skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking more along the lines of sharing my payment credentials with Rownd then just enabling payment when I log into one of your partners.

The actual processing could be handled by y’all rather than passing raw cc info to each partner.

I realize that’s pretty far from your mvp but as a user I’d rather save all personal data with one data store which can enable access or usage to selectively to apps.

As a partner, I’d like also like to have one spot to save user data. And if you’re streamlining onboarding it makes sense for that to include payment info or payment ability.

My rownd profile also becomes an auditable source of all my infos access and usage :clap:
I don't think so. I think it stemmed from Apple's desire to make their SoC fully in-house for their iPhones. They realized they were onto something, and took it to a whole new level by focusing on desktop-class performance.

This was probably further fueled by their soured relationship with Intel which was responsible for thermal issues on MBP's for years, poor performance increases across their entire Mac lineup, and poor cellular radio performance on some iPhone models -- forcing them to settle with Qualcomm and ditch Intel for mobile radios.
eh. Seem on a par, to me.
per jnsie's comment elsewhere on this page, perhaps it's just England / the mainland that has bad ones, they're good north and south of the border in Ireland.
> There's no difference between "FedWallet has declined your transaction" and "Citigroup has declined your transaction (in compliance with US law)."

There is a big difference. If FedWallet declines your transaction, you could sue under any of a number of fundamental constitutional rights that have been violated.

If Citigroup decline your transaction, you have fewer recourses as they can hide behind being a private bussiness. If government regulations require or encourage Citigroup to decline your transactions, you still have fewer recoures, as the government can hide Citigroup.

If the government makes an implicit threat to private corporations, like "deal with X yourself, or we will pass regulations to force you to", you have even less recourse.

In effect, the government can significantly weaken judicial oversight by outsourcing policy to private corporations.

This becomes less relevent in a system where judicial oversight has eroded. But, as you say, once you are at that point, nothing is stopping the government anyway.
That's the version I have; the Matthew Ward translation. Some other versions start with "Mother died today" or "Mama died today", but I prefer this version.

This book also inspired the song "Killing an Arab" by The Cure.
It’s ultimately a question of whether it is moral to use violence on non-violent people.
> woefully incompetent Kamala Harris

Look, we get it. Your hatred for the woman is absolute. But, hey, a hint: when you continually use loaded, abusive language in every post you make, you neuter yourself. You present as one who is incapable of reasoned arguments, who flies off the handle, who is immune to constructive dialog.

In short, you set yourself up to be downvoted, flagged, ignored, and perhaps even shadow-banned.

In short, your use of button-pushing language shows you to be woefully incompetent at effective argumentation.
I think there is a huge gap between "defensive weapons technology is important" and "america's torture and extrajudicial assassination department needs faster aerial murderbots". They are nowhere near the same thing.

I would probably be singing a different tune if they hadn't just attempted to hack Congress to cover up their torture program. There are lawful engagements and legitimate defense, and then there is the CIA, which almost makes a habit of publicly flexing how much the rule of law and the conventions of war do not apply to them.

For those unaware: In-Q-Tel is the CIA's VC arm.
Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.
>What I put out there every day is worth the measly $5 a month I charge for it. What worked well for me in the past was giving out a no strings attached free trial of The Sizzle for two weeks then asking people to pay if they want it to continue. Substack’s business model however is freemium content. You give away the bulk of your content to build an audience then upsell that audience with paid subscriber only content. [...] I could add a 14-day free trial to the paid subscription, but Substack doesn’t do free trials without also adding a credit card and automatically charging that card when the trial is over. Most people hate this (me included) as they’re scared they’ll forget to cancel before the trial ends and get charged for something they don’t want, so they just don’t take the risk.

Your model sounds better for professional writers, or already established writers. But the benefit of Substack for emerging writers is that it gives them a platform to establish a brand presence with the hope that it will develop into a large enough audience to get enthusiastic readers who will convert into paid subscribers. There is also no easy way for new writers to try to start a writing career while also trying to figure out different technologies to send out a newsletter. Substack makes it completely easy, and it's fair that they charge some percentage once a writer starts earning money while using their platform.
Also, isn't Python problematic with musl-libc [0]?

[0]: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
Bulk Generating Cloze Deletions for Learning a Language with Anki (2017)
The Cyber Insurance Market Needs More Money
Have you been to a 7-11 in the US? I would be quite shocked to hear anyone contemplate eating much of the food if they could afford not to. Nothing at _all_ like the ones in Japan.
Oh, sure! In fact, there was a link from HN I can remember from a long time ago where a reporter in the Bay Area did Freedom of Information act to get any records about his car kept by the government. If I remember correctly, he got back way more detail and discovered way more cameras are out there than he thought.

So yeah, where there are publicly run cameras like for traffic, that data is usually available to law enforcement without much trouble.
Differential Privacy is an awesome field of study and is something being used at huge scale all over industry (Apple folks are BIG on this.

I think it’s an awesome technique, but seems there is some misunderstanding about the usefulness of the technique ITT.
>There are definitely benefits to taking away power from existing financial institutions.

Sounds like you are against CBDC entirely then, as banks are still centrally controlled, and handing banking to a single entity seems almost like abolishing banking as such, and only allowing one(1) bank: the government.
What? Why don’t you report this bug or submit a patch. If you have, can you link me to your report or patch?
No reason you can’t trade up silver handcuffs to platinum handcuffs :)
Yes. Cost depends on what is scheduled, but somewhere between $200 and $1000.

This is an expense that I view as unavoidable if you own an ICE car. Failure to do maintenance will cause earlier failure, and that's more expensive overall.

I don't DIY: my car is too modern. I switch between a dealer and an independent workshop. I'll use the dealer if there's a recall pending, for instance.
That thread is pretty persuasive, but I don’t know if he’s attacking a straw-man. Sadly, as seen in some comments here, more than a few people have an irrational animosity towards the FSF. Can anyone present a steel-man of the FSF position?
Circa 2015, Micron have a cost of living adjustment separate from merit increases. That always struck me as a very honest way of handling things. I'm assuming they have continued the practice, which would have been helpful considering how rapidly the real estate market shot up since then.
> a debt market where private enterprise take on loan risk for commission or interest of some kind

Surely this is what banks do right now.

> the power to create fractional-reserve money is not a requirement for that.

If you take a loan from a CB say, then deposit it somewhere, then that money is loaned out again, surely that is fractional banking?

If you really disallow someone who takes a loan from being lent out again. How do you increase the money supply? Say population grows 5% and economic growth means 10% higher GDP - how do you increase money supply to match?
Wtf, something supposed to help me focus by throwing more distracting crap at me?

Really, the best way to stay focused is disconnect your internet while you work. Also, get away from any sources of sound. Staying away from other people also helps. This app seems to do the opposite.
What time horizon on the RSUs?
It's a term that was made popular by Sarah Palin during the 2008 vice presidential debates to describe a regular average Joe who always arrives with a six pack of beer in one hand when he shows up to visit.
This shows up in the search as the second result (this post and that comment are the extent of it).

> doesn't appear to be regularly discussed on HN

It's literally never been discussed until today.

> speculate this bug/imperfect performance

That's just misdirection. This very topic is currently visible in results hours after being posted.
Can you say more about this? Thanks
I cannot access the full-text of the second article, but is it really thought that heme iron is the component of red meat that contributes/causes cardiovascular disease?

Did the authors somehow adjust for the fact that a high heme iron intake generally implies a diet high in red meat?
Do you also think skip lists would work better than B-trees for in-memory maps and sets, like Rust's BTreeMap and BTreeSet? From what I've read, the performance of those B-trees in the Rust standard library is already great. http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa...
That's only true for regular joe sixpack tax slaves, whose rights are quite illusory, as you correctly observe.

However, banks spend billions of dollars defending large clients, going even as far as happily paying multi-billion fines to keep laundering money for the cartels.
> Prior to COVID, masks were a curiosity, not a norm.

In the US and much of Europe. In other countries they absolutely were the norm. I'm not advocating for permanent mask wearing, but I absolutely DO think we should have shown more concern for others prior to Covid. It drove me nuts how many people would show up to work with "just a mild flu" or "just a cold" with no concern for the likelihood they might pass it on to others.
Most of the US that I know of there are regional convenience stores with decent enough food. I'll take a Wawa sandwich over anything in the article.
They might never even realize what happened and think the message was automatic
I'm not in the Crypto camp, but - I think the argument here is that there's a lot of things that a government can do on paper that it can't actually do in practice. Banning goods is an obvious one - drugs still find their way around in the economy. A lot of regulations play this way, too - rules on what can and can't be done tend to attenuate with distance from cities (ask anyone in a rural area what they think of gun laws - and then ask them what they've actually got in their gun safe). Whether or not you think this is good effectively depends on how much trust you have in the current laws to have gotten it all right, but bear in mind homosexuality was against the law in all parts of this country until the 60s and some up into the 2000s, and weed only started becoming decriminalized for recreational use in 2012.

I think the core argument is that there's currently a difference between the government's powers on paper and its powers in reality, that widespread government-controlled digital currencies have the potential to substantially close that gap, and that that is a Bad thing because progress in society often relies on and grows in that gap. The counterargument that tax dodging, money laundering, and all other kinds of ill also happen in that gap is true, but that's the cost for keeping our options open.
The Crypto Industrial Complex – The latest tomfoolery from the future of finance
an interesting beer discussion ia what would have happened to Linux if IBM hadnt very publically announced their backing in the early 2000s. In doing do it made enterprises start to consider that Linux might be a suitably safe choice to depend on, as opposed to Solaris or HPUX or even AIX. Useful support and backing at a time when Microsoft was profoundly anti Linux.
Federal and State taxes are two completely separate things. Why can't they just send the federal tax bill and let states do what they want?
i did a whole phd-level course (a long time ago) in deformable materials, which was entirely based on tensors, and i still don’t know how to differentiate one from vectors/matrices. even the idea that tensors must obey coordinate transforms doesn’t really do it, since the practical applications of vectors/matrices do so as well.

it’s like some people invented a new word and won’t tell you what it actually means in sufficient detail to differentiate it from all the other words you know. so you keep using it with others in the hopes that contextual information will finally make it clear. one day.
We have reached the point where google ignores them.
> Most parents aren't technical and wouldn't even know how to MITM even an unencrypted messaging app.

Give it a couple of weeks and someone will have put together surveillance and parental control system for it.
a tailored narrative at best. Vimes could have borrowed money to buy the good boots - as long as he could earn more than the interest when using those boots.
That kind of driving (which, incidentally, is my favorite kind) wouldn't be helped at all.
Inevitably, the day will come when Apple will demand that you censor some content on your platform, or your app is banned from app store. This happened before [1], and will happen again.

What will you do when this happens?

[1] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/18/telegram-messenger...
NHL unveils first AI-powered stat to predict face-off winner
Throw away account (does not do much good with modern AI and ML). But here goes.

I am a US citizen (never left the country) and I always vote Republican. Down-vote away!

The FBI came to my house in October 2021. Two special agents (one of which I knew from prior IT Security engagements) and a 'Threat Assessment' Police Officer from the local police department.

They asked me if I was an Islamic extremist/terrorist. I am not. I am not religious at all. I am an IT security practitioner and amateur cryptographer.

I once used Tor for remote network security assessments and to maintain my privacy. I ran Tor hidden services (as experiments) and posted code showing best practices on how to do this without revealing the clear-net IP address. I no longer do this. I believe that is one reason I was targeted.

I have written one-time pad software and other cryptographic tools that may be used to evade IP/Cellular network meta-data analysis and tracking. I believe this is another reason I was targeted.

The agents told me that I was considered a threat and an extremist because someone had used my home network to search for Islamic extremist videos. I have not done this. And, to my knowledge, none of my family members have done this either.

I am not sure why this happened. I may never know. But I do know that true end to end encryption is critical to maintaining our security and privacy (assuming end devices are not compromised already). That is a big assumption IMPO.

Now, I also encourage people to not use Tor. I feel it is backed-doored and mostly controlled by Nation State actors to identify 'interesting' subjects via meta-data analysis alone.

That's my story. I hope you all do well.
Which is why providers should not persist things about their users.

This is the only acceptable direction now.
I became one of the 'version control' guys at a company once. It was nice to be a go-to person for certain crises, but it had its down-sides for sure.
Yup - more than beat inflation, too. They gave me equity after performance review. I said it'd be nice to get more salary because of inflation. Got +14%.
Second this question. I used to have a $5/month journalist subscription. I was subscribed for a few months. But substack's login process is so cryptic to me -- I still don't understand it to this day -- I never really got to derive anything out of it. So recently stopped the subscription.
What does "total value of my unvested equity" mean? If you are 3 years vested in a 4 year grant, then it sorta makes sense that new employees' 4 year grants would be worth more than 1 year of your grant.

With the 5.5% increase, is your compensation competitive with similar roles at other companies? Are you making enough salary to live a comfortable, satisfying lifestyle? Is the equity you have increasing in value over time better than, say, a mutual fund or ETF? Are you concerned you're not being paid your worth, or are you experiencing FOMO and anxiety because it feels like the economy is failing?
The way my parents tell it, 7-11 was actually decent in the US in the 90s. Set up an international division with quality goods; then the P&E thing happened where the international division got sold off and the US operation was stripped to bare bones and it's never been the same since.
With kids? With teens. With staff? Two or three age groups always involved and protecting them all is important.
At the very least, you should interview to get a BATNA in hand with which you can try to negotiate a more significant raise.
eh! There's a certain amount of snobbishness in a lot of these articles. Sure, some of them are probably justified in their disgust, but let's not paint with a broad brush. The midwest has a regional(?) gas station chain called Kwik-Trip and I think their hot foods (fried chicken, potato puffs, etc.) are delicious. Never tried their sandwiches but they look pretty good.

Don't know what that says about me, but I really don't care :-)
Ok I was going to try to be pedantic and say that if you could only use unsafe pointer operations, the aliasing issues don't apply. But the first example I tried to put together failed Miri, cause I was creating temporary &mut references to cast to *mut. So yeah...egg on face. Edited.
My subcontractor did just that. Handed me a notice matter-of-factly mentioning inflation. I am going to do the same to my client when renewal time comes.
I love SuperAmerica hot dogs!
I am not a lawyer of any kind and this is not legal advice. I'm merely speculating based on my past experience with other tickets on how I might handle the hypothetical scenario being discussed.

It's up to the state to prove their case. I'd contest any such ticket with the truth. Likely these systems are profitable because people don't generally contest the ticket (or do so in ineffectual ways). Neither the private company nor the state wants any judge making a ruling that makes such tickets impossible to enforce. I'd expect it would get dropped before I'd ever have to talk to a judge, but even if not, unless they have clear evidence I am lying, they're probably going to lose in court.
> the secret benefits you offer certain writers to prevent them from leaving

Can you elaborate? I know some people were paid big $ up front to make the move, but it didn't seem very secret -- the ones I'm thinking of were pretty open about the deals they'd taken, so presumably Substack wasn't pressuring them to keep quiet. And as far as I know they were paid up front for the first year, before moving to an ordinary revenue split and being free to leave.
A government bank could presumably provide financial services such as low-fee bank accounts and loans to people with bad credit scores. I dunno, I'm not really well-informed about the advantages. But the criticisms given in the article are pretty bad.

> unless you are willing to cut off ALL foreign banks

Foreign banks are still subject to financial legislation. I can't just transmit my money into and out of a Spanish bank account in order to launder it. If foreign banks didn't comply with US law, they'd get in legal trouble and have assets seized, same as always.

> does not mean they cannot phase out cash as the next step

Weird argument. If your problem is the phasing out of cash, criticize that. Except you can't, because nobody has proposed it and nobody wants to do it.

Besides, unless you agree that banks can be regulated as easily as a CBDC can, then you have nothing to worry about unless all private banks are also closed, which will never happen in our society.
Yes. I (director) normally get (total salary * 3%) to hand out for annual cost of living adjustments, this year it is (total salary * 7%). This is at a ~2000 person US software company you've probably never heard of with so-so pay.

Throwaway for obvious reasons.
>Locking your door at night is a poor metaphor.

It is a poor metaphor because locks prevent invasion not enable privacy.

Banning encryption is such an attack on privacy that it's closer to banning clothes and easing concerns by making looking at naked people illegal.

Encryption is the fundamental unit of network privacy.
Good features for the price, decent pickup speed, gears are smooth, heated leather seats, interesting features like headlight wipers and night panel. Fun to drive and look great.

They are quirky and aesthetically distinguishing, especially all the orange and green.

Love my '95 Saab 900 SE turbo and will most likely never part with it if I can avoid it.
I just updated from Catalina to Monterey and the airpod switching is magical. Always plays from the device I want.
> central bank digital currency would allow the central bank to take your money

Can’t it be architected such that this isn’t possible without certain controls?
In any case, it's still UB under the language guidelines, it's just not exploited yet.
Trying to improve my geography game with more real-world data [video]
You can check this chart comparing Meat/Lab meat/Plant based protein https://agronomics.im/benefits-of-cultivated-meat/ environmental impact
Is it a similar technique to boiling/steaming a bagel?
I wish konbini was sold in the US.

Seems like airport vending machines would be a great place for them.
Evidently it can do brain damage as well as recently noted in some studies.
Which is strange because our security is their security. If we don't have security then we are more vulnerable to foreign influences. We are more vulnerable to foreign attacks. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either everyone has security or no one does, including politicians and elites.
The game is a bit too ambitious for console I’m afraid.

Story is exactly the problem too. Once you figure out how to control your ship and get a better ship and stuff, the game really stalls out.
We aren't talking about spam or malware here though. We are talking about an entire country's media sources.
Gotta be honest, aside from learning skills you can barter with, that sounds like a wildly speculative strategy.
I was wanting a sandwich on my way to work this afternoon. I realized that the reason there is no, nice middle level independent bakeries around is that these generic conbini's have cornered the market of grab and go foods.
My options were some snooty tongs and tray overpriced but not so nice bakery, flavorless supermarket deli sandwich, or the curst(soul)less conbini.
Is there anywhere that is tracking latest salary trends? It is hard to know what the market is for given levels - do people find that levels.fyi is accurate?
this post made me unreasonably hungry!