skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While deniability would be welcome, the last few years have seen rumblings from various Australia/UK/US stakeholders about possible regulation for E2EE messenger intercept, i.e. even encryption would be compromised in that scenario. Hopefully the recent Apple announcement on E2EE iCloud means that regulators have seen the folly of mass interception.

If China (e.g. WeChat) is a predictor of future messaging systems, there may be convergence between messaging and payments. Musk has publicly suggested that Twitter follow in WeChat's footsteps as an "Everything App". If payments and messaging converge, and governments adopt CBDCs for digital legal tender, then we may be looking down the barrel of state-issued digital IDs for online and offline activity.

Linux Foundation is promoting blockchain for both software signing and globally interoperable travel/health credentials. Big tech companies each have their own island of semi-verified identities, depending on their proximity to financial services. It's not clear which groups are willing or able to effectively lobby for pseudonymous digital identity.
ChatGPT-based AI Node.js “autocoder”
There is also a caveat that any cost savings from locality may be wiped out by higher costs in other areas. It may well be cheaper to invest in the US or Middle East and import as LPG. Transport costs are only one factor. And it is not like domestic supply would have no transport costs either. Running pipelines through rural England to fracking sites is not exactly cheap.
I have his photographs as a book, it is really like looking into another world.

Sure there are limitations of that technique, but the quality of his good pictures is so far ahead of everything else... It feels like looking at pictures of ghosts. The combination of pristine quality and motifs (e.g. russian peasants on mud roads) produces such a stark contrast in today's viewer, this alone has an interesting quality to it.
Maybe https://i.imgur.com/pCtQ1i2.png
Ik heb nederlands geleerd van duolingo. is het de allebeste? nee, maar het is goed genoeg voor mij. voor ~£35 per jaar, het is heel goedkoop

Where does it not work as well? speaking. I have a terrible accent. Listening comprehension isn't that great either, because the text is almost always there to prompt you. this means that out in the wild, I need people to speak slower than if I had been taught in a traditional lesson.

but I would not have a second language if I had not been doing duolingo.

The new scheme was a bit shit to start with, but it gives you a much wider vocab lesson than before. For non spanish languages there are much less explanations of grammar and syntax, so you just have to learn by reinforcement, which can be frustrating.
Social Media, Part I
Imagine ChatGPT but it uses speech-to-text to understand your speech and then it uses text-to-speech to talk back to you. Now you’re getting infinite personalized conversation practice. If you ever don’t understand what it said, hold spacebar to see the phrase in both English and Spanish with each word mapped to its translation, or just say “que?” and it’ll explain the sentence in English and/or Spanish. This seems pretty much doable today. If the speech-to-text fails to understand you, that’s immediate pronunciation feedback. May as well make it one of those boy/girlfriend chatbots too, to encourage participation and make studying more effortless.

Pls go build this, thx.
The good thing is, there is a bit of a resurgence of the solopreneur spirit.
That’s a great tip!
Getting gender right is something any competent in person course will force you from the start. Having American accent is something to be expected and fine. Using wrong gender causes pain in listener. It really pops up great time.

Gender in gendered language matter, unfortunately. The best advice I heard is to always memorize the word with its gendered article. (assuming language has articles)
This analogy got me thinking, but only for a little bit.

Similarity: people are forced to do things which they would not choose to do. (Different form would be preferable or for some none).

Difference: level of freedom. Wage slave can choose a lot (whom to slave, what to do with the wage, if to change occupation or if to invest).
Sex trafficked person has far fewer options.
The rarity of these companies varies widely on sector. I agree that it will be difficult to find typical tech startups that wont try to squeeze the maximum amount of time out of you.

If you want high chance of relaxed workloads, look for large corporations that exclusively contract with government out of a large budget. For example, the defense industry (e.g., the few companies designing and manufacturing planes, radars, avionics, communication equipment, guidance systems) is the biggest supplier of these type of roles that I know of. The pay in these roles is usually market competitive or better. At least from my experience, only about 20% of time or less is actually spent "working on something", much of which is sitting in irrelevant meetings. I would only recommend it if you are purely looking to collect an easy paycheck and you have a high tolerance for boredom, bureaucracy, internal politics and incompetence at all levels.

Post-covid remote work that much of government and contractors have moved to (permanently?) has likely also made it significantly easier to have multiple "full time" jobs. Management does not care about anything in this sector except that hard deadlines are met (the real deadlines, very rarely even gets close), soft deadlines are missed (used to justify "needing" more money), and nothing is completed too quickly (they want to give the illusion that hard work is being done).
>Contractors like them,

Can cheques in USA be cashed out? I mean, can a contractor take a check to any bank and exchange it for cash or do they have to be paid into an account (and money accessed 3-5 days later)?

I only ask because usually contractors want to avoid cards/back transfer did they don't have to declare the income and can do tax fraud.

Back in the 80s in UK you could "cash a cheque" meaning take it to a bank and get cash. Chequebooks then were printed as "crossed cheques" which couldn't be cashed [easily?]. Then by the 90s one wasn't guaranteed to get the money unless a "guarantee card" had its details copied onto the cheque -- for which an imprinting machine was used (still a valid technique about 10 years ago).
This is a fallacious position. The modern attitude of “you’re not one of us, therefore you cannot possibly have a valid opinion” is wrong on many levels.

It is not logically consistent (a variation of ad hominem arguments).

It is counter productive because having a range of opinions helps avoiding echo chambers and have a broader outlook and understanding, and ultimately find better solutions and strategies.

It opens the door to no true Scotsman sterile arguments that are very easy to use in bad faith against people you disagree with.

It creates counter-productive dissent when people who actually agree on an idea or policy don’t work together for ideological reasons.

Don’t do it.
it's actually kind of smart, you won't go back to the wrong line that way, and the reflected text is surprisingly easy to read.
duolingo is fairly permissive with typos
Yes the first step should be to cover every rooftop and parking. I think a law exist in some states that new construction has to have solar panels on. The law should be passed everywhere.

And it's just the first step.
Why should Atom be kept alive? It's literally VSCode but with abandoned extensions and worst performance, being written in coffeescript. If the project owner actually articulated some reason such as they are rewriting in a better language (but in which case it's no longer Atom), then I might bite.
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Mmm, perhaps.

I'm not an artist. I have a GCSE grade C or D, from 22 years ago back when that qualification still used letters. But despite that, I have enough of an eye for art to be surprised and disappointed by how many flaws other people are not only willing to accept, but actually prefer. Back in 2000-ish, that was my peers using non-tiling animated gifs as the background of their geocities pages; later it was seeing 72 dpi pixelation and jpeg compression artefacts on food packaging in a supermarket; or a lack of kerning in a clearly not-fixed-width font in a video game.

I've also seen an artist get frustrated because two managers completely disagreed about what an ideal UI should look like, and kept saying they were too busy to talk to each other even though both needed to sign off the design and didn't like what the other wanted the UI to look like.

And another who got a string of unpaid interns (they didn't tell me the interns were unpaid, but given how that contract ended it couldn't have been otherwise) to design a series of changes to the UI and then wondered why it was taking me so long to finish it. But that manager also kept telling me they wanted a button "wider" until I asked them to draw it and then they said "wider but vertically".

I'm starting to think one of the things artists are needed for is to convince everyone else to stop arguing and just do the thing. This fits with the meme of the last two decades of fancy art being "Here is an unmade bed representing my depression" — the convincing justification is more important than the work itself.
Every day somebody is born who hasn't heard one of these stories! And honestly one thing about life is that you generally are slowly building up trust with people, and then can be asked to do things that are totally legit all the time.

Of course skepticism is required, but I know a lot of people who got dealt a lot of shit by their (real) employers simply by not understanding what is normal or not, as it was their first job.
The tap water with chlorine should lose most of it when boiled, e.g. for making tea or coffee or just for drinking it warm.
it's technically true that VSCode is less customizable but honestly who cares? Both of these editors are so minimal in their design that UI customization doesn't mean much.
Here's a fact-checking LLM for the LLMs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08726
Diet Coke isn’t even based on Coca-Cola, it’s a derivative of a truly wretched soda called Tab afaik. It’s genuinely a completely different drink.
Not true in UK, small businesses that are not working in tech will use free email with the suppliers domain.
I can't tell what this article is saying. The first paragraph says "The continued drop in labor costs", but the Fed data says it hasn't dropped, it's been going up continuously.[1]

The a later paragraph says "Since the labor share [of inflation] is declining" which entirely different than "drop in labor costs".

So what's actually happening is labor costs are going up. They just aren't going up as fast as profits. Why can't they just write that?

And the examples given "oil and gas" is an odd one, since profits vary wildly. When oil costs are down, profits are down. When oil costs go up, profits go way up. It's a capital intensive industry, and that's how it's paid for. Oil is never sold at some small profit margin.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=ULCNFB,
That's not nearly the same thing as what the other poster is talking about.

I once had something similar happen when I purchased Prince of Qin off Ebay (10-15 years ago I think?). Package never arrived.

That is in a wholly different class than these scams where they're asking you to cash a check and wire the money back, nigerian prince, etc.

What the other poster ISN'T considering is that there are still large segments of the population that are old enough that they're just not internet savvy. It's just the nature of life.

But their point stands as is, it's not reasonable for younger generations to be falling for these scams.
Walmart CEO warns company will close stores if theft doesn't slow down
his orca programming language seems pretty cool too.
> This is from 140 years ago but feel very modern

The world has not changed that much since then. We are still the same apes and are still motivated by the same things (getting food, status, power, or accomplishment, in various orders of priority depending on your social position).
EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
This is almost certainly a manufactured excuse, just like Walgreens.
I've read that the production is favouring industrial/commercial users, and that would include Korg. I was wondering where the large-scale users were (enough to create a consumer drought), but this would go some way to explaining it.
Yes it can be, a way for teams to self-document their failings etc, and allow management to 'inspect' everything with little effort.

If it really worked, managers would also be subject to it.
Deserts are a critical part of our ecosystem just like every other part of the planet.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...
I do that same thing. Earning around $100 an hour, and I can do as many hours as I want, whenever I want to. I do this on top of my full time job, so I usually do a few hours at night or a weekend day here and there. That's similarly in the $60-70k extra per year.

What I do is embedded software for medical devices though, so beyond building there's a lot of documenting, reading documentation adhering to standards.
It's cycle. It always has been. Look at homeownership rates for both countries. When housing becomes a bubble, home ownership rates jump. When it crashed, they drop and then the cycle repeats.

We're had a couple decades of continuously lower and lower interest rates, so the continuously higher and high home prices shouldn't be a surprise.

Housing prices will drop, houses will become more affordable, then we'll do another bubble. This is already the second one in my lifetime.
In the end, I should tell that to teenage-me, who was confounded as to why Diet Coke (and Diet Pepsi for that matter) would use the same name when they were actually different. Tab was truly nasty too :)

So, in the end of this - TIL :)
I loved day dreaming of fitting dragon parts to it & flying over the water surface skimming a wingtip
Sounds like a very simple idea. But, no many consider to monetize it.
Can you link to a sample (with a watermark or some protection of course)?
Well, this is texas but who knows...
It's def unclear but maybe, among other things, they poured some minimal concrete underneath in a matrix for earth movement (?) and some basic cooling/heat sink with it to address these issues at least nominally?
> the only times I've been able to communicate an uncomfortable truth successfully has been in a blameless and empathetic manner.

I think I mostly agree with you, and your comment about bullying sounds like a great example of your point.

Mitchell Rosenburg (author of Non-violent Communication) talks about this a lot. He would point out that calling someone a bully is a negative judgemental statement. Who are you to say they're being a bully? Maybe their intent really is to show tough love and honesty. People almost always get defensive when we feel attacked and judged. The decision of whether to feel attacked and judged is made on the receiving end of a statement.

The NVC approach would recommend that instead of "you're being a bully", you could say "When you said XX, I feel rejected and small". Its a much more vulnerable statement, but its much more powerful to hear. Hearing "you're a bully" makes me want to put my walls up. Hearing "ouch, hearing that makes me want to cry" will open my heart right up.
I've seen quite the positive impressions. I gave it a brief try and I'm not sure it's for me. I went through a number of superbeginner videos and was just feeling more and more frustrated at how much I didn't understand. I like the idea though and I'm sure it works for other people. Maybe with some adjustments to the concept it might be more palatable to me, I don't know.
DNS is great but it is not available in all settings. Eventually you need to type in ip addresses, there are gazillions of workflows where you have to do that.
Isn't wedding gift being cash the standard thing? Do you bring gift items to weddings?
I always thought the standard of bringing cash to help them pay back for the cost of the event was standard everywhere. This is a Jewish thing?

It kind of explains why weddings in Israel are so expensive, I heard it's almost cheaper to buy flight tickets to buy wedding dress in another country.
to me it sounds like they were serving the interest of poor students by distributing cheap books to where there was demand. Otherwise those books could have been left in the bin gathering dust
Wow I didn't expect this to get so much attention.

Yes, I built all these products.

The tools have a shared C++ core library and then I did the DAW integrations and platform-specific GUIs with JUCE, which is a cross platform C++ toolkit popular with audio people.

The original issue that I solved was simply mixing a large number of inputs down to something like 22.2 cinema surround based on mathematical formulas. Instead of the user dialing in 24 knobs, they type in XYZ coordinates and the math decides those 24 knobs for you.

Later versions then added animation, control surfaces, the headphone surround sound, and MPEG-H export for live TV.

All the initial release versions were 1 programmer x 3 years. By now, I've moved on and nowadays they have a small team to do maintenance, support, upgrades, etc.
What are the best AI tools for academic staff?
I'm preparing a presentation on this topic and would love to hear your suggestions. Please share your thoughts, thank you.
Digging into this, how are the .tal files made?

Found it: https://compudanzas.net/uxn_tutorial.html

So you need to write assembly sort of, I wonder what language anyone would pick to compile for this little VM.

Also I lack networking!

Here is a video introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrNuq_JgaOA&t=794s
https://archive.vn/LssUq
You’re one of these special lucky people who only needs 4 hours sleep. I have a friend like that and he uses his extra time to complete video games and be a dad/husband. I’m more of a 8-9 hours person myself so I’m super jealous
Hug of death from HN?
I am a diet soda addict and I am not a scientist, but personally I think articles like this tend to bury this point:

> One problem with sweeteners in the diet of children, Sibson says, is that the more children consume them, the more they develop a sweet palate and therefore crave sweetness in all its forms, with or without sugar

Drinking sweet things gives you a sweet tooth! If we assume sweeteners are perfectly safe, wouldn't we still expect people who e.g. drink sweetened drinks instead of plain water to be more likely to gain weight overall, because they have a preference for sweet things and lots of sweet things have calories?

Personally I'm not worried about it: my high consumption of sweetened drinks has not stopped me losing weight by the conventional method of eating less. There is another ingredient in soda that's more problematic (caffeine can mess up your sleep, and if you sleep badly it's a lot easier to gain weight).
I find it good for vocabulary (the little it has), just awful for grammar and speaking practice/confidence.

Also since it's Hindi I'm learning rather than Spanish, it's great for learning the script - no better way than flashcards to memorise/remind each character really.

But it's absolutely not the only tool you should use, you at least need a book, and someone to speak to.
if you're in the US you can reverse the charge, whether debit or credit card, although with a debit card you'll have to be re-issued a new one.

If enough people do chargebacks the payment processor will drop them because the ACH operator representing them will 100% fine the shit out of them if they don't. It's all contractual.

My point is, if you want to put a dent in stuff like this, do a chargeback. Like a union, the power isn't in your action, it's in the action of many.

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But also, this is why I'm very picky and have quite often refused to purchase something I wanted. I'll trust Walmart.com in a way I won't trust momandpop.com. Unless they're using a payment process that isn't handled by them (CC via paypal, for example) I just flat won't use them.

What's worse is most people don't even consider the risk to calling in an order from a local restaurant for delivery (chinese, for example). They may or may not save your CC information and you have no idea how well those systems are secured. They're probably using a 3rd party, but you don't know who that 3rd party is so you can't even begin to assess that risk.

I'm not a fan of doordash by any means, but they do offer a service here in terms of risk assessment.
I had similar experience with a kid. A kid that was slowly falling behind in English got bribed to do duolingo. Grades slowly got better and English slowly became "that easy class" and eventually the kid started to be able to read mangha and watch movies in English.
As others have pointed out…

> They killed it. It's dead.

…is ridiculous hyperbole. This is a debate around the “system warns you when something bad happens” versus “system stops something bad happening in the first place”. It’s like saying SSL is “killed dead” because browsers let you connect to sites with bad certs albeit with a big red warning.

And much as this was addressed for SSL with HSTS etc, we’re working on the fix for Matrix. For what it’s worth, the current approach is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/fay...

Screaming about Matrix being “killed dead” helps no-one, and risks completely sabotaging our efforts to improve open communication, just in order to score a rhetorical point.
expanding upon that: all problems have maps into them from relatively initial objects, and maps out of them to relatively final objects...

(and due to continuity, frictionless spherical cows actually give reasonable approximations to generic answers)

Lagniappe: I claim synthesis steps, reaction rates, activation energies, and equilibrium balances can be applied to many business processes, but suspect that ChemE's are already better compensated doing chemistry than they'd ever be in the HN world.
Ben Eater is a great channel. What's with 'Eater' though? Is that his surname? Or is it some kind of pun maybe?
> It's for drivers making the same 80-100 mile or so trip from port to warehouse every day.

So this truck is bad as a truck...except for the use case where it should have been a train in the first place?
>The solar radiation wattage per unit of surface area is dependent on the angle that surface is to the sun.

A tilted solar panel casts a shadow that is bigger than its actual area. Mounting the panel flush to the ground means it casts a shadow exactly equal to its area.

The shadow represents the captured sunlight so the first panel covers more surface area than the second panel, which allows you to reduce the number of panels to cover the same amount of surface area. The entire point of this article is that you can just put the saved costs into buying more solar panels.

Used solar panels are very cheap but usually only the solar panels are replaced and the mounts are kept and fitted with new panels. So for companies that want to use used panels their primary cost is actually in the mounting hardware and not the panels.
SQL queries produced by ChatGPT going into production code
Pretty sure it's just his name.
That would make sense if I'd not just asked them to speak slower.
cjfd... >when one hears this kind of complaining today...

What complaining, and what kind of complaining is it?
Okay but what if we cover all the roofs with rooftop gardens and cover all of the ground with solar?