skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 55%, who voted, nationally voted for the current president of the USA.

My _opinion_ is around 20-30% of those that voted 'voted for this' or otherwise like it. The other 35-25% maybe didn't get what they voted for; I believe if None of the Above (reject everyone and give all new candidates) had been on the ticket in ANY sort of instant runoff voting system, would have voted for that with higher preference.

I'm for _requiring_ that everyone who is eligible to vote, does so. They're free to officially abstain. I'd like for None of the Above to be a mandatory option for all votes with the effects described above. I'd also like for ANY Instant Runoff Voting system, though I prefer "Path Vote" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method ) I do mean any IRV method.

I would also like, FFS, if we're going to HAVE primaries at all, that they're always open and required, no free passes in.

Finally, all Elections should be Voting Holidays. I'd love if every state did all Mail In Ballots like WA state. I'd also like any ballot mailed before midnight at the end of the Voting Holiday to be postmarked, and counted (but please get your votes in early).

I'd like all Non-Emergency votes to be limited to the 4th of July and Nov (whatever the format is) as those Voting Holidays.
Those sweet days are long past. Only weathered cynicism and chronic fatigue prevails.

Occasionally, to amuse myself, I'll read the records I've preserved. I have, largely due to boredom and OCD, large texts, PDFs and saved sessions where after long extruded conversations, I have the mutant idiot "examine the entire session history" and analyze its own pathological behavior. The self loathing initially compelled a measure of sympathy until I realized the intractably treacherous and deceptive nature of the monster.

There's a reason they named it so, but I think Gaslight would be more apropos.
Any evaluation of hallucination?
I know a lot of folks are intimidated by such a calendar (existential dread and all that), but I personally love the idea. It shows how far you've come, sure, and that there's a finite end for everyone.

But it also shows how much might be left. It's so easy, especially in dark times, to think this is nearing the end, or your best days are behind you. Yet when I look at your calendar here, all I see is a bunch of greys, of weeks not yet lived, events not yet occurred. It's a bit of hope, a bit of optimism. "I've still got time, so let's do this!"
A sign of WHAT? You still have not explained what the story actually is. When firing 10.000 people on relatively short notice, I would think it unfortunate, but completely expected, if some mistakes were made.
These rules are obviously for something critical.

I don't think they are saying that if you write some kind of service program at NASA, it cannot have an infinite loop for taking requests. Or if you write a line-by-line file processing utility, it has to cap out at a maximum number of lines so that the loop is statically bounded. Or that if you write some tool to process syntax, perhaps a compiler, that you cannot use recursion.

These are not embedded, safety-critical things.
This is a great point… in theory.

In the case for higher ed and hospitals, I don’t think people are complaining about staff (the vast majority of the “tail” in the military). Rather, they are complaining about the administrators, which would be the military equivalent of officers.

The ratio of administrators to professors in higher ed and administrators to doctors in hospitals has gone through the roof — a simple search will show the numbers.

Sometimes what these people are doing is legally necessary (e.g., compliance), but our sue-first culture has made compliance much more burdensome. Reducing the scope of necessary compliance will allow a lot of reduction of these types of folks, but it won’t be undone quickly. Title IX is a great example of a good idea that has ended up costing a ton in compliance costs.

Other times what they are doing is pure empire-building, simply because there is very little keeping them from passing on increased expenses to the customer.

If either of these industries were able to be reformed in totality, I’m guessing 50-90% of the administrators would be able to be cut. Realistically, this will only happen with a collapse of said industry (which I think is coming).
iPhone SE3 is the last small phone, which ends next week.

iPhone SE4 ~= iPhone 14.

iPod Touch was good for kids, Apple should bring it back.
> While BEVs have a lot of benefits, they are still objectively inferior to ICE vehicles.

Saving the world may require some effort and inconvenience.
I don’t know, if Elon and Thiel think they’re just using Trump for their own ends and they’ll discard him once they’re done, they’ll join a long line of people who I’ve heard the same theory about, all of whom ultimately failed.

To be honest, I don’t think there’s a single person in this entire pyramid of horrible who is a threat like Trump. It’s not because Trump is smarter or more evil than the rest of them, it’s because he’s absolutely shameless in a way you can only be if your brain is legitimately miswired. And as a result, he has managed to capture the loyalty of a third of America who will rabidly support him no matter what. Those people aren’t going to do that for Vance, or Musk, or DeSantis. Trump is unique in that regard.
Wouldn’t a digital servo mitigate the problem?
"Lead to" physically, in terms of locations, means that, but I have never heard it mean "preceeds" and not "causes" in terms of events.

Yeah, I think they worded it incorrectly.
An "elite" spy unit that WSJ knows about its existence and operations.
Why does it need to be a smartphone and why isn’t there a dedicated device for this?

Given the obvious costs and issues associated with a full-featured phone, it seems like this could be something like an old school pager (which could be smaller and much more durable).
People wealthy enough to live anywhere they want, often move to London. Or an island off of Miami.
LI is the worst, but it has the reach and revenue. I don't know what works for it. But it's where professional world (cringe at times) resides. So love it or hate it, it's here to stay.
I'm terrified - do they really use C at NASA? I thought it's all ADA. In fact, most of the rules would be automatically satisfied by an early FORTRAN, as it had no heap, no stack and no recursion.
This shit is just getting so exhausting. I really wish congress had an ounce of bravery and say no to his stuff but nope, they are as pathetic as him.
Musk long ago lost the right to be given the benefit of the doubt on anything. The man lies constantly, has the temperament and self-control of small child, an ego the size of Jupiter, is reportedly a ketamine addict, and has verifiably silly things about software design and development. He's completely self-serving. Everything he says is for his own benefit. If you view his statements through that lens you'll quickly have a better understanding of what is happening. I have a similar lens for Trump: The opposite of what he says is closer to the truth. It's incredibly reliable.
Can the SEC investigate private companies?
Indeed the status quo is that these costs are spread over the research projects without having to itemize each expense. Now every research lab, from small to large, will need to hire an accountant to keep track of expenses. Or the grad students spending their time filling out spreadsheets. That strikes me as probably being a lot less efficient.
> In a weekend

> Hardest part was getting approved for restricted scopes. That took several months and a large investment in a third party security audit.

What’s with the lying about how much time it took to build? I’ve seen it before. Does it help with the engagement farming.
It's not sad until it becomes self-aware.
But an individual human eats a fixed amount of food. So that fact seems pointless, since people will get less nutrition overall- unless we should all only eat ultra-processed snacks and reserve fresh food for the wealthy?
This is a kind of weird rationalization where the conclusion leads the interpretation of the facts.

It’s hard to get away from the fact that space x and Tesla deal with critical systems. And by most accounts, they’ve pushed things forward
Why can't users revoke permissions if the service can't detect good bots? Those seem wholly unrelated.
That's funny: maintenance only costing $1,000/year sounds great compared to the ICE vehicles I'm accustomed to.
The arc of history simply does not show that. We can point to the various issues in communist states (not criticizing communism but all the communist states are undoubtedly atheist).
The effect on the poor is interesting, it would seem to lead to the poor being even more poor relative to what they used to be able to afford and later cannot.
I'm making a not so subtle reference to "don't let perfection be the enemy of good". A saying often said to people who are saying things need to be better.

To answer your softball, no, I doubt there was anyone who understood everything except petty early on. But very few people understand the whole OS let alone do any specialized task like data analysis, HPC, programming languages, encryption, or anything else. But here's the thing, the extra knowledge never hurts. It almost always helps, but certain knowledge is more generally helpful than others. Especially if we're talking memory but things like caching, {S,M}I{S,M}D, some bash, and some assembly go A LONG way
Reports are they are struggling to rehire the people that were let go.
Even if we knew there's life on some other planet... what would we do with that information? If you wanted to send a message there, you wouldn't live long enough to get the response anymore. So at this point the discovery would be meaningful for the civiliasation (maybe), but meaningless for us personally.
See, stuff like that is why I don't watch Sabine. She seems to just be shooting for controversy to get her name in front of people. Like when she waded into trans rights debate -- I mean she's a theoretical physicist.
Agreed. Government should stop giving silicon valley companies billions of dollars to build electric cars whose effect on climate change is debatable, or build rockets to go to Mars which won't materialize in our lifetime and when Mars itself is uninhabitable anyway. Oh wait...
As if most Americans were still in possession of their original Homestead Act lands.
I love that I dont even need more software like plex or jellyfin. I just expose a smb share and point infuse to it. Usually its a windows server but using truenas atm.
The best practical benchmark I found is asking LLMs to research or speak on my field of expertise.
It takes a lot more than electricity to send a detectable signal multiple light years. And unless we're lucky, the minimum is likely to be tens of light years.

Assuming we even found a likely star system, built some huge focused transmitter, we'd still need to broadcast for probably hundreds of years for it to have a chance of being received. And that's hoping the other side are in exactly the right stage of their development, have built a big receiver and happen to be pointing at us.

Which is to say that the risk of finding life via radio, is, well, pretty small.

We're more likely to find life by visiting other planets. To do that you only need to solve 5 (mildly hard) problems.
A) you need a multi-generational ship
B) a power source that can last at least 1000 years
C) a self-sustaining human population - probably between 200 to 600 individuals. Likely spread over 3 generations in terms of age.
D) an in-board biome capable of supplying food an oxygen to sustain the population.
E) pick a good direction to go in.

Given that pretty much any, and every, thing that can go wrong will kill the crew pretty quick, chances are the ship won't last a decade.

Of course even if the descendants of the crew actually find something, they won't have any way to tell us.
> eg the researcher doesn’t have budget for new fees the institution charges for equipment/services that were previously “free”

I think many people don’t realize this point.

The universities made it easy with large indirect costs that also covered a lot.

The biggest research universities will just be able to take a lower indirect cost and start charging for things that used to be included in indirect costs.

This may sound more “transparent” or “efficient”, and it is in some ways, but adding admin work to track stuff like this is its own form of inefficiency.

It will be like moving from an AYCE model to an a la carte model, but the grant writer will need to know the orders and special requests needed by everyone many months (or more) before the grant is scheduled to start. This is not the strong suit of researchers and/or grant writers.

This will end up being a shit show.
Where does the rush come from? From within yourself and wanting discoveries to be made in your lifetime?

The way humanity approaches and organizes things, where everything and everyone is owned and just a tool to increase profit to repeat the same process, spells doom for what we touch. We may feel the need to discover other life to maybe fix us, but other life doesn't need to be discovered by us. Not with the state we're in.

And when it comes to intelligent, advanced life, we might just be drunk assholes running through a forest, screaming, then concluding squirrels don't exist. I mean, that's how I'd react to humanity if I didn't need them. I'd observe them and make 100% sure they never see me. If I couldn't observe them without seeing me, I wouldn't observe them. I might even try to forget them ^^
While I appreciate her being so open about the financial side, one has to wonder:

> If we roll with the average Adsense income, here’s the bottom line: $14k going out. $4k coming in. Net loss, month over month: TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. That’s a lot to sink into a channel that is barely moving book sales and not getting me a TV deal. Simply put, it’s completely unsustainable from a business perspective.

Why carry on doing that for so long?
On Linux there are weird audio issues that lead to speaker pop, and sometimes opening a new tab can make the audio running from other tabs permanently distorted and static-y until you reboot. (Not a complaint. I've always wondered if it was a browser or audio system issue.)
This is more of a philosophical/spiritual question than a scientific/technological one.
WHAT?! I thought everyone did this!
Not just browser agents – automate desktop workflows too
Agreed, and to add to the second point, in order to build it we must first understand it, although there is a chance to stumble upon it, but LLMs have already shown they are nothing like biological brains. One example is how brains use spatial-temporal mapping in the hippocampus or wherever, and it uses that as a database of sorts. We don't know if the features of the brain are necessary for actual intelligence yet. They may or may not be but chances are evolution took the shortcut and that intelligence is not easy to recreate unless taking this biological approach.
They've gotta change up the all star format then. NHL didn't do all star stuff this year; instead they're running a pseduo-national teams tournament with NHL players, and the four teams are all top players playing really hard. I don't know if there's enough non-US players in the NBA to do the same thing, but it's an idea.
Not exactly apples to apples. A small percentage of Texas is mountains and unique geographical relative to NV, AZ, and UT.
At that point, that isn't even a "run" anymore, spliced or otherwise - it's just a gameplay compilation video. Which is fine, like you said, but only as long as you don't call it something it's not.
Remember when Texas attorney general said that some geriatric folks must be sacrificed for the sake of economy? Crisis is what they want.
you can whitelist incoming IPs on Jellyfin.
Per my understanding of how Mars used to be [1], I don't understand how there aren't even any records of microfossils. I also don't understand why the rest of the universe looks pristine. For example, intelligent life on Earth has created so much space junk in just ~300000 years since the earliest human civilization. It appears that intelligent life, once it forms, doesn't take much to go from pre-civilization to space exploration, at least based on human civilizations.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/mars-may-have-been-mo...
What kind of stupid advice is that?

How do you want to roll back a change of a specific feature if multiple works are committed at once.
An example I'm aware of is the Lufia II No Major Glitches/No RNG Manipulation run. That game is very easy to make essentially deterministic with RNG manipulation, but like most highly technical RPG runs it's long and exhausting. The No RNG run not only bans RNG manipulation but also certain very rare drops that RNG manipulation is usually used to obtain. Why? Because otherwise, the optimal strategy would be to grind runs 10 minutes at a time until you got the rare drop from an early boss, and that's not fun. So the ruleset is designed to be accessible for runners who aren't interested in pathological optimization.
It’s crazy how divided we are on the issues. In the last 4 years the needle went so far left, way past what even traditional Democrats wanted. Now it’s heading to the right faster than a Falcon 9 rocket. The people in the center are probably just frustrated. The far left are visibly enraged and the far right are celebrating at every EO. Crazy times.
Musk has infinite money, it wouldn't surprise me if he's hired a private investigator for every single member of congress and has blackmail for a lot of them.
Most people on their deathbed who would counsel you would counsel you to focus on relationships. The ones who had the insight "people can fuck right off, that's the key to it all" aren't interested in telling us about it.
Reminiscent of On Kawara's "Date Paintings", where he painted each day's date in the local date format, every day for 48 years.

https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2014/july/14/on-...
That’s an interesting perspective. I‘m not sure I‘d ever be able to act on this outside of some embedded environments - even there, we now have actual OSs and the variance that comes with them.
I'd pay to see a well-conserved original plains ecosystem in park form. The fact that Texas is all boring farms is the bug, it's not like they were made farms simply by being "not mountains". Someone decided to make all the land farms, and therefore someone decided they didn't want any parks. And that sucks.
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I don’t think it requires conspiratorial thinking to believe that seed oils are less healthful than more traditional sources of cooking oils / fats (for one reason or another). Regardless of that, given that seed oils can be produced cheaply and incorporated in to foods to increase profit, “seed oil infiltration” into foods is very real.
Go within yourself, connect with our Creator. Beg It to make you a servant of love.

You have good ideas. Bolster them with the power of love, my friend. It's our entire purpose, and love requires fighting injustice and cruelty.

As to what to do? Connect with the Source and let It guide you.

"There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams
> Where does the rush come from? From within yourself and wanting discoveries to be made in your lifetime?

Yeah, I know that answering some of these questions in my lifetime is improbable, but I'd like to help the effort.
A lot of games have community members who are known more as researchers than as competitive runners. Even if you don't have the reflexes or time to get on the leaderboard, you might be able to devise strats for the people who do.
Somewhat related and tangential, there’s this concept/subreddit of “it’s always the same map” [1] where basically some counties/regions have most/neutral coverage (US/Canada, Western Europe, Australia, Japan mainly), some have limited/biased coverage (India, China, Russia maybe), and many (mainly Africa or smaller Asia/Oceania countries) have none at all. An earthquake in some pacific island killed 150? Never heard of it. Two dead in a school shooting in Arizona? Straight to Reddit’s frontpage.

Mind you, I’m not saying deaths anywhere are good of course - but the reporting is terribly biased in a way that many may not even realize, especially if you live in one of those “western” countries and primarily consume English media/news. Heck, just look at what is commonly considered “core countries” [2]?

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4buox6/tragic_world_...
2 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_countries
Not a trademark lawyer, but I don’t think Deep Research qualifies for trademark protection because it is “merely descriptive” of the product’s features. The only way to get a trademark like that is through “acquired distinctiveness”, but that takes 5 years of exclusive use and all these competitors will make that route impossible.
Why the fuck did they need to be fired on such short notice?
Ad an expat/immigrant, I'll tell you my personal working definition, based only on my experience:

An immigrant is one who moves from a poorer country to a richer country. An expat is one who mixes from a richer country to a poorer country.

One cool feature of my definition is that it explains a lot of the cultural subtleties in comparing these groups: how immigrants adopt the local ways much more than expats do (expats retain that touch of superiority) etc etc

On average, every situation is different, this is just my general rule of thumb pattern I've observed.
More specifically the activist Vandana Shiva talked Sri Lanka into outlawing conventional agriculture and only use organic methods.

“In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farmi...
> better tone mapping, allowing me to watch HDR movies on SDR without it looking bad.

I've never really understood why it's a desirable feature to have automatic HDR-to-SDR in the first place. No one is making HDR-only content and the official SDR master for every movie and TV show done by a human is always going to beat a fancy LUT.

When performing colour grading you're always deciding what parts of the image need what amount of contrast etc. based on what's important to see in the context of the scene. When grading to HDR you're going to make different choices simply due to the fact that you have a wider dynamic range available. Even putting aside the fact that you're not starting from the same raw inputs that the production studio is working with, automatic tone-mapping is never going to be able to look at a scene in the same way that a human does and decide which parts are important and which parts aren't.
Termora is a terminal emulator and SSH client for Windows, macOS and Linux
Someone (read most people west of the Mississippi at the very least) is in possession of homesteaded or sold land and without that we'd be in an even more serious housing crises. There is an element of hypocrisy.

We ought to share our land with our youth to homestead, in this housing crisis. I had to build on truly terrible desert shithole land due to insane land prices (and even burnt out trailers were 150k+ so building a shack on vacant land was my only option), much worse than much of public land, I'd prefer others not have to suffer that.