skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every non-profit is different. I am not going to argue in favor of any over the other. I apologize if it seemed that I was arguing in favor of small local ones.

I think one ends up down a deep rabbit hole comparing different non-profits. In the end I think you need to find a mission you care about & a group that you believe does it well. I think the most important thing is that you are invested in the non-profit.

A local YMCA can provide very cheap after school child care & activities that keep kids safe, out of trouble, maybe a small meal & allows their parents to work. This can end up having very huge benefits directly & indirectly in the community.

GiveWell shows a lot of cost effective ways to distribute things like medicine & safety items. Plenty of awesome non-profits there.

I work with some small non-profits that pick & fund specific research at universities on childhood cancer.

I'm not sure how you compare different non-profits like that. Especially if you want to see the impact they have over N years, how that impact is spread or if some other larger issue needs to be addressed that's making a non-profits work pointless. GiveWell itself says it doesn't try to be a charity evaluator. They try to find a small number of really good donation opportunities for people.
San Francisco is the most childless major city in the U.S.
Using Stripe for B2B / Enterprise SaaS subscriptions. A few things that would improve my life, though I suspect Stripe might already working on a few of those:

Easy way to create a recurring subscription based on a one-off price, currency and product description (just so this is still recognised as recurring revenue).
Recurring subscriptions that automatically pause and remind me 30/60 days before renewal so I can reach out to the customer and get a new purchase order.
Customer templates - Many customers purchase through resellers, so having templates for different resellers would accelerate the process to add new customers with the same bill-to but different ship-to.
Dashboard with upcoming renewals for annual subscriptions.
Saved export settings (columns) for payouts, so I can export these each month for my accountant.

Yes, you can do all of those through the API, and I'm sure Stripe will tackle these sooner rather than later, still, just to give you an idea.
How precisely is it away from the eyes of governments? We've seen ample reporting in recent days about just how easy it is to trace crypto assets.
Controlled environments, are, well, erm, controlled, so something like a hydroponic greenhouse normally wouldn't use pesticides at all - pests should not be getting in at all.

If the greenhouse uses normal soil then ofcourse it's not totally isolated, but still i'd expect them to use less
I do not live in California, and am glad: I stuck a crowbar in the faultline when i visited as a tourist. Didn't work but it was worth a try.

I'm very glad to have read this, and delighted to see the appreciation of their effort. "Strategic Optimism Reserve" is a great characterization.

The cranks and kooks who think they can change the world may well be wrong, both about their ability and their intent; but bless them for taking the effort.
fair point, though I'll note my assertion was based on personal observation, frustration, and setting up interventions out of concern.
Well, when many of their recently funded companies are in the crypto space, I'd say it's the least they can do, though it might 1. Fall on deaf ears, or 2. Fall on dead ears.
I finished the game. Great work! Also love your Digital Garden.
And how do these apps not allow that?
how are we supposed to parse this?:

"High-pesticide-residue FV intake was unrelated whereas low-pesticide residue FV intake was inversely related to all-cause mortality"

high pesticide consumption was unrelated (so had no effect on mortality), while low pesticide intake had inverse relation to mortality (low pesticide = high mortality)?
It's almost like any successful developer needs to develop an app thats popular but not that popular and verging on slightly more difficult so that the moat holder (in this case Stripe) doesn't want to build it themselves. Alternatively make something that catches fire really quickly and sell very quickly before they can build it themself.
Except that their entire pro line is called MX and has been before this. Their mouse is MX master.
And as I'm an EU citizen paying top taxes, plenty of which went into funding the project, it's partially my cable as well.
Security by obscurity has been debated to hell and back. It only works if you stay obsecure... and don't leak your code.
I feel like this is a sweet spot of sorts as careers go. People hire you unproven and often have little or no real expectation. If you can deliver at all, even just by being consistent and not making a fuss then you will be rewarded. You’ve also got something to brag about now and it’s noticed by other employers. Your employer knows if they don’t pay you, someone else will. They probably also feel like you’re rather underpaid for the work you put in recently and can justify bonuses and such rather easily. Furthermore, if you leave they have a big interruption and void to fill. They have to roll the dice on another unproven or pay for someone experienced. They’re lacking leverage to keep you.

In this way, it’s not unusual to 2x or more your income in those first couple years across many different roles (even non technical). This is the reality of becoming what is often referred to as junior->senior.
I mean, this would be cool if you could buy it, but in it's current scheme it's a perpetual rental which only makes it attract to a certain kind of business.

On a semi-unrelated note, how long can we sustain per month, per user costs? Maybe I'm naive, but the per month buck has to stop somewhere.
this does not use the old unifying received.. it use their new bolt receiver.. the two are not compatible with each other..

i don't know about the Unifying but the bolt is certainly based on Bluetooth, BT 5.0 Low Power to be exact..
Then the whole HN crowd would have enough outrage materials for weeks. Seems like a win-win situation to me.
"What Go 1.0 didn't have was user-defined generics."

If you sit down and carefully write out the use cases for generics, which extend well beyond "parameterized data types", you'll note that Go interfaces cover a lot of them reasonably well, which is how it has been a viable language for versions 1.0 - 1.17. While this is an unpopular opinion, I don't really consider 1.18 to have "added" generics so much as completed them. (As evidence, consider how important "interfaces" still are in generics, and I can attest from personal experience with helping people that there's a lot of people who try to fire "generics" at a problem when they just need interfaces.)

I say this in support of the original post. Otherwise one must reconcile how Go could be successful "without generics"; my suggested resolution is that it shipped with "bad" or "incomplete" (more charitably) generics rather than no generics. Compare programming in Go with programming in C and the differences become very clear. There's a reason so many people were able to smoothly transition their code bases from Python to Go, for instance, which a view of Go in which it literally has "no" generics finds hard to account for. You need more than just "maps" and "slices" to do that successfully.
Lisp syntax is simpler than other languages. Unfortunately, simplicity often clashes with conciseness. In Python, you can do neat stuff like `[a[a!=0][:, 8] for a in A]`. It is possible to somewhat replicate the same ease of use using (reader) macros, but Lisps seldom seem to have mature, standard macros for these kinds of stuff.
> Also some scheme impl are probably running circles around python perf.

I have an abacus that has better perf than Python, so I’d say this is a safe bet :P
Imagine a QR code that changes once every X milliseconds.
> So far there are no diagnostic findings that would allow you to even say for sure that post-Covid even exists, biochemically.

As suggested in every previous study. Is there even a way to measure the impact of survivor's guilt or whether the inundation of messaging about CoViD could create Long Covid?
Reminds me of the old Wrapster[1] days

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/napster-hack...
Compression will limit the bandwidth of a given frame but you can work around it.

Some forms of DRM are already essentially this, compression - and even crappy camera recording from a theater - resistant DRM that is essentially stegonagraphy (you can't visually tell its there) exist.

EDIT: "compression resistant watermark" is a good search phrase if anyone is curious
I only see the problem for the paintings. If you choose a photo it's good. Could be a problem in the source data (i.e. paintings of mechanical objects are imperfect).
How I think about C99 strict aliasing rules
The existing system would stay the same. A USD stablecoin would be something new - a cryptocurrency that is backed 1:1 by the USD and the US Government.

It's too big of a job for private finances and too prone to corruption because there is zero profit if you do it properly.
Plus it costs extra and many banks don't support it.

It's a mess.

I wish this was faster, imagine paying online by scanning a QR code with your banking app. There would be non risk of chargebacks for merchants and fees could be basically zero.
> those mini-towns/mini-forts being called castrum and becoming many modern day cities.

While ethymologically becoming "castle", I think.
Is it one big horkin' cable that needs to be spliced by divers? Or is it hundreds of tiny little fibers?
I expect there's a hierarchy in language acquisition, where describing interactions with the world come before more abstract talk such as gossip. But once this first-order descriptive talk is understood, this can be leveraged to capture the more abstract talk.
If you put youtube-dlp on youtube as a video, make sure to use youtube-dlp to it up.
How so? Isn't the only point of developing these systems and abstractions so that other people don't have to worry about them?
So do they own a solid chunk of it somewhere, or like a really long pie-slice sliver down the whole thing?
Have any laptops/mobile workstations ever used ATX motherboards?
> Consumers can move past herbicides and pesticides ... cooking more from scratch.

How is this even relevant?
I've had extremely bad luck running go-ipfs at any scale. GC is braindead (literally deletes the whole cache on a timer), networking is slow and drops tons of packets (apparently too much UDP?), and by default it stores each object 2 or 3 times. I'm sure it'll work fine for people using http://dweb.app, and probably go-ipfs will work okay for super casual browsing, but as soon as someone tries to download any substantial IPFS dataset, expect lots of resource limits.
I wrote one of these as a POC when at AWS to store data sharded across all the free namespaces (think Lambda names), with pointers to the next chunk of data.

I like to think you could unify all of these into a FUSE filesystem and just mount your transparent multi-cloud remote FS as usual.

It's inefficient, but free! So you can have as much space as you want. And it's potentially brittle, but free! So you can replicate/stripe the data across as many providers as you want.
Work through reading the manual. Of your programming language of choice, of your IDE, of your packages, etc...
i hope the backrooms wikidot stays ok
I used a 50% (Preonic, so 5x12 1u keys, with an option to use a 2u spacebar by sacrificing a slot on the bottom row) for a while, so:

The switches felt great to use (chosen myself), the keycaps were still easily customizable to an office-appropriate yet imo stylish theme, and the default layout was intelligently designed to where most functionality was already within reach of your fingers.

Functionality would be in 'layers'. While they're usually numbered, I think of them as 'Alternate Shift', where normal Shift is 'up 1' (CAPITALS, and !@#$%^), and other layers can be whatever you want, i.e. `Layer2 A` = "{", `Layer2 S` = "}". The layout is set by the (often customizable) firmware.

I stopped using it when I changed to a 100% remote job, but keep it as a display piece.
Microsoft announces a brand-new Arm-powered desktop PC and Arm-native dev tools
"Providing an isolated deployment for each client meant maintaining thousands [(!!!)] of Kafka deployments."
hey, all our abacuses need is a digital link and we're set
> In theory, every single USDT in circulation could be redeemed at a moment's notice

The easy way to protect against this is to not contractually promise instant redemption. I think this is what tether actually does, but I could not find a source. Regular savings account banks do typically do this, for example the bank has the right to ask for 7 days to honor a withdrawal.

If you are tether and your asserts are in bonds that mature in under N days, then you could just promise redemption within N days to eliminate bank run risk. You would still of course have counter party risk that when the bond matures it is not paid back.
I think my problem is that there is no runtime dispatch between the methods that were listed. Such that that was a bit of a non-sequitur for the point at hand.
They made mechanical keyboards in their G brand that target gamers..

This is the first time they make an wireless mechanical keyboard in their "regular" brand..
Since it's a cable, I would imagine the latter.
Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
For sure! I’m definitely hoping to see more workers and employees used to short conference calls while growing up on Skype and Discord. So perhaps as the new generations come into the workforce we’ll see it much more. Definitely seems like I’m much more efficient with my peers while discussing stuff over voice than text.
From the sound of it, my timing going back to school may just work out.

Though I’m kinda curious if the affect is outsized mostly in the SV, VC pumped side of the tech industry. I work for what technically could be considered a tech startup but is backed by companies with heavy domain experience and traditional investment firms. As far as I’ve heard we’re still in a hiring storm.
Failing upwards is how you become extrmely successful in America.

Find a niche where you can fail upwards consistently and the sky is the limit.
I'd say to use the right tool for the job.

But as a general opinion, I admire the theoretical elegance of GraphQL (only return the exact data needed), but using GraphQL is probably more trouble than it's worth for most projects.
Slightly strange chart, it seems to be using 8 day intervals rather than weekly. So the entire period covered is the last 232 days, or approximately 8 months.

Anyway, the chart is scary. I personally have not yet migrated my Chrome extensions from v2 to v3.
Replying only to the title:

Because nobody wants to be "the idiot who pays for innovation from which all our competitors will also benefit". It's like the arms race that the countries all over the world do; you might swear to everything that's holy you're peaceful but you don't know if your neighbor is an a-hole so you arm yourself just in case.

The amount of handy scripts and clever engineering solutions I've come up with in personal and freelance projects beats any salaried work creativity by 10x, if not 50x even. Regularly.

But after 20 years in the profession I learned not to offer these solutions in my regular work. The other programmers will mercilessly rip apart any of your ideas and will ask for literally every other way for you to do it and not the one you suggested. Nevermind that it's none of their damned business how I deliver the end result (I mean if it does NOT involve code to maintain in the future -- obviously).

It's weird. Guess we have some very common and stereotypical weaknesses?

But whatever the case, I gradually learned to keep my mouth shut and get the job done by any means necessary.

It's better to ask for an apology than for permission, I have found empirically.
Military dolphins...
If you want lifetime software updates, consider GNU/Linux smartphones, Librem 5 and Pinephone. They run mainline Linux, which will receive updates even if the companies behind the smartphones disappear (actually, the second company already doesn't do any development).

More details: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
Neither, it's shared ownership. It's similar to if you buy a house with your partner: neither of you owns specific rooms, but you own the whole thing together. There's likely agreements about which fibers (there's 8 fiber pairs in the cable) and/or how much bandwidth everyone can use, though.
won't really hurt me that much due to the fact im on a school chromebook
Somewhere in between? It seems that individual sounds are perceived by the chimps as meaningful signals, and that the combined bigrams and trigrams have additional meanings. Not sure it can be analogized to human speech more specifically than that.
cyberpunk 2077 is about as far away from an open world RPG as you can get, it's a relatively linear story driven game. Besides the massive number of launch day bugs, that was one of them many points of contention across the reviews of the game, since the game was marketed as an open world sandbox style environment.
This for on-premise would be a dream.

Definitely want to use your product in the future.
I'm interested! But I'm not sure I like that big of flip phone. I really like the Kyocera e4710 form factor.
> All you need for a stable stablecoin is to save every dollar put in to it.

That’s the issue right there. How does Tether save its dollars? We can see it in their transparency report[1]. Whether you believe them or not it’s not just cash in a bank account.

* 0.41% Non-U.S. Treasury Bills

* 55.53% U.S. Treasury Bills

* 0.15% Reverse Repurchase Agreements

* 5.81% Cash & Bank Deposits

* 9.63% Money Market Funds

* 28.47% Commercial Paper and Certificates of Deposit

How much of that is liquid and directly convertible to dollars 1:1 in he next 24 hours? Not 100%.

What happens when they start selling billions in Treasury Bills and Commercial Paper to fund redemptions? The market price of those assets will drop.

What if the value of those assets is already below 1:1 because of recent market events?

What if they’re not being as transparent as they say they are?

> As long as they never spend anything from the reserve, this can't fail no matter how unpopular the currency is.

This can easily fail many different ways.

[1]: https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports
Pricing works best when aligning with value instead of costs. In general you should also try to align your pricing with value for better margins (especially if you are have a monopoly condition).

The rationale is that Stripe believe that a small percentage will align better with customer acceptance of pricing than a flat fee per invoice, which allows them to capture more dollars from the relationship.
I love open source, but the general level of quality in most open source is... not great.
This is Amazing work! Love it !!!
"This seems like something you could build over a weekend"

Donno why but this comment reminds of the infamous Dropbox comment :).
But why should the US government build something just so crypto folks have something to gamble with? Why does the government need to enable their habit? What benefit is there to its people?
See also https://github.com/qntm/base2048. "Base2048 is a binary encoding optimised for transmitting data through Twitter."
This all is a good explanation for why you might hold USD instead of other assets. It’s a less compelling explanation for why you might hold USDT, which would be the same as holding USD except it also might crash and leave you with nothing.
> but you insert ultrasound with encoded data

Others in these comments have also suggested steganography in both the video and audio streams. The problem with that is that when you retrieve a video from YouTube, you never get the original version back. You only get a lossy re-encoded version, and the very definition of lossy encoding is to toss out details that humans can't (or wouldn't easily) perceive, including ultra-sonic audio.
It is an asset of perceived value in a world where the equity class has trillions of dollars that they don’t know what to do with. Bitcoin’s rise says more about the lack of other good investments, and makes it clear that assets are priced largely based on how much cash is available to invest rather than any underlying fundamentals of the investments.
What area? What weight? We need specifics in order to make claims one way or the other. It’s not just possible, but easy to design machines with lower weight to surface area ratio, so it’s just wrong to conclude the answer to the question can do we better is somehow no.
> To a large extent these are two sides of the same coin.

Yeah, I think that's the interesting thing here. People don't routinely starve in droves anymore and malnutrition is increasingly rare. On the other hand there's creeping fragility in the food system(s), unknown knock on effects of chemicals applied to lots of staple crops, and land/water use issues.

It seems to me like a lot of smart people are actually working on these things but progress is as always uneven and happening in fits and starts.
>The US and other developed countries have been loosing ever greater amounts of wealth. Wealth per capita has decreased dramatically over the last 50 years. The causes are too numerous to go into, but there are MANY.

Don't leave us hanging throw8383833jj, where did the wealth go?
thanks i hate it
Exactly. We have a lot more free time, we've just raised our leisure standards (dining out more frequently, traveling more) and come up with more forms of entertainment (social media, streaming platforms, gaming). That this sounds to most of us like a wasted opportunity might be because these things are not very fulfilling, or it might just be the hedonic treadmill.
Is there a difference between your service and SpotInst aka Spot.io? Do you claim to have a better algorithm? It would be interesting to load the same app with both companies and see how the spend differs
Uh, can you just get a cat phone for all the HW -- and manage your own android dist on the phone?
This is cool but I haven’t had a problem w blinking red lights on the v6 animal.

I’ve replaced the original w some random one from Amazon, because it wouldn’t last as long. (Choosing from the many generics was not easy reviews are seem very uneven)

Maybe BMS could make it last longer in charge behavior similar to iPhone?

I’m more interested in a guide on how to replace the red bristles in the long vac head.

Also +1 on the dyson v6, it changed how I clean. Have not tried the cheap knock offs but anything w o a cord is the way to go.
Reddit would have been fine if they didn’t make the UX as god awful as possible on a mobile browser. The day they cut off the old. subdomain I think they’ll be in for a surprise.