skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife grew up very close to the poverty line, with her parents always just about to lose the house. And she has this anxiety. (Edit: to be clear, she's a successful civil engineer, considered one of the best in her field locally and makes great money- she has nothing to worry about.)

In order to help with it, we have a bank account that our bills come out of that has a little more than 6 months worth of all our bills (mortgage payment included) just sitting there, collecting zero interest. Every time a bill is paid, we top it up to the target amount. If we stop making money today, we don't have to do anything differently for 6 months.

It's not logical or financially wise, but it means that she doesn't worry about money as much. I consider the opportunity cost on the interest we might collect on that money as a bill that I'm happy to pay.
I'd wish them good luck guessing my custom keyboard layout.
This is objectively not true whatsoever.

The amount and quality of data that Google and Apple collect are vastly different. This has been measured and confirmed on several occasions.

The differences are far different than PR spin.

You owning a Mac does not mean your comment isn’t FUD.

It is.
There's not been much research into the depth of the market, but it's pretty clear that you can't sell into much of anything except BTC without greatly affecting the price (if you can even find buyers).
Prebuilding codespaces is generally available
Only with a perfect procedural algorithm.

Which may not fit with any hypothetical Simulator's goals, anyway.

Most games don't feature an absolutely perfect Newtonian physics engine. The physics is just a means to an end, not the fundamental point of the whole endeavor.
so? when can I ditch c++ for a full firefox and its sdk and use only the rust-written rust compiler?

I did not check lately, but is rust syntax still sane compared to the abomination which is the c++ syntax?
Yes and you can forward the yubikey through an SSH agent. It's what I do. This way you can sudo with hardware auth both locally and remotely. Enable touch to sign so the yubikey can't be 'milked' for authentication while it's inserted and unlocked.

I don't know if you can do the same (forwarding over SSH) with Fido2 but I still use traditional SSH keys anyway (stored on the yubi with OpenPGP). And the pam_ssh_agent_auth module.

I'll only consider switching to Fido once everything supports it (eg my iLO devices too) and it can offer at least the same features like forwarding. For now the former is very far from being realised anyway.
There is no such thing as overpaid, by definition. You are paid as much as you are paid.

The only time you are “overpaid” is when the payments department makes and error and wires more money to your account than your contract entails you too.

Baring that corner case you are paid whatever amount you negotiated. If the employer feels like they’re not getting a good deal, they’re welcome to seek recourse within in confines of the law.
Yes. This is also a lesson the Red Army learned in WWII, and why not continue with it? Simple systems that can be mass produced are better than complex, harder to repair ones.
I mean 1) 'stable matching' is not how anyone would describe the experience of using IRL meetup apps

2) at best gale-shapley is being used for ranking, not for preference inference; IMO they removed the 'have you met' feature (guessing because users found it invasive and hated it), but would be interesting to use it for scheduling meeting slots, a resource problem more similar to med school matching. The idea of using math to meet a mate goes back at least to kepler https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/05/15/312537965/h...

3) gale-shapley is old science about how to rank given preferences, but the actual interesting question is how they're detecting preferences. What are the factors? Are some factors excluded? What can hinge (and their cousins at match.com and elsewhere) detect about a person from their profile + interactions? Are they using image analysis / NLP on profiles / chats?

(they're definitely not just using the user settings toggles for preferences; at minimum, they must have a global rank for showing popular profiles at the top of the stack. Also it makes sense this stuff is secret, it's a liability landmine)
Apple attests that some iOS device is being operated by a real human. They accomplish this attestation through device heuristics; I believe the plan is, to run these heuristics on-device, then communicate them to Apple for signing/validation/whatever. Or, maybe it all happens on device, its not really relevant.

Its not relevant because: Apple devices only run "trusted" code. Cloudflare then says "hey, any PAT which originates from Apple is probably generated by trusted code, we know what heuristics we use, we trust those heuristics, lets approve it."

But extend the same theory to more open devices. There are two outcomes:

(1) Services trust the PAT itself. This would be pointless from a bot-mitigation angle, because anyone could just mint and submit a PAT. But, it would be "open".

(2) Services trust the PAT issuer. Implicitly, this means, they trust all the code which the issuer uses to generate the PAT, probably using device heuristics of some kind.

The second outcome is far more likely. Conways Law: these systems were built by teams with one goal: to stop bots. (1) wouldn't actually stop bots. Similar to SSL certs: We don't just trust any valid SSL cert; we only trust ones that are issued by known trustworthy third parties.

But there's no way to trust code running on open systems. They can't trust the heuristics, because they could be faked. Even if a solution evolved which looked like "the linux kernel has this built in" or "canonical distributes a known good binary which contains good heuristics algorithms", it doesn't matter, because there's no way to cryptographically validate it. We can modify the code, run whatever, and suddenly that Issuer (Linux, Canonical, whoever) can't be trusted. Only issuers which operate their heuristics in locked-down environments can be trusted.

Also similar to SSL certs: they'll say "we'll always have captchas as a fallback"; "you don't need HTTPS, HTTP is always there". It's bullshit scrying from people who can't think more than one quarter ahead. In the case of SSL, its reasonable bullshit, there's strong arguments for it, it made deploying websites slightly harder but not insurmountably. PAT is another step beyond that, and I don't see a situation where this technology is both Useful and Open. I really hope we decide to sacrifice its usefulness; but the Powers That Be probably won't.
> Can I deduct the expense from my taxes?

Slightly different in every country but in general, theres two parts to this question.

The first bit is just the fact as it's an expense, it affects your business' profit, and therefore how much you're taxed on. Anything you spend money on means a lower tax bill.

What your probably thinking of is GST / VAT / sales tax etc. A tax at point of sale, which consumers normally pay, but can be claimed back for business to business trade. The idea being by making b2b cheaper, economy moves faster.

To work with these systems you usually need a registered business, and get a VAT/GST number.I assume this anon service isn't VAT/GST registered, as doing so would kinda defeat the point. They also, might not be collecting this tax to pay on their side anyway.

So no you can't claim that back, unless they get a VAT number.
This thread is shocking. It sounds like some workers tried to introduce DEI and were ridiculed from the top down.

Also, they may have had "20 people" who were brave enough to say something but I guarantee there were more who just didn't want to speak up.
I think the ratio of a match to an actual date though is much much worse.

I'm convinced a lot of people use those apps simply as a convenient source of ego boost.
> I don't really know what the utility of TCO/proper tail calls would be. You already have UX constraints that nudge to avoid having a ton of stuff on the screen.

The only thing you can think of using recursion for is walking the DOM?
yep. What I did in the past, back when yubikey first came out, was I added a PAM module to check the presence of the yubikey. It's almost comically stupid since it just checks that the key is inserted with the correct serial number. But you'd need root to see what the number is (to emulate it with a fake usb device, I guess), and to get sudo you'd need the key inserted. I WFH so I'd just leave the key inserted for passwordless sudo all the time. But if I needed to step out, just grab the yubikey and go.
Power2Gas2Power has low round trip efficiency (say 40%), but as only a fairly small fraction of the energy flow goes through it that doesn't matter that much at the end of the day. If it did, that just means heavy industries would migrate to less seasonally variable places.
Most of this stuff is in crypto/smart contract/DeFi space…which is currently imploding.

That being said I do like the idea of anon friendly work. Not even for the anonymity, but for being full async. I’ve tried looking for opportunities for work outside of my 9-5 in the past and it surprised me how difficult it was to find anything. Ultimately I gave up and cut some expenses instead.
The complex, hard to repair ones are great if:

1. You're selling them.

2. You have absolute complete superiority and are trying to minimize your casualties

There's a country that fits those parameters very well.
I think people here should imagine it like an infrastructure investment with an extremely bad ROI. People are using it and it's well-made, but the return on our investment would never have justified the cost in time or effort.

The whole history of high energy physics is a back-and-forth between models and experiment. We get to a new energy level, try some things that the models are ambiguous about, and previously we've gotten new and interesting results that lead people to reshape models and make new predictions. That has not, generally, happened with the LHC. The frustrating limitations and inconsistencies of the standard model are the same as when we built it.

The problem is we spent a lot of money and time and focus on building a tool that has not actually moved us forward much. This happens from time to time - but it's bad! We have not made our series of scientific advances by getting lucky on a bunch of coin flips - we've been able to use previous experiments to design the next set of tools in ways that productively open up parts of the science we could not observe before. The fact that we seem to have failed to accomplish this with one of the largest, most expensive tools ever built calls into question the methods that led us to choose to build this tool instead of other possible ones.
Real question - how many mining operations are still going full steam ahead?
That thread is hilarious. He went on blast about "the N-word" being used in company communications and so now I know that what got leaked is embarrassing and a terrible look. I wouldn't normally care, but now that the CEO has gone and done this I'm gonna be on the look out for the story.

As a side note, if this CEO thinks it's okay to toss around "the N-word", then why doesn't he just actually spell it out in Twitter? Or is he just a coward? ;)
For crypto, this is actually somewhat reasonable. I'm sure this sounds "dumb" to traditional users, but if you are a community manager of a cryptocurrency, you will probably have near continuous 7x24 attacks on you in an attempt to take over accounts or other similar BS. They frequently try exponentially harder on the non technical members because of the assumption that the people working on the tech are more likely to have 2FA etc, while "community manager" will probably have to click any link they get.

That being said, all of the entries on this site are for cryptocurrency/NFT/whatever, so that sounds about right.
Ask HN: Where did all the meetups go?
I stopped attending meetups as frequently some time around 2018, and am interested in hanging out with humans again. Perhaps I'm still too soon given COVID, and I know that meetup changed their business to wipe out a bunch of meetups, but when I look now, I'm having trouble finding in-person meetups for technical topics. Is there a new place where people are scheduling these events?
> I don't take my platonic friends to the nice French steakhouse downtown, though.

Why not?
What was the last successful offensive war? When was the last time American tanks were successful in creating a positive outcome for United States citizens (which, theoretically, is the entire reason they're built)? You could make an argument for 30 years ago, but you'd need to go back closer to 70 years for a strong case.

The other poster raises a valid point that war, as it is typically been envisioned, might be far less prominent than people realize. The argument is that the tank has a task on the battlefield, but we should ask ourselves how much that battlefield matters in this day and age.
Memo: Release of CO2 and the Possibility of a Catastrophic Climate Change (1977) [pdf]
Younger taiwanese people think of themselves less and less "chinese" or "han" or whatever label we would like to use
And people flock to vsCode and other offerings from MS like IE never happened. People really need long term memory...
> Looking at a recent page of that course, the recomended books are
* F. Halzen, A. Martin, “Quarks and Leptons: An introductory course in modern particle physics” (Wiley 1984)
* D. Griffiths, “Introduction to elementary particles” (Wiley 1987)

It is telling that for a recent course the recommended books are over 35 years old. Consistent with the OP proposition.
Bitcoin was created in 2009. There are not enough data points to make a reliable prediction that it will go up again. This time a lot more people have had time to think if bitcoin and crypto are going to work at all. Also, there might not be enough new people after this cycle to join in the frenzy and bring the price back up. We might very well be at the end of the pyramid.
Just started using, feels amazing and really snappy to use (I've seen many complaints in the other direction). Started organizing all my projects and persona things into kanbans, added some tables for subscriptions and other things I rarely keep track of. Loving it so far, especially how many features are for free.
I did by accident, and missed the edge bridge :D more things worked than didn't to be honest
In Western Australia, your mountain bike is breaking the law
The medium-term plan is indeed to have such a typed effect system. This one of the reason why the effect system is still considered to be experimental: we expect to see some breaking changes once effects become typed.
Spending to keep them operating diverts money from building out renewables. So, no.
People do a lot more in JavaScript than you realize.
> We all know which one of these usually results in a broken installation.

And yet they're promoting snap.

Have they given us the ability to stop automatic updates?
It is significantly different, and while I'm glad you're happy, a second marriage is pretty damning evidence that the loose bond suggested above exists.
Not OP but https://forum.algorand.org/t/what-was-the-rationale-around-n... has always been my concern.
Linked from the following Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/14/1977-us-...
I think what they meant to say is the legal entity, rather than identity; a LLC or other business formation should suffice for most reporting requirements. There may be some exceptions in some areas, but I've contracted with with thousands of entities and never once had to verify the identity of their employees unless it was for individual access (passes/badges, etc.).
The intrinsic value of fiat money is that I can pay my taxes with it and avoid persecution by the state.
It's also illegal to transact (but seemingly not to hold?) cryptocurrency in China, which makes it risky to use. You'd have to trust your counterparty not to leak your location to the authorities. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/what-s-behind-china-s...

(A conspiracy theory I have no evidence for but might believe is that the US has been very tolerant of cryptocurrency and stablecoins for the same reason as China bans them: enabling capital flight from China to the US.)
Do offshoring / outsourcing companies need to report India/whereever worker IDs?
I had foolishly used every rare candy I'd found before I learned about the item dupe glitch. I then proceeded to run around the entire world searching for hidden items hoping I'd missed one. By the 3rd or 4th city I painstakingly searched tile by tile, I found one!

Adult me wishes I still had that determination and persistence, fuck.
EVERYTHING around us is contaminated in some way or another. We are constantly bombarded by cosmic radiation with doses far in excess of the expose you will get from eating those mushrooms.

Below 100mSv, there is "no evidence" that exposure leads to any elevation of cancer risk. At levels covered by the article, ie 1000Bq/kg / 80000 Bq/mSv = 0.0125 mSv/kg.

In other words, you can eat 8 tons of those mush before there is any measurable increase in cancer risk.

And breating the air in Berlin for 1 year is MUCH more dangerous than eating those 8000 kg of mushrooms. (Not to speak about taking a single shot of covid vaccine.)

In other words, dispite being scientifically "true", the net effect of an article like this, is to mislead people into thinking that radiation is a lot more dangerous than it is in reality.

If nuclear were to be treated like other health hazards in our environment, the thresholds should be set somewhere between 10000-100000Bq/kg, depending on how much people would eat of that food in a year, not at 600Bq/kg.
My game library falls into two categories - very engaging active games (Battlefield, Tarkov, etc) and very passive games like Keplerth or The Hunter.

Sometimes you want to feel an adrenaline rush. Sometimes you just want to tend a garden or walk a forest.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/longevity-2
How many of those UHNW individuals came from money vs. had to build it themselves?

"Wealth does not last beyond three generations"

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...
Do you mind explaining why that is the case ?
I don't know anything about blockchains so I couldn't come up with any reason for this.
Some dating apps are better than others, and most (but not Tinder) have a mechanism to prevent this kind of thing.

Hinge, for example, only shows you a limited set of people per day, and it filters those based on who it thinks you like who also would like you back.
Ask HN: What are you using for browser/Electron databases?
Doesnt this model only appeal to the use in "one-time, short-term, mostly-illegal" constructs?

"Hey Mr. RockStar Dev, I want you to make me an app to rip of [THING]"

"Sure, my @wallet is here and my skillset is listed here"
Can you explain why it would be faster to hold I-bonds in a trust?
> I highly discourage anyone to use Ubuntu Core as part of their solution.

Yup.

The guys at Nitrokey did a nice write-up about this last year.[1]

(TL;DR in the end, they chose Debian instead)

[1] https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-an...
There is plenty of meat available that is almost cruelty-free. A factory farmed broiler chicken lives its entire 60,480 minutes (six weeks) in agony, while a hunted deer or pastured cow might only suffer a few minutes, and for the deer you might be saving it from an even worse fate. Maybe you are already buying meat that way.

I'm sorry that I compared what you feel to be a religious necessity to eat meat to torturing a cat. That was disrespectful. Discussions on eating meat should be less all-or-nothing. For example there is a tremendous amount of food wasted in the U.S., including animal products: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22890292/food-waste-meat-.... Reducing food waste is something I think everyone can support.
That was ... more than a little unhinged.
Which raw material are you talking about? Be specific.

I believe a global renewable energy system can be constructed using only elements available in essentially unlimited amounts, and using those elements at a modest scale compared to industrial society as a whole.
If you are located outside of the USA then they are not required to gather this info.

However if they believe you are a USA citizen or reside in the USA while doing the work, then they are supposed to.
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The tweet (and me) aren't saying creating a company is "completely probabilistic", just that they're risky. Risky meaning there is an outsized chance vs. an established company that the new one doesn't exist in 5 years and the established one does (where "chance" means looking at outcomes in retrospect, not a roll of the dice).

The tweet is saying that founders becoming massively rich is a natural outcome of probability distribution -- huge payoffs require either huge bets at a smaller win multiplier (less "risky") or comparatively smaller bets at a huge win multiplier (more "risky").
Senator Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales
Honestly, I have no idea about assisted suicide, as i don't follow it that much. In oregon, i thought they give people a bunch of barbituates, which is like fentanyl? I don't know anything about failed assisted suicides. Sorry, I would like to engage in this discussion, but I simply know nothing. I do know about executions and wanting them to appear painless. Many people still want that despite never intending to witness an execution.
I think to gain adoption any general purpose language needs a clear niche to gain a foothold. If you are choosing a tech stack then choosing a language that is not already widely adopted is always a risk. The tooling is usually inferior, there are not necessarily high-quality libraries in domains you care about and you pay a cost in training new employees in a new tech stack.

Java was an OO, garbage collected language that supported (sort of...) hot swapping code.
Go was a reasonably performant, garbage collected language that compiled to static binaries and has great cross-platform support.
Some grad student decided to write Spark in Scala so you had to use it for Spark jobs
Rust is a systems programming language with zero-cost abstractions and no GC that allow you to write mostly memory-safe code.

What is the killer feature of OCaml that makes it worth the investment?
I think OP meant the philosophical standpoint of materialism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism
They have software in Java amongst other langs. But I believe it was JS that they tried to replace the core system with.
CogView2: A 24 billion parameter text-to-image generation model
The near future looks like Solar + Natural gas. Driven entirely by economic factors. It is cheap to build PV, and Natural Gas plants cost less than sufficient batteries/storage for PV.

I used to be very bullish on Nuclear. The numbers just don't pencil out in the US under the current constraints. We would need a vast reduction in the overhead to build a Nuclear plant, or a vast increase in the costs of the alternatives.