skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some jurisdictions may use the VVPAT for recounts or audits, but I wouldn't know.

I don't understand your statement. You say you don't know if it's used for auditing... then you claim decisively it's not used for auditing?

> There's no standardized format. There's no gear for scanning it.

That's exactly the point - you are only looking at these by hand in the case of a recount?

Again, if I am trying to perpetrate voter fraud, enough to change an election, how do I do it with a VVPAT? Do I change their answer and hope that no one notices their vote got changed on their receipt? Or send a different answer to tabulation that would be caught in the event of a recount?

Both of these possibilities seem no different than a BMD. How do I know the tabulator machines themselves are not compromised? It seems like a weird distinction to trust one but not the other.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/wwwpe...
A wonderful resource for the laid-off 45-year old coal miners, certain to solve their problems...

> "A few years ago, a man experienced a midlife crisis. He was professionally successful and had a rewarding family life, but still had a “hollow” feeling."

Just to spell it out, when you have a significant fraction of the population affected by societal collapse and economic insecurity, and with few if any future job prospects, that results in the kind of widespread 'depression' that isn't treatable with drugs, therapy, or self-help books.
because people (intentionally) keep conflating interchange, card scheme fees as well as fees paid to the merchant's acquiring bank in order to make US/UK fees seem more outrageous. Just going off of Stripe pricing, the processing fee is 1.3% for EEA issued cards compared to 2.9% in the US.
For many products, including electronics, CE can be self-certified [0]. This is different from other testing and labeling standards, such as UL.

[0]: https://cemarking.net/ce-marking-knowledgebase/ce-self-certi...
As with so many beautiful designs....if it were only ergonomic I would be in.
The UK has a Zelle like service called Paym that works on top of Faster Payments and means you don't need to share your bank details.
> ...Even Mozilla wasn't able to pull it off

Mozilla did not try a purist approach. Their Boot2Gecko was built on AOSP downstream kernels and proprietary drivers. (Then again, there was no such thing as a truly 'purist' device back then, even in non-AOSP land. So they just did what could work at the time.) If you want to explore that kind of approach, there's things like UBPorts and Droidian. They might even make sense, if they end up being able to function as AOSP-compatible Generic System Images (GSI's) and run on mostly any Project Treble-capable device. Make no mistake though, that's a lot harder than doing everything properly in upstream and restricting one's attention to hardware that's compatible with that approach. If only because you're not forced to keep up with churn in the AOSP-native interfaces.
Is a weather app just a wrapper around the weather API?
We're not doing anything which is not video-based at the moment as we rely on versatility of optical sensors. However you are totally right regarding the value of precise point cloud generation — definitely something to look at in the future.
!mab or !metal for DDG and Kagi, in case someone is interested ;)

I often use them to find out if some band I found in the depth of my hard disk still exists, or to help decide what genre to sort some band in.
3% off the top is quite a lot. Grocery stores, for example, tend to operate at around a 2-3% profit margin.
That's a shame, I guess Kylix just died in the end ?
How do banks pay for the fraud? Do they charge fees to have a bank account?
Sam Harris: Trump, Religion, Wokeness
The # of banks and financial institutions stays fairly stable so that covers the ongoing fixed costs. The number of transactions is highly variable so that covers the variable costs.

According to https://bank.codes/us-routing-number/bank/ there are around 18,000 current routing transit codes active, which would amount to about $5.4M annually if all 18,000 were enrolled in FedNow.

According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/871706/zelle-payments-nu..., Zelle processed 436 Milion payment transactions in Q2 2021 alone. If FedNow were to do the same volume, they would net $19.62M per quarter, around $78.5M a year.
Oh! Are those updates for Ford Sync on Android?

The Google Pixel 5a, which came out a year ago, will only get Android updates through August, 2024. That's THREE years, on a Google phone. They're basically telling you that they want you to landfill your phone so they can make more money.

Android is a shitty ecosystem for anything long term.
In Canada the Interac service was a dollar a transfer for free/basic accounts and included in most premium accounts.

Around 2018 most banks started including free Interac transfers for all chequing accounts and now I only see the fee charged for savings accounts.
Yeah. That was also roughly the conclusion of my masters thesis: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7403/ ("After HTTPS: Indicating Risk Instead of Security") -- we examined the flaws of current browser warnings and security messages and one of the big ones is that attackers can use those UIs against you. (Hence our proposed solutions all involved UI above the LoD.)
Interesting thread: https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1560032871993069568
Yearly salary for a skilled worker in the US was around $700/£140 in the 1860s was in England it was around £100 or even less. So in that context £225 is not that bad.
This is interesting. The mitigations have had a major impact. Especially with the recent loss of reptoline[1] on older AMD/Intel. Maybe enough that there isn't an advantage anymore to enable SMT on some processor families?

At an old job, we disabled SMT on our hypervisor hosts in an effort to mitigate some of the security issues before patches were available. We had to roll back. Without SMT, the hosts struggled to keep up with load. If I had to quantify it, I'd estimate that we lost, at least, 30% performance by disabling SMT (probably more). Those servers were replaced before I left, but I'd be interested to compare disabled SMT to enabled SMT with all the current mitigations in place.

[1] https://www.makeuseof.com/new-spectre-vulnerabilities-amd-in...
I disagree with Rowling about gender, and think she was disingenuous for posting her views online when she undoubtedly knew they'd be unpopular.
But I agree very much with this article, the internet is poisonous, and especially to women. I only wish I had some answer -- we've let the genie out of the bottle, or opened Pandora's box, or whatever metaphor you like.
Social media has changed the world, and probably not for the better. At this point, it's like walking at night in a big city -- you have to keep your street smarts about you, and even then you might not be safe.
It's almost like that's the point. A lot of tech solutions just seem like ways of offloading liability or skirting regulation in a traditional market.
Well with a sample size of one the 2022 test had 9/24 the answers as C which is above an expected (6/24) 25%.

Definitely some of the more annoying tests I've taken were when the answers were the same over and over. Its so weird to answer a T/F as T 10 times in a row and I've definitely lost points because I changed some of my Ts to Fs because I thought there was no way it was all Ts.
This seems easy enough, right? If the SPI chip is in shipped units, and tow-boot is available for it now, then it should be simple enough to ship out of the box starting with the next batch of hardware, and it should be simple enough to post official instructions for installing it from Manjaro. While that wouldn't change the past, it would fix things going forward and let Pine back their words with actions.
With RCpp writing a function in C++ that you can then use from R is easy. So you do as much as you can in R, then if you reach a bottleneck, use a lil CPP, then R. It's still nice.
Best Game making advice channel
So everyone,

I have been researching a lot about game dev to help improve all my apps and monetization because my App Business is opening fully very soon.

I discovered this YouTube channel(Game-wisdom) and I think it would be helpful to everyone.

They talk about:

Indie Development
Monetization
Game design
Game planning
Price Estimation
Etc.

You can check the YouTube channel out and decide if it's useful for you.
> Seems like a good way to avert a midlife crisis is to explicitly make helping others a non-trivial part of one's life.

Given this is a thread about philosophy, and this looks like the sort of thing that sounds so true nobody bothers looking too closely at whether it is, I feel compelled to ask why it is so?
#0 is consciousness, the current nature of.
Increased dementia risk 2 years after Covid infection
I just picked a book at random: Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. First thing that popped into my head. Scanning through the first chapter (thanks to Project Gutenberg) I easily found a paragraph that looks larger than the discussed comment, starting with "Lord save me, thinks I". Indeed has 520 words, which is almost twice the comment's 277. I'm with Antirez here: dumb Americans who can't read and all that.

Though anyone reading using a wide browser window on a desktop will be facing long lines; don't blame the big paragraph for poor readability due to line length.
"...why do I get the feeling that you were able to create this because you’re a woman? I’ve shown this to many men and none of them thought of anything even remotely similar to this."

The answer to that question is "overfitting and hypercorrection for internalized sexism."
Government is part of culture, as there's a feedback loop where culture shapes it, and is shaped by it.

It can absolutely happen here, too, if we elect clowns who explicitly want to break the working parts of the system. The ones that have no intentions of making it work (Except in a way that serves them).

Laws and constitutions are indeed just pieces of paper, and carry no power in themselves. It's culture that ultimately decides whether or not they actually apply, and to whom.
And they come from the right short-code as my legitimate requests.

Just noticed my legitimate requests are in the form of “PayPal: xxxxxx is your security code. It expires in 10 minutes. Don't share this code with anyone.”

But the last one I didn’t request didn’t have an expiration mentioned:

“PayPal: xxxxxx is your security code. Don't share your code.”
However, in the UK there is the Direct Debit Guarantee: the company holding your DD mandate can't withdraw more than you mandated, nor on some other date than the date you specify. Otherwise you have a claim against your bank, and they have no defense.
Four days in a row at GitHub with different outages, someone's definitely having a difficult on-call.

- https://www.githubstatus.com/history
You seem to be intentionally missing the point — but I'll enunciate anyhow.

Is it still "a roof" if I don't need roofers, etc etc etc?
Apple pay works just about everywhere[1] in the UK. For example, just a week ago I went on a vacation within the uk which started in a major city (Glasgow) and then proceeded out around some small towns in Scotland[2]. I used Apple pay for literally everything. I never touched physical cash[3] and although I had my credit cards with me, I didn't need to use them a single time.

[1] Weirdly toll booths on motorways in the UK accept contactless but not Apple pay for some reason

[2] Which is awesome - really recommend Scotland as a holiday destination btw

[3] I actually haven't used physical cash in the UK at all for at least 3 years now
Ask HN: Life after abusing Google Sheets as a database
At my company we're very good with Google Sheets, we download CSV files from our systems, we dump them into google sheets and we let all sorts of formulas and filters do the magic.

And then we import / export / filter to give different stakeholders access to selective data.

it works fine, except that we have created a monster that often hits technology constrains in download/upload/import that we need some hacks AND - most importantly - it's often too slow.

I looked into AirTable and unfortunately the "50,000 records per base" is not enough, and Enterprise is too expensive.

Is there a no-code solution that HN recommend?

Maybe Ragic?

Thanks in Advance.
Better design is one of the supposed benefits of TDD. The article nicely demolishes that view, and I agree fully with what it says.

There is a small scale design benefit to writing tests, and that is simply that you always have a "user" of your code, even if it's only focused on tiny bits of it.

But having said that, I get essentially the same design benefit from writing tests afterwards, or writing a test client, or writing user documentation. I usually discover code needs some design improvement once I have to explain or use it.
Public interfaces should change only under extreme circumstances, so needing to refactor legacy tests should be a rare event. Those legacy tests will help ensure that your public interface hasn't changed as it is extended to support changing requirements. You should not be testing private functions, leaving you free to refactor endlessly behind the public interface. What goes on behind the public interface is to be considered a black box. The code will ultimately be tested by virtue of the public interface being tested.
Finding a life partner is more difficult without any money.

On the other hand if you find her/him, then you know they weren't after the money.
TDD use would be a lot different if people actually bothered to read the entirety of Kent Beck's _Test Driven Development: By Example_. It's a lot to ask, because it is such a terribly written book, but there is one particular sentence where Beck gives it away:

> This has happened to me several times while writing this book. I would get the code a bit twisted. “But I have to finish the book. The children are starving, and the bill collectors are pounding on the door.”

Instead of realizing that Kent Beck stretched out an article-sized idea into an entire book, because he makes his money writing vague books on vague "methodology" that are really advertising brochures for his corporate training seminars, people actually took the thing seriously and legitimately believed that you (yes, you) should write all code that way.

So a technique that is sometimes useful for refactoring and sometimes useful for writing new code got cargo-culted into a no-exceptions-this-is-how-you-must-do-all-your-work Law by people that don't really understand what they are doing anymore or why. Don't let the TDD zealots ruin TDD.
Bigger chips have much worse yields, which is why phone chips get the latest nodes first. No way they launch 3nm with M2 Max. I was expecting 3nm A16 and 5nm M2 Max for release this fall and then the 3nm M3 progression next year. But they normally start iPhone HVM in July so A16 must be 5nm, there's no way Apple would delay the iPhone launch to November, it's too soon for M3, I have no idea what they're producing either.
Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle are all consumer-facing products. FedNow is a service for interbank settlement only, not a consumer product. FedNow does create an opportunity for banks to provide instant payments for their customers, but that just means banks (even small banks) will be able to compete well with Venmo and others. That seems like a win for everyone to me.
We use tiptap/hocuspocus at Vowel (https://www.vowel.com/) for our collaborative notes editor. It's really slick!
If you scroll about 2/3 of the way down the page, you’ll see the comparison between the ISO and ANSI version. The ISO version has the § key, while the ANSI version has a ~ key.
Seems there's been a real keyboard Renaissance recently. Is that just keyboards or is it the same in all niche manufacturing spaces that I'm less aware of?
Philosophy is hunger of the mind, we replaced it with consumerism.
On the contrary!
Almost all books you buy are printed with ink.
Companies buy ink for offset printing in bulk anyway and can use the same for jet printing.
Ink is cheaper, faster and can achieve better quality, especially when color is involved.

Laser only exists for offices, : black and white printing, unsteady usage patterns, fast printing on small scale, replacing cartridges are administratively challenging.
I think the problem is that as an external observer, it's almost impossible to distinguish "we listen but don't/can't always act on it" and "we don't listen", because they produce the same actions and are only possible to tell apart by closely following the exact communications (which isn't always possible since some happen in private, and is unreliable anyways if some is trying to appear engaged while not actually listening).
I think it being a real invoice would be the easiest answer. The scammers have obtained a legit business account at PayPal and are issuing baseless invoices. I don't know if they'd receive the money if you paid - maybe. But they want you to call them and install the backdoor.
This is what happens, when the goal of politicians is to acquire wealth for ten generations, and the welfare of people becomes secondary. This leads to "brain drain". The only people are left: the old, the weak, those who can't migrate to other countries.
One author of the post has title of engineering while the other has title of engineers. Typo?
Delphi cut the corners with their fixed positioning. It will not work for web and it works very poorly for localization (labels change their lengths and can overlap over each other).

As soon as you introduce layouts to your UI, all the Delphi simplicity goes out of the window.

This is an interesting challenge to invent a way for UI to be pixel-fixed, yet work in web and with localization. If someone would do that, you could rebuild Delphi for web.

I guess one way is to build a pixel-fixed form for English language and let AI to build a layout for this form.
Or a toupee.
"The Maltese Falcon" -- Huston's version, with Bogart, is much better than the pre-code 1931 version.
Ha, that's good to know -- I've been enjoying using Vowel and was wondering what the in-call notes editor was powered by. Vowel is really slick too -- nice job! :)
I think part of what you are getting at here also points to differences in what people mean by “unit test”.

It’s always possible to write a test case that covers a new high-level functional requirement as you understand it; part of the skill of test-first (disclaimer - I use this approach sometimes but not religiously and don’t consider myself a master at this) is identifying the best next test to write.

But a lot of people cast “unit test” as “test for each method on a class” which is too low-level and coupled to the implementation; if you are writing those sort of UTs then in some sense you are doing gradient descent with a too-small step size. There is no appreciable gradient to move down; adding a new test for a small method doesn’t always get you closer to adding the next meaningful bit of functionality.

When I have done best with TDD is when I start with what most would call “functional tests” and test the behaviors, which is isomorphic to the design process of working with stakeholders to think through all the ways the product should react to inputs.

I think the early TDD guys like Kent Beck probably assumed you are sitting next to a stakeholder so that you can rapidly iterate on those business/product/domain questions as you proceed. There is no “upfront spec” in agile, the process of growing an implementation leads you to the next product question to ask.
I like the idea, but having to log in with Google made me pause, and then I closed the page.

I am OK to register, even if I think that a quick demo should be possible without this step.

But I won't register with Google or Facebook or anything except an email.
Bind your react UI to GL 4.5, DirectX12 and/or Vulkan. Then try to call either the Win32 API, or POSIX.
I think both tags and folders would confuse people. I'd personally like them to remove folders and have only tags, but you can already imagine the HN comments ... google screwing with bookmarks to make you use search more ... not compatible with other browsers (import/export) ... monopolistic ... lock-in.
Here you go: https://archive.ph/yGXvO
Again, the science disagrees. Perhaps going straight from a modern, industrial, likely sedentary lifestyle to two weeks of extended physical exertion for its own sake is not equivalent to people spending their whole lives in a hunter-gatherer setting.

Further, there's nothing inherently good about things being natural. Again, your patterns of exercise, your nutrition, and virtually every other aspect of your health is quite different from that of a hunter-gatherer, it would not be surprising if behavioral changes to adapt to differing circumstances would be beneficial.
Given that the sender pays the bulk of the transaction fee, and smaller customers are more likely to send a lot than receive a lot, I suspect the $0.045 to be passed through. Of course, merchants might want to eat the fee by charging $0.045 less in order to encourage people to use this instead of credit cards (which are far costlier to merchants, and can incur chargebacks).
This is the part that sticks out to me: "Hearing aids cost a fortune, and Medicare doesn’t cover them."

So, like, we (Americans) have bought into this system where basic health care, which we all pay for and plan to rely on when we retire, doesn't cover something that everyone needs if they get old enough?
Same. This is bad UX.
Oh my lord there are some names on that list. Interesting that Gearbox and 3D realms are owned by the same parent company. Freaking Greasy Randy Pitchford
I'm with you! I think my calculation was figuring $5MM...but, hey, i can make it work for $2MM. :-)
For something like that to work an attacker would have to add into ~/.ssh/config (on each intermediate server) lines mentioned in another recent post

ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/github.sock
ControlPersist 999999999s
ServerAliveInterval 0

without me noticing to sort of cache presence check. In which case they have access to my account already and presence or absence of 'ForwardAgent yes' makes no difference since they can add it if they want.

A paranoid answer to that is to use something like /usr/bin/ssh -F /dev/null -A user@fqdn.example.org everytime without an alias, of course. And only plugging in your security key when you need it.
The topic is midlife crisis.

A midlife crisis is not about being poor, fearing for your job, or worrying about societal collapse. It's about your existence, purpose, the meaning of life, etc. It applies to all walks of life.
That granpappy was a nazi supporter, and then his kid’s kid became head of the CIA, and then President (!), and then his kid also became President(!) should raise some suspicions… particularly since the billionaire Koch bros, who were literally raised by a nazi nanny, have funded the installation of most of the Supreme Court justices. IMO Nazi ideology wasn’t defeated: it simply shifted locales.
Adding onto this, the Fed has proposed opening up Fed Master Accounts to non-bank fintechs (e.g., PayPal/Venmo). That would allow them to improve their own services by moving off of ACH.

For those interested in the Fed Master Accounts topic, I recommend this Macro Musings podcast episode with George Selgin.[1]

[1]: https://macromusings.libsyn.com/george-selgin-on-inflation-f...
there are thirty empty housing units for every single homeless person in the US, but sure, housing supply is the issue. let's deregulate the construction industry and have our own Grenfell!!! :)
Is there a way to make money on airtable besides extensions? Can you sell subscriptions or access to data?
A/B Testing Intuition Busters
Ask HN: Best Alfred for Windows?
Alfred on macOS is lovely. Specifically I like using: 'filename to search for individual files quickly.

Sadly Alfred isn't available for Windows. What's the best "Alfred for Windows"?
Really? As an American (on the West coast), I had no idea.