skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This work demonstrates how the group-delay response of headphones and loudspeakers can be perceptually tested, and leads to a better understanding of how audio systems should be equalized to avoid audible group-delay distortion.
Even ReactOS, an open-source implementation of Windows exists.
Well, it's not like it's illegal to require a phone number. Google has simply decided that a phone number is a requirement due to security considerations.
I wish there was a similar list: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Human Names.

Billions of people don't follow GivenName SurName format that is common in the Western English culture. Yet most places online believe this to be true.
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Crosswalks with traffic lights and speed cameras seems like such a self-evident solution to this. That doesn't seem any more authoritarian or heavy-handed than literally digging up the roads to make them more miserable to use.

(Also, turn-on-red is such a weird idea. Especially as, from the sound of it, the rules vary from locale to locale.)
I do not mind these at all. Am I really auch a minority or are people who don‘t like threads just very loud?

I like the reading cadence, I like reading in the twitter mobile app and I like the ability to precisely reply to things or expand in a quote RT. Seems great to me, but I also have ADHD so maybe that‘s it.
In my hometown they implemented a system that checks for your speed and if you’re over turns on the next red light. Works like a charm.
> you might consider declaring columns NUMERIC. From the documentation: "A column with NUMERIC affinity may contain values using all five storage classes. When text data is inserted into a NUMERIC column, the storage class of the text is converted to INTEGER or REAL (in order of preference) if the text is a well-formed integer or real literal . . . If the TEXT value is not a well-formed integer or real literal, then the value is stored as TEXT." So NUMERIC is kind of like TEXT except when the text is a pure number.

So it'll corrupt text value "1.0000"? Sounds like a dangerous feature.
The problem is, that this will be done in other, (currently) freer countries. Eg. Reddit has removed a lot of anti-china posts in the last few years. And of course, local leaders will use this to find anti-local-leader stuff on their citizens phones too.
I kind of agree. When I was young and could not afford anything - I was dreaming about all luxury things I saw in the movies and travelling the globe.

Now I tried it and don't see the reason to. I mean there is no rush. Regular house/flat will give you 80% of value of multimillion dollar mansion will give. Cars are all +- the same given that you can drive only so fast. Travel when you need to work is too hectic but if you are retired it can be very inexpensive.
In order to push past this middle level it is not clear what to do i.e. difference between 1M and 10M is not that big in terms of your lifestyle but ability to accumulate so much is completely different beast.

The true happiness comes from other things: friends, family, free time, the business you love, curiosity etc.

UPD: This is all of course if you were able to get into good career/small business path. If you are stuck with some low-pay job you still have some work to do to jump to another industry.
In this case it may be unexpected because [0-9] are called "Arabic numerals" after all. But Western Arabic and Eastern Arabic numerals have diverged even though they share the same ancestry.
Pretty insane. I've been dodging Google's, PayPal's and Amazon's attempts at getting me to 2fa my old accounts with a phone number on every login for years. And glad I did, after my brother got simjacked and immediately had all his accounts compromised as a result. A private email server is the only secure recovery method these days. Not that it's totally secure. Just a harder target.
Shameless plug: I have given a talk about this a couple of times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfKhY3sAQ9E

But also, such a list does exist! https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
It was truly a US company (well, Japanese subsidiary of one). It’s total size was 8 employees across the entire world, so I had a fairly complete view ;)
> I think the best work these days on topic is probably focused emp bursts.

I think a magnetron from a microwave oven attached to a directional antenna should just do the trick :).
Get ready for the witch hunts
Yes but it's not actually a random lottery. The risk of death for a young person according to that page is probably 0.25%. However, not all young people are healthy. If you're healthy, it's probably close to an order of magnitude lower. More importantly, most people who got COVID didn't get tested. They just got better at home, or never even noticed that they had it. So there's another order of magnitude. For young healthy people, you're looking at 0.0025%.

I just think we should be clear about the risks. Obviously if you're older and/or unhealthy the risks are worse than presented as well.
> If you get tired of reading it, it can serve as a doorstop or protect you from small-arms fire.

I like the self-deprecating humor, and wish him well.
Surely they were able to sort it out with Tesla (some other comment here mentions Tesla refunded it without a fuss), so why is it even news?
alert("you have been hacked")
"Compound interest" is a generic term; it does not refer specifically to low-risk investments. You can invest in a stock index fund and still refer to "compound interest" in that context.
I absolutely disagree with the assertion that static typing is restrictive. It's not, though of course you need to be more verbose. But you are doing this largely for correctness so it's a worth tradeoff. Needing overly generic types or no type restrictions is very strong code smell.
Thank you for catching that. Now if only he'd state how much greater, but apparently he ran out of numbers by this point in the article. But he does give us some clues. Earlier in the article he states:

> City-wide, 24% of residents are Black, while 68% of police bike/ped stops are of Blacks.

So Blacks are 2.8x more likely to be stopped. And:

> they represent an even greater percentage of specious police stops

A quick reading might make one think their stops are more than 2.8x more likely to be specious. But a careful reading would only say that more than 68% of all specious stops are of Blacks. How much more? That's cleverly left to the reader's imagination. But throughout the article he heavily implies the unfairness in stops is 180%:

> An unbiased sample would be clustered around the dotted line: a beat whose population is about 40% Black would have about 40% of its police stops be of Blacks.

So "even greater percentage of specious stops" gives the impression that taking specious stops into account worsens the picture. Of these 3 articles, only the Washington Post bothers to give the ratio of specious stops*, which turns out to be... 21% (averaging all states given in that graph, without correcting for population size).

That's still bias, and I'll freely admit it suggests racism. But it's much less than the 180% racism the article tries to imply. It's 8.6x less - nearly an order of magnitude. That's enough for me to say the article is misleading, and given how strategically it ran out of numbers when it came to comparing specious stops, I'm willing to say it is deliberately misleading.

*If you think the situation in Oakland is much different than the states the Post covered, you're free to work out the numbers from the raw data at https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/stop-data
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Security has nothing to do with why they want your phone number. Your account is far less secure if it can be stolen with a sim card than if there's no 2fa at all.
> MacOS because XNU is based on Mach, and it was forked (Edit: from 4.3BSD) in 1988

As another commenter noted: XNU = Mach + FreeBSD.

What you are referring to is what NeXTSTEP was, Mach + BSD4:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Unix

By the time Apple got to them it was a few years later, and so they decided to updated that part of the kernel, and also brought in FreeBSD's userland.
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors
Another one: Mobile phones always received SMS texts.

This may be untrue because of reception issues (phones out of coverage areas or on their fringes) or because the phone number is associated with a non-phone device (e.g. LTE modem) that is not able to deal with SMS traffic.

This one is particularly galling for me, as I live in a fringe reception area (because topography happens!) but so many corporate devs labour under the illusion that we can all receive texts, and receive them instantly. This can have serious real-world consequences. (Try telling a certain bank's debt-collection department that text messages delivery is unreliable.)
Apparently programmers don't know much about anything because there are lots of falsehood lists [0].

[0] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
The real problem is that "full self driving" doesn't exist (and isn't even close to existing), but they're selling it.
A useful reference for magnitude of "1MB" is that a typical (english) novel contains around 0.5 to 1 MB of ASCII text. Neuromancer is just under 500kB; Snow Crash is ~900kB. So 1.7MB/user/day is roughly equivalent to 2-3 novels written about each user every day.
> has 76 comments, as of writing this. Seventy six. Out of millions of users.

I just commented in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8933... and https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894#issuecomment-8933... - and even that is too much given that I am using my unpaid hobby time for it.

I am not getting paid for it unlike some people in Google that try to remove alert() and break stuff for everyone instead of fixing bad UI of their browser.
If you requested it and were informed of when and where from it was coming could wouldn't be able to make that argument.
Most RDBMSs use static typing. That's what people expect from a database. It is SQL database, so people naturally expect familiar concepts to behave consistently with their previous experience. If database fails that assumption, it's fair to call this behaviour unreasonable. It's understandable that this was early design error which is impossible to correct now, but calling it reasonable just not to hurt someones feelings is unreasonable.
Do they have baseband isolation? Without an option to at least isolate this black box all else is worthless.
If you're storing the text "1.0000" in a NUMERIC column maybe you're the dangerous one.
Consumption encourages production.
Many streets in Shanghai don't provide much access between the street and the sidewalk -- instead, there are pedestrian overpasses or underpasses.

(It's not the norm -- there are more streets that a pedestrian can easily walk into -- but it's not uncommon either.)

You don't need to make driving a car a nonviable option. Making walking into the street nonviable is just as good.
When did IE6 break existing websites? If anything, Microsoft's problem was the reverse -- never wanting to break anything, which lead to stagnation.
“My car got bricked because the software update failed.”
I wonder why they're not considering type modifiers, eg "TEXT" for dynamically-typed TEXT like now, and something like "STRICT TEXT" for erroring out when a non-string is inserted.

Or a "use strict" style pragma / parameter to sqlite3_open or sqlite3_exec, which errors out for that session (resp query) if something doesn't match the expected type.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28055160
I honestly don't like too much these smug takes

> 1) You willingly delegated the decision of what code is allowed to run on your devices to the manufacturer (2009). Smart voices warned you of today's present even then.

99% of the population will delegate the decision of what code is allowed to run to someone, be it the manufacturer, the government, some guy on the Internet or whatever. For that 99% of the population, by the way, it's actually more beneficial to have restrictions on what software can be installed to avoid malware.

> 2) You willingly got yourself irrevocably vendor-locked by participating in their closed social networks, so that it's almost impossible to leave (2006).

"Impossible to leave" is not a matter of closed or open, but it's a matter of social networks in general. You could make Facebook free software and its problems wouldn't disappear.

Not to mention that, again, 99% of people will get vendor-locked because in the end nobody wants to run their own instance of a federated social network.

> You willingly switched over essentially all human communication to said social networks, despite the obvious warning signs. (2006-2021)

Yes, it's been years since I talked someone face to face or on the phone and I cannot send letters anymore.

> 4) Finally you showed no resistance to these private companies when they started deciding what content should be allowed or banned, even when it got purely political (2020).

No resistance? I mean, it's been quite a lot of discussion and pushback on social networks for their decisions on content. Things move slow, but "no resistance" is quite the understatement.

> Now they're getting more brazen. And why shouldn't they? You'll obey.

Is this Mr. Robot talking now?

But now more seriously, in December the European Electronic Communications Code comes into effect, and while it's true that there's a temporary derogation that allows these CSAM scanners, there's quite a big debate around it and things will change.

The main problem with privacy and computer control is a collective one that must be solved through laws. Thinking that individual action and free software will solve it is completely utopic. A majority of the people will delegate control over their computing devices to another entity because most people don't have both knowledge and time to do it, and that entity will always have the option to go rogue. And, unfortunately, regulation takes time.

Anyways, one should wonder why, after all these years of these kinds of smug messages, we're in this situation. Maybe the solutions and the way of communicating the problems is wrong, you know.
Heh, self-purchasing self-driving capabilities. Skynet would be proud!
Ocean's NES and SNES titles were usually crap, but damn they hade amazing soundtracks!
What about children? This can turn your 20s-30s priorities around. Childfree is an option, but I'm super not sure about it.
On websites where covid vax hesitancy is rampant, I often see posts discussing antibody mediated enhancement, vascular damage caused by circulating spike protein increasing vascular damage and causing death from heart attack and stroke in a few years, prion disease development from misfolded protein propagation, and fertility issues. For most of these issues, long term data is needed to rule them out.
Anti-Money Laundering Software Market to Grow
the link returns 503 response, not sure who is voting for it
To piggyback on the sibling comments:

If you only determined direction based on relative volume between your ears, you wouldn't be able to distinguish between sounds in front vs behind you.
Certainly not an absolute one. For example, fire codes typically have occupancy limits that prioritize public safety over the desires of owners and patrons.

(There's a stronger argument for refusing a vaccine being an absolute right)
> it'll only increase your house value

This is very misleading. Yes, if you spend $1 renovating your house, perhaps your house value has increased by $0.50, but you've also lost $1, so financially speaking, you've made a loss. So in the context of investing, it's misleading to state that renovations increase your house value.

It may be theoretically possible to make a profit with renovations, in some very specific conditions and with extraordinary skill, but the vast majority of renovations are not profitable.
Here is modern COBOL, https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv...
Then just make the box look more like part of the webpage. They could even put a nasty warning message in the box, as they completely control it.
Unfortunately my local redwood isn’t on here, I guess it’s time to submit a picture!
I've seen ",", ".", " ", and "'" in natural languages, and "_" and "'" in programming languages, but where in the world are thousands separated by backticks?
I wonder if in this thread engineers crapping all over the design choices of one of the most reliable and wide-spread DB engines in the world are the same ones who spin up Kubernetes clusters for todo-list SPAs at work?
... maybe :). A while ago I published a writeup on programming in the Seed language (https://esolangs.org/wiki/Seed) and made the best Mersenne Twister cracking program to date (which is described, alongside source code on my website: https://palaiologos.rocks/posts/mersenne-twister/). It gained somewhat widespread popularity in esoteric-ish circles, but after I posted the writeup and revealed the source code I wrote, everyone seemed to have stopped caring.

Which is mainly why I'll never reveal how my Malbolge tooling exactly works - uncertainity is stronger than reason. Maybe because of the mindset people have that "if an explanation is published, it must be simple" paired together with "it's incredibly long and boring, so i'm not going to read it".

And indeed, there existed a small bug in my generator code, which was discovered after 1.5 years, because that's how long it took for someone to try reading and understanding the entire blog post...
T-shirts are already frequently distributed using ballistic methods at sports events. Just upsize it.
$10 nozzle repair requires new battery pack for $16,000. Call it what you want, but that is not green car.
Paywall, but I found I could view the article by clicking the link in this tweet in incognito mode:
https://twitter.com/FT/status/1423222886115028992
While I don't believe particularly drone deliveries as imagined today is a great idea, the drop off should be solvable with an physical token that you place where the goods should be dropped off. Something like an RFID-equipped mailbox.
The difference is that on Linux, only one process can open /dev/dsp, which is why you need shims like aoss or padsp to run older games or other audio-programs without stopping all other sound sources / your sound server.

IMO, /dev/dsp was the right approach and should have been extended instead of being replaced with entirely different interfaces.
I do not see any added value for alerts. They only interfere with normal work. "Site wants to send you alerts". No thanks. They have most of the issues behind a paywall so they just want to serve more ads. If I need something, i will look for it. The newspaper sites are the worst offenders. No i do not need propaganda alerts.
In that scenario, I search the page, and if it's not found, I go to the next page and search there. Repeat to the end.

That algorithm breaks on infinite scroll.
I can only imagine this working for applications that don't churn through memory or applications that are short lived. But in those cases, it would work really well.
Thank for letting me know. Now I know I'm not getting Apple smartphone.
This is what happened with TrueCrypt. After that fork VeraCrypt was created, because you can never coerce everyone in the world.

Independent audits should help against backdoors. Again, the FLOSS nature of software and huge number of developers are essential here.
How did you find SwiftUI?

I built a project with it recently and liked some aspects of it, reminded me of working with WPF years ago, but also found it a bit cumbersome.
So you are saying Smith didn't know what he was talking about?
Article: here is the darkest dark-pattern you will ever see IRL.

HN readers: this is our beloved Tesla, so how can we downplay it?
I appreciate the fact that Redwood World finds it necessary to include a page slamming people who believe that you can't enjoy trees unless they're locally native.

http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/native.htm
Yep that's why I added "muffled" (i.e. not 100% clear). Maybe it's worth clarifying that I wasn't trying to correct the commenter, just adding my original (naive? wrong?) belief about how this worked :)
1999: King of Dragon Pass
I haven't done it so far but if you know how to set it up that fast, is it really that bad to also set up a kube cluset together with everything else? It's not that resource demanding and for a simple app you can probably set it up in 5 minutes
> I mean, you can still use it, but you have to do your own type checking/coercion in code

Can you explain why you wouldn't have to check what you're putting into the database? If you're just stuffing values of unknown type into a statically typed DB you're going to get errors up front and if you stuff values of unknown type into SQLite you might get errors down the road. Either way you probably should know what you're putting into the DB in the first place.
Not POTS, but cell phones could have been E2E at least since cellular switched to digital.
For a long time (and maybe still) you had to have a phone number to register a .com domain. This was a particular annoyance when I wanted to do this but I didn't have a phone number. It was the days before cell phones were really cheap and I used a public payphone whenever I wanted to call anyone.
In its defence everything is bullied by ravens. Wolves, birds of prey, humans, etc.
Yes, it's surprising how large amount of the SMSs get lost. At least in Finland this has been the case when using the most popular international SMS API providers. I previously thought also that eventually the messages will be received but have learned otherwise after trying several providers for two different apps. And I have not even found any good explanations for the SMSs getting lost. I think this is sad from the perspective of Progressive Web Applications because often SMSs could act as an easy replacement for push notifications (which are kind of unavailable/unreliable for PWAs).
it's not like you couldn't do the exact same microsort security alerts with a position:absolute overlay. Google can just make the alert window explicitly stay within the viewport instead of breaking the internet.
> However, who really wants a "global menu bar". It made sense for the original mac, when people just used one app at a time.

Please still use one app at a time. Try examining what most people actually do: they hit maximize on each app and fill the screen.

People that tile windows are the exception from my experience.

> But now people usually have multiple 27" monitors.

[citation needed]

I'd be curious to see what the numbers are. How many people in call centres have that? How many accounting and HR departments?
Design über alles? Form over function? Butterfly keyboard? Jobs may not be in my list of favourite people but i think he had a good sense what works.
Because this is specifically in regarding to calling them from an iframe.
Who said it was merely a performance difference? I said it was a behaviour difference for performance.

Both C++ concepts and templates have cat rules, "If it fits, I sits". Your insert() method has different semantics? I don't care, the function signature matched so I'm calling it anyway.
It’s 12 AWS Snowmobiles, which are container trucks full of hard drives. A corporation that generates that much data probably has more container trucks of furniture.