skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint. Before I retrained in finance I was a carpenter & joiner, and a good one too. People would wait for months for my gang to be free. Nail guns were rare in my country back then. There are only so many tools you could carry to site so you had to compromise. I had to hammer in 4" nails, so carried a 20oz Stanley claw hammer. Then it would rain so we would move to finish work...all with the same hammer. It was rare that I would leave 'half-moons' as we called them, where you hit the wood rather than the nail. None of our gang carried a second hammer. A 60 year old life long carpenter I worked with told me when I was an apprentice that 'pin hammers' with their small heads tend to leave more marks. I never saw him leave a mark with his 16oz Stanley Steelmaster. I saw him drive in 6 inch nails better than me, and saw him drive panel pins. I saw him have to give up his hammer when the rubber grip wore completely through under his thumb. I saw him try every (superficially identical factory made) hammer in the shop until he felt one was near enough. I tried it too and I could feel the difference between them. Such was the bond we had with our tools.

You see being an expert with your tools is more important than having every tool in the catalogue. In fact, knowing that one hammer intimately, having your thumb print worn into the grip, was much better than having a multitude of hammers that I had no feel for.

I would rather my team were great at Excel, knew its foibles and limitations, than to start dabbling at things they could never become properly familiar with. I don't need people who suck at SQL writing queries. I don't need people who are great at SQL but don't understand accounts either. I have been burnt by both. IT people who decide you don't need x, and filter it out are a menace to my profession.
You are naive to speak so against absolutely anyone. Or a hypocrite. Everywhere everyone is “politically motivated.” That’s different than “an agenda”. I see it as his boy toy. He’s the big boy, twitter/X is his ego toy. (Look how he hops around the stage with trump. What antics. He’s trippin.)

I wonder why my OC was negged. Some liked it, now it’s flat. This down vote thing should be more conversational. It’s like chatting with ghosts.

I don’t think my comment was provocative at all. Only an honest take.
I'm from Sweden where we only have 3 things to vote on (national, county, and city). I assumed Denmark was similar.
> For example, I added "+donation" when I gave money to a political organization once, and now when I see emails from other groups to that address, I know how they got it.

This hasn't worked for literal years. Every spammer on the planet knows to remove plus-addressing from Gmail addresses. The only way to truly know how someone got your email is to use completely separate emails as in Firefox Relay.
What size dataset can you fit on that $5 VPS where it handles those queries in reasonable time? Serious question, all the $5 VPS' I've seen are too low spec to get anywhere with them. Eg a digital ocean $6/mo VPS will get you a single measely gig of RAM and a 25 GiB SSD. Without being more explicit about "realize there more included" is a $5 VPS really even a valid point of comparison?

I don't know why people ever buy plane tickets, walking's free.
jQuery's API is nice. And it's abstraction reflects common sense more than technical implementations. It's another abstraction layer, all right, and not required, but it's so convenient.
Appreciate the response!

In any case: Best of success in bringing this to GA, it’s great you’re among teams working on making this accessible!
I use a Zojirushi NS-LAC05. (I believe the current version of this model is the NS-LHC05.)

https://www.zojirushi.com/app/category/rice-cookers

It makes great rice consistently and easily.

The only quirk is that their "cup" measure is 1 gou (一合枡), which is just over 3/4 of a US cup. It's just a cultural thing, but the adaptation I had to make was real — I got this rice cooker as a hand-me-down from an Asian friend, and it didn't include the OEM 1-gou cup. It took a bit before I figured out how to get the proportions right.

The results are better than what my parents used to get with their old Black and Decker RC400. It's possible that there was user error involved with the RC400, which I recall burning on the bottom. I've never burnt any rice with the Zojirushi, and I'm not even sure how I could go about it if I wanted to. Certainly the Zojirushi produces better rice than I used to make cooking it on the stovetop in an ordinary pot.

I'd like to know just how the Zojirushi gets such great results. My guess is that it's some combination of good temperature measurement and even heat application to ensure that their well-researched cooking formulas get accurately applied.
Cheeky response..

It would take a 1 year project and 5 devs to replace what one finance person created in a day.

Then when it didnt work complain the SME got the requirements wrong.

Im being silly but as a dev i hate the hate for excel, though i know from years of experience that its also a nightmare.
This! 23:00 is when my free time starts.
The domain names are public keys so they can't be easily remembered, spoken...

This is their example:

http://7fmjpcuuzf54hw18bsgi3zihzyh4awseeuq5tmojefaezjbd64cy/
> There has been a point in my life where I ended every day in the dark, staring at a wall for an hour or two straight, trying to figure out why everything felt awful.

From his post about burnout and mental health. Also worth a read.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/on-burnout-mental-health-and...
There's a bunch of open source fem solvers e.g. Calculix, Code_Aster, OpenRadioss and probably a few unmaintained forks of (NASA) NASTRAN, but there's no multiphysics package I don't think.
Instead of brutalist, I'd call it "NASA Revivalist" as it is very reminiscent of the 1970s NASA graphic design style manual[0].

Having personal experience designing in the context of / restoring brutalist architecture (the kind people live and work* in), I submit with gratitude that this tool misses some key aspects of the style:

1. No concrete used in construction, and therefore no concrete smell, aka "eau de mid-century Americana."**

2. No sense of impending arrest by secret police around every corner.

3. Does not require regular pressure washing to avoid looking like a set-piece from a post-apocalyptic horror movie.

* for certain values of "live" and "work"
** sans cigarettes

0 <https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nasa_graphic...>
I personally don't put much trust in the security of BIOS vendors. My desktop's motherboard straight up displays the BIOS password if you read the right EFI boot variable (obfuscated with some proprietary "encryption" algorithm with a hard coded key).

Based on previous reports on the security of devices like these, I wouldn't be surprised if a quick flash dump of the NVRAM is enough to crack the password in seconds already. Perhaps voting machine manufacturers have finally made it too difficult to disassemble these machines in a short amount of time, but that's historically not been very difficult.

I would reckon the access time needed to hack+access the BIOS lies in the area of "a few minutes, twice", not the kind of prolonged physical access you'd need to brute force the password.

That's not exactly "someone posing as a voter could hack the machine", luckily, but then again apparently at least one hacker at DEF CON found a vulnerability in voting machines this year that won't be fixed before the upcoming American elections, so who knows if there's an exploit like that lying around.
But the units actively want to repair themselves, that has to be better than right to repair, right?
I've done that on barbecues & beach bonfire/barbecues - I wouldn't say it's different from an oven baked potato particularly. Not that I know that rosin-cooked is markedly different (to me) either of course.
The article isn't clear whether they self reported or were made aware. The affidavit mentioned someone reported they had accessed the passwords multiple times before it was taken down. Seems to me someone reported it to the GOP.
That's great, but has little to do with the 'excel is my hammer, therefore everything is an excel-shaped nail' problem.

Sure, like I wrote (twice already), you might need to have some malleable rows in front of you on your local workstation for some ephemeral work. But the actual workflow happens in the ERP system. Or the CRM. Or the PIM system. Or in Tableau. Or Databricks. And my beef is with people who think their personal flavour of alternate software should bypass that, even when they have been explicitly told not to. When someone needs to stream the truth (data-wise), that comes out of those systems, not some kludgy sheet on someone's network share. Those are the rules that we set up.

I don't understand why this is so difficult for everyone to understand (on HN of all places). These are general staff functions we practically have entire schools for, to make people work this way.
It disappeared already because apps now have the biggest share of users attention.
What did I say? I just described everyone I know.
The 2000 election was decided by 500 votes. You think it would be unfeasible to flip 500 votes in a critical swing state with such a system?
I hate sprints. Developers are not machines. We don't crunch through work like an assembly line worker. We don't work at a consistent rate. Sometimes, shit happens you couldn't possibly predict. Sometimes, you want to go work on something else for a while. Sometimes we can't accurately say how long something is going to take until we're half way through.

I just don't understand the point of boxing yourself into a set of work for X weeks when you could just use Kanban and pick up/put down work when needed.
> Auditors understand and can check through Excel but they don't understand code.

Spreadsheets are code. Their user-facing side is a particular form of livecode oriented around "sheets"/2D arrays of data tightly connected with reactive code -- which definitely has some legibility advantages -- but they're code.

Auditability is legibility. The advantages help. But also the reasons why Excel code is legible to auditors probably have some things in common with the reasons Ruby code is legible to devs who've worked with Ruby or sufficiently-Ruby like languages: exposure, training, and culture that have coalesced around it.

And I'd guess that people who don't understand that spreadsheets are code are less likely to be able to read the limits of legibility past where there be dragons, fog, and possibly even fraud.
If you don't want a hard coded table, you could always do this.

unsigned kCastagnoli[256];

void InitializeCrc32(unsigned table[256], unsigned polynomial) {
unsigned d, i, r;
for (d = 0; d < 256; ++d) {
r = d;
for (i = 0; i < 8; ++i)
r = r >> 1 ^ (r & 1 ? polynomial : 0);
table[d] = r;
}
}

unsigned Castagnoli(unsigned h, unsigned long w, long n) {
long i;
static int once;
if (!once) {
InitializeCrc32(kCastagnoli, 0x82f63b78);
once = 1;
}
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
h = h >> 8 ^ kCastagnoli[(h & 255) ^ (w & 255)];
w >>= 8;
}
return h;
}

That does the same thing as the crc32 instructions in x86.
I live in one of if not the most critical county in the entire country this election.

It's going to be insane here.

This week alone we've had Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Tim Walz stumping here.

https://newrepublic.com/article/187597/pennsylvania-election...
Thanks, I didn't know what Elo meant and your comment helped me.

The Elo[a] rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system#:~:text=Th....
One of the only (the only?) commercial grade implementations was launched recently by us at PlanetScale:

https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-planetscale-vectors-...
Largest Plate Mill-Lukens [video]
This sounds about right, having spent my share of time prepping robot systems for big PR and investor demos.
I had a friend who used Excel to render blueprints for the dream house she was designing. As an architecture student, I was both impressed and horrified!
Prisma is an absolute joke. I remember hearing so much about it with the hype train, and I looked into it, and it's an absolute catastrophe with a very beautiful homepage. There are GitHub issues where the creator is arguing with people about not supporting foreign key constraints or something, and he didnt understand the use case (cant remember specifics right now, but this is where I immediately noped right out)
I don't pay attention to supply-chain rumors, but a podcast that I listen to confirmed that all the expectations from leaks were spot on about this past week's announcements. Those same rumors apparently suggest that all Macs will be on M4s by sometime in 2025. It stands to reason that an Ultra chip will arrive next year.
And yet they were estimated to be over 11%, not less than 5% or less 8% when Einstein addressed it. That's all I was saying, you quoted a wrong stat, which IMO is independent of the other statement you made yet you keep repeating the other statement.
It's almost too easy to hit up https://sheets.new whenever I get an idea.

Having to wait for Excel to load up every time would be a killer.

I also really like Google Forms, and use it for tracking things like my piano practice time[0]. The page loads instantly and it only takes 6-7 seconds to log a new time.

https://i.imgur.com/xK6tnJe.png

I don't think Excel offers anything like this.
"In addition to the Department of State Employees and in coordination with county clerks, these employees will only enter badged areas in pairs to update the passwords for election equipment in counties and will be directly observed by local elections officials from the county clerk's office.

This is a bit weird. Someone having a perfectly legitimate excuse to fiddle with voting machines, urgently, two days before elections.
2000 was punch cards and it came down to a razor thin 500 votes in a single swing state.

By law the mail-in ballots have to be in by election day.
I would say ELO doesn’t let you walk out of a team based game with anything other than a win or loss.

So, in sports, even if your team losses there will be players who will leave the season as All stars, or even MVPs (or vice versa, you are on a championship team but not critical at all to the team). Team esports truly is live or die by the win, and somewhat destroys the expression of players who may be league-wide top defenders/attackers/support. It’s not tracked or acknowledged.

It’s very brutal.

We need to track and factor in “advanced stats” like many sports do to some degree. You are not your ELO, but really your assists-per-game, rebounds-per-game, PPG, RBI, YPG, etc.

Match making would sort of fall into place more organically in that case possibly, since you can easily look at a team and see it needs more scoring, or more defense, versus … needs more winners or losers.
Lol [citation easy to find] for everything I said.

Do you really think the current job market is more favorable to tech employees than it was during the peak of COVID/ZIRP?

Do you really think Amazon is breaking contracts to get people to RTO? I’m sure it would be mentioned in some of these articles if it was the case.

Do you really not understand that if somebody does something risky (assumes they will be remote forever despite no guarantee of that being true) and bases their life around it that they may one day pay a price for taking those risks? And it seems like in this situation, the company is the bad guy in your opinion?

I’m not sure how any of this is difficult to understand.
I like to tell my colleagues that the Heaviside function is so named because it is heavier on one side than the other.
FTA: “Colorado voter votes on a paper ballot, which is then audited during the Risk Limiting Audit to verify that ballots were counted according to voter intent.”
The FEM is just a model of the crash resistant structure. Hopefully it will behave like the actual structure, but that is not guaranteed. We use the FEM because it is faster and cheaper than doing the tests on the actual thing. However if you have the time and money to do your crash resiliency tests on the actual product during the development phase. I expect the results would be much better.
Unless your software is formally verified how would you know?

I have to say my experience as a user has been that all software is buggy to some extent. Anyone who has worked in software for a reasonable amount of time will have found a bug in their own code that apparently worked fine, but actually was not quite right.

Would anybody on hn stand up and say that they never had a bug?
As a point of data, I also find how Google Sheets handles frozen rows/columns more intuitive.
This is a very good suggestion. The internet discourse gets further and further from reality in a lot of areas. Engaging in the actual reality of the voting system is an excellent 'touch grass' opportunity for people passionate about the election.
Provably digitally altered fake videos of voter fraud were made and disseminated by Russia during the US 2020 election. Non-partisan institutions put a lot of energy in trying to debunk these operations which basically suit America's adversaries and, absent of critical thinking, many people become unwitting participants in their disinformation campaigns.

By eating away at the trust of non-partisan institutions that are established to maintain free and fair elections, autocracies like Russia, Iran, China, etc., move up in the world at the expense of internal divisions in the US.
Physically very active. I used to gain 10 kg when my sport (American football) was not in season, although I did some training year-round.

I don’t have the time for that level of activity as an adult. In season, it was about 20 hours a week.
On hetzner it gets you at least 4 cores, 8GB RAM and 80GB local SSD. For $49 you can almost get a dedicated server with 8 cores and 64GB RAM. More than enough to handle that load Edit: this is for $8 but general point still stands
If you really want to obsess over a few percent, the actual percentage of the population that was Jewish before the Zionist movement began was 3%.
> more operational complexity than value

Graph databases are somewhat notoriously hard to optimize at scale.
What problem does Solver solve? Reading the overview, I don't really understand how it would be useful.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/define-and-solve-...

> For example, you can change the amount of your projected advertising budget and see the effect on your projected profit amount.

I can do this without Solver.
Yes I distinctly remember all the drunk salarymen showing up at around 2 in the morning and waking me. I also forgot to open the air vents and woke up gasping for oxygen. On the plus side the hotel had a wonderful bath which was really relaxing after the 12 hour flight.
Shameless plug, but if you want to send emails to yourself for free you can use the free API I created for that purpose. Then at least you don't need to write the web service :)

https://varmail.me
This is why I'm so glad I have a manual transmission with a physical ignition key.

Car starts accelerating out of control? You have several options that you can try in no particular order (except the first one, which should always be tried first).

Lift your primary foot to confirm you're not accidentally pressing the accelerator instead of the brake (this is surprisingly common). Dump the clutch with the other foot at the same time.

If the engine is still going nuts, shift to neutral and/or turn the ignition off (DON'T remove the key yet; that will lock the steering wheel, which is a bad idea when you're still moving). Coast to a stop somewhere safe; your brakes will also still work for a while. You won't have power steering, but you won't need it. Remove the key -- this WILL kill the engine (if you didn't already switch off). You're done.

My driving instructor did this to me in an empty supermarket car park. Then he did it again until I got the hang of it. It's a valuable learning experience.
What dashboard software is that?
> If that's the case, why do studies show that so many Excel spreadsheets have major errors in them?

Your point, which is completely true, is not incompatible with GP's statement.

Excel is ubiquitous in the corporate world and most spreasheet in the corporate world are completely full of errors everywhere.

Not just errors but also broken assumptions.

I've been tasked with porting a spreadsheet to a dedicated app because people noticed numbers were off and, oh the clusterfuck. Never again.

The world started making much more sense to me from the moment I realized most business decisions were taken based on powerpoint presentation containing numbers coming from broken Excel spreadsheets.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter...

I apologize for the loose language, but yes. It's pretty clear that people smarter than me value Twitter much less for a variety of reasons.
Any time I'm doing lego-brick engineering, aka unix style "small tools pipe together", then startup time impacts me most while I'm actively developing the new system.

That process is iterative, usually on a subset of the data, and slow starting tools make my day qualitatively worse.

The final performance matters sometimes, but more often than not it doesn't. 30 minutes or 45 for a batch job? That runs from cron? I don't usually care.

I'm never going to favour slow starting tools unless some aspect of their functionality pays for that cost, or I'm choice constrained, but final peak performance is almost never going to be a factor.

So to me it's not psychological bias, it's economics, and the currency is time, when it's me personally paying it. Semantics maybe, but just writing it of as bias isn't going to help me get things done.
Using a capacitive touch controller in the dark seems like it might be pretty frustrating though.
I created Show Me The Ballot (https://show-me-the-ballot.glitch.me) to help voters preview and understand what will be on their ballot before heading to the polls. The project recently won second prize at Columbia University's Media Party Hackathon (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/edbltn_hackathon-mediaparty-a...)

Key features:

- District maps and ballot previews based on your zip code (for easy lookups — no address required)

- Simple, mobile-friendly interface with responsive search

- Complexity reports evaluating your ballot’s readability, length, and cognitive load

Technical details:

- Dynamic data loading via GitHub Pages

- Interactive maps generated with Python's Folium library

- Code and analysis: https://github.com/mfhan/showballot

——

I built this because I noticed how overwhelming ballots can be, especially in places with many local elections and initiatives. The tool helps voters prepare better.

Looking for feedback on:

- User experience and accessibility

- Additional features that would be useful

- Analysis suggestions (break down ballot complexity relative to local literacy rates, voter power, demographics, …)

Try these examples to see the range of ballot complexity:

- https://show-me-the-ballot.glitch.me/?q=Harris%20County,%20T... (most complex)

- https://show-me-the-ballot.glitch.me/?q=Los%20Angeles%20Coun...

- https://show-me-the-ballot.glitch.me/?q=Cheshire%20County,%2... (simpler)
The Salema Porgy Is the Fish That Can Give You LSD-Like Trips
Hasn't every other type of computing system been hacked? These systems are so insecure they're leaking passwords on the internet and smart people somehow still believe they've never been tampered with. Trillions of dollars on the line and ability to shape policy for the most powerful economy and military on planet earth but for sure, there's never been any hacks even though we're openly leaking passwords and social security numbers on the internet.