skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely colossal.

I live in the UK which has multiple established neobanks.

Back in the day I used one of the biggest traditional banks. I had to schedule an appointment to open an account. Twice, because some of the papers they wanted from me were apparently outdated. The appointments were weeks in advance and for the second one I had to go to a neighboring city as the branch there had the best availability.

They would regularly block some of my transactions at random, sometimes sending me an SMS and demanding a response to continue. I was not even able to send the SMS back as my carrier blocks messages to paid numbers by default. Their software wouldn't let me update my address correctly. It would randomly cut off half of it. Their app was antiquated and had 5 or so different codes/passwords that they wanted me to write down for different purposes.

As an absolute cherry on top, I made a completely regular transaction while abroad and they decided to block all my spending to "protect me from fraud" and demanded that I show up in person to one of their branches to have it unblocked. I was abroad for 6 months with no way of accessing my main bank account.

The neobank I moved to let me register online, selfie with a passport plus a day of waiting. Their security was far better as they actually adhered to modern best practices and their fraud protection was minimally invasive. At no point was I prevented from making a transaction for longer than 5 minutes and all their precautions were reasonable. Their app is a joy to use and contains genuinely useful features. And all this was handled without me ever talking to anyone.

I could keep going for longer, but the point is neobanks are more customer friendly in all ways imaginable while consuming far less resources by automating that which is easily automatable.
> Doesn't it only take two quarters of lower GDP growth from the prior two quarters for it to be a recession?

No, the usual rule of thumb is “two quarters of negative GDP growth” not “two quarters of lower GDP growth than the prior two quarters”.

(Though for the US, the closest thing to an “official” recession definition—which is neither official nor even government—is “the NBER has declared a recession”, which is done based on multiple dimensions with no explicit criteria.)
I remember playing World of Tanks during early beta. It was fun. Player was mostly mens in around 30s with interest in WW2 technology. Game has unbalanced matchmaking, different tanks that has really different stats and specific cons and pros... Then it become publicly more known with lot of ads everywhere. A lot of kids joined to the game. Developers tweaked and balanced everything. And it slowly became game without fun. Everything was so perfectly balanced, that it was almost irrelevant what tank you had. And with casualty of players regular games lacks any strategy. No cooperation, just insulting, grinding, no fun... I quit playing WoT after developers puts more and more imaginary/ridiculous tanks with every patch and balanced specific unique abilities of tanks.
This is hilarious to me because that means GCP is worse than Alibaba Cloud.

AWS -> near instant

Alibaba Cloud -> some shenanigans with the business cert but done in two days

GCP -> apparently four weeks?!

LOL!
Thank you for spending the time to write this fantastic comment.
Sorry, I mean just the DNS itself, the nameservers point to Cloudflare
What is the nature of this departure?
The refund window is 2 hours of playtime, not 2 hours after purchase.
You don't have to wonder about this. The court tracked down the context behind the definition, and it was written specifically to include terrestrial invertebrates (including the Lange metalmark butterfly and the Trinity bristle snail).

The only reason this seems complicated is because the headline of this post has asked us to find it complicated. The real story is quite boring.
Hasn't every developed country in the world been doing aggressive QE? My theory for growth is that we have a relatively higher working age population. The demographic dividend, they call it.
Upvoting for Battle of Wesnoth. It's a great game and feels rewarding to succeed at. It's got a great ecosystem of addons, such as user submitted stories that you play along, so there's a plenty of content to explore.
They might have stopped making SP maps not just because the development for that feature was (and still is) weak, but because Quadropolis gradually became barely functional, if I remember correctly. Now it seems that Quadropolis is gone, along with a mod I once wrote to prevent the removal of blood decals. haha

Although I can see why you'd be disappointed at single-player not getting much attention, I think the devs made the right move by focusing mostly on multiplayer which had the largest player base by far. Multiplayer was really my thing for the most part. I just wish it didn't take them something like 9 years to finally ship an update to the game.
Super interesting article but nearly unreadable font for me.
My suggestion has nothing to do with how the officer views the person they're interacting with for a given interaction. Whether the officer thinks they're a "scumbag" or an "upstanding" person is completely independent of that person's rating for a given interaction. If you are a scumbag, it's likely reflected by your rating.
some of these criticisms are probably fair. I only speak english so can't comment on non-english results, but it wouldn't suprise me if the Kagi creators were primarily or only english speaking and step one is optimizing for english.

I'll also say that Google maps, while it has made some missteps in my eyes is the one good feature of Google (well, google translate is pretty good too.) and while I haven't kept up, last I heard, Google had over 1000 staff on the maps division, so, yes, I expect any mapping service is going to be worse than Google.
For easier googling, the names of some of these authors in their slightly different English transliteration:

Rybnikov

Zolotarevskaya

Stepin
Hello

https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html#what-are-pipes-made-o...

I think the diagram near the start of this section has "head" and "tail" swapped.

Edit: Nevermind, I didn't read far enough.
I know, right? And if you've got farmland you can't easily put plants on you can put animals on that instead, and eat the animals and use the stuff the animals leave behind to grow plants.

It's almost like an ecosystem that has worked for hundreds of thousands of years is actually a pretty solid idea.
I would suggest keeping a good relationship with your current employer and network of business contacts. If you do end up losing your job, a recession is a great time to go back to school for additional training or to get more certification. A short college program with a job placement can especially be helpful. At least, that's how I usually handle recessions. I'm trying to sync my training, so that it finishes at about the same time as the economy is improving.
I would be very surprised if it's a mimic of the early 1980's. It's a different employment and consumer spending environment. BoA CEO is fairly optimistic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/bank-of-america-ceo-says-not...
Charge time. You can swap a cartridge in seconds, so it's essentially zero (if you have a handly supply chain of cartridges).
I'll take this chance to shill for Fish. For interactive use it is a joy to use, with better defaults w.r.t. auto completion and history. Not much learning curve if most of the time you're just entering commands and pressing tab or arrow keys. I still use Posix Shell for scripts though, because it's installed everywhere.
> Wondering why anyone is still using ip-based geolocation

I don't think there's a reasonable alternative. If you ask users for their location they can just lie, if you use the JS geolocation API they can trivially deny or spoof it. If you base it on billing address you're locking out people who are traveling, which seems unwanted (especially for long-term travel).

So instead they end up playing a cat and mouse game to try to block VPNs.
> A majority of borrowers who together hold about $400 billion in federal student debt made no payment on their loans in the pandemic era, taking full advantage of a freeze put in place at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis.

That seems rational.

Emphasis mine:

> Data from the Federal Reserve show that 60% of borrowers who qualified for forbearance didn’t make a single payment from August 2020 through December 2021.

If those people were businesses, outlets like Bloomberg would be lifting their glasses of brandy to their good sense. "I say, good show, old sport!"
The Great Euro Sat Hack Should Be a Warning to Us All
Military officials and civilian security researchers have been warning us for years: cyberattacks are becoming a very real part of modern warfare. Far from being limited to military targets, cyberattacks can take out everything from vital public infrastructure to commercial and industrial operations, too.
Physical locations require a lot of overhead costs which come from customers in one way or another.

Banks without physical presence often offer better interest rates and better fee structures (free checking, cheap or 0 overdraft fees, etc.)
Definitely global. China is a disaster economically as well. Europe is getting a double shot with Russia and the Ukraine war, energy, trade, war costs, etc.
> You might mean 4 "doublings"

Rate of change:
Enrollment increased by 4 times.
Population increased by 100 times.

> How do you double elite universities?

Doubling elite universities: I mean more outreach from let's say T10 with next 10-20. This doesn't happen.

Ex: Top 5 won't cite papers written by someone in the middle. It happens but that's quite rare.

Ex: Faculty recruitment does not propagates from bottom ranking institution to top ranking institution. It's super rare.

Ex: Research collaborations are very clubby.

> It's more like we have an eliteness gradient (T10, T20, etc...) and the masses together decide what's "elite enough".

Masses opinion doesn't count. Eliteness is determined by elite. Consider an elite club exists at the beginning. Every 5 years new members are inducted into the elite club. Their opinion matters way more than everyone's simply because they are elite.

In most departments, the state of the art is a qualitative measurement. Something is great because a bunch of great people think it's great. There isn't a better approach anyway. But that comes with bad biases.

Ex: It's rare to have a Supreme Court justice coming from outside Harvard and Yale.

Ex: Some departments in Harvard would never hire someone as faculty just because they aren't from Harvard, Yale or a couple of other places.
Why is it difficult to make a good search feature?
That is not in fact the question. The headline of this story asks you to believe it's the question, but the real story is much more boring than that, which you'll easily see by reading the actual decision. No, in fact, the word "invertebrates" was chosen specifically to include several endangered terrestrial invertebrates.
Ask HN: Is it rational to avoid certain software features due to possible bugs?
For example, would you trust undo/redo on an important document? Another example: would you trust an incremental compile when submitting an app for release?

What software features do you suspect might be buggy and that you would avoid when doing something important?

And do you think doing this is rational?
The unwinding started yesterday

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...

The effects of raising interest rates in May take at least 12 months
That is just an irrelevant convention. We are in a recession, whatever the GDP says.

Otherwise, language would be impossible.
> My savings (including 401k) have gone down 24% since a year ago

Are you exaggerating or were you just extremely careless in your investments? S&P500 is down 1.4% and Nasdaq is down 11.0% since June 2nd, 2021.
US sanctions more Russian elites, targeting yachts and aircraft
Neuralink Update – May 2022 (Part 2)
It's taken about 6 months to double, and there was about an 8%-10% drop in demand. That drop was from levels that were already substantially depressed from the pandemic.

I'd also wager that changes in demand of gasoline is muted because some people will still need gasoline to get groceries and to work, where irrigating one's lawn is luxury by comparison. When I turn off my irrigation, I see a drop of 60-70% water usage.

https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/gasoline.php

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=a...

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gasoline_station_sales
In popular parlance, a recession is “economy bad” which is what you seem to be referring to.

In technical terms, it’s strictly referring to the amount of production that is taking place in the economy, it has to be reducing.

Your stock portfolio going down isn’t a recession, pricing for specific foods/services increasing isn’t a recession.
Expect this trend of choppy real GDP growth to continue.
Especially since the fix seems to have been to expand the table in the privacy policy. On top of that most of these seem to be features you have to explicitly enable.
I wasn't aware of that, but that's cool info. Thanks for chiming in!
They offer better rates and lower fees, that's why they are popular­. Their cost of operation is lower than a traditional bank (no physical locations) and they normally pass a big portion of that saving on the costumers. In my region web-only banks are the only ones who can offer accounts with 0 fees, no transaction limits and their saving account interest rates are always higher (irrelevant these days).
How saturated is Bitcoin currently? I stopped following the details years ago but I guess Bitcoin could not handle a ten fold transaction rate increase today, right? Which means at best - if you completely saturate the network - you could get the costs per transaction down to 10% of the given number.
I once saw a job posting that claimed to only want world class developers. The pay? 40k.
PIA has proven in court multiple times that they don't log. Everyone in this post worrying about Kape is probably not using their vpns for anything illegal in their jurisdiction, and are just obsessed with "privacy"
> "It’s a key moment in our journey"

Next time he'll be calling it their "incredible journey".
This is borderline paranoia.

If you want a more "private" experience, just use an Apple device and search through safari and enable parental controls. Or if you're an Android user, just don't create a google account.
Weird. In Firefox, on Android, reader mode gets me a long article about some people in Alaska.
> there is not a certain amount of electricity needed per transaction.

Not yet. But that will be increasingly the case in the coming decades as the block subsidy gets repeatedly halved into insignificance. Then the brunt of Bitcoin's security (protection against 51% attacks) will have to be borne by transaction fees.
Wildly inaccurate. The "wacky judge" had no choice but to find that bumble bees fit the definition of "fish" set in the statute, because the definition in the statute was specifically written to include them. Not just aquatic invertebrates, but indeed explicitly terrestrial ones as well --- the Lange metalmark butterfly and the Trinity bristle snail, among others.

Nobody who actually read the decision could be left with the impression that this is about what "reasonable people" would understand the term "fish" to be, because that's not remotely what the statute itself says.
If people knew we wouldn't be in an economic crisis. There are absolutely no right answers at this point, but there will be in hindsight. Imagine someone in 1999 saying they're going to join Amazon (or even Apple for that matter) it would have seemed crazy and foolish. Some people at Pets.com might have decided to stay put as to not be a new hire at another company doing layoffs. At the same time someone might have left a job a at a bank they hated to start a new career at Pets.com. It's impossible to know in the moment.

The trick for both companies and individuals in down turns is adaptability. Some people will say "stay put!" other will say "find your next job quick before it's too late", but you can be sure of neither of these.

The only dangerous plan is to try to find stability in unstable times. This is a trap a lot of people fall into.

Make sure your resume is up to date, think about what's important to you, and keep any eye on where the world is evolving. A lot of career changes happen during down turns so don't expect to do what you're doing this year next year. This is more true the more severe the situation. The key to survival if it gets that bad is not hesitating to adapt and try something new, this is also the key to finding success in these times if you're looking for more than survival.
Gave it a try and it works pretty well for hackernews! Thanks for sharing
> How a cop treats someone they view as a "scumbag" is a lot more illustrative and important than how they treat those they view as "upstanding people."

Why?

> A big part of the problem with the current policing system is that cops treat some groups completely differently from how they treat others.

And what are those groups?
https://kagi.com/pricing
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In college, yes.

I've always had issues with focus, and first year of college was overwhelming. I cut out all unnecessary time sinks, and I've found that I lack enough "focus" in a day - at some point I'd just read, but be unable to engage with any words I'm reading.

Caffeine pills helped me study for longer, however, the tolerance made me take more and more until at some point I was taking up to 2000mg of caffeine a day. I was barely functioning from anxiety, but I managed to be amongst better students on my year.

At work we have an espresso machine, so it's very easy to just "grab a cup" when I feel tired while working on an important task. It wasn't strange for me to drink 5-6 cups per day.

Nowdays, I'm only drinking coffee if it's a social event, and I keep a hard limit of one cup per day.
> You're ignoring superchats and tips which is where most of the money comes from.

Tips represent less than 40% of revenue for nearly every type of content creator, so let's not exaggerate things. Super Chats are also limited to $500, so you're exaggerating the amounts you've seen.

More importantly, you're conflating the original comment's generalization about how "the vast majority" of all highly-supportive fans have "unhealthy obsessions and are trying to have a girlfriend experience." Whereas what you're discussing is a corporate content farm[1] of exactly 61 brands, most of which are specifically designed to create a "girlfriend experience" in order to intentionally develop obsessions. That is an extremely specific situation which is not representative for >99% of content creators.

[1] https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Hololive
They're predominantly Ukrainian in staffing, so I suspect this is less activism and more just a consequence of whom they employ, but the point is taken. I wonder if a broader employee base means less activism (no single dependency) or more activism (more likely that any specific employee has trouble).
Congratulations on the launch!

Others have mentioned about Search, In case you choose to implement it then I'd suggest a special attention towards code search. I presume formatting code with markdown is a non-issue, So implementing first class code search capabilities would be real differentiator among other notes applications and could likely fill a need-gap.
Simply put: your state exists on each client and the mechanism to reconcile that state across clients is not mission critical. Almost all apps currently are built to get their state from a centralized, remote location. This is easy to build but is fragile and not forgiving for loss of network connection.

CRDTs and local-first ideals means putting the client in charge of its state which leads to all these positive side effects: virtually instant UX interactions, privacy (your not sending data necessarily to a central server, and even if you are it could just be opaque, encrypted blobs that are proxied), network-agnostic syncing (email, bluetooth, internet, wifi, etc) and no fears of a service completely going out of business and losing your data.
I hit Ctrl+S about every two seconds in every editor.

It's a perfectly rational response to all the times we've been bitten by software in the past. (Though I've personally crashed a slot machine, so I may be more cautious than the average bear.)
I see these posts, and my gut feeling is that Mullvad is probably fairly trustworthy at this moment in time, but the more word of their service spreads the more likely I would assume it is that they get approached by the type of government representatives you don’t say no to.

(I.e. I assume success to be a death knell for a service like this.)

I’m not a customer, but I’ve considered it from a privacy perspective (in that I could just route general browsing through it to block a layer of data harvesting). The problem is that I don’t know what authority they have to push back if pushed by the right actor (who inevitably will knock on the door at some point).
OPEC agrees to ramp up oil production, but fails to exclude Russia
> "Whoever, taken together, has a monopoly on legitimate violence in a particular context"

Are you sure that's the definition of "state" or "government?" I don't think it is.
My hypothesis has always been that job status is largely driven by compensation and difficulty obtaining the position. If these are the drivers, I don't know how you would equalize status without overturning the job market at Large
Especially since they added other classifications outside of the fish definition.
I love IVAN due to its difficulty(spend hours building character, get killed by invisible landmine) and polish(got a banana? Make a banana sword!). The little carcastic plot is fun as well.
Another picture, with time scale:
https://phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2015/5649bb15633da.pn...
I think if something is from a recent as 1920 it’s just been poorly maintained, not ‘lost to time’.
No. Quecha is spoken in Peru and Ecuador, in South America. Sami is spoken in northern Scandinavia. Tamil is spoken in Southern India. Japanese is spoken in Japan. They would have had to have spread so far in the past that any systematic relationship becomes opaque to us, linguistically. A valid and compelling demonstration of their relationship would be mind-blowing. It would link the indigenous cultures and peoples of southern Asia, northern Europe and South America culturally, with common origin likely within the last ~10,000 years (about the event horizon of the reconstructive method). I've never heard of that claim made seriously, have you? The only language family known to exist in both Asia and America is the Yeneisian-Dene family [1], the existence of which is still a bit controversial, and which is spoken in northern Siberia and North America (which is more like what you'd expect -- though notably, Navajo is in Arizona).

If we're just going to assume on very loose basis from typological comparison, we might as well assume proto-World, because that's what the sum evidence suggests. But that guess (an idea I do take seriously) is very different from demonstrating their relationship through solid comparative and historical linguistics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%C3%A9%E2%80%93Yeniseian_la...
For a release I'd always do a clean build starting from zero.
Beautiful, but so so slow. I wouldn't call this lightweight.
you wire the money.
I have done it many times.
Yeah, it's crackpot at this point. Hydrogen is a dead end. Accept that and embrace the future that's already here: electric
Taking glutathione in my '60's has taken me back to my '30's in "drive": focus, energy, ability to stay in "the zone" for long periods.
Did know they still made DSLRs.
Yeah, I love that practically everything has a keyboard shortcut. Makes working with it a breeze.