skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that "it is good when government is deadlocked and ineffective" is an actual argument people use is baffling to me

I mean.. I don't think its good per se. Just better than the alternative in a society that's already extremely polarized and more or less evenly split. Unless that changes IMHO ideally we'd at least want as much decision making to move to the state level.

> I believe that FPTP inevitably leads to extreme polarization,

There aren't that many datapoints e.g. it hasn't yet happened in Britain (it sort of did in France, although it's more complicated) and I'm not that sure it was entirely true even in the US between 1940 and 1980 either. So I think its hard to prove empirically.

> So it becomes beneficial to use what government power you might have in order to hinder your opponent's

Is it radically different in multiparty systems, though? If you are outside the government coalition you have similar incentives.

I wonder how effective would the Northern Ireland consensus/power-sharing based system if it became more widespread. On one hand it did seemingly led to a huge reduction in political polarization. On the other hand it's not particularly efficient and it's unlikely that any country would implement outside of extreme circumstances/being force to by a third party (unlike in Lebanon where it has failed entirely the conflict in NI was entirely political rather than religious)
Ratchets in Software Development (2021)
One thing I've always wondered is why no-one tried to double the track density for read-only floppies.

The reason floppies have so few tracks (100000 bits per track, only 80 tracks per side!) is that the read-write mechanism didn't track the track. It was just indexed to a specific position by a stepper in the drive mechanism. Because there were a lot of sources of radial position error, and the writing and reading process could be misaligned in opposite directions, the tracks needed to be wide and far apart for reliability, and the erasehead needed to erase a much wider area than what the rwhead could read/write. The various later superfloppy standards that failed to get market traction usually only got slight increases in bit density along the track, and most of their capacity increase from having some way for the rwhead to follow the track, enabling dramatically higher track density. But all those mechanisms would be much more expensive and complicated to do than a simple floppy drive.

But if you use a more precise and expensive machine to write the disk, the normal amount of precision in the drive that is used for reading ought to be sufficient for about twice the track density. The only hw change needed would have been allowing half-step positions for the rwhead, for no cost increase. And I can imagine 80's/90's software devs being interested in a format that is harder to copy at home. Yet no-one ever did it, does anyone know why it was never tried?
You can get a black MacBook and slap a NeXT logo sticker on it. It's more or less the same thing. Current macOS is a direct descendant of NEXTSTEP.
It might be some sort of bias that make it look like that. I.e. people in 'fringe movements' just calls the police like a normal person when exposed to a way to fringe plan from a way too nutty sympathizer.

It seems that the FBI might have been tipped off.

"Beginning in June 2024, Philippi told a confidential human source (CHS) about his desire to commit a mass shooting at a YMCA facility"
Oof, I felt that. I recall reading, many years ago, some statistics on how CD-ROM discs filled to about 600-650 megs made them much more reliable than the ones pushed to theoretical maximums. This was about regular, retail data CDs, not (re)writables.

I have always felt the floppy was a great demonstrator of the concept: a 3.5 inch might be perfectly fine for everyday usage and storage, but the moment you're trying to carry some data in 1.44 meg [0] zip portions, you're bound to find out just how many defective discs you had the entire time.

[0]okay, it was 1.37 meg of data actually IIRC but still
I hear that statement repeated a lot, but I'm not so sure.

What is the incentive? If China invades, anyone involved in destroying that asset will have a huge problem for themselves afterwards, China won't forgive. On the other hand, see what happened in Ukraine, where in the initial invasion there was quite a bit of collaboration of some Ukrainians, for example Antonov leadership ("Antonov's leadership sabotaged defense of Hostomel airport" -- https://english.nv.ua/nation/antonov-s-leadership-sabotaged-...).

If they will have to live under China's rule, the incentive for the individuals is to cooperate with them and be richly rewarded for it. Who wants to sacrifice themselves - and likely their families too - to benefit some outsiders? Who are leaving you behind to fight for yourself? Which at that point is against your own interest if you don't think you can win. Especially when the invaders are from one's own greater "tribe", so that it is not as bad as being invaded by another people (like the French or the Americans in Vietnam).
Black hole feeds at 40 times the theoretical limit
I vividly remember this happening. Firstly, because I was an affected customer and I had to cancel all of my debit/credit cards days before a two-week work trip to SF, but secondly…

I was approached by BA to tender for a web performance project. I was excited because, at the time, I had Gold status with BA and I used the site on a weekly basis—I knew exactly where and why it was slow simply through using it so much!

The RFP deadline was short—really short. So, I spent the bulk of a vacation in Croatia writing up my proposal. When I was meant to be lounging by the pool or chugging Malvasia, I was buried in my laptop putting together my pitch. I got it done in time, fired it over, only to be told ‘we are focusing on web security now; this project is on hold’. Then, a few days later, the news broke.
Yup, I've had the same experience and found that 2MAD works a lot better for me.
Hey fellow fintech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs,
My name is Digvijay,I created something exciting that will revolutionize commerce industry. Introducing KuwarPay, our bold attempt to simplify transactions and ability to shop directly from your social media posts.

About KuwarPay

KuwarPay is a user-friendly payment solution designed for individuals and small and medium businesses. I made a MVP, how it's gonna work:

1. A customer finds your post and clicks on the link.

2. They're redirected to a checkout page, where they fill in their details and click 'Buy Now'.

3. Next, they're redirected to PhonePe to complete the payment using their preferred method

4. After payment, the customer is redirected to a feedback page.

5. Once payment is confirmed, you receive an order confirmation email with all order details, enabling you to fulfill the order.

This is Version 1 of KuwarPay.

Taking it to the Next Level

Iam exploring innovative features to enhance customer experience. Our next goal: enabling customers to shop directly from social media posts!

Imagine:

- Shopping seamlessly from Instagram, Facebook and Twitter posts - Exclusive discounts and offers - Simplified checkout with KuwarPay

I want YOUR unfiltered feedback. Tell me:

1. What Iam doing right?
2. What Iam doing wrong?
3. How to make KuwarPay unstoppable?

Share your thoughts!
Melatonin gave me nightmares. So, YMMV.
I have been working for a corporation for number of years however discovered the quotas thing only recently. Even though my motivation comes from elsewhere, this made a dent in it.
I think the point is that if you are designing with that size in mind you may make different decisions about the column layout etc.

I would have thought that a PDF of a book would normally be made in the size of the physical book, which could be A4, but usually isn't (at least not when I look at my bookshelves).
The painful part of that setup is that all the tools you want to use on the source code must either run on the server itself, thus installed somehow, or some slow remote mounted filesystem, this severely limits the tools you may want to use.
I saw plenty of American television while growing up in Australia; there's a lot of it on in the UK, even though the UK is a television powerhouse in its own right. In America, learning about other countries is a choice; in the rest of the West, it's mandatory.
> Second of all, Taiwan is not ethnically or culturally "Chinese" for basically all definitions of "Chinese."

That's factually wrong. Most of the country is populated by Chinese (speaking a variety of Sinitic languages, namely Min, Mandarin and Hakka). The non-Chinese population are the aboriginals and foreigners.
Zig is pretty good
If that's your measurement stick why aren't Iran and Afghanistan counted? You can't dismiss whole countries as terrorist organizations, no matter how they behave (China is at least as bad as Iran, for example, they also run a hostage taking business, and only difference in weaponry is that China actually rapidly succeeded in their nuclear program, which the world then proceeded to totally ignore and refuse to discuss. In Iran there seems to at least be the option of preventing them from going nuclear).

Also in both countries both the people that got into power created an economic disaster coming into power, including for 99% of their own faction (everyone except the leadership). Even their competitors, in both countries I believe that means communists, would have created an economic disaster. So it wasn't the taliban or mullahs per se that did it, well it was, but it would have happened due to other ideological reasons than the ideology that won out anyway.
> Even if the real estate/investment lobby is busy buying up all the "prime" land, its not like the US is a small country to work around them somewhere.

Even the US being a big country doesn't help much. The value of land for the purpose of living on it is largely defined by the infrastructure around a particular piece of land: are there schools, shops, doctors, ... nearby, or do you have to drive through an empty desert for hours to reach them? And unless faster forms of individual travel are invented, this will limit the amount of "usable" land even in an imaginary country with unlimited boundaries.
Big +1 to Robert Lustig - I haven't read his books, but his conference talks are excellent. It looks like one of the older ones might have been taken lost to the Internet Gods, but the linked one is great, and there are plenty of others.

An older pop science take "That Sugar Film" [1] also provides some interesting perspectives, and a more day-in-the-life practical example of what we're putting into our bodies.

Several years on and I'm still struggling to take a lot of these messages to heart, even though I know so much of what I eat is bad for me and hurting my metabolism.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3892434/
You're being really dismissive. Handling bad inputs and edge cases, and including help texts, is the sort of requirement that necessitates moving away from one-liners towards a more structured repository.
I guess this depends a lot on the region. The graph you linked shows Germany is in the 20-25% range, which is almost twice as much as the US average. Definitely noticeable.
Just shared Part 5 of my JavaScript design patterns series, focusing on the Decorator Pattern! This pattern lets you add new behaviours to objects without changing their original code—think of it as adding caramel or whipped cream to your coffee!
Highlights:
Flexible extensions without modifying original objects
Real-world examples in Express.js middleware and React HOCs
Check it out if you’re into clean, scalable code!
Let's then make sure we build those Machines of Loving Grace right, for we might have only one shot at that.

I like that poem, and I hope we eventually get there, with our artificial descendants as our partners.
Yeah, I think this is a good approach, just keep in mind that bought games may not be playable after some time due to silly reasons.
Sounds like DoubleSpace (later renamed to DriveSpace), which was built into MSDOS and early Windows versions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
California is in the middle of a huge fire insurance crisis. It started with the intentional housing supply restrictions that drove up property prices and rents. In suburban areas, rebuilding costs were mostly increased indirectly through higher wages (as tradespeople and laborers have to make rent.) This sent insurance rates through the roof and caused a wave of policy cancellations. Many insurance companies exited the market altogether [1].

Climate change is also to blame. The firestorms of 2017, 2018 and 2020 broke all records, and were insanely expensive to rebuild after. The typical trigger is a katabatic wind event [2] after a long dry spell. This massively reduces relative humidity (often to 5-10%,) making ignition much easier. Once a fire starts, the wind spreads it extremely quickly. Sustained wind speeds of 50-60mph are not uncommon near mountain peaks.

In 2017/2018/2020, the precipitating events were so intense that the initial responses focused exclusively on helping the residents out. By the time the actual firefighting began, the fires were already enormous.

It's surprising to me that we haven't seriously looked into large-scale sprinkler systems, such as this one deployed in Spain [3]. These could take a major bite out of the initial uncontrolled stage. They could either be deployed in the wild along naturally defensible lines, or at the perimeters of inhabited areas.

They're expensive upfront, but not as expensive as the alternative. They might also reduce the need for prescribed burns.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/10/home...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabatic_wind

[3] https://www.wired.com/story/spanish-wildfire-defenses/
I sympathize with the workers, but NYT is no org I want to support again
This is just market forces at work, driven by the demand in China. There is money to be made, so business people (maybe incentivized by CCP) will find ways to avoid sanctions.
Nvidia probably could do more to counter this. But why would they? On paper everything looks fine and they make money off it.
Also I remember ARJ and PKZIP being used legitimately while I can't think of a single time I encountered a rar file in a non piracy context. Actually when I got my first job fixing up desktop computer in a large public institution the presence of winrar was a sure sign that I was better off airgaping the computer immediately, scanning with an offline antivirus and backing up noninfected user data and then reinstall, hoping I would not encounter child porn.
As long as you want wide support on Kindles, you're pretty much stuck on Mobi.

Which was great when it came out, but is comparable to HTML 2.0 era.
AirBnB kicked overnight parties off their platform because they disturbed neighbors, property damaged, items stolen, neighbors calling the cops. The problem with small groups is they can still do that on airbnb, so why would they use your platform other than cost - except you need to monetize somehow as well.

There's an established warehouse rave party scene. Connect with them and work those parties for long enough to gain experience with the with involved and the various failure modes that they deal with before jumping in.

The idea of profiles isn't enough because you can kick people off the platform once they misbehave, but by then the damage is done. And who knows who really stole the laptop that was in the locked closet, anyway?

That's not to say don't do it. it's totally a niche in the market since airbnb had to shutdown party hosting places on their platform, but you're gonna need insurance, experienced people from the underground party scene, and enough money to fund this without profit for longer than you think.

You'll want bouncers of it's open invite to randos, plus a team of cleaners who specialize in post-event cleanup on call.

Parents are a specific niche that this might work for, although finding a babysitter that the parents will trust could be a challenge.
> Rent + Utilities + Internet: 250

Is there a zero missing on the end of that? :)

Actually, that'd be quite high depending on where in Europe you are, but then 250 seems absurdly low.

Curious to hear which city you're in.
I explored the law. Cutting a long story short I figured out a way in which one could (legally) hire someone to pop around to Gould’s house in the middle of the night and go through his bins the night before bin day. For roughly a year I read many documents from the Blair inner circle including notes from Blair. Many of them were market research about the euro. I saw Gould writing memos for Blair who would try out ideas (remember ‘the bridge between Europe and America’?) then Gould tested the results. I tried to counter these moves but, obviously, without being able to tell people that my ‘hunches’ about what Blair was up to were not hunches. For a few thousand quid a month I had a window into the Government’s secret plans.

It's fascinating.
Rund is an experimental containerd shim for running Darwin containers on Darwin
I was a 2MAD (18:6) before, and it worked well but I was trying to lose weight, and hit some sort of barrier. After almost a year of that, I switched to OMAD, broke through it, and it's been over a year now.

Now I have good BMI, not overweight at all, and good energy levels through the day.

I do not get hungry, and eating once saves me a lot of time and effort I can direct towards more interesting endeavors.

Edited parent from "and OMAD" to "or OMAD", because either method works.

Ultimately OMAD is just the form of intermittent fasting that seems to work best for me.
I feel like with cancel culture there should be some relationship with local telecoms and local credit unions.
> This is just market forces at work

Laws are just market forces at work.
> Plenty of people changes systemd configuration all the time and it just goes fine. You live in fantasy.

"since I have never experienced what you say, it must be fantasy"

> Even op is basically saying: “my issue with systemd is that I dislike the timeout configuration of some services but I stubbornly refuse to change these configurable timeout durations because it would show that the problem was myself and I prefer blaming systemd.”

This is a perfect example of toxicity; I have been successfully using systemd for years and I am entitled to point out what I dislike, I do not have to love everything of it, it's not a religion nor a cult. Your reply tells more about yourself than the topic of the discussion at hand.

> It takes no time whatsoever to get a boot graph with each services name and starting time. That’s an actual feature documented in the manual of systemd which solves OP issue. But of course it would require actually understanding something new and everything new is bad, isn’t it?

You're missing the point, the problem is not changing timeouts but preventing failure and achieving an overall deterministic behaviour out of your system, without ignoring failures. But I refuse further eating these baits, you seem more interested in creating some flames rather than having constructive discussions.
The NYT recently published a great article on how sugar affects the body: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/30/well/eat/suga...
A properly prepared PDF will scale "perfectly" (FSVO - needs all drawings in vector form) as long as you keep the aspect ratio the same.

The problem is changes in aspect ratio or wanting to reflow text to have larger font when rendering to small screen.

Not sure if it's doable to generate flexible enough rendering commands in PDF. Was doable in PostScript (again, FSVO) but PDF was explicitly made to be decidable and less turing complete.
OMAD looks like it will deliver a huge glucose spike and you'll be fighting the rest of the day against it. Horrible
I work in logistics. I can't write too much about it, but many things suit EAs well. Often it's a local search with a nice objective function that pops out when you model a problem. Like, "where should things be placed at the warehouse" is the state/solution, and the fitness function is "given last month of sales, how would these placements affect our operational metrics". And then scale it up from local search to EAs, since searching the solution space in parallel and cross-reuse good smaller parts between the solutions are beneficial.
I think that's what the UK regs will do.
> rockets need something to push against, they have to carry it with them.

(Emphasis added)

The rocket exhaust is "pushing against" the rocket itself, propelling it forward.

Rocket exhaust goes <- which creates the equal and opposite force -> which pushes against the mass of the rocket sending it on its way.
Ubuntu bakes a whole new level of this into their OS.

But unlike debian it doesn't make it public like this.
They'll be disassembled and studied.
That was totally different. DoubleSpace made a virtual drive in a file and did software compression/decompression with a driver during writes and reads. It was a clone of Stacker, and both were slow as heck (but hard drives were only 40MB, so sometimes it was worth it).
This is straight up the official CCP party line you're repeating here. How Chinese people are somehow uniquely unsuited for democracy.

The "multiparty democracy system in Taiwan is not seen as a positive thing" by whom? The Taiwanese? The election results from that country have shown quite the opposite.
Programmer Collaboration Styles – By Adam Ard
Show HN: TFLint ruleset to enforce security best practices on Azure
TFLint ruleset to enforce security best practices on the AzureRM provider
It's also so very difficult to avoid. I opened yesterday a can of tuna and beans salad - it tasted almost like dessert. Are the producers really crazy? Or are they onto something? Sweet bread for sandwiches, sweet bbq on grilled meat, jam with cheese, so much of the (modern?) cuisine is just disgusting to me. Note, desserts are fine and good, I'd love a tiramisu right now. But sweet corn soup??? Ew.
Makes you wonder if you could do this to stop global warming. After all, global warming is a feedback loop, almost 100% running on water vapor. Remove water vapor will do a lot more than anything else. And you don't have to actually remove the gases that are already there, which is the (energy) expensive part. You just have to make it turn back for long enough, probably only a few months, after which the feedback loop would take over.

But that also points out a big problem with doing so. Reversing global warming will dry the atmosphere, A LOT. And once it starts reversing, it will rapidly accelerate, both rapidly cooling and rapidly drying out very large areas of the globe.
Is this article on HN because of the word Bayesian?
Not at all.

e.g. consider you could elect to not eat carbs at all in your one meal.

And metabolism doesn't work like that in the first place. Even if you actually spiked your glucose by eating something silly such as sugar, it would go quickly up then quickly down, unless you're severely insulin resistant.
The same, what I found working for me is breakfast as soon as I feel hungry (~8AM) and then main meal around ~4PM, and not much in between. I couldn't do OMAD or IF waiting till 10AM or 12 even, I got very sleepy afterwards, which my intuition tells me wasn't much healthy. So I think everybody needs to listen to own body and adjust these.
We can consider it a gestational period.
LLM Classifier Bootstrapping
How to use supervised learned classifiers without a training set by using LLMs.
That's like... the first thing you learn about the language and the primitives the language was built upon. Yes mutex are a thing.