skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... can't find a source (by 1800 it's already trad.) for "he who causes two blades of grass to grow where one did before, is a greater benefactor to society, than {he who conquers kingdoms, all the politicians of a land, etc.}"

How long before we have Gravitational Engineers?

EDIT: as to pro-logician (in the proset sense) JYG is the closest I know of, and for him physics is more than one applicational layer away. (I find presenting boolean truth tables makes the foundational q's that bother him disappear for me. A gramme is better than a damn!)

EDIT2: [multivariate, wlog] calculus works because things have interiors and exteriors, so in the sense of highly leveraging containment/implication, that'd be an advanced application of logic? (compare CSP's existential graphs)

EDIT3: wow, looking at china vs india (esp. the crossing!), we can really see the power of:

if your time horizon is...
1 year plant rice
10 years plant trees
100 years educate people

I think I need to be less contemptuous of popularisation!
"Schuldenbremse". "Debt"+"brake", brake as in what forces a car to stop.

Keep in mind that Russian's attack on the Ukraine, which lead to the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, didn't happen until after the election. I don't understand how people blend this out so easily.

Let's assume your important car breaks down because of a strange, non-technical reason, which isn't covered by any insurance. If you don't have enough money, you will have to borrow some, you will have to go into debt, unless you are able to reduce your expenses otherwise.

During the entire time of this coalition you had the finance minister saying that the debt brake is holy, therefore restricting in cash those in the coalition which his party disliked the most, always saying: "But the debt brake." - well knowing that those affected by the constrained cash flow would get bad publicity because they can't do their job, corrected: because they're personally unfit to do what they should do, because "they are losers". All this, while not proposing a real solution to the problem.

They suggested to decrease government spending, which is - of course - something every government should strive for, but this is something which cannot be done in a few years if it means to reduce bureaucracy. This requires modification of laws, which always is a slow process, and firing officials, which is a no-go for absolutely every party.

Their reasonable expectation of lowering financial support for those who are too lazy to work or are illegal immigrants, which are able to live without working because of it's better for them to just cash-in from the government, isn't something which would free up a significant amount of cash. Nevertheless it's something which should be done to send a signal.

Cheap gas had become the foundation of Germany's economy, which is why the USA and other European countries rightly always pointed out that Germany is too reliant on Russian gas. So it's kind odd if now the opposition blames the current government for all the problems. There are also enough videos which show the finance minister saying that the automotive industry has no problems in competitiveness. This was pre-pandemic, post Dieselgate. Because that was what the automotive industry paid him for to say. And now they are surprised that they are collapsing.
Yes, they are able to. Democracy in no way prevents this level of surveillance, clearly. And in fact, the entire surveillance state/economy developed almost entirely under democratic governments. If you were to make any inference based on that alone, then, it would be that it at least enhances or enables it.
Done that at two different places. This was public sector in both cases so typically many products in the organization. So one product was one monorepo.

Wrote this some years ago: https://dev.to/kgunnerud/our-experience-monorepo-with-java-m...

Nobody in our team wants to go back to nonmonorepo now, although everone was sceptical initially
A two hour commute would be considered unusually long in most of the rich world and is almost certainly a negative factor for more children.
So a typical suv might be 5000lbs and a typical loaded semi tractor is 35000 lbs, 7x the weight. So 7^3 = 343. So they pay 2-4x more than an suv but cause 300x more damage. Thats a pay for use imbalance of around 100x
There was a tremendous drop in GDP during covid. I don't care how long that was, if it was one quarter or three, it's a recession.
> There is a link in this thread that I'll never find that refutes your point. It quotes the bill even.

There isn't. Go read the bill.

Hell, the bill was co-authored by republicans, and even approved by some republicans after Trump told them to sit.

Who falls for this bullshit talking point?
I don't know about "lean into it" - but "just let it be" would be my advice.

Bringing your own politics/morality into a software product rarely ends well, and honestly, why do you care? It's not like people wouldn't watch porn if your tool wasn't available, and your tool isn't making people watch porn.

One of the biggest lessons to learn in life is that you can't change other people - you can only change yourself and how you react to other people. A lot of the time, it's really mentally healthy to just let other people carry on carrying on, and you do your own merry thing. The world is big enough for us all.
Polling isn't merely a reporting of raw responses, but a calibrating of those responses to known bias factors. Those might be psychological (as you describe) where people are reluctant to reveal actual preferences, but also include numerous others:

- Who does or does not have a phone.

- Who will or won't answer a phone.

- Specific target demographics, under the rubric of "stratified random sampling".

Just a few off the top of my head.

As I'd mentioned upstream, political polling has regular calibration events called "elections", and following those events biases and adjustment factors, most falling out of statistical analysis and correlations, rather than "gut feels", are updated.

The problem for the US seems to be that the biases are accelerating well in advance of those adjustments, as my own poll-vs-vote analysis shows:

Thread: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42060547>

Most robust analysis / results here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42064420>
Sure, there were many mistakes made by the Democrats' campaign. In your examples, the problem is not that the explanations are simple, but rather that they are obviously wrong.

EDIT: For fun, let's contrast the attitude of each campaign to its detractors. The Democrats say that people who oppose their strategies are dumb. The Republicans say that people who oppose their strategies are Communist pedophiles who want to destroy America.
What is actually the usecase for "quantum internet"?

Like at most i hear about quantum key distribution, but quite frankly the classical equivalents to that are just as good if not better, so what is the actual benefit?
The problem you describe with waiting for tests for unrelated code changes (or potentially related but you want to skip it for the reasons you describe) is a problem that seems to deserve a solution even within a single monorepo.

What are the solutions? You would need multiple merge queues.
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All that can be specified in a pyproject.toml.

As some posters mentioned uv takes care of a lot of that and you can even pin it to a version of python.

If it’s just a one off script you can get all the dep information in the script header and uv can take care of all the venv/deps for you if you transfer the script to another machine by reading the headers in a comment section at the start of the script.

All this is based on PEPs to standardise packaging. It’s slow but moving in the right direction.
It makes more sense if you notice that the direction of wrongness is consistent, in which case an adjustment across the board in the other direction makes sense. Works great for politicians of all kinds, and their supporters, as we see here.
It's not inadvertent.

You've spent all your credit for any form of consideration at that point.

And now you've even spent your credit for my attention at all, this conversation ends here.
AI pirates are probably going to be a big thing, but it will not because of tarrifs, they will be running illegal models.
Apple once had just an iMac.
Must be a special spot!
At what rate of illegal crossings would you be affected?
> > In the previous, separate repository world, this would've been four separate pull requests in four separate repositories, and with comments linking them together for posterity.

Tooling issue. Bitbucket will happily link PRs if instructed so.

> prevents a lot of mistakes from not having the right revision synced down across different repos.

Tooling issue. Depending on setup, "tooling" could be few lines in your favorite scripting language.

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Monorepo steps around some tooling issues, but sacrifices access control, checkout speed
yeah, the novelty approach to English is one of the things that is inherently holding back Japan from any generally decent level of English.
> Why does anyone believe that storing all code in the same repository is enough to make these operations atomic?

Not isolated to this particular issue. People really like to pretend that problems are much simpler than they actually are and that inherent complexity is just some edge cases to be ironed out.
"'Government' can't care. It's just an agreed upon idea, not a thing with feelings."

But it consists of people with feelings - and they can have feelings of care towards the governed, or just feelings of care for themself.
I will get downvoted and hated for what I'm going to say.

What's with the west's pathalogical obsession with Japan and Japanese?

Is anime & JAV to blame here?

Look, you have Chinese spoken by 1.35 billion people. Foreigners who speak Chinese are way more rare than those who speak Japanese, therefore making it a more valuable language to acquire for business, diplomacy and travel. China is the new emerging superpower.

Yet people will obsessively focus on Japan? At this point it starts to seem like NPC behavior.
Uh, maybe the 1994 crime bill?
> think most people who are poor who voted for Trump expect him to eliminate unnecessary rent-seekers (...)

You mean people vote for a slum lord who is lauded by billionaires expecting and who funelled Whitehouse budget to his own hotels expecting him to eliminate rent-seekers?

> (...) while also putting up barriers to free trade, thus increasing domestic spending (...)

You mean the same guy who sold them cheap made in China golden sneakers for a small fortune, and bragged he got all his loans from Russia?

This train of thought defies any and all reasoning.
Scaling back and using tech more intentionally is a smart approach, it’s easy to let it take over rather than serve us
Couldn’t you just add less of the intense stuff?

I feel like they probably over do it so you can specifically taste it rather than let it blend in at a normal level.
While this may have not been done, I don't see a reason why these wouldn't have been accepted. Source: I am a certified passport photographer.
"the exception that proves the rule" is such a terrible expression. I do not understand why people use it.

At some point I thought that it absurd on purpose but I had some people explaining me the rationale behind it (there is no rationale - if there is an exception it at best weakens the "rule")
Sources:

Voting returns: <https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/>

Polling data: <https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/>
In an AWS scenario I can think of:

Pro vs pulumi: you get a declarative template to debug and review

Pro vs CDK: The declarative template is applied via APIs instead of CloudFormation. The CDK CloudFormation abstraction leaks like hell
> extremes of the KYC laws in australia

Can you provide more details about this statement? I never heard anything about it on HN discussions.
I like NetBSD sh's nextopt <https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/23fcbd850aae17ef0843523f3...>. Since getopt's internal state can't be reset portably, most shells roll their own option parser.
True, and because of the electoral college system, we do not have a popular vote for our most likely monarch, the President, hence a demagogue must win according to a different means than “appealing to the mob.”

I still think the EC should be awarded proportionally according to each state’s vote but that is beside the point and would not compromise this difference.
A shallow interaction is unlikely to lead to something deeper but occasionally things line up and it becomes the start of a beautiful friendship. That's equally true on social media or AFK.

Maybe introducing yourself in-person is slightly deeper than thumbs-upping someone's video, but by the same token the latter is a smaller step; you can always go with a full-sentence comment or a video response of your own if you want the slightly deeper interaction.
Well, funny you should mention that - the AU government ID system (used to access govt services like medicare and tax), has very recently been rebranded from MyGovID to MyID. Most states have already got digital drivers' licences.
Their business is joining meetings from 7 different platforms (Zoom, Meet, WebEx, etc.) and capturing the video.

They don't have control of the incoming video format.

They don't even have access to the incoming video data, because they're not using an API. They're joining the meeting using a real browser, and capturing the video.

Is it an ugly hack? Maybe. But it's also a pretty robust one, because they're not dependent on an API that might break or reverse-engineering a protocol that might change. They're a bit dependent on the frontend, but that changes rarely and it's super easy to adapt when it does change.
I think the gpt-3 vs BERT story should be more interesting.

I was told that OpenAI practically tried to "label every human knowledge" prior to ChatGPT, sort of similar to what Li Feifei was doing.

At that time, no one seems to understand how to exact the massive capabilities out of gpt-3 (remember that gpt3 troll bot on 4chan?), until some joking threads on Twitter proposed "Lets think step by step..."

That seems to be the wakeup prompt to a new AI era.
> Surely the git SHA is "a form of versioning", isn't it?

If you're consuming a module from a git as a submodule, yes.
The young are also susceptible to conspiracy theories. You don't get "media smart" by browsing Tiktok and Instagram, which is all they know how to do.
I think u/mrkeen might have been referring to phony criminal charges against a political opponent, for example. Or I dunno, hundreds of thousands of ballots dropping at 4AM in some central counting location they control with 100% being for their candidate.
Know how your org works (or how to become a more effective engineer)
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This is such a cool idea! It’s like combining the tech-focused content of Hacker News with the classic feel
Being confidently wrong about matters of public policy in front of a large audience is more than just an incidental bad take. It pollutes the public well of information and thereby does a disservice to society. You do not have a right to entertain yourself with something that damages the ability of society to make decisions and govern itself.
> Except that TikTok dancing does not create those connections. It is just something that does not happen.

I've seen it happen, so it absolutely can. People have back-and-forth interactions, find regular partners, and form dance groups.
I'm assuming it's because the compressed video on the wire is encrypted?
Are you math inclined? This is easier to explain with math (words) but I can put it in more English if you want.

If you're remotely familiar with high dimensional statistics, one of the most well known facts is that the density of a normal ball lies on the shell while the uniform ball is evenly distributed. Meaning if you average samples of a normal ball, the result is not representative of the samples. The average is inside the ball, but remember, all the sampling comes from the shell! It is like drawing a straight line between two points on a basketball, the middle of that line is going to be air, not rubber. But if you do for a uniform ball, it is. That's the definition of uniform... Understanding this, we know that users preference is not determined by a single thing, and honestly, this fact becomes meaningful when we're talking like 5 dimensions...[0]. This fact isn't just true for normal balls, it is true for any distribution that is not uniform.

To try to put this is more English: there are 1.382 billion active iPhone users world wide. They come from nearly 200 countries. The average person in Silicon Valley doesn't want the same thing as the average person in Fresno California. Do you think the average person in Japan wants the same thing as the average Californian? The average American? The average Peruvian? Taste and preference vary dramatically. You aren't going to make a meal that everyone likes, but if you make a meal with no flavor, at least everyone will eat it. What I'm saying is that if you try to make something for everyone, you make something with no flavor, something without any soul. The best things in life are personal. The things you find most enjoyable are not always going to be what your partner, your best friends, your family, or even your neighbor finds most enjoyable. We may have many similarities, but our differences are the spice of life, they are what make us unique. It is what makes us individuals. We all wear different size pants, why would you think we'd all want to put the same magic square in our pockets (if we even have pockets). We can go deeper with the clothing or food analogy, but I think you get that a chef knows how to make more than one dish and a clothing designer knows you need to make more than one thing in different sizes and colors.

[0] https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/20084
> The DNC could have simply published one of their original emails for people to compare, without interfering in any investigation or revealing any spy techniques.

Ok the DNC goes to their hard drive and opens up the email. It does not match what was in the leak. Is the email on the DNC's hard drive altered or not? After all if the email was accessed/leaked could it have been altered as well? With a simple security setup, yes it can.

Operational security is often about not tipping your hand to your adversary about what you know and what you do not know. Showing the original email in your scenario also tips your hand for what you think you know.
I think you’re misunderstanding the problem (or I am), the problem is the winner-takes-all per state, not that voting ratios between states are fixed (they aren’t BTW).
Original paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53389-w
Why's everyone going away from declarative? Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS Copilot etc have a lot of virtues and are programming language agnostic.

Using a complex programming language (C++ of the browser world) just for this has a big switching cost. Unless you're all in on TS. And/or have already built a huge complex IaC tower of babel where programming-in-the-large virtues justify it.
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Thanks for your reply.

> That is not quite as true as it used to be.

Interesting, let's see how it will change or not.

> Maybe I can discuss the issue in more detail in another article.

I definitely look forward to it.
I'm not saying that the ownership should be strict, you should feel free to submit PRs to my repo, and I to yours.

I just don't want there to be a no-man's-land. And if there must be an every-mans-land, let it be explicitly so, not some pile of stuff that didn't fit anywhere else.
It's so cool that you've done so much work in high school already!

This project looks great, do you have any active users yet?
Im curious what manual labor you did?
Well you are just saying the same what I've reacted to - its all same. I disagree from my limited viewpoint - trump was super eager to open drilling oil in Alaska in natural reserves, downgraded env protections for parks etc.

Environment aint just directly co2 or temperature raises, its everything. And everything is connected.

Just because the ship has sort of sailed it doesnt mean giving up and ignorance is the right course, especially when vuewed on really long term scale
Repo title: DreamBerd

Discussion in 2023 (736 points, 211 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36183683
Every decoupling point is based on certain contract. You can get away with a lot with well thought out contracts and interfaces, but sometimes the contract has to change and then both sides of the contract must change in lockstep. Usually it is possible to isolate changes to a contract, but the overhead is just not worth it most of the time.
While I dislike social media, this ban is as stupid as Australia's laws enforcing bicycle helmets.
Will this mean I will have to register as my real name on Hacker News? Not a chance
The initial approach was shipping raw video over a WebSocket...between two processes running on the same machine.

That doesn't sound like a ridiculous idea to me. How else would you get video data out of a sandboxed Chromium process?
AirPods alone generate five times as much revenue as Spotify, and about two-thirds as much as Netflix. Apple is also the world’s biggest watchmaker.

When some of Apple’s side-quests are industry giants in their own right, I think it’s fair to say that Apple are diversified.
Makes sense! Except for one little thing..

We've been migrating off of Terraform at BigCo recently and it has been a tremendous success. The migration has saved countless hours. Before, I was jaded and routinely in the office until 8 or 9 or so manually running terraform deploys for our engineering teams in India. Now, thanks to Pulumi, I'm able to leave the office at 7:30-8 -- and I can tell you single handed that this has saved my relationship with my daughter and maybe even my marriage. I'm running the fastest for loops thanks to Pulumi. We actually compile our Python down to c and use the Pulumi C SDK for insane speed benefits when we loop over our datacenter arrays. Turns out, not having bounds checks shaves off valuable time that I would otherwise be spending with my daughter. Routinely I'd be waking up screaming at 4 in the morning due to Terraform (or, what we would refer to as Tearaform because all of the infra engineers were constantly in tears). Now, I can sleep soundly until 5:30.
Nah. It may be an oligarchy however. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
And this is why we try our best to have minority governments.

The bills being put forward lately are really concerning and I have no idea how to get a party in that would kill the eSafety Commissioner and put in strong freedom of speech laws.

I'm pretty content seeing the web destroy their website blocking measures. Thank you DoH and ECH!
Such a shame of a news, sad to see the level of Australian govt when they are trying to ban for "safety" in the year 2024. Good thing one smart Digital Industry Group representative already told them they are not thinking straight. Of course giving young people something better and more exciting thing to do is not in their plans.

In their dreams is to BAN, take ID VERIFICATIONS and FINE private companies for the rest of their days, any Australian should be ashamed of such dull and unsophisticated policies, and BRAVO to Sunita Bose.
> Why don't they just write the meeting output to hls

They're capturing video from inside a Chromium process. How exactly do you expect to send the raw captured video frames to hls?

Are you proposing implementing the HLS server inside a web process?
Because they like to spend endless hours debugging infrastructure builds.