skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a randomized controlled trial you either find a significant difference in your metrics, or you don't. There's no other option.

This is a poor way of thinking about statistics. Whether you reject or not a sharp null hypothesis doesn't give you much information (See for example: https://www.gwern.net/Everything). Failing to reject in particular, can be compatible with a wide range of effects.

>In all cases where you don't find a significant difference, the problem is that the confidence interval is too wide for whatever difference seems to exist.

With enough data, there could totally have been a tight range around no effect or a small effect. This is not what we got here though.

Also note that other variables such as cancer risk came out significant, so while this study doesn't provide much inductive evidence around cancer death, we do get some deductive evidence based on the known link between cancer and death. Not to mention that cancer and cancer treatments are not fun even when they don't kill you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148457

Not sure how out of date that is
Wishing you good luck with this. Succeed or fail, you will come away with plenty of key learnings that can be applied to future projects. The trick is to listen to and learn from feedback, but not let it dissuade you from your entrepreneurial journey. Gradatim Ferociter
arbitrage? Do you mean escrow? And yes, problem is easily solved with a 3rd-party deciding how much to award.
I assumed the OP was talking more about the math, which is also not true. The method mentioned in the article only takes into account the silhouette of the target. In my experience, that's where a lot of the information comes from, but to get that fine detail most contemporary methods incorporate a lot of information about the target itself like keypoints and lighting interactions.
I will pay anywhere from $1 to $5 to eliminate ads, so this is a good value, considering the free apps almost all have ads, if I recall. Or are provided by one of the larger guitar companies and promote their subscription/learning platforms?

I find the idea that $1 is a "hard sell" laughable, but unfortunately for software devs that is the world we find ourselves in when trying to monetize an idea.
“One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy”
Co-ops themselves usually have a particular setup that's similar to a non-profit (and so they're not really "sellable" but can merge with other co-ops).

The "nefarious" entities don't care; they will control the suppliers as that's where the money is made anyway; grocery stores are cost centers.

The main protection I'd look for is avoid long-term and exclusive contracts. Anything that prohibits you from sourcing from other suppliers is highly suspect.
I agree. I’ve been search and searching and there isn’t a good enough solution for a sorta no-code one or little to no code one.
It irks me that some people use this term to mean "doing your job, as expected."

I would imagine it to mean "doing the absolute smallest amount you can get away with without getting noticed and subsequently fired."

Fulfilling my duties but not doing overtime seems like "doing your job" rather than "quiet quitting."
It is quite perplexing. I have the 1950X and can't update, can't even do the updates of win10 (maybe for some other reason) but still...
In general this seems fair, but it also creates an externality.
A licensing system that offers a permissive license to the community that paid for it, and a more restrictive licensing terms for people in parts beyond seems more fair.
Thinking of the United States, I could easily imagine that some states would just wait to copy the services developed by one of the larger states - which creates an unfair free rider situation.
Wow. So this is a process. I can understand that when the goal is likely sustainability, scale and longevity. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Driftless adjacent.
I can see Helix replacing Vim and Neovim for the most "normal" user. It's great, and it's a better alternative than VSCode for Vim users that aren't quite power users but also not exactly the most basic user either.

However, until I can fire up a new installation of *nix and type `helix` to begin editing things it will never replace good 'ole Vim.
Large teams failed in part because they are large. I must point out djb succeeded. Empirically, it is possible to write secure programs in C.
I've tried several 3rd party Dvorak keyboards for iOS and they all feel subtly broken. It gave me the impression that making a 3rd party keyboard feel good must take a lot of work, effort which doesn't get put in when the goal is just enabling a single layout.
I am glad to hear more people are working to solve this problem that means I’m not the only one that sees this problem.
Facebook has 75,000 employees?

Doing what?
Network Intrusion Detection System in a Light Bulb
The movement is really choppy on my iPhone 13 Pro. Did you use requestAnimationFrame for the tuning movement? & CSS animations for switching instruments? Kinda just wondering how the performance could be so bad. Reminds me of PhoneGap circa 2013
I think they aren't firing people, they are laying off people. The difference is one has cause (not doing work up to standard, performance, behavior probs) the other is just giant corporation randomness of cancelling products, teams and managers being approached with "give me 15% of your team" types of requests.

They need to file legal paperwork for layoffs of this size so "quiet" isn't really a good description.

This many people is like $1.2B annually in savings if every person averages to $100k (which is conservative). They have stated they are leaning into AR/VR and their quarterly reports show other businesses are flat or shrinking. Its okay to have a business division that has a known profit margin and market share and not invest in furthering to expand it.
A lot of Rust CVEs are filed for things that C/C++ software would just consider normal bugs, or not bugs at all.

For example: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/20/cve-2022-21658.html

The C++ stdlib is affected by the same issue, but they don't consider it a security bug, because the API doesn't claim to be safe of race conditions. Rust doesn't explicitly claim that either, but the Rust community has a higher bar for correctness around these things, so it gets a CVE.

Prior discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461036

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/s8ok0h/possible_toctou...
... is not a thing.

To employers bitching, you get what you pay for. Put up or shut up.
This is hilarious

Now feed it Doom haha
One challenge is that so many Americans live in climates that humans don't really belong in, and thus rely on air conditioned cars & buildings. 29 million people live in Texas, 22 million in Florida, 7 million in Arizona, 5 million in each of Louisiana and Alabama, 3 million in Nevada, etc.

Walking anywhere when its high-humidity and over 90F (33C) isn't workable for most people because they don't want to arrive covered in sweat. And that's not a temperature that is a brief high for the day at 3pm, it's that hot at 9am on the way to school/work and still that hot at 6pm when headed home.
This type of article makes me want to re-do some vitamin deficiency panels. I know I never get nearly enough vitamin D so I supplement that. But what the heck else am I low on?
No system-wide dependencies maybe ?

I personally value a lot not having to install stuff by hand on my system, hoping for the version of the said dependencies in my OS package manager end up working with the software I want to use. Using dependencies managed by the language dependency manager removes 99% of the dependency hassle.

(Yes, I know I could install an complete second distro in docker and run the software there. But I won't, thank you).
Who use Around videoconferencing application?
Sounds like a great idea on the surface. The question is who's deciding what counts as discriminatory, intolerant, or misinformation.

Obvious examples like unabashed white supremacists aside... what happens in less clear cases, like when a Palestinian rights organization starts posting BDS stuff, and Israelis respond by calling them a terror group?

One more justification for uncensorable, provably non-inflationary digital currencies.
People can be surprisingly good at blocking out signals, especially when they have learned to regard a signal as broken and unhelpful.

Aron Ralston, the guy that 127 Hours is based on, in his memoir singles out a specific moment in his childhood when he decided to disregard his sense of fear, because it was paralyzing him and stopping him from doing normal things with his friends like skiing. Operating without regard for fear was obviously not a great fix. As an adult he lost friends who refused to go into the backcountry with him because he took irresponsible risks that put them in danger. Then he lost his arm.

People who struggle with depression have the same adversarial relationship with fatigue. When you spend much of your life struggling to force yourself to go when your brain says stop, you start to take a cynical attitude toward your sense of fatigue. It's a chronic liar, a stopped clock, the boy who cried wolf. On the other hand, once in a while it's telling the truth.

Anxiety can present as fatigue as well. When your brain is afraid of something, inducing a sense of fatigue is an easy way to avoid it.

When you can't trust your sense of fatigue, there's no simple rule for handling it. It's dangerous to ignore it, but on the other hand, you can't just trust it, because then you'd spend most of your life in bed. Maybe today the right answer is to "find joy in it" (barf) but tomorrow the right answer is to suck it up and work through it. There's no inspirational slogan that solves it. You just do your best to figure it out every day.
How old various Unix signals are
> Part of the problem is when regulation and incentives push to make it so only Bentleys are profitable to make.

I’ll second this. Almost everywhere you go in the US are mandates that dramatically increase the cost of developing your own property (i.e. as a taxpaying individual, not as an incorporated developer). I own property and want to develop it for elderly low-income family members to enjoy, incidentally creating low-income housing consistent with the area, but permits and fees are roughly 40% of my costs. The building permit costs extra because the materials used (mostly dirt!!!) are non-flammable ! The square footage is based on the perimeter of the structure but I’m building with stabilized adobe (AKA DIRT!!!!) thus building code requires a wall thickness of 14”, resulting in substantial percentage of unusable square footage contributing to the permit cost and later property tax. Flood control district required mitigations are founded on an incorrect hazard map which results in extra expense and extra permitting costs. And so on, e.g. road access fees for roads which are never built in 25 years of fee collection, new fees for water service maintenance supposedly covered in past bills but audits kept confidential for security, legal costs to sue the county to follow it’s own rules...

(edit: wow, my knee really jerked on this one. So infuriated)
> every detail that you seemingly "forget" to mention (and is pointed out later) makes you look worse and worse

This has happened not a single time in this thread and is straight up a lie.
> Isn’t there just as much chance for bias if the treatment is voluntary?

I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. If you're wondering if voluntary opt-out of colonoscopy carries risk of bias, then I'll say the following: it's an intervention that is painful, intrusive and time consuming. No reasonable person would get one absent demonstrated benefit.

Pick a thing where people are reasonably likely to do it as default behavior (eating chocolate, say), and the intervention is to abstain from doing the thing, then you'd be right to ask that question. I imagine people who voluntarily abstain from chocolate are pretty different in substantial ways than people who have to be coerced to do so. But people who don't get a colonoscopy when not pestered to do so are just...normal.

> I see what you’re saying - the overall effectiveness of our current system may be low because of a low rate of voluntary adoption of the colonoscopy is low, and even a lower accuracy screen could be more effective if more people opt in.

Not quite. I'm saying that this study did the fairest possible test for effectiveness of colonoscopies, and the effect sizes they found were on par with the genetic tests (to be clear: they didn't actually make this comparison in the RCT; I'm extrapolating from other studies.)

The evidence presented here is not that the genetic tests are a "lower accuracy screen", it's that colonoscopies are likely not better than genetic tests. That's very different.
Jean-Louis Gassée: Remembering Steve Jobs
column mode text selection, does this exist? There are extensions for Table column select https://superuser.com/questions/316293/select-column-from-a-... but I dont know of any general column mode select
But as the article points out, it depends on the situation. The article is right that memory safety matters a lot more in certain areas than others.

The teams you refer to are working in areas where every exploit is a huge risk, places like a browser or an OS kernel. There is a reason Rust originated among people working on a browser. What you describe is correct for them. But the article has several examples of other applications where the tradeoffs are different.

Another example: LLVM is written in C++, but that's basically fine. A memory safety exploit in clang might be annoying, but it's not a vector for taking over people's machines like a browser is. A safety exploit in clang's output is where the real risks lie, but memory safety of clang itself doesn't help there.
Once we can do "more like this", "less like that" in a way that doesn't require a 3 paragraph inscrutable word soup for prompts, I don't see how this doesn't revolutionalize most industries that need any type of quick prototyping of anything.

You could do this for any sort of web / mobile / whatever UI, designing houses, cars, any object really, fashion, etc. It's all going to be so much faster.
I do. I donate a very large amount of money to an organization that I am deeply involved with that does a lot of good efficiently and effectively. I'm sure that a lot of people just use this as a justification and don't actually follow through but I really am donating an amount of money that would be completely infeasible if I was instead employed by this organization.
There's still Level 29 (courtesy of the retrobattlestations subreddit) which can be accessed over dialup (as well as by browser or telnet):

https://bbs.retrobattlestations.com/
They are supported by being a monopoly by law on letter correspondence. No need for extra subventions when you can decide yourself on your pricing and quality of service.
> You gotta be kidding me. It is literally impossible for a user to run software on an iOS device without Apple digitally signing it. "Manage their Apple stuff"? What a bunch of BS. More like create their own digital fiefdom where they own users, determine what they can and can't do and sell access to them to third party developers like they were cattle.

Then don't buy Apple products? I totally agree with you in spirit in a lot of your points and I want more freedoms on my hardware. I just understand why we are in this situation as users. We don't have the market power like businesses do when it comes to hardware and most consumers don't care or don't understand their loss of freedoms.

> You said it yourself, it's about "controlling what software is run on company owned hardware". We don't own these devices, the companies do. There is no freedom to be had here, we're all playing on their playgrounds.

Yep, 100% agree here. There are zero freedoms when you are using company owned devices. They have every right to lock them down to the playground they desire for their users. The hardware market is building what their end users want. It just so happens their biggest paying end users are businesses.
> This is a fairly broad problem across the whole phone app world, isn't it? For example, I bought an iOS app for LAN analysis, but then deleted it when it turned out it wouldn't work unless you gave it access to your physical location (I assume that was for their data marketing side business).

I don't know how iOS works, but on Android location data permissions are requested for anything involving networking (including Bluetooth, WiFi). Why? Because access to those could be used to estimate where the user is physically located, so gating it behind the location permission is a good way to ensure nobody exploits that. It's not necessarily obvious when you're presented with the permission screen though.
Wow, colonoscopy with no sedation must be extremely awful. Isn't sedation the default anywhere? I remember the papers I had to sign were really serious about advicing sedation.
Zuck himself has said in interviews how great it would be to have Meta transport people to business meetings in a way that feels more meaningful than the current Zoom experience.
> Loss of purpose, lack of fair recognition and the need to preserve work–life balance seem to be the main motives of the younger generations for quiet quitting.

It's because the cost of everything keeps increasing but pay doesn't, especially housing costs. Why work my ass off if I'm never going to be able to buy a house?

The economy can cool down, but it won't matter - if rent is $2000/mo., no one is going to take your $11/hr jobs unless you're very flexible, because people will need multiple such jobs to survive if that's all they can get.
> idea when

No later than February 26, 2022

https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t1sm0n/howit...

> and where

Severodonetsk

> Honestly, I have no idea when and where this picture is from

If only someone made a search engine, which could search by an images...
Isn’t the reason for the Meta name taking (some) hold just the giant push for the “Metaverse” as the future of the company?

It’s not like Alphabet is doing anything… alphabetical. And if they did they’d call it Google Spelling anyway.
Exactly. I don't know who created this term, but its a real bastard when the meaning is "doing your job".
Yeah the teams operate a bit like governments so that mods/presidents can't hold power indefinitely .
Ask HN: Does it make sense to create pitch deck for an early stage company?
More background: We're starting a company, and while we have a first pilot customer and some revenue already, we're very early. We've been doing it as a side project, and will go full-time in January.

We need to raise some money, because it's not a pure software business. It's a e-commerce logistics company, and we need expect to invest around $1m before we can reach the needed economies of scale for profitability.

Our strategy is to raise money from angel investors. My question is: Do angels who invest so early in companies expect a pitch deck? If yes, what would I put in the pitch deck? It's not like we have a ton of insights and numbers to show at this point.

Should we focus on the problem, on the market opportunity and on the team?

I'd love to hear from founders who have successfully raised from angels, and of course from angels who have invested in companies.
No, that's the wrong way to parse it, as there are explicitly _two_ bits on the MSR (DOITM and MCDT), and this thread is about DOITM.

All the instructions in the list are no longer (guaranteed to be?) constant-time unless the DOITM bit is set.

> Specifically, when data operand independent timing mode [DOITM] is enabled, instructions within the data operand independent timing subset execute with timing (in terms of processor cycles) that is independent of the data values in the sources of the instruction
Affirmative action wasn't necessary to open the medical, legal, etc fields to women in the 80s and 90s (in the USA) and those fields were far more misogynistic than STEM is today. Moreover, I don't see much of a difference between your professors who say "girls are probably cheating" versus our wider society who contend that "boys are only successful because of privilege". Both seem wrong. Further, it's not clear to me that affirmative action is known to be successful. I've read several reports recently that indicate that corporate DEI initiatives (which I think is roughly revamped affirmative action) may increase discrimination because people believe that minorities are benefiting from their identity rather than their qualifications. Lastly, it's not clear to me that we need exactly 50% of a given field to be female--it seems like we need enough representation to ward off sexism and so on, which shouldn't require very much considering men don't act as a class (they don't advocate for "men's rights" and so on).
There’s no uniform distribution on an infinite space…
Shouldn't they fine themselves for intolerance of discriminatory behavior?
They don’t plan ahead for features typically. They add stuff when someone wants to do the work.
> it turns out that maps slow down the Go garbage collector whereas slices collaborate much better with it. It should be noted here that this is not a problem with maps but a result of the way the Go garbage collector works.

I didn't think we can conclude this based on what the article presents. The stunt where the author assigns to "_" I think is supposed to prevent garbage collection of selected pieces of dynamically allocated memory, but I'm unconvinced: assignment to "_" is weird. The compiler clearly knows to do special things with "_". Why should we believe this prevents GC? I think there's other problems with these micro benchmarks, too.
Not selling, in Tucson. Get a screwdriver. Or a shop will fix it fir $50.
The front end apps are not all the same. If you built an app that handles 3 users well do you think it would easily handle 3 billion with no tweaks at any layer (app, framework, OS, network, hardware, edge traffic routing, internal dc network fabric, caching layer, storage for binary/ graph/ KV/ relational, cluster scheduler, security )? Another example, ML backed products (eg. Search, any RecSys) requires tuning features based on product specific needs.

You also end up leaving massive efficiencies on the floor by not hiring more specialists as you scale. This is a good read which explains it in detail https://danluu.com/in-house/

I would also suggest reading their published papers on in house systems to understand the challenges that come with operating at a large scale.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30940595

I’m sure FB could operate with a range of employees 40k-100k(?), but that number scaling with users is far from surprising.
Agreed. It's hard to find examples of successful large Rust projects to compare against. The compiler and maybe deno are about it i think?

This is not what you'd expect for an alleged developer rocket ship after 10+ years. It doesn't compare favourably with C++ at 10 years old, or Java, or Go, or...
Success is relative. A global flop might be a local blockbuster or vice versa.
Looks like parrot doesn't sell anafi anymore (only anafi ai which seems to be focused on enterprisey stuff), and skydio, while looking nice, is not foldable.
So if you want compact photo/video quad for trips, your choice is pretty limited. Especially if you want to stay below 250g weight. There is Autel Robotics which produces quads similar to DJI, but it's also mainland China company.