skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tell us the actual fees from money in hand to money in hand.

Why? Do you pay for everything in cash? Most things I buy I cannot pay for in cash, so it seems silly to go out of my way to make my funds less useful temporarily.

For most people, the first step to getting dollars in hand from Wells Fargo is a decades-long immigration process. Should we count that?

I am enjoying imagining you telling your brokerage or your bank that you don't want entries in their databases, you want cash!!! It is less enjoyable to imagine you falling victim to civil asset forfeiture for self-custodying cash though.

Edit: Anyway, the additional steps for you as the recipient, after you have a checking account at a US bank and KYCed account at FTX, are that you would send the USDC to your FTX account, then you would request a wire transfer from FTX to your US bank, and you would pay less than a penny in fees for the first step and $0 for the second step. Then you would physically go to your bank or ATM, which probably costs like $50 worth of your time or something, and get the cash.

Edit again: The reverse process, I don't know much about it because I don't generally keep all my funds in physical dollars, but I think it also costs $0. It certainly could cost more depending on the details of banking and crypto exchange regulation in the countries involved though. For example, FSA-regulated crypto exchanges in Japan do not accept USDC deposits, and the one I am registered at but have not used yet will charge me 250 JPY for a domestic wire withdrawal.
Open source alternative: https://responsively.app/
If you like Open Source, I’ve been using Responsively which seems to be roughly the same but without any monthly subscription.

https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app
5 or 10 years ago, a ton of deals would be at Amazon. Now it has dropped a lot. I have friends buying from Amazon for Black Friday when the deals at other stores are generally better. They are used to Amazon now.
The linked reddit post shows a screenshot of a rejection email from the play store titled "2021.11.16 Update Rejection Email".

In the screenshot, they DO provide reasons for the update being rejected. 1) Needing to supply log-in credential, 2) Something about user experience that's shown in a screenshot.

Further, if I google the app name I find a play store listing for this app that says it was last updated "November 21, 2021". So it looks like they did get the update to pass.

So:
a) It looks like an update got rejected, and not that the app was removed
b) They did provide reasons
c) An update did go through later (presumably after addressing the issues in the email)

This seems like nothing, or am I missing something?
>I don't think it makes sense to see human settlements as separate from nature. I think of nature as the fabric within which such configurations occur.

For sure we are not. If we put a bubble(mars dome) around Toronto. Everyone dies in a very short period of time. Nature outside of Toronto is required for Toronto to survive. The more you push nature away by urban sprawl, the worse it becomes for the people living there.

>It isn't inevitable that human development must be a concrete jungle. You can include plants, permeable surfaces, etc in your plans so people can live more lightly and less intrusively on the land.

A requirement in the long run. I suppose my example of Toronto is a bad one because of the giant boreal forest to the north is mitigating the problem. Similarly oceanic cities like NYC are also mitigated.

>I also think America has a lot of room for adding back walkable mixed-use neighborhoods where at least some people can live, work and shop in the same neighborhood.

I understand but I doubt it'll happen.

>Studies suggest this leads to greater wealth in such neighborhoods (such as more sales) and we know vehicle traffic is a significant burden wrt human-caused climate change.

Let's not forget such a huge cost to society. We have how much debt and capital tied up in transportation which the majority of the time sits idle in a driveway? Let's not forget how transportation is one of our only high energy sinks. You can charge your phone off a wall outlet in 30 minutes but it takes days to charge a car off the same outlet.

The urban sprawl and death of small towns is because the cost of energy became so high and you cant compete. Naturally influencing why politicians then set policy to intentionally harm small towns.
So won’t you go out of business?
This is a great comprehensive deep dive, thank you for sharing!

Interestingly, there was a blog post and video in 2019 by Peter Bloem [1] with the same title which I consider to be one of the very best quick intros to transformers. Rather than diving into all of the details right away, Peter focuses on the intuition and “peels the onion” gradually.

[1] http://peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers

Other notable good intros to transformers are:

The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

The Annotated Transformer by Harvard NLP

https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/03/attention.html
Happy Thanksgiving y'all!
This problem reminded me of an equally frustrating struggle I read about on Kiva [1], in which a woman named Svetlana in Maldova (a medical worker out of work due to severe back pain) and her husband (a driver) can't seem to scrape together enough capital to connect their house to a source of running water and eliminate the need to routinely lug water in from a nearby well.

Happy Thanksgiving!

1. https://www.kiva.org/lend-beta/2279796
Do you not think about relational integrity?
Personal hygiene, make sure to look at people's face and eyes when interacting. Show genuine interest in other people, make the effort, remember their name, pay attention to what they share. Don't assume what other people think or know, or put them in buckets based on previous interactions with other people (or based on their appearance). Be aware of subtle social cues and emotional states, including ones you're giving out. Being aware of common behavior patterns, including maladjusted personality traits also helps (https://outofthefog.website/traits).
This would be a crazy system.

How do you change the voltage from 5V to 100kV? A SMPS? What voltage do you supply to the SMPS? You want each socket to be able to supply 5V up to 100kV ~10kW for car charging? Have you seen the size of a 10kW SMPS!? For each socket!!!??? Do you need 10kW at 5V? I think the current system of medium power supply ability and a specific converter in the attached appliance as and when is needed makes more sense.
The thing I wanted to do was science. I did a bachelor's and recently finished a master's in ecology (academic, I am not in the US). However, I was constantly anxious and in financial distress because, well, academia is not really financially stable and I do not have anyone to fall back to. So I decided to move into programming because it pays better and the job is, in comparison to academia, financially more stable so you won't run out of funds in a couple of years.

The thing is I really like programming and tinkering with computers (it was a big part of my masters) so it is a job I really like doing. However, there was something in research that made my mind itches when you got to follow your own questions and get a glimpse of an animals' life.

In the end, I am still torn out a bit about wanting to go back to academia or pursuing other career paths and I tough it resonated with your quote.
I thought Cisco was invested in Scheme - but perhaps that's at a different level in the stack?

https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme
The US since Obama has put many informal sanctions on Turkey to choke the economy. In fact Obama failed to overthrow Erdogan during a coup attempt in July 2016 where he even tried to kill Erdogan and his family. They even managed to bomb the Turkish parliament during the CIA orchestrated coup attempt. The ring leader of the failed coup attempt resides under protection in Pennsylvania and had his residency endorsed by Graham Fuller, CIA head for Moslem countries, and other neocons.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42198399
There's different types of social rules. Most of the responses talk about the baseline rules (listening, empathy, etc.). There are also, for lack of a better, class rules which are designed to be opaque and inherently meaningless. They only matter as a way to check if you came from the right background and connections. If you did then they'd have taught them to you and if you didn't then the point of them is to get you excluded. The class rules exist both in the broader social class division but also in subgroups of people who have their own in-language or expected behavior. For example, silicon valley tech bros have their own set of class rules designed to also exclude people without the right background or connections to know them. Keep in mind that many people think these are just the "proper" way to behave rather than meaningless rules implicitly aimed at excluding others.
WordPress Plugin Confusion: How an update can get you pwned
Show HN: Memento mori in Terminal status line
I used this last year when I was working on a new site for something, I ended up paying for a month, then cancelling. I used it pretty much everyday, so I think, the £9 was well worth it.

There are obviously still browser quirks that needed ironing out, but this got me a good way there in multiple screen sizes at the same time - seeing how a little change looks instantly across different screens was super helpful.

Edit: The dev was super responsive as well, I emailed about a bug that I found, and he emailed back a version to test with the fix in, with the full version being rolled out later in the week.
And the basic MNIST dataset has 60k training sets. Now comeback and complain after you have talked with 60k people
> Or when you’re in a meeting, make sure everyone else has three times the chances to speak that you do.

That rhymes with something I "deducted" lately: somebody at work just talks with no end. One of those persons that keep on talking even though you left the room, requiring you to do double turns because it is not socially acceptable to just leave a conversation.

One observation (shared by co-workers) is that talking to him alone (two person dialog), is actually quite bearable. He is definitely a smart guy and has a lot of interesting (if opinionated) things to say about basically every topic.

Where this becomes unbearable is in conversations with three or more participants. Once more than two people are in conversation the "alotted conversation time" per person immediately drops by a significant percentage (two persons -> 1:1, three -> 1:2, n persons -> 1:(n-1)).

tl;dr: A person that talks non-stop only uses double his "alotted speaking time" in a two person conversation, but that same person uses thrice his share once three persons converse.
Idiotic memes have a corrosive effect, largely unseen until it is too late.

I don't think that's true. I certainly see no evidence for the hypothesis. Memes have no impact on most developers except to make us laugh, recognize "yeah, I feel that", and then go back to writing some pretty amazing things.

To be honest, DHH's suggestion that funny pictures could be the reason for a proliferation of imposter syndrome rather than, say, hiring practises that turn down very capable developers because they can't present a proof that P=NP on a whiteboard in 30 minutes to a board of 10 people is downright offensive to developers.

We're an intelligent and capable community. Memes probably aren't root cause of many of our problems. We can understand when a funny picture is just a funny picture.
Thanks for the context. Now thinking, I remember seeing those non-modular sockets when watching house build/renovation TV shows from the UK.

Here the equivalent search in a big box store returns all modular sockets [1], but they are not a single standard thou, there are six (or so) de-facto standards created by the first big brands, and the smaller ones follow those.

[1] https://www.leroymerlin.com.br/tomadas-e-interruptores
An interesting spin. So Apple might somehow treat just regular threats differently in the past or the future? How does Apple know who paid NSO group to hack their phone?
Hey HN!
While building my first MVP with software devs, I spent 3 years and >$200k but eventually it failed.
Later, I discovered few no-code tools like Webflow, Bubble and Adalo that allowed me to you build an app + landing page within 2 weeks and launch it on App Store.

Understanding the power of no-code, I found it very hard to find the right no-code tool that will solve my specific problem. To solve this, I decided to collect all no-code tools in one single list with categories and filters.

To be honest, this list was firstly consisted of other smaller no-code lists that I found in Google but later, hundreds of makers added their tools and it became self-sufficient.

I hope you'll find it useful. Don't spend money on coders for building your MVP, they are expensive
Good:

For interactive shell scripting:

- AWK. Old enough to be part of the POSIX standard and yet considerably more awesome than almost any other UNIX command.

- socat for any kind of network/socket testing stuff.

- sponge and entr just for their genuine usefulness with minimal interface.

For interactive use:

- SSH. I mean, obviously. It's also astounding how well OpenSSH integrates into the whole *NIX TTY landscape. You can use it for years and still learn neat things about it.

- Vim. Yes, it's obscure to learn, but once you do, boy do you get a lot out of it. Also: Since `:terminal`, working on one-off scripts has become considerably more awesome.

- htop and btop++ are good examples of TUIs for interactive use.

- tig is also quite cool for many git interactions (especially partial staging).

- lnav for log analysis tasks.

For batch jobs you set up and trigger as needed:

- Beets (see: beets.io). It's impressive how streamlined it works once you've set it up.

Bad:

- Pretty much anything Microsoft. I really don't understand how it's possible to consistently produce bad CLI programs for such a long time.

- As a prime example, have a look at `sc sdshow` and `sc sdset`.

Edit: Perhaps to clarify about the sc SDDL commands:

If you look them up, you won't find much "bad" in their documentation. Because nothing about the SDDL syntax they are built on is documented. The best you can do is scrape together what you can from third-party blogposts with a perceived signal:noise ratio of .000001.

And SDDL in itself is phenomenally badly designed. And, of course, this being Microsoft, the tool isn't designed to be used together with other programs.
For everyone that, like me, like to read only the headline and then proceed directly into the comments:

The title of the link currently is "Why E, the Transcendental Math Constant, Is Just the Best".

But the article really is about Euler's constant - the lower case e - and not about any of the capital E:s out there (like the capital E sometimes used in scientific notation, or the expected value in probability theory).
Reminds me of when parents come to me and ask “what’s the best app to restrict my teenager from accessing certain things on the internet?”.

It’s not a technology problem, it’s a parenting problem.
How Can I Get Customer Emails for Email Marketing?
> Reliance also becomes the single point of contact for any manufacturer wanting to distribute their products via these stores.

The manufacturers should be able to look up contact details for the shops via the internet. Assuming India does not let Reliance remove those contact details from the internet.
I always feel weird listening to songs in a language I don't understand. I feel I should find out what it means so I know whether to approve of it or not!
> Personally I think that Americans just don't realize that it's not cities that suck, it's American cities that suck. Plenty of pleasant cities to live in in the world.

The YouTube channel "Not just bikes" talks about this. In the USA, it is commonly seen that there are only two possible configurations for human settlements: sprawling suburbs, or Manhattan-style high-density towers. The medium-density style of city common across a lot of Europe and Asia is not very well known in the USA and Canada outside of a select few older cities which developed to a large enough size before the automobile took over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOdQsZa15o
> 2 - Invite people over for dinners

Or other social activities/hobbies. I guess that's why board games are so popular, they allow you to have social interactions while following a very constrained set of rules.

edit: I shouldn't leave this uncommented:

> 5 - Learn to listen.

This! People want to talk, people feel good if they have the feeling that someone cares for them. Just listening is a great way to make friends.
> this will just gradually make the cycle paths less safe

Not gradually. It's already well under way.
Wow some of the responses on this thread have me scratching my head-

What do you want out of social interaction?

Get to the core of that and you’ll probably find the answer to your original question.
New Windows zero-day with public exploit lets you become an admin
Wow the title got me worried. Luckily it's an outage not a shutdown.
If you have a phone with a IR blaster (mostly older LG phones) you have download an android app that with act as an LG service remote
Why are there so few applications for games? Can one actually build a game without code?
You think you have his password...
> It's like everyone else has a degree in all these unwritten rules that I'm just supposed to know.

They do. While you were learning whatever you spent the last 18 years learning, they were learning the social hierarchy game. Most people, even here, don’t like breaking the taboo of acknowledging that we’re an hierarchical species, which is why there are so many seemingly unwritten rules. Robert Cialdini and Robert Greene are a couple good authors to look at. The latter basically makes his living writing down unwritten rules.

My guess is you don’t have much of a problem getting along with other young men who share your interests. I’m probably wrong, but I’m hearing “how do I get a girlfriend?” That’s a complex subject and many books have been written on the subject going back millennia[1]. As with most everything, one good way to learn is to make friends with someone who is successful at it and watch and learn. Essentially it boils down to practicing the art of persuasion, which assuredly can be learned. Practice, practice, practice. Learn to thrive on rejection and take it with a grin.

Oh, and don’t be annoying. Learn the social cues people give for annoyance and the moment you see them stop whatever annoying thing you were doing. If your mere presence is annoying then as others have suggested, work on your hygiene and appearance first.

[1] http://faculty.sgc.edu/rkelley/ars%20amatoria.pdf
executables, raw binary files (like apache parquet), and (rarely) json.
In an open economy, the money is printed from the public demand. The more demand, the more printing, the more inflation...

And the money demand is controlled down by raising interest rates, but Erdogan has ordered the central bank to keep them low, against the economists consensus.

So massive speculation starts:

People take a loan in lira (i. e. print money), turn the money into something else (buy an object, or turn to EUR or USD for people who can access this market), wait some time, sell back to pay the loan with a share of the value... They keep the difference and start again with more leverage. And the volume of liras increases more for a lower and lower value (inflation).

The only way out is to raise the interest rates before it all goes out of control. The opposite of current policy.

Inflation has passed 45% this year already.
Ask Apple: Night Mode for TV
For Apple TV, please rotate only darker themed screensavers and menus during twighlight hours. I commend your 4k, Dolby Vision enabled content, but they singe my eyelids, when they appear on a 55-65” 4k HDR display at 1am.

Thank you.
Are either of the latter transcendental constants
> Simply locking the bike is unfortunately not enough.

I had a locked ebike stolen from outside my home (locked to the wall, with a gold chain lock). No problem - it had a GPS tracker fitted, and I could see it was travelling up the motorway to Birmingham; so I called the cops.

"It's out of our area".

So I waited till it stopped, in the West Midlands Police area. I called them and gave them the address where it had stopped.

"We are not going to start ringing people's doorbells to ask them if they have a stolen bike on the premises, and we can't search".

"You mean, you aren't prepared to enforce the law against theft?"

"Do you know how many Porsches and Ferarris get stolen in the WMP area every day? Bikes are not our priority."

My next e-bike (Gocycle GX) was not fitted with a £250 GPS tracker; and I keep it indoors.
"We have a '''legitimate interest''' in getting your personal info, because we want to sell it to third parties"

https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimat...

> Legitimate interests is most appropriate as a lawful basis where companies use personal data in a way that individuals can reasonably expect. If it impacts individuals, it can still apply if the controller company can justify there is a compelling reason for the impact the processing will have.

> Companies can rely on legitimate interests for marketing purposes if they can prove that the data usage is proportionate and fair to the user. It must have a minimal impact on the user in privacy terms and be for a reason that people would not be surprised at.

Sadly I would reasonably expect Samsung to sell the data and I would not be surprised by it.
Poster for Squid Game:

> A group of students at a high school in the U.S. are forced to fight for their right to free speech when they are threatened with expulsion from the school if they don't agree to participate in a free-speech protest

That actually sounds hilarious.
Rather than showing schadenfreude about greedy middlemen being taken out of business I think it is worthwhile to contemplate what allowed these middle men to exist before and what all has changed besides the influx of a large investment by a major player.

Sales people fill a role: They first and foremost know the customer. They inform the customer and they file orders. They may act as a distributor keeping inventory and handling communication.

It is the ubiquity of digital communication allowing manufacturers and large scale distributors to be reachable. Advertisement allows big players to reach customers. Digital catalogues are generally superior to print and word of mouth. Digital sales processes have come to a level where a lot can be run with little human intervention making it a lean option for a big player. Logistics has improved making delivery possible from centralized locations. Digital payments, integration with sales processing and the ability to take many small risks are in favor of big players.

A lot has changed over the years.

Overall prices will come down. But well paying jobs are gone and small shop keepers will in the future not haggle with a despised middle salesman but have to deal with prices dictated by a giant. Differentiation for shop keepers will become more difficult. The power differential to their supplier has increased and whatever the spoils of the innovation are they are likely to accrue on the bigger players side. Probably a lot more than the bigger players share of the total innovation that enabled this disintermediation.
And my favorite equation is ℇ^(ⅈπ)+1=0 !

It contains Euler, the imaginary unit, the unit, the zero and some hidden trigonometry.

P.S. does anyone know why the unicode symbol for the Euler constant render as a weird E when it is usually represented as a slightly italicized e ?