skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't rule out Harris' internal polling just being bad and the public polling was superior. We're looking at a team whos message was "our opponent is a racist, homophobic, sexist, rapist, felonic avatar of Hitler" and then saw him gain margin which is quite remarkable. What did voters have to see in Harris' team for that to happen? They're clearly doing something wrong. If the team managed that I wouldn't assume their pollsters were a lone beacon of competence.

It seems quite plausible they hired bad pollsters and their internal data was off.
> That this has not been historically true in the United States is the notable outlier.

So, bootlicker, got it.

And yes, it is very much a character thing...
Highly recommended .. even the main contents diagram is a great visual overview of RL in general, as is the 30 minute intro YT video.

Im expecting to see a lot of hyper growth startups using RL to solve a realworld problem in engineering / logistics / medicine

LLMs currently attract all the hype for good reasons, but Im surprised VCs dont seem to be looking at RL companies specifically.
I think this is the second time I've read this blog post, but it increasingly strikes me as parenting advice.

Translated to that domain, it reads "teach your kids how to think, not what to think".
> Galileo et al also have publicly available cryptographic signatures so you can't actually spoof them, only jam them.

Replay attacks still work allowing one to spoof location.
the analogy between deep learning and gardening resonated is a refreshing perspective that highlights the care, and intuition required in both fields. there’s a lot of truth in the idea that both need ongoing attention and a willingness to adapt. tbh sometimes it feels like we're throwing compute or anything that sticks to improve llm performance, so this article felt like a moment of reflection to me
This is not the correct law. I think this is a law where congress is trying to force the US attorney general (and with them the states' attorneys general) to immediately rescind a visa and deport individuals in certain cases, such as the named felonies.

A lot such laws exist, because there has been a long fight between the federal government and various states about deportation (and of course, it's not just federal vs states, there's also states that want people in other states to get deported, e.g. New York vs Texas)
@iracigt: There were many thousands of people who were unsurprised (but irritated and then outraged) when Mr. Snowden revealed such disturbing confidential information that they already knew or expected, but who also had known to keep secret and only speak about in general terms among those with whom they had already established credibility to know or understand such difficult to conceive matters.

The proof that you clearly seek of the "backdoor" can come one of three ways, another Snowden-like leak from inside the CCP-controlled Chinese chip fabricators, or more of this inexpensive novice-level probing/jailbreaking of such devices through their digital interfaces and protocol implementations, or via expensive and time consuming analog analysis (eg, TEMPEST, etc.) that study the device's radiology across the whole spectrum. (But even with imaging of the die, there is now a published technique that allows for the FAB to hide new or altered functionality until a sequence of opcodes are executed --in the field!) Nobody outside of government is going to spend much on trying to "(de)certify the integrity" of incredibly cheap ($7!) Chinese SoCs that suspiciously began "flooding the market" during the Pandemic-induced chip "shortage" simply because the circumstantial evidence and technical feasibility of their threat is so overwhelming. Just ask the manufacturer if they included a backdoor: If they know you are a credible questioner and/or may already have the answer, they will typically respond with something like "the other party does the same thing" or "its for debug purposes and will be removed." If they don't believe you to be credible, they will simply not answer you or may, as required by their law, lie. So, until there is another Snowden-like data dump involving CCP-controlled Chinese chip fabrication, you probably won't have access to any proof.

Bottom line: Master computer scientists warn that it is likely modern CCP-controlled Chinese SoC manufacturers are producing products that are vulnerable to RF-side exploitation (think of the signal that the Greeks used to know when to jump out of the Trojan Horse and start killing Romans). I would not ever trust these devices to critical infrastructure or even in many in-home scenarios, like boiler/water/gas operations, cameras/telemetry or automotive. A recommended Western alternative is the Raspberry Pi PICO 2 W. Perhaps one day Apple will be run by a new generation of executives that see another way to Change The World by entering this market.

https://youtu.be/ZO9M4zi4uGw
Before, the owner had this cool thing. It was a bit abstract. But the thing that they had was this. They had a state of being in which you didn't have the content. If you now have the content, you've deprived them of existing in this state. A state where you didn't have it.

Or at least that's how I read it.
That doesn't even really work for me. I can type on autopilot. I've found the best way for me is to implement the tutorial thing in a different programming language. Something about translating between languages requires just enough mental work to help make it stick.
I don 't think they are getting enough funding to really make it. There would be no SpaceX without massive NASA contracts.
in that case: https://github.com/swaggo/swag
New Journalism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
After the L.A. wildfires, State Farm draws ire over claims response
17.5 km range. So five miles out and five miles back. So like a three hour hike. Anyone should be able to do that without a friction-burn- causing Roboleg attachment.

I guess if it meant I could bring my paraplegic neighbor hiking it would be cool.
You used to be able (specific countries only) get an automatic visa on entry.

There were people active in the San Francisco startup scene from multiple countries who would go for a 'holiday' nearby (mexico, canada, etc) for a week every 2-3 months and then get a new 3 month visa on re-entry. One of them told me that after almost two years of that he started getting tougher conversations at re-entry, but was still allowed through.

This is from 2010ish, so maybe things have changed. But it certainly isn't possible to just assume that she broke the rules from that description, because it hinges on extremely technical reading of multiple overlapping legislation and regulation.

Side note on people trying to reason outside their field of knowledge: any American who has never had to deal with visas for incoming people has a useless opinion. The US media on this is hyperpolitical garbage and grievance politics. Not particularly directed at the original poster, just a request to so many indulged Americans who feel informed and entitled on this topic while they are demonstrably wrong.
Thanks! Lists were the bane of my existence with this project. I could never make all the browsers happy.

This is a #wontfix (sorry), but I might fork it into a new, LLM-oriented CSS project. Fonts and lists will be the first things I look at.
Pretty sure Half-Life does something pretty similar - all functionality between the game and engine is done via function pointer structs.
I don't think billionaires measure their wealth by the amount of assets they can buy. If they did, they would probably lose interest in increasing their wealth after the first $1B. Afterall, what can you buy with $2B than you can't buy with $1B? No, it is all about status and keeping score. It is not enough that I $xB, I need to have more than all the other billionaries. That is why they can never have enough.
Ah yes, git and mercurial – the perfect place to save 3TB of binary data that changes weekly.
Android's native Linux Terminal app is live in Google's latest update
One character change provides 20% savings for Meta
Tl;dr: someone forgot an '&' and passed a copy instead of a reference.
It has worked for guns - the countries where guns are a problem either have very lax regulation, or very lax enforcement (because of a breakdown of government)
Well, trying to have 'safe' opinions is not completely illogical. It's a survival strategy.
Youtube seems to be fighting with video downloads? I receive "sign in and prove you are not a bot" every day when using Tor (and without Tor YouTube is not accessible). I don't mind watching ads or solving captchas but Youtube chose the worst method.
Battery energy density has come a long way but I have a hard time believing a 400g battery can do much at 800w (even just peak) for long. Moving large masses like human bodies requires a lot of energy.

The ergonomics of this design look much less likely to snag and get in the way than other powered exoskeletons I've seen though. Replace the electrical motor and battery with a chemical energy system (internal combustion, or even just hydrogen peroxide decomposition on silver catalyst) and this could go a long way (but with higher response latency, much higher noise, and increased control complexity).
A look back at some retro web banner ads
Day in the Life of a Korean Salaryman
TL;DR

Microplastics degrade photosynthesis by 7-12% on average, 6-18% in terrestrial crops such as corn and wheat, 2-12% in marine plants, 4-14% in algae. The entire web of life is impacted.

These reductions translate into a range of 4-13.5% yield loss for farmers per year over the next 25 years (forecasted). It also impacts climate change as reduced photosynthesis reduces the carbon sink in climate models making target changes needed that much harder to meet.

No international agreement on reducing plastic pollution/production has been ratified with the last serious discussion happening in 2017 by the UN.
okay? true, but how is this relevant?
That's only one example of K8s weirdness that can wake you up at 3am. How: change is rolled out during business hours that changes service config inside ConfigMap. Pod doesn't get notified or reload this change. Pod crashes at night, loads the new (bad/invalid) config, takes down production. To add insult to injury, the engineers spend hours debugging the issue because it's completely unintuitive that CM changes are not reflected ONLY when using subPath.
If you have fast internet you will probably not really notice the difference

The difference between v2 and v3 is that v3 will no longer allow uBlock to modify network calls. Previously one of the big savings of a adblocker is they can stop the calls from being made AT ALL. That means less tracking AND less of your internet bandwidth being used

Both v2 and v3 can block the actual elements from your screen so you will probably still not see most of the ads. But you will still be able to be tracked and your data will still be used in the background
I was mostly addressing the idea expressed in other places in this thread that aviation without GPS is fine, not your specific point. To address your question, the commercial aviation world is still in the process of figuring out how to deal with the new, current reality of GPS jamming and spoofing. They're developing new procedures, designing new equipment, and changing priorities and plans. While this happens they're downplaying the risks in press releases and statements to avoid spooking the public.

"If this is a regular thing, shouldn't we have ways of using the airport without hoping that the jamming is having an off day?" Yes. But it takes time and money. This level of GPS interference is relatively new, and for about the past 30 years you could basically assume GPS would be available.
Mozilla could piss on our breakfast and people will still assume it's probably Tang and we should avoid overreacting.

They acqui-hired ex-Meta ads people, the culture will obviously leak (tee-hee) and it is what it is.
You can choose the permissions on v2 as well.

The change in v3 is that uBlock cannot even ask for more permissions any more
One reason I think Tailwind became so popular is that it makes it much easier to pattern match CSS. I don't think it's a good or bad thing, it's just a thing.
I’ve been considering this to get media on my Surface tablet. There’s no “legitimate” way of having offline content on a Windows tablet which baffles me. Netflix, Prime, Disney… none of them will allow you to download content for offline viewing on Windows.
Why? Just ask an LLM if your taxonomy skills are weak. They'll transfer eventually.

Things like BEM give you the most flexibility for extension, things like atomic CSS (tailwind) give you the most velocity for not giving a fuck about ever touching the markup again.
Where's the edge?
I think using the word “intelligence” when speaking of computers, beyond a kind of figure of speech, is anthropomorphizing, and it is a common pseudoscientific habit that must go.

What is most characteristic about human intelligence is the ability to abstract from particular, concrete instances of things we experience. This allows us to form general concepts which are the foundation of reason. Analysis requires concepts (as concepts are what are analyzed), inference requires concepts (as we determine logical relations between them).

We could say that computers might simulate intelligent behavior in some way or other, but this is observer relative not an objective property of the machine, and it is a category mistake to call computers intelligent in any way that is coherent and not the result of projecting qualities onto things that do not possess them.

What makes all of this even more mystifying is that, first, the very founding papers of computer science speak of effective methods, which is by definition about methods that are completely mechanical and formal, and this stripped of the substantive conceptual content it can be applied to. Historically, this practically meant instructions given to human computers who merely completed them without any comprehension of what they were participating in. Second, computers are formal models, not physical machines. Physical machines simulate the computer formalism, but are not identical with the formalism. And as Kripke and Searle showed, there is no way in which you can say that a computer is objectively calculating anything! When we use a computer to add two numbers, you cannot say that the computer is objectively adding two numbers. It isn’t. The addition is merely an interpretation of a totally mechanistic and formal process that has been designed to be interpretable in such ways. It is analogous to reading a book. A book does not objectively contains words. It contains shaped blots of pigment on sheets of cellulose that have been assigned a conventional meaning in a culture and language. In other words, you being the words, the concepts, to the book. You bring the grammar. The book itself doesn’t have them.

So we must stop confusing figurative language with literal language. AI, LLMs, whatever can be very useful, but it isn’t even wrong to call them intelligent in any literal sense.
shout out for the house of the underdogs!

anybody else remember abandonware games??
Not if you have a "chip-clip" programmer, but I get your point.
HN Confessional: I wrote a custom theme for my server management software a few years ago that's basically just a rewrite of the stock theme's rather large CSS file. Among a little more than 1200 lines, I include `!important` 175 times. I imagine that causes hives among our more discerning front-end devs.
They can still block elements from appearing on your browser but in the background the network calls are still being made. That means you are no longer being protected from tracking and your internet is once again being slowed down by the loading of ads
> made my 1 year old iPhone unusable on purpose overnight to make me buy a new one

This claim is obviously not true. The evidence required to believe it would be extraordinary. Do you have it?
That's just lazy patch note writing
The connection between car maintenance and diet is exactly the same as the connection between the inclusion of ublock origin support in a chromium fork and public health policy during a pandemic — they are both fully and completely disconnected with no overlap whatsoever in any meaningful way _but_ they are things that make some folks very happy when they can point at a thing and say “This means this person is a member of my in-group of good-opinion-havers”
Well said.

If the database they're built with is well curated and the queries run against them make sense, then I imagine they could be a very, very good kind of local search engine.

But, training one on twitter and reddit comments? Yikes!
Subject: Thank You for Your Feedback on the Survey

Dear mdaniel,

Thank you for your thoughtful feedback regarding the accessibility of my survey. I completely understand your concerns about the requirement to sign in with a Google account, as it might deter some participants.

Based on your input, I’ve updated the survey settings so that signing in is no longer required. Additionally, I am exploring alternative platforms like SurveyMonkey to further enhance accessibility and inclusivity.

Your suggestion has been incredibly helpful, and I greatly appreciate your time and effort in pointing this out. If you have any additional feedback or suggestions, please feel free to share them with me.

Best regards,
That sounds exactly like a media solo issue. Except the fact that it's billionaire new media choose who gets to see what ad. I would be surpsied if part of big tech's choices on ads wasn't based on the leaders' own preferences. Especially in swing states
Was it hypothesised that an aggressor could hack into a ship and control?

I know nothing about this case, but a belligerent actor control taking control has been thought of as a risk.
Imagine being able to get a 10 mile farther than you could without the roboleg.
Yep, I absolutely will not play these stupid games with retailers. If you want my business, don't expose me to malware.
They will continue to "work". Both v2 and v3 allows extensions to block elements from the DOM. However, only in v2 can they modify actual network calls. With v3, those network calls will still be made. Which means you are no longer protected from tracking and your web browsing experience is once again being slowed down by the loading of ads even if you don't see those ads
Only the middle phase of the S-curve is exponential.
Can you point me to the law you believe covers this? All of the coverage I’ve read says otherwise and that includes older discussions from Trump’s first term. Everything says some kind of serious crime - felony, support for terrorism, etc. – or something like marriage fraud or other problems with his actual immigration application.

https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-arrest-o...

https://www.newsweek.com/president-donald-trump-mahmoud-khal...
For most of England there is a high pollution alert; I’m pretty sure a fire of this scale couldn’t cause high pollution levels across the whole of Eastern England, and much of Belgium.
It looks great, specifically for me. I can't comment on anyone else, but I have to imagine it's dysfunctional. I abstracted as many color and style options as possible to allow for a lot of variable-setting. I unreservedly apologize for the affront to common decency (but I'm probably still gonna use it). Gotta have that transparent glass effect on ma' netstats.
I wish I could say "no fucking way that would be absolutely ridiculous"
There’s a lot of words but little truth.

- Schedule F employees can be fired without due process.

- Additionally, 5 U.S.C. § 7513 allows for the removal of employees if it promotes the efficiency of the service (basically layoffs - and that is what Trump is doing).

- probation employees can be fired

In short no federal employee is fired unlawfully. But if Im wrong there have to be an example and courts can easily intervene (and they did in some other cases).
AbBlockers work on iOS too. Safari/WebKit has no plans to deprecate Manifest V2
The "Lesser GPL" (preceded by "Library GPL") doesn't prevent usage, to my knowledge; it isn't hypocritical with regard to freedom zero.

It allows certain combined works to be redistributed whose redistribution would be forbidden by the GPL, like proprietary, closed-source programs dynamically linked to a LGPLed library.

Given a GPLed library, you can make such a combined work anyway, and use it; but you may not redistribute it.

The LGPL is more free than the GPL, whereas the AGPL is nonfree.

In 2016, the Cygwin project LGPLed its libraries (DLLs). That was great news; that meant I could bundle a BSD-licensed program without having to put a GPL license on the combined work as a whole and cast doubts about how it could be used (since it is a programming language implementation, needing to be redistributed by downstream developers).

I immediately started working on a fork of the Cygwin DLL that would enable it to serve as a more native-looking run-time for Windows applications. I could build the program on Cygwin (and make a regular Cygwin package), but also ship exactly the same executable as a Windows application by bundling it with the modified cygwin1.dll.

The LGPL is good.

In computer science, there is the question whether P =? NP.

Likewise, we have the question GPL =? LGPL; would the GPL's unreasonable exclusion of dynamic linking hold up in court, or would it fall, reducing GPL to LGPL?

I'm of the opinion that everything library-like should use the LGPL rather than the GPL (if it must use some kind of GPL). The LGPL is what the GPL should be (if it legally isn't already anyway).

The LGPL is better for promoting free software. If some developer has a choice between a proprietary library and a free one, it's counterproductive to slap a GPL on the free one to steer them to the other one.

Obviously, the LGPL is used for platform libraries like Glibc, based on similar reasoning, which is probably also why Cygwin sobered up and switched to LGPL. Because banishing proprietary programs from linking to the libraries that comprise free platforms would be counterproductive. You just lose user base and mind share.
The night is young. Perhaps better comments will show up still.
Talos for on prem k8s is dead simple
That's pretty cool, I didn't know this type of stuff was available to consumers. The reviews on their site seem really enthusiastic, lots of older folks and mobility-restricted folks seem extremely pleased with the product and post action videos. Can't wait to see where this technology goes by the time I need it.
Not even pixel perfection but also coming up with UX ideas by people who don’t understand technical details.

Like QA not passing some detail because they think it should be different. Where in reality it is what it is because of framework etc.

Yes you mostly can do everything - but not everything is worth spending time/money on.
Discussion (504 points, 11 days ago, 81 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43196207
If you're looking to move away from Chrome, Firefox + uBlock Origin is still your best bet IMO. Mozilla's committed to keeping the robust ad-blocking capabilities alive despite Google's changes.

Brave is decent too if you want something Chromium-based but more privacy-focused (comes with minor controversies).

Safari works well if you're in the Apple ecosystem.

I actually run a dual-browser setup these days - Firefox for most browsing, and only fire up Brave for those annoying sites that Google has mysteriously "optimized" to run poorly elsewhere. Not ideal but gets the job done!