skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 1980s, professors used to print out the list of exam scores and tape it on their office door so students could check their score (something younger generations would find quaint, I'd imagine). Because people might be embarrassed by their score, they were "anonymized" by student ID rather than by name. As in your case, our student IDs were our SSNs and nobody saw a problem with it yet (I'm a bit surprised that in your school's case they were still doing it in the early 21st century, but institutional inertia, I suppose).
Apple is using it for private information retrieval, which is why it implemented this library
Here is the commentary / explanation from Ed, the Low Level Learning Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5cAT2l_G44
> legitimate concern over tracking people

Why couldn't the government use SSN to track people? There is no way to avoid tracking in situations where you need to identify yourself, regardless how you identify yourself, so why not make a robust way to identify yourself?
This is how you end up bombing wedding parties. It's a bad idea.

And not just in a "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" kind of way.
The vault is client side encrypted so it doesn't actually matter. My host provider could be the robot devil living in North Korea and it wouldn't matter, that's literally the defined purpose of encryption, secure communication across adversarial channels.

I don't really understand why people bother with this security theater, all the self hosting is completely redundant.
A simple search of twitter for "cisgender" shows that the word is not banned
Best I could come up with was that they're trying to make a mockery of Texas's position on the case. But the odd capitalization isn't frequent enough to make it obvious, so I too wasted minutes of my life looking for some kind of pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_caps
It's not really new, even going back there were flame wars and shit-posting on BBSes before the internet was common. It tends to come with relative anonymity.

It takes curated communities in order to overcome. Some places do better than others. It's also all to easy for biases to become policy in some of these communities/sites which can wind up almost worse than the shit posting to begin with.
There's a big stand-off between ISPs and CDNs over payments. Some ISPs insist they want payments to peer and others agree that it's mutually beneficial, but even where the ISPs stamp their feet, they rarely win the argument. Netflix started publishing rankings which showed which ISPs were good and which weren't, which drives them to improve. If content providers start saying to customers that they should change their ISP, then the ISP is going to hurt, so they might as well peer on a neutral basis.

Some ISPs have been lobbying governments and the EU to ask them to tax the "significant traffic generators" based on the traffic volumes and then use that to pay for the telco infrastructure. But that's an argument I am not convinced by, I think the ISPs will take the money, just reduce their own investments and make more profit.

I think the CDNs (including Google) need credit for the infrastructure they build.
MS AI Can Be Turned into an Automated Phishing Machine
Americans dying younger than their English-speaking peers worldwide
They were never meant to be a ubiquitous identifier/authentication token.

But they de facto are and have been for longer than they haven’t. At some point, it becomes an abdication of responsibility by the SSA, no matter how much they kvetch about it being “not their problem”.
I thought the upgrade to metal/glass + new design looked great which I included in "hardware".

Beyond that https://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Google-Pixel-9-vs-Pixel-8... shows:

- Much brighter screen
- Next gen tensor chip
- 50% ram upgrade
- Better camera + battery
- SOS functionality
- Better ultrasonic fingerprint sensor

Holistically felt like meaningful improvements across the board to me, but I understand where you're coming from. I think maybe I have lower expectations for improvements year to year
I don't see absolutely any incentive for a company to spend more on tracking technologies (whatever their nature may be) in order to lower their profit. So guess who gets the proverbial shaft in this equation?
I love my kids, but I do often look at the state of things and wonder if having them was doing them a disservice.
I guess my point is that all of it's very relative, depends on your age, your circumstances, goals, geographical location and many other things.

My random advice: Always try to increase income instead of reducing costs, as increasing income has infinite potential while reducing costs has very limited.
> Dune Scientists from Fermilab

read that three times
How do you feel about Atkinson Hyperlegible?

https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
Which I found flabbergasting at the time, because it had been a standard feature on PDAs ten years prior. I only bought an iPhone once it gained cut&paste support.
You're thinking of a stereotype of autism.

ADHD frequently involves Rejection Sensitivity Dysmorphia, which makes someone more attuned to, while also more likely to misconstrue, social signals.
It's similarly misleading to color coding a map of a nation's or a region's land area to show how the people who occupy various parts of that land area voted in an election. The graphic representation tells a story about the land that deceptively implies facts about the people that are not true.
The paper this blog cites w.r.t. adhd has this in its results section:

> Conversely, we found a low prevalence of Narcissistic (5.7%) and Histrionic (5.7%) traits, and no patient showed Borderline personality traits or disorder.

Which directly contradicts across the argument advanced in the blog. Now the source paper itself has low sample size too, but it's pointing in the other direction.

While on ASD the blog says:

> In fact, the chance of developing a personality disorder is more than three times higher1 for people with autism spectrum condition.

The cited ASD related paper says:

> Finally, although we investigated many psychiatric disorders, we did not examine all. For example, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders were not taken into consideration.

So it's uh, unclear, how the bloggers squeezed blood from that stone. It rather looks like they wrote some stuff and then found a couple of related looking links to science it up a bit.
Practices of Reliable Software Design
Ok, I think your list, and the fact that HALF are in 1 Country VS the entire rest of the world qualifies my statement. As well Roche, ASZ, and GSK do the bulk of their research in the US.

On top of that the largest outside of the US is China and there is very little trust of data coming from there in the Western World.
> Also there is a high overlap between autism and ADHD, many people have both characterizing them as opposite ends of a spectrum sounds like a stretch.

I think it's only a stretch if you think that someone only exists at a single point on that spectrum. If it's more like a spectrum of characteristics, then wouldn't it seem like strong autistic characteristics could exist at one end, strong adhd characteristics could exist at the other, and a lot of the shared overlapping characteristics exist in the middle?
Mods, wanna fix this title please?
Kudos * 1000 ! ! !

Impossible before. It can't be less invasive: _original text stays intact_ - no wrapping tags.. no JS.. just works with userContent.css.. - simply another dimension.

> I'm also not an OpenType expert, so I'm sure the substitution logics could be improved upon. I'm open to sharing the modified source file to anyone interested. If you have any ideas, suggestions or feedback, let me know. You can reach me at hlotvonen@gmail.com.

- so, how far can it be improved then ?!

- what other font editors moreover to Glyph (mac only) have good support for advanced contextual alternates ?
Keys on shabbat is doable without an eruv¹²³. (It's not considered carrying if it's an integral part of your clothing.) Eruvs are more for strollers/carrying small kids, dessert/wine when invited for lunch, etc.

¹https://thekeybelt.com

²https://www.judaica-world.com/index.php/adjustable-shabbos-k...

³https://maps.app.goo.gl/ptpGhwLeckdUTjUd7
Singapore's New Metro Line Is Construction Hell [video]
> but nothing fit the data as well as LCDM.

I think you mean, "nothing could be made to fit the data as well as LCDM". See below.

> When new data came in, and it pointed yet again at LCDM, it was considered a disappointment.

This is highly revisionist, and exemplifies the kind of cherry picking that has kept LCDM alive when it has outright failed numerous predictions and had to be adjusted after the fact to fit the data:

From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331

LCDM is a complete mixed bag when it comes to predictions, where MOND has a very slight edge. It's absolutely clear that MOND is not correct or complete either, but it is undeniable that it has had greater predictive success than anyone anticipated and with far fewer free parameters than LCDM, mostly in areas where LCDM is weak. If LCDM can't explain why MOND has been so successful, which it currently cannot, then it is incomplete at best.

Basically, the only good, almost definitive, evidence for particle dark matter is gravitational lensing, but if we're considering modified gravity anyway, then lensing isn't necessarily telling us what we think.

On the flip side, no possible cold dark matter halo is compatible with recent observations that rotation curves are flat past a million light years [1]. I can't wait to see what epicycles they add to LCDM to save it this time.

[1] https://tritonstation.com/2024/06/18/rotation-curves-still-f...
Seems to be clearly questioning the entire premise to me.
Not before time, this is in windows 11.
A lot of their products are relatively far into the long tail of hardware projects.

Enough demand in the market that it makes sense for a company to design and build them, but not so many units sold that all those design costs are easily amortized away.
To be able to do copy (edit) paste (edit) paste you need independent storage of what’s copied. Move requires new UI sate where cut is just Copy (Edit:Delete). With Undo cut is safe enough and there’s likely something more critical to work on than a Move UI.

Also, I’ve seen some terrible move UI. It may seem cool to have a big floating blob of text follow the curser but that doesn’t work well when you want to move multiple pages or across multiple pages.
I went sniffing around with <https://github.com/opencost/opencost/issues?q=is%3Aissue+his...> and <https://github.com/opencost/opencost/issues?q=is%3Aissue+ret...> and didn't see anything, so it may be worth creating an issue to put in on their radar. I would also presume you already have the CUR exports for the old times and just want the analysis done using the annotated k8s data?
Private mail is thousands of years old.
Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index
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Once you’ve chosen your portfolio, we run a daily portfolio optimization to determine what trades to make, which considers taxes, trading costs, drift and holding costs[1]. If your account is sufficiently diversified, we enable Tax Loss Harvesting as well to capture losses that can help offset capital gains[2]. Finally you can move between strategies either all at once or over time[3].

JJ started work on this after selling his last company, making some money, and growing really frustrated at the quality of the portfolio tools available to retail investors. Financial advisors have tools for direct indexing, tax loss harvesting and dollar cost averaging, but they generally charge upwards of 1% a year in AUM fees. Things like Parametric[4] and Canvas[5] have succeeded, but are only accessible through advisors. We wanted to build these kinda advanced portfolio tools for ourselves without any AUM fees.

Some common use cases we’ve found are diversifying away from a large RSU position or migrating between risk on and risk off strategies over time. You can also easily allocate a percent of your portfolio to specific baskets of stocks.

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[5] https://canvas.osam.com/
Ever heard of Fen/phen? Was a big thing back in the 90's. Weight loss drug combo that was ultimately found to do major harm.

You have to keep a clear head as an early adopter in some things, and be aware of incentives. Remember, the pharma company pushing the drug/treatment to market is out to make money first. Having a knock-on problem down the line to fix also serves that purpose, and in fact, has been a tactic employed by other notorious pharma manufacturers. Lest we forget the lessons of the opioid crisis do quickly.
> You can't just say "I don't believe PFAS is a pollutant", you have to convince a judge of that

It's not like the Fifth Circuit judges routinely ignore and misquote plain facts, yeah? The next issue is that you'll be pitting boring government bureaucrats against highly paid legal teams that can outdazzle pretty much anyone.

But even putting all of this aside, the rulemaking process itself is not fast by design because it gives all the interested parties plenty of time to interact with the agencies. A typical rule takes about 3 years to finalize. Then you can delay it for 4-5 years by simply going through the court process as slowly as you can.

And if you get a split judgement by going into the la-la land of East Texas judges and in parallel by suing in another location, you can drag it out even more by waiting on the SCOTUS!

So you're looking at a _decade_ between a rule and its implementation.

But wait, there's even more! You can then question the enforcement actions in a separate lawsuit! You won't be able to drag it out as much, but another 2-3 years is a possibility.

Some libertardians suggested: "Hey! We now can sue government agencies for allowing Teh Evul Glyphosate, and GMOs!". Nope, you can't. You don't have standing for that. It's a strictly pro-polluters ruling.
I'm not thinking of a stereotype of something, I'm just recounting my personal experience.
Ambients seem indeed cool and this is where I first heard about them.

> One problem that I see with all 3 technologies (ambients, tuplespaces, and syndicate) is that they sit somewhere at the intersection of datastructures / infrastructure / frameworks, but don't have clear and obvious deployment options.

I disagree. I think it's simply still science fiction and the cutting edge of distributed research which isn't very popular in academia these days. Actors (1978) are just now barely becoming mainstream with the hype of Elixir and rediscovery of Erlang, even though the world still runs on multithreaded C and dead locks.

The tech is cool, but no one is being paid just yet to create practical languages and environments out of this. As in many other scientific endeavours, mainstream programming paradigms tend to lag 20 or 30 years compared to the research.
Ask HN: Name and shame – did anyone receive LLM spam from dagworks.io?
I have received multiple emails from some guy called Stefan from Dagworks.io. Seems to be a "cold-call" email, and probably written by an LLM.

At the end of the first email you're asked to reply if you're not interested "and I won't bother you further". The second email is just another push to try and get you to take the bait, and the third is more of the same.

The whole thing reminds me of some spammer who proudly and publicly told everyone about their tactics on their blog a while back [0], so I really hope most companies know better than to try this BS. Anyone else with a similar experience?

[0] : https://www.wisp.blog/blog/how-i-use-ai-agents-to-send-1000-personalized-email-for-outreach
The hint is that the title makes you want to shoot your eye out.
If you want to replace by pasting, you'd lose the first selection by selecting what you want to have replaced. Which means you'd need different selection modes depending on whether you are selecting the source or the target of the copy/move. Furthermore, mainting the original (source) selection while preparing the insertion point (target) of the copy/move is also fraught with some fragility.
Yes, there are a few such efforts ( such as https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.08264 ). My understanding is that all are still somewhat experimental.
Thirty thousand tons of liquid argon
Trade and the End of Antiquity [pdf]
"What caused the end of antiquity, the shift of economic activity away from the Mediterranean towards northern Europe? [...] Our estimates suggest that reduced trade openness arising from the cost of crossing the newly formed border between Christianity and Islam, combined with technical progress and increased minting output in Muslim Spain and in the Frankish lands, explains the increased urbanization of western and northern Europe relative to the eastern Mediterranean from the 8th to the 10th century."
I say this rarely, but way to go, Texas! Every state should be pursuing this against every manufacturer who does this.
Email them using the footer contact link, or else they might never see this comment or post.
Is it actually decades? Also they tried, they find it doesn't work, they stopped. Sounds like a good experiment.
I'm using a Pixel 4a myself, prior to that was a Pixel 2XL and I had about every third Nexus and a few other phones before that as well as a One-Plus phone somewhere in there. My current phone still runs fine, and I'll probably upgrade when the 9a comes out, I do think they're priced more than I would like.

I've tended to like the close to stock experience, but I do turn off all. the assistant features that I can.
On an international level, there is a grand plan to ditch old Freudian categories like narcisissm, borderline, etc. in the upcoming ICD11.

There was never much evidence for such diagnostic categories, and I was told that if you look at notes from old proceedings of the DSM-III committee that their inclusion was an artifact of the political need to get buy-in from the then-powerful psychoanalytic groups at the time.

The ICD11 plan to have a single personality disorder bucket makes more sense to me. At its core, a personality disorder consists of a heavily reinforced and entrenched cluster of behavior that is significantly self-defeating and that actively resists common intervention strategies. From that perspective, you could either have endless personality disorder categories or a single category that summarizes the phenomenon.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9881116/
> you're never going to end up in a scenario where your users can't login because the login flow is out of your hands

It's more likely that the person re-implementing the SSO flow is making a mistake and the login behaviour is getting messed up than the default Google/Apple SSO implementation that's deployed to billions of users and business critical for many companies that use that kind of SSO internally too.
I’ve heard about that book. Is it good/enjoyable?
Magicshop – iOS starter template for livestream ecommerce apps
Malfunctioning speech-to-text tooling? Note the errant capitalization falls on start-of-syllable boundaries.

Alternatively, could be an artifact of an LLM tooling, where those boundaries reflect token boundaries.

Unlaw­ / Ful­ / Ly
Dri­ / Vers
Pri­ / Vate
If it's extremely basic stuff and they've spent their entire life working on it, why did the two teams find different results?
Thinking of objects moving 10% of light speed, or even two times the speed of light away from you, is not intuitive to a layman, and I can't imagine the Math.
Ramsey isn’t even a real financial advisor, let alone a qualified psychologist…
Ah, fair. I usually don’t include form factor too much because it’s so subjective.

I think perhaps one of the reasons for the negativity here is that the price is approaching flagship from other companies, but that Tensor G4 performs like chips from four years ago.

I think that overshadows a lot of the improvements. Perhaps if the whole package was significantly cheaper, the reception would be more balanced.
The student typically spends most of his/her time with students of the same level of ability or interest. For the student who will someday become a college teacher, this general means able and interested students.

The teacher spends time with and on anyone who signs up. For the intro classes at least this will include a proportion of those who are neither interested nor able.
Exposing Purple Face Olympic Swimmers [video]
'No modes' ...this was a super influential talk for many of us a decade ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3591298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315328

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12196513
There's been a rumor for a while that Powerwall 3 is LFP, but I don't think anyone has actual confirmation on that.

I've seen occasional 18650 builds for DIY powerwalls but the vast majority are using prismatic LFP cells. Way easier to wire up, cheaper (unless you have a secret source for surplus 18650s), and minimal fire risk.
Type annotations plus modern IDEs have (in my experience) made this mostly a non-issue. It does require a bit more setup to get passable static analysis set up, which comes "for free" in languages with good compilers (like go!), but it's at least possible now to get to a (IMO) good point.

(FWIW, I moved away from python and ruby over a decade ago because of exactly this frustration, but I'm finding modern python to be pretty pleasant.)
This has been a right wing walking point for a long time (or more charitably and recently an anti-SJW talking point): Mentioning race is itself racist.

I can appreciate the superficial aspect of it - if we're going to overcome racism, we should stop focusing on race. This of course is ignorant to the reality that if we stop talking about race and racism, racism will just go unchecked. Which is of course what (some/many/most?) of those people want.
Yes, but but the fraud is still illegal.
Your understanding of ADHD is very limited and doesn't reflect the true scope of what ADHD entails.

Also, a lot more people being diagnosed with ADHD (who were previously masking and "blending in" while secretly suffering) doesn't make the word meaningless.
Excellent article. Sorting the list is a really simple and neat idea, without the need for clustering or a special data structure.
My threat model: I don't want for-profit entities to have my money or any more recognition through my using them.

Based on that, the rest of your comment is useless fearmongering
Re replay: No, because once someone has your password they can replay it as many times as they want. If you use your passkey on a compromised computer, the intercepted credentials can’t be reused.

Re DB leak: No, you the concern is reused passwords (or similar passwords) from a different site.

Re phishing: Yes, but one of the FUDs against passkeys is that they lock you in to a vendor. There is no more lockin than if store your passwords in a manager.