skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone from LATAM who is more aware than they should be about the US system of government, I agree that the statement and lack of pushback is catastrophic for what it says about the current climate, but rule of law has been as weak as gypsum board for decades. The US system is full of shiny toys for a populist to cement power, and the only safeguards are decorum and the threat of eventual impeachment (good luck with that!). These issues exist because the American system is old and full of incremental cruft; newer democracies have had the advantage of starting with better safeguards, and there's an inability to actually change the system due to the legal system and Congress being a mess.

Practically speaking, common law is the judicial branch using moonlogic upon moonlogic to create pseudo-laws (Roe v. Wade, Citizens United v. FEC) that may be good or bad but should be made by Congress. If the Constitution is unclear, it should be modified through a democratic process that can actually pass, not be continually reinterpreted in absurd ways by a 9-person court that can be corrupted and has no term limits. Congress is unable to fix itself; the unlimited filibuster in the Senate proves that, and the "pro-forma" session is simply embarrassing. Clear systemic change is excruciatingly difficult, so actions must be taken through fuzzy emergent messes without guardrails like executive orders.

"Is outrageous thing X from this EO illegal? Idk, let's wait months to check with the courts."

The popular comment I see is that institutions are people at the end of the day, so "strong institutions" is just a buzzword, and the current crisis comes from cowardice and inaction. But if the mechanisms aren't there to stop a bad actor in the executive, the best they can do is make some noise (which they should). If they truly bend the rules, the executive can always just write a more unhinged EO, so it all reduces to who has control over actual enforcement.

The problem is widespread; for example, the election system is simply dysfunctional, like Flint water tier. From the basics of gerrymandering, to the electoral college creating absurd things like "swing states" (if you want to give more power to some states, just weight the votes), no real universal national ID, voter suppression, voting by mail is a horrible idea that invites conspiracy theories and is a crutch for the lack of accessibility, voting machines are bad and a crutch (see the French). Not even the schizophrenic rules-set is actually followed; the 2000 election was decided by Supreme Court fuckery. Trump would've been stupid not to try to interfere in 2020; an election was successfully stopped 20 years ago and nothing happened. The most basic democratic institution failed and the priority wasn't "let's fix this immediately, oh my fucking god." So yeah, rule of law has constantly been chipped away for some time, good luck with the midterms.

To be fair to the average American, the idea that "gradually, then suddenly" also applies to the state is something people learn firsthand and hopefully teach their descendants. The history of outsiders only goes so far.
This comment is itself a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070314
If you can’t scroll down to see various swatch sets grouped by shade then you’re not seeing what you’re supposed to see. Works fine on FF for me but I don’t have Android.
Why should it be the big tech companies doing that?
> there is no address space overlap between IPv4 and IPv6

Yes there is: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4291.html#section-2.5.5.2
Well, I don't "love" it.
Separate vlan. Filtering on Ap. There's several options here.
Also using ff on Android.

No problems.
DEI got an extreme level of support from NGOs even while Trump was the president that they won't have at the next election. I hope they can renew themselves.

The good news on the left side though that I don't think the next candidate could be worse than Kamala Harris.
Mineral aquisition is a bit of a furphy here .. in my estimation the more important goals for Russia here were expanded access to Black Sea ports, main land access to Crimea, and water supply security to Crimea ... and a nostalgia for the Olde Russian Empire Made Great Again.
Yes, I am building one.

Is it an alternative? Yes.

Is it better? Hell no.
Awesome. I've cursed that bug. Thanks!

Edit: Updated the firmware. Works. First time I noticed the problem, it was at my desk, and I assumed it was because the scope was plugged into a switched power outlet, and I was habitually turning off the lights when I left the room. Only after a couple of tries did I discover that it was an actual bug.

HN: Come for the arcane programming topics that are over my head, stay for fixing my scope!
Most power companies in the U.S. are not run by the government.
Wait, you're whinging about Rust's iteration time and complexity, but in the same breath talking about code written for spaceships and nuclear power plants!?!? That's what you're comparing it too!? Do you have actual experience writing programs for spaceships and nuclear power plants? I don't, but I sure as hell would imagine that the regulatory requirements for it make it way more expensive to write than wrangling with rustc. Holy moly.

> Rust fanatics

Oh okay, so if we're going to go there, then I just get to call you a C fanatic. And yes, indeed, we live on two different planes of existence, as I said. That's for damn sure.

> but I can nevertheless point to its absence in official sales pitches

Which "official sales pitches"? I don't see any in this HN thread. Yet again applying inconsistent evidentiary standards.

> There's plenty of existence-proof systems that are written in C with the goal of saftey and reliability. No libc, and historical programming in general did not have that goal. This has vastly more to do with the history of programming, and its assumptions of non-adversarial low-risk host systems -- than to do with what contemporary C development necessarily looks like.

You might be saying something significant in that paragraph of word salad, but I can't spot it. I'm not confused as to why C is the way it is. That isn't the interesting bit.

> As-if C developers are actually unable to detect use-after-free or double-free etc. std memory saftey issues; it's absurd.

Odd that they keep making that mistake then!
But if you didn't know that you wouldn't have seen that message, because you'd be powering it off every time.
Flagged? I guess some people don't have a sense of humour. I don't know about anyone else, but I got a good chuckle or two out of that post. I don't think it was 100% (or even 60%) serious.
If I could I would make this two IDE clicks behind a big mean warning. In my experience people tends to autopilot it without thinking about what that entails.
Did you rate those drivers appropriately, and not tip them?

In general I try to avoid giving any less than 5 stars for anything but a safety issue, because a low-4.x rating can get a driver deactivated. But stopping for gas and getting food? Nope, that's gonna get you a low rating.

The ranting about other customers thing is something I'm torn on. Everyone has a bad day sometimes, and that shouldn't affect their livelihood. But still...
They're okay at best for getting the most generic possible vibe from a large piece of text.

Actually relying on it to accurately summarize many points, it's completely useless. We have it enabled in our meetings and it's hilariously bad at summarizing even the simplest and shortest of meetings.
> The StoryGraph has tried to head off such problems by not allowing private messaging or comments on reviews. Odunayo said she wanted to avoid a situation “where anyone can just comment on your review and you’ve got to deal with being scared to put reviews up there”.

Removing comments to avoid the challenges and cost of moderation seems like the modern, practical approach, but it also means losing out on all of the good comments that could have been posted.

On the other hand, sometimes comment sections go bad and then I don't feel inclined to read them, and sometimes avoid the site entirely. And it is jarring when sites that once had comment sections decide to remove them.
I don't think it would be too hard. After the round players throw their cards in by suit face up to 4 piles, every suit gets topped up to 12 cards. Have one person take all four suits under the table and then hands them in random order to the dealer. The dealer randomizes them themselves so nobody can know which suit is which, then removes the required number of cards from the random suits and discards them, and shuffles the deck.

Obviously it isn't super quick, but once people know whats going on it doesn't take that long either.
Some of what you perceive as "getting hung up" may must be physicists trying to explain the oft misunderstood concept of entropy to people who have misconceptions about it.

That being said, there are still plenty of unanswered questions around time in physics. Even just open questions about block vs growing block universe are unanswered, and tied into the ultimate nature of time.

Also, we know that entropy was much lower in the past, but we don't know WHY.
I did the same thing years ago and have never regretted it. I really just hate my phone randomly vibrating and taking my attention over some dumb notification I don't really care about -- or feeling ghost vibrations in my pocket where I have to keep pulling out my phone to see if it was a notification or my imagination.

Turns out nothing is really that time critical that it can't wait until the next time I check my phone, which is usually on a surface in front of me anyway.
asks me to login and the music never loads...
DE..Inclusion. Not sure what definition you’re looking up, but it is not discriminatory by definition.
I'm pretty far from an expert. But, at it's core ML is a bunch of matrix multiplications glued together with non-linear functions. So, quantization leads to less accuracy in the matrices of weights. Not, changes in hashes where 1 wrong bit is meaningless.

The folks who quantized DeepSeek say they used a piece of tech called "BitsAndBytes". https://unsloth.ai/blog/dynamic-4bit

Googling around for "bitsandbytes ai quantization" turns up this article which looks nice

https://generativeai.pub/practical-guide-of-llm-quantization...
Depends on where. There's a place on Earth that has an actual bona fide document titled "social contract", enacted and regularly updated via referendums:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Democratic...
Is there any reason to use the word uchu? It seems like almost everything (colour schemes, AI models, startups, tools, apps, ...) is named using a single randomly-selected Japanese word these days. But... why?
> It all started with Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel...

It's not. It started by Trump around 2020 trying to challenge China trade and being considered a propaganda asset.

Democrats later used the argument for their own benefit.
Municipalities were free to drop the regulation hammer on Uber and Lyft. If they chose not to, that's their fault.
Linus Torvalds != big tech
Nah, he's talking about these: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
Travel now.

Stop compare yourself to other people. Don't worry about what other people are doing or what other people want.

Some people are married with 3 kids.
Some people are making a million a month.
Some aren't able to hold down jobs and living with their grandparents.

Most of us will never get everything we want. I've accepted I've made certain choices and I'm probably never going to have a family.

But I'm lucky in other aspects.

Don't lose friends over politics. I'm very liberal, but liberal "friends"/companies have screwed me over more times than I can count. Judge the person, not the party.

Don't worry about approval from others. That's got to be the best part of getting older. Not everyone will like you, and that's great.

Be grateful for the ones who do.
Have you per chance looked at the people that make up this party?
I think there is some truth. I used to see lot of pro Palestinians content, but I don't see anymore after it was banned and unbanned.
The whole "with crypto, you don't need to put your faith in anyone [foremost: the banking system], the ledger is the single source of truth" is depressing.

Remember the word "credit" is Latin for "I believe/trust".
"Might work" comes with neither express nor implied warranty.

OCR is another thing that might work which is also simpler than an LLM.
NAT is by definition not a firewall. And while it provides security, it provides no more security than having a firewall, while making various scenarios worse. NAT is not a good solution for security.
Our brains operate on the principle entropy, therefore we experience time as the macro evolution of the universe along the dimension of increasing entropy.

Time itself does not exist, we merely experience it because it is how our consciousness experiences reality
Hong Kong is one of the most walkable of them yep. But if it is "lists of coveted cities", idk how coveted it is;)
I think this should be interpreted as "we have become so good at identifying users without the traditional tracking signals that we are confident if privacy-preserving protections kick the industry in the nuts, it would massively lower CPI/CPC for all actors ... except Google", and therefore be really helpful.

So they will now do what they can to help anyone who claims "data like IP" needs strong privacy protections.
Liouville's theorem implies that for a causal system, the volume of phase space is constant; therefore the total configuration space of the system does not grow over time. However it can become harder and harder to precisely describe.
Or it’s ensuring a low skilled white worker doesn’t get selected over a higher skilled minority.
The problem needs to be solved earlier along the chain than hiring. At education and marketing for education ideally. Companies should hire the best, but schools should be starting everyone off on the right track and the rest should work out.
I just block all notifications. The only things that go through are Whatsapp and calls. Even that is limited to a few people. All group notifs are turned off. Honestly i've got no idea why people would check random notifications
It's a very cool design. The scrolling is weird but I like it.
That is a much cleverer solution than I thought up using two different people to randomize the set of 4 suits against each other to prevent peeks.

I guess either works though. For speed you would likely want the players to help either sort by suit or sort by a 4 suit pattern.
Maybe a broken cache on an edge network serving up a bad asset to only some geographic areas, or something that was served broken for a moment but got cached.
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> it was easy to hear anyway

It has been very frustrating to watch designers ramping up reliance on the side channels by piling functionality into a single button at the same time as the side channels were disappearing and software latency was telescoping so that in present year I frequently have to reverse engineer morse code power button bullshit with 20 seconds of lag in the tight loop before the first audible/visible cue comes through. Is a short press 0.5s-1.5s? Or is that a long press? Is 0-0.5s ignored as debounce or is it a short press? Does a long press suffice for shutdown, or do you need a really long press to trigger hardware shutdown because the software shutdown is unreliable? Is 5 seconds long or really long? AAaaaaaaaaaa
You don't seem to be considering the possibility that he knew perfectly well what he was doing, and that this was intentional. Rug pulls are popular among celebrities.
Entities are also the one place where you would need a way to express instance private state and not class private state.
They got eviscerated specifically because taxi companies were horrible to begin with in a lot of these places. In other countries like Japan or Singapore where taxi drivers are ethical and honest, I’d happily take a taxi any day.
Excess mortality in US counties and association with reported Covid-19 deaths
Original, too long title: Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths
> this is horribly embarassing

He made a mistake and backtracked instead of instinctively doubling down. Count your blessings.
https://webapp.io/blog/
> The paper argues that computers, being non-living and outside evolutionary processes, lack the goal-orientation essential for consciousness and mind creation. Computers, not being part of life's evolutionary journey, cannot inherently possess goal-oriented behaviors.

This seems to be more about the author's definition of consciousness than about intelligence.
Perhaps Dang can help on that
I suppose there is no hard requirement for consistent saturation between hues, but that seems a bit inconsistent to my tastes. Darker yellow and orange colours seem a little too washed out.

Overall I like the total palette though. Especially the avoidance of “red” red, which is a colour I think many designers dislike. I would love to see a study on colour preferences in relation to eye colour.

In the same vein, but with more hues…
https://www.s-ings.com/scratchpad/oklch-smooth/
Should work better now, I guess it's HN effect, will consider updating stream providers in the future, thanks for update!
As an owner of an android. How?
I also found an option in ios that hides incoming calls from non-contacts. You just find missing calls afterwards (and ignore these). Turned it on and never looked back too. I have zero interest in non-contacts contacting me.
Sorry to be negative, but it does seem kind of overdone now.

Funnily enough in Japan the same thing happens with seemingly randomly-selected English words, so I suppose it's not completely without precedent.
Alongside privacy and security, knowing how to be in control of notifications rather than the other way around has become an essential skill.

It should really be block by default, enable in a case per case basis. But there are perverse incentives for the system to work against the user.
> I have to assume most of the electricity use in TX is cause it's over 100 degrees in most of the state for most of 9 months every year

That is not even remotely accurate.

Amarillo, average temp is in the low 90s for 3 months: https://www.worldweatheronline.com/amarillo-weather-averages...

Houston, 90s, 4 months: https://www.worldweatheronline.com/houston-weather-averages/...

Dallas, 90s, 4 months: https://www.worldweatheronline.com/dallas-weather-averages/t...

San Antonio, similar: https://www.worldweatheronline.com/san-antonio-weather-avera...

These are the average daily temperatures, which means you can have peak temperatures higher, of course.

But if you're going to claim that most of Texas only drops below 100 for winter, you're going to need a citation.
Red Faction's destructible maps lend themselves to a lot of creative gameplay, but the (late) game was far to linear. The engine made a lot possible, but to explore using explosives you had to exploit item duplication glitches or cheats. In the end it felt like an engine demo posing as a complete game.
I believe the concept of "soft off" for PCs was only introduced with the ATX standard in 1995, and the accompanying APM/ACPI specifications that were needed to implement it in software:

https://wiki.osdev.org/Shutdown
Be nice friend... as money comes and goes... if one lives a low-burn lifestyle, than one never has to worry about investment passive revenue dropping you into the red. =3

Rule #1: Quickly identify a failure to resolve critical paths to completion.

Some projects are simply doomed without the right people, resources, and market conditions.

See "Law of holes" corollary:

"Nor would a wise man, seeing that he was in a hole, go to work and blindly dig it deeper..." ( The Washington Post dated 25 October 1911 )
Yep, I thought the same thing, and this slightly different URL used to give just the SFPD audio:

https://somafm.com/scanner/

I hope that props will be given to SomaFM for their stream and original idea.
You can generally turn off notifications. A lot of people want to be reached for any number of reasons with respect to family members etc.
Why US Refiners Won't Ditch Canadian Crude
People are still going to be writing papers like this after AGI has taken over the world. Denial is a strong impulse.
Windows tracert uses icmp.
It's soothing relief to find evidence suggesting the readership here is not entirely the unwavering legion of consummate humorless borgs so fervently conveyed. That there might be an organic human among them hints at mercy within the simulation. I'm not sure what laughing is, but I'm glad to facilitate it so long as it remains a victimless crime.
Does anyone know if this was the system used by higher end TI calculators like the TI-92? It had a 'rational' mode for exact answers and I suspect that it used RRA for that.
You are right, I assumed he was principled and dedicated to the good of the country above all else. Should I reconsider that? Like I said, I read positive things about him and thought was a sincere person. If you have something else I should read, I would be very interested to know what to add to my list.

I've been following Argentina's struggles for a while given my time in Brazil and the parallels to hyperinflation so I was willing to consider his unorthodox approach, but perhaps it blinded me?
I guess it depends on where you live. Where I live, pre-Uber, I could never get a taxi in the first place. There were never any driving around to hail, and calling a cab company meant waiting 30-60 minutes, and more than half the time the taxi wouldn't show up at all. Drivers can and would take longer routes to run up the meter if they thought you weren't a savvy passenger. They'd also love to claim the credit card reader is broken, even when that was a violation of local law. If you had a complaint about a driver, you could call the taxi company, and they would assure you they care, but nothing would actually happen.

Now I get a car arriving in a predictable amount of time, at a pre-set price, paid outside the flow of the ride. If I have a problem with the driver or car I can report it with a low rating and a comment, and Uber and Lyft are notorious about deactivating drivers with even a rating in the low 4.x range. I can also give a lower or no tip if there's a problem, without feeling socially awkward about it.

Uber and Lyft are way better than taxis.
> It’s better explained by stating the tech industry is dominated by certain demographics because that’s just how it is

Bigots have used that one forever, defining the current state of affairs as natural and any attempt to improve things as <insert loaded term of the time here>.
That legitimate stores of value are typically not that simple to manipulate.
Vehicle depreciation is one big example. Any commercial vehicle operator knows that driving a car around causes its value to decrease substantially, 29 cents per mile on average as of 2018, and will (must!) account for that when running the numbers on their business. But most individual drivers don't have the expertise to intuit this, and Uber and Lyft don't tell them. So all but the most financially savvy drivers have an effective income significantly lower than they believe.
When MSFT did stack ranking officially, the buckets were 20% "overachievers", 70% "achievers", and 10% "underachievers", with the latter being targeted for cuts. If I remember correctly, these specific numbers originated at GE.