skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We need to rebuild confidence in the integrity of elections, Voter ID, which most democratic countries require, seems like an incredibly modest step.

People didn't lose confidence in the integrity of elections because our elections lack integrity, they lost confidence because they were told in a way that resonates with them that our elections lack integrity.

Voter ID would just be security theater in that it's an onerous rule that does nothing to help any actual problem aside from making things look better to some people.
Could they be wrong about the well-understood label they’ve agreed upon to refer to a particular concept in their field? No, and in fact I’m tempted to class the answer as tautologically “no”.
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Modern decompression is compute-bound typically (AFAIK), not memory-bound. It is in fact common to use compression as a workaround for memory-bound workloads to turn them into compute-bound ones.
I see this first hand. In my town, ATT owns the lines that supply our street that has fiber and our local ISP Sonic.net is prevented from using these lines to provide service. Its my worry that our local ISP's ability to do business in a market dominated by Comcast and ATT is going to be majorly impacted and its only going to get worse. Not saying it would be prevented if Dems where in office because they pretty much tow the corporate anti-competition line but are much more quiet about it.
No, I don't think ability to banter has any relationship with ability to properly handle those risky situations. There's zero intrinsic reason why someone who freezes when insulted must also freeze if a bay crane lift starts going wrong, because to me they are clearly different kinds of stress.
One source would be the Hydrogen Audio forums where there are regular scientific comparisons - PSNR etc. instead of blind listening tests - between various encoders and formats. Apple's AAC encoder consistently comes out well above anything MP3, best of all the AAC encoders, and up at the absolute top together with Opus which produces a bit better results per same bitrate.

> Does it matter that much? From what I know, it just about properly programming a math spec, with some tricks but I wonder if that makes that much of a difference.

It does matter a lot and the difference can be staggering. Producing the audio bitstream is a case of both effectively analyzing the original input and programmatically expressing the waveform as correctly and as efficiently possible. Two excellent examples: the old MP3 encoder Xing, which compared to LAME produces very poor material even at higher bitrates, and one of the earliest open-source AAC encoders, FAAC, which also renders a very poor product. A lot of "early adopters" got bitten by FAAC and many of them still stubbornly cling to the misunderstanding that AAC is a worse format than MP3.
> Objectively untrue; Harris lost.

I would fault the Democratic party platform itself, not the campaign. It's valid to say the campaign was executed well and that the failure was due to disagreement with the Democrat party line.

Trump has a policy platform they agree with more -- that's something that is not easily overcome by how the campaigns are run.

E.g. "secure the border". Trump fought to build a wall during his first term. To voters who want a more secure border, that speaks louder than anything either candidate can say (or not say) during their campaigns about what they will or won't do.
More than anything I'm very curious to see what sort of people will be emboldened by this victory.

I've just seen pictures of Trump, Elon Musk and Dana White celebrating together (and being celebrated)

The signal being sent is that this is what masculinity and winning looks like.
The Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) had backwards compatibility with the Master System. Unlike the Super Game Boy, the Power Base Converter was barely more than a cartridge pass-through adapter. The Mega Drive’s 68000 is idled and its Z80 sound co-processor takes control as the main CPU.

https://segaretro.org/Power_Base_Converter
~200MWt reactors are common in large nuclear submarines and weight about 2000 tons, not sure how much of that (if any) is shielding, but the figures for reactor weight sound high. I’d imagine for joules/kg nuclear would be hard to beat.
I'll often spend a little time while watching the flight-tests (usually with Tim Dodd / EverydayAstronaut) just doing a search on YouTube for 'spacex live' and usually report 15-20 each time. They are very easy to spot when you've seen a few of them. I'll usually get a report of a few being shut down later in the day, and more over the next couple of days.

But, yes, they should be easy for YT to detect & block automatically - it's frustrating they (and other scams) get to stay online so long.
I suppose our development process is a bit unusual.

The meaning we give to "the commit is green" is not "this PR can be merged" but "this can be deployed to production", and it is used for the purpose of selecting a release candidate several times a week. It is a statement about the entire state of the project as of that commit, rather than just the changes introduced in that commit.

I can understand the frustration of creating a PR from a red commit on the main branch, and having that PR be red as well as a result. I can't say this has happened very often, though: red commits on the main branch are very rare, and new branches tend to be started right after a deployment, so it's overwhelmingly likely that the PR will be rooted at a green commit. When it does happen, the time it takes to push a fix (or a revert) to the main branch is usually much shorter than the time for a review of the PR, which means it is possible to rebase the PR on top of a green commit as part of the normal PR acceptance timeline.
> Citation please?

Behavior of Trump in the Black lives matter movement speaks for itself.

Muslim ban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_travel_ban

Trump tried hard (but failed) to deport dreamers out of USA: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-dreamers-...

"Puerto Rico is a garbage island" and Trump trowing paper toilet rolls to victims of natural disasters with a clear purpose of humiliating them.

The problem in this thread is that everybody is trying to find what Democrats did wrong, or say that Kamala was not well known. Well, every voter knew who was Trump, and they still voted him, so changing the candidate by "better" does not matter if people wants "worse". If a country can't use the best people that they had ("elite thinks that are better than us") the outcome is predictable.

And we aren't even daring to discuss the elephant in the room that is "Can't be really, (really) sure that they didn't just cheated?

After all wouldn't be the first time, so is legit to speculate about it. Lets imagine [hypothetically] that in an alternate timeline they just learned from past fails and cheated better this time. How that could be disclosed or done? Was mail vote altered?. How could we spot it in this case?. This is the real meat in this discussion.

How strong or weak is a candidate does not matter if a party just can jump over the game rules.
They're not the worst welds I've ever seen but they're very good either. I would be embarrassed if those were my welds and I wouldn't take a welder with such welds seriously regardless of their gender. The quality is on the level of pretty low end job-shop. I wouldn't care about the bed slats but it would be hard for me to ignore the bad welds on anything regularly visible.

Making welds look good is more than just appearance, the appearance tells a story about how the weld was developed, how the temperature was controlled, how deep the penetration, porosity etc. It's easier to do this than do a post weld validation of weld integrity. TIG welding requires a lot of skill and is not like using a glue gun.

Laser welding on the other hand is much easier. Instead of making the large investment in time to learn how to TIG weld property she could just skip it and go direct to laser.
- Eliminating vaccines is a terrible idea, but public school vaccine requirements are state law in my state. RFK won't be touching them.

- Gutting the health care industry? That's not necessarily a bad thing. Wasteful health care administration (passing the buck) was something like 30% of health care costs pre-ACA, and health care is now 17.3% of GDP. Shedding 1/3 of health care costs would bring our health care expenses to the same ratio of GDP as the UK. Of course it would also cause an unemployment crisis...
So far it's been working out great compared to the previous guy.

I compare Argentina's election to buying a car. One of the candidates basically ruled the country for 18 months, got inflation over triple digits annually, the exchange rate went to infinite, among other economic and administrative mishaps.

It's kind like test driving a car where it's engine overheats, the radiator explodes, and basically falls apart.

Your choices then become either buy the thing you know is broken and doesn't work, or buy the other new mystery thing which says it's going to work though you haven't tested it.

It's basically a known bad versus an unknown, yet still 44% of people voted for the broken car.

Milei so far has been doing great economically and getting inflation down, we'll see how it goes next year.
IMO Ex-president is a better credential than having a long political career, which often means, connected, corrupted and conformist.
Opus is better at same bitrate - not by much, but all the same it has the upper hand.
On my way to a "white collar" job, I worked construction. It was stage building, which is the kind of construction that "blue collar" workers routinely laughed at, but it was still hard, physical work.

How did I get my promotion that made the job worthwhile? A person fell 30 feet onto concrete. The next week, I was replacing him, with all of the risks he had, and the potential outcome.

That said, all of the chiding and sideways comments I received in the construction field didn't amount to half of the comments I received as a developer. There is something toxic about our field that we don't want to focus on (and I can't blame those that look away).

People claim "simple" when they mean "my way". People claim lack of "knowing how to use the language" when the wrong ideas get injected into a language (I'm personally looking at you Perl, but now that I'm working Golang, it's starting to feel too familiar).

The truth is, there is often more than one way to solve a problem, but an strong willed person won't see it that way. I've walked away from plenty of marginally (and I mean marginally) better solutions just to compromise to some form of a solution than I care to enumerate. One can't win such arguments.

I agree, it's not malicious, but is is egotistical. I've even won solutions where I said "Let's all agree that you're right, and then let's accept the code as-is." This industry is improved compared to decades before, but it's not yet fully rational, or even fair.
I for one would like to praise the company for sharing their failure, hopefully next time someone Googles "transport video over websocket" theyll find this thread.
>The flip side of that is there are SO many more people releasing music these days, which makes it really difficult to cut through the noise if your music is halfway decent.

I think one thing important to consider here is that part of the experience of enjoying music is not necessarily how good the song is, but how much, and how many, other people are enjoying it. People often listen to (mediocre) music simply to have a shared emotional experience with others.
this just reads as very strange. "meet it on the way"? it's not like they can place these in an orbit that they can just pull up and stop to refuel like a highway gas station. the refueling "pod" would need to be moving at the same speed as the ship.
> Boomers are slowly dying off while younger people have been overwhelmingly against Trumpism.

Is this really the case? My understanding, based on voting data, is that Gen Z was overwhelming for Trump and Trumpism. If anything, Baby Boomers have gone way more left than they have been in previous elections.
That’s about 2016-2017. Estimates of illegal crossings in the South border were below 200k per year, I think, but over 800k last year.
How do you know whether the people being mocked genuinely enjoy it or the culture requires them to appear like they enjoy it?
They could have turned to the second place contestants from their sham primary election which was held this Spring and largely ignored by the media.
they will probably merge FTC back into DOJ
Can you elaborate on why the FCC openly auctioning VHF / UHF frequencies is
terrifying ?
It is far less positive than the general trend prior...
This is literally a totally different piece of software with a completely unrelated use case. Changing the name would make as much sense as renaming a hammer because someone invented a screwdriver.
Thank you for the clarification. It's delays all the way down. :)

I was cycling between the "official" stream and EA to try and catch the most-live and I found EA was a couple seconds ahead.
They did? I've not heard of that, and a cursory search isn't finding anything. Got any more info on this, which rocket, etc? I'd love to learn about that.
ChemBench: Evaluating LLMs Against Expert Chemists [New Results]
We've released a new version of ChemBench (https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01475), a framework measuring LLMs' chemistry capabilities against human experts.

We Evaluated 2,788 expert-curated chemistry questions across undergrad/grad topics and provide a human baseline from 19 chemistry experts (mostly MS/PhD level).
Leading LLMs (like o1, Claude 3.5) significantly outperformed human experts on average

Performance varies by topic:

- Strong: General chemistry, calculations

- Weak: Safety/toxicity, analytical chemistry

Notable: Models excel at textbook problems but struggle with reasoning that requires to map text to reasoning about 2D/3D structures.

Interesting observations:

- Tool-augmented systems (with literature search) didn't improve performance much

- Open source models (Llama-3.1-405B) approaching closed source performance

- Models provide unreliable confidence estimates

- Performance correlates with model size but not molecular complexity

The results suggest both impressive capabilities and clear limitations of current LLMs in chemistry, with implications for chemistry education and scientific tooling.

Code/Data: https://github.com/lamalab-org/chem-bench
Interactive results: https://chembench.org
The COVID years oversaw the biggest transfer of wealth to the rich in history.
> Also to call the current German government "stable" is... a choice.

Just hours after I wrote this, the German government basically imploded.
Shouldn't it be even higher if you think your country is literally hell? Maybe they have a more optimistic idea of hell than me. I guess that squares with 3% more believing it's hell than wants to leave.

I still think this survey doesn't make sense, or at least something is lost in transactional.
I'm not the author, but there are a lot of motivations one could have. The less people are constrained by stereotypes and hostility, the more they can do what they want to do, the more likely they are to be able to make a living, the less they will be beset with self-doubt, the less they will be dominated and abused by others who have more opportunities. It's about freedom. Why shouldn't women be free to be welders if they want to be?

The more women are welders, the weaker the social constraints become against women being welders; or things like welders, because the stereotypes we're talking about aren't generally so narrow.

Women aren't a special case. Lots of people are hemmed in by stereotypes and biases. Why shouldn't they be free? Well, people who get the opportunities others are fenced out of do benefit from the biases, but that's not a noble motivation.
Considering how Google was suppressing the stuff related to elections - not showing Rogan's video, not showing directions (and was called out multiple times by Twitter and Musk) to voting locations etc. I don't think the new admistration will be nice to Google.
strong man rhetoric is shockingly effective.
And the rise of anti intelllectualism in the USA continues to rise.
It is the parents responsibility to raise their children.
It's not my responsibility to have to show ID(I'm a grown adult, there is no mistaking me for someone 18 and below.. though I don't think there is any such laws in any country I would want to live in. this seems to be a fairly US centric world view).

"Think of the children"? That's the argument here?
Yes, iTunes also uses the same Core Audio framework. In fact, even iTunes on Windows uses the same code base through the Quicktime-for-Windows libraries it runs off of.

I prefer to encode with afconvert on the command line because it gives me a few more options for tweaking things, that I don't have access to in iTunes (or "Music" as it's called these days). Additionally, I use a simple shell script that handles all of it when for example ripping a whole CD.
>This is an astute comment; we are in the social media era of elections, probably have been since 2016.

No it isn't. In the U.S., we were consciously doing it wrong because the Greek system failed for the specific reasons that are currently being discussed. The democracy broke down to the issue of personality coalesced voting blocs, that once delegated to, used the levers of power to make the task of holding onto that power easier. There was a reason the Electoral College was designed in to the American System, and there was a reason National political parties were specifically warned against by the Early Founders, and it was because down that road was the path to repeating the Greek's mistakes.

The Faithless Elector was a feature, not a bug.

>Policy Vibes > Policy Content
Is specifically the death knell of a political system.
I'd disagree, after all a democracy is one vote per person. And it surely looks like they've voted against what you thought was the better choice.

In that sense, you have to have some pretence about why you disagree. You mentioned it was something along the lines of people thinking about a 'mighty dollar', but that seems conflationary.

Saying it's a nonsensical vote in a two party race is a bit off.
> It has not been coopted by wacko identity politics.

Proceeds to quote wacko communist politics.

When I say traditional left, I don't mean far, academic, elitist left. I'm talking union, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Bernie Sanders types. Not academics who write books about the role of Cuban women in the Communist revolution.

You hilariously proved exactly my point.
“Highly educated” - told on yourself pretty quick
2024 - 1964 = 60
Criminal, yes. He's a convicted felon.

He also sold the entirety of the CIA's intel on Israel's nuclear weapons capacity to the Saudi Arabians in exchange for the Saudis sponsoring a golf tournament at a Trump resort, so there's that too.
Musk in 2022: "Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic"

In 2024:
I agree with you. The moment they said shared memory, I was thinking /dev/shm. Lots of programming languages have libraries to /dev/shm already.

And since it behaves like filesystem, you can swap it with real filesystem during testing. Very convenient.

I am curious if they tried this already or not and if they did, what problems did they encounter?
Collision, yes, cascade no.
cough bullshit cough

Don't try to be subtle. If you are going to lie, go for a big lie.
I'm about to build a new system and am planning on using the 9900X. It's primarily for coding, Adobe CC, and Ableton, with maybe a rare gaming session here and there. It seems that the 9900X is the best bang for the buck right now. It games just fine, BTW.
If you want a verifiable large-scale example, the General Schedule has only increased by 12.5% cumulative in the last 4 years, compared to 22% CPI
Moats per se are not useful. The direction is - are they strengthening or fading.

Also moats should be seen as a consequence of multiple dynamics - industry, management, etc - not as a cause.

A business that is growing and by growing is reinforcing their moat is a powerful multiplier.
No, those were separate craft, on opposite sides of the country. It demonstrates an ability to manage multiple missions at once, but not rapid booster turnaround.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-doubleheader-ju...

They've since done two flights in about an hour with https://spaceflightnow.com/tag/starlink-9-5/ and https://spaceflightnow.com/tag/starlink-8-10/

I think the first-stage turnaround record is something like two weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b...

> B1062 booster holds the record for fastest turnaround at 21 days. It launched on 8 April and again on 29 April 2022.
It's just as easy? When you have a monorepo with 5 million lines of code, you're only going to focus on the part of the code you care about and forget the rest. Same with 50 repos of 100,000 loc.

Enforcing standards means actually having org level mandates around acceptable development standards, and it's enforced using tools. Those tools should be just as easily run on one monorepo than 50+ distributed repositories, nay?
Why were they using websockets to send video in the first place?

Was it because they didn't want to use some multicast video server?
Damn. Ever considered going into marketing?
The reason the flaps move is to provide attitude and speed control during reentry. Like a skydiver spreading their arms and legs.
Why all those steps? Why not just file + prompt to JSON directly?
Some of the views their cameras get are fantastic - and the tracking on the last flight test would quite possibly make NASA envious. Cameras on the beach and also just next to StarHopper are in harms way too, they've lost a couple of them. I'm not sure what the cost of repair was after a chunk of concrete from what used to be the pad took out the back of a car!
TF has had terminal Musk derangement syndrome for a while now. You can safely ignore him.
Just a reminder, the census made a mistake and gave extra congressional seats that belonged to GOP to Democrats states.
Yes it's open to everyone. South Padre Island would be your best bet.
One year ago I was in an Italian region famous for truffles in truffle season and went to a high level restaurant that specialized in truffles and meat.

After tasting different varieties I concluded I liked fake truffle taste more.

A lot more.

A simple spaghetti dish with real truffles tasted okay, but not as good as the one with fake truffle oil.
People don't seem to understand that even Trump's judges still see themselves as JUDGES. They're not going to just make stuff up that's not in the law, and there were several instances in his first term where his own SCOTUS Justices told him to pound sand. It's not so simple as "nominated by Trump == inherently corrupt," much as he'd like it to be that way.
Looks super neat! I've had a longtime dream of working on a similar project, but I want to make it "Daily Prophet" styled, inspired by the Harry Potter series - https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Daily_Prophet?file=Daily.... With gifs and effects :)

A few years ago, a similar project was posted on HN that I thought was really cool too - E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831323).