skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're comparing apples and oranges in an attempt to distract from the topic by invoking the Russian disinformation trope.

The video is provably authentic, and it elicited an official response from the local government. End of story.

By your logic, if it appears on social media at all, it never happened.
reboot into rescue mode, scp this weeks img up, dd, reboot into normal mode.
Depends on the state. Colorado does do this, for what it’s worth.
I think you are referring to what's known as the "curse of dimensionality," where as dimensionality increases, the distance between points tends to become more uniform and large. However, nearest neighbor search can still work effectively because of several key factors:

1. Real data rarely occupies the full high-dimensional space uniformly. Instead, it typically lies on or near a lower-dimensional manifold embedded within the high-dimensional space. This is often called the "manifold hypothesis."

2. While distances may be large in absolute terms, _relative_ distances still maintain meaningful relationships. If point A is closer to point B than to point C in this high-dimensional space, that proximity often still indicates semantic similarity.

3. The data points that matter for a given problem often cluster in meaningful ways. Even in high dimensions, these clusters can maintain separation that makes nearest neighbor search useful.

Let me give a concrete example: Consider a dataset of images. While an image might be represented in a very high-dimensional space (e.g., thousands of pixels), images of dogs will tend to be closer to other dog images than to images of cars, even in this high-dimensional space. The meaningful features create a structure that nearest neighbor search can exploit.

Spam filtering is another area where nearest neighbor is used to good effect. When you know that a certain embedding representing a spam message (in any medium - email, comments, whatever), then if other messages come along and are _relatively_ close to that one, you may conclude that they are on the right side of the manifold to be considered spam.

You could train a special model to define this manifold, but spam changes all the time and constant training doesn’t work well.
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i used to get phones in the $100-$150 price range. and i'd usually buy a new one after a year or so because the old one became unusable. screen damage (not cracks, but mostly defective touchscreens or lines appearing), bad battery, etc, things that are expensive to repair, and not worth it for a cheap phone.

but for my last phone a year ago i got a refurbished phone that would have cost $300-$500 new. and the difference was massive. this phone has a way better battery life than i can remember from any of my previous phone. it has a better camera and more ram, and is faster (when previously i felt that more ram and faster cpu would affect the battery life negatively)

now this is just an anecdote, and it is very subjective, but i came away with the impression that spending more in a phone can be worth it.

the downside is that for my usage this phone doesn't last any longer than my previous ones. i broke the screen and had to replace it, which wasn't cheap, and the new screen also has some cracks already, which means my average spending on phones will go up if i replace this one with something similar next year.
Wow lots of great feedback!

1) Not rendering special characters (especially basic punctuation) is a rookie mistake. Good catch.
2) confirmation links will go to spam in pretty much all mail clients. I'm investigating more because I have all the things an email should but also it's on a no reputation ip and I would bet my neighbours don't have perfect records. But as part of the whole "internet the way it used to be" thing I'm not using these SMTP operators.

3) I noticed the issue with the footer last night before bed. Luckily that's an easy enough fix.

5) your saying the footer text is off centre? I'll have to look at why..

4) redirect to the page is going in today. Before I had it as an unstyled text notification but that was too minimal for me. I haven't added a bunch of logic yet.

(I accidently read those out of order)

6) funnily enough, I have a 90% finished "bit.ly but minimal" site that I started before this which has QR support and basic analytics but I ADHD'd into this idea. I'm going to launch that as part of this minimalist suite. That doesn't mean things can't be borrowed though.

7) Actually I think there are much cooler domains to snag. You can use single characters, you can use emojis, you can do a lot. I did reserve a handful but where would I draw the line? If you are purposefully exploiting it trying to pretend to BE LynxBoo we would have problems but otherwise I want to reward creativity and I hope people grab all sorts of fun names.
Kids: "roll all the windows down, turn on hazards, and clean the windows!"
At that point why not code something using the Interop APIs to programatically interface with the spreadsheet? It's a PITA to code but it works.
Imagine if this were conducted by screen readers and I were to ask if thats what they called cole slaw in yonder region.
See https://www.felienne.com/public-appearances and ctrl-f for Excel. Especially the videos, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdfNvYPxkOY . Then have a gander at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/lambda-function-b...
I agree. All those Kamala ads about wives in the polling place defying their misogynistic husbands miss the fact that those controlling husbands would demand that their wives receive mail-in ballots, and then use intimidation and pressure to ensure the vote.

The fact that this is rarely discussed probably means that it rarely actually happens. Political beliefs between husbands and wives are usually quite correlated, I'd imagine.

The issue of maliciously voting for you elderly grandparent may happen, but is probably very very rare.
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Even if he didn't do it at the time, it's become pretty clear as of late, that he has 0 scruples to leverage his money and influence to promote a certain candidate and broadcast his distaste for the other one.
My theory is that data is worse again because at least if you're making a website you're expected to end up with a website. The process is opaque and esoteric, but the end-product is somewhat tangible.

A lot of data projects are moving and transforming data no-one cares about. They can fail completely silently, a manager can lie and say 'we've successfully built the data platform which is going to enable AI analytics' and it'll be like a misconfigured S3 or something. No-one's checking the end-product or even understands what it's meant to be.
Then you don't know anything about the election denier and liar that is Mike.
You make a good point! I wish it were easier to find dentists based on machine, for one that has done the research. Now this gets to dental website quality. Also makes me want to ask this community what, if anything, can be gathered about the quality of the dentist based on his website.
> While we primarily deal with Dynamics (AX and 365), pretty much everything fits in there

I don't have much experience with Dynamics. My experience is mostly Oracle, SAP and Netsuite plus some bespoke.

I agree modern systems are very flexible. Everything could fit in there eventually if you are willing to pay, and willing to wait. But reporting can't wait.

The company I work for has 1000 factories, many sales offices. They use many different ERPs. I heard our division has 23! We were all acquired at different times,
. My unit was acquired by a group that subsequently sold a part of itself. They are constantly trying to standardise on one system, but then acquire something else with more different systems. We get around this by using a consolidation system. Export, transform, load of only top line metrics..All via Excel, which is fully integrated into the consolidation system. The consolidation doesn't preserve line level data, so if someone needs it they have to ask for a spreadsheet. The IT just never catches up with the business.

The last mega Corp I worked for was simpler and more standardised, but still used different ERPs in different divisions. We were acquired by a group that was acquired by mega Corp, because they wanted a product a different division made. We were shoehorned in. We were on SAP already, but had to move to theirs...took 18 months to get to us. In the mean time...we used a consolidation system... via Excel
Future employers may consider your HN history before they hire you, or even fire you if they discovered criticism of past employers.
The signature matching would be the first line of defense against that. They would also be notified of deaths by the department of health and the social security administration. Broadly speaking though, whenever potential cases of fraud of investigated, very few end up being substantiated and the fraud that is committed is caught up front.

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-gov...

https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/news/colorado-noncitizens-deceas...
For those interested in jQuery alternatives- I've been waiting for jQuery 4.0 soooo long I ended up making my own jQuery with some key differences:

* Animations, tweens, timelines use pure CSS, instead of jQuery's custom system.
* Use one element or lists transparently.
* Inline <script> Locality of Behavior. No more inventing unique "one time" names.
* Vanilla first. Zero dependencies. 1 file. Under 340 lines.

https://github.com/gnat/surreal
Rust is emerging as a major contender for HTTP/gRPC backend services.

Actix, Axum, sqlx, diesel, and a whole host of other utilities and frameworks make writing Rust for HTTP just as easy and developer efficient as Golang or Java, but the code will never have to deal with GC.

It's easy to pull request scoped objects into durable caches.
Thank you for quoting that. I haven't find a way around the Times new wall yet.
Also noteworthy but little-known is that unprocessed milk from a farm has up to 5% fat - you can't buy milk with that much fat in a supermarket.
Also, just speculation on my part, but their daily caloric intake may be less than that consumed by a Westerner. Combined with their (presumably) greater expenditure of calories than Westerners, that sugar is not going to result in any significant health issues.
I looked up the history and you are completely correct. In my defense Raymarine was part of Raytheon long ago, and then a bunch of spinoffs and acquisitions happened.
An interesting aside:

I’m an overseas Colorado voter. They lump me in with the military voters so my voting process is super easy (I’m sure certain groups would love to make this harder, but not for the troops). I get an email that my ballot is ready, I go to the CO website, authenticate with my SSN (fucking yikes), fill out my ballot online, print a copy to pdf, slap a digital signature on there, and email it back to the SOS who presumably prints it out and throws it in with the rest, and then get an email saying my vote has been counted.

It’s amazing how easy voting can be when we want it to be.
That all iterate too slowly and don’t put the development in the hands of the people doing the job.

Excel is near universal and flexible. It’s not a hammer. It’s a swiss army knife.
My mother's measure, from an old college cookbook: "One cup of rice make three cups of RICE". (With eyes springing wide open and fingers splaying outwards at "RICE", followed by a hearty giggle).

Our measures are way off from each other. Yours sounds like the "rice made for sumo wrestlers" I remember from an old story, where rice was made with progressively less water over time to toughen up the trainees.
The support they get from the Chinese government …
Notarization isn’t the same, it just requires you have a developer certificate. There’s no restrictions on notarized apps that I’m aware of. It allows Apple to pull the cert if the app is found to be malware.
I just take a 1-US-cup measuring cup and fill it 3/4 full for each "cup" that the Zojirushi wants. Like a "heaping cup" in reverse.
This costs $300, so, while cheaper than FLIR, still not cheap.
Awesome! Will you share the code and what made it specifically a PWA?
I don't know if I agree with the premise of the article. At the very least, you can make sure 50,000+ people have food daily. That scales. [1]

[1] - https://youtu.be/qdoJroKUwu0
Technology Connections – Old-fashioned rice cookers are clever [video]
There is however a subfield of statistical ML of model uncertainty quantification. I've developed a product by applying to it to LLMs that can score the trustworthiness of any LLM response. Like any ML-based product, my tool is not perfect, but it can detect incorrect LLM responses with pretty high precision/recall across applications spanning RAG / Q&A, data extraction, classification, summarization, ...

I've published extensive benchmarks:
https://cleanlab.ai/blog/trustworthy-language-model/

You can instantly play with an interactive demo: https://tlm.cleanlab.ai/
Org mode as it's core is basically an outliner, a tree in terms of data structure. And comes with tools to manipulate and navigate that tree. As all documents are trees, that makes it quite good with notes.

But it add a few stuff to those trees like marking them as tasks, assigning tags and properties to them. And that makes it nice for time tracking, tasks management, and project management. And because it's all trees, constructing a database out of it to build an agenda is easy and obvious. It's called agenda, but it can show both a time-based view and a tag( and property?)-based view. But no one says that it needs to be tasks (I track book releases with org).

And I've said that documents are tree, it turns out that org-mode has features to export your org tree to lot of documents format (latex, html, markdown,...), and it has markup that translate nicely to those. Another thing it haves is document level properties in addition to node properties, which lets you customize a lot of these features.

And it has code blocks (there are other blocks too eg. for quotations) and have a nice integration to both highlight and runs the snippet in it. And because the document is linear, you can choose to export all the codes to specific files (configurable at block level) and it will do so . That's very nice when you want both documents and code side by side (aka literate programming).

The other nice thing is the table markup. It can do some computation, but the nice thing is that you can do operations it without aligning everything over and over as it automatically does.

What makes org really useful is not org itself, but Emacs. Org leverages a lot of Emacs features and you'd probably have to replicate them in other ecosystems. And it's not one way, you can easily tie org-mode to other packages and make something that truly useful to you.
Interesting tidbit: It was Sony who actually tried to build the first rice cooker, but they failed so badly that they gave up and pivoted to radios [0]

[0] https://onefromnippon.com/rice-cookers/
@kwanbix, do you use hosted cal.com or self-hosted? If self-hosted, where is it hosted? How much time does it require for upkeep yearly? What is the infra cost?
Lazy people have been lazy forever. I stumbled across an example of this the other day from the 1990s, I think, and was shocked how much the student emails sounded like LLM prompts: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/questions....
> that's what happened here

What precisely happened here? Can you specify which ruling you’re talking about and why you think it’s so significant?
What’s with so many Asian rice cookers advertising “fuzzy logic” and now “neuro fuzzy logic”? Is that just a meaningless buzzword? Or is it something actually useful?
Paper ballets please. No passwords needed.
The experience varies a lot between platforms.

Facebook seems to have deliberately made m.facebook.com unusable even on a flagship handset, whereas Tinder embraced the web, and launched a PWA[1] better than its native apps.

[1] https://www.tigren.com/blog/tinder-pwa/
It’s not randomness it’s a bias towards consistency and avoiding false positives at the expense of false negatives. There are more qualified candidates than roles, generally speaking. If that changes then I suspect process will change too, as the cost of a false negative will become higher.
Guessing the depreciation is significantly higher than the electricity costs...
I inherited a pipeline like this. It is as if everything is a global variable. You cannot "just fix" one thing in isolation, because some spooky action at a distance of which you were unaware relies upon this insane behavior. Each and every hack is the expected input somewhere else in the chain. You have to carefully inspect everything downstream of any kind of minor adjustment because your cleanup is quite likely to break something else.

Immensely frustrating and draining where you can have accomplished ~nothing in a full day of work to fix what should have been a five minute change.
Yep.

But you have to know which 50k voters in which state, and be able to put your thumb on the scales without tipping off the dozens of people who are professionally employed to prevent exactly this scenario.

More than a few people have been caught trying to cast just a single extra vote.

How in the world are you going to pull off a massive conspiracy like in the midst of the most scrutinized election in the world.
Because not all spreadsheets are audited? Just because they can doesn't mean they are. Also a financial audit is very different in what it is looking for, compared to a cyber security audit, for instance. They are looking to prove the accounts show a true and fair view of the company, not 'are your formulas perfect'. They are more likely to copy out your raw data and run their own analysis.

Answering your edit, not all spreadsheets are opaque either. We design ours to be audited.
I’m still stuck on the “why” and perhaps even “what”.
Everyone runs Postgres in VMs. The real magic, if you want to call it that, is VM snapshots to reduce cold start time.
I was a big promoter of Prisma but can no longer recommend it. They built something really cool but have basically abandoned it, with major issues languishing for years without attention.

I guess they were busy working on this instead... for now.
The article is very thin on details. For example, why not use a mechanical timer like many other appliances did and still do? That's the kind of detail an IEEE reader might appreciate.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_control_system
How many kids use it for non-addictive purposes and put it away after an hour of use without raising trouble when it's taken away?
The ability to audit doesn't necessarily mean that the "code" in a spreadsheet is easy to read, only that it is easy to see...
I’d probably just go ahead on the original implementation and this and use uint32_t. The submitters because you might as well be more cache friendly on 64 bit systems, and here unsigned only guarantees 16 bits. People still use AVRs and the like where sizeof unsigned == 2. Granted, you’d probably use a 16 bit table there, but the portability costs nothing and gains clarity.

This version has the caveat that it is technically not thread safe.
Huh. It just occurred to me that our EV has no mechanical mitigation at all. No physical handbrake, no clutch, no mechanical key to power off the engine. I'm not sure how to feel about this.
It is important that the voting system have credibility for everyone - regardless of party. Has anyone done a ground up exercise of rethinking the process and the involved technologies from a cybersecurity standpoint? It would be great to offer voters verification of their votes while maintaining secrecy.

But right now I feel like we are stuck, with one half the country having doubts about the process and the other half insisting that it is absolutely perfect. It isn’t enough for the process to be either correct or trustworthy. It has to be both.
> I think I know what I'm talking about

I've refuted your claims point by point and all you can say is "trust me bro"? Cool but I think you do not in fact know what you're talking about.
I believe providing a body with GET is non-standard, which could lead to problems with proxies. IETF is introducing the QUERY method to fill this gap.
Bezos? What the hell would a tech/business guy have to say about elections and why would anyone listen? He has a newspaper to speak for him, why is he saying this stuff under his own name?

Edit: i was out of the loop but apparently bezos decided to throw his chips out the window for little benefit to himself (or anyone). Just goes to show the wealthy are just as capable of being morons as the rest of us
Sunlight is quite energetic (~1 kW per square meter) and free. Competing with it is an idea that has somehow managed to live longer than the few minutes it should have taken to realize that. Completely idiotic.
Much like art (and everything, especially in things that line up with pedantry) every person is going to have their own opinion on what exactly minimal is, what exactly brutalist is, etc.

I don't take anyone's comments that this isn't their brutalism / minimalism to heart and any place I can use the feedback I will.

Some pages are loaded in under 1KB so for my definition I don't know how much more minimal I can practically be. Also I'm going to use spam fighting tech because this is a great tool for spammers. If I have to trade not having Richard Stallman using the site that's just a practical trade I'll have to make.

:) I think you have a really reasonable take here, thanks for spending the time to reply.
It's also common in Magic and other card game tournaments, but slightly modified: "6 rounds of swiss, cut to top 8 the single elimination" is a common sight.
I'm not sure what operations you're doing that you're CPU bound.

When exporting Gmail and hitting an execution timeout, I would implement partitioning by date. Google Apps Script has a lock mechanism ( https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/lock ), and you can use user properties for progress tracking ( https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/properti...() ). Therefore, you can schedule a task every x minutes to pull x days of data and keep the cursor in user properties.
I'll check the logs! Thanks!
> Prior to Trump, it was afaict an accepted fact among software people that closed source electronic voting machines were sitting ducks ripe for hacking.
We went from "don't trust Diebold" to "how dare you question Dominion."

We didn’t, you’re just grossly over-simplifying a couple decades of history. In the 2000s, there were some very bad electronic voting systems which did not maintain paper records or printed receipts which which were never validated. That lead to tons of criticism – and better designs.

In 2020, nobody said “how dare you question Dominion” because the whole point was that we _don’t_ trust Dominion and use systems which are designed to be verifiable and the results had been independently checked multiple times.
Excellent point… and one I should know. I spent about 6mo as a data eng (only one at the startup) and long after, found out no one ever had a clue what I was talking about in standup. (To be fair, I was self-teaching, and no-one else knew anything so)