skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised by this and it turns out its a bit of a misrepresentation as you get unlimited fee free withdrawals if you meet one of these criteria which, in the UK, pretty much anyone except a teenager with no job will meet:

At least £500 was paid into a Monzo account in your name over the last rolling 35-day period, and you have at least one active Direct Debit on the same account in the same period.

You’ve received a Department of Work and Pensions or a Department for Communities’ payment into a Monzo account in your name over the last rolling 35-day period.

You’ve received a student loan payment into a Monzo account in your name over the last rolling 8-month period.

You’re sharing a Monzo Joint Account with someone who has done at least one of the above.
Talk about the shittiest take you could have. They don't even claim it'd reduce total jobs, just that it would reduce ag jobs.

This is the same as saying "Solar might save the planet, but those 5 coal miners still working in west virginia might lose their job"
That number sounds like "unlimited, but the system requires a number" kind of thing.
Actually, I haven't really found this to be true. The HN algorithm does some sort of thing where it spotlights new comments at the top of the stack to see how well they perform before pushing them down. There have been a number of times when I was very clearly late to the conversation but my comments apparently got enough upvotes when they were spotlighted to stay on top.

It feels to me like the comment sorting is actually dictated by a rough calculation of impressions / votes rather than just raw votes, which is why this sort of thing can happen.
"Tesla and Impossible burgers are good examples of this technique"

Really?

A Tesla is a nice car but it's not as affordable as an economical gas car.

An impossible burger costs more than a beef burger. I wouldn't say that it tastes like cardboard (it's better than a beef burger from a school cafeteria or Friendly's or Sonic or the new burger joint in Collegetown but those are all awful burgers). but I don't see it as a real advance over fake burgers we had 20 years ago like Boca Burgers.

I don't know where that $152/ton number for CO2 removal come from. There is talk of getting it down to $100/ton but so far real installations are more like $500-$600 a ton

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c04839

and they aren't doing it at any scale which makes a difference.
We have date range operators such as before/after that do exactly that. See here: https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1115706765088182272
Wat? Beyond Meat's revenue grew 36% and 14% in 2020, and 2021 respectively, they have a 25% gross profit margin. They're doing just fine.
So much for censorship resistance... So what is left?
For properly implemented MFA (FIDO/U2F tokens) an attacker-spoofed website can't ask for the code behind the scenes - i.e. they can ask, but they'll get a code that won't work on the proper site.
Cash itself has never been sanctioned though? If the government said “we’re now keeping a database of cash serial numbers that are hereby banned” would everyone need to install the “cash checker” app and scan each bill they receive?
I guess dogfooding isn't a great idea if the kibble is rancid.
Had to support an XML/SOAP interface to a legacy system that ran on AS/400, it was written in somewhat modern PHP, documented and formatted very well. Modular and easy to follow. I was very impressed. Had a very classic code feel to it where every source file had a massive comment section listing all the functions and explaining a bunch of stuff.
At this point, a lot of the leader list are accounts who have posted a lot over a very long period. I don't give them any special weight, and in some cases I give them less weight due to how much they post.
not automatically at the moment, but if you email me I can delete it for you.
No, originally there was no quota enforced to begin with if my memory serves me right. The limits discussed here are likely meant to gradually tighten up the limits, rather than immediately locking out projects that exceed these limits.
We've reached the point where, if "substack" is in the URL and it's not a person who I am already familiar with, I ignore it completely. Maybe these bloggers are right, maybe they're not, but I don't have enough cycles to actually vet them all myself.

Nutrition research is complicated, but the odds of a nutrition blogger on substack unlocking some "secret" that won't eventually make it into more mainstream science publications seems relatively low to me.
Hey, I was just looking into kbclip the other day, that looks really solid. It works within the native Slack app, which is a nicer experience than trying to replicate data into an external wiki in my case.
Well, that wasn't very effective, was it?
Would you support cancelling all pride parades for the time being as a measure to slow the spread of monkeypox?
I saw a demo of one years ago that solved this by merely overlaying their own SDN/compute/etc. onto VMs in each of the supporting underlying clouds.

So you didn't even get the 'least common denominator', you got 'tied to one particular startups cloud definition'.

I run away screaming at this stuff, generally.
Boeing doesn't sell to consumers, their customers are large companies. There's quite a difference in the level of knowledge/competence to be expected between those two markets. So "this is fine in B2B" does not automatically translate into "this is fine when targeting John Q Public".
Just noticed the double entendre in 'we value your privacy'--your private data provides the $value.
The Toyota Hi-Lux, which used to be their compact truck, is the second best selling truck in the world. Older versions are somewhat legendary for their indestructibility - https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/The_Indestructible_Hilux
I have yet to see the adaptation, but just finished reading the books a few months ago (in my 40s), and while I liked them they did not (to me) live up to the hype.

I can totally see that they would have stood out more as something new in the 80's. Going back and reading some of my favourite comics from the 80's is bittersweet - seminal stories like the X-Men Dark Phoenix saga or Days of Future Past are marred by extremely annoying and intrusive exposition (I like exposition in books, and when well done it's great in comics too, but 1980's Marvel and DC exposition was so in your face most of the time), and Sandman work much better today than they do (other examples that stands out in retrospect in that way is Watchmen and Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run).

But unlike, e.g. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run which still stands out to me as outstanding by modern standards too, while I can see many things that'd make it stand out in the 1980's, and while it's still quirky, it didn't quite reach that level to me (admittedly, it's an extremely high bar, so to reiterate: I did like Sandman).

I can absolutely see myself having a very different view of it if I read it back then, though. Put another way: If I came to X-Men's Dark Phoenix or Days of Future Past story lines today because someone raved about it, and I wasn't used to the comics of the era, I'd have a very hard time seeing past the veneer of heavy-handed story-telling, but I remember them, and so I find it a lot easier to see through how dated they are, even though their execution is worse by modern standards.
another piece useless insight porn is to say 'no' to anyone or anything you dont want to do
I kept contacting support every time my account got blocked for not providing a number stating that i refused to provide a phone number. I think after the second or third time they decided i was human and haven't had a block since.
Same here. Knew nothing about Ruby before, the cleanliness and ease of deployment and database migrations/rollbacks with capistrano and rake made a great impression!
Now we just need someone to take some coins from Tornado Cash and send them to top 10,000 or something active crypto addresses like one CoinBase / Binance / etc using...

It would be interesting to see what U.S. Treasury will do.
In full honesty, I fail to see how crime waves in the USA could be explained by immigration or racial/cultural diversity. From what I understand, it is mostly a consequence of families living through precarious jobs (and poverty), limited access to good education and a general lack of trust in the government, which they either perceive as powerless, or extremely unfair/brutal.

If I acknowledge that some communities are more likely to live their daily lives under these three factors altogether, it could explain why these communities may be more vulnerable to daily life challenges, and more easily resort to violence. Still, that doesn't give me a causal link between racial/cultural diversity and violence, far from it, but I can understand why those who prefer taking shortcuts may end up reaching this conclusion.

This shortcut is also very comfortable for the peace of mind: once I attribute violence to racial/cultural diversity, I can also safely conclude that I will never be part of the problem (if I consider myself as being part of the "good" racial/cultural group)...
I personally don't no. I have been ill, I have had to give up on a career in an industry that died and retrain. I have been subject to a very costly legal challenge that was not even close to being of my own making. I am moderately intelligent, but luck didn't care.

Luck can be a bastard like that
Personally I use codeberg[1] which doesn't have all the fancy bells and whistles but for personal projects it runs like butter.

[1] https://codeberg.org/
Just ask to zoom into their ear !
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I agree. Nissan doesn't seem to get much flak for "ProPilot" either.

FSD shouldn't be allowed. EAP is a decent name for what it actually does.
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I've seen multiple people post similar things on this thread. I actually have the opposite experience. Most of my most upvoted comments tend to be multiple paragraphs with many citations

I guess the difference is I don't make these types of posts on software-engineering heavy discussions. I've been a Wikipedia editor for a few years and I have a lot of niche interests in botany, evolutionary biology, anthropology, microbiology, etc.

There are certain non-software/hardware topics HN seems to really like (phages, the gut microbiome, and nootropics come to mind). It seems that making a long comment with a bunch of citations related to one of those topics is more likely to get you upvotes. Probably because its something a lot of people will be interested in but you're much less likely to be disagreed with given the lack of community expertise around the topics

Maybe my posts wouldn't do as well on a botany forum haha
I'm actually somewhat curious how much of an impact this will actually have - I think I've only seen a 5 GB+ repo once or twice and they were not really source code, but mildly "abusing" github CDN/releases for downloads.

At least gitlab is not deleting any data, just rejecting pushes if you're over the limit.
I have been using Common Lisp professionally since 1982, and other Lisps before that. It has always been my language for thinking and experiments.

If you are just starting, maybe you would be better off using Racket Scheme - it has a modern and rich ecosystem around it.

If you do go with Common Lisp, you can grab a free copy of my book by setting the price to $0.00 https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp There are better introductory Common Lisp books, but mine has many fun example programs that you might enjoy if your technical interests overlap mine.
Dear Twilio:

I wrote you an email a year ago about how the Authy app is dumb and SMS "2fA" is NOT a second factor! To re-iterate: SMS is not authenticated, it can be spoofed (using your platform), there are no delivery guarantees, no read receipts, it's not encrypted... and most importantly: It defers security to Phone Carriers, who have the security posture of an air seal made of swiss cheese.

Once again: Dump the Authy App. Promote actual 2fA technology like U2F, now WebAuthn, hardware keys, OR _actual_ TOTP which cannot be reset using an sms. My 67 year old Mother, grandmother of 12, knows how to use hardware keys and TOTP. I'm embarrassed for you guys that you still can't figure it out.

Sincerely,

-The I told you so department
> the biggest mixer of all: Monero

Tornado is a straight up money laundering (specifically, layering [1]) service. Monero can be that. But it's also other things, which makes it at the very least defensible in a way someone interacting with Tornado is not.

[1] https://www.stpaulschambers.com/stages-of-money-laundering-e...
Someone once seriously proposed making the final determining decision for who gets into Harvard be based on...a random drawing. (From an oversized pool of qualified applicants.)

The idea was students wouldn't go through the rest of their life thinking they'd prevailed in a meritocracy, and had earned and deserved every bit of their future success. They'd always have to acknowledge: some of it was pure luck.
The distintion between Rust and C looks interesting. Are there any formal (or formal-ish) grounds for saying that only authors of unsafe code need to be aware of Undefined Behaviour in Rust? With MiniRust, would it be plausible that some sort of "black-box abstraction" theorem could be proven, in a way that makes "safe" code depending on "unsafe" code insensitive to undefined behaviours?
Agreed. I personally will never eat the stuff unless I'm imprisoned.
True - and an important distinction. Hiring someone for $20/hr to sit in the cab of some multi-million dollar harvesting machine isn't that hard.

I think it's a bit of an area that doesn't really benefit from more efficiency (except on the things that have to be picked by hand) - farmers don't even bother flattening their land to make it easier to plant/harvest, as the machines handle slopes and hills just fine.
“Protonic” artificial synapse runs a million times faster than human ones
I guess an infinitely large storage quota is only slightly less sustainable than a 45,000GB one.
Lack of db switchability and mockability are too much for me. Maybe I'm too old fashioned. But the author does a good job of highlighting these drawbacks.
But the true answer lies between the two.

The game is rigged. But that merely makes it less likely that someone who's on the wrong side can succeed, not impossible. You do have to do as much as you can, with what you're given, regardless of what it is.

The real key, though, is that this tells us what we, as a society, need to change. If we genuinely value entrepreneurship and innovation, we need to create a universal safety net that lets people take risks, try things, and fail, again and again, without ending up destitute, because we know that is what leads to eventually creating a successful business.
Oooh that looks like a winner here. I'll try it soon, thanks!
I think you are being dismissive of the claim because who would think that "autopilot" doesn't mean everything is done for you.

Comparing a pilot to a regular car driver is just completely off point. You are basically throwing out all the training pilots have to do just to make your point.
yea its fully static and also offers a paid plan with CNAME and so on.
It works fairly well for me but there is still room for improvement.
Was only a matter of time until some competition appeared, do you already have an idea how your paid plan will look like?
Another key differentiator could be a selfhosting option as mentioned above.
will definitely follow this projects progress
This is basically the idea behind microinverters
I don't mean to doubt you by asking this, do you have a source? I am interested in the process of reversing js (assuming the delay is client side) :)
SMS campaigns, both target and blanket, simply must dwarf any 2fa usage. In just one role I saw Sms-shots with 10s of thousands of recipients. SMS is also fairly heavily used for non-secure notifications (you bill is due / payment received / your password changed, etc.) quite heavily IME.
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> noisy

Now for reality instead: since people have developed the direst situation of being "brainless", I have been near vehicles you would praise, and the noise they make is _unbearable_. That is because some satanic critters, which unfortunately constitute empowered components in management, marketing and public, believe it a "good idea" to replace traditional engine noise with synths of '90s operating system boot samples.

This happens because people have lost their nature, of feedback-based machines, and can go on living after being shot (they will not know about it).

--

Edit: an hybrid in electric mode just parked near me, in real time, and the noise was not the most particularly annoying - it's a Hyundai - but it was definitely upsetting and irritating (though much better than other hellish nightmares I have heard driving near me). I assess that normal individuals would probably be not that bothered when they pass on the streets many yards distant - but I am not sure, it really depends which audio bands will reach you. I am pretty sure that others I have experienced will be fully unbearable at a much longer distance.

Edit2: they just left now, and the noise at the start was quite acceptable now - just a mildly loud fan, nothing perverse. It seems Hyundai has guessed a few effects properly. (Issue is, others have not - and this logically opens for more.)

Those evidences of hell on earth are driving by clearly unregulated - and it is doubtful that given the mental state of nowadays earth crawlers they will ever be regulated (you need a clean humanity still capable of being bothered by noise for that).

And for what the single sniper that hit this post is concerned - likewise for silence, let us refrain to spend much verbal judgement.
Plenty of actionable advice. Start small, build habits, work your way up. Jordan Peterson (love him or hate him) talks about making your bed and cleaning your room. Then build off this and tackle something a little bigger. Small personal goal that takes a year or more of regular practice (language, physical fitness, writing, anything you highly value). If you can’t manage to build a habit of this, then maybe being disciplined and getting the benefits of it won’t work for you. Nothing wrong with that.
No, but out of pins connected to timers with the appropriate capabilities.
>> Living in a walking city is nicer than living in a driving city. But living in a walking city with a car is even nicer!

You know what is even nicer than that, Living in a Rural area with a population density of less than 500 people per sq mile (310 people per sq km)

>The only way to fix it is by passing taxes or other restrictive legislation

That is far from the only way to fix it, and it is very regressive, making the burden fall upon poor people, and often the elderly.

Using tax code to affect behavior is one of the most unethical things government does, and I always find it odd that the same people that complain about the rich, and how we should do more for the poor are the ones that also want to impose these heavily regressive tax schemes because "they know best"
What's wrong with the Authy app?
Last I checked drivers are still required to be licensed and understand the functionality of their cars.
Can someone Eli5 what this actually means? I mean tornado is anonymous so I can’t see the operators getting screwed.

Does it mean people like me who use it so Coinbase can’t track my wallet activity are going to have our wallets banned since we used tornado?
Wide public support for keeping German reactors online, say polls
Good call, I'll look into it, I'm curious.
The post specifically did NOT tell people to make use of quotes when searching. It said the opposite, and simply explained the change with snippets is to better help those who decide they do want to use quote searching for whatever reason. Here's what we said (I work for Google):

Using quotes can definitely be a great tool for power users. We generally recommend first doing any search in natural language without resorting to operators like quotation marks. Years ago, many people used operators because search engines sometimes needed additional guidance. Things have advanced since then, so operators are often no longer necessary.

By default, our systems are designed to look for both the exact words and phrases entered and related terms and concepts, which is often useful. If you use a quoted search, you might miss helpful content that uses closely related words.

Of course, there are those times when the exact word being on a page makes all the difference. For those situations, quoted searches remain available and are now even better.
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I once inherited a reasonably good code base. It wasn't a large project but it did have a certain complexity; it was a web application to write and manage HTML-formatted e-mail templates that the company then sent for various purposes from different applications.

It had no testing and documentation was little more than a brief overview in the internal wiki so at first it didn't feel very welcoming. But then the code turned out to be quite well organized and approachable. I added to it a couple of features that had been ignored for some time and the code really made sense. It guided you quickly towards the correct places you'd need to work on.

Ultimately the project itself was somewhat flawed because nobody wants to layout and maintain e-mail templates, specially when somebody insists that they want "100% pixel-perfect coverage on all e-mail clients including Outlook Express 5.01" -in 2014-.
The problem with the 'mixer' approach to this is that the US Gov knows the bad money went into the mixer. They also know that it's harder to determine where the bad money came out to. This means that money that all of society has a valid vested interest in tracking and seizing is in the mixer. Part of having that freedom, privacy, and control is having to live with the consequences of doing business with people who land you in circumstances like this.

I don't buy any argument that hinges on:

* Someone stole my money.
* But they used a privacy enhancing service to hide it.
* So the authorities have no recourse.

If someone uses that service for legitimate reasons knowing that the people who steal money are also using then they just have to live with the fact that their privacy means they can't prove they weren't the ones who stole it.
Completely agree. I think to really show the best comments in a thread, comments should be weighted higher based on how recent they were made. At the same time though, you don't want to weight them too highly and flood the top comments with new, less notable comments because that would seriously deteriorate the quality of the top comments section.

I find HN strikes a really good balance here, occasionally putting new comments at the very top, but not enough to flood the top comments. It's much better than Reddit at least. HN also seems to give additional weight based on the length of the comment which filters out many of the joke/quippy comments and gives preference to comments which add a lot to the discussion.
If Ukraine had nukes and NATO didn't want them to use them or risk losing them, they may have acted.

Again, I think it's unlikely and the "Russia wouldn't have invited Ukraine if they had kept their nukes" doesn't actually fly (and probably would just have been another reason for Russia to invade: 'they're right there and they have nukes!'
Git works perfectly fine without a web interface like that. It's not popular nowadays, but you can just keep the primary repository on your own server and merge patches by email.