skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm writing this in response to the originator of this thread @beedeebeedee[1]. I'm posting it as a top-level comment because I believe it's applicable to the overall conversation.

> According to the theory, in fair elections, turnout indicators typically follow a regular graphical representation that resembles a bell shape. If anomalies appear in the data -- for example, forms different from the bell shape or the bell "grows a tail" -- this indicates unfair elections.

There is *no* respectable statistician who would *ever* draw a conclusion from data. You could say 'may indicate evidence of unfair elections,' but it is impossible to deem whether something occurred or not with 100% certainty.

Now to address their "indicators."

> While in cities the data representation mostly follows a bell shape, in the regions it is anomalously deviated

All statistics is just a representation of data, it tells us nothing of logic. Logic is also based in axioms and it's important to identify what those are.

Here the author is saying the data is "anomalously deviated" with the axiomatic assumption that all voters must follow the same distribution, but why should this assumption be held true? It ignores other logical factors that may sway these distributions.

If I'm a candidate for a political position that would give a rural precinct free money, wouldn't that heavily affect that population's voting outcomes? Surely what's said in a political campaign can sway these things, yet there's nothing in the article that mentions that.

> According to the theory, if a number of stations emerge where one candidate -- the "beneficiary" -- is unusually high, this might indicate falsification. There's a high risk of manipulation where increased overall voter turnout is reflected only in support of the "beneficiary."

So the belief is that because there are 2 distributions for the number of precincts with a certain percentage of "yes" votes, that automatically "indicates falsification"? There needs to be more information than this to make a conclusion. What one holds as axioms are a matter of opinion.

The only way to get something useful out of a counterargument to this is for a proponent to exhaustively list all the votes they think are legitimate, and for the opponent to show the same patterns can occur there as well.

Similarly for a proponent to convince detractors, they'd have to show that other elections they see as legitimate *never* indicate those patterns. Otherwise this is just an opinion piece on data.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996898
What model Kindle do you have?
>Maxwell himself wouldn't have been able to understand the travel expense rules at some organisations I've seen,

Or the tax code...

>sometimes you really are better off throwing it away and coming up with something reasonable from scratch.

Many people don't understand this and are totally, fully incapable of understanding this simple concept, hence all the opposition
This happens every cycle. I helped build deviantart, I went as cohort 1 to the first pure digital film program in Canada 20 years ago now, I have 3 emmy awards. I've heard this so many times, it's the continuation of humans clinging to the tooling aspect of the work. I'm grateful my father always taught me "a maker never blames their tools" - and I think that is what this at the end boils down to, the analogue people were so tied to the tool they couldn't imagine their art without it, so instead the new digital film tools made the art less art somehow. Heck for some period of time the film societies when we had salons would not accept digital work, even into the more creative categories.
Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
> That said, you probably don’t want to be making theoretical architecture diagrams most of the time.

My take on this is that it's really hard to have one diagram to rule them all. I think there's a time and a place for different kinds of diagrams, and I think it's ok to tell a story with a couple different ones. For example, a conceptual diagram that complements the actual "as implemented" diagram. One is a big of a "here's what we were thinking" and the other is "here's how we translated that to actual architecture".

In my role of frequently having to manage up to executive management, investors, onboard new people, etc. the combination of conceptual plus actual is powerful. I can describe the problem we're solving, provide a grokkable format for most levels of the org chart, and then have the details for those who want to dig in to discuss how we built (or plan to build) it and why.
> not sure how best to address this sort of thing

I use two browser addons, uBlock origin and SponsorBlock.
I see no reason why it wouldn't, they don't seem to be trying to dismantle the voting system. I am not super familiar with the US system but my impression is that a most of it is handled at the state level, not the federal level.
Chrome gets faster audio encoding on Windows 11 ARM, thanks to Microsoft
Exactly. Maybe we'll muck up the climate here a bit and have to spend some resources to get it back on track, but Earth will never be less hospitable than Mars.

And we are probably hundreds of years away from being able to have a self-sufficient colony on Mars.

The only reason to attempt to settle Mars is because it represents the fattest international government contract that has ever existed - and I suspect that has always been the primary motivation for the Mars hucksters.
Ask HN: Anyone Using Docker Swarm in Prod?
Curious to hear if anyone is actually using Docker Swarm these days over Kubernetes, and if so what are your experiences with it. What sort of application do you run on it, and what level of traffic do you handle?
That would nullify the point of posting anonymously. Most likely that would instantly identify the employee in question to OpenAI staff.
fwiw, half a dozen doctors missed the diagnosis on my wife. Given the same description of issues, chatgpt correctly identified multiple sclerosis, as later confirmed with imaging.
Tim is Eddy and Eddy is Phil, but Tim is not Phil?
New Proposal to Raise the Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency to 1000Hz
It seemed more useful for my response to this to be placed as a comment to the original post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000312
I mean any kind of "machine code" as opposed to another programming language, say Java bytecode. Theoretically another programming language is enough, but LMs are already designed to process massive number of tokens in and out, the question is why not map/stream that to something and that hardware could run?
they need to hire people who speak Arabic, or Chinese, or Hindi, and have ties they can utilize in those countries -- or at least understand well enough to build ties.

overseas money and property, esp. in unfriendly countries, rapidly becomes a concern in that sense. go double agent, have a friend overseas give you some sweet improvements to your house on the cheap, then sell it later for 4x than it's worth, and repeat.
> It wasn't until I visited a rheumatologist who looked at the combination of my symptoms and genetic test results that I learned I likely had an autoimmune condition

AI didn't actually give the initial possibility of having an autoimmune disease.
For those interested, you can use LLMs to process CSVs in Hal9 and also generate streamlit apps, in addition, the code is open source so if you want to help us improve our RAG or add new tools, you are more than welcomed.

- https://hal9.ai

- https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9
Git-Tok
A webapp that gets you random github repos.
K is a fast vector language, used (primarily) for time series data analysis.

>What does a K program look like?

You might want to check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335921

beagle3 and geocar both have various comments you might want to search for.
Sure, why not? Code is code. Given the full instruction set, and trained on outputs from known code, it could produce the same buggy slop it usually does, but now, even harder to debug! Yay!
You can buy 5-MTHF OTC in the U.S. if you don't feel like consuming a lot of meat.
If it's a true story from inside the organization then it's what I would expect from a large organization that got blind-sided by a competitor. Seen it several times before. The rapid advances in models coming out of China is not going to stop, seems like development of models around video is especially moving fast. I'm guessing the moat in the future will be the brand/device, when you have a chat/functions as part of the device it will be hard for anyone else to compete even if the models are slightly better. i.e Google search all over again. Personally i don't think the value from todays LLM are near the sunk cost, hoping that will change.
You disagreeing with an argument does not mean it was made in bad faith (or is without merit for that matter).
I'd want to wait until an election is coming up to be sure no changes to those systems are made, really. It's only the first month.
This is a tad reductive.

If there were no ads, how would people know that products existed? Would they just see the products on store shelves? What about services? Would labels be ads? Would how stores merchandise things be advertisements? Could businesses negotiate for specific product placement? How would you find out about stores? Would store signs be ads? How about really big ones? How about at the edge of their property along a road highway? Could the sign say what the store sold? If you were to start a product guide to help people find what they need, how could you possibly afford to buy enough products to be useful and up-to-date enough while slow crawl word of mouth got the business off the ground? Would asking people to tell their friends be an ad? If not, could you pay someone to spread the word about your product? Would traveling sales reps be ads? What if they wore head to toe logo gear? Could you just pay people to do that without selling things?

Manipulative advertising practices suck. Privacy destroying data-driven marketing sucks.

Ads themselves often suck but I don’t see how a capitalist society could survive without them.
Suppose they are indeed working 18 hour days. So they've done six weeks of work in two weeks.

Do we believe that six weeks of ordinary work is sufficient to make the claims that Musk is making and take the actions that Musk is taking? "We are working really hard" doesn't give me any more confidence in the speed that things are happening.

Heck, being absolutely exhausted sounds like a great way of making mistakes. If I heard that the team designing and building a bridge I use to commute was work 18 hour days in order to move fast I'd be quite a bit more concerned about that bridge.
There isn't offline use no - but I'll have read into how I could accomplish this. Happy to add support if there's significant demand for it.

If anyone has articles for offline web apps I'll have a read through.
I can see both sides of this, because while I've had similar tech support experiences I also know a lot of people who've had long experiences trying to get chronic health conditions understood or even acknowledged. Any kind of chronic pain condition is bad for this, but endometriosis seems to be particularly bad. Also ME/CFS and related things like MCAS.

I don't really know what the answer is. If AI systems are going to be used to deny people coverage (and they will be), why shouldn't patients have AI of their own? On the other hand, there's plenty of examples of AI giving out completely wrong advice, and it may be difficult for doctors to get them to accept that. Not to mention entire politicised subcultures are already built around medical misinformation.
This is kind of the problem with every introductory text to an APL-family language.

I get the idea that one either already knows one needs an array programming language, or doesn't grok why anyone would need one
In 2004 you'd be shit outta luck trying to backup a mobile device as most were self contained and didn't interface to pc/mac. Also mobile devices back then had limited storage, didn't have cameras, weren't Internet connected, etc.

In 2025, it's near impossible to access your handset as a filesystem that you can simply sync off to your own storage.
K solves the problem of bank account for two groups of people, kX Systems and quants.
> . I'm not even joking when I say that my electrical engineering and programming background has helped me more with fixing my car, than the mechanical skills I picked up in the garage. ¨

Exactly the same reason my dad did a total change in his profession (20 years as a car mechanic). He was fed up with all the electronics making his life as a mechanic more difficult then it needed to be, and that was like 20 years ago. He had those think diagram books and needed to constantly dig into them to figure out what sensor was on what for the onboard computer and other issues. What was a easy fix job, became a nightmary because the sensors / computer kept triggering when issues got fixed (or where never the actual issue but faulty sensors that randomly triggered).

Maybe today things are easier with VCDS tools, but in his days, it was manual work.

He became a IT helpdesk operator after reschooling. hahaha...

I had one of those cars, great car (toyota) but there was a sensor that just at random loved to trigger on exhaust mixture, and then power throttle the car. Even had a tool with me in the car, to reset it with my smartphone, whenever it trigger. It was not a sensor issue but too tight tolerances set from factory. It was cheaper to just reset it myself, then risk getting updated software to fix it (and potentially create new issues as i read some horror stories of people getting software updates for that issue).

I am still driving a 15 year old Opel, that has barely any electronics (compared to "modern" cars). I really do not see the benefits of newer cars. It drives me from A to B, with all the basic conforts, so why change?
This really depends on the content you are seeking and consuming as the user. I am constantly pulling data sheets, reading papers, researching reference designs, interacting on official (and unofficial) product forums, and countless other information queries which at the start of my career were largely conducted at either company or university libraries, in person meetings, or attending conferences. That may sound great but trust me it's far better to sit at home and have the entire product specifications from a manufacturer than ordering a physical copy or spending half the day calling around to see if someone else has one available.

If all you are consuming is FB, IG, X, and Reddit - I mean that's like going to a candy store and complaining there is no broccoli.
The test flight was commented on at the time, 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853633

Including the obligatory scepticism from the peanut gallery that "Supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom" was even possible.
The problem with iron nitride is, and always has been, low coercivity. Niron hopes that GM can help them figure out a way to design a traction motor that has high performance even with low coercivity magnets. The fact that there are no such motors using iron-nitride magnets suggests that those efforts haven't succeeded yet. https://spectrum.ieee.org/permanent-magnet-motor
Why not? What do you think will be materially worse vs today when a simple website leads to such conclusions?
sure, but it's way easier for the FBI to request the title and deed for things in the US and track their history than an apartment building in Panama, or a plantation in Indonesia.
I think Flutter is an interesting candidate for 'cutting edge' cross-platform mobile and desktop GUIs not based on HTML/CSS. Qt Quick/QML might be another, still relevant technology, at least on the cross-platform desktop.

See also e.g. https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/01oasics/oasics-vol109-evc...
Not as disrespectful as calling those who don't agree with you "delusional".
How to use LinkedIn for lead generation
> Juniors handle feature work; seniors own system health and complex refactors

I'm visualizing "juniors" running around greenfield, flinging their poo everywhere, like druggie nepo babies (then RDD, and run away). Whilst tireless "seniors" have to run around cleaning up totally unnecessary shitshows, with stress and misery.

How about: Stop prioritizing headcount quantity over quality, and stop focusing on reducing your unit cost of that headcount. Instead, build good, small teams, of capable and aligned people, who you can trust to do full-lifecycle well, and treat them well, so that they remain aligned and retained.
> It's the same in any profession. I worked at Geek Squad during college. Someone comes in 30 times because "my computers feels a little slow", we've ran every test we can think of, and nothing is wrong. In that case I'm going to place the blame on either user perception--this specific customer has unreasonable expectations about what is slow and fast. Or there's a minor non-serious issue with his computer that no one is likely to be able to diagnose without doing something seriously invasive that is likely to cause more harm than the issue.

I would hope a medical professional has some baselines to compare against unlike your methodology at Geek Squad.

You could have ran benchmarks, found a machine with identical hardware, etc.

IMO, in both of these cases (medical and geek squad) there are issues with diagnostic methodology.
I'm trying to create a brand that will sell apps outside of this app. I don't think this app is one people would pay much for its a passion project that has helped refine a business wrapper as I go through it such as Auth system, legal docs system etc.
with regard to languages:

-To learn try something easy and well structured as Pascal or Ada. Those languages will teach you organization and well structure code. C family of languages are extremely loose and vague, avoid them if possible.

-After learning the basics go for python if you like data science or machine learning.

-Go for javascript if you plan to do frontend with react or just web development.

-Go for rust/ada for system programming.

-kotlin or dart/flutter for android. Swift for Apple systems.

-C# or lua for game programming.
If this is genuine someone would have gone to great lengths to avoid detection. I doubt they would or perhaps even could do as you ask, and why would they?
To note that those are typical prices for enterprise level certifications, including some products that some Java or C++ devs might need to interact with, when working on those kind of environments.
Also, the person was able to submit the test results from the 30 visits into the AI model...

I fed into ChatGPT my similar symptoms and test results and it came up with a variety of diseases that I, after further testing, don't have.
The next paragraph says the AI gave that answer before the rheumatologist visit

So it’s functioning as a second opinion
This only works even remotely if the politicians agree to work together on some level. Modern US politics went all in on Newt Gingrich’s blockade method to ensure the big bad democrats can’t look like they ever do anything.

And here we are with only slightly less broken healthcare with the ACA, a plan originally from GOP, which is constantly hounded on for being terrible. All while drug and medical prices fleece every dollar from every pocket.

So this is what it comes back to when congress can’t do their job of helping the American people or balancing the budget. A populist comes in and smashes the norms.
Wait.

"It hasn't been enough time to produce thoughtful communication" cannot possible coexist with "it has been enough time to justify shuttering entire organizations, firing shitloads of workers, calling people back from overseas, and telling the entire government to take voluntary layoffs."

I'd say that writing up some clear communication is considerably easier than distinguishing useful and efficient government organizations from overstaffed organizations or organizations that are operating outside of their mission.
With all respect to Martin Luther, he was also enormously rotund. Gluttony seems to have been the main vice of several important theologians.
Yeah, they just did the conversion and slapped it on there. Should have said "about 2200 mph".
Oh, sorry, that’s an API that doesn’t exist. I was trying to understand what feature you wanted that didn’t exist.
Superbowl portal on X was powered by Bun back end reached 800k concurrent users
Most of everything is crap. Most books are crap. Most science is crap.
This might be a fun one:
https://shepherd.com/best-books/textbooks-for-learning-linea...

I interviewed Ivan and he shared five of his fav books on the subject.
Cancer comes from mistakes in the self healing process and erosion of the DNA chain. I think it's implicit that 30% more self healing means "30% more self healing correctly" and not "30% more healing for the same amount of injuries". I think the former is also analogous to the road example.

All that said, I, too, would like to reduce my accidents by 30%. Notably around my weak ankles in soccer!
Cancer comes from mistakes in the self healing process and erosion of the DNA chain. I think it's implicit that 30% more self healing means "30% more self healing correctly" and not "30% more healing for the same amount of injuries". I think the former is also analogous to the road example.
I'm glad it worked out for your friend, but I can't help feeling extremely sad about this. What I mean is, why is the healthcare system so broken in the first place, that you need to take charge of your own diagnosis and treatment? AI in this case is a bandaid solution, improving something you shouldn't have to do all.
Most of mainstream compilers are the output of academics work.
There was a commercial on during the Super Bowl last night that started with talking about how broken the healthcare and food system is in the US. “This system wasn’t built to help us. It was built to keep us sick and stuck” was one of the lines.

Then the reveal was that it’s an ad for Hims & Hers selling glp-1 for weight loss. Not “let’s fix any of the system that is making everyone so sick”, but “here take a drug because we know we don’t have the will to overcome our dystopian system”.

This isn’t me being against glp-1, but something about that ad really made me feel gross.
Some good points, though most of the problems are pretty well known, so it would be more helpful to try coming up with solutions. I think the real insight is in the first section:

> ...so we end up with a zero-sum game instead (or really negative-sum, if you count the externalities). If you have competitors, you can't not participate.

Advertising is basically a moloch trap, so it probably has to be solved by regulation to fix the incentives. Solving these kinds of problems well is pretty hard, so I think it shouldn't be surprising that they are not solved yet.

> GDPR is doing an excellent job destroying some of the most privacy-invasive practices of the adtech industry

I disagree pretty strongly. I plan to write a bit more detail about this at some point but shortly I think GDPR is a net negative. It places too much burden on the user, while the burden should be on the adtech companies. I also don't like how it bundles all the surveilance stuff under a single consent (per company). This is giving the user a choice to accept what they hardly know the real consequences of and also giving the companies a strong incentive to manipulate the user to get that consent. In terms of fixing incentives, GDPR did pretty much the opposite.

It's also incredibly vague, so it's a nightmare to develop around, and limits legitimate use cases. The end result is that we still get surveilled, but we now also have to click through cookie banners and consent forms and small businesses have to spend enormous resources to deal with it even though it was supposed to be a measure to tackle big tech companies. Worse than that, walled gardens like Facebook and Google have advantage over normal websites, because they have to ask for consent only once during registration.