skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Checks are a brilliant idea with a terrible implementation.

Idea: physical financial instrument with a specified payee (OR a bearer instrument, using the same format!), with a completely unconstrained denomination, which the payer can draw up on demand and in the field.

Implementation: reveal enough information about your account that anyone can "authorize" arbitrary transfers; take weeks and weeks to learn whether the funds are actually available and there's absolutely no way to convince your bank to reveal whether the transaction is verified, at any point; etc.
Sounds like Elon is ok with civil war as long as it’s tweeted. I don’t know why any ceo would want to be part of Jan 6 like event in any capacity regardless of politics.
If he was laundering money he would prefer to be paid by check or wire but would pay employees in his ill gained cash. Customers paying with cash would just introduce the same problem of having a bunch of cash around.
Sure... but that's like saying "don't get a cellphone because they all spy on you"... it's not very practical and/or cheap to do.
This is the source of the current shortage. It is much more time consuming and expensive just to become a commercial pilot now. This has completely disrupted the progression and training in the pipeline and will not be alleviated by halving the pilot requirements.

When this flight hour change runs head first into a large number of pilots retiring the entire industry is going to be in a state of emergency.
> Because limits like these are never raised.

Inflation will take care of that. Also, you can't convert that money to Gold or Crypto and a house is too damn expensive to buy. So someone with 20k Euros will end up with 2k euros in value.
Right but you don’t make a large “payment”. You break down the large sun into a smaller one outside the system. When it enters the legal system, the amount is smaller. Unless of course, you use banks.
Something that happens in our universe that Physics somehow has nothing to do with? How is that not magical/spiritual/metaphysical voodoo handwaving?
Ah for some reason I can reply now:

Regardless being 2 decades late to the party is unacceptable - it's still not complete and makes real world management a chore, I still admire the purist attitude it has its place but you can't also then claim it's a useful competitor - which is what they do.

Unfortunately it's a perl postgres vs the world thing - both are irrelevant.
I watch VASAviation on YouTube and there’s, I think, 1 or 2 cases per year on that channel where one pilot dies or becomes incapacitated.
Contractors prefer cash in hand, you can get a good discount.
Having ChatGPT Build Functions
The good, the bad and the bizarre
I worked at a company where we did this for some endpoints and it worked great. Our client app had to request enormous time-series datasets and using CSV cut a significant percentage off of the payload size. I recommend it if you have similar constraints
Having enough address space to not need to NAT is hardly an anti-feature.

I don't have any hard stats, but NAT seems to be very rare in v6 deployments. You don't really hear of ISPs using it. I'm certain you could find some if you looked hard enough, but mostly it's not a thing.
What does it do, and how? Usage section and demo seem to be broken links or missing.
It's not, not really. Consider where you pronounce 'm' and 'p': they're both bilabial consonants. It's pretty typical in Celtic languages to have initial 'consonant mutations' where a sound in a preceding word has got lost over time, but it affected the pronunciation of the word that followed it in a predictable fashion, which lead it being grammaticalised.

An example from Irish would be 'capall', which means 'horse', and 'na gcapall', meaning 'of the horses', as the genitive plural of 'capall' is also 'capall', but when you use the plural definite article with it, the pronunciation of the first letter changes from a /k/ to a /g/, and Irish marks this by preceding the 'c' with a 'g' (so you can see the underlying word).

Welsh and other members of the Brythonic family of Celtic languages have something similar, which can lead to 'p' and 'b' changing into 'mh' (an /m/ sound, but unvoiced) and 'm' respectively. This is called 'nasal mutation'.

So, what you're looking at is a possible remnant of nasal mutation in Cumbric.
Indeed. It’s basically that highly offensive thing you see on TikTok where someone simply mirrors a video they steal.

And I think there is always plenty of room to discuss what’s legal and what’s right qs two separate things.
"freedom indexes" - get a hold of yourself
Same here in America. It's just that in America we resent that people with rights cost more, so every mistake any union has ever made must be proof that they want to resurrect Stalin and make him President for Life.
Why is your default to disallow it? I understand there is the interest of society and all in preventing crime but a reporting requirement like in the US would do the exact same thing and produce useful intelligence instead of just making all large cash transactions go underground.
Incredible crybabying. Never going to stop.

There's no constitutional right to make companies carry your voice & these entities can & should make decisions for themselves as the need arises & as they see fit. There should also be more competitors & outlets, so we arent in this position of obsessing about one company's choices, so we arent so fixated.

Finding a bunch of conservative instigators to feed the files to, to deliberately damage & sabotage the history here,... this is all pretty scummy.
I get his point, but this really seems like another case where writing the ChatGPT prompt takes almost as much effort as writing the message yourself.
We don't know what circumstances this "dissident running from the government" is facing.
These laws never are on purpose. The $10000 reporting threshold in America was set in 1970 and would be almost $80000 today.
The inputs and outputs for humans are synaptic action potentials, neurotransmitters and hormones. Is that so different?

Also agreeing that current LLMs are probably not sentient in any meaningful way. But what I don't like about the discussion is is that it steers in a direction where it would fundamentally be seen as bad science to claim that any AI model could be conscious - and I don't see that covered by the scientific method either, for the reasons that onetwoonetwo explained.

This reminds me a bit of the discussion whether or not animals can be conscious/experience emotions/feel pain, etc.
How will they know? I don't think they'll be able to enforce this except the most obvious cases (where answers are posted by bots without any human review). Cat's out of the bag.
The shire in is Cairns Regional Council, in Far North Queensland, Australia. https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/
Yeah, but this is less of a problem if it's an internal API. You can stick to a stricter subset of the standard, and/or only handle the types of column values that you actually need

Still probably worth using a library, but it isn't a source of problems in my experience
Yea, I think remote backup drivers for self driving cars is fairly reasonable, but remote pilots just brings to mind thousands of passenger filled bombs.
Where are all the printer firmware hackers at?
Perhaps the CEOs (in constant pursuit of profits and bonuses) don't care so much about safety, and are trying to make a play to get society to accept a lower level of safety in air transport? We accept huge amounts of deaths from road transport, preventable illnesses, etc. Air transport is possibly the exception (that is getting in the way of profits)
> But many recent examples tend to confirm the unions' argument, including a 2015 crash in Europe. A co-pilot of a Germanwings flight locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately crashed the plane, killing himself and 149 other people, giving credence to the ongoing argument that in an airborne crisis you need two pilots working in concert to save the aircraft

How does that support the argument that two pilots are necessary?

It supports the argument that a determined pilot is going to crash the airplane whether or not there are one or two pilots on the plane!
Why is this even a question? Are we really discussing whether people are allowed to trade tokens with physical items? Did the bar really go that low.
I was going to answer that the answer is column families [1], but I just realized that is a CockroachDB-specific feature.

[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/column-families.ht...
I was surprised at how much CPU only rendering was still done. About 5 years ago, I was a TD at a post house/animation studio. Some of the guys were demoing GPU rendering to see if it was something they could start utilizing. The issue at hand was that they were so heavily invested in the existing data center (leased machines). They were doing the experiments of using multiple GPUs way exceeding the motherboards designs by using breakout cables so each PCIe slot connected multiple GPUs. It was very much Frankenputer with massive PSUs, and cards laying on a desktop not even in a chassis. Even then, the speed was impressive, just wasn't scalable at that time.
> HP has since made available an automatic firmware update for download which removes the DSF from certain inkjet printer models and allows customers to use non-HP cartridges.

Would it be possible to get hands on this firmware update and install it outside of Australia too?
It's not, though. I remember carrying that much cash when I saved up for a summer to buy some computer components. They didn't take checks, and at the time I was like 19 and my debit card didn't have a high enough limit to buy the items I wanted (a couple of high end workstations, nothing super fancy- computers used to be expensive!)

It's actually pretty common to need to buy things over $10k. It's pretty common for vendors to not take checks. It's pretty common to not have high enough credit limits to cover these types of purchases.

There still isn't any way to do this other than cash.

It's unusual to carry around this much cash every day, but it's totally normal to carry this much cash sometimes for specific large purchases.
Taming names in software development
You've basically invented 6to4. This isn't a new idea; v6 already has it.
https://archive.vn/KIqYV
I went with Epson as well after having a xerox laser printer for about a decade. The xerox allowed me to do aftermarket toner and it work decently well, but it's still had issues. Sadly a good laser printer, the toner is just far too expensive.

When I was researching the Epson printers, I learned about pigment ink and how it doesn't smear with water like traditional inkjet printers did. It's worked really well for the last few years I've had it.
When asking ChatGPT yourself, I presume most of us would be aware that its answers could be wildly wrong. Given that we know this and it's in the front of our mind when asking ChatGPT, I think it has the potential to be very useful.

Putting those answers on Stack Overflow is perhaps concerning for the reasons outlined in that link, in a way that it isn't when we deliberately ask ChatGPT ourselves.
For most businesses, cash is a far more likely point of failure.

Taking in large amounts of cash is ripe for robbery. It's also why a lot of places don't accept $100's after a certain time and etc because it gets really risky for the employees.
We should look at nationalizing the rail lines and then investing in them to accommodate freight and passenger traffic more effectively. Positive Train Control[1] and judicious expansion of switches/bypass lanes should allow us to better saturate the rails so that throughput is maximized.

This could even enable new passenger services other than Amtrak to operate in competition.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_train_control
I have seen postgres queries being answerd in low ms range.
Why would I want to use redis ?
Only if my loadtest suggest that postgres is a bottleneck and redis is faster.

Keep complexity down to min to make it functionally work.
Loadtest and fix the bottlenecks.
add complexity when you know the gain.
Twitter to relaunch Twitter Blue at higher price for Apple users
The quality of the composition varies from clunky to just invalid. I don't see how the author is happy with the output. It is like having a median middle school student draft your letters. Surely they could have dashed off something of similar length and better quality in just a few moments, instead of going two rounds with a chatty automaton.
Ask HN: What are the chances layoffs were pretext to end expensive early grants?
I am / was an early employee at a now valuable company. My initial grant was still vesting. I was informed I was let go in a layoff, though the rest of my team or organization was not impacted. I was well-liked and had no performance issues. Another employee in my situation was also laid off. What are the chances we were selected not because of any of the stated reasons such as restructuring, but instead because our remaining equity grant was more valuable than the company wanted to pay out? What questions should I be asking?
For blocking Brother firmware updates (ports 80 & 443).

update[.]brother[.]co[.]jp -> I blocked this domain and my printer is unable to query for updates. I can still download binaries from Brother's website.

firmverup[.].brother[.]co[.]jp & update-akamai[.]brother[.]co[.]jp Other domains found by people sniffing their printer firmware updates.
Material Design is also Google’s fault. Regrettably a pretty sizable chunk of the industry either uses it directly or—worse—incorporates elements of it in their design.

I also have a pet peeve with the Roboto font family developed by Google and used everywhere on the web. But I’ll admit that it is a fine font face for its purpose, just very boring and used way too much.
Imagine a problem that someone wouldn’t have if copyright protection had never existed to begin with? Here’s a great example of one.
Scenario one - Person A bank transfers Person B $10,000 for their classic car at the car show. Person A leaves, and then several days later the money is clawed back from Person B's account as it turns out it was sent from a stolen/compromised account. They now have no money and no car.

Scenario two - Person A gives Person B $10,000 in cash for their classic car at the car show. Person A leaves, and Person B could give a shit about anything to do with Person A as soon as they are out of sight.
There's a tool called PRET - the Printer Exploitation Toolkit -- "the tool that made dumpster diving obsolete" -- that some of you might find fun and useful. You can use it to test which print protocols (ps, pjl, pcl) the printer uses, and then send files to print directly using one of them. It has a bunch of other interesting functionality too.

https://www.github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET
Art feels weird to me.

https://www.elitereaders.com/ridiculous-paintings-insanely-s...
I'd read a lot of coverage of this fiasco already, but this post was helpful for clarifying the duality aspect and the philosophical issues around what's real vs what's a simulation.

I disagree a bit on tone though: though it's okay to be excited about this topic, surely something has gone wrong if the audience comes away thinking that this experiment is comparable to the discovery of the Higgs boson.
That’s hardly the only information Google gets from managing logins. Trivially they can get time stamps for actual logins, that could be very valuable information for stock brokers for example.
Auto-vectorization: How to get beaten by Java compiler optimization
> I asked this question, because I do have doubts they exist. Especially, any modern one.

It sounds like you don't do much, if any, professional work.

> These architectures were introduced around 20 years ago to address technical shortcomings of enterprise systems at that time.

No, not really, and your personal assertion completely misses the whole point of DDD or any software architectural style you mentioned.

The whole point is to keep software flexible and accommodating of change, and in the process reflect a set of very basic software design principles that avoid/eliminate problems such as circular dependencies or testability.

> Is any of the above a real pain in the project that you are building in 2022?

Again, you don't seem to have much if any professional experience. UI testing, or any type of testing involving UI work either directly or indirectly such as accessibility/localization or any end-to-end test in general, is still an unsolved problem and a bane of software engineers.

Nevertheless, your comment reads like a strawman. The main benefit, and the whole point, of layered architectures is to ensure the software architecture to simplify modifying/updating the bits that change very frequently and stabilize and minimize the need the fundamental bits that only rarely need to be touched. UIs tend to be the part of an application that is updated the most, thus it makes all the sense in the world to adopt a software architecture which handles UI as a separate external component which minimizes or eliminates both fan-in, and turns fan-out to be a non-issue by depending on abstract interfaces whose concrete implementations are injected. These are not dad's from the 1990s,these are fundamental software engineering concerns.
The bonus of ChatGPT is it removes the flare-up of human emotions. I could write something like this, but not without a few passes to remove expletives.
That they were late to the party doesn’t really matter _now_. It might have mattered five years ago.

As for the config, one might argue that reconfiguring replication isn’t a common task, usually something you do when setting up the cluster and never mess with again.

I understand that there are pain points running PostgreSQL at massive scale. But 99.9% of projects needing a database never reach that scale. And once they do, they probably need to re-engineer big chunks of the application anyway.
How will they do this? Is there any known way to detect AI writing (aside from human intuition), if you don't know the prompt?
>the official policy is to prioritize passenger rail

Define "official"

>hopefully events such as these will begin to change that.

What events?

If you think this was a rare case, you obviously don't ride Amtrak long distance much. Most interstate Amtrak trips get delayed by freight, and it has been that way for decades.
tldr; We don't know anything about inflation, we know less how UBI will or won't affect it and it doesn't matter anyways, because UBI will not become a thing anytime soon.

People thought the same thing would happen with Social Security, which is tied to inflation. It didn't happen. Though it of course generally only applies to a portion of the population, where a UBI would apply to everyone.

Let's assume your doom and gloom is true, that everyone gets a UBI that is linked to inflation and inflation goes up by 5%/yr instead of the target 2%/yr. The UBI payment will also go up 5% yr, so it can't possibly make people worse off, since the UBI payment will go up along with the inflation, just like social security. So this inflation would ruin the low-income is ridiculous on it's face. Of course it could become a death spiral, and we have ever increasing inflation, and ever increasing UBI payments. Eventually we would have to hit an equilibrium somehow.

Despite common opinion, we really know very, very little about inflation. So far we only know the broad strokes: large demand and low supply. We think high interest rates stop inflation(as it has worked historically, by supposedly drying up demand). We also think people's perception of inflation is also very important somehow. We also just sort of assume 2%/yr inflation is a great thing(a number that was mostly invented out of thin air it turns out). That's about all we really know, but there are lots and lots of possible theories out there, like the covid payments somehow caused inflation. It's possible, but the evidence is hardly rock solid. So many other things also happened that could be the cause or part of the cause as well.

So called experts will crow on and on about their knowledge of inflation and common lay-people assume they know it all as well, but honest academics will mostly shrug and say, we don't really understand it at all, because it's a weird mix of behavioural and traditional economics that is very hard to test, so all we have are some historical data points, each one different than the last enough that it's hard to say much with certainty anything about inflation.

Personally, if we stop all the other systems we have to help out the less well off, and replace it all with what is essentially an expansion of SSI, then chances are we would be better off, if only because of the savings the govt would have in not having to run and staff all of the current programs and simplifying all the rules around SSI we already have.

Of course all of this is a moot point, since there is zero chance the current political parties will ever come together thinking UBI is a good idea.
Because now (at least in America), there are always two bodies in the cockpit at all times. When one of the pilots goes to the bathroom, the head stewardess goes into the cockpit. Someone can always attempt to unlock.
It's not rare, happens every day. How else are you going to buy it from another private person safely? You want to have an instant transaction. You give somebody money and get a car, thats the safest transaction for both sides. Are you going to wire somebody 10k+ for a car you can't have instantly? (note real time bank transactions are only now becoming a real widespread thing around here in Germany)
Speaking from experience, you can get away with not understanding Redis for a while. Then one day you'll wake up and everything will be on fire, because you used Redis wrong, and now your main and replica are in a death spiral DoS'ing each other trying to pass a 1TB replication log back and forth.

You don't need to learn your tools for doing simple stuff under normal circumstances. You need to learn them to do bespoke surgery on live data while everything is on fire and the customers are threatening to fire your company. Or better yet, so that you can avoid doing that altogether by anticipating limitations during design.

That being said, doing everything in Postgres is also going to bite you if you have moderate scale. This is really the same mistake again. Postgres looks like a big truck you can just load up and load up, until you wake up one day and there are cascading failures across all services that touch that database, because you wrote a dumb query that took a lock for 5 entire minutes while it did an HTTP request. It's robustness will lull you into thinking something is working well when it's actually barely working.

(Before you object, yes, it is a better idea not to have multiple services talk to the same database, I hear you. And no, you shouldn't ever hold a database lock while doing an HTTP request, believe me I know. These things can happen.)
For people not familiar with Canadian politics, this summary missed some important nuance. Bank accounts were frozen for some people who donated money to support an illegal occupation of part of Canada's capital city, Ottawa. The occupation was a mix of people protesting COVID measures and others demanding that Justin Trudeau resign.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergency-bank-measures-fin...
Another surprise is that if you want to use the printer over USB you have to purchase that cable *separately*. If you purchase online is very easy to fall for this one as people won't check for this, this happened to me around ~2 years ago with one of these low end pieces of crap.