skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is if you do pull off the open source + paid support model where does that leave you? Doing technical support? I suspect most of us would prefer to spend our time creating rather than answering emails and phone calls.

It feels like we have the cart before the horse, we start by deciding we want to do open source then try and squeeze the business model into it. We would be better starting with the business and customers then deciding whether open source helps or hinders.
Since, Wise & Revolut have been mentioned quite a bit and I'm an ex-Revolut & ex-Wise engineer where I built a lot of the FX infrastructure so I'll throw in my 2c.

My assumption of what you & Neeraj are doing based on your backgrounds:
You've decided to build a smart order router for retail FX hence the slow transfers because you need to wait for the spot order to settle T+2.

Story at Wise
Funnily enough Wise started in the early days with a fixed fee of £1!

Since all Wise did was match orders between customers so no money was actually moving borders hence no need for conversion or transfer fees etc.

But that fixed fee model was quickly scrapped when Wise started making the market between customers and improving the product experience by introducing rate locks (hedging costs), instant transfers (buffer costs) and actually started considering all the other cogs that go into making an international FX payment.

But there's one significant cost of high value transfers that's been a struggle for both Wise & Revolut to bring down even at scale:

The transaction monitoring, AML & support costs of high value transfers - a single high value transfer can easily cost £3 - £150 for all the due diligence needed to get it done.

If you're going to keep the product fixed fee - this is where you'll need to focus in terms of innovation.

The Story at Revolut
Revolut has an Unlimited Zero Mark up FX with a single free SWIFT transfer (every additional international transfer is capped at £5) on the £6.99 premium plan.

But international payments is relatively a recent addition. The vast majority of the time when people are sending money to each other on Revolut, it's a Revolut-to-Revolut or Revolut to local own bank account payment.

Revolut's core strategy is to be the everywhere wallet so that when you're sending money to your family member in Romania from the UK - you just do it as a Revolut to Revolut payment which is bit different to the gap you're trying to fill.

And, there's very little interest at Rev to deal with high value transfers because the AML, transaction monitoring and support costs are too prohibitive when transfers between users are free or capped at £5 for SWIFT payments.

Is there a market for this product?
A resounding YES.

This is something we realised at Wise - we weren't as competitive as we liked to be on high value transfers and even though they committed resources to improving this - in typical Wise fashion the progress is very slow.

Now I'm not convinced you'll stick at the £3 mark for long but there's definitely a large untapped market here.

I'm confident that you & Neeraj have what it takes to win in this market & will be rooting for you from the outside!

P.S. The app doesn't seem to be available in the UK app store?
This is a good list. Point 3 alone would net a lot of customers alone, be it banking or other.

A lot of people, in the tens to hundreds of millions, not through choice of not wanting to use Google Play Services (or knowing what it is) cannot access Play Services on their locally purchased / locked device.

These people are largely outside North America / Western Europe, potential customers for whom a service such as that of OP may be very attractive.
Voice has the advantage that you don't need line of sight. If I think of the range of locations where a voice assistant can hear and respond, it's much larger than what could be easily covered by displays.
If that's your only use, I'm curious why you don't just get a simple timer? I'm assuming because of the ability to set timers hands free when your hands might be dirty or otherwise occupied.
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>> Doctors, lawyers, contractors, plumbers, electricians, accountants, agents

>Also, the level of complexity/difficulty that a dev might face (but usually doesn't) is higher than in of these professions.

Fascinated to learn how you came to this conclusion.
Any table should show all fees so I send X, recipient gets Y as most people now get lower upfront fees can be offset by wider bid/offers.
In the 90s Finland wanted to lock itself into the Western orbit, and (IMO) membership in either EU or NATO would accomplish this. As things turned out, an EU offer came first and a national referendum approved it and well hey whaddaya know, that EU membership is sufficient to ensure that Finland is in the West and has full access to Europe (and vice-versa). This still might work for Ukraine.
Java is a compiled language, and its overhead is fairly insignificant these days.
> Any idea if there is a project to try to improve things with maven or with another JVM tool? (Grade, sbt, etc.)

We've found SBT to be less reproducible than Maven. In particular, its "configuration file" (build.sbt) is actually executable Scala code (and highly imperative too, e.g. appending to mutable dependency lists). I've seen projects which choose different dependencies based on env var settings, string matches, etc.

I've also seen projects which add pre/post steps to a test suite, for spinning-up and tearing-down a mock database (the dynamodb-local SBT plugin). The crazy part about that, is that SBT only becomes aware of the plugin when it's about to execute the test suite; hence it doesn't appear in any dependency lists, so we can't automatically fetch it ahead-of-time. By the way, that plugin itself works by downloading and running a "latest.zip" file from an AWS URL....
None of the albums I recently bought on iTunes came with lyrics, although none of those albums qualifies as "new" (or even a recentish re-release, I guess), either.
I was expecting Free Pascal not to have the bug, as Pascal generally fails with a visible runtime error, as it does I/O checking by default. However, it seems not to do it when WriteLn goes to the standard output... (even if it is then piped to /dev/full). So the basic

begin
WriteLn('Hello World!');
end.

definitely has the bug, at least with the fpc implementation. On the other hand, explicitly trying to write to /dev/full from the Pascal source triggers a beautiful message:

Runtime error 101 at $0000000000401104
Completely agree. Booted Jolnir up on a VM when it came out and I was very much unimpressed.
In reading the article, it’s not the teachers who seem to have a problem with him, it’s the school board and the school administrators. Those are are VASTLY different groups.

I taught in Virginia for 10 years(working for VDSS, another group that gets smeared in this article), and have friends working in Loudoun county right now. They all pretty unanimously think the school board is pretty shitty.

Finally, the New York Post is a notoriously biased conservative tabloid, and Loudoun is one of the most conservative counties in the state. NYP is taking this man’s fight against the school board and it’s Republican policies and using it as a hit piece against teachers and teacher unions (which in Virginia are basically powerless).
2.5 years is too long to be in development,
unless you dont have plans to ever launch.

LAUNCH NOW!!!
As a general rule, over the decades (centuries?), every change of leadership in Russia has been at least a bit less bloody than the previous one. Some dare call it "progress" :-P
I have been attempting this in some way or another for a month or two. So far, no luck.

The most realistic option I have found would be to use NetJack, but while its been noted in a roadmap as a relatively straightforward protocol, it is not yet implemented (at least, it wasn't last time i looked).

It may be possible to hack a pipewire-jack client to do it now... but that seems like more effort than its worth.

An alternative would be Scream, if all you want is one-way streaming.

If anyone has any other ideas, i would be very much interested too!
Gigabyte and strix 3090 are routinely in stock at Newegg. Msrp. The shortage is over
That's why time slows down near heavy objects, there is more calculus to be done and don't want to drop frames.
-99 I bought a computer for the first time with my own money from the summer job i had back then. Pentium 2, Nvidia Riva TNT2, some Sound Blaster, CD-R drive (2x speed, we burnt so many CDs with that) and I think 128MB RAM, but can't remember anymore. No idea what the other components were. I think that all in all it costed about 10 000 Finnish Markka, which would be around 2300 euros in today's money (so adjusted for inflation).
Yes he did know, sorry if I wasn't clear enough. The issue is that it was bungled horribly and turned into an international incident when it shouldn't have.

TBH I'm still surprised Russia didn't employ salami tactics, taking the breakaway regions while holding troops on the Ukrainian border as a deterrence to interfere, and to warn them away from NATO.

But then again, word on the street is that Putin really did believe that Ukrainians consider themselves Russian at heart and would welcome him.

... Or maybe he just got impatient?
Man, the 6809 was an incredibly fun processor to write for.

I'll let you know you were in good company. At Williams (pinball/video game company, later became Midway) that exact same hack was used in almost every game that used the 6809. We definitely used it in all the dot-matrix pinball machines to blit large pieces of data in RAM.
interest rate? assuming this is cash advance credit rates for short term loan? so the loan is specifically designed for cos with low cash position heading into a fundraise?
This is about $1M right? A few orders of magnitude below what others are providing while feeding the boot that stomps on the humans in need of said humanitatian assistance. Hey it's a start but China the world is watching you
To be fair the current Dells do the same.
Yes, why would this "news" be upvoted. That amount is so low, it is actually insulting.

China has the means to end this war on short notice but it choose not to.
>> In Europe where 2 year warranties are mandated UK prices for a MacBook Pro 14 base model

In UK all Apple products come with a 1 year warranty. Yes the consumer rights act gives you the right to have a product repaired or replaced(by the seller) if it becomes faulty due to manufacturing defects in 2 years after purchase....but after the initial 6 months it's the consumer who has to demonstrate that the fault is a result of manufacturing defect. If you can't demonstrate that then the seller doesn't have to repair your product.

It's absolutely not the same as a warranty.
I'm having a horrible time finding work. I left my previous job on bad terms after hostility from managers. Recent company wanted previous manager as reference. Previous manager gave a negative reference so the company passed on me.

I did a take home project for a startup and fulfilled all of their requirements. They said the code was sound but wanted more documentation and they passed on me.

It's been infuriating to say the least.
Hi, it's only a small thing, but E.164 format does not include the +. If it includes the plus then it is E.123 format.
The Twilio page explaining E.164 formatting is wrong.
Thought it was going to be about JS, and since it was 2013 the author had to go back and add "Old-Timey" to the title.
Russia to 'disconnect from global internet' on March 11
I hate when this happens. It's been a recent revelation of mine that I'm happiest when my personal business remains personal. I hate having to scrape through my life sanitizing topics into conversational safe spaces just to get paid.
The Guardian – 'We Are Hiring'
The Liam Neeson narrated documentary is the best one covering this story.

It's on YouTube and well worth a watch on a slow Sunday.
If money running out were the only reason, I’m sure we’d be seeing a ton of successful projects all over the place. I think in your analysis you neglected the fact that these side projects were already successful, just without a growth engine. They were fired because they were already making a decent chunk from the side project. When they suddenly had free time, they were able to turn on the growth engine.
And OS maybe, had no problems on KDE.
I guess you need to have a banking license for doig this sort of business ?

And then you can leverage the international bank network, swift being one, and set a fixed price fee, because in reality the fee is actually much lower than 3GBP.

As long as your conversion rates stick then this should be a good business.

Good job
>If you have to mention it to the manager then the server is likely to be in even greater trouble and anyway, the manager is ultimately the one responsible for the poor service in the first place.

Not necessarily. There is a whole range of reasons why someone can have a bad experience and sometimes it is as simple as a communication error or the person who trained up the server forgot to mention something important to them. Sometimes the customer just doesn't feel loved that day so they will invent reasons for being unsatisfied just to feel the warmth of someone that cares how they feel and wants them to be happy.

I agree with your negative sentiments towards tipping but why does the employee have to suffer the brunt of your frustrations of this messed up system? Is it just a good excuse to give yourself a 10% discount?

Also understand voicing your disappointments to a manager/owner or even the person serving you gives the establishment a chance to rectify the issue to no one's betterment but yourself. You can still choose not to tip or return. Not everyone is easily readable and some people have very high or unique expectations. I am just saying there is no need for snarky little mind games to get the last laugh.
This might or might not have been a line item in a meeting for the politburo, but it would have come across their desk in one way or another. Maybe in a form of item in a list for a bigger strategy (authorize those 10000 organizations to support Ukraine etc.). The foreign ministry spokeman is the one who announced it after all
M1's blender rendering performance also wasn't very good, though. Assuming the scene was small enough to fit in the smaller VRAM of competitive consumer GPUs anyway.

Video content creation specifically is where it mostly achieves what the graphs indicate, and that's mostly a "well yeah, video decoder ASICs are really efficient. I'll take things we already knew for $100, Alex"
>I have 1:1s every 2 weeks with my engineer manager... and that's basically 99% of the contact I have with them.

that's terrible
You're right, it is insane, but this is Apple.

So expect what that graph actually means is some extremely specific, cherry-picked benchmarks
Well, when that person didn't want to reverse the deal (pay 26k and get 100% of the company), that kinda tells that there is no way 45% of the company is worth a 100k.
I would be interesting if you could describe how it exactly works. Can you give us a little more color on that?

1. You mentioned that this only a marketplace between lenders and startups. Does a startup create a kind of brochure describing their idea trying to lure in lenders (like kickstarter or other crowdfunding/lending sites)? Or does the startup just fills out a form and then you decide about the loan? In this case, how do the lenders decide if the want to give this startup money?

2. Who decides if a startup gets money?

3. What exactly is your part in this process? Do you quantify the risk, so lenders can only give money to startups in a certain risk category?

4. What happens if the startup fails? Who has lost money? You or the third-party lenders?
That is not even a start, the amount is adding insult to injury. We are talking about a (self-proclaimed) economic superpower, and not a local bakery chain in Beijing.
I find that when and if I vent something I usually always feel anxious about it afterwards. Like I have said something I shouldn't have.
It's more than that, they only allow open source apps AND built with GTK.

I also use elementary daily and I cannot publish my own app in their store
Realising that the world will continue to turn when we’re not there - just as it was turning before us - is definitely a good exercise.

Whether this idea helps to find a meaning in life or not is debatable. If imaginary people from the distant future can give meaning to one’s life also should actual people from the present/near future, at least to some extent. Otherwise we’re fooling ourselves until the end.
Those fees have been there for a while, but for the most part, they only apply to "weird" transfers - particularly uncommon currencies, or landing "foreign" currency in a new country. If you pay dollars to the US, euros to Europe and so on, you typically don't hit them.

I have interests in three currencies, and revolut has been a godsend compared to Wise and direct bank transfer fees.
No full libc or float / double support - what's the point then?
That's because the law of one price is purely theoretical and never applies in real life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_one_price

There is no such thing as a "live rate" or "market price"
Definition of "junk food" also varies a lot. For example, many people have no idea that white bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar itself. So except for the very limited nutritional value of it, it's actually worse than just eating spoons full of sugar. So it passes the definition of "junk food", because hey it's not processed, and it's done in a bakery, traditional right? (not saying it's your case - in general) even though it's as junkier as it gets.

It's possible some people do actually eat healthy and still get very unlucky. But I bet a lot of what many consider healthy isn't. Also, we don't know what we don't know. People didn't know about lead poisoning was a problem until they did. I wonder how many unhealhty stuff we do/consume that passes totally invisible in front of our eyes. The type of things future generations will look back and say "no wonder those people were dying so young of cardiovascular diseases and cancer they were doing X! And get this, they even thought it was healthy/they didn't even know about it!"
> The foreign ministry spokeman is the one who announced it after all

Oh, I missed that part. Guess I was wrong.
Besides the thermals of the mbp probably not being suited and the form factor of the chip itself, the Mac Studio has a 370W power supply, which as well is way too much for a laptop to even legally have.
The M1 Max hits 100w in a laptop form factor with 'real' workloads when hitting CPU and GPU simultaneously (or at least not parasitic ones like prime95 & furmark). So this is probably >200w, unless it's been power limited and thus performs worse than 2x M1 Max's do anyway.
Flipping Wrong Switch and Not Hackers Caused Outage in Taiwan
It's pretty much accepted as gone. There is romanticization of Karelia in folk culture, but the country as a whole has moved on. Disclaimer: I'm not Finnish, just an ex-pat living there.

Amusing side note: some years ago a Finnish politician suggested trading the Åland Islands to Russia in trade for Karelia. It created quite a brouhaha :)
Please, don't use crypto. At least not as long as it has all the negative externalities it has today, like fucking up the environment and enabling scammers and fraudsters.
Found in <view-source:https://www.theguardian.com>

* We are hiring - Ever thought about joining us? *

https://workforus.theguardian.com/careers/product-engineerin...
> But Linux is stuck with GTK and QT/C++ while a lot has moved to .NET and Swift (and other tech - heck even Electron)

Are you saying Linux should move to .NET or Swift? Are there specific changes in Gtk and Qt that aren't being addressed in the changes from Gtk3 to Gtk4 and Qt5 to Qt6 that are would be addressed by .NET and Swift?

> I mean there's no money anymore in Desktop computing period.

I agree with this, but there are tonnes of add-ons that could keep the lights on. For example, cloud services (email, identity management, keychain management, cloud backup) integrated in the desktop APIs.
For video file could you open a webtorrent video player instead of linking to magnet?
Sounds like your engineering manager isn’t doing a good job. I’ve actually learned how to be a better manager by learning what not to do from other crummy managers I’ve had or others had. Hope it doesn’t turn you off from management track or look at all managers like they don’t pull their weight
Fair - but having soured on wise myself, the warning signs are there:
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/wise.com?stars=1
Which also had higher resolution than macbooks.

Random cheapo laptop: 1366x..
One better: apple
Even better: higher priced laptop had 1920x.... Oh, and those had IPS displays unlike apple with (halfway decent) TN panels.

So everybody else pushed, then apple not only caught up but jumped ahead. And now they are again behind with 3k vs 4k and 5k vs 8k and miniled vs oled with the same order: cheap < apple < expensive.

Same for the macbook air/ultrabook form factor: Invented by Sony but only got popular once apple jumped on the train years later.

Apple is really good at "sherlocking" and getting out a polished/well-integrated version of something that has been around for years and making it popular.
It's a behavioural side-effect of checked exceptions. Because IOException is a checked exception, throwing it for console output would cause a lot of pain for printf debugging.
I was thinking of sendfile() but I see now it's become a wrapper around splice(). My knowledge is a little dated to say the least.
Putin's Ideologue: Alexander Dugin on Ukraine (March 5, 2022)
This is really cool, are there similar real world repos for other languages not listed at the bottom of that project?
Well, the Gtk part makes sense since they want to provide a consistent UI.

The weird bit is that it must be hosted on Github.

https://docs.elementary.io/develop/appcenter/publishing-requ...
Off topic, but I watched the ffmpeg args that go-chromecast used and scripted it. Now I preproces my videos and use catt.

You can detect when they're h264 and use - c:v copy for speediness.
We are taking SAFEs in lieu of cash interest for seed stage companies. For later rounds there is flexibility given to the company to optimize the cash interest versus SAFE based on cash flows of the company.
Apple Pro Display XDR on Windows
This is nothing more than Russian propaganda.

This organization, Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, appears like a special mock organization to advance Russian talking points. Russia (including Soviet Union) has long history of creating such organizations to make it appear that there is support to its goals among Western nations.
It's basically nothing compared to rent, which will be adjusted for every property tax hike, but also always goes up regardless of property tax.
I have a similar setup, however it seems that video doesn't want to play in browsers with the networked audio for some reason. Anyone else experience that?
Interested to see USD -> EUR. Bonus points if you launch fees in EUR too.
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