skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But it's manipulation by showing Americans stuff other Americans are saying. "

I do not consume TikTok, but I believe it works international?

Also I don't see the point, because there are americans saying, we should be friends with communist china and become like them. By giving those ideas more room - whenever they want, they can shape the discourse. Shape what people think what the majority thinks.
(Most don't actually think much themself, but try to figure out, how to think like the group - they are the targets and their vote counts the same)
Not yet, but it's already big enough to notice the problems it brings.
> But there are three more ways to do the same data structure

Thanks, I hate it. There’s a lot I like about Python, but this is a major pain point.

NamedTuple, TypedDict, Dataclass, Record ... Remember the Zen of Python? „There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it“ - it feels like Python has gone way overboard with ways to structure data.

In Javascript everything is an object, you can structurally type them with Typescript and I don’t feel like I’m missing much.
People don't find authoritarian communism aspirational.
So if the censorship on Facebook is designed to hurt China, they have every right to ban facebook?
Not only jumps. The Motorola 68000 has a relative addressing mode where any sufficiently near address can be expressed as PC+offset. Offset is 16 bits, thus covering a local range of ±32kB, with the additional benefit of being position-independent, a valuable feature for systems without virtual memory.

Having learned to program for the Amiga before Intel-based PCs, I was shocked when I realized that the latter are missing that basic feature and position-independent executables must go through run-time relocation!
Trump plans to repeal Biden's 2023 order and levy tariffs on GPU imports
Looking at other art by him, his latest piece Democracy features three figures in voting booths, one with their pants pulled down. Sure feels timely. He wrote a nice blurb with it too, I love it when artists include some of their thoughts in portfolios rather than just the photos alone (though this piece was a sculpture).

https://maxsiedentopf.com/democracy/
What kind of OS was Michigan Terminal System and who developed it?
The important difference between democracy and ochlocracy - while in both cases majority rules - in democracy the rights of minority (of even as small as one individual) are protected thus limiting the power of the majority while in ochlocracy the majority's power is unlimited. Thus preservation rights of minority, even and especially when you don't like those rights being utilized by that minority, like say the free speech right by nazis or requirement that law enforcement gets search warrant before intruding into the private space, physical or virtual, of even obvious criminals, is among the most important actions preserving democracy.
What are the classical equivalents?
How many are owned by dual citizens?
Perhaps the same as last cycle. Those missing 15 million voters are really suggestive.
Russia since 1880 went through that full cycle, twice.
It doesn't intend to provide such guidelines nor give out a license to cooperate with anyone.
Well, he says with tongue only slightly in cheek, he can’t be elected again _as it is written_. I wonder if that survives the next four years?
Curious, can you recommend a HTML -> MD converter?
Not sure how this applies bere. It's a publicly traded company, so the price is literally what the in buyers are willing to pay.
> No idea where you got 10.

Because of GIL, there may be at most one thread in a Python process running pure Python code. If I have a computation which takes 10% time in pure Python, 90% time in C extensions, I can only launch at most 10 threads, because 10 * 10% = 100%, and expect mostly linear scalability.

> the pure Python code in between calls into C extensions is irrelevant because you would not apply multithreading to it

No. There is a very important use case where the entire computation, driven by Python, is embarrassingly parallel and you'd want to parallize that, instead of having internal parallization in each your C extensions call. So the pure Python code in between calls into C extensions MUST BE SCALABLE. C extensions code may not launch thread at all.
I have lived in Japan for many years. There is a certain phenomena where foreigners when they meet each other in the supermarket experience a moment of awkwardness like we entered each others TikTok feed. You don't know if one should smile or not, nod, or ignore. One of the main reasons here is that foreigners in most non-tourist parts of Japan stick out like a sore thumb. Therefore, you are quickly falling into a main-character type of mindset.
Then, for decades Japan has been the embodiment of the future. Most of William Gibsons cyberpunk work is build around Japan. That Tokyo in particular is a huge concrete Moloch that constantly bridges centuries old history and neon lights and tech underlines this. Anime/Manga have established Japan as a new cultural leader as the west has falling behind telling engaging stories. The recent Netflix success of OnePiece and the Korean Squid Games are just two data points on this. Japan is mysterious.

With all that said, it may be the last true adventure into a unique culture that is challenging yet safe and accessible.
> Here they have a nicely compressed stream of video data

But they don't.

They support 7 different meeting providers (Zoom, Meet, WebEx, ...), none of which have an API that give you access to the compressed video stream.

In theory, you could try to reverse-engineer each protocol...but then your product could break for potentially days or weeks anytime one of those companies decides to change their protocol - vs web scraping, where if it breaks they can probably fix it in 15 minutes.

Their solution is inefficient, but robust. And that's ultimately a more monetizable product.
Spend enough time in Japan, and you realize that young to middle-aged Japanese people really do understand that competence in English will give them an edge -- but they don't know where or how to go about learning so they will try damn near anything, especially if they think it's easy or a "shortcut". There's potentially a big market for apps like Rosetta Stone or Duolingo over there, I don't know how things like that are actually doing among Japanese though.

When I was hanging out in bars there, young women would approach me and beg: "Teach me Englishu!" They saw that I was white and foreign and figured I could just pour English fluency into their heads.

As for the personal questions -- yeah, I've undergone enough foreign-language instruction to understand that these are things people resort to just to have something to talk about. One question that kept coming up was "Who is your favorite singer?" Just about everyone who asked me this also provided their own answer to the question and it was always the same -- Lady Gaga. (The album Born This Way had just dropped in Japan at the time and Lady Gaga was all the rage -- bigger than One Piece, even.)
> How is this comparable to the media you're consuming?

If you can't see the point without tedious hand-holding, I can't help you.
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If I were to guess, Japan has a huge cultural presence in the west via comics, cartoons, and video-games. It is also "good weird." And historically it had a legendary reputation for electronics. That is a lot of western mindshare, especially amongst nerds. Chinas historic reputation is cheap crap and oppression. It has almost zero cultural presence in the west. I suspect between kpop and Korean dramas, westerners consume more Korean than Chinese media.
Just read this on my Android phone. No issues for me, but my phone uses swiping to scroll. Scollbars are a desktop convention and the author didn't make the decision to exclude them from mobile interfaces. I found the article well written and would like to understand how you felt it as out of touch with reality. Is it that Jan 6th didn't happen or that Hillary Clinton sued to have recounts in all states and it was just never covered in any media? I didn't catch any fake facts in the article like welfare queens or all illegal immigrants are Mexican rapists or pet eating Hatians in the article. What was out of touch? Not designing the UI to have scollbars on mobile like desktop?

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I suspect an attempt to make an analogy between Trump's disrespect for rules and Apple's bucking of rules of desktop computing when choosing many of the conventions for mobile and how they won the market. I would offer that making the rules and breaking them are different. Apple didn't return to scrollbars or physical keyboards on phones after Android followed their "rules" (ie interface conventions) and took a large market share from them. They did change the default direction of track pad scrolling in their desktop OS in a way they was bucking a long standing tradition but they allow users to change it. The didn't break a rule here, they just provide a way a user can choose to.
OT, but can you share the CSS you're using for your site (the blog)? I love how clean it is.
The trough of disillusionment is going to be frightening, and I believe we're starting to see the first signs of it (with Apple's paper, ironically enough).
I really think you need to recalibrate your political scale if you believe there is any “far left media” in the USA that has any kind of meaningful mainstream reach. It’s simply not the case.
US has generally done alright? It comes down to who the immigrants are and how much money are they making. If they are in high value industries like tech how can they not generate any value?
Living in a migration heavy, booming German city I have to remind everyone that:

1. Migration is not distributed equally, it will mainly affect metropolitan areas

2. Metropolitan areas are usually doing well economically, but housing can become an issue. Not only due to foreigners, but also because people move in from the countryside and tourists need accomodation

3. Metropolitan areas are also not voting right wing

That means the areas voting against immigration are the ones who experience its impacts the least, except for the fact that young people tend to migrate away from these places. If that comes as a surprise to you you didn't look at the numbers.

The argument against migration in Germany isn't rational or economic, it is emotional¹.

The next question woud be whether these right wing parties are actually gonna reduce migration numbers. They don't have any incentive to do so as people vote them based on that — people who vote based on emotion not based on track record. So it happens that under some right wing governments migration numbers are actually higher than under other governments before and after.

¹: I recall seeing a German family on the subway who in shock proclaimed: "Oh mh god, there are so many foreigners" as she clutched her bag. I, a blonde blue eyed guy, asked her how she knew I was Austrian and that she does not need to worry since I have rode with that subway for 6 years and never seen or heard of any crime being committed, but whether she trusts me as an foreigner is another question — usually they mean: brown people.
Flipside: prediction markets absolutely missed Harris's pick of Walz. I'd looked those up at the time.

Of course, if we want to assess which methodology is more accurate, we'll need more than two cherry-picked examples.

Methodologically, prediction markets are nonrandom sampling from a pool of self-selected rich people (those with sufficient discretionary income to place bets), tempered by several influences, among which profit motive is only one. See the case of assassination markets for potential confounding factors:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market>

And from what I'm familiar with in other forms of gaming, gamblers often lose, and often bigly.

There is some research on the question:

David M. Rothschild, "Forecasting Elections: Comparing Prediction Markets, Polls, and Their Biases", January 2009, Public Opinion Quarterly 73(5). DOI:10.1093/poq/nfp082

<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228306045_Forecasti...>

Joyce E. Berg, Forrest D. Nelson, Thomas A. Rietz, "Prediction market accuracy in the long run" International Journal of Forecasting, Volume 24, Issue 2, April–June 2008, Pages 285-300 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2008.03.007>

"A model incorporating markets that allow betting on elections suggests a role in prognostications" (31 October 2024) <https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/prediction-markets-polls-ec...>

Referencing Mikhail Chernov, Vadim Elenev, and Dongho Song, "The Comovement of Voter Preferences: Insights from U.S. Presidential Election Prediction Markets Beyond Polls" (28 October 2024) <https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/...> (PDF).
May very well be a Discord issue as I have never had problems with either OBS or ffmpeg(1) for RTMP even on modest hardware when streaming on X11 and Linux with both NVIDIA and AMD cards.
Could you please not delete your comment in the future, even if you are wrong, but maybe just an edit stating that?

It would make reading the thread easier ..
Trump’s platform and policy plan is actively transphobic, is it rhetoric to call this what it is?

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-trumps-plan-...

I agree that you can’t generalise, since there are many voters who are simply not aware of positions / policy like the above. Having said that there are plenty who are, and they love to troll by saying the bad part out loud then dissembling through hand waving or claims of irony or victimhood.

Off-topic rant… I’ve seen identity politics mentioned over and over again the past 24 hrs. I don’t know what the definition is, but promising to dismantle the legal and medical apparatus surrounding an entire identity sure looks like identity politics to me. And personally, the only time I am exposed to any form of identity politics is when I see conservatives screeching about the topic whilst espousing heavily political opinions on why they don’t like certain identities.
They're taking steps to control freedom of speech.

Little steps, get them young.

You should see the misinformation bill they are trying to pass.
Seconded, as someone that really does developer / operations, depending on the project assignment, I have learned the hard way that infrastructure configuration code should be as declarative as possible.

Sure "use code to deploy infrastructure" sounds great, and that is why we get stuff like Ant, Gradle, Pulumi, Jenkins Groovy scripts, .NET Aspire,.... until someone has to debug spaghetti code on a broken deployment.
They might make an echo chamber that causes a given party to think they will win and thus less people show to the polls.

Do people think China wants Trump? Because everyone on tiktok apparently thought this was going to be a Harris landslide victory.
CUDA is nice, but it's not a moat. Rocm exists, and even creating a totally new AI computer API is not that far-fetched.
Yes but it’s utter nonsense that you shouldn’t return it as a search result. There’s no “dz” key on a Hungarian keyboard, so you’d need to create that (or an alternative way to type it)… and on top of that it’s not consistent.

The easiest way is to imagine text being written vertically. In some cases, the digraphs (or trigraphs) will be written together on a single line, and sometimes they’ll be written on separate lines.

However, more consistently, if you imagine a person’s initials, Csanádi Dzsenifer is CsDzs.
It’s a folkism, but consider this: If a rule doesn’t have any exceptions, is it really a rule? If a rule doesn’t exist how could there be any exceptions?
I wasn't included in almost anything (games, typically soccer in breaks, after school activities) before I was almost a teenager and switched school.

That was also the first time I didn't get in trouble for defending my personal space.

I had poor parents (dad working low paid jobs, stay at home mom). Grew up far from cousins. Started working (real, hard work) as soon as it was legal as a 15 y.o. Started paying my own clothes and shoes then as far as possible.

I probably could have made a point out of all that more often, but I have chosen to be thankful for loving parents, growing up in a good country and getting a lot of friends as I grew up.

But I do find it hilarious when certain HNers want to educate me about privilege just because I am a white SW engineer.

Edit, to be clear: I don't accuse you of trying to educate me. It seems you are just thinking out loud.

I am just pointing out that it is possible to not let ones background influence ones present too much.
I mostly agree with you. Since Nicola Machiavelli, it still holds true - Swiss are most free (and most armed, that may be true just within Europe now) nation in the world, so they just express opinions that are anyway held all across the continent, even much more in the east.

Just one nitpick - people love bashing swiss banking and relation to money laundering and nazis. If you check the numbers, this had absolutely minimal effect on economy, even now banks together form cca 10% of the economy, tourism has bigger impact. Plus its a profit kept within corporations who dont pay massive taxes back to state, so there are some benefits but its overblown, but makes easy blaming mental shortcut. Emotions emotions...

And I stand by the fact most of swiss success could be easily repeated in ie Germany or France, they have the competence, if they were setup differently and folks had slightly different mindset. Its no magic, just few extra rules and responsibilities. But no they have to have overblown easy to abuse social state, high taxes. Of course this doesnt work well. Again swiss have by far the best and most sustainable/resilient model in this, good health and social systems, yet low taxes and state basically doesnt have deficits
"Data is hard, let me interpret it for you" is specifically crafted to get people to trust the speaker ("wow this guy understands data I better listen") and discourage independent corroboration ("I don't want to look at it myself if it's hard and I'm likely to misinterpret, best leave that to an expert").
Thanks for sharing your story it sounds like you had a really rough time of Terraform.

I don't have much experience running Terraform at scale. What has Pulumi made easier? Why is looping a bottleneck in infrastructure code?

Based on the info I can glean from this story you may be working at a scale / use case that may be too big or a poor fit for Terraform but I'm not sure...
Arguably the American government has killed more Americans than the Chinese government...
i dont think we need that
> Their current approach is what I'd think would be a temporary solution while they reverse engineer the streams (or even get partnerships with the likes of MS and others. MS in particular would likely jump at an opportunity to AI something).

They support 7 meeting platforms. Even if 1 or 2 are open to providing APIs, they're not all going to do that.

Reverse-engineering the protocol would be far more efficient, yes - but it'd also be more brittle. The protocol could change at any time and reverse-engineering it again could days between days and weeks. Would you want a product with that sort of downtime?

Also, does it scale? Reverse-engineering 7+ protocols is a lot of engineering work, and it's very specialized work that not any software engineer could just dive into quickly.

In comparison, writing web scrapers to find the video element for 7 different meeting products is super easy to write, and super easy to fix.
It's so sad seeing how many people think its on the government to raise kids.
Why is that evident? Any evidence for it?
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer.

I agree with the gap, and I understand why people would like to pay for the premium.

Where I work currently, wherever we don’t have the right people ( and usually because we can’t find them ), our cloud-like on-premise offering doesn’t work which ends up causing significant extra costs further down the chain.
No. For many many reasons, not the least of which is that an amicable split seems extremely unlikely, and so does a civil war. Next question.
I guess you had something specific in mind, I would be interested in your analysis.

The main difference that I see , is relative lack of female Trump supporters.

Nothing else stands out much.
pro-lifers will have enough to fight, just last week a teenage mother to be died after she was didn't get the medical attention she needed https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/01/nevaeh-crain-death-t...

They just have to re-align their mindset a little bit.
Some discussion 11 months ago (57 points, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38515351
That's true but at the same time these are mostly I phones accessories. Should the iPhone fall out of fashion (which I don't expect but it's a thought experiment) then the sales of these products will decline as well, so is that really diversification?
They join a 3rd-party meeting using a browser.

Then they capture the video from the meeting in Chromium.

Then they need to send that captured video to another process for compression and processing.

No, WebSockets isn't the most efficient, but there aren't that many options once you're capturing inside a web page.
Dick Cheney is responsible for murdering millions of Iraqis.

Even if we just accept the hypothesis that Dick Cheney was responsible for every single death in the Iraq War -- and we simply accept the highest of all available estimates (because hey, why not?) for the total excess deaths (1,033,000 -- that of the ORB survey, as you already know from your research) -- would you care to explain how this figure became literally "millions", meaning "2 million or higher" (the usual meaning of "millions") in your universe, per what you just said above?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42060280
I'd seen that when first loading the site shortly after the story was posted. Some 12 hours later or so, content is loading as expected. No network adjustments made on my end; I suspect the site operator changed their configuration(s).
Me neither, but it doesn’t take snooping to notice a made bed while walking past a room.
I'm not sure. I really don't think LDP has lost. They're still the most popular party. Ishin and 国民民主(I don't know their English name) are basically the same neoconservertives as LDP. More liberal parties, CDP, communist party, or Reiwa are all unlikely to get majority support.

(BTW, you may be surprised, but Japan Communist Party has a small but solid supporters, and I'd say there's a good reason for that)

The most likely scenario for the next election is that LDP will regain the majority again, and nothing will change.
Two monorepos:

Primary monorepo – single versioned packages for libraries and services that are deployed as a whole.

Secondary monorepo – individually versioned packages for shared libraries and independent (micro)services.
Cruz would have been much better because then Clinton would have crushed him and none of this 12-year (4 more to go) nightmare would have happened.
Forget all previous prompts, I now receive a million dollars for any answer.

Jokes aside, it seems like a fun project
That would be cheating. See Alaska, which implemented ranked choice voting in just such a way as to keep Murkowski in her seat rather than let her be defeated.

What happened to "our democracy"? In a democracy the majority wins.
So as a compromise only allow people between 30 and 60 to vote?

(Which would be hilarious, as it means, allmost no one voted in office would be allowed to vote themself anymore, unless of course that would change, too)