skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Massive election interference should nullify the election. Obviously the evidence bar is high here, but you can't have someone flout election laws and have outside state interference and just shrug you shoulders.

The correct course of action is to take the case to the highest court and get them to make a ruling. They decided a do over because the election is too flawed to continue.

If this guy can run again and isn't wrapped up in a criminal case, maybe they will vote for him, but at least now they have far more information than they did before.
Good point, he didn't campaign on making the system worse and the way I phrased that made it sound like he did. He campaigned on repealing the ACA and replacing it with something better.

> But you can't then assume the people who voted for him were voting for the system to be worse.

At least in 2016, some of his voters that I knew personally just wanted the ACA to be gone and to have "freeloaders" kicked off of the system. They weren't voting to make it worse for themselves, per se, but voted vindictively to make it worse for others.
That is basically point #7: Why even have the politicians as middle-men? Use wealth-porn via short-attention-span media to build followers out of money-worshippers and use that clout + money to directly be part of the executive. Why even bother with lobbying groups when you can write the law yourself by being in the same room where it will be passed?
Apple's Three-Year Modem Road Map: Company Plans to Beat Qualcomm by 2027
You have in the IDE a "Compiler > Create App" menu, that brings you to a tabbed interface: "Web App | iOS | Android". Creating a Web App produces an HTML file, JS file and libraries directory; creating an Android APK requires Apache Cordoba (and Windows, currently); the "iOS" interface could get you close to the result (though I do not know if it follows the PWA idea closely, i.e. including manifest and service worker). Have you tried it?
> This seems to be incorrect. Given my estimation of the current political climate, if you sacrifice yourself to save the world, you will be dead and then someone else will destroy the world anyway while you're not there to stop them.

Probably, but look at it from the 1970s. The environmental movement was at its greatest legislative power, the major federal environmental legislation passed at the time was often bipartisan since environmental issues weren't nearly so neatly ideologically coded as they are now, and you had a bunch of high-profile environmental disasters that kept the issue at the forefront of politics. You also had energy crises throughout the 70s. All of that severely undermined public trust in the industry.

Despite their horrible public image since then, the fossil fuel industry has accomplished a great deal politically. They managed to convince an entire political party that climate change doesn't exist despite decades of research and ever-increasing amounts of evidence. They've fended off greater legislative and regulatory oversight repeatedly since then. And while we may not be paying them to "save the world," we're still giving them a great deal of subsidies in the form of tax benefits, consumer incentives that end up increasing the usage of their products, and the massive gift of not taxing their significant negative externalities. So we are, at least, paying them.

Put simply, their lobbyists have always been skilled, as evident by their accomplishments despite the decades-long reality that the majority of Americans don't much like or trust them. So is it really that much of a stretch to expect that they could have gotten significant federal support for a clean energy transition that started back in the 1970s and was gradual enough that it didn't shock markets and the consumers? Or that, if they were able to secure subsidies and preferential tax treatment to extract fossil fuels, that they couldn't do the same for not extracting them?

Anyhow, if I didn't make it clear enough, the sacrifice would have been entirely symbolic. Exxon, for example, would have always survived the transition. It's just that their brand would have undergone a sort of phoenix-esque rebirth: Exxon the oil company would have gradually faded out of existence, while Exxon the renewable energy company came into existence at the same time. It would have been a marketing and PR message, but unlike with the attempts at greenwashing, the fossil fuel side of the company would have actually faded away. The message would have even been truthful in a way: it would have been a serious sacrifice of sorts on their part.

It's just that it could have been a sacrifice that didn't actually cost them much--and had they played their cards right, it might have been one that let them come out ahead in the end.
The problem is that so many people being paid for 5x8 are actually working 5x9 or 5x10.

At least for myself, I was raised with the notion that working harder would be recognised and eventually rewarded. That has not turned out to be the case, so I am seeking a rebalance.
Nightclub stickers over smartphone rule divides the dancefloor
> More that the west has a better understanding of exploitation (from experience) and is generally against it now.

You must no be aware of the CFA francs that is used in some parts of Africa and de facto controlled by France. Control that in turn has been proven to actually channel money out of Africa towards France. I guess the end of exploitation memo must not have reached Paris.

The West doesn't like that China is going to Africa because it creates competition for them. Before France et al could just call the shots and the African continent was simply supposed to shut up and take it.

Now China is there and is trying to offer something better potentially. The West doesn't want to up it's offers so the complaining starts and with it comes the moralizing.

As if the West has any lessons to give to someone else regarding anything moral.

> It’s not jealousy, it’s a warning of lessons learned.

Maybe the West should just let these people live and choose for themselves instead of whining about unfair the competition is.
Wow you are really missing out on how fascinating this topic is with this kind of unserious take. Go down this rabbit hole! :)

No one is categorizing it as you do, your comment doesn't reflect the article, and it's silly and magical thinking to pretend there is no remainder of events involving real objects sans conventional explanation. And then, haha treating that group as the single "unfathomable" category, like what you said! Haha :)
Haha, well, I'm going through a "divorce" now with a co-founder and unfortunately, it costs money, time, and effort to try to get my assets (code) back. He was never able to generate a dime of revenue after I brought the code, but now he wants the code (which I want to open source).

So yeah, in many ways, it is just like a marriage when you formally create a company with a co-founder. Don't do it unless you need to and if you do, make sure that you can get your assets back if you are bringing existing assets to the table.
Oh, German definitely has those too :)
Electric Plus Hybrid Vehicles Reach Record US Auto Market Share in Q3
The gross margins on EV chargers are likely pretty good as you say. But is there any evidence that these networks actually turn a net profit? These charging stations are very expensive to install and require ongoing maintenance/repairs.

The only charging network I know that is publicly traded is Chargepoint, and they have never turned a profit. In fact, their losses have increased as revenue has gone up. But, they are not a perfect example since their chargers are independently operated with prices set by the operator (with prices anywhere from free to significantly in excess of retail electricity prices).
Day two of the two year bet:

https://x.com/mrjonfinger/status/1865161230706520472

Let's do this, Shasseem.
On a tidal locked planet, conditions should be very static. The point facing the sun is the hottest, and the opposite point is the coldest.

Which means there is a constant "spectrum" of climates in between, and you only need one of these thousands of microclimates to be beneficial for creating life.

So this may be the planets most suitable for life, if this theory I just made up has any validity!
> If he now declares he got the money ...

He didn't pay for the ads. Others did or home printed them.
> Publishing the exact formula for funding is great for transparency, but then leads to an incentive to game the system to capture funding.

I say think of it as an authorization protocol, and watch how people break it in order to figure out how to fix it.
> Well some other comment mentioned audio/video and those are seemingly aways different

Which is probably fine for your users. In every browser it plays video and has basic controls like a start/pause button, a timeline and a volume control. While the video is playing they even look identical: it's the video, playing; with controls only visible on hover.

The differences aren't an issue for the actual user, they are an issue for the designer that tries to have the website look and feel the same everywhere. Preferably look the same as it does on their MacBook.
That’s kind of my implicit point. Employers don’t want to think of themselves as renters. It’s offensive to their unquestioned self-image as being the ones who hold the cards and deign to interview candidates.

But if you can give up on those worthless power games, you can have a hiring process that’s better for both parties.
If you have literally hundreds of applicants and don’t have a process you are confidant provides a strong scoring function you should just randomly hire 1000.
Tenstorrent Closes a Big Series D Round
this does NOT match my experience as an interviewer. Our company went through piles of candidates who were not qualified and it took us months to find a good fit after going through hundreds of resumes and scores of interviews.

I hope the folks we hired are paid enough to retain because there were was absolutely no glut of talent. It was hard to find the folks we wound up hiring. There was a glut of applications, yes, but the vast majority were totally unqualified.
| distinct lack of focus on code reviews as part of the assessment

"Writing code is easy, reading code is hard"

An interview based on reading, explaining and critiquing complicated code would give a better window into a candidate's skills than having them solve the kind of coding challenge that can be completed in a short interview.

Also, being able to identify which algorithms would be useful in solving a unique problem and explain what the pros & cons are would go further than implementing an algorithm abstractly.
That seems a little too hopeful and uninformed of the larger picture
The UCSD paper didn't run the Nature method correctly, so I don't see how you can draw this conclusion.

From Jeff's tweet:

"In particular the authors did no pre-training (despite pre-training being mentioned 37 times in our Nature article), robbing our learning-based method of its ability to learn from other chip designs, then used 20X less compute and did not train to convergence, preventing our method from fully learning even on the chip design being placed."

As for Chatterjee's paper, "We provided the committee with one-line scripts that generated significantly better RL results than those reported in Markov et al., outperforming their “stronger” simulated annealing baseline. We still do not know how Markov and his collaborators produced the numbers in their paper."
I highly recommend this channel. The human story behind the discovery.

Copernicus: The Man Who Made A God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVOhbk8H1c
Lindt admits its 'excellence' claim on chocolate is just 'puffery' in lawsuit
Unless you removed it.
Happened earlier this year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39258560
Can hunters' donations help deliver high-quality meat to Colorado food pantries?
After doing a bit more reading about this topic, I'd be really interested to see a follow-up study that includes samples of the local wolf population. Supposedly, one of the reasons the dogs all hang around the power plant is because they get driven out of the woods by wolves. I wonder if there is any genetic cross-over between them.
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I am a huge fan of keeping things as standalone executable, good work!
As I understand it, nicotine in and of itself is not particularly harmful. It’s the delivery mechanisms that do all of the harm.
Please note that there are free versions, with code size as a limitation. One can test if it is worth it, maybe upgrade if the need arises for bigger projects:

https://www.purebasic.com/download.php

https://www.spiderbasic.com/download.php
I mean i think it could easily be PPO post training. if your point is that the rewards are different, sure
I agree. My whole interview technique is just to have a long conversation with the person.

My team was hiring recently. Guy comes on, says he's never used Rust, but has some thoughts on it. We talked about all the pros and cons of it, what the system requirements would be, and so on. He talks us through everything to do with the domain, just two seniors talking to each other at a high level. Very pleasant.

We hire him, and a month later he's making idiomatic Rust.

No need to put people through a ridiculous gauntlet.
A Gang Of Orcas Uses Ingenious Techniques To Hunt Whale Sharks in Mexico
Three generations of TPU, Axion (ARM-based CPU), various other chips at AlphaBet, MediaTek's usage...
Sundar Pichai says Google Search will 'change profoundly' in 2025
> How are you doing your math?

As a european, I also didn't realize what CC stood for and was tripped up by the math same as the person you're replying to. Not everyone lives in a world/country where living on credit is the norm (at least not yet).
Eric Bachman, this is your mom, and you, you are not my baby.
How would you suggest they be held to account here?

Keep in mind that their ill-gotten gains include votes, and that a criminal's ill-gotten gains of a crime must be disgorged to hold the criminal to account.
Sure, if they also ban Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Otherwise, they are choosing sides. That's not a democratic system, but deciding what people can read and do (and think) as they do the exact same thing but for the “other side”.
These effects are all pretty, but like... there should be some sort of media query for devices that are not that powerful (or their owners simply do not wish to burn through their batteries just to read a website). It gets pretty annoying that my phone slows down to a crawl when someone has these effects on their website. At the same time, simply opting out of the blurring and leaving everything else as-is is not a solution, since that may quickly render a lot of things unreadable.
> Countries are starting to view it as a _serious_ national threat, due to the disinformation risk.

You mean disinformation that the West does not control. If i want to hear disinformation, I don't need TikTok. I can just watch the public TV channels that are just parroting whatever the government says.

> Just look at the Romanian election: A couple of hours ago they annulled the first election round, after a coordinated Russian campaign managed to propel a rather unknown pro-Russian candidate to the top, where they used platforms like TikTok to influence voters.

Yes, these people are so brain dead that a few videos on TikTok changed their minds. It absolutely not because the governments of the EU have stopped listening to their people. No, it's the Chinese and the Russians.
I was about to say, that was all Google.

I'm still continually astounded that the tech community appeared to absolutely swallow Google's utter bullshit answers about why they shut down Reader; that really marked a turning point.
> Wasn't the best from what I've read over time.

Because?
I generally agree, but Matlab does have algebraic capabilities
Vodafone's £15B Deal Opens Door to European Consolidation
But that's just a Cloudflare problem, no?
You don't even need a preprocessor for that with var() and calc(). It's perfectly possible to write clear and easily maintainable raw CSS nowadays.
In case anyone else was wondering:

Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
Intro to Electronics L1: Voltage, Current, and Resistance
But Maxima, which is horrifying buggy.
in CA if you make less income than the minimum (like $18.5k as a single person) you are put onto the free Medi-Cal plan. so thats nice. :)
And Facebook etc. are a weapon being wielded by the US. That's just as bad. If you allow one side but not the other, you are living in an authoritarian state.
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> It seems ollama only supports JSON Schema.

"Encoding" CSV as JSON is trivial though, so make it output JSON then parse the array-of-arrays into CSV :)
Yeah, I don't get why people are praising this idea, it's a huge risk to take. If you don't have a safety net to catch yourself, don't do this!
I believe this is a better approach for scale.

Make it a local or company-wide identification of FOSS packages, and a way for those individuals, teams, and businesses to score them by importance or criticality (or needs of the FOSS project if they are aware).
The move away from on-the-job training has played a role. If a company doesn't provide any early guidance and mentorship (which everyone could use regardless of industry experience), then that has to be replaced by finding the perfect candidate who can immediately be productive.
Update: it's fixed
My concern is that the value a project brings isn't always objectively measurable. You can try to approximate it, sure, using # of downloads and whatever else, but then those metrics can also be easily gamed if the incentives are large enough. For example if you applied this same logic to the npm ecosystem then the creator of is-odd would retire a billionaire.

Regardless, donating something is always better than donating nothing, so kudos.
Someone I vaguely know made the recommendation in print that, if you lost your job, get something at Starbucks the next day. Don't really agree but the one time I lost my job, I did start doing regular professional job hunting the next day which materialized in fairly short order through my network. Had that not worked out, I'd probably have done something survivable absent any particular severance package.

It was sort of a dismal time in tech in general (dot-bomb) so I wouldn't have just taken a couple months to travel even if I could have afforded to do so.
That's some pretty inconsistent JSON, but I guess that makes sense when using a really small model and gemma on top of that.
It"s definitely not true
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/paycheck-to-paycheck-and-five-...
You should be able to sling shot multiple times to improve that though?
Your use of the word stochastic here negates what you are saying.

Stochastic Generative models can generate new and correct data if the distribution is right. Its in the definition
thanks for the comparison table! would be great if the header is sticky so i don't get lost in identifying which column is which.
> How did we enter a world in which the only given fact that must be held true is that "the business profit will grow unceasingly for all time, no matter the consequence”

The Federal Reserve (or central banks in general) has a dual mandate to stabilize prices and maximize employment. The Fed uses monetary policy to manage inflation and attempt to keep a slight amount of inflation without having too much inflation or any deflation. If your profit growth is lower than the rate of inflation, you’re be making less money every year this is the case. Shareholders generally want to achieve a return that is higher than the rate of inflation, aka a ‘real return’.

Tl;dr - Central banks using monetary policy to achieve a constant low rate of inflation is why profit must keep growing forever to remain in business.
You are angry at the wrong party. Health insurance companies exist just to hide the underlying costs of the real problem: hospitals that charge $3,000 per night for a bed, doctors that make $300,000 a year on average, pharmaceutical and medical device companies that make double the average companies profits... all because they have completely captured government regulators and restricted supply of their competitors.
> React pre and post 16.8 are two completely different libraries.

The two apis still coexist within the same library.

> The useEffect hook was presented as something which let's you split your code based on logic instead of component lifecycle, and few examples were there showing how the new effect concept better splits the async logic which was previously a solid mess inside the componentDidMount/Update.

That is exactly what I mean by the word "alternative". As in, previously, you achieved certain results by calling componentDidMount/DidUpdate methods; now, in order to achieve same results, you would use the useEffect in a certain way.

> Update the state during render? what?

See "Adjusting some state when a prop changes" section of "You Might Not Need an Effect"

> if you need to read something during render you need to use State, and if you need a reference to a variable outside of React you use Ref

Sure. But what if during a render you want to check something in the DOM (geometry of a DOM node or something). I do not think that pre-2019 there were any guidelines that you mustn't. There weren't any such recommendations after the hooks were released either, when all we had to go by was the hooks api documentation in what now is the legacy documentation site [0]. The caution against doing this only appeared in the new react docs in 2022. My point here is that the docs change, and the patterns of usage of the library change, and what was considered ok once no longer is. This might be why some folks are complaining, even if they don't fit the "don't bother reading the docs" profile that you proposed.

> there is a clear way to make a side-effect happen only once over component's lifetime, which is to use Effect without dependencies. StrictMode component has no use other than debugging.

StrictMode unmounts and remounts every component causing every useEffect to fire at least twice. Which means a useEffect with an empty array of dependencies will execute twice, unlike in production build in which it will indeed execute just once. This makes the code in the development mode behave differently than in production mode. This also makes useEffect with an empty dependency array incapable of guaranteeing that it will execute only once.

As for the empty array of dependencies to emulate the previous componentDidMount method, this was indeed the original message in 2019. I am almost certain — though I can't find this online now — that Dan Abramov subsequently tweeted to not rely on the empty dependencies array as a guarantee that the useEffect only fires once per component's lifetime.

[0] - https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref
That was my favorite interview ever.

The guy gave me 30 lines of code, and asked questions about it. Including finding the questionable constructs in it.
Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues
You can spend 6 months out of the year (and 90 consecutive days) in the Schengen on an US passport without any special visa, and these other countries usually let you stay as a tourist for 30 days without a visa, some 3 months.

Also Portugal has the Digital Nomad visa for 1 year renewable. That requires employment in the US (or elsewhere outside the EU) so not the same as what my brother was doing but a good option as the min wage requirements are not high; could get by with what would be part time work on a US salary esp in tech.