skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Another trick is to go through the registration list and purge people…”

I’ve worked at election polls in New York for every election since 2012. There is a lot of noise about enrollment here, and confusion about the laws. People who are deceased for years, but have not been removed. Some youth return home to vote, but actually live elsewhere.

And voter ID is particularly contentious. Every election someone holds up the line to debate the issue. Certainly in my community many voters have above average incomes, and they can’t imagine what the inconveniences could be as they drive to the polls and fetch their drivers license from their wallets—a whole series of commitments which happen to support their mistaken beliefs of secure elections (check your privilege).

So when someone tries to argue it was too easy to vote, I remind them—first, they are asked to identify themselves by name, to provide their address as the challenge question. Their signature is their oath and affidavit that they are the named voter. Finally, to make a false claim is a felony.

Harley efficient fraud to impersonate one voter at a time, in a room with 750 of your local neighbors who could overhear your fraud and contest your vote. With early voting, and mail in voting the registered voter could have already voted. What’s more, it was the case you could overwrite your mail-in vote with an in-person vote on the date of the election. That is no longer permitted. So the hypothetical fraudster could strike out—so no, it’s not very easy.

I feel proud to see my colleagues help my neighbors vote smoothly and efficiently

I asked the bureau of elections that I work only in my local districts, so I guess theoretically I could also contest a vote. But here’s the amazing thing, even if someone contests your vote and fills out our paperwork and gives their information, that contested voter can still vote by giving their oath they are who they say they are. Wow! This is what democracy looks like to me.
By that logic, paintings aren't copyrightable either because of all the chemistry involved in drying pigment.
Bill Gates once said that to emulate Steve Jobs you need to be part genius and part asshole. “So many of the people who want to be like Steve have the asshole side down. What they are missing is the genius part”.
Seems to be no end to Erdoğan's reign in sight*. I happened to be in Türkiye at the time he called an early election in 2023. The outrage was discernible via the news (what I could make out, at least, not being fluent in Turkish). Any criticisms I could coax out of locals were done in hushed whispers, as it's illegal to speak ill of the government and Erdoğan's supporters are everywhere.

[*] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Recep_T...
In my experience hauling deliveries on the shoulders generally sucks, especially if weight is bigger. hence why most active couriers around my parts prefer to fix some sort of baggage rack to their ebikes.
wdym exploitation, space company would not having a hard time to pay their employee the same reason oil company do

also human is expensive, if fleet of human slave is cheap then we outsource all of our work to china and india. but that don't happen we build a trillion dollar industry (AI and robotic) to make all of that
Dogmatic approaches from books never work well. And if they don't work well, the hardliners will assert that the problem is that people didn't follow the books correctly. The bible, Marx, Sutherland, its all the same.
Tesla Will Die
One I can't put in print: Rick's rant about how he described Mr. Needful's microscope and its effect. The wordplay is <chef's kiss> but unfortunately it's unrepeatable.
https://hackernoon.com/build-a-fully-local-rag-system-with-r...
I think the societal aspect of your collegues being helpful to each other, while not having that exact task assigned, is the reason you could appreciate this setup. I think putting a card on another person's desk and walking away isn't really interrupting, anyway.

Besides, visually seeing stock going low helps the one doing purchases in deciding whether said supply needs immediate restocking, or that there's ample time to collect more low-velocity stock to batch them in one order.

As mentioned elsewhere, the person purchasing may not consume (in this example) milk at all!
Not only did they deliver the commercial crew contract faster than Boeing, they did it for a much lower cost.
The Democrats don't need a white man, nor someone who served in the military or anything of that sort. People who think this are also living in a bubble. Obama wasn't elected via magic spell.

Democrats just need someone, anyone, who actually has the support of their own party. The last two times they ran someone like that, they won. The last two times they ran someone who either didn't win a primary, or who won a rigged one, they lost.

This feels like Politics 101 yet the party would rather make it about race and gender (not hard to see why - because it helps distract from the party leadership's mistakes and need for replacement...)
The Area of the Pythagoras Tree
I am a bad manager, which I warn new recruits about.

I need my team to be independent, make decisions and challenge my (brilliant) ideas. They simply need to be good with what they know, at their level.

I will actively evangelize my strategy (they can challenge it, ultimately I am the accountable), I will always have their back (because I am like this, there is no profound philosophy behind this) and when they did something successful, they did it and present in front of the board. When they fucked up, I fucked up.

This is not some kind of messianic approach - just generic mortality. I spend a lot of time with them and O like to have them as "work friends".

I would hate to be hit by suvh layoff, and I am rather happy with the fact that they would be pissed off as well.
Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
Sure, but it doesn’t follow that they only continue to wear it because their families force them to. Most traditions have to be taught, but that doesn’t mean that they’re only continued by force. My parents sent me to Saturday school where they told me to do Shabbat dinner and taught me the traditions — that doesn’t mean that I’m being forced to sit down for brisket as an adult.

The suggestion was prohibiting the hijab in higher education and subsidizing it, as if the only barrier to conservative women attending an institution where they’re prohibited from dressing traditionally is their parents’ approval. That’s not the case.
Should have called it byeTunes.
I cringed reading that. It's like something an edgy West coast teenage Redditor would write.
Number of commits is not a very good metric to measure contributions. It would only work when there is an agreed style of commits and everyone sticks to that. Number of blame lines per contributor would be overall much more accurate, and immune to different styles of committing (e.g. squashed mega-commits vs rebased self-contained commits).
An elderly pedestrian I know was recently struck by a car. Compound fractures, dislocated joints. He’s looking at a long recovery and a pile of medical bills, because the driver was barely insured and in the US we’re somehow fine with that. So it comes down to momentum transfer, and I’d much rather he’d have been struck by an e bike.
‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
This is why my brain kind of short-circuits when I'm asked the question "do you like to read?"

I know what most people actually mean by that, but my gears start turning because not only do I know that I read more than any of my ancestors. Reading is like breathing to me.

I guess I do it out of leisure in a sense, but it's a way of life in many respects. Perhaps I don't read much fiction, but not a day goes by that I'm not cracking open an encyclopedia (aka Wikipedia), reading blog posts, investigating research papers, and reading some eBook I've stripped the DRM from on my Kobo.

And I'm an oddball – so if I'm reading that much, then surely there are plenty of people out there reading stuff.

I do sometimes wonder whether Gen Z and Alpha are even reading anything outside of school anymore, but that's probably more of that doomsday crap I'm prone to slipping into as I gradually become an old man.
I really don't want to use my folkeregister ID to connect to a social media site. I present as feminine but I am not out to everyone in my family and I really don't want to forced to dox myself ahead of time.
China has everything needed for cheap and efficient manufacturing. The design skills, the infrastructure, the cheap labour, the network of factories, etc.

The US does not.

The only reason the US might win at car manufacturing will be if there are sufficient tariffs or other trade barriers. In a free market, China will win.
Euclid Telescope Maps 26M Galaxies
Fair enough - my understanding was they moved away from systolic arrays. I stand corrected. I will also say it is well-known they're basically impossible to program/build a compiler for.
if $50m per year enough for the Starlink services needed in Ukraine?
Love how educational it is. I'd love even more if formulas were included for the statistics calculations.
Indiana should embrace it and make March 2 pi day in the state.
Increasingly so. Many other popular inference tools in this space also expose an OpenAI compatible API: VLLM, Llama.cpp, and LiteLLM all do.
The Origin of the Pork Taboo
> You can use the connection, but not the browser.

Fair enough, that would likely be the case if they're using "legitimate" residential IP providers, and in that case they would indeed need to pay for the PoW themselves somehow.
> We’ve seen Germany turning to lignite to heat homes due to the Russia Ukraine conflict.

No, this is false, as you can see here lignite consumption actually dropped: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

It also doesn't make sense because the installed heating infrastructure for gas almost never can't also burn lignite.
I mean, it's hard not to read it as an attempt to convert the US into a Russian-style mafia state, tbh.

So, "who benefits" would generally be those oligarchs who manage to avoid lethal encounters with stairs, windows, etc., traditionally.

It's somewhat unclear to what extent this will be allowed to continue. I kind of suspect that the Supreme Court is not actually as beholden to Trump as he perhaps thinks it is, and will pull the plug at some point. I also suspect that, if the market turmoil gets bad enough, Trump may dump Musk; if you look at his previous term, few of his people got through the whole term, and of course nothing is ever Trump's fault.
Yes, the machines who are doing the rendering could take the .blend file/data for themselves, otherwise the renderer wouldn't be able to do its job.
Any time a manager has tried to rigidly use scrum, things fell apart quickly. I think it can work, but you need to tailor it to each situation/product.
You're missing the key point of my claim: in 2008 you could literally take your comment, replace gay with black, and it would've been just as "credible". And yet Obama was enormously popular and successful. Lots of people even made colorist remarks about him being "white passing"!
>Think of the reverse perspective - is it fair for a child to have to, for example, give up after school sports, because one of their parents decided that they would prefer not to pay child support?

This is backwards. You're ignoring that the divorce has to be initiated in the first place and that divorce usually results in the removal of custody by the father and thereby creates an obligation to pay child support on the side of the father. Therefore divorce is causal. A desire to not pay child support does not lead to a child having to give up after school sports in the absence of divorce.

So let's replace what you said with reality:

>Think of the reverse perspective - is it fair for a child to have to, for example, give up after school sports, because their parents divorced? Or be forced to change schools and lose their social group because tuition is unaffordable on a single income?

Yes it is fair, because the divorce was initiated despite the expectation of these outcomes. If a man or woman initiates divorce, they must have had a good reason to do so and we should not question that reason by arguing that school sports or tuition are more important than the reason for divorce.
Do you deliver packages in a tropical climate? If the answer is no, maybe you have a different use case than the people in the article. Being able to make it through the day might carry more significance for these users than being able to tear the thing down without any electrical knowledge.

HN in a nutshell - you see an article full of first-hand reports of the users and their use case and your immediate reaction is that you know better about what they want and need than they do.
Well, maybe the purpose of higher education is to learn how to learn _for yourself_. That is: to find sources, read them, evaluate them, and synthesize them into a conclusion.
I say this as a person who has spent the last month mostly living out a minivan: You need a laptop.

A laptop will vastly expand the number of places you can work from.
The blog post gives a slight posh impression. With the excessive quoting of authors and their book but in an incoherent manner that only strengthen the authors narrative by "look many famous people agree with me" and not why they agree with you.

I agree with the general sentiment of the article but I think it kinda defeat itself in its need to reaffirm it's own excellence over actually being informative. He could've skipped everything above the "Against hollow reading" Section and got the same message across.

The message below that section is valuable but only in value. It doesn't really get in to how to practice it. It laments the modern information landscape but doesn't tell us how. His point can be summarized to "don't be a passive consumer of information, be active in asking questions, refine those questions, and develop answers".

How? Write. Write for leisure, not for anyone else but yourself and read it with critical lenses you use when reading others. Only then will you need to refine your writing and thinking, which leads to new questions, new exploration and perspective.

Research of any kind is an iterative process. You find new information, you create a bias in favor of it, try to explain many things with it. Then you realize that it doesn't explain everything, and now you have to go back to reading or finding out more. It's easier to catch yourself getting stuck with one idea, when you write those down and review them. Reading as he put it, the introspecting one is only complete when combined with Writing. (Or at least deep contemplation that resembles the structure of writing)

This article reminds me of "I don't like honors" by Richard Feynman[1]. Too caught up in how one ought to be, rather than being (or informing).

[1] https://youtu.be/iNCiQzMDcV0?feature=shared
I think reading is an essential skill, but we also need to get reading out of the pedestal. Because a lot of the time these arguments come across as some sort of literary elitism. Like if you're not ingesting information through reading, it doesn't count.

This month I spent many hours listening to lectures on youtube about geopolitics on the Asian continent from the naval war college. Sure I could have read it, but nevertheless I got curious about a topic, engaged in it, and "followed the rabbit holes"

I think there is a case to be made that we need to be more active in information seeking, rather than just being fed what the algorithm suggests you - on that topic Technology connections recently made a really good exposition of that issue -- https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA -- But it should not be about the method of ingesting information, but the quality and the intent of it.
He has written elsewhere that he has 10 years experience.
youtube, probably elsewhere as well
Far outside of my lived experience, but, here’s a take anyway.

Your priorities sound out of line with your current financial reality.

Concretely, you’re struggling with $890 in car costs that your current income depends on and asking how to escape homelessness. The crappy reality is that you need to maximize the safety of your one existing income stream ahead of nearly everything else. That means building up an emergency fund for car repairs.

Free cash flow, a well maintained car and a savings/emergency fund are the biggest lifelines you will be able to give yourself in the near term.

If you can get a programming job or a cheap laptop (sub $200 old Thinkpad on eBay) and start picking up some freelancing work you can do in a public library or similar, that’s amazing, but for now you’re really all in on your car and it sounds like you need to focus on that until it’s safe and stable.

Hopefully if you’re frugal, not too unlucky and do your best you’ll have more options in a few months.

This sucks and I really hope things get better for you.
Are you only reading every third sentence?

The return vessel was docked in September. The return was always planned to be around today, not in September.

Trump and Musk are lying about the astronauts being forgotten. They're lying when they claim Biden abandoned them.

As far as I can tell, NASA didn't delay for political reasons. Nor did they allow the return journey today for political reasons. This was the plan all along (well, once the initial plans had to be scrapped for technical reasons).
I always love this conversation:

Snob: "Listening to an audio book doesn't count as reading the book!"

Everyone else in the world: "k"
That is an additional driving logic: if you can’t see in front of you, stop driving. But the test here was to avoid hitting the mannequin. In that perspective, the only form of evaluation is cam vs. lidar tech.

The software is only as good as the human who programmed it.
This is more to do with ABM - you can add a device to ABM that wasn’t put there by a reseller/vendor/Apple. This also enrols the device, and removing the enrolment in the first 30 days also removes it from ABM again.

After the 30-day period, the enrolment profile cannot be removed on the device-side. This workflow applies for both iOS and macOS.
I read this as someone giving a tiny bit of background information before they move onto the real question: How do I get housing?
Etymology: like others said, the old version of cap was short for a bullet. And that term most likely comes from “cap guns” which are/were you guys for kids that had a tiny tiny amount of gunpowder/similar so they made a small noise when fired.

So a bit of speculation, but it’s possible that the word cap has inverted twice over the years, from a toy/fake bullet, to a real bullet, and now back to being a synonym for fake, which it originally was.
I taught for 20 years and developed an Edtech SaaS which I do fulltime now. I also would welcome connecting with you.
I moved from Apple Watch to Garmin, so I’m not in the market for something like a Pebble, I value the fitness features too much.

But putting that aside, I’d say the essential features for me are notifications, timer, calendar, media controls.
They received a CPC permit, which is simply a prerequisite to some of the actual robotaxi permits. Still a long way to go.
I wonder if after you've read the classics and modern greats you have to start searching out and take chances on books you don't know. I also think people will happily walk away from a show or movie but for some reason won't walk away from a book. If you're 30% in and you hate it, just walk away.
I've seen so many things disappear off the web that I knee-jerk yt-dlp/wget/DeDRM anything I am interested in or is relevant to my personal culture.

What stinks is I haven't found anything satisfactory in terms of archival software that runs locally. For now, I shove things into folders in external drives, but directory trees are very poor when it comes to categorization and retrieval.
When I look at the power dynamics between employee [on a spaceship] and an employer, pay isn't the utmost concern. Not even the trendy replacement, scrip. Nay, performance reviews and how it might relate to oxygen availability.

I don't see a collaborative trip through the cosmos, I see a very unhealthy relationship with danger to boot

This may be all the more reason for robots, but again: humans take no engineering. Just a few minutes and a lot of tries (heh, sex joke). They'll literally pay for themselves.

RE: outsourcing, I don't know what you mean/where you are. That's exactly what's been happening, here. Consistently. For decades. Many ventures can happen.
the Internet is that while it was
invented very early on, it wasn't
accessible until far later

Same with blockchain. There isn't even a good way to self-custody yet. As soon as you start talking to "not your keys, not your coins" people about the pitfalls of self-custody you end up in an absurd discussion about homemade approaches involving using dice to create private keys, setting up multisig using hardware from different brands and keeping the devices in different locations around the world. And none of these approaches really provide good security.

But that does not mean there is no way to do self-custody in a safe manner. It has just not been ironed out yet.
There’s a saying about watching what people do, not what they say, that seems to apply well to Musk. The proof that Elon cares about wealth is that he keeps doing everything in his power to gain more of it (well, up until recently, but only because he found he can access power directly instead of indirectly through more wealth).
I am of course, but at least they have revenues not tied to spying. I'm not a corporate fanboy so all of this stuff disappoints me, just not going to make the perfect the enemy of the good
You’ve been siding with Russia since 1776?
The question is, have you stopped reading same-ish books only to watch same-ish TV series?

While various obligations can reduce your entertainment time, I've noticed that most people complaining about that tend to be able to list tens of Netflix series that they watched. And then wonder why I have no idea what they're talking about and when I have time to read.

> Even the sci-fi and fantasy books, once I loved, lost their magic.

Have they, or have you finished all the great books that were published before the present, and now need to wait for someone to write new great books?

95% of what gets published in a year in any medium is probably only worth watching/reading if you're very bored. Your saving grace when you are born is there is a century of previously published good stuff. But you're eventually going to run out.
A Python Test-Runner that generates correct code
How will US win with trade barriers? With them it can only secure the US market, and even this only provided the entire production chain is located in the US. Because you can forget about exporting goods weighted by trade tariffs - as you can see nobody accepts being tariffed without retaliating. So it can win, if you redefine the word "win".
No WiFi 7. I am guessing it will come next year when Apple have their own WIFi Chip going in this year iPhone 17. Hopefully with 320Mhz instead of a crippled 160Mhz.

Trackpad slightly too big that causes false positive which was non-existent on older gen MacBook and Keyboard is new scissors that as less Key Travel than old scissors.

No 120Hz Screen. Some people want OLED, personally I prefer LCD. But I could see how it could be thinner for lid. Quality Face Camera is not solvable yet though.

May be Vapor Cooling Chamber. Still fan less but gives more longer peak workload.

May be Silicon Carbon Battery in the future.

Other than all these it is about as good as it get. Most of the solution above are ready today if Apple is willing bump the price up.

I am thinking if Apple will drop the current M4 MacBook Air to $899 and release the M5 at $999.