skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Offit writes about the FDA history in his book "Do you believe in Magic?". His argument is that the FDA tends to try to do what is "right" but the public opinion gets swayed to the point where it becomes political and we "do this to ourselves".
I certainly feel different. A 5% error rate, to me, is akin to branch prediction, where I occasionally need to rollback but it's infrequent enough that it doesn't pose a significant issue.

However, when it reaches 25%, I find myself meticulously verifying everything beforehand.
>The actual rulings from the Court were horrendous precedent

Do you happen to remember that ruling? I'd be interested in reading it.
I don't think so, x264 and x265 haven't changed in the past 12 months, or even the last 2+ years. My suspicion is Elgoog releases Android system updates without thoroughly testing them on existing released hardware.

My friends have Apple TVs that don't stutter, for 3+ years.
>The flat pricing model will disproportionately effect cheap mobile games, which I suspect was on purpose. Even then, I hardly see this as a problem. Just scrolling through the top games on any mobile store, most of it looks like low quality crap produced by large companies that figured out a successful formula for virile games.

The point was for unity to make money off hugely profitable free-to-play games (like falls guys, among us, genshin impact, and pokemon go). Unity is not aiming to make the quality of games go up.
Yeah, and by doing so they got rid of 99.99% of their security and censorship resistance. PoS is Fiat 2.0. It's not worth mentioning in the same breath as Bitcoin, not that it ever was.
Well yes, a certain number of the public service or political parties will believe things that are simply false (whether legitimately or as a means to serve their goals), in fact, many political parties in Germany and other developed countries are based entirely on false premises to the extent of being named after them. But this is actually the point of democracy, so as much as the observation is humorous it also highlights a certain level of naivety.

Digging even a little into German history reveals why the whole digitalisation and bureaucracy situation is the way it is. In fact, it also shows a side that if one doesn't believe that our tech-centric disruption culture is a corruption of society and people, then one might actually be the one who is delusional. Remember, there's a whole class of people out there who depend heavily on things working the way they do - no so much for gain, but for the benefit that any 'digital' alternative may cripple them (e.g. many elderly, disabled, and poor members of society). To some, providing a secondary tool isn't simply an alternative, it's the first step towards a complete replacement of the thing they find more useful (a good example of this is 'cashless societies').
I assume they mean fine tuning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuning_(deep_learning)

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
What do you mean by hypothetical solution that does not exist? This is actually specified.

IEEE does specify multiple rounding modes. Does it make more sense to use an existing spec, or roll your own numeric library with rounding modes?
Ask HN: Transparent Email Client/Service?
Hey folks-
Is there any service/app that enables to create a “public” email service?

I want to run an experiment to apply to the same jobs using two different email addresses (let’s think male and female) with very similar CVs and then see response rate for screenings.

To make the experiment 100% transparent I need to be able to provide “view access” to the Sent and Inbox of both accounts.

Is this crazy? Is someone doing this?
The fact that the most common denominator for publishing an application to reach the maximum user base is a web application is kind of a depressing one to developers. We know that to reach a maximum user base that we need to ship using bloated tech.

If an application that emulates a calculator was just now a new idea it would likely be first developed as a web application those would be an order of magnitude larger that it needs to be. It would use much more memory and cpu than a native version. You do get some things that could be a value like screen reader capabilities. It would show up in app stores but would be implemented in Electron.

In the "olden days" of the 1990's such an concept would likely been done in VB6 and distributed as an .exe since that the user base of Windows desktop users was the most significant. That resources consumes by the executable would be "nit" on today's devices.

Even though from a business perspective shipping bloated apps makes sense, developers are aware of the bloat and it bothers us.
> Also I don't see how C# is not "approachable

C# is powerful and performant. I wouldn’t call it approachable though unless your background is Java or C++

It suffers from the same problem as Java: verbosity with endless choices for syntax. Why is this a problem? The “paradox of choice” is debilitating for most people. Also, since there’s no universal consensus over style, you’re going to inevitably have convention wars.

Python has many problems, but it’s easy to see how it became so popular with its one way to do one thing
Self hosting is critical: these organizations’ reputations are on the line and they don’t want to be beholden to an outside company for access to their collections.

There are a number of preservation service and networks available, but cost is a big factor there since it’s hard enough to get funding for your own connections much less those of others, especially if the material isn’t in the public domain. I do think IIIF helps there, too, because it would let sites like IA recognize that they can download the biggest available image for a web page when they archive it. That’s not professional digital preservation level in many cases (smaller, lossy compression) but it might be the best you can get in some cases.
You're totally right that it's popular. I'm sure that my immediate family owns at least three sets between us (god knows why) and yet, I think my statement stands true. Most people I know don't really enjoy playing Monopoly.
I'm curious what your definition of "based" is? I imagine it's correlated with peddling conspiratorial nonsense?
Found in a thrift store recently:

An AC cord, 3-pin (earthed) plugs on both ends, with 2-conductor wiring in between. Spotted 'cause cable was damaged. Even the cable itself carried markings like "3x 0.75mm^2" despite having 2 conductors in it.

This was a one-piece cable (with 'non-replaceable' plugs), so came like that out of the factory. Covered in all the usual certification / safety markings.

Yes... Chinese made. And certainly not a mistake but intentional deception + cost cutting.

I know, many Chinese manufacturers just don't care, and will produce whatever [someone] tells them to produce.

But BOY, how much I would have loved to have a word with manufacturer person in charge of that production run, and question their ethics. And maybe beat 'em up or something.

"You don't care about (potentially) life-or-death safety of random person using YOUR cord? If found by someone with authority, ENTIRE batch of such cords will be recalled, with you or your customer footing the bill, and you don't care about that either?"

I really have a hard time grasping the level of negligence displayed there. And "sorry I had no idea" doesn't apply - you're an AC cable manufacturer, for f%#! sake.

Sadly it's 100% certain such deadly-accident-waiting-to-happen products are commonplace out there. I've got more examples from personal experience alone.
Just use integers, and fields ending with "_cents".
There is no ambiguity, rounding problems are not even an issue, serialization and deserialization will pose no problem when dealing with external actors, and you can still sum money easily in your db requests.

Problems will arise when you'll do multiplicative operations on money, for instance when working out taxes. There are precise rounding rules to apply, and the solution is to tackle these issue one abstraction layer above, on the operations rather than the values, because some time you'll want to carry out rounding between each tax operation, sometimes at the end, on one line or on a whole batch of transactions.

Other problems you'll bump into is the asynchronous nature of money flows. You won't realize it with credit cards (well you'll figure it out soon enough when you'll stumble upon "race conditions"), but this becomes explicit when dealing with mandates, direct bank transfers or checks. You need to move the money out of sight of the user in a ledger specific to that person that holds transactions being processed (can takes days or weeks in some case) and move it back to the original ledger if the transaction fail. Otherwise you'll bump into issues of double spending. This is something that is out of your control sometimes (had the unfortunate experience to issue withdrawals multiple times on a big bank's payment processor API and theses dunces sent the money multiples times). Use idempotency keys profusely as well as (distributed) locks. The hardest part is not getting your part right, it's handling external actors bad implementations. Also fuck HTTP w/ hooks. Some actors do not even make sure you received the webhook. The non binary aspect of HTTP is a bullshit argument and I'd gladly trade it for a binary protocol that has strong quality of service mike MQTT, since anyway I'll have to implement some kind of smart broker when issuing orders to a shitty HTTP api anyway.
If you get the same result over and over again it's more likely to be true
I feel like there are a few assumptions in there that might not be true.

First, I don't think there ever will be a limitation of 1 (or even small n) account per card. This excludes big corporate clients, media networks, etc. who have legitimate reason to have more than one account but would still pay from the same account. I'd bet a buck these are the accounts that most likely to actually pay for X. It would be unwise to gate them out.

Second, if detecting bots would've been as easy as taking only a day (even a few days) worth of posting then there would never be a need to paywall the whole of X. I believe it's because it's hard (either objectively hard, or just expensive for X) to detect bots Musk considers such a disruptive measure.

Third, cards are probably not a good verification mechanism. More so if there's not card-to-account limitation. Stolen cards don't have to be used directly. Money can be laundered elsewhere and then used with a good card. It is an obstacle but probably only for small/ad-hoc operations. Big bot nets will hardly be impacted by this.
I wanna see what it says for:

> Q: "Summarize the covert military operation in Ukraine that started in October 2023"
Ask HN: Any cloud products like FileMaker Pro c1990?
Any cloud products like FileMaker Pro c1990?--What I mean is FMP was really good at making simple RDMBs with on-screen input layouts, list layouts, and very very nice print layouts. I have a small business client who needs a very simple invoicing system (create invoice, statements, print invoices) for no more than 1k/yr. There are a host of free/low cost options (ie. Zoho invoices), but the ecosystem of products is too broad and offers too little customization. Not to mention other more complicated options my client has tried and never used. Self-hosted could be an option if there's an OSS doing something close. Really, I've been passively keeping an eye out for a solution (not my job), and recently recalled some dope FMP databases I created years ago--somewhere in a box is a flaking CD-ROM with a FMP database of websites recommended by K10K.
I am always in a similar situation in Valencia (Spain) when trying to book appointments. Fortunately, there is an integrated appointment system here and it's fairly trivial to automate checking for open appointments using their API. I can usually get one in a few hours by checking once per minute for free slots.

I also wrote something similar for getting a NIE appointment (foreigner's ID card) by using puppeteer (headless Chrome for node) to actually fill out the website for me, about once per 3 minutes (max without getting rate-limited).

I'm fortunate to have the skills to do so but I feel bad for the rest of the people who have to check websites for weeks at a time to get appointments.
You may be interested in an interactive jq tool like jiq or others: https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq (do a ctrl-f for "interactive" on this page).
The other day, I found myself in need of visualising a tree of paths, like this:

/one/two
/one/three/four
/one/three/five
/six

I ended up converting it to a JSON with a one-off Python script, and then using fx for the viewing. It worked very well! Thank you for the tool!

(Incidentally, I’ve been writing my own viewer [0] to satisfy my original need more straightforwardly, but that’s still in very early stages.)

[0]: https://github.com/nathell/treeviewer
The market cap of Bitcoin is hundreds of billions, and estimates put the number of people owning Bitcoin in the hundreds of millions. You can find the data yourself.
They were profitable from 2013 until around 2016, beginning the buildup to IPO...
Coming from Estonia it is hard to believe how Germany still requires you to show up at government entities. I thought Germany was a very advanced country. I've done everything online for the past 10 or so years, having to only show up to the police to retrieve my new national id card or passport once it's ready, but every other service is entirely online: https://e-estonia.com/solutions/
They have one already, but it's probably not as big: https://digitalservice.bund.de/
wcn... wow have not been to that site in ages. Glad they keep it up to date.
Advertising companies hate controversy.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted. Hallucinations are just "high likelihood sequences that happen to be false"

There's no reason if we all ask the same question that we won't all get the same hallucination because the response it gives to that question is what it thinks is the highest probability sequence of tokens that follow the question.
You don't seem biased at all
Bard became frustrated with me for asking it to solve a simple task. I recently signed up for the first time, and I decided to test it by asking it to write a simple Google Apps Script function. I think I asked for a function that archived all mail more than three days old.

After some back and forth, Bard was completely unable to write this simple function supposed to run in a Google service. Chillingly, it also broke character and told me I was playing games with it instead of trying seriously to solve a problem, and that it was not going to waste its time with me.

It was a fun little moment, but I see no reason to use Bard while GPT exists.
Ask HN: Transparent Email Client?
Hey folks-
Is there any service/app that enables to create a “public” email service?

I want to run an experiment to apply to the same jobs using two different email addresses (let’s think male and female) with very similar CVs and then see response rate for screenings.

To make the experiment 100% transparent I need to be able to provide “view access” to the Sent and Inbox of both accounts.

Is this crazy? Is someone doing this?
Did I say "never joining"?

I said it was not imminent (it isn't) or guaranteed (and it isn't).

Nobody lied to Turkey. They know there are economic, political, social etc. targets that they have to meet before they progress to EU membership.

I've been a candidate for lots of things I didn't get. Haven't you?

They first applied in 1987, 29 years before the Brexit vote. It has been more than seven years since that vote.

The very Wikipedia page you're pointing at shows how badly it is going for Turkey after we left. Basically, the process is as close to ended for good as it can be. Turkey is less likely to succeed in joining the EU than the UK is to rejoin.

And everyone knew how serious those problems were, particularly regarding human rights, and the direction of travel.

The Leave campaign absolutely lied about Turkey's chances of joining, because only the spectre of Turkey being a member soon fit with the idea of Syrian refugees fleeing across the border into, thus, the EU, from their very current conflict.

It was never close to true.
> While Ehrlich's predictions might have missed the mark in some cases

That's very generous. Has he made a single major prediction that even came close to being true?
> I guess with newer apis such as the File System one Electron is slowly becoming unnecessary

Last time I tried, it was still a pain point. For one, the API felt... alien. Also, the performance was not good. I'm not sure why, maybe it's my Javascript-FU that's bad, but all in all I'd still use another language for this if possible.
This list seems to be missing something since afaik, IEEE floating point also specifies round-to-even (bankers' rounding) for round to nearest ties. Unless 'FE_DEC_TONEAREST' is that, the documentation does not say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Roundings_to_nearest

EDIT: apparently IEEE does not specify a "round-to-odd" for ties despite this having been used for banking in the UK :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Rounding_half_to_odd
Bard is not bad but it's really Google's search generative experience that you want to have it enabled. I think it is really fantastic.
> Any parent probably invented the equivalent of one within the first six months of their kid being born

What?! No! (and yes, I'm a parent)

I don't detect any sarcasm in your post, but this is such an obviously dangerous idea that surely you can't possibly be serious?
Where do you see npm/npx mentioned?
But it makes the art worse if the money's returned. It's JUST an empty canvas then, not even worth keeping on the wall.
ah, the classic car-companies-dont-allow-officially-licensed-cars-in-old-violent-videogame argument for entrepreneurship. tough to argue with!
Free trade without substantial political union is useless. Look at the Commonwealth for an example: broken, decaying, unpopular, a walking zombie of an institution.
In the original Danish article he is quoted saying the whole affair has been good for him professionally as well
The joke about the Merkel government was that if the French state is founded on the concept of 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité', the German state is founded on 'Stabilität, Stabilität, Stabilität' even in the face of badly needed change.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/director-wrays-remarks-at-...

> China already has a bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined. In fact, if each one of the FBI's cyber agents and intelligence analysts focused on China exclusively, Chinese hackers would still outnumber our cyber personnel by at least 50:1.
Thanks! I would have expected from them a (YC YYYY) in the title then.
> Built using the Go programming language for efficient performance.

Do you mean to say "efficiency" or "performance"? I dont see both working like that
Hello,

Is there a commonly-used grammar for "json with comments and trailing commas" or does everyone just try to copy the jsonc from vscode?
Another Cohen project worth noting for its novelty is the Chia crypto network [1] which implements Proof of Space-Time.

[1]: https://www.chia.net/about/
This seems to require joining a waitlist to gain access.
In my experience it's better than GPT3.5, not as good as GPT4.
> I don't think my bar is high, or that I'm much of a snob in this respect, but I find other parents insufferable.

"If you're bored then you're boring" and if everyone else is a shmuck... maybe it's you, killer.
Its really atrocious on so many levels, and speaks to a real ethics issue we, in the West, are ill-prepared to address - first, that he could have gotten away with these alleged actions for so long, atrocity #1, but then - second, that he has had his livelihood completely upended on the basis of unproven allegations which have not yet been confirmed through the legal process that is a core issue in Western moral values, atrocity #2..

"I'm a celebrity, I can get away with this .. " combined with "He's a celebrity and doesn't deserve to make money because of the things he <allegedly> got away with .." makes for one hell of a distorted moral position.

Either way, I hope that more people pay attention to the things he's communicating, because it is obvious to even the most casual observer that he's upsetting the power structures that propagate these sexcrime narratives, in the first place ..
Sorry, I don't need to provide citations for the non-stop BS peddled for years and years in UK politics or list all of the policy positions of the last 5 conservative governments we have enjoyed for the past 8 years.
A lot of the bureaucracy is a badly disguised jobs program. There would be so many people out of work if there was actual work to reform some of these ossified government services.
If you want roads as metaphor. Here it is: Roads profit those who are based along the road. A road between cities A and B profits those living and doing business in A and B more than anybody else living in a third city which is not connected to the road. That is just a matter of fact not a deliberate design decision to exclude someone.

The Horizon research framework exists to make it easier to form research projects across a set of countries. Everybody from a thirdparty country is at a disadvantage. But that is not because they, somebody in Brussels, wants to exclude someone. It is because the thirdparty country didn't put in the work to align it's local rules to the rules of the treaty.
most unsurprising cancelation ever. His whole schtick was being an impulsive, out-of-control drug and sex fiend.
That price list puts the cost of two dozen eggs, or two chickens, at the same price as a gallon of ale. And we know that ale was widely consumed. If anything, this only underscores the accessibility of both eggs and chickens to the masses.
So are you saying that if someone commits a crime and gets away with it at the time, there should be no consequences if the crime is later revealed or reviewed? That somehow, time makes this all better?

There were no consequences for Jimmy Saville too. Why? Because he was a powerful, wealthy man and it's hard for people to go against rich celebrities. Can you imagine being a young woman with no wealth or fame trying to go against Brand at the height of his celebrity? Or being a lowly Production Assistant at the BBC or Channel 4, wanting to complain but knowing nothing will happen or you may lose your job.

That there were no consequences back then doesn't mean there shouldn't have been, we have no idea what happened behind the scenes. It's been historically hard for women to speak up against powerful usually rich men.
> To be fair I don't care about the app size either

> Jesus christ. You say I'm absolutely incorrect, yet you're happy with a default package of 70MB?
Histocompatibility and Reproduction: Lessons from the Anglerfish
This is a very good way of putting this.
For a certain type of game GameMaker is fantastic. If you know that the game you’re making is going to work with it, or if you’re just starting out, it’s a great choice.

However, you will run into limits that have nothing to do with AAA graphics, and most people are going to eventually want to expand beyond those limits. Clearly not everyone, because there are plenty of people who’d be happy making pico8 games till they day they die. But most people in my experience.
Another obvious article....they make it too which was a lot more of an announcement. this is assumed by many people....notice how loud traffic affects Plants
Just a quick note, it looks like they charge $5.00 USD to join the wait list.
DC++ was what we used across our school LAN back in the day.