skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is only because I will be locked out of access to certain essential financial products as the result of having no credit history.

Pretty much every bank offers a credit card with a 1% cash-back rewards rate and their underwriters are more generous to their customers with no credit history to help address this exact problem. Get one, use for like 6 months and build up a credit history then go get an AmEx or whatever
Huh, guess I haven't really checked on this since mid-early 2010s. Was a lot worse back then.
They must be well-funded if they're leaving money on the table like this. I'd pay a few a dollars for commercial use.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02022-1

If this is referring to the same experiment, it may not be real/repeatable.
Officially weird, as Stephen Fry would say.
Here's why you should use the active voice:

1. It lets you know who/what is performing the action, instead of leaving it to the reader to figure it out.

2. It makes the writing less repetitive because each descriptive word becomes a verb, instead of "to be" being in every sentence.
I just meant sobering in how cheap it is.

One thing that's a bit worse for the environment is I enjoy driving an EV more and tend to drive it more than I drove an ICE. Quiet, fast ... sporty even, no oil changes, no gas station trips, not even a transmission. Sure I'm not burning oil, or even (mostly) brake pads, but I'm still turning magic pixies into motion and chewing through tires.
Automated scanning is already accomplished outside the App Store on macOS via notarization.
So one day certain un-named co-workers brought up a box containing a disassembled metal desk and left it in the hallway. This box was maybe six feet long, two feet wide, and two inches thick. And for whatever reason, they left it standing on edge in the middle of the hall. This is not a gravitationally stable position in which to leave several hundred pounds of steel.

So innocent old moi comes down the hall, wonders what's up with the box, and fiddles with it, never dreaming it has that kind of weight in it. Once it started coming over, it was beyond my strength to stop. It landed on my foot.

By luck and/or the grace of God, they also left this low cart/dolly thing in the hallway. It caught the last inch of the box - enough to stop the cardboard, but not enough to catch any of the steel. The steel then slowly tore through the box. But it was enough that the weight slowly landed on my foot, rather than slamming it. It was the difference between a fair amount of pain, and crushing all the bones in the arch of my foot (or so I suspect - I haven't done the experiment).

So, yeah. Falling mass can cause crush damage, even in a cubicle farm.
To be clear, WireGuard is a good VPN protocol, and definitely a secure design. I wouldn't recommend another over it. It's just the initial claims of security in the NDSS paper were incompatible with its design.
Yes, really unbelievable how Trump completely denied the global consensus that he was being blackmailed by Russia for the "pee tapes". And even worse that Trump's slack-jawed acolytes continued to maintain that the Hunter Biden laptop was genuine when the most reliable mainstream media and intelligence officials all dismissed it as disinformation. How could the Trump idiots believe such transparent propaganda?!
I feel this in my bones. Not only that but discoverability is terrible partially due to all the dead ends you can go down when looking for some library or solution, only to find out they don't work anymore.
Active voice is usually more clear, tight, and pleasant to read.
Strictly for mortality, ok, it makes sense they are similar. But that’s really just because the drop off from getting any exercise to no exercise is so huge.
I wouldn't rely on Google to learn good practices for technical documentation (unless they want to release their complete internal technical documents on how their recommendation algorithms work, that is).

Instead, check out a reliable open source project like SQLITE, they have great documentation:

https://www.sqlite.org/arch.html

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite

See previous discussion of sqlite structure here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32250426
briefcases are used for money laundering, don't remember the last time the government banned them
I feel like the analogy to a car requiring potentially expensive work/replacement parts isn’t reasonable, as you only have to replace those parts when they actually die, not at some random fixed point (as much as dealer-workshops may try to convince you otherwise)
Not the only change. Something what caught me off-guard yesterday: creating a fork forks the main branch only by default. There's a new checkbox that has to be unchecked to create a complete fork.
> You’d obviously never do this for untrusted code.

Doesn't panic imply that the program entered a state from which it was never explicitly designed to recover?

Since that state may persist across invocations of a function, doesn't that make the code effectively 'untrusted' for subsequent execution?
One of my favorite quotes is “motion precedes emotions”. i.e. don’t wait around until you feel like doing something, just start and it’s likely that you’ll continue to want to so said thing.

Works for both work and exercise for me.
For me, that point of surrender is not set by the code itself but by the people involved. That is, the code may be bad, terrible, horrific even, but if the team is actually willing to make the effort of improving themselves along with the code, then we can make it work, together. On the flip side, if the team is comfortably set into bad habits, has become comfortable or accustomed to the projects quirks and kludges, and is not really interested in changing their ways, then it won't matter how much effort you, alone, make and you may be better off giving up.

As for the simpler day to day frustration... well, remember that to untangle a messy knot you will need to make a lot of very small steps before you reach a position in which you can pull this or that string and finally see a bigger advancement. But those very small, careful steps are as important -or probably much more important- as the bigger one.
“We are raising your plan’s rates.”

versus:

“The plan’s rates have gone up.”
This is interesting but what is it actually for? Cloning humans is not new but if we were to use this for replacing faulty organs, how does a newborn aged/sized organ help someone? Are they accelerating the growth of tissues and organs? If so, how do they slow the growth back down prior to transplant and also ensure whatever method used to accelerate the growth does not spread throughout the host? Or is this going to be a replacement for stem cell therapy to reduce the risk of tumors?
People who have no choice or don't know any better.
The main issue with "health as a goal" is that its very ill-defined and hard to measure.

Instead, if your goal is "run a 5k without stopping", then its really much more obvious if you're hitting or missing that goal. Or 10 pullups (or 5 pullups or whatever).

You can ask yourself: what can a healthy-person do? There's a bit of wiggleroom and interpretation over it. I think run a mile, lift 100lbs, and do some pullups and a handstand / cartwheel. Yeah, its a bit silly but... they are defined goals that I was unable to do before I practiced, and am now able to do.

> If that extra strength/endurance doesn't translate to much better health outcomes

That extra strength/endurance translates into my ability to walk around cities and other locations I visit.

I think the "run a mile" and "run/jog a 5k" benchmarks are useful, because when you're visiting other cities, you want to have enough leg strength and endurance to like, walk around and not take an Uber all the time?

Cartwheel / handstand / pullup is largely for fun. I can't say that its ever been useful, but playing with my nieces and keeping up with them is important to me in some respects. I think I use some of that strength when lifting my nieces and carrying them around when they get tired in the city.

"Lift 100 lbs" is just officework, strangely enough. Every now and then, you gotta move a UPS unit or whatever, and having the strength to move lead-acid batteries around the racks is helpful (even if you nominally have a 2nd person supposed to be helping you).

I'm no power-lifter, but its a level of strength that apparently a lot of my other officemates don't have.

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The flexibility to "slav-squat" / "3rd world squat" is useful when changing tires / working on my car. Also quickly sitting / resting in front of a store in a city without touching the ground.
No because "smart" genes don't sustain. Like 50% is volatile noise. So that would actually line up. I.e. Two 150 IQ don't have a 150 IQ on avg. They have a 125 IQ, and then the two 125 IQ have a 112, and the two 112 IQ have a 106 and voila.
Call for Indictments Re Gain-of-Function Research
We also knew that Elizabeth Holmes was bullshitting, but that didn't prevent other people from being taken.
I have a great example of this:

"Jesus takes a selfie" - https://imgur.com/a/togE2ko

I'm pretty sure this snap was three days after the resurrection.
I'm with you. I would hate to see these images all over the place -many are just unpleasant to see.

The cover image generated for the cosmopolitan cover is stunning at first but after seeing it a few times it begins to feel uncomfortable to look at. The uncanny valley is alive and well in many of these images.
I don't think we'll see this in our lifetimes.

For that scenario to be possible, general AI needs to be developed first.

A huge (and awful) part of software engineering is figuring out what exactly the stakeholders want you to build or fix. Sometimes, they themselves don't even know.

Dealing with ambiguos jira tickets, poorly reported bugs, non-existent requirements, missing or outdated documentation; these are the "common problems" in building software. Current AI technology isn't even close to being able to sort these types of problems today, and it won't be until a monumental breakthrough in the field is achieved.

Generating art is "easy" in the sense that art can't be wrong or right, it just is.

Generating the backend of a streaming platform? I'd like to live long enough to see it.
We already have a defacto one party system in the US
Chase does as well.
> You have lower rewards (about half) and fewer perks.

I'm not sure you're reading it right. From what I can tell, I can make tax and rent payments and get 3% statement credits. These two categories are typically at the lowest tier, and come with convenience fees. But at 3 percent, that cancels out and then some.
I don’t think the current state of globalisation can last. It won’t be complete deglobalisation either.

I think we’d see the world market divided in two. It’s already starting with semi conductors (chip 4 alliance).

For some key industries US will also bring some of the manufacturing in house instead of only relying on allies. Again you are already seeing this with semi conductors: US is bringing manufacturing to its own soil and South Korea has already made some raw material processing domestic instead of relying on cheaper global market.
Surprised I had to scroll down so far to find a reasonable comment.

It is in human nature to exceptionalize the time period you happen to be living in. It is worth guarding against these cognitive biases.
You want "boring" but modern, competent "boring" such as Starling. It's modern but otherwise boring code (a Java monolith if I remember correctly), a modern app and is backed by a profitable, sustainable business with no "growth & engagement" smell.
I'm beginning to think he doesn't want to be forced to buy Twitter like he agreed.
Tesla does marketing all the time in SoCal, so that's clearly false. Also, I'm pretty sure they launched a car into space once? That counts as a marketing activity. Referral bonuses, free Supercharging, etc., are similarly marketing activities, and other automakers refer to such activities as marketing in their financials. (In fact, Tesla just announced a major marketing effort in China today... https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23297417/tesla-ownership-l...). That Tesla does not characterize marketing activities as marketing simply indicates that their financials are not prepared under GAAP and instead represent fantasy unicorn accounting.

They scaled from 3,000 cars to 3 million cars in just ten years.

Most modern Chinese automakers scaled even faster than that. And if you think that's impressive, Ford went from 0 to 3 million cars in less than 10 years. Without electricity, robots, or fancy technology.

These cars are real, and they are changing the world around us.

Agreed, the streets are now significantly more dangerous due to all the Tesla vehicles driving around like drunk drivers while in AP or FSD modes. Tesla may set back the adoption of self-driving technologies by a decade.

They are also the place that attracts the most engineering talent. I have yet to find a Tesla job post for social media marketing.

Tesla only conducts so much R&D because they insist on recreating a worse version of the wheel rather than using outside suppliers. Except for their supposed differentiating factor, the batteries, which are actually made for them by outside suppliers (i.e., Panasonic).

But on that note, every single one of the other major automakers conducts more R&D into actual new areas of technology than Tesla. They just don't constantly brag about it on Twitter.

Tesla’s main achievement is not marketing. It’s volume production (i.e. manufacturing).

I laughed so hard I almost sharted. Tesla has the worst volume production of any major automaker, and for several years straight has the ignomious distinction of being at or near the bottom in terms of initial car quality (as measured by the number of manufacturing defects in new vehicles), so to the extent they make "more" cars it is because they cars they do make are lower quality.

And building cars that convert people when they drive them.

I now know more former Tesla owners than current Tesla owners. Tesla's 0-60 speed convinced a lot of people to buy EVs. But their abysmal build quality guaranteed that most Tesla buyers' first Tesla would also be their last. Only the die-hards buy more than one Tesla in SoCal anymore.
Regulations exist to prevent people and corporations for things we think are bad and harmful
You generally need at a minimum:

* riveting tools to mount the trunnions to the receiver,
* welding tools to attach the rails to the receiver,
* a bunch of jigs to place various holes in the right places in the receiver,
* ...and a 12(?)-ton press: you'll be pressing the barrel into the front trunnion, and you may be using the press (and an appropriate jig) to press a steel flat into the proper shape for a receiver.

There are at least a couple companies out there that offer AK build classes that will walk you through all this, and then transfer the results of your work to your local FFL.
You do realise what you have just said was incredibly silly?

I hope you weren't part of the 'criminals' crying about youtube-dl being suspended by GitHub in 2020: [0].

So GNOME [1], WireGuard [2], The Linux Kernel [3], Mozilla [4] and ReactOS [5] and Tor Project [6] are all 'criminals' for self hosting their own projects on their own servers rather than being forced to host it on GitHub?

Surely they all know that GitHub can take their repositories down for any reason. If they all announced that they are going all in on GitHub, what is the whole point of supporting 'free software' in the first place?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME

[2] https://git.zx2c4.com/

[3] https://git.kernel.org/

[4] https://hg.mozilla.org/

[5] https://git.reactos.org

[6] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo
Obviously the mastering differs. So your point is that the mandatory mastering limitations specific to each medium should be factored into comparisons between media?

Perhaps, but what about optional mastering choices like brick-wall limiting with normalization (which is what I think you meant)? Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point.
Heh, dunno, seems like EV chargers are springing up everywhere. In my city they have them at various destinations like hotels, golf courses, Target, whole foods, . The city funded a few as well. Definitely more locations for charging than gas, but not sure how many cars/hour could be filled/charged for each.

I do think that it would be worth providing an incentive for businesses with big parking lots to cover at least some of the area with solar. The ground temperatures decrease (less heat island effect), less AC for nearby buildings, less AC in cars (which won't be as hot to begin with), and of course more solar power for the grid.
India has done a phenomenal job of getting rid of the mastercard/visa duopoly in India by introducing Rupay. Some people may say it is just another monopoly but being owned by govt has its own perks for both consumers and merchants AND Banks, end of the day everyone wins. They are simplifying and inviting newer technology to spread credit products across India.

Just like UPI, Rupay is taking over India like wildfire. US can take a page out of India's technology adoption ( except may be for crypto )
New in iOS 16 Beta 5: Battery Percentage in Status Bar, Find My Changes and More
Debt is a useful tool for people who can control themselves.

Dave Ramsey caters to people who need unusually strict financial discipline to avoid getting in trouble. For everyone else, responsibly using debt is often better than paying cash.

For example, paying cash for a car is often worse than taking a low-interest loan. Liquidity is important -- locking up a bunch of money in a car means you can't use it for other things, like investments or emergency savings.

Another example: taking out a loan for a large purchase, rather than liquidating investments to pay cash, can cost less overall because the interest paid on the loan might be lower than the capital gains taxes on the investments.
New Al Zimmermann's Programming Contest: Stepping Stones
Agreed - having played around with DALL-E 2 a fair bit and having made a lot of usage of stock images over the years (for blog posts with specific subjects), I would say the former takes more work/time than the latter. With stock images I can just do a quick search on Shutterstock and find a lot of high quality options (usually), whereas with DALL-E 2 I need to figure out the exact prompt I want and iterate on it for a while. Stock images are not that expensive -- if you buy many it's as low as $2 per image, or on the high end (if you pay to just download a few per month) it's more like $10 per image. It does cost more, but time is money, so...
I immediately thought of the Stg 44, but while my memory is foggy, I do remember that that wasn’t the rifle that the AK drew from in inspiring the actual action itself. Ergonomics and overall layout, sure - but the action was another gun, that I can’t remember right now.

Getting older sucks sometimes, but it beats the alternative!
Is your code open source? Seems like Anki could do with some competition.
Monzo's initial UI used to be amazing. I find their V2 UI terrible, and of course the various "growth & engagement" shenanigans don't help - feels more like a bullshit social media app than a tool that's supposed to hold & manage my money.
Treasury sanctions tornado cash, GitHub suspends developers accounts
Why did this take a headline with correct grammar and turn it into one without?
In other courses, Google talks about recruiting from the graduate pool, perhaps they need some technical writers and this is a way for them to hire at lower cost?
Lots of languages have complete gender neutrality in pronouns. They often include arbitrarily or self-assigned signifiers or honorifics, which isn't too far from the direction we seem to be evolving towards. E.g. Kurdish, the Turkic languages, Tagalog (although Spanish influences have caused some appearance of -a and -o suffixes), Armenian, Estonian, etc.

Some languages assign gender to everything grammatically.

English is a rare case of a language without very little grammatical gender except personal pronouns. The only other language that I know of with this characteristic is Persian. Singular "they" dates back to middle English.
Yimby is essentially working towards the undesirable outcome of your own constituents. I don’t see how this can work.
Not for chips it won't be.
They are using native apps so 2 different codebases, that would explain why you're not experiencing iOS-specific bugs.
This seems to merely be applying Saint-Exupéry's rule as an editor, which is a matter of baseline competence, and hardly seems worthy of description as a goal of any sort.
The burden of proof here is on pphysch. If he or you want to be taken seriously, point to something specific.
I'd like to work in lisp or assembly. Haven't had much luck finding work in either but am also quite lazy in the search. It probably varies with which niche language one likes.
Is there any field that isn't being hoovered up by AWS?
The active voice removes the information about what agent is responsible for the action, which has the effect of removing clarity. The reader would like to understand cause-effect chains, whereas the passive sentences indicate that certain actions happen, as if spontaneously.

Passive sentences are used in blame-deflecting language, such as statements that superficially look like apologies, but don't indicate who is at fault, and so do not indicate any acceptance of responsibility.
>If you're really trying to argue that, you should argue that tradfi banks should be unregulated.

Precisely, I do think tradfi banks should be unregulated, with full knowledge that will enable more efficient "money laundering" for some (of course for many of the consolidated powers that be that suck up power when the small guys are blocked, it's no different at all)

>It makes no sense to say that some organizations are behaving badly, so we should give up trying to regulate all organizations.

Blocking all users of Tornado Cash because of some organizations that behave badly is exactly the kind of logic you're impugning with your statement here. We shouldn't give up on all Tornado Cash transactions because some are bad. You contradict yourself.
There's a small amount that gets embedded by the solar wind, but not enough to be extracted practically.
The goal of something and the work of something are distinct. Untangling a topic is work done in service of, ultimately, clearly presenting information.

The guide appears correct, and your criticism misplaced.
I can't find the exact words, but from Hans Richter's Dada: Art and anti-art, about when dealers started selling copies of the famous urinal:

"We hoped the people would react with shock and open their minds. Instead, they reacted with amusement and opened their wallets."
She’s a novelist that wants to write challenging novels to progress or push the medium. If they are read by every Tom, Dick and Harry then she’s failed. I don’t understand why this is obscene.
Ask HN: What’s the most minimalist self-hosted Markdown-to-blog solution?
I’ve been working on my own but curious if any other hackers have tools they enjoy using.

I’d like to just be able to save a markdown file, commit and push the repo, then have the new blog published - no photos, no commands to run.