skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a wild amount of both-sidesing in a case where one side has evidence and the other is literally an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory at a scale where you could not keep the secret.

Most secure in history is (in my state) is correct. There are more pointless safeguards than have ever existed. If you were willing to go with the results of any election pre 2020 then you should be overjoyed at how much more "secure" the process is. That's the point that's being made, the amount of provable voter fraud that bypasses the checks and is only discovered after the fact is nil

The article you cited is literally the system working. There's 11 million people in Ohio, the number of illegal registrations is several orders of magnitude less than the lizardman constant and they were nonetheless caught.
The editor’s reports say n3299 is closer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020676
China - under Xi specifically - doesn't have rule of law, acts as an agent of chaos on the world stage, doesn't care about international order, bullies its neighbors, and critically, has become a 1-man dictatorship in the past ~10 years. Under Xi, it's an aspiring evil empire that considers all humans of Han ancestry to belong to it, and genuinely doesn't care about the rest. Pre-Xi, China was on a positive trajectory. Post-Xi, hopefully that'll return.
So my laypersons understanding is that

a) Governments printed money massively to handle 2008/covid (on the order of tens trillions dollars)

b) MMT says governments print money to spend it buying the services they want (ie roads, nurses, etc) then tax back the same amount thus having net no inflation and able to print the same amount again next cycle / year.

c) if people can take the system so that they don’t pay tax but instead keep the money then governments cannot print same amount of money / end up causing inflation

c) wealthiest in society are pulling away, tax rates for capital vs labour are not equal, the massive QE has ended up in hands of capital owners and as we don’t tax Wealth then each cycle of spend-tax means more is staying in private hands, it getting destroyed so more government spending must either be cut or raise inflation.

So my limited understanding says “money is just tokens, tokens should equal productive capacity (multiplied by some thing something velocity), and if governments want to spend more tokens than are being destroyed through tax, either raise tax rates n those paying tax, or tax those not paying tax (ie tax wealthy)

In the end it all comes back to rentierism- and that comes back to a land tax
My implications are that companies are either lying and being readjusted from later audits, or government is choosing not to take data into account until later, where impact is lessened. It's not a "ghost job" in the modern meaning, but it does seem to be pretending there are a lot more jobs than in reality.
Germany ignored patents and copyrights in the 19th century, and their economy rapidly industrialized.

The free software movement has shown that freely distributing IP is quite workable.
> I thought one would/could define orthogonality of polynomials in terms of an inner product equivalent to the familiar K^n dot product, ie. sum of pairwise products of equal-degree coefficients

Well, you can. But then you essentially get the real coordinate space, and them being polynomials and not just real-valued vectors is just an extra story that you slapped on top, but that has no relevance.

Polynomial vector spaces become useful, when we treat polynomials as functions, and the vector space of polynomials as a subspace of some other space of functions. And with function spaces the inner product is defined as an integral of the product of two functions (possibly with a weight function thrown in).

Or maybe the coefficient-based inner product spaces of polynomials have some uses, too. But they are less common than the function-based (integral) inner product.
nanog is such a treat. makes me miss the old days on irc. Where do nanog people idle now?
I sincerely think Linux is “too big to fail” at this point. Will it morph and evolve into a charmander? Probably, but the evolution will be fluid.
Because of how they treated Hong Kong.

The way they curb free speech, even projecting that internationally.

Their announced intention to become the world's superpower and displace the US militarily, technologically, and economically, and the risks to US interest which tie to that.

Their active pursuit to enact that claim, specifically with rapid military technology development, and international organization of BRICS.

Their aggressive tendencies towards US allies.

Their aggressive spying on US military and industrial facilities.
… didn’t Apple switch away from Nvidia, push for OpenCL and keep Adobe in the rain when their new release was all super optimized for Nvidia? And I think heavily push for their proprietary video and image editing software? But Adobe rewrote its codebase and had the better product after all. And that was 15+ years ago?

One article from back in 2010:
https://nofilmschool.com/2010/07/apple-snubs-adobe-again-wit...
In the age of eSIM, just order a free eSIM with zero credit, never charge it, never have any cost, and only enable it on your phone when a service like Anthropocene wants to send you some (completely unsecured) SMS code.
100% agree.

Which is why it's sad to see all that trivialized in the hyperbole surrounding the present election. Both sides would have you believe that the other side's pompous windbag is a threat to western civilization, and only their pompous windbag can save it. And very few have the guts to say that the emperor is naked, they're both mostly worthless, the president doesn't matter all that much, and the real issue is this: can we maintain a civil society where we listen to and respect each other, even when we disagree? Because that's what really matters, and that's a hill worth standing on and fighting to defend.

I may not agree with a word you say, etc.
> as all wars must end; otherwise people keep fighting

And up is up unless it is down :-)
Really? I worked in Hollywood for many years and all the color grading and photo editing was done on PCs with Sony professional color grading monitors, which weren't supported right on Macs.
> and IBM still uses it today

On mainframes, z14's drawer controller (that controlled four CPU sockets each) had a huge amount of eDRAM acting as an L4 cache for all cores in that drawer.
> Yet it all came into existence from open source developers who were paid nothing. Then a bunch of commercial distributions appeared. That's why it's expensive. They're twisting the community for their own profits rather than for broad improvement of the system as a whole.

This is bizarrely counter-factual. There are community contributors but an awful lot of open source is contributed by people who are paid to work on it (which, to be clear, is awesome!), even in the case of Debian.

It’s also odd in the context of Qt which has been commercially supported since the beginning when Trolltech first released it in 1995. There’s always been the idea that if you want long-term support for old versions you should pay for it rather than expecting the open source community to spend time on old code.

> I don't want to influence things or be required to. I would prefer if people who had "influence" just weren't part of the community. They're exceptionally disruptive and often not focused on users but on their own stature.

You’re welcome to disrespect them but they have influence because they show up: in open source your voice carries weight in proportion to your contributions. It’s also inaccurate to say they’re not focused on users: you might not think you need a given feature but you’re not the only user out there. Alternatives are there but most people aren’t using them because they don’t feel the need to switch as strongly as you might.
If you think regulation is the only constraint on supply, you're wrong.
One of the most impressive companies in my batch (W24) had nothing to do with AI, or indeed software: https://www.astromecha.co/

So no, not a requirement. OTOH if you do come with an AI idea, they won't reject you just because they already accepted a few hundred others :)
The old population will also need to consume stuff and services. And the younger people can make it.

China's fundamentals are fine. They just need to allow more low-level business activity. It's easier to start a factory compared to a neighborhood café.
> It does not translate with the application but with browsers settings, it doesn’t style or fit any design

Wait, which is it? Does not match any style or design, or is it matching the browser's?

And if your application isn't consistent with the browser and OS settings, shouldn't you fix your application?
Does anyone know if this Mac Mini can survive longer than a year? Apple's approach to hardware design doesn't prioritize thermal issues.

I've had an M1 Mac Mini inside a hot dresser drawer with a TV on top since 2020.

It doesn't do much other than act as a media server. But it's jammed pretty tight in there with an eero wifi router, an OTA ATSC DVR, a box that records HDMI, a 4K AppleTV, a couple of external drives, and a full power strip. That's why it's hot.

So far, no problems. Except for once when I moved, it's been completely hands-off. Software updates are done over VNC.
Perhaps they need to reconsider how an LTS works?
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Congrats on shipping! Now let’s talk about the efforts of your hard work! What were your challenges during this? How were they overcome?
>One just feels that Doctors would offer the care that starts with "do no harm".

Well there is more to it that meets the eye. A medical student I hear has half a million in student debt when he/she starts working. So even the simple "do no harm" philosophy is thrown out of the window. All in all (like you pointed out) It's a complete mess. There are ways to fix the issue but it is counter-intutive to most people.
Yes. My point was just that it’s not free but it’s weird that done people expect the same level of support from open source projects which don’t receive anything like that much money.
No. At most a dozen people have died over Trump v. Harris, and possible no one has.

That's exactly the hyperbolic conflation of the present petty squabble with the grand march of civilization, as if they were the same or even closely related, that I'm objecting to.
On extremely heavy workloads the fans do engage on my M1 Max, but I need to get my ear close to the machine to hear them.

Recently my friend bought a laptop with Intel Ultra 9 185h. It roared fans even when opening Word. That was extraordinary and if it was me making the purchase I would have sent it back straight away.

My friend did fiddle a lot with settings, had to update BIOS and eventually the fan situation was somewhat contained, but man I am never going to buy Intel / AMD laptop. You don't know how annoying fan noise is until you get a laptop that is fast and doesn't make any noise. With Intel is like having a drill pointed to your head that can goes off at any moment and let's not mention phantom fan noise, where it gets imprinted in your head that your brain makes you think the fans are on, but they are not.

Apple has achieved something extraordinary. I don't like MacOS, but I am getting used to it. I hope one day this Asahi effort will let us replace it.
I bought Pixelmator nearly a decade ago for my Mac, when I needed a decent image/photo editor. I hope they make Pixelmator free, as mac definitely needs a good default image editor that is more advanced than Preview.
Mac OS is amazing, using a Mac for games is not a good idea. Most AAA, AA, and indie games don't run on Mac.
> Deflation favors debt payors instead of debt issuers/servicers

Wouldn't that be the other way around?

If I take out a $30K loan to buy a new car, and I'm paying $500/month, then if the economy happens to go through an extreme amount of deflation a year later and now brand new cars are only $10K, then as the payer, I'm still paying $500/month and $30K total, except that amount is worth a lot more.

Whereas if massive inflation happens, the payer gets a huge benefit, assuming their salary keeps up with the inflation.
My grandfather filed patents on his method of forming large halide crystals. However, all attempts to duplicate his process have failed to produce those crystals, and he's long dead.

He apparently wished to both protect his process and keep it secret.
Can't wait to see if / when they release the m4 ultra.
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At some point you’re in grep/sed/awk/duckdb/streaming data land.
Americans may feel that way, but "Team America: World Police" still applies to US foreign policy in 2024.
I regularly solve logic bugs using affine typing and shared xor mutability, so clearly some subset of logic bugs is solved with Rust, no?
perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/' <number>

I saw that by Abigail on comp.lang.perl.misc many moons ago. Here is an article about it: http://test.neilk.net/blog/2000/06/01/abigails-regex-to-test...

As far as I know, she was the genesis of this whole thing.
Well for starters, Xi Jinping being the most powerful person on Earth is probably a bad sign for democracy.

In their time as the dominant world power, the US hasn't always used their influence for good, but at least its a democracy with some form of constitutionally protected human rights in charge. I much prefer that to having a country with a permanent ruling party where critics go missing being the dominant force in world affairs.
I don't think so. Mac sales have only grown and the whole "you need a Mac for creative work" hasn't been a thing since the 00's.

I think this is more about having the team put advanced photo editing features into the native Photos app, and possibly contributing to AI image processing.
This mindset is tiresome, especially seeing it on Hacker News...

I literally went to the cheapest state school in rural Pennsylvania and still was accepted into YC. My co-founder didn't even finish college, at some point I think people just want to make excuses.

Also — I don't understand your second point. It's an accelerator. Capital is part and parcel when it comes to accelerating.
The issue through this whole incident was the fact that Tim Peter's ban looked like intimidation rather than punishment.

The Python SC was floating a contentious proposal without justification, and Tim Peters forcefully called them out on it. Repeatedly.

And, in return, it feels like the SC went hunting for justifcation to throw a ban at him.

That is a bad look no matter what you think of Tim's actions.

This SC needs to go even if they are right, and Tim is wrong. Period.
There is Gathering for Gardner non profit.

for recreational math:

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They have conferences and talks and post on youtube:

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The guy who developed the textile industry in the US memorized the drawings for the machinery before immigrating to the US. There was nothing for the export customs people to find.
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this is crazy, i'm more than happy with the current performance of my M1 Max Studio but an M4 Max or Ultra might actually be too good to pass up
its insane to me that people are working so hard on reverse engineering apple silicon. like, the diagrams are right there in cupertino. it just seems like such a waste. its like during some kind of economic depression there are people starving and struggling while a bunch of food and resources are just sitting around not being used. existential grid-lock.
Right? As another parent of a toddler, neither I nor any other parent I know of toddlers are getting as much sleep as we’d like want…
Colorado law requires that job postings include a salary range. Any chance you would be able to add one to this posting?
I guess I don’t get it, and I’d like to. Y-Combinator enables connections and mentorship along with a stipend. This allows a team to work full time for a few months, having quit or taken a hiatus from their day job.

So the risk is $dayjob unless you’re a serial founder, the reward is the connections and money to float for a few months, while selling I think 10% of your company? The odds of your idea working out, even under the umbrella, aren’t great. Is that accurate?
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Show HN: Codecrew LLM Issue Refinement
Remember Cygwin?
> To be clear this isn't a criticism of Rust's design or implementation - demarcated blocks of unsafe code is pragmatic and sensible. The problem is how humans build software. In this sense I don't think we've really settled whether "rewrite the code in Rust" is actually safer than "redo our technical management to include automated memcheck testing and paired code reviews." At the very least, I don't think the latter is insufficient

I think the latter is woefully insufficient, having seen critical C++ memory safety bugs that got past every sanitizer. For me the debate was settled once our team at Meta shipped a large, high-performance Rust service, built over many years, that simply did not have memory safety bugs -- and its success became a crucial part of why Rust is now a first-class language at Meta.
No but I'd wager you'd get as much attention yelling out the F word in a crowded room in the 1930's as you would yelling "Let's go Brandon" today. And isn't that the purpose of a swear word? To give you that extra out of band boost to give you some attention?
It might be different post-Intel? I'm too lazy to dig up sources for Apple's past lost class action lawsuits, etc.

That Rossman guy, the internet-famous repairman, built his youtube channel on videos about Apple's inadequate thermal management. They're probably still archived on his channel.

Hell, I haven't owned a Mac post the year 2000 that didn't regularly hit temperatures above 90 celsius.
It doesn't appear that I am. All I meant to add is that if Apple turns Pixelmator into a "cursed subscription zombie" (and I very much doubt this will happen) then I will not be getting that subscription. I expect most people wouldn't either.
> 10y old professional software still works exactly the same now as 10 years ago

Great point for Windows. iOS, Mac, and Linux evolve too much to reliably run 10 year old binaries.
The article is criticising the “you can be anything you want” mindset and highlighting the lack of reproducibility in research around student academic results.

But the reason a multinational like Microsoft might promote a growth mindset are different. Employees who are open minded are able to work with others and collaborate more effectively. Employees who actively seek new data and try to invalidate their preconceptions can be more successful in large sprawling organisations.
There are some curious inclusions on that page, but the context link reveals that some highlights really aren't the comment, rather the discussion that it triggered.

A "35 child comments" note or similar alongside the highlighted comments might encourage more browsing.
Awesome stuff, would love if there were a total tally at the bottom that indicated the before and after size and percent difference! E.g. before: 10MB, after: 2MB, change: -80%
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"But I wonder if Intel could pull off high capacity caching sometime in the future"

The Xeon Max processors had up to 64GB of HBM that could act as memory or shadow external memory effectively acting like a huge L4 cache.

No Xeon 6 seems to have that feature, at least not for now. Xeon 6's top out at a paltry 504MBs of L3.
whats the point of reverse engineering this again?
Interesting that the self-loathing seems to be associated with waging unpopular and losing wars. I didn't live through it but the Vietnam War seemed to have some similar impact that persists to this day with the utter loathing of conscription. It seems to be the same underlying cause: that bad leadership essentially permanently burned credibility for their country for no gain for their country.
Show HN: Openfeature PostHog Provider in Go
[Openfeature](https://openfeature.dev/) provider in Go for [PostHog](https://posthog.com/)
Any other founders feel like YC has lost its luster? Not only are the number of AI companies in the portfolio ridiculous, but the large class sizes seem so much less personal.

Not to bag on anyone who’s in YC right now, but it seems to be going the way of many ivy leagues - still meaningful, but very much not the same proxy for extraordinary it once was.
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I think it only fuels the possibility that Apple would open up the architecture documentation where it otherwise wouldn't if you didn't have people diligently reverse engineering it.

Something similar to this happened in the early days of the iPhone, with the iPhone Dev Team. Initially, iPhone "apps" were going to be web pages, but then these reverse engineers came along and developed their own toolchain. Apple realized they had to take action and their "webpages as an app" strategy wasn't going to work.
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> Write it in...

I look forward to your version of this service, also to be provided for free, right? And for your sake, hopefully you won't have people in the comments demanding that you completely redo your project in the special way that suits them.