skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

The single best is to switch to multimember proportional for the legislature (which can remain candidate centric using, say, 5 member districts and STV), and that gets even better (though procedurally more difficult to adopt in the US) if you were to switch the Presidential election from a single winner two-seat President and Vice President to ranked choice two-sequential winner system (e.g., IRV or Bucklin, but after you pick a winner, eliminate that candidate, and tally again without them for a second winner as VP) where each party is structurally incentivized to compete for both spots. These not only make more parties viable they also each offer more election-day choice among candidates of the same party, denying incumbents of favored parties an uncontested sinecure.
That doesn’t correct the situation in which the device is ignoring DHCP DNS requests.
be the change you want in the world
To be convinced the Earth is flat is ridiculous on so many levels. You say they watch a youtube video confirming they're right in their primitive observation. OK, what about the easy availability of videos to the contrary?

It's not enough to be stupid to be a flat-earther. You need to deny official authorities, believe in a conspiracy, and have an arrogant attitude of thinking of yourself as smarter than other despite being an idiot. So this is not a problem of some people simple being born with inefficient brains.

More importantly, you seem to ignore the 9%. To seriously consider the earth maybe is flat is already pretty damn ridiculous.

> It isn't trivial to prove the earth is flat

Of course, because it isn't. If you meant it isn't trivial to prove it isn't flat, well, in general it is hard to disprove an idea that isn't specific. But take any actual model of flat Earth, describing the movement of the Moon on quite a low altitude and it's trivial to prove it's wrong simply by looking at the Moon and always seeing the same side regardless where you live.
Maybe Apple and Google should open up their devices and agree on a standard UI toolkit.
@dekhn it is true (I also work in the field. I'm a software engineer who got a wet-lab PhD in biochemistry and work at a biotech doing oncology drug discovery)
no idea why you are rejecting healthcare and social security, But power to you I suppose.
From C- to JSON-based APIs of the Rust "core" library
Worthwhile read. It helps to learn (or confirm) how things are working under the hood. What's interesting is that understanding how it all works makes it clear that all the hype around models "thinking" or being "sentient" is just marketing fluff for "the math works and it's really impressive how that translates to human-like cognition."
My main take away from this thread is to never take up mountain biking.
Emotional frustration yes totally understandable

But from a strictly business standpoint, it’s a bit of an absurd position
That's the joke: Admitting is different than doing. ;) You really can't take a joke, can you? Get outside, touch grass, get some therapy, and see a lumberjack about that stick up your butt, dude.
This is genuinely the second most embarrassing thing that's happened to me this week, taking 2nd place to nearly catastrophically flooding the house.
Acurio??
Putin claims to have low-flying hypersonic missiles, the Oreshnik, they would be extremely difficult to detect and nearly impossible to intercept. The hypersonic part has been verified - I haven't seen any confirmations of its low-flying capability (meaning it can maneuver around terrain).

Of course, he claims that it can't be stopped, but he is making that claim in the midst of imperfect intelligence of his opponent. And it's Putin we're talking about, he'd claim Russia has flying pigs if he thought were advantageous to.
Maybe there's zero evidence now, but think about the lengths to which Apple has gone to build a private cloud infrastructure and why they would do so. It's one thing for them to offer that as a do-gooder service to their customers, which it certainly is. But once it's established as private and secure, why wouldn't they use spare compute at the edge for inference? It's smart. It's not a conspiracy.
You then later go on to post:

>It's the left, and America at large has rejected that garbage.

So I think you forgot your own sarcasm.
> Mastra uses the Vercel AI SDK

It started off wrong.
And inspections/testing/liability.
Zero need for them to do that.

Still, apparently they can turn sharply, this looks like 40':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuverable_reentry_vehicle

The "Flight test of the Advanced Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle in early 1980" photo at the bottom. That was a while ago.
To C or Not to See?
Stock buybacks have no cost to investors. It's just returning cash -- not a "spend." Comparing it to actual costs is nonsensical.
The US may well be in the end stage of democracy, and sliding into fascism. I'm starting to have second thoughts on cheering for them.
As usual when the MBAs get involved the build price magically becomes 10x what the actual cost is.
This problem is discussed in the beginning of the Designing Data-Intensive Applications book. It's worth a read!
Something I think is shocking in Europe compared to the US is the way no one is willing to work more than their contract states and people complain if they have to stay like half an hour later. People don’t work outside of their work hours in Europe
I totally agree, but I stand by the opinion that imperfect-information bit is so essential that it's simply assumed (it's, naturally, not specific to just poker card games, though). If you come to the table with your own stack of cards to draw from, it's very likely going to end badly for you, depending on how transparent you're with the matter.
Interestingly it's actually a sort of degenerate use of ed. All it does is append one line to an empty buffer and write it to "hello.c". It's literally the equivalent of

echo 'int main(void) { printf("hello!\n"); }' > hello.c

...EXCEPT...

It's not, because the shell redirection operators didn't exist yet at this point in time. Maybe (or maybe not?) it would work to cat to the file from stdin and send a Ctrl-D down the line to close the descriptor. But even that might have been present yet. Unix didn't really "look like Unix" until v7, which introduced the Bourne shell and most of the shell environment we know today.
I'm not saying they currently are. They wouldn't until they knew that whatever they were doing was utterly secure. I'm just positing that they might be going there.
Bacteria encode post-mortem protein catabolism – altruistic nutrient recycling
So most people make heavy use of applications like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook etc, take photos and videos, real time video calling, getting directions etc. All whilst on a colour, high-resolution screen orders of magnitude better than the Nokia phones.

Acting like physics doesn’t exist and we should be able to get a month long battery life whilst doing all of the above is idiotic. No other way to describe it.
Their CPU is based on ARM IP, it’s not like they designed it from the ground up. The modem they might have had to? Also I guess a big challenge are all the patents you need to be aware of and find ways to license or circumvent, not sure if that’s worse for modems but it seems all wireless / cellular technology is riddled with patents (not saying CPUs aren’t but again ARM is probably taking care of some of that for Apple).
Who on the right is trump trying to please? Russia. I don't remember anytime in 2024 where Conservateives said "I want unserpervised nuclear warheads" or "I don't want to know about future pandemics" (even if their behaviors suppoted that one". What's the line with these people?
“Middle managers” is a pretty gross mischaracterization of NSF program managers. They are more like investment portfolio managers, responsible for coordinating and leading the external reviews of research proposals, evaluating the proposal and reviews to prioritize which projects to invest in to achieve a good risk/reward profile for the goals of the broader program, and working with the academics doing the research to help them stay on track and increase the impact of their ideas.

I don’t totally disagree with your point about scientific progress continuing with a diminished NSF, but NSF does place a lot of emphasis on early stage fundamental high risk / high reward research, which industry has been trending away from in favor of quicker and clearer returns.

Having an evidence-based discussion about how the US should allocate resources for scientific discovery is great - but it should be a clear discussion within the norms of our democratic institutions instead of a unilateral move by a few that stand to personally gain at the expense of the broader interest of the the American people
no, bird flu can still infect your backyard flock
The BBC's library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
From a game theory perspective for Europe the best policy is to agree to destroy all of humanity before accepting Russian control of Europe. Then the Russians can decide whether they still want to try and the US can decide between being collateral damage or helping Europe.

Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your perspective, Europe is too divided and too civilised to make that threat and probably at this point not strong enough from a military perspective to execute on it.
Their private cloud for AI reads on the surface like the answer. If they can establish privacy then they can push the work to the edges.

Again, I'm not saying the are. They're the only ones that could, though.
It's easy to move to Switzerland, you just need to be very wealthy.
Install StartAllBack and choose the Windows 7 theme. Even if you dont care about the other UI improvements like the older Start Menu, it's worth it just for the improvements to the clock and calendar - the analog clock especially.
Americans are just people. No better or worse than others, no different in their behavior given the same inputs.
I never understood why Big Tech never setup contracts with all the SAT and ACT test centers across the country. Even before Zoom with Codepads it would have made sense for the recruiters to send potential candidates to a test center to do a pre assessment rather than waste time with engineers sitting on prescreen calls all day.
> France at least would shield NATO and EU with the nuclear umbrella even if the US leaves NATO

This is absolutely not the case. The French nuclear arsenal is controlled separately to the joint NATO command and the French have traditionally made it very clear it is for the protection of France, not NATO. Indeed France left NATO for years partly over this and only rejoined in 2009.

Macron has opened discussions about a "pan-Europe" nuclear shield, but be very clear: if Russia was to use battlefield nuclear weapons in say Poland, there is no expectation that France would respond. There is an expectation that NATO would respond (or there was last year.. who knows if NATO is reliable now?)
There are two big if’s there which probably won’t be correct for Apple.
It follows me around to different places: my home is weird because I have a load balancer, but I have the problem at work and at the gas station, on my tablet, laptop, and more than one desktop computer. It also affects me if I try to use one of several email addresses instead of my Facebook account -- the only thing I can think of is maybe I have to supply a mobile number from a real carrier and not a Skype number to verify by text, but it doesn't outright say that.
This isn't really true. It depends on the type of person you are and also in which European country you are in. In both Western and Eastern Europe I've had colleagues that would stop everything they do at 5 pm. and leave and colleagues that would stay with me until 8 pm. fixing a bug.
You may not have noticed it, but intel and counterintelligence agencies used Twitter heavily in the Obama era. Arguably, Obama's presidency was the one that put the nail in the coffin of trusting intelligence agency reports over twitter, but I think you could make a case it started with Reagan and cable news.

Basically, our elected representatives picked social media news sources as preferred trusted sources, and the groups interested in getting information and misinformation to them followed suit.
Nope, bog standard company credit card and account.

It's not like that was my first time working with AWS, it was my first time with my company though. It was weird for everyone.
To serve a user timeline in single-digit milliseconds, it is not practical for a data store to load each item in a different place. Even with an index, the index itself can be contiguous in disk, but the payload is scattered all over the place if you keep it in a single large table.

Instead, you can drastically speed up performance if you are able to store data for each timeline somewhat contiguously on disk.
To save money? Absolutely not. I'm keeping a spreadsheet on our 20 chickens this year. They're young, so input is very high while output is still ramping but I'm guessing it's $7-8 dozen in food costs alone (the highest end organic feed tho), never mind the initial buyin.
> which is something that I would have said would never happen if you had asked me five years ago.

I think a lot of people are noticing the changes Java has had in the previous years. The language has made a lot of improvements, and I feel that the mind set of the community has changed. The old enterprise way of factories and unnecessary abstractions have lost a lot of popularity, and is mostly still alive in legacy software/teams and universities who have not yet caught up.

Even Spring Boot is now a valid approach for getting sh*t done for startups. There are of course frameworks that are more light weight, or you can start from scratch and choose your own libraries to keep the size down. But SB is simply good enough for most use cases, and even supports native compilation now.
Yep. And the incentive at Apple is to keep making people use more cloud and have them pay more for it so they can say they make more profit from the service division.

It's quite bad, because it's a rug pull that Apple did. Before all the cloud/service nonsense, what differentiated Apple from the rest was your ability to fully own and manage their devices easily without having to rely on some "forever" subscription.

If people wanted some cloud crap, they could have gone with Google or even Microsoft. But current Apple doesn't care, it cares more about money than a fundamental philosophy that sets them apart.
Right??! Others are downvoting me for supposedly inventing a conspiracy theory but to me it lines up pretty well with their business and could offer some compelling value to customers. Most people haven't read up on their private cloud stuff.

But I really did think that about the Mac Mini power button!
+1 for NextDNS. Have been using them for years for blocking ads but also helped me troubleshoot some issues, as I could live track DNS queries by device.

Note the free plan is great for several devices as long as they’re not Apple. For some reason, 2+ Apple devices blow through the 300,000 query limit really easily. When I used a Pixel 2 I think it averaged 60,000 and fit in the quota with my other devices, and when I switched to iPhone it pushed the total over 300,000. But they’re cheap and definitely worth it.
Yes. That's the future of what MAD between the West and USSR used to be. Promise to destroy the earth if one of the others decides to occupy your continent.
Couldn't agree more.

That this was posted from the official White House Twitter handle (that has been used for official announcements in the past) is disgusting and speaks volumes about how social media has developed for the worse over the years.

That the image in the post is (likely) AI generated speaks volumes about what the real intent of this technology is, as well.
But the culls are smaller, and so the impact lessened. The problem becomes more distributed.

This is the chief reason why Canada's egg prices have remained sane while the US has exploded. It's not like we don't have bird flu here and we haven't had culls. We just have smaller flocks.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/egg-prices-avian-flu-canada-u...

Still, backyard chickens are a hobby, for if you like chickens. It will always cost more than an egg farm.
The streets of Manhattan are not an interstate even though they are poorly regulated as an interstate under antiquated law. This should rightly fall on the people that live there.
Nope, can still catch the flu. Stay home.
That's why you don't send your chickens to business school
If consciousness doesn't arise from the brain, it seems to be suspiciously well correlated with the brain.

I think consciousness arises from the brain.
…Did you just chastise me for being able to orient myself?
And if he finishes his installation of his own "deep state", the institutions will function for the Christian zealots with or without elections.

He generally accuses the other side of the thing he's about to do, so I'm more than a little suspicious of the last election results.
You can argue philosophically that on some level everyone has a point of view and neutrality is a mirage, but that doesn't mean you can't differentiate between an LLM with a neutral tone that minimizes biased presentation, and an LLM that very clearly sticks to the party line of a specific contemporary ideology.

Back in the day, don't know if it's still the case, the Christian Science Monitor was used as the go-to example of an unbiased news source. Using that point of reference, it's easy to tell the difference between a "Christian Science Monitor" LLM and a Jacobin/Breitbart/Slate LLM. And I know which I'd prefer
it doesn't functionally apply anyways. The courts find that so long as the illegal search found some evidence of a crime, it can be admitted to court. The police just have to promise not to do it again
"Any employee obeying a SCOTUS ruling is in violation of this EO, unless the President agrees to that ruling."

You forget the entire framework for EOs. No EO has "except when a court says otherwise". The EOs are subject to checks and balances, such as judicial review. If the EO exceeds its authority (not based on congressional or constitutional means) then it won't be valid. Meaning you can't grant yourself powers that you don't have the authority to grant under the framework. There's case law you can go look at for a history on it.
Downvoting is about strongly disagreeing with the parent's point. It is not demonizing.

Hell, I got downvoted for suggesting that hate was a motivator for a subset of people. I'm sadly confident in that assessment but such is life on teh interwebs.

There's very effective messaging that bends the perception of "progressive" values to be a literal attack on those who don't share those values. It's a strong disagreement and nothing more.

I would be classified as a progressive (but it's not my identity) -- I don't hate people "on the other side". I have not-positive feelings about them (puzzlement, frustration, sadness, and unfortunately, fear), but hate is not part of that equation.

One of the most frustrating things about this situation is that real dialog across the aisles is no longer possible. I could elucidate on why I think so but I don't need more angry downvotes today. Just note that the person you're commenting to will likely avoid sharing anything other than grievances.
You seem to be missing how every point there is underlined with "With the consent and approval of congress". No one can utilaterally do anything in an act of checks and balances. JUdicial interprets and enforces laws on every branch, Congress can re-write the law if they can agree to, And the president is more or less left with a variation of 10th amendment powers with pardons and EO's without needing to consult anyone else.
Most of their ATMs are partner ATMs, meaning it’s just an integration into someone else’s hardware (capex).

Even still, I’m guessing on this volume they’re barely making $500k in annual revenue. Could be a lot less depending on how much they have to share with those partners. Could be a lot more if they’re being extremely shadey with exchange rates or somehow able to gouge on fees.
Pulsar vs Kafka was a significant lesson to me: The "best" technology isn't always the winner.

I put it in quotes because I'm a massive fan of Pulsar and addressing the shortcomings of Kafka. However, with regards to some choices at a former workplace: The broader existing support/integration ecosystem along with Confluent's commercial capabilities won out with regards to technology choices and I was forced to acquiesce.

A bit like Betamax vs VHS, albeit that one pre-dates me significantly.
What exactly are you suggesting here? A standardized test that applies to all your job applications? Or, a candidate having to drive to a test center for every company they apply to? Or something else?
Yeah, having kids and working till 23:00 perhaps ain't possible.

For Europeans and Americans;)
In the UK you can only do that for 2 years max before the company has to legally employ you. Other European countries might differ.
Apple Polishing Cloth adds support for the new iPhone 16e
His helpers are DOGE-stylists? I think the G is a hard G sound.
Wild birds will bring bird flu to your backyard flock too.

It takes a lot of eggs to pay for even a $200 coop + bedding and buying the actual birds.

I don't regret it 4 years in, but don't do it for the economics.
I think this is a solvable problem with a control alteration. There should be a zone right at the start of pushing down the accelerator pedal that is "don't brake without brake input, but don't accelerate"
It has, and a pretty good discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130200
That word "direct" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

It makes the statement unfalsifiable: no matter how long it takes, how twisty the path turns out to be, it will always be a direct path, because what is a path after all if not direct?

He didnt say shortest path, quickest path, or any other qualifier that would set visions of nodes and edges and Graph 101 dancing in our nerdy little heads. It's marketing. Good marketing. I hope they can deliver on it.
Those look pretty cool! I like how nice the price point is nowadays for 10-20mhz bw scopes.

lol @ highend

"Keysigh Bandwidth 6 GHz 8 channels maximum storage depth 1.6G EXR608A Infiniium EXR series oscilloscope"

137,999.86, I like that 86 cents on the end, maybe the cents are a covert communications channel.
Move to The Netherlands, you'll earn anywhere between 50-100k depending on your exact skillset. Importantly we have a special ruling (the 30% rule) which means that you get 5 years paying basically no tax.

Housing is expensive - I watched Louis Rossman's videos a couple of years ago when he was looking for property around NYC and was shocked at the relatively low prices ($500k for large detached houses within 30-45mins commute of a major city at a time when it'd cost $700k for something similar here).

It took me a year to get to C1 level in Dutch when I came over 20 years ago but many people don't bother. You need that to get citizenship (after 5 years of residency) so I would recommend it. Cost me $3k at a Uni fast track (3 x 2 hour a week for a year) to do, most employers will be flexible to enable you to do it.
500/month for a dog? 500 for solar?

Do you need a consultant?
As against bringing in people he can’t trust or control, to not do what he wants, and get an outcome he doesn’t need.

I think this move is a mistake, but what your describing there is just competent management.