skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the last decade in the UK my family have lost their wallets/purses twice and credit card fraud once. I got my credit card fraud taken care off but was out of pocket for the cash in wallet/purse.

Win for cashless. (I’m not anti-cash but I certainly favour using cashless options wherever possible. Safer, plus you get loyalty points and in the UK there is no cash discount price so if you aren’t getting loyalty points on your card you are throwing money away / paying a premium for the privacy of cash)
Consulting is what the client expects ;)

As I work at a "real" consulting company maybe my experience isn't what you want, but I'd just suggest always focusing on networking and remember you are separate from the company you are consulting for. You can and should say no to things you don't want to do; setting boundaries makes it easier for yourself and the client. Pay attention to what the client complains about, and try to think of how they're trying to do their job(or whoever is to use what you're working on.) Never annoy your main point of contact at a client beyond reasonable amounts. Try to focus on clients in your timezone first. It is fake and a lie until it is written down in a SoW with a corresponding budget. Have confidence in the product you give but make sure your first few deliverables are 'perfect' as it will make the client much more amiable to working with you again. No client will admit what they want unless they just got done having to deal with it.
Autonomous cars are going to reshape the motel market and commuting.

If you can sleep comfortably as your car drives you from SF to LA, it is a game-changer. If you can WFH from your car as you commute to the office for mid-morning meetings, you can live farther from town.

Removing the labor costs of having a driver allows everyone to experience the transformative benefits of having a chauffeur. Rich people like chauffeurs because they buy time, the most-precious commodity.
> Anycast routing

Aha, that brings up technical articles, thanks. TFA does mention it multiple times so mea culpa.
The Julia equivalent does a good job explaining the 0.0 case:
https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/math/#Base.isapprox
Every transaction is visible to a lot of entities: banks, card operators, credit rating agencies, state etc.
Chapman's writings on the subject are worth a read:

https://metarationality.com/remodeling
Are there any non profit electronic signature providers?
A 3 day outage is never a product bug. Its a failure to plan for DR and many other things.
> Even people who donated to the truckers before the crackdown got targeted in the bank account freezes.

Source?
Yeah, I try not to interrupt candidates unless they clearly misunderstood the problem and are building something that doesn’t show their expertise but they think I want. I voted hire on a guy who worked silently for over half an hour and ended up with a good solution, though it’s a little more persuasive for a candidate to offer more signals in case the final code doesn’t come out right.
Russians Need VPNs. The Kremlin Hates Them
How do they keep up with changes?
Meaning they will not take over my risky surgery, and I will still be choosing among risk takers, but with clear stats in my hands.
Lapsus$ hacking group claims software consultancy Globant as its latest breach
I have to also say with the introduction of variables this starts to look crazy

:root {
--main-color: brown;
}
.foo.bar {
--main-color: red;
}
.foo.foo {
--main-color: blue;
}
.bar {
--main-color: red;
color: var(--main-color);
}

anyone actually use this foo.foo method of increasing specificity? Because I think difficult to debug.
Osko is instant but basically all banks will delay large transfers to new accounts. Some banks do this for amounts as low as $1000. Not for a technical reason. Just to give the owner enough time to notice the sms and email in case your account gets breached so you can call customer support to lock everything down.
I was thinking from the perspective of fees. If you giving $10k+, you almost trust the person, so why even introduce middleman and give 10% to them? Do they really bring that much value?
Its really hard as an individual to judge how facebook is doing, because if you ask 10 people you will get 10 different answers based off what the facebook algorithm has decided to show them.

For some people it is a wasteland of advertisements because their peers have moved on.
Android is bleeding marketshare to whom? PalmOS? Windows Mobile? Outside of the Great Firewall they dominate everything.

Apple's IOS is shrinking globally due to Apple chasing premium customers and pricing itself out of the market. An iPhone SE is $399 after discounting, the average selling price for a smartphone outside the US is about $90.

The iPhone 13 is a truly fantastic product, state of the art with an SOC that is years ahead of the competition. I'm truly privileged not only to own one, but to live in a country where the average man on the street can also afford to buy one for every member of his family. But I'm part of a tiny minority.
Can you share what surgery advances these were specifically? I'm really curious.
Don’t get stuck on the “emergency requests”, the people faking those are perfectly happy to fake court orders too.

> but that's not an excuse for "it should work this way" which is the direction everyone seems to be taking it.

I see many people arguing that the recipients should solve this problem by doing better verification, I don’t think that’s reasonable.

This is absolutely something that the lawmakers need to fix, but that will be a herculean task.
The take away should really be that posts that get voted to the top of HN do not represent the general public, or even the majority of the tech world. Google Cloud makes $20 billion a year in revenue, about a third of AWS. Google overall makes $260 billion. Its revenues are rising by 50%+ annually.

People aren't quitting in droves, and the company isn't on the edge of failure, as regular readers might believe.
In Adelaide “card only” has become common and I haven’t seen a single cash only business since 2019.
"Umm... As you get older, you'll simultaneously need more pills and lose your ability to easily open blister packs."

That isn't really a feature of old age. Some folks have some issues, sure, and sure - it is more likely when you are older, but by no means is it a given nor is it necessarily tied to old age. There are simple solutions for that, like ordering easy-to-open packaging from the pharmacist (here, they would literally put it in plastic bags). Some pharmacies already help folks organize medicines and I don't see where this would be a real issue.

I'll also state that most folks shouldn't need to buy a robot to take simple medicines plus it is going to add an expense that a lot of folks couldn't afford. It doesn't seem to be a huge issue in countries with blister packs that are fairly standard - again, pharmacies are generally helpful.
I guess there is no point trying to convince you?

The most important technology since the internet.

Changes the foundation of trust, governance, economy, incentives.

New operating system for humanity.

(and there is no way to stop it, countries who will ban it will go into dark ages while other will prosper)
This is the right perspective. Not “what can it do for me today”, but rather “what will it do for me over my entire career”.

The future of vim is more vim. I have been using vi and its descendants for over 30 years, and the core behavior is the same as it has always been. It has done all I ever needed, and it works everywhere and over slow connections.

The future of VSCode is at the mercy of Microsoft, and that absolutely will change under you without warning. They control the value of the skills that you learn. Why would you take that risk?
This.

Lost access to my business on Google infra / services after leaving a positive review on a bakery while on holiday to Paris - for "violating Google Maps policy".
The "substantially similar" thing for medical devices is a funny one. Especially when a company depends on that classification and then goes and tries to get a patent on part of their product.
Also wondered this - Pretty sure it is unless you’re using K3s et al which swap it out for SQLite.
Spent about half an hour trying to understand what the heck the gt tool is. I have no prior experience of this and I just find it wildly abstract.
An insurance company with perfect information would actually be useless. The point of insurance is to spread risk; perfect information means no spreading of risk.
> Nowadays, I pay more than $5 on any withdrawal from a machine that isn’t affiliated with my bank.

That's borderline criminal. Look for a better bank, there's no reason to be hit with such fees.

I have accounts at four banks and none of them charge me fees for getting cash out of a different banks ATM. The ATM will show a default message that it is charging a fee, but it never actually gets charged.

I believe there is some limit to how many withdrawals a month they'll do for free, but I've never reached it (and I mostly use cash for privacy).
I would like to ask you a few questions. Would you mind getting in touch with me?

Email in my profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonebrunozzi

Thanks!
I get you point, but I want to point out that "Give people power, and it will be used" does not justify the statement "They WILL abuse this power".

Not every USE of power is an ABUSE of power.
The changes you list here would take longer than 10 years. But yes the fallout will be intense.

It is also hard to imagine anyone in government is incentivized to go after such issues. The huge lobby machinery that will influence the planning when the time comes.
I was using cloze (www.cloze.com) for years, but it started to feel a bit outdated.

Moved to Covve (www.covve.com) recently and it's pretty great. It has an ecosystem of features and apps that help a lot especially if your profession is people oriented.

I'll check out yours too.
Many migraine sufferers will take pain killers multiple times in a month
I’m a great interviewer but burnout quickly. I wouldn’t criticize the org for hiring someone, but I agree they should be criticized for not firing.
How does Firefox's Reader View work? (2020)
It seems that the use-cases of de-identified authentication are very limited and apply mostly for situations where you don‘t need authentication at all by just stopping the data collection?!
Thank you so much for this; it was even better than I expected! I had no idea Tetris had such a big and thriving community. TIL!
In the zone, that slurp becomes worse then fingers across a chalkboard. Great way to put subtle bugs in your code.
It is clearly a problem, although, I am afraid, you've been forced to have a bank account in most western countries for a while now. Removing cash is part of that process but it's not the beginning. That boat a sail a while ago.

What we need is more competition in the banking sectors. And I am not talking about more private for-profits banks. We need:

1. Public own banks. A bank as a public service. Indeed, governments will have more control on it but if you are a citizen of another country, this becomes less of a problem. You could be depositing your money into the Public Bank of Canada for example. A bank as a public service might have nefarious interests too but at least they would be different from a private for-profit bank.

2. We need private non profit banks. Banks run as an NGO. And on this, we could help by providing open source banking software. Rigorously tested and hardened.
Any sources on that bit about chronic ibuprofen usage? I'm aware of the GI issues (stomach lining actually), and not the others. I'm a long chronic user (daily for years now), and appear to have a reliable mitigation for the GI problems, so I'd love to know more about the other stuff you mentioned.
In an entirely financialized world, control of money is used as a substitute for violence. Demonetization, sanctions, unbanking are increasingly used for behavioral adjustment. People who want to reduce the risk of monetary violence will learn from whatever the chinese and russians have been doing for decades
> I wrote this to make “going paperless” easier. I do not have to worry about finding stuff again. I feed documents right from the post box into the scanner and then shred them. Perhaps you might find it useful too.

I know this strongly depends per country, but could anyone else share real-life experiences of going paperless?

From my understanding, if there is a sheet of paper that has special meaning, presumably you must be able to produce the original, with wet stamps and signatures, upon request (since any copy can be created from scratch digitally). So I keep loads of papers I am afraid to dispose of.
I have been burn by Consul countless time and advise to not actively using it.

Google around company has down time with consult

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/rob...

https://danveloper.medium.com/on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-c...

I had use consul extensively in 2016-2017 with consul template.

The problem with consul is it's very easy to reject connection. Accidently have a node with too old or too new version join and entire cluster will be down. Which can happen easily in an autoscaling env.

Another issue is again, agent takes a lot of time to be cleanedup and removed, say in autoscaling vm where node come and go all the time you ended up with so many dead node on consul ui. Again, this is 2017 so It might changed now.

I have been replace consul with something suprisingly simple, and I think in retrospective that's all I want.

A local process run a key value API on top of a local database(can be SQLite or anything up to your taste. Its replace its state with a central server.

If the central server is down, the local agent still has its state to continue serving stale data.
Same problem here. Let me know if you have a bug fix
> Looks like they’re finally taking EMPs and solar flares seriously.

There are a couple of other possibilities as well. Remember when a bunch of Iraq's electrical infra was taken out with graphite fiber bombs[0]?

The idea has been out there for a while, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that grenade launchers or cheap drones can be used instead of modified Tomahawk missiles.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_bomb
I'm not on NixOS, but I do use Nix as a package manager on Debian and this is what I got:

$ nix-env -qa | wc -l
39168

Of course, it's important to note that Nix doesn't lag behind upstream as much as Debian. Actually, it's usually one of the first places where new versions of packages appear. So you don't have the problem such as the one Debian has with maintaining PHP 7.4.
More Google spin.

> "Some 94% of U.S. consumers abandoned a shopping session because they received irrelevant search results"

This would often be because the product is simply not in stock, leaving no other option for the user other than leaving the site.

> "It’s a phenomenon known as “search abandonment""

A phenomenon? If you say so, Google. Please tell me more about how adding Google search to my client's website will magically materialize the out of stock item.

Google makes these claims for self-serving reasons. They're behind the survey that supports the claim, which in turn supports their agenda to have websites install their cloud search product.

> "shoppers still struggle to find what they’re looking for. They often have to come up with a perfectly-worded query that a retailer’s site search engine will understand"

Oh bullshit, Google.

Even the most basic site search will return product results from words contained in the product name. People looking for bread knives on a homewares site can use "bread" or "knife" in their search and get relevant results. And it's trivial for site search to pick up other meta data from the product, such as descriptions. "Baking" for example, the user could find the bread knives by searching for baking accessories.
Where Is the Evidence for “Evidence-Based” Therapy? [pdf]
They will die for sure when they show 99% ads and 1% of the post is cringe. Why should they show me feed that I never care? And, it seems my profile is full of some motivational, ostentatious people which I really don't like
Recently I encountered this kind of horse shit visiting friends in Santa Monica.

Half the places we went to for food or drinks refused cash, if the federal government isn't going to prohibit this the cities should at least do it. Plenty of people only have access to cash, it's arguably discriminatory which is already illegal in the US for businesses serving the public.

I'm just waiting for a savvy LA attorney to gather together enough homeless people from Skid Row for a class action lawsuit and take this issue to the supreme court on discriminatory grounds.
Correcting typos is such a more helpful response!
Here's their blog post about it: https://redis.com/blog/introducing-redis-stack/
What do you think it looks like for software developers?
>Public own bank.

We had those in the UK, they were called building societies. They were mostly regional and offered savings accounts and mortgages.

Unfortunately nearly all of them demutualised in the nineties, there is only one major one left now[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_Building_Society
The comments here are a perfect performance of the article's point. Yeesh.
I think this article portrays what I think is crypto’s biggest problem - the developers are all focusing on /trivial/ matters like preventing double-spend and ensuring economic finality.

And then, every time a hack happens they blame it on the users - “the blockchain wasn’t compromised”. Sure, but users don’t care about that technicality.

Crypto needs better UI/UX and real-world mainstream usecases, not better consensus algorithms.

I don’t think Vitalik et all understand this, outside of the small criticisms they’re willing to bring up to deflect crypto-skeptics.

Eg, POW’s environmental damage is mentioned once in this blog, as a positive that enabled ETH’s “accessibility”. This is a joke right? You can barely mine any ETH even on an rtx3090. Obviously, mining pools/farms and the resulting global GPU shortages are accessible.
It’s not a colossal task if you hire technical writers.
I wondered whether, I f you use this, you would have to unlock your phone and hand it over to a police officer, if they ask for your ID.

Reading https://learn.wallet.apple/id, that, fortunately, isn’t the case (“Your ID information is presented digitally between your device and a reader, so you’ll never need to show or hand over your iPhone or Apple Watch”)

Now, I wonder whether you can trust every officer to have such a reader.
Nowadays I am immediately thinking:

1. Google Search is not very good anymore.

2. This is more user tracking to Google

3. This is going to be way more expensive than it needs to be

4. This going to be discontinued in a couple of years.
IonQ Named as One of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies
Which legislation is responsible for this move? It does not seem like authentic move to support developers allowing them to make more money on the appstore.
> This, just like the rest of your comment, is just patronizing and condescendant.

I tried to be a bit self-effacing also, but platitudes like "make it right, then make it fast" are condescending to begin with. Sometimes "make it right" requires knowing the performance implications of your architecture decisions.

> Because Python is interpreted and Go is compiled.

This is not why the Go API beats the Python API, which you can tell from knowing the basic language semantics plus method signature.
It's more like forcing everyone to have an email address.

You have a huge variety of choice of bank, including nonprofit, cooperative credit unions that don't do anything evil to their customers.
It’s a tech-oriented link aggregation and commenting site:

https://lobste.rs/
We're all different, I find Cisco and Vyatta awkward because of different reasons. RouterOS is not the best there is but it's less awkward, in my opinion.
Wood homes are easy to build, maintain and modify. They are far better in earthquakes than masonry construction (because they flex). On the other hand, there are issues like susceptibility to humidity and fire risk.
That's one of the things I continue to love about the Ember.js framework.
Especially things like

> once a block gets finalized, it cannot be reverted without the attacker having to lose millions of ETH to being slashed

when most recent hacks are begging for reversibility.
There are many deflationary, liquid assets other than BTC.
> It seems to inhabit the nether realm between high level productivity

This is where you're wrong.

What would you consider "high level productivity" then? Java? Ruby? Ruby on Rails?
The test should no longer be used:

> Acid3, in particular, contains some controversial tests and no longer reflects the consensus of the Web standards it purports to test, especially when it comes to issues affecting mobile browsers. The tests remain available for historical purposes and for use by browser vendors. It would be inappropriate, however, to use them as part of a certification process, especially for mobile browsers.

Source: http://www.acidtests.org/
Show HN: Kusk-gateway, an OpenAPI Ingress Controller, is now in Beta
>you've been forced to have a bank account in most western countries for a while now.

You have, many haven't. There's plenty of people who pay their rent in cash and work in a business that pays them in cash (strippers, some farm laborers, etc). Surviving in the US with cash only would take away a lot of options for many people but at the same time, it's completely possible.

IMO we need more ways to bypass banks, including the central bank, not more of them.
> performance or memory sensitive

Depends on what you're measuring as performance.

Server request throughput? Being middleware API server to relay data between a frontend and a backend?
Is there a simpler way to make long-haul more efficient by investing in trains along the major arteries of trucking traffic (which would include ports, big production and consumption cities/regions)?
And then more intense and automated load transfer between ports to trains and trains to last-mile-trucking.

This could be developed along-side trucking automation. Thus developing 2 networks meaning more resilience.
Yeah just like any other university project.
Redis OM
How is possible to restrict someone from making a factual statement like X is compatible with Y?
I have empirically determined that the main reason for this problem is the unwillingness to put in the effort to completely automate the work. The most often used argument I get is:

it's not worth the effort to completely automate something that one has to perform maybe only once in six months or once per year.

This argument is patently flawed and wrong, because it assumes that it's only worth automating something if it is done often enough. Scientifically, "often enough" isn't quantifiable, and that argument completely neglects the repeatability aspect: by fully automating, the steps to perform something are codified and quantified.
That time series though...
50000/250=200, that is a lot of cores!
Thanks. That is an accurate reflection, yes. I learned a lot from the fact that when I shared it in my personal network — with people who know me (some of which have worked with me before) — reactions were much more positive. So yeah, that much for me valuing context awareness :-) I've made some significant changes to the document based on the feedback I got here, and I think it now reflects better what my intentions were, even for people who have little to no context about it.
All their "new features" are practically useless. Speaking as a client with many years of using UpWork.

Their fees were quite substantial before, but now it's more ridiculous. Probably gonna use it only for lead acquisition and move away instantly.