skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're aware that SEPA is for the eurozone only

Yes, I live there as a US citizen without access to EU banking, do you? It also worth noting that it is utilized by non EU member-nations, too. (See link below.)

I also happen to live in a country that hasn't adopted the Euro, it will soon but hasn't yet. I also pay my rent to somoene who lives and works in a Euro based country.

Thus direct transfer with Euro to non-Euro accounts (and vice-versa) requires fees, transfers, and conversion costs. And it doesn't operate 24/7, and they never have; weekends always have delays--I paid a friend from Switzerland in BTC to pay someone in a SEPA non-euro EU member nation for a deposit on an apartment before a flight on US time on a weekday (weekend in their time zone) and the funds arrived in less than 10 mins for 17 cents via BTC, the payment to arrive to from a Swiss bank account to a non-euro bank account took 3 days to arrive and clear. SEPA is what Switzerland uses, even though its not a EU nation [0]. And I used to live there when the CHF was pegged to the EUR and was accepted just like the CHF: there are payment rails that never changed as a result.

What I'm saying is things are more complex tan you are making it out to be when it comes to fintech and unless you work in it you will never truly understand that--what some deem edge cases are quite typical if you work in this Industry.

I think your POV is still based on the idea that things are working under ideal conditions (or near them), where as the Bitcoin network was designed to bypass and rout around all those inconsistencies and all the constraints when it doesn't operate as it should. Which is typical for the vast majority of the World's population.

I'm sure your measure of 'functional' vastly differs to someone who operates a legal and legitimate business, but because they are deemed someone who is either high risk or simply persona non-grata for working in an Industry the State doesn't like they cannot gain access to a bank account.

I think this is really the best 'check your privilege' moment we will ever have in the tech space, and most people on HN (mainly affluent tech workers) have as you expected failed in remarkable manner; instead of the woke BS that it's often used to explain people's insulated existence, this usecase clearly exposes how naive and coddled citizens of the developed World are to what are common and typical issues in the rest of the World, but since it has had almost no impact on their own day to day they not only ignore it but will go out of there way to criticize they have a glib understanding of at best.

I can make more sweeping generalizations, but I'm not sure it will be of any use.

0: https://gocardless.com/guides/sepa/countries-sepa-zone/
I mostly used lead-free solder as a kid (1990's and 2000's) but I still recall the acrid smell of flux fumes. I've accidentally had a few good whiffs that left me recoiling and coughing a bit. I wonder if that'll have any long term effects...
I think the OSM data is bad. Lots of street highlights dont match the correct names.

Thanks for the response.

I can look at what you are using from overpass later and see what is up with their data.
I've been using Copilot for 5 months while building another AI productivity tool. It's changed my habits my I'm becoming a bit dependent on it for autocompletion. It feels so good just hitting TAB and moving on.

I know some developers that aren't embracing it the same way I do, making judgements without even trying it. "This is the future", I tell them, "it makes your life much easier", but there's resistance.

Prompt engineering is quite interesting too, and it may turn into a job skill later. While using Codex, I understood the importance of knowing how to ask for the right things to a non-human. Is bit like talking to Alexa in the early days, in the sense that I couldn't talk to Alexa like a human yet, I had to be specific, clear and intentional. I still see that people who are less experienced with a smart personal assistant struggle to get their commands done.

If you love this technology and would love to try it for Explaining Code in your browser, check out the extension ExplainDev (https://explain.dev). It works on GitHub, StackOverflow and documentation websites.

Disclaimer: I built ExplainDev, with the help of Copilot.
Ansel Adams never photographed his Central Coast home of Carmel
I wouldn't read too much into it. It may have even been allowed by Putin. Putin has always done these gesture politics that involved little effort but achieve a lot for Russia.

The continuation of the joint Russia-USA/World Space Station is good for Russia. Say the USA called the end of the ISS it would look bad for the USA, not for Russia.
All of the above may be correct, but nothing here advocates for a web service instead of licensed software. If I want to solve a linear program, I can use an open source library or I can pay for a commercial offering, but that commercial offering will run on my hardware (or cloud instance) and will operate independently of the network. If I want to edit a Word document, I can pay Microsoft for a local copy of Word.
It doesn't matter to whom?

Your example shows how important the outperformance of the Wehrmacht was. They lost how many million of their best soldiers in the eastern front? Then they fought the Western allies, they fought with a crumbling economy.

And yet:

"On a man for man basis, German ground soldiers consistently inflicted casualties at about a 50 percent higher rate than they incurred from the opposing British and American troops under all circumstances ... This was true when they were attacking and when they were defending, when they had a local numerical superiority and when, as was usually the case, they were outnumbered, when they had air superiority and when they did not, when they won and when they lost."

It doesn't matter? It mattered. From the article:

"this was an error of judgment that continues to cost America dear today. The shortcomings of American infantry in World War II were repeated in Korea, and in Vietnam. It is a great delusion to suppose that the Indochina war revealed unique, unprecedented problems in the U.S. Army. The American army created in World War II had suffered weaknesses and difficulties. These weaknesses, highlighted by media attention and by defeat, had existed since World War II".
There's a huge generational divide here. When Gen-X and younger people get control of city governments you'll see this shift.
Yes, the slides are clearly meant to be a supplement to the talk, and don't stand on their own.
100%. Also worth noting from Sowell how house prices did go up, but by comparison the prices per square foot relative to how our parents and grandparents started out are not too bad tbh. (They were all humble and started out in much more meager real estate than many people have now, for example 600 or 1000 or 1200 square foot living conditions vs 2500+ average now per home).
Older parents are good for financial health. Less so for biological health.
I certainly do pay taxes for the roads, bridges, and infrastructure.
Too many questions for senior candidates. Can’t see anyone capable really doing this. I actually approve of the sentiment that doing well in Maths helps, etc. It’s just that no one is going to write up an essay who is worth it.

The problem with having pool X and then attempting to shrink it so your interview volume is tractable is that it is trivial to shrink it in a way that changes its distribution against your intentions. It’s just self sabotage.

Sucks for them. Canonical made Linux accessible to me (dial up so hard to get CDs) but they’re probably just hurting themselves.
One thing they do now is get a half of a plan in place without any idea of how to fund the rest, so that ends up drawing things out.

"Hard to argue that promises were not kept, but something has to be done with an already started project. In that light, one thinks of former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown’s principle, “In the world of civic projects, the first budget is really just a down payment. If people knew the real cost from the start, nothing would ever be approved. The idea is to get going. Start digging a hole and make it so big, there’s no alternative to coming up with the money to fill it in.”
"

https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/opinion/2019/02/13/w...
Yeah, I figured out it was a park trail, clicked in the middle of the only park in the area with substantial trails, and actually scored very well on it. But the zoo exhibit...
Yeah agreed. I was there through the high point, through when the company committed suicide and finally resigned when the corpse started to stink publicly. Blaming everything on the bean-counters is entirely misleading.

One of these days the demise of Intel will be taught in business schools as a case study of how to destroy a tech company from within.
> Thanks for your application to joint[sic] the Ubuntu WSL engineering team.

Typo in the first sentence of the application.
Google's definition:

"information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view."

Emphasis is mine.
If you're issue is mainly with vouchers, then why not get rid of the need for vouchers in the first place by getting rid of limiting attendance by zip code? It's unfair for anyone, not just "high-cost" students, to be forced riders in an education system for which they have no agency. Fairness isn't determined on the basis of who in particular is negatively affected. Either the principle itself is fair or it isn't.

The only solution compatible with choice and public education is to allow all students a free-for-all to attend any public school within driving distance. Tuition isn't usually the biggest or first barrier to entry in attending better schools, it's bureaucracy.
A lawsuit accuses Google of racial bias against Black employees
I didn't know about the credit, ok so not so bad then I guess. Thanks!
It depends. Personally, I'd apply the technique even to focused images, after using a set of fluorescently labelled beads of known diameter to calibrate the PSF.
My understanding is that the majority of lead exposure today comes from two sources: lead dust accumulation in older construction (lead paint is banned, but removal is usually not required), and lead contamination in consumer products.

The former is easier to avoid: make sure to maintain the integrity of the paint in your living space, particularly where it regularly encounters moisture or friction (like windowsills and mantles).

The latter is harder: lead is a useful industrial material, and it finds its way into all kinds of plastics, glass, etc. Dry spices can also have high amounts of lead, depending on the plant and the region it was grown in.

All of that said, lead is not like nuclear waste: it's not a latent risk. Leaded paint and lead jointing in pipes, when maintained correctly, do not pose an exposure risk. You can spend your entire life using lead tackles and lead solder without hurting yourself, as long as you take basic precautions during and after use.
Ivan Krastev on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Years ago we used a simple 3rd party cloud backup an all employee computers. It was very easy to find old versions or files. Might be useful for more companies.

Google Drive and OneDrive has similar solutions today but they often only takes the home folder, the one we used could take a lot more.
one workaround for this is to turn off "Automatically join this network" for your office wifi and disconnect from it, but don't turn off Wifi entirely. That way it can still make direct wifi connections to your other apple devices.
Are you in an environment where the compiler / interpreter can do CSE across string-indexed dictionaries? If not, this code seems like it's gratuitously doing two extra dictionary lookups vs. an implementation using temporary variables. Now you may very well, and rightly, say "who cares" -- but to me, this is where I'd really see something like Copilot contribute. The example you gave saves typing, but leads to equal or lower quality "correct" code to what you would write anyway with a few more keystrokes -- but a system that could advise to consider the alternate version (with the human in the loop to confirm semantic equivalence for the particular dictionary in use, since the compiler / interpreter / advice tool probably cannot) would lead to not just more code per minute, but better code.
> result_dataFrame['yearOverYearMin'] = year_dataFrame.groupby('partId')['unitCost'].min()

> result_dataFrame['yearOverYearMax'] = year_dataFrame.groupby('partId')['unitCost'].max()

> And big productivity booster on code entry.

Try reducing the DRY violations and you might have to write less. Almost the entire right side of the first two lines is repeated and third line is only that long because it has to recover the results from the map instead of using local variables.

While tools like boxing gloves reduce the damage your face takes it is usually better to just try and stop hitting yourself first.
You're going to need a guide to understanding the lore and atmosphere. The hard mode is not contained to the game play. Bloodborne, for example, has the atmosphere change based on certain unlocked events and paths you choose to go down. Even if you notice the change in atmosphere, you're not going to understand how it fits together with the story.

I'd just watch a YouTube walkthrough if you don't want to play. Playing the game, alone, is not enough to fully appreciate any of the Souls games.
Countries that have included “socialist” in their names (or “people’s republic”) were murderous failures to their own populations.

Extremely bad for branding.
Back out from current housing, healthcare, food, fuel and other non discretionary costs to what wage/income you’d need to be in the black including the cost of children. Last I checked, the math doesn’t pencil out until you’re hitting ~$50k-$60k/year, a bit below median income ($67k/year), and you’re cutting it really close.

Reasoning from first principles is depressing sometimes.

https://www.zippia.com/research/should-i-have-a-baby/
Its useful that crypto mining caused you to notice this issue in the first place.

Like, where were you (all) before crypto mining filled in the void? Decades of looking for a use case that reduces emissions, this does that while producing a valuable digital byproduct sellable on the open market. It doesnt really matter what that byproduct could theoretically be used for. A bitcoin has more use than a tradeable carbon credit, which also just has a theoretical application of reducing emissions in the future.
Yikes, I don’t want to live in a world where calling bullshit is “obviously rude” but I’ll bite.

> Pen tests are a requirement for any vendor doing business with the gov.

What does this prove? Solar Winds, Colonial Pipeline (maybe more relevant here), etc.

Your search link doesn’t include anything about extensive penetration tests ensuring the security of these devices. That’s the claim. Where is the evidence?

Also calling someone’s knowledge “out of date” is a, dare I say rude assumption. But judging by your assuring in the security of government contractors I’d say your opinions are quite naive :)
This is why I often say that the typical linux user-space has zero security. Yet people like to call sandboxes security policy, e.g. why shouldn't the OSX terminal be able to enter the Documents folder, etc -- for this reason exactly.
No but with the correct economic incentives I am sure someone will figure it out. After all, Bitcoin incentivized someone to do something with it.

If those oil wells are uneconomical to operate in a way that doesn't entail leaking the natural gas, maybe it's best for them not to operate at all.
I consider this "neutrality" position both specious and pernicious.

This is a clear cut case of aggressive war, a war of conquest to expand borders, what Nuremberg trials judged as the supreme international crime. Countries claiming they are "neutral" belies their position on more important prior agreements. U.N. Charter article 2(5) applies, and India and China are frankly not doing enough. They are weakening their own sincerity, and the international institutions we need.

If the U.N. system is being unwound, and I think it may be because having nuclear weapons is a more effective deterrent than the U.N. Security Council, the next causality will be the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty. In 1994, Poland insisted on joining NATO otherwise they were going to start a nuclear weapons program, because they didn't trust Russia. They weren't alone.

China and India's "neutrality" might be just enough non-coercive force that the war lasts longer, turning Ukraine into rubble. And what will Ukraine and other countries conclude? That the international community isn't at all effective at stopping wars of aggression, and they should probably develop nuclear weapons. In effect, "neutrality" incentivizes long term nuclear proliferation.

I don't see how nuclear proliferation is in the long term security of any country on earth. They are a deterrent up to a point, but I suspect the more nukes there are the greater the chance they're going to be used.
I hadn't seen that paper before, but it is excellent. Thank you for sharing!

> To me this says that model scaling will not get us very much farther: we can probably do one more 100x but not two.

I totally agree with this assessment, and note the absence of a GPT-4 release.
While not a direct response to the two-lane idea, if you're interested in exploring these processes in general, searching for "design process" will get you a ton of info. In much of the design world, though especially in UX, design process navel gazing is somewhat akin to tech stack navel gazing among web developers.
Some of the terminology might need some review e.g. second attack of this pokete https://github.com/lxgr-linux/pokete/blob/master/assets/ss/s...
No, I'm not assuming any axioms. I'm describing the process of observing properties of nature and then finding a formalised description of those properties. The negative numbers are what we call the system of numbers which arose in this [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30736335] way, and we then found an axiomatic description afterwards. Aliens would also find negative numbers in this way, but they'd call them something different (presumably).

You're free to choose your own whatever other axioms for your 'negative numbers' that you want. If they don't describe the process of counting downwards or walking in opposite directions like I described, then I won't call them negative numbers.
It’s literally a pre-defined legal document. It’s definitely set in stone enough to warrant filing lawsuits and taking people to court over.
Other great answers, but if those things weren’t an issue I think also you’d need one sensor for each mirror, and the sensor is bigger and heavier and more complex than a single mirror. Or you could just watch the same mirror for X times longer where X is the number of mirrors, but then you’d get 1/X as many observations.
Simulation hypothesis: It's simulations all the way down. No gods in sight.
This is a really well written write-up, but I do want to point out that NAT traversal like this is not a new idea at all and this is by no means the first such write-up.

Here is one from 2014:

https://www.zerotier.com/2014/08/25/the-state-of-nat-travers...

Here's an earlier one from what seems to be the late 2000s:

https://bford.info/pub/net/p2pnat/

Here's an RFC from 2010 describing not only NAT traversal but a protocol for cryptographic addressing, which is another technique used by both ZeroTier and Tailscale:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-hip-nat-tra...

Here's an RFC for NAT traversal with STUN from 2008:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/pdfrfc/rfc5389.txt.pdf

I can keep going. I first learned about NAT traversal around 2002 and cryptographic addressing in the mid-2000s.

A lot of ideas in computing get invented and re-invented or at least re-popularized over and over again. Another such idea from networking is zero trust, which was originally called deperimeterisation and was developed by a group called the Jericho Forum in 2003-2005:

https://twitter.com/jonoberheide/status/1505160010371895299

It then got re-invented by Google as BeyondCorp in 2013, then by Forrester and Gartner as Zero Trust most recently. In this case we maybe had to wait for a more confusing term. Deperimeterisation more accurately describes what's happening and there seems to be a rule in networking that prohibits clear language that is not misleading. Zero Trust is a lie since (1) there is no such thing, and (2) the way it's usually deployed today delegates all trust to a single third party like Google or Okta that now has root on the entire universe. This is actually centralized trust.

My intent here is just to remind HN readers that what's new around here is often not new at all. Our field has an incredibly short memory and re-discovers things constantly. I've been on HN since the start and feel like I've watched several generations re-discover things that date back to the 1980s. Hell I watched the entire history of databases get speed run starting with the NoSQL trend (1970s hierarchical data models) and proceeding through the re-discovery of why the RDBMS became popular.
But your individual losses are covered when a bank fails, you're not protected when an exchange fails. They're just gonna try their hardest to make you whole. Look at that worked out at Mt Gox.

> The most interesting thing with crypto is the new capabilities it enables for self custody of wealth.

Serious question: what are the new capabilities that this opens up? These tokens are really unstable which makes them poor candidates to use as actual currency, research shows that decentralized networks are no less susceptible to market manipulation than traditional financial markets and there's an unbelievable amount of fraud everywhere in this space.

The whole reason the Federal Reserve was created was to weed out endemic fraudulent activity around the country during the era of "Wildcat Banking"[0], when banks were essentially creating their own currencies. Crypto is largely the digital reincarnation of this philosophy, and isn't really doing anything about shitcoins and other scams. Now, we're starting to see the legitimization of shitcoins through sports team fan tokens that provide no tangible value beyond the purely speculative "hodl" mentality.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
FYI most of these things are available as part of oh-my-fish[1]

[1] https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish#readme
This is something else.

And one thing I've noticed at Canonical especially. They seem to love to keyword match and have the flexibility of a slate.

"Describe your experience with WSL". What kind of BS question is that? If the person has already answered about Windows and Linux, why do you have this as a question? Do you also think JS programmers can't do typescript?

"Describe your speaking experience at industry events" Loaded and exclusionary question.
This is great, I've been using Sublime Merge similarly in my workflow. I stage individual files while drafting the commit message and make sure to split lines across commits for logical rollbacks. I personally find it a lot faster than using the CLI, at least in this case.
No, for me it’s a corvette. I guess it’s the same price as a Model S but if I don’t get the C8 it’s gonna be a C6 for about $25-40k

Once I had kids (found out we were expecting) I stopped fucking around, bought a condo within a month, and I was from that day on a mission to make money. Didn’t give a shit about hours, didn’t give a shit about free sodas, it was all how much does it pay?

If anyone offered me $5k/yr more I’d quit on the spot. Whenever a recruiter called, I was interested.

In a way kids are expensive but to me the kick in the pants it gave me led to making far more money and honing my mind and realizing what’s important and what isn’t.