skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine this possibility. Everyone gets cancer and dies at 65 years old. Everyone starts taking vitamins and therefore starts sleeping better, getting stronger, etc. They all still die at 65 years old though because of cancer. Suddenly, cancer is cured. All those people now live to 85, except the ones who still don't take vitamins. They only live to 66. Vitamins caused a 20 year increase in lifespan, but this was undetectable because cancer was killing everyone at 65. In all cases though, everyone slept better and were stronger after taking vitamins.

Cancer isn't killing everyone at 65 years old. Not everyone dies of cancer at all. Even if you assume that vitamins have no effect on cancer rates, if they decrease mortality due to other causes, people who take vitamins should have lower overall morality than people people who don't take vitamins.

So again, you would have to have a situation where vitamins are improving sleep and strength, which are both inversely correlated with mortality, but somehow not decreasing mortality, as I said in my previous comment.
Anyone else getting cloudfare blocked on TFA?
The tao of hardware supply chains. Surely they can do the checksums tho.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-lapt...
True, but the pattern would break down with (the long-scale) definition of trillion in any case.

The long scale makes sense because it is powers of a million -

- one million - 10^6,

- one billion (long scale) - 10^12 - ‘bi’ meaning two, is a million squared,

- one trillion (long scale) - 10^18 - ‘tri’ meaning three is a million cubed,

- one quadrillion (long scale) - 10^24 - ‘quad’ meaning four is a million to the power four.
I wouldn't invest a lot of mental effort in this as the company will own the idea anyways.
How about no infinite loops (as a start)?

Unless you are the kernel, and you can demonstrate that your loop is "safe" via some set of static analysis.
Following this logic it seems to be a good choice to buy RHEL because you have no chance running linux with those probability margins that you just wrote. Electronic components might have those. So stay out of jail
UV – an fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust
Probably the sender has to be linked to the current code for it to be accepted
Avoid. not stop. The people that want to pay someone to spy on their children are free to do so.
Not sure what this means, but if someone asked me to critique iOS code for example, I wouldn't be much of a help since I don't know the first thing about it , other than some generic best practices.

I'm sure ChatGPT would outperform me, and I could only aid it in very limited ways.

That doesn't mean an expert iOS programmer wouldn't run circles around it.
Does it deliver on what it promises? I haven't seen one use that's actually on a level with the work it's trying to replace.
You can, but an invalid code is treated as if there was no postage stamp on it at all. So your letter will be returned or the receiver is asked to pay.

A code that's past the validity date is probably considered an invalid code as well.
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What would be the best way for me to create a truly random approach to sampling from a specified distribution in my Monte Carlo simulator app? In my current MVP Beta app I’m just using Math.random() as I cannot access or install any external libraries. How would you go about implementing something more robust in something like, say, Apps Script (a Google proprietary derivative of JavaScript for cloud apps)?
Some of the slowdown will come from not indexing the FK columns themselves, as they need to be searched during updates / deletes to check the constraints.
true, but this thread was about "nothing happened" ... lot of things happened.
I filed a couple such common cases here:

https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/issues/102#issu...
The issue is the React paradigm, which is a bit questionable to begin with. It's a sort of fake OOP in a trenchcoat pretending to be something else, whilst abusing the language in ways that requires compiler plugins. My experiences with Compose and SwiftUI have been ... not that great. I kinda wish people would just have kept investing in their OOP toolkits.
The kernel does not have an API that exposes that representation to user code; system calls operate on timespec structs

struct timespec {
time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */
long tv_nsec; /* nanoseconds */
};
A second recommendation for Avalonia. It deserves the acclaim.
daily.dev?
Don't let Leary read this: he'd start underfueling his jets on flight going with the wind.
> Gatekeeper companies whose platforms are all-reaching and all-encompassing (ie. not just toys or games)

stopped reading. You can instantly tell when someone’s being disingenuous when they pull out the “this device has been so successful at branding itself as an appliance that I’m making a special exception for why it shouldn’t have to obey user freedom”.

Why shouldn’t I be able to plug a kb into my console and browse the web, or write an email or a word document, or do my taxes? Can science not yet provide an App Store with a web browser in it?
That's shrugging off inferior processes and substandard work. Bugs are unnecessary because there is a finite amount of code and they can all be eliminated if the correct eyeballs spend sufficient time reviewing, testing, and simplifying behavior to focus on robust reliability and correctness. Breaking changes can be allowed in dev packs with semver release notes. There are no excuses for sloppy engineering.
I used to work for one of their biggest hubs and was one of their most senior employees. I saw a lot of highet-ups come and go. They wanted perfection, or something damn close to it. Good thing I was content being a QC inspector and driver, because I wouldn't have taken any kind of management position even if one had been offered to me.
Convolutions, Fast Fourier Transform and polynomials (2022)
Tell HN: Patelco Was Hacked
Just got an email from their CEO. They got hacked. No ETA in sight.

Dear XXXX,

We are writing to let you know that on June 29, we experienced a serious security incident. This required us to shut down some of our day-to-day banking systems so that we can remediate the issue and contain the impact, including online banking, our mobile App, and our call center. Currently, electronic transactions such as transfers (including Zelle), direct deposit, balance inquiries, and payments are unavailable. Debit and credit card transactions function in a limited capacity.

Patelco branches, our call center and Live Chat will be open and ready to assist as much as they can during our regular business hours starting tomorrow, Monday July 1.

For cash withdrawals and deposits, you can access Patelco ATMs, including over 30,000 shared branch ATMs all over the country. Find your nearest branch and ATM (including hours of operation) at patelco.org/locations.

Our teams are working around the clock with top-tier cybersecurity experts to assess the situation and to restore service to you. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide an ETA on when those systems will be running as expected.

Your trust and partnership are of the utmost importance to us, and we are committed to resolving this issue with the highest level of diligence. We know this news is concerning, and we are committed to keeping you informed as the investigation continues.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we navigate this challenging situation.

Sincerely,

Erin Mendez
President & CEO
Patelco Credit Union
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I thought it was a valid point questioning the lack of consequences for the companies that cause these issues that affect all of us. I certainly could have made the point in a more constructive manner though so I’ve removed it.
Thanks for the info! This is Zotero for Google Docs: https://www.zotero.org/support/google_docs
You do have a point. Tools are there. What this suggests is kinda depressing though: 'People are unable to think in terms of their own self-interest when it means acting as a group'.

edit: I am expressly not volunteering, because I am not a leader and have a charisma of a wet noodle. I do, however, perceive a strong need for someone, who could rally WFH people.

edit2: There are, naturally, risks including that of corporations starting to equate WFH with union organization ( and I almost wonder if it is part of the longer term strategy ). but that one seems more far fetched.
I feel like we're at a point where you should assume little endian serialization and treat anything big endian as a slow path you don't care about. There's no real reason for any blob, stream, or socket to use big endian for anything afaict.

If some legacy system still serializes big endian data then call bswap and call it a day.
Achievable with formal verification and soft- and hard-realtime worst case timing validation. It's not impossible but also not easy. It requires significant engineering investment.
Interesting. I live near Switzerland and the only time I listen to radio is using FM in my car. I hope this same idea doesn't make it to the country where I live.
They should ride the bike then!
Not sure about NL, but in Switzerland you can buy those codes with an SMS. I guess many people want to do it quickly, and they might have already written the address of the recipient. So just getting a code it much faster, you don't have to enter the address somewhere.
Wow, if you put it like that arduous journeys transporting you to other realms are actually happening!
I like win32 and you can get a lot smaller with win32, but there are a lot of things missing. FLTK has a lot of components, component layouts, fonts, file system stuff, networking, audio, an openGL context, image loading and it's cross platform.
Show HN: Enable Figma's UI3 beta without the waitlist
"...forest for the trees" my friend. "...Forest for the trees...".
An excellent demonstration of how easy it is to manipulate data to find significant results - it brings to light (again) the pervasive issue of data dredging in research, where researchers, intentionally or unintentionally, keep testing hypotheses until they find something publishable, thereby undermining the integrity of scientific findings and highlighting the importance of preregistration and replication studies.

How can we shift the academic incentives away from "publish or perish" toward promoting transparency and rigorous methodology in research? Are any of the current attempts moving the needle?
Understood, but then what is it about the differences in the JVM and bytecode that make it more amenable to verification?
No, sir, that is what your local public library is for. Redbox doesn't have the entire criterion collection.
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Seniority is a factor here.

Remote / Hybrid is optimal for experienced IC's who have enough experience to work unsupervised and do not themselves have direct responsibility for supervising others. Early career employees much prefer on-premise in order to secure osmotic knowledge transfer and build professional social network. Managers also prefer on-premise, as being in the same room as your reports reduces supervisory overhead.

So we basically have a sandwich - with early career + management as the on-premise bread, with experienced non-managers as the remote / hybrid filling.
Did someone suggest Flutter yet?
The sheer hypocrisy of this article coming from McKinsey & Co. I can only assume pointing that out is the reason this was posted?
The MOU was no more an overthrow than people proposing any policy.

IF protesters request the government set up a community oversight board for the police or build a playground, that wouldn't not be overthrow either.

I have seen the MOU linked several times, but nobody has ever made a coherent argument how it constitutes treason, overthrow, or anything else of that nature.

It is a simple list of demands from protesters, primarily that the government drop vaccine mandates and vaccine passports.
What platform friction to users experience installing a different browser on Android? I'm aware few users actually choose to do it, but I don't recall any resistance from the OS to installing Firefox, making it the default, and keeping it that way.
> Farage repeatedly stressed that it would open the door to greater immigration

Farage is making it very clear in this election cycle that he stands for reduced immigration. Do you mean to say that he has changed his mind?
I don't know about other sites but there's no evidence of that being the case here, and plenty of evidence to the contrary. One can never know for sure, of course.
bge, bureaucratic good encryption.
>what I don't want is for a central planner to push one path on us when its not clear the right way to go

It is not possible to not have this. Land plots and road grids and design have to be designed for dense living, or less dense living, or rural living. You can’t mix and match.

What we have now is the worst of all worlds, where a little, tiny bit is dense, and then there is an unsustainable medium density where people want to have their cake and eat it too (but physics does not allow for it). And that is where 95% of the population of the world is.
PSA: If you're running a business and some databases store vital customer or financial data, consider EnterpriseDB (EDB). It funds Postgres and can be used almost like Oracle DBMS. And definitely send encrypted differential backups to Tarsnap for really important data.
I have a lot of experience, in the real world, which is somewhat less ideal than "just use Qt - it's a breeze".

How do you manage a 15 million LOC desktop app originating from the late 90s which contains chunks of win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers all sorts?

Aye you fuck off and work somewhere else that's what you do. Which is why it's still written in win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers.

They paid two companies to come in and rewrite it, first in Qt which was a complete failure. Then in Electron etc, which was also a failure.
> Then the enshittification started

Even in open source.

It's a problem on Android. All the "Simple ..." tools have been bought up by someone who's coming out with "Pro" versions.
I see giant models like Intel chips over the last decade: big, powerful, expensive, energy hogs.

Small models are like arm: you get much of the performance you actually need for common consumer tasks, very cheap to run, and energy efficient.

We need both but I personally spend most of my ML time on small models training and I’m very happy with the results.
Haven’t heard of Permute, but similarly I use LosslessCut and Davinci. Is it this one? https://software.charliemonroe.net/permute/

What does it give you that something like Handbrake doesn’t (or even just directly calling ffmpeg)? Seems like a paid app. I don’t mind paying for software if it’s really better than other existing free options.
> Most controls ask their parent what color they should be via a window message.

There are a LARGE number of areas where this is not provided, such as the text color of a disabled control or the checkbox area of a checkbox control. Even for the cases where such customization points were provided, many of them were broken when theming was added in Windows XP and in comctl32.dll version 6 in Vista, which ignores some of them in favor of theme colors or images. Menu colors, for example, are ignored when theming is enabled.

The result is that if you want something approaching a reasonable dark theme with Win32 stock controls, you will often need to resort to full owner-drawing of the controls. This is not a minor task.
UIKit is actually nearly 20 years old and AppKit is getting close to 40…
I had something I wrote in the 90s I wasn't proud of that was a word macro that read Excel sheets for a list of instructions and used those to compose documents and print them. I feel sick thinking about it.
AM is even simpler and even more robust. I think we never should have switched it off.
They definitely exist, and are very cheap. I got one for 200, gave away to a friend when I moved out of an attic apartment. They have a window-attachment accessory that makes it easy to attach to those European windows.

The real reason most of us don't have AC is because it's hot for a very short period. Last year it definitely wasn't too hot for me to warrant having one. This year so far, it was, for a week: we had about 30°C (86°F) last week, but next week my mobile phone promises it's gonna be 20°C (68°F) maximum, which does not need AC. Maybe that will change, though.
> RF dongles almost always are Nordic Semiconductor parts and they use their proprietary (but open) protocol called Enhanced Shockburst.

Not really, Logitech actually uses the LE PHY even for their "RF" protocol, at least since the Logitech Bolt controller which is what TFA is talking about. You can sniff Bolt traffic with a LE sniffer.

> The minimum latency of BLE is 7.5ms (fastest connection interval in the spec) while ESB can be in the 100s of microseconds

This makes for an average 4ms of latency, which matches what Logitech advertises. Then USB is then going to introduce 5-10ms at the very least...
Does handbrake supports slicing and moving around segments as well?
sigaltstack tricks to the rescue! (Although POSIX only, not ISO C)
essentially when there's an analog, or non-computational change in resistance, like a drift in value, then you can have non-linear function over that circuit
> The government turning to wartime measures […]

The Emergencies Act has nothing to do with war:

* §3 For the purposes of this Act, a* national emergency is an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that (a) seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or, (b) seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada, and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.

* https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/page-1.html

Was the "health or safety of Canadians" at risk? Did it "exceed the capacity or authority of a province" (Ontario under Ford)?

The Act mandates an inquiry be called after any invocation, and the inquiry in question found that the use of the Act was justified:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Order_Emergency_Commiss...
How so? It's not encrypted or anything similar.
> Property rights are not rights to a common resource.

You’re disagreeing with John Locke, among others, here.
And all because they fundamentally believe that their development time and expense is worth way more than their customer’s time and expense.
How could you possibly obtain accurate information about the distinguishing abilities of all Humans?
I was replying to someone who believes it, I'm talking with him. I'm not exactly sure what your point is.
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Despite viral support, Brittany Pietsch remains jobless 6 months after layoff
> The UK has been burning coal since 1882 so that feels like quite a significant milestone.

The UK has been burning coal since the 13th century for heating so it's an even more significant milestone than that. There was a short ban because of the pollution it caused but otherwise the UK has been continuously burning coal since the late middle ages.

I recommend Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese. The history of coal in Britain is fascinating and closely intertwined with the birth of the industrial revolution, some of the first workers rights, etc.
Have you tried PipeWire? As long as bt driver for you adapter is decent PipeWire makes using all sorts of bluetooth audio devices a breeze. At least for me it works great, all the time.
No other iOS browser engines have been approved, or even exist at this point. Probably won't see any real alternative browsers in the EU until they finish the rumored WebBrowserKit or whatever, to help contain JIT services.
AFAIK quite a number of protocols and file formats use BE without any sign to become a legacy even in a distant future.
These are legal cases and writs filed in courts.

https://indiankanoon.org/search/?formInput=hr%20and%20ce+doc...

Or

https://hindupost.in/dharma-religion/tn-heritage-destroyed-g...

Or

https://swarajyamag.com/amp/story/news-brief/misuse-of-templ...

Or

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD1nfo-60R_Kn2R58RLIaNB...

What would satisfy you as a ‘reputable source’. I will try and find it for you. Obviously this is very important for you.

Modi’s BJP govt is central govt. This is happening in Tamil Nadu.
Americans ought to petition USPS to do this. It sounds extremely convenient because it doesn't require a Pitney Bowes printer or printing anything from Endicia.

PS: Are those tiny, cheap, desktop laser engravers powerful enough to "print" on paper without starting a fire?
You seem to be in the minority with that thought.

The evidence is that most apps nowadays comes with their own style, often packed in a HTML frontend.

Users are used of websites which all have their own designs, and don't seem to mind if all apps have different look and feel.
You (if you wrote a return address) or the receiver (if you didn't) get a bill that you can either pay or ignore
Why shouldn't I be able to download an app store in the App Store or a web browser with its own engine? Where is my freedom?
If all that's needed to those 80% of prematurely discarded phones is a repair shop battery replacement then they would retain considerable value and a secondary market for them should develop. You can't stop people from throwing money away, but that's about the biggest incentive that can exist to change behaviour.
> we never find monotonously repeating forms in traditional cultures.

Illustrated on the left by the Parthenon, with a row of eight identical pillars. This has a golden spiral overlaid to show that it's mathsy and natural. Halfway down the article there's a section "levels of scale" which asserts that the spacing of columns on temples is somehow magical and makes them alright, while modern columns are spaced differently and are all wrong.

But no, it's just a monotonous row of pillars. If it had no ancient history it would look kind of oppressive (the same way any charming old castle was originally a military installation built to exert control and spew out steel-clad troopers).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#The_Parthenon for more skepticism.

Meaning matters more than neurology, usually. We like stuff we've been made to feel attached to, culturally. But the article also mentions honeycombs. If we are going to talk about neurology, honeycombs will make some people (with trypophobia) very uncomfortable indeed, and the magical minor imperfections and irregularities of nature won't counteract that at all.
Up until very recently all products wanting to use Bluetooth LE required the location permission because BLE beacons and similar can and we're used for location triangulation. It was a marketed feature of beacons that they could track your position down to the aisle in a store and potentially advertise to you if you walked past specific stores. There's finally a separate permission for it but it can still be used to determine your location.
> Caffeine is a very interesting drug that makes capitalism and just daily work bearable.

What is it about socialist work that makes it bearable?
Keeping the GPUs feed is a actually a rather demanding job for deep learning training. I do not have experience with LLM/NLP, but for image and audio workloads one can struggle to reach full utilization of even a RTX2/3/4xxx GPU with a typical 4-8 core CPU. It does not take much to be bottlenecked by the CPU and/or IO.
That presumes a household already has a large physical cash reserve, which I imagine few do. Besides, if you do want to store value, there are plenty of options like gold and silver and... crypto.
Not just for Anglos! I have it in Russian and Dutch too.

From your link: "... translated into more than 60 languages ..."