skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am referring to a case filed by the Democratic party of Pennsylvania (not republicans), and I don’t recall the numbers off the top of my head but when it was in the news it was expected that the case would affect a few million votes from mail in ballots that had not yet been returned. Mail in ballots were mostly requested by Democratic voters. The ruling also had some other changes that I can’t recall. Also I forgot to mention that state supreme court deciding the case had a Democratic supermajority.

To me this situation felt like a manipulation of the election process that is outside of the norms, especially for it to happen so late. That was a few years ago but it is an example situation that causes many to still feel the election was “stolen”. I think lots of people use that term to also include actions that are technically legal but feel unfair.
In police dramas there’s always the judge who refuses to sign a warrant and accuses the cops of going on a “fishing expedition”.

That’s half of Big Data to me. Maybe more. No idea what we’re looking for but we will tell you after the checks clear.
P2P Matrix is a dialect of Matrix where the server runs inside the client itself - see arewep2pyet.com for details. In other words, there are no servers (other than optional store-and-forward relays). It's insanely cool - you can see a demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUPJ9zFV5IE&t=2192s. It's also unfunded and on hiatus until someone provides some $ so we can work on it again.

Right now, normal Matrix is a client-server model: you can't send messages from a client without it talking to a server (and then to another server, and then to another client). MatrixRTC VoIP and Video calls in Matrix 2.0 also go via server (for now), in order to support multiple participants and firewall traversal.

Obviously, both messages and calls are end-to-end-encrypted (other than in public chatrooms), which makes it less important that they go via a server today.
I’ve never got its python LSP to work as well as Pylance in VSCode. Once you start using Pylance for large codebases, even if it is slow and sometimes crashes, you cannot go back to coding without it. Go to Definition, and automatic argument hints are too useful to code without
In the case of SQLite, I'd say incredibly poor (to the extent that the person who made the decision should be fired).
Thanks for explaining something I've never understood. I still think it is silly, tho - it makes sense only if each driver always wants vents pointing at the same place. my preferences change by season, by day, by hour, so needing to go through a screen is a time-loss and annoyance generator, not vice-versa.
Yes, because the alternatives all wanted $20k+ for nickel and diming on basic functionality that a Tesla has.

It’s 2024, and somehow only Tesla or maybe Rivian has accessible video recording built in, even though all cars are covered with cameras.

I went into car buying thinking I wouldn’t entertain a Tesla due to lack of Carplay, and came out never wanting to step into a dealership again. So many stupid games they want to play, I just want to pick my color and pay for the car on my couch on my phone and pick it up.
Wolfensvelte 3D – a Svelte Wolfenstein clone rendered with the DOM
Pretty cool that they have multiple layout engines:

Layout engines

dagre (default): A fast, directed graph layout engine that produces layered/hierarchical layouts. Based on Graphviz's DOT algorithm.

ELK: Also a directed graph layout engine. More mature than dagre, better maintained (part-time academic research team working on it), with recent releases.

TALA: New layout engine designed specifically for software architecture diagrams.

https://d2lang.com/tour/layouts/
It's not touchscreens that are anti-accessibility, it's touch controls. That's a very important distinction.

I can use a proper touchscreen phone just fine, as its OS is advanced enough to run a screen reader, and its touch screen can precisely locate where it was touched and supports flicks, swipes and multi-finger gestures.

Proper touch screens have some very important advantages, notably being able to show different controls at different times. You want to have a different button layout when you're typing a text than when you're watching a movie or playing a game. Physical buttons make this impossible.

Even blind people benefit from this, modern phones have a mode where you can use a touch screen to input characters in Braille, treating different parts of the screen as keys on a brailler (think piano with 6 keys). Each combination of these keys, pressed or touched at once, inputs a specific character[1].

Now touch controls, like those you can find on a washing machine / coffee maker, make no sense. There's no screen behind them, so they're not dynamic in any way, and the primitive software of such devices (as well as the need to seell them in multiple countries without providing specific support for any particular human language) make accessibility impossible to achieve.
Then nationalize it. If it is genuinely so important to the country then we can't let it die then it should be nationalized if it needs to be bailed out.
The readme mentions feature parity with the BSD coreutils, so I’m assuming that’s the target. Not GNU.
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I have not. Native mouse and scrollback is one of the important things I want. I'll give it a go, thanks!
Yes, and suppliers outsource the actual development and testing to cut costs even further.
In one search I'm able to pull up Pentium documentation from 1995 as well as recent documentation from 2023. Show me the equivalent Apple Silicon docs that a compiler engineer could use.
- battery significant volume: this depends on intended range, and if sulfur chemistries hit the market you can probably drop the required volume by 40-70%.

- extra weight: see above, and removing engine and other components

- yes the EV motor will need to be aware, that's a control issue not some physical issue

- another power source.... like, a battery bank?

- waste heat for AC: heat pumps

Yeah, I know I am massively handwaving. It's a really hard problem, but some EV retrofit for "incumbent" cars (eventually to be "classic") would save a lot of carbon.

But it's not going to happen, it's too labor and skill intensive. Capital hates everything that is labor/skill dependent. It might be able to be assembly lined to some degree: common car platforms of major manufactures would help. The engine lift isn't THAT bad for many platforms, the hood removal - bolt loosen - engine lift could be done in 3-4 "disassembly line" steps.

EV motors are pretty compact from what I can tell, so the engine compartment can probably accommodate enough high-density (sulfur chemistry in 5-8 years) batteries to get a 150-200 mile range.

The REALLY OPTIMAL conversion target should probably be a swapout with a hybrid drivetrain, if we could get a compact rotary recharge engine developed combined with a compact EV motor. The transmission interface is still a PITA, but the heat excess and other things might be conserved better, and there might be room left over for 50 miles of all-electric range.

That would deliver 90% all-electric trips in-city, regen braking, but keep ICE power for all the legacy accessories.

We should have been working collectively on hybrids within a couple years of the Prius being released in the late 1990s. We should have forced all auto manufacturers to have hybrids for all cars in 10 years (regen braking and city efficiency would have been 20% gas savings right there, maybe more).

Then 10 years after that have forced plugin hybrids with increasing thresholds for all-electric range.
All large successful projects start as small successful projects.
> Let it fail. Once hundreds of thousands of Americans are jobless due to executive mismanagement and shareholder greed, will actually meaningful and impactful policy be made.

Exactly.

Then we should have let all the startups that had their funds in SVB bank fail, instead of another pseudo-bailout that occurred in March 2023, given that FDIC insurance did not apply to them given the majority of their capital is over the limit.
Element X natively integrates Element Call for voip/video calls - this is one of the core things of this week's release. If you hit the video call button, it'll start off with video muted, and it should behave like a voice call (although there are a few bugs in the integration still, hence it being marked beta - especially on iOS, where CallKit + WebRTC stopped working in iOS 18. We're trying to work with Apple on it.)
Let's not forget you can charge a mint to replace the half-assed Ipad you have jammed into the dashboard when it goes bad.
$350 Oura Ring 4 Tracks Your Sleep. Is It Worth the Splurge?
You definitely should try a workflow with modern LLMs, but if you have trouble with Zed give cursor a try. No relation to the company, just was surprised at how good the product was for me for your bog-standard python and typescript work, but also surprisingly good in some side projects in embedded C++ and C.

A lot of it is polish over how good Claude sonnet 3.5 has gotten at code with enough context.
Communism is so terrible as a system of government that the U.S. has seen fit to forcefully intervene every time it’s been attempted.

Everyone is free to their own opinions, of course – and I’m not wholesale defending communism as it has been attempted – but I find it odd that something which is supposedly so awful can’t just be left alone to wither on the vine, and prove their point.
You don't need loops [video]
See? It helps both you and those who don't want to be part of the war machine.
Claude Shannon: Mathematician, engineer, genius and juggler (2017)
Anyone complaining here just isn't the target user. People who need an always available but zero maintenance and low usage seems to be the target user?

> always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing for storage and queries (no fixed cost, no cost for compute). It's like a serverless database — but without cold starts and a generous free tier
Makes you wonder if anyone at the company ever even tested it with food in the oven
At least in the gay community there are still hundreds of DVDs available from physical stores. I did wonder how long that will last though.

Of course the relevant stores will not be very common.
Under the leaderboard tab, if the "Solution" column has an icon, it's clickable. 2nd place solution is by Jeremy Howard (of fast.ai fame), which I'd summarize as TrueSkill Through Time (Microsoft Research paper) + some overfitting on the public leaderboard (1st place was #26 in the public leaderboard).
I’ve been trying to love Zed for months now and still run into constant snags. It’s frustrating to use with TypeScript. Support is very intermittent as basic features randomly break and come back during the same session. Want to jump to a declaration? Maybe it’ll work. Want information about this type? If you’re lucky. How about autocomplete for existing types, variables, and functions? This probably breaks most often.

I update the editor regularly, have tried heaps of suggested fixes and reset settings each time. It’s a mess.

It’s a beautiful, fast, powerful editor and I want to use it, but I’m pretty frustrated. I keep hoping an update will address the autocomplete at least, but as of last week it will still stop functioning while I’m working.
Thank you for explaining the issue. I guess there are Apple fans (including the author of the article) who can't conceive of a world where there are people who have never used an Apple mouse.
you can use `$(queryGoesHere)` or `$$(queryGoesHere)` too from the devtool console.
Buffett had a long term policy to compare discounted cash flow type valuations for stocks bonds and businesses. For example see his 1992 letter https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1992.html and ^F for "Burr".

So I guess it's more that he think stocks are expensive relative to bonds than a prediction of a crash.
For tracking moving things from a stationary point, would you need some sort of "turret" that can track & aim the lidar? Or is there some equivalent of AESA in the lidar world?

Edit: Apparently yes? Optical phased array lidars (https://lidarmag.com/2021/08/18/why-optical-phased-array-is-... or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gml2tDogDI)
Yes, every company should ditch their fabs it's not profitable. Oh wait...
It's a pretty decent editor to be fair. The AI features are probably there to raise money from investors.
The specific youtube channel Primitive Technology [1] definitely does not. John Plant does everything as you see, although he does have the benefit of doing research - he doesn't do things as people in the past have done, but as they might have done had they known things he does. But there's no tricks and no machinery. (And of course, some of what he's able to do is dependent on his environment - the plants he uses aren't around my part of the world.

But there are a lot of knock-off channels, which you're presumably referring to, where people build things that are basically mini-castles, and pools filled with water using a pipe network, etc. And those are definitely at least partially fake.

https://www.youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550
Zed allows you to use Claude 3.5 Sonnet for free unlimited under Zed AI, at least for now.
I’ve been spending the weekend getting setup in NeoVim and have enjoyed the process so far. It’s definitely not for people who want a plug-and-play IDE, but if you want to see all the programming details that are involved in a text editor (and learn some Lua along the way), then I highly recommend it.

Fair warning, it is HIGHLY recommended you come in with a working knowledge of Vim first.
“I don’t want to live in a world where other people make the world a better place better than we do.”

Mike Judge did such a great job of making that character into Dollar Store Steve Jobs.
Ironically i just spent all weekend writing a new "quick start" guide for Matrix 2.0 deployments using docker-compose (so you literally just set some env variables, `docker compose up` and that's it; no ansible involved). I just shifted to the debugging phase, but once it's ready, it might be even easier than matrix-docker-ansible-deploy as a super-fast way to get started :)
"The Self Who Came in from the Cold" – On Self vs. Trad Publishing
I think you're right, but the humanoid phase in manufacture will probably be an intermediate phase, for the reasons krunck points out. A 100% adapted to the function robot is where productivity is.
so books are not accessible: kindles are better
Both of my cars from different makers have a ton of things which don't have a physical button. Configuring the colors of the lights in the interior, setting restrictions on secondary keys, changing the doorpad settings, configuring navigation quick saves, configuring auto lock on walk away, whether the car moves the seats back for easier getting in and out, how much it moves the seats for that, toggling liftgate gestures, setting the default settings for ADAS systems, configuring if the mirrors automatically tuck in or not, configuring the puddle lights, configuring charging settings, configuring stereo equalizer and other deeper settings, rear occupant alert systems, configuring how long it waits to have the lights on, defaults for auto-high beam and its sensitivity, configuring remote start options, deeper setting options for drive modes, configuring cross traffic alerting, deeper route planning, etc. Probably still a hundred more options I haven't listed here.
Thank you for your answer.

> It's also unfunded and on hiatus until someone provides some $ so we can work on it again

What are the available ways for someone to provide funding?
"Zed collects anonymous telemetry data to help us understand how people are using the app."

No thanks!
Touchscreens are also extra bad in the car. The hands have mass and the motion of a car is shaky due to bumpy roads, curves, braking, etc.

This makes it hard to hit the desired area on a vertical touchscreen at near full extension of the arm.
- explain how they came up with “12” as the answer.
This actually makes sense.

If you want the car to be fully customer configurable, you basically need a custom dashboard for every single car. You also need to think about what happens when the customer does an upgrade.
C is way too ambiguous to serve for that purpose.
> o11y

Seems to be "observability", for anyone else seeing that for the first time.
Great idea. Let’s let the same people who built and managed healthcare.gov build bombs and airplanes.
I do have both and still prefer the rice cooker for rice cooking. The lighter weight helps me move it around the kitchen as needed. I also like that it is easier to put in the dishwasher and that I never have to futz with the rubber seal or the hard to clean yet easy to lose pin and other small parts in the instant pot. It is always a chore for me to clean. The steps needed remind me of (not unhappy) times in the army having to assemble and disassemble an assault rifle.
I do not understand this "Intel failing" meme. In 2022, 2023 Intel made a profit, but seems this year so far no profits.

In spite of that, I think this whole hand wringing is because "Intel is not Nvidia".
So someone pitches you a floating city complete with amusement park, hotel, entertainment venues and restaurants that trots around the world dropping you off at nearly everything interesting on the way, and you think it sounds boring?

I don't like cruise ships for reasons, but they never struck me as 'boring '.
For me there's no set-and-forget-forever setting. Depending on the weather, how I'm dressed, how many other people in the car, whether there's a smelly diesel truck ahead, etc., that's a setting I need to change all the time.
Buffett is pretty much the definition of an active investor, in that he picks companies rather than putting money into everything.
Especially in cars, especially in simple controls, touch screens are great for low screen real estate but cars are one of the dumbest places for them since there is so much real estate and so little need for a screen
If all charities were net-good I would tend to agree with you, but they’re not.
Yes.

The buttons still need to be programmed to do something so the cost savings isn't really on the software team.

Having a standard touchscreen that you can slap into any of your cars, and update OTA is huge.
Thorsten Ball streams development of Zed on Twitch sometimes, and it's pretty entertaining to watch: https://www.twitch.tv/thorstenball

(EDIT: if his name sounds vaguely familiar, it might be because he is the author of https://interpreterbook.com/ and https://compilerbook.com/ )
Ten problems. Regex is for wusses who fear danger. LLMs are where real men turn.
Having just worked with some of the Thread folks at M&S, thought I'd reach out and say hello. Seems like it was an awesome team! (=
First deploys for a new Kubernetes cluster
Touchscreens in cars should have been illegal to begin with it. How can it be that operating a cellphone is not allowed but operating a “tablet” is a necessity?
Zen Browser Is a Toxic Community
Are we referring to reference implementations? I have always found it easier to understand the C code, as Rust and Python tend to obscure too many details behind high-level abstractions.

C is simple enough to know what is going on, IMO.

For example:

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
squared_numbers = [num * num for num in numbers]
print(squared_numbers)

vs.

fn main() {
let numbers = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
let squared_numbers: Vec<i32> = numbers.iter().map(|&num| num * num).collect();

println!("{:?}", squared_numbers);
}

vs.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
int numbers[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
int squared_numbers[5];

// Squaring each number
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
squared_numbers[i] = numbers[i] * numbers[i];
}

// Printing the squared numbers
printf("[");
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
printf("%d", squared_numbers[i]);
if (i < 4) printf(", ");
}
printf("]\n");

return 0;
}

Python and Rust here seem concise and elegant, but can be more difficult to follow to the unaccustomed due to obscurity. I am sure there are examples that involve more higher-level abstractions, and reference implementations typically seem to use a lot of said abstractions. In case of this Rust code, abstractions (like iterators and closures) can also make the code more challenging to follow for those who are not accustomed to functional programming paradigms.

What I am trying to say is that the C implementation is more straightforward, IMO.
so then the attack becomes introducing enough error at critical counts such that it affects the result without being regarded as having been tampered with

pretty easy if your company produced the machines
I once saw an elderly woman trying to receive medical care at an urgent care clinic. She brought her documents and medical insurance card, but the receptionist told her she could only be checked in if she provided a two-factor authentication code from her insurance app. The woman was totally confused. It was heartbreaking to watch.
> I certainly don’t think we should restrict voting to landowners but maybe having a minimum requirement for citizens to participate in democracy (having an ID) isn’t a bad thing.

Come on, you can't mean this in good faith as a response to my previous comment. It's a fact that minorities are less likely to have government ID, and that it's on average harder for them to acquire it. This is not "a minimum requirement", this is a requirement that - in the current system - deliberately shifts power by disenfranchising voters.

> I think the concern with not requiring ID is that it could allow non-citizens to vote. Making it illegal for non-citizens to vote also disproportionately affects minorities, but that doesn’t justify changing that.

It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote, but I'm sure you know that. You also know that there is no comparison between the two things.

The worst part is: non-citizens voting would be a valid concern if there were any evidence for this happening beyond a handful of cases per election. But there isn't, because non-citizens generally don't want to risk being caught for one single additional vote. And it's not for a lack of looking - the GOP has spent millions upon millions of dollars to find anything, and they have not been able to procure evidence of non-citizens voting in any meaningful capacity. Yet apparently the rules must be changed anyway, no matter the cost to democracy.

> Do you know any minorities personally who have struggled to get an ID? Most minorities I know would be pretty offended by that implication.

Do you have anything meaningful to contribute to this discussion? Any response to any of the points I've already brought up? I don't need to bring up anecdotal evidence when this topic has been broadly researched, and basic logic leads to the same inevitable conclusion.
How many settings does a typical TV have these days? You can modify all of those with a d-pad. What is happening in your car that actually needs touch?