skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend consulted at a DMV years ago and improved their online transaction conversions a lot by dropping the login requirement for things like registrations.

Nobody wakes up and decides to pay someone else’s car tax. And if they do, if the money is good, who cares?

The other thing is the need for an account at all. With a lot of online merchants, I don’t want an ongoing relationship. Take your cash and leave me alone.
There are a lot of misconceptions in the comments, this is honestly not what I expect from HN.

- cookie banners are the result of the ePrivacy directive, NOT the GDPR. This directive is implemented in France in the law « informatique et libertés » which is honestly pretty good overall

- cookie banners are NOT mandatory when you use cookies. If you use only technical cookies (session IDs, local settings, etc.), you do NOT need a cookie banner. The law simply states that you must ask consent before tracking users. Cookie banners just highlight the fact that tons of websites track their users and did it on the cover of unreadable ToS before. The fact that cookie banners are so annoying proves the law wasn’t misguided

- cookies are not the only target of ePrivacy: it’s a law about consent to tracking, not about cookies

- the law works. I personally go out of my way to click « reject non necessary » when I can. I also report websites violating the intent of the law when I see them
Why call something Rhino when there's been a well known product since the 1990s with that name?

https://www.rhino3d.com
One of the dumbest anti-patterns. Even major shopping cart frameworks have this problem such as spree and activemerchant.

The one who gets this mostly right is Shopify. They're the "Stripe" of shopping carts.
Expectations shouldn't be inflating so salaries might not actually be keeping up in that sense
No, we'd need to dissolve that amount into the mix layer (call it the top 50m, for argument's sake), which takes a few months to equilibriate with the atmosphere through that carbonate chemistry. But, if one managed to do it all at once (not sure how), it would only take a few months.

One would want to avoid downwelling regions that get sucked into deep ocean circulation before reaching equilibrium (e.g. the north atlantic), that alkalinity would take a long time to come back up and be useful.
I prioritize neither hatred nor understanding any specific group of people. I prioritize my freedom to live my life as I will, without interference as long as I am not interfered with.

My understanding them won't change that they want to interfere with my rights, a lot, for reasons that are not merely incorrect but delusional -- at least as expressed through the politicians that they vote for, who turn those delusions into policies that affect my life.

I don't care what they do outside the voting booth. I take an idle interest as fellow human beings, and would rather their lives be good rather than bad. But politically, my actions are spent 100% trying to fend off them making my life much, much worse -- and I frequently fail at that.
The 2022 version is not to nag users with a registration flyover for your blog post, the instant the user visits and hasn't even read the first sentence.

I won't visit Medium or Substack blogs at all because of this awful pattern.
> But you can often get a bail bond (from a third party) for 10%-20% of the bail amount.

In most states, 10% is closer the legal maximum than the minimum premium for a bail bond (it is often exactly the the legal maximum, but in NY the maximum for large bail amounts is much lower, asymptotically approaching 6%.)
>"China doesn’t allow Western social networks. Why do we allow our strategic enemy to have software on our phones?"

I agree with this. Things should be reciprocal. I do not think China is the enemy though. More like a strategic competitor. Trading with the enemy is a crime, right?

>"(if you think they are interested in “co-living” go talk to the Kremlin on how that went"

Why do you equate China with Kremlin? I think China is way smarter and has managed huge economical achievements while Putin is pissing away immense potential that Russia has. If we talk about co-living it is the US that after WWII was attacking and wrecking numerous countries killing directly and indirectly millions. China so far has harassed its own population only and has yet to do anything even remotely approaching what the US has done on international scale.

>"China is bidding its time but their intention is to end US dominance."

Now here comes the real reason. The US dominance - you sure this is what the rest of the world wants? How about we try without subservients to a single country.

>"I don’t see how a democratic rule of law country, flaws as it may have, being replaced by a brutal dictatorship, is a good option"

Nobody wants that. But it is the US (and allies) that keeps taking away more rights and freedoms. If you compare for example 90s and now people look more and more like cattle. You can't blame China for that. I think somebody else is responsible.
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What professor has $25M lying around to pay the bond? Yes, Palo Alto homes are expensive, but those are not typically the homes professors are living in.
Armchair thoughts-- makes you wonder what the game is here-- the prosecutors want a high enough bail that SBF can make, but not so high that he wouldn't pay the bond.

For reasons--
1) It proves he has more funds. 99% odds he will declare bankruptcy once the civil judgements come, so this refutes SBF claims that he only has a few hundred dollars in a bank account somewhere.

2) Making him collect funds from more than one source so they can flush out some of his hidden buckets. Who knows how many wallets, cash and favors he's hiding, but the Feds and Internet investigators will be watching. Especially for movements on the blockchain.
Yes. What isn't clear is whether that statutory authority even approaches being empowered to ban companies that figure centrally in public expression.
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> I believe they have, because we've gotten so much better at ORMs.

This has almost nothing to do with what the parent was describing. Poor ORM use (or poor ORMs) introduce a different set of ways to mess up performance.

[EDIT] OK, this isn't entirely fair, or at least I didn't explain it well enough (no, it's not getting downvoted, I just decided I'm not happy with it). The problem in question is, at its heart, developers not realizing what they should be letting the database do, and perhaps not even realizing what it could do, or deciding they shouldn't let the database do it for some probably-misguided purity reasons or whatever—ORMs generating more-efficient queries or exposing more features is great and does help with the problem of straightforward, natural use of ORMs sometimes resulting in poorly-optimized queries, but doesn't fix the problem of developers not knowing that a block of logic in [programming language of their application] should have been left to the database instead, whether that's achieved by hand writing some SQL, writing a stored procedure, or directing the ORM to do it. It's a little related in that hopefully better ORMs will result in ORM-dependent developers learning more about what their database could be doing for them, or being more willing to poke around and experiment with the ORM since it's more-pleasant to use, but I'd expect that effect to be pretty marginal.
We've seen customers do something very similar and we've helped them get privacy-safe data into each preview. Handwaving a lot here, but the steps are 1) anonymize production data to a destination, 2) snapshot the anonymized data, and 3) replicate the anonymized data to all of the previews.
I used nvidia with linux >10 years ago. Never again. The FOSS philosophy doesn't mesh well with binary blobs and it never will.
I've just pushed a change where inputs are consistent - it was light vs dark scheme thing as I use light scheme.

Also I have added small info paragraph before title and description so it's more clear what it does.
Universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its value, study finds
Ask HN: Hand-made HTML+CSS e-cards for reference?
I was just putting together an HTML & CSS e-card here, nothing fancy but I wondered if anyone had examples they like, that I could check out for future card-making inspiration. I build these a couple times a year so it'd be really handy. Thanks!
It's repellant for signups, but it's positive that once a customer does sign up, you keep marketing to them for long-term value and future purchases.

The other answer is you optimize for what you can measure. It's hard to know when users are dropping off at the account-signup wall; it's easy to know when an existing user bites on your re-marketing efforts.
and IMO they should just have to show that something is reasonably safe

As it currently exists, it would probably be much easier to show that "self driving" is reasonably unsafe --- e.g. less safe than the average human driver.
Sewing denim, leather, canvas, etc. is generally a pain in the ass. Even old consumer grade machines would have a tough time. You either needed an industrial machine or an old-school treadle machine that you could overpower.

What I want is someone that I can pay to sew stuff for me and have it not suck.

The problem is that someone who does that is continually having to hunt down new clients since their stuff doesn't fall apart. And they can't charge enough because the crappy stuff is soooo cheap that it sets the floor of the pricing.

If we want artisans to make a comeback, we're going to have to help them somehow.
Belarusian KGB is the same organisation.
Mine was set to 5000 too, which is the old default. Does this make the vault data significantly more vulnerable?
I lived in New Orleans for a time and read Confederacy of Dunces. Saw it much later as a play. Think it's fantastic.

But to your basic point. I was having a conversation with a college friend about series including Orange is the New Black and others that I don't remember--possibly Breaking Bad. And they just couldn't get into a series where you were supposed to sympathize with people who were basically, well, bad to various degrees. Probably (for whatever reason) some people just don't like anti-heroes in literature or video.
> This is exactly why it's good.

How did we manage to get this far before people ~~went insane~~ decided that this is somehow favourable?
"The One" had an asking price of $291M. But it only sold for $141M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Cd_McCdow
With all due respect, you have no idea who I am, what my background is, where I lived, or what I know. If you wanted to argue facts, that'd be one thing. I could pull up citations. Personal attacks, I just don't feel like engaging with.

I'm done here.
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in my experience most engineering shops that care about database perf are not using ORMs except for the most generic CRUD features. you gotta handroll your queries with an eye on EXPLAIN once you pass a billion rows in your tables, in my experience anyway
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More like he moved into his parents’ attic? They don’t have basements in California :P
> nothing can make nothing

You can make money just buy buying money.

There are billionaires in currency arbitrage.
> Had to give up their home for the bond?

“Put up” is not “give up”; it is to offer as collateral, that is, they got a loan secured by a lien on the home.
Is your . key broken? (Serious question.)
And my related pet-peeve, entry of credit card number comes before display of shipping and handling charges for the order. I've abandoned carts at sites that did not provide S/H before they wanted my credit card number.
Is it Cold War paranoia when Russia is currently engaged in the invasion of another country?
Also: https://kottke.org/10/04/the-robot-who-considers-towels
> I recommend getting a Framework. It's probably not as good as an M1, but it'll last you more than two years…

Macs have famously-long usable lives — my sister uses a 7-year-old iMac, for example. The latest macOS Ventura supports Macs made in 2017. I'd be very surprised to hear about people using 2021 Framework laptops as their daily driver in 2026.
Daily? Odd unit given Fukushima was over a decade ago. Also, "extracting" gas would compare to mining uranium from the ground, not to running a plant.

I'm only finding US statistics for the "extracting" part, and that looks like about 1000 dead in just the USA, just with regard to oil and gas extraction, in the last decade.

But, given your style and the newness of your account, I find it very hard to trust that you're really "just curious", rather than using the phrase to create rhetorical affect.
Have fun managing osx and Linux dependencies then when you could just maintain one.
There's only about 100m books (in English). About the same volume of text as the web all total.
That was revealed several years before Snowden's defection.
Tips for non-tech founders to build the right MVP during the recession
Apologies for being edgy in my answer.

Dont know where that came from.
The wild thing is that using the Additional Drivers UI is what bricked my computer last week. It probably downloaded some binaries but it also spent 30 mins running gcc compiling something. And then forced a kernel headers update but didn’t update anything else. Rebooted and I have no wifi or bluetooth.

The fix was a reversion and then CLI install of the nvidia 515 drivers.
From design standpoint, how do we design for user-related interactions though, like tracking /reviewing the purchase, informing when some error / failure happen in the middle, purchase receipt etc?
The legal limit on bail bond premiums in New York at this size is 6% (plus a tiny amount), not 10%.
I used to refuse to use those services, but then I got libredirect [1] which does a great job of decrapifying them and a lot of other anti-user websites.

[1] https://libredirect.codeberg.page

EDIT: I will still attempt to avoid your shitty substack/medium blog if literally any other sources are available. Please stop using this garbage.
The average user doesn't even boot the computer. It's just always on and wakes pretty much instantly.
> We can all make incredibly informed decisions these day. Better informed decisions than ever possible by all the wealthiest royalty in human history, in literally seconds.

And yet there were numerous stock investing experiments in which random choice delivered similar or better results than respected investment specialists.

It's almost as if, at the end of the day, we don't actually make "incredibly informed decisions".
LibRedirect[1] makes these blogs (and other parts of internet) more bearable.

[1] https://libredirect.github.io/
Fingerprinting still requires a lot of client-side information. Sending that to the server for no good reason may prompt some questions.
It likely wouldn’t. But natural disasters, like tsunamis, on a similar scale large enough to threaten well-engineered power plants may become more common.
They assemble the phones would be more accurate; most of the chips are manufactured elsewhere.
right, they need to know whether to offer you a password or not regardless of whether you have re-locked
Thermal throttling, dirty fans, poor process isolation and scheduling, and so forth.
Trabucco is the one flying under the radar.

He resigned as CEO this July, well after supposedly they tapped into customers funds.

I'm sure we'll hear about him too, one way or the other.
How much data is generated each day? (2019)
I disagree. Especially when your child is all grown up:

- You can balance their welfare vs. other goods, e.g. justice, well-functioning society, etc.

- Your view of their welfare can include their character, maturity, empathy, and taking responsibility for their actions. It sucks if that requires 20 years in prison, but that may be preferable to helping them be a free but terrible person for the rest of their life.
>Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. One.

Also USD 82 billion and counting. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14762193#:~:text=Around%2....
Some major changes have been made to the encryption function which makes the encrypted data very secure, however, this is an opensource project created by a computer nerd, not an engineer, but he is really passionate about privacy and thinks that everyone has the right to be able to use the internet without being monitored and controlled (if they wish). That said, I always count on user feedback and support for any cracks and vulnerabilities so that we can make this "method" stronger and stronger. there is a Discord server, a Keybase team and a community on Reddit that are currently uninhabited. An opinion on them would be really appreciated. Thank you.
I need noise cancelling (or close to it) headphones I can sleep on my side with. I have a crappy $20 headband I got from Amazon that does OK but lets a fair amount of sound leak in. I live on an extremely loud street and can block some of it out with a noise machine, but find headphones needed to really block everything out. Anyone try a pair they like?
I suppose so. I would just check if these tables are vacuumed often (preferably with autovacuum) otherwise the query planner might decide not to use the index depending on the visibility map conditions.

This post explains it in more detail: https://blog.pythian.com/postgres-covering-indexes-and-the-v...
How about: "No use of any software or device that includes any cryptographic algorithms."

:-P

Back to the stone age it is!
At least the University of Salford didn't spend $10s of billions on this.
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But the business models of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google Search are all based on tracking people.
This is gonna seem weird - you're forewarned - but here goes.

Kinda the equivalent of flipping a coin, but no coin (and just maybe better.)

There used to be a hippie-dippie belief that holding, say, a food in your hand and then pressing down on that arm with the other arm would tell you what was good or bad for you. If your (holding) arm was weak, bad. Strong, good.

Of course, that's nonsense, BUT it may be a possible way to try to tap into unconscious beliefs (right or wrong beliefs.) If you're ambivalent, it's a tie-breaker. I don't do it often, but it's better than just standing there cogitating.

Related, at least:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pinocchio-s-arm-a...

Another heuristic - do what will most likely blow up in a visible way; whatever will be a noticable fail, so you learn.
The west doesn't just give everyone unlimited market access, especially if it's not reciprocated.
It can't (simdjson is fast compared to other text parsing - it's still extremely slow compared to native types), but that fact actually doesn't matter because the problem isn't the parsing. Even the construction of these text files in proc is too slow.

You can't read /proc/net/tcp within a reasonable amount of time on a system with hundreds of thousands of connections. Even allocating/churning memory to store a textual representation becomes a problematic overhead.
Guarantee of appearance, or guarantee against flight.
Not sure if you missed the point or I'm missing yours, but the post you replied to points out that CRT displays sound insane in a certain light...
I aggree, it's a much more pragmatic solution. But do you really think the CCP would follow this rule?
There would still be a trial, even if he's not there.
To be fair, I don’t think he’s been responsible for any world wars.
As someone who started a wiki... yea... people really don't want to make accounts. The second I started letting people just edit things without being logged in, the wiki immediately became dramatically more useful to everyone. I was worried about vandalism, but it's really not an issue exactly because nobody actually cares about the site at all.

It's a golf wiki if anyone is curious: https://golfcourse.wiki
> A recognizance bond is a written commitment from the accused to appear in court when ordered. In return, Bankman-Fried’s camp would not be required to meet the full collateral requirements on the bail.

Doesn't look like that's what's happening. It's not clear how much money's changing hands, but it's definitely nowhere near the full $250m.
It's become so clear that users of a SaaS deserve more control how their data is used and stored.

You should absolutely be able to crypto-shred your data from such an important service. This experience sounds awful.
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> A problem that may ORMs have is thinking/working with row-expressions rather than sets.

Absolutely. There's a reason that the famous Out Of The Tar Pit[1] paper identifies relational algebra as the solution to many programming woes. Thinking in sets instead of individual items is extremely powerful, when using an ORM and also in general. If an ORM makes this hard, use a different one (hopefully there is a better option).

> Related pet peeve: calling tables by plural names

Agreed again! Based on my limited observations, this seems like a big cultural difference between "database people" and "software people". The people who spend most of their time working directly in databases (and trying to basically write fully fledged business applications entirely in the database layer) seem to think of tables as big containers. If you labeled a box full of people (or a binder full of women?), you'd probably label it "People". Whereas "software people" tend to think of a database table as a definition of something, more like a class or type. Clearly the correct label for that definition is "Person".

Actually the latter is also wrong for a different reason: that is not how nouns work. But that's a story too long to fit in this comment.

[1] Out of the tar pit (warning: direct link to 66-page PDF): https://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
Sometimes MM is thousands monthly.

It a strange world.
It sure smells like it when you're using terminology outdated by 30 years. Don't use anachronisms if you don't want people to think you're anachronistic.

You may as well call Russians "Soviets". Yes, it's many of the same people in the same buildings, doing the same sort of bullshit. But they aren't called Soviets anymore and if you go around calling them Soviets, you'll going to have people think that you're stuck in the 80s.
Author here - thanks for the kind words! Both the moments I first saw the Apple logo rendered correctly (rendered by the bootloader) and the first time the Home Screen loaded were epic milestones indeed!

I treated this mostly as a side project but reverse engineering has always been a huge passion of me. However, I managed to combine some aspects of reverse engineering into my research work I've done in Delft, most notably by reverse engineering mobile banking APIs (https://devos50.github.io/assets/pdf/iom.pdf) and by deobfuscating strings in obfuscated Android APKs (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.02612.pdf).
Minecraft doesn’t have to save generated data. As long as they seed is preserved all the data will be regenerated. It only does this to save time and to persist any changes made.
Well.... Unencrypted access to all the sites each username/email has an account with could be very damaging for some individuals.
You think two law professors were running the show?

Have you ever met a law professor?

It’s not a question of corruptability, it’s a question of competence