skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For each of the 2024 7 swing states, the winner was <1% ahead on average, so what good are these polls if the results are going to be within their margin of error?

They need to either find a more accurate way, or... give up!
Tell HN: "Hacker News Enhancement Suite" for Chrome ext is no longer available
"This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions"

Honestly I kind of forgot that I even used a plugin, and when I restarted chrome, didn't recognize the site at first.

Anyone have a good alternative?
Go on Vercel's Serverless Functions
One of the most interesting and informative books I've ever read. Depressing as fuck though.
So far, if it's lasted long enough to be considered a famine, it's political. Yes, there's temporary and severe interruptions due to natural disasters, but if the political will is there, resources would be able to arrive anywhere in the world in the matter of days.
You also never know what's in the original firmware, so why trust it more than the update, security-wise?
I'm old enough to remember a time when you "owned" the content that you purchased. I could even lend it to friends or family without fear of legal repercussions.

Now our corporate overlords own everything they produce, even after you buy (sorry, I mean rent) it.
In the end sighing and going "stupid Google" is a lot easier than changing even the smallest of habits.

People also seem to think switching over is some kind of involved process for some reason.
I don’t disagree with the author, I just think their argument isn’t as strong as it could be. Excelling in a constrained decision space like go is fundamentally less difficult than doing the same in the real world. It’s a categorical difference that the author didn’t mention.

I’m also not even convinced move 37 was properly explained as a “straight A student” behavior. AlphaGo did bootstrap by studying human games but it also learned more fundamental value functions via self play.
I've always found this song about the Great Famine to be moving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5onHLICxgc
> IIUC, you did your homework: you made an improvement, you measured a 10-15% perf improvement, the PR was reviewed by other people, etc. It just so happens that this 10-15% figure is misleading because of an issue with the version of clang you happened to use to measure. Unless I'm missing something, it looks like a fair mistake anyone could have reasonably made. It even looks like it was hard to not fall into this trap. You could have been more suspicious seeing such a high number, but hindsight is 20/20.

Hah! Is this a Gettier problem [0]?

1. True: The PR improves Python performance 15-20%.
2. True: Ken believes that the PR improves Python performance 15-20%.
3. True: Ken is justified in believing that the PR improves Python performance 15-20%.

Of course, PR discussions don't generally revolve around whether or not the PR author "knows" that the PR does what they claim it does. Still: these sorts of epistemological brain teasers seem to come up in the performance measurement field distressingly often. I wholeheartedly agree that Ken deserves all the kudos he has received; still, I also wonder if some of the strategies used to resolve the Gettier problem might be useful for code reviewers to center themselves every once in a while. Murphy's Law and all that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem
Are you talking about Coyote Vs. Acme?
Should Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment Be Retracted?
how about vivaldi? original developers from Opera? I totally forgot about it in last 5 years, ayone using it?
It is not implied that using Haskell is the only way to find deep problems. The other way around is that shops using a language like Haskell are likely also invested to thinking deeply about problems. So the causality is the other way around.

The recommendation to look for Haskell shops is exactly a heuristic for the thing you recommend:

> "work at a place that has problems that are deep enough to warrant deep dives."

There are many ways to find such places. Filtering by tech stack is one possible way of many to search for signal.
Might reach out to TechCrunch and The Verge so they can get comment from BS.
Wikipedia says that the provenance is... sketchy, to say the least:

> The claim that he had wanted to give £10,000 first appears in Taylor & Mackay's Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel (1851), but the book is not referenced and no source is given. A second source, dating to 1894, is more explicit: the Irish nationalist William J. O'Neill Daunt claimed to have heard from the son of the sultan's personal physician that he "had intended to give £10,000 to the famine-stricken Irish, but was deterred by the English ambassador, Lord Cowley, as Her Majesty, who had only subscribed £1000, would have been annoyed had a foreign sovereign given a larger sum…"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93Turkey_relat...
There are. But the good thing is that all these countries get to sit around a table and talk, when there are such disagreements. And things get (mostly) sorted out in a civilised way.
Realtime LLM generation is ~$15/million “words”. By comparison a human writer at the beginning of a career typically earns ~$50k/million words up to ~$1million/million words for experienced writers. That’s about 4-6 orders of magnitude.

Inference costs generally have many orders of magnitude to go before it approaches raw human costs & there’s always going to be innovation to keep driving down the cost of inference. This is also ignoring that humans aren’t available 24/7, have varying quality of output depending on what’s going on in their personal lives (& ignoring that digital LLMs can respond quicker than humans, reducing the time a task takes) & require more laborious editing than might be present with an LLM. Basically the hypothetical case seems unlikely to ever come to reality unless you’ve got a supercomputer AI that’s doing things no human possibly could because of the amount of data it’s operating on (at which point, it might exceed the cost but a competitive human wouldn’t exist).
While JS debugging seems to be a bit slower, I find their HTML/CSS debugging tools far superior to Chrome's. Neither browser engine is great for the whole package, but overall I really prefer Firefox when it comes to dev tools.
https://www.mfa.gov.tr/relations-between-turkiye-and-ireland...

The 1,000 Pound claim at least can be sourced from this website.

It very much was policy that killed the Irish and not the lack of food. Ireland exported enough food to feed the country four times over -- during the Famine.
Yeah, what's habeas corpus.
> Are we discarding the analogy then

It’s not an analogy. It’s another example of ownership in another context.

Employee’s authority over something owned by another party is delegated by that party and varies according to the trust from that management.

Employees do not own goods or services they have produced and sold. And do not continue to have authority or rights to them.

> They don't naturally start with power over the employees.

Indeed. What they have power over is what their employees do while the employee chooses to rent their time to them.

The details of this are defined in the employment contract. Which tends not to include voting rights in regards to the owner’s property.

If you seek voting rights, you should negotiate that as part of your employment - or don’t agree to it. Many white collar employees receive this in the form of stock.
Something even more remarkable, the Indians that where only a few years ago forcibly relocated and experienced their own starvations during the events of the Trail of Teers, collected about 700$ in donations and send it as aid to the starving Irish in a grand gesture of empathy amongst oppressed people.
I can only assume that either they are trying to point out that words aren't behavior, and mimicking human writing isn't the same thing as mimicking human behavior, or it's some pot-shot at the capabilities of LLMs.
In the update notes for my banking app, it listed the changes as "Minor update to keep the app running smoothly".

If it's running smoothly, why does it need an update?

I guess it's like an engine that needs fresh oil.
I think that's a more defensible position than "fake 'animal welfare'" and "propaganda for nefarious purposes". I suppose one could see giving hens room to move as "a convenient excuse to raise profit margins", but perhaps it's more like using sustainable packaging to reduce shipping costs.
Two months? You elected the same guy 8 years ago. Fool me once, etc.
Pretty much all western ones.
>most code will not be written by humans

That cant even be considered a useful metric seeing as I spend similar time reviewing gpt written code
I expect Musk to use this attack as an excuse for sanctions against Ukraine.
I stand corrected in base 13.
Automating and Responding to Sentiment Analysis with Diffbot's Knowledge Graph
A write up of using Diffbot's APIs to search for articles, ranked by sentiment and time, to create a process to report on (possibly) negative reviews.
EFTA membership is a non-starter. It's not good for the UK, and it's not good for the other EFTA members. Also, EFTA is part of the Schengen area. But not the customs union.
> racist

And in fact there are people that go "all humans are <broken with some specific fault said to always show>". They have made "one big race". Historically the term (with predecessors like 'racialism' has had even other related nuances, e.g. superiority), but the matter does not change. I picked the term in its spirit.

> prejudicial

Prejudice can hit individuals and groups of disconnected individuals; "racist" is for prejudice against some (in theory) internally connected group.

> discriminatory

The opposite: the proponents do not discriminate (they do not make a distinction recognizing that some individuals are different from the supposed median in the group). (You are thinking of 'discriminate' as "hitting a group vs other groups".)

> misanthropic

Misanthropy is not necessarily attributing specific (undesirable) qualities to the group.

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Now, since the occasion is there: could you please do me a favour? I never understood what "snark" instead is meant to mean, what people want to say with that. I asked other times (it is used in the guidelines), the only reply I ever got is sniping. Could you be so kind to explain what "snark" and "snarky" are supposed to mean? A non analytical reply (as opposed to this very branch of posts) suffices.
I mean, sure, if their source of information about her policies is attack ads ran by her opponent, that says more about the media they watch than it does about her.

She doesn't control the press, if it won't cover the policies, what is she to do?
I assume that was a BIOS update since you said the motherboard issued a firmware.

Couldn't you downgrade the motherboard BIOS?
Pact isn't ultra high end. Its pretty middle (maybe a bit better) of the road as far as UK roasters go.

Ultra high end would be Gesha or something equivalent. Those often go for fun prices like £28 (and that is still on the low end) for a 150g bag in the UK. That's £3.50 for a 19g shot, and if I was buying Gesha I would probably get a triple precision basket or a step down basket because I would want the absolute best chance of extracting well if I'm spending that much.

My £1.10 shots are definitely above middle of the road. Maybe you can call them high end. But they're not ultra high end and a single shot of ultra high end is definitely a lot more than $.25 as the initial comment in this chain seems to claim.
I can try to provide one:

https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/insights/how-common-are...
Isn't it even worse if he only checks in after seeing something make it to print that he doesn't like? Then there's a chilling effect where everyone is guessing what might get them fired, and so they add an extra safety margin to their syncophancy and go beyond the minimum needed.
My local Costco always has Epson EcoTanks on sale, FWIW.
Now that would be interesting!
I think having a version with a sample synthetic dataset makes sense.
Ok, I'll bite. Will this kind of research be eligible for federal grants?
This source notably does not make the claim that the amount was lowered in response to a request from Queen Victoria, which is the actually damning claim.
My snark detector my need re-calibration :)

These are trying times.
To be clear, you are talking about the aggregate for the current holders, understanding that actual cost basis will be different for every person with stock? Some people will have long invest duration with tiny cost basis, some will have cost basis over 100%.

My ballpark guess is less than 80%. Most of the stock market is owned by households, either directly through equities, or indirectly through mutual funds and pensions [2, p14]

Most individuals and pensions are long term positions, with buying and selling to increase or decrease a position, not buying or liquidating entire portfolios.

If I guess the average hold time is ~5 years, that would be a about a 60% basis.

US total stock market cap in feb 25' was 67 Trillion, Total market cap in feb 20' was 40 trillion. [1]

What conclusion are you trying to draw from it? From an individual perspective, I care more about my cost basis in my market account, than the cost basis for an individual stock. I might have a 95% cost basis my current holding, but a 5% cost basis for my entire account(what I put in the market)

https://focus.world-exchanges.org/issue/february-2020/market...
https://www.sifma.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SIFMA-Insig...
Reverse Engineering Claude Code
Many countries took in a lot of refugees from both Ukraine and Syria. Syria used to take in refugees from all over the middle east.

Canada alone approved over a million applications from Ukraine, numbers that have actually come are more in the 300,000 range.
Trump's Call to Scrap 'Horrible' Chip Program Spreads Panic
It's a revenue share deal where Google pays Apple 36% of the search revenue they get from Safari users [1].

In other words, Google pays Apple ~$20B per year to be default search engine because they make ~$53B in revenue from those searches. This is profitable for both Apple and Google -- no "wildly illegal under-the-table measures" required.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/apple-gets-36percent-of-goog...
10 days and counting of immigration detention (possibly more in the end since she's still detained) plus whatever deportation ICE would eventually conduct undoubtedly costs more than the flight you're describing.

Meanwhile, her British MP has relayed the family's request to arrange voluntary departure, so the trip home wouldn't even be at government expense.

ICE has no legitimate excuse to be slow about permitting voluntary departure unless they're planning to prosecute her criminally, think she won't actually go through with the voluntary departure, or think she will commit crimes before voluntarily departing. None of those seem likely in the scenario we're discussing.

The political environment of the Trump administration might very well be an explanation for why they're not quickly permitting this, but it’s just an explanation at most, not an excuse.
Very much agree in terms of the best strategy being simply to start a plain-jane Kapitalgesellschaft, probably either UG or GmbH, and go from there.

It is indeed possible to have a so-called "kein-Mann GmbH" where the company has bought back all of its shares, though my understanding is that it's a bit of a legal grey area, and certainly not settled law.

I agree that the legal infrastructure is almost certainly there, at least in the sense that there are absolutely plenty of lawyers and lawmakers that specialize in this area. My point is simply that, because it's so much less common, basically every situation ends up being unique, which means that the work that the lawyers are doing is almost always a one-off, which makes it really expensive. And so it's just not worth the effort.
My response could only possibly be that I haven't had that issue. I've asked for relatively complex changes to codebases(mainly python), and had very little in the way of trouble.
If you have a reasonable backlog of video files on your computer you realise how great the file system and a good file manager is.

You can sort your video by name, by date, by other criteria, all on the fly, build into your file manager. You can rename them, surprisingly useful sometimes. You can put them into folders, you can tag them, all according to your own weird criteria. You can do operation on multiple videos, at the same time. Power users can automate those things.

Youtube's subscription website has exact two options for videos from your subscriptions: You can display them in a list and you can display them in a grid.
Apple paid out $500M in a class action about exactly this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67911517

Denied any wrongdoing but still paid $500M... hmmm
Fascists suppressing science and research to toe a political and identity politics party line. Where have we seen this before?

The party of "free speech" is only for speech they approve of. Again, there is no defense of this.
Thanks nayuki for the detailed comment and positive feedback.

Thanks for pointing out the missing EF-M, I am going to add that during the next polishing round. With regards to USM noise, the ultrasonic whine can be picked up by very good ears. I think the Nano USM is excited in the range of 60+ kHz, so at least that type of USM motor is absolutely inaudible.

Syntax-wise with F2.8, you got me. I know it's not 100% correct, but it was a deliberate choice that I made. Historically, there is either 1:2.8 or f/2.8 which will always be correct representments of the aperture (exit pupil) diameter. However, pursuing a cleaner look, I avoided the division or slash characters because the relation between the focal length and the f-number is known by every photographer. This is why Canon has also made the transition to the syntax "F2.8" in all their RF and RF-S-lenses - at least their product names and labels printed on the lens barrels. (The same is true with the focal length where Canon doesn't print "mm" on the barrel - to achieve a cleaner less mathematical look). So I believe what I did here was just go with the trend :-)
> very first thing i think of when viewing their site is this is some lodging for volunteer/unpaid labour. https://www.workaway.info/

I'm certainly not an immigration lawyer but my understanding is that _no_ work, none, even in exchange for room and board, is allowed on a tourist visa in the US.

Workaway looks like it isn't compatible with a tourist visa in the US and their website doesn't really call that out. Seems like something that nine times out of ten if you're just quiet about it it'll never come up and you'd be fine.

But unfortunately Canada refused entry and then questions were asked. Rough.
If you haven’t, I recommend reading Harari, specifically Homo Deus and Nexus. He writes at length about what he calls dataism, a new kind of religion filling the void liberalism and enlightenment left in us. Good reads.
Do you think stalking James Hoffman is a good way to make friends with him? Just taking notes.

There are lots of local roasters but I'm a little bit too introverted to make friends that easily.

I think making an electronically controlled hot air roaster and just roasting at home is less effort than what you suggest. ;)
I'm not sure how to verify your comment since 538 was cut by ABC a month or 2 ago. But Nate Silver's pollster rating methodology is pretty much the same as 538's was during his tenure there and can be found here: https://www.natesilver.net/p/pollster-ratings-silver-bulleti...

It actually explicitly looks for statistical evidence of "herding" (e.g. not publishing poll results that might go against the grain) and penalized those pollsters.

In both rating systems, polls that had a long history of going against the grain and being correct, like Ann Seltzer's Iowa poll, were weight very heavily. Seltzer went heavily against the grain 3 elections in a row and was almost completely correct the first 2 times. This year she was off by a massive margin (ultimately costing her her career). Polls that go heavily against the grain but DON'T have a polling history simply aren't weighted heavily in general.
1Blocker also gives me a good YouTube experience.
>I use Firefox + uBlock Origin

Wasn’t Mozilla accused of selling data they collected from Firefox users?

Correct me if I’m wrong.
I wasn't criticizing OP's statement, just elaborating on it. And it wasn't a joke so much as a rhetorical device.
Recordable Blu-Ray was always in a bit of a weird spot, though. BR drives in computers never reached the level of market penetration that CD/DVD drives had; as a result, it never became accepted as a standard way of storing or transferring files. Given all the other options on the market, particularly flash drives and cloud storage, it just never found any practical applications.

(Nor did it help that, whereas CD and DVD drives were popular as players for prerecorded media, BR drives weren't. Support for playing BR movies on home computers was heavily limited by DRM, and streaming services cut out a lot of the demand.)
I’d hazard that average hold time is much shorter. What makes you say 5 years? My gut tells me that the majority of stocks are held by whales moving them in and out on a constant basis nowadays.
I had one of these phones that would crash under load and the update fixed it. The technical fix was sound. Batteries can't supply full power as they age, and the CPU needs high power when it runs faster. It's an annoying reality of battery powered devices that looks like a conspiracy to boost sales.
Geez dude, learn what context is instead of attacking strawman arguments you invented on your head.
Oh absolutely. YouTube will 100% try new ad blocking technology for only a specific strata.
You can just say reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1j7qumk/uk_girl_sw...
That entire claim is unnecessary for the given conclusion, which is substantiated by other evidence.
I'm also confused when I see threads like this. For dev work I've yet to try a distro that didn't "just work". The only real friction I've run into is the tradeoff between stability versus package freshness but that's going to be a tradeoff with any software environment.
This is the death of the hacker. We have allowed new heights of power and unchecked control decide they know better than us. We are no longer allowed or trusted to make choices in our best interests. Many practice apologetics for why this is necessary, pointing to Apple and Mozilla, as if that doesn’t make this change any less devastating. It was a great run.

The silver lining is it can be the birth of a new generation of hackers. This generation’s version of the printer inspiring those who refuse to accept the hostile hand they’ve been dealt. Tech doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t have to accept these changes. Rebel! Start hacking away. Don’t join these companies. Found new ones that prioritize valuing users first forever. It’s a difficult task. But all difficult tasks we’ve solved were.
Many of those convicts were children.
What are some good European ETF providers? Do you have to be physically within Europe to use them, or can you use them as long as you have an EU passport?
Write a FM receiver/transmitter from scratch.

It's very straight forward, depending on your desired level of difficulty:
Do it first using blocks in gnuradio, then redo it with blocks you write yourself.

After that do the same thing, but with digital psk modulation, it has the added difficulty of requiring channel estimation/ equalization.