skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t post an article like this

“ 1645 articles were screened but no randomised controlled trials were found. 16 observational studies from five countries (USA, UK, France, Italy, and the Netherlands) were identified that reported on 614 392 patients”

and say “ which suggests you might not be qualified to read studies....”

Without expecting derision and mockery to follow.
What's the rational behind this?

The US has far more satellites to lose then any other country, last time I checked. The incentive seems like it should encourage preventing any shift of the overton window to full weaponization of space.
I inherited one of these Casio Waveceptor watches from my father.

It routinely will set itself to a totally random time far into the past/future. I've wondered if maybe contemporary wireless devices interfere with the time sync radio. Another possible factor is the watch itself is ~20 years old.
The article indicates that they are actually removing books that are already in libraries. So it's more like I just got kicked out of the party and you're playing ridiculous word games saying I wasn't "banned" because there's a party down the street I can go to.

Also, you didn't answer the question: would Facebook removing my ability to post be considered "banning"?
Several people have raised the point that if the discounts are automatic why not just change the pricing? Pharmaceutical pricing and a lot of healthcare pricing in general are strange in the sense that they are organized to capture what certain plans/institutions will pay. If there is a plan out there that says "we will pay $540 for a month of lifesaviex" you are going to see prices at $540 or above to capture that even if in other contexts some patients are getting it at $35 a month. There is a lot to potentially discuss about that but cherry picking one interesting thing... Many very large employer plans are administrated by the insurance companies names you are familiar with, Anthem, United, etc. However the details of the plan, including reimbursements, are actually set by people at the employer, not the plan. There is someone in the giant beauracracy at these companies who compiles/edits/approves a massive spreadsheet and out into the market it goes. Mistakes are common.

In a similar vein, some poorly thought out reimbursement rate setting by CMS/HHS related to drug testing wasted at least 216 million dollars. A virtual cottage industry sprung up around it while it was in effect. It was not an isolated incident.

https://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region9/92103006.pdf
Whilst it maybe doesn’t need to be accurate, I have had an oven that wouldn’t turn on if you didn’t set the time…
I'm not discouraged when stuff like this happens because I hope it will piss people off enough to trigger a change in the current system, where Apple and Google dictate how people use their mobile computers. This kind of stuff will always happen until the fundamental structure changes.
What a pathetic man-child.
Essentially every country in the world aside from the United States (particularly Europe and UK/AU/NZ/CA as I mentioned) actually bans particular books for real, well beyond "you can't buy it with tax dollars, you can buy a copy at any bookstore though".
I will try that, but I have not much hope - why would Windows act as a router directly?
What happens to a game developer who has never seen TOTK or these patents, who just happens to converge on the same idea, and put in their game? And what if lots of games already do the idea but just didn't patent it?
What would be a good starting point with Emerson?
I'm sure there's a specific point raised by Shannon, and I've been (very recently!) learning how Shannon himself is not the sole info theory dude (even though lots of people credit him for it!).

But basically, the communication of information over a noisy channel _is_ the foundation for deep learning.
> Eh, my understanding was the TikTok app collected more and different data than say, Facebook or Twitter.

Whatever data you think is being collected by TikTok/FB/Twit is actually being harvested for data brokers and being sold to anyone+everyone who wants to pay.

Why could the CCCP do some complicated dance with social media companies to get spotty personal data, when they can easily buy comprehensive personal data on the unregulated market?
Every time there was technological advancement the number of jobs for horses increased. For example the invention of the railroad meant they no longer carried the mail long distances, but still the greater economic activity lead to greater demand for horse labor. There may have been some shifts in what jobs they did, but the trend was clear. More technology lead to more horse labor.

And then the automobile was invented. And over the next few decades the demand for horse labor tanked. Now the demand for horse labor is a tiny fraction of what it was a century ago.
Which point would be enough by itself for you to discount him totally?
>> If you ban too much stuff, people will just carry a second device.

Good! People are free to purchase a personal phone and do whatever they want on their personal device.
nothing you describe is new or unique to Canada, and the same problems are happening in China, Europe, and the US.

I agree with the parent in that shillbots are out of control, and are visible across several domains, and not just about Canada -- anything vaguely or political seems to be getting it extra hard as of late. there has been a notable uptick on reddit, twitter, lemmy, HN, etc.

certainly someone with "ML learning fanantic" in their profile can grasp how incredibly easy it is to use GPT-3 to abuse HN and similar platforms.
Room temperature superconductors would not give us zero-cost energy any time soon. Even if one had a high enough critical current to be used in transmission lines (which is not a given), transmission losses are under 10% in modern grids.
ChatGPT and Bard for coding.

ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4) with Langchain to have my own custom data and be able to query my own help docs for support.

Leonardo.ai for some images for marketing and ads.

ChatGPT-4 and StableDiffusion API (users bring their own API key) for content generation if desired.
Perplexity is measured by testing a language model on a known text. The model's output is a probability for every possible next word/token. The model is highly perplexed if it gave a low probability to the actual next token.
When people say small towns have no culture, what they mean is "small towns have (mostly) a monoculture which is (usually) a slight variation of the regional culture." These towns might be chain store wastelands, or they might have some unique local character (e.g. Fredericksburg, Tx) but either way if you want to watch a Balinese shadow puppet show, eat Sudanese cuisine, catch a concert that isn't the local popular style, dance at a club playing German minimal techno or just interact with ethnicities that aren't european/hispanic you're probably out of luck.
"Apps that simulate gambling, or games of chance or skill that are conducive to gambling are prohibited in the above locales"

Luck be a Landlord seems to be a harmless Slot Simulator with RPG elements.

It's harmless.

Or, seen from the legislators from these countries; is it harmless ? Or is it the beginning of a gambling addiction ?

From my perspective I'd like this app to be available everywhere, but it seems to be more a political issue than a policy issue directly.

Usually game developers hide such mechanics under bonus stages or lootboxes from what I've seen.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c63...

> But human rights advocates say the country’s regulations lack necessary safeguards, devalue the lives of disabled people and are prompting doctors and health workers to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it.

> Equally troubling, advocates say, are instances in which people have sought to be killed because they weren’t getting adequate government support to live.

> Euthanasia “cannot be a default for Canada’s failure to fulfill its human rights obligations,” said Marie-Claude Landry, the head of its Human Rights Commission.

> Landry said she shares the “grave concern” voiced last year by three U.N. human rights experts, who wrote that Canada’s euthanasia law appeared to violate the agency’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They said the law had a “discriminatory impact” on disabled people and was inconsistent with Canada’s obligations to uphold international human rights standards.

> Tim Stainton, director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, described Canada’s law as “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”
All you need is a DIP switch or something on the back to let you set the offset.
This is the problem 99.9% of software people have though? Most could write the software for a wordle, flappy bird or Twitter clone.

But coming up with that idea, executing it correctly and having a whole lot of luck is out of reach for the majority.
Terrible plan. Off the top of my head:

- If the company wants to do WFH successfully, it needs to be part of the org's DNA, otherwise it won't work. Making WFH conditional on performance is the complete wrong direction.

- Not having a firm WFH commitment from my employer removes most of the benefit of WFH (I'd still be geographically limited)

- This would create a huge divide between high performers and others which would not be good for morale (typical rewards like bonuses are not so visible)
There's a few problems with the puck mouse.

1) They're all old and are of questionable state second hand.

2) They're all ball mice, as you mentioned there's issues with those over an optical mouse

3) They almost always have ridiculously short cables. They're designed to be used with the Apple USB keyboards which had the extra USB port on the side of the keyboard that they would plug into.

Sure, some of these problems could just be overlooked or solved with accessories but in the end I'd rather just have something new which I know will work well and won't require me to get a USB extension cable or whatever. I'd really like something in a similar enough form factor but wireless and optical.
Ask HN: Which apps do you use, where you feel like the “primary audience”?
Do you feel you are the ideal user, primary user, etc for an app? In other words, you use everything about that app, anytime it adds a new feature you like and use the new feature, etc.

I'm primarily thinking about complex apps, not simple ones that have just a couple of uses. For example, Spotify. It does a lot more than just play music for you. But I can't imagine making use of, or even caring about, most of its other features. I can't think of a single app where I feel like the "ideal user". Wondering about others' experiences.
I would consider it, only if I could attain an identical copy of the data they extract from my interview.
Cancer rates have been dropping for the last 20 years. PAHs from cooking are known carcinogens where PFAs is possible carcinogen that in animals models, results are inclusive and observational studies the data is unreliable. What would you take the risk with? PAHs, which there are studies showing increased cancer rates in restaurant workers and show to cause cancer in animals models, or PFAs which the there is no reliable studies showing cancer risk.
At long last, the actual buried lede:

"And now for some good news. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, under the leadership of Rohit Chopra, has declared war on this alliance:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/16/cfpb-looks-to-restrict-t...

They've proposed new rules limiting the trade between brokers and bureaux, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, putting strict restrictions on the transfer of information between the two:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/tech/privacy-rules-data-broke...
"
Htmx's biggest upside is no pressure to use JS/TS on the backend.

So many stories start with "I used htmx with (rust|go|ocaml|django|etc) and had good results".

Feels hard to not use JS/TS on the backend if you are already using it on the frontend (unless you have a specific need node can't fit). Why intentionally use two different languages, yadda yadda, etc, if you don't have too.

Its refreshing.
> Next feature, very similar to the other one, 5 story points. But this time you have a button component already, so you can just reuse it. Same points delivered, less time spent, meaning you have time to pick up another story, meaning your velocity goes up.

This makes no sense, nobody works like that. And to be fair, shouldn't.

The next button is a 1 point story because the component is there already. Or not even 1 point, may get buried in a 1 point story to add ten new buttons.

> Scrum does NOT work with deadlines.

No true Scotsman, we're all holding it wrong.

Deadlines will be imposed from afar, in just about every company ever, and then the points will be attempted to be retrofitted to the predetermined plan.

When approximately everyone, for a couple decades now, is always "doing it wrong", it's time to acknowledge that the problem is the idea not the people holding it wrong.

> The rational purpose to sprints is for project management to be able to look ahead and be able to say "we expect this feature to be done in X weeks time"

This is how that goes:

PM: It'd be great if we had all the stories and their points in the place for the next quarter so we can predict good dates, get on that will you?

Eng: Awesome! So I'll need to plan out the work for the quarter, write stories and estimate them. Nice, will do that.

PM: NO! This is agile, don't ever look beyond this sprint. We don't do planning in agile. Just work on your microtask of the sprint, we'll worry about next sprint later.

Eng: Um, wait, what?

You might again say they're doing it wrong. There's no true agile scotsman.
The US climate law is fueling a factory frenzy
> Non-ionizing radiation can affect your DNA, for instance UV

UV: 3eV to 124eV

RF: .00001eV
I totally agree that Vault is more than a glorified password manager (because that's what most Clouds have in their implementation of a secrets store), but the thing is, everywhere I go, I don't see people use Vault, I see them use whatever AWS/Google/Azure happens to have (and often badly).

I'm not sure if that's even what ghshephard meant when he was curious for 'products', since technically all those cloud-integrated services aren't really stand-alone products for that matter.

In AWS for example, with or without EKS (and then something like External Secrets Operator in the EKS case), it's all just AWS Secrets Manager and sometimes Parameter Store. In a few cases people do manual encryption (using KMS), but in no case was HashiCorp Vault used.

Often, it's even worse: no secrets management at all. Stuff just gets pumped into environment variables (more often than not they get committed as .env files to Git), and there's just no drive to change that, even when a business policy is in place. Some even 'work around' this by storing secrets in password managers like 1Password and LastPass so they can check the compliance box without actually protecting the secrets (since they also live in plain text in VCS and at runtime in the environment).

In terms of 'products', I'd say Vault and the cloud ones don't really compare, but reality is depressing and secrets are often not as secret as the name implies. From a developer perspective, they might compare them because they desire the secrets to be injected into the environment either way, and as such the source doesn't matter much. I'm not sure if we should see that as a feature or a bug.
This game's primary mechanic is decision making and deck-building. There is no wagering or gambling of money real or otherwise. Only someone grossly misinformed could consider this game gambling, and by their logic would disqualify all games that had any elements of randomness.

I did a double take when I saw this title on the front page of Hacker News. I didn't think it was super well known and I just started playing it again. I hate gambling in games more than anything, and it kills me to see 2K continue to get away with literal slot machines and roulettes, with real money and given an "E" for "Everyone" by a group that is run by a lot of these triple-A board members.
There was a famous incident of a guy returning boxes of dirt and keeping all the items[1].

Not sure how they deal with this now.

1 -https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/amazon-dirt-scam-22-year-...
I use a Phillips Smart Sleep alarm clock that doesn’t support this, despite being pretty expensive at around $100. I’m not even sure if the higher end model which costs twice as much and claims to be “connected” supports this feature.
Why even bother with all of the STS cleverness? The article suggests a perfectly good way to get a rough but trusted time stamp by… scraping it from a known good HTTP server.

Anyway, STS as described is an obviously broken protocol. It’s not clear to me that it is even capable of reliably getting a rough time.
Four lessons from launching an LLM chatbot to external users
MacGuffin - In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself.[1]

What a great use of that term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin
That doesn't seem accurate either. They're using ChatGPT to provide confirmation on book they have already decided to ban. The books were already flagged, the algorithm is just giving them an comeback for busybodies who ask "Did you read the book before you banned it?"
> true - but not by much.

False. https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/
I wrote more details in a ServerFault answer before contacting Ars Technica: https://serverfault.com/a/1132383/45588
Fracking causes slow, small earthquakes or tremors
> "Apps that simulate gambling, or games of chance or skill that are conducive to gambling are prohibited in the above locales."

This is such a strange decision. I know that this game has no microtransactions, actual gambling or any other forms of monetization, outside of paying to purchase this game. Does this mean that any games where chance plays a major role are off-limits? Or is it the slot machine-like appearance?

What I wonder is, are gacha games still available in these regions? They seem to be a lot more resembling of actual gambling, but few places appeared interested in regulating them.
There's probably plenty of "computer numbers" you'd recognize immediately.

("It stops working after 65,535 seconds? Wait a minute, I know that number.")
that's the thing, they won't provide you with any data they extract. It's a blackbox.
Great read, especially the section on how important emotional health and wellbeing are to overall health.
Varies at the moment as I’m onboarding users slowly, testing, and iterating. About $15-30k MRR usually. Only been running a few months so it’s hard to extrapolate too far.
You are conflating crony capitalism with free market capitalism. If we are going to argue in terms of pure theory (which you are) then more competition, and therefore the free market, would select for systems that reduce friction between the customer and their wallet. Crony capitalism is what happens when a mixture of regulatory capture, unhinged corporate lobbying, and greed combine to form a trifecta of fuck for everyone else.

A common trope among anti-capitalists is they conflate capitalism in practice (i.e. crony capitalism) with actual free market capitalism (the theoretical construct).

When debating semantics like you are the difference between these two is fundamentally important.
How to Waste Your Vacation
I worked for Atlassian prior to 2017 and they were indeed very anti-remote work, I don’t see how any of what you said contradicts that.
I feel like that was the period when stores were adopting the easy returns but hadn't really accepted the results of taking the loss, so employees had poor incentives to just stick it back out for resale.

Then again maybe they're still doing it with tools bought in store and then returned there. These days when I buy tools at HD they're generally ship to home. And when I return stuff in the store, they're often a different SKU so they get an RTV (return to vendor) tag rather than the store reselling them. Which given the return pallets I've seen for sale elsewhere (ie this article), I wonder if it isn't a euphemism for dispose of, even if the box is unopened.

I've also got to wonder about this from the angle of the financial arrangements. Part of me always wonders if all that inventory is even owned by Home Depot, or if the contractual arrangements make it closer to a consignment relationship where stuff that is declared as unsaleable (for whatever reason) is eaten by the vendor.
It means you outsource this work to a call center that says they don't use autodialers but does, absolving you of any responsibility
>If a library removes things that people want to read because it thinks people shouldn't be allowed to read them, it's censorship.

Would you say the same if that material as glorifying national socialism? Should library carry such books as long as people want to read them?
What sort of odds and stakes are you willing to offer for a bet based on that?
That's the point, if you can't trust the connection, stop trying to come up with more complicated ways to use the untrustable connection and accept that there is no safe way to update time.
Maybe it just needs a battery replacement?
That said, ex-FAANG employees love to make pity posts about how they have “only” 3 months of severance and need a new job “asap”
That may be reason to dislike him, but is a pretty weak reason to hate him.
probably easiest (if you were going to do it) to build an add-on for one (or more) of the existing platforms :)
I wouldn't want to do it.
what’s interesting is that it isn’t geo-fenced for north korea.

but it is for south korea.
That is my understanding of it. A lot of core parts/features had competing options. One one hand is kind of cool. But also, lead to a lot of confusion until the D programming language eventually adopted one or the other as the official one.
Oh, I think you know which ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130143
Yep, +1. That's why I used the quotes. :) Thanks for expanding!
genuine question: electric cars have to be worse per car on the environment than a gas-car right now?

reasoning:

lets compare the carbon footprint of the entire supple chain (production, maintenance, etc) of electric and gas(petrol) cars;

guess it is about the same (actually economies of scale for the gas-car side mean per gas-car footprint is lesser right now, but say electric cars also catch up at scale).

Then we are down to efficiency diff of the power plant vs ICE.

So would you argue: we will be renewable energy powered soon, at that point we need the electric car ecosystem?

I understand the push to switch to renewables. But there's enough load on the grid to soak up the production and clean up the air.
I guess I just don't understand what your goal are and what you're trying to economize. If you don't want people to think it's merely antistatism, snapping at them will seem, in their minds, to confirm their preconceptions.

I certainly am not suggesting you write a monologue, but snapping at them isn't a dialogue either.
UVA and UVC are separated by 5x. UV and RF are separated by 1000000x.
As someone who makes decisions like the one Google made here at work, sorry, dude, but arguing about it publicly isn't going to change much.

Almost certainly Google has received pressure from these countries on this issue and their business there is more important to google than your single app. Google likely isn't being unreasonable - but the governments of these countries are. Sorry.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Building in Public?