skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starbucks reacted to the covid-19 lockdowns by closing many of their non-drive through locations, regardless of their potential profitability when no longer in a lockdown.
Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40934898 (230 comments)
Oh could be, either or

Guess there wasn't really anything in the article to say if it was for internal (operational) or external (financial)
Unions benefit workers by giving them leverage through collective bargaining. For the US specifically, demand has been so astronomical for developers for the past couple of decades that most wouldn't have gained additional leverage from joining a union. Don't like your working conditions? Just job hop and get a pay increase as a bonus.

That calculus might change if demand for developers cools down as a long term trend but it's not going to be anytime soon.
Not their fault. Snowflake was breached. And the data was with Snowflake.
The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics finds that price controls will have bad effects, specifically, smaller R&D spending on new drugs. Libertarian-oriented economists find that anything other than laissez faire will cause bad effects.

This isn't news in any sense of the word. It's just business (or ideology) as usual.
> But, I feel like everyone is blaming the victim. Is it the home owners fault when someone breaks in and steals stuff?

> Where's the outrage at the hackers breaking into these accounts?

The internet is essentially every hooligan in the world about to kick in your dooor. So yes, I blame the home owner.

It seems silly to me to condemn anonymous users of the internet.

Back in the days when nothing of importance was done on the internet the view was way more healty.

If you have sensitive data, don't expose it to the hooligans. Easy as that.
I think it's generally easier for people to understand and respect another religion than a science-based ethical framework. You tell them you do or don't do something because of a religion, they'll just nod and shut up. You tell them you don't do it because of environmental or animal reason X, Y, Z and they'll look at you like you're from another planet. At least if you have a health reason for it (cholestesterol, etc.) they can empathize and probably pity you as opposed to judge you.

I think most kids are raised with an understanding that many people they meet will have different religious beliefs and that they can't be rude about it. Comparatively, only what, maybe 10% of the world is vegetarian, and of those, maybe 2-5% are vegan? And except in rare cases (Hindu, some Buddhists), those beliefs aren't usually backed by the force of mainstream belief. Makes for an easy target.

Even when I travel to Asia, in the more rural areas it's hard to convey an accurate meaning of Western vegetarianism, and especially veganism. Different cultures have different categorizations for meats, poultry, fish, shellfish, eggs, milk, etc., like many don't really consider fish to be meat. As a proxy, I often have to ask for something to be made "Buddhist vegetarian" instead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_vegetarianism#Common_...) – again a religious practice, and unfortunately one that excludes delicious toppings like garlic, onions, etc.

Elsewhere in the world, where there's no religious proxies, it's even harder. You're basically left with specialist vegan restaurants or nothing to eat at all.
> Student loans make it quite difficult to pay for daycare and childcare - especially for infants. Add in the pressure for launching and establishing careers and the whole "baby thing" is being pushed off until the ladies are in their 30s. By that time, they may also be too entrenched in their bachelorette lifestyle to actually get married and have kids.

There are so many assumptions baked into that: that infants and children should be in daycare; that every citizen should go to college (and borrow to pay for it!); that every citizen should have a career; that the single lifestyle is more appealing than marriage and parenthood. But are those necessarily true?
> Why yearly, not monthly?

can be monthly, should be put in a contract.

> Also what if there is deflation, do people get pay cuts?

Yes, put it written form in a contract too.

What I suggest (employer and employee explicitly negotiating inflation/deflation terms) could be better than the standard song and dance we all are used to suffer.
The lack of information density is generally what I hate about modern UI design.
I wanted to use them a few times but they weren't well supported by major plotting packages for Python and R, and the plots produced by packages that supported hive plots were nowhere as nice as those on this page.
> applicable to real-time communication scenarios like calls and video conferencing, and addressing use cases such as voice anonymization in these scenarios.

It’s not a desire I ever had. But maybe people are different?

Alternatively, building the solution was so much fun that the question of whether this is a problem that should be solved was never asked.
AT&T bought into a significant amount of DirecTV - so much so that everything that had the DirecTV logo on it was changed to the AT&T logo, such as the invoicing. So the AT&T customer base has included, for several years, the Directv customer base. The article doesn't attempt to clarify who the 'nearly all' customers are, and some people will jump to the conclusion that it is the cell phone customers. But it could include the DirecTV customer base whose data is also at risk.
That's all right: she is 20 or so years older, I'm still on track to get there.
Insurance takes up a lot of the fallout from data breaches.
That's right I did this on chat gpt and went off the rails quickly:

a man with a wolf and a cabbage wants to cross a river/ There is a boat but the man can only bring one more item beside himself at a time. What are the steps the man needs to do in order to cross the river?

The response was:

To solve the puzzle where a man needs to cross a river with a wolf and a cabbage, while ensuring none of them are left together unsupervised (since the wolf will eat the sheep, and the sheep will eat the cabbage), follow these steps:

1.Man takes the sheep across the river (leaving the wolf
and the cabbage on the original side).
2.Man returns alone.
3.Man takes the cabbage across the river.
4.Man leaves the cabbage on the other side and takes the sheep back
5.Man takes the wolf across the river.
6.Man returns alone.
7.Man takes the sheep across the river.
8.This way, at no point are the wolf and the sheep left alone together, nor are the sheep and the cabbage left alone together.

at which I prompted: I didn't mention a sheep

The response was corrected but wrongly:

Oops, my mistake! Let’s solve the puzzle correctly with a man, a wolf, and a cabbage:

1.Man takes the wolf across the river (leaving the cabbage on the original side).
2.Man returns alone.
3.Man takes the cabbage across the river.
4.Man leaves the cabbage on the other side and takes the wolf back.
5.Man takes the man across the river.
6.Man returns alone.
7.Man takes the wolf across the river.
8.Now, both the man and the wolf are across the river, with no danger to the cabbage.

At step 3 the problem was solved but it kept on going
Hey HN, I made this open-source template for building Anthropic's Artifacts UI-like chat apps.

You can use it to run AI-generated Python in headless Jupyter server and also build Next.js apps with it.

Here's the stack I used

- Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 [0]

- Vercel's AI SDK for calling the LLM [1]

- E2B for running AI-generated code with the Code Interpreter SDK and Sandboxes [2]

- Next.js for the app [3]

Links

[0]: https://www.anthropic.com/claude

[1]: https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/introduction

[2]: https://e2b.dev & https://github.com/e2b-dev/code-interpreter

[3]: https://nextjs.org/
Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40933477 (83 comments)
"Extracting wisdom" from conference videos
Then you get oddness like my brother laser printer, that has seperate Black and CYMK toner packs, and you have to specifically choose 'black and white' if you want to use the massive black toner set for text rather than the tiny 'K' toner pack.
The “fine” will consist of a class action lawsuit that will eventually (3-4 years later) be bargained down to 1/2 the original claim. Lawyers take their 25% (or whatever cut was negotiated) fee. Then the impacted customers (assuming they submitted all of the claim paperwork) get paid out a few dollars.
> There's no way to make the software perfectly safe from hackers and from social engineering.

This is a straw man argument. Companies should use best practices in order to prevent most intrusions. When they do not, as in this case, criticism is warranted.
I'm certainly not going to defend negligence of data protection but it's extremely difficult to cost as a liability (naively, you might even consider it not a liability at all) without government oversight.
> Totally, way too many people are trying to blame snowflake.

Well the _actual_ compromise started from one of their employees, so it's pretty unsurprising that they're getting (some of) the blame.
I am looking for an Open Source DAM for my game dev assets. (If anyone has any suggestions?) This only supports images, not sound and 3d Models or other assets, right now. It does support tags. The built-in CDN may be helpful for web projects, though!

Good luck on your project, the hosted version seems much more responsive than NextCloud. so it may be a great tool for simpler needs!
In my outsider's opinion, the Amiga community should have implemented this much sooner and moved on from AmigaOS to the combination of the Linux kernel and the AmigaOS userland ported on top of it, instead of patching a kernel that wasn't designed for MMUs. This and cheaper x86-based hardware could have kept the Amiga relevant as a (relatively) mainstream platform instead of a diehard retrocomputing island. I don't know if this was being discussed back in the day, hindsight is 20/20 of course.
How well does Mandala extend beyond the Numpy ecosystem?

I’m experimenting with Python CAD programming using the CadQuery and Build123d libraries. I’d like to speed up iteration time and intelligent caching would help.

These libraries are pretty opinionated, which make it a bit challenging to imagine how to squeeze cache decorators in there. They have a couple different APIs, all of which ultimately use the Open CASCADE (OCCT) kernel via https://github.com/CadQuery/OCP

CadQuery is a Fluent programming design that relies on long Method Chains [0]. It also has an experimental Free Function API [1].

Build123d iterates on CadQuery [2] with the goal of integrating better with the Python programming language. It has two supported APIs. The Builder API uses Python’s context manager (‘with’ blocks) heavily. The secondary Algebraic API is more functional, using arithmetic operators to define geometric operations [3].

The simplest way to integrate Mandala would probably be to use Build123d’s Algebraic API, wrapping subassemblies in functions decorated with @op.

However, it would be even better to proactively cache function/argument pairs provided by the underlying APIs. For example, if I change 50% of the edges passed to a Fillet() call, it would be nice to have it complete in half the time. I guess this would require me to fork the underlying library and integrate Mandala at that level.

[0] https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html

[1] https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/free-func.html

[2] https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html...

[3] https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/key_concepts_alge...
I have come to realize that when we do a peer review for Journal X, all we are really doing is protecting the journal's reputation by helping weed out substandard papers.

There seems to be a belief that the peer review process is like a universal system, so if a paper is 'rejected' during peer review for Journal X then it will be thrown in the garbage and never trouble us again. But in reality, the authors will submit it to as many journals as necessary until it sneaks through, and eventually it will sneak through.

I repeat: Every rejected paper will eventually be published somewhere. Perhaps not in Nature, or Top Journal A, but it will appear in Respectable Journal B or Mediocre Journal C. And it will bare the seal of "peer reviewed".

Ironically, I guess my point is that peer review is not broken; it's working great for the journals.
This is how I have operated ever since the Equifax breach. Once that happened, none of the others seemed to matter, everything important for identity theft is out there.

I've had no problems. Someone will try to run my credit, it will fail, then I ask which one they're trying to use, and I unfreeze it for a day. Some of them have the option to unfreeze for a single pull with a 1 time code (if I remember correctly), but when I tried to use that the person trying to pull the report seemed clueless, so I had to do the 1 day unfreeze.
Thoughts and Feelings of a Good Dad
They don't care because they don't know how the systems they use daily work, much less the costs and risks involved.

If they knew, they would care, and that's why representatives care on their behalf.

You could say the same about health and nutrition, but people very much do care when a medical issue tangibly affects them negatively.
I missed that at a skim. Thank you for the clarification!
> If you don't agree, try asking for more than 2% raise and see how the conversation goes.

Yeah, I did, like 3 months ago.

"We'll let you know when the boss gets back."

Haven't heard a word about it since.
Hottest temperature I've ever experienced was 39 Celsius. Absolutely unbearable.

Temperatures reaching 48 Celsius in Vegas recently sounds like a horror show.
The difference between typical movements and a seizure will probably be pretty clear with the right data. I have a dog with epilepsy and his movements during a seizure are extremely different than anything else he does.

I'd wager a combination of measures may be the most effective, though not sure how easy they'd be to measure. Overall movement, heart rate, and muscle tension could probably provide a pretty accurate indicator of a seizure. Unfortunately, muscle tension is probably the most important and (I'd guess) the hardest to measure, especially through fur.

There's a decent chance that breathing and heart rate alone will be unique enough, but I'm only speculating.

Best of luck with your kitty. For what its worth, we thought we'd lose our dog years ago (many seizures per day), but have largely been able to get things under control with medication. He started at 3 years and he's now nearly 9. We really didn't expect him to get past 4 or 5, so we're very happy. Also, ironically, his medication is supposed to make him tired, but he's still border-line insane.
Italy is in a state of permanent climate calamity
Note the focus on preferences and self-declarations, not behavior.

This is about how people self-described when they feel alert and productive. It doesn't necessarily mean there aren't benefits (or conversely, detriments) to "early to bed, early to rise."

It's possible that the work of those who feel the most alert in the morning is more physical -- for example, manual labor. Maybe they have less of a need and opportunity for cognition, so their scores are poorer. Maybe, too, the work makes them feel differently by evening from how night owls feel.

It's also possible that those with a high need for cognition tend towards work that can be done at any time of the day or night, and they are tired in the morning because they (whether optimally or not) stayed up late in the night working on it.

So, a follow-up question is how this relates to behavior. If night owls consistently go to bed around the time of peak melatonin production and wake up early, do their scores improve? Do their preferences change? And the same question in the inverse for larks.
Of Analog Signal Filtering
Very interesting; I'm surprised at 0 comments after 11h!

Here's the abstract:

> "Neuromorphic technologies typically employ a point neuron model, neglecting the spatiotemporal nature of neuronal computation. Dendritic morphology and synaptic organization are structurally tailored for spatiotemporal information processing, such as visual perception. Here we report a neuromorphic computational model that integrates synaptic organization with dendritic tree-like morphology. Based on the physics of multigate silicon nanowire transistors with ion-doped sol–gel films, our model—termed dendristor—performs dendritic computation at the device and neural-circuit level. The dendristor offers the bioplausible nonlinear integration of excitatory/inhibitory synaptic inputs and silent synapses with diverse spatial distribution dependency, emulating direction selectivity, which is the feature that reacts to signal direction on the dendrite. We also develop a neuromorphic dendritic neural circuit—a network of interconnected dendritic neurons—that serves as a building block for the design of a multilayer network system that emulates three-dimensional spatial motion perception in the retina."
It's impressive that it doesn't have a mobile view and still looks great.
Unfortunately, that analysis seems to have made absolutely no attempt to check whether the results are statistically significant.

Pick 118 random companies at 118 random points in time. It's vanishingly unlikely that the average returns of that group will exactly track the NASDAQ returns over the following 60 days. It might underperform, or it might overperform. An underperformance of 3.2% could easily just be the result of random chance, and have nothing to do with data breaches.
I'm still upset the government hasn't started work on a new national ID program after the Equifax breach. The SSN is not a suitable ID number in this day and age. We need something better that can withstand these kind of things without screwing people for life. My credit will be frozen for the rest of my life, and everyone else should do the same.
> Somehow knowing that first boy born today will have an ID number of 120702450001X

It's even worse. Only post-2011 IIRC births have an algoirthmic SSN. So everyone over the age of 13 still has old fashioned sequential SSNs, where XXX-YY-ZZZZ is determined by

1) XXX is the code for the office that issues your card. Can be guessed precisely and accurately by knowing birth location. For example, I can guess what region of the US you were born in (or lived in when you immigrated) by the first digit. 0 or 1 is probably northeast. 4 or 5 is probably near Texas. 7 might be near Arkansas. Etc.

2) YY-ZZZZ is sequential by date! So by knowing just birth day, can be guessed to within a range. In practice, this means it's easy to guess YY alone, but harder to get all 4 digits of ZZZZ

3) For some stupid reason it got popular to print SSNs with all but the last four digits masked. This is horribly bad because those four are ACTUALLY THE MOST SECRET PART! It's the only part that might not be guessable. But since it's common to be more lax with securing them..... it is super easy to recover the full SSN if you find a piece of paper that says something like

JOHN SMITH

123 Main St

Alabama City, AL 76543

In ref acct: XXX-XX-1234 (2001-03-14)

Dear Mr Smith,

Your account is overdrawn. Have a nice day.

Thinking of you,

The Bank

It also means if someone is personally known to me, even vaguely, I may be able to reconstruct their social seeing nothing but a scrap of paper that has just the last four, if I can guess approximately where and when they were born or first entered the US. If I'm in a situation where I can try several guesses, it's even easier.
I am seeing this mentality as well, and it's disheartening. My company manufactures and sells a privacy-first, fully autonomous, on-prem, video security system for home and SMB. Yet, some people choose a cloud based service (convenient) and are surprised when their private data is either a) hacked, or b) abused by the provider's own employees (see the latest Amazon Ring settlement).

With the latest scandals and breaches though, I feel it's gradually starting to change.
Exactly! Which is again one of the reasons it's confusing that people apply full text search technology to logs. Machine logs are quite a lot less entropic than human prose, and therefore can be compressed a whole lot better. A corrollary is that because of the redundancy in the data "grepping" the compressed form can be very fast, so long as the compression scheme allows it.

If the query infrastructure operating on these compressed data is itself able to store intermediate results, then we've killed two birds with one stone because we've also gotten rid of the restrictive query language. That's how cascading mapreduce jobs (or Spark) does it, allowing users to perform complex analyses that are entirely off the table if they're restricted to the lucene query language. Imagine a world where your SQL database was one giant table and only allowed you to query it with SELECT. That's pretty limiting, right?

So as a technology demonstration of Quickwit this seems really cool--it can clearly scale!--but it's kind of also an indictment of Binance (and all the other companies doing ELKish things out there).
> Snowflake blamed the data thefts on its customers for not using multi-factor authentication to secure their Snowflake accounts, a security feature that the cloud data giant did not enforce or require its customers to use.

And is that going to change?
I wonder how good the resolution is on this. Can our neighbours use it to watch my family in our home?

Can a Faraday cage be tuned to certain wavelengths, e.g. to allow AM/FM/cell service but block WiFi?
First "Miss AI" contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards
Its no joke that AWS Secrets Manager calls add up. At my medium-size US web company, for our data lake account last month, KMS is the second highest line item after s3 service cost. S3 at 94% of total, KMS at 4% of total with Tax and Kinesis the remaining sizable components.
Exactly this. Union members, to an fair extent, are leeching on the back of other, productive employees.
Because it's kind of awesome. I think the better question is why not?
Being wrong isn't against the site guidelines. Attacking others, calling them a bot, and similar things are against the site guidelines.
One interesting thing I ran into with frozen credit, is that you cannot sign up for USPS informed delivery without them running your credit as a method of address verification IIRC. If it is frozen the process gets stuck in limbo (at least it did many years ago when I ran into this situation)
Sure, I'll give it a try:

> Something is political if it is intended to discuss, share or pomote certain thoughts on topics relating to behaviours or systems within a society.

The most notable difference of this definition to what you appear to understand as political is probably that it has to be intended to be political.

Someone eating meat doesn't intend to make a statement about consumption of animal products? Then them eating meat is not political.
Intuit to lay off 1,800 employees, labels 1,050 as 'underperformers'
Why do you think people choose violence?
Be nice to have a new federal law: you get breached, you pay $5K plus lifetime credit monitoring to each person involved. Non-dischargeable by bankruptcy. No arbitration, no lawsuit. You pay.