skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost every major model had this outcome as very likely.

There was an inordinate amount of very close swing states in 2024. Whichever way the swing was gonna be was likely to apply across the board.

If you're going by popular vote, then this was actually the 8th closest election in all of US history.
Just use Brave if you can't be bothered to use some extremely ethical alternative that's harder to set up. It blocks everything out of the box. Now, if you do worry about supporting more ethical browsers, try qutebrowser (with some greasemonkey scripts added in).
Musk is lucky enforcement wasn't as strict back then.
And how does it make a profit and what does it do with a profit?

Perhaps ask if they think we should hire more LEOs to sit on the roads to write more traffic tickets to generate revenue to make profits to pay for more things including salaries and bonuses to our government officials... Like how businesses run (paying bonuses for being more profitable). What perverse incentives and outcomes might that lead to?
she in a position to lose time, emotional stability, etc. such a pain in the ass for what? shes already been abused and trampled by the system. give her a break for not jumping at the chance to say "more, please"
Regardless of your political stance, the owner of a newspaper dictating that they will be "writing every day in support and defense” of “personal liberties and free markets." means they are no longer journalism and are simply propaganda.
I switched to Brave last week after the whole Firefox fiasco. I installed uBlock Origin after there were some ads that got through.

e.g. on DuckDuckGo.
That's bully mentality, that the bully was provoked and is somewhat justified.
ah the advertising ecosystem.

even when an outsider tries to think of the nastiest scam, an insider shows up to explain the boring day to day is already worse.
Crazy as it seems I feel it's not safe to say this on my main account any more - I've done more than 100 trips to the US for work in the last decade but I've now concluded I've done my last for a few years at least. There's been a real uptick in these stories and now people legally in the US are being actively targeted and effectively disappeared for speech it doesn't feel like normalcy or due process apply. Similarly I wouldn't have visited China during the cultural revolution.
If always wonder if their was a 4g to 3g converter to keep old devices working when 3g network shut down.
Wow thanks. As a former regular reader it's felt a lot longer

They've had several major cuts in the past couple of years so maybe that's why it's felt like that
They used that logistics system to export most of the food that Ireland produced as they were growing more food than they needed, not even counting potatoes. But the English would pay more, so another great free market experiment.
Brave has a history of very concerning behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers....
There’s no famines going on anywhere in Latin America. Yet we had more immigrants to the U.S. last year than during the entire ten year period from Ireland during the great famine.
This page[1] says "The majority of removals are carried out by air at U.S. government expense." which sounds like a free flight to me. Looking at prices, a near term one-way, no stops flight is about $500. There's some expensive days, and if you wait two weeks, you can save about $70 on the flight ... doesn't seem to be worth the wait, assuming detention costs are more than $5/day. But I'd say waiting a few days to avoid some of the $1000+ flights would make sense.

Generally I'd expect a deportation process to take quite some time because immigration courts have not been properly staffed. But I would have expected ICE to offer either a withdrawal of application, or voluntary deportation, both of which involve travel arrangements at the alien's expense in order to expedite removal. I think it's probably in the person's better interest to pay for a ticket home (hopefully with some credit for their previously scheduled flight) if they were planning on returning home anyway; better to go home early than sit out your trip in immigration detention.

[1] https://www.usa.gov/deportation-process
Quora has some informative responses:

https://www.quora.com/Is-ARM-RISC-derived-or-inspired-by-the...
That’s pretty much what the British did in Bengal.
The hypocrisy of everything under this administration boggles the mind. "You're here illegally! No, we won't let you leave!"
> (which an RTL-SDR cannot do)

Is that true? RTL-SDR are derived from a chip designed for DVB-T tuners.
Oh yeah, forgot about that: you can do profile guided optimization on the entire running image of code in the machine.

I wonder how much of a boost you'd get for that? I'm sure it would depend on the work load.
> and have her walk back and forth until the problem solves itself.

God I had a memory of Lemmings pop up. Thank you for that, it made me smile.
Listened to a podcast with Bending Spoons recently, part of The Pragmatic Engineer series.

They discuss their acquisition strategy and having heard it this action is not surprising. Their perspective on this was interesting and very honest, but entirely unsentimental.
Barter isn’t really “unpaid”, but you also just shouldn’t be working if you don’t have work authorization. Border authorities have the means and motivation to validate any story you have about your stay.
Human level artificial intelligence has never had much appeal to me, there are enough idiots in the world, why do we need artificial ones? Ie if average machine intelligence mirrored human IQ distribution?
just deny entry. detaining someone for multiple months for tattoos is evil.
That plan doesn't have enough suffering.
They complement each other beautifully.
Depends on what cards one is holding.

Getting half of what one wants and not being driven off a cliff can be preferable to smiling in moral smugness while the car arcs through the air.
I thought the browser would be faster when blocking more ads, not fewer ads.
Do you think the open source community is capable of maintaining Firefox without Mozilla? I find that doubtful. Even if they did, without Mozilla, Cloudflare and friends would start trying to kill Firefox like they do to other independent browsers.
He's done a fantastic job acting like a leader who wants to prevent his people being genocided.
This can potentially accelerate more in US than in China because of for-profit prisons.
What they're good for is telling you that things are close. A tied poll or a 50-50 model can tell you that if your beliefs think it's 99% to go one way, you're probably overconfident, and should be more prepared for it to go the other way.

I cared about the result, because it was going to decide whether I settled down in the US or whether I wanted to find a different place to live. And because I paid attention to those polls, I knew that what happened was not particularly unlikely. I prepared early.

A lot of people I know thought it couldn't happen. They ignored the evidence in front of them, because it was distasteful to them (just as it was to me). And they were caught flat-footed in a way that I wasn't.

That's not the benefit of hindsight: I brought receipts. You can see the 5,000 equally-likely outcomes I had at the start of the night (and how they evolved as I added the vote coming in) here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11nn9y9fusd-6LQKCof3_... .
That's pretty exciting!
> There is no way that's true in my research

thats rare. i also worked in a lab that had a high degree of internal discourse freedom and low tolerance of fraud. it still took a lot of fortitude for one of the grad students to force a retraction of 4-5 papers of the lab (but it did happen). and many of my colleagues lost years of their lives by chasing other labs' misconduct. so either its a widespread problem or even the ppl in the good labs are too dimwitted to notice when things are sheisty
Well, there's also school.
As an Irish person when I saw the article title, I was immediately sceptical.

I personally believe most articles about the famine shy away from the horror of it, and also from a frank discussion.

Going to give some subjective opinion here: people generally downplay the role of the British government and ruling class in it.

Why? One personal theory - growing up in the 80s in Ireland there was a lot of violence in the north. (Most) Irish people who were educated or middle class were worried about basically their kids joining the IRA, and so kind of downplayed the historical beef with the British.
That's come through in the culture.

There's also kind of a fight over the historical narrative with the British, maybe including the history establishment, who yes care a lot about historical accuracy, but, also, very subjectively, see the world through a different lens, and often come up through British institutions that view the British empire positively.

It's often easier to say the famine was the blight, rather than political. (They do teach the political angle in schools in Ireland; but I think it's fair to say it's contested or downplayed in the popular understanding, especially in Britain.)

However that article is written by a famous Irish journalist and doesn't shy away from going beyond that.

Perhaps a note of caution - even by Irish standards he'd be left leaning, so would be very politically left by American standards; he's maybe prone to emphasize the angle that the root cause was lassiez-faire economic and political policies. (I'm not saying it wasn't.)

I personally would emphasize more the fact that the government did not care much about the Irish people specifically. The Irish were looked down on as a people; and also viewed as troublesome in the empire.

Some government folks did sympathize, of course, and did try to help.

But I personally do not think the famine would have happened in England, no matter how lassiez-faire the economic policies of the government. A major dimension must be a lack of care for the Irish people, over whom they were governing; and there are instances of people in power being glad to see the Irish being brought low:

"Public works projects achieved little, while Sir Charles Trevelyan, who was in charge of the relief effort, limited government aid on the basis of laissez-faire principles and an evangelical belief that “the judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson”."
per the UK parliament website!

It's not an easy thing to come to terms with even today. I recently recorded a video talking about how fast the build out of rail infrastructure was, in the UK, as an analogy for how fast the AI infra build out could be; and I got a little quesy realizing that during the Irish potato famine the UK was spending double digit GDP percent on rail build out. Far sighted, yes, and powering the industrial revolution, but wow, doing that while mass exporting food from the starving country next door, yikes.
Show HN: I made a scroll-based Persian poem viewer
This mixes up accuracy with precision and 538 had written at length about this.

There's a big difference between pollster bias correction vs rating.

There are many pollsters that are pretty consistently +2D/R but are reliably off from the final result in that direction. These polls are actually extremely valuable once you make the correction in your model. Meanwhile, polls that can be off from the final result by a large amount but average out to about correct should not be trusted. This is a yellow flag for herding

A pollster can have an A+ rating while having a very consistent bias in one direction or another. The rating is meant to capture consistency/honesty of methodology more than result
The entire wrapped package of tested prompts, context management etc. is a whole step change from what you can build yourself.

There is a reason Cursor is the fastest startup to $100M in revenue, ever.
The transmitter has an electronically switched antenna that virtually moves in a circle at 3600 rpm, causing FM modulation phased with direction. The carrier is also AM modulated with a reference phase signal.

I built a gnu radio flowgraph to receive both and display heading to the VOR.
Total lunar eclipse on Pi day
yes, it was a BIOS, no it could not be downgraded
Nah. Habeus Corpus applies to everybody in the US, not just citizens.
Trump crossed the threshold from being more unpopular than popular this week. If history is any guide, he won't recover from that during his term https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
> last launch was not a bulletproof hit

This has got to be a double-entendre[1]. If so, well done. If not, still well done.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udxR5rBq_Vg
The shrouded sinister history of the bulldozer
It's also easy to guess someone isn't a black person because black people would be aware of the litany of human rights abuses that were common and systemically applied in the US prior to the 1960s (and some still today).
i built this but could not get to stream it properly so removed it before deployment. my local version plays a playlist when this loads in the browser and its a party
I wish that was the case.

Opening the "data safety" section another pop-up[1] comes up and the specific use-cases listed are "advertising or marketing" and "personalisation".

[1] - https://i.imgur.com/QwqiQna.jpeg
Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz is retiring
If they have to update it after they shipped it, that means they shipped it before it was done. I don't get why we all put up with that. And before you say "but what about the complexity?!?" I'll respond with "why do you think you need that?"

I'd pay so much more for simple tools I can buy once and never have to buy another again.
You can achieve the same (or similar) thing with Firefox profiles. Just launch with "-p" and it'll give you a profile picker. You can have a work profile with separate extensions, bookmarks, settings, etc.
No. They are outdated and focused on strange things. You wont understand ppo from his textbooks
Howl, Grunt, Sing
Fascinating podcast on whether animal communication is a language.
I had a 2023 ASUS Zephyrus G14 (AMD 6800 + 6900HD dGPU) and I took a battery hit, but not near what you saw. Somewhere closer to 20-25%.

It’s bigger problem was it was far too eager to trigger the dGPU, especially with accelerated graphics in browsers and the like. So I ended up running it in integrated only mode, unless I wanted to play games.
> So the causality is the other way around.

Yes and I'm arguing there's exactly zero causal relationship.

> There are many ways to find such places. Filtering by tech stack is one possible way of many to search for signal.

You're just wrong. Deep problems come with scale and also cost money to solve. Small-medium shops have neither no matter the "tech stack".
I think about this a lot when it comes to self-driving cars. Unless a manufacturer assumes liability, why would anyone purchase one and subject themselves to potential liability for something they by definition did not do? This issue will be a big sticking point for adoption.
There are some patterns in natural data, and often also some in modified or fabricated data, that one can check against. None of them are perfect of course, but it can raise suspicion at least.
Maximum sample rate is 3.2 MS/s.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/
By health check, do you mean the kubernetes liveness check? Does that make kube try to kill or restart your container?
Making Aging Generations Angry
DMCA doesn't specify a precise takedown period; service providers are simply required to "respond expeditiously" to takedown requests. What that means is a matter of interpretation, but seems to err on the generous side; the only case I'm aware of where a court found that a removal was insufficiently "expeditious" was one where it took seven months for the service provider to respond (Perfect 10 v. Google).
A bit early, but something for us nerds/geeks/HNers to enjoy the coming weekend.

For those unfamiliar with Pi day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day

Additional info: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/catch-a-spectacul...
Introduction to Mixins (2015)
Even with all the drama Firefox is still an excellent browser, definitely better for privacy and uBlock than Chrome.
Same, and now I'm still playing Elite but just with slightly better graphics :-D
You're missing the point that SpaceX development is (heavily) publicly subsidized.
Yes, you are right. A savings account will be a hedge against technical/short term UST bond redemption issues.
The Internet Archive provides direct downloads for the content they host, so the fact that they also offer torrents doesn't really change the legal situation.
What's gone wrong at Musk's Tesla? Share price has plunged, could fall further
Show HN: SQL-based inference for Gradient Boosting Models
It's associated with Christ by several Protestant Christian denominations.
I think it’s malicious incompetence.

They probably rolled this out so fast and fired everyone who could manage it at the same time that it’s running at the stage of “how do we not starve these people” levels of chaos.

What a shit show though.
It would be nice if uBO automatically got replaced with uBL instead of requiring users to manually install it. A lot of users who might've had uBO installed by someone else won't know how or won't care enough to do it.
> By overclocking a 366MHz CPU to 466MHz, you "only" got 78MHz of memory bandwidth.

I think the PCI bus probably also typically ran at some fraction of the front-side bus. The common FSB frequencies around those times were 66 or 100 MHz which gave a standard ~33 MHz PCI bus frequency with a multiplier of 1/2 or 1/3. FSB frequencies that weren't close to a multiple of 33 MHz might have caused trouble with some PCI cards. Might have depended on how the motherboard or chipset handled the bus frequencies, too.

Of course the PCI bus should probably always run at 33 MHz but I think I saw it being modified with the FSB speed at least on some motherboards.
Tell me you don't know the difference between bias and variance. The longest article/comment wins.
Show HN: AI-powered brainstorming and goal tracking from your terminal
I built Elroy to help me organize my time and brainstorm ideas.

Instead of manually organizing lists and priorities, Elroy lets you think out loud about your goals while the AI handles organization behind the scenes. It tracks priorities, status updates, and completion conditions through natural conversation. It also records memories and ingests documents.

Goals stay in context when they're relevant to your current work, and leave context when they aren't.

There's also an MCP integration - I've found it helpful to add goals and memories to code editors like Roo Code.

Docs are here: https://elroy.bot/

Open source code is here: https://github.com/elroy-bot/elroy
My point is you're calling for his outing when stock prices are back to october levels.
A decent conversation about what?
> That has to be matched with a strategy of intentional overhiring though, and the damage is being done there

No, doesn't have to. Looking at the article, sometimes they had hired the right number of people, but (new?) management decided to let people go because that looked better short term (saved money, higher profits), but was bad long term.
But an LLM doesn't understand "never used again" as a consequence and the threat of it is useless as a motivation to improve (also because LLMs have no concept of "motivation" or "threats" or anything else).
I agree with your conclusion, but this story is very badly sourced and really should not be used [0]. We only have two sources from the 1800s that claim it: one is contemporary but provides no attribution and we have no reason to believe they had firsthand knowledge. The other is 40 years later and is attributed to a conversation with the son of the sultan's personal physician. Yeah.

With such bad evidence for such an incendiary claim, I think we're better off sticking with the enormous amount of other evidence that policy caused the famine and letting this particular story die.

(What is true and backed up by evidence is that the sultan sent £1k. The rest has no reliable source.)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93Turkey_relat...
Then upload it onto their own servers? Nobody is forcing anyone to upload to YouTube?
Are you sure that humans are much more than this in terms of spoken/written language?
It's so expensive to not take a return ticket, I doubt she didn't had a return plane ticket. Maybe she moved her flight or missed it, but only rich people don't buy a return ticket.
K8S is overrated, it's actually pretty terrible but everyone has been convinced it's the solution to all of their problems because it's slightly better than what we had 15 years ago (Ansible/Puppet/Bash/immutable deployments) at 10x the complexity. There are so many weird edge cases just waiting to completely ruin your day. Like subPath mounts. If you use subPath then changes to a ConfigMap don't get reflected into the container. The container doesn't get restarted either of course, so you have config drift built in, unless you install one of those weird hacky controllers that restarts pods for you.
I'm just waiting for this immigration crackdown to be done with and then we'll need to see who will be blamed for bad economy numbers.
Some of my favourite examples from last few weeks:

"You are not supposed to ask about that" ~ POTUS, during a Q/A with the press, March, 2025

And let’s not forget that first amendment:

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5288181/why-cbs-stands-...

And interfering with companies and demanding people be fired:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-demands-msnbcs-rachel-ma...

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If it walks like a duck…
i've removed the iframe now as it was causing more issues than benefitting a good
, fun experience. i couldn't quite get it to work so will update the 80s vaporwave shortly with some music
Bill Bryson: Too many people publishing their own books
> Eventually they'll push it too far and they might start losing viewers

To what service? Video hosting is famously super-duper expensive. And most creators are uploading for a monetary benefit ($) and ads are part of that equation.
I came here to comment similarly, the lower pixelated software rendered Quake seems to work well with the textures. They have a bumpmappy fuzzy feel that gets lost with the sharp corners everything is super flat texture mapped and filtered version that one got from the 3d accelerators of the time. I guess my brain just adds context to the low res images.

Before unreal, I had a s3-virge for 2d and a powerVR 3d accelerator pair, and I was always flipping between software, virge and powerVR depending on game. Which at the time were largely hexen/heretic. The powerVR was higher resolution and clean/sterile but never seemed like a lot better experience.

But then there was unreal, the first game I think was absolutely better on an accelerator (voodoo2 in my case). Its also pretty much the last of the serious software renderers and outside of the voodoo's definitely did a better job with software lighting /texture mapping/etc than any of the previous (affordable) accelerators. Which is why I ended up finally replacing the powerVR with the voodoo2. The results were 'unreal'. Some of that might just be bias, I played insane amounts of doom/etc but never really got into quake. Quake just seemed like doom rehashed to me, so I was off playing warcraft/diablo/hexen/etc.

And frankly, outside of FEAR, I stopped playing 1st person shooter games for 20 years, the graphics improvements were so incremental, I just kept seeing flat low polygon models everywhere. And I don't think that looks good. Even after all the tessellation/bump mapping/endless tricks I kept seeing frames where I could play "count how many polygons are onscreen right now" games. Its gotten better the past few years, particularly some of the lighting, at least the screenshots/cut scenes are no longer obviously not in game rendering. The UE5 demo is slowly becoming reality in actual games, so maybe its time to revisit a few of them.