skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And you propose me instead to go and reverse engineer library Js code which I am not that proficient in, and rewrite all code in Java instead?..

Yes, rather than demand others cater to your whims, frankly.

Do you realise how hypocritical it sounds to complain that you are not proficient in Javascript, when others might not be proficient in <insert your favoured language here>?

Go use Z3 if you need a prover in C++ (or Java), its far more robust (provided its the type you're after) than someones 700 LoC JavaScript implementation.

https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3
When Canada moved to Chip and Pin there was no fanfare.

Merchants started getting chip terminals as part of the regular replacement cycle, consumers started getting chip cards as part of that regular replacement cycle, and eventually the terminals started telling users to insert their card.

Interac was the first mover because most people were already familiar with swipe and pin, so the move to chip and pin was a virtual non-event. When the credit card companies moved the issuing banks had to issue PINs, but everyone already knew the mechanics of using it.

The most interesting part is that the US already has the infrastructure to support this. I went to a Walmart in the US and paying with my Canadian credit card worked EXACTLY like it does in Canada - insert card, confirm amount, enter PIN, done. The cashier was a little confused that I didn't need to sign for it, but ultimately they just went with it.

The introduction of NFC was a similar non-event.
Your own personal phone has your employers device fleet management software on it?
I'm in Colorado and have the furnace set between 63-65 in the winter by choice, nothing to do with cost
More evidence on how harmful a car-centric lifestyle is to humanity.
> 3rd world tier corruption and fraud.

The use of "3rd world" term makes me cringe a little even in this context. Isn't it more comparable to Boeing Conspiracy and Corruption [1] or even the Fat Leornard US Navy corruption [2] - which are indeed first-world corruptions?

Definition of 3rd world has changed overtime - but overall we can agree that; it now means developing countries with (1) high rates of poverty, (2) economic and/or political instability, and (3) high mortality rates.

Yes, above factors are indeed very conducive for corruption and fraud, but does it imply there's no corruption in "First-world"? I think the difference is it’s hidden (not as consequential) and some accountability come about sometimes... e.g MDHS Welfare fraud [3] [4], not to mention Covid related frauds.

To me the term has aged and similar to saying to someone "that is so ghetto"... which its use has declined considerably as a regular American vernacular. Another intersting term often used wily-nily with negative connotation of otherness is "Banana Republic" - which is very interesting when you consider the origin and who brought such conditions that led to the term being coined.

I didn't mean to inject "wokeness" to the discussion; for one I was born is so called 3rd world country (so perhaps a little sensitive?), and more importantly I'm obsessed with origin and use of words and phrases overtime as contemporary vernacular.

[1] - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-...

[2] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal

[3] - https://www.npr.org/2020/02/06/803399172/mississippis-ex-wel...

[4] - https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/us/brett-favre-mississippi-go...
I specifically know a person who was double promoted from 3 to 5 in their second full cycle at Google. Just over one year.
> It's unlikely that PG suddenly discovered Twitter spam problem.

It is, he's been tweeting about it constantly prior to the Musk acquisition.
> Now I'm not so sure which is the "primary driver". There are quite a few competing thoughts but maybe the point is you should lower both.

On that I don't think we disagree.

However, saturated fat on its own isn't super palatable. There was a community I discovered a few years ago deliberately trying to up their saturated fat intake (specifically steric acid) and on it's own it's about as pleasurable as chewing on a candlestick (steric acid is used as a stiffener in paraffin candles).

One thing I remember seeing too is that inflammation increases damage caused by de novo lipogenesis. I am wondering if consumption of stable saturated fats vs. consumption of unstable (and commonly rancid polyunsaturated fats) exasperates things.
Outing myself as an RLM fan; I’ll bet Jay did the blur while Mike hand waved the whole thing.
It's not about the format per se, but more about the fact that you're parsing an unknown/fully general structure in that format. APIs like Rust's serde can help to avoid excessive allocation when you have JSON in a known schema.
it seems Testflight constantly feeds usage data & telemetry back to the app developer
I love the heelturn of sentiment on HN about crypto. Went from people being attacked for daring to question it to now crypto is mostly criticized.
Greed is much more common than sabotage. Everyone at every level of production uses 3rd party materials and counterfeit has the potential to be cheaper than non-countfit.
I'm not parsing this. Are the pointy pieces of wire every six inches or so not barbs?
Solar Foods to replace industrial animal farming with high-tech protein harvest
Horrifying to think that back then people were basically driving with a spear pointed at their heart.
"jeff bezos get caught cheating on his wife by saudi prince" mode?
Ooooh, didn’t we used to call them “Mixmaster” during the 1990s?

those were the fun hacking days.
Gas stations are interesting here.

Here in Alberta, it's the law that you need to pay before you pump[0]. If you're at a modern pump you insert your card, it does a preauth for some amount (you can select common amounts, like $20 of fuel, or "fill up" which is like $125 or $250 depending on the station), then when you're done it does a purchase for the exact amount.

If you're not at a modern pump, or you're paying cash, you have to go into the store, prepay for something that you think will fill your tank, fill your car, then go back into the store and get your change.

[0] https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/station-owners-and-gas-and-dash-v...
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This is such a naive view.

Optimism bias is also a thing, they don't necessarily need to "want fighter pilots to die", but it won't stop some people trying to pocket some money ("it may never be used anyway").
> "Working on it I was told very bluntly that the target audience was corporate, and specifically corporate IT departments who were doing the purchasing. ... This was myopic as fuck."

Yeah, no, that's just pretending hindsight is insight. Mobile and Embedded Devices had just successfully battled Palm and everyone else to becoming the leading smartphone OS with Windows Mobile 5.0, with 100+ devices on the market by the time WM 6.0 rolled around. Smartphones cost as much as they do today, except in pre-2005 dollars (ouch) and mobile data rates were low and crazy expensive up at that time because the mobile operators were milking the business market. It was not at all clear that a market for consumer smartphones could be jumpstarted under those conditions.

Apple's attempt to make a consumer smartphone was a huge gamble (anybody remember the Apple Newton?), admittedly helped by the considerable RDF^H^H^Hbrand leverage and design expertise they'd built up since. It wasn't at all clear that they had any momentum until the iPhone 3 came out with its money-printing app store.

> "Microsoft Sync"

Lay that at the feet of Nadella's takeover; that was a failure of strategic insight. Termination of the Windows Automotive division in the 2014 layoffs came as a complete surprise to everyone since the most recent releases had had very high consumer satisfaction ratings.
Yeah, they're definitely harder to discover.

I think the first step is probably identifying what exactly you'd like to do: smaller companies generally mean specialized roles (even if the engineers are themselves generalists). From that, there are probably local meetups and conferences in your area that are hosted or attended by smaller companies, consultancies, etc.
Too much mutation leads to deep state.
Yep. I was telling my wife a few weeks ago that the RLM guys have really satisfied a social need I have had for the past few years. I don't know what it is about them.
Over the long run, investments beat inflation. A trust with a sufficiently large endowment could survive and grow indefinitely.
A barb typically extends off a "pointy piece" to prevent it from being removed easily without further injury. For example, some fishhooks and arrowheads. The fences aren't designed to poke and then stick in the flesh.
1.) Some women will never produce milk in sufficient quantities after the child is born, just due to random luck.

1a.) Formula is expensive, takes minutes of effort to prepare, and not always obtainable.

2.) Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Comfort nursing at certain stages of the child's life will end up sleep training them in a negative way.

3.) Some babies are born with impairments that do not allow them to nurse effectively, or at all.

4.) Moms need a break from nursing too.
I think the only appropriate comment here is "Wow!"
> simply holds a constant value in an inflation indexed manner

Gold and currencies backed by gold come very close to this, with historical evidence to back it up. The purchasing power of gold -- that is, its convertibility to goods and services you might wish to consume -- have remained remarkably stable over time.

Countries stopped issuing currencies backed by gold for a few different reasons, but its ability to hold constant value over time wasn't one of them.
Anecdotal but I used a noise machine that played brown noise because I was informed it mimics the sound of the baby’s womb. My daughter is extremely advanced in all areas of learning now at 5 years old. Her first word was hi at 4 months.
Then the article isn't for you.

It's for the overwhelming majority of people who don't understand that "line go up will fix everything" is neither possible nor a solution even if it were.
RLM on HN... What is this, some kind of crossover episode?

Didn't expect to see it, but I'm not disappointed!
Did we "get our shit together" in all the rich countries on the planet, which are barely at replacement levels? Did we hit a massive die-off level by overexploiting our resources?

No. We got rich and having kids was less economically valuable (in fact it becomes a cost in rich societies). The Elon Musks of the world are now more concerned about lack of growth than the opposite.

Who knows if Elon is right or you, but it's not as trivial as it seems to predict whether we will ever hit the carrying capacity of the planet.
Increase in LED lighting ‘risks harming human and animal health’
Honestly, it doesn't seem that hard to add blacklists, even category based ones.
Defense contractors generally pay about 10% less than market for any given service, so I don't discount the possibility that my hypothetical technician may have stolen the goods in order to get some extra money. A poor financial situation is easily the most common motive for the direct perpetrators of espionage.
Hey, I think this is amazing! I think this has the power to transform open source development/funding in a good way.

I have one question from the main page - it says you sign up for a subscription and list _your_ dependencies. Does that mean for an individual (non open source maintainer) you pose as a project and donate to your own project? It's not clear how this works as a contributor. Do I subscribe to projects, at a mininum of $15 per project? (Also does the project you're donating to itself get any money? Or is it 100% split among dependencies?)

I echo the sentiment about manual allocation though. There are critical project dependencies, and there are things employed in an edge feature that devs might and could be replaced at any time, and all the way between.

Right now people already have the ability to control funding - just don't use StackAid and only donate projects you feel are critical. Or they may decide to explicitly remove dependencies below some threshold. Both of these hurt the long tail. And it feels manipulative - people should have the end say in how their money is donated.

Not all projects need money too. For instance, maybe project X requires a lot of manual work (curation of country/timezone datasets) and its developers no longer have time to do it on top of their day job, vs a library that's just an interface for a standard. Or maybe the devs of project Y are in an area hit by disaster and you want to increase funding to them for a while.

Also, aren't bad actors _because_ of the automatic allocation? The current entirely manual allocation system doesn't really have issues of this sort.

That said, I'll probably sign up for this, but if you added some options for finer control I'd be singing praises high and low.
Why did he not earn his money? All you managed to say was that bill gates is wealthy and smart.

Did he steal the money?
Google will begin crippling the technology that enables the adblocking, like the upcoming manifest v3 change.
Wow, with this and the iPhone 14's camera, they are massively ahead of all other companies. It makes me happy that I bought their products and helped create this.
CA Governor Signs Social Media ‘Transparency’ Bill into Law
Considering that markets exist whenever 2 or more individuals gather, without regard to any other factors… it’s pretty much a fundamental force like gravity. In fact even ant colonies experience market forces so it’s practically impossible for it to not exist.

Does it matter if a lot of folks have different definitions of gravity?
There are lots of different types of barbed wire and people who collect them. You should look around, it may be more valuable than you think.
I really enjoyed Nutshell. Although it is narrated by an unborn fetus (really) it is still pretty verbose, if that’s what you meant by painful exposition. I’ve only read parts of Amsterdam and it just seems to be his way.
Well...yes, the same Apple.

Because there's a world of difference between responding to a lawful warrant to produce data you have stored on your servers, and agreeing to create a special version of your software specifically to give the FBI carte blanche to unlock any phones they want (at least within that particular model).
I think it's stupidity.

I'm not even a metallurgist, and yet I know metals and other materials[1] can lose their strength at low temperatures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...
Tell me you’re not a parent without telling me you’re not a parent.

Babies cry for very few reasons, and reason number one, two, and three, is hunger.
It doesn't seem like the chart of costs includes the effect of summer A/C.

And the chart that is shown peaks in winter a couple months early.

Overall, it seems to significantly underestimate my energy costs.

The conclusion is also confusing: it says I would save $89/year or $24K in 15 years. Huh?

$89/year doesn't seem like enough to justify any investment, and $24K is about $1600/year or ~95% of my current costs, which seems too high to believe.
Even with a pessimistic estimate about the rate of progress, fully general AI will be here loooong before population decline decimates the economy, as will good robotics and all the stuff needed to basically put resource gathering and production on autopilot. At that point "on welfare" would easily be the equivalent of living like a millionaire today.

The bigger questions are whether global warming or WW3 will fuck us all before we get there, not to mention the question of whether fully general AI will be its own mega disaster.
If supply is low, you can still comfort nurse and supplement with formula to make sure they actually get enough nutrition.
> Waiting 5 to 8 minutes before laydown prevents infant awakening

LOL. Definitely did not work on my (now 3 year old) daughter during the infant phase.
Magstripe is long dead throughout Asia as well. The US (as always) has been behind the curve on this, but contactless became pretty ubiquitous during COVID.
Any startup employees working directly on technology trade secrets or otherwise non-public intellectual property should enable iOS16 lockdown mode.

Thanks to years of invasive online targeting, bulk data breaches and mobile phone network structural insecurity, it has never been cheaper to screen for higher-than-average-value targets with digital assets that can be exfiltrated.

Since targeting costs have fallen, it is profitable to target employees below the C-suite, e.g. those in strategic or development roles who routinely need to access sensitive information and digital assets. This applies to enterprise, mobile and WFH environments, e.g. leveraging mobile phone foothold to reach other devices like a home router.
I get some notification spam. Like this.

Like this https://twitter.com/mdj7282/status/1563203203490992128
I don't think Michael Flynn did a lot of purchasing of parkas and submarine hull castings.
Depends on age.

When teething number one two and three are teeth.
Did GoogleAI Just Snooker One of Silicon Valley’s Sharpest Minds?
Your virtue has been signaled. Pretending cars are going away is not a realistic view.
I'm always put off by sites like these, and eg turing.com, where all the featured developers appear to be from much less well-off countries. It seems like it might be code for low rates and exploi ... wage arbitrage.

I'm a westerner now living in such a country, and the reality is that living a western-level lifestyle, particularly as a foreigner (international schools etc), is actually more expensive than living in your home country.
Some of the tasty nuggets from his biography..

> In 1941, the travels led to his being recruited into MI6 by his sister, Elisabeth, who worked for the agency. Accordingly, he was posted to Sierra Leone during the Second World War. Kim Philby, who would later be revealed as a Soviet agent, was Greene's supervisor and friend at MI6. Greene resigned from MI6 in 1944.

> ..In 1953, the Holy Office informed Greene that The Power and the Glory was damaging to the reputation of the priesthood; but later, in a private audience with Greene, Pope Paul VI told him that, although parts of his novels would offend some Catholics, he should ignore the criticism.

> ..In the late 1950s, as inspiration for his novel, A Burnt-Out Case (1960), Greene spent time travelling around Africa visiting a number of leper colonies in the Congo Basin and in what were then the British Cameroons.

> In 1957, just months after Fidel Castro began his final revolutionary assault on the Batista regime in Cuba, Greene played a small role in helping the revolutionaries, as a secret courier transporting warm clothing for Castro's rebels hiding in the hills during the Cuban winter.
Maybe extra diagnostics for Tesla engineers to learn from.
Your statement is so absurd that the only explanation is that you must not have had children. Hunger is only 1 of a dozen different reasons why babies will cry.
Most modern coupes and sedans look like eggs or computer mice. They're bland and uninteresting. Boxy cars from the 80's had way more personality - even the ugly ones.

In my opinion, the Countach or even the DeLorean had a design aesthetic that felt like a pinnacle that we've since strayed far, far away from. I don't want a bar of Dial soap. I want a sci-fi dream.

I'd like it if cars came as a kit you could heavily customize, like a PC. Maybe with the simpler construction of EVs this will become possible. I know I'd put a lot of attention into it.

As vain and unimportant as it may be, appearance is my #1 most valued trait and deciding factor when I buy vehicles. Everything else is secondary.
Probably it’s because their whole body is in pain, since all of the sensors are not fully calibrated yet.

We are constantly in pain, it’s just that we have calibrated our brains to ignore specific levels of pain or cut off completely sensors.

Typical example of signal we filter out is the sense of our organs moving inside our body.
QR codes just embed a url, so as long as you can change what you get when you open a url any service can do this, or even any old hosting service.
A parasocial bull session[1]?

(I don't mean parasocial in a negative way; I enjoy a lot of RLM's videos.)

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bull%20session
USPS delivers to them, guaranteed
That sounds like you are somehow mistreating them, or your local merchants use "special" terminals (or maybe your bank is just using crappy materials). I can’t even remember how long ago it was that swiping worked, but chips have never broken until I cut them for the replacement card, this is over 3 different banks.
Also, I can't find any information about StackAid itself on the site. What country is it in (physical address or physical contact information?) What's the legal status? Right now it's totally anonymous which seems sketchy since its dealing with money.

How are taxes handled? How is money stored and transferred? What risks are there here?
I remember having the same feeling when a nice article about the hip hop duo Outkast's Aquemini album get a bunch of points and interesting comments.
Same. I personally found it very difficult to tell the difference between actually asleep vs. starting to fall asleep.
Twitter is excellent for laughing. I barely remember Facebook but even when it was just friends content, it was usually a little more serious or joyful, not witty and entertaining.
That doesn't get around how quotes work in English, so if the AI understands the rules around quotation this wouldn't work.
Whiplash is also popular for insurance/disability fraud. There was an interesting story on HN a while back about how the prevalence of whiplash after accidents in the US is far higher than in Europe, for no other easily explainable reason, but I can't find the link now.
It's nice to hear the workers' perspective on this.
I'm glad Shopify isn't deplatforming entities that haven't been convicted in a court of law of a crime.

The tweet you linked to is doubly funny, since it was in response to Dan Price, who is under investigation for rape and physical abuse. Should Gravity Payments deplatform itself in today's guilt-by-association world?
The government audits a lot. My brother works for a gov agency and he has a unit in his business unit dedicated to audit management. Iirc about 7 employees, who are very busy who just reply to audits.

They are an effective tool, but they don’t address all issues.
Most of the comments dealing with error handling and interfaces are just stuff I grew used to having done Java for so long. However, for me personally, in a modern software development sense the pain point that I have with Go is unit test mocks and dependency injection. I remember spending a good afternoon trying to figure out how to setup some mocks and do some DI for some tests I was creating. I figured it out but it felt backwards and the code looked just as backwards to me. I tried to explain why we should do DI and mocks for tests but after showing the code to other developers it was a hard sale. The style and readability just wasn't there for them. I have respect for the Go language but maybe in the future mocks and DI will become easier or more natural looking.
No, but I have similar issues with electronics in general.
You could say he gave it away or more accurately say he took steps to ensure the survival of Patagonia and it's values after he's gone
Nice essay.
Definitely not every bank offers this (looking at my small credit union) but most do and it's great! I just wish it would let me know when restaurants add the tip on.
Competition law in Europe is absolutely not only about monopolies so I don’t see how the definition of one is relevant here.