skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and not even a quarter of Americans voted for Harris.

But if you really want to be pedantic: there are around 75M non-citizens living in the US, so that means there are only 265M Americans in the US. A quick search suggests that the number of American citizens living outside the US is under 5M. 77M out of 270M is 28%, so Trump did get more than a quarter of Americans to vote for him.

(For the record, I said "of the country", and didn't restrict my comment to only US citizens as you did.)

At any rate, I don't find these sorts of takes all that useful when it comes to electoral math. 77M people voted for Trump. Around 100M people in the US are ineligible to vote (under 18 years old, non-citizens, felons denied voting rights, etc.). That leaves around 90M people left who could have voted, but didn't: to me, that's either "I'm fine with what the people who vote decide" (so a tacit vote for Trump) or "I don't care at all, screw this".

So that's 167M votes either explicitly for Trump, or implicitly for watching things burn. That's about half the country.

But sure, if you must be pedantic, amend my comment to "nearly half the people who voted in the election". It doesn't change the meaning or outcome or implications of the rest of what I said.

So let's stop playing dumb number games. Half of the country either actively wanted this, or was fine with it.
I think they should just rename it as IMP.
The gnu is implied. Richard Stallman might complain it should always be called Gnu IMP (New Imp), which is fine.
Continued fractions are very cool. I saw in a CTF competition once a question about breaking an RSA variant that relied on the fact that a certain ratio was a term in sequence of continued fraction convergents.

Naturally the person pursing a PhD in number theory (whom I recruited to our team for specifically this reason) was unable to solve the problem and we finished in third place.
> No it is not. Their job as laid out in the Constitution is to faithfully implement the laws.

Sure, we can debate semantics here if you want. I'm fine swapping in "faithfully execute" into my prior comment though, that's basically what I meant without going word for word constitutional.

My point remains though. "Faithful execution" is in the eye of the beholder and is up for debate. One person may see the Department of Education as faithfully executing the congressional mandate while another could see it as poorly run, inefficient, or point to our education level relative to other countries. Both would have good arguments to make.

Further, I don't read Congress's power to approve the budget as part of the mandate for a department. Congress isn't saying "spend XX billion and build an education department," they're saying "build an education department and don't spend more than XX."

That can surely be debated in a legal context, but I think you would be hard pressed to find many average people that would read a budget as a "spend every penny" mandate. Many corporations operate this way, and while in my experience people will spend their full budget to avoid a decrease next year they are also well aware of the absurdity of that.

The impoundment law itself was/is controversial and this will surely be challenged in court on those grounds. The question still remains, though, whether any miscarriage of the law us found in departments being shut down. Its too early, mainly because they at least appear to be acting rashly, but that doesn't mean these departments have been faithfully executing to date.
Open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice
yours give 1 on (10^100)+1-(10^100), cool
I highly recommend the VSVim extension for VSCode. There’s no need to dive into the overwhelming world of customizing vim. You can get all the benefits of modal editing in your existing editor. In fact VSCode is even better with its built-in multi-cursor support.
Not sure what you mean. I hoped to start a discussion on HN about whether the scientific enterprise has been captured by profiteers.

Lots of people are angry about the COVID-19 vaccines, and are no longer getting 'boosted': https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/19/60-of-ame...

I think the character limit for a poll is ~2000 characters, so I couldn't write a whole essay.
Last year, we had a major wind event that caused significant loss of power in the area. My local store pulled in multiple trucks dropping off their freezer trailers. The logistics of getting those took some time and spoilage was definitely an issue. There was no saving the produce, but the frozen items were saved.

I could see a "smart" corporate operation that detects the outages and starts to enact plans to tentatively start moving equipment around depending on predicted outage duration. Then again, I could also see where that would be deemed too expensive to do, and this is just a tech fantasy.
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I dont know that they work well in isolation, as there are multiple market failures at play.

If I had to pick one, I would say heterogeneity of insurance plans as most fundamental.

Consumers must have some exposure to cost savings or liability for downward price pressure exerted and inferior substitutes to be selected. People will never pick a $20 treatment over a $20,000 unless they have skin in the game, even if it is 99% as effective.

I think this has to be instituted at a insurance policy level for a number of reasons. Charges are stochastic and in the future, while policy premiums are predictable and immediate, allowing consumers to see cost or savings across the entire policy and pre-commit.

Measurability is tough on this because it amounts to allowing inferior treatment, and I dont think this could be papered over, even if it brings down the price of all care and allows more treatment in aggregate.

Uniform pricing is much better on the messaging. It is adjacent to collective bargaining, just mediated by a market instead of a technocrat. It can be sold to the left as an attack shadowy rentseekers. It can be sold on the right as a free market reform. On the pragmatic front, it can It has a transparent pricing angle, where you could see prices, which current transparency legislation seems to fail. I also think there is a lot of negative will pent up about negotiated pricing and the idea of companies paying drastically lower prices than an individual because they can throw their weight around when bargaining.
Considering that this criminally deranged nutjob was a high-ranking Biden nuclear safety officer, I think they are doing the right thing by looking into whether the remaining staff are qualified: https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/non-binary-ex-biden-...
Fantastic list. Brings back many memories.

Regarding the “recharge” vs “engage” trips: If you’re restless like me then you’ll probably feel most recharged after a trip that fully engaged you. Because you can’t think about work when you’re busy navigating your way through a rural and foreign land, speaking with strangers, and straining to learn just enough of a new language to get around.

The “laser-back” tip is 100% on point. I came to know this intuitively but I’ve never seen it put into words. One caveat I’d add there is: if it takes >20 hours to get to your first destination, give yourself time and permission to just chill on the first full day there.

Also I want to strongly endorse the “carry-on only” tip. More than that, I suggest backpack only. Your options and opportunities for spontaneity increase significantly when you can just swing a backpack ever your shoulder and go. It also forces you to live with less, at least for a time, which in turn teaches you that actually you don’t need all that much to get by. Then you return home and question why you need a closet full of clothes.
> People talk about taxing granny out of her house, but they conveniently forget to mention that granny is keeping half a dozen people homeless by hoarding an underutilized property

Where are you getting that from?

In most cases when granny sells her house and moves due to high taxes the buyer will be a single family that will live in the house. In the vast majority of cases that family will have less than half a dozen people, and in the vast majority of cases they will not have been homeless before.
Two possibilities are "top of mind" for me:

You could script it using Gemini via the API[1].

Or use Tesseract[2].

[1]: https://ai.google.dev/

[2]: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
I think you thought it was hard precisely because you had a decent knowledge of IPv4.

I suspect that if the situation were reversed and we always had IPv6, and someone proposed a new IP suite where you had to use NAT for everything, and all hosts needed to have their addresses hand-picked (or served via a DHCP server that used an ugly hack to communicate with hosts that don't have an IP yet), you'd find that to be the "hard" one.
Sure, but this completely neglects the aspects of humanity we left behind moving into sedentary communities. We will be forever blind to what we lost, and the morons among us will claim we lost nothing.
Wasn't the thesis that can change minds behind Luigi basically "If we don't fix the system then this could happen to me"?
Oh finally! I have a Kindle Scribe, and it's really amazing hardware, but it's unusable for reading websites like Wikipedia and sending links to it using the Amazon bookmarklet is a pretty bad experience.

The biggest issue is the web browser doesn't have pagination, ie a next page button. *It only supports smooth scrolling using the touch screen*. Which on an e-ink display is a completely awful, insanely frustrating experience that I can't believe they ship it (and the Scribe is an 11th generation product).

Using a web browser to read pure text is a blurred mess that's takes several painful seconds to slowly scroll to the next page.

Since I bought the Kindle Scribe (big mistake due to the above issue), I've wanted to jailbreak it to install a non-terrible Wikipedia browser.

Eg the one available in the KOReader project -- the open-source alternative eink-optimized ebook app that is widely-supported across the eink ecosystem (including older Kindles).

Thanks for heads up that a jailbreak is finally available!
They're successfully launching rockets since 2008 (when they successfully launched small Falcon 1), and started earning big money with Falcon 9 that's flying since 2010. Their biggest customer is NASA, as SpaceX has done over a half of American resupply flights to the ISS (that started in 2012), flying Falcon 9 with their Dragon spacecraft - and these are big contracts, it was $1.6B for 12 flights at the start. Falcon 9 has been sending payloads for many commercial customers since 2013. Since 2020 they're the only American company able to send astronauts to space (at >$200M per flight). Boeing was supposed to be the second option that should be ready around the same time as SpaceX, and they were even awarded more money than SpaceX for development of their spacecraft, but they're not ready yet (which means even more money for SpaceX). By the time SpaceX started sending Starlinks to space frequently, they've already done 70+ launches for various customers.

Compare that with Blue Origin that was founded BEFORE SpaceX (in 2000), which launched its first orbital rocket just recently, while SpaceX has launched Falcon 9 rocket 400+ times.
I didn't know the same person was involved in shaping both projects, but as soon as I read that, the personality that connected both those beautiful games was immediately clear. What an amazing legacy to leave despite a sadly shortened life.
It's literally just physics. Couloumb (static, or dry) friction is F_f = μF_n where F_f is the frictional force (grip) of tires in this case and F_n is the normal force between the ground and the tires due to the mass of the vehicle. μ ranges from 0.8 to 1 or more in modern tires.

Since F=ma and F_n is 9.8 N/kg due to gravity, F_f = μ * 9.81 * m and a = F/m = μ * 9.81 * m / m, and finally a = μ * 9.81 m/s^2.
I'm not sure a word like "freedom" has an objective measure.

If you click on the "personal" tab it ranks Texas as dead last - I suspect the person you are replying to is using a definition closer to that: https://www.freedominthe50states.org/personal
Fair enough, but on the flip side - you either want to get into electronics or not. If not, there's no real point in spending the money, even if it's $2. If you do, then you probably don't yet have an understanding of what features you need, and the cheapest option will actually hold you back.

Some specific issues: first, the number of inputs. A lot of circuit debugging is about "let's see how signal A looks like when signal B happens" (B might be a bus clock or something like that). So, a lot of the time, you need two inputs, not one.

Second issue: even hobby MCUs generally run faster than 4 MHz, so you might need more bandwidth to monitor I/O, even for old-school Arduino stuff - let alone RP2040.

Third issue: for anything analog, from audio equipment to household appliances, the 0-6 V input range just doesn't cut it.

I'm not trying to dunk on this project: I think it's about as good as you can do for the price, and it's clearly a passion thing for the author. But if you can afford it, and if you want to learn electronics, a "real" oscilloscope is almost certainly a better deal.
A BTT octopus w/ replaceable 6xTMC2209 and plenty of I/O (including CAN support) costs <70 eur; this is light-years from a RAMPS, and still very cheap. the prices of the controller boards of this robotic arm is just... ridiculous. A money grab.
How do you make the Win7 binary run? Last I tried it doesn’t run if you just have the .exe?
My favorite example of RNG misuse resulting in sampling bias is the general approach that looks like `arr.sort(() => Math.random() - 0.5)`.

> you're lucky if one person asks whether the random bytes are cheap (and so they should just throw away any that aren't < 227)

If you can't deal with the 10% overhead from rejection sampling (assuming your random bytes are uniform), I guess you could try mushing that entropy back into the rest of your bytestream, but yuck.
I fail to see TFA's concerns or take them very seriously.

> time() unnecessarily takes a pointer argument to write to

Minor cosmetic issue.

> strftime() has to write to a string of a fixed length it can not dynamically allocate (This is less legacy than it is bad design)

This is often a good way to structure string functions in C. The fact that TFA repeated the constant 40 instead of using sizeof() immediately signals that they are unfamiliar with the idioms. A "you problem".

Doing heap allocation where it is not required could be a problem for some use cases.

> localtime() needs the pointer to a time_t value even though it does not change it because of register size concerns on PDP-11’s

Also minor and cosmetic.

> sleep() cannot sleep for sub-second amounts of time, usleep() is deprecated and it’s alternative nanosleep() requires you to define variables

sleep(3) is not really a "time function" in the sense of the others mentioned, it is a thread scheduler function. As such it kind of exists in a different universe. This is also shown by the fact that it's part of POSIX and not the C standard, like time(2) is.
Everyone I know with ACA plans can't actually afford to go to the doctor because the copay is too high.
Ask HN: Is there AI auto debug with auto check-in?
We already have somewhat useful auto-complete and auto-generate code sections. The next step would be to have the "Run" command engages an Agent that can fix compile time bugs, link time bugs, and unit test failures. Then another Agent that auto-review for policy compliance, and finally auto-check-in into the nightly staging area. Does this exist already?
Seeing blind recommendations for AI slop is very disappointing for HN.

For OP, there is a library written in rust that can do exactly what you need with very high accuracy and performant [1].

Would need to OCR dependencies to get it to work on scanned books [2].

[1] https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous

[2] https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous?tab=readme-ov-file#-s...
In theory it can use any protocol since TTL exceeded should work with any IP packet. I don't know if there's consistency between traceroute implementations so maybe some use ICMP and some use UDP.
> I honestly don't know what you mean. Are you saying that an LLM would know that a reference to "page 311" should actually be a reference to "page 317" based on context

Not that of your example (the page number): that would be pretty hard to check (with current general agents. In the future, not impossible - you would need some agent finally capable to follow procedures strictly). That the extra punctuation or accent is a glitch and that the sentence has a mistake are more within the realm of a Language Model.

What I am saying is that a good Specialized Language Model (maybe a good less efficient LLM) could fix a text like:

"AB〈G〉 [Should be 'ABC'!] News was founded in 194〈S〉 [Should be '1945'!] after action from the 〈P〉CC [Should be 'FCC'!], 〈_〉 [Noise!], deman〈ci〉ing [Should be 'demanding'!] pluralist progress 〈8〉 [Should be '3'!] 〈v〉ears [should be 'years'] ear〈!〉ier [Should be 'earlier'!]..."

since it should "understand" the sentence and be already informed of the facts.
> Please avoid acting like IPv6 makes for a good design, because it doesn't.

Where did I give that impression? I tried my hardest in that post to not make a judgement call one way or the other as to whether it was a good design, only that dual stack fucking sucks.

My followup post in fact, totally agrees with you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070286
Except:
They had to interfere with the free market to force electric suppliers to harden their infrastructure against cold weather -- something they hadn't done before because of the race to lowest operating costs.

There's also other horror stories from under regulation:

https://www.keranews.org/news/2021-03-08/texas-wont-reduce-1...

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/04/ercot-texas-electric...
Thanks for catching that! Will get it fixed.
It may brake SLAAC. OpenBSD implements autoconfiguration for non /64 prefixes (IIRC)
Ahh, thank you.
Yes indeed: bc says:

>>> sqrt(10) * sqrt(10)
9.99999999999999999994

Android calculator, on the other hand, gets this one right.
I own Kindles and I have bought a lot of ebook content from the Amazon store over the years but they don't seem to realize that the more restrictions they put in place, the more they are incentivizing just someone going to the effort to decrypt/de-DRM everything to epub and shoving it into a Kobo (or apple's Books.app, or comic book reader, or anything else that reads the ebook or comic book formats)

...Which is exactly what I ended up doing. Decrypting 100% of my Kindle purchases so I can use them how I please, and using z-library when I was too lazy to even do so.

Apple understood this when the first iPod came out. Offer a better service, not shinier handcuffs.
Unfortunately it is a tool that is also used to generate a lot of content for the sake of views capture. For this to work it needs to be created with lowest effort possible. As a result the bulk of AI stuff I have seen so far was not worth my time to consume it or the hardware cycles to generate it.
Then he would know better than to be so hysterical
Still, it's nice to think about a future where Brain-Computer Interfaces are advanced enough that you could feasibly write code while leaning on your elbows with your chin tucked into your palms. Of course you'd still be staring into a large mass of Java 8...
A great alternative is Traefik. We have been using v1 and v2 for several years now in a setup that uses the docker labels for configuration of services.
I tried and tried, but just couldn't make the switch. Krita made it much easier and now I'm 100% Krita.
I had an unrequited love thing in college that never got resolved but I gave up and started trying to date. The second one sat me down one day and said we were only ever going to be friends. I was grumpy the rest of the night but when I got home I just crumbled to dust. We would have been a terrible match, so it was the right thing to do. I don’t even know that we would have been friends except we had one in common. I didn’t understand why I felt so unanchored around her and so we stopped hanging out. Which I realized is just the sort of thing women complain about with male friendships but what can you do.

It took a while to realize I wasn’t grieving her. I was jammed in the Denial phase of a previous loss and adding a few more rocks to the pile caused an avalanche. I’m betting that’s what happened with your goldfish.
the only thing this suggests that brexit was the wrong way to extract adequate value from the leech nations of europe.
it doesn’t negate the basic point that the EU consists of many countries relying on net contributions from only a few. britain’s point wasn’t wrong.

thankfully, America is a much larger and more important nation so we should be able to do a better job of it.
Is the alternative reality One where all devices can connect to all other devices and come with built-in mitigations for the problems that firewalls are normally used for?
Perplexity with Deepseek R1 (they have the real thing running on Amazon servers in USA) is a game changer, it doesn’t just use top results from a Google search, it considers what domains to search for information relevant to your prompt.

I boycotted ai for about a year considering it to be mostly garbage but I’m back to perplexifying basically everything I need an answer fo

(That said, I agree with you they’re not really citations, but I don’t think they’re trying to be academic, it’s just, here’s the source of the info)
Sea Launch was born dead, because huge share own by Russians (in reality, Russian gov), and they are inexperienced on market economy.

Final end of company become, when Russians pushed Boeing to quit company and after that transaction, non-Russian co-owners become minority.

So, even at best times, of company, even with best technical side, their marketing and business strategy suffer from owners so much, that this killed company.
On page 9 of the linked document Rich also addresses this and calls for the use of a full-speed usb isolator
Yup, that's a failed language.
Says “Because of science” and fires off a single article from the government of Canada that has nothing to do with the issue of whether the vaccination itself causes problems in humans with consumption of animals vaccinated.

Apparently, we have a different idea what science is. I’d like to leave it at that. Any other takers?
It's not wasted effort at all, as this app comes installed by default for over a billion users. Only a tiny fraction will ever install another calculator app, so the default one better work entirely correctly. When you have that many users it's hard to waste effort on making the product better.
What do you use to decrypt your Kindle purchases? I haven't yet found anything that works with modern purchases.