skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Written instructions and lawyer are both good. Depending how technical it is, how private it is, and how comfortable your spouse is with doing tech stuff by reading instructions, you might want to have a designated person to help your spouse.

My partner is dyslexic and computers are one of her triggers for anxiety, so I'm planning to write up instructions for her along with my mom or sister, bc i know she already has a hard enough time technologically even with me not being dead. I don't need her crying and throwing the computer on the ground after i die bc she put the wrong password in 5 times and got locked out. It's not that she isn't smart enough, i just think it's not ideal for her to be trying to parse my tech stuff in what is already a potentially traumatic situation.
I disagree - it seems a lot more like SEPA in Europe. The non-reversibility seems similar to SEPA fast transactions (ie, similar to fedwire) as well.

The fact that they're using ISO20222 is also a clue that they're probably picking up best-practice from European and Asian networks.
That's been my experience too. I wish the MicroPython plugin for PyCharm was as good as what Thonny offers.
IPM is a method for determining when and how to control pests;

https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/integrated-pest-manageme...
Can there be endless meetings about whether your issues are top or bottom of funnel?
> Maybe I’m just bitter, but I’m on my third “open source” text editor because of machinations inside megacorps suddenly deciding shutdown perfectly fine projects.

Advice for choosing a text editor:

• Avoid Electron.

• Avoid custom-looking GUI toolkits.

• Avoid IDEs, unless they're highly-modular with a rock-solid, simple base.

• Avoid complicated build toolchains.

I'm using Geany at the moment, which… almost meets the third criterion, and does meet the fourth. If Geany support stops, I'd vaguely be able to make changes to it; the code's written in C, licensed GPLv2+, and it's well-documented. (If GTK2+ or Scintilla support stop, of course, no dice; I don't understand any of that area of my software stack well enough.)

Of course, there are things I want it to do that it doesn't; Geany isn't perfect for my workflow. Better than trying to write my own, though!
> Different languages have different libraries with different functions that take different arguments and have different data structures. The tools you used with the old language might be different or required modification to work with the new language.

Those are all knowledge differences, not skill differences. Programming is a combination of knowledge and skill, the skill part transfers between languages and environments very well. The knowledge, not always. But learning a new (to you) suite of libraries is not "reskilling". You're not developing a new skill by learning Java's API versus C#'s API.
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Why just state that this is commercial, instead of using AGPL?

It is worse than commercial license.
I don't need a header either, but I suppose for people editing wikipedia it might be pretty useful. It probably makes sense for wikipedia to optimize for the people providing the free labour slightly more than they optimize for the readers.
> You're ignoring the context of the post.

No, I'm not. Getting out and working is the best thing you can do in a down economy, even if it's a crappy job, or not as much money as you'd like.

> And if you throw away the resumes of someone who went straight to grad school, you're just missing out on a lot of good candidates.

Where did I say I throw out resumes? It's a red flag. Those can be overcome in interviews or with other mitigating factors, but pretending like this isn't an issue doesn't help anyone.
It is definitely useful but does not beat the top Nvidia cards. [1]

Would be very interesting to retest with the M2 and also in the months/years to come as the software reaches the level of optimisations we see on the PC side.

[1] https://wandb.ai/tcapelle/apple_m1_pro/reports/Deep-Learning...
Slaughtering a pig isn't some trivial process, it requires skill and equipment that most people lack. But even if it was doable and a person trades their emergency gold for a couple weeks of food, then what? Any disaster that reduces society to pig bartering isn't likely to be fixed in a short amount of time.
If you plan to continue to give out mosquito nets for 30 years then it's fine to put the locals out of business, better that they spend their time building a comparative advantage in some other industry.

If you are doing a 1-and-done kind of project, maybe you have a point. You would have to weigh the cost of the disruption of the local industry against the benefit to the workers though. If you pay what would normally be 5 years worth of wages for a year of work, it's fine to set the local industry back 3 years. The workers still come out ahead and can invest their wages into rebuilding industry.
Humans read best when a line is around 10 words long. Longer, and it's easy to lose which line you're on when you go to the next one. The sidebar collapses if you resize to a narrower window, so I wouldn't call it wasted.
At the height of VB6 usage, there was no VB.net or Visual Studio. There was the VB6 windows binary that was a GUI form builder and IDE. ASP was brand new and for web development, so there was not much overlap in the dev community. I don't think it was even possible to write VB code in a simple text editor and compile that without the VB IDE. Cold Fusion and Power Builder were similarly corporate controlled and suffered the same fate.

A C programmer during the same time period saw almost no changes to their language or job opportunities.
that's enough money to give everyone in the USA a million dollars!
The little black book’s next iteration. It really is inevitable.
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We actually used this exact library at one point, but it fell out of favor for some reason I cannot recall.
If they were going to pay $5/hour, why wouldn't they do the same work in India, Vietnam, or some other country with wages in that neighborhood, but with a more stable political environment, better infrastructure, and more experienced and educated workforce? Choosing Kenya at that price point would essentially be charity, and might end up being costly charity (because of the extra costs associated with doing business in Kenya vs more established markets).

And then Kenya doesn't gain the benefit of the $2/hr wages (which, as mentioned, is already above average), plus the benefits in knowledge & experience, improved infrastructure, and secondary jobs, as well as the possibility of similar jobs in the future.

China started out competing almost exclusively on wages (like Japan, Korea, and Taiwan before them), and now the US and EU worry about Chinese advanced industries (eg. semiconductors) surpassing their own, the same way Taiwan did with chips and Japan did with cars.

Competing via low wages is, unfortunately, a necessary first step to growing an economy.
If you consider 16 bit apps, yes.
> Management is never affected.

What level?

Typical corporation structure I've seen is

CEO -> CEO -> SVP -> VP -> Director -> Managers

You're saying the managers at the bottom are generally safe? I feel like that's not typically true?
Way before Borland existed, Pascal was created at ETH Zurich and enjoyed its early rush of popularity from free (minus media & shipping charges) distributions for CDC hardware from the University of Minnesota and for the P-machine on many platforms from UCSD.
Do we know how many workers were also enrolled into WorldCoin? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-16/worldcoin...
Now, is there a dark mode like on the app?
No doubt Sam Altman is open to hearing about how to purchase African labor without any of the publicity downside - hit him up for a few mill. ChatGPT is riding high, it does not need Nike style bad publicity to bring the story down.

You would need to be actually ethical rather than marketing ethical - I don't know you so I don't know if you know the difference. Certainly there's no shortage of Silicon Valley "characters" who don't.

It's a very powerful "good news story" to sell to potential clients:

--> lower cost workforce

--> positive life benefit for the African people, lifting people to better lives

--> western style work protections at African costs

--> "publicity positive" for buyers versus "publicity negative"

You would not believe the power of "lower cost workforce" in gaining new clients.

If you know a bunch of African programmers then it should not be hard to find work for them at $x/hour to western clients.

Any employer that wishes to show it cares for African people and wants to help them to a better life really SHOULD be buying services from your new company.

Remember in places like Australia, the banks - who are the biggest buyers of outsources international programmer resources - would consider $40/hour to be an absolute bargain.
I think a16z et al only invest in crypto and other scams now.
> Or Apple decides to shut down your iCloud?

This is probably testable as it is. They sync to iCloud Keychain, as is my understanding anyway.

How are the rest of your passwords stored in iCloud Keychain when your account is hosed? Do you lose those or does it just turn off syncing? I'd imagine it turns off syncing but keeps the keychain around unless you delete the iCloud Account from the device. That's a whole different ballgame of potential bad decisions though.
Looks nice on desktop, have yet to see how mobile has changed. Oddly, I find that it still shows the old UI on certain pages? Eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_not_compute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion

And I guess my one complaint is, it now takes 2 clicks to iterate through random articles.
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Backend developers can be even worse - I’m thinking of someone who had a Very Serious Java framework they used in business apps, which generated many thousands of lines of redundant CSS basically styling every element so they could avoid learning how selectors or positioning worked. The best part was that this was a bottleneck for every project but they kept insisting it was easier.

It’s a question of respect: if you think CSS is a toy language for your inferiors, you probably aren’t going to learn it very well because you’re not going to be receptive to learning the designers’ intent.
> Key costs like hosting are way cheaper, back then you probably had to rack server in a data center, now you can deploy a free/cheap PaaS with a free/cheap database while you find PMF.

Back in the day I have delivered several different cheap 1U rackmount servers to data centres. Once took one - using public transport - to whatever suitable spot in the Docklands in East London. Travelling on the DLR with a server under one arm was a a memorable experience.

Long story short: you can do a lot from a $1000 server, if you put your mind to it.

Yet these days it seems PaaS is better, (over-)paying GCP/AWS/Azure, while you grope around to find a product that will sell for $$$ before your cloud credits run out?
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I quite like it!
The best explanation I've read so far, layoffs are more a sign of "social contagion" and "copycat " behavior rather than based on sound economic reasons.

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...
> Cognitive complexity is low throughout the registration proces [sic].

The user interface of the future!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzJR7K0wK0
I feel like all of that can be done in markup.
Can you explain what you mean by consolidation? It's essentially a standards-based collaborative approach not unlike other large payment networks like in the UK, Europe and India.
> so that you can get far enough to afford to pivot 1-2 times until you find product-market fit,

This line of reasoning has always felt so bizarre to me: try to start a business doing something you think is important and when you find it doesn’t work, try some other business until it does. I understand it as a response to things not working out as expected, but people go into business with this as a strategy.

I guess I’m just not that type of person.
I keep Siri disabled on them because of small children, and I felt I got full value just from the audio quality and being a nice Airplay target.

But, I recognize that other people have little need for its audio quality, but really wanted a non-Alexa smart voice device, and it was dismaying for them to pay $350 for a household Siri device that was unreliable.

Like you said, since the OG HomePod came out, a lot more people know what Siri is and isn't good for, so expectations should be closer to HomePod 2nd gen's real-world performance. At least I hope so.
> shareholders can definitely give him a harder time

What's the worst they can do? Fire him? He's worth somewhere between $300m-$800m according to Google. Even if he's "only" worth $100m. He'll never have to worry about providing/monthly expenses to cover rent/food. Can't say the same for employees. Obviously that's not his responsibility/concern. Just an interesting take.

What's harder? Getting squeezed by shareholders or being unable to afford your rent?
Smart people of HN why can't I directly edit a PDF text file and change some letters?
> VC = fast or die. No middle ground

VC is expensive capital. The same dilemma exists for companies that issue high-yield debt.

> there are ways to scale even without that level of pressure but VC doesn't allow that

Genuine question: what is this?
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He just spent 1.2 billion dollars. He could have given every last one of those 10k people 2 YEARS to get retrained for that amount.

That's enough time for a new bachelor's degree.
It’s not very hard to find smart, well informed left wing / progressive discussion - if that’s what you’re looking for. I think it would be great if we got better at recognising that a lot of political discussion pretty silly. The more attention we give to cranks when we straw man our political opposites by spotlighting the latest silly trite out of their mouths the more we elevate them within their own political tribe.
I wonder if this might be easier to fix in Australia than the US because our compulsory voting system means politicians can’t win by mobilising their base, when everybody votes you need to persuade the other side to win
You suppose wrong.
I put puppeteer into a serverless function and it worked well enough for low tens of thousands of PDFs a day. It's not fast, nor efficient, but it was reliable and surprisingly cheap. It was a definite improvement over the existing solution which was a terrible proprietary black box that was occasionally returning the wrong invoice, but that is not saying much. It was an easy drop-in replacement because we were already generating invoices in HTML, so we just sent them to the new PDF service instead.

Something like this is likely much more efficient than launching a whole browser for each PDF.
I think it is called competition.

Tesla was initially being sold at luxury car prices. But from the time I've spent in one, they seem a little plain --- not really all that luxurious. Lots of opportunity for others to exceed it.

I think Musk made a mistake by investing so much in China. It is easy to be squeezed out of the Chinese market if the Chinese government decides to do it --- after they feel comfortable with their ability to produce their own.
I don't know what scientific hole this peg fits into, but it might make more sense to run something in the browser than on the backend (scalability).

Instead of using a wasm runtime for python for that it might also make more sense performance-wise to at least write that part in js if not an even faster language compiled to wasm. Either way if it ends up on a webpage some js will be needed to at least glue things together.

Also, from the perspective of just wanting to write some code and get what I want, I really don't see much of a difference between python and js.

For the rest of us, it's kinda the other way around. We can't figure out why scientists prefer python over all the other many options. I'm assuming it's just a lot of cobbled together legacy code nobody wants to breathe on.

> Furthermore, given that WebAssembly seems poised to (eventually) make strides in how browser-oriented applications are built

Also, this isn't really true. The proposals and implementations out there suggest the goal is to use wasm for libraries and specialized optimizations. Nobody wants to wait for a massive binary to download. You can try to port legacy junk apps, but making it usable on the web (not a canvas) might turn out to be more work than it's worth in many cases.
Lots of attempts over the years at this personal crm problem space but no success to date. I did one on Facebook platform in 2008-09 called Socialfly, our tagline was ‘be twice the friend in half the time’.

Problem is there’s a lot of input and upkeep which limits appeal, the most important social data sources (text & phone) are not accessible via api, its a personal tool that you don’t necessarily want to tell others you use which limits distribution & scale, and even after all that in general it’s hard to scale personal authenticity.

I think the problem needs to be approached from a different angle along the lines of a personal assistant rather that an explicit data management tool. And it likely has to come from those with access to privileged social data sources like Apple or Google or Facebook.
> I just fail to understand what the issue is.

That to me suggests you've had very little exposure to cities that haven't so thoroughly given themselves over to one single mode of transport.

Or that all the issues from having so many people depend on private cars to get almost anywhere simply don't bother you - but there are more than a few of us who feel very differently.

I'd think LA is almost an ideal city for a (necessarily slow) transformation away from car dependency, given its density, climate and terrain, and indeed it would happen anyway if so much time, effort and money wasn't dedicated to maintaining such a massive road network - though simply neglecting it would obviously result in a fairly unpleasant transition for most. It would definitely require far more vision and willingness to break away from "what we've always been doing" than I suspect any of those currently in charge have. LA is certainly not exceptional in that regard - I'd say the same for basically all major cities in Australia too.
nice resource!
Really? I've had wires come in over the years and never participated in a conference call.
Nah friend of mine got banned from insta cause she had some performance art with a nip visible.

It'd also make moderation of child porn harder tbh.
Sure, but as others have said, how do you get column headers appearing on each page, put metadata into your documents, make elements properly selectable etc etc

"Just run it as a container" is a bit of an industry cop-out for making stuff unnecessarily complex.
> Also, talk to a few volcanologists and marine engineers about trying to build airfields on the tops of barely-above water active volcanoes.

Discount plane parking/moorage/incineration?
Yes, and they mark up exchange prices for MWR (in the name of not competing with off-base businesses).
It would have to be quite a difference in how much power costs, at least 25 percent or more.
Some people seem to be overthinking this by a long shot. If you have a company you want to build, then it's always the right time to start. The greater economy will always have influence both positive and negative. But considering this, it's probably better to start in a "bad economy" than a "good economy" assuming it's a strong business idea that you can keep alive and grow until the economy becomes "good" again, and then you can exit into the good environment rather than starting when things are rosy and wanting/needing to exit when things inevitably turn south again.
Do old Yubikeys and similar U2F devices, which do still work for webauthn, still work for sites that a going to require a "passkey"?

Or are MS+Google+Apple doing an "embrace, extend and extinguish" on webauthn?

Are the "small adjustements that ever so slightly reduces the security" sufficient to effectively kick security keys hardware vendor out of the game?
If you're logged in to wikipedia you can add custom css (and js) in 'Preferences > Appearance'
I did, yes. But not a lot.

> Some VB apps had almost no code at all that wasn't auto generated by the platform and bound to UI elements to handle button clicks and so on.

Then they weren't programmers, so I could see them having to "reskill" (actually become programmers). But if they transferred to another wysiwyg toolkit then there is still no reskilling, just relearning (as I mentioned in my cousin comment to this one). Knowledge isn't skill, it's just knowledge. If your knowledge ends at "I know how to use this particular toolkit" and your skill is "I can do it quickly, make it functional, and make it pretty" then the skill should be transferable while the specific knowledge may not be and you may have to learn new knowledge. But the skill remains.
why not just | grep "sex"
Thought-provoking and somehow ingenious, even if something about this makes me deeply uncomfortable.

To try to be a little constructive, is a relationship really worth anything if a half-bit is all one can spare for it?
You'll have to repeal FOSTA-SESTA first. And you'll even save some lives as a nice side effect.
Sure, but if you’re trying to buy only goods that are produced in countries with good labor laws, you’ll starve.
Bankruptcy & poor finances is the #1 reason for a clearance application to be rejected.

Shows a pattern of poor judgement, and makes the applicant way, way more likely to be bribed or blackmailed.

Bankruptcy also has a court angle, which means you can, with an amount of effort that's trivial for large, nation-state intelligence orgs, find a list of all recent bankruptcy cases in, say, Southern Maryland or Northern Virginia. The CI types lose a lot of sleep over this stuff.
The Saudis have an outsized influence on Islam as a whole, which is not financial leverage so much as it is a massive cultural leverage. Mecca was a huge (Muslim) tourist destination well before oil companies came to the Kingdom.
The markup doesn’t need to be html - and would be better not to be. The point is more that templating languages are great for formatting data as markup and markup is great for driving layout. With this library as a backend you can make something super usable.
I'll take a retired crypto mining card over a random desktop/gamer card any day.

Crypto cards are almost always run with lower power limits, managed operating temperature ranges, fixed fan speeds, cleaner environments, etc. They're also typically installed, configured, and managed by "professionals". Eventual resell of cards is part of the profit/business model of miners so they're generally much better about care and feeding of the cards, storing boxes/accessories/packing supplies, etc.

Compared to a desktop/gamer card with sporadic usage (more hot/cold cycles), power maxed out for a couple more FPS, running in unknown environmental conditions (temperature control for humans, vape/smoke residue, cat hair, who knows) and installed by anyone.
There have been several iterations of this sort of idea — a personal CRM — and the main issue I have is they should automatically scan my emails, texts and chats to figure out my friends and suggest that I reach out.

Also, want it to be 100% local and privacy first.
That's not how it works. You won't be told 60 days before you are let go. You will be let go and then given pay for 60 days.
Text width is important, but this is not a solution, zooming and changing browser window geometry is.