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On Exactitude in Science – Jorge Luis Borges
The problem isn't necessarily voter registration per se, but how easy or hard you make it. Giving politicians or bureaucrats the power to disenfranchise voters by requiring jumping through seemingly arbitrary hoops or based on vague rules will always lead to abuse.

In many countries if you are a citizen (or permanent resident, depending on the election), old enough, and registered as living in the country you are automatically registered to vote. No need to do anything, your form shows up in the mail before every election. The only times you might have to do something is if you've very recently moved to a different part of the country or if you live abroad.
In many ways I agree with your opening sentence---maybe I shouldn't have written "fun". I think I was trying to get at something more like that the experience of learning itself is itself a good thing (even if it's not fun, even if it's suffering, even if it's hard) and I think mechanical and stoic recipes to optimize the process fail to adequately appreciate that fact.

The best part of learning piano isn't getting good at piano---it's learning piano. And sure there are some things we have to learn that we aren't that interested in learning, but I think even those things have the capacity to be worthwhile experiences if properly framed.

I think applying the word "efficient" to this area is suggestive of urgency and greater purpose---I don't buy into either.
> maybe you should be able to get an A++++

What does an A++++ mean? I guess it's equivalent of publishing a novel result/idea, solving a long standing conjecture sort of ability? If yes then I'd say the system does accommodate them. Terrance Tao for example was fast tracked and didn't get lost in the system.

Though it probably requires some effort from parents to figure out the right path for their prodigies.
The problem is the incentive structure. We know the drugs work, we know they have serious medical side effects. So the only question you'll be answering is "Which of these athletes is willing to trade off the most dire long term health consequences to win". And the answer will be that some athletes are willing to do practically anything and will die of various entirely preventable problems at incredibly young ages. And what's the benefit? Some measure will read 1m 57 seconds instead of 2m 4s?
Jokes don’t always have meaning. “I want to play a joke on Bob” can very easily mean “I’m just going to torture Bob a bit for my amusement”. The joke will not have meaning to Bob.
Niklas, if you are reading this - it was a pleasure to interview with you some 6 (or so) years ago :) thanks for the script and the research, I will make use of it.
I thought it was written by scientistic 1960s psychologists but it is actually from 2018, peak CBT pseudoscience.
I thought the "number or letter" in that sentence is the "a" in "Draw a line".
I wa t ti be able to import a cert into by browser and specify what to trust it for myself. “Only trust this cert for domain.com” did example.

The name constraints can give me a hint what it’s designed for, but if I import a cert to MITM devsite.org, I don’t want that cert working for mybank.com.
> Ask HN: What's your favorite YouTube video, ever?

I go to youtube only for the ads. /s
I took a skim through it in the morning - I like the LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less paper more https://openreview.net/forum?id=aloEru2qCG - it has much more signal in a few pages - also the original QLoRA paper from Dettmers https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314 has so many more important morsels.

But all in all, the review is a reasonable "manual" I guess. I would have liked maybe more instructive comprehensive practical examples, and maybe more mention of other OSS packages for finetuning :))
I've been using React a lot for years, now I switched to a game dev career so I'm not aware of recent developments.

When I saw the title, I thought it would be a way to compile react to machine code interpreted through wasm.

But if I read correctly, it's "just" a transpiler which output optimized React code
Why aren't my submissions showing
My submissions aren't showing, and I can't figure out the reason? Any reason for this??
I used to think no production vehicle could ever be uglier than a PT Cruiser.
The narrower and vegetation lined winding paths typical in gravel decrease the potential benefits of teamwork. So a top racer does not need a team of servants to ride him to the final. The single day events without having team cars following on trac and extensive long on-tour medical/logistic staff for a whole team, non of which the 'servants' would be able to afford.
That's a monster of a cable. Wow
This is mentioned right after, which changes the meaning of the words quoted by you.

> Not with the Cybertruck.
Like coffeescript, this looks lovely to write and horrible to read.
Celebrating AI Art Weekly #100
Been diving into AI (and art) in Summer 2022 and had a feeling that I'm soon out of a job (coder). So wanted to stay ahead of the curve by looking at the most recent research each week (but more on the computer vision side). Last Friday I reached issue 100 and just wanted some place to share it with someone
Except the groups the article refers to are quite marginal, have no influence in government, are a certainly not "great friends of the Western establishment".

Basically a propaganda piece, designed to push your buttons. And not surprisingly, published originally in RT.
Keep in mind that using LegacyFox is not a silver bullet. It will disable sandboxing and add-on signing, which will impact the security of your browser.
One Plus One Equals Two (2006)
Is anyone else experiencing repeated crashes when viewing this article via iOS Safari?
Why not cut out the middle men and pretences and just go back to classic gladiator style fights to the death?
Back in the man.ac.uk of the early 90s, there were no cameras or YOLO models but we still wanted to know when machines (especially the colour ones! LUXURY!) were available.

We just had "`rlogin` to every machine in the lab, run `who`, and collate the output". IIRC there was an early version written by 'flup that I extended with a tidier output (including an X11 window), auto-refreshing, and easier machine selection (eg. you could select rooms by name with regex filtering.)

Good times.
We’re likely talking about a small subset of users for whom open sourcing or similar efforts would be worthwhile. The bigger issue these days is that phones aren't designed to last. We've seen this trend ever since batteries became non-removable, and I doubt EU regulations will make a significant difference. Most users either dispose of their phones when they stop working or trade them in for a newer model. This is especially common with premium phones, while mid-range models might only fetch you $10 on a trade-in if you’re lucky.

Some companies do better in this regard. For example, Samsung provides four major updates, whereas the last mid-range Motorola I owned only gave me one. By the time I receive the fourth update on my current phone, I'll probably be dealing with bigger issues, like the battery not holding a charge—or worse. I wish phones were more serviceable, but that’s just not the case. Still, at mid-range prices, I’m fine with replacing it when it’s on its last legs.

If you're inclined, though, most Android phones allow you to unlock the bootloader and tinker with the software as much as you want.
I have just finished reading Carmilla [1], a vampire novella by another Irishman, Sheridan LeFanu, which pre-dated Dracula by 25 years. I much preferred it to Stoker's book.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla
Interesting perspective. I never thought about this properly. But it seems things like Google Lens and other machine vision apps paired with a good screen reader can help blind people to "see".

I did some recent experiments with the openai api recently to see if I could make sense of photos by classifying and describing things. That worked surprisingly well for the absolute minimal effort I put in (<30 minutes) and I've been meaning to follow up on that to properly turn that in a product feature in our app.

Anyway, something simple hooked up to a camera shouldn't take that long to code. There might be good enough locally running models for machine vision as well. Reading signs, menus, describing what's in front of you, etc. I bet that there is some low hanging fruit there for visually impaired people that are a bit handy with programming in terms of really useful apps that they could develop with this.

Another aspect of using consumer tech like this is that it's normal. People wearing airpods don't stand out as hearing impaired or special. Most hearing aids on the other hand are clearly recognizable as such. I imagine some people don't like wearing them for that reason. They are kind of ugly, generally. Unlike e.g. glasses, there's no such thing as designer hearing aids. They are kind of a necessary evil for people. Apple is being clever here by tapping into a market of aging but wealthy people with a taste for good stuff.
The “Environmental effects” section is worthy of a read, especially if you have pets or care for bees (which you should).
I sure hope they won’t take down old.reddit.com. IMHO, Reddit would be unusable without it.
Hearing being a "logarithmic" sense and decibels make this a bit weird to me. Like losing 6 dB of hearing in a car crash is considered negligible and insignificant, but that actually means the ears lost half their sensitivity in a flash (and it's never coming back, just like teeth). Likewise your 50 dB hearing loss is considered moderate, but actually represents a 300-fold reduction in acuity.
Check this: Why Mind Wandering Can Be So Miserable — https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-mind-wande...
Nice!

I loved LiveScript, but it got kinda lost in the wake of ES6.

They planned to add types, but never got around doing it (at least the last time I looked).
And in times of Copilot & others writing become less and less a problem, as code completion works very well.

Like this example: https://civet.dev/#everything-is-an-expression
`items = for item of items`, in js you type `for`and copilot wrote nearly the full correct for-code. So you have to type not much and can read it easy.
Everything apart from design or software architecture as such. (Unless you include that one weird class on UML and Sybase) Math, electronics, algorithms, encryption, physics, legal side of things like gdpr, networking, compilers, UX, embedded systems, chip design, different CPU architectures, reading research papers, databases (about acid, not specific implementations), ...

But the part of "how to manage the process of creating this" and related ideas you were basically supposed to figure out on your own. Or actively ask the teachers. It feels very sink-or-swim now in retrospect. I've never been explicitly taught about testing for example, but if you didn't write them for your projects, I don't think you'd complete them.
We live in what's known as a planetary system. Star systems involve only stars.
Isn't this in libgmp already?

https://gmplib.org/
Move fast and break things is not what I would want from a bank so a bit dated design may signal a healthy conservatism.
What does it feel like to have a mind that doesn't (or only minimally) wander? I find it hard to imagine such a state. Would it even be psychologically healthy?
Universities press in India had bought out a series of books by G Venkataraman called Vignettes in Physics it also had books on Saha, Bhabha, Bose, Chandra and Raman. https://universitiespress.com/books?id=0&sid=161

National Book Trust also has several books on Indian scientists.
I wish there was a browser as secure as Chrome but hackable without restrictions.

I do not think this is a contradiction, at least not from a technical perspective. I am willing to take the responsibility for all actions and modifications I do to my own browser but I need it be secure against all influences out of my control. And I need it come with secure defaults. To be competitive it needs to come without awkward restrictions that e.g. an external sandbox would impose.[1]

I don't think projects like qutebrowser, LuaKit and the many others fit that definition. Not being mainstream means by definition not getting as much security scrutiny as the dominant browsers.

What we really need is a hackable mainstream browser for people that need protection from the bad guys but not from themselves.

[1] I personally would make the concession that supporting a reasonable subset of the web was fair game.
Metropolitan Museum of Art API
Dutch Mailbox Stickers: Physical GDPR for Your Mailbox?
Indeed. Also is the retirement dream for many working software engineers.
Show HN: I made an Hurricane Simulator, How destructive is the hurricane?
Hey HN,

We will be affected by a hurricane soon, and I'm not sure how much damage it will cause. So, can we simulate the hurricane's path and its potential impacts?

Based on this idea, I developed this website to help us understand how much damage a major hurricane could cause, such as the number of casualties. While it may not be entirely accurate, it can raise our awareness of potential disasters.

Different seasons, climates, and environments will lead to different outcomes, and you can experience it online.

would love your feedback pls.
"IPv6 is great and easy to use, if you're one of the leading experts who designed it"

This is not the kind of glowing endorsement you think it is, if you're expecting your technology to see widespread adoption
At least we don't live in the multiverse where he was never discovered and all his work was thrown away.
> ... for invading someone's privacy and screaming racist obscenities in their home? i vehemently disagree.

"someone's privacy" was already raped by the company selling the product. If a random kid can see in your house, everybody can see.

"I have nothing to hide" i suppose./s
> No standardization, no performance, no unified integration.

WebAssembly has all of these things. WebAssembly already there, lurking your browser. That's why it will succeed.

It's interesting how threatened you are by WebAssembly. But change is normal. Embrace the change.
Sigh.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891653

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884187

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809351

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639205

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41384888

Now, I'm not a big fan of VS Code as of lately. I find the changes, that first broke Customize UI + MonkeyPatch extensions to make it look not completely shit on macOS, and now the change that broke APC too that replaced the first two, completely user-hostile and the PM response in GH issues to that very poor. But this specific lie about what is OSS and what isn't, and how it's used annoys me a lot. You are not helping with the problem.
There's a lot of "what can you get away with" in the world; but getting caught cheating like that is likely to go worse than getting caught using an LLM for a final exam.
Spotify high quality is usually 320kbps. If not, it's because only worse qualities are recorded/available. I have sincere doubts you're able to hear a difference to lossless qualities, especially if you're listening on the go or in non-hifi setups.

The Apple RDF seems strong here.
Grok TiddlyWiki 2.0 is live
Why is this surprising and why do you expect the situation with external password managers to be different? If you can decrypt it other software running on your computer can too.
“So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.”
Absolutely astonishing. Thank you to everyone involved in this effort. It's completely mindboggling to think it's only 4 hundred years from Kepler deriving the equations of orbital motion to us being able to do this. Just stunning.
> Perhaps, but it is possible to be a merry prankster and not use it as a way to spread hatred.

Not a as way to spread hatred, no. As a way to spread love, uploading your naked pictures/videos on porn sites. /s
The other problem is: How do you recognize what is "good enough" if you lack the skills/competence required to be able to say "this is good enough"?

For example, I'm a frontend developer who wants to learn backend. And let's say that I chose C# and .NET for this. I can either do tutorials in Microsoft docs and then reach out to Reddit or some other community for resources, to receive the commonsense advice "just build something", and we're back to zero because now the goal is to build something for learning's sake therefore what is "good enough project" to build to maximize gains?
Motorsports do bring something extra. Just how fast machine can we build.

Gladiator fights is different thing and modern weapons make them rather boring. And somethings like biological weapons could take too long time to be effective, so you only see one person keeling over...
A Lisp compiler to ARM written in Lisp
Deploy a Qdrant Cluster on K8s within 5 minutes
> Australia has a long and not-particularly-storied history of extreme border restrictions.

A joke I sometimes tell during conversations when australia comes up:

"You know, Australia is a great country so I once was thinking of migrating there. So I called the australian embassy. First thing they ask me is if I have a criminal record. So I answered oh I'm sorry, I didn't know that was still a requirement, and hung up."
I know, from a human rights point of view, this is very problematic. 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.

Of course, those tests shouldn't be that ambiguous, but if they were phrased a bit more clear, these would be very simple. At the same time, English has changed in the last 50 years. That phrasing might have been common back then.
You’ve slipped from “equitable opportunities” to “equal opportunities” - they aren’t the same thing, and we run the risk of setting up a strawman if we’re doing so.

No one who’s advocating for employees with children with benefits like subsidized childcare, flexible schedules for driving children to and from things, etc., is suggesting that everyone should somehow get “equal opportunities”, or is proposing an actual concrete definition of how that would work. (Would you require that all promotions be internally posted and limit the amount of opportunities people can apply to? No one would call that equitable - that would disadvantage people with, say, racist bosses wanting to switch orgs.)
Some people don't code for the interns but to have fun. But I agree this isn't a very enterprise programming language, à la Java or Golang.
It sounds like you're assuming that 4-day weekers are necessarily trading in flexible hours and independence. The impression I had from your original post is that high performers do not like working fewer hours per week, all other things being equal. I didn't realise that you were talking about trade-offs.

I'm currently working reduced hours, coming in 4 days per week, with the same core hours on those days as everyone else, and the ability to shift hours into the evenings or weekends if needed. My boss is happy for me to take an hour or two extra at lunch to deal with house or family stuff. Sometimes I work a shorter day to go to the gym before dinner, then work slightly longer the following day. It's because I'm high-performing, valuable, and trusted that I was able to negotiate such a position.

Another thing worth mentioning is UK government childcare provisions. Parents get 15-30 hours of free childcare per week (depending on age). That's up to 3 days per week free at a nursery or childminder of your choice. Reducing fromm 5 to 4 days in childcare actually halves your outgoings. Given that nursery places can cost in excess of £100 per day, this is often not a bad deal even if you take a pay cut.

I do love my job, and once the kid is at school I'll assess whether I want to return to 5 days. I agree that you can get more done in 5 days, although I think in reality it's not a huge difference since I'm less incentivised to be strict about things that waste time.
The PT cruiser looks like a potato, and the Cybertruck looks like a potato slicer. It's a match made in heaven.
Is it possible to constrain existing CA?

For example my government uses non-standard CA and some websites rely on it. But importing CA obviously makes them able to issue google.com and MITM me if they want to. And they already tried, so trust is broken.

I imagine something like generating separate name-constrained certificate, sign existing CA with this name-constrained certificate (I think it's called cross-sign or something like that) and import things into OS, expecting that browser will use name-constraints of the "Root-Root" certificate. Could it work?
Isn't your last paragraph part of the problem, though? To paraphrase, you use Firefox's password manager for things you don't care about. So, those simple passwords are tied to small accounts that, individually add up to nothing, but together start to build a little cache of your emails, throwaway passwords and other tiny bits of data that all get collated with other data scraped about you. This much larger data cache then gets sold and used I attacks like credential stuffing to access even more data, etc.

You're posture is assuming that if it doesn't matter to you, then it doesn't matter at all, and that simply is not true.
I prefer to assign an external name to an internal device and grab a free SSL cert from LetsEncrypt, but using DNS challenge instead as internal IP addresses aren't reachable by their servers.
Also the Cybertruck is vastly outselling the electric f150, and there is almost no wait now, unlike the f150 which ford don’t seem to be able to scale production
Meanwhile in Australia we suffer frequent brown outs year round and rolling outages in the summer because the majority of the power generated and made available to people is from coal and other unclean sources. https://www.iea.org/countries/australia/energy-mix
Oddly, considering the massive scale of this project, there’s no mention of projected costs in TFA.
^ This is exactly it. It's Dunning-Kruger.
As someone who did my GCSE's but then moved abroad before my A Levels and ended up taking the International Baccalaureate, I'm in hindsight really glad I didn't do A Levels. Had I stayed in England I would have studied just maths, physics and chemistry. Being forced by the IB program to also study english, philosophy and economics really expanded my horizons and has been huge boon to me in my life and I'm really happy I was afforded the opportunity to do so.
I've heard this argument so many times - but personally I can trivially easily here the difference between Tidal / Apple Music and Spotify's 'high quality' setting - even on wireless headphones. Music on spotify sounds flat and drained. No idea if this has something to do with their compression technique, some kind of EQing, or a flaw in some other part of the pipeline, but I've blind tested it many times and its night and day.
Let's not be so aggressive.

Comments on HN are meant to be for civil discussion, even on contentious topics.
Agreed with regard to the project dying if it can't charge the main battery.

Supposing that's not a problem, if the GP is right about the Ramcharger using an ICE to run the electric motors, then in principle we pretty much already know it's possible from a power density perspective.

I suppose one could start running the generator at the beginning of the trip instead of waiting for the main battery to drain significantly. Perhaps you couldn't get "infinite" range, but you could stretch your main battery's range out far enough that for all practical purposes you wouldn't care—you could either get to a charger or find some diesel and wait an hour or two after a 10+ hour trip for the generator to recharge the main battery.