skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can absolutely use the word average to refer to the median when you are speaking in a non-academic context.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
It's likely they won't step in if the organisation in question has the resources to handle prosecutions at the required scale. The CPS did prosecute some cases but it's hard to blame them since they were being lied to by the Post Office investigators.
Airbus has a significant edge there because they have very uniform FBW cockpits and a very good cross-crew qualification program: it takes two weeks to train from an A320 rating to an A380 (it's by far the longuest CCQ).
"by the end of 2026"
I do the opposite. I block everything, and if a new site I’m curious on doesn’t work, I’ll look at what’s needed to let it work. Your method would potentially require some cleaning up since things were allowed to initially run. If the site requires things I don’t like, I just close the tab and move on.
"Softskills" can also mean "manipulation". Think autocratic politicians
> ESOL people: avoid searching YouTube for "How to pronounce" videos because they are usually shit. Often poorly generated computer voices.

Or people with thick foreign accents, which is just baffling.
Except such a name would be considered inappropriate in a wide range of situations. Also worth pointing out a large number of people enjoy being on the receiving end of penetrative sex.
> The vulnerability affects all OAuth 2.0 clients configured with a redirect URI ending with a * in Keycloak < 23.0.4.

How common is a wildcard in a redirect URL?
Prosecutor and victim, extremely bad combination when a powerful organization is involved.
"Cool, where is his study published?"

The answer you seek is in the second (short!) paragraph.

> But a new analysis of American data, published in Environmental Science & Technology...
While I love and and still make a big chunk of money from Fortran consulting (mostly translating old Fortran to Python or Matlab) it’s not dead...but there’s little reason to start a new project in today.

I hit a wall recently getting SciPy to work on a Windows Arm machine — because of lack of a Fortran compiler needed to build SciPy.
> weren't particularly cost saving

Not "cost saving" per se, but definitely about money. MBAs are taught that airlines should use one kind of plane. FAA makes it expensive to certify a new kind of plane. So you get this "737 of Theseus" concept where they virtualized the 737 as a "guest", implemented on a different plane "host", leading to the crashes.
Whoa. I missed this one.

I used Meetup for years to power the "Tech Events Network" with 50+ US city-based accounts like https://twitter.com/ATXTechEvents

Over the ~5 years I ran it, it was up to 4M+ impressions/month with a massive newsletter and pushing tons of traffic to tech groups, mostly hosted on Meetup. Then Meetup changed their API policy and said this was "an inappropriate use of the API" and poof, gone.

Frustrating as hell because group leaders loved it and most of the traffic was going to them anyway. Arg.
This is specific to the Conservative Party as being the ones essentially bribed by the Russian state.
Actually isn't this the problem? ML type systems are not designed for the beam, which has datatypes that are difficult to express in ml
I'm building an async community software called Booklet [1], and I use it to organize a couple NY-based IRL communities - including an indie founders group and a tech dinners series. It doesn't send calendar invites (yet!), but I find that the async format keeps members engaged over time. Plus, it's independent of social networks and communicates via email.

When I lived in SF, I used Meetup to start + run OpenLate, a tech meetup with a few thousand members. Not having access to member email addresses was the worst part of Meetup, and it's probably the main reason the site still has users. (Data portability is a big focus of Booklet).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585869
Like many UK EV owners I don't have a driveway either and use a lamp post charger overnight.
Show HN: MacGaiver, a free GPT-V powered macOS assistant (BYO API key)
Howdy. A month ago I posted on HN about a macOS assistant I built and published to GH (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38611700)

The repo got 1k stars, there was a few suggestions, and people asked if I could distribute it as an .app. So I went to work, learnt a lot, and today I "launch" MacGaiver as a free macOS app (BYO OpenAI API key) at www.macgaiver.app

There's a 2-minute demo video on the website and linked below [0], but the app is pretty simple:

MacGaiver runs in the background and can be used from within any application.

- Press the keyboard shortcut to activate MacGaiver
- Ask a question about the application you have open, using voice or keyboard
- Get an the answer in context, without leaving your active application

Behind the scenes, MacGaiver takes a screenshot of your active application when you press the keyboard shortcut, and sends that off together with your question to OpenAI GPT-V (Vision).

This is my first time taking solo project from 0 to 1 with a website and all, I hope you enjoy the product as much as I enjoyed building it! :)

[0] 2-minute demo video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFUPqK264Xg
Thank goodness there are oracle licenses to save you. :)
Boeing bonanza leaves rival Airbus in the dust at 2023 Dubai Air Show with three times more aircraft orders

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/dubai-airshow-2023-boeing-or...
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS?
This is probably whats going to happen everywhere, Google will be even more dominant in adtech with 3rd party cookie removal. Everyone moving to 1st party advertising (SERP, Youtube ads), display ads are race to the bottom without targeting..
Well fellow marketing person, what was the experience? You seem to be the only one that speaks the language to know. The rest of us are left wondering what the point of this self back patting exercise actually was.
I don’t like oil drilling but even without your experience it’s clear GP’s assertion is nonsense. There are still oil wells all over Los Angeles in parking lots and tucked between buildings, which is a contradicting existence proof.

I can imagine in a big oil field like in Midland, TX they have a lot of sprawling operations that take up a lot of room. But that doesn’t have to be the only way.
Whoa whoa whoa. Whoa! Watch what are you calling nerd bullshit. ;-)
PS:

- PRO (& CON): You don't need to take an explicit action to "save" the state, you do the action once when setting it up at the begin of the program, it's also a CON as depending on usage in case of a hard stop you can end up with a state with partial writes to it (can't happen if only used on clean shutdown)

PPS:

- Using mmap with MAP_FIXED to get a fixed address every execution to make pointers work _is a potential security vulnerability_ (it should have been called MAP_REPLACE IMHO). On some platforms you can use MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE to safely do so, but I have no idea how to choose an address as there is always a risk of address layout randomization getting in your way.

- on platforms where MAP_PRIVATE is implemented using a copy-on-write mechanic you could have a pattern where on a start without a fd you create the fd and load some huge data into it and then restart, when started with fd you mmap it with MAP_PRIVATE allowing you to change the data but also to always go back to the clean state by restarting. No idea for what use-case that makes sense but I found it interesting (also haven't tried it out).
So should Hacker News. As is a comment with 2 up and 0 down votes looks the same as one with 102 up 100 down.
Clearly nobody in the responses has stood next to an oil well or a wind turbine.
>There are federal agencies you can file complaints with that will then tip off investigations and you can do that for free.

More evidence that we need to dismantle much of the federal government, I don't want my tax dollars funding crap like this.

The government should build bridges, highways, manage defense, control the border, manage trade policy etc. All of this extra stuff is scope creep to the extreme.
That used to be a fairly common standard. You'll notice nearly all the old GNU / BSD tooling use this paradigm. It is even codified in GNU's coding principles. In fact, when you do that, you can even merge all the single character flags together. For example, I can type, `ls -lah` instead of `ls -l -a -h`. Pretty handy.

My pet peeve is commands not supporting -h for help and making me write --help. This is especially worse when the command already supports single character arguments.
> The law has exactly as much force as people (particularly potential enforcers) think it does. If someone's "magic spells" are as convincing to people as a judge's magic spells then they can be treated as functionally equivalent.

Until tested in a court of law.
Perhaps you are correct - I had hectares in my mind for some reason while reading his original comment. My bad.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38963315
> I don't think you can have a track record like that and be bad.

As financial advisors say, past returns are no good predictors for future performance
> It's just sad how much of this idiocy is driven by the idea that "we don't want to have to get re-certified".

It's be nice to know how much of this is Boeing and how much is Boeing's customers. 95/5? 80/20? 50/50?

It's hard to believe that Boeing doesn't want to build a brand-new 737-sized aircraft.
> Every time it happens, I wonder, who benefits from it

Cloudflare. And any other DDoS protection vendors.

Not saying they caused it but obviously they benefit the same way roof tile manufacturers benefit from hurricanes.
Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)
It's one of my go-to models (for checking the weather, not for computing the results myself!), I didn't know that most meteo stuff runs on FORTRAN.

In my experience with data-science and engineering code.. well, the fiery gauntlet of getting a large old project to run in a new place might not be the language's fault, but be related to the goals of the folks who first set it up.
Careful there. You aren't betting on whether Twitter will do something useful. Your betting on whether Elon can convince people Twitter is doing something useful.
There is a cloud-based system which will be the successor of Horizon legacy (from 1999) and Horizon online (from around 2010).

>Is Horizon still being used?
>Yes. There have been several versions of Horizon since its introduction in 1999 and the current version of the system, introduced from 2017, was found in the group litigation to be robust, relative to comparable systems. But we are not complacent about that and are continuing to work, together with our postmasters, to make improvements.
We will be moving away from Horizon to a new IT cloud-based system that will be more user-friendly and easier to adapt for new products and services. This is currently being developed with the involvement of our Postmasters.

via: https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/en/horizon-scandal-pages/...
I have two points:

1) it's not clear your interpretation of what makes software "derivative" is correct. One interesting analysis is https://studylib.net/doc/18120956/triggering-infection--dist......

2) if you are correct, then isn't it a violation of copyright law to use a socket or a pipe to talk to a GPL program? For example, if I execute popen("parallel ..."), I'm using a pipe to talk to a GPLed program (assuming "parallel" is GNU parallel). I expect this program to adhere to a specific command line interface. My program won't work with anything else. Is my program violating the GPL by running GNU parallel as a subprocess? Most people would say "no". This position seems incoherent to me.

One of two conditions must then hold: either a) dlopen has legal significance, or b) much of the Linux ecosystem is out of compliance with the GPL because it attempts to use pipe() to circumvent the GPL and this approach doesn't actually work. Which is it?
The key "complaints" of GP, as I understand them, are that being simultaneously the victim and prosecutor, the prosecutor-as-victim is more incentivized to use heavy handed tactics during the prosecution process.

Whereas a generic prosecutor has a bunch of cases of reports from victims that are not related to them, and thus if a case is not sufficiently strong, they'd normally just pick another case where the evidence is strong. They also have the responsibility to independently review the evidence from victims and police. These procedural checks didn't apply in the post office cases.

The procedural checks I mentioned above aren't fool-proof, but they're something.
Thank you for suggesting DuckDB. Looks brilliant!
Very fair point. :)
Guess now they know at which company to apply to in order to be a great cultural fit then

But yeah I was using the word fucking as a metaphor, like in common english it's not only used to describe physical penetrative act but it's common to use it to describe unpleasant situations, so no need to come to teach anything, so worth pointing out if your braincells are playing peekaboo instead of talking to each other
Hydroxychloroquine killed over 17,000 people during the Covid-19 pandemic
Wow, even that /people page screams "douchebags".....
Lamborghini will measure your heart rate as you burn rubber around the track
They are employee owned

Which means it’s more syndicalist organized rather than purely for profit

Not perfect but as close as you can get to ideal organizationally
Not sure these few extra characters were too much to include in the original article's title. Misleading editing.
Yeah, Microsoft seems to have all the power when it comes to small customers.

And yet their standard contracts don't say "if you give us all your data, we'll do whatever we want with it, tough shit." In fact they say pretty much the opposite of that. Isn't that interesting?

Big companies like MS will apply the same business analysis to their small customer contracts as they do their big contracts--but at scale. If they decide they'll make more money by honoring all the little contracts, they will honor them.

So even small customers need to understand the incentives that help that analysis come out in their favor. They tend to rely more on external incentives like criminal penalties under statutes governing fraud, personal data, medical data, etc., and the potential for negative press coverage.
> No matter what indexes we threw at the table

I don't have information on how team investigated the whole problem. What table looks like? What indexes exactly? Was there any explain analyzing? 28 millions are not as many as it seems. We have similar sized table but when indexed properly, query is always quick
> if you do want your kid to go into software, if it isn't already obvious to you, take away their stupid phone and give them a proper computer

Or, better, give them two in one, i.e., a GNU/Linux phone.
Or for airlines like Southwest that have an exclusive contract with Boeing and would require an enormous cost and effort to introduce any other manufacturer.
Well yes, the problems of MCAS are not that it exists (although its implementation was definitely debatable, notably the use of a single AoA sensor, and AoA sensor warnings being optional), having FBW and flight envelope correction is not an issue in and of itself.

The issues of MCAS was that it was added specifically to hide type behavioural differences with previous 737s with the specific goal of keeping the type, and thus the entire purpose of MCAS precluded training pilots on its behaviour and edge cases.
> The only thing keeping Boeing in the game right now is likely the fact that Airbus is sold out for over a decade

Depends on the model, A220, A330 and A350 can be ordered for within 5 years.

Update: Delta just ordered A350-1000s, and deliveries will start in 2026, so merely 2 years out.
Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI
.22s are light calibre weapons good for plinking and vermin...

Oh, not that kind of .22. An IPv4 /22 is a network segment where the /22 stands for the number of bits used for the network address. Since an IPv4 address is 32 bits wide this leaves 10 bits which can be freely assigned by the address 'owner'. Those 10 bits (1024 addresses) can be used for individual hosts or the range can be further subdivided into smaller networks, e.g. 4 /24 networks.

This type of network address is called a Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR [1]) address, this in opposition to 'class A/B/C' addresses which identify networks in 8-bit steps. A class A network is a /8, class B a /16 and class C a /24.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
Galaxy with no visible stars discovered by accident
The BIOS it's a different case. That's left to the user.
Also, the usage of the BIOS happens under emulation, not the main machine.
For instance, FUSE with the Sinclair ZX ROM's instead of OpenSE. or Vice with the Commodore BIOSes instead of shipping C64 OpenBIOSes.
So you didn't even read an article you describe as "clickbaity"?

Maybe try reading it, there's a lot of "what happened" in there.
I would never use this, when the original is available to read, that too in English! Consider the sheer dumbification at ~27 minute mark, "The universe has it's rhythm, and im vibin' with it".
I often have trouble with challenging people at work. Over time it's become a habit to turn to this book to ride it out.
Yeah, I'm somewhat of a Pharo hacker and the workflow is pretty similar to any other software: Start with a base image, create a package, add code to the package, use git (via Iceberg) to save diffs for a particular package off for distribution. It's analogous to hacking on an operating system image in a container: keep your code and the system separate (via the "packages" abstraction in a Pharo image, or via the filesystem in an OCI container image) and you will be fine. The "Baseline" concept is a bit opaque (and weirdly named IMO, but a lot of the Pharo community is European, and especially French, so presumably it makes more sense in that context) but is a form of dependency management that works OK, though it would be nice to have a more Linux-distro type experience for installing packages.
In the original version that means tape, yes. It's the point most startups skip, but it has some merit. A hacker or smart ransomware might infect all your backup infrastructure, but most attackers can't touch the tapes sitting on a shelf somewhere. Well, unless they just wait until you overwrite them with a newer backup.
I think derived work or derivative work are the right terms. However, "copyleft" is not a legal term, and it is copyright law (and associated jurisprudence) that defines what constitutes a derived work of some original. Licenses then control what the copyright holder allows you to do with their works or derivatives.

So, only copyright law itself can say whether, for example, this comment I'm making is a derived work of your own comment, or if it is an original work of my own. If it is a derived work of your comment, then you are the copyright holder for this comment I'm making and you can choose to write a license that allows me to distribute it or nor or whatever else. If it is not a derived work, then I am the copyright holder, and I don't require any license from you to distribute this comment.

So, if copyright law were to say "a computer program A is a derived work of program B if and only if it is produced from the same source code of A or textual modifications of the code of A" (very implausible, but just for the sake of argument), then there would be no difference between the GPL and the LGPL, and you could freely link to a GPL program and distribute the result under a proprietary license (you'd still have to distribute the source code of the original GPL program, of course).
> If I have an array "A" that represents an image, I can change the britghtness and contrast of the image by doing an operation like "B = α*A + β".

But you dont write it like this in linear algebra. You write

B = αA + b

where b is just a vector. Or at least you would make β bold to distinguish it from a scalar
I have read many confirmations of the crisis. Without question it's a problem physical and psychological medicine; but also social sciences to a large degree(or at least the civil war within social sciences is figuring it out). In my opinion, climate science is one of the worst.

The discussion isn't whether or not there's a crisis, it's the reasons for the crisis and what is the root cause? Which I don't believe has been answered as of yet.

Is it because we simply don't actually understand the science and perhaps sometime in the future we will actually understand it? Maybe? But why then do we allege that it's even science at this point?

Is it because of some conspiracy. For example cPTSD ought to be in the DSM, why isn't it? Because it will wipe out half the book? cPTSD better diagnoses the vast majority of personality disorders and such. How about the major breakthrough in cancer and heart disease? China, Ecuador, Mexico, etc have basically confirmed cheap highly effective cure to cancer. Seemingly no limitation on type of cancer, same cure effective for breast, renal, pancreatic. As confirmed by actual cancer organizations published by NIH.

Is it because the STEM movement has basically robbed all the good people from these fields? The people who would have been a superstar in social sciences is now an engineer?

Or my personal favourite, it's political. They write their 'study' with p=0.00005 but conclude they were correct as opposed to a null value. Then the political publications pick it up as if it were p=1
Hey that works! Thanks!
Yes, also I'm not sure I see hiring decisions made by committee as a plus!
According to the US census, the bottom quartile of earners made more money in 2022, adjusted for an inflation, than any previous year in American history.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27...
It doesn't even need to be a full GUI, just having an interactive interface for weaving commandline-spells on the fly would already improve the access. But then again, this would demand a more complex interface than a commandline. I'm not sure how easy this is implementable with your average shell&terminal.
Without those you would be suffering NT servers, IIS and ActiveX.
> [T]he author doesn't explain "why", just "how".

The below seems like a "why" to me.

> The criteria for selecting the data are an atttempt to get the primary efficacy outcome, and to ensure that each trial occurs only once in our dataset. The selection for |z|<20 is because such large z-values are extremely unlikely for trials that aim to test if the effect is zero.
Not that I have any problem with people seeking to advance the scientific method but one wonders from this commenter’s other posts whether this was a legitimate desire for truth or someone just looking to poke holes in the post…
> an app changes ownership

Unfortunately defining what that means becomes rather tricky once you consider that the company owning the app can change ownership. That ownership can be shared and go through arbitrarily many indirections, and if it's a publicly traded company, some of its shares change ownership all the time.
> They inserted transactions for corrections of discrepancies where you could not see they were authored by them; it was just assumed the postmaster did.

Then prosecuted the postmasters for inserting transactions, because "only the postmaster can insert transactions".
> Unity basically told us we were not welcome back to their Store, ever. Even if we were to remove all LGPL code from the Unity package.

Why not include screenshots of these emails too?
Busted. Saw this and immediately thought it had to be a Raymond Chen post. Whatever he’s getting paid, it probably isn’t enough.
We really are gonna end up with servers and clients evolving AI challenges and solvers respectively to the point where humans won't be able to solve them anymore haha