skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly we should open up usernames to be an unlimited size set of mixed data types: e.g. the first “character” could be a hand drawn picture of a cat, the second the entire text of the US constitution in unicode, and so on. We could then extend this flexibility to filenames, passwords, and Unix commands. Internally, this could involve replacing all text strings with folders on a filesystem where you can put any files you want in any desired order. /s
I disagree with your defense of Ruzzia

1 there is well known that social media and itnernet companies can target content for each person

2 we known from Cambridge analitica and similar that if social media company wants he can make a user depressed, sad etc

3 we also observer that irelevant bullshit is pushed very hard in social media, as an example transgender stuff, it is pushed so hard that my family thinks that Romania is in danger because of EU and their transgender agenda, children will be manipulated to change their gender, You can see how fake stuff about thois topic is pushed on social media, my family never had contact with transgender people, maybe they know one gay person in their entire live but LGBTQ is such an important topic in election that they might decide whot o vote based on this Ruzzian bullshit

4 we also seen same shit with COVID , yes the virus exists even if the pro Ruzzian candidates do not belives it or thinks God send him the naturalistic cure, based on how hard this conpiracies were pushed in last years you have conspirationist vote conspirationists, so if you want their vote you either lower yourselves to that level or try to fight Ruzzia and china to bring a bit of intelligence back.

5 anti emigration is a big push on social media, and fascists in Europe really push on this, but tell my, will italians or Spanish people in the city that studied at the university go and work in the farms, in the hot summer instead of the poor immigrants?
Did you also seen how crimes are immediately blamed on the immigrants by the internet trolls before the identity of the criminals is known, and sometimes the criminal is a native, but the trolls pushed so hard on the fake news that it was immigrants that sometimes the immigrants were attacked based on fake news started by Ruzzians and belived by right wing less inteligent people.

So in Romania the people that voted for the Kremlin guy , voted him because they want a strong man that is anti transexuals and LGBTQ, anti minorities, that belives in the same conpirations and hate same groups as they hate all because Ruzzia trained them to hate those groups of people and believe those conspiracies.

They did not vote because of economical policies the fascist guy proposed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42336378
>storage being 'a feature, not a product.

Somewhat unrelated mini-rant. Upgraded a phone recently after about 3 years. Surprised to see storage still capped around 128GB (in-general). That's got to be artificially held back capacity to push cloud storage services?
Yes, and the basic idea that while a "modern" capitalist might want automation from a productivity point of view, they still need some consumers at the other end to buy their stuff!
A good chunk of the world does not speak english or latin character based languages. They should be able to interact with computers completely in their own languages and alphabet sets, even if those are written right-to-left or top-to-bottom.

Of course, someone has to do the work to make this possible. And no one is obliged to do it. But to suggest that, such work should not be done at all, does not sit right.
> Also don't underestimate the value they're getting from making more overtures to the developer community.

I wonder if it's significant. As developers, we're biased to think it matters, but in the grand scheme of things, 99.99% of people don't have a clue about open source or things that matter to hackers. As far as recruitment go, developers look primarily at how much they make, possibly the tech and how it looks on resume. There's always been a stigma around social networks and generally big tech companies, but not to the point it's going to hurt them.
I didn't spell Microsoft with a dollar sign and I didn't portray OS/2 as a folk hero of computing.

So your responses don't seem to be addressing the issues I raised.
If this was done in concert with CCP officials (as alleged), it would be sufficient grounds to ban TikTok from business operations in most democratic nations.
Is this the largest test/rollout of a 4 day work week ever?
Take this to daddy Elon - this has absolutely nothing to do with Rivian.
If people can only cast one vote, and you take the candidate with the most votes out of circulation (for whatever reason, campaign fraud in this case it seems), then you are discarding the votes of a large contingent of voters. Doing this and letting the results stand is wrong for the same reason why simply distributing the votes pro-rata among the other candidates is wrong: it is more likely that the candidate pulled votes from closely-aligned candidates than candidates on opposing ends of the political spectrum, so you get a skewed representation of the voting distribution.

Whichever method you choose to redistribute (or ignore) the votes cast for that one candidate doesn't matter: you will always end up in election-doctoring territory, even if you do everything by the book and in the open.

Other systems, like ranked-choice voting, might not need a do-over because relative preferences are already expressed on the ballot. But in this case, canceling the entire vote and re-doing it is the only sensible solution.
The Onion is ahead of you https://theonion.com/united-airlines-exploring-viability-of-...
He has a writeup of it here: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/

He's using a bijection between the number on the left (which are ordered) and the UUID that's designed to produce something random-looking. The simple fact that bijection cannot produce the same output out of two inputs (or it's not a bijection) means that all the UUIDs are unique.
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
This needs an “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
That is kind of doubtful. The video clearly shows a small puff of smoke presumably above the ejection port when he fires the gun for the first time. The Welrod and its modern descendants have a bolt which is locked in position when the gun is fired and it has to be cycled manually. Thus no gas would escape the gun at the ejection port when the gun is fired.

It is more likely that this is a semi-automatic pistol which will not cycle properly for one reason or another and the shooter has to manually complete the cycle by racking the slide.
How much you could learn from just building a calculator in JavaScript
After researching for quite a while on tutorials teaching how to build a basic calculator in JavaScript, I've come to the conclusion that almost no one is doing this in the right way. The reader doesn't get to learn about designing/wireframing the calculator; good programming practices; the thinking process of solving problems in the calculator; the inevitable process of refactoring; and whatnot.

There is so much potential for a newbie in building just this single project that I can't tell you! Honestly, it's for real!! You could start off really really simple and then slowly and gradually, but eventually, turn the calculator into a highly complex, scientific beast. And that is a difficult feat to achieve in the process of which, you'll learn countless of invaluable skills.

To list a few concepts: you get to exercise your skills in designing, the HTML DOM API, events, accessibility, timers (for getting stuff added to the task queue to be executed on the next run), procedural programming (yes that's right; every other app doesn't have to be object-oriented), error-handling (using `try...catch`), string processing, and so on and so forth.

Time and time again, calculator building tutorials that I've seen have been mostly large 'dumps' of code, some even resorting back to <div>s, with little to no explanation of stuff. It's surely very difficult to create a project that involves the reader to the very last sentence and in detail each and every step in building the calculator, but it isn't impossible. At least we can try :)

And so I did. I tried creating a similar project in the given link. It's complete now and I've been working on it for quite some time. (https://www.codeguage.com/projects/calculator-in-js)

Do let me know of your thoughts on how useful do you think a calculator project can be in getting a newbie learner to exercise his/her knowledge of JavaScript? How useful was building a calculator for you?
He'd have had a chance if not for the "$0 campaign" publicity stunt, and the hidden trail of money coming from very suspicious places. Who is supposed to believe that he invested nothing, and got top position in the first round, while having absolutely nothing to do with the "benefactors". That and it seems tik tok favoured him, beyond the advantage of comment spam. And none of the content was labeled with the campaign id according to the law.
If he spent at least a decent amount of money for the campaign, $100.000 or whatever, he'd have a better chance at plausibly denying the connection with the tik tok amplifier people, who in truth, could very well be just "fans", like Elon Musk was for Trump.
And there's also the Iron Guard connections all over the place, that pretty much make you incompatible with the function, same reason the other candidate got removed from the list.
So the decision isn't really undemocratic, although the moment it was given in was probably not quite legal/right, should have been done after the second round, but that would have caused more uproar and give him more legitimacy if he had won, and the odds are that he would have, so that's why they decided to cut it early, to minimise damage.
DCFCs are much more than a “fancy switch”. It’s a circuit capable of converting 3-phase high voltage AC into variable high voltage DC at 150-350kW. The power electronics are very, very expensive. As far as I’m aware, the large transformer you see usually hidden somewhere nearby is not the primary cost (although it is expensive, especially for very high wattage ones).

And yes, it’s 200k per dispenser including the infrastructure. It doesn’t scale as well as you think it does. I think Tesla has been quoted as around 50k per dispenser including infra though, so some of it is just poor efficiency in costs by other mfgs.
Are you accepting recent graduates ?
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I looked for deadbeef-f00d-f00d-deadbeef**

but did not find it. Search is just on active page, that gets ever longer?
Tens of billions of dollars of development funding, which Romania obviously wanted, given they went through the trouble of joining the EU, and then went through the trouble of getting hold of the EU cash and spending it.

Not quite the same as external party spending huge amounts of cash running political campaigns, while ignoring all the local rules about campaigning. After all Romania didn’t have to accept the EU cash, or spent it. The EU doesn’t force countries to join, just so they can give them billions of euros in the hopes of interfering in a political process years later. A political process that’s only important, because of the development funding. Much easier and cheaper to simpler not get involved, and allow those countries to struggle alone.
> The more direct your ability to help and the more acute the need, the stronger the moral obligation. A hospital that can provide a life-saving drug at a lower price but chooses not to, in order to maximize profit, is directly and immediately impacting patients’ lives. In contrast, an ordinary person’s failure to donate their personal entertainment budget to global health charities is morally less direct and involves a much more diffuse causal chain. The responsibility is mitigated by lack of proximity, lack of direct obligation, and lack of any professional or social contract stating that their role is to provide healthcare.

"Proximity". What evasion. Apparently healthcare workers are responsible for dedicating their entire lives to saving others, profit be damned, but you aren't culpable for depositing money into your savings account becuase you went into software. Hahaha, how absurd. At least the EA people/Peter Singer are consistent.

We have moral concepts to figure this stuff out and to avoid worrying about a "diffuse causal chain". Concepts like an "action" or "intent". When you apply these concepts to this situation, it becomses clear that neither insurance companies nor healthcare providers are going around murdering people. But the guy waiting outside a conference with a gun did.
this sounds like expert systems 2.0 lol
>One of the key principles of a republic – both ancient and modern – is that personal power is bad for the society. Leaders are a necessary evil that must be tolerated (if only barely), but they also must be changed regularly.

In Romania not only we change them regularly but we also have PMs and ministers in jail for crimes they commuted, we are not like other countries where same president or prime Minister was in power for 30 years.
Would be nice if it is implmented in freshrss
The issue is in corporate jobs (including tech) Friday is a very relaxed day. If you are working a shorter week than everyone else, you end up doing the same amount of work in less time for less money.
libu8ident
The purpose of a system is what it does.

It's functionally isomorphic to a black box where I make a deposit, every time it denies someone medical treatment I get back monetary reward and I can withdraw my deposit at any time. If we ask ourselves, "Should this black box exist?" I cannot reasonably expect people to say, "Yes." Yet, here we are.
Democracy: keep politicians who are failing the people and their countries economies in office because of the goodness of their hearts and the virtue of their stated values.

If the people vote differently, cancel the result because that's not democracy. For definition of democracy, see above.
Exactly. That's the fundamental difference between historical influence and modern social media influence.

Historically, the same entity didn't have profiles, the ability to microtarget, and content.

Can you imagine a newspaper company that kept a profile on every household? And also repasted together a unique paper for each one?

Now the largest social media companies can do that trivially.
That is almost the definition of democracy — when they stop getting additional chances, that's when it stops being a democracy.
While not serialized to a database, memory-dump/snapshot based distribution was done with smalltalk and various lisps. Basically dump the gc and the executable just reloads it right into RAM. Wasn't the best from what I've read over time.

Having an SQL based callstack sounds painfully slow.
Okay. So we should assassinate all the CEOs. Presumably the president, anyone with significant power in the national security apparatus. Then what? The people rise up? We put you in charge so you can cull all the undesirables?
I did not defend Russia. Let's stop pretending that everything is perfect but the adversary found magic words that can show to people and sway their opinions. Influencing people is indeed possible and Russia definitely doing it but this tale about showing social media posts and making them vote the way they like is just a caricature.

They are able to do it only because of the failure of the others to address the concerns of the electorate. Sure, they lie but they all lie. The Russian propaganda is very well crafted and does address the concerns that others don't want to touch. It's not a spell, it's not magic words, its not hypnosis.
Blue pigments were just rare. There are very few natural ones and historically the synthetics have been costly and hard to produce, Han blue, Egyptian blue, Fra Angelico blue from lapiz... The later was so expensive it was mainly reserved for Mary's robes, so perhaps the spiritual association was due to expense. Fra Angelico blue is still expensive. 23,000 Euros a kilo from Kremer. Even new synthetic blues are expensive. YInMn blue is 208 Euro for 50g.

The real revolution in color was the invention of cheap synthetic blues starting with Prussian blue in the 19th century and led today by the ultramarines and phthalocyanine blues, which include our standard cyan used in every inkjet. When Prussian blue came out there were a few decades of artistic celebration at the dawn of a cheap, intense, and gorgeous blue. Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji is a particularly exuberant example of this new blue's early use.
But there's only so many dollars you can pull from a wage earned. A dollar pulled for OASDI is a dollar that can't be pulled for anything else, and the person earning said dollar will express dissatisfaction at the ballot box if you try to make up for that by taking another dollar.

A retirement bonus (which is what OASDI is for millions of retired Americans) costs more than a retirement insurance plan, because one gets drawn from by everyone, while the other can simply be denied if it isn't strictly necessary for the person trying to collect the benefit.

A more expensive program requires more tax revenue to administer, revenue that could be used on anything else. Since we haven't had a real national discussion about federal taxes in 30+ years in the US, we now take the spending that would be funded with the tax revenues that could be freed up by a less-expensive implementation of retirement insurance - one that's treated as actual insurance - and instead fund it with deficit spending.
NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git
I don't have eyes inside of Meta, but keep in mind that we're not just talking about fine-tunes and LoRAs, we're also talking about the entire llama ecosystem, including llama.cpp, ollama, and llamafile. These would not exist (or wouldn't have anything like as much momentum) without Meta's investment, but they're now huge community projects.

I don't know if they use them internally, of course, but they could, and they represent a lot of work.
> wildly popular

It's not even in the top 10 and shrinking too
Picture this: A customer eagerly signs up for a new online fitness program or enrolls in a language-learning subscription. The initial excitement runs high, the credit card is charged, and the confirmation email pops up in their inbox. But just a few weeks later, the user’s enthusiasm has cooled. They might have logged in once—or maybe twice. Soon, they’re questioning whether it was worth signing up in the first place, and before long, they’re ready to cancel.

This scenario is surprisingly common. Many businesses focus intently on making the sale but spend far less time ensuring that new customers actually become active, engaged users. The result is what we can call the “engagement gap”.
> more honest if photographers acknowledged that their published work is a creative interpretation rather than a direct representation of reality

My high school English teacher said this on the first day: All media are constructions.
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No, they don’t. Extension cables for something that is dumping 250kW would be dangerous, or outrageously expensive and bulky.
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Unfortunately, nominative determinism did not strike again in this case. Boo.
They basically answer their own question in the fourth paragraph,

>The origin of rationalist writing is commonly traced back to the comments section of Overcoming Bias, a group blog about cognitive biases and related topics that is now the personal blog of economist Robin Hanson. Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent contributor, spun off an online forum called LessWrong in 2009, dedicated to the practice of “applied rationality.”

Most of these folks are all still borrowing from the same well, and having grown up together use similar vocabulary. You see with this from a lot of online communities.
> Immediately after the first election, the court (mostly consisting of SPD) ordered a recount.

The recount was ordered after two complaints were lodged, one which was rejected and the one that was accepted was from another contender in the first round of elections. Only one recount was performed. Only 4 of the 9 members of the court were proposed by PSD (SPD), 4 were proposed by PNL and another by UDMR.

> Except now it seems SPD hasn't fully decided this. This election seemingly gives them one more chance

While they do have another chance, the fact that they were at the wheel while this happened, and the fact that their candidate was in 3rd place even after the recount will not help them in a new election.
https://uhcleadership.com/
"What actually happened is that..."

Dismisses the entire article which, as far as I can tell, is pretty factual.

Admittedly I used your comment as a jumping off point for that observation about recent OS/2 commentary even beyond this particular topic on HN.
Do I have this right?

Organic Maps had a private (but MIT-licensed) Cloudflare Worker in a repo called meta. Alexander Borsuk (an Organic Maps maintainer, and co-founder of maps.me) surreptitiously removed the license and added logging to the worker.

Roman Tsisyk, another maintainer of Organic Maps, noticed this. He undid the changes, made this post, and has now been booted from the organization?
Yeah? It definitely has my interest. Public comments get public attention.
The part that I don't buy is that this is the way that campaign finance violations would ordinarily be handled. Would an election that was won by one of the mainstream parties be completely overturned and rerun if it were found that they violated some campaign procedure laws? I doubt it.