skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are (a lot of) people who consider the 'ij' to be a single letter. When asked whether that means Dutch has 27 letters in the alphabet or the 'y' is not a Dutch letter, the discussion becomes very confused. Best explanation is probably that the 'ij' is a letter that's not in the alphabet, or it is, but shares the 25th spot in the alphabet with the 'y'. But it is still a different letter, because "symbool" and "royaal" are also valid Dutch words. The situation isn't helped by the fact that some names and words that currently contain an 'ij' used to contain an 'y'.

(Personally I think it's two letters, but there are very serious sources, including a major encyclopedia as well as primary schools, that disagree. In games and puzzles it's also usually considered to be a single letter.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_%28digraph%29
Afaict this doesn't include a fingerprint sensor, is that accurate?
Eli Lilly Antibody Trial Paused over Potential Safety Concerns
Note that this is not a vulnerability. You are supposed to be able to extract plaintext secrets with the Data Protection API if you are logged in as the user who the secret belongs to. That is the whole point.

I’m not sure the author knows this. He points out that this is useful for post-exploitation data gathering. That is, you’ve already compromised a machine/account and are looking to gather as much potentially useful information as possible. But he puts “securely” in scare quotes, which is not honest because this is secure storage: if you’re not authenticated, the key can’t be read. The encryption key is derived from the user password, so it can’t be defeated by offline reading either.
From your [0]:

> 9. Is the CPI a cost-of-living index?
...
> Both the CPI and a cost-of-living index would reflect changes in the prices of goods and services, such as food and clothing that are directly purchased in the marketplace; but a complete cost-of-living index would go beyond this role to also take into account changes in other governmental or environmental factors that affect consumers' well-being. It is very difficult to determine the proper treatment of public goods, such as safety and education, and other broad concerns, such as health, water quality, and crime, that would constitute a complete cost-of-living framework. Since the CPI does not attempt to quantify all the factors that affect the cost-of-living, it is sometimes termed a conditional cost-of-living index.

Public services are being gutted in the US. I think this explains why cost of living indexes can be north of 10% while the CPI is < 2%.

It doesn’t explain how groceries, rent, medical care and education costs have all skyrocketed without raising the CPI. My guess is that people are spending less than they used to on things like recreation and apparel, due to lack of money.
I have a long history of doing "community development" type work both online and off. And that includes being lead mod for an organization trying to make the transition to registered non-profit and volunteer work of various sorts over the years and so forth.

It's actually hard to communicate what I do. I'm sort of like the "mortar" person described in this article about trying to convey your job title: https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/job-title-its-complicated/

I do a variety of things and I know something about design and I know something about economic development and I know something about community building (the social fabric part of that) of various sorts and so forth. It's not you, it's partly that community development work tends to suffer from this problem that outsiders have no idea what "planning" (or "development") is and so forth and it's partly that I'm kind of a Jill of All Trades and I never quite know how to tell people what I do.

Thank you for that suggestion in your second paragraph. I have no idea how to do that, but that's terrific feedback and a great idea.

I'm currently short of sleep, but will try to make those changes at some point (hopefully soon-ish). That looks like a huge improvement to what I did and I will think some more on what I did there and how that got misinterpreted by you and how I can make it better.
Basically when you migrate a project from A to B, your best result would be to have B that works as good as A (people don't want change, people don't want new bugs).

Since you most of the time didn't code A, were not responsible for it, etc. and, at the same time, are expected to understand it thoroughly (you got the fg code after all), you're expected to do at least as good as A.

So you're B will be compared to A and will always be seen as inferior.

How treacherous.
> Mistakes happen at scale regardless of whether it's automated or human-controlled.

I think the problem here isn't that there was a mistake, but that de Zwart had no reocurse when it happened.

> It's not so much as a policy as a necessity. Facebook's number of users is counted in the billions. They have about 50,000 users for each Facebook employee.

So what? How often do things like this happen? If it happens enough that Facebook's customer support can't keep up, that suggests their automation needs some serious work.
In the past, when a construct like 'intelligence' has been hard to pin down, science moves on--leaves it to 'philosophy' and works with formal definitions.

Would you say that's one part of your point? Just to clarify, I am only responding to that part of your point.

By way of example, behaviorists declared a strict subset of the human experience to be in the purview of scientific study--and that may even have been just fine for that era.

You seem to be sweeping something important under the rug because it's hard to pin down, and saying that this is what science has done in the past--and if so, you're right.

But there's an assumption--an assumption that it is safe to sweep things under the rug like that. That assumption may prove false, and if it does, we're screwed.

Convinced that AGI is not something to worry about? Fine--but surely you agree there's such a thing as an information hazard? That is, information that can be deadly in the wrong hands: like how to create the next COVID, or how to make a nuclear bomb. In past eras of human history, knowledge was not as powerful. Today and ever more so in the future, whether humanity can Get Things Right will matter.

So from my perspective, it doesn't matter that whatever 'intelligence' is, is hard to pin down: it's still got to be figured out, whether or not it's difficult.
If you are concerned about USD buy international index funds.

Cryptocurrencies are gambling. I would not go for that.
Surely 5G can only make sense on an unlimited plan.

Or the limits are going to have to become ridiculously big. You could burn a 30G/month limit in 10 seconds in “ideal conditions”.
I should have been more specific. Certain rents are included, but house prices are not. Gasoline and bus fairs are included, but the cost of buying a car is not. And, various food items are seasonally adjusted in a favorable manner.

Over time, the index has changed in a manner that grossly underestimates the inflation the average person experiences.
Sorry for late answer: A Kafka ack is not a signal that an individual message is complete, but that the message index pointer can move forwards. So if you read 10 tasks and run them in parallel, you can't just ack a random selection of 5 as they complete. You could work out a system to ack the entire bunch when the last one finishes though. All of this assumes you're ok with more-than-once delivery, of course.
It's weird that this talks a big game about being about promoting civility and dialog, but seems to be a bug reporting tool. Why would I use this one instead of one of the million others that are focused on my actual problems (checkout is broken) rather than lofty rhetoric? Alternatively, if I'm interested in the lofty rhetoric, why is a website feedback popup the solution?
I know it isn't live, and it shows because they've been sloppy throughout. Check out his watch at the 20 minute mark, it's way off.

In general, Apple's presenter's watches (and demo devices) show the local time for live events, and they tried to do that here but obviously didn't do a very good job.
The way it is usually used, it tends to mean "something we gave-up on paying most of the technical debt".

But I've seen some very different usages too.
I read it the same way. Hiking is a stereotypical hobby along with playing an instrument.
What's amazing to me is how little of a difference they have between the regular and pro models: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/

It basically boils down to a few relatively minor camera features perhaps except for the addition of a 2x camera (The other differences are Lidar sensor, 60fps HDR recording at vs 30fps, and saving in RAW).

It looks like they think that just creating the impression that the pro model is better is enough to get more money from people who are less price sensitive.
The tier 3 puzzles are were it starts to really get complex!
Show HN: Monitoria – active monitoring service for your website
FWIW, I tried to use my iPhone X without a screen protector but the glass was getting scratched all to hell. I had no worries about it cracking or anything, but it seems to have been a common problem:

https://gizmodo.com/iphone-x-damage-report-two-months-later-...
...with the additional downside that it's from Google, and Google projects and devices have a tendency to be abandoned pretty quickly whenever their interest turns to something else.
This article is status signaling, not critique.
Ask HN: What's your self-directed learning system?
I'm pretty new to the industry. HN got me into it in the first place, and I now need your help.

I've been storing content for years, and need to read through much of it. It runs the gamut of online courses, books, news articles, guides, and neat possible tools. As of right now ported to a text document, it's ~15K lines of text.

While I love reading through all of it, do any of you have a good system for working through your future learning?

I'm not so much concerned about motivation. I know EXACTLY why I want to learn, and the internet already has TONS of articles on how to find that inner purpose (Sad to say I've contributed to that deluge).

I'm more looking at the nuts-and-bolts of what you use to handle a wall of links, articles, books, and videos. Right now I use TreeSheets (i.e., spreadsheet-ception) and throw any supporting info (videos, PDFs) into a conventional file system.
The iPhone 3GS in 2020
Have you tried with an iPhone? Legit curious as I'm about to switch from a Pixel 2XL. I didn't think I'd like the giant trackpad on my MBP, but Apple does a good job with rejection about 99.9% of the time.
iPhone 12 costs $829, advertised $799
I'm similarly skeptical they can be fixed with a chatbox. We're working toward a public platform where issues can be made visible on a broader scale. For those websites that would invite such feedback and be early adopters, we're creating a widget for them to do so. Eventually, people might come to expect this sort of public discourse.
You're the one making the claim that the majority is going to rule vindictively. If you believe that they're worse at that than other people, it's on you to demonstrate it. Or to demonstrate that the minority singled out by the Electoral College is somehow especially better at it.
> The inhuman thing about the internet is that interacting with people has been replaced with interacting with organizations.

That was happening long before the Internet, although the Internet has certainly made it easier for organizations to dehumanize their interactions with people.
I will have to chew on that. Hopefully that's not how it works here. (crosses fingers)
I haven't gone looking, but I wouldn't assume that you can get sync'ed stereo unless specifically a feature.
I've never been to the subreddit, but then followed the link and regrettably read a few comments.
Oh that's a real shame if so.. missed opportunity!
WE encountered the same exact problems. WE use a single page application. prerender.io was our savior.
Apple announces iPhone 12 with OLED screen and 5G speeds
They supposedly use Keynote, but I think with these presentations it's more likely custom motion graphics in After Effects or possibly Final Cut Pro if Apple is imposing in-house software.
No, if you only write the last name in isolation then you should capitalize the ‘D’. So it’s Mr De Zwart, but Hans de Zwart.
Hi Hacker News,

My name is Robert and I'm a software engineer from Vancouver BC. Few months ago I decided to quit my job and try to make something on my own. Please check it out.

Monitoria is an active monitoring service for websites or basically any HTTP/S endpoints. It will periodically send HTTP requests to the selected URL and when it starts receiving errors, it will send you a notification.

The whole service is hosted on Digital Ocean costing about 45$ per month. It consists of PostgreSQL managed database (15$), two web servers (2x5$) behind a load balancer (10$), and two worker servers (2x5$) used for sending monitoring requests. CloudFront for hosting CSS files and SES for sending notification emails.

I'm using maybe a little bit boring stack - Java and Spring Boot. Plus Tailwind CSS library for styling. Worker service is using a scheduling library to trigger monitoring requests at regular intervals (https://github.com/kagkarlsson/db-scheduler). Payments are integrated with Paddle service (https://paddle.com/).

Please check it out and let me know what you think. I would be happy to hear any comments or ideas for improvement.

If you think about any feature that may be useful for you, send me an email. I may be able to build it.

Thank you very much!

Robert
More Human, at least to me, wouldn't be an issue tracker for your end users to source your testing.

I can appreciate the idea of bringing an issue tracker for websites that are public for transparency, but I don't think this makes a website "more human" in the sense that your landing page would lead me to believe.
Supporting Public Health Experts’ Vaccine Efforts
Why do we keep tolerating this?
Why would you trust a company whose bottom line ultimately depends on spying on everyone, in a regulatory environment which demonstrated that breaching your own promises/privacy policy (in the case of Facebook and the 2FA phone numbers they promised not to use for ad targeting purposes) results in nothing more than a slap on the wrist?
Functionally there's little to no difference between what you've described and what is colloquially known as "money printing". You've essentially just redefined "money" to include U.S. treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, and then stated that it's just an asset swap and not money printing.

You can use whatever terminology you want, but at the end of the day, the Federal Reserve is creating money out of thin air and using it to buy real assets. You can argue that the effect of this is not as dramatic as printing money to buy a bunch of luxury condos or sports cars, but at that point we're just debating the degree of influence. The whole point of Fed money printing is to influence the economy, so if it didn't anticipate any difference, it wouldn't be doing it.
> Odd note,the amount of wealth on display in their demonstration home was astounding.

What are you referring to? Like the architecture and decor? It seemed professionally staged but not particularly opulent, in my opinion.

I suppose one might say just showing a single family home that presumably exists in the bay area is itself a ludicrous display of wealth.
Yes, I'm precisely calling the electoral college a bias, and asking the OP to demonstrate why that bias would be better than a more equitable decision making mechanism.
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> that I need to understand how Git works under the covers to truly get advantage of it and not screw up my work.

Happened to me with both knife and fire. Miserable failures with terrible UIs.
I recently required from the IT team a HTML page intended to be readable on everything. It is a simple instruction with 3 headers.

They came up with an app, full of JS. Don't get me wrong, I write apps for my own use (quasar / vue) so I like frameworks, but I wanted a simple plain page.

Since they wanted to use a framework, I asked them to use https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ as the template and after some initial gasps of horror we had a working web page.
For all you know the gold price can halve if there is an economic recovery sooner than expected. The same drastic movement (either way) is not going to happen to US bonds.
I think this was borne out pretty well with the announcement. Most of the 'breakthrough' tech enabled by A14 was just stuff the A13 could already do just fine. They spent about 10 minutes talking about deep fusion FFS.

(still buying one though...)
Hi mycroftiv! I remember when you started all this in #plan9 and #cat-v and I am very glad of seeing you are still running the grid.

At some point, I could not follow your pace and stopped following. I was wondering, what interesting use you found that was totally unexpected? There were so many open possibilities last time I checked that I am sure you found something nice in there.
Never said it should be a requirement. But downloading a .zip file from a site which does not have a valid SSL certificate nor supports SSL in the first place does not instill confidence. Software security is a thing.
In the US sometimes the picture can be a detriment because then the employer can be sued for discrimination based on age, gender, race etc. That is one factor that will keep people from adding their image or street address to a resume.
Pieces like this remind me of soviet propaganda when they literally claimed that “cybernetics is capitalists’ whore”. Some people are just incapable of seeing past their political beliefs (or unwilling to)
A $10 popcorn and drink special. $18.00 dollar tickets.

That sounds like a very poor cost/value.

A sporting event, visit to a zoo offers so much more at that price point.
> Pick up an incoming call from your iPhone, listen to music on your Mac, or upgrade your TV experience by taking the sound from your Apple TV to the next level — they all connect to HomePod mini.

From the Apple website
Maybe the wallet has NFC shielding.
IMO Google Assistant is still generally stronger in parsing my sentences, multi-command workflows (Siri doesn't have it), and not having all my devices wake up and respond at the same time.
A Review of Consensus Protocols
Globally or in the US? Because they only sell the HomePod in a handful of countries.
I'm not gonna bet against the fed. Im not going to bet against politicians protecting retirement accounts and personal homes. I've got 30 more years until I get out of the market, might as well hedge against the dollar, only take out a bit to get a down payment on a home in a nice area, and try to catch the capitalist wave.

If you stayed in through 2008 till now, you'd be doing perfectly fine. If you had to take out money right after the collapse, ouch.

Ultimately your portfolio risk should reflect the cash needs of your age/health/lifestyle in the context of the economics of the time. However, we are in uncharted waters.
If you look at the responses to that editorial, they note that the 11% positivity of igA tests, cited as suggestive of a high level of undetected infection, is actually the false positive rate of the test, among other embarrassing errors.

The first citation on your linked editorial is Ioannidis, which is the same Stanford researcher in the OP article here, and the same group responsible for the utterly flawed Santa Clara study. It seems like it's literally this one group, and a few other weirdos and contrarians, singlehandedly raising spurious doubts about the science, and then being amplified beyond all reason.

The cited Ioannidis study also sucks, he takes a number of seroprevalence studies, including some very flawed or underpowered ones, and then takes the unweighted median for some reason? More details here, including an illustration of how the high-quality, randomly-selected samples do not vary so much https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1283232023402868737
LibreOffice Drops an Open Letter to Legacy OpenOffice, and It's Huge
From the market research I've seen, Americans were actually reasonably happy with the old phone sizes - the move towards larger phones was driven more by international (particularly Asian) consumers.

Part of this is because a smartphone is a "primary computing device" in those countries, whereas Americans tended to have tablets, laptops and TVs as well.
Simple reason. Nobody wants to start WW3 and nobody wants to buy expensive raw materials somewhere else.

Other than that the only viable strategy is to do the same to Russia. Keep them busy and stretch their resources thin so their government implodes.

But I guess nobody really has the balls to do it.

Certainly not the EU.
It's not about network speed, it's about the power requirements, range and iSIM.

With LTE-M (not sure if it's considered 5G, but it's a new LTE standard being rolled out at the same time anyway) or NB-IoT you can have devices using way less power to stay connected to the internet, and the range can be very impressive too. Of course, the bandwidth is also very low. But that's OK for things like tracking devices (they're making reindeer trackers in Finland) and basic smart watches.

With eSIM or iSIM you can also make the device smaller

> is using 2G cellular modems

I think carriers really want to discontinue 2G eventually. It's really inefficient. They've already dropped support for 3G around here.

I'm guessing it's also way more power hungry than LTE-M/NB-IoT

Can you make something like this with 2G? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airbolt/the-airbolt-gps

I don't think so...
The demo failed. Won't accept "Checkout" as text. Where do I report this?
Pix2Prof: Extracting sequential galaxy data with a language model
Google’s Looker rolls out smarter analytics dashboards in latest release
I don’t get it. Siri is the absolute worst compared to Google assistant, the only compelling reason to buy the HomePod is for sound quality.

So unless this has some other redeeming quality over “Siri in your living room”, I don’t think it will sell well. The original HomePod regularly went on sale for 33% off already.
Reminds me of when they ran an ad with Yao Ming using a 12-inch PowerBook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvbuwfawqcc.
You mean the Google, Amazon and Apple spy systems?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...
where water levels are variable and water is a big deal...i cant find any hydrology or science backed methods to help make a decision with raw topographical maps to determine if there will be water underneth.
The site does not have a valid SSL certificate. Some browsers will block it.
Back when I got my driver's license in the late 90s, Pennsylvania couldn't handle Scottish surnames, so my last name ended up "MC BETH" after I wrote it on the form as "McBeth" (which is ludicrous, there have been Scots people in Pennsylvania far longer than there have been licenses). When I moved to Virginia 7 years ago, Virginia could handle it, but my PA license showed a "MC BETH", so my VA license shows "MC BETH".

Before they issue the license, they give you a form to review. They warn you to check the form for errors, because errors are "serious business" with "serious consequences". So I point out the space on the form, that it is not the correct spelling of my name.

The clerk got quite surly with me. It didn't matter that all the other documentation I had to submit--including my birth certificate--along with my change of residency showed "McBeth". Apparently, the PA DMV of 1998 was infallible and I'm now trying to pull some sort of fraud fastball in VA in getting that space removed.
Where is this handled now? We do this ourselves, but then I hit the google, and got this page:

https://stripe.com/docs/orders/tax-integration

but the header says the service is now deprecated. Is there a new one?