skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are nice TV soundbites, but reflect a clear lack of understanding of how these issues (gas prices, wars, tariffs, etc.) work.

But I guess that explains why people voted for Trump.

- Drill for oil: oil production is at all all-time high. Drilling more doesn't drop local prices.

- Stop the wars: 100% agree we should end all wars. Except that Trump has no control over this. Also, the one thing that both parties agree on is increasing the military budget (Congress voted for more than Biden proposed).
I've poked around a bit with that game! The main trick is to import the memory snapshot (various ways of dumping it to a file; people like Cheat Engine for this) into Ghidra.

Ghidra can analyze the SuperH processor machine code natively, so the auto analysis will turn up lots of functions.
Google, too. Likely AWS as well. "It's different, you don't understand". No walkouts, no protests, no nothing. The biggest protest I've seen were like a half dozen folks at Google who immediately got fired. Remember Maven? Those were the days. 3100 signatures, walkouts, etc [1]. Was it because Trump was in the White House? Is this conditional on the administration? Will we see it again next year? There are many interesting questions.

[1] https://archive.is/UuZRN
They are working on this with Project Leyden. https://cr.openjdk.org/~jiangli/hermetic_java.pdf
Author here :) There is no trick here actually. It's just HTML / JS / CSS. Browsers are pretty good at compositing CSS transforms - and know how to handle DOM updates coming from event handlers & requestAnimationFrame. There is one CSS hint that speeds it up a little "will-change: transform". Another important ingredient is to update the object position in the (pointermove) event handler - so that the responsiveness is low - physics engines also could do this, but it's usually an overkill.

You can take a look at the script in the website's sources - it's inline.
> these companies have put themselves in an impossible situation when they spent 3 years hiring fully remote workers from around the country/world

Which is why many people think this is how you do voluntary layoffs. Can't move to where you need to go to the office? I guess your're gone - you can show yourself out the door.

In the end, these companies still see their employees as being expendable.
Sadly, this will only get worse. Younger people that spend so much time on TikTok will just feel comfortable with that aspect ratio. I know kids that spend more time in portrait mode on their devices than they do in front of the wide screen TV at home; mainly because their parents are planted in front of it watching what they want. Sucking in those TikTok videos is a bit of their independence which is only emboldening the preference.

At least it didn't have that lame voice with transcription text on it
Account and internet connection required. Now with "Ads while you go" technology.
> Bars and hotels that used to rely on gig musicians can now play a Spotify playlist over the speakers

Muzak was a thing long before that. So I don't see how that can be the cause.
Mandatory blog post on XMPP and decentralized protocols: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
I’m sure construction workers/supervisors/engineers would love the idea of having all of their decisions be subject to judgment by lawyers or a jury.
I really think I need to get a Flipper Zero. Imagine how useful it would be in a post apocalyptic scenario.
Maybe it’s just a temporary thing, eventually people will get sick of AI and being marketed digitally at every breath they take. Old things do come back, you know?
I've done a lot of work on XMPP related projects and some specs, and I'm not sure that this is true. I mean, it's definitely complicated, that part is true, but of course it is, it's a protocol and it's not more complicated than other specs as far as I can see. Not to mention that, like the various clients for different platforms that this article mentions, one of the big benefits of XMPP over other protocols is that it has libraries for every major platform, so most developers will never need to implement the spec.

TL;DR most people don't implement HTTP when they want to make a request, they add a dependency on whatever their languages HTTP library is. XMPP is the same.
> But no they will not ever accept you in the same way you could be accepted in a European country.

I've lived in Japan for many years and speak Japanese alright (disclaimer, that was a long time ago though, in the 90s) and now live in Germany. I travel a lot.

I think what you're saying is directionally correct, but really more of a difference in degree.

For example, I've often seen Asian-Germans being addressed in broken English by older Germans, even though German is their strongest language. Or being complimented on their fluent German. That's got to feel pretty "othering".

And don't tell me the country that just elected mister Trump is as open to the world as is often claimed.

This may all feel completely different if you're around the right group of people, and I imagine that's similar in Japan today, though I haven't been back in a long time.
Doens't jpackage still just make installers and not a single binary you can just run?
Let me quote that famous dove Eisenhower [1]:

> Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

> This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech#The_sp...
Was it that pidgin didn’t keep up with features, or more likely that one by one the major platforms pulled xmpp support to the point where there was no reason for a normal person to use pidgin?
> He told a story about being called upon in English class to translate the Japanese word for "great-grandfather"

Very similar/relevant shimura ken skit. https://youtu.be/67KlmXYDom4
Even under your pedantic definition, the above commentator is still correct
Yes, definitely! Latest edition of the monthly newsletter highlighting various stuff in the community and ecosystem: https://xmpp.org/2024/11/the-xmpp-newsletter-october-2024/
Can you cite some examples? I'm not understanding correctly what you are getting at.
After ignoring the download links I ejected the floppy, drank some coffee, and read from the notebook. What did you try?
Visualization of Unix code contributors 1972
Hah, I like a little humor, but it doesn't sound like we are not a personality match so yes, I do recommend you skip it :)

The Googler wasn't helping in anyway; in fact, it is clear they don't even understand search with such odd concepts such as "looks a lot like spam when you squint." And a total misunderstanding of what is happening since they don't work in the search department.
A friend of mine explained that there are overlapping phobias of water and deep dark spaces that this game triggers; he said it's unbearable to play the later levels.
australia proposes big button that says "are you really old enough to read posts? please do not lie"
You mean like the model train set that my dad spent weeks setting up on an 8'x4' sheet of plywood with the fake grass, buildings, cars, and people that eventually was spent playing with in total of about 4 hours? Yeah, that one is in a box in the equivalent of my attic as well for the past 25 years now
Well, most countries have a single instant messaging app (usually WhatsApp) that's dominant now so there's no big need for it I guess.
> I would say the odds are not zero that one day Trump may be saying this about Elon Musk :\

I am morbidly curious about he political battles over the next few years. A lot of disparate groups came together to get Trump elected, and a lot of those groups DO NOT agree with each other. Does the classical wing of the party trust the tech wing of the party? Vance and Thiel are Catholic, do the evangelicals work well with the catholics? Do Theil and Musk still have bad blood? Does Bannon still have power, and does he trust the tech wing? I would say objectively it seems like Musk and Trump would be a powerful duo and yet I can't imagine there's enough space in the party for the both of them. Do the tech bros and finance bros really have a lot in common with the blue collar wing of the party?

I imagine the hiring process will include a ton of political intrigue. Does a celebrity president want to put a celebrity like RFK JR in charge of anything? I wouldn't think so, he seems to independent a voice.
> Ganon

I was wondering what an action-adventure villain was doing in the dictionary

> Ganot

Oh, that sounds more like a real person.
Let's go through them:

> For privileged people,

Privileged person is anyone living in a western country who hasn't had to deal with censorship. I consider myself to be a privileged person in that regard. That's not an attack on anyone's character.

> You're being self-centered

That's anyone who fails to consider use cases other than their own. I wasn't speaking to your character, It was a description of your reply, not your character, because it contained sweeping statements that only apply to certain groups of people.

> but I don't go around proclaiming that all of AI is completely useless, and that all of its problem areas are better solved by statistics and "if" statements.

That's not an attack on anyone?

> Don't mistake your own privilege, ignorance, and lack of imagination with the lack of real-world applications.

I've explained that privilege isn't an attack on anyone's character. As for the rest, sorry, but which words am I supposed to use when someone denies that a problem is real (which fair enough, I'll elaborate), later admits that there are other services that solve the same problem, but they still want to claim that there are no problems that the obscure product is solving, despite that product having real-world users who are using it for that exact problem?
Really glad to see some academic research on this- it was quite obvious from interacting with LLMs that they form a world model and can, e.g. simulate simple physics experiments correctly that are not in the training set. I found it very frustrating to see people repeating the idea that “it can never do x” because it lacks a world model. Predicting text that represents events in the world requires modeling that world. Just because you can find examples where the predictions of a certain model are bad does not imply no model at all. At the limit of prediction becoming as good as theoretically possible given the input data and model size restrictions, the model also becomes as accurate and complete as possible. This process is formally described by the Solomonoff Induction theory.
1. The author quotes some VC/excecutive consultant/TEDx talk as the basis for the "philosophy"

2. "Since code changes are reversible, much of the fear surrounding potential errors is unwarranted. Code errors are released inadvertently every day, and companies fix them and move on. What matters most is having infrastructure that supports quick, seamless rollbacks and releases." No, errors get into production and stay there forever while customers get annoyed. Quick, seamless rollbacks and releases? Not enough.

3. "After weeks (sometimes longer) spent tackling a problem, the code author is usually the most qualified in that specific problem’s domain". Cranks spend years coming with the "proofs" or theories like squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge and the experts dismiss them with 5 minutes thought because they know there's a mistake somewhere, but don't need to be bothered finding it.

4. "the code author, by virtue of their time and effort, deserves the chance to see their proposals in action". History is littered with disasters resulting from someone unqualified seeing their proposals in action.

5. "Developers are often urged to take more ownership of their work—so why not grant them real authority?" Ownership and authority are not synonymous. Responsible ownership requires, well, responsibility.
Man Pidgin used to be excellent for Steam and Facebook Messenger for me.

I no longer use Facebook Messenger, but I really miss the Steam plugin (its been busted for years at this point)
"Ban" is used pretty loosely here. For example, Utah allows community-owned networks but requires them to be "wholesale-only" instead of direct-to-customer. It's a limitation, sure, but I have a hard time considering that a real "ban."
Yes, but that is insane.
FWIW, both Mononoke (the server) and EdenFS (the virtual filesystem) are now "usable, but undocumented & unsupported" in the open-source repo as of the past ~3 months, and there are published binary artifacts created on each commit if you go look through the workflows. So, if you're adventurous, you can try using them now. That said, it's probably still a year out or so from actually being usable and documented.
I tried it out on my phone and was very impressed with how well it worked on mobile. Cramped, but usable.

I would love to see simple turtle graphics and canvas output modes. And maybe a retro style serial terminal with glowing text.
> As a sidenote I realize Biden made that garbage comment which came across to me as a misconstrued sentence that is common with Biden's speech impediment.

Honestly, is this because of his speech impediment or because Biden is just really old and unable to function anywhere close to 100%?

I mention this because another angle of "talked down to" is a sense that the Democrats have gaslit the country on a number of issues, most clearly on Biden's age.

We now know that Biden has declined cognitively since becoming President. We now know that his inner circle and the media around him engaged in small "cover up" to hide his decline. One element of this "cover up" was explaining his behavior as a result of his speech impediment. Of course, the debate spoke for itself and the whole thing came crashing down.
Post truth. There's a philosopher of Vlad vexler which talks about this as being a major descriptor for our current time.

Post truth. As in people can lie, other people will expect they are lying, and still promote The liar.
The first apps I need to replace on any new windows machine (after installing FF) are Paint, Notepad, Photo/Image viewer and MediaPlayer. The funny thing is their replacements are all ancient as well, and still awesome because they've been thoughtfully upgraded over the years without destroying their conceptual integrity, or they've just been "done" for decades.

Paint.Net (v3), Notepad++, IrfanViewer, Foobar2000 & VLC
wow oh wow what a great comment. I think the reason dance went away is a lot of men engaged in predatory behavior while drunk, that is that would approach the woman from behind and "grind" himself on her which is really just sexual assault.

I often think about how we replace things with technology and say it's better. Bread is another example in my opinion. Towns used to have bread makers, well respected and well paid. Now, at least here in the USA we replaced the bread makers with machines. We got rid of the bread makers and ultimately replaced them with engineers who design the machines and repair men. Even they've been replaced, once designed there's no need for the engineer and it's often cheaper to buy than repair so the repair man too went away. What we're left with is subpar bread. How is any of this progress?
Of all the states I've lived, TN blew me away wrt internet the most, by far. Most have heard about EPB over in Chattanooga. KUB in Knoxville recently did the same thing. But those aside, it seems like every little nook and cranny has some sort of fiber, whether it's from the utility board or a private company.

I lived in a city of about 20k, not near any big city. There were two different fiber companies(one utility, one private) and Spectrum offering service. Cookeville, Crossville, McMinnville, Manchester, Tullahoma, etc...cities most probably haven't even heard of, all have generally great FTTH coverage.
Elon at least seems to be against sudden implementation of tariffs, he wants them phased in in a predictable over time, he talks about exactly this near the end of his JRE interview: https://youtu.be/7qZl_5xHoBw?si=0XNnSP8psUtXLK2K&t=8426

They also talk about the problems of losing competitive pressure from protectionist systems.
That AI space is SO frothy right now!
Does his competition also get subsidies? Who gets more, who gets less? Are your complaints motivated by Musk's political opinions and activities?
I think I figured out how to build AGI. Want to get some feedback
Also `open -R path/to/file` opens Finder in the containing directory with the file highlighted (and thus scrolled into view). I use this with a script that takes a screen recording and trims some specified seconds off the end and converts it to mp4 to be smaller when I upload into a Github PR description. Easiest to drag and drop the converted file, y'see.
So when will mspaint ? Copy a text then paste as an image
Obama was elected because that election followed 8 straight years of Republicans in power, in which they squandered the world’s sympathy after 9/11 by starting two retarded wars, opening guantanamo, curtailing freedoms, going after journalists etc. Bush Jr. and the GOP was lambasted 24/7 at home and abroad by the likes of the Daily Show, (much more mildly but) not unlike Trump is today.

Obama was charismatic and his platform of hope and change was powerful, but it did hinge on the GOP being absolutely unelectable. Kamala Harris may have won this year if Trump had won in 2020, although it’s easy to imagine the Dems squandering that as well, by explicitly running on not-being-the-other-guy, which Obama didn’t do.
...best played at 1/4 speed for the early days :-)
Well, better late than never; I'll be looking forward to picking up one of these. Chording on the UHK 60 v2 was a minor but constant irritation since I had to move between regular keyboards and the UHK frequently.

Not a fan of the integrated palmrests that look like they can't be removed. Also not a fan of the OLED since the lifespan is going to be far shorter than the LEDs on the previous model.
I am looking into it there in order to avoid similar mistakes in future, and thank you for pointing this out, I think I had seen the rule about posting the original source but didn't carefully go over the rules before posting. It is certainly cemented for me now.

I think maybe the Bloomberg article [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-04/meta-open...] might be the actual original. But that is less significant a difference.
The title should have "in America" at the end.
Heya, we don't have a Discord server just yet, but it's super cool to know there's sufficient interest in having one. For now, though, I'd be happy to answer any questions here or over emails.
Maybe I'm missing something here, doesn't this simply move the precision problem to a different part of manufacturing? Previously you had to be precise with aligning the chips, now you have to be precise with how you put those alignment marks on the chips you want to align. Am I missing something here? Or is it considerably easier to put the marks on the chips with sufficient precision?
Back to the front?
What you're seeing here is an optimization about integers, not about pass by value. CPython only does this for small integers:

$ python -c "print(int('3') is int('3'))"
True
$ python -c "print(int('300') is int('300'))"
False

Other implementations make different choices.
Much smaller-scale, but I worked at a company with a mini-mainframe-type computer (VAX-11/780, iirc) that had a 'motor-generator' to run it (really a motor-flywheel-generator).

The computer, storage, etc. ran off the generator, which first eliminated any risk of power spikes and surges (as the flywheel is a very effective low-pass filter), and the circuits controlling motor speed also ensured the AC frequency was better than the power company supply. This was located in a rural area, so the long power lines with few sinks (customers pulling power) made lightening spike risk spread further, and the rural voltage and frequency fluctuated a lot. Seemed like a really cool system that worked flawlessly in the years I was there.
PCC is a whole different level. For example, you still have to trust that Google is doing what it says to control access. PCC makes it auditable and verifiable by clients when connecting to a node.

You can also audit that the binaries don’t leak any data in, say, debug logs, which is definitely possible on GCP/Borg. PCC nodes are “cryptographically airtight.”
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. Hua Hsu isn't going to talk about a media company where many thrive. A category completely opposed to what the New Yorker and its habitat are.

"New York doesn't matter." That's the fucking story. The decline of the working musician: look in the mirror guys.
I know what you mean, and I'll work on it :)

SHFLA is Turing-complete though, so I am hoping people see that it has more potential than just being a music visualizer as I keep improving it! I'm currently in the process of rewriting it in Nim using SDL2, so once I get it to a performant state I'm going to implement an information-as-music encoder and all that.
Very early on, say maybe late 90s, cable companies didn’t lock down their networks and you could effectively do this if you were on the same loop. It was amazing to browse neighbor’s windows SMB shares, play LAN games, etc.
Not possible today—Google form and Typeform don’t allow custom code to run on their form pages. But, if you have a form on your own site, which you control, or another forms product that allows custom JS, Akuri will work well on those forms.

Akuri is primarily built for products/platforms that want to add content-generation AI to a text field within their workflow.
Example: e-commerce product adds Akuri to allow sellers to write better & faster product descriptions right on the platform.
People who are saying "the polls were wrong" didn't look at them carefully enough.

This is a retweet of Nate Silver's analysis showing that the most probable outcome, with nearly a 25% chance, was Trump sweeping the swing states. Yes, added up with all the other possible outcomes, the race was very close, but this was still the most likely outcome, and by a large margin: https://x.com/LPDonovan/status/1854265746601488727
I wish there was more detail on "how" this was done as opposed to just the "what"
Yes. Also, I am pretty sure google did not pay $15M for gogle.com.

I feel it's not the same.
I believe most of the accusations about 2020 were centered in places where the Democrats were in power like Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Control of the WH is immaterial because all voting is controlled by the states or local municipalities.

Another part is that the Republicans were much more prepared this time to stop the alleged fraud before it happened. They had lawyers ready to protest immediately when election judges were locked out of counting rooms or when counting stopped. They made sure they had enough election judges for all precincts and sometimes they set up cameras to count the number of voters entering the site.

Perhaps your point about polling is still the best answer
See what I mean about execution?
Hmm. Does hibernate mode 25 do the trick? https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/419577