skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holding Austria back from what?

I’m not Austrian either, do live there and despite some factors I’m not a fan of, the lack of digitisation in society in general is a strong selling point for me.

I really do believe that excessive digitisation of society is trading personal autonomy (freedom, privacy) for some kind of perceived convenience. Personally, I think the trade off is not worth it. I do not want big business (banks) and the government able to track every location I’ve been to and every cent I’ve spent.

I’m also concerned about reliance on digital services, which can be prone to failure - not a problem with cash - and for those unfortunate people without a bank account, the inability to use cash is life damaging.

Having been through many, many hoops with the UK’s Home Office (including a 13 month Visa Appeal process, which ended up in court where the Home Office didn’t even bother to send a representative), compared to the supremely easy and face to face process in obtaining an Artikel 50 Brexit visa in Austria, I’d choose the Austrian process every time.
Wikipedia says [0] it's late middle ages, and only mentions the beginning of Italian reneissance. Though the word "ancient" has more specific meaning in history than is being used here, probably, referring to pre- middle ages (classical antiquity).

It's not ancient times, but also not quite reneissance yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century
To quote the article:

At the risk of belaboring the obvious: An attacker won't have to say "Oops, researcher X is working in public and has just found an attack; can we suppress this somehow?" if the attacker had the common sense to hire X years earlier, meaning that X isn't working in public. People arguing that there can't be sabotage because submission teams can't be bribed are completely missing the point.

He goes on to say:
I coined the phrase "post-quantum cryptography" in 2003. It's not hard to imagine that the NSA/IDA post-quantum attack team was already hard at work before that, that they're years ahead of the public in finding attacks, and that NSA has been pushing NISTPQC to select algorithms that NSA secretly knows how to break.

Does this seem unreasonable, and if so, why?

He also remarks:
Could such a weakness also be exploited by other large-scale attackers? Best bet is that the answer is yes. Would this possibility stop NSA from pushing for the weakness? Of course not.

Doesn’t sound to me like he only has concerns about bribery. Corruption of the standards to NSA’s benefit is one overarching issue. It’s not the only one, he has concerns about non-American capabilities as well.

The are many methods for the NSA to achieve a win.

Ridiculing people for worrying about this is totally lame and is harmful to the community.

To suggest a few dozen humans are beyond reproach from attack by the most powerful adversaries to ever exist is extremely naive at best. However that literally isn’t even a core point as Bernstein notes clearly.
Sure, but the new owner (Josh Poertner, formerly an executive at Zipp, IIRC) appears genuinely interested in continuing the quality. The pumps still feel solid, use thick leather washers, built almost entirely of metal (looks like the only plastic is a few urethane gaskets), and are fully rebuildable.

To the sibling comment about it being run by hipsters, I’m not sure what to make of that. Poertner has an established background in product management in the industry. The stuff is expensive, orders of magnitude more than much of the competition. So, it’s going to appeal to a similar group as Pinarello, or Rapha, etc. A brand for dentists and other MAMILs, maybe (I say knowing full well I’m in that target audience).
E.g.physical activity levels, body fat %, etc.
Ask HN: Do you also care less about conferences after the pandemic?
I find myself missing entire conferences for which I travelled continents for in the past! I just…don’t even know or follow them anymore! I never found conference talks good (too short to go into the weeds, too long to stay interesting), but I enjoyed travelling and meeting people!

Now with working from home, I am happy to do a good job and a conference adds zero value to my personal or professional life! There are so many screencasts out that I simply don’t watch conference talks at all anymore!
I was always struck when I lived in China how young, happy and active the elderly all seemed, even though they were much the same age as elderly folk where I grew up (the UK).

I had a feeling it must be at least partly due to their increased role in child rearing among most families.

This is partly just traditional Chinese culture but probably also comes in part due to the awful working hours most Chinese people tend to face. It's very common to just dump your kids on your parents out there.

It does cause some issues, as the grandparents tend to have more ... traditional parenting approaches (corporal punishment fairly common) but for the elderly themselves it's definitely something they really look forward to in their later years.
> Does this suggest the manufacturer is using sub-par zinc screws instead of stainless steel?

Unlikely that Silca does that. What they probably were saying that they could see the tool marks where the screws had been removed. Tightening the screws leaves marks on one side of the screw, and loosening would leave marks on the other side.

Related: If you're buying a used car that uses rubber timing belts, and don't have solid documentation¹ that the belt was ever changed, you can look for tool marks on the timing cover bolts.

¹ There are people who will buy the timing belt parts kit then return it, in order to have a receipt to show prospective buyers that the work "had been done".
Why do you want to change your condition with a thing, when the answer is inside you?
Same in Poland. Took me a while to realize that "elevator music" isn't an abstract name of a genre but is actually related to elevators.
Excellent advice, thanks for sharing. Would in turn recommend using CopyQ to store this tips (and other like it) as a pinned items in folder with explanations for use two years later, that's how I personally stay on top of terminal kung-fu without overloading the consciousness-in-meat*

* https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
Git garbage collection? You're not going to need it
Long time listener and patron, love your work Stephane! You’re work is a blessing
Absolutely...

I tend to first be polite, and then after some conversation do just nothing in this case... don't feed the troll
Product Marketing Issue:

As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus.
Keep them off non-essential medication for as long as possible, side effects of one medication often result in further medication and then you’re in the western geriatric medication spiral.

Do everything possible to avoid falls; remove rugs and any floor obstacles, door lips, etc from their living space. Avoid where possible any medication that causes dizziness or fainting. Metformin can cause low blood sugar and fainting if they miss a meal or have a low carb meal, or are generally unwell (eg fighting a cold virus or covid), and so should be avoided unless they have diabetes that cannot be managed through diet.

If they’re prescribed statins, make sure it’s on the basis of cardiac calcification tests and not just a blood test (latter has little to no correlation with cardiac risk)

Dehydration is a huge problem for older people in general, keep them hydrated any way possible. Dehydration leads to general poor health, digestion, dizziness and falls.
Exactly. Plus, creating your own "audible" comfort zone, is very tricky. A given sound that some people like, e.g. frogs in a nature soundscape, can be the sound other dislike, or are even afraid of. Offering level control over every audible elements in a soundscape is very important, and not available on YouTube.
Show HN: Text to ASCII Art Generator (TAAG)
There’s no set timeline for further implementations. I’ll try to create the most requested ones whenever I can in my free time, but I’m also open for others to contribute!
I really wish google gave you access to which search algorithm it used when you queried. I refuse to believe a general purpose algo is appropriate for all domains.
Is there any app that uses scripts to generate this sort of audio? I’d like to be able to download a script of a thunderstorm, that sounds different every play, or the script for a coffee shop complete with the lunch rush and afternoon lull.
Author of CudaText here. If I will get the complain from NVIDIA I can rename the project to 'CudeText', word 'cude' is 'miracle'. Now I think that similar name was a little mistake from my side, I needed to name it 'CudeText' earlier.
Understood.

Your projects are so well done that they gave me the impression that EmailEngine was a VC-backed opportunistic/shark startup that had eaten an open-source project and enslaved its maintainer.

So that's a big compliment I guess :)
Why so much supposed backlash? I thought it was hilarious. I suppose only those who were publicly fooled would be outraged surely? Nobody has a sense of humour anymore.
politically I think it's more that in America, administrative positions skew heavily towards the political left in or outside Academia. There's a whole theory of analysing American politics based on the idea that the 'professional managerial class' (i.e. salaried administrative types) have interests that are better taken care of by the democratic party and vote accordingly.

I think the cognitive dissonance is more that administrative types want to think of their positions as necessary to the proper functioning of things.
If you skim the paper you will see they did multiple studies, including in humans. Including epidemiological studies and interventions like you mentioned. Which is why this is a well conceived paper, imo.

Testosterone is increased for men living in areas with high UV radiation, but only during summer time.

Proteins upstream of sex hormone production were upregulated after just a single day of 25m of bright midday sun exposure in both men and women.
CEO Teaches Student How to Make the Right Decision – Vishen Lakhiani (2019)
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a CLI application which I couldn’t kill with ^C other than defunct processes
Obligatory mention of music intended for the elevators of the french ministry of culture [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_a_French_Elevator_...
Yes, go find an experienced person to do it with. Microdoses are fine to do alone, but anything beyond that and you will want a guide.

It can be an unpredictable experience, even in the right setting, so that is why traditionally, entheogens are always consumed in the presence of a shaman/guide.

Edit: How to find them? Go make friends with some artists or hippies. The pizza delivery guy with a crystal necklace? Ask him to hang out :)
It would be a really cool feature :)
The Puzzle of Electrum Coins
I feel this. Signal handling in Python code is especially complicated. I'm not even talking about multithreading here (not like you get anything out of it anyway).

Python registers POSIX signal handlers, that upon SIGTERM/SIGINT, set a flag. Next time the interpreter loop runs, the flag is checked before the next instruction is being run and the stack is unwinded.

When you call out to some C code, that C code may run for a long time. During that time, there is no interpreter loop actually looping. Therefore, all signals are ignored in principle while C code runs.

It's possible for Python code to become uninterruptible while it is calling something like pthread_join.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39930722/how-do-i-catch-...

Then of course, you have that on top of all the other problems mentioned by the blogpost.
It depends on what you drill and where.
Thank you for MyNoise! It's a must-have homescreen app on all my phones. Works perfectly for me on planes and trains, especially in combination with noise-cancelling headphones.
The perceptual distance is the same between all colours according to the most recently available scientific data (with a relatively small margin of error for technical reasons).

There could be issues with your display calibration (most likely), things like f.lux/night shift and so on that cause these to deviate from the calculated ideal values.
In the definitional sense it is underwhelming, like with many algebraic structures the diversity of instances leads to interesting results. The behaviour of these instantiations have a completely different character even though they instantiate the same pattern

replicateM :: Int -> [a] -> [[a]]
replicateM :: Int -> Cont r a -> Cont r [a]

sequenceA :: [IO a] -> IO [a]
sequenceA :: Maybe (x -> a) -> (x -> Maybe a)
sequenceA :: Map key (Parser a) -> Parser (Map key a)

In fact both of them require only an Applicative pattern (aka n-ary lifting) which is weaker than Monad

liftA0 :: Applicative f => (a) -> (f a)
liftA1 :: Functor f => (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b)
liftA2 :: Applicative f => (a -> b -> c) -> (f a -> f b -> f c)
liftA3 :: Applicative f => (a -> b -> c -> d) -> (f a -> f b -> f c -> f d)
liftA4 :: Applicative f => ..
where
liftA0 = pure
liftA1 = fmap

but has more interesting properties than Monad. Because there is no dependency between Applicative computations they can be run Concurrently[1] or Backwards[2]. They are also closed under Compose-ition[3]. This is not even mentioning what makes an Applicative or a Monad. Functor instances are unique[4] but a single type constructor can have different law-abiding Applicative instances.[5]

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/async/docs/Control-Concu...

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/transformers-0.6.0.4/doc...

[3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.16.3.0/docs/Data-...

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19774904/are-functor-ins...

[5] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/idiomatic
The writing is obnoxious
May be because people (at least some) love their parents and miss them when they are gone?
There is a corner of the biohacking sphere for everything, including this:

https://getchroma.co/product/chroma-d-light/

https://www.sperti.com

I never bothered with a device because we have the actual sun for free, and the potential for misuse is enormous -- it's trivial to accidentally blind yourself.
Sugar is more likely to be the next tobbacco.
I'm confused. Which software is he talking about? I can't think of any program screwing up Ctrl-C in a bad way.
I stand corrected, and apparently the love for the NDK experience goes both ways.
From personal experience: Phone notifications, doorbells, cameras, recording or healthcare equipment, people with bad vibe
> I always wondered how the LGBTQI++ community will react when transhumanism allows all their sexual identities to become a choice. Will they still insist that they have no control over it?

If there was a simple pill that cured gender dysphoria, a pretty reasonable number of people would take it.
ASUS makes a noise canceling headphone adapter, and I have a chip built into my Asus motherboard that does it.

https://shop.asus.com/us/90yh02l1-b2ua00-ai-noise-canceling-...
I’ll bet my last shirt they have in invested big time in fraud risk scoring. That’s stuff Amazon is set up to do perfectly.
It's a fun blog, not a journal article. And it seems to be successful. She's one of the more widely known public historians of the medieval period.

Medievalists, in my experience, love this stuff. If you spend time on medieval twitter you'll find them sharing loads and loads of dirty images found in old books.
Signal’s crypto doesn’t solve all problems (neither does wireguard).

For example, we built private information recovery using the first production grade open source implementation of oblivious RAM (https://mobilecoin.com/overview/explain-like-i'm-five/fog you’ll want to skip to the software engineer section) so that organizations could obliviously store and recover customer transactions without being able to observe them. The signal protocol’s techniques might be part of a cryptographic solution but it is not a silver-bullet.

I guess, notably, we never looked at NIST when designing it so maybe that’s the end of the discussion there.
Assumedly, they nearly walked in front of a bus after microdosing(?) shrooms. If not, ELABORATE PLEASE.
I want to understand the problem here for Dum Dums. I’ve read about sellers selling fake products etc….

But these are real products. Dum Dums has sold these products to Sam’s Club. If Sams Club only allows shipping to 10 addresses for free (I have a membership but I don’t know if this is true) I just can’t see how that alone would be the problem.

(Doing some digging it looks like you can also pay $15+4 to ship it on sams )

Even then, what if there was no Amazon? I know almost any business is hard, but why not focus on other sales streams? I just can’t see how ordering the products on Amazon and spending all this time is a valuable use of their E-commerce time.

Different product, but a company I partner with professionally recently decided to leave Amazon as they found it to not be a strong revenue stream despite years of investment. (I don’t know if this was the right choice, but it was a choice they made. )

Maybe I’m naive - but Dum Dums could perhaps create a new SKU that they only sell e-commerce … run a marketing campaign to channel sales through their own website increasing their margin… heck include a little thank you card handwritten for orders they actually fulfill thanking their customers… maybe on Amazon make their listing more appealing by including something else in their Amazon package. Bump their package up to 500 and then include something “free” where the free item is another product they sell.

Though as of right now their website is broken. I can’t even view products they sell.

https://www.spanglercandy.com

When I try to view any products I get a an error that nothing can be found.

This now is feeling more and more to me like they’re missing some e-commerce basics but blaming a non issue.

Edit: the website is now working. The sams club purchase is a better buy then anything they offer online at all quantities. Even if you compare buying 2300 for $118 to buying 5 of the 500 packs from sams club, $75.

I don’t know their business, but I’m just confused as how they couldn’t sell a 500 pack themselves and be profitable.

I’m sure I’m missing something.
The point of a dashboard isn't to use a dashboard
Love this site. I've been using it for years and this is a good reminder to re-up my donation.
Noise cancelling headphones still have a residual noise, that you will hear, because our hearing has an incredible dynamic range. Adding a faint background noise of your choice, to cover that residual noise, is a good idea.

Then, these crafted noises do exist because of the exact nature of the life around you. For many people, the "life around you" is what they want to escape, exactly.
Not just probably impossible.

Imagine if you wanted to obtain information about the bathing habits of people today. Where would that information come from? The universe doesn't simply provide it. People have to collect it! The do polling. Polling for bathing behavior wasn't a thing in the medieval period. It isn't like the numbers existed and were lost, they never existed in the first place.
In OP's case, it sounds like the issue submitter is already being pushy and demanding.
https://youtu.be/pUHApERY0G8
ML Competition: Prediction Of Real-Time Auction Bid Pricing
This makes no sense. Ctrl-C is just a way to tell your terminal to send a SIGINT signal to the current process. How that process handles the signal is up to it! It's by definition ignorable, as the author points out, but it's not rocket science to handle it in a sane fashion even in a multi-threaded application. Modern languages make this trivial. The author makes it sound like some dark art but in reality you just have to read the manpages.

SIGINT is really designed for interactive applications. Most processes should simply treat it like a SIGTERM unless they have some sort of REPL. Unless you need graceful shutdown, most processes shouldn't mask either signal. If they do, the polite thing is to unmask after receiving the first signal so subsequent signals immediately terminate.
'Python terminal' is 'Console panel', do you mean it? Yes we have the plugin for that! "Plugins / Addon manager / Install", item "Console auto-completion". Ctrl+Space hotkey will work in console.
So we’re starting to see fast fashion style tactics in the publishing industry? Follow trends, generate bare minimum product, produce rapidly and market to ride the trend wave before moving to the next trend.

Also I know it’s not fair to compare the material in question with traditional book publishing but “making books” is kinda publishing by definition, even if they are garbage books, or stolen books, your still publishing them.
> The writer presents little numbers on prevalence.

Imagine if you wanted to obtain information about the bathing habits of people today. Where would that information come from? The universe doesn't simply provide it. People have to collect it! The do polling. Polling for bathing behavior wasn't a thing in the medieval period. It isn't like the numbers existed and were lost, they never existed in the first place.

You are thinking about history in completely the wrong way and expecting things that cannot exist.
I see. So maybe what you’re really saying is “why are you writing a system that has cryptographic primitives if you’re not a cryptographer/mathematician?”
So what? Human societies have always and everywhere included multiple modes of parenthood. I don't understand this obsession with personal biological reproduction. That's not how human societies work. Adoption, fostering, etc are an important part of social sustainability and always have been.
I think the best you can do is not smoking, not eating garbage, not being obese, doing medical check ups constantly and having a lot of luck. In my family older folks have consistently lived to 90s-100s despite growing up poor, never exercising nor caring about hyped vitamins.

Also after living with my grandparents, etc. I'm positive it's more important to have a fulfilling life than a long one. At some point you're done, it's time to go.
Sounds like the Iron Law of Bureaucracy is at it again.
Israel has an Intel fab already
That's my point. Without additional context, humans would make the same mistakes. Having all information that humans have, this AI could perform at human level.

One of the hardest aspects of software development is communicating with the customer, for humans and AI alike. But a translation from layman English to machine code has to happen, at some point.
This headline is misleading. PredictIt was operating in reliance on a No Action Letter[1]. The CFTC has since withdrawn the No Action Letter. The CFTC _never_ granted “approval” and relying on a No Action Letter always involves the risk that the view of the staff/Commission will change.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-action_letter
I try to inform users as much as possible re our boundaries and how we prioritize feature requests within the Github issue template.

I think it helps, but it's not bulletproof.
Well, this is oddly personal for hackernews but what the heck. This is pretty interesting to me. I’ve been living outdoors for the last 12 months, and I’ve noticed some significant changes in libido. It’s been on my mind quite a bit (not only for the obvious reasons but also wondering why this is happening to me). There’s a lot of factors of course, going from a mostly sedentary indoor life to a mostly actively outdoor life but this is fascinating. My SO is much more careful than I am with UV exposure and hasn’t seen the same change but again, too many factors to control for in this sort of anecdotal experience.
Wouldn’t load for me: https://archive.ph/zeykZ
Me too, but I suppose being trans doesn't eliminate all the other aspects of human behaviour and psychology, including the desire to have or care for children.