skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bank of America has 67 million customers. Should we try to venture a guess at how many password resets they do daily? It almost certainly has to be in the tens if not hundreds of thousands. People that temporarily lose access to their bank account are not going to magically change their nature because of the word “crypto”.

The average person who got into crypto because they saw a Larry David commercial will almost certainly lose access to their wallet at some point on a long enough timeline. Except this time, with crypto, it’s permanent and the only thing that will happen is people online will tell you it’s a good thing you hopefully learned your lesson.

And, again, not being able to trade completely defeats the purpose of having anything to do with the space for almost all of these users in the first place.
YES! I love this concept. The big clock featured in the post was described in a Tom Scott video[1] earlier this year. It's the Royal FloraHolland's flower auction in Aalsmeer. Fascinating to see how it worked then and how it works now. Same concept, just computerized and accessible remotely by bidders.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAdmzyKagvE
The company I work for has saved people and businesses in West Africa roughly $1B in banking fees this year.

It's a big company but I'm really proud to have done my part towards this.
UTM's lack of any accelerated graphics makes a non-starter for most desktop applications these days. It's fine as a frontend to QEMU, but that's all it is. Fusion and Parallels will continue to dominate this space on MacOS.
I found I formed a deeper connection with my D&D group once we started doing non-D&D things together. It was a switch from consistent friends to close friends.
Knock knock.

Who's

IT'S WINDOWS FILE PROTECTION
Their wave lengths get stretched.

A roughly accurate analogy: think of a boomerang thrown in outer space, moving at a constant velocity, but slowing its rotation over time (for some reason - work with me). The result is that over time, each loop of the boomerang will happen over a longer and longer distance.

The boomerang isn't stretched, but its spiral looping is.
Windows experience is worse and worse. On my Windows 10 company provided PC I found games installed remotely. In a professional PC!
A friend of mine found Spotify installed [1]. That's insane.

[1] https://www.windowslatest.com/2022/09/28/spotify-app-is-auto...
He makes it sound like it's a bad thing.
And almost no one left to manage it.
This is great when plotting categorical distributions but I can never get to 20-30 distinct colours, only works for about 10.
For CoPilot, the "use" would be asking it to give you completions, not shipping the product that contains those completions.

Also, the ToS for "additional products", which specifically covers CoPilot, has this to say:

"The code, functions, and other output returned to you by GitHub Copilot are called “Suggestions.” GitHub does not claim any rights in Suggestions, and you retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Code, including Suggestions you include in Your Code."
"It's all about economics of demand for what Twitter is offering: advertising. Elon's changes have massively harmed the value of an ad on Twitter."

This is actually something that would be in line with Musk's previous communications. Twitter needs to become less dependent on advertising, much less so, so that its value as a public forum isn't held hostage by a few shy giants that would love to see cute kittens and meaningless platitudes next to their ads.

The idea that free services supported by extensive ads is the only way to go has been too long taken for revealed wisdom. The downsides are only now becoming apparent.

That said, the method chosen by Musk seems to be very chaotic and destructive, and it is totally unclear to me if Twitter can actually build a different business model without going belly-up first.
Italy wanted an exception to the EU regulation banning ICE sales after 2035 for their supercar industry (Ferrari etc) but only managed a 12 month extension to 2036. After that only manufacturers making less than 1000 vehicles a year can continue to make ICE cars.
I mean, sorry, but I consider that malicious. The OS can create a local account but doesn't give you that option specifically to make you create a windows Live account. That is almost textbook definition of malicious for me.
And inspired the design of HN!

https://web.archive.org/web/20051220094850/http://del.icio.u...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903365

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/sets/72157600740166824 (credit to joshu)
Love the idea!
Are you planning to keep the core tool stack OSS?
Would love to contribute to growing the project in the long term.
I imagine there could be avenues for monetization while keeping it OSS (e.g. Licence for business use)
1998 hardware meets 2022 code
That was my first thought as well. I liked using E4X back in the day.
I think I understand why. I think the primary reason is that it's minimalist and very much empathise with such endeavours.

There are several advantages to such minimalism: easier to read and write in code, fewer bytes to store and transfer, and perhaps also satisfying one's ocd.

Let me flip this on you: why use 6 characters to specify colours when 3 will do fine? What exactly would your "ideal" HCL values be?
I think we all owe you, your co-authors, and the sponsors a big thanks.
Just to add, because your rant is really not constructive and dismissive of a whole platform: android likely has more apps than desktop linux, plenty of them in better shape as well. Why on Earth would they be buggier, when they do in fact see more users?

Android project back-ported countless battery optimizations to the kernel, so the less shitty battery life of your laptop is thanks to the project. (It still sucks thanks to all the other parts of the linux desktop stack not caring about it). Seriously, just have a look at the pinephone, which would easily have 6-8+ hours of battery life on Android, yet it burns like fire in 2 hours with one gnu/linux-based mobile os.
Presumably Bahamian law enforcement officials in possession of the court order offered the persons in possession of the keys the choice between making the transfer or going to Bahamian prison for contempt.

Ultimately, if you foul things up enough in whatever jurisdiction you happen to be physically located in, men with guns will come to compell you to do something.
Never heard of quickemu - looks really cool! Thanks for sharing
It was from a skit on the Colbert Report (can't remember the episode). He talks about how NASA added a leap second and then pulled out this comical "second-by-second" year planner and said his plans are ruined because he doesn't know what to do with the extra second. Wish I could remember it.
When you want to plot a categorical distribution you need to encode category by colour, but you want them to appear maximally distinctive.
The question is not whether CoPilot output violates copyright (or rather, that is a separate question that is a concern for users of CoPilot). The question is whether CoPilot itself - the model, that is - constitutes a derived work.
This is the same company that has repeatedly gone to the mat to ensure Nazi’s and targeted hate campaigns remain active online. But this is where they draw the line?

They have on multiple occasions had long and public campaigns talking about how important it is to fight censorship in all its forms except a random DMCA troll in Hong Kong?

I don’t think Cloudflare really love “free speech” as much as they pretend in their public messaging.
You can actually have more than one number still. I do at least. This happens if you add a number by porting your USA cell phone number to google voice. This gives you the option to keep both, although it’s $20 and you have actively elect to make your original google voice number permanent.
Yep, apparently equality matters only when it’s girls/women who are disadvantaged.
The largest NFL stadium seats about 85,000 people. So you can't sell more than that for the single game. Two years ago they actually set the record lowest attendance due to Covid restrictions - only about 21k were allowed in the building. I believe it's the first SB to ever sell below capacity, and you'd have to go back to the second world war to find an NFL championship that did the same.

Also, music is fundamentally better live. Football is not. I say this as an avid fan of both who attends both live.
Elon Has to Destroy Twitter
I wonder if he is destroying Twitter intentionally. No one could make so many bad (stupid, ignorant, mean, etc.) decisions in a row by accident without someone stepping in for the sake of investors. Maybe by bankrupting it he can get out of having to pay anyone back? Could this all just be for the sake of attention?

But maybe the math works out - get rid of 80% of the staff (though losing the payroll department seems like a needless complication), risk losing maybe 50% of the advertising, and suddenly there is profit again.

Twitter has to be torn down to be rebuilt as a payments system (__Crytter__: Crypto + Twitter) like he seems to want. I think this was a really shitty way to do it. No one with any self-respect is going to work for Twitter for any reason other than money now. Which it doesn't have yet.

If my non-technical manager asked me for screenshots of "salient code" that I've done and a bullet list of tasks I've completed in the last 6 months so we could have a technical interview, I'd know deep down in the cockles of my heart that nothing I show them is going to help either of us. They're incapable of understanding the technology and I'm incapable of not rolling my eyes hard enough to make noise. If working unpaid overtime at high levels of performance for an indefinite (but obviously lengthy) period of time is the cost of working for that manager, they can bloody do it themselves while I find a job where I am respected, not bent over and told to bring my own lube. And if these things are a direct result of them alienating and driving off my friends and coworkers with unannounced layoffs and unreasonable demands, then I'd be doubly sure to get my confident, self-respecting ass out of that martyr's chair and find a better opportunity (which will be a very low bar indeed at that point) as quickly as possible. Three months of severance is great (assuming it gets paid - I hate that I have to wonder how many people are going to get screwed out of it) and should be plenty of time to find something enjoyable.
Risk-aware by gambling $50K on shitcoins knowing that all crypto is ponzi all along (since you're in this forum)
How do Spotify codes work?
No, your browser converts it before access
They weren't hosting anything..
Oh yea I meant they go back to the pool and a refund is issued. This is of course utopic. Just a dreaming about what the most customer friendly and fair system might look like. Will probably never be aligned with what maximizes the profit of TicketMaster.
Wow, I totally missed the cryptographic co-processor. That’s very appealing. I’m not sure how I’d use 16MB of flash in my projects, but I’m guessing that’s one of those things where once you have it, you can’t imagine working without it.
iNaturalist is wonderful!
> I don’t miss stop and go traffic with a stick shift.

I wanted in my heart of hearts to get a manual version of my car (a mini) but i talked myself out of it after getting stuck in a traffic jam for 2 hours in a rental.

The automatic still has paddle shifters so you can kind of drive it like a manual.
Even if they don't have the claimed sleep-related benefits, surely they can't cause any harm (except for slightly orange screenshots!)
Like this optical illusion - the pieces at the top are the exact same colour as the ones at the bottom.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSqWB1yX0AAZ-fk?format=png
This stuff is from 1922, the West was not nearly as aware of Buddhist thought back then. Serious study of it only began in the 19th century.
> The PL theory community seems to appreciate its innovations

Is that the case? The language started out interesting, but it took a turn for the worse and has become a kitchen-sink with every single feature from any language being found in it, but their interactions are simply not designed well. But what innovation did it have? I can’t think of any one feature that would be novel, as in no other mainstream language would have experimented with it.

That said, I think it really was a great language, and there is a sane subset that is still great, don’t want to start a flame war :D
I regret that the reality is such, but Unix timestamp are in sync with UTC so they too have gaps and reapeats (for positive and negative leap seconds)

The international standard for monotonic time is TAI, which never had leap seconds, but which is also used by almost no one
how often do you think people adjust brightness?
> I sometimes hear stories of friends who eat generally "healthy," and aren't overweight, shocked to learn they are pre-diabetic.

Yes sometimes it seems people are not aware that it can be organic, locally sourced, home made from whole ingredients, vegan, if it’s a pastry it’s still “unhealthy” (if it’s not occasional).
They will be happy to exist in the first place. They will also have a millionaire father. I think you are projecting.
They do but it's experimental and only for Linux guests: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/tag/v2.2.4
Wow. I guess that Musk made him an offer that he couldn't refuse!I wonder how much.
I am appalled by the lack of statistical awareness of this comment.
Maybe, but that notion of theft seems better than to live in a world where anyone can barge up to you and, for example, take your meal, leaving you hungry. Would you agree?
You know exactly what I mean here. I’m going to update the post though.
With Fusion 13, I see no way of creating a macOS guest VM. It isn't in the VM options list. UTM will automagically connect to Apple's servers and download the latest version.

Problem with UTM is there is no copy/paste or file transfer between a macOS host and guest which is a huge barrier. I'm spoiled by Hyper-V enhanced sessions, I suppose.
Interview: Stuart Semple on Pantone, Freetone, Colour, and Open Source
I find I've managed to find friends incidentally just by doing things. Taking up tennis, I've made friends, rollerskating, friends, and one potential close friend, kids sports, friends.

I've actually been somewhat surprised by how much random people desire connection upon the most tenuous of common interests.

Get involved in something, anything, that you like and slowly reach out to others with the same interests and you'll find friendships. Something I've found though, build them slowly lest they burn out quickly upon a pyre of previously unaware incompatibilities of opinion.

I seem to be an approachable person; being at least a superficially nice person, easy with a smile, seems to make a difference.

My few 'best' friends I see ever so rarely, but when we get together it's like no time has passed. I think that's a true test of deep friendship compatibility.
What i care: Health, sports, peace of soul, ability to learn, science, music, programming, mathematics.

What my "friends" care: Money, more money, more money.

That's why i'm still lonely.
Thanks, I appreciate that but the experience was eye opening. Speaking of which…

Get on Facebook and watch people swap around things that are so blatantly and obviously fake. In the words of one potential investor: “no one cares”. Or, to repeat a phrase you may have heard “fake news”.

“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it” - Jonathan Swift, 1710
That's starting to hit the market now I think, some offerings from Hyuandai and Nissan are just a normal modern car with an EV drivetrain.
Ah yes! That's the one! Thanks!
I've always imagined deep fakes would just encode to 360p to make it believable.
Thank you, I can agree with the first few.

But I feel neither did Swift get SwiftUI right, it is hacked on top of the language and would not be reimplementable strictly as a library.
Live Coding Video Synth
A childhood friend has a car garage. He wanted to give a paper to his customers to show the work that had been done, what they asked for etc. There were no free AND easy to use solutions for one man show type of business. So i built something that fit his needs, with his input. It's a simple form with 6 steps that you can print at any stage. I put it on a domain under his name so he knows where to find it at all times. For some reason google picked it up and it's now the first search result. It has over a thousand returning users(at least yearly) and a few hundred MAU. It's still free, people send me emails/call me to tell me how useful it is and how much they love it, some ask "is it really free" - it's under firebase so no costs to me either, other than occasional bugs and "features".

Another thing i built which had a bigger impact was a covid "get outside motivation paper" during lockdowns. I had the "form technology" from the previous project and i just adapted it for the covid needs and added a signature for touch displays. You could generate a pdf with all legally required fields and sign it and print/show it to the authorities, on your phone. It had half a million users over a few months, then the government set up their own. I even had a GDPR authority contacting me thinking i'm stealing people's data etc. I actually showed them that the PDF is generated locally, there was no database and once the site loaded, you could even generate it offline. They did not follow up.

Another thing i built, with questionable impact, was a election fraud checker. The government had a API and feeds data every 5 minutes with number of people who voted at all locations. I wanted to see this in real time with a GUI/graph to see who registers more votes per minute than the actual systems allow(tablets). I actually found some locations that had bursts of hundreds of votes in a few minutes, that was physically impossible. Sad to say i did not do anything with the data(although it was public at that time).

Some of the most impactful things i built.

Edit: typos
I try to eat between 6 and 9PM; I try not to eat to close too bed time as it does seem to affect my sleep quality. I've also found it helps to start with a piece of fruit--today a handful of blackberries. If I'm trying to gain weight I make a point to eat on the earlier side to spread my dinner out.

Socially I use the same approach that I do for being vegetarian. I don't outright declare it, I simply just decline, "I don't eat break/brunch/lunch/this early/meat/fish." goes over a lot better than, "I'm on X diet/eating schedule".
I've made some updates and the queue works how I wanted it, I rebooted the server and I think I will leave it like this for a while
go look up the findings from courts on this and come tell me i’m wrong. computers cannot create copyrighted work alone; the human operating and/or programming the computer is who copyright is granted to.

in the case of Copilot, the output is determined by the keystrokes of the user who uses copilot; that user must decide if what they see is to be used, or if some other piece of code should be used instead, or if they need to provide more input or even just write the thing themselves. Copilot aids the user; it does not run automatically or non-interactively, meaning it alone cannot violate copyright.

no computer or computer program has EVER been granted copyright, anyway. ever. justification for those decisions is that copyrightable work necessarily requires intellectual effort to create, which is something only a human can supply, by definition.
I suspect that if you deposit 100 ETH at FTX, legally, you no longer own the 100 ETH. Instead, you own an IOU from FTX stating that FTX owes you 100 ETH. FTX owns the ETH.

In an ideal world, an IOU from FTX for the amount of 100 ETH would be worth 100 ETH. Unfortunately, FTX is insolvent and bankrupt. The only thing the bankruptcy court can do is divide up FTX’s assets and distribute whatever FTX does have to their creditors. That is naturally going to entail taking possession of those assets.

This used to be a risk even with banks, and a lot of people during the Great Depression lost the money they had in the bank due to bank insolvency. The solution to this problem was the FDIC. If you have an American bank account, not only do you have an IOU from the bank for the number of dollars you have in that account, you also have an insurance policy from the FDIC that will pay you the value of the account (up to a specific limit) if the bank is unable to do so. And if the FDIC isn’t good for the money, that would mean the US government has defaulted on their debt, which probably means it’s the end of days, your dollars would have been worthless anyway, and you’re just going to have to get by on whatever canned food, water purification tablets, and ammunition you’ve managed to stockpile in your house until the world re-stabilizes into whatever cyberpunk dystopia comes after the collapse of the United States.
In terms of number of times executed, the most impactful code I've written was a JavaScript GUID generator used on the Xbox One for launch and for a few years after. It was simple code that a colleague showed me, but had to be written in native code and then exposed over WinRT. Anyway, I built the DLL on my personal machine and forgot to set it up on a build machine. Microsoft doesn't like shipping private binaries for a number of reasons and, well, a nice build engineer found me about a month after launch and let me know. This DLL was used by just about every JavaScript app on Xbox One at launch.
That is weird. If you're going to make League of Legends such a big part of your public image, you'd think you'd put at least a little bit of effort into it.
MIT grads need to stay in their lane. This kind of incompetent deceit at the highest levels of power and influence is supposed to only be possible with a degree from or Harvard and Yale.

edit: what I mean, trollishly, is that I expected more conscientiousness from a room of MIT quant types, even if business process and diligence was not in their wheelhouse.
To me at least. Risking a 3-year sentence to get a billion dollars might be worth it (assuming that I'm not morally objected to the "crime" in question), but 10 years feels a bit much.
I don't understand what benefit the hypothesis library gives here? Why can't you just generate values without hypothesis and call the test function with your values "manually"?
OPs question implies knowingly shipping defects, or knowingly tolerating known defects. Bugs are not some force of nature, they are created by programmers who don’t test the results of their programming prior to shipping. They persist by programmers choosing not to fix them.

For practical purposes it is achievable to ship working software. Plenty of people do it.

I’ve used Safari, Notes, Reminders, and Calendar daily for years and have never encountered a bug. Same with my time tracking and invoice software. Maybe there are bugs but I have been able to go years without encountering them. I have also never knowingly shipped a bug for my service https://sumi.news, and have fixed every bug brought to my attention. There are zero bugs in my bug tracker, and when they are reported they are fixed.

If you’re discovering more bugs than you can fix, and you always have a long list of bugs, that implies something wrong with how you design, implement, and test software, and an engineering team that is incapable (for whatever reason) of producing working software.

Tolerating defects is little more than apathy and a lack of quality standards and craftsmanship.
Yep. I love my manual 90s Skyline, but I am really hoping to get a pragmatic commuter EV after driving a couple. I will not miss the gearbox for that task.

I also think EVs tick a couple of boxes that manual gearboxes also do for enthusiasts, which slushbox autos didn't. Always being in a good powerband and engine braking are both features of EVs and manual gearbox ICE cars that I miss if I am in an auto ICE car.