https://raku.land/zef:antononcube/LLM::Functions
I couldn't have put it any better.
Don't cite ChatGPT, it's prone to confabulation. According to Wikipedia:

> At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities.

That's far more than the roughly 13,000 SpaceX employees. Moreover, that's just Apollo, there were also related programs like Gemini. (The SpaceX employee number also includes people not working on the Starship program.)

> To your second question, the better alternative is not to send a bunch of junk into space. Aside from low-orbit satellites, space is a waste of time and a distraction, and increasingly appears just to be a way to trick people into ignoring disastrous fiscal and monetary policies while enriching one person.

How do you know Musk gets rich from SpaceX? Do you think they make a large profit? Anyway, Starship could be used to launch giant telescopes, which must be useful for science: https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/10/18/its-time-to-build-th...
Most of Europe never had the level of formal, legal racism of the US. But it is worth remembering which European countries were dictatorships at around the same time (Spain, Portugal, Greece) and that Eastern Europe came to democracy even more recently.
To reiterate the point above: writing is not the biggest problem. reading is.

(Terse Perl may be delightful to write, as long as you still remember exactly what you wrote and why. But not after that.)
So it would be reasonable to assume there are other factors at play?
What, Australia is the only country with the Sun God to power the panels?
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Same, I was blown away watching the making of video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLv2uHxygc0) and discovering that these environments were created physically. The whole world had that soft handcrafted feel, and it turned out to stem from actual crafts!
I did IGCSE's (the international version as I lived in Indonesia) and AS/A levels myself, while a lot of my friends who went to a different school did IB and I generally disagree. My most hated school years were the IGCSE times, exactly because I was forced into learning about crap I didn't care about in the slightest, like English Literature when all I wanted to do was the various sciences and especially mathematics.

I feel like the IGCSE times were more than enough exposure to those other subjects to give me a reasonably well-rounded image of those subjects. Now, a decade later, I'm definitely glad I went the STEM route rather than ever touching on any humanities subjects in any amount of detail.
So many delusionnal statements in this article:

"On track to become America’s next great general classification rider, he was let go in 2019 due to what he says were team politics."

His best result was 2nd in the general classification of tour of Morocco. Hardly what you'd call America's next great GC rider.

He was let go because he was not living up to the expectations.

The US gravel scene is mostly a retirement home for former world tour pros.
I agree with your point that we should have two different words for two different concepts (even though they can lead to the same effects), especially as one is motivated by malice and one is not.

But from the point of view of a black person who has not got a job / college place / tenancy that a comparable white person would have got, I guess it makes sense to say "whatever the cause, I want this problem fixed" and give the symptom rather than the cause the name "racism".
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In the tech industry, it's common knowledge that customer support teams handle massive volumes of tickets daily. Manually reviewing these interactions is not only time-consuming but often leads to inconsistent evaluations and missed opportunities for improvement. There's a wealth of insights hidden in these support tickets—patterns, recurring issues, customer sentiments—that could drive significant enhancements in products and services if properly analyzed.

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- Reduces QA costs: Automates the ticket analysis process, potentially saving on hiring additional QA staff.

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- Easy integration: Works seamlessly with existing support platforms.

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not at all.

as our social life makes more and more use of digital communication, it must have the same protections as a face to face conversation in my home.

in germany wiretapping is only allowed for serious crimes and home surveillance is even more restricted.

in other words if digital communication gets the same protection as home surveillance then you can just use that home surveillance or try to install a listening tool on the persons phone. if home surveillance is not possible then why should digital surveillance be any easier?
like this? https://www.sycip.com/shop/p/sycip-specialty-bike
They are also nowhere as good. Not everything has to be solved by cheap* technological processes.

*: If you ignore the environmental costs.
Please don't. Technical debt accumulates by force of practice.
Why would they say that it needs to be killed? To what end?
you can use a wildcard of type *.internal.example.com or use names that do not relate to the service name if you want to obfuscate the tech stack used.

The only thing public is that you may have an internal network with nodes.
1m57s, which was enough to place first in the podium, gaining the athlete the prize money and additional exposure to sponsors, earning them a major sponsorship deal that allowed them to finance the off season training and take care of their family, who sacrifices with the athlete being on the road all the time vs 2m4s, who placed fourth, just off the podium and was relegated to relatively obscurity, and who went back to their desk job.
From chainsaws to ICMP echo packets (and more)

http://tom7.org/harder/
It's Солнце (Solntse) in Russian.
Nice charts, I am a big fan of dbm
It's also sporting a much more advanced ARM core[1], Cortex-M7, compared to most of the other ARM boards which had Cortex-M0(+) cores.

The M7 supports cache unlike the M0(+), and the processor used[2] has 64kB of it, split evenly into instruction and data cache. It also supports branch speculation which the M0(+) does not.

While the Teensy has 4.5x the clock frequency of the Pico 1, the Teensy is 8x faster.

Main outlier is the Pico 2 with a Cortex-M33, though still at a reduced clockspeed compared to the Teensy. From what I can see[3] it does not have cache for its on-board memory, "just" branch speculation like the M7.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M

[2]: https://www.nxp.com/part/MIMXRT1062DVL6A

[3]: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2350/rp2350-product-bri...
If you are a salaried employee in Norway you are paid for the results not for where you work. You are expected to work about 37.5 hours a week. Almost everyone I worked with worked very flexible hours. I read somewhere that 100 000 people in Norway work only Monday to Friday (in a population of 5 million), it's not in their contract either, just in employment law.
You can have both at the same time: Say, 15 who want to help them, and 5 who would want to hurt them. And then you can be right both of you. Although the angry ones would be harder to see (sychopants)
How well defined is ADHD?
Thank you for reminding me! Just sent a couple of emails to my representatives!
Kiali 2.0 for Istio
You can decide whether it's evidence or not, but almost everything Freddie deBoer has ever written about college admissions points in that direction and I personally trust him on this topic, among other things because he presents scientific evidence that the SAT is much more reliable than some people make out to be, and is much more resistant to private tutoring. (One thing the SAT doesn't do is keep Asians out, however.) A search for "Freddie deBoer college admissions" with your favorite non-AI-shittified search engine should find lots of articles.
That's quite a big existential crisis for so early on a Tuesday. Cool as heck though.
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Thank you for this, I had some experience with docstring and self documenting code from python, but having this in Js is pretty good productivity boost <3
Or combine them into gladiator motorsports
Some gems like 428 aside, I'm generally not a fan of "pure" VNs (the style is often much too verbose), but VN/puzzle hybrid games like Ace Attorney, 999/VLR or Ghost Trick have slowly established themselves this past decade as one of my favorite genres.
Do you really think Black people would have been covered fairly in the press in the 1960's?
I would add "Neuroimaging in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder" (2021) [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7879851/
I use CNAME records and it works on everything except Windows, where it works sometimes.

Basically, CNAME record from service.myserver.com to myserver.internal on a public DNS server, A record from myserver.internal to 1.2.3.4 on private DNS server.

I think I could maybe get it working on Windows too by tweaking the TTLs. Currently both DNS servers are automatically setting the TTL and I think Windows freaks out about that.
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Not sure I follow the explanation. And apologies cause I’m not that familiar with these texts, but afaik it talks about “soul” here, not information? Words like Brahman, Atman come to mind.

In case I mistook it, ignore the above.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind

Doesn’t it come from the mind’s interaction with the world? I don’t think that any important knowledge comes from doing nothing (apart from psychology due to its nature). It all sounds like a typical religious salad, tbh. “You” discover from your “mind”, but then some seers understand that “you” and “all” and “mind” are the same, etc. Well, you don’t have to be a seer to see it. “You discover from your mind” is a useless semantic loop that creates all this unnecessary complexity, imo.
does Chrome doing this better?
The poverty of the stimulus (POS) argument is that "evolutionary pre-training" in the form (recursive) grammar is fundamentally required and can not be inferred from the stimulus.

The argument is based on multiple questionable assumptions of Chomskian linguistics:

- Humans actually learn grammar in the Chomskian way
- Syntax is separate from semantics, so only language (utterances) can be learned from uttrances, and not e.g. what is seen in the environment
- At least in the Gold's formalization of the argument language is learned only from "positive examples", so e.g. the learner can't observe that some does not understand some utterance

One could argue for a (very) weak form of POS that there has to be some kind of "inductive bias" in the learning system, but this applies to all learning as shown by Kant. The inductive bias can be very generic.
Reading and writing is a huge part of software development. But I didn't learn these skills at school. If anything, school soured them for me, by making me read things I didn't want to read and writing things I didn't want to write. School should let you read what you want. Today that you read it could be checked with AI prepared quiz. And writing should be mostly focused on communication not essays. Very small fraction of people ends up getting significant utility writing their ramblings into the void.
Is it shocking? The platform’s changes affected the algorithm too much, making engagement useless for serious discussions.
So that test doesn't mention how the FLAC was encoded back in 2014.

Because most of the benefits of Apple/Tidal lossless come from the fact they are encoding in 24-bit, 192 kHz direct from the original masters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGnuOGSk1HM