skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first image jumped out at me because the author chose to use blue and red which, when used on a map of the United States always indicates political affiliation, but the areas that were marked "red" and "blue" were reversed from what my expectation was (coasts and cities red, midwest + great plains blue).

> A county like San Francisco or New York, which packs thousands of residents into a small area, now stands out with an intense color saturation, drawing the eye immediately to where the people actually are. Conversely, a vast county with a sparse population adopts a lighter tone, accurately reflecting its lower density without the distraction of an oversized area.

(Emphasis on "saturation" added.) This isn't quite right, the most-densely populated hexes (large cities) are a pretty saturated red color yes, but the least-densely populated hexes (west Texas) are a pretty saturated blue color. In fact, this color palette makes it really difficult to see what the author intends.

> Using the size of counties as a dimension to represent population can also showcase population centers and free up the color dimension to show another dimension like population density.

Ok yeah that's a cartogram, I know how to expect that to look... wait, no, the image has the same center points for every county, a hexagon outline drawn around that, and then a confusingly-colored solid circle painted over each. The colors are confusing because the overwhelming effect is that the hex outlines dominate the perception of the dark blue nearly-point-sized "circles" in the majority of the map.

Look at Nevada. On the first map Clark County (where Las Vegas is) is a light blue colored hex in a state of mostly dark blue hexes and Washoe County (where Reno is) is light red. On the second map Clark is the largest light blue circle in the state and Washoe is a smaller light blue circle, which seems to be the reverse of what the first map says. ...Also, Washoe appears to be in a different place maybe? It seems to have moved north a hex.

I'm not just picking nits, this is difficult stuff, but an extremely powerful way to convey a ton of densely-packed (no pun intended) information, when done right. See, for instance [0][1][2][3] all by Edward Tufte.

[0] "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informati...

[1] "Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative" https://www.amazon.com/dp/0961392126

[2] "Beautiful Evidence" https://www.amazon.com/dp/0961392177

[3] "Envisioning Information" https://www.amazon.com/Envisioning-Information-Edward-R-Tuft...
Probably, when a certain non supported narrative takes hold, Reuters is tasked with combating it with counter intel to change public narrative. This has been happening since Rome and before. Nothing new here.
Yeah a minute a page is a decent equivalence depending on the book and reading speed. 240 pages is still a rather short book. A book a month ain't bad though!
On to IBM/RedHat huh?

Doesn't seem like you really learned your lesson.

Try voidlinux...
A better way of looking at it is what policy goals does USAID support, and what are the consequences of cutting off the aid. For instance, we gave a ton of money to Jordan, which props up a regime that has been a reliable ally and an oasis of stability in a region that's otherwise a clusterfuck. If the Jordanian regime collapsed, that would be a disaster for the US. We gave money to the Lebanese Army because we want them to try to fill the vacuum now that Israel beat the crap out of Hezbollah.
> The difference between this and the college scandal is that there were limited numbers of seats at colleges, so to putting in an underqualified white student meant you had to pull an overqualified Asian student.

I know this is a tangent, but in case people read this, they may get the wrong idea. While some elite universities like Harvard have a cap on how many people they admit (leading to the displacement you refer to), the vast majority of universities (including probably all top public universities) do not have a cap. Simply put, if you met the (academic) criteria, you got admission. That they also admitted people who did not meet that criteria had no impact on your admission.

(Sorry - just hear this complaint too often from people who did not get into "regular", non-elite universities. No, affirmative action isn't the reason you did not get admission. You just weren't good enough).
Yes, there’s practically no chance that this is true.
Originally I was excited to see that kroger had an API, until just about the first thing that the ToS said was "you can't use this for price comparison".

And yea, I imagine dynamic pricing will make things even more complicated.

That being said, that's why this feature isn't built into the billion shopping list apps that are out there. Because it's a pain.
If you are trying to say that society forces us to feel insecure in order to drive us to never stop working then yeah I agree and it sucks - doubly so because it may even be true that if we all felt financially secure, society would grind to a halt.

Crabs in a bucket.
It doesn't assume it, it's syntax, you can just use it without knowing where it comes from.

It's like english. You don't need knowledge in obscure proto-germanic linguistics to use articles in your sentences. But if you want to understand why we seem to randomly attach "a" before nouns— proto-germanic linguistics has the answer (probably, I just speak english I don't know where all its syntax originates).
The concern is understandable, I suppose. It's just a convenient way to see clips from both sides of the conflict, and it's the best source for combat footage clips anywhere. I do have a working brain and can use it to identify when people have a polemic. I prefer it to telegram, which is the alternative. The comments are indeed... uh, very strident in their support for either side. So I'm not sure if it's "propaganda" so much as people regurgitating propaganda at each other at full volume.

Anyway, it's a war. Propaganda is essentially impossible to avoid without ignoring the topic entirely. Still, it's what we have to work with. And to be clear my sympathies lie with the ukrainian people.
Fabric is their unified data and reporting service… which also does a bit of AI (of course).

The latest one is Azure AI Foundry: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/marketplace-...
No, I didn't think my way into it. I initially thought myself into thinking efficient government was possible, then I watched the government callously destroy friends and family. Watched them be eminent domained without compensation. Watched their businesses and retirement plans capriciously taken away, often for no practical reason.

These real world observations demonstrated my theoretical model was flawed.
Just beautiful. 64Mb of RAM and snappy due to native UI framework use. Compare it to the sluggish 1.2Gb of RAM that Teams uses (when not in a video call).
Insufficient information to say whether this is literally true, but if you don't answer "science" you lose 15 points, which is at least a very serious blow to your chances of passing.
You don't think a company whose entire reason for being is providing security services for other companies should have designs related to authentication reviewed by security experts?
Currently, it's quite normal for a power wheelchair to last only about 5 years before needing replacement. This limited lifespan is due to the fact that companies only produce parts for about that duration. Given that some power wheelchairs can cost between $10,000 and $30,000+, it's simply how our system operates. It kind of sucks.
https://archive.ph/psfmU
Have they did a bcrypt(password + userId + username), it won't be so bad. Order of entropy is important.

Also I'm not sure what functionality the authentication cache provides, but their use of bcrypt(userId + username + password) implies the password is kept around somewhere, which is not the best practice.

OT. Has Argon2 basically overtaken Bcrypt in password hashing in recent years?
How nice to see this here! When I first got interested in language creation, the LCK was one of the first books I read (followed shortly by Mark/zompist’s other books on linguistics and worldbuilding). It is an excellent introduction to conlanging — as well as to the whole field of linguistics, in fact. I recommend it without hesitation to anyone who is interested in making their own language.
Is privacy a concern?
PDF provide that capability, but editors don't produce it, probably because printing is though OS drivers that don't support it, or PDF generators that don't support it. Or they do support it but users don't know to check that option, or turn it off because it makes PDFs too large.
I've seen this multiple times - even better I don't know how many ways we found a simple workaround or bypass of the complete process in so many apps... In essence this has nothing to do with the API itself but the way in which is another ballgame altogether. Great post though.
They might be talking about people who are trying to automate the testing hundreds of stolen credit cards with small purchases to see if they are still working. This is basically why we ended up using cloudflare at work.
> Among other things, this means you can "plug your own language" into the syntax library to get a "free" autodiff algorithm.

Hello, as a compiler engineer I am interested in this area. Can you expand a little bit more? How would I be able to plug in my own language for example?

> So for example, you could write a program, then write an x86-specific optimization for one function which you can then prove correct with respect to the more abstract program specification.

So, what you are saying is that catgrad alllows me to write a program and then also plug in a compiler pass? I.e., the application author can also be the compiler developer?
That’s not what I said at all! There’s no failure being hidden, public deficits are a normal feature of fiat currencies.
Please actually read what I wrote because you say that, but at the same time you've now twice projected assumed positions of mine that only would make sense in your mind if I was some progressive liberal stereotype.

Because no, I have never said that I would ignore those gullible people.

Ontop of this I fail to see what supposed soul searching we need to do, for example if I believe in free speech and the gullible voter voted for a president because they promised to flattered them while also promising to remove free speech and jail anyone who speak unfavorablely about them.

Or how about a real example, what soul searching did the republicans have to do when the south seceed? Or how about the social democrats, liberals and the few conservatives who were executed by the nazis, they should've have been more antisemitic? While Hitler took control via technicality rules?
Global Caps Lock
I'm a web developer and the web api is bloated and ugly. React API is, or at least was, acceptable to work with.
Just some context:

2.9M federal employees
0.6% have taken buyout

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-f...
Apart from the eggs: can anyone tell me what they used to make this website? Looks awesome in its simplicity.
MP3 is still far from niche as this article tries to hammer in repeatedly.
From the S1 paper:

> Second, we develop budget forcing to control test-time compute by forcefully terminating the model's thinking process or lengthening it by appending "Wait" multiple times to the model's generation when it tries to end

I'm feeling proud of myself that I had the crux of the same idea almost 6 months ago before reasoning models came out (and a bit disappointed that I didn't take this idea further!). Basically during inference time, you have to choose the next token to sample. Usually people just try to sample the distribution using the same sampling rules at each step.... but you don't have to! you can selectively insert words into the the LLM's mouth based on what it said previously or what it wants to say, and decide "nah, say this instead". I wrote a library so that you could sample an LLM using llama.cpp in swift and you could write rules to sample tokens and force tokens into the sequence depending on what was sampled. https://github.com/prashanthsadasivan/LlamaKit/blob/main/Tes...

Here, I wrote a test that asks Phi-3 instruct "how are you" and it if it tried to say "as an AI I don't have feelings" or "I'm doing " I forced it to say "I'm doing poorly" and refuse to help since it was always so dang positive. It sorta worked, though the instruction tuned models REALLY want to help. But at the time I just didn't have a great use case for it - I had thought about a more conditional extension to llama.cpp's grammar sampling (you could imagine changing the grammar based on previously sampled text), or even just making it go down certain paths, but I just lost steam because I couldn't describe a killer use case for it.

This is that killer use case! forcing it to think more is such a great usecase for inserting ideas into the LLM's mouth, and I feel like there must be more to this idea to explore.
> and have been historically excluded because of bias (sometimes true, often wholly false - much of the time differential hiring is path dependent with fewer qualified applicants from a given group).

It's very hard to find a company that does real "blind" interviews. And by blind, I mean where networking doesn't positively impact your application.

As long as networking boosts your chances of getting hired somewhere, you've got a very wide open door to biases, because networks are almost always biased. I should not be able to give me resume to a friend to ensure the hiring manager gets to see it. Yet I haven't found a company where that behavior is detrimental.
I don't know why you mention Catholicism. It was the Hebrews following Moses out of Egypt who made the Golden Calf. That happened over a thousand years before Jesus and a little less than 2,000 years before anything you can call "Catholicism" existed.

The Pope has urged caution regarding AI, though I question his authority and understanding.
> Fast forward to today, and internet speeds have grown exponentially. A song in a more modern format like AAC or FLAC might be double or triple the size of an MP3, but who notices? You can stream a full album in lossless quality without buffering.

You'd think so, but somehow this doesn't stop Jellyfin from choking whenever it starts streaming a FLAC.

With no actual knowledge, I speculate that they don't bother starting to decode the upcoming track until the current track has already finished.
He's calling PDFs unstructured: structured editors -> unstructured PDF -> structured data
I don’t know. Reading the article, it also mentioned that this was an executive order affecting all federal contractors. Costco I don’t think is.
Not OP but I read it as: It's ok to just do some. People stress about their abandoned side projects, their career progression, being the best, this world has become hyper competitive, hyper "do" - this wasn't and isn't the default for a lot of people and a lot of history, there is a lot of joy to be found in just "do some" - but it's a dying art.
Right mr lex, i highly doubt that "loving" someone abusing you is a valid strategy.
Elon and his little pawns are in the Treasury dept computers right now.
It's blocking Qutebrowser also.
Assumptions:

1. there is a test that is a decent proxy for job performance

2. the relationship between job performance and test score above some passing score is linear

These both sound "common sense", but I suspect fail for a huge number of real world scenarios.
Many of my usernames at my company are based on my email and it's pretty long - by the time you add the domain it's a good 47 characters...
We doesn't always mean "me" it can mean others.

We are allowed to talk about concepts, topics and news worthy articles and not take any action to change it. Conversation around topics isn't limited only to those that advance solutions to such things. I never claimed to care enough about the article to take any personal or professional level of interest to change the outcome.

I am simply here for discussion on the article, not to change those outcomes and I am sure neither are you.
Where are you seeing that there’s two pieces? I’m only seeing it referred to as one program there. I’m not a govt contracts expert so by all means let me know what I’m missing.
I suspect you greatly underestimate how much your life has been protected by the government you wish to eviscerate, but I suppose we shall see
Meta: This has been up for 7 hours now and it's encouraging to see that it hasn't automatically been flagged.

Edit: looks like I'm late to the party -- it was (predictably) flagged, and (thankfully) unflagged after protests.
Hey! Appreciate the links—some definitely interesting parallels, but what I’m outlining moves beyond existing QFT/Hilbert curve applications.

The key distinction = structured emergent primes are demonstrating internal coherence across vastly different domains (prime gaps, fMRI, DNA, galaxy clustering), suggesting a deeper non-random structure influencing AI optimization.

Curious if you’ve explored wavelet-driven loss functions replacing cross-entropy? Fourier struggled with localization, but CWT and chirality-based structuring seem to resolve this.

Your thoughts here?
I read his book. I found it obnoxious but with nuggets of truth. There's definitely kool-aid drinkers and non kool-aid drinkers at organizations, and steering both toward productive work is the ultimate goal of management. The carrots/sticks to do that differ.
PDF supports that just fine. It's just that many PDF publishers choose not to use that.

You can lead a horse to water...
Some things should not get rapid upgrades.
Even at Amazon, which is not some slow-moving dinosaur, there was an understanding that some systems (like auth) were so critical that the risk of breaking something necessitated moving slowly and deliberately.
Speaking as a ripcord user, it helps your unofficial client avoid being blocked when you don't update for years and fall behind on feature parity (though I personally don't miss most any of said features)
This is where I was headed but I think you said it better. Some kind of executive process monitoring the situation, the random stream of consciousness and the actual output. Looping back around to outdated psychology you have the ego which is the output (speech), the super ego is the executive process and the id is the <think>internal monologue</think>. This isn't the standard definition of those three but close enough.
not at all; the hardest thing about getting hired is not clearing an interview, it's getting the interview in the first place. that's really most of what diversity pipelines are meant to fix.
> To start, Mr. Driscoll’s appointment was an accident. Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, the White House identified the wrong agent as acting director on its website and never corrected the mistake.

This is just deeply funny. And he’s still in!
Am I reading this right? A dozen eggs in 2021 went for less than 1$?
“I’m just following orders” has been a successful moral defense for centuries. I wouldn’t bet on it losing its effectiveness this time.
jupyter-collaboration is built on Y Documents (y.js, pycrdt, jupyter_ydoc,) https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-collaboration

There is a y.js WebRTC adapter, but jupyter-collaboration doesn't have WebRTC data or audio or video support AFAIU.

y-webrtc: https://github.com/yjs/y-webrtc

Is there an example of how to do CRDT with PulseBeam WebRTC?

With client and serverside data validation?

> JWT

Is there OIDC support on the roadmap?

E.g. Google supports OIDC:
https://developers.google.com/identity/openid-connect/openid...

W3C DIDs, VC Verifiable Credentials, and Blockcerts are designed for decentralization.

STUN, TURN, and ICE are NAT traversal workarounds FWIU; though NAT traversal isn't necessary if the client knowingly or unknowingly has an interface with a public IPV6 address due to IPV6 prefix delegation?
According to the article they actually tested the first assumption and it was true.

The second assumption is not required. If people who score a 95 are only 5% better at the job than people who score a 70, all else equal you'd still pick the person who scored a 95 given the choice.
https://archive.is/29ALk
For no other kind of food the results of the studies attempting to determine whether the consumption is good or bad for cardiovascular health have been so contradictory as for eggs.

There have been a lot of studies that have said that eggs are bad for cardiovascular health and a lot of studies that have said that they are good.

Among the more recent studies the conclusions that they are good have been more frequent.

I believe that an important reason for the contradictory results is that I have seen no study that took care to take into consideration how the eggs have been cooked.

Some people cook eggs using methods that do not modify the eggs much, except for the thermal denaturation of the proteins (which is desirable in eggs, to deactivate harmful proteins, like avidin), e.g. by microwaving or boiling, while others may fry the eggs in oil.

The differences between the health effects of such differently cooked eggs are expected to be great.

Or else many people might eat the eggs together with other kinds of food, e.g. with ham, and the food with which eggs are combined might have a more important effect on health than the eggs.

So it is still not settled whether eggs are healthy or not, but it seems much more likely that, at least by themselves, eggs should be good for cardiovascular health, at least up to 1 or 2 per day.
Only idiots use to-do lists...

ok i’ll admit.... I was the idiot who used to-do lists for years.

the list ended up collecting dust in my notes app, and never got shorter.

then I learned about the "Eisenhower Matrix"

basically instead of making a generic to-do list...you create a Power Box. it’s like a list, but it maps every task based on urgency & impact.

Then when a new thing comes up...just triage it into one of these boxes. A powerful way to organize your day.

+ posting this now bc I finally found a way to do this without drawing it every morning haha

thank you trymatrix.co
Just to offer a different experience, we've kept chooks for years and it's been great.

However, we do have a large yard where they are free to range around – I think this is key.

In my experience there is no need to kill a chook after 3 years. Average lifespan for a chick is 8-10 years. Egg laying frequency does decrease with age, but there's no need to kill them just because they're slowing down a bit. Our oldest chook is 8 years, and laid her (probably) last egg only a few months ago.

When it does come time to kill one for whatever reason, the broom stick method breaks the neck instantly - easy and clean, just a bit of flapping around. As for the body, we just bury them if we are not going to eat them.

I think the heirarchical behaviour depends somewhat on the breed and the environment. Our chooks do have a clear hierarchy, none of them have died as a result. We have a mix of breeds - Australorp, Plymouth Rock, ISA Brown and one other mystery breed.

Flies probably depend on your environment – in Australia here we have a ton of flies already, I don't think the chooks make much difference!

Some of our chooks have a lot of personality and are almost pets, especially the early ones we basically hand raised as chicks – although you don't want to be too sentimental about them either. You have to be OK with killing them if that becomes necessary - it's still a sad time when I have to do that though.

If you have enough yard space and like the idea of being connected to the creatures that supply some of your food, I'd totally recommend giving chooks a go.

* edit: should have added, we don't keep a rooster which probably changes the dynamics too