skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the rest of the chip / hardware there are at least some chances to test what they do and discover any suspicious behavior.

Any well-designed back-door in a black-box RNG cannot be discovered by testing.

Except for the RNG, the only other thing that cannot be trusted at all is because your computer/smartphone might allow remote connections to a management component of its hardware, regardless how you configure it.

Wired connections are not very dangerous, because you can pass them trough an external firewall and you can block anything suspicious.

The problem is with the WiFi connections, e.g. of the WiFi Intel chipsets in laptops, and obviously the least under your control are the mobile phones.

However even a smartphone can be put in a metal box to ensure that nobody can connect to it (even if that also defeats the main use of a mobile phone, it can make sense if you are worried about remote control only sometimes, not permanently).

On the other hand, a RNG that cannot be verified to be what it claims to be, is completely useless.
What does being fully sovereign mean for something that's only used as a medium of exchange? It's value is always only meaningful when at least two people agree on it's value. At best you only control half of the equation.
If you think this is good interface design I suggest you watch someone use a real system. Something like an old bloomberg terminal or those DOS stock keeping systems still kicking around some travel agents / department stores.

I'll take ugly and smart over the reverse any day.
If you make up excuses for racisim it does not stop being racism.
Who is it that fetched this comment from the internet for you?

Using vaguely-defined words to support a deist position is a time-honored tradition, but isn't particularly interesting or convincing.
Ducks are very common on US farms. Go to any 4H meet.
The plane of imagination isn’t physical, else you could touch it.
You could make the same argument against cash. You could easily lose your cash or have it stolen. That doesn't mean we should force everyone on a centralized digital ledger. You would be given some assurances in case of stolen funds through reversals. But there's a difference between accidentally losing your wallet and having your funds stolen because someone in power doesn't like you. The answer is to allow for both.
This is the best April Fools joke I've seen so far today.
Show HN: I made desktop app to browse and reduce AWS cloud costs
I made CloudPouch application to help individual engineers or architects to understand and reduce AWS costs.

I have already earned few hundred bucks on it, and decided to spend it on explainer video that is provided in the link. I hope you like it.

Here are several facts that make CloudPouch unique:

1. It is a desktop application, not SaaS. Thus, you don't need to share your cost data with my company.

The application connects directly to AWS from your computer, without anything in a middle.

2. Since that, you don't need any special approvals from management to use it, as you don't share sensitive information with any 3-rd party. All you need is ce:GetCostAndUsage privilege to access cost data.

This is standard IAM action, that many engineers already have access to.

3. There is no red tape. That's why you can use it with all AWS accounts to which you already have programmatic access.

CloudPouch loads your AWS CLI and SSO profiles that you already have defined on your computer. Without any additional configuration.

This is super handy!

4. It saves a lot of time because you can switch between different accounts inside the CloudPouch application.

You don't need to login into the AWS web console, deal with multiple browser windows, and all that hassle.

I overlook many accounts. I can use it with all of them.

5. It shows cost data in a predefined way. That means that billing data from any of your accounts will be displayed in the same, familiar way.

Even BETWEEN accounts belonging to different customers of yours.

This makes you more productive!

6. It's cost-effective. A single license costs $10 per month, regardless of:
- the number of AWS accounts you use,
- the bill size on each of them.

This makes it a superb choice for any cloud consultant, architect, or engineer.

7. It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and is really fast!

https://cloudpouch.dev/

I'm looking for your feedback and ideas how to make it more useful for AWS users.
Ukraine is not in NATO nor close to it and the outcome is Russia thinking they are entitled to their own territory. NATO was not threat to Russia, that is merely excuse and attempt to blame someone else. And when Russia cant take their territory, they settled with trying to kill as much civilians as possible.

That is not consistent with defensive war. Ideologically, Russia was moving toward expansive colonialist theories for years now. They were not worried about NATO attacking them. They wanted to making Russia bigger again.

Ukrainians disagreeing with Russians plans is not fault of NATO. It should not be goal of American diplomacy to make Russian ambitions easier by intentionally weakening other nations.
That's true for the cheap dongles. Where it gets problematic are the high end "Audio Interfaces" for studio recording work. The USB Audio Class 1 standard was released in 1998 and supports 2 channels at 24/96, over USB 1.0. This is obviously anemic for all but the most basic work. The upgraded USB Audio Class 2 standard was released in 2009, but was unsupported in Microsoft Windows until an update to Windows 10 brought it in 2017. Therefore, prior to that, any manufacturer who wanted to support Windows were put in the position of writing their own drivers for anything with more than 2 channels.

https://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/KB/USB.html
Markov Chains for programmers
Interesting find - really introductory examples. Good read, recommend it.
I think almost everyone knows that fighting Bloomberg directly is not going to be easy but they can start attacking some niche areas, make it cheaper for others who cannot afford Bloomberg and start from there.
The semantic web was the next big thing about 10 years ago. I went to Meetups dedicated to it. It sounds like a good idea. However, in practice it doesn’t work well?
I like that the author points out a number of great default shortcuts in macOS, but I find it hard to beat the combination of yabai[1] and skhd[2] for the best keyboard-driven workflow. In the absence of these, I would be more inclined to try either Hammerspoon or Karabiner-Elements. I also find Phoenix[3] intriguing, but it's probably too much work to get it to where I'd want it for daily use.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

[2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

[3] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
I use `option-left arrow` and `option-right arrow` all the time to travel to the next word, and `command-left arrow` and `command-right arrow` goes to the beginning and end of a line.

Combine any of these with the shift key and you can select everything in between.
>Insanity -- the house valuation isn't the point, human safety is! Fix broken things!

Ok, are you going to pay for it?
interesting...can you not trade those assets in IBKR? Do you mean special data that Bloomberg has exclusive licensing to for bond traders?
I use nine active email addresses for various contexts. Some have all or part of my real name, some don't. The Gmail app can add accounts from various non-Gmail platforms, and still aggregate them all together. Sometimes I've made a new Gmail account just for more free Drive storage, when I used to host some of my music collection there and stream to my phone, before I made my home storage accessible via duckdns.

Just make a new account for this situation. There are myriad free or low-cost email providers. This is a trivially easy solution.
Shutting Down My Baby
shipping both ways is 100% not free in canada. I went to price match a power supply I had just purchased and they said they don't price match. I said no worries since it's unopened I'll return it and buy it again and they quoted me $30 shipping to return it. I had prime and it was a prime item.

I've also reported businesses who sneak 'give us a 5 star review and we'll give you $30' cards into their parcels and amazon did absolutely nothing.

Amazon is amazing until you realize it isn't. I got rid of prime and suddenly I found myself spending less money on junk because I wasn't incentivized to get junk by the prime membership. If I have to wait to have enough stuff for free shipping minimums I can wait enough to look locally and 1/2 the time I can find it locally for similar cost and the other 1/2 it turns out I never needed it just wanted it.

Highly recommend getting rid of prime and taking a couple months off ordering anything from them - you'll find out not only is amazon not worth it, they're easily replaced.
They don't work everywhere though, making them basically useless. For example ctrl+a and ctrl+e don't work in the Safari address bar or the text box I'm typing this comment in, or TextEdit, and many other native text widgets.
"Many" -> "persony".

I know it's just a poorly written script, but this replacement illustrates so well the craziness of this whole thing.
The entire point of the term "white priviledge" is to justify discrimination on the basis of people's ethnic background.
If it is from a random process, then the universe is teeming with life :)
What if we taxed Google like we should and then use that money to properly fund out legal system and come up with solutions to the problem that you've pointed out?
No, I think you’re going down the wrong rabbit hole. Text shortcuts are not tied to iCloud.
Yes, it helps to have more unique values. We want each repeated byte to occur in part of the pattern where a color also repeats.

What I do is search for substrings with the fewest repeated bytes that don't match the target pattern. I prioritize first minimizing conflicts between light (white and tan) vs. dark (black and red). Reducing other conflicts is a tie-breaker.

The featured gif has 79 "mismatched" pixels out of 494, by the black/white metric. I've found candidates with as few as 75, but subjectively I didn't think they looked as good.
Looks pretty much FOSS to me,

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/policy...
I appreciate the effort, but there's no way stuff like "Space Invaders" and "Pac Man" sound effects are endangered. It'll be around forever via emulation and IP-value extraction (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Bandai-Namco-Flashback-Blast-Console-...), at least until "retro" stops being cool.

Now, the cacophony of a popular video game arcade...
They don't write one because of the size of the userbase. They end up supporting 99.99%+ of their potential customers by having Windows and MacOS support for something like a drawing tablet; the amount of money to support Linux doesn't justify the potentially low-four digit amount of customers that would buy the product if it had Linux support.
The ASF Infrastructure team introduces phone service
The Apache Software Foundation enables 10's of thousands of developers to collaborate on Open Source, in part by providing infrastructure. Till now the only way to request assistance was via email, slack or jira. Now The ASF is catching up with the 1990's and you can get help by phone. Just call: 1-717-7-APACHE (-7-27-2243)

"The service lets you leave messages for specific team members, report issues to the whole team, and access resources ranging from short tutorials to useful information."
Possible to make it an open source project?
I've never seen this before but I imagine the call center employee has a lot more to lose being a part of fraud than the scammer who isn't legitimately employed and can't be found. Doesn't seem likely.
Mapping of human DNA is complete. Here's what that means for humanity
More money than sense?
GoodGuesser
Substances are also an escape, you just don’t want to feel (or escape) whatever the negative feeling is (guilt, anger, depression, stress, hopelessness, so on).
I have to disagree with you.
Unfortunately, there are all sorts of ways to phish links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#Link_manipulation

The link may look similar or even appear identical, and still be under control of the scammer.

Similar to just not trusting incoming phone calls, you can't really trust incoming links via standard email, without some definitive way of validating the sender.
> 10+ years ago, you would have to go to a bank to do that

I've been doing 100% online/mail banking for >20 years. I've never actually set foot inside a bank that I was a routine customer of.
Feature selection is a process by which you drop features for different reasons. The main reason features tend to be dropped is because they are closely related to another feature, so you only need one of them. This makes algorithms train faster, reduces noise, and makes it easier to diagnose what the algorithm did.

PCA takes some N features and compresses them into N-n features. This process ALSO eliminates Collinearity completely, as the resulting, compressed features will be completely uncorrelated. However, calling PCA a feature selection algorithm is a bit untrue, because you have essentially selected none of your features, you have completely transformed them into something else.
Unenforceable laws aren't that relevant here
> They are getting the data from third parties while the team is building the platform to use that data.

By definition the bulk of the data needs to come from third parties. But Bloomberg are not getting that data by scraping the web or from free sources. 99.9999% of the data will be from $$$$$ feeds.

Second, ask any data scientist about "third party data". ;-) .... Its not just a case of "plug the API into my server and off we go". Feeds break, data has issues, data needs to be reformatted etc. etc. etc.

Remember we are talking about Bloomberg, a service that provides true global data. Not just the common as muck US stuff that every man and his dog can give you.
The point of the article, though, is that dimensionality reduction which minimizes information loss (PCA) isn't necessarily dimensionality reduction which minimizes signal loss.

A good example from the article is random features: random implies high information content but no signal value.
I take it that opening multiple database connections to the same server is not usually viable? I realize there are usually limits to open sockets / file descriptors and such, and that multiple connections will consume more memory on each end. Are there problems beyond that?
Have there been any studies comparing the brains of people who derive pleasure from pain vs people who don’t? I wonder if this could be related? Some people seem to have “trained” their brains not to recognize pain signals as unpleasant. Or (because I imagine they still feel pain) maybe they can even decide when and which pain signals are pleasant vs unpleasant? I wonder if people who enjoy BDSM are any more or less likely to suffer from chronic pain than the rest of the population.
Interesting. Is there a video of how such an oldschool department store system works?

I remember clerks looking proficient clicking away behind the desk in the 90's compared to the extremely slow use of touchscreens these days.
I also grew up on WinXP, but I prefer how macOS separates application & window switching. I'd like to see per-tab support added in the mix somehow, but that could be tricky. Safari supports a gesture (pinch inwards) and a keyboard shortcut (Command-Shift-\) to get a zoomed-out view of all tabs in a window, but a window with a bunch of tabs is hard to scan like that.
And yet, Congress has the power to impeach for destroying evidence in violation of a subpoena and chose not to.

Make of that what we will.
How is this even vaguely relevant to this conversation?
I've not even read the article, but I already know that no human has actually been sold as an NFT.
Pretty standard in trailer parks. You'll need some heat tape in the winter to keep it from freezing, but I'd say that's a good trade off for less lead.
having never taken it, I agree, I dont crave it. you know who cant kick it? my many former co-workers and boss who were addicted to it
Pope Francis apologises for Canada residential school harms
The Defense of Toxicity section reads to me like a defense of Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman.
This has not been consistently true for me. Maybe for long-term stays (week+), but certainly not for for a day or two after adding in all of the cleaning fees, etc.
[1] says:

“ Because the international gold standard linked interest rates and monetary policies among participating nations, the Fed’s actions triggered recessions in nations around the globe.”

That’s what I was alluding to, sorry for not being clear :)
no true amphetamine
The sounds of the analog telephone system: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f63uCpov5Lc
I don't see why the GCC codegen would end up with major performance improvements - my understanding is that GCC and LLVM are basically on par with performance, with some workloads being a tiny bit better in one or the other. Is that wrong?
Who keeps a large percentage of their wealth in cash?
A Microdose of Magic Mushrooms could increase creativity, study finds
Ah, the old "high school student does what industry cannot" and it's a picture of a 3d-printed device that wouldn't last 2 weeks.
Why would this be difficult to find out? I can just check property tax records in my area.

As to "who does that"...police officers. Always.
On Windows, consumer HP is also 'plug and play' as in 'Windows downloads and installs a HP UWP app for you that tries to sell you instant ink and happens to also install your scanner driver'
Newcomb’s problem is just a standard time consistency problem
I agree with your point about customer service, but I am more concerned about poor security practices at banks, like the Capital 1 / AWS incident.
Putting a significant amount of money into something that the vast majority of "intelligent" people say is a scam (as you do), is reward for taking risk. No different than an investor looking at small cap stocks to pick winners and throwing a lot of money in. It seems you are criticizing the concept of investing.
The filters thing is a general problem with search because it's really difficult to distinguish between:

1. X is a must-have; and

2. X, Y and Z are all on my wish list so I want to see the most matches first.

Even Google is kind of awkward with this. It used to be you could add + to a term (before the Google+ boondoggle). Now you have to quote things.

Other sites will do so for specific criteria. Take a real estate portal: the bedroom numbers will be absolute but it may include surrounding areas to what you specify. Or there may be an option to turn that off.

It is frustrating but I can see why sites err on the side of caution by treating it as a ranking suggestion vs a hard requirement.
I like the competition but I believe platforms should have a separation of concerns. Either provide a platform for data or a platform for forecasting. Bloomberg in my experience is mostly data and chat. The added benefit is that everyone has the same reference data. So if someone is trading agency bonds, they can reference a ticker and a yield and get to the same price. The yield itself may be meaningless (i.e. bonds with the same face characteristics could trade at very different yields), but the traders know the nuances and use the yield number as a round proxy and a way agree on price. Mixing both would likely result in having a half-baked product on both sides:

> Elsewhere, OpenBB can leverage deep learning to predict stock price movement using historical data, though in reality the model can be applied to just about anything, including economic data, crypto, and more. The company plans to double down on these predictive smarts.

This is dangerous. You shouldn't lead people to believe they can just plug in some symbols and automatically run a meaningful forecasting model. It may be true with natural phenomenon (e.g. when will be the first full moon 100 years from now), but not with complex financial data. You're leading naive users astray into thinking that some naive regression or ML model can give them insights when you're almost certainly falling into a trap (e.g. overfitting, using predictors that you don't have access to at the time, execution complexity, etc).

Create a service that's a better chat app. Another one to get the data. Another one to run analysis. And allow them to be interoperable through clear APIs. Don't try to build a magic black box that does everything for you.
One ETF to Watch for Signs That the Fed Will Change Its Mind on Multiple Hikes
I'm guilty of the const / final thing... it really does help in the language I use for work all the time, but that's because its compiler and analyzer are built around using those hints to do static analysis in my editor.
But can they make it impossible? That's the important question.

The hope of people who believe in a future switch to crypto as the monetary standard are hoping the technology is strong enough to withstand enforcement of laws against it, hoping that all the laws in the world won't be able to stop it.

Whether that happens remains to be seen, but it's important to understand that this is part of the hope and the goal.
Tower for Windows 3.1
There's a name from the past. They're still on 0.25 but looking sharp!
You can use a multisig service that allows you to keep control and makes it really hard lose your keys. Even still, if you're in a first world country and well off, it might not be for you. At least right now. But it's been hugely useful for Ukraine:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-31/ukraine-s...
If I’m not wrong, I think this situation has changed with the latest Postgres release:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pipeline-mode....
Yes, the spasms by themselves are not a disorder. They're only considered a disorder when the woman is trying to have consensual sex. I honestly don't know what argument you're trying to put forward.

>Then women might not need something like Rape-aXe (https://rape-axe.com/)

The spasms by themselves are ineffective at preventing forceful penetration. If they were effective there would be no rape, or at least no penetrative vaginal rape. The reason such a device is desired is precisely because it's ineffective.
Did IBM have a "PL/M"? IBM has had PL/MP and PL/MI but not (to my knowledge) a PL/M.

Wikipedia claims (without a source) that the CISC AS/400 Service Processor firmware was written in Gary Kildall's PL/M. The claim seems very plausible – the Service Processor is not the main CPU, it is a microprocessor used to control system startup/etc. I'm not sure what microprocessor was used in the CISC AS/400's Service Processor, but IBM could well have chosen an Intel CPU (such as 80x86) for it; and if they did, Intel's PL/M compiler would have had a logical attraction – at the time (the AS/400 came out in 1988 so this would have been some time in the 1980s) Intel was still actively supporting it as an embedded systems development language; it had similar syntax to the systems programming PL/I dialects which IBM's developers were using for other parts of the AS/400 (PL/MI and PL/MP); using Intel's PL/M compiler would have avoided the need for IBM to implement an 80x86 backend for their PL/whatever compilers.
Brit here. Roundabouts are pretty easy once you get used to them, extensive discussion of associated signage etc from another respondent here as to the need for ancillary features.
This, however https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
Could the opposite spiral directions be just roughly the same structure but one is turned inside out?

I’m not up to speed on topology but generally turning things inside out changes the “handedness” (cf. a glove).
If you have a container of iPhones, you might want to save those.
the "hammer" under discussion is bitcoin (and/or cryptocurrency in general). not online banking.
To ace exams, get better at the easy questions
edit/ sorry guess I shouldnt have commented.