skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what we do also. Have a joint account for 'team money', and individual accounts to spend on whatever we feel like beyond that. Some of that individual account stuff tends to still be spent as 'team money', i.e. a lot of the meals from restaurants and non-401k stocks are bought out of my individual account, and a lot of the groceries comes out of her account. Most bills are from the joint account though.

Worked so far the past four years, although I'm sure we could both be a bit more frugal with our individual spending. But for now it doesn't matter too much, bills are getting paid, money is going into retirement and investments (not as much as I'd like, but still a decent amount), we can afford a vacation this year (a fairly simple one, but one nonetheless), etc.
> dual clutch automatics are much faster than manual transmission and most modern automatics have 7 to 10 gears for better fuel efficiency

In what < $15K econobox? :)
justwatch.com is one I've had good luck with.

But as you mention, if you don't remember what all services you have or what your logins are, you'll have to figure that part out yourself.
There very well may be a second order game theory at play - not only you broadcast far and wide that litigation will be exceedingly costly for anyone that tries, but you add an explicit threat that any attempt will result in invalidation risk to plaintiff patent portfolio.

For patent trolls, time spent on legal is mostly opportunity cost, but killing their patent portfolio has a real dollar cost associated to it.
For me the theoretical justification is to avoid rich-gets-richer multiplicative effects. That is, once you have many links, you have a high PageRank and you are much more likely to be linked and seen which self-perpetuates this problem.

The same thing happens with journal publications. If you get a few citations early and you break through, you are likely to get many. Otherwise, near zero. Winner takes it all. For a deeper technical discussion see [1]. This effect tends to perpetuate weird biases. For example the Alzheimer's scam recently featured in HN [2].

HN tries to avoid this problem by giving some chances to new comments. AFAIK, Google or Google Scholar don't have a similar mechanism.

[1] The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails : Properties, Emergence, and Estimation. Section 6.3. https://adamwierman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/book-05-1...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302
But... why? Most women I know are fine and even happy with the pregnancy part. Why would they want to outsource that part? They love the attention. The birth part? Not so much, but that part is difficult to outsource.
As always, it depends. boto3's DynamoDB APIs, for example, feel a bit "meh." It is probably worth wrapping them just for your own sanity.
You are citing a British-US founder's product, an US magazine, and Encyclopedia Britannica to assert it all started in Britain.

I'd wager we need a bit more geographically/culturally varied sources to have a fair guess at the truth.
I would prefer random trials compared to "guessing" the action. Our understanding of human body is still very primitive at best and we just don't know the mechanism of action of many frequent things like headache or hangover, where we could get data from millions of people. Even in pharmacy, the mechanism of action runs backward. We get many candidates for drugs, do animal testing, and see if something changed in them, and if it works, we later try to come up with some mechanism, which a lot of time in history was completely wrong.
I think, and I might paraphrasing someone said on this forum before, that it indicates the government is not a monolithic entity, but rather a collection of various institutions each with its own mandates, goals and related agendas. Since I am, for better or worse, part AML industry, I get to see some of the contradictions and opposing demands.

Just the other week, I was listening to a guy complaining banks don't make SARs useful to to LEOs and not long before that regulator making a banks defend its non-submission of some SARs effectively forcing banks everywhere to adopt defensive SAR filing. It is truly weird to watch from a distance.
so, uh, in other words there's going to be a glut of affordable housing?
Yes, where I'm at — large country in Asia — we count floors starting from 0 (aka G for Ground).

Confused me when I visited USA.
John McAfee faked his death and is ‘still alive’
Yeah, and not a week later anonymous hacker(s) took down the Play Station network for 23 days. Either he did it himself and got away with it, which is impressive, or he inspired someone else to do it and get away with it, which is also impressive.
Agreed. I didn't specify fast chargers, just that they will need to be close to ubiquitous.

It's still an infrastructure installation and maintenance challenge--it's a lot of wire!--and it's still likely to be fought by (possibly astroturf, funded by oil companies) NIMBYs.
But the biggest win with stand-alone mail clients is that you can make them work the way you want

I want my email to show me a list of contacts a-z (no mru). I can filter this list by: have unread messages, are unknown, etc. Sort however I want. Group however I want, “smart” or manually. Omnisearch at the top. No “inbox”, “trash”, “sent”. I can select a contact just like an icq/wa/tg chat and see messages with it to the right. Maybe group messages by subj maybe not. Subj is not mandatory. The client should remove all of the top and bottom auto-citation, automatically extract and update contact info from signatures, remove them and show messages’ meat in bubbles, mine to the right, theirs to the left. Replies, and forwards have links to their “parent”. I can join two email addresses into one contact card, maybe create a subtree. The envelope encryption just works, because the server has a pubkey, either mine or autogenerated and published, or both. I can choose between local storage and cloud storage per device. I can send files >> 20mb, including archives, executables, js files. My known contacts can see if I received/read their message and vice versa. I can ban, mute, hide contacts. I can change/add my address, phone, position, name, etc and contacts will pick that easily, if I allow them see it at all.

So no, I don’t think I can make any email client to work the way I want.

If you think that all of this was inspired by modern messengers, nope. It’s just common sense. The fact is, messengers f’ing nailed it and email as a whole is mostly a slow and unreliable bloatware and doesn’t make much sense. If it were decently designed, there would be no whatsapp and other pure-messaging systems, because we’d already have one.
ah yes, George hotz, the baba yaga of startup leadership
I have 3 kids with one due at the end of the year. All are from the same woman and we’ve known each other since being teenagers. We are planning to have 5-7 total. They really add a richness to life. It’s fun to see people stare when we go out.
Nah. Manual transmissions are better.
I think this service is the future of PC gaming. Owning computers with powerful graphics cards is like owning a car or a suburban house - will be a thing of the past soon. Society has less and less resources to indulge greedy people who don't want to share. You're not using your GPU most of the time. You don't need to own it.

As a side bonus, the fewer people will have powerful GPUs at their disposal, the fewer of them will be able to secretly generate deep fakes and do other nasty things.
it happens :shrug:
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32586046
Note that child death rates were considerably higher even 50 years ago in all of those countries.
I believe a lawsuit is always a civil case. Do you mean criminal charges? I think the bar is pretty high for that (like, fraud or conspiracy).
Here's a better compromise, a semi-automatic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_transmission

You choose when to change the gears but the computer deals with the clutch, best of both worlds.
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You pay for that with your internet bill though. If your internet bill included all the streaming services, that might be different.
I’m a bit crazy but taking an old monolith and slowly pruning and refining it into a codebase that would make a mathematician blush is soothing to me.

Like a bonsai tree. There’s a point where you’ve written enough helpers (complete with tests) and abstracted away logic from the views when you suddenly are able to rapidly refactor all of the crap that’s left and when you’re done the resulting codebase can be easily distributed or scaled.

So I’d start by just breaking the data away from logic and then break that data away from the database with the idea being to use a redis server as your apps data model which you can call some function to sync to the database from time to time.

Then build an event logger that encompasses everything (every interaction at least) that happens on the front end (this is trivial with JavaScript on events.)

then spin up two nodes of it and write some function that merges two of these event trees (sorting by timestamp + pick a bias for when two events happen at the same time.)

It won’t scale to 1000 users, and you’ll find kinks to work out along the way. But this is a good start
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Here’s John Walker’s proposal for that in 1993 after getting extorted by the XOR patent troll:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_105.html

I think the problem is that most of the major companies are comfortable writing it off as a cost of doing business and don’t want to give up the possibility of using strategic patent suits themselves.
Depends what kind of competition you're looking for. If we want competition for PC software, we should support anything but Bing.
I use emacs as my mail client, with notmuch to search/organize it. w3m to render HTML messages.

Nothing else even comes close as far as being able to efficiently handle any volume of email I've ever received.
After programming in C for a while, I really began to have the feeling that arrays were physical things that took up space in RAM. When I think like this, starting an index at 0 is very intuitive, as 0 implies the origin point of the physical construct.

If you think of arrays just as a kind of abstract list, then beginning at 1 makes much more sense. No one who looks at a to-do list at home talks about the 0th thing on their list to do. But the spacial nature of arrays makes starting at 1 confusing. After I take 1 step, I am no longer at my starting point. And cycling through arrays in code for me has a very similar feeling to taking actual physical steps through a data structure.
Was this really from a github interview?? They sent this to you?

Sorry I just am trying to imagine an interviewer saying this to a candidate, let alone thinking it in the first place. Terrible attitude on their part. I can see why someone might not make the same assumption of a developer at an old financial services company (i.e. that is still lagging behind tech adoption) because it might mean using older tech or something, but to imply you aren't a real developer is crazy.
That is a description of the commonly agreed upon definition of the C abstract machine and language semantics. You could simply define the language another way with regards to this behaviour.

Not that I would want to do it, I think zero-based addressing is not very taxing for the convenience of being closer to how we think of memory addressing.
Ask HN: How has deactivating/deleting social media benefitted you?
I've gone without any form of Meta apps or Twitter for almost a month. It feels like quitting a bad habit, you don't notice how much it influences you until you stop.

I notice my creativity has increased, my drive to connect in person has increased, my love of reading/writing has increased, my thinking has become more clear. Overall, I just feel happier.
I drove manual for 22 years. Bought my first auto this year and I'm never going back. seriously. I thought I knew better than the car when to change gears since I've seen some pretty bad auto, but the latest versions are just great.
Who's been doing all of that the last 50 years?

Poor people in other countries, just like it is now.
It can hang out in the gut biomes of people who get the vaccine, but typically with no ill effects unless the unvaccinated person comes into contact with the excretions of an orally vaccinated person who's carrying polio with a certain mutation.
The idea of “official” is intentionally being rejected. There is no official version of anything, just community consensus of the spec, from which anyone can implement a client.

In the past the ethereum foundation has made their own wallets/browsers/clients but they’d rather focus energy in other places and instead have grants and donations to others to help them get started and to operate their own companies.

The reason is to break away from being an authority, over time the EF should become less powerful. They are making decisions to reduce their importance and the reliance the ecosystem has on one group. Ethereum users were never ethereum foundation users.

The other listed organisations and their clients are all excellent. This is a much more healthy approach.
Your comment started out strong but lost the sauce at disparaging vegetable oils. There are essential fatty acids that we need in our diet because we don't have the enzymes to produce specific locations of double bonds, some vegetable and seed oils are a great way to supplement those while keeping a lean and precise diet.
Growing up I raced motocross where changing gears, rev matching etc became second nature. Even on two stroke bikes were you typically perform more gear changes than on a four stroke engine

But I must admit, I struggled a little in a car. Car's required much finer movements than I was used to.
I can say the same right now, while it's still a distant abstract thought. I've said to my wife repeatedly that I'd rather leave my family some inheritance and go on my own terms than have the nursing home take it all so that I can live, bedridden, for a few extra years.

But I might feel different in a few decades if my physical body starts breaking down while my mind still works. Maybe I'll become afraid of death, or I'll suddenly want to stay alive watch my kids/grandkids grow up.
Apart from Dominic Toretto and his merry band of car enthusiasts, for whom 7-10 are definitely low numbers ;)
Manual transmissions are dead.

I grew up learning to drive a manual transmission car. Awesome. I loved the feeling of driving and shifting gears up the hilly, mountainous, twisty horrible roads in Jamaica. Exhilarating!

But cars got better. I got older, and now automatic transmissions are so much more efficient than manual transmissions * for ordinary people *.

We're not talking about people who love driving here. We are talking about people who drive an ordinary car. People who just want to commute and relax. We are not talking about Porsche or Konignsegg's (sp) latest car with a manual transmission.

These days I'm in a taxi in Thailand almost every day, and half of the drivers use a manual transmission and the other half use an automatic transmission. I think the reason is that cars with manual transmissions are older and cheaper.

But at the same time, the driving experience in those taxis with the manual transmission is horrible. Herky-jerky, and most of the drivers don't even know how to use the manual correctly.

The world changes. It is what it is.
You can use Discord in your browser, no need to install and open an application on your desktop.
But we'd have to change all the "i"s in our for loops with "o"s across the planet, maybe even beyond. I'm willing to help, whatever it takes.
I stopped trusting ddg when they said they were going to sensor Russian news. I assume google and other major search engines sensor political issues but I didn’t think ddg would.
>As a side bonus, the fewer people will have powerful GPUs at their disposal, the fewer of them will be able to secretly generate deep fakes and do other nasty things.

'we must control the proliferation of assault-grade GPUs.'

if you're selling the zero-ownership lifestyle then you'd be better served not reminding people that it'll be used as a leash inevitably.

i'll stick to owning things. It's hard to catch an uber out of a forest fire during an emergency, and I think that analogy might apply to more things than people realize.
we should start the osai, open source available initiative, and publish a modern definition of open source (tm). and eventually we'll win, as alzheimers sets in for the old timer commie hippies freaking out about it lol
It’s complicated, my understanding is that the current idea of the western state and middle class traces itself back to the period right after the Black Death created one of the largest population shocks in history, which effectively ended serfdom and loosened the grip of the Catholic Church. Basically the effects of population dips are not cut and dry.

It’s not clear to me it would necessarily play out as people stopping all non critical work to take care of old people. Maybe it would, on a family level - People would spend more time taking care of their parents, and then maybe conclude they should have more kids to take care of them when they are older like they do in the developing world. But the modern pyramid-shaped pension program is a recent invention and not necessarily one I think would be so durable as to destroy other industries?
For the past year, we've had a PG&E time of use plan, which is cheaper after 9pm, when we charge our car.

According to PG&E's online tool, we save about $20/year on our bill compared with the regular tariff. But we could save an additional $35/year if we were to switch to the plan that's specifically for EV owners.

I haven't verified these numbers myself, but I was surprised they're so low. Perhaps it's because we don't drive a lot.
That reminds me of this article about the history of hjkl in VIM: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/always-more-history/

Lo and behold, it's written by the same author.
This is cool. Some thoughts:

> beware: sometimes Codex writes code vulnerable to SQL injection. When that happens tough, I was able to prevent it by adding "safely" to the prompt.

Oops.

Anyway, is "the program" actually the prompts? Should that be committed into source control, so future you and others can figure out how the code was built? How long will it be until we can trust Codex enough that the Python code doesn't need to be committed? "Codex, create an Android CRUD UI for this OpenAPI document."
Yes. Duh. That's why I even mentioned my grandma.
If you're a billionaire and if you're reading this, please start an anti-patent-troll venture and fund it as a philantropic project. No one else will.
Not your parent, but I do know the answer.

extension() returns an Option<&OsStr>, because not every file has an extension https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/path/struct.Path.html#m...

map on option says "run this closure on the value if it's Some, or do nothing if it's None https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/option/enum.Option.html...

So after the map, we now have an Option<bool>. The unwrap_or method will say "give me the value if it's Some, and give me the argument if it's not https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/option/enum.Option.html...

That means we finally end up with a bool.

(path.extension() == "bundle").unwrap_or(false)

This code wouldn't work because you're comparing an Option<&OsStr> to a &str. Even if that worked, you'd have a boolean, and unwrap_or doesn't make sense on booleans, you'd just leave off that part.
I also have Metronet, but haven’t found any compelling reason for a static IP. I use Tailscale for remote access, and though I don’t host anything from home currently, Cloudflare Tunnel should work.
I mean.. that is basically how ALL entities ( and individuals ) in US are expected to behave. Now, Tether as an entity is based in Hong Kong, but, as one theory goes, the moment it touches US dollar it is in OFAC's scope. And tether does do just that.

Not to search very far, more recent SDN update had a whole bunch addresses to be blocked. I am all but certain none of the US based entities even thought of not complying.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
Do you really think your experience is representative and that most people take a few minutes to learn how to drive? Honestly, it even sounds like a humble brag (mostly because I'm a little jealous)
I am not talking about lockdown mode. I am talking about security updates.
Why do months start at 0? is my real claim.
You may enjoy this article out recently: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/08/yes-touchscreens-really...
Tether is likely to have the money, or most of. It may not (have) always be(en) as liquid as stated and/or possibly needed.

The problem the cryptocurrency community had with them was really more about their use of the tools of the enemy (treasury notes! horror!) rather than cold hard cash.
I've seen an organization like this on HN in the past - but struggling to find the post.

A quick search turned up https://lotnet.com/ which I think is it
They should have all switched to selling nothing but hybrids ten years ago, but the US has a major structural political problem that prevented this.
Sure, but latency matters, and everybody near the same datacenter will want to use your rental GPUs at about the same time every day.

And as a side deficit, fewer artists will be able to run ML models to template their next works and do other creative things.
Did you find this on openart.ai?
> And it is not a client problem but more an account problem.

That's interesting, thank you. For what it's worth, it looks like Matrix is going to become much more user-friendly in the coming months[0], and it will be worth taking another look at this "account problem" once they support Open ID Connect (which is also mentioned in that blog post, and has a dedicated progress page[1]).

[0] https://matrix.org/blog/2022/08/15/the-matrix-summer-special...

[1] https://areweoidcyet.com/
Email issues;

- spam spam spam of the utterly firehose type

- spam spam spam of the corporate "unsubscribe in these easy 10 steps"

- attachment viruses (sometimes without you opening it!)

- even conversation organization is inferior to searchable chat where it's just a history stream

- email addresses obscure the users, chat apps are far better at this

- email addresses are a PITA in general

- no indication of being online

- emoticons are still a bit iffy, certainly worse than chat

- smartphone experience is far worse (could be bad clients... but...)

- legally it's a paper trail, chat is... not?

- attachments are not as smooth as chat, although it's a lot better than it used to be (drag n drop to browsers/clients are a LOT better)

- chat clients can support "undeliver" a bit more easily

That said, email is:

- open standard

- ubiquitous

Email seems fundamentally broken because of lack of regulation, just like the POTS (plain old telephone) system is utterly overridden.

And it would really really be nice if governments would make official email addresses for citizens for official communication and delivery. Or some means for me making money from incoming spam by charging a delivery fee.

The fact there are so many email campaign startups still to this day is depressing. There is zero chance they aren't effectively keeping email unusable. So I guess that's another annoying aspect of email: it will always be attacked by corporations, ceaselessly.

At least chat apps have corporate defenders (while they make you the product) but life is about choosing among non-ideal options.
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