jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I’m guessing none. It sounds like software developers will have to bring their own CC processing for this, not that it will use some centralized Apple designated processor.
Wondering about the legality of this. Police routinely destroy property of protestors and homeless people, but trucks are worth serious money.
> I read this sort of thing all of the time and it sounds as if you're just going out of your way to not carry cash for the sake of it. The drawer behind me right now has loose change in it, my jeans pocket always has a fiver.

What happens when you tip that fiver away? You have to go to the ATM and replace it.

It's been years since I've carried a wallet in my pocket. When I go out I have my keys in one pocket and a phone, whose case has a slot for a credit card in it, in the other pocket. I never have my debit card with me, and my memory of the PIN keeps getting rustier. The barrier to getting cash and then carrying it around keeps getting higher; and it's rare that I have a problem from the lack of it.
We in The Netherlands are one of the most cashless societies in Europe. We mostly pay with our mobiles or contactless with banking cards. We even are "going Dutch" sharing our bills with what we call a Tikkie: One person pays the bill and then we send over instant messaging our payment request for money which can be payed directly with one click and authentication in banking app.

One thing that is annoying for foreigners with credit cards is that they are barely accepted here. We work mostly with Maestro and almost all Dutch e-commerce sites work with Ideal which directly link to the banking apps of the local banks.

My wallet does not contain any cash anymore and just an ID and OV card.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dutch-payment-landscape-one-m...
Ephraim Kishon wrote a satire like that about his editor asking him to write a children's book featuring some animal, because that's the only way to still make money writing books.

There is some brainstorming on which animal to use, but it invariably turns out that the animal in question had already been taken, always featuring in some repetitive plot along the lines of "animal child runs away from home (possibly by travelling on a jeep), experiences various adventures and eventually returns back home". Eventually they hit upon the idea of writing something about a deep-sea sponge, which turns out to have not been taken by anybody else so far.

The first volume of the new series of books is "David The Deep-Sea Sponge Goes To Town" [1], where David breaks free from his parental home in order to pursue a career as a bath sponge in Jerusalem. In the volume after that, he'll return home again – most likely on a jeep.

[1] Freely translating from the German version here, where most animals have alliterative names. No idea if that story ever had an official English translation and what the sponge might have been called there.
This is an extreme example of what goes on in our mainstream hospitals. Finding a good doctor is like finding a good auto mechanic: sometimes our perception of the better guy just comes down to who has the better bedside/carside manner.
Ironically, that's exactly what dang often does, including today.
Not really comparable. While there are wealthy people in the US who simply inherited their wealth from the lucky chance of being born to the right family, it's not like the government actually pays them a salary. Queen Elizabeth gets over 80 million pounds a year from UK taxpayers.
> a self-taught fullstack web developer

Don't underestimate how many firms rely on academic degrees for their initial filter. It makes no sense, since few university programs turn you into a good programmer, but it's true. This differs per geography but I'd say 50 to 80% of companies will skip CVs without a proper degree if they have the luxury to do so (i.e. sufficiently many applications). Quite some even when they don't have the luxury.

This works in your disadvantage, but in the end it'll just skew the numbers and that's it. Don't take this as "get a CS degree first!" kind of advice, more like: here's an explanation for at least 50% of your rejections (probably even some you did multiple interviews with).

In other words: if you have no CS degree but can otherwise code as well as people with a CS degree and similar experience as you, then this affects you like so:

- on the job: not at all

- when searching for a job: you need to apply 2x to 4x more than others

It's not fair, but others might counter that having to spend 4-5 years in college + be in debt for decades (if you're in the US) isn't fair either.

A final observation: I've found it satisfying to recognize that job hunting (or employee hunting for that matter!) is essentially just sales. And the thing about sales is that it's a numbers game. Reach out to 100 leads, get 10 talks, land 1 customer. Job hunting is similar. It's a shit job but you just got to bite through it. Think about the years of college you saved and how much less time the extra job interviewing is costing you than taking a CS degree would.
In case anyone is wondering there is a blockchain that was made for such a reason. It's called namecoin. It spawned a project called chimera which was renamed xaya. In xaya the idea is you can reserve a name and the name has an alterable 2048 byte space for json data that you can update every block if you wish.

Namecoin though has always been around to reserve names and in particular domain names.
Second the point on financial security. I'm successful, I have a good job at a good company, earning a good wage. I'm in charge of lots of systems and people. But I'm not financially secure, because land prices have detached from wages. You can't work your way out of this hole. That is not your fault.

Why are there so many jobs in industries we hate (gambling, finance, advertising). Because the west is a financialized mess.

We are all trapped. Vote for substantive change.
Yes, and there's also SolarCoin which rewards users for producing renewable energy. The problem is that these coins are centralised, so while they may be very useful for what they do, they don't solve the same problem as proof-of-work coins which aim to be decentralised.
Is there any lightweight library to turn the wasm text format in to binary in the browser? I've seen emscripten compiled versions of the desktop compilers but nothing else.
Yeah mobilecoin makes heavy use of SGX. For what it’s worth Intel isn’t going to deprecate this server side for modern use cases anytime soon.

The trade offs between zk and hardware accelerated encryption still lean towards hardware though I’m not sure how much longer that will be true. It’s very difficult to imagine a general purpose ZK machine, but you don’t need general purpose compute to get most of the value out of defi as it exists today.

In short, we’re 5-10 years away from the first general compute zk machines/vm’s imho but bespoke zk circuits are starting to appear for many use cases. Checkout plonky2 as a cool example of a modern fast zk circuit, the polygon team is doing great work here.

We’ve been working towards a fully zk winterfell implementation/proposal but it’s not there yet.

In closing, one of the unique things in mobilecoin is private information recovery at scale using MobileCoin fog (https://mobilecoin.com/news/fog-foward-in-oblivious-computin...) which isn’t possible with any zk circuit I’ve ever seen (due to the need to store lots of information durably with fast access that doesn’t leak access patterns to the server).
I didn't consider that gRPC ser/deser was somewhat expensive. Then that would also be true for the TCP case too, right?

Assuming I'm sending data over plain TCP, would Protobuf be comparable in performance to another DB wire protocol? Or am I better off selecting a proven protocol like Postgres and using that?
>It’s weird to see so many opinions on this website that think BTC is a static thing that can’t or won’t adopt useful pull requests that miners agree are useful.

The last time this happened we got Bitcoin Cash.
> When you [...] pay for those bailouts with tax-payer money, you steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Weren't these repaid (with interest, I heard)? Or are you referring to some that weren't?
> Presumably society comes with concepts of fairness, and that it is more fair to take someone's surplus means to share with those who are running a deficit.

So your concept of fairness involves a person who has the power to assign and remove property from other people according to his judgments.

> This need not be coercive either, as there are always incentives such as tax credits and deductions so forth to spur voluntary giving.

Taxation is coercive, so offering relief from coercion as an incentive is coercion.

> I'm sure there are moral philosophers better suited to explain it than me.

There are moral philosophers in favor and opposed. You must take responsibility for your own moral judgments.

> We live in a society, as they say.

And marriage means that its not possible for a husband to rape his wife.

> But pattern recognition is a form of optimization, and labels are but filters created from reoccurring ideological patterns.

Its a lossy form of optimization and the labels have connotations that may not be justified.
This seems sort of like what the Fed intends to do now, only with maybe lower rates overall - 0 for a few years, ramping to a target of 2 or 3, but I guess no real guidance after that. Unfortunately the Fed has pretty blunt tools, even after their upgrade back in March 2020. Using some of the surplus wealth from the asset holding class (top half of the K) to implement UBI, healthcare education, for the class that has most of it's wealth tied up in future wages (bottom half of the K). This would take congress though, and I'm not confident that we'll see anything recurring after the next round of stimulus.

There is risk here though - bottom up stimulus comes with it's own moral hazard issues, but then again I don't know what the net drag / benefit is compared to zombie companies getting infinite credit moral hazard we have now. I suspect UBI for individuals leads to fewer systemic risk sorts of issues, but I really don't know, it's very hard to envision what actually ends up happening due to lack of having ever experienced anything like that in my lifetime.

It would be nice if we could try it out - but there's probably a momentum term hidden in there somewhere - give an inch take a mile sort of thinking. Is UBI like corporate debt backstopping? Once you get a taste you can never go back?

I really don't see any good answers here other than "try to be on the top half of the K, and also try not to get eaten".
The author argues that males have a wider intelligence distribution, and so though they are equally as intelligent as females on average, there are more of them at the far right end of the scale.

And for that reason, therefore men are more common in science and engineering (STEM).

But there's a link here he never established, unless I missed it. Is it really true that the brightest of the bright go into STEM? Because I was under the impression that they don't; at least not more often than, say, Wall Street, or something else.

What if we established that the intelligence of people who go into STEM is on the right side of the distribution, but not the far right? Then there would be as many females as males at that intelligence level. And then how to we explain why there are fewer women than men go into STEM?
"If you're a 'Business Guy' or 'Idea guy' you're a dime dozen and mostly useless. That's the fact." Made me smile :)

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEfW4w7WVDY
I am a big fan of data, but there is no substitute for talking with your customers. I had to choose just one, I’d take customer knowledge over data because it will tell you what’s next, and why…data will just tell you what’s better without explaining why, so it won’t show a path to the next breakthrough, or lead you to product market fit.

So…start working those support lines!
According to that I got 100% on both so I'm not distractable.

Which is odd, considering I was doing that test as a distraction from something else. :/
I got really excited until I saw that it didn't support Windows yet and required Ruby 1.9. Nice looking setup at least though.

Anyone know how soon Windows support is expected to arrive?
I get extremely peeved by all of those blog themes that have 400px content columns. Grr.
On the other hand any physical system in motion is also loosing energy constantly to friction, air resistance, and other factors. Because of that and because the winding/unwinding description seemed implausible I strongly suspect the story is apocryphal.
The latest entry in any of the tables on my phone (and I've been out of my usual locations for a while now) (CellLocation, WifiLocation) are from almost 4 days ago, which is the last time that I used Google Maps to get directions to chines buffet I was meeting a co-worker at.

If this was being tracked even when using non-location services wouldn't that be updated every time I pass by a new cell tower? Wouldn't it know about the trip I made with a co-worker to a town I've never been to before?

Can you point me where in the tables there is data (based on timestamps) that is updated more often and kept around?
A lot of the results I'm seeing in the search have more problems with order of operations -- so long as you multiply the random() result by a good-sized constant before you cast to int, it actually does what it's "supposed" to do.
Slight difference here. There are actually two types of errors in the Java code:

1. int foo = (int) Math.random() * some_max_value;

The error here is assuming that the multiplication takes place before the truncation. This isn't happening in the Python code because int(expression to truncate) is unambiguous. (+1 to Python here for making it hard to shoot yourself in the foot).

2. int foo = (int) Math.random();

The error here is assuming that Math.random returns something outside [0.0, 1.0). This is the error that all five of the Python examples are showing. (Boo to Python AND Java programmers.)
I'd take off Java. Perl is optional. Add Ruby as an optional alternative to python (e.g. "Ruby or Python").

I'd also add 'git', or just decentralized version control tools in general. Although not a language, it's definitely a must-have skill.
I always like Larry Ullman's books, especially his PHP and MySQL one. When I was learning C, his book was really helpful: http://www.larryullman.com/books/c-programming-visual-quicks...

C as a language is pretty simple to learn. Using C in practice is where things can be tricky when you need to dance with the compiler and work on low level systems where a datasheet is always open, and if you haven't had your "Pointer Enlightenment" you're toast. Domain-specific books are key there and just continual practice.
> Windows has built-in screen sharing, but only if you have a Pro license

Actually windows has built-in screen-sharing on all versions for free. It is not well-known. It is called Quick Assist and is preinstalled on every Windows 10, though it is not as robust as other screen-sharing programs.

Windows Remote Desktop is only avail with pro but it is not really screen-sharing as it takes over the session completely (it logs you out from the local session). Sure, you can always use AnyDesk but we're talking here about built-in.
The one comment I did not expect to see leveled against old.reddit.com was that it was slower. I generally hit it only because it is an order of magnitude faster than the main site in Safari. The dynamic/lazy loading of what must be megabytes of assets make the experience 100% jank. The wasted space is actually a preference. The 10,000 ft view is nice and lets you achieve your preferred level of zoom for quickly browsing things, as opposed to being forced to view everything at a certain size/speed.
Does the N64 count?
Mapping values to functions was the Pythonic thing for this, right? I guess the solution to that had to be just as unintuitive.
> There’s no OmniDiskSweeper on Windows, but there is WinDirStat, which does the same thing

WizTree is much faster than WinDirStat as it directly reads NTFS's Master File Table. It's not open source, but it is free for personal use.
I use Windows at work for its killer feature I rarely see mentioned: text antialiasing and rendering.

I believe (?) Freetype came very close to Cleartype in Linux land, but MS holds patents on the extra bit that makes Cleartype just a bit better.

I assume text antialiasing will be unnecessary in 10 years due to the rising ubiquity of high resolution monitors, but that day is not here yet. I’ve noticed that macOS has just completely bailed on text antialiasing. Hooking up my MacBook Air M1 to my 109 DPI monitor is a truly awful experience. On the other hand, text on the Retina screen is holy grail. However, holy grail is unattainable for me at the moment. LG Ultrafine monitors are too expensive.

Due to DirectWrite, it’s very easy to get an end-to-end best-in-class GPU accelerated text rendering experience on Windows.
Not going to back that up? Look I prefer a BEV too but if you only drive a few miles every day it doesn’t make sense ecologically or financially to be lugging around a huge battery. Additionally a person might opt for a PHEV instead of BEV+ICE to meet all of their needs.
Yeah, I figured someone might try this argument.

Everyone seems to keep forgetting, there is already an option on iOS for developers not wanting to go through the App Store: web apps. I believe WASM can even be used these days. Except that Safari doesn't offer developers some privacy sensitive APIs other browsers do. The current side loading pressure has very little to do avoiding Apple's cut and everything to do with bypassing Apple's restrictions.

So I expect should Apple introduce a heavily sandboxed side-loading experience, we'd be seeing developers complain they are not adhering to the spirit or the law or lawsuit.
I think that most people who take the AI singularity very seriously would say that genetics researchers should be held to similarly stringent standards, as should the handful of other research fields with significant existential risk (e.g. nanotech, high-energy physics).

Eliezer (the interviewee) has an HN account so he can comment for himself.
Additionally, not all GCs are made alike, and languages like D, F#, C#, Nim, Swift, among others, also offer value types and manual memory management, if desired.
Goddammed September!
PoC for fun
The Java ecosystem has historically used single-dash options, both the SDK tooling (e.g. `java -jar`, `javac -classpath`) and classic common libraries like Jakarta Commons CLI. It has moved away from it more in recent years so now you get a mishmash of single and double dashes depending on how old the option is. In some cases you end up with stuff like `java -showversion` which prints the version to stderr but ` java --show-version` which prints to stdout.
Does everyone want 5nm? Would another fab tomorrow be useful? Who's actually shipping 5nm at volume except Apple right now? Are Huawei or were they forced elsewhere? Broadcom 5nm is barely going yet, neither AMD or Nvidia are shipping anything. I think that leaves just 5G stuff from Mediatek and Qualcomm. 7nm is what most of TSMC's customers want to get out the door.
I thought that happened with fall arrest harnesses as the leg straps cut off the blood supply through your inner thigh. It's not so much the suspension, but where the straps cross.
yeah. RedHat (owned by IBM) will surely step up to the plate here. . .
Yup. Controversial opinion incoming, but I actually can't wait for the same thing to happen to ARM. The RISC crowd so quickly forgot the purpose of the RISC architecture. Every time I hear someone tell me how the M1 is so fast compared to x86 I just get this picture in my head of a guy in a 1992 Civic DX with a 2 foot wing revving his engine at the Lambo parked next to him. [1]

[1] https://wccftech.com/why-apple-m1-single-core-comparisons-ar...
I just have to thank you for this website. The pronunciation of Coke by wildlandwoman907 was interesting, and I had to click to hear some other words by this user. Turns out the same day they recorded Coke, they also recorded the words "dirtiest", "pimpmobile", and "experience". I just have to wonder...

https://forvo.com/user/wildlandwoman907/
Congrats on this milestone! I’m curious, for conferencebadge.com did you guys buy a printer and do all the printing yourselves?
Flash loans are only executed if the entire transaction is valid monetarily. A transaction on Ethereum is like a database, if there are any issues it's rolled back.
They could mean that wafer-starts-per-day were back up to their normal levels within 2.5 days, but the pipeline bubbles that result from destroyed wafers anywhere in the process almost certainly won't be filled for another month.

It's easy to believe that the numbers cited in the article are fudged slightly -- fabs tend to be tight-lipped -- but there are also several stages in the process where many wafers could get screwed up at once, e.g., most ion implant machines process wafers in big batches. From a vulnerability point of view, you're right that it's foolish to do so, but you need to balance satisfying Little's Law with the cost and space of equipment -- it'd just be too expensive most of the time to buy enough single-wafer implant machines to match the rate of other, much faster machines.
"Z-ball" seems to be the common name
Oh come on. I'll take Philips-built Eindhoven over a similarly sized city in Turkmenistan any day. Plenty corporations are run by crooks but few people in capitalist democracies are afraid that they (or their loved ones) could suddenly disappear without a trace.
> cheap Chinese crap

It may rhyme but it remains offensive.

Can you please change that? Maybe not for that post, as it is too late, but for your future posts?
Thank you, that was excellent.
If we’re going to talk about wm. CWM is definitely the best: the mouse is only used for sloppy positioning and focus changing (not even topping/level changing.) Everything else is done via the comparatively precise keyboard.
I've been working on a closely related project for about a year now. It's not worth your time to attempt scraping. The best advice I can give you is that any financial data source worth consuming is going to cost money, you might as well pay for it and focus your energy/time on building the product itself. The free data sources are unreliable and stale and scraping legit sites is problematic because of throttling issues.
YQL for Yahoo Finance is a useful way of querying it. I'm not sure where you go if they don't have the information that you need though.
Never underestimate the capabilities of people who don't feel like working at work. I think the whole not doing anything for weeks at a time make people want to compensate somehow, and this is the result. Sending birthday cards to 90-year-olds and buying people new LCDs. Very nice.
In real life people just don't talk to you. There are people I don't like, and when they say something like "want to go get beer", my answer is "no".
I agree with you, and want to expand upon this whole "monopoly" concept on the web.

I don't want to turn the discussion into one of semantics, but I've seen this spring up on the internet a lot. From my understanding, Google and Facebook do not have monopolies in the traditional meaning of the word. The fact that there are viable substitutes and the companies not having major monopolistic powers must mean they're not monopolies.

They're generally market leaders in their oligopolies, but don't have the economic power that Rockefeller and JP Morgan had in their day.

No doubt someone will try to argue about the incredible profits, growth, and data aggregated by Google, but with a search market share between 60 and 70%, that's only a majority, not the entire market. As wealthy as they are, even Google couldn't single-handedly bail out a national economy the way JP Morgan could in the early 1900s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907