skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to dig into the claim that 3 out of 4 dating app users had been victims of sexual violence. The actual study comes from this report: https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-10/rr25_sexu...

This 3 out of 4 figure comes from the category of "online sexual violence" which includes behavior like being the recipient of abusive language. Being sent an expletive after rejecting a potential date is counted as sexual violence. Nearly as many men (61.5 % of straight men) as women (79.1%) have experienced "dating app facilitated sexual violence".

Even more eyebrow-raising was the claim that 27% had been subject to sexual assault or coercion. In particular, the fact that 3/4 as many men have experienced sexual coercion as women (16.2% vs. 22.5%). The question used for "coercion" was very interesting to say the least:

> Pressured the respondent verbally to perform unwanted sexual acts (eg making promises, lying, repeatedly asking or insisting etc)

So a woman giving a false number for her number of past sexual partners is counted as sexual coercion ("lying"). Also "making promises" is somehow counted as coercion? If a woman promises me she's into me for a long-term relationship and she subsequently breaks up with me after a few dates, is she a perpetrator of sexual violence on account of making and then breaking a promise? According to the survey, the answer is yes.

There's an unfortunately common trend of research that produces very high rates of respondents (supposedly) experiencing sexual violence, by asking questions that include a range of behavior well beyond what the most people - and the law - consider sexual violence. No, if a woman lies about her body count or doesn't uphold promises to date long term she's not perpetrating sexual violence. While I don't doubt that plenty of people have bad experiences with dating apps, the research backing the claims made in this article seems more in the vein of activism than scholarship.
That should have been obvious from the get go, no chance most people are going to spell that correctly
The Halloween Problem in Databases
I’m not arguing about life merely arising. I’m arguing about the unlikelihood of our idea of intelligence.
Phrasing it as "RISC-V is slow" really reads like clickbait. It seems to imply that the ISA is inherently inefficient, while it's actually really good.

Various low power rv64 CPUs are actually outperforming x86 when you compare them in terms of die area and energy usage.
In the US most engineers do not have the PE and many (might be most, but I couldn't find the numbers) do not take the FE exam.

In the States most people working on software have computer science degrees, not software engineering degrees.

In general there is not a huge amount of certification overhead for engineers in the US, despite what some people seem to think, and I'm quite happy that's the way it is.

I was mostly looking for perspectives on how requiring credentials like these impacted actual work and workplaces.
Your UserRegistrationService(s) is/are also prone to be overloaded. You don’t think of that as part of a naming convention? Would you argue that’s more about architecture? I was simultaneously agreeing with you and adding that this other minor organizational annoyance I have adds to the pile. Apologies if that seems low value.
Good advice! A rule of thumb I use is that the sentence should make sense if it was read outside of a browser, which results in roughly the same thing.
Yeah, it's definitely not ideal, but even with its many flaws I prefer TS over plain JS.

The problem in question can be "fixed" like this

const r1: { a: number; b: number } = { a: 10, b: 20 };

const r2 = r1 satisfies { a: number };

const r3: { a: number; b: string } = { b: "hello", ...r2 };

Now, TS would warn us that "'b' is specified more than once, so this usage will be overwritten". And if we remove b property -- "Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'string'"

Another "fix" would be to avoid using spread operator and specify every property manually .

Both of these solutions are far from ideal, I agree.

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I don't advocate TS in this thread though; I genuinely want to understand what makes row polymorphism different, and after reading several articles and harassing Claude Sonnet about it, I still didn't grasp what row polymorphism allows over what TS has.
TLS != ciphers
Why stream when you can play files from a local media server? Cheaper and I'm sure the Mbit rate is better.
didn't see, thanks!
By definition, if it can be copied out it wasn't hardware-bound.

Yubikeys are tamper-proof and cannot be copied. Everything else is just a place to store a statement that your cloud vendor of choice blesses this gadget to authenticate your account.
Being able to write:

<script src="util.js" />

instead of:

<script src="util.js"></script>

would be nice. But it's not (iirc) compatible with WHATWG's HTML5 parsing algorithm, browsers only use XML mode if served the correct content type, and in XML mode they don't recover at all from errors (when really, they should show an annoying popup and then switch to a quirks parser).

We need to fix that, before XHTML can be viable. As-is, it's like it's being sabotaged.
I’m using it in neovim right now. For vim, I guess you need a lsp plugin but it should work fine.
A DSL for peephole transformation rules of integer operations in the PyPy JIT
The key here is "changed the world". In a capitalist economy, there's no rule anywhere saying the change has to be good or productive. Often, the best way to make money is to do purposefully destructive things.

For example, consider the Tobacco industry. While yes they did, and somewhat still do, make a lot of money, they did not create any value. They siphoned it - they exchanged the purchase of tobacco for the cost of healthcare. I'm speculating, but if you were calculating the communal cost, that is the profits of tobacco minus the healthcare costs, I'm positive it would be negative.

Therefore, tobacco has a negative value onto the world, but it is profitable. The profit is a facade, that money is really stolen. This demostrates one of the core flaws with current economic systems - you can create profit without creating value. You can simply move money around and get some profit, and you can even destroy money and yet make money.

Keep in mind Facebook gets it's profit via advertising. The money they make is due to manipulating people to spend their money on things they wouldn't otherwise buy. The analysis is difficult, and I'm not saying what they're doing is bad per se, but the actual value they create is certainly debatable.

All that is to say, simply changing the world is a meaningless metric. Certainly, I can change the world for the worse, if I want, and profit in-between. In such a scenario not only am I not equivalent to a janitor, I actually create less value. While making orders of magnitude more money.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you like the onboarding.

I get your point about the subscription screen. It's something that I've been experimenting for a while. I found many users activate the subscription during the onboarding, that's why I keep it.

I've been working on this app for almost 5 years at this point. Also, congrats for the app. Feel free to share the link, I'd love to check it out.
You have sampling bias. I've known a lot of people who live in apartments who use their truck for truck things often. Many construction workers live in an apartment. Many of them get out to the country on weekends...

A vehicle is expensive. A second vehicle is a lot more expensive. Renting a truck is expensive. If you need a truck just 5% of the time it is overall cheaper to just drive a truck for everything than to have two vehicles or try to rent.
>Wisdom is thinking before acting, and socio-emotional awareness

ADHD and autism got me acting unwise...
Lifetime X is a great promise to make when you're trying to grow, but flickr can't provide free storage indefinitely, and at some point, inflation will catch up with T-Mobile's locked-in price.

I'm fine with regulators punishing companies for misleading advertising or not fulfilling their obligations, buy as savvy consumers, we have to also realize forever deals are too good to be true.
How long can we sustain economic growth?
How does a project like this go unnoticed? I feel like someone should’ve called it sooner… It’s not exactly unnoticeable with 170+ cameras going up
Chrome 91 experimental JPEG XL support
Yes, and that degree of say comes in the form of voting.
Now, when you say that do you mean they don't come up with ideas they have never heard of, or that no one has ever heard of? It's not as obvious that most people don't reinvent existing ideas that are new to them.
The overengineered I wrote this morning to get to know at lunch it would not be part of the project deliverables.
> Probably Java and Python have similar constructs

In Python, the closest you can get is a "frozen" dataclass, but you don't get true immutability[0]. What you _do_ get is effective enough for just about all practical use cases, except for the standard foot guns around mutable data structures.

@dataclass(frozen=True)
class MyModel:
...

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html#frozen-in...
Mistral AI Unveils Coding GenAI Model Codestral
Ask HN: Is Reddit the New StackOverflow?
Lately, when I ask google a software related question I am seeing more results from Reddit than I am from Stack Overflow. Reddit also seems to be providing more relevant and recent results.

Are other people seeing this as well? Has Reddit taken over as the de-facto software development knowledge repository?

For reference, most of the questions are Terraform and Kubernetes based.
Everyone Online Sounds Like an Absolute Fucking Poseur Lately
We Live in Imaginary Worlds
A GBM like XGBoost is an ensemble of trees. It may be that when you load RandomForest modules they fit based on entropy or whatever the typical DecisionTree does but imo the term “random forest” should really convey nothing more than “ensemble of trees”.

I’m saying XGBoost would be a subclass of RF
It wasn’t just Nielsen saying this. Pretty much anybody who knew anything about usability or accessibility was telling people not to use “click here” for links since the 90s, and once Google arrived with PageRank, SEO people started saying the same thing. This has been best practice for at least a quarter century for multiple reasons.
but if the sentence makes sense outside of the browser where there is no place to click, why should the sentence read the same inside the browser where there is a place to click?

your (collective) POV doesn't need to be explained to me, I get it, it's a fun little intellectual puzzle to write a sentence which works both ways and magically the user intuits that clicking is the thing to do, but none of that says the other way is wrong. People choose to do it the other way because it makes sense to them. Who are you to say "no, it doesn't make sense to you"
I'd wager they overstuffed this thing with sensors and high quality tracking to gather good training data, and the next model will be as effective with fewer cheaper sensors.
I guess that's it. Open source is a fantasy that started coming to an end about 15 years ago. We lived in a fantasy world in 90s-00s, where there were no governments, no corporations and almost no people that make you shake your head. It was so easy (and of course silly, in the hindsight) to believe, that the internet is some another world, where earthly matters do not concern us. And everything was just about improving this world for ourselves. It's not like people often agree to work for free otherwise. Working for free is incompatible with capitalism, and we learn to believe that nothing else is truly possible in the real world. It's not like "open source" doesn't have a point in that imperfect world with governments, corporations and 8B people, that the internet seemed disconnected from for a while, it just doesn't have place. It simply almost doesn't happen there.

So, now the real world has slowly catched up to that fantasy world of ours. The winter has really come.
Not sure if it classifies: https://project-cms-rpc-endcap.web.cern.ch/rpc/Physics/Books...
Should We Get Angry When Artists Sell Out?
I saw this the other day:

Covered in [The Whatever Times] was an article about something something,

The link went to the article and not the Times home page. That bothered me more than it should have.
How were your links styled?

I ask because you say people struggle with discovery, but modern UI trends are all about simplifying and flattening, which comes at the cost of discovery.

I remember in the 90s, links were typically blue and underlined, maybe even bold? Links stuck out like a sore thumb. These days, that's considered ugly, and you might be lucky if links are even underlined.
Flagged.... What a surprise
it's not unnoticed, it's just not illegal. And how often do you notice cameras?

There's no constitutional right to privacy (Roe v Wade overturned, remember), it's legal to photograph people in public in that country, and doing something legal 60 times per second in 170 locations automatically doesn't make it illegal.
Because the shareholders invariably have more control in the oil output than consumers. Consumers have zero choice here - it's typically a gun to your head type scenario.

Either they consume the oil, or they can't drive, and therefore can't get a job, and will therefore die. So, they must consume the oil. Some have enough money to buy electric or hybrid - them, I would say, you can attribute SOME of the effects of the oil they use.
Re the comment about the US doing a lot of the very expensive parts of drug development...

Where are the costs, and what would it take to break tyem down?

For example if the costs are in screening molecular candidates, that could be done in a lab on a computer in India or Vietnam just as easily as in New Jersey. If its clinical trials, Europe is cheap and Asia cheaper still, both with high quality medical staff. Etc.

Any commenters understand where the major costs are?
Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann (O'Reilly 2017)

The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt, David Thomas (1999)

Gwynne's Latin, N. M. Gwynne (2015)
Google releases tech to watermark AI-generated text
I had a hypothesis that any song could be a Christmas song if you just add jingle bells to it. I don't know if I proved that, but I created a website to test it out:
http://jinglefy.me

Forgive the lack of SSL certs. It works on chrome if you "Proceed Anyway". I think it has issues on mobile though, and please also forgive the no-longer working Twitter links - I haven't done anything with this site in years!

One unexpected challenge was that, because I encode the entire jingle-bell playback info in the URL parameters, the URLs became very large. So I created my own url shortener (123fwd.me) for use when sharing your jinglefied videos. Here's a jinglefied version of Gangnam Style I created back in the day: http://123fwd.me/16MbXts

After this, I decided to create http://fartify.me based on the same engine. You can probably guess the purpose of this site! :D

Have fun, and I'd love to have you share your own jinglefied or fartified creations here!
IQ + EQ

Shocker…

Suppose that comment reflects low awareness of the HN community
Y38.5 - medical diagnosis code indicating injury caused by terrorism involving the use of nuclear weapons.
Like @JohnFen said, my style has also evolved over multiple decades and it's hard to pin it down to one (or even a few) specific titles. But I suppose Teach Yourself C by Herbert Schildt deserves a nod, as it's basically the book I first learnt programming from.

Other than that, I can recall being influenced by a number of the X: How To Program[1] books by Deitel and Deitel. I might also mention Rapid Development and Code Complete by Steve McConnell. And The Pragmatic Programmer had some influence.

[1]: including "C: How to Program", "C++: How to Program" and "Java: How to Program".
Seems like one of those apps that would work fine from the website.
Wait why is that ideal?
I was hoping this would be an analysis of exactly what would happen and how NYT would handle it, but it's not. It's very one-sided of what the union claims will happen. I'm much more curious about the what the NYT has planned just in case.
These have been popping up all around my town in southwest Ohio
Or Jim Keller even:-)
It's using less material and less landfill, but I wonder if it really is more sustainable in the grand scheme of things, at the scale of clothing and similarly sized items. The additional round trip shipping and workshop operations (HVAC, lighting, commuting, etc.) could potentially exceed the footprint of just sending you a replacement right off the production line. Obviously there's a crossover point above which this couldn't possibly be (cars, etc.) but it's probably a very blurry line, and I wouldn't be surprised if some companies knowingly take the worse but ostensibly sustainable option, i.e. greenwashing, for the resulting brand loyalty and word of mouth advertising.
The source code for Doom is GPL, but the .wad files and assets that Doom needs to run are not GPL and are not included in the source code. It's the text files containing application code that are open source. And GPL specifically says that the software has no "FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE", so it doesn't matter if a piece of GPL-licensed software is not usable.
> Samsung added a custom JPEG parser in Little Kernel that is used to show logos and error messages while booting. The code responsible for loading the JPEG file will place it in a fixed-size structure on the heap. But it never checks the size of the file, causing a heap overflow.

Heh, file format parsers - the GIFt that just keeps on giving
Former OpenAI Researcher Says Company Broke Copyright Law
We'll check another website, no biggie
I do this all the time because so many sellers bundle disparate products under one listing and rating. It's annoying that Amazon buries the option in the "See More Reviews" page which is only linked near the bottom of a product page.
It's more of an internal name like Darwin/XNU is for Apple.

They could of just made it a new version of Android.
> Outlook goes and wraps the whole thing in a safety URL you can't see past

That bullshit really needs to end. It's making people more likely to fall for phishing scams when they can't figure out the URL.
I like it, and I agree with you. Websites follow some simple design rules, some from typesetting, some new especially for the Web. Not least because of the behaviour of base components and the availability of styling libraries that keep their own smell around no matter what one does.

I like to draw on my websites too. I write a gpu-rendered background for basically any website I make for fun.

https://gtblank.org

https://ungut.at
Except as the article noted previous courts have ruled that prolonged and detailed surveillance can constitute a search and is protected by the fourth amendment.
Skip (SwiftUI on Android): September 2024 Mastodon Posts
AWS Bedrock deployed models, which include Anthropic Claude models, claim HIPAA compliance eligibility.
Yes, subjudice applies even when a judge is making the decision.

Third party news outlets aren’t involved in this case. There is a clear distinction between involved parties and independent journalism.
Text of complaint (pdf),

https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024.10.21-1-Compl...

Related,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222649 ("Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance", 143 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33994205 ("Flock is Building a New AI-Driven Mass-Surveillance System", 15 comments)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety (YC S17)
Carl Jung vindicated
if you have a legal reason to track someone, make them wear a tracker. don't make everyone else lose their privacy and freedom to move without government oversight
There's more like a dozen architectural licenses but they're mostly used for server chips that were canceled. The Cortex X925 is getting close to Apple/Nuvia BTW.
Don't forget SSOReady!

I think Magic.link mostly threw away the web2 auth side of their produce and went all-in on blockchain? Haven't seen them in conversations for awhile.
i'm sure if you published the hard science here, all sorts of holes could be poked in it. this idea that deciphering what links are clickable wastes time is nonsense and probably brought to us by primitive AIs that are measuring how many ads per second they can get the multitudes to click on.

people who make their own pages invariable "click here" and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

A few months back a proud father posted his daughter's first website that she made herself and it was all "click here" and not a single person either told her off or complained about the waste of time.
Just FYI, for anyone that didn't notice (like me at first), words in a dashed box are links! There's a description of dayshapes, and lots more info about semaphore on other pages.
Maybe it is stereotypical, but I would score high on IQ but abysmally low on EQ. So, I have no chance of ever being considered wise.
Exactly this.

The NYT ceased being the paper of record a long time ago.
Yeah but the language has the F word in it, teehee. It's so funny. :D

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After reading Uncle Bob's bible many years ago, I thought about it as the sacred script, and tried to follow it to the t. During the next couple of years I learned that many of its advises need to be taken with a varying amount of salt - though I think that book can be still recognized in most of my work, if at least in parts.
Lina Khan is a national treasure.
The inventor of DRAM, Robert Heath Dennard, just died a few months ago and I was reading his obit and his history.

I think the long and short of it is that DRAM is cheap. DRAM needs one transistor per data bit. Competing technologies needed far more. SRAM needed six transistors per bit for example.

Dennard figured out how to vastly cut down complexity, thus costs.
Were you planning on bringing a keyboard and mouse around with you? VR "gesture" controls are godawful and nothing has supplanted mouse and keyboard because they are absolutely wonderful control methods.

If you ARE carrying around a mouse and keyboard and AVP, that seems like a lot more clunk and silliness than just using a damn laptop. What are you doing that actually benefits from gluing the screen to your face?

I want to be explicit: I love VR and have been hugely into it since the very first oculus dev kits, but other than flight/driving simulators and gun games which all hugely hugely benefit from the physical immersion VR provides, there is nothing worth doing in VR. Not that many games actually benefit from a physical presence. Almost nobody playing FIFA or CoD actually wants to do it in VR. The (really fun and quite well made) CoD ripoffs and other shooters in VR are nearly empty, because so few people are willing to stand up while playing. The Wii made this clear 18 years ago FFS.

I'm still waiting for a single use case that isn't sim driving, sim flying, or shooting, or beat saber. Billions invested into producing something, and still there is nothing.
But your life is transient, you might as well pollute yourself.
Scalable watermarking for identifying large language model outputs