skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it'd be OK to check that the $10,000,000 dollar bank account owner did pay taxes on it.

Scenario:

John Doe has 10 million dollars appear in his bank account. No evidence that it was obtained legally and no evidence that any taxes were ever paid.

Option IRS/Alcapone - he goes to jail for Tax evasion

Option 'Unexplained Wealth Order' - UK government seizes assets because they should it could not be obtained legally. He is still free and out and about

If anything the option you are advocating is "worse" as in it is harsher.
Moreso, thinking the WEF are some kind of visionary force is equivalent to thinking IBM will create the next killer application
> Second, I dare you to run "ls /etc" and claim it's not a mess...

In principle, sure. But in practice, using /etc to edit configuration data is not that hard, and every Linux user does it all the time. Different software uses different configuration formats, sure (though it's worth nothing that NixOS is doing really clever things to solve that problem), but it's really not that hard or scary.

Manually editing the registry though... That way lies madness. It's much scarier and it's much more fragile.
That’s strange. I just tested it and both GVim on windows and vim on a vps linux terminal have no problem with going anywhere on a 170k long line. It lags a little but visually is fine.

And just in case you missed it, you may gj gk to navigate visual lines or remap j, k (and <Up>, <Down>) to gj gk to make that default.

I have a genuine question why use nvim at all if it has such issues with presenting text in a window.
Why should I be forced to enjoy the product as it is? It's one thing to make something like this for fun, but if you post it on an online link-sharing platform, you're bound to find people who don't enjoy what you've made.
Given enough precipitation, couldn’t you deplete the particles necessary for nucleation?
I mean, yeah - /etc is messy. Every configuration file in /etc has yet another bespoke configuration language. And somewhere on your system lies a corresponding buggy, half implemented parser for it.

But /etc has gotten messy in the same way a desk gets messy. There's documents everywhere, but if you pick anything up and take a look at it, you can usually (with the help of google) figure out what that file does and how you can change it. It helps that almost every file in /etc is owned by a single program or library. And just about all of those programs have documentation. (Or, at worst, source code).

In comparison, the windows registry feels like an old, disorganized community's storage space. On first glance things look organized, but actually there's been dozens of half hearted attempts to organize everything over the years by different people, each with their own idea of where everything should go. You don't recognise half the stuff in there. Random ex-employees have been dumping random objects in there for years. But its impossible to tell at a glance what random objects are critically important, and what is trash. Everyone else has this problem too, so nobody throws anything out, and its just accreted.

Braver people than you have fallen on their swords trying to tame the windows registry. There be dragons.

I'd take /etc over the windows registry any day of the week. /etc is messy at the surface level. The windows registry is messy like a fractal.
Yeah, I don't like your odds here. Your politicians can barely agree on a budget these days. Constitutional amendments seem like a thing of the past now. But it's likely the only good solution here, and on other issues too, like abortion.
You have a linux container on chromebooks, where you can run anything. Doesn't feel locked down to me.
TikTok is fun until but it’s becoming a place that’s mostly women shaking their parts. I explicitly don’t like like on them and I even go so far as to block the most prevalent ones but the algorithm just doesn’t get it
What is your conversion from waitlist to signup (SaaS)?
Hey,

We decided to gather a waitlist of people who were potentially interested in the future product and created a landing page with an opportunity to get early notification to sign up.

In 12 months we managed to collect 1130 emails.

The conversion to the response of the first 300 invites was low: approx 10%-20%.

Conversion is almost the same if we select fresh (added 24 hours ago) or old emails (added 6 months ago). We tried different hypotheses:

— We sent invites in batches of 40/50 messages.

— Mixing those who just got added to the waitlist (2 days ago) with those who did it 6 months ago.

— Tried different meanings, text, and subjects.

— Sent direct messages for personal contact.

— Sent credentials right away, directly from the platform.

— Tried different email services (Gmail and our domain).

— Wrote on behalf of the founder or the team.

— We have sent follow-ups.

Can you please share your tips/hacks on engaging cold email base?

Thanks
I know they can work with bits and bytes, but your average web dev often doesn't get into that kind of stuff. I don't need the bitshift operator to put a button on a webpage or expose an endpoint.
> Croatia is very socially conservative

lol at this. generally former yugoslavia is only superficially conservative. i mean that in a good way. particularly we care about politeness manners and about our image and how we are percieved (again exceptions always exist). but trust me we also know how to have fun and enjoy life. nije prisa ;)
Apparently, GIF didn't originally support animation. It was added in GIF89a (https://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt) with the GCE (Graphic Control Extension). Which adds the delay time field which is the issue.

> vii) Delay Time - If not 0, this field specifies the number of
hundredths (1/100) of a second to wait before continuing with the
processing of the Data Stream. The clock starts ticking immediately
after the graphic is rendered. This field may be used in
conjunction with the User Input Flag field.

Additional info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Animated_GIF

This doesn't really answer your question, but it's all I could find so far.
I tell colleagues that Slack is also blocked, both on desktop and my phone. I check it periodically, about every hour or two.

"But what if I need you for something important?!"

There's this thing called a phone

"Well, it's not _that_ important ... I guess"

Amazing how rationality has time to settle in when we stop being impulsive.
With banking, a lot of it is notifications when money is transacted on your account.

One of my banks (Starling) is app only.

Some F2A I've used only operate using notifications, which while is a bad design, requires notifications to work
So no notifications while you are at work, on work devices?

Hmmm.
"2. Hello Microsoft programmers, a memory dump is not a file format"

This is exactly how Office file formats worked in the good old times. Made things faster (no parsing).
That might increase the chance of dropping the phone as it's not made to operate it that way?
How long before Twitter becomes Tiktok?
Wikidata has MrBeast listed as being born in Wichita, KS, where he's competing with Joe Walsh for notability. There's probably still a very reasonable argument to be made that MrBeast is more notable, but it's much less clear than Lee Norris.
Is Gconf any different from OSX defaults?
I believe the world is way more anonymous now when I grew up you could basically take the phone book look a name up and just call them. That's now mostly impossible.
Scientists have finally found the potential “cure” for baldness
The word 'racist' didn't appear until your post. It's a shame we can't discuss obvious language bias without you becoming defensive about imagined sleights.
For me the best methodology can be abstracted to the following 3 things and in the end of the day is all I really need:

1. Ability for a tree-like organization of notes. It can be as simple as some directories in your OS with text files and subdirectories. Or a cool app with Notebooks and Sub-notebooks etc. It doesn't matter.

2. Ability to search everything at once. It can be a grep command or a an app with text search functionality. It doesn't matter again. Strive to have easily searchable titles and content in the notes (What "easily" means here, depends on your search preferences and habits).

3. Ability to effortlessly synchronize your notes to different hosts. Maybe you'll put your simple directories and subdirectories of text files in Dropbox or something. Maybe you'll use a paid or open-source application with a mobile app or a web client etc.

---

I explain the thought process here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31799695 but it isn't important as those basic rules above.
I wonder what they mean by "notable". Notable folks from my town include announcers for major sports teams, a famous cartoonist, a former director of an international organization, and a Grammy winning musician (among others).

The map indicates the "notable" from my town is a playbook centerfold that married an football player and wrestled a few times, who I had to actually look up.
What is something nontrivial but interesting/useful to train on GPUs these days (not talking about big AI level compute) ?
Cool project, I really like the new structured output - that will make parsing stuff much easier than with strace! Is the performance overhead of tracing the syscalls comparable to strace?
>And of course there is pressng all 88 keys on the MIDI piano at the same time. I would like to know what that sounds like on a real piano though.

The mute pedal on an upright/console piano works by situating the hammers closer to the strings; if you stomp on it hard enough, you can get it to jerk all of the hammers such that they actually hit the strings and get this "all 88 keys" noise. I don't recommend this if you care for the piano, though :)

(On a grand piano, IIRC the mute pedal instead either adjusts the position of the hammer to only hit 1-2 of the strings, instead of all 3, or it moves the felts to dampen the sound).
I have no corporate financial knowledge so I may out of my depth here but I believe they have made significant investments lately to try to spur up a chip industry outside of China's sphere of influence. Would their bad results be, partly, the result of this?
Heh it was that as “Voyager on Asteroids” I was intrigued!

But this sounds even more interesting getting modern instruments aboard a new generation of voyagers to probe the heliosphere and beyond with better instruments.
I think the problem is like.. if you buy a car, then they will call you if a recall happens. If they'd call you every month to sell you something you'd probably tell them off in such a way that they would stop. If food is recalled you may see it at the checkout in the grocery store.

No one registers their hardware at the vendor because all they do is spam you with offers then. Or they change their system and despite you registering you'll still get no notice.
I long stopped be a user of Facebook.

In the beginning I liked the easy way it afforded me to keep in contact with friends and acquaintances. Then it included more and more "other" stuff, and I just lost interest in it. Shame really. In the beginning it was so useful and I honestly did not mind being shown some ads in exchange for that.

But now my data would be used not only to selects ads but also the other content, blurring the difference between what is an ad and what is "content". Facebook lost its way, and it looks like they're not looking for a path back.
Again here’s their traffic upon start and exit after doing that https://i.imgur.com/VFb1maZ.png This is no extensions and all telemetry disabled.
The funny thing is that long mode can actually support win16 applications, and Wine does it.
That's why the NASA study (HERTS) suggested using an electrostatic solar sail. It's only consumables are the noble gas and/or metal plating of the hollow cathode electron emitters used to keep the craft positively charged.

Actual station keeping +- a few meters once out on the gravitational focal line opposite the target system (which itself is moving) would require some cold gas thrusters that would limit the duration of the mission. But the forces and accelerations required are very small when you're 600 AU out from the sun and even the photon pressure isn't throwing things off anymore.

Yes, getting out there with enough mass for station keeping would be hard and it'd require new methods. Either electrostatic solar sails, or a more traditional H-reversal oberth burn close to the sun.
Yeah, interesting. In The Netherlands it is commonly used to mean "more or less", or "approximately", unless it is used in formulas.
It's also pretty much constant around Moscow City complex - at first it teleported you to VKO but later began moving you to SVO.
Good perspective. It’s easy to lose track of that as enough time has passed that the parents of commenters were in high school when this was implemented.

One time perspective thing to keep in mind is that the IBM mainframe was younger to the folks doing this work at Microsoft than we are to the Microsoft people today. Their constraints were different and the diversity of end users was very different.

Even with years of experience and advancement, in Linux we moved configuration to systemd, which is exponentially better than the registry but also more complex. Complicated configuration systems will always have pros and cons.
I did the same, though I wasn't running Eclipse. That machine was the beginning of my shift from using Mac OS in daily life and Linux on the server, to... using Linux everywhere all the time. It was so light, rugged, and cheap that I felt comfortable tossing it in a bag and taking it anywhere. It got more use than my Macbook.
Excellent reply, though I'm going to be an ass and nitpick to say that the term that's typically used when you have repeated frames due to mismatched frame rates is "judder" (in American English at least)
Just opened Emacs in evil mode, and asked it to summarize the report back to front. Noticed a cloud of black smoke in the room and emacs asking me something about trading my soul for improved keybindings.
This is of course overly simplistic. They absolutely wanted to have mobile too, but didn't manage to execute it. Nokia and surely also other manufacturers were counting on Intel delivering, and had to scramble to re-engineer some flagships in the pipeline to switch to available ARM components when Intel's mobile failure became likely.
amazing for 1 person teams as well!
A big codebase is full of the same patterns of every other codebase. If you've been doing it for a decade you'll recognize them.
Business school tuition is probably less affordable than you think it is. In the US, university admins know that most business students are getting tuition covered by their employers, so it is typically the highest cost per credit hour. $100K/year is not unheard of.
I always fancied saying to Brad Pitt when I see him, "Ever go to Bea Brittons and play songs on the table's jukebox?". He grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

I spent a lot of time searching and playing songs on the jukebox there, which had all these little remote units for selecting songs on each table. I still wonder what the network for that looked like.
He's serious. The new multitasking workflow which is the major feature of iPadOS 16 is not available on non-M1 iPads, for example
Shameless autoplug. What your friends are doing (and you are invited to join them) is the focus of my app Ferris.app

Not a real directory as it's limited to the core circle of friends.

Also no data-selling, ads.
> Go over the Levant and you start seeing Paul the Apostle, Diogenes, Ptolemy, etc.

And Keanu Reeves! I had no idea.
I get one generic spam phone call every month or two. My phone number has historically been on whois records for a couple of domain names, so I sometimes get related spam (your website is broken, you want to pay us to make another, right?), largely from only one or two entities despite being asked to stop it and being reminded that they’re breaking the law (I’m on the Do Not Call Register, have been as long as I’ve had the number, over 7 years), almost always from 07 or 08 phone numbers, but just occasionally from 02 or 03 (just a couple of days ago I got two in one day from the same company, even the same person I think, once 07 and once 03). I don’t know if I’ve ever received a legitimate call from outside 03 (Victoria, where I live) or 04 (mobile). Since I started using it for business as well, I’ve got a very small number of other calls as well (maybe three or four in a year).

My phone number can be trivially found, if someone wants to target me, in all its 2¹⁵‐suffix glory. My only defence is presence on the Do Not Call Register. If you’re not on it, try it. (I don’t really understand, from a serving-the-people perspective, why they don’t just abolish it and apply it to everyone—I can’t think of any reason why anyone would consciously choose not to be on it.)
I really tried to create something useful without fluff because I hate it as well, glad you liked it and thank you Chris! :)
So there is a specific role and skillset for DevOps engineers (going by the original usage of the term), correct? Don't you feel that if you can hire a “DevOps engineer” for a specific role on a software team then we have all lost at using the phrase DevOps?
Its partly about where burden is placed. Making it easy for developers sometimes makes it hard on users and admins. And some times it becomes security issue because of varied approaches. Not sure there is right answer especially in open source where its hard to get devs.
I hadn't seen the name change yet.

Becoming to "Posit", see https://posit.co where they share their vision for their new future.
To save some typing, seems :ea is an alias for it, unless you got more commands starting with ea.

I normally use u (undo) though.
Maybe look at the code of real games out there to find out why list comprehensions aren't needed in a game engine specific language and what typical code looks like...
What about these alternative YT front ends that I can’t remember the names of? They’re all based on the same software but some people make their instances public.

There is no algorithm there, no ads, no auto play.

On Androïd, what about newpipe?
While I had a zenfone back in the day I'm a little confused about why this is on the front page. I looked for some special feature that was newsworthy but it looks just like a regular ass android phone?
I know what you mean, when I go to Bulgaria I still get this strange sense of freedom. I remember when I was a kid, completely normal TV channels turning to a porn channel exactly at 00:00. I think it is not happening anymore, the last time I witnessed this was maybe 5 years ago.

The life feels natural, undesigned and unengineered. You don't feel like you have a mission, you can do whatever you want to do or not do anything or do the bere minimum if that's your thing.

If you don't want to see nudity on TV, don't look. If you think that kids shouldn't see nudity on TV, don't let them. The state is not responsible for rising you or your kids.

An argument against this lifestyle is that it makes people unambitious. I don't agree, the passionate people can follow their passion. Sedentary lifestyle is not the norm at all.

For contrast, in UK it feels like you have to do something productive and reap the opportunities but be very careful(life is work). It Turkey it feels like you have very little wiggle room and have not much say in the flow of life(you are a visitor and the hosts have a plan). In Germany it feels like you need to fulfil your duties then find your place in the world(you are at school).
I suppose, they were hunted along the way. Humans were already there.
https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2015/03/25/horses-hunted-north-a...
Go right-click some stuff on https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/ as an example. You'll see all of them say "save video as..." - it's still just that easy, same as a gif. mp4's have already replaced gif's in an awful lot of places. Since they're like 1/40th the size, there was a heck of a lot of motivation to hammer out the kinks to treating audio-less mp4's as more or less equivalent to animated gifs.
Cool, thanks!

Is there a way to send data as it's generated?
Yes! We have a tiny python SDK that can take care of that. Read more here: https://www.marpledata.com/docs/by-category/developers

[...] use data locally instead of having to upload it to your servers?
No, not yet. We are however prototyping an influxdb integration. Would that cover your use case?
>not going into the Yahoo part of it.

Flickr hasn't been owned by Yahoo for a number of years at this point. I've had a paid Flickr account for quite a few years but I admit I don't use it a lot these days.

I find Google Maps is in a different category than Photos. I use Photos from time to time for image identification but that's pretty much it. (And there are a lot of alternatives for that these days.)
> Updating a value in a text file means re-writing the whole file again. It is a technically-inferior approach that has survived in time because text files are still text files.

It always seems like registries are trying to solve three different problems: configuration, status and process shared state. Registries seem to work poorly compared to text files for configuration, and work somewhat well for some level of shared state. I think to compare functionality with Linux, you would have to compare /etc, .configs and the /proc filesystem.

As for tecnically inferior, the *ix approach seems to have made the right tradeoffs, via the hand of Darwin, rather than some brilliant engineering insight. The article did a good job of explaining what's wrong with Windows' implementation of the registry. What is right with the *ix approach is that configuration files are usually read on startup, and only written to when configuration is changed (which should be infrequent). This works really well for server software, command line utilities, and an awful lot of GUI software. For some GUI software, particularly where you have really complex feature sets, we need to save state of widgets (i.e. saving the default zoom level) and text files may be problematic for this (i.e two instances of the app running), and this is where the registry really shines.
For context, domestication of large beasts of burden were an important factor in early technological progress. These animals were important for farming and also for commerce (eg by transporting goods and people across large land distances).

People point to this for the lower technological progress in South America vs Europe and Asia because the largest animal South American peoples had access to (up until a few centuries ago) was the llama.

Obviously there are military implications to the horse as well. Not just the Mongols either. Horses were key to Rome too.

The Spanish brought over horses obviously.

But it's really interesting to think how society in the Americas could be completely shaped and changed by something like a shipwreck bringing horses, something they didn't have until then.
Bill Gates didn't make the list of people who are famous