skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You jest (maybe?) but Zep, the guy that made the PICO-8, has announced something called the "Picotron" that is more from the 16 or 32-bit era: https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php
> under Bayesian reasoning a lot of “fallacies” like sunk cost, slippery slope, etc. are actually powerful heuristics for EV optimization.

Can you elaborate on that?

This really piqued my interest. I feel like logic is easy to apply retrospectively (especially so for spotting fallacies), but trying to catch myself in a fallacy in the present feels like excessive second quessing and overanalyzing. The sort that prevents forward momentum and learning.

Would you by any change have any recommendations on reading on the topic?
With all due respect, this sounds like yet another one of those "Let's spin this negative thing so it sounds good!" situations. Like the spartan interior. Better than just admitting it needed to have costs reduced in every conceivable way, it became 'elegant.'

Same with the exterior design. Redesigning & retooling every few years is expensive. Much cheaper to tell people you're trying to save the world.
> Article 2 has a whole lot of pre-prints with data in the citations

This is yet another news article, written by a journalist (Lynne Peeples, who wrote the other Nature news article you've shared upthread) who is mostly re-hashing her previous article. Did you read it or follow the citations? This is an excellent example of hearsay: if you don't take the time to read the citations in detail, you won't realize what you're missing.

Most of the citations here are same citations in the previous Nature news article. Only citations 4-8 deal with the question of masks' impact on transmission (the remainder are for other questions, like whether vaccinated people can be infected). Of the papers in citations 4-8, two are new. Both are based on mathematical models using self-reported survey data and/or state-level case data. I don't know how good these papers are, but all studies of this form are low-quality medical evidence.

Unfortunately, bad journalists can re-hash the same crappy studies faster than skilled people can debunk their work.

> Talking with friends who are virologists, they all seem to agree masks help.

That's meaningless. You can find a sample of scientists to support pretty much anything.

> What's wrong with... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

So many things. The paper uses survey responses (= bad data), and tries to correlate it with state-level infection curves (= blurry data), and only does it for a month-by-month difference for every month between April and September 2020, when cases were falling across all of north america. It sets arbitrary thresholds for "high cases" and "high mask wearing". It doesn't control for confounding factors, like other policies the states in question might have enacted.

This is a terrible paper. I cannot believe PLOS One published this. It is embarrassing.

> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883189/#__ffn_...

This is not a paper, it's a review. It presents no data. It summarizes the authors' opinions on other papers.
I've been bearish on the Open App Markets bill because I just can't see a hyper-efficient, trillion-dollar company being defeated by our dysfunctional, infighting-plagued congress, but the more stories like this that reach senators and representatives, the less of a moonshot such legislation becomes.
Has anyone considered altering wave patterns to increase ocean surface reflectance? Like a Fresnel lens magnification in reverse.
Some of them were in biotech, and yeah it still doesn't pay nearly at the same level as engineering jobs. Also I was on the molecular/biochem side so pretty techy.
Here's a little context on Delta (https://github.com/slab/delta-elixir) and the linked blog post:

Delta is a format to describe documents' contents and how it changes over time. This is a core piece of technology at Slab, that powers our real-time collaboration engine, thanks to the built-in support for Operational Transform (think multiple users working together in Google docs).

Though we've been using it internally for almost 4 years now, we're finally open-sourcing it to the wider Elixir community.

Would love your feedback!
Well that brings back memories! Beautiful. First game I played where the music dynamically changed with the action.
Yeah, sorry it seemed like it was disabled! As Ali mentioned, when you deselect both options, the button says "I'll do this later", which you can click to skip.
Still a LOT of merchants that need to upgrade equipment to do chip cards including some large franchises. There is a real problem that chip reading devices do not yet have anywhere near the longevity that magswipe use does. Machines go out of service for repair and cleaning after as little as a month of use in busy locations. Magstripe machines typically lasted 12 months plus before needing attention.
F*ck, another one!?
>it's cleartext, after all

What do you mean by "cleartext" exactly ? When I pay using my card with NFC, it's not really cleartext.
I understand your point (and yes we are all mere humans who like plain language).

Your data goes from your bank to the app that you authorized, via Plaid. It is not sold to anybody.
I still use it on my primary desktop computer at home. It's a great, stable system that just keeps on running and doing what it needs to do.
Why music degree instead of CS?
My theory of why the App Store sucks so much is that every manager at Apple is aware of the risk that antitrust action could kill its profitability at some point, therefore nobody good wants to be at the wheel when this particular titanic goes down. So it gets no real love or investment, even though it’s still a major profit center right now.
Do you have any resources (books, websites, etc) that discuss this pattern in depth?
Assuming US starts to let people in again.
There is definitely a card number on the magstripe on it, but i think you cannot make a transaction with it in the SEPA region. So you need to "clone" that card and make a transaction with it in a non SEPA region country and that is disabled by default on debit cards (not credit cards though).
T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
I’m young enough to literally never have paid by swiping.

Except for my exchange year in Texas.
It's important for any severe dehydration. Less severe dehydration means less water has been lost, and the loss of electrolytes is proportional to the amount of water loss. The absorbtion increase is important for cases of severe dehydration, but mild dehydration can often afford to wait for a meal to replenish the electrolytes fully.
I find that really funny
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1427292830523744257.html
3% withdrawal rate has a ton of cushion built in, surviving all historic scenarios including the Great Depression. If we do experience something worse than the Great Depression, it’s not a particularly safe assumption that your job would still exist either, but having whatever was left of your savings would put you in a better spot than most to forge a new life in this new post-apocalyptic world.
This is an HoR Committee, there is only one House Foreign Affairs committee but it like every other committee has a majority and minority split based on the amount of representatives from each party.
No, they're for the merchant. They don't benefit me at all. But merchants were supposed to stop requiring them by now.
Huh, wherever I try to use a magnetic stripe, the terminal would ask me that I have to use the chip. Even if a transaction failed when I used the chip.
most stores in my town (pop 500, US, mi) still take personal checks. mag reader is needed for fuel pump. a few times needed in store when ship reader wasn't working.
I read it, but from it you seem to be making three points.

1. Many worlds is indeed what QM predicts should happen.

2. Popular descriptions are oversimplified and the full explanation is very complicated.

3. Even if many worlds is true, it doesn't change my experience and should not rationally change how I act when faced with quantum uncertainty.

If I am correct, then I'm in violent agreement with all three points. And am left with, "So until more data, I will provisionally accept many worlds as the best explanation."

My impression is that you seem to be left with, "If it is true, then it is irrelevant to my life, and so I don't care about whether it might be true."
> Someone on the conservative side of the spectrum, please enlighten me what the reasonable argument for justifying the past military action there is at this point...

At this point? None. At that point? Well...

Saddam was playing a very subtle game. He was, on the one hand, telling the US inspectors (truthfully) that he didn't have any weapons of mass destruction. And, on the other hand, he was telling his neighbors (and even units of his own military) that he did.

In retrospect, you can say that all the intel was there to say that he didn't have them. At the time, though, when he was trying to tell his neighbors that he did? That was less cut and dried. And, after 9/11, the bias was toward "over our dead bodies are we letting someone like him have WMDs". So the ambiguity (with whatever probability mix) got resolved to "yes he does".

I mean, after 9/11, would you have accepted a 20% probability that he had WMDs? Even if you would, would the country? Would you expect the president to accept that?
Ask HN: Debugging microservices
What’s a recent bug or performance optimization that you worked on in a production microservices environment? How did you get access to the data you needed: debug data, performance data, tracing data across service calls? Can you describe any of the particular frustrations (or pleasures) that arise in this type of system?
So, how do you solve things like:

- type resolution

- scopes

- variable capture

- closures

- constants

- module boundaries

- symbol lookup

- ...

?

All of the above and about a magnitude more is required for anything beyond a templating language.

And none of them are resolved by a parser.
Yes we agree.

It's just that in France "only" 20-25% of fatalities are for people not wearing seatbelt.

Observation statistics are at about 98-99% of front seat users wearing seat belt in France.

Seat belt in front is mandatory since 1st july 1973 and back seat since 1st october 1990.

So seat belts not Tesla autopilot or whatever would save around 8000 lives per year in the USA.

Are tesla cars in the USA nagging about seat belt with no software off switch like in France?
How to stop procrastinating using the Zeigarnik effect
I wrote a comment above on the main allegation which hopefully answers your question. It's not about selling data.
To play devil's advocate – who cares? We've had magnetic strips for decades and they work fine. Yes, they're insecure but anti-fraud measures taken by the bank can mitigate that. If this helps more stores accept payments without having a painful transition isn't that worth it? I use Apple Pay most places but I don't mind having to use a strip once in a while or if others do.
As I listen to him, I can't help but wonder if there is an exact figure on the number of people who are not the President of the U.S. to blame.

Just listened to Biden blaming everyone else for 10 minutes, specifically the people who are dying or will die soon, before he said the "buck stops with me."

JK
> Giving my full credentials and my security question answer in plaintext

FWIW: I've resorted to using a formula to derive my security question answers from the real answer (kept secret) and the text of the question itself. This seems to help mitigate the damage of the q's and a's getting exposed.
America doesn’t have the patience to oversee Afghanistan like was done with Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc.

It takes many decades…
Also, adding on my previous comment, for an interesting take on the limitations of NP hard applicability to real life problems see Parameterized Complexity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameterized_complexity
Elder millennial here - I attended university in the bay area. Before leaving, my family sent me to the military surplus store and then handed me a bus ticket. We are not a military family, but starting the experience at such a utilitarian place set the proper tone.
Free 10 hour course on distributed systems design fundamentals
> There's something amazing/odd/horrifying about a world where it is generally no longer cheaper to do anything yourself.

How? It’s pretty much the point and purpose of civilisation, to say nothing of industrialisation.

> we don't put enough economic value on people making things themselves.

The invisible hand is a middle finger. Always has been.
There’s also Mnemosyne which is fully FOSS unlike Anki.

https://mnemosyne-proj.org/
I'm not saying that first world countries don't have sporadic issues with water supply. They do.

What I'm arguing is that if as a general rule you can't trust the results when your local officials testing the water quality, then your country has failed at meeting the standard for a first world country.

I agree that "you have failed" would have been better framed as "your country has failed you". That was my thinking, but the sentence did not make it clear.

Yes, the UN SDG6 is a goal for 2030 - for developing nations. If you haven't already met this goal, you are a developing nation, not a first world nation.
Apple is also complicit in making it incredibly hard to execute an MITM proxy to know what your iOS apps are sending back to their servers.

Being able to MITM and see what your apps and OS are sending back is the first step to real privacy.
Maybe I'm just missing the joke here, but "Bayesian reasoning" is hardly needed to realize that if the sun did explode, the $50 you'd lose in the bet is worthless anyway.
This kind of move reeks of desperation, as in it could be the end of Blue Origin as we know it.
That involves shipping, though. It wouldn't be worth it to you to have my old 14.4 Kbps modem and all of the attendant junk I have.
Because that is the ecosystem we write our code in
The holdouts have long been the gas station fuel pumps. Though that is finally changing at least where I am many stations now support chip and tap card payments.
Similarly even mediocre programmers do a pretty good job writing programs that halt.
I'm missing the integration tests ;-)
I guess "some people, including parents, go nuts on decorating" is a less catchy headline than calling it an "industrial complex" despite it lacking any real similarly to the military industrial one, and more just being run of the mill consumerism...

EDIT: I think this is an important distinction because as far as I can tell from the article, there's no university-admin+corporate marketer behind the scenes wheeling and dealing going on, and no revolving door between the two. Helicopter parenting + consumer brand marketing is a VERY different phenomena, yet from the headline, you'd think the college dorms themselves are somehow driving it.
Reading this made me wonder about a related question:

Once self-driving vehicles that actually follow the traffic laws become everyday (say >10% of city traffic), how will the perception change of human drivers change?

Driving a little faster than is really safe for nearby pedestriants is currently seen as normal, acceptable behavious, oozing through a traffic light after it's turned red for the driver ditto, parking illegally ditto, even where that obstructs pedestrians' field of vision.

I wonder whether human drivers who have seatbelts and airbags for themselves might suddenly be viewed much less tolerantly when they violate rules and risk other people's health of life, because self-driving vehicles are available for comparison in everyday life.
I found the non-combat music in TA strikes a very compelling balance between emotion and tranquility without becoming monotonous, but I definitely agree that the in-combat music is a bit too bombastic for its own good
Ask HN: When would the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation shutdown?
And what would be the consequences?
Safety belts made out of office rubber bands probably won't help much and silencing people for pointing out that allowing them is bad regulation is self defeating.
Surfaces don't matter much for covid, it's very unlikely you'll catch it that way.
Got a new Mastercard in Europe this year, still with signature space. Same for Visa from two banks.
i've rented model X with the latest FSD a few weeks ago and even simple things like lane detection are very inconsistent and unpredictable.

I don't know if this "AI" has any sort of quality control, but how difficult is it to test if it detects a solid white line on the side of the road in at least 6 out of 10 tries

it also tends to suddenly disengage and pass control to the driver at most dangerous parts of the trip e.g. when passing other car in narrow lane, etc.

This "driver assistant" is a series of disasters in the making.
One other thing people may not realize. If you use your credit card at a merchant online or in person and you associate any information such as a telephone number or email with that card. Any time you use that card, online or off, to make a purchase with that merchant those transactions can be tied together regardless of whether you provide your email/phone on future transactions. Large vendors such as walmart etc now associate that phone/email and card(s) with your facial recognition information. The second you walk into the store based on your face they can pull up your entire purchase history and contact. They are now crunching that data to improve retail layouts, marketing pitches, etc and there is growing market of selling aggregates of that data across merchants.
More like the security wasn’t necessary due to decreased liabilities.
Think about who is paying for that fraud. Prior to EMV liability shift, Banks paid for the fraud. After Liability Shift, merchants are paying for fraud using magstripe.

Merchants don't want to be responsible for the fraud, so they are incentivized to get rid of the mag stripe.
> It's not a matter of respect, but this person simply installed a security system for their safety.

And OP asked questions about it and got brushed off. At least in most of Canada (not even EU), if you’re collecting personal info, you have to answer to how/what/why you collected it and provide notice of that too.
From the horse's mouth:

"...remember that we are a community of developers first and foremost. If you’re looking to buy a PineNote in the first batch, you must expect to write software for it, not to write notes on it. The software shipping from the factory for the first batch will not be suitable for taking notes, reading e-books, or writing your dissertation. It may not even boot to a graphical environment."
https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/
Of the three modes nfc is my favorite, takes less time, but also works less reliably. Chip takes the longest time. And I keep removing it early out of habit. And stripe is the least used. But works the best.
No, politics and social mores inserts itselves into these situations. I can guarantee you that those kids are thinking about none of those things.

And what exactly makes politics mandatory in an article about brewing beer? Curing meat? If people stick to the essence of what they are trying to convey without getting lost in political rhetoric people can, in fact, communicate clearly. But you have to stick to the matter at hand.
Interesting. That said, no desire to do this. I do effectively 100% of my transactions by watch now and that beats any alternative.
My bad, its been years since I last dipped into BfW and many more years since I played a HoMM game.
I never thought I would see videogamedunkey in top hot posts on HN but here we go. As others have already pointed out, he usually makes silly videos but has been consistent for many years if you like his kind of humour. From time to time he makes a video-essay which are usually great, I would recommend a "Game Critics"[0] and part two if you liked the first one.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG2dXobAXLI
The classic example of a rich guy who penny pinches is Warren Buffet. He famously still used coupons to buy food from McDonalds (source: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/17/warren-buffett-once-paid-for...).
I heard that gas station pumps were a big blocker for a while.
The average they give in the article is about $1500 and that includes electronics/appliances. A PC, TV and a mini-fridge gets you there pretty quick.
Yeah, I meant orally as in spoken, not recorded.

There's an awful lot more people around now than there generally has been.
I appreciate the humor, but I'm not. There are bitter disagreements based on different interpretations of the facts, and there are bitter disagreements based on a complete disregard for the facts, a refusal to verify assumptions, a persistent use of arrogance as a substitute for competence, blaming the tools for failures of the person using them, and more. In fact there is nothing so maddening as dealing with a delusional person and being told, "I don't know why you're always getting in arguments with them!" as if it's just one of those "personality conflicts" - I would describe it as practically a personality disorder conflict.
They're supposed to help you locate fraudulent transactions after your card is stolen. I guess that benefits the merchant because it makes you less likely to mark legitimate transactions as fraudulent.
I think the merchants are the bottleneck in this case
Uh, why is scale an issue with ZK? Some Maps are way larger then the biggest in TA ever were. The 1vs1 maps are generally pretty small, but that's just because players generally prefer shorter games.
>We do not... rent personal information that we collect.

Forgive my ignorance here, but how exactly would one "rent" personal information?
Exactly my experience! I had a Casio SF-R20 when I was around 13 years old, and it was a my first introduction to spreadsheets (IIRC the spreadsheet app was called Lucid 3-D).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_organizer#/media/Fi...
There are requirements for the CCTV notices already.. you probably haven't noticed, because they're tiny and out of the way. Plus a lot of establishments use non-committal language like "may be recorded by CCTV" (almost as if every retailer added the signs but only some of them added the tech).

It would be great if this was posted, boldly, clearly. As long as there are data protection limits (only 3 month's history can be maintained, data is unrecoverably disposed of) and accommodations for those who do not consent. (If every grocery store adopts the tech, how will you buy groceries if you do not accept these practices?)
write your games in fennel!
I have tried to login to this site, registered my phone number, and it says it can't find any accounts of mine. yet I know YNAB uses plaid as its backend, and has links to my banks, credit card companies, and even my mortgage.

Is this a bug, or are those of use that use certain 3rd parties not able to see our data?
NP-hardness by definition is only yes-no decision problems. The NP-hard formulation of Traveling Salesman is "given the weighted graph G and an integer X, is there a Hamiltonian cycle in G with total weight less than X?"
On your point about contact less being hit-or-miss, this very much goes away when you have a number of options for vendors to choose from on the market, with terminals being supplied mainly by banks who want the business. Both competition and a lack of desire to deal with merchants having issues with the payment system provided lead to increases in reliability.

The overseas market has been saturated with chips for 10-15 years, and contact less for 5+, probably notably more.
I would probably agree, but I also think it’s a case of “need more data”.

We should really compare Autopilot with its competitors like GM’s Super Cruise or Ford’s Blue Cruise, both of which offer more capabilities than Autopilot. That will show if Tesla’s driver assist system is more or less safe than their competitors product.