skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend not trusting an unnamed source's interpretation of another party's actions. They're not describing what they saw or what they know, they're describing what they think.
>...but they usually err on the side of presenting results rather than proving or explaining them

And that's exactly what I like about it. They are a news site, hence they present the news. If the news presenters start to chime in you get what you see at CNN / Fox etc, and that's called propaganda, not news. I want news.
Francis Fukuyama explains how to make government more efficient
try running the code to find out
Not to mention that the military lost the location of the jet after he ejected and they asked the public to give tips on its location. It was missing for like a day before they found it.

Lots of tweets to the effect of "how tf do you lose a $100m fighter jet??"
The typical bell curve meme: https://imgflip.com/i/9a9gm7

The fun begins when you can't debug by printf because the buffer is shared by multiple processes that change it while the printf command is running.
An optimistic take is that the organization was simply too incompetent to identify and assess the financial risk of injuring someone.
They didn't say Polymarket rigged the election, you interpreted that incorrectly.
> - If you intersect an elliptic curve with a straight line, you end up with a polynomial in one variable, of degree 3 (in general). Since a polynomial of degree 3 has 3 solutions (in the appropriate context), this means that if you have two points on the curve, and you draw a line through these two points, there is a third aligned with them which belongs to the curve. So we have an operation on the curve, which to every pair of points associates a third point. This can be explicitly calculated.

> - It can be proven (again, by explicit calculation) that this operation is associative and commutative, and that there is a "zero" element, i.e. that this operation forms a "group".

I feel like it's worth clarifying here that this operation is actually not the group operation, although the group operation is defined in terms of it.
Atomic solutions to systemic problems obfuscate the core issue. Butt in seats in the US means you sit for about an hour to go to work then eight to nine at the office and another hour back home.

Most people can't change their commute. Pedestrian infrastructure is simply not there. Public transit doesn't exist in most places. Your option is to drive or drive or drive.

Get a new job that will require you to be in your chair in an office just like the last one.

In many cases... Nope. Get out of your bubble.
> Why care about this website that very few people have even heard of?

Probably because there was credible belief of a criminal act, and probably not for the reasons that an unnamed source an NYPost article is conjecturing.
I wonder if it has anything to do with this:

"Polymarket Paid US Social Media Influencers for Election Content"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-05/polymarke...
>Honestly, at least with the Coca-Cola press release, I know what their agenda is, so I can at least decide which parts to believe or be skeptical of.

Believing this is basically exhibit A of being prone to conspiratorial thinking.

In reality, knowing something is propaganda does not make it less effective!
And the competition from UberEats and Doordash, who also are constantly promoting discounts, free orders, etc. so there's almost no way they can recoup actual costs let alone turn a profit.
Oh yes `HZ=4000`, `net.link.ifqmaxlen=200`, `net.isr.dispatch=…`. I don't miss running out of hardware resources that would be a few 100 (or 1000) gates to get right like a nesting, vectored interrupt controller with enough sources and priorities.
You have no clue why he's being investigated.
By what means will -they- avoid hitting the same issues? Neither Russia nor China have magic detectors for is-this-essay-written-by-AI either.
The FBI is an agency of the federal government and therefore under executive control, right?

As for timing - I would not be shocked because there have been so many articles detailing how the administration and various politicians or special interest groups are pushing to implement various last-minute actions before they lose power. Why would the administration have less authority or urgency in the case of this agency versus any other?
> crimes with actual victims

If there is evidence of election interference, that would be very much a crime with victims.
If they are going with that theory they should also investigate the pollsters who put out suspiciously positive polls that seemed designed to drive enthusiasm for Harris the week before election. I'm thinking specifically of that infamous Iowa Selzer poll.
Mac OS development introduced me to Objective-C. Quirky, but I grew to like it. I think it was the first time I 'got' object-oriented programming. I had done Windows programming before and while it was 'fine', writing Mac OS GUI code was so nice. Probably a credit to the frameworks as much as the language, though.

What other choice did NeXT have?

C++ was invented about the time NeXT started. Microsoft didn't even release MFC until 1992.

C...yikes.

Pascal. Would Steve had went along with that?
Article specifically says Polymarket, quote taken directly from the article.
>nonetheless its an interesting approach as in some jurisdictions you need a permit to operate a drone, something autonomous like this could work without involving bureaucracy

lmfao permits are for law-abiding meat-bags; my swarm follows me autonomously, officer.
> predicted winners fraudulently

How does someone do this fraudulently? Didn't they predict thing based on how people bet? Are you implying they faked the bets?

> and taking those bets

From my understanding they don't take bets, they match people who bet with each other.
Google had bidets in MTV. Unmetered wifi was probably bad for toilet availability, though.
GPT-4o-mini costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.6 per million output tokens. I'm sure most schools have the budget to allocate many millions of tokens to each student without a sweat.
It's a bit weird to not compare this to HyperLogLog & similar techniques that are designed to solve exactly this problem but much more cheaply (at least as far as I understand).
We've seen this before and we'll see it again. There are lots of people who will pay for things below cost. Sometimes that cost comes down but a lot of the time it does not especially in relatively affluent countries. I don't have a personal driver or chef like I might have in some places. I do have some other house/yard services but very occasionally and I consider them luxuries.
It's like Bucky Beaver (their mascot)
This iterative process hasn’t led to better results than my best effort, but it has led to 90% of my best in a fraction of the time. That’s especially true if I have curated a list of quotes, key phrases, and research literature I know I want to use directly or pull from.
Stretching the definition of “open source” here
> But the more obvious explanation is that a large minority of teenagers believe that the most trustworthy authority on anything about Coca Cola is The Coca Cola Company.

This would track in the same way with how the very concept of "selling out" doesn't seem like a big thing for young people anymore. Working with any company for money, or parroting what they say, seems to be pretty popular. Influencer roles have made the wholesale commodification of ones life popular, even earnestly desired. That would seem to promote an atmosphere and general sense of going along with whatever a company says in the same way a lifelong employee might feel compelled to "toe the company line".
"history shows the fbi is not particularly biased towards the democratic side of the ticket."

Peter Strozk and his lover might disagree with you
I don't think he's plain wrong. Almost any non-living product is born out of software. If Japanese products are good, the software taking care of developing, manufacturing, marketing, selling, transporting, maintaining, rma'ing the product must be good.
Personally I think algorithmic feeds can save Twitter clones.

I see the chronological feed + boosting on Mastodon as basically toxic, particularly when you create an "Explore" feed by showing the most boosted posts from the past 24 hours (or the like.) It privileges hateful image memes and other kinds of echo chamber content.

To stand to use Mastodon I need an extensive list of block terms such as "Trump", "Republican", "Fascist", "Trans.*", etc. With about 15-20 rules my feed is OK.

I did not need to put blocks into Bluesky, there are angry and hateful people just like there are on Mastodon but Bluesky's algorithm puts a headwind to them so: (1) I see less in my feed, (2) people who might repost that kind of thing see less of it to repost, (3) those people get used to playing different games.

My understanding is that Threads does it even more so but inexplicably Meta won't let me make an Instagram/Threads account.

I think that kind of site is great for posting pictures of your cats, a snap of what you just ate, what anime you just watched, a good blog post you read about programming, etc.

That kind of site is terrible for posting about politics because in either 140 or 1400 characters there is no room for nuance, no way to say "I agree with 95% of what you say but I take issue with 5%". No way to find common ground, no way to organize effective activism. Many supporters of the Democrats learned the hard way that you can share Kamala Harris memes 100 million times and it's not any more effective at winning the election that it is for the official campaign to run endless ads on YouTube asking for $5 or $10.
Since all humans alive today have undergone the sum total of all human evolution, and are the ultimate creation of millions of years of evolution, it makes sense that the kinds of things we find "artistically pleasing" (both visually and thru sound) could have many patterns that apply to reality in deeper ways than any of us know, and so letting AI use art as it's inspiration for using those patterns in it's search for knew knowledge seems like a good idea.

Also there are also certain aspects of physical geometric relationships and even sound relationships that would not be able to be conveyed to an AI by any other means than thru art and music. So definitely using art to inspire science is a good approach.

Even the great Physicists throughout history have often appreciated how there is indeed beauty in the mathematical symmetries and relationships exhibited in the mathematics of nature, and so there is definitely a connection even if not quite tangible nor describable by man.
> Coplan was not provided any reason for the incident, but the source said they expect it is political retribution since Polymarket accurately predicted Trump’s win – not traditional polls.

> The government is likely trying to accuse Polymarket of market manipulation and rigging its polls in favor of Trump, the source said.

The tabloid is rage baiting here. Prediction markets are still borderline illegal, and even ones done under the scrutiny of regulators (like PredictIt) are constantly investigated and close to being shut down.

I could think of a number of large number of possible reasons that the FBI would want to raid an international, anonymous crypto-betting marketplace and almost none of them have to do with media pollsters (which are different than the private polls the campaigns ran, mind you!) convincing the FBI to raid the CEO. Especially considering the polls were not that far off and Trump won within the margin of error of the polling!
I take the train every day in NYC. Around half the time the train is brand new and has nice displays that even show you where the stairs are located in each station as you pull up. The other half the train is from the 1960s and has no information whatsoever. So yeah this app will definitely be an upgrade over peering out the window to read the station names. Even the trains with displays are occasionally wrong/not working.
Emacs is fine, but it's not really about the visual diff and more that you get syntax checking and other features in the diff view that afaik aren't available in lighter weight tool. Neogit is quite good and is heavily inspired by magit, so it's not like they're appreciably different.
Sure...totally real: https://xkcd.com/2572/
anyone who does not review patches before accepting them deservers to suffer consequences of their laziness.
I had a similar problem but dual booting windows/linux. Though I managed to share the link keys with some registry hacks in the end.

https://gist.github.com/madkoding/f3cfd3742546d5c99131fd19ca...
What's wrong with OBS? It is hassle free, subscription free, and very capable software. Oh, and it's open source too.
>proper

doing Scotsman-like lifting when the point was that these things are not considered, or are "externalities"
Tracking down all the civilians targeted during the Lavon Affair to strongly warn them against conspiratorial thinking and the spread of misinformation
> You seem to have missed the part where they were fleeing the bolsheviks

I have not. A lot of people fled from oppressive governments (myself included), but those people intentionally picked a deliberately self-harming way. And kept to it even after they certainly knew it's harming them.

I think attributing self-harm to religious zeal as the primary cause is pretty obvious here.

> You're missing some things there too

Like what?

Acting against of one's own best long-term interests because of inability to get through the short-term problems (be it religion abuse or substance abuse) is common in both situations. There are certainly myriad of differences, of course - I would not argue that the comparison is quite a stretch.

(Disclaimer: this comment is not about religion, rather the focus must be put on zealotry. A non-religious belief cranked up to 11 could be equally harmful.)
hmm, do you have some hypothesis as to why that would make a difference?
Yes, the source is claiming that the government is likely to accuse Polymarket of rigging their predictive analysis about the election ("polls" but apparently they don't actually poll), not the election itself.
Keep fighting the good fight. I'll be dreaming of red sands and silent stars.
The people who become truly effective with AI, i.e., the folks who write truly good code with it, make truly beautiful art, spend closer to effectively 10 years of man-hours than 10 mins with it.

Using AI is a skill too. People who use it every day quickly realize how poor they are at using it vs the very skilled when they compare themselves. Ever compared your own quality AI art vs the top rated stuff on Civit.AI? Pretty sure your stuff will be garbage, and the community will agree.
This is so embarrassing.

What's next, a hearing on whether ghosts are real?
That's 127 too many.
I fail to understand the issue.

Both parties offer huge financial incentive to different groups of people for ensuring their victory by voting. We have entire industries based around this.

Both candidates play to large corporations and benefactors, and money drives the election. It's part of why our election system is so broken.

How is a prediction market worse than this such that it requires legal intervention?
Cut the Chit-Chat with Artifacts
This is one example in a sea of counter-examples.
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Oh, snap. Thank you. Guess I’m about to be $350 poorer!
I don’t believe in aliens (fermi paradox) but I doubt it’s a company.

If a private company could make these kinds of things, what benefit would they get by not selling it to a government? They could set their price and immediately become world renowned.

Unless you are saying that there is a shadowy secret organization that controls the world with space lasers and UAPs….
> the president doesn't directly control the fbi

Mostly true. Until Trump swears in next year. He has promised to be a dictator, at least part time. And supreme court already ruled that nothing he does would illegal. As long as he claims it was it was done as an "official act".
Yeah, absolutely agree with that. Definitely has the potential to be particularly harmful in educational settings of users blindly trusting.

I guess it's just like many tools, they can be used well or badly, and people need to learn how to use the well to get value from them
Times tables aren’t the problem. Memorizing is actually fun and empowering if done right.

But I agree that the “learning is pain” is just not my experience.
33 seats on a flight maybe. It's about one passenger aircraft flight, one way.
Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini
Math class has no place without calculators. You're there to learn how to do math in the real world, not how to do math in a contrived world where we pretend that the ability to do calculations isn't ubiquitous. There are almost certainly more calculator capable devices on earth than people today. Ludditism is the human death drive expressed in a particularly toxic fashion.
Lausd: Supporting Student Mental Health: Providing a Phone-Free School Day [pdf]
Got me started on watching University Challenge, and now Cosmic Pumpkin is one of my very few "must watch new videos right away" subscriptions on YouTube.
I think at a certain point, you either value having your own skills and knowledge, or you don't. You may as well ask why anyone bothers learning to throw a baseball when they could just offload to a pitching machine.

And I get it. Pitchers who go pro get paid a lot and aren't allowed to use machines, so that's a hell of an incentive, but the vast majority of kids who ever pick up a baseball are never going to go pro, are never even going to try to go pro, and just enjoy playing the game.

It's fair to say many, if not most, students don't enjoy writing the way kids enjoy playing games, but at the same time, the point was mostly never mastering the five paragraph thesis format anyway. The point was learning to learn, about arbitrary topics, well enough to the point that you could write a reasonably well-argued paper about it. Even if a machine can do the writing for you, it can't do the learning for you. There's either value in having knowledge in your own brain or there isn't. If there isn't, then there never was, and AI didn't change that. You always could have paid or bullied the smarter kids into doing the work for you.
This is a fantastic ELI5, thank you!
Yeah, network logging has latency but it does pack the messages into structs and demux them. The remaining debugger problems are:

- Do you know which service tier has the issue?

- Can you halt one thread that sees the issue, not all of them on an instance?

- When the request times out, do you have to start over and make another prod user sad?
The only logical course is to not use LLM garbage for anything. I know this is heretical within the tech bro monoculture of HN.
Inference with Gemma Using Dataflow and VLLM
All Hail the Return of Upgradeable Storage Mac Mini 2024 Teardown
90's games + jungle = obligatory mention of Jill of the Jungle (1992).

https://www.playdosgames.com/online/jill-of-the-jungle/
Basically, it doesn't make any sense. Why did they wait until after the election?
Calculators in early math classes, such as algebra, would be 100% detrimental to learning. Getting an intuitive understanding of addition and multiplication is invaluable and can only be obtained through repetition. Once you reach higher levels of math, the actual numbers become irrelevant so a calculator is fine. But for anything below that, you need to do it by hand to get any value.
Just in Time Software
Can training on simultaneously generated synthetic data define consciousness?
Because that's what people do.
Pikachu isn’t real but the writers are.
Most Americans cannot read at a high school level. How many do you think even know what "k-anonymized" means?

A spreadsheet of "cross every variable with every other variable" also does nothing but produce ample fodder for people with zero stats training to conclude that a medicine prescribed for X, causes X.

Most people do not have 20 years education in anything. For an average human, you need several stats classes before you can reliably make good conclusions from data, and reliably understand how and why bad data is flawed. There is not enough time in an average human life for everyone to be meaningfully good at stats.

Not letting experts be experts just literally does not scale.
hardware self-evident modules to essentially sign/color all digital files

now we need more noise
this makes me day
It seems more likely that this guy / this company did something shady and is trying to claim "political persecution" to distract attention from his actual misdeeds, than that the FBI is actually persecuting him, on behalf of the side that everyone universally acknowledges lost the election, a week after the election for running a website that correctly "predicted" they were going to lose. What would be the point of that?
How so? I believe every single line of everything is open source, aside from their server-side Discover feed algo. But in any case, the question is about the app, which is 100% MIT licensed open source code.
I mean, it would be extremely surprising if they didn't
The Saturn Microarchitecture Manual
I can’t believe nypost hit pieces and propaganda are posted here. Article has no substance and goes completely off speculation.

If the raid was legal, then there will be a judge that signed off on the warrant. If nypost had any journalistic integrity, they would follow up on that except this is a celebrity tabloid at best.
Is that a consistent metric of 10 accounts/second? If that's so it's a decent number. Is this a sudden influx of users? Are people fleeing away from Mr. Musk?
This calls to mind complaints from a few years ago about fact-checking as "damaging to the reputation" of the person whose claims were fact-checked and identified as false.

One's reputation is damaged when they choose to tell a lie, not when someone else points it out.

Similarly, when someone accepts a bribe, they have damaged their integrity. That damage was not done by the person who exposes the bribe, but by the person who chose to accept the bribe.

Put another way: unethical behavior is unethical regardless of whether one gets caught while engaging in it.
I’ve seen a lot of places that require students to reference their ChatGPT use — and I think it is wrong headed. Because it is not a source to cite!

But, sharing links for helping teachers understand your prompting is great
I really resent the use of “unsuitable for some viewers” in story arcs. Is someone with epilepsy just supposed to watch the rest of the series with a hole in the middle of the story? Why even do that. Tell the writers to fuck right off and try again.
Most of the legacy chain restaurants do this. Outback Steakhouse has a chicken tender ghost kitchen, Denny's has a grilled cheese / melt brand, etc
Some people deliberately post conspiracy theories, especially political ones. (Think Russian disinformation.) These people are smart, and hard workers. If you create any kind of automated filter, they will find ways of saying it that won't get caught by the filter, or they will create new conspiracy theories.

The only way around that is, rather than blacklisting conspiracy theories, you have to whitelist the truth.

If that doesn't give you pause, it should.
FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan
Noclip has an amazing documentary about Wipeout 2097 music: https://youtu.be/-nwWpQJFGp8?si=f96-_G3bBqmGEP_c
> Same way you do for a public company. From trades and valuations.

how do you know what trades took place, and how many shares were traded, and at what price?
For the longest time I thought elliptic curves where quadratic curves.

Wouldn't it had been more accurate to name them elliptic surfaces?