skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what coordinate system they're using and how the math worked a little more.

I guess technically they could use latitude and longitude projected all the way out to the moon, but that would be pretty hard to use.
Nintendo says legal win against piracy "significant" for "entire games industry"
The issue is, if an email is sent to one of my aliases, instead of seeing one conversation between the sender and a recipient (my alias) every message creates a new group chat with the sender, my main account and my alias as members. For every single mail, even when all members are the same, a new group is created. When I reply in that group, then the email will be sent to all group members, including the original sender, and my alias. And sender would always be the main account.

This is a known Delta chat issue, but they deem it too niche to consider properly supporting aliases.

In an ideal world, when an email arrives, it should create a conversation between a sender and a recipient (alias) without adding a main account as a member. Sending a new message in that conversation will automatically use an alias as a sender. For new chats/conversations, I should be able to choose which alias to use.

Then I would be able to use it as a chat UI for my mail messages.
That's a good point. I guess I was only thinking about myself and my own YouTube consumption. My daughter does have to watch ads when watching YouTube on the TV. Now I might have to reconsider the $7 -- even if she likes the Kids ads! May be worth it just for that, since the ads can be borderline sometimes even on YouTube Kids.
Why terrifying? If the US isn't sharing directly, US allies don't get to be the back door for the same US intel to get somewhere.
> If we could just get off the tree-of-diffs model.

That's exactly what Git's innovation was, though. It doesn't work with patches or diffs, it works with (essentially) snapshots of the tree, and how they are related to each other.

You need the commit history, because that's the fundamental point of the VCS. Linux devs need to be able to demonstrate the provenance of each piece of code in the tree. That's the problem that git exists to solve.

> it was a bad, but performant copy of monotone's DVCS UI/UX.

I don't think the UI is what makes git, git. AFAIK Torvalds didn't put much thought into workflow or UI design - that evolved later. It's what goes on inside .git/ that's the innovative bit.
I mean, we are also going to brush past the infrastructure development done by the Japanese when they occupied Taiwan during the Meiji period that made it a valuable island to begin with. Or that Taiwan did a better, more equitable and less violent version of land reform than Mao did. And that Taiwan never expelled academics and didn't attempt the Great Leap Forward.

If so, it would sound like the Chinese people are being mislead about the economic history of the island they supposedly claim.
Climate denier is a bit harsh - I tend to ask questions people don't want answered, and then get thrown into that camp, true.

Let me be clear: the climate IS changing, I just doubt that it's mostly caused, or potentially solved by, human behavior.

It's a great way to sell some solar panels, though.

EDIT: also, let me be clear (because I know how your brain works): I love that we're getting cleaner air. I love that we find alternative sources of energy. That's all amazing! But I predict there's never a "finish line". We'll never do good enough, and our kids will always die. Or our kids' kids. I'm not affected by that thought anymore.
Growth Development Experimentation Template
> Apple has already been in this spot.

Has been. This is importance. Past tense. Maybe that's the point - they gave up on it acknowledging the extra costs / issues.
Why wouldn't they, when the pricing is ahead of the median, too?
Nobody has found or even so much as proposed a very good one. There's a bare handful of reactions that can tend to amplify chirality, but most uncontrolled chemistry (including things like Miller-Urey) produce a biologically-useless random high-entropy mix, and it is fairly unclear that these handful of reactions, which aren't even necessarily obviously useful ones and require some fairly special conditions, could possibly overwhelm the entropy of all the other reactions blasting out random combinations of things.

AFAIK there isn't even a known way to start with "normal chemicals" and produce highly-chiral reactions reliably in the lab. We get all our chiral molecules by extracting them from biology.
Agreed on all fronts. The election reform needs to start at local and state level to get people used to the idea, and because it would be easier to do in the first place.

Ranked pairs seem like it would be cumbersome for "the average voter" to fill out on voting day if the number of candidates exceeds about four. And other methods like Schulze which do simple ranking but complicated math on the calculation are too math-y for "the average voter".

I'm open to ideas but I think in this country we need simple simple simple, while getting rid of the spoiler effect.

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EDIT: Since I have been throttled by the "You're posting too fast, thanks" passive aggressive message, I'll respond here.

I thought ranked pair method involved actually going through each pair and doing a 1v1 vote for every combination. If it is the same "input" as RCV, meaning a single list of preference, then I'm really interested.
I actually call BS on the "not-being-able-to-tell".

I will give you that most people outside of this websites audience will not be able to _tell_ it's because of the refresh rate.

But I am quite confident if you take most of 120hz iPhone users phones out of their hand, turn on low battery mode, most will be immediately able to tell that something _feels_ off.
Well, I hope more immigrants and more green deal policies and more political establishment somehow solves the housing crisis and the neutering of the country's industries in some opposite day fashion.
I’ve extensively studied British history and British legal history specifically. What’s striking is that America, for all the influences on it, has displayed such remarkable continuity with British tradition.

Obviously there’s differences in application of those concepts after hundreds of years. But the point is that when Bangladesh drafted a modern constitution, it reached for concepts dating back to 13th century England. Democracy as we understand it was a long time in the making. They didn’t reach back to the Mughals or the Nawabs of Bengal. This was no indigenous foundation for law-based democratic society. And experience has proven that you can’t transmit such a system from one society to another with ideas or words on paper. It’s the organic result of mother teaching child over generations.

Remember, the american revolutionaries were fighting to vindicate what they saw as the ancient rights of Englishmen, unlike say the french revolutionaries who sought to institute a new regime.
This is highly misinformed. There are strict processing requirements, but it is safe and legally permitted in many specific contexts. This page lists some of the processing techniques and statutory requirements:

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

See also: Dillo dirt
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My desktop is from 2012, so 13 years old so far, but is still very capable at any task I throw at it. It was originally a high-end workstation, but by 2020 was worth so little that I got it for free from someone moving out of town. Last year, upgrading the CPU to the top of the line part that fit the motherboard socket cost $17 (versus an original MSRP of $2300), and upgrading it to 128GB of RAM cost $40.

When even top-of-the-line older hardware is nearly free, it makes little sense to optimize for bottom-of-the-line older hardware.

It does very well on any modern internet task, as well as playing modern video games with a few-year-old used graphics card.
256GB, 512GB only available with M3 Ultra not M4 WTH
> The US has a position as "leader of the free world" which it occupies, at least partly, because it is percieved as committed to supporting democracy and freedom worldwide.

Nobody outside of the US has seen the US as that since at least the gulf war. US involvement since the 90s in foreign issues has been primarily for selfish purposes.
"Greed: A Feature of the System".

I enjoy programming, but if I had the sort of inherited wealth that brought in the equivalent of my compensation, would I be programming? Maybe less. There seems to be a wide debatable space between "a living wage" and "greed".
I fairly frequently encounter wildly incorrect statements made by public-facing roles. While this is the famous human-euthanasia-related headline example of "WTAF were they thinking?", I've got a few more of that ilk in various cases:

• Doctors refusing abortions and the mother dying as a result, even though the law allowed abortion in such cases

• The entire public discourse (shouting match) over the various covid vaccines, and of course the lockdowns — as HN has a broad audience, I should note that regardless of which group any reader of this message thinks was "right", both sides were very loudly convinced the other was risking lives, and that necessarily means that a lot of people were very loudly, very forcefully, wrong

• The UK's DWP telling loads of people they were considered "fit for work" when they were gravely ill and died shortly after

Outside of fatal cases, but still medical:

• I've also noticed that almost every discussion where women share experiences of doctors, regardless of group size, there's women who report doctors ignoring evidence and these women having to solve their medical issues on their own

• I've personally had a GP tell me something was impossible when it had actually happened — In my case, food ending up in nasal cavity, which was very easy for me to know had happened as the food exited about an hour later via a nostril, but the GP thought it was impossible

• Unnecessary surgeries (and I don't mean purely cosmetic surgery) are a thing

• Retained surgical instruments are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retained_surgical_instruments

Between unfeeling bureaucracies and emotional but flawed humans, there's a lot of room for people to end up pressured into unwanted euthanasia.

Figuring out how to minimise suffering given all that? Well, even without that it would be beyond me. But it does make it harder.
1M Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers
I think Slashdot's major changes came after Digg had "died".
Yeah, that's basically where I'm at with options. Not ideal for a cost sensitive application.
Not to be confused with Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119238
It's also possible that some contracts and contractors are more wasteful than others. Perhaps Palantir delivers a lot of value, and insiders know there are much more effective places to make cuts.
They fundamentally broke how the site worked:

- they removed downvoting ("burying")

- they took down the various "Upcoming" pages that allowed users to vet and weigh in on rising stories before they hit the front page

- they replaced the unified home page with algorithmic recommendations (and the algo was garbo)

- they introduced automated publisher accounts that circulated posts from official sources, crowding out organic submissions

- they deleted users' previously saved posts

- they largely deleted all posts, comments, vote counts older than a few months

- they broke the RSS feeds and third-party tools

All the above pissed off power users, and the rest were repelled by the nosedive in quality, the constant bugginess, and some terrible design choices (tiny light-blue-on-white text boxes, all usernames converted to lower case, impossible to view all comments, etc.)
So, the problem with a lot of tools is that they don’t really get the full context of the code. They either suggest things that aren’t a priority or don’t understand the team’s patterns.

I’m part of the team at Kodus—we automate code review, but in a way that actually makes sense for your team. You can set up your own review standards and tweak the minimum severity for suggestions—basically, tell Kody what really matters to you.

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My question wasn't rhetorical, I wasn't doubting that it was possible. I am genuinely asking how OP believes these elections should be conducted. We've got over 3 million Ukrainians living under Russian occupation, I don't see a way to feasibly give them a vote. 6 million Ukrainians are refugees living in other countries. You could try some sort of remote voting for them, but there would be logistical difficulties. That might be possible for the national voting, but what about local election? Would they vote for candidates in their last known address? Or just not get a vote on that? 8 million are refugees living within Ukraine. Same question for them about local elections.

My point is that, ironically, insisting on elections now, DEPENDING ON HOW IT IS IMPLEMENTED, may actually not be the most democratic thing to do. So before I take can take a position on the matter, I would need to know the implementation details.
On their homepage, they have their own logo in the section listing companies that use their products. I mean, if you dogfood it, great, but it doesn't exactly instill confidence if you have to reach for your own company to fill out the list.
this puts you on a desktop with a full-size keyboard or a laptop with a numpad then, which is a very small minority these days with a definite dev-centric skew.
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> The opinion of the Democrats is well known. It's not an awareness problem.

> Until the American people are convinced that these policies are bad, no amount of meetings or protests will help

You've got that second part a bit backwards still. Until the American people are convinced that the policies of the Democrats (or another party) are themselves good, no amount of meetings or protests will help.

For sure, part of that is the negative Republican media machine making its followers think that Democratic reforms they personally rely on (eg "Obamacare") are something different than what they know. But a large part is also that Democratic platform, messaging, and follow-through just doesn't inspire.

I'll admit that's a tough nut to crack - things have gotten so far gone it's either sweeping plans that replace self-determinism with government grants ("socialism" if you're willing to steelman that rallying cry), fundamental but abstract things the average voter won't see the point of, or mild reforms that just temporarily increase breathing room while the underlying extractive dynamic catches up.
Insurgency is not the highest and best use of drones. Odds are we have not yet seen their true capabilities in the hands of a world industrial power.
Pew Research: What we know about the U.S. H-1B visa program
Make that "These go to 11..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
>why would you go FROM Transmission to qBittorrent?

In my case: some torrents wouldn't find known-good seeds in Transmission but worked fine in qBittorrent; there's reasonable (but not perfect) support for libtorrent 2.0 in qBittorrent; my download speeds and overall responsiveness is anecdotally better in qBittorrent, and; I make use of some of the nitty gritty settings in qBittorrent.
It was you who brought up deterrence...
In fairness, the sun and dec boxes I used back then (up to about 1999) could hold their own against intel machines.

Then, one day, we built a 5 machine amd athlon xp linux cluster for $2000 ($400/machine) that beat all the unix and windows server hardware by at least 10x on $/perf.

It’s nice that we have more than one viable cpu vendor these days, though it seems like there’s only one viable fab company.
True. But an AI shop doesn't care about that. They get more performance for the money by going for multiple Nvidia GPUs. I have 512 GB ram on my PC too with 8 memory channels, but it's not like it's usable for AI workloads. It's nice to have large amounts of RAM, but increasing the batch size during training isn't going to help when compute is the bottleneck.
> If the US government wants Peter Thiel assets, including his life, it can just take them...

Billionaires go radically apoplectic and turn into propagandistic freaks when the US government is simply not reducing their taxes fast enough. I actually think most people don't want this massive wealth gap, but we're reaching the point where it's impossible for the will of the people to find expression in our government, especially now that the billionaires are literally running the joint.
How much waste do you think is acceptable?

Would you like to make a guess now on how much will ultimately be saved by DOGE?
Are those taken up by plants? I think there’s even some debate around the effects of using treated wood for raised vegetable gardens. Last when I looked into it, I think there was some elevated arsenic in plants and the advice was to plant a few inches away from the edges of the bed since the exposure drops off.
By what grounds do you make this statement?

My understanding is there are dozens of people working on it.
> Did Slashdot really kill itself or was it just never ambitious enough to seek a broader base or try to foster communities?

It's still around, but there's one simple DAU measure we can look at: it used to be that stories would get 100-500 comments, and now they usually get 5-30.

But I don't think it's a good example of what the parent is complaining about. Slashdot didn't change to be more hostile, it was fairly hostile from the get go. It had a snarky commenting culture, fairly brutal moderation, etc. You'd be downvoted into oblivion for the most minor transgressions - like not hating Microsoft enough.

It just happened to be the only game in town for geek news. But then, a number of alternatives popped up - tech-related subreddits, HN, etc. I stopped using Slashdot not because of any redesign or policy change, but simply because I could get the same news elsewhere, with a lower entry bar to participate.
It’s only a thing for the M1. Asahi is a Sisyphean effort to keep up with new hardware and the outlook is pretty grim at the moment.

Apple’s whole m.o. is to take FOSS software, repackage it and sell it. They don’t want people using it directly.
The first thing I noticed in all of these announcements is that every main comparison is against M1. Why are they comparing with hardware 2-3 generations ago? I don't care whether my Intel i9 has 50x the performance of a Pentium processor from the 90s, it seems like a disingenuous attempt to make the numbers as high as possible.
Quality, perceived quality, nationalism?
the timing attack you're describing is extremely common -- not unique to PGP -- and simple to mitigate. do you have more literature about the attack, or attacks, that you're describing?
Geometric Algebra supporters keep advertising that rotors are great since they work in any dimension, which makes me wonder: would an arbitrary n-dimensional SVD-like decomposition benefit from using rotors instead of rotation matrices, and if so how? And if not, why?
Design by Decision Fatigue
You mean the creator embedding their own ads into their videos?
> The US is not a one party state so its direction on these questions may be unclear for a while, but I think I know how Trump, Gabbard, Rubio etc. will answer that question as the working class very much put them in office

Endless misdirection of targeted greedy promises and opportunism did. The coins launched right before the election blew through the emoluments clause, and the tweet threatening removal of funding from universities with "illegal" protests is targeting the first amendment along with news organizations that are feeling the pressure.

The opposition will be but a token, and the bargaining power of the average person is the ultimate target for destruction.
I assume they are getting ready for the next year or two of LLM development.

Maybe there's not much market right now, but who knows if DeepkSeek R3 or whatever will need something like this.

It would be awesome to be able to have a high-performance local-only coding assistant for example (or any other LLM apllication for that matter).
Yep. Somewhere I was browsing had a dark mode theme done by using a full page invert and hue rotate but had to exempt the images from that transform. It was about as slow as you might imagine a per-pixel transform (or two) would be.
Has it? These names are basically (architecture version, amount of compute) tuples. Much better than what AMD, Intel, Nvidia, etc. are currently doing.