skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something really refreshing about reading about a good old-fashioned business that makes money by making things people want and getting paid for it.
I believe Monzo is becoming available in the US so this might help improve the situation there, at least for monzo-to-monzo transfers. However I guess the whole system needs improving to allow seamless inter-bank transfers without a middleman.
Not as far as the data scientist in question is concerned, anyway.

I'm reminded of that joke:

Business logic (n): your stuff, which is shit, as opposed to my code, which is beautiful

I say this as a machine learning engineer
It will be possible because the user will have the encryption key
Decorators make it hard to step through functions in a debugger. Or hard to see what is going on.
What’s your recommendation in terms of tooling for cases where it’s not just prototype -> production, but an iterative process? I love notebooks for prototyping, but I find it’s a lot of work to make sure notebook code and prod code are in sync. Maybe just debugging with IPython?
Research around existential risk from asteroids, climate change, super volcanoes, and other natural phenomena seems extremely under-funded compared to “AI Risk.” Would “Computer Risk” researchers in the 1940s and 1950s have been able to achieve anything meaningful? Obviously not, and I think we’re in a similar position with respect to AI.

I consider myself an EA and donate to the normal GiveWell causes (mosquito nets right now, I think), as I’d suggest other small donors do. Your marginal dollar won’t make a difference to extinction risk research, and certainly not if you give it to AI research.
The Scipy project is a good example, with code from many scientific domains.
I don't think he would've been suspended if he would've just critized climate change alarmism.

But when he dismisses the risk altogether by saying that Miami will cope with it? That's simply a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts and you're not allowed to do that when talking to investors.
Same in Poland, thanks to BLIK payments. Works across all major banks. https://iko.pkobp.pl/iko_en/features/mobile-transfer/
It only has value because some hundreds of TWh/year are consumed and wasted to prop its transactions. Remove the real-world impact of energy consumption vs rewards and there won't be anything left of value being consumed to prop BTC up, given that Proof-of-Stake (touted as the solution of environmental disaster of cryptocurrencies) won't be ever implemented in that protocol.

To be very reductive: it's a Ponzi-like built in burning a lot of electricity to check some random numbers.
When you see cryptobros reeing, it's a great opportunity to buy a little, so that you don't drool on the sides during the next run.
I don't know if there is an official name, but in my head I call it "helpers/components/mixins are better than frameworks." Or, "if one happens to want to write a framework, one ought to try hard to refactor it 'inside-out' to a set of composable components."

The most important (though not only) issue with frameworks is that you typically can't compose/mix more than one together - every framework is "exclusive" and takes control of the code flow. Whereas "components" can usually be easily mixed with each other, and leave control of the code flow to the programmer.
> For example they will pay more someone with a master degree than someone with a bachelor degree.

This is ridiculous! There are lots of examples in the tech world where people with less education have performed very well than those with higher degrees. I have worked with few of them who went on to create a very profitable new revenue stream in gaming for a very well-known company.

Higher degree != better candidate.
"Unfortunately it's become such a heated topic I'm not sure I see a time when it gets returned without Greece having some kind of leverage over the UK"

I don't understand your point here. Are you suggesting that returning it should be postponed because it would be an admission of bad practice or wrong doing of some kind?
They don't release Android apps, therefore you still need to use Venmo and Cash App if you want to send money to someone. So people aren't going to use this over Venmo, Cash App or PayPal.

Google Pay supports iOS which is why it used over Apple Pay in countries where iPhones aren't the dominate mobile OS.
In argentina you can set an 'alias' for your account, if you don't you get one by default... I put my name as alias, I started getting payments from people I don't know o.O
This sounds like a pre apology before someone brings up gun control.
Online Database Brings Transparency to Financing of Mega-Development Projects
I’m assuming you’re referring to gifts, not the transfer of money for goods or services (i.e. one person paying for everyone’s lunch and then getting repaid)

If so, then this page may answer your question. Basically unless you’re transferring over $22k in total in a year using Apple Cash, you’re fine.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
The article nicely points out that the decline of Volapük is connected to reform attempts that originated from within. It also mentions that Esperanto had similar issues and some people went ahead to create a derivative language Ido. What it doesn't mention is that why Esperanto continued evolving while Volapük fell apart. One reason usually attributed to its longevity is that Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, became aware of human tendency to "improve" or reform constructed languages and saw it's been happening to Volapük. So he simply added into the Esperanto manifesto that the rules of Esperanto are "untouchable". So, he stated, that if you attempt to change parts of the language, you cannot call it Esperanto any longer, in an attempt to prevent diversion from the common roots of it.
If you look at the fine print, Apple Cash appears to be a UI/branding layer for Green Dot Bank, a 40 yo bank in Utah. I believe you essentially end up with a FDIC bank account and Apple Cash just puts a huge brand name and pretty UI on the debit card for that account.

So Apple Pay is the service, Apple Card is their credit card and Apple Cash is their debit card via some bank. You can sidestep all that and just put your own credit card in the Wallet and use some other cash-like service.

The large problem with a lot of these cash-like services is in order for the exchange to happen, two people have to be on the same service. If Apple Cash takes off, then you just need to know if your friend has an iPhone and then its viable and much easier than having to go signup for one of these other services (zelle, cash app, venmo, etc.) just to chip in for a gift or dinner.
Compared to other sites I've frequently visited in the past HN is on the tame side of things. I'm grateful that it exists, limiting where I get my daily info has been great for my mental health.
Berkeley recently built a five story building after ten years of development limbo.

Actually building the apartments in question took three weeks.

There aren't very many other places in the world where this problem is so acute.
> while software engineers would be terrified

At least surprised. There are solutions to these problems already.

Author seemed to have learned decorators and is enthusiastic about abusing them, instead of learning the stdlib.

The capturing of print statements. Why not use the Logging machinery, instead?

Or the @stacktrace, it seems what they really want/need is a debugger.

But anyway, if these solutions fit their programming style better, so be it.
You and lots of commentators seem to miss the important point that when Miami is 6 meters under water half of the 7.7 billion persons in the planet have to move from where they live. New York and San Francisco will be mostly gone.

But hey, who cares right? We always will have Paris and the The Hamptons...
Searching for "large format laser printer" also yields lots of inkjet printer SEO driven results on you site.
Subscribe to news letters.

Make Twitter lists and only look at feeds from these lists.

No tv.

HN.
What has grown about it? Value? Production? Abundance in the atmosphere?
Conversational AI, Verticals, and Pinecone
I don't think that's the whole story here. It's also that universities don't tend to value teaching, and won't pay good teachers the same that they pay good researchers. That's not market dynamics, that's a cultural decision around where to allocate resources.
I would agree with returning them more if the parthenon was going to restored and the marbles returned to the original positions; however it seems pointless to transport them from one The British Museum to the Acropolis Museum which has 1/4 of the visitors.
Lisp Interpreter in Rust
I distinctly remember being charged the equivalent of $25 US for one plate of noodles, this was in Basel in 2005. Groceries were also very expensive.

Well, Switzerland is expensive in general, you will reply. True. Berkeley is expensive as well.
They didn't stop because Y2K was mitigated successfully, which is his overall point if I understood the talk correctly. At the time many people made claims that the world would end - they believed the problem wouldn't be mitigated and planes would fall out of the sky, etc.
Whenever I see a tweet thread, I am always reminded of the origin of Twitter's 140 character limit -- to fit in an SMS message -- and then it feels to me that tweet threads are basically someone just piping a long-form story through SMS.
I think you should do a 101 on this subject. Lot of HNers will be interested. A zoom call maybe?
Fully agree. Also you can appear fresh regardless _if you are actually fresh_, simply by adding an review/update date.
Random thought - is Web3 a real danger to the currently existing web, where "real" means "plausible" rather than just "possible"?

I'm asking because every Web3 project I have seen so far has collapsed after getting just enough speculators (and therefore money) to make a nice rug pull/attack, but well before gaining any significant traction of non-paying users that are there to use the platform rather than speculate. It seems to me that it's completely unsustainable to keep a Web3 project running long enough to even gain these users in any way.

It seems to me that Web3 is, so far, only providing us with three things: the first is a way to speculate, the second is a way to waste our electricity, the third is laughing stock via https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ which only sorta sweetens points number one and two.

Are there any notable exceptions to my above observation? Am I wrong in some more fundamental way?
I've had good experiences with Home Designer [1]. Used it to mock up how I wanted my basement finished [2] so I could solicit quotes and ended up running around the house measuring rooms so I could model the rest of the house (for fun... didn't really serve a purpose).

Ended up liking it enough that my father decided to use it to design the home he wants to build. He even found a builder who uses the pro version of the software (Chief Architect) so my father could view / tweak the model.

[1] https://homedesigner.chiefarchitect.com/

[2] They let you upload a certain number of models to their online viewer here's the basement (note not great on mobile): https://3d-viewer.chiefarchitect.com/go?share=55721013273615...
Kate Eichhorn on the Rise of Insta-Artists and Insta-Poets
I still play BSD games, Slashem and Trek,

On the ship trading game, it was Taipei.
Have we reached peak Web3 hate yet?
Feels like every day an article hits the HN front page.
Am I wrong in thinking that there's no way to force users to participate in Web3?

Like, there's no proposal to somehow move existing infrastructure over to Web3?
The pricing was undecided since we're in private beta, just updated the FAQ.
lighthouse != all kind of physical navigation aids

Lightvessels, classical big lighthouses are obsolescence.

There are a lot of other physical navigation aids which are improved.

Old unlit marks are replaced with lit and AIS capable ones. New safe waterways and danger areas are marked every year.

Nobody said these are obsolete.
When you've "productionized" a part of your notebook into a Python module, refactor your notebook to use the module instead. Usually, the notebook code will shrink by 80% and will switch to model documentation and demo.
It's a bit of a stretch to call the current "web2" free.
I meant that the website kept telling me all the images I saw were computer-generated.
The web is not free. You pay with your data and ads.
Isn’t New Orleans 3-4 m below sea level in some parts?

Do we expect sea levels to rise 1-2m?
Not sure there’s a need to say no. If we wait a couple more hours all these guys are going to pack up and head home.
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs will break the 5GHz barrier
Good point, and I realized that partway through writing it, but couldn't find a good way to tie it all together. It's more that I get frustrated at "freely entered agreement" being used as justification in any argument, as it's usually a wild stretch of the word "freely".
Quantum Computers are still early but rapidly improving.

Progress also seems to be steady in the pursuit of room temperature super conductors. The temperature at which we're able to achieve superconductivity keeps getting higher.

You mentioned AI. That's probably the best bet.
You seem to enjoy trying to derail conversations, why do you do this?
Well, have we reached peak Web3 yet either? /s
The Economist recently discussed. To demonstrate the success of UPI, the mentioned that panhanders now routinely present an UPI barcode instead of a pan. I doubt that Apple Cash will have the same success.
For personal needs, I settled on a single email account (Google Workspace) that pulls emails from all my other accounts (acts as an email client) plus Signal which also handles texts. As for people who use Facebook/Messenger, WhatsApp, or Telegram, I just text them.

For professional needs, I'm also at a loss. I have Outlook, Slack, Signal/texts, Jira notifications, Confluence notifications, LinkedIn, MS Teams... and then Zoom, Google Meet, and Webex but these are at least scheduled. I never come across anyone using WhatsApp, Telegram, or Facebook/Messenger professionally but I'm sure it's coming and will be a joy.

I have seen people happy with Beeper[1] but I'm neither willing to hand over my keys, nor self-host it.

[1] https://www.beeper.com/
> What do you do? Log into your wordpress that you likely don't have to make a long-form thought out blog post?

If you have a meaningful story to tell: yes, absolutely.

If I can login to Twitter, what's so hard about logging in to WordPress and using some WYSIWYG editor?
From my perspective, as a developer that reads a lot I have of course read about web3 but in the same time I barely know anything about it and I think I know a lot more than the common lay man.

If I were to mention web3 to my family or my gf they would have no idea what I was talking about.

I pretty much convinced that web3 will never be anything real because of this reason alone. It's just a fluff word that bears no real meaning, it's also too complicated so that most people won't care or know what it is about, not even developers.
> Maybe, but what are your alternatives? You won't find anything in Google or Amazon. If you're lucky you find a niche forum or reddit sub with enough activity

Depends what you're buying.

If its a highly commoditised product like an average PC then it basically doesn't matter. Most commodity PCs are (basically) identical and its largely a case of "you get what you pay for", so your budget will do most of the dictating on what your outcome will be.

If its something more niche or more expensive (e.g mid-range/high-end commodity servers), then you've got two alternatives:

1) If you've got a group of trustworthy friends who either work in tech or are "techies" then the old-school word-of-mouth to find yourself a trustworthy reseller (there are some truly independent resellers out there, but they are a rare species, especially in places like the US or Europe).

2) As you say, do your own homework via niche forums / reddit / youtube videos / slack channels / discord / whatever you prefer. Remember that the goal here is not necessarily to know exactly what you are buying, but to make yourself an "informed consumer" so at least you know broadly what your options are.

Its a tough position to be in, I agree. I think the way the IT industry operates is ghastly and does nobody any favours.
Odd. This site is on the web and yet I don't pay with either.

Maybe you're confusing the web, as a network and set of protocols, with individual sites on the web, which can but (unlike with web3) aren't required to operate under a surveillance-based commercial model.
You mean "The constructed languages over a 100 years old"? There have been countless constructed languages that strived to be less European, more logical/minimalistic after the first two big ones.

What sunk Volapük, and nearly sunk Esperanto too, was the creators' inability to leave good enough alone. They kept reforming it, to the frustration of the people who had actually trusted them enough to learn it (not a small investment, despite the PR). Esperanto at least was community-driven enough to reject Zamenhof's later reforms.
Take a look at SALOME. It uses the same CAD kernel and constraint engine as FreeCAD, but is very stable. Best kept secret in the open source CAD world.
This nothing about the internet is free people pay in one way or another (i.e) data farming , targeted advertising etc
That seems very focused on cryptos. Isn’t web3 mostly the use of serialized and decentralized data stores, eg blockchains?

Edit: thanks for the downvotes, but an actual answer would be useful too.
Russian soldier gets life in prison in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial
Why should this be an issue at all? It's my account, I should know the encryption key & algorithm. Any open source app can then implement this.
- @redirect - logging

This suggestion (logging) doesn't help if it's e.g. other code you don't have control over, but this is also available as a context manager in the standard library as "redirect_stdout": https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib...

At least the article doesn't advocate inserting them into __builtins__ (which I have seen people do with their own special custom functions before).
Cloud worked at the time because building your own infrastructure was a pain. Then when it got cheaper to host your own, most people in IT ended up being millennials that have never seen a real server, only containers and aws.
What about subtle nuances that depend on how the word ends?
I’ve seen this on my own device (author of the docs site here) but after a force quit and restart of safari was not able to reproduce.

Would you mind if I asked a few questions?

- does your device have remote debugging enabled on Safari?

- was your phone in low-power mode?

- did you first access the site through a WebKit in-app browser panel before opening it Safari?

- what version of iOS?

- what model of iPhone?

Those are my leading theories for what contributes to the flash happening. If you force quit and restart safari and / or reboot your phone does it work as expected?
We work with lots of russian/ukrainian devs, and we're using Telegram.
are companies getting the same amount of output as before WFH? Are they growing with the same rate as before?

For the tech sector, i think they are.
Anyone interested in this would probably enjoy In the Land of Invented Languages[1]. It covers not only Volapük, but many other artificial languages, from Esperanto to Klingon.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Land-Invented-Languages-Adventures-Li...
Oh yeah, I remember this guy! We need more people like this writing critically about technology and hardware.
Ah yes, my boss, whom I live next to, and vote for or against on a yearly basis.

I guess you don't like your HOA and you're projecting.
Sudoku XV
I wouldn't classify the article as hatred.

They're making fair points, explaining their arguments rationally.

If criticizing became hatred, the question is:

How do people involved in a space like crypto, supposed to bring freedom to individuals, become averse to freedom of speech?
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the author created https://justsketch.me/, which sponsors http://reference.sketchdaily.net/

I found these to be great resources for drawing exercises.
How exactly would you implement an interoperable E2EE group chat app where you can arbitrarily add and remove people like with iMessage?

The EU law linked does not actually recommend anything specifically, just vaguely states interoperability being a goal.

Certain apps will have certain functionality. Unless you're willing to constrain the functionality it's not really possible.

Right now everyone could already use email which supports encryption. They don't, though.
The goal is to sell 20M vehicles in 2030. They sold 0.93 in 2021. They are planning on Insurance,Energy,AI each to more than 10x.

P/E is 40 currently. Historically very large companies have had P/E between 4-30. So the question is what is Tesla's earnings in 2030 and what will average P/E be across all large companies.
To be fair, logging is badly made. There are at least two libs to make it human again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31470304

Looks like an Ad to me. Maybe also try clicking the Y button in the top left, or leaving ‘news.’ out of the URL bar.
There's a similar system in several country (Spain as well for example, called Bizum). It's a shame that it's not a Europe-wide system.
If you don't think you pay for Hacker News with your data, try deleting an old comment.
Honest question: What does that even mean?

Web3 feels like a hodge podge of random ideas with some crypto-blockchain sprinkled on top.
As long as abundant amounts of oil are available, plastic will be relatively expensive to recycle. That too will change
Yes! You should check out https://bearblog.dev, developed by the OP.
I generally think of this as the same principle of "prefer composition over inheritence". Leave the top-level free to compose the behaviour it requires rather than inheriting the framework's behaviour, for exactly the reasons you describe.
Who is predicting 6 meters of sea level rise?

And a lot of San Francisco is elevated above 30 ft above sea level.

You seem to be one of those people he’s talking about.
Does web3 have anonymous payments/currency? If not... NO is obvious.
Maybe everything (ethernet/hdaudio) should be on the cpu die for good (if not too much EM interferences). Maybe a legacy SATA controller hardwired to a few cpu pcie lanes, and an optional wifi chip hardwired the same way.
Charging Sideways – Towing with Electric Vehicles
How does that "pay" for anything? Who is that data being sold do? How is it being used to target advertising to me?
> Are costs of living (including housing prices) comparable?

No. The US is far and away the richest polity on Earth. Nowhere pays comparably.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_househo...
These are the consequences Worldwide when Miami is six meters under water...more or less.

https://coastal.climatecentral.org/map/6/-75.8798/27.975/?th...
GPS could be degraded or shut off, but of course everyone noticed that weakness so we now have Russia's GLONASS, China's BDS and EU's Galileo. I don't know about the satnav units in ships, but at least modern smartphones receive and use all or most of them, no modern phone uses GPS alone.

Jamming and to a lesser degree spoofing are obviously still problems
it's psychologically different.

Twitter, being short form, makes it seem unimportant, and thus, you're more "free" to write anything. A blogpost long form content is psychologically associated with a well presented treaties and thus, will take effort to write. Therefore, most lazy journalists will not do that, but shat out their 140 characters and call it a day.