skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d never ever use cash for a private sale - of anything — either regardless of whether it was $100 or $100k. For a large number like $10k, bank transfers work well. For smaller numbers, instant transfers are cheap and nearly 100% of people use them here (and importantly the same service - so I know I can instantly transfer $2 to anyone at any time for free).

When I place an ad to sell a used something for €50 I don’t expect to get cash for it and the seller probably isn’t expecting me to accept cash as payment either.

I haven’t used a banknote for probably 10 years now. I haven’t even seen most of the banknotes in circulation here. This isn’t all positive (for privacy and resilience in a crisis), and the fact that I wouldn’t doesn’t change the equally important fact that I want to be able to do it. And that ability is of course in peril here. But it doesn explain the situation quite well wrt to what the real impact of laws like this would be.
Is there a suggested causal link here…?
Nothing stops you from disabling javascript by default already; I do it for security reasons. A nice side effect is that many cookiewalls disappear too.
I found that Duolingo is good for learning vocabulary, not so good for learning grammar. The online course I found most helpful was "Spanish with Paul," but I am sure there are other good courses.
Glad to see Chrome grabbing these two great features from Edgium which has had them for quite some time
Most of these attacks are about user identity. I would be interested to know if fixing them broke usability as is so often the case.

The identity issue is basically the issue in end to end encrypted messaging. Identity gets a lot harder when you have more than two participants in such a chat.
To add more context: the check is usually not completely fake. It has a legit bank routing and account number on it, typically a business that is also being scammed. So the money will likely actually get withdrawn from some random business’s account and only discovered weeks or even months later.
Discussion from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21110712
I really don't think this captures the scope of the problem. Here's an example:

1: Load NBC.com (or any other regular media site) in a "naked" web browser (just a plain browser, no ad blocking, noscript etc)

2: Open dev tools -> networking tab

3: Study the activity, look at requests made, size of requests, data the requests contain (remember, YOU are paying for these requests in terms of impact to battery, bandwidth, electricity usage etc)

I can see MB's of data transferred from my device, every time I scroll more network activity is performed (100's of requests per MINUTE), this is all made possible by "JS" which is the single biggest resource hog of any modern browser.

Turning JS off (whilst obviously crippling some pages) results in HUGE savings of bandwidth, reducing battery impact AND increasing privacy :). (You can also use noscript to allow/deny certain scripts from loading, and you'll be surprised how many pages work with JUST the root domain enabled, thus every third party script is not vital to the functioning of the page)

I seriously think modern browsers (including Firefox) need to implement features to reduce the amount of network requests a page can make, including to third party websites, and limit the amount of data a single page can consume. I'd call it a "browser firewall" similar to tracking mode, preventing third party requests entirely

Data does cost, contrary to what others make think, especially on mobile lines when out and about.

So yeah, let's fix that first.
For math, I have a lot of videos that use pens and little bits of paper. An example is https://youtu.be/7oWMaNg4Ezw which discusses the rearrangement of the terms in a conditionally convergent series.
It's a link to a blog post announcing a release. The product page [1] is a bit more informative. The best 3 word summary probably is "Electron, but rust".

[1]: https://tauri.app
> The only people who win from benchmark optimization are those with 16-32 Gb of RAM (for example, Google employees).

> Firefox is basically unusable on a 2Gb system <...>

I just had a look at one of the largest laptop retailers in the UK, and they don't sell laptops with less than 4GB anymore. Checking the steam survey [0] (which is biased towards gamers but still a very representative sample of PC owners and users), almost 95% of people have more than 4GB. Realistically, 2GB and even 4GB devices are at the absolute bottom end of devices that are in use in desktop computing.

Mobile is a different beast, but android has a specific lightweight OS for 2GB devices, and 4GB devices are budget at this stage. 6GB is the requirement for full-fat android. [1]

You may or may not agree that it's necessary, but the reality is that 2GB device are bordering on obsolete in 2022.

> One of the solutions could be to freeze and compress background tabs.

Firefox supports this already [2]

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-performance-class/

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unload-inactive-tabs-sa...
Black Market is gonna surge baby! To the moon!
> This is a Jewish thing?

Not only, it is normal also in Poland (though it is normal that people give both physical gift and cash).
I wear the same jeans almost every day. Move past social convention.
If there is only one thing business and companies should be sentimental about is about their origins. No room for sentimental stuff when doing anything else. Twitter is employing humans and the end of the day, not robots.
> Why they didn't embed an auto-incrementing screen address counter in the controller is beyond reckoning.

They did.

Page 361 of the Commodore 128 Programmer's Reference Guide (halfway down the page):

> At this point, the 8563 hardware takes over. It automatically increments the
address contained in the update register pair (R18, R19). You as the programmer do not
increment the update register pair's contents; the 8563 chip does this for you automatically. You can say that the update register pair is auto-incrementing.

You can get the ProgRef here: https://www.pagetable.com/docs/Commodore%20128%20Programmer'...
Thank you for your open and honest replies about your hyperproductivity and optimization. There is an expression, "the days are long, the years are short." Do you see yourself building toward a point in older age where you can either relax, or focus on something that you consider a major achievement? Of course, that could very well be creating a comfortable existence for your family, which it seems like you've already done.
Right, iOS definitely has a different threat model which requires (and takes advantage of) Apple's ability to make custom hardware. In this case, though, OpenBSD is looking to protect userspace, and they could provide guarantees for that (iOS does this via codesigning, but you could also just force security-sensitive programs to stop using dlopen).
> Lesson 2 about discussing technical issues on the internet: other posters almost certainly do not have the same hardware as you.

Thanks for reiterating my point, I guess.
Not (while) at work of course, but in the office!
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Usually "dismissive" but it's come to mean vague or short on details.
I have gone from literally zero Spanish to be able to understand basic spoken and written sentences and read basic signs etc.

I might venture a basic spoken question or statement (e.g. ordering a coffee, asking where check-in is etc), but not much else.

For me that is amazing. I've gone from nothing to basic toddler-level language skills just for messing about in the app a bit (and tantalisingly there was one or two moments where I caught myself thinking in Spanish too). That is valuable I think. I don't want to be fluent enough to be able to "chat with my Spanish friends" or whatever, just know enough to get by when on a vacation (which worked a treat when I spent a month in South America which was the main reason I learnt any at all - I didn't want to be utterly helpless)
When I see things like this, I always have to think of this Scott Aaronson quote:

"If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it’s found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett."

Maybe the difference between recognizing art and making it yourself is not as big as we assumed it to be.
> or italian law it’s considered an “unfulfilled contract” rather than fraud

That's crazy, but the same binary outcomes also exist in US law. Some states make very clear (to civil litigants' chagrin) that closing a sale with no intent to perform is a fraud; others haven't made that so clear; and, always, it's how you explain your situation to the gatekeeper that determines whether you might qualify for one side or the other.
I think it’s because his first name is unique and he’s extremely famous. If his name was “Bob” then everyone would probably call him “Musk”.
Stable Diffusion selfies through time (Trojan horse, Pyramids, Columbus, etc.)
"Being light on the details" is one generous explanation. You can add more intent, judgement to make it a lot worse though.
ah yes, civil asset forfeiture is now a And That's A Good Thing, Here's Why
It’s absolutely a fluff piece.

I had blocked Elon before he took power, after filling multiple pages with instances where the staff had quite visibly leaked things like DMs or private lists they had no cause to share.

Twitter is run by folks who claim to support free expression but actually just want to spread hate - if you come at them with a tenth of the energy they put out, they melt down and ban your account.

I very purposefully stopped giving a damn about avoiding suspension when it became clear I’d never get the same respect as pedophiles, fascists, and tax cheats.

(I’m completely serious- it was explicitly allowed to use Twitter to say all those things were ok, and I had persistent retaliation for expressing the opposite opinion during my decade ish on The Website.)
I mean, if the thing you are trying to work around is a law preventing you from paying 300K in cash, I don't think using bullion changes much about how wealthy you are.
It's a pretty unique first name, and I feel like people (online, and IRL) refer to him by either first or last name 50% of the time.

Sergey Brin also comes to mind. Unique name, people don't really say "Brin". Just Sergey, given the correct context.

I don't think this is a case of people thinking they're "best buds with the man," like when people rarely referred to Jobs as "Steve."
Twitter working on a software update that will show if you’ve been shadowbanned
> If you see a problem, see to it the problem is being handled appropriately.

This is not what I meant. I meant that bullying is a special case, it is insidious because it both traumatizes and the only way to handle it properly is often from the outside so it is different from many other problems that can (and often should) be resolved between parties involved.
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There is also the r/ChatGPT subreddit for even more prompts.

My impression is that the prompts on reddit tend to be more story/writing/roleplay oriented than the ones on LearnGPT. Also more attempts there to make it generate NSFW or offensive content. You have been warned.

I'm also a bit worried about the amount of people describing it as an addiction - or telling how they spent allnighters just roleplaying with it. I suspect this will become one of the dangers of this tech that we'll probably hear a lot more from in the future...
There is a ton of corruption going on at much higher dollar values and governments do very little about it - corrupt businessmen tend to be the most reliable donors.
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Michael instead of Jackson. Elton and not John. Perhaps it’s because Elon is quite a unique name.
Aside from Huberman Lab I would say.

Lex Fridman

Climate Change Debate - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gk9gIpGvSE

Fundrise

The Great Deleveraging - https://fundrise.com/education/onward-episode-10

Founders

The Life of Kobe Bryant - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3XpuanC5TdfS6KwEAEovun?si=s...
It’s completely possible to have backup power and be grid-tied. The main issue is your panels feeding the grid during a blackout, which can be dangerous for people trying to fix stuff. All that’s required (requirements will vary widely per region) is an automatic disconnect that disconnects your setup from the grid when the grid goes down. For example, Tthe new Enphase EQ8 micro inverters have an optional controller to do this. AFAIK the Enphase systems are the best selling micro inverter systems out there so new installations should have no issues being self sufficient during outages.
If you make more than 10k euro in a month, that is.
It just happened, probably too early to come to any conclusions.

I think the concern is that Wahl seems to have been a generally healthy person (although recently been feeling sick, according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931689), wrote a critical article about a famously hard government, received a bunch of death threats and the day after drops dead. Again, too early to reach any conclusions, I guess we'll have to wait for a proper autopsy before reading too much into it.
For quick viewing, here's how it works in Postgres (using Yjs):

create table posts (
id serial primary key,
content crdt.ydoc default crdt.new_ydoc()
);

insert into posts (content)
values (crdt.new_ydoc());

update posts
set content = content || crdt.new_ydoc()
where id = 1;

The heavy-lifting is done by the teams at Yjs[0] and Automerge[1], who have re-implemented their JS libs in Rust. This made it possible for us to wrap them into a Postgres extension using pgx[2] (which is fast becoming a de-facto tool at supabase)

[0] Yjs: https://github.com/yjs/yjs

[1] Automerge: https://github.com/automerge/automerge

[3] pgx: https://github.com/tcdi/pgx
The biggest quick hack to success in my career has been quickly leaving companies where I'm unlikely to succeed.

The second-biggest one was realizing that negotiating power is the currency of career progression. The more you use it, the faster you will advance.
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Playing with the proposed structured logging package for the Go standard library
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Specifically Christine Lagarde was found guilty of 'carelessly' giving a massive payout of taxpayers’ money to controversial French businessman Bernard Tapie.
yes, the possibility of making powerful enemies (the Bar) but like any activism - "having skin in the game", the law exist to be relied on. 95 to 98% is my personal observation. My own sister(Yale sheepskin) included. I am in tech solutions not reliant on the Court circuit to earn my income. I do see an opportunity for a Notion based litigation tool for time saving to easily organize and retrieve the myriad of documents in a case. coupled with case law access and template - A DIY engine for Litigant in Person saving hundreds of thousand in legal fees. AI vs weasels. Game on.
Exactly. The examples are Mac laptops with soldered memory, which several years later will still have a great screen, case, fast CPU, but will be unusable due to having too little RAM. In the best case the user will have to buy a new motherboard and throw away perfectly working CPU and GPU, and in the worst case buy a new device.

Also, even 15-year old CPUs are still pretty fast and can do billions arithmetic operations per second. Only because Intel decided not to add several more address lines which cost them basically nothing, these machines have to be thrown away.
I want to do #5 so badly but don’t have millions in cash - how do you arrange financing?
Since Paul wrote that, people have made so many more things part of their identity, including JavaScript which he points out in the essay was not a particularly identity-charged topic in 2009. With the rise of the frameworks, it has become an identity-charged topic with JS devs now segregated into tribes that insist on using their preferred framework for every webapp they build. It's not about assessing the right tool for the job based on evidence or metrics, it's about a belief system that the tribe's preferred framework is always the right tool for the job.

Ultimately I think Paul was right and I think about this essay a lot. The best solution is to make as few things part of your identity as possible. For JS devs, that means you should be more willing to use a different framework from time to time or no framework at all. Decide what to use based on an objective assessment of what the right tool for the job is, not what's trendy in your tribe.
Why is it a pity? Over time it will be revealed which group was thinking with the most clarity and prudence.
This reminds of the .com crash days so much. There were endless auctions and sales of office furniture, etc. I don’t even think a lot of it got sold as demand was so low and supply so high. I heard stories of people buying chairs that cost $1k for $25, etc.
4 Gb is not enough for browsing, at least with Firefox on Linux with more than 10 tabs.
That was the video where Susan Wojcicki received a freedom of speech award from her mom
3x $3000 in cash is also under the limit.
I submitted my resignation during an exodus, and then told the CEO of my company at the time I'd withdraw it if he changed my title to senior and gave me full remote rights.

I was already operating at a senior level at the time, so it wasn't inappropriate. But sometimes there's only one language people understand, so you have to speak to them in it.
People use what they have, I won’t blame them for it. (Although the notion that web apps—such as Facebook, GMail, Google Docs, or PDF.js—are less resource-intensive than “normal” desktop usage does not seem to hold much water to me, and those are usually included when a machine is said to be used “just for web browsing”. So if the experience ends up quite miserable I won’t be surprised.) But I’ve shopped for a laptop for a relative some months ago and am a bit testy about how manufacturers seem to be saving money on frickin’ RAM (or more realistically segmenting the market using it). Just... don’t fall for it if you have a choice.
A useful comparison for discussion:reddit has 700 employees and twitter had 7000.
Musk doesn't seem to believe in this version of Twitter and therefore has no issues dismantling it. There's still lots of damage done to Twitter the employer but I don't think it matters in the long run: there are always suckers who are willing to work for despotic leaders.
I think it's more commonly known as "gray rocking", ie. pretend to be a gray rock.

Don't make eye contact, don't smile or frown, don't show any emotional reaction, reply in the most minimal, factual, emotionless manner possible.
"What's the point of "being focused, exerting mental effort, being creative, having long-term goals or engaging in long-term endeavours, &c." if it's not beneficial to society in some way?"

Self-fulfillment?
I imagine there are still plenty of statues all over.
> Anybody who owns a car may want to sell it, and using a credit card is not an option for most private sellers

Most people use bank transfers for this kind of stuff. The seller gives you their bank account number and you put the money in it. I recently bought a new car from a dealer, and I paid my transferring money to the dealer’s bank account. The dealer took credit card for the initial $1000 deposit but not for the full amount - avoids all those merchant fees on the full amount.

Here in Australia, you can now attach your phone number to your bank account (called “PayID”), so the buyer can just go into their Internet banking app, and transfer the money to the seller’s phone number - assuming the seller has set that up. I’ve noticed a lot of people still don’t set it up, often because they just haven’t heard about it
It will be just a ban then, I guess? Sounds like a good idea.
Anything that can be legally connected to grid has to be certified to stop supply back to grid in case of blackout. Is there any region where this isn't the case? I doubt it.
Because the real domain is already taken by the real company.
Ah, good ol’ slippery slope arguments
> This post seem to blame victims for the problem

I interpreted the parent post as describing a mere "contributing cause", but you seem to be saying the post is assigning moral guilt to the victims. Why? And how can we discuss preventative measures that potential victims of any crime (or accident) can take, if the two are so often conflated?

E.g. is teaching people self-defense equivalent to blaming them for successful physical assaults upon them?
That's strangely befitting.
France requires that you declare all funds or “digital accounts” (assets, not only currencies) owned overseas, and made it legal to impose a one-off seizure on all accounts above 100k€ overnight, like they did in Cyrpus. The world behaves as if countries were going to seize all privately-owned assets and make you live on salary.
Unpopular opinion in the startup community. I'm always shocked to see how inefficiently business chases efficiency.
Tesla Launches 1k-Volt Powertrain
What they’re thinking internally isn’t the issue. The statements send a signal to the rest of the organization and impact what gets prioritized. In this case, the signal is “life of workers doesn’t matter”.
"Sergey" is a rather common name - if I were spewing forth Slavic/Russian names off the cuff, it'd be in the first 5 probably (with Dmitri and Piotr).
This is in Texas which is hot but there’s water.

Additionally power stations use steam turbines which require a lot of water. Some cooling water for misters would probably be a rounding error.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50698

https://www.seia.org/initiatives/water-use-management
There was an entry from one of the Chrome early developers on NH recently: https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2022/12/chrome.html

> “Chrome 12 [an old version] was the best Chrome", but since I’ve come to see underneath that for me what I wanted was a fast tight browser, and once I had that, pretty much by definition most subsequent work was just gonna make it worse.

Safari is today’s fast tight browser I dare say.
If that's the case then there's no need for this regulation.
Is this accurate though? I get a lot of Elon hate, and woke crowd stuff in my twitter feed. Now it's mixed with the Elon-crowd as well with a differing view. So right now there seems to be a good mix (not necessarily a healthy mix though, since so much content on Twitter is toxic).
Damn, a prosciutto slicer!

https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/heritage...

This auction is clearly not for just the _office_ supplies, but still.
How long do you think before the HN audience tips on this one? That your comment isn't at the bottom of the comments and grayed out shows there might be hope after all.
There was a tweet from Sam Altman somewhere saying that a lot of the "As a language model trained by OpenAI ..." responses aren't actually blocks but just the model outputting no confidence in finding a solution. Because the output is random, you can retry the same prompt and might get a result.