skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>machines are going to be more accurate

Says who? Also, what does "accurate" here actually mean?

Speaking as someone who actually understands computers and machines: I agree with the commons (who are simpletons with regards to computers and machines) that machines cannot be trusted to be "accurate" (whatever that means) or even trusted in general.

Especially when a simpler, confirmable-by-anyone method exists: Having someone count paper ballots by hand in the presence of anyone and everyone. That includes mistakes and errors. The value here is anyone and everyone can and will immediately understand (and thus accept) what is going on.

Also, why are we even putting the integrity of the very foundation of our democracy on the table in exchange for convenience and cost of all things? Are we serious? It should be a good thing we are taking precious time and money to make sure our democracy is working properly. I thought democracy was actually fucking important.
When you disregard basic voting security, everything becomes super easy. Mail-in voting allows for vote buying, the only way to avoid this is by having a private in person voting booth so the person voting cannot prove to the outside world who they voted for.

Even this isn't secure now, because everyone can just photograph their voting card within the booth.
The good news is that, since the others are also looking for work elsewhere, there will be more engineers out in gen pop that actually thinks tests are useful, hah.
Show HN: Calculator in Browser
This Halloween I wasnt invited to any party so I got bored and I created this quick calculator for me calculations, without leaving my chrome browser.
There's no it way won't suck, so it's good to github built in a way to iterate and called it experimental. We need much better llms, or some other technique, before we can have anything like this.

People have been trying this building software in plain English bullshit for at least 65 years, look into the history of cobol. It didn't work last time, or the time before, or the 50 times before that. It absolutely will work someday, but there's no compelling reason to believe that day is coming in the next month or two.
Hah, yes, I'm not in cybersecurity but am very close to a few people that are. The incompetence is not evenly distributed and not as bad as it is in data, but some companies are in terrible states, and the stakes are much higher.
It feels like indoor farming will only be valuable for super high value produce. Lots of potential there for rare or expensive produce to go down to a more reasonable level.

Or someone without enough space for land farming and they cannot import for less than indoor farms.
Thanks for the feedback. Stripe asked for the statement from the bank used for payouts, which for me is Payoneer, so I sent that. If they’d asked for a personal bank statement, I’d have happily provided it, but their request specifically focused on my payout account.

When I opened the account, Stripe support confirmed that using Payoneer was fine, and since I don’t have a U.S. bank account, it was my only option for payouts.
I run a legitimate business, and Payoneer conducts full KYC checks, so there's no question of money laundering.
That works until it doesn’t. When my poorly adjusted and full of mud parking brake finally failed The weight of my Jeep overcame engine compression and rolled the engine over while it was in first. It got going surprisingly fast until it smacked into a rock wall and flipped the Jeep on its side.
This was in remote Uganda.

Video from immediately after it flipped over https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DChDTGIciNI
I agree. I'm not knowledgable enough to say for sure, but my intuition is that the total complexity of WebGPU (browser implementation + driver) is usually less than the total complexity of WebGL.
If it was compromised, it wouldn't flip all the votes, it would flip just enough to change the result while staying credible. So the question is how many people double check the paper ballot. Because if it randomly flips, say 1 ballot out of 15, and the paper ballot is consistent with the tally, it could very well go unnoticed.
Sounds like a nifty way to introduce gradeschoolers to astronomic concepts.
TFA says basic writing skills should be drilled until they become automatic, at which point you can work on higher stuff, like expression.

It could alternatively have been titled "Writing is a Sport", but they chose drawing as their analogy, hence the visual language language.
Conflicting documentation:

me() is guaranteed to return 1 element (or first found, or null).
any() is guaranteed to return an array (or empty array).

Array methods

any('button')?.forEach(...)
any('button')?.map(...)

So does any() always return an array as described near the top, or can it return null as implied by the example below?
> You generally can't write queries against it.

Yes you can, there are a lot of different ways of doing it depending on what type of data you have and how you structured it.
>(choices don’t seem to matter but who knows if that’s gonna change at some point)

They do matter, you're just lucky(?) always using hardware and software environments that are always covered by the first thing on the list.

If you don't want to specify details and run an installer, that's squarely a You problem.
>look into the history of cobol. It didn't work last time,

I believe that Cobol did work, in relatively narrow but important niches. It worked, but was hated.
I don't know why people are impressed. Robots are hard and this is a big step forward but it's still useless. This is far from being as functional as automotive manufacturing robots or even vacuum cleaners. This is nothing like the goal we're striving for with these things. There's very a long way to go until this does what we want.
Impressive work!

I am surprised Smalltalk and Prolog are in there though.
Apache Spark casually gets called Spark, and it especially gets called Spark when referring to subprojects. For instance there's Spark Core, Spark Streaming, and PySpark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Spark

BTW the trademark: https://spark.apache.org/trademarks.html
how does it compare with bastion?
Floorp is great! Also discovered it recently. Works really well.
Even more remarkable, the AI has taken on a corporeal form that can walk, talk, shake hands, even drink liquids and eat food!
1994: "It's on the Internet, so it must be true."

2024: "It's from an artificial intelligence, so it must be true."
1. Awesome! This comes at a perfect time for me as I literally today let my domain expire which I used to keep my frequently used links:-)
2. What's your monetizion / business plan, or how much free hosting, support, and time can you dedicate to it?

In other words, how much should people assume this'll stick around and be with investing time and habits into?
> Virginia purged 1600 non-citizens from their voter rolls and a Chinese student actually voted in Michigan. Clearly requiring citizenship to register as a voter is not sufficient. Poll volunteers should be verifying citizenship.

Over the last 20 years there's no record of a non citizen voting in VA.

As a poll worker myself, there's nothing we would check election day that was that wasn't already checked during registration. Asking me to "verify" day of, beyond what we already do, isn't really feasible.

Recommend you work the polls and educate yourself on how your particular locale operates.
thank you for reading & comprehending the point, and not somehow concluding I'm claiming sugar doesn't raise blood sugar
We do it in the UK
Volunteers count the votes because they want to see a fair election (and there are ways of checking if someone partisan slipped some votes into the wrong pile).

I agree with GP. Transparency is more important than precision in democracy.

Good engineering is about choosing the right technology, not just the more recent one. Sometimes the right technology is paper.
Show HN: Pinterest Font Generator
Correction: Tesla says* they have footage of Optimus working autonomously
That you “can’t fathom” why people want to automate a multi-minute chore is a “You problem”, really.
You really should say C-a and C-e, if you're referring to the emacs commands. For the vast majority of modern computer programs, ctrl+a is "Select All".
Some of the regional elections in Germany have comically large ballots with dozens of options and a very complicated counting system (16 votes that can be split between individuals or party lists). The hand-counted results are generally available by the next morning. There is really no excuse for using electronic voting. In Germany it has been ruled unconstitutional since it cannot be checked by the voters.
Not to mention the fact that there were tons of rumors around Apple developers practically handholding adobe to get them across the finish line for the Apple Silicon port.

Adobe is extremely incompetent wrt actually developing usable, clean and efficient software so I can definitely see this as being plausible
You say ‘the cheque is in the mail’ when you intend to ignore an instruction whilst pretending to comply.
This isn't stripe customer service, nobody here can change your situation.
The good old "no ethical consumption under capitalism".

Solar is the best we got for a good price. And it's clean AF in comparison to the common alternatives.
Fight over Privacy Firefox and Brave Take Potshots at Each Other
Not the person you’re replying to, but I would expect that a near universal answer to this across all kinds of projects (not just software) is effective collaboration and communication between stakeholders and teams.

Despite no shortage of technical talent on large projects they can still often fail, and it’s because building a technically impressive thing doesn’t matter if it doesn’t do what business needs.

So it’s about making sure you’re building the “right” thing that delivers on business’s actual needs, and the only way to find out what those are is through constant and ongoing good communication between technical and business people.
Energy costs $0.1 per kW in Norway. What's wrong?

Ok, energy costs $0.1 per kWh (h is important) and that's operational cost, while the number above is the infrastructure cost of creating an installation able to supply the wattage above.
A driver, to be even more correct.
He’s also selling pillow cases for $24.98. Which secret hate symbol is that one?
Trello?

I haven’t used it in … years, so I don’t know if it supports everything you need, though that was its original intended purpose

https://trello.com/
Zojirushi offers a wide range of rice cookers. We just have the basic one and it works well, but they have higher end ones that cost 4x the price that we bought ours, I’m not sure if the rice is actually better in the higher ends Zojirushis. They even have cheaper ones that use fuzzy logic, it looks more like an economy thing over the traditional non stick pressure based rice cookers.
How about you go look up the answers to all those heavily studied questions, published in freely available reports by numerous organisations if you're so concerned?

Apparently your concern doesn't rise to any desire to seek out data which is readily available.
Like every other similar forum, heavily used by people apparently unfamiliar with searching Google, using Maps, or simply asking Thai people in person.
I know this isn’t Stripe support, but I’m out of options. Stripe cuts off support access for closed accounts. I’ve emailed them multiple times, offering to provide additional documents and PayPal statements, but I haven’t received any response for over a month.
The main use of the solver is for something that definitely cannot be done without programming vba macro. You use it to find the optimal value in a cell based on the result in a different cell. You have a cell that excels will solve, a cell with the objective and constraints.

For example, let's say you have a spreadsheet to calculate the capacity of a steel column based on its height and cross-section/material. If you wanted to run the calculation backward and find the height that will give you a very specific capacity, you could do it manually by playing with the height until you find it or you can let Excel do it for automatically with the solver.
Its the same for many aspects of engineering, equally applies. Thank you
Can you build a startup without sacrificing your mental health?
this is a fair point, but still: sugar might just be a diabetes catalyst on the condition other large changes have occurred (low exercise, high processed food diets, more stress etc.), and we don't know if the effect would've been the same since no conditions exist where diet, lifestyle and other factors remained completely static for a number of decades.
Location: Anywhere (I'm in India)

Remote: Only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Product design, UI/UX design, Brand identity design, Graphic design, UI writing, HTML & CSS

Résumé/CV: https://radesign.in/files/Resume_Rakesh.pdf

Email: rakesh[at]radesign[dot]in

Portfolio: https://radesign.in

I'm a multidisciplinary product designer with 13 years' experience in designing web and mobile products for B2B and B2C (5 years full-time; 8 years as an independent contractor).

I specialize in designing complex products and in working as the solo/founding designer at startups, taking care of many aspects of design.
I don't know why this is down voted. The dude has 0 credibility and is for sure making things up.
"I can't fathom why people want to abstract something as simple as downloading the drivers straight from Nvidia and installing it, but then again people"

I think I do understand WTF a computer is, yet at some point I also had a tool on windows installed, that automatically downloaded ALL of the drivers for all devices.

Convenient, but the main reason I installed the thing was, because it could install drivers I did not even find on official websites.

But just out of curiosity, if you understand what a computer is, why do you prefer manual labour and look down on people who automate things?
Length-Induced Embedding Collapse in Transformer-Based Models
You originally described a problem where fog had a different falloff in world space at the edges of the screen compared to the center of the screen. The root cause of that is not the perspective projection; it's how the fog is being rendered.

The issue you are describing now is called perspective distortion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_distortion), and it is something that also happens with physical cameras when using a wide-angle lens. There is no single correct answer for dealing with this: similarly to the situation with map projections, every projection is a compromise between different types of distortion.

Anyway, if you're writing a ray tracer it's possible to use whatever projection you want, but if you're using the rasterizer in the GPU you're stuck with rectilinear projection and any alternate projection has to be approximated some other way (such as via post-processing, like you mention).
Almost every democratic country on Earth today does it like that, and all democratic countries have done it like that for the last 100-200 years. Counting paper ballots is just not that hard. Machines are infinitely more complex and exploitable.

Plus, you have the extra layer of public perception: it's much easier to convince a chunk of the public that all the machines in some area are miscounting, than it is to convince them that all human vote counter in those areas are miscounting, and all in the same direction.
IIUC, while this type of mass manufacturing is very efficient, it also limits the materials and what the final product can be.

Especially in food manufacturing, they need to add certain chemicals in the food ingredients so that the machines can process them and that's what separates the cheap mass produced food from artisan food.

A humanoid robot might be able to apply traditional processes and make artisan, additive free products cheap and available.

If we end up having practically unlimited energy(which we actually have, just not harnessed fully yet), we can also have small production centers on every corner that produce bespoke products using humanoid robots and traditional tools instead of having centralized and highly specialized and streamlined mass production.
seL4 is a bit more than a hypervisor, but it's definitely very low-level. In terms of a useful seL4-based system, you may want to look at https://trustworthy.systems/projects/LionsOS/ – not yet verified, but will be.
That'd be a convincing argument if the internet wasn't brainwashing a significant portion of adults into believing weird things about the political elite, vaccines, 5G, etc.
>But I have yet to find something that gets rid of most of the features that I don't want while keeping the things I do

The interface is customizable. You can remove any icons or group of icons on the ribbon that you don't like and you can reorganize them in any way you want. Just right click on the ribbon and click "customize the ribbon".
Github Spark looks like v0.dev, and v0 is much faster than me in building a good UI in React. It also often creates better UIs than me. But after the basic interface is up, it’s better for me to connect it to the backend or add interactivity myself (with the help of inline copilot completions of course).

In the end, it does speed up my development of applications.
Basically every historical/political analysis of turmoil every publically available US Army pdf I can find.
Not with a randomized audit, such as this one for the 2022 primary [1]. If it flipped just one vote out of 100, and you drew an audit sample of just 1000 votes, the probability of detecting it would be 99.996%.

[1] https://www.cpr.org/2022/07/13/colorado-counties-begin-audit...
I wonder if this will completely replaces scripts, shortcuts and If this than that type of Apps.
Error handling challenge (can your language pass the challenge?)
"None of those" refers to everything in the bulleted list in the comment I replied to.

The one that I think Apache Spark is similar to is GitHub Spark, because they're both developer tools, and AI adjacent.
I haven't found Copilot that useful, except as a fancy autocomplete. However, recently I've had Claude solve a lot of problems for me, including some with fairly tricky math. Nothing that I couldn't solve myself. But definitely things that would have taken me from 30 minutes to a few hours, and which with Claude helping me were solved in 5-10 minutes.

As an example from yesterday, I had written a function that returned the position of the camera in 3d space relative to an object. I'd written it fairly quickly and naively using just the direction vector and it mostly worked, but then I realized when the camera was overhead facing down, I also needed to consider the orientation of the camera. I fed my function into Claude, explained the problem without my hunch on how to fix it because it's always interesting to see if I'll get a different solution. But Claude was able to get the same solution as me, and do the maths required, in one go.
It sounds like you like to deal with much sharper edges than I am comfortable with.

Or maybe I am too old with this shit. Still haven't found a use for "serverless" knives.
Machines are amazing at counting things without losing their place. I'd trust an ATM's counted stack of bills over a human's (for sure if they only each got one try).

I've written some code at a previous job to simplify data entry. The previous method was adding numbers from a stack of papers, with a calculator.
I trust my code to add up the numbers on the computer over a human reading them from a printout and entering them in a calculator.

Humans make mistakes. A lot.
So what is your point, you think sugar is not such a big problem and we're not eating too much of it? Then what is according to you the major cause of diabetes and obesity?

To me it sounds logical that nutrition plays a major role in our health, and that sugar is a kind of food our bodies aren't made to process in such high quantities.
I've always found that journaling without an intended structure (a few sentences about a baseball game, or some coding paradigm, or a good memory) helps me to relax. If I task myself to "write about my day" like my parents taught me to as a kid I'd have a grand total of about 12 journal entries in my life.
What if you've got a Symbolics 3600 which has 36 bit words?

Your suggestion will break on that.

We clearly want uint_least32_t.
The Making of China and India in the 21st Century
It sure beats burning coal, oil or gas.
We have re-invented the tamale stand, but with robots.
One would think. But there's a track record of failure outside Asia.

American Battery Factory seems to be good at press releases but not at shipping product.[1]

Tesla had severe problems with in-house battery production. Mostly they packaged Panasonic and CATL cells.
But the battery plant may be past that point, finally.[2]

The only European company that makes LFE batteries in quantity is in Serbia, and they're still in the sample stage.[3]

These new plants are starting to make a product Asian plants have been producing for years. All the big Asian makers are frantically trying to get the next generation, solid state battery production to work. Some of them have semi-solid state batteries working. Factorial in the US is trying to do that, too.

[1] https://americanbatteryfactory.com/press

[2] https://insideevs.com/news/733985/tesla-4680-manufacturing-m...

[3] https://elevenes.com/en/contact
That's my point.

> You can at best mitigate it by being proactive and wealthy enough but it's still not enough.

Even with your example of free pollutant olive oil, it's easy to find studies that it is in fact contaminated.

I'm sure it's rather limited, but the point remains that pollution is inevitable nowadays.

I worked in building construction, we learned at formation that because of the asbestos used in construction all over the country there is now asbestos fiber in the air absolutely everywhere. Again, it's maybe 1 fiber per liter in middle of countryside, but still...

Pollution is rather recent, it's been only 200 years we pollute so much and the fact is its effects are increasing very fast.
Sorry for the unclear question, I wasn’t sure how to phrase that and didn’t look it up to confirm. I meant „can you transfer any credits to a western university“.
Parsing POSIX shell in undecidable too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30362718
Doctor, heal thyself.

I don’t think we should take advice on ending discrimination from openly bigoted institutions like UW.

https://komonews.com/amp/news/local/civil-rights-complaint-u...

https://www.newsweek.com/university-washington-white-asian-c...
You can't accuse something of being a dog whistle only when Person A says it, but not Person B. It either is or isn't. To do otherwise would be applying a double standard.
Do you think perhaps the problem is rooted in people being dishonest, and honest people are driven mad by it all and self-select out? The dead-sea effect?
Caffeine is not in so much products that it would be such an obvious smoking gun
The auditors use it, the CFO expects it, it’s all the interns know. These are reasons to have to use it, not to like it.

At best it’s an arranged marriage, at worst it’s Stockholme syndrome.
> Not seen/heard of this person before but reading this specific blog post it all sounds very familiar, it's depressing.

Someone once told me he, as a form of therapy, rewrote the company he worked at in a few weekends. He never mentioned it to his coworkers, it was strictly a therapeutic effort. They apparently spend years "fixing" things without making any progress.
No it's not. Your signature would have to match the one on file.

Further, if the person the ballot rightfully belonged to actually wants to vote, they'll either request a new one or vote in person - either one of which would invalidate the earlier mailed ballot.