skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's just propaganda. Exceptionally dishonest propaganda.

Cool. Got any reasoning as to why? Here’s mine:

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An autopsy of Smith's body was conducted by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. The autopsy showed Smith exhibited signs of negative-pressure pulmonary edema, had "dark maroon blood" and fluid present in his lungs along with "marked congestion", and had "frothy fluid" in his trachea. Another death row inmate scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama in November 2024, Carey Dale Grayson, hired an expert to analyze Smith's autopsy results in August 2024. After a review, the expert called the results "highly concerning."[33][34] Dr. Brian McAlary, an anesthesiologist, wrote in an argument on Grayson's behalf that Smith likely panicked due to an automatic response to the inability to breathe oxygen and that Smith's panic may have been avoided if he had been given a sedative prior to his execution. A second expert, Dr. Thomas Andrew, the chief medical examiner of New Hampshire, agreed that Smith should have been sedated before his execution because nitrogen hypoxia introduces "a sense of the absence of oxygen, air hunger, and all of the panic and discomfort that is part and parcel of that way of dying."[34]

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, condemned Alabama's use of nitrogen gas to administer Smith's death penalty and stated that the method had amounted to a potential form of torture and degrading punishment.[35][36]
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> You should be ashamed to repeat it.

Such ad hominem attacks are against the site guidelines.
CT driver here. I didn't even get one for the attention. I thought it was cool-looking, useful, and could make for a good family car. I was right!

I'm an introvert so the constant attention (almost all positive, even in the Seattle area, surprisingly) was definitely an adjustment for me. Trust me, I'd be perfectly fine without the constant attention but people just keep giving it! Now I actually kind of enjoy it. My son waves at people from the back seat, I get asked questions by curious people all the time, and I get the occasional thumbs up randomly.
I was quite disappointed with the pinnetime watch tbh.

I bought 2 watches, the button of broke on one of them after a month and a week, just out of warranty. Both watches get their time fully reset when out of battery, which is after a couple of days.

I really love the concept and applaud the effort and time people have put into this, but just wish the hardware was a bit better.
Not entirely. But I do know the meaning of vested in vested interests.
From what I understand, PoE2 has a fixed-perspective camera, so radiance is calculated in screenspace (2D) as an optimization (and not using a 3D texture). It would be interesting to see how the performance of this technique scales to full 3D, as that would be significantly more expensive / require a lower-resolution voxelization of the scene.
As far as I know, the definition doesn't require the population to be "native". For example, history has plenty of cases of ethnic cleansing against Jewish people in Europe. Or at least Wikipedia considers it as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

Also, the people that were "brought there against their will to work" were the 1800's ancestors of the people that were forcibly removed in the 1970's. How many centuries does it take for a group of people to gain the right against forceful displacement?
I have the perfect comic for this.

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/495

On a more practical level, there's a distinction to be made between (A) whether there is something unusual and detectable, versus (B) whether it supports a huge extra set of supernatural baggage.

This distinction is especially important in the related field of UFOs.
> Again, this happened many times just in the recent years.

Again, when? Concrete examples if there are so many!

> if you think the public is not smart enough to be trusted with figuring what is true and what is false by themselve

I mean, whatever one thinks of censorship this is objectively true. We have flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, people who drank bleach against Covid, people who believe Ukraine started the war against Russia, the pizzagate nonsense, people who believe in the magical powers of rhino horns and shark fin soups and on and on and on. There are, objectively, a lot of very stupid and/or impressionable people out there in the world.
Coverage metric can tell if lines of code were executed, but they can't tell if execution result was checked.
ugh, hate Opera personally.

1. Their GX twitter account is insufferably cringe, we get it, you allow your social media manager to be edgy because you saw the engagement it has driven to KFC_ES and Wendys.

2. It’s just a shit browser
BBC stopped being impartial shortly after start of Iraq's invasion in 2001. It's not as polarizing as Fox News and CNN, but it's _far_ from being impartial.

Their coverage of international events only impartial if those events have no effect on UK.
> One of the largest islands on the tropical atoll, Diego Garcia, will remain a joint US-UK military base and is expected to remain so for 99 years with an option to renew.

This is not the same thing as maintaining sovereignty. The US has bases in many countries, but it's not native US soil
That's completely not true. I know firsthand of well-meaning ads put out by the veterans administration that urged veteran voters to go vote for X because it helps veterans that had to get pulled. It is a conflict of interest for low level bureaucrats in the administration to lobby the public for shit that puts money into its own pocket, and that is taken seriously.
In the kind of advertisement I'm talking about there is no correlation between the imagery and the policy. You'll have a stock photo of a worried immigrant mother holding a child and the proposition will be about something like rezoning a light industrial area for mixed use.

My universal response is "some bastard is trying to hustle me with stock photos"

I wrote about this 8 years ago https://kristopolous.medium.com/the-voters-are-dumbfucks-her...

I think my thoughts are basically the same today
California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions?
Thank you, from someone who never ever ever wants to watch a video to get a few paragraphs of content.
Seems like a valid lawsuit. Saas companies should invest in maintenance, rollouts, slow feature development. Smashing features on customers should be discouraged and costly - like a lawsuit.
> The Erlang string type is implemented as a single-linked-list

This refers just to Erlang's string() type, not BEAM strings in general; it's just a bad default. If you're not using binaries, you're doing it wrong, and that's exactly why Elixir's strings are UTF-8 binaries.
There was a Cybertruck at the Paris Games Week (there was a Tesla corner in the con for some reason). That was my first time seeing one in person.

The most striking thing was how tall it was. Half the kids attending the PGW were smaller than its front bumper. I hope these things never, ever get allowed in France.
"We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B"
I'm a little annoyed that they said Bigint uses cases never materialized. I've used it several times and it isn't something that's easy to transpile. A bigint class has bad ergonomics and there's no way the perf can be equivalent.
This is what has me hung up too! Wolfram ties in the fundamental concepts of G/S relativity together with QM in his graph model. Well-known principles pop out everywhere!

This begs the question: If this new, more general model can be fit to known theories so well, shouldn't it also predict new theories, principles, models, computational techniques etc? Without, the above seems too convenient; an overfit.
> The analysis is dead on. In the American political system, a two party system,

Currently fallen into a two party K-hole, sure.

But not intrinsically a two party political system and one founded initially by many who were vehemently oppossed to party politics.

A good question for the reader is how did the US political system end up in an unrepresentative quagmire of two parties to the effective exclusion of all others?

Is this the inevitable emergent outcome of that particular iterative rules based system?

Is some political variation of Hotelling's law at play here, can other voting systems help?
Unibody car is misleading because the materials are very different. I don’t think it is comparable to either a body on frame construction or the type of unibody a typical sedan or crossover has.
The Linux Foundation is wrong about sanctions
Many people are arguing that the Linux Foundation had no choice but remove the Russian maintainers due to USA sanctions. That is not true. They had choices, and here I explain why.
Could you name one of those sites? I have a 13 mini and have never had usability “broken” on it.
They're using SO graphs to make a point, but I'm not sure they mean what article says they mean.

> For example, “The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities” found that traffic to Stack Overflow declined by about 12% after the release of ChatGPT...

Because ChatGPT read everything, not just StackOverflow, and synthesizes answers to your own question faster than wading through endless questions on StackOverflow reading answers and trying to guess which apply.

Roughly, usability + responsiveness, both with a big dose of "don't make me think".

ChatGPT is winning QA use from those who aren't habituated to StackOverflow already precisely because its answers are not derivative of (just/only) StackoverFlow.
GNOME is the one Linux desktop environment that can be said to work reasonably well on tablet devices, including the PineNote. It also has well-supported "high contrast" and "reduced animations" modes that can serve to enhance UX on an epaper display.
Cause longwave (148-283 kHz) is only part of AM radio. Most of it is in medium wave (525-1705 kHz) and some shortwave (2.3-26 MHz).
The Electoral College and the Senate are not the same thing and are entirely unrelated to each other.

So which are you talking about exactly? Maybe you're just quoting things you heard by rumor?

But seeing as you changed the argument to the Senate, I'll respond to that.

The Senate was never and is not supposed to be representative of the population. It's supposed to be representative of the states. This is a good thing to keep. That's also why things like Governors being able to simply pick replacement senators without having an election is allowed.
What are some no-brainer strategies to avoid the damage please? Thanks.
There you go

https://qz.com/africa/1788351/operas-okash-opesas-predatory-...

>A Chinese super app is facing claims of predatory consumer lending in Nigeria, Kenya and India

https://hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turnarou...

>The group’s largest investor and current Opera Chairman/CEO was recently involved in a Chinese lending business that listed in the U.S. and saw its shares plunge more than 80% in just 2 years amid allegations of fraud and illegal lending practices.

>Post IPO, Opera has now also made a similar and dramatic pivot into predatory short-term loans in Africa and India, deploying deceptive ‘bait and switch’ tactics to lure in borrowers and charging egregious interest rates ranging from ~365-876%.
Regardless, it's really cool to watch you both engage with this
I feel exactly the same. I don't think the problems you solve in factorio are that complex, they are just tedious. It feels like calculations that a calculator can do. It is utterly boring to me personally, I can simply write a program or come up with a formula once I know what I need to make to calculate how much of everything I need. I also like to play simpler games which stimulates more of a lower part of my brain (motor control shit that feels good) no need to think too much in these game since I do a lot of that in my real life job. I have mostly been working on research problems where you can't generally write these rules for how to solve a particular subproblem and that feels like actual problem solving I just don't get when people say they love the problem solving aspect of the game. I mean if you think solving simple mathematical optimization problems that already have a solution "problem solving" then good for you. The average game time is too long and it is just not worth my time.
What’s much harder about maintaining a chrome fork than a fork of the Linux kernel?
I'm trying to understand the basic idea of Radiance Cascades (I don't know much about game development and ray tracing).

Is the key idea the fact that light intensity and shadowing require more resolution near the light source and lower resolution far from it?

So you have higher probe density nearby the light source and then relax it as distance increases minimising the number of radiance collection points?

Also using interpolation eliminates a lot of the calculations.

Does this make any sense? I'm sure there's a lot more detail, but I was looking for a bird's eye understanding that I can keep in the back of my mind.
They do love to do that :)
Back in the day DNS consumed a lot more oxygen - Bind, double-reverse mx records, windows dns, etc. What happened? Did cloud make all of that go away?
Ask HN How to enter tech industry
Hi everyone,

I’m looking to transition into the tech industry and would love some guidance. I have 12 years of experience in hospitality and 4 years in construction, but my experience with tech is limited to things like cracking games.

What are the best steps I can take to break into tech? Are there specific skills or entry-level positions you’d recommend for someone starting from scratch?

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A machine learning engineer said he initially discovered hallucinations in about half of the over 100 hours of Whisper transcriptions he analyzed.

The '100 hours' is almost useless information. 'About half' is meaningless without knowing the sample size. Perhaps he had 5 transcripts averaging 20 hours each, and 2 of the 5 had issues. Or perhaps there were hundreds of short transripts, where the 'almost half' would imply significance.
Pretty much this and I prefer the opposite. "Here's the new test case from me, make the code pass it" is a decent workflow with Aider.

I get that occasionally there are some really trivial but important tests that take time and would be nice to automate. But that's a minority in my experience.
And how are you going to tell that when you have a) variation (that is, every metric wiggles wildly)? And also b) how are you able to tell if it has or hasn’t impacted other parts of your business if you do not have a method for uncovering the causal model of your business (like that aquarium quote you cited earlier?)

Reality has a lot of detail. It’s nice to quote books about goals. It’s a different thing entirely to achieve them in practice with a real business.
If someone tells me 2+2=4 or even 2+2=5, it won't matter to me what their vested interests are, unless I don't know arithmetic.
In that case, I can't imagine how you feel about delivery trucks.
The Kwikset "SmartKey" lock sets are easily re-keyed by just using an existing and a new key, and a little poker tool. The first generation of them had some problems, but the second generation is reasonably secure, as far as any 5 pin entry set goes.
> but the price is too high.

Correction: the devices are not subsidized by ads or paywalls features or services.

(Though in Pine’s case they are subsidized by unpaid workers trying to make software work on them)
Doubling up on the CD recommendation; I saw it mentioned on HN years ago and read it and it completely changed the way I see water issues in the US, in particular the insight about how “wasted” water has a completely different meaning on the east coast vs the west.

To someone who has lived most of my life in Ontario, it’s an eye opener recognizing that drinkable water is insanely plentiful here relative to most of the rest of the world.
> long wave implies AM,

It doesn't: There's a lot of non-AM/non-voice stuff on longwave, most notably various digital time beacons (WWVB in the US, DCF77 in Western Europe etc.)
Hmm, maybe we can think about it like a "reverse" "residual self-image" from The Matrix. The "ghost" doesn't have a form, but it's interpreted by our brains based on various energy signatures.

But then again, that's all matter (well, waves), isn't it?
No, northern Canada is just really cold. The Gulf Stream makes a difference in Europe in general, not just the seaside.

Eg, Lillehammer, Norway is around the same latitude as Whitehorse, Canada but the average December high/low is a balmy -3°/°-8 compared to -10°/-18°. And Bergen is at the same latitude as those places but is even warmer, with a climate similar to Vancouver! That always amazes me.

As far as Hudson’s Bay being “seaside”, Churchill, Manitoba is on the southwest shore and is a great place to go and see polar bears.

If climate change does end up affecting the Gulf Stream, northern Europe is in for a tremendous cold shock.
> 2. It’s just a shit browser

Fallen from grace...

I used Opera like 20(?) years ago. At the time it seemed better and had tabs.

Do I remember it wrong? Was it way better at some point?
When the developer edition was released there wasn't a driver for the eink screen, there have been screenshots posted of what it looks like now that the screen works.
> "More tests" is not the goal - you need to write high impact tests, you need to think about how to test the most of your app surface with least amount of test code.

Are there ways we can measure this?

One idea that I’ve had, is collect code coverage separately for each test. If a test isn’t covering any unique code or branches, maybe it is superfluous - although not necessarily, it can make sense to separately test all the boundary conditions of a function, even if doing so doesn’t hit any unique branches.

Maybe prefer a smaller test which covers the same code to a bigger one. However, sometimes if a test is very DRY, it can be more brittle, since it can be non-obvious how to update it to handle a code change. A repetitive test, updating it can be laborious, but at least reasonably obvious how to do so.

Could an LLM evaluate test quality, if you give it a prompt containing some expert advice on good and bad testing practices?
> Isn't that supposed to be news and not worthless institutional opinions on the presidential office?

That's the goal of Journalism. Newspaper only goals: sell newspapers, sell ads in those newspapers (and since it we live in the age of internet - their website).

> An unconflicted owner wouldn't endorse either candidate. In general, hopefully, but in this election, particularly.

unconflicted owner's opinion shouldn't effect editorial staff opinions.
The guy that developed the technique works on Path of Exile. They’re using it for POE2, he gave an awesome talk about it here

https://youtu.be/TrHHTQqmAaM?si=xrW0XT2lsGHqUYY_
This was a very confusing article to read the comments to first, because people seem to be so passionate about something that I couldn't even visualize. The disconnect is that my (continental European) experience is that any modern lock for something important will have a key with 180 degree rotational symmetry.
How is that any different than if you tried to cross through a protest or snake your way around emergency services?

I get that there are differences but I want you and everyone who thinks like you to think about what those differences are and why they are.
As far as I know, the UK's nuclear submarine fleet used (or still uses?) the presence of a Radio 4 broadcast signal as evidence for the continued existence of the UK. Hopefully they have other means at this point!
> Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the call from Microsoft. The group didn’t immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on how it learned about the firing ... The same group had months earlier called on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to take action against Nasr for his public stances on Israel. ( https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-fired-workers-israel-pa... )

Ah, just another example of "cancel culture" in the US getting rid of the "politically undesirable". (It's news to me that speaking for human rights and freedom of Palestinians colonised by Israel, is now "antisemitism"). I hope Americans recognize that to an outsider like me, the slogan of "land of the free and the home of the brave" is increasingly sounding so hollow. This sad current political trajectory of "you better not have any political beliefs that offend those in power" is certain to lead the US to its downfall.
You don't seem to be having much luck with domain names.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951038
Reducing salt 1g daily in China could prevent ~9M cardiovascular events by 2030
Another example why the 4 freedoms aren't good enough any more, and we need the 11 freedoms :

http://elevenfreedoms.org/freedoms/#runinisolation
Accountants at these places evaluate the cost of replacing all the machines with a new vendor while still paying out the old contract vs internet comments

I’m sure they’ve done the math somewhere, and possibly determined this is more of a meme than an IRL business liability
Walmart, the largest US retailer, accused of endangering Californians for years
Making AI models compete for food in a virtual tank
It’s not his only record, either! https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-t...
Discussion (37 points, 8 hours ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955307
I see your point, while also seeing it as a more complex situation.

APIs means Microsoft gets to dictate what products exist in the first place. We know security software is a use case, but if for instance VR vendors come up with a completely different use case, will the existing APIs be enough for them ? And what recourse do they have if Microsoft either doesn't give a damn, or purposefully drags their feet for whatever reason ?
AI is transforming weather forecasting. Is the U.S. falling behind?
RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector
That's a great comic, and that's where I sit.

Appreciate the comment, but what would (B) involve?

As I see it, it's all EMF (could be picked up from anywhere), no mass spectrometers, no actual science.
I Moved from Svelte to React
WTF is going on with the Chevy EVs?

They dropped the Volt which you can only pry out of owners cold, dead hands. They dropped the Bolt EUV which seems to be similarly adored.

What dumbass metric is causing these stupid decisions?
Next to none in south Florida outside of Miami :(
WaPo takes a hit if they don't endorse, but that's not Bezos's core business. If they endorse Kamala and Trump wins - other businesses of Bezos would suffer. Basically it's safer to not endorse anyone.
Title Typo (char cap?) perhaps No says OpenVault? "Meh says OpenVault"
> Hey i stop here,

You should, because it's not a good look for you. You're clearly speaking from ignorance. OS research has progressed a lot from what you learned 20 years ago or whatever.
Indeed, but you have to grasp one before it makes sense to learn about the other, and neither is going to happen in a 101 class.
> government can't legally just take those away without paying compensation

No, but it can tax them.
I've had this with anti-virus flagging domains and VirusTotal was helpful: https://virustotal.com

But it does require manually reporting false positives to each vendor