skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> See how inexact and vague all these measures are. How do you know your confidence is (or should be) 0.5 ( and not 0.49) for example?

Well, you don't, but does it matter? The idea is it is an estimate.

Let me put it this way: we all informally engage in reasoning about how likely it is (given the evidence available to us) that a given proposition is true. The idea is that assigning a numerical estimate to our sense of likelihood can (sometimes) be a helpful tool in carrying out reasoning. I might think "X is slightly more likely than ~X", but do I know whether (for me) p(X) = 0.51 or 0.501 or 0.52? Probably not. But I don't need a precise estimate for an estimate to be helpful. And that's true in many other fields, including things that have nothing to do with probability – "he's about six feet tall" can be useful information even though it isn't accurate to the millimetre.

> Or, how to know you have judged correctly the weight of evidence?

That (largely) doesn't matter from a subjective Bayesian perspective. Epistemic probabilities are just an attempt to numerically estimate the outcome of my own process of weighing the evidence – how "correctly" I've performed that process (per any given standard of correctness) doesn't change the actual result.

From an objective Bayesian perspective, it does – since objective Bayesianism is about, not any individual's actual sense of likelihood, rather what sense of likelihood they ought to have (in that evidential situation), what an idealised perfectly rational agent ought to have (in that evidential situation). But that's arguably a different definition of probability from the subjective Bayesian, so even if you can poke holes in that definition, those holes don't apply to the subjective Bayesian definition.

> Or how do you know the transition from "knowledge about this event" to "what it indicates about its probability" you make in your mind is valid?

I feel like you are mixing up subjective Bayesianism and objective Bayesianism and failing to carefully distinguish them in your argument.

> But in any case, the significance of new evidence still has to be interpreted; there is no objective interpretation, is there?.

Well, objective Bayesianism requires there be some objective standard of rationality, subjective Bayesianism doesn't (or, to the extent that it does, the kind of objective rationality it requires is a lot weaker, mere avoidance of blatant inconsistency, and the minimal degree of rationality needed to coherently engage in discourse and mathematics.)
> Am I reading the wrong page?

Yes. That's a separate investigation; "Today's action focuses specifically on the assessment of Meta's practices under EU consumer law and is distinct from the ongoing ... , and the assessment by the Irish Data Protection Commission under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)."

The illegality of "Pay or Consent" is a GDPR thing. The EDPB ruling on that issue is here: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2024-04/edpb_opinion...

But it's an extremely settled matter. The GDPR says explicitly that consent is not "freely given" if the provision of a service is dependent on said consent. (Where the service does not absolutely require the data processing in question; See Article 7, recital 43)
This is a ruling by a District Court. It could be appealed to the Circuit Court, and then to the Supreme Court.

In the federal court system, District Court decisions are not binding precedent. Circuit Court decisions bind the District Courts in their circuit, and Supreme Court decisions bind all lower courts.

This District Court is in the Second Circuit. Another District Court in the same Circuit made a similar decision in US v. Smith, but the Second Circuit Court has not yet ruled on warrantless border searches of cell phones. Several other Circuit Courts have, however, and their rulings were all opposite of this one: the First Circuit in Alasaad v. Mayorkas; the Fifth Circuit in US v. Castillo; the Seventh Circuit in US v. Wanjiku; and the Ninth Circuit in US v. Cano.

In short: this decision is not binding precedent, and a substantial amount of binding precedent exists in the opposite direction within other circuits.

(Credit for case law information to: https://www.wilmerhale.com/insights/client-alerts/20231115-o...)
The Music Blog Era Was Perfectly Imperfect (2020)
Electric trolleybuses are probably the better tradeoff.
Well the El Paso Times has been covering this for about a month [0]. Witnesses, including a park ranger, repeatedly describe seeing a dark Jeep leaving the scene of each fire. Prints from a pair of Vans slip-ons and tire treads were found at multiple fire scenes. When she was pulled over, the prints of the girlfriend's Vans slip-ons matched those found at the scenes, as did the tread of the dark-colored Jeep she was then driving.

[0] https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/crime/2024/07/22/fbi-...
Comfortable stagnation is not a stable state for a society.
I think for a WiiM mini to control the volume on the digital output, it would need to scale down every sample. This is probably fine over some range (it has a 24 bit output, so putting the volume at two thirds, would still result in 16 bits, the same as CD). But I'm curious what would happen at very low volumes, e.g. if you're down to only 4 bits.
SQLite is the SQLite of queues. Simply use a table per queue. And use your choice of SQL to implement the types of queues you want.
I reckon the peaceful existence of macOS is a counterpoint to this argument.
AFAIK, Zerotier is about equally proprietary, more-free (as in beer), and has been doing the node-to-node mesh thing instead of spoke-and-hub longer than Tailscale has been in existence.

And if I remember correctly, ZT was initially created to provide something like this "New Internet" concept that Tailscale has apparently recently discovered, except they called it "Earth" and abandoned it in 2023.

(Some things don't change, I guess.)
What a mess. Intel should be out in front of this, but they are going to kick the can down the road and hope some of the problem goes away.

No system integrator has the infrastructure to handle replacing vast numbers of CPU's and entire systems where the CPU is soldered to the mainboard and cannot be replaced.

Also, there's no way this problem suddenly snuck up on them without warning. They had customers returning massive numbers of them, but Intel kept selling defective units instead of stopping production. They absolutely knew about this as soon as problems started popping up.

A microcode patch may make it stable, but if you have a dud, you have a dud. There's no way to patch around defects in manufacturing of this nature. Microcode can reduce frequencies, but a defective part is still defective.

How PG still has a job is beyond me.
Well done EU and good riddance to any company that doesn't like these laws.
> Uber made traffic and pollution significantly worse and cut into transit ridership

Depends where, really.

In Austin (for example - but this applies to a lot of the US I suspect), it had no impact on transit because there was no worthwhile transit to have an impact upon. Instead it made drunk-driving rates plummet.
You need app Foo on your phone for work (like Slack, maybe). Foo is in the App Store and worked great on your iPhone but decides they want to install via their own store so they can monetize employees’ data (location, whatever) to make more money. The new store launches, the new app version abuses private APIs, and the App Store version stops working. Your company announces that all employees need to download from the new source. Do you really have a choice about staying in the walled garden? Sure, neither your company nor Foo should suck, but we all know plenty of companies that don’t care about employees or users.

Game company Bar decides to launch their own store and pull their game - we’ll call it Nortfite - from the App Store so they can add something shady like crypto features. Nortfite is a massive social game that all your friends play and it’s a huge part of your teenage social life. Your only device capable of playing it is your second-hand iPad. Do you really have a choice about staying in the walled garden? Who needs friends anyway, amirite?
> concept you don't seem to be familiar with called "beneficial ownership"

I own one house, my spouse the next, my mom the next and then we do kids.

Your other ideas are much better. Were I a NIMBY politician, I’d distract from them with this tax idea. (As a Wyoming homeowner I positively love No. 4. Presently, I pay taxes when owed in every state I work in.)
And when you're done with XYZ, check out XYB used in JPEG XL and jpegli:

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/jpegli-xyb/
The five trillion market cap is from very profitable companies
I agree, mostly. It is worth noting that until the forced opening of the market occurred, safari was conspicuously lacking in PWA support, especially wasm support. I am a recovering libertarian, and I now see the need for regulation in more places. Largely because of regulatory capture, true, but I don't think anarcho-capitalism works. It just makes lawyers top of the heap instead of warriors (in pure anarchy). Which, when the lawyers command the soldiers, isn't any better.
Even non-physical numbers are problematic to signal 'invalid'. I had a customer use -999 as a placeholder for 'invalid' data. Years later somebody made a higher level data product that averaged and combined that data with other products, without knowing to first remove those 'invalid' values. The resulting values were all now within physical limits, but very very wrong. The best solution is to use IEEE NaN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN so that your code blows up if you don't explicitly check for it.
> The allure of innovative features and modernity tends to be weighed against the long-term prospects and likelihood of longevity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Gentoo_Li...
says it's 16 years old; I think it did just fine.
> Its major problems aren't technical but social, and no new technology will solve those.

Really? Isn't the major problem of the current internet is inherent centralization of services because the initial promise of 100% decentralized network is simply too complex to realistically manage? I view that problem as deeply technical. Unless if by "social" you simply mean everyone should become an experienced sysadmin. (or the slight variation of, everyone should know an experienced sysadmin who's willing to run their application for them for free)

Take something as mainstream as social media. Imagine a world where Facebook/Twitter/TikTok/YouTube/Reddit/HN/etc worked (seamlessly) like bittorrent. An application on your machine when you run it, it joins a "Facebook" network where your friends see you online through their instance of the application. Your feed/wall/etc is served to them directly from your machine. All your communication with them is handled directly between the 2 (or 1000 or millions) of you. No centralized server needed. You can easily extend and apply this majority of centralized application today. The only ones I can think of where this wouldn't work would be inherently centralized services like banking for example.

There are already plenty of p2p networks that show that this is a viable solution. Bittorrent, soulseek, bitcoin, etc.

All the problems you will run into however to make this as seamless as just connecting to facebook.com are purely technical. The initial big hurdle is seamless p2p connectivity. That is without port forwarding, dynamic dns, and requiring advanced networking, security, and other sysadmin knowledge from every user. Next would be problems like what happens when the node is offline? What happens to latency and load if you need to connect to thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of machines just to pull a "feed"? How is caching handled? How are updates/notifications pushed? How do nodes communicate when they are wildly out of date? Where is your data stored? How do you handle discoverability, security, etc.

All deeply technical problems. Most are solvable, but you're gonna have to invest a significant amount of effort to solve them one by one to reach the same brain-dead simple experience as a centralized service. The fediverse has been trying to solve just a small subset of these problems for over a decade now, and the solutions still require a highly capable sysadmin to give users a similar (or only slightly worse) experience than twitter.com.
Rented housing isn't hoarded. The argument might have some merit if there was no market for used buildings and no market to build new housing.

But that's reality. Go on loopnet and you can see plenty of buildings for sale.
“The S in IoT stands for secure.”
Does anyone know where Trump and Harris stand on this? I believe this is only an issue due to the TCJA.
If you raise taxes on property, rents will rise. Is that the goal?
Uh not really contributing to this line yet, regretfully, just wanted to add to the bourgie sentiments in yiddish

https://youtu.be/0ozWAbuJtCs
https://youtu.be/YAWM_QpAL7c
Only if you have such a loose definition of vacant where it includes people who haven't yet moved into their newly acquired house.
Did you read the second half of my comment? If each human only gets to reduce tax on, say $500k of residence, then relatives are of limited value for abusing the system. And some of those relatives may prefer to claim their exemption on their own homes…
Feels like phishing / mass data collection effort — associate an email address with the faces of whoever is in your uploaded photo.
According to Claude, the attenuation stage is before the power amp stage. Does that mean worse SNR whether the volume is controlled using the volume control or via the input?

(Ignoring the additional quantization issue with a scaled digital input.)
Something similar happened a few years back with the Atom CPUs. The downside is that these were typically found soldered on expensive devices like Cisco routers, firewalls, etc. The company I was working at the time had to RMA a ton of devices that could be faulty. I thought for sure that this would result in earnings hits and lawsuits but none of that seemed to happen.

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c2000-series-bug-qui...
If we penalize home buyers for investing in real estate, then we will have a housing problem.

Those who own real estate and rent it out should be motivated to create more housing. They should get tax breaks. Not penalized with more taxes.

Thats the only sustainable way.
As a Torontonian (Canada), this gives vibes of (now defunct) Active Surplus on Queen West:

* http://www.activesurplus.com

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5RkCWKQrA

* https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/the-gorilla-store-keeps-the...
The fact IntelliSense and jump-to-source are supported at a very superficial level goes to show the heavy drawbacks of dynamic types.

Sorbet may fix things, but at that point, just use a language with more mature tooling around types, like Python or TypeScript.

Dynamic types offer dubious marginal benefits but bring tons of downsides. The demonstrations in this article reflect that.
That’s a pretty glib stance. Plenty of people have difficulty finding a friend group and not everyone can be an island until they do (see the loneliness epidemic). Perhaps consider that there are other people with different life situations than yours for whom demanding individualized treatment does not work, and they may have much less choice about what technologies they have to use as a result.
I see this point oft repeated, usually as a shut-down for the above arguments. But i also see people claiming the complete opposite for their localities (that there are many many extra vacant homes being held than people that need them). It seems like the initial wave of arguments cited tons of statistics but over the months we've just stopped doing that for some reason as everyone's opinions have crystallized.

Stating such a strong assertion should still require at least a link
It should fail soft - e.g. warn user that Private Relay is not available, but don't block connectivity.

This really isn't a client side issue, but the work-around is to disable the feature - which likely means that once service is restored...

Yes, it's like that.
When controlled for testosterone levels, how do the suicide rates look?
Nearly every comment so far is reacting to this line:

> I had been talking to the candidate for months..

and how appalling that is. But TFA says nothing about why the process took months, because that's not what the article is about. Maybe the author had been talking to the candidate for some time before the hiring process started? Maybe the process took unusually long for reasons on the candidate's side? We have no idea, so why even take issue with it?
Singapore has a very sustainable housing plan. Affordable homes are owned by the govt and let out on 99 year lease. Problem solved.
As the OP, I was not arguing that Uncle Bob's advice is good; I was arguing that performance is not the reason to reject his advice... unless you are counting nanoseconds, in which case performance is a great reason to reject his advice.

It's a story of two worlds. Casey lives in a world where nanoseconds almost always count. He says OOP is horrible for performance, but he really means it's horrible for performance in that world. But Uncle Bob's book is about a different world: business Java programming from 10+ years ago. There, the overhead of OOP is almost always negligible. One of my main points in the article was just to be aware of the world you are in.

Performance aside, is Uncle Bob's advice good or bad? I think it's a mixed bag. His four main books total 1,552 pages. Some of his advice is rooted in the Java programming world from the 1990s and 2000s, but I think other advice (like "use good names") is valid today in many languages. Sorting through all those pages of advice would require a much longer article; I didn't try to do that; I just tried to address Casey's performance claim, since I think he's totally wrong (in many cases) even while being totally right in other cases.
You could check the m5stack dial for your next step.

A rotary knob with an integrated esp32.

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-dial-esp32-s3-smar...
> While it may be beneficial to have support for apprenticeships and vocational training, it's controversial that the decision point is made so early. At that age, it may be less about the child's ambitions and abilities and more about the family's resources and social class.

Part of me thinks that may not be such a bad thing. It's very meritocratic thinking to assume that the smartest ("best") kids should always bubble to the top, but that also probably has some perverse consequences. All parts of society need and benefit from talent (e.g. becoming a union leader or a really skilled mechanic), and concentrating talent at the top helps tell a (false) moral story that only those at the top are really deserving of the rewards.
There are much more long-lived distros still around as well... But really, I meant more the danger of having the distro die without any clear plan for transition. In Funtoo's case it was less a matter of how long it would be around as much as what the plan would be if the BDFL decided they're done.
The purple lagoon! That amazing lineup had a lot of the usual suspects, PLUS the Brecker brothers, yes, but... by the 80s, his bands had to rehearse even more: eight hours a day, for months, until they had mastered over 120 songs. On stage, he could make just one gesture, twirling his hair or grabbing his crotch, and they'd switch whatever tune to reggae or metal, because why not?

His 70s bands might have a slight edge in terms of pure talent, but they might have not survived the grind of the 80s (which contributed in no small part to the implosion of 1988...).
That makes sense unless you are in an area with hurricanes. In places with a high probability of a hurricane hit they have started doing framing with the zip sheathing so it looks like a monopoly house, then they add overhangs that can break off in severe wind rather than taking the roof with it.

It's a shame more houses don't get built with ICF, including the roof. Living in an area that gets hurricanes at least every other year I would happily take a smaller house to get something that could stand up to category 4-5 hurricane.
Woops, you are correct! And it looks like it is dmraid, not mdadm.

https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/

Sorry about that!
The only other OS option being Android (on mobile) and Windows (on desktop) I don't think Apple is going anywhere anytime soon. A lot of Apple's moat is in its OS (however degrading in has been in last decade). It's the perfect duopoly in both segments. Do you see that changing? If not then all other OEMs will keep fighting among themselves for loose change.
ooh, thanks for this. I will check that out!
It would be simpler to charge a property tax on every property and provide a tax credit to every individual based on the average property tax collected. I think it would be more robust against people trying to find loopholes.

That would also be more fair to renters. Much of the tax charged to commercial landlords would likely be passed on to their tenants. Providing renters with the same tax credit as home owners will offset that effect.
> But that's a circular tautology, isn't it?

No it's not a tautology... it's a definition of fairness.

> If we toss it 100 times and get all heads, do we conclude it is fair or not?

This is covered in any elementary stats or probability book.

> Now, given a coin, how do we determine it is fair?

I addressed this in my last two paragraphs. There's a literature on it and you may enjoy it. But it's not about whether statistics is falsifiable, it's about the physics of coin tossing.
sometimes a vector is just a vector, but sometimes it’s a UI component and shows the structure of the UI.

Easily the worst aspect of Clojure. Everything is an untyped map or an untyped vector. Your editor can't tell the difference between a vector of keywords and some DSL for a macro. Things like this make Clojure a nightmare to refactor and scale poorly relative to languages like TypeScript.
What's more likely to happen in 30-40 years is what you're trying to do - make people forget that there were two equally evil empires - Nazis and Soviets. You want people to remember only Nazis.

The Soviets killed millions - there is no way to deny it. Holodomor alone resulted in 3-5 mln deaths. At least one million were murdered in Russia alone. In total, up to 60 mln people are estimated to have died at the hands of the Soviets. Millions more were forced out of their homes, raped and maimed.

There is only one difference between Germans and Japanese on the one hand and Russians on the other. Germans and Japanese admitted to these atrocities and apologized for them. Since the end of WW2, they have not attacked anyone else.

Russians, on the other hand, are still trying to whitewash the crimes committed by the Soviets, and they keep invading other countries. We can only hope they will either grow up and join the civilized world this century or the Russian Federation collapses.
What works for me:

There are two types of objects: State objects and Tool objects.

The purpose of a State object is to maintain a state. Think strings, databases, files etc.

The purpose of a Tool object is to operate on State objects. Think loaders, printers, editors, transformers etc.

It’s a simple way to organise OO code. And it works. At very large scale (millions of lines of C++).

It is similar to the functional Data/Function thinking. However it actually works better because State objects can enforce constraints, and Tool objects can cleanly maintain an internal temporary state while operating on State objects.
Ask HN: Is the Llama 3.1 model truly open source?
> boosts consumerism

Don't we live in a capitalist world?
Each bit is ~6dB, so 2/3 perceived volume is still 23 bits. 8 bits is 48dB, which is less than 1% of the original volume, and still using 16 bits