skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of a probability based poll is that if you asked 3500 people about something that was a good random sample, you could extrapolate to the whole population with pretty good accuracy.

The traditional way to do that is call phone numbers at random, but you run into biases such if a man and a woman are at home probably the woman answers the phone -- so you have to weight the results based on demographic characteristics.

One problem is that people are less and less inclined to answer the phone when a stranger calls so it might be that the people who answer the phone are not representative of the general population, overall that hasn't seemed to be a big problem until Donald Trump entered the scene because whenever he's being asked about probability based polls seem to underestimate his level of support. Looking at the tracker here

https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil...

Trump does a few points better than the tracker here

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/presidential-approval [1]

The second tracker is simply reporting the results of probability-based polls whereas the first one is applying some weighting to (mainly) non-probability-based polls that use different methods but generally are starting from a sample which is less likely to be representative to begin with but doing more work with weighting to try to make up for it. It's not a huge difference (maybe that $74B is really $69B or $78B or something) but for an election in a particular state the difference between 49.5% and 50.5% is all the difference.

[1] Full disclosure: I helped code this one.
I don't know; I get my news from Hacker News. Politicians are doing stuff, but no hint of software or tech.
He asked what would you do. That's what I would do. And that's what I did. I'm sorry to hear you can't find work, but that's not a problem everyone shares.
As someone who could reasonably be considered an expert in Phish, as well as someone who built their own indie business, I can confidently say no book, business, or entity influenced my business more than Phish. Phish is a business, but they are more accurately defined as a creative conduit for the four members to sustainably make music. Their goals were to work incredibly hard (both in front of an audience and away from them), grow sustainably, and perform live music. They, by and large, treat their fans right and focus on crafting incredible live experiences. Their interviews are gems for those pursuing creative work who are obsessed with process, intent, and improvement.

Their business changed drastically in 2009, when they came back from an extended hiatus. The business side of things had burned them out and they pared down their internal organization to ~3-4 people and outsourced most of it to some close friends (an external management team), so they could focus on the music and their families. Whereas in their first 20 years they were far more fan-friendly and even anti-consumerism (they regularly covered up the advertisements in hockey arenas when playing there), the band's business has since become far more profitable and extracting, though not necessarily to an obscene extreme. The band members have mostly removed themselves from the business side and focus on the creative - a role that lets them keep rolling, but sometimes at the cost of fan-friendliness. It's worth noting that they are incredibly philanthropic, and have donated immense money to environmental, educational, and drug-treatment efforts.

Overall they are a masterclass in running a well-balanced organization that is both a capitalistic business as well as a down-to-earth creative organization and I have no doubt each and every one of us could glean a lesson or two from the way they built their structure over years.
DHH, the problem isn't age, or the lack of it, it's the lack of DIVERSITY.

Monocultures are destructive and they are self-destructive.

Silicon Valley doesn't need to bring its monoculture to the government that it just bought.
I was thinking cursor pricing. It becomes a whole different ballgame when you plug these tools into the providers API and pay by the token. Suddenly you really start evaluating how much value you are actually getting out of the tool!
Same as the background rate: https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/software-engineer/dem...
Indeed. Ritual "uncleanliness" was a problem having to do with Hebrew worship. Being ritually unclean did not result in killing people (except in rare cases, certainly not related to pork); it simply restricted your ability to participate in communal worship.
A newbie to smartwatches question : How are RePebbleOS watches when it comes to privacy? Do they offer complete offline, manual data download/sync experience or do they require some type of Google or Apple crapware to work?

I am mainly considering buying one to track my heart rate, but I don't want my data to leave my watch unless I copy it myself. Any budget friendly recommendations?
This is done at larege scale, but IIRC if you invest in photovoltaic for your home you're supoosed to break even in about 10 years. But it may depend on local laws (read, incentives) and sun irradiation.
Browsing that page, a state like New Hapshire has one pork farm and one beef farm listed and that's it. These seem like they're more for locals and farm-to-table restaurants?

At my local supermarkets, even the nicer ones like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, I don't ever recall seeing any of those logos on eggs, chicken, beef, anything at all. I'd love to know if I just missed them, though.
The reason reading was put on a pedestal is to ensure young learners develop the skill of reading. Once you have the essential reading skills, reading loses it's special position. But it can be hard for adults to break the mold of what they were taught as children.
Does seem strange in retrospect that if looking for 'invalids' is so paramount, just install Hoover air curtains everywhere.
He called them on some ridiculous claim that $10 billion could end world hunger. He said that if they could show him how, he'd donate the money.

Spoiler alert, they could not show him how.
>Europe can offer you tons of opportunities and treat you with dignity. Good quality of life and happiness is much easier to achieve

I was wondering how long it would take for this post to generate comments from the smug "as a European" crowd of people with deluded notions of superiority for the complex European continent.

I detest the screaming orangutan politics of Trump and his hardcore followers but the U.S. as a whole mostly remains a fantastic melting pot destination for immigrants like it's always been. One 4-year presidency (after a largely ineffectual and sometimes laughable previous one) does not have to mold the history or legacy of a country. By that logic, barely a state in Europe would be worth recommending at all given the continent's none too distant history or barbaric mistreatment of immigrants.

Even in modern Europe, no, treatment with dignity is not very guaranteed. The old racism of many European countries is seething just below the surface and if it¿s applied even to other Europeans, you can imagine how it might be felt by immigrants from the many countries that have for decades migrated to the U.S and integrated amazingly well for the most part.

Shitting on the U.S has always been de jure in certain circles, and now more than previously (partly deserved thanks to Trump) but it shouldn't happen at the expense of reality.
I'm confused, are they both entitled to their copyright? (which I think should be the case)
Everybody gangsta until an object object starts falling.
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware
GenAI producers have an incentive to watermark ... it helps them avoid consuming generated output for their own training processes. Most "attackers" aren't going to be sophisticated enough to use a modified non-watermarking tool, and those are likely to fall behind in capability over time anyway. So there's a decent chance here that things could align for watermarking without needing regulation. It probably hinges on whether the stenography can be good enough to avoid being trivially removed or undone.
I used one of these long ago to store my media (books and DVDs, primarily) in a database; I used some specialized software that supported UPC readers (including the CueCat). A few years ago I started using Libib (https://www.libib.com/) and you can just take a picture of the barcode and it brings in the ISBN and all the details about the book and keeps it in the app's database.
Goodness, how specific.
KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
Almost half of the games on that list launched after 2010, 6 of those being after 2020. Not sure what qualifies a "modern game", but after 2010 would probably be where I personally draw the line.

The most recent game on that list is from 2023, maybe it just takes time before a game end up on that list? Baldurs Gate 3 was beyond mainstream popular at one point, and surely will end up that list sooner or later, but maybe it's still too early?
Not the end of the world is probably literally true, but maybe not what I meant to say here, but yes, I am in the process.
Any new housing brings down prices or stops them from growing up as much.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37524331
I've always wanted to do this - do you have any articles / videos that helped you get started? Is Fighter Factory Studio still the way to go?

As an aside, this feels like a fun application of Gen AI (generating sprites + movesets based on photos of friends or hand drawn characters, etc).
> I find it difficult to believe that the list of meats banned by kosher and halal matches the top allergies and disease risk factors as well as it does without some intent

Does it? I agree that the risk of trichinosis from pigs was pretty great until modern disease research, chickens for example are a huge risk of Salmonella, and yet they are both kosher and halal. Conversely, camels are a relatively safe food, but they are not kosher. Rabbits and similar animals are also not allowed, despite being relatively safe. Tortoises and whales are not allowed either, despite not posing any special risks. Neither are eels or catfish, again relatively safe foods.
I highly recommend the Charles Strauss novel "Rule 34" for a vision of where this will shortly be and the impact on the legal system and law enforcement.
I am really enjoying this! I'll continue to use this for a while, and I really hope I'll learn more countries in the long term

Also, I absolutely love that it's so easy to start playing (no signup, no popups, etc)

Question: For the countries I know and select first time, I get them multiple times between countries. It's a bit odd to have to select England a couple of times, but the countries I don't know, I seem to get less often, or no repeats at all. Is this intended?

(edit) Question 2: Is there any scenario where you'd actually guess wrong more than once? After the first miss click, the country is highlighted. I don't see I'd ever get "You found country in 3 clicks".
I was pleasantly surprised that the article was such a nuanced overview of the topic, concluding (as is the consensus among archaeologists) that there is no single explanation. We are most confident explaining how pork became the focus among the broader dietary restriction around permitted and forbidden meats, due to the conflict between Hellenism and Judaism.

Beyond that, like all cultural practices, a single psuedo-scientific explanation is uncompelling. I'm hoping that humanity lasts long enough for future armchair archaeologists to look back on our cultural practice and invent pseudo-scientific just-so-stories to explain the weird things that we do.
Most recently I think Baldurs Gate 3. People have also been enjoying Balatro a lot
> But they were all perfectly competent and infallible under Biden.

It's clear that you're trying very hard to fabricate assertions and muddy the debate. If it helps clarify, until January 20th they were just as abusive and shitty, but with Trump imposing a political mandate to ramp up their abusive and shitty behavior then of course the abusive and shitty behavior will ramp up. Is there something specific that you don't understand?
There's a lot of strange pornography on the web, even if you exclude the numerous Tor onion services. Here is a site that tries to randomly sample and display (like a proxy, never linking to the source) recently-circulating pornography: https://rnsaffn.com/zg3/

Observing the stream of images, it's clear that niche human sexual interests are both unpredictable and sometimes shocking. It's also clear that AI-generated pornography is not as popular as you might imagine. Many people don't like it.
> what you're presenting is a risk for everyone in the industry

I don't think that's quite true. Unions can definitely make a company less competitive, in addition to the usual headwinds they face.
For me all he had to do was not openly be a genocidal white supremacist. Maybe he needs a crew to help him with that, but I think there's something about that that's a bit more than "poor social skills" and I'm sick of pretending that me not knowing what to say to people at funerals is the same as him delivering multiple Nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration.
> like Microsoft with its TypeScript rewrite in Go

My understanding is that Microsoft chose Go precisely to avoid having to do a full rewrite. Of all the “modern” native/AoT compiled languages (Rust, Swift, Go, Zig) Go has the most straightforward 1:1 mapping in semantics with the original TypeScript/JavaScript, so that a tool-assisted translation of the whole codebase is feasible with bug-for-bug compatibility, and minimal support/utility code.

It would be of course _possible_ to port/translate it to any language (Including Rust) but you would essentially end up implementing a small JavaScript runtime and GC, with none or very little of the safety guarantees provided by Rust. (Rust's ownership model generally favors drastically different architectures.)
I once tried creating a table component but couldn't solve the issue of having bad font quality when zooming into the canvas. I guess I would have needed to re-render things or so.
I believe he has pretty good social skills, he managed to fly under the radar as a public figure for long enough, until he was powerful enough to no longer need to give a fuck.
*daughter
Most people joining unions are concerned about horrible working conditions and lack of basic respect and rights. The stock price should not be put above basic decency.
I got used to https://github.com/tavianator/bfs instead. Breath-first ordering is nice.

Interestingly, the author is listed as one of the maintainers of `fd` as well.
Malware, for one
I dunno, if we start making up things like "She said she isn't a criminal, but what if she actually launders money" and not take the article for what it says, what's the point of discussing all of this at all?
Keep in mind that CAI can't stop you from pointing your camera at a copied or faked work. There's only so much it can attest to.
As someone who uses Anki, and has also made a country learning game, this is soooooo smart! Great job! Thank you!
Java is not similar. It guarantees memory safety even for multithreaded code with data races.

It can result in stack overflows, infinite loops, but not in memory corruption.

That's not the case for Go, it's trivially easy to create memory corruption with multiple threads there.
Games don't have the same effect as movies where everyone sees them within a month of release.

It's hard for a game released in the past year to make it onto a top ten list full of games like GTA5 that have been consistently selling copies for over a decade.
there's no need to buy old accounts (lol?), there are hundreds of millions of people worldwide who have extremely strong anti-immigration beliefs, who continue to cheer on the Republican-backed express cruelty for whatever reasons, and some of these people are active on HN

receipts:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413634

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413955

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43411269
The legal theory of "every minute we delay this from going into force we make a million dollars".
It didn't need to in my simple case. k6 doesn't do crawling / auto-discovering, from what I can tell - I just wanted to give the tool one URL and press start.
> Right, people have attorneys. Very common thing ... nowhere?

By the number of people asserting that this sort of abusive from border patrol agents runs rampant and people just need to be ok with being deported when trying to lawfully enter the US, what leads you to believe that lawyering up in preparation to enter the US is unheard of?
The Central Limit Theorem and its misuse (2020)
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You're saying that you're not actually interested in discussing the post you're commenting on, you just want to use the comment section to rant. Got it.
The types of waste, fraud, and abuse matter as much as the scale. Even just a "little" (5%-10%) corruption is a moral stain on the whole thing.

As it is, that "small" corruption is funding an extensive network of NGOs, nonprofits run by the families of people in government, media, etc. -- all to (a) keep a ton of money flowing to people in Washington DC and (b) protect that status quo.

Politics aside, widespread corruption in the US capitol should be taken very seriously.

Presidential administrations have been repeatedly trying to deal with the sheer behemoth bureaucracy, the growing power of unelected officials, and all the associated corruption since the early 1960s and so far have been defeated every time (see JFK's comments on the CIA for one example; there are also videos of Obama and Biden trying to address it during Obama's presidency). Each time it wins again, it grows stronger and more entrenched.

Our partisan attitude is understandable: our tribal wiring seems to make us gravitate towards "us/them" thinking and to cheer when "their" side loses. But doesn't the DC bureaucracy represent a common enemy to those on either side who value democracy?
Yes I’m sure swinging a chainsaw and talking about memes is Musk trying to prove his masculinity. This “masculinity” is stuff is nothing more than therapy-speak, and I wonder where it originated. Some sort of own-the-right subreddit perhaps.
I guess that's what I'm used to and... my brain isn't great at 9 to 5 work, my best code is written late at night. I'm probably 60 percent as productive when I have to work a rigid schedule.
> Each time I traveled up there for work, the border guards were polite and professional. Each time I traveled home, I got pulled aside […]

Interesting, it was the opposite for me, US citizen with CA work permit circa 2016. CBP seemed to not care while CBSA was often irrationally aggressive and suspicious. The closest thing I got to an explanation once after being freed was “We just like you” with a grin.
Hemp is a lower THC variant of cannabis that has a variety of non-psychoactive uses. It was legalized in the US in 2018.
I have `en-US` set as the second preference language, so just show me the content in `en-US` unless you have a real human-vetted translation into my primary language.
This would be a cute idea, if it weren't for the fact that all the other people in the region, and outside, who didn't follow any of these practices (and instead had their own specific taboos), lived just as much and created just as powerful kingdoms as those that did.

The clear reality is that most of these rules are just various cultural taboos enshrined as religious rites, some of which are beneficial, many of which are not.
What is organic? Everybody who can meddle meddles, ie russia in US elections.
When living in Stockholm, I came to appreciate the various levels of twilight and darkness, rather than thinking of day and night so strictly. The sun being low on the horizon also scatters light across the sky in ways that are very beautiful and last much longer than sunrise and sunset in Australia where I grew up.
Well, squeeky wheel gets the oil.

The bigger issue really is that Google should start reviews of a lot of managerial decisions in this regard. If you've got courts agreeing with plaintiffs, then these people you've been hiring are pursuing their, um, "preferences", a little bit too openly. You have to take things back in hand.
> That's really irrelevant to the point being discussed.

The point is following the law. What point do you think it's being discussed?
Indeed. That attack is a little more involved (requires having a BLE device in proximity and tricking the user into scanning a QR code outside of the normal browser flow), but it seems like the main issue is that there's no way for the authenticator to validate that the device that's actually being authenticated is the device that the user actually intends to authenticate.
Not disagreeing but its not absolutely fresh - the library used was released more than an year ago, and its built on a low level library released three years ago.

Obviously a lot younger than Freetype.

It would also be a lot less important if we did not do silly things like loading fonts from random websites.
if you have too many aesthetic bugs, nobody will use it. it then becomes the most secure code because it doesn't run anywhere so can't be exploited.
"Similar" does not mean "the same," you are correct that Java's guarantee is stronger.
I don't disagree that reading comprehension is essential to be a good engineer. But empirically, many people with a title like engineer or manager or product somethingrather have poor reading comprehension and blend in just fine.

Any process has to take this into account, you can't design a process that only works when competent people participate and incompetent people don't and then blame the incompetent people when it fails. You have to design a process that works despite some number of incompetent participants.

Document cultures do this because writing shines a bright light on the merit of an idea. My criticism is that the in-meeting read through does not have a similar effect.
Yes, of course it's a good concept. The problem is then giving the execution of the concept to arrogant people who are completely ignorant of what they're cutting. Then when they ignore the law, to double-down and keep pushing. The partisan politics come in when people cheer for wanton destruction because it's their side doing it.
AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
This is why I use cash in person and vendor-specific card numbers online. I've had far too many credit cards replaced after a vendor leak that I stopped using them altogether.
Apple Passwords app was vulnerable to phishing attacks for 3 months after launch
Square (payments) executed a similar strategy to CueCat when they freely gave away a 3.5mm credit card reader, so you could scan people’s credit card with your phone. That was a successful growth hack and probably a big reason for their ultimate success.
FreeType was written when fonts were local, trusted, resources, and it was written in low-level C to be fast. The TrueType/OpenType format is also made for fast access, e.g. with internal pointers, making validation a pain.

So though FreeType is carefully written w.r.t. correctness, it was not meant to deal with malicious input and that robustness is hard to put in afterwards.
I find it surprisingly effective how you have to get it closer when it zooms in and you have to do it with less context. There were a bunch of countries that I could point general on a map, but that I might mix up with a neighbour, e.g. Guyana and French Guyana. With this method, I got it on the first try, and each time it zoomed in I was able to remember more specifically.