skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't normally "this" a comment, but "this"!

The most effective single thing to promote a multiparty system is to switch to ranked-choice or approval voting (if staying with single-member districts) or to switch to multi-member districts with some kind of proportional representation. That would be where, say, everyone in Texas votes for their preferred party, and the 34 seats get allocated proportionally to party results.

Honestly, implementing Ranked Choice is the best compromise.

* Meaningfully improves the ability of minor parties to succeed
* Removes the concept of "wasted vote" so that citizens can vote their conscience
* Electoral results are more informative of the positions of the electorate
* Candidates have to compete more on ideas and policies than attacking opponents
* Conceptually easier to understand than other systems
* Maintains single-member districts (I don't like this, but I think trying to change the House to multi-member districts is too radical for us)
A lot of people do not understand economics, and think that tariffs are somehow fees charged to foreign countries rather than taxes levied against domestic consumers and businesses. I've had this exact discussion more than once, and have heard people change their tune once they understood what tariffs actually are.
I'm all in behind your idea: let's do the net result for society of every activity, and mandate people to do the most positive one, while banning the most negative ones!

The good thing is, then, I'll be mandated to go mountainbiking instead of staying sitted in front of a computer all day long!

How can I vote for your program?
That sitting at a desk for 30 years is really not good for your long-term health.
$599, same as the Mac Mini M4 :-)
Happy to clarify! There are two main ways people are using the Slack integration: (1) You click the Promptless Slack message action (video below) on a thread that might warrant a doc update—Slack Connect channels are an extremely common use-case for this, and (2) You tag @Promptless in a DM or a channel with a brief instruction—people sometimes use this for simple requests, but after signing up for Promptless, you can also send Promptless a link to an old PR, and it'll use the Github API to read the content of the PR and draft an update.

Here's a video we made a month or so ago that shows how (1) works, hope that helps! https://www.tella.tv/video/cm5x8uj9f001d0al11vyxcnsc/view
Not e-ink though so the display isn't always-on and you need a power supply. This can hang on the wall and you just have to recharge it every few months.
Well, it was the car that touched them. But yeah, the driver was at fault in ALL instances.
I quite like mine, but I haven't done any work work on it. No typing or anything. I've read a couple of books on it, I've read some manga (perfect match for the monochrome screen), and I've taken some notes on some papers that I'm working through. I'm impressed with the battery, and I've been using it every single day since I got it. Mindblowing? No. Just a nice reading experience. Perfect if you want something larger form-factor than the kindle with more apps to side-load, if that's your thing.

As for the UI, etc, it's just Android with a non-standard launcher. They didn't even write the launcher, it's a launcher you can get off the app store. It's pretty vanilla except for the gestures for back/home. Whether or not this bothers you is probably a function of how much you like or dislike a pretty vanilla Android experience.
An Invocation for Silliness
I don't think anyone thought it was literally impossible, just really, really hard and with a ton of corner cases and micro-optimizations necessary. But remember, they've been at this for a long time now: they bought Intel's modem business in 2019 and Intel presumably had several years worth of work on it before that. I guess this is the year when they've ground out enough of the bugs to at least ship it on a non-flagship device.
people will hang themselves on the lanyard and die. Not all such cases will be suicide.
You can see one of his coaches helping an 86 year old woman deadlift in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJOT0kn5vs
The red line for Trump's people unfortunately isn't doing anything bad. He could shoot a man on fifth avenue and not lose them. It would take him doing something which shows actual human decency and actually helps people. If he attempted to create "Trump-care" providing unconditional healthcare for all he would be impeached and out on his ass. God forbid if he were to recognize LGBTQ rights and acknowledge their legitimacy, that action would literally kill people from shock.
> The lineup is a little strange.

They have Macs they call Macbook Airs, but their Macbooks look like "Air" Macbooks, they really should have swapped the names on those models long ago.
Oh man, so many questions! Would a PBH passing close enough to Earth to hit a human end up being drawn to the Earth's core or the Sun? Or would the mass/inertia of a rogue PBH be enough to keep it from falling into a local gravity wall and gobbling up the solar system?
I agree with most of what you’ve said, but there are some niche uses.

https://www.liebreich.com/hydrogen-ladder-version-5-0/
+1. Back when I was interning at various places, the conclusion that I came to was that it almost never made sense to push back on changes, because the reality was that I would be gone in 3 months and the reviewer would be stuck with that code for years. Even if I disagreed on something, the right thing to do was to clearly state my reasoning and then change it to whatever they wanted.
Hopefully these new cellular, wifi and bluetooth basebands can avoid the zero-day fame of their predecessors.
I think that’s clearly different.

TRMNL has said things about providing the ability to hack your device or bring your own device and followed through. They’ve taken concrete steps.

The Google motto was more abstract. After they promised that what concrete steps did they take to show follow through?
> Please try to converse in good faith.

Can you just trot that out when you don't like that the other person thought your point was ridiculous?

If you are able to say that the majority of people are bad candidates for POLICE over RICE then I'd engage with that. But it feels unlikely that you can do this because the prevailing medical wisdom seems to be that the majority of people are good candidates for POLICE over RICE.

I will acknowledge that if a patient is a drug-addled professional wrestler who is desperate for a burger then yes perhaps they should just stay off the foot.
I'm not a fan of these types of posts because they're not really saying anything quantitative - it's just a bunch of a "feel good" text - so I'll throw my hat into the ring.

What the author calls the "fast growth phase" - I call "walking the tightrope and/or knife's edge". Our minds are in a constant state of attempting to optimize away any task. This is why there's a huge difference in skill levels between a person who has driven a car for 5 weeks vs 5 years, but nearly zero difference between somebody who has driven a car for 5 years vs 50 years.

The CHALLENGE is in constantly forcing your mind back to the knife's edge - and it varies from person to person.

Back when I was a highschooler, I was unsatisfied with my sheet reading capabilities. To fix it, I

- started playing only new sheet music

- grabbed a old hymnal (from the 1950s) which are rhythmically simplistic but usu. have four voices.

- Wrote a very simple app that generated random sheetxml

- Borrowed a friend's sheet music for the organ (which has three staves) and tried to transpose it on the fly to play with just the two hands on the piano
How do you even make an electric car that can't drive? Electric drivetrains are way, way simpler than ICE ones...
Well, 1500 jobs is a drop in the ocean and I wanted to object on the number of occurrences of "C++" (one. one!!, wtf?!).

But I have no counter-example to give because LinkedIn is abjectly useless, shows me 192,518 jobs for "c++ in European Union", where the first ones in the list title "Sales Engineer".

Really, the only reason I'm still on LinkedIn is because everyone is there but boy would I leave the motherfuckers if a valid alternative would show up. It's abysmally bad and I hate it deeply, profoundly and sincerely and I really hope it (LinkedIn) dies in flames and Microsoft along with it.
(2012) Submitted so many times over the years

2023 (178 points, 204 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32548085

2016 (183 points, 154 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12675527

2012 linked in article (364 points, 217 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208

Related:

Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones (95 points, 2024, 83 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360258

Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time (442 points, 2019, 268 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19922062

Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones (128 points, 2016, 80 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515125
As a funny aside, I had applied to lucas arts around 1996 and never heard back from them. I ended up getting a job at industrial light and magic (as they were both companies under lucas digital) thinking I could then transfer over to lucas arts.

I have a near identical form letter job offer from lucas digital as Tim Shafer posted re his application: https://www.doublefine.com/news/twenty-years-only-a-few-tear...

But we would visit for the company store, and I would be nosy and go talk to people. This was during production of grim fandango and there was a tangible ramp up of stress in that building as the release approached. I remember one of the testers sitting there staring at the manny character on his screen and bemoaning, "I used to love playing games".

The end result was truly a standout though.
You can cross-compile to a mac if that's what you are asking. Not as easily as to Windows/Linux though, but that's just because there is less interest.
It’s not clear to me when or how you “choose” your row of 5. I feel dense but I don’t think this is described…
> It's a 12mp crop of a 48mp sensor, so it's not digital zoom but it is a crop.

I'm curious what you think digital zoom is if not cropping.
You clearly don't understand the definition of Nazi, but that's on you
Look up their BYOD plan. They’re working to make exactly that possible.
Kafka wrote a lot, and destroyed most of what he wrote.

Seems like a good name for a high-volume distributed log that deletes based on retention, not after consumption.
I've never heard anybody complain about volume. Just width/height.

I mean, isn't everyone here on HN always making fun of Apple's supposedly unnecessary obsession with thinness? Now it's a teensy bit thicker.
Thank you. This press release seems specifically designed to discourage this type of comparison.
It’s funny that the marketing for this is about introducing a new member of the family. But it doesn’t also mention that one other member has been disowned/excommunicated
We have one. It's called Democracy Now!

Democracynow.org
> It is interesting to look back on the genre given that, as far as I know, it either died sometime in the 90s or grew into something unrecognisable.

They're still out there! Scroll down this recent thread for many, many, many examples: https://bsky.app/profile/grundislavgames.bsky.social/post/3l...
> To be honest, I never figured out what the evidence could even look like.

Right on cue.
He hasn't "given" society anything, we pay these companies for their services (often with taxpayer dollars!)

It doesn't suck that SpaceX or Tesla exists. It sucks that the person who has profited most from those entities is using their power to destroy government agencies that oversee his companies, and more broadly, to constantly lie and try to destroy the federal government.
I have the opposite issue - dragging my finger across a 60hz screen is immediately noticeable. I’m jealous of you.
Further down that page it actually says:

"Progressive muscle resistance training is the best type of muscle-strengthening exercise for your bones. It involves using weights or resistance bands to build up the work for your muscles to do over time. You do this by gradually increasing the weight you lift, in a slow and controlled way. As you train, you’ll find the movements get easier as your muscles get stronger."
Only people engaged in active buying and selling set the price of Tesla stock. It's called "price discovery." Any institution such as an index fund passively holding stock does not effect the value of the stock, so the percentage of institutional ownership doesn't itself matter.
It sure looks like they’re going quite a ways beyond Kafka-on-Pulsar - the Ursa/Oxia work they’re focused on right now replaces BookKeeper and seems very firmly Kafka-oriented. Or does Ursa also work with the Pulsar protocol?
> Here, you've listed unambiguously subjective preferences and opinions, with not even a slight attempt to define objective criteria to support your point.

Now you’re just being obtuse. Most of my comments were on a par with your own comments. In fact some of the comments you’ve just shared are literally just repackaging similar remarks I made about 2000!

I’m honestly surprised you can’t see the irony in your comments. You’re literally applying a double standard where its “objective” it’s your judgement but anyone else’s judgement that disagrees with your own is subjective.

I’ve got a fair amount more I’d love to discuss, but it’s probably better we just agree to disagree.
> Ok, you're obviously trolling here. This is clearly bait. But for anyone else reading this:

Only a little. The point is "waste" and "efficiency" are so subjective to be a near meaningless concepts. You could make the same points you did about many of the things Musk wants to cut, but they're not going to resonate to a tech audience like cutting NASA does. It's basically a temple of geek religion.

> NASA's budget for 2023 was roughly $25 billion [0]

That money could fund a lot of housing assistance or healthcare.

Personally, I think the things that "engineers" like should be cut first instead of being protected.
Yes, the separation between folders and files is a toggleable option. You can sort by date modified. Also, you should try it yourself, it's in free beta. :)
For future reference, permalink to the original commit with the RADICAL BUG comment: https://github.com/openai/SWELancer-Benchmark/blob/a8fa46d2b...

The new version (as of now) still has a comment making it obvious that there's an intentionally introduced bug, but it's not as on the nose: https://github.com/openai/SWELancer-Benchmark/blob/2a77e3572...
Exactly, they want to automate the most rewarding part that we don’t need help with… plus I don’t believe they’ve solved the problem of LLMs generating trite ideas.
"All at an incredible value"? Are you really allowed to say that?

(Grammatically, I mean. I'm not asking for legal advice.)
8Gb of ram, for those wondering.
You've never heard of people complaining about how "big" phones are, and wishing for a "smaller" phone? How would you measure "big" and "smaller" other than volume?
>But our government doesn’t have independent branches.

Yes, it does, by the nature of them existing and Congress establishing them. Show me where in the Constitution that they can't do that.
The NYTimes article says "the company built multiple topological qubits inside a new kind of computer chip" but the Nature paper says they're only making "substantial progress towards the realization of a topological qubit", i.e., not even a singular qubit.
There are no laws in Oceania, only crimes.
> No MagSafe, only Qi.

Qi2 is based on Magsafe.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/3/23538131/qi2-wireless-char...
Interesting! I'll look into those, those look helpful.
It's also used to unlock some cars.
> so it's unlikely he'd throw her under the bus.

Unlikely given Milei himself was the one shilling the shitcoin
Manifold – geometry library for topological robustness
One thing you can’t give up though is your employability. Jobs come and go either by choice or by force.

I was definitely the “expert beginner” between 2002-2011. It wasn’t until my 4th job in 2012 that I realized how far behind I was. That’s also the same year I got (re)married with 2 step sons. I’ve stayed in the learning phase mostly since then.
It'd be nifty if they did that, but I'm skeptical they'd introduce something like that on their new budget model.
> This is not to say that Diodorus Siculus recorded a more accurate depiction of these events, but his phrasing does more closely mirror the flowery language with which ancient leaders probably addressed each other.

Woof. The Spartans were famous for their disdain for flowery words. Herodotus discussed it explicitly, and Thucydides reflected it when writing Spartan dialogue. They preferred to speak plainly and get straight to the point. This common understanding of spartan speech is even enshrined in the English language, via the word 'laconic', meaning "using few words".

Before sharing your insights with the world, do try to make sure you know what you're talking about.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase
Way more maintainable than anything from MS that I'd have to deal with.
It's important not to blow off a few joules when you're speaking of radiation. The LD50 dose for a 75 kg human is only about 375 J (5 Sv) of gamma rays[1]. In this case, the 5 J delivered inside you (I didn't check your calculations on this, just using your number), and perhaps another 5 on approach and exit, only end up being about 10 J (0.12 Sv), which is not enough to kill, but it is still a rather large radiation dose. It's more than twice the annual limit for occupational safety in the US, and is near the lower limit of the dose that could cause acute radiation syndrome. If the hole passed directly through your digestive tract, concentrating the dose in the vulnerable tissues there, there's a decent chance you'd get mildly sick.

[1] Gamma rays have a weighting factor of 1 in the gray -> Sv calculation, and the black hole emits them isotropically, so they're roughly distributed across the body. So in this case, 1 Gy ~ 1 Sv.
And yet...just watch all the people who will think because they raised $700m that they're a success to be emulated. People still fervently defend Elizabeth Holmes.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

Developing talent is necessary, and many don't have the circumstances for their talent to be visible.
There are a number of other differences besides the camera, a significant one being the lack of MagSafe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104109
This slippery slope argument doesn't click for me. They obviously perceive the value of segmenting the market by device size. I'm just asking for the smaller size to be actually small.
The no-adjective MacBook hasn’t been sold for years. It’s just Air and Pro again now.
Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation
> If Bob is floating in space in a capsule, and a very heavy asteroid floats past, the amount that Bob's capsule is moved is dependent on the speed of the asteroid?

Yes

> Does that sort of thing have to be considered when planning the orbits of probes etc?

Yes, it's a primary concern when sending probes to other planets

> Is Earth traveling fast enough, from the viewpoint of Alice floating near the sun, to have a gravity "tail" or "wake" trailing after it?

If I understand you correctly, then classically (i.e. ignoring relativity), no. Your gravitational acceleration towards the earth depends only your distance to it. If you consider general relativity? It's... complicated.
MacBooks do not have an M.2 slot, nor do they have WWAN.
> Electrolysis of water gives less hydrogen energy out than electrical energy you put in....

This is literally all energy storage... Lithium-ion batteries lose about 10-20% during charging and another 5% during discharge.

How do you figure any energy storage medium would give you more than 100% of the energy you put into it?
I shattered my collarbone - and I do mean shattered, ~8 pieces - in a mountain bike crash September 2023. I went over the bars after the back wheel of my hardtail caught a berm. Landed on my head and shoulder and compressed it laterally inwards by about 2 inches.

Even with this mess, it was hotly debated for around two weeks whether I needed surgery. A good chunk of my collarbone was trying to push through my skin and the other half was fusing to my scapular and was starting to compromise nerve function. Even then, because the non-surgical route is now considered the standard, I was meeting resistance to have an ORIF. It seems that the about turn from surgical intervention has been so strong that getting ANY surgical intervention is a battle.

I eventually came across a surgeon who took one look at me (never mind the imaging) and scheduled me for surgery. ~18 months later I’m now on a waiting list to have the plate removed, and strangely have gone off cycling… Surfing has happily taken its place.
I'm not sure if people here even read the entirety of the article. From the article:

> We applied the AI co-scientist to assist with the prediction of drug repurposing opportunities and, with our partners, validated predictions through computational biology, expert clinician feedback, and in vitro experiments.

> Notably, the AI co-scientist proposed novel repurposing candidates for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Subsequent experiments validated these proposals, confirming that the suggested drugs inhibit tumor viability at clinically relevant concentrations in multiple AML cell lines.

and,

> For this test, expert researchers instructed the AI co-scientist to explore a topic that had already been subject to novel discovery in their group, but had not yet been revealed in the public domain, namely, to explain how capsid-forming phage-inducible chromosomal islands (cf-PICIs) exist across multiple bacterial species. The AI co-scientist system independently proposed that cf-PICIs interact with diverse phage tails to expand their host range. This in silico discovery, which had been experimentally validated in the original novel laboratory experiments performed prior to use of the AI co-scientist system, are described in co-timed manuscripts (1, 2) with our collaborators at the Fleming Initiative and Imperial College London. This illustrates the value of the AI co-scientist system as an assistive technology, as it was able to leverage decades of research comprising all prior open access literature on this topic.

The model was able to come up with new scientific hypotheses that were tested to be correct in the lab, which is quite significant.
Telling people they're not allowed to have fun in the manner of their choosing because it would be bad for society sounds like a great way to discourage people from caring about society.
“In cases like mine, when someone from an impoverished background makes it to the kind of elite institutions from which top newspapers and magazines hire staff, there is a tendency, I think, to want to fit in by obscuring one’s background.” As a result, he says, the rare working-class reporters “who somehow make it through that gantlet” start representing “poverty and class through the same lens” as their more privileged media peers.

We definitely need more working class media. Not privileged white kids behind computer screens, but people who know what it's like to work menial labor jobs, and suffer under minimum wage. The closest MIGHT be local ethnic publications, maybe the Final Call, Street News, but certainly nothing that you'll find widespread.