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>November 1, 2024 — The Google Bug Hunters team decided to not reward nor announce this security fix, because it only affects developers.

Good to know Google doesn't care about my security. Long time Flutter user, but Google expresses disdain for it at every opportunity...

Might see if the C# mobile frameworks have caught up...
Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability under active exploit threatens thousands
Ok, so let's be very generous and say 0.002% :) Very popular!
The thing is, factual knowledge can be filled in with some RAG pretty easily. It is much harder to impart correct reasoning traces through something like RAG. I'd much rather have the base model be a stronger reasoner, and bring my facts to the model.
From the patient’s point of view, it all looks the same. Treatment that should be covered gets denied.

It sounds like the insurance companies have a strong incentive to make their coding and requirements as complicated as possible to increase the error rate so they can deny coverage. I don’t think they should get a pass for those denials.
Rust does this.

IMO, it's not worth it: It makes working with random numbers very problematic when working on cryptographic use cases.
to me this is yet another canary in the mine moment. this same type of policy is happening all over and i feel humanity is headed for a very dark next few decades at the very least...
> Take the collection of all true statements and make that your axiomatic system.

A complete proof system needs to be able to derive Γ |- φ for every pair Γ, φ such that Γ |= φ. Not just when Γ is the complete theory of some structure. Completeness of first-order logic (and its failure for second-order logic) is about the logical system itself, while the incompleteness theorems are about specific theories - people often mix these up, but they talk about very different things.

> Andreas Blass in the comments says that Incompleteness does not apply to PA_2.

He says something rather different, namely that its "meaningless". That's a value judgement. Incomplete proof calculi for second order logic do exist (e.g. any first-order proof calculus) and for those, what I wrote is true. Andreas Blass would probably just think of this as an empty or obvious statement.
For a PRNG you should probably be using something like a good hash function that passes the SMHasher3 tests to generate it (which funnily enough I just posted now after a long overdue enhancement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42409577).

Alternately develop something that at least passes all the Dieharder tests.

There are many good options for a variety of requirements.

Maybe the following perspective is missing some key context here (?) but when I skimmed the code for this, I was stunned that such a low quality algorithm was used by Zellic (some kind of high end cyber genius cabal, it seems) and in cryptocurrency purposes. I'm rarely harsh on projects here but bloody hell that's utterly stupid. Especially when there are so many good options.
Arguably, rolling your own crypto (in this case AES which is customizable) requires a very careful implementation, beyond RNG.

Since dart/flutter is multi platform, using Random.secure for animation has it's own performance issues with interfacing host entropy RNG.

The majority of Dart/Flutter users are creating UI apps.

Few browsers with security policies and OS combination does not allow access to the entropy with Flutter Web in which Random.secure will fail, this isn't exclusive to Dart/Flutter. [1]

NaCL [0] offloads these concerns for developers, especially indie/startup.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaCl_(software)

[1] https://api.dart.dev/dart-math/Random/Random.secure.html
Imagine if that’s the norm though. I doubt very much we would be wondering how to get to Mars.

Also Nigel Richards probably doesn’t spend much time watching Netflix or shopping on Amazon. Probably very much focussed on scrambling.

A world where one in eight billion binge watches Netflix would truly be an interesting world!
How about astigmatism?
Not The Onion meets Actually The Onion
https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1gr5jz8/the_on...
I don't have any issue in principle with any of these as research topics, but my concerns are.

1. So what? We do research, maybe we find something out, and are we going to do anything?

2. Would the money be better spent on programmes that do something instead of specific research.

3. What's the process for getting funded, and are decision makers bringing their own biases and beliefs into that process?

In the context of NZ which is slashing spending on many many programmes, you might as well cancel all this research spending. Even if research finds that we should intervene and provide support for some kind of minority group, there's no way it's going to get funded anyway.
Minor nitpick here, but it's a fact I found interesting when I heard about it. The water inside a Moka doesn't boil, you can indeed observe that the water coming out from the top isn't boiling. What happens is that the air that is left inside the bottom chamber expands due to the heat, pushing the water upwards.
To me it seemed like there were two kinds of economics degrees.

One was a math degree pretending to be about the economy. At the graduate level, it could be a science: actually going out and measuring things with some pretty hardcore tools, and then publishing a theory that nobody who ought to use it (AKA politicians) would ever be able to understand. There's real findings here on stuff like the minimum wage, which you'd think someone would care about.

It could also be just some extremely complicated derivations that pretended they were related to the real world, but with ridiculously mathematical assumptions.

The other was a softie-softie "talk about how the world works" degree with barely any mathematics, just lots of readings and essays.

You could choose what you wanted to do.

This is why I've never quite figured out how to assess economics graduates. I don't know what they got up to. They also seem to do some very disparate kinds of work once they (I guess I should say "we") graduate.
This is a poor attempt at applying cancel culture tactics to sociology and psychology.
A world where human intelligence made such rapid process as CPUs. Stuff of science fiction.
Reading between the lines, I’m pretty sure the pump is integrated in the housing (that’s their custom “bespoke, brushless gear pump”), and the boiler is your electric kettle. So I think you could just drop the end of the tube into your kettle and call it a day.

The kind of coffee enthusiast who is going to preorder a $650 unreviewed coffee machine probably has at least one temp holding kettle they use for pour over.

But fully agreed this needs some clarity on the website.
Microsoft kills off Skype credits and phone numbers in favor of subscriptions
49mm Portafilter? Was unclear from the site but seemed so?
Meta Motivo
Yes, for sure!

A good first step is to learn some form of CAD and buy a cheap 3D printer. With that, you can rapidly test mechanisms and ergonomics on a daily basis for pennies. With both products, I went through maybe 5-ish entirely 3d printed prototypes. This will save you a ton of money iterating parts that don't need to be made from the final materials. With some products, you can make something functional here, but in my case, plastic isn't stable enough to make gear pumps and grinding burrs with.

If you intend to use casting or injection molding, you need to start thinking about that now rather than later, and designing parts that fit those processes even if you aren't using them yet.

So now it's time to start working with final materials. The best way to save money doing this is to only make the most critical parts from final materials until everything is nailed down. PCBWay has reasonably cheap machining/metal 3d printing services but you can also reach out to CNC shops directly and build some relationships for later. For me, this meant making the burrs, pump, and group head from metal, and testing them inside an otherwise 3D printed machine. I could iterate on just those parts and not worry if they required downstream changes because I could just print the secondary parts at home. I also cast my own silicone to save money.

Then once you're happy, you can go ahead and have everything made from final materials, (even if those materials are, say, CNCed instead of injection molded) and you have your MVP. Production engineering is a whole different beast, but that is for another time.

As a disclaimer, I wouldn't recommend starting with coffee machines, coffee grinders, or anything like them if you want to make a physical product. Hydraulics (especially at a small scale) and material processing are difficult, non-intuitive, and will be impossible if you are learning the other core skills at the same time.
Personally I think 5g is the way to go. Free more spectrum from the old TV channels (DVB-T is a lot more efficient in terms of spectrum use), this will cover rural use.

10 years ago I would never think I would say that, but I'm happy with LTE at 50MB down, 15up. The problem? No new lte equipment manufactured in western countries. You want cat 16+ modems? ZTE and Huawei are the only ones to sell you one. And their software not only spies for the Chinese Communist Party. It is also shit (I know, I bought a zte modem to marvel at my 100MB down speeds, o ly to rip it out 2 days later in discust after all my voice calls sounded as if I was on half a Meg if I didn't restart the thing daily (no, it only has automated restart as a weekly option in software). So my old tp-link was installed back in its box on the mast.

So we need more work done here to make 5g happen. Chinese will no do it for us (especially now that their economy is failing).
Here’s an interesting statistic, over the past 50 or so years, we trusted the government the most(9/11) when arguably we should have trusted them the least:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/public-trust...
Worth noting: neither major Presidential candidate, nor the news media, made health care a focus of the recent election. The issue was almost ignored. And neither major political party offers much: the Democratic establishment will defend the Affordable Care Act to the death (literally in this case), despite the fact that it's not particularly affordable, becoming more unaffordable over time, and it continues to enshrine and subsizide the ruthless for-profit insurance companies. On the other hand, the Republicans paint any kind of government involvement in health care as "Communist", despite the fact that the entire rest of the civilized world have more efficient, effective, and compassionate health care systems heavily regulated by the government.

I think it's a sign of deep American corruption that we can't even have this public debate without a salacious murder occurring.
[dupe]

Actual article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/att-says-it-wont...

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42338721
If it had been 39 Republicans, it would have been 2 Democrats.

Obama campaigned for Joe Lieberman afterwards as an independent against Ned Lamont, who had won the Democratic primary. Lieberman tanked the public option for the Democrats, and Obama was paying his debt.

Democrats would have paid the price at the polls for getting rid of the public option. Lieberman took the hit for the rest of them; he was the cheapest, because he already publicly held right-wing positions. If they had needed another vote, they would have had to find another Democrat to risk their political career to do it. Probably with a cushy lobbyist job at a health insurer after getting voted out.
I will upload a simple video of the workflow very soon!
This is a pot, kettle, black situation.
What optimizations are disabled? I don't see any reason any of them would be, nor is there any bookkeeping. The stack itself is the bookkeeping which is required regardless. The exception-specific stuff is stored elsewhere, which is why throwing an exception is expensive, but if it doesn't throw then nothing in the hot path was pessimised.
A couple of years ago I came to the possession of a Google daydream VR. It sat for a little while because my phone was old. Then I got to upgrade to a Pixel 5 and one of the first things that excited me was the ability to explore the headset.

To my disappointment the two products, both coming out of Google, were incompatible even though they were only 2 years apart.

I don't believe that flip floppy culture has had a reason to change.
And also, humans vary wildly in their thinking and what's "obvious" to them. I'm about 1950 and am good in openings and tactics (but not tactics for the opponent). Others around the same rating are much worse than that but they understand positional play much better - how to use weak squares, which pieces to exchange and so on. To me that's a kind of magic.
The problem I have with this debate is that it's targetting the wrong thing. Of course tyrannical states are a problem, but they are a problem because they can ride roughshod over your rights. Having a legal right to money transfers or whatever is only worth the value of the legal right. If the legal right is ignored or revoked, you're in no better a situation than never having the right in the first place.

The problem is a political one - if you want your state to be not shit, then you need to make your state not shit, not campaign for some magic work around to the state.
Public availability doesn't automatically mean free usage. The German copyright still applies. Which specific license or usage right do those data have?
How would painting a satellite black 'seriously constrain' them? Why do we let corporations foist externalities on science and the general public? Either you can engineer a solution, or you can't, and if you can't, you don't belong in space.
It's almost like Microsoft had an Android phone recently.

For some strange reason they never saw fit to put Windows arm on it.
> The thing off by a factor of 10 here was not the level of the chemical, it was the calculation of the recommended safety level.

Doesn't matter to the point I was making which is that a factor of ten is significant enough that you can't just assume what happens at X level means the same for 1/10th of it or 10x it.
Global Power City Index (GPCI) – Institute for Urban Strategies
It will be probabilistic, because of the randomness of the draw. More words = greater chance of high scoring words for this board and draw. It likely wouldn’t take many words at all to beat a workd class player 1% of the time, and a pretty substantial vocabulary to win 99% of the time.

Actually, 99% may not even be achievable because sometimes your opponent will just luck out with letters and board lineup.
> Anthropic: Claude 3 Opus (self-moderated)

> I apologize, but I don't feel comfortable writing explicit adult stories. While I'm happy to discuss relationships and sex on a general level, I try to keep things tasteful and avoid extremely graphic content or erotica. There are other resources out there better suited for that kind of material. Let me know if there are other writing topics I can assist with though!
> Accuracy and precision is useful. If Maslow's hierarchy of needs is neither, I question how useful it truly is.

https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
Cologuard?
Ask HN: Is the Golang ecosystem health declining?
Hello there!

I recently moved back into a devops/sre position and I'm again working with kubernetes and many golang-based tools.

I've been away (working with different technologies) for a "few years".

It's been a couple of months now and I'm stumbling in Go-based code repositories from github that either won't compile or are unofficially abandoned (last commit from 5 years ago, the README.md does not explicitly mention them being abandoned).

Hence the question: is the golang ecosystem health declining? A few years ago most repository would compile via mostly "go get && go build"

Am I perceiving this the wrong way?
Ban ads would be a great start.
Your examples are all people from 100 years ago when the game was completely different. Not a ringing endorsement of the claim that it's 100% possible (present tense). If Chigorin were magically transported to the present day he would not be a professional level player.
Crack down on them, but don’t use it to justify denying healthcare to patients.
https://audacious-media-player.org/ I'm still gleefully using Winamp skins to this day thanks to these fine people
I agree with your general points, but if we can trust Vox, the Anthem situation wasn't quite what people thought. The policy was to prevent overpayment to anesthesiologists, because they get paid partly by the hour and there's evidence that they tend to inflate their times. The policy would not have increased costs to patients, because of this:

> “Say there is a contract between an insurance company like Anthem and an anesthesiologist,” Garmon told Vox. “What is always in that contract is a clause that says, ‘You, the provider, agree to accept the reimbursement rules in this contract as payment in full.’ That means the provider cannot then turn around and ask [the patient] for money.”

There was also a process for anesthesiologists to apply for extra payment if surgery went extra long.

https://www.vox.com/policy/390031/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shi...

They make a larger point that the main reason Americans pay so much more for healthcare is that we pay our providers a lot more. Nations with more reasonable costs and high-quality results have controls in place to keep costs down at the provider level.
I genuinely don't understand what compelled you to make this comment. One is a tiny enclave with just a handful of transformers and a rudimentary power grid. Another is the biggest country in Europe, home to about 40 million people, with a vast energy grid systematically targeted for three years, and harsh winters. It's +19 in Gaza and -4 in Kyiv right now, without electricity Ukrainians will very literally freeze to death in a very short time.

This is such a glaring disparity that the only explanation I can see is some kind of moral point, since clearly one is much more relevant to the global shortage of transformers than the other. What is the moral point you're making? What are you actually trying to say?
Where we’re going we don’t need no stinking drip tray!

Believe me. You need a drip tray.

Best of luck. Hope it turns out better than ZPM.
No, they calculated the likelihood of this as being acceptably low. Are you criticising that they checked?
PaintShopPro is the bar for ease of use.

GIMP has long fallen short. Does 3.0 change this?
So You Want to Be a Wizard [pdf]
My experience of university software courses are they are out of date and not worth it. Were I to do it again, I'd do a practical course specific to the area I was interested in.
As I understand it the US government is why every American home- from the deserts in Nevada to the mountains in Virginia- has electricity. And that investment has paid for itself a million times over.
Very cool, props to you for pushing through on a solo hardware project. Most of the keyboard ticklers in here have no idea of the types of challenges involved. Very funny to see their critiques mainly limited to the domain they have experience in i.e. the website.

It's also interesting to see the reaction to the price - to some, your price points are absurd, but I've met a few coffee enthusiasts who have spent 4x what you're pricing for a grinder.

Best of luck!!
to be clear, i'm not a doctor or an expert, just a person with gasto problems - maybe to elaborate a little from my original comment: i think everyone over 40 should be screened (with a colonoscopy or other non-procedure testing) for colon cancer, full stop. then, say, every five or ten years depending on the results?

i also believe pre-screening (stool sample testing, mostly) is getting better, which would potentially help categorize who does and does not need an actual colonoscopy in the future

these are all US stats[0], which i'd imagine is a broadly worse-off group than the UK in terms of like, ultraprocessed foods and other risk factors, but this stood out to me:

> Lifetime Risk of Developing Cancer: Approximately 4.0 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer at some point during their lifetime, based on 2018–2021 data, excluding 2020 due to COVID.

anecdotally, i think with gastro problems there's a lot of individual latitude where serious problems might go undetected, under-reported, or assumed to have a less serious cause - i also think (but do not know) that colon cancer develops slowly, which may mean there's a long potential where it could be caught, detected, or risks flagged early by a colonoscopy, which, to me, outweighs the risks of "serious complications" from the procedure

[0] https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/colorect.html
The whole thing is a bit more, but much of that is not going to social sciences at all and a lot of things which are lumped together are useful - economics is a social science, for example, and if you search for the EHB code on the most recent awardees you’ll see that it includes things like studies on autism or suicide which seem pretty useful to me.

https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportu...
Have you read Discipline and Punish? Foucault be hard to read in parts but he did the research and it shows up on every page. I disagree vehemently with his thesis, but there's no denying it has impact for a reason.
We should recognize space in orbit as precious and make intelligent decisions about how to best make use of it. That means we don't waste a ton of it just because the government can't get AT&T to build what they're paid to build.
It seems to me that should then be handled by the legal system or perhaps the licensing boards. That is to say, the insurance companies should be forbidden from denying coverage and if they believe that something is going on then they can alert the police or take the doctor to court.
I'm an acolyte in the church of bounded rationality and the fallibility of institutions that practice science.

I studied journalism as an undergraduate, and my beliefs here are like in journalism. Objectivity is impossible, like a Platonic ideal. But, it's an excellent thing to strive for. "Fuck it, it's impossible" is the wrong answer in my opinion.

Qualitative methods and pure theory scholarship have their place, but most useful qualitative research at least hints at some testable hypotheses. I feel that an underemphasis on generalizability is what happens when disciplines give up. And at worse, theory-based scholarship as it's applied in some social sciences is really no better than really obtusely worded political punditry.
Wow, thank you for building this, with stainless steel you have addressed the last concern I had for the grinder (well, the price is a bit steep for me too, but I can understand it).

Btw, is it Turbina or Oculo? Chart and shop say Oculo, bit it's Turbina elsewhere.

Anyway, good job!
> Everyone knows Americans pay the most for medical treatment, but the life expectancy is not that high.

Sure.

> If you know your behavior isn't good for you

This doesn't follow. Our healthcare system might be worse than some but that does not imply it's bad for you. That same logic would imply getting punched in the face is good for you because it's better than getting shot.
If C++ makes it possible to blow your leg off, multithreading with C++ makes it possible to blow yourself up, along with half your neighborhood and some homes halfway around the country, unexplicitly.
She says that you can’t find denial rates for specific providers then she gives denial rates for specific providers. I’m not sure if she cited a source. I’m curious where her data comes from.