skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this is the case in a lot of countries. On my home country each "state" has a number of representatives according to their population, and just the population. This has slowly but surely made it so laws are more and more biased towards metropolitan areas. From someone raised in a rural area it's mind boggling how far this has gotten. I guess this paper adds salt to injury.
"destroys capacity which will have to be rebuilt"

Maybe that's a good thing to break up some of the corruption and waste in the system.

Or maybe it doesn't have to be rebuilt because there's already too much publicly funded science? There has to be an optimum amount and who's to say we're not already above that?

Of course if money was free, then the more the merrier. But remember everything the government spends comes at the expense of opportunity cost, either to the government or the people paying for it in tax and inflation.
> Given that they are good and worth keeping, this triggers escalations, meetings with the employee and between managers, senior managers and HR.

Locking, barn, horses etc.
I've only just started reading that, but right in the first few paragraphs it says that the main problem is that USD is overvalued, and their proposed solution isn't inflationary. I'm kind of confused.
I’ve used one of those for years and there’s never been any impact on the user experience. Every few months, the low battery warning pops up. At that point, it will still work for hours and it only takes a few minutes to charge so even if it popped up first thing in the morning I’d plug it in the next time I got coffee, went to a meeting, walked the dog, etc.
Looks neat! My only criticism would be that the solutions are given right after the questions so I couldn't help to read the answer of one question before thinking it through by myself.
That’s traditional (maybe a holdover from when English had grammatical gender? No-one seems to be particularly sure), and no-one thinks that ships are people. The risk of someone thinking, even subconsciously, that a stochastic parrot is a person seems significantly higher.
Can't be deleted on MacOS btw
There's an episode where the father is trying to teach Bluey to play chess. It is implied by the mother that he's only doing that because "all smart kids play chess, therefore she should learn chess."

The teaching fails, not because she doesn't understand but because she and Bingo end up making up the fantasy of the game. (To the point that sacrificing a piece is a shock and abhorrent).

It ends up with the mother intervening, beating the dad at the game and saying "Work on the heads later, for now, just hearts."

So to you, I say: Bill Nye, yes. Bluey, yes too. Each in their own time... If the kids feel like it.
Do we have an idea of how many users on HN are actually bots?
It is fascinating how sentiment on here has changed in the last few months. If you look back on any of the many threads on this in the last year you see a much more staunch defence of the tech companies. The world sure has changed
Let's imagine you aspire to 1080p. AR glasses can more or less provide that as a 4 m screen at 2 m distance, with pov angles similar to a laptop screen. With head tracking, that can be a 1080p portal into a larger workspace. For 1:1 realistic motion, notice how far you have to move your head to point your nose at imaginary laptop screens above or to the side of your real one. Unrealistic motion[1] can reduce that, but I don't know if it's available off-the-shelf.

VR headsets trade pixel density for FOV. An Apple Vision Pro has a PPD similar to AR glasses in the center, but that's ~halved by the time you reach the edge of a 4 m 1080p screen at ~30 deg from center[2]. That blur makes eye motion across the screen less available. Try using a laptop screen while keeping your nose pointed at your focus. Head motion gives you greater apparent resolution by temporal supersampling - someone else will have to weigh in with Vision Pro experience.

Giant floating monitors may have been technically possible in non-glasses non-VR HMDs for a few years now. We're mostly limited by pixels-per-degree, and that by panel resolution, rather than optics. There have repeatedly been 2x or more higher res panels available in the sizes used in HMDs. But the HMD market is VR games, which wants large FOV for immersion, is cost sensitive, has optics limitations, and needs higher frame rates, which with GPU and bandwidth limitations (and eye tracking unavailable), makes resolution a "you couldn't use it anyway". One might put 4k panels in a DIY-ish non-VR box-like HMD... anyone know of existing work? A kickstarter? Not enough programmers on transit willing to wear big crude boxes perhaps.

[1] https://x.com/mncharity/status/1225091755667853318#m
[2] https://kguttag.com/2023/08/09/apple-vision-pro-part-5b-more... (but... caveat)
Taiwan has conventional rockets aimed at the three gorges dam, its similar to a nuke.
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> Is there any evidence of how accurately the US census actually does that job?

Yes. The Census uses a post-enumeration survey for this purpose. They found evidence of significant under- or over-counting in 14 states for the 2020 census.

That was considerably worse than the 2010 census, though covid might be partly to blame. Still, afaik, there wasn't anywhere near the rural undercount described in the article.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/2020-census-u...
I think systems grow by themselves - more like a biological ecosystem. Even powerful politicians seem to often be reduced to dealing with the outcomes of a system without seeming to understand how that system works. The idea that people are in charge leads to conspiratorial theories: imagined incentives of people behind the scenes.

However I know I look at the world differently from most people: so it is just as likely my own views are warped.
As far as I understand it, the wealthier the area the more likely there are guns on-site. You also need to be home to use them, a booby trap will get you roasted by the law. So the cameras let the burglar see that no one is around to shoot them.
The author would be excited to learn that CouchDB solves this problem since 20 years.

The use case the article describes is exactly the idea behind CouchDB: a database that is at the same time the server, and that's made to be synced with the client.

You can even put your frontend code into it and it will happily serve it (aka CouchApp).

https://couchdb.apache.org
interesting - i like the approach to use an LLM to make analyzing your day more objective (vs. self-reporting like other apps). could see this becoming "strava" for your mind
In finance, this would be more like a managing director (e.g., in Two Sigma, one of the engineering leaders reporting directly to the CTO). You're totally right that "VP" just refers to more like a mid-level or senior engineer in that world.
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Can I add Bojack Horseman's "Fish Out of Water" to this list?
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It was 2016. Right after I quit.
This has been solved every 5 years or so, and along the way people learn why this solution doesn't actually work.
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Other than to commend the entrepreneurial sprit of its members?
FB Marketplace, but that's about it. Even that is a hot bed for people like bike thieves.
It offers better compression algorithms, and importantly exposes settings for you to fine tune for your network and GPU. If you have good enough network equipment you may be able to push more data over wireless than wired (most motherboards are bottlenecked by the USB controller bandwidth).
I wish they'd just use macOS and make that the "MacBook Touch" with a detachable keyboard. I have no use for iPadOS
11 at the time here. For me it would be another 10 years or so before I saw a Solaris box or even knew what one was.

I did encounter, and try, Linux much sooner. But didn’t really “get it” either at the time. Like, I understood that it was neat and different. I installed Mandriva Linux on my machine when I was 13 or 14 or so, but I was lacking any books or guidance to understand how to do anything aside from opening the GUI programs that was on it.

It would take all until the age of 18, when I started at the university, before I got the help I needed in order to understand Linux and editing config files on Linux and writing my own scripts and programs on Linux.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-university-tr...

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The key weakness of the iterative development strategy.
Could have very well lived without twitter too. It's not like everyone was aching for it before it existed.
Here in Australia it's typical to say Ah-zure (Ah as in Aha) where as Americans typically say Ay-zure (Ay as in the name Jay).

There are many differences in pronunciation between English from various countries. E.g. in Australia we say Mo-bile were "bile" rhymes with "vile" whereas Americans typically pronounce it as Mo-bol.

There are lots of others.
>I don't agree that the worker's interest is or should be in minimizing company profit - this is a very zero sum approach

You misunderstood the post you're replying to. Workers vs CEOs (not companies).
Haha good spot. I’ll correct it in my original comment (while I still can)
Return to Dust (隐入尘烟) - 2022 has some similarities but won’t say more (no spoil).

The movie is great and China censorship story worth a glance. There no direct critics but it depicts some collaterals of rural areas transformations. Also poetic and contemplative.
It means they pushed back then settled without any useful resolution. The troll didn't get a big payday, but they didn't get told to stop and it set precedent helping them shake down others.
Pretty awesome that you can search for things that would never normally be tagged. "Moldy pool" actually yields appropriate results.
Even in more modern times, the details of how a population of people came to be can get lost.

For instance, nobody actually knew where the Romani people actually came from until the 1800s or so, and even then, the theory of a migration out of India (specifically, the Punjab region) couldn't be proven until the advent of modern DNA science.

See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Romani_people#O...
I've never used Siri... To be honest, there is nothing about it that can make my day-to-day life any better in any way.
A faster horse, you say?
that looks superb to me! I'm tempted to contribute a patch to generate documentation from the tooltips now.
I mean, people use gendered pronouns for *actual* parrots all the time, too…
Probably would take an engineer to answer this question. It's entirely possible that building the first few floors with wood would be more expensive than steel due to the additional lumber needed for strength.
Have you looked around?
Kamiah, ID

https://www.nps.gov/nepe/learn/historyculture/heart-of-the-m...
But the purpose of the standard isn't to rank websites, but to process the information.
feel like AI is on track to make every engineer a PM
Because solving the answer to what is the correct legal interpretation is not concerned with if that interpretation yields economic identities.
The problem is the camps. It's forces framing certain traits as something that requires exiling people who show them.
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My team works on the CarPlay implementation of Google Maps.

Apple severely dictates and limits what we or any other app can do there as far as UX, while not holding themselves to the same rules.

I ran Android Auto for the first time yesterday and was impressed by how much more “Google” it was.
Show HN: BenchFlow – run AI benchmarks as an API
I built BenchFlow, an open-source framework that lets you integrate and evaluate AI tasks using Docker-based benchmarks. You can try it out right now by cloning the repo and running a benchmark in minutes.

As an AI researcher, I was frustrated with how much time my team spent setting up benchmark environments rather than actually improving our models. We'd spend weeks configuring environments, only to find inconsistencies when comparing results with other teams. BenchFlow started as an internal tool to standardize our evaluation process, and we decided to open-source it after seeing how much time it saved us.

Unlike other benchmarking tools that focus on specific domains, BenchFlow provides a unified interface for any AI task. The Docker-based approach ensures consistent environments across different machines and teams. You don't need to worry about dependency conflicts or environment setup - just implement a simple interface and you're ready to go.

How to try it out? check our link but here's a preview of that

1. pip install benchflow
2. load a benchmark and define how to call your agents/models
3. run it and get the result

Available benchmarks you can try today:

- MMLU-PRO: Test your model's knowledge across 57 subjects
- Bird: Evaluate business intelligence reasoning capabilities
- WebArena: See how your agent performs on web-based tasks
- MedQA-CS: Test medical question answering abilities

The framework handles all the containerization, task distribution, and result collection, so you can focus on improving your models rather than managing infrastructure.

I'd love to hear your feedback and see how you use it. What benchmarks would you like to see added next?

Please give us a star if you can, thanks!

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> So what? Why should that bother Apple so much? They sold the mouse. Who cares how the user uses it? A user who chooses to use their mouse while plugged in does not in any way affect the mouse's manufacturer.

If the user has a worse experience, that's a lose/lose situation. Of course they should care about things that affect the experience.

> My Apple keyboard lets me use it while it's plugged in, and the world hasn't ended. Why didn't they put the charger on the bottom of the keyboard too?

A cable doesn't impact a keyboard because it's not moving.

> Why don't they make their phones so you can't use them while charging?

The chance of a phone being left plugged in forever is minimal to begin with, and the hassle of not being able to use it while it charges would be much larger.
It's not really a question of whether the patent troll has a legitimate patent or not—in the sense of having clear ownership over the IP, that is. They generally do. We consider someone a patent troll when they don't make use of the patent themselves, except to extract money from other people, typically through threats of legal action. They're exploiting the fear of being sued for a lot of money in order to get a comparatively small amount of money in exchange for agreeing to not sue. "Troll" here is in the pre-internet sense of the word, not someone making up a fake story on a message board, but more like a troll living under a bridge, demanding money from people in order to cross it.
If the goal is really to increase law enforcement along the borders, this still does not make sense.

There aren't really domestic competitors for much of the imported materials used to create American products, so the foreign suppliers have the upper hand in the "deal" since Americans are reliant on them and do not have their own competitors in place.

To me this appears to be more about the federal government charging the majority of Americans more in taxes, to pay for the deficit being created by tax cuts for the few ultrawealthy Americans.
The prevelance of phrases like "low IQ response try harder" makes me think they're scripted.

Perhaps. Just downvote, then click on comment date flag and move on with your day. One could email dang but I doubt much information would be disclosed and I highly doubt any stats would ever be added regarding these posts. Any stats added would also be weaponized by the trolls.

Ultimately they handle these things on the backend. If the trolls move to threats or violent speech then email dang with the link and annotate the Subject accordingly.
I don't believe that, blocking entire IP ranges is a fairly typical practice. What sort of proof do you have?
Aw, I was hoping for a skateboard that replaced the wheels with legged locomotion— like a cilia skateboard
Are you saying that large infrastructure projects have been systematically overcounting population in order to pay more compensation? That there's an interest in making them seem more disruptive, and as if they displace more people?

If that's an obvious conclusion, I need more explanation.
I said "etcetera" for the unix /etc path for years before someone corrected me.
That crapshoot always seems to land on "Playing Apple Music".
Zuck: I don't know why they trust me. Dumb f*cks

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Really, OK; I digress because at the point you imply that: "Yes. The only solution is magic. Well done." is such a high brow and intellectual comment and I a'm just too dumb to I understand it - this obviously is a waste of both our time.
That's nice. Now when's the next Chtorr book coming out? (Rothfuss and Martin have nothing on Gerrold... .)
Because they don't expect to win the lawsuit. Their odds of winning a lawsuit aren't that good, so their goal is to badger a founder into settling. A founder would likely be killing their creative endeavor to become their own lawyer and go to court for themselves, and the trolls choose targets for whom paying a lawyer for the length of one of these trials would be prohibitively costly.

In other words, their real business model, the reason that they can be considered a "safe investment" is that they operate as an extortion racket at scale with the justice system itself as their (free) muscle.
Sure, you have to pay for public road parasitism by pedestrian, public transit on roads funded partially by fuel taxes, and heavy road destroying vehicles. Not that I blame them, they're taking advantage of incentives offered. Who wouldn't want to bike on a road funded by car owners and then buy goods transported by 18 wheelers that end up destroying the road disproportionately to the point it is small passenger cars that get the biggest squeeze.

It's not dumb to not want to be the sucker, the urban yuppies on transit routes are great at squeezing the working class that way.
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Speaking as a South African, that article was very interesting and didn’t seem to misrepresent anything that I’m aware of, but I’m also not especially knowledgeable in these areas. I don’t support this law myself, but as mentioned by the article it’s not as bad as Trump makes out.

However, there is some context which I feel is missing from your post, in particular how it’s a bit strange that Trump even cared to politically attack South Africa.

We’re pretty small fry from an economic output point of view, not nothing, but a pretty small market which although it has great potential, has been somewhat stagnant largely due to incompetence and corruption by our government.

Something that would have however gotten notice in the US is that we formally filed a case in ICC against Israel for human rights violations (for the record, I would not personally speak in support of Israel or Palestine).

Something else that is also likely a factor (and is mentioned in the article) is that Musk was born here. Not mentioned in the article is that he has unequivocally stated he has no love for South Africa. If I recall correctly, his family left the country while he was still in school, where he was bullied.

It would be pretty natural that he has some emotional connection to here and would pay some attention to what’s happening, at the very least to things which would reinforce his existing world view on us.

Another interesting thing that happened in the last couple of years is that Starlink looked into operating here, but decided not to when the government said a precondition was that a significant percentage be black owned (in practice many companies who adhere to this essentially view it as a form of tax where they’re obligated to give a portion of their company away).

Our BBBEE laws which dictate that you can’t do business with the government unless your own company and all your suppliers (and their suppliers, ad infinitum) have enough black ownership is quite contentious (and a form racial of discrimination in my books) has resulted in many international investors simply walking away, Starlink amongst them, and I don’t blame them.

But It’s exactly the kind of thing Musk would no doubt have heard about with Starlink and if I were Musk it would have peeved me quite a bit, possibly enough to point us out to Trump who’s always looking for a punching bag to reinforce his existing world views on injustices.
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All the advantages of a single public serchable IRC channel that logs all history.

And all the obvious problems with a public serchable IRC channel that logs all history.
One of the goals of Prefect's SDK is to be minimally invasive from a code-standpoint (in the simplest case you only need two lines to convert a script to a `flow`). Our deployment model also makes infrastructure job config a first-class citizen so you might have a good time trying it out. (disclosure: work at Prefect)
I would not be surprised. So I think they might be surprised by just how extreme the response is. If their political opponents can be disappeared, they will have nothing to lose.
MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020)
I believe the main argument (from the OP) is that you have to specify the range with two bounds, and that it is common to want a 0 (assuming a 0-based indexing world), and so in order to refer to a range that includes index 0 you'll need to use a number that is not in the set of valid indexes to define the bound.

I would note that the argument is weakened when you look at the later bound, since you have the same problem there, it's just more subtle and less commonly encountered -- yet it routinely creates security bugs!

It's because we don't work with integers, we work with fixed-size intervals within the set of integers (usually a power of two consecutive integers). So `for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)` is just weird when you're using 8-bit integers: your upper range is an inexpressible value, and could easily be compiled down to `for (i = 0; i < 0; i++)` with two's complement, eg if you did `uint8_t upper = 256; for (uint8_t i = 0; i < upper; i++)`. That case is simple, but it gets nastier when you are trying to properly check for overflow in advance and the actual upper value is computed. `if (n >= LIMIT) { return error; }` doesn't work if your LIMIT is based on the representable range. Nor does `if (n * elementSize >= LIMIT) { return error; }`. Even doing `limit = LIMIT / elementSize; if (n >= limit) { return error; }` requires doing the `LIMIT / elementSize` intermediate calculation in larger-width numbers. (In addition to the off-by-one if LIMIT is not evenly divisible by elementSize.)

So when dealing with overflow checks, 0 ≤ i ≤ N may be better. Well, a little better. `for (i = 0; i <= LIMIT; i++)` could easily be an infinite loop if LIMIT is the largest in-domain value. You want `i = 0; while (true) do { ...stuff...; if (i == LIMIT) break; i++; }` and at that point, you've lost all simple correspondence with mathematical ranges.

> Isn't it obvious that there is no universally correct way to index things?

I don't know about "obvious", but I agree that there is no universally correct way to index things.
Wouldn't that be IronNode, then? Especially now that node-ts is a thing