skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're Going to Have to Learn to Love Factory Farms
While they might be using an email address from a public service doesn't mean they are browsing HN while on the job.
My interest in this is piqued. I’m really happy to see people doing things to simplify personal standalone website authorship making it expressive and flexible without a bulky content management system or jumping through hoops for some front-end toolchain. I know when I’m developing things I’m often as or more concerned with satisfying multiple use cases or functionality extensibility, but having a nice focused tool polished for one use case is nice. When I was deep in web dev and had my machine set up with a selection of go-to docker setups for different dev needs and the knowledge of how that all needed to be orchestrated was fresh in my mind, deploying most of the SSGs or whatever seemed trivial. Now in the odd event that I have a personal project or whatever that indicates more than just a few static handmade pages, the first thing I do after looking up what todays web world consider to be the “obvious” best tools and practices is see how many people are asking about counterintuitive config issues or other getting-started type problems. As cool as whatever application might look, I know I’ve got about two good hours in me of recall, research and troubleshooting before I just say “fuck it. Guess I didn’t want to do that project anyway.” The point of those tools is to save time and energy — you don’t have to get very far outside “the loop” for it to take more effort than it’s worth to get back in for a lot of them. Simple tools for simple tasks are great when you know you’ll never ever need built-in hooks to wrangle graphql queries and automatically invalidate CDN caches and generate 10 sizes of images optimized for every conceivable device or whatever.
> Hm. Seems very C++ oriented. Talks about specific keywords of C++ and their semantics. Not even mentioned "actor" in the whole document. "immutable" not found.

The term "systems programmer" is right there in the title. They are also the very first words in the article. The examples are in C++, but the whole document focuses on both C and C++. The article clearly focuses on the primitives, as it should.

It's undoubtedly a great article on the subject, but nitpickers have to nitpick, and one-uppers have to one-up.

I look forward to read your article on the topic.
Every is a bit of an overstatement. Generators in some places are a thing. (And so are fairly large areas without houses.) But generally, yes, also subject to the caveats in another comment.

Satellite broadband does seem to be the "hack" for making locations that don't have broadband or really usable cell coverage in many cases practical.
And what about the anxiety that you feel when you learn about the -c flag after having used cp quite a lot without it on macOS?
With any question like this, the path to an answer follows three intermediate questions:

1. Was there a security problem that resulted from the use of this insecure generator?

2. Were the developers who encountered this problem completely unreasonable and in the wrong, or were they simply non-(security)-experts who developed software that happened to have a security vulnerability?

3. If the latter, did the language/toolkit strongly encourage developers to use an insecure generator -- e.g., by making an insecure generator the default or "simpler" option (such as Random() instead of Random.secure()).

4. Is there some broad and general understanding that this toolkit is only intended for applications, such as monte-carlo testing or graphics rendering, where performance at the cost of security will always be the correct solution?

Given that the authors are able to offer several examples of real security vulnerabilities caused by developers using an insecure PRG, I'm going to read the answers as (1) Yes, (2) not unreasonable, (3) Yes, (4) I don't think so.

The decision to make insecure RNGs the default creates security vulnerabilities. This is demonstrable and has broad and unpredictable effects, given that developers are not security experts. The decision to make secure RNGs the default (easier path) has exactly one implication, which is that a small number of specialized applications will have slightly worse performance, performance that can easily be improved by making a conscious decision to remove the secure RNG.
"I've studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,"

"The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen."

Not good. These are Indira Gandhi levels of Luddism. Not something we need in a US president.
there is no unified "they" .. instead I think you are identifying a difficult fork in the road of education.. exploratory and associative free-will versus collective learned information up to disciplined obedience. A full society needs both! neither are inherently better ! It is indeed a difficult subject. People in the disciplined obedience camp do sometimes prioritize their own ways for funding, and vice-versa, for sure ..
The person I replied to didn't assert that he was a Republican. Your comment is inapposite. And the Democrat elite is also the enemy.
I get that, but my point is that in health insurance, you're pretty much always going to find someone complaining about being denied for something, even if the denial was completely justified on an evidentiary basis (again: not talking about OP specifically here). Literally every cost-control measure -- even if sensible -- is going to be framed as evil by someone.

A lot of health care is just really expensive superstition. For a more extreme version, consider the phenomenon of "preventative MRIs", which are just lighting piles of money on fire for no reason at all.

I replied to colonoscopy specifically here because the general public has been conditioned to believe that these screenings are medically necessary at increasingly younger ages for everyone, despite the fact that this is not the standard at all in most other countries.
Tcl-Lang – Multiple Document Interface (2019)
Google Bobby Fischer. Chess has its share. Hard to tell if it's greater or lesser per capita.
Mostly-American or historical European. The Count of Monte Cristo isn't that old yet it was written long before France went metric. Critically measurements are frequently meaningful in works of fiction. Back to the Future's 88 miles per hour would mean something very different if it was the equivalent of 40 kph or 400 kph, but nobody is looking it up while watching.

Sickles in a galleon shows up in one franchise, inches shows up in millions.
Thank you for the advice!

If you click the shop button to go to the store itself, might be more your vibe?

https://velofuso.com/store
I agree with you that there are different interpretations of transformative. This one will play out in the courts. The definition that the copyright courts use is defined by court cases. In that regard I do believe what the models do is transformative, which exculpates them from copyright violations. Not just because someone had to work hard, I agree I didn’t say that very well.

I do think they have a much bigger problem with breach of contract claims for potentially violating a tos. It’s becoming clear that the way they acquired some of the data likely has issues. However, they are super proactive at signing agreements to solve these issues (eg deal with Reddit)
> That said I dont think he is the screwdriver to espresso machine type.

He's mentioned modding espresso machines many times in his videos, and brings it up often during reviews.
Canada checking in. Data caps have only recently increased. Note, I did not say things got cheaper. My understanding is the Canadian government asked for a lower $ per GB. This means by throwing data at customers that isn't needed, they're actually charging "less".

I think Starlink is a huge game changer for rural Canadian areas served only by copper, and to be honest, I'm not sure if Bell cares when the large cities are where most of the population is and that's where they can make their money.
If they find something suspicious during the colonoscopy, they won't bill it as a free screening anymore and you'll be on the hook for it. Ask me how I know.

No regrets about getting screened though. It saved my life.
Sounds like the same thing that happened to Wells Fargo customers a few years ago, prompted by giving customer service people a commission for signing up "customers" to stuff they didn't ask for or want
Was it a governmental agency or a private entity that denied coverage in their case?
Platform.sh team finds auth bypass in Go SSH package
Trying to prove correlations between race and crime is literally the historical basis of criminology as a discipline. They failed, it's stupid, and now people know better.

You can commission as many studies as you like on astrology, and they'll all be meaningless.
The pump has been tested up to 100c for extended periods. It would definitely work for that, but it's optimized for pressure rather than flow so it might be a bit overkill!
Painting a satellite black wouldn't solve the problem that they would still block the stars behind them when passing overhead. Instead of light streaks, you now have dark streaks across a region of the sky.
What about NIR spectroscopy? It penetrates the bio window at >1200 microns now…not sure how this compares? I mean signal processing wise, I would assume NIR does the trick.
You could easily argue the opposite is also possible to be true - if by "murder" you mean "killing" in general.

It's quite possible for someone to hold that a killing in self-defense is much more defensible than the deliberate execution even after a conviction and trial of someone who is "no longer harmful to society" because they're locked up.
Me too, though it turns out certain types of houses don't support just replacing furnace with a central heat pump. No free lunch in thermodynamics :(
Last time this happened to me it turned out I made a logic error, the algorithm required a lock but I erroneously thought atomics would do.
It may be the self-aware human bias tainting this reasoning, but it seems convergent with our own psyche/brain processes, and/or inherent to the way we commonly express conscious thoughts.

Percolating tokens that allow a more "accurate" latent space appear to be more accurate, but are nearly actually useless noise. Almost a virtual shower thought.

Because people only put the answer at the end of a grammatically correct statement, with the more "reasoned" statements being more articulately percolated/logically sound, and that is expressed grammatically. These statements are inferred to be associated with intellectual boiler-plate. They may be correlated and not actually causative, but that would require a multiple component architecture with embeddings being used as a proto-"qualia" and that is getting hairy.

Facts should "only" have to be read once, and should be explicitly defined with a more secure of a confidence completely. Implicit inferences from those explicit facts should be emitted from a different, less confident module; with the chat boilerplate being tacitly composed finally when presenting the output to the user.

Of course separating the baby from the bathwater is the hard (not impossible) part.
The Cult of Claude
Freud and other psychodynamic theorists were basically the beginning of the idea within medicine and neurobehavioral sciences that people don't always have insight into their behavior.

Too much has been made of them on the basis of caricature and stereotype.

Maybe in the humanities it's still dominant but I don't get that sense.

It's always struck me as odd that people are fine idolizing and giving Nobel prizes to vague two-system theories of decision making ("fast and slow") but then turn around and act like Freud was the worst form of charlatan, when the former is just an empirically articulated form of the latter. Important difference but fundamentally not all that different in another way.

I feel silly defending Freud but sometimes I feel like the weird vitriol and animosity toward Freud is strange. As someone pointed out, it's like the general public getting angry with physicists for ever positing luminous ether, or getting angry with biologists for entertaining Lamarckian inheritance.
A few years ago Go was still more of a novelty in uptake, and various new entusiasts started new projects in it. Most projects get abandoned over time, whether Go, Rust, Python, or whatever.

Those projects were never mature or important to have companies/maintaining communities/etc built around them, and evidently never had a determined dev behind them who'd stick with them anyway.

What repositories where they? How many stars? Did anybody consider them important and mature?
He doesn't review products he didn't pay full price for in general (I didn't ask of course, I've just watched him for years). Maybe someday he'll order one!
While we're bashing economics, something I truly miss is that no new high level economic systems are being discussed prominently. As important as fusion in physics or cancer treatment in medicine, we badly need to explore and discuss something beyond the heavily ideologized systems of capitalism, communism and feed this to politics to communicate these potential options to the voters. Say, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism, which is old and half forgotten. It appears as economics is kind of muted, students and professors beholden to an ideology themselves or feeling the need to appease potential employers who are usually politicized institutions with no room for intellectual curiosity. What else remains in terms of practical economics besides determining the inflation rate (oops, that one is also politicized)?
I think you may be thinking of a different game? There’s nothing that really
plays like Control. You can even nerf the shooting difficulty entirely if you want — I don’t personally like the combat particularly, but it isn’t the primary thing happening in the game.
LLM Reasoning 101 – Cot and Hidden Tokens
Until the day we can point to a country that implements a direct democracy with a fair way to obtain citizenship for whoever is involved in its society, all laws will always remain a tool of a minority to arbitrarily rule a majority.

The concern is not whether laws are rights or wrongs, but which privileges and which hurts they reinforce for which classes in the society where the national myth is eager to present them as the applied rules.
Lama.garden – Setting LLMs Free
Well the article still has a point in that the insecure PRNG is neutered for seemingly no reason, contrary to developer expectations.

But I think we should, as language developers and users, be well beyond the point of pushing out and accepting insecure defaults with a little documentation disclaimer - especially if even the Dart developers themselves can't catch misuse of their own insecure APIs in widespread tools.

At the end of the day, we don't live in a computing world where true randomness is that resource-intensive anymore, and user-facing applications should basically always be relying on it. Non-randomness should really be the opt-in, when developers can actually justify that the performance penalty is a problem. Otherwise, I don't need library authors prematurely optimising my programs at the cost of security.

(There is a similar related discussion to have about the pervasiveness of floating points in programming languages when most applications would be better served by a more expensive, but more precise, numerical representation - since they rarely do that much calculation.)
Rolling your own security requires nothing more than gumption and willingness to deploy. That doesn't mean it's good security but it means people will do it whether they know all the golden rules. After all, rolling insecure security requires missing 1 small thing in a haystack of thousands and it doesn't matter you reviewed the language defaults when OS version blah blah from vendor xyz defaults to something insecure "because you should have checked the defaults". The same goes towards "this library does these kinds of things so there is no value in languages having secure defaults too" type thinking, they aren't convincing arguments for what security posture of other things should or shouldn't be.

I'm more a fan of "make the defaults as secure as you can reasonably expect to get away with for each step of the way". It'll never be as secure as everyone wants but if you but up against "it's as secure as people would want to put up with by default" then things are at least at a good starting point for others to build from. The hard part is finding out what people are willing to put up with and which tradeoffs are worth it. That default random number generators "only" go at GB/s on most PCs because they produce really good random numbers is probably an easy tradeoff though.
Huh, it says they want to turn over functions to a public body.
We seem to be agreeing, but I don't think you really engaged with my point with this reply. What is "me"? There is no "I", that exists independently of the genes that "I" carry, that can be "benefited" at the expense of those genes. My genes do not use me. I do not use my genes. I am my genes. It is fundamentally impossible for me to act in a way that is not calculated to spread the genes that constitute me. Any behavior that I perform is the result of inclinations which have been programmed into me for the express purpose of successful reproduction. No other selection pressure exists.

(To avoid an argument: the picture is murkier when one considers that we are also meme carriers, which also affects our behavior, and that memetic and genetic reproduction are not entirely aligned; nevertheless, we have no more control over our memes than over our genes, so the core point remains: there is no "me").
It's difficult to characterize the social sciences as a whole. There's some great work, some mediocre but honest work, some deliberate fraud, and an awful lot of venial epistemic sins.

But for the most part, the social sciences have become identified with a certain political worldview, to the point where the suppositions of this worldview can be assumed in papers without needing to be consciously articulated or defended. Indeed a lot of this work is explicitly concerned with finding ways to engineer public opinion in order to make this worldview more palatable to gen pop.

Putting aside the question of whether that's good or bad, it's always puzzled me that the experts on social behavior are surprised when the people on the other side of that social engineering project get mad about it. Of all the imponderables of human nature, that seems like one of the easiest things to understand.
As I understand it, the data in the Unternehmensregister is not subject to traditional copyright law. They are publicly accessible, but with the restriction that they may not be used to set up a register of their own where the companies publish the data.
This is an opinion piece. Its main claim is that the ACA requires denial rates to be available to consumers but they aren't.

Additionally, it reports that denial rates have increased 10x in 10 years, based on the following chain:

- "UnitedHealthcare nixed 1.1%, Humana 1.9%, Aetna 1.5% in 2013, per the American Medical Association."

- "By 2022, major insurers were refusing to pay, on average, 15% of claims, according to a national survey of hospitals and health-care providers by Premier, an insurance consultant."

- "The figure continues to shoot upward, with some companies today denying almost _half_ of all claims, according to researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation."

Furthermore, "few people appeal, but of those that do 41% obtain a reversal", which suggests the denials may be unfair.

I certainly would like to know the denial rates when selecting an insurance provider. As the article says, "You aren't really insured if your insurer can deny valid claims with impunity."

Given that the ACA requires this information be provided, it certainly ought to be provided. Then we'd have a much clearer picture.

It's an opinion piece on a news site known for inflammatory articles but it reports some interesting information. It would be much nicer if it included references to the research it's based on, but it seems pretty reasonable to me.
Coffee Prices Break 47-Year Old Record
Thank you!

Their critiques might be fair, after all the website is by far the furthest part of this from my area of expertise. But hopefully, people will prefer a good espresso machine with a bad website to a bad espresso machine with a good website!
What do you mean by "cash grab"? Are you suggesting this is a scam?
Yeah, the mutation or recombination path that would lead to a solution may just be too far away, and involve troughs in the fitness landscape.
Vox might be right but under no circumstances would a company admit "hey we're changing this unpopular decision because we're personally afraid of being killed". Tying good patient outcomes to dead CEOs would be literally suicidal for Anthem execs.
Just for the sake of looking at what good intent might have caused this decision..

I would argue that, in periods of scarcity, it makes sense to prioritize public spending on what has a more tangible economic ROI. I recognize that I am extrapolating from the fact that STEM related jobs tend to be more remunerative than social science.

I could not find any literature regarding ROI of research programs.
> Our healthcare system might be worse than some but that does not imply it's bad for you.

Well, if you have that mindset, then you'll never achieve anything better, will you? It's not necessarily bad for us, so we'll just keep doing it.

It's like the people who vote for the same set of loser politicians every 4 years and then complain that nothing ever changes.
Broadcom stock soars 20% post-earnings on AI demand to $1T market cap
The actual cash is orders of magnitude less than what the creditors are entitled to... did you read the article?
Yeah, there were some other older professors at NC State who had clearly aged out of knowing the state of the art, but Bitzer was an enthusastic teacher who cared about engaging students, and still knew his stuff.
Either enough money to never work again, or enough money for years off between work bursts.

I don’t mean any disrespect to regular work-retirement lifestyle (huge respect to people who do things instead of making sounds with their mouth (except for singers)), but to me it’s a huge risk. Employers and govt will screw you over without thinking twice, e.g. in case of illness or life changes that make you temporarily less able than they expected.
> You could choose what you wanted to do.

Interesting. Did students choose by selecting different institutions with different ideas of what should go into that degree, or is there very wide flexibility in course requirements?
Disallowing exceptions is a company policy, though, not something imposed by the language. I'm not going to go into whether I think it's a good or bad policy, but just pointing out that you can write embedded software that properly handles exceptions. Granted, the discipline, will (and yes, budget) to do this is pretty rare in embedded shops.