skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, when Missouri passed its voter id law they included funding to provide people free id, if needed for voting.

I was working the MO secretary of state office at this time, and though I wasn't directly involved with it, I did see them help a lot of people get ids. Most of the time it was just helping people fill out forms or paying a fee for them but there were a few complicated situations. One woman had fled a domestic violence situation in another state with just the clothes on her back. She had no identifying documents of any kind. The SoS ending up coordinating with two other states to get documents and hiring a lawyer to get a judge to reestablish her identity in court.

So in the case of Missouri at least, real resources were committed to get ids for anyone who asked for it.

> you need to plan a decade or more in advance and actively help people get the IDs.

That's probably true too.
Thanks for the feedback! You're making a point.

You're absolutely right: today, CLIC relies entirely on AJAX, which is not ideal if the connection drops. Loading everything upfront would make it more resilient, but I'm also trying to avoid making users wait several seconds before they can do anything.

That said, the database is "only" 4.3 MB, so yeah, it's not huge, but my priority so far has been to get the compatibility logic right before optimizing performance. Basically, I focus on making sure the results are photographically accurate before worrying about network issues.

Of course, if users can't even load the database, they don't have much to verify!

I see a few ways to improve this:

- Preloading a compressed version (.gz or .br) to reduce size.

- Lazy-loading only what's necessary, then fetching extra data when needed (first need to learn how to do it).

- Implementing a fallback cache (LocalStorage/IndexedDB) to avoid reloading every time.

- Also, one potential optimization would be loading only the most popular brands/mounts first, then fetching the rest on demand.

The problem? I don’t have enough user data yet to know what’s actually "popular" and I won’t get that data unless people use the tool first. So, yeah... chicken & egg problem.

For now, brute force it is, but once I get more feedback on what users search for the most, I can optimize accordingly. It's a trade-off between "just making sure it works at all" and "making it load efficiently." But I’ll definitely look into this!
Isn’t X’s ownership less bias now? You don’t get banned for mainstream political opinions anymore, and the fact-checking seems less biased (as evidence: Elon gets hit with community notes all the time). Certainly Elon makes a bigger scene, but politically he seems more center than Jack was. I mean it wasn’t that many months ago that Elon was considered a solid blue Democrat
The most pushback you get while building it if there is no money coming in. They see you working a lot, being stressed, but still struggling financially, so from their side it's hard to see the benefit of doing it.
I crunched myself to get the game out by the end of 2024 before the saturation I knew was coming took place. I think the simple premise, watchability, humor, and presentation of the game helped it stand out.

My advice: Have a super solid hook, that's marketing. Everything else is promotion and is far less effective.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that Claude/ChatGPT/etc. can just…do that. With the prompt you just gave.

The output could be in Markdown, which is easily turned into a PDF. You would have to break up the input PDF into pages to avoid running out of output window.
Sounds like you need a better partner
> My sense is most of the publisher value lies in getting paid before the game launches, and with marketing around launch, but curious if those are wrong assumptions?

Don't publishers pay you a cut AFTER sales start coming in?
A few thoughts about the article. I can't speak directly to the assertions. I will say any time I've had a price issue at their register, they just adjust the price to whatever I say. They're very proactive about keeping me happy. Usually it's on a bogo - which are super confusing for a few items types.

The Buy2Get1Free sits right along side of bogo; they look the same and the former feels like a trap.

Publix is expensive. I will guess that shoppers who make 10x-20x what I do are the norm. The price differences outlined in the article may not register like it would with us walmart regulars.
At least in common parlance, "fair trade" just referred to paying third world farmers a "fair" (ie. above market value) price.
The US often talks about wanting free markets: but it uses some pretty big sticks too negotiate with and has some fairly hefty demands to get value for the US. The Trans Pacific agreement was pretty ugly as a New Zealander. In particular was the 'Disney' copyright extensions. The US uses it's economic power to increase is economic power, while inviting other countries to sell their low value farming goods cheaply to the US.

And it's not like they are respecting the intention of NAFTA - what's an agreement worth if the US can unilaterally decide to hack around their agreements.
(To appear at STOC 2025 [1], one of the top CS theory conferences, so it's passed peer review.)

[1] https://acm-stoc.org/stoc2025/accepted-papers.html
The threats about suing was some drama that happened back in the end of December last year.

The link you posted is to a fork by a guy who made a video about it back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wz7YF2as-c

It's 15 minutes long. Basically, the original theme author was threatening to sue people, even though he had released his project under the Apache License 2.0.
Thank you so much for the suggestion. I’ve thought about it, but I don’t feel like I have any strong skills outside of coding. I can draw decently as an amateur, but not at a professional level.

I genuinely love coding and often do it in my spare time. My burnout isn’t caused by coding itself but rather by poor management and working on assignments that feel meaningless.
The hardware components have become so small that there is no longer a need to design a creative enclosure. All-in-one computers—phone, tablet, or desktop—can now approach the Platonic ideal of that single flat screen.
That's all I understand about load balancing, is that right?
Static builds with dynamic routes still broken with App Router: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/55393
We simply now have a completely nuts anti-vax Secretary of Health. He probably actually thinks he's saving people from vaccine injury.
> You can't have free markets without personal liberty

I literally just explained why the exact opposite is true. Not a proactive conversation if you’re not going to engage at all with what I said and just talk past it.
The main menu is awesome
Democrats out-fundraised the Republicans last election and were arguably more anti-business (eg. Lina Khan's FTC) than the Republicans.
Bash is everywhere.
you don't cancel something on short notice and not provide a follow up date. That's not the way any of this works. It's not "breathless", they literally picked an antivaxxer to head up the US government's health agency. That's not breathless either, it's a fact, backed by years of evidence. They are trying to dismantle all programs that help the general populace. The people heading up this charge want everything to be in the hands of private millionaires and billionaires. Merely look at whom was picked to head up this stuff. I don't think anyone paying attention can miss something so obvious
Not to mention the total lack of regard for the rule of law, a previous strong point for companies doing business in the US
I think that .NET DLLs can still be loaded by native code? I could throw together a project to check if that actually works or not.

Edit: Using the tool "dllexport" (https://github.com/3F/DllExport), you can create a .NET DLL that exports a function that is callable from C/C++ code. Just LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress.
The ironic thing is, when Steve Jobs introduced this form factor, he made a joke about the “obvious” choice just being a flat slab with the computer guts tucked behind the monitor. But Apple would never do something that boring! https://youtu.be/k74NgDbR7gI?si=zEgsUiQazXB5f1dP&t=3777
https://archive.md/mnWIT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/instage...
Enjoyed the read. Good luck with the future developments.

Now a nerdy question. As someone who investigates SQL injections, why are you running a server based on nginx 1.4.6? Do you know something I don't? :-)
Elon's opinions and moderation preferences have changed quite severely since he was considered a solid blue Democrat. He no longer allows himself to be hit with community notes, for example, ever since he was community noted for spreading misinformation about the Ukranian president's approval ratings.
Thanks for the link, great read, and there were fine points made on both sides.
You do with temporal dithering
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This may be the worst idea I've ever heard.

Confidential, until someone builds a lunar rover to crawl into your 'data center'. Alarms would do what?

Integrity? Radiation. Moon dust. Micrometeorites. Enjoy beating the universe at its forever game.

Availability? Your data is literally on the moon.
have you considered the possibility that despite sanewashing this, it is really a problem? That the current administration is not normal? That perhaps there really is cause for alarm?
No, discussion started with question "Why choose Mongo in 2025?" So, old jepsen reports are irrelevant, and most recent one from 2020 is somehow relevant.
> we’re taking this soon-to-be breakthrough in fusion and applying it

Is this a parody? Performance art? Outright scam?

How does one "apply" a thing that does not exist and has been "coming soon" for decades?

What is next? Of course, my full-service woolly mammoth wash. They are promised to be cloned soon. No, i am not going to solve that problem, just assume someone else will! I am just accepting VC money for my mammoth wash.
That’s why Pastafarianism exists - okay, let’s “teach the controversy” but make sure it’s all the controversies.
> Case in point

No, that people on the Left care about these issues is not the core of your comment. The person you replied to was saying there are issues that most voters would see as frivolous, but the right does a good job of hammering the left on so it seems like it's all they care about. These are issues like trans athletes in sports. Most people don't give a shit, including a lot of trans people, as keeping these issues in the news cycle just brings them unwanted hostility and attention.

But you countered with people wanting to teach about the effects of slavery. That doesn't seem frivolous at all, especially to non-white people. It doesn't fit with the other examples, as it's hard to imagine removing slavery from precedented curriculum being anything but a racist attempt to slowly erase the history of a voting bloc that has historically undermined the Right. The fact that they make CRT, again, a dirty word, is a testament to the power of Fox News.

Why you are not taking a stand for or against that is beyond me. It's patently evil work by the right
I'm aware of a sexual harassment allegation against Musk, but no rape allegation, and wasn't able to find one on Google. Do you care to share a link or retract your claim?
I also stay quiet on modern orthodoxy. I don’t think its believers engage fairly or dispassionately. And that’s not a good strategy for its adherents because you then have a much much larger silent majority and that can lead to the unexpected.
IME, once folks attach some brief or figure to their identity, they turn off the logical part of their mind. They'll look for any support as an escape hatch from uncomfortable facts or conclusions.

It also takes a lot of energy and ink to continuously refute perspectives based solely on indoctrination, vibes, and straight up lies.
We think VLMs would outperform most OCR+LLM solutions in due time. I get that there’s need for these hybrid solutions today, but we’re comparing 20+ year mature tech vs something that’s roughly 1.5 years old.

Also, VLMs are end-to-end trainable, unlike OCR+LLM solutions (that are trained separately), so it’s clear that these approaches scale much better for domain-specific use cases or verticals.
DualPipe: Bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm
Maybe this will help a bit. I'm a drummer. Drums are literally all about doing the exact same thing for hours and hours on end, but with the goal of perfection. What's perfection? That's all in the eyes of the player. Been doing it 15+ years and don't plan on stopping.

I can do repetitive stuff like that for hours on end. A roguelike takes that and makes it a game with some slight variation to keep it interesting (kind of how a drum beat is the same thing, and then you change it to add some variation).
3 repos
DualPipe
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DualPipe
EPLB
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/eplb
profile-data
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/profile-data
newsweek does it fairly often, although they aren't necessarily famous authors.
Could it be possible you are wrong, and it is as bad as everyone here seems to think?
My birth certificate prominently has this written on the top: Can not be used to determine citizenship. I’m a natural born U.S. citizen.
From 1932 to 1980 or so the government tried to break up big monopolies to encourage competition, both parties pretty much agreed not to do that (there are some real benefits to consolidation) until the last 8 year or so because monopoly power is getting extreme. See https://www.thebignewsletter.com/
if op was working at Meta for 10 years and they started at 2013 they probably have more then enough money stashed away to not worry about bills for a few years.
it sounds like Bezos is opposed to any opposing opinions to "free markets" and those won't be found on the editorial page any longer except for occasional opinions
US on average has higher tariffs than the EU, which the USA wants to apply even higher tariffs on
I do data annotation to train LLMs on coding tasks.
It's a highly time sensitive meeting around setting manufacturing targets for the upcoming flu season. It's the kind of thing that when delayed causes actual adverse problems as opposed to cancelling a sprint standup or whatever.
You could probably use significantly less coolant if you're using heat pipes. The coolant is mainly gaseous and only a small mass remains liquid during the cycle
Honestly very impressive to plan a one-year game project and have it take one year!

How many planned features did you have to cut? ;)
? he clearly explains that they couldn't place the CD/DVD drive vertically without reducing the read/write speeds by a lot
You might be off by a generation.

I was born in 86. My dad got the first Mac as he was graduating from college. I think I was 13 when the iMac G3 and the X Public Beta came out.

Computers were well entrenched in my childhood, but it was the people who were adults when we were children that designed the fun ones.
Yeah there is an obvious immediate test here for whether Bezos is sincere about this new direction. An opinion section aggressively advocating for free trade should be able to find plenty of reasons to criticize the new administration. I'm pretty skeptical that's what will happen though.
There is this amazing video [1] of some guy training a pure RL neural network to play Pokémon Red. It's not that old and the problem was certainly never completely solved.

[1] https://youtu.be/DcYLT37ImBY
The only reason that prescription meds are advertised in New Zealand (US and NZ are the only countries in the world that allow direct to consumer pharma marketing) was because the US strong-armed it into a trade agreement.
If there are 25% bidirectional tariffs the big companies win but you lose. In a free market without tariffs you are free to go to the better vendor no matter which country you go to. Competition makes everybody get better.

With 25% tariffs Europeans go to the tired European monopoly and Americans get gouged by the American monopolies. The monopolists agree it's great but you pay more for worse services.
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There is no need for a ToS unless your software has privacy issues because you are spying on users without their 100% informed consent. There is a lot of software that does though.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
What is the value of US trade?
Did Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem author) took Geometric Algebra as inspiration for some elements in his trilogy? There's reminiscent terminology in the story, like weapons names (dual vector foil).
it is so, so demoralizing to see how lacking in critical thought so many of you are. i choose to hope those who leave such callous comments are stupid 20-somethings like me, but i know it isn't true.

you are adults.
you are the ones in charge,
you have been alive for thrice as long as me,
and it's left you addled, heartless, and stupid.

soon, not soon, but sooner than me, you will die, alone and filled with regret, in tatters, scorched by the fires you dismissed.

morons.
RCP (www.realclearpolitics.com) does exactly this every day and has for almost two decades now. Unfortunately, RCP is currently majorly out of favor among liberals for... including in their polling average polls that showed Trump was going to win the 2024 election and linking to op-eds that agreed with Trump at the height of anti-Trump sentiment.
And anyone he designates.
I get that. Honestly I never thought I was skilled enough to teach until I tried it. There are a lot of jobs out there that are easy to learn and adapt to.

Before teaching I did a cleaning job which was satisfying. Headphones in and end my day with the satisfaction of a clean office for the workers tomorrow. City gardening jobs were also lovely. Being out in the sun does wonders for mood. Impossible to get stressed doing the job.

But yeah, it's always scary that bad management can ruin a good thing.
The anti vaccine movement that RFK Jr grifts off of is the hysteria.

Worrying about the grifter crank harming public health is level headed...
We really have to shoehorn him into every discussion, huh.
> and a LLM

this makes me nervous for proper learning of anything in the future. when the first step to learning is an LLM vs learning the basics with a good understanding and then moving to the "advanced" tools, I don't think this is really learning
Depends who was in the meeting.
I don't know if you're thinking about all the millennials or just a few. PCs weren't as common in the early 90s.
Thanks Rand!

1) It obviously varies w/ each dev's situation, but I think your sense of the value prop is a fair default one w/o context. In my case, there were four reasons: 1) having a partner to help with (to me) "the unknown unknowns" (i'm only a dev and a novice designer, literally anything else would be my first time doing it, so i figured having an experienced partner there would be wise) 2) the advance was nice just from a "bird in the hand" mindset 3) they helped me connect with a really good artist (critical to the project's success imho) 4) having a big name behind you can't hurt, and bigger publishers do have more relationships with the ecosystem (streamers, platforms, etc) to help your game succeed.

2) EA is appropriate for certain kinds of games. But I knew exactly what Ballionaire was going to be, and felt it could be achieved in a year. I knew that this mechanical space was going to be rapidly saturated, once all the games inspired by LBAL (including Balatro!) started appearing. So I was determined to get the game out before that happened, which set a certain scope and pace, obviating EA.

3) The trailers were a really good promotional tool, very effective. But most of the paid promotion was sponsored streams, not traditional "marketing" (ads). I think the game has a natural tendency for organic spread, due to its fun/simple premise, watchability/streamability, low price point, and so on. It's just an easy game to see, and say "ooh, I wanna try!" because it's instantly understood how to play, and IMHO is very inviting aesthetically.

My takeaway: Make sure your hook is glowingly radioactively good. Don't overbalance. Leave in some jank. Scope down and finish quickly. And avoid tropes. Stand out. (Of course this only works for a certain kind of game!)
I live in a very red state and mostly know Trump voters. I disagree with them on plenty of political topics (though that was true with Biden voters as well).

I don't consider many of them hateful though, and they are helpful to neighbors.

The last 2-8 years has felt very strange to me comparing what I experience day to day and how I often see our society more broadly described.

I've lived in Seattle, Europe, and the southern US over that time. Everywhere I've been I found people in the area to be friendly and helpful. Watch TV though and it sure seems like whoever the "other side" for a particular context are a bunch of horrible, hateful, angry people that just don't get it.

With regards to MAGA specifically. I don't find most of the ideas I hear floated as more hateful than the overtone coming from the democratic side of the aisle during the pandemic response. Anyone who chose not to get vaccinated was demonized and painted as a murder who hates old people. Anyone who disagreed with the main narrative was generally ostracized and slapped with labels like "anti-vaxxer" or "anti-science".
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One dozen is about CAD 3.00 just north of the US border. So I guess about $0.20 USD each.
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None. What I delivered is what was in the contract.
We never really addressed the issues of the Civil War. Desegregation caused white men to destroy the social fabric of the nation. We used to have municipal pools that were free to use. Ambulances used to be free as well as trash collection. The idea of communities running services ended with desegregation and white flight from the cities. Now we have become an “i’ve got mine, fuck you” nation.
https://archive.ph/Fdr1c
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In media circles, there's a widespread perspective that the opinions page is completely firewalled from the rest of the newspaper and it's wrong to draw inferences that ideological capture of one might influence the other. I personally consider this to be a polite fiction at best, but I have to acknowledge that people who actually work for newspapers pretty uniformly disagree with me.
Yes and some provide funding during development which they recoup later. Every deal is different. Raw Fury provides funding in advance for some.
musks been getting more federal contracts during all this, so it's probably just cutting any spending he can to free up money for him
I'm realizing that there may be people here who are too young to remember how great the ad for this was:

https://youtu.be/b5P3QDm61go?si=eCDEa-9KKjG0b7fQ
It seems like the bigger win financially would be back room deals with pharmaceutical companies selling the next vaccine.

Saving money on social security because more unhealthy people died doesn't directly make anyone in charge any more rich. Unless I missed something you can't short Social Security liabilities.
You can get a valid star ID driver license with a work visa, at least in one state if not more. It has nothing to do with citizenship.
It's wild to me how many very different iMac form factors there were a few years apart. Somehow as a little kid, I remember seeing the iMac G3 and G5 (and the eMac) everywhere but not the iMac G4 until much later. One day was like, wut is that.
Great question! The model can more efficiently leverage existing GPU hardware---it performs more computation per unit of memory transferred; this means that on older hardware one should be able to get similar inference speeds as one would get on recent hardware with a classical LLM. This is actually interesting commercially, since it opens new ways of reducing AI inference costs.