skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The authors seem to be torching a semantic straw man here. The same abuse of terms affords their spicy title.

I'm not a UK lawyer, but the law they quote says nothing about the logic machines are programmed to follow presumptively creating reliable evidence. It could be read to say that computers should be presumed to be executing the instructions they're given reliably, unless evidence shows otherwise. It's about malfunction, not misapplication.

Perhaps some of the Horizon case decisions showed judges improperly presuming that Horizon calculated correctly, and not just that the computers were running Horizon correctly. But the article doesn't show they did, or even explicitly say they did. Conflating two separable issues, it fails to address whether or why different presumption rules for each might be desirable.
><Outdrawing the cops isn't the issue, outnumbering them is.

The old saying when running from the cops goes

> "You can beat Mopar, but you can't beat Motorola"
You’re not wrong. This comment doesn’t deserve the downvotes.
The arb file write with uncontrolled (empty) content being turned into exec due to another process is certainly an interesting find.

Usually arb file create bugs with no control of content are at best a DoS unless there’s another issue at play :)
Businesses need to operate somewhere - if local governments stand strong we all win. If your local government caves to the wave of lobbying cocktail parties and PAC money injection, please vote them out.

The costs we levy on businesses to operate in the US are extremely affordable and fair - giving them further discounts and rebates does nothing but enrich investors.
There is no longer a path to having a family. Whatever you want to call that then.
Tinker: A Short Story
Show HN: Classic Oregon Trail now playable on Android
OG Trail - a simple interface that makes the classic Oregon Trail game posted on archive.org usable on Android devices: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula.ogtra...
It's not the $5 latte or $10 avacado toast that's keeping young people broke. I think we can all agree that that number is a drop in the bucket compared to huge expenses they are struggling with.

The problem is the mindset of "I should be able to have a luxury because it makes me feel better" which, if you accept it, starts to pervade all of your spending. It justifies the Netflix subscription. Then it justifies the weekly beer bill and food delivery. Then it justifies a few video game DLCs or virtual items. Then it justifies blowing $500 on a banger birthday party or a nice vacation somewhere. Before you know it, you're buying a new wardrobe and a pickup truck you don't need. All because "You only live once and I deserve those little luxuries that bring me joy."
> edit: I was wrong.

If the only reason you were "wrong" was because you intuitively understood that it wasn't worth a large amount of valuable human time to save a small amount of cheap machine time, you were right in the way that matters (time allocation) and should keep it up :)
This is not a blanket ban on generated porn.
If only there was a separate arm of the government dedicated to sending and receiving communiqué. You could also use it to send _citizen's_ communiqué as well!
Supabase already offers a full REST API when i upload my db. How does this differ?
People get weird about the word “saturate”. I think GP is switching to “max sustainable” and expecting everyone else to come along for the ride.

Queuing theory has many many bad things to say about actual saturation.
>The alternative would be to say that only a system that has been proven correct could be used as evidence which would force pretty much all accounting back to paper.

No. It'd actually just force authorship and disclosure of test cases.
No, no MY bubble is reality.
Would love to have an article that actually talks about the project, and not devolve into a generic anti-Elon piece. Personally, I am not a fan, but feeding into the cult of personality with negative energy still feeds the cult.
> If we convert each DID into a uint64 (a process referred to as “interning”), we can significantly compress the size of our graph and make it faster since our hashing functions will have fewer bytes they need to work with.

I've done something like this for a production authorization system where one of the key steps is to check if an intersection of two [ordered] sets of 64-bit integers is empty or not. This operation first looks at the sizes of the two sets, and if one is much larger than the other then it iterates over the smaller set doing a binary search on the other for each item in the smaller set. If neither set is much larger than the other then the implementation walks a cursor through each set looking for equal items (and if at some point the remainder of one set is much smaller than the remainder of the other then it switches to the other algorithm). In most cases this deals with pairs of sets where one has thousands of elements and the other has tens to hundreds of elements, and it's blazingly fast. I could switch to 32-bit integers to make this go faster.
So the scheme made $1m profit?
> Google doesn't sell it, is the thing.

Then they give it for free.
A B-Tree tutorial series implementing an ABI-compatible BerkeleyDB clone.

Direct links to the articles:

1. https://transactional.blog/building-berkeleydb/page-format

2. https://transactional.blog/building-berkeleydb/entry-format

3. https://transactional.blog/building-berkeleydb/api-basics

4. https://transactional.blog/building-berkeleydb/point-reads
Yes, that's what I noticed in the previous house, where the water tank was connected to a solar thermal panel. Solar thermal panel heats the oil inside it and the heat is exchanged between the water tank and the panel during the day when it's sunny. That system was about 60% efficient throughout the year but I did notice that the temperatures would go down really fast and that didn't feel efficient.
I watched the video. Maybe I am not understanding the visuals, but it looked like the narrator's conclusions do not actually match the data. He is trying to make an argument that poor kids need extra help or they will have a rough life. But the data seems to show that over the last 20 years, people from all background types are likely to experience bad things.

Granted the last 20 years has been pretty awful, with 9/11, various wars, and other things. So I'm not really sure if I can take anything away from the video.
> I'm not sure if it is the same team that built Descent(s) but some of them were involved in level design of the originals

Not the same exact team head-for-head but pretty close. Matt Toschlog and Mike Kula were both game directors on the original (and founded Parallax Software). They were the game directors of Overload as well and they're the founders of Revival, the studio that made the game.
The speed that these arms/hands move at is incredible compared to 4 months ago.
Ongoing discussion:[0](154 points, 12 hours ago, 88 comments) - not sure why the dupe detector didn't catch this

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048657
> i keep hearing that Millennials are having less sex than all previous generations

This article is about a longitudinal study; it follows "Alex" who was age 13 in 1997, i.e. born in 1984.

US teen birth rates have been falling a lot - 61 births per 1000 in 1991 fell to ~48 births per 1000 in 2002 (When Alex would have been 18) and continued falling to just 13.9 births per 1000 today according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/259518/birth-rate-among-...

You have probably heard reports that teenagers are having less sex today. The teen birth rate would seem to clearly show that. But "millenials" aren't teenagers any more, they're 30-40 year olds.
> We have a post on this coming soon! The short version is that Polar is a logic language based on Prolog/Datalog/miniKanren. And logic languages are a particularly good fit for representing the branching conditional logic you often see in authorization configurations.

Ha, I've been playing around with Biscuits (https://www.biscuitsec.org/) and was writing up a blog post on using them in a git forge. When I saw the Polar data units described as "facts" and read your end to end example (https://www.osohq.com/docs/tutorials/end-to-end-example) I thought "Oh this looks very similar". I will say - I do like how Polar seems to type stuff and provide some concepts that Biscuits force you to build out on your own, that's pretty neat.

What is the proof of identity in Polar? Is it something like a token in Biscuits? I'm curious if you can do things like add caveats to reduce what the token is capable of as it gets handed off to different systems. I consider that one of the "killer use cases" of biscuits.
I always assumed computers were "perfect"- at least, always executing their instructions according to a spec. FDIV and other bugs convinced me otherwise. Then, I worked on a system (a large processing accelerator) where some small fraction of machines had chips that would fail on a limited set of operations (producing the wrong result for a known input, vaidated by offline computation).
Now I treat computers as statistically correct- you have to assume there is some level of corruption/error occurring due to hardware bugs or physical events.
While maybe not pertinent to Ticketmaster...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMERICA_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Innovation_and_Choice...
That's exactly what this proposal addresses. Consider the paper they cite, in part, for the proposal:

"It is a matter of surprise that important documentary records, such as the Fujitsu Known Error Log (KEL), were disclosed only in response to a direction from the court and in the face of opposition by the Post Office." (https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5240/5083)

The proposal in this paper would require prosecution to disclose extant documents related to the reliability of the system. In the Horizon case, such documents existed, but were never disclosed, as current practices did not require the prosecution to do so.
> We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later.

Seems like people are getting the release notes from somewhere else (presumably from in app). Could someone share it here?
For an official reply, send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com

It happens to me when the connection is slow. I didn't check the javascript code, but tI guess the replacement story is requested and enqueued, but if you hide a second story before the first one arrives, the js gets confused and ask again for the same replacement and you get a duplicadet.
Not looking forward to mobile CCP data collection machines roaming American streets.
I made some promo codes. Email support@userland.tech if you want one (first 500)
You might check this thread for similar insight:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40042321

I hope you find some peace
They already do this for the opening and closing auctions. You can have a market-on-close order or limit-on-close order for example. The market on close orders are guaranteed to fill. The limit orders are filled using price-time priority, so best prices submitted earliest fill first, after the market price orders.

I guess it is possible that there are remaining marketable orders that never fill because of an imbalance one way or the other, but I doubt that ever happens in practice.
About all somewhat advanced military systems do some kind of "augmented dead reckoning", including what you suggest.

Civilian systems are usually not designed to work in a hostile environment, not only it is costly for a situation that is unlikely to happen in normal use, but authorities usually don't like it when such technology is available to the public. As a result, it tends to be classified. They want to be keep the advantage over enemies and criminals.
This looks epic, I'm gonna have my data engineering team look into this today...surprised I hadn't heard of it earlier from them
yes, same issue in all transformer tutorials
Actually, “KoolBear”.
I have had this problem several times on Linux, with different monitors, so it seems that it can actually happen on every OS.
Periodic background traffic like DHCP and background noise causing packet loss.

You can’t run a queue at 100% and have any expectations of latency. In fact the rule of thumb from queueing theory is 50% to avoid latency spikes.
You have to tap into some strong basic instinct to get unquestioning massive support from the majority of the populace. In most cases, like in the case of Nazi germany, it is/was tapping into tribalism. Doing that builds up the in group’s self worth, imbues them with a feeling of superiority and generally makes them feel like they are living better, happier lives. Having someone to look down on is probably the easiest way to feel successful and happy. This isn’t rational thinking.
I mainly talking about driving styles, modern F1 drivers pull all kinds of maneuvers and drive so close to the limit that would be totally suicidal back in those days (especially for overtaking, you aren't going to fight as hard when you know that any crash might result in death or severe injury)

Of course a lot of that is because of the cars. 50s to 60s cars had basically no downforce and would be undriveable on modern tracks amongst other things.

I'm certainly not implying that modern drivers are less risk-averse these days, just that the risks were massively higher and drivers generally took that into account.
Hmm, that's genuinely concerning. I would say a more appropriate thing to say is that for simple things like audio/video evidence (at least before the AI-video era of today) and maybe logs computers can be assumed trustworthy, but for everything else they should be assumed to be as unreliable as a human witness. At the end of the day, a human designed the computer and wrote the software for it.
There is no 'stand strong' when the federal system encourages competition.

Maybe that's a good thing. But specifically not with regards to state subsidies.

They shouldn't be competed away at the demands of business, but used with purpose.

Subsidies (or anything which quacks like a subsidy) should be regulated so this nonsense doesn't happen.
The key is the depth of rice should be the depth of water from the water surface to the surface of the rice.
It also seems backwards, unless I'm reading it wrong and 80% of high school kids see someone get shot ...
Kind of cool, but the conclusion was completely backwards.

The final line of the study was "So he is our collective responsibility. They all are.", but the entire study was about how the home environment affects your outcomes. I guess their conclusion is that if an individual does a bad job raising their kids, it is societies fault.
Show HN: Bridge – Automatic Infrastructure for Django
The Problem

We built bridge to solve the most frustrating part of any new project — infrastructure. Whenever you spin up a new Django project, you usually have to manually configure Postgres, background workers, a task queue, and more. The problem is amplified when you go to deploy your application — hosting providers don’t understand anything about what you’ve configured already, so you have to run through an even more complicated process to set up the same infrastructure in a deployed environment.

The Fix

bridge is a pip-installable package that spins up all of the infrastructure you need, and automatically connects it to your Django project. By adding a single line to your Django project's settings.py file, bridge configures everything for you — this means you don’t need to mess with DATABASES, BROKER_URL, or other environment variables to connect to these services.

bridge also gives you the access you need to manage these services, including a database and Redis shell, as well as a Flower instance for monitoring background tasks.

When you’re ready to deploy, bridge can handle that as well. By running bridge init render, bridge will write all of the configuration necessary to deploy your application on Render, including a button to trigger deploys straight from your README.

If you don’t want all of these services, (say you already have a database, and just want to add background workers) bridge supports that too! It can automate everything you need and nothing you don’t.

How it Works

bridge is built on top of Docker, so you get fully isolated and up-to-date versions of Postgres and Redis from the beginning. Celery and Flower need to run on top of your app code, so we hook into runserver to spin these up as background processes. If you need to spin things down, bridge stop will conveniently shut down all services that it’s started.

Coming Soon

In the future, we want to add support for more services (jupyter, mail/mailhog etc), more hosting providers (Heroku, Railway, etc.), and more configuration (env vars, optional dependencies, etc).

bridge is and always will be fully open source. Please give it a try and we’d love any feedback!

Github - https://github.com/Never-Over/bridge

Docs - https://never-over.github.io/bridge

PyPI - https://pypi.org/project/python-bridge
Does that mean the city/county/state can go after them?
The videos are all shown at 2x speed, but your point stands, this is still pretty quick.
I've been surgically modified such that my body doesn't produce sex hormones in any significant quantity on its own. As a substitute, I use separate transdermal gels containing testosterone and estrogen, which have relatively short metabolic half life in my body.

I normally target an estrogen level similar to an average woman and a testosterone level between the female and male reference ranges. I'm able to adjust the mix on the order of days when it suits me, and there absolutely is a difference. People who know me well can usually tell what mix I'm running.
Many games had mods made by the comunity, and some of them are unofficialy "closed core".
https://archive.ph/raUZk
A Fresh Take on Do-178C Software Reviews
I was just being pedantic and slightly Puritan. I apologize if I misunderstood your position.
Working on a remote fix with a day of latency. That's badass, NASA.
Thanks for your feedback!
I just added an email on the bottom of the page. Also there are links to my LinkedIn and X (Twitter) where you can DM me.
I recall seeing system log messages about ECC error correction on Sun Sparc machines back in the 90's. I don't know if it was radiation or flaky memory though.
> This line of reasoning actually warmed me up to people that are live-streaming as a career. They opened their lives to be experienced by others, another element that AI (I believe) will struggle to genuinely replicate because the audience will want living people.

There already exist very popular AI-generated live streamers.

https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/twitch-ai-streamer-so-...
What's funny is she (and many other critics) specifically called out that all it would take is a single bad quarters for all those HQ jobs to evaporate and they were right.
What are some examples of features you might expect in a better version? What would be valuable for you?
A container is a shit way to package something.

It's not a solution it's a response.

It's "This thing makes no attempt to be portable or coordinate with the rest of the world, so the only way to package it is to include a copy of it's own entire world."

There is no excuse for a python script to be a hothouse flower.

It's one thing to choose to containerize something for your own operational reasons, but something else entirely for something to be so fragile that thst's the only way it even works is just you need a copy of the devs laptop.

It's garbage.
> And the shares are used to resolve authorization here [1], right?

That's correct!

> making it easier for multiple teams to collaborate on permissions (which we solve by having a declarative language), and solving the list filtering problem (as talked about in the post).

Those are pretty hard problems, so it's really cool to see someone solving it in a reusable way! For me, authz is always a chore ... making it something easy to specify in a way that "just works" is worth quite a bit in my mind!

> If you packaged that up as a standalone solution, I could see a lot of people getting value from it!

I don't really have much desire to get into maintaining an auth library; there's just not enough time in the day!

> a blog post on this shares approach would be super cool.

It's pending publish, actually! I've got a devlog (more like a book at this point) for something I've been working on for years now, but no posts are going to be published until I hit a milestone. I'm almost there... not much further.
The weirdest monitor bug I ever encountered was a bug, a very small bug/fly, that had crawled between the layers of the LCD panel. It was like a moving dead pixel. Really weird and confusing at first until I understood what it was. I was afraid to touch the panel where it crawled as it might be squashed and stay there forever.
Might be poor reporting, but it's not hard to find headlines like: Why millennials are having less sex than generation Xers[1]

1: https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/health/millennials-less-sex-t...
I hope it never optimizes around this. There are a million ways to organize information and "leaving it all over the fuckin place in case I ever need it" is not an organization method, it's the absence of one.

Then again I do love seeing people have fifteen million tabs open, it helps me set my expectations about what they can handle.
I think there are two communities:

- the "hobbyists" with $5k GPUs

- People that work in the industry that never used "not mac" or even if they did - explaining to IT that you need a PC with RTX A6000 48GB instead of a mac like literally everyone else in the company is a loosing battle.
OK, the original comment makes more sense now.

Are prosecutors in the UK required to disclose both incriminating and exculpatory evidence to the defendant?
Paper accounting seems significantly more error prone, at least for a given level of convenience, right? I mean the computer might be worried about comic rays flipping bits, but ink on paper can be smudged by fingers, and they don’t even have to be traveling at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light.

You can make paper backups of course, but you can also make electronic ones, the electronic ones can be shipped around the world basically for free.
Would you trust a donation collector with card on phone as much as with cash?
Assume you would donate £10 cash to a charity shop collector's tin labelled Help for the Homeless.

Now how likely if the collector was offering only a smartphone showing this screen https://givetap.co.uk/taptopay needing your payment card?
I think it's possible that we've historically mis-attributed memory errors to cosmic rays when in fact they were caused by heat.

If you ran that machine in a hotbox at 85°C for a year I think you probably would have experienced higher error rates. Bonus points if you also force the data to swap out a lot so it gets transferred through as many data paths as possible.
Leaving the rice also to rest for a while after it was cooked will also help prevent the rice from sticking on the rice cooker. No need for high end rice cooker.