skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Olaf Scholz - the countries leader - is involved in the largest tax evasion scandal in the country - CumEx. He knew about it and did nothing to prevent it.

What kind of example does that set for the small business people in the country?

The politicians are massively corrupt in Germany (Berlins mayor lost her doctor title because she cheated and then she became mayor).

I can understand it when small business operators also want to avoid taxes - as the banks regularly also do.
It's pretty straightforward to make oneself a right nuisance at these sorts of places when service/food has already been rendered: just leave your cards at home.

I've yet to find a retail place that wouldn't take cash payment after I'd already eaten. Usually one of the staff just puts it on their card.
They can not disallow doing that (as you wrote, they are required to), but they do make it very hard, because they are unwilling to put up the cost. However, the regulator mandates they should: what needs to be done is make sure they are always taken to task, and that the task is extremely easy to perform.
To clarify my point, is that if we know where the priorities of MS lie... and as demonstrated we know from experience that the needs of MS come first. Then extrapolating to their open source telemetry is a no-brainer.
Having a 7% unregretted attribution target is pretty different than a 7% layoff. Many (most?) of the folks who make up that 7% leave on their own, because both the employee and the company are on the same page that it isn't working out.

A 7% layoff affects some people who are good employees, did nothing wrong, and are safe from a PIP -- but their position just no longer makes sense for the company to keep.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Have some physical cash, a couple of bank accounts, stocks and bonds, cryptocurrencies, valuable items if chaos ensues (guns, ammo, fuel, etc) and so on.
It’s funny that you say it’s just Texas because even as a Texan that’s not Texas to me.
This is intuitive but wrong; the balance of evidence is that poverty does not drive people to crime.

During economic contractions in the west for example, crime does not spike. 2008, or even the great depression: No crime jump.

In the past in the west, when everyone was much poorer (1960's back to 19th century) crime was often substantially lower even than now. We're talking 1930's slums here.

Poverty correlates with crime, but the causation is probably the other way: Crime destroys wealth of a community.

Or it might be a third cause: The kind of people who commit a lot of crime in their community are also the kind who are economically dysfunctional in general and will create poverty for themselves.
> But: complaining about the trackability of digital payments while ignoring the lack of tracking built into the prominent platforms, and also decrying the overreach of digital legislation in Europe ("GDPR made things worse") feels like wanting cake and eating it too.

1. Accusations of hypocrisy is not an argument.

2. How can you claim that “the prominent platforms” lack tracking? Nobody could say for sure, except a few people, whom the rest of us can’t really trust.

3. People in Europe are also complaining about the trackability of digital payments. And those people also tend to like the GDPR.
I'm suggesting that you should give advice to specific people and specific circumstances over giving advice to hypothetically generic people and then casting blame on the many, many individuals for which the hypothetical doesn't apply.
The thing is, founders can get fabulously wealthy with a lifestyle business or at least very wealthy, but it might take longer. But all the established money seeking rent parked at VC firms can't get a cut if you don't play ball with them.
I would say "Stop Building on immature language"which is exactly what Nim, Crystal are etc ...
Are you sure you aren't over-fertilizing? Or are you doing something else silly that causes you to lose all your N? That's a crazy amount of nutrient for even a very large garden.
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This isn't a defense of the corporate banking structure.

The cognitive load necessary to grok crypto currencies doesn't displace that which is required to utilize existing financial solutions, it's just adds to it. It's also less forgiving and has fewer safe guards or regulations.

For most people, crypto is just an added layer of obfuscation and complexity with some speculative gambling sprinkled on top. It benefits few and only when utilized by many.

It's like cash, if cash were a bar of wet soap you had to hold onto while riding a roller coaster in the rain.
I got scammed by a Zelle transfer when someone used my phone (without my authorization). I didn't even know I had Zelle but it's built into the BofA app. I lost $3,000. BofA refused to refund any of the transfer or reverse it. Total trash feature. I didn't sign up for it. I don't want it. BofA signed me up for it. I'm changing banks because of it.
It's a small sample size but I've seen more failed RAM chips than other components together. And a socket would make upgrades easier. Which of course isn't great if you're trying to sell higher spec up front instead of giving the option to upgrade later if needed. I'm not sure why a separate access panel would be needed, the whole bottom is easy to remove with a pentalobe bit.
I use the Strongbox iOS client.
It reads .kdbx files, integrates with apple sign-in features, and supports faceID.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/strongbox-password-manager/id8...
There are multiple ways of referring to this stuff.

* mutable/immutable (this is the way the book refers to it and used to be the 'official' terms but I don't know if they've changed that since I left, partially this is the name because you spell it "&mut".)

* shared/exclusive (this is the name that some people wish we had called mutable/immutable, a very very long time ago thing called the "mutapocalypse.")

Both sets are adjectives for "borrow."

I agree with you that "shared borrow" can feel like a contradiction in terms.

In general, they are duals of each other: it depends if you want to start from a place of "can I change this" or "who all has access to this," making each term more clear depending on the perspective you take.
I'm ambivalent, about card vs. no at small businesses. Places that take cards are more likely to get my business, but beyond that I'm not concerned.
Standard fare in "The Critic" - it's just another mouthpiece for excessive wealth and rightwing culture warfare, like "Spiked" and so on, the wealth in this case belonging to Jeremy Hosking, a Tory Party, Vote Leave and Brexit Party supporter to the tune of £millions, who topped off his contribution to the deterioration of UK politics by becoming the "founding donor to the Reclaim Party led by Laurence Fox"[0].

(Fox, in case you're lucky enough not to know, is a minor UK celebrity best known for his provocative behaviour around race, Covid vaccines and gender/sexuality. You can easily guess the sort of thing he gets excited about, I imagine.)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hosking
The difference between your toy and Robert, Rob, and Ken’s toy is that yours was built for your own reasons and theirs was built for the purposes of software engineering at scale. Whatever your thoughts about Go suiting that purpose, that was the intent, and why they were supported by Google in doing it.
Look at the comments on this post.

If you prefer cash you must be a criminal.

An ex girlfriend made me feel bad for paying cash at a restaurant, because people would think we're drug dealers.

A legal, government backed way to pay for good and services. Is culturally frowned upon or discouraged.

What a world
I wouldn't say Facebook apps were forgotten as much as actively suppressed by Facebook after a certain point in time.

In the early days of the platform app developers had a huge amount of freedom in terms of accessing users' social graphs, pushing notifications to timelines, and so on. It made it incredibly easy to build a viral loop and push out an app that spread like wildfire.

Obvious downsides to that - big privacy issues, and annoying users with endless notifications like you said. Facebook had to start restricting what app developers could do, and once that happened it became much harder for apps to get traction.
Reminds me of that line in Band of Brothers "Never put yourself in a position where you can take from these men".
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Another advantage to KeePass is that there's about half a million clients and most are actually written to be used for their platforms.

Lots of more "modern" password managers (as well as generally other software) kinda suffer from having this weird mixed mobile and desktop interface, inheriting all the downsides of each interface while gaining the advantages of neither. (Not to mention all the issues with porting stuff between two different OSes; Mac and Windows have completely different ideas on what an interface should look like.)

KeePass's official client being windows-only is a blessing in disguise since it means that each client developer can specifically focus on making it look good on whatever specific platform they're targeting.
Not yet. MongoDB requires resolving SRV dns records and we haven't implemented support for that yet (just A/AAAA via getaddrinfo()-like APIs currently)

Tracking issue: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/1822
> When the bin is full, Mill automatically mails a box to return the waste back to the company, where it’s cleaned, sifted, pasteurized and bagged to be sold as chicken feed to farmers.

> The goal is to eliminate the climate impact of food waste.

Yes, we will eliminate the climate impact of food waste by mailing it around the country.

Here’s an idea - how about getting together with your neighbors and having a local flock of chickens, not having an internet-connected trash can, not mailing your trash to a processing center, and not needing to drive to a store for some eggs.
Lots of banks (at least in the EU) give free accounts to young people (usually until 25 or 27), in the hope that they'll stay a customer for life, because changing your bank account number is a hassle.
It used to be like that at first here in Sweden but then small businesses became the main drivers of card only. They did not want to deal with the overhead of both handling cash and handling card payments. These days you can mostly use cash as big companies. The few small business who still accept cash are either old school or do tax evasion. Especially now with contactless payments which makes card payments fast.
Not so in Greece. Salaries are way lower than 3,5-4k per month. Doctors, for example, in public hospitals get around 2k per month and the consultants maybe around 2,5-3k.
Yup, this happened to me. I didn't sign up for Zelle. Didn't know I even had it. I lost $3,000 and BofA refused to reverse or refund any of the charges. Total BS.
Yes, it is hard to have a career eating ice cream.
Not knowing anything about PDF generation (but will need to soon), what can these libraries do that you can't do with something like a puppeteer web service and create PDFs with HTML/CSS?
Sure, but why don't slot machines get boring?
Which is an interesting comparison because these are not the only immigrant populations that do this, there are large groups of immigrant populations in Texas who are largely unbanked or underbanked or have cultural penchants for using gold and silver as stores of value, but there has been no concerted effort to burglarize them, because strings of home invasions in Texas usually end up with the home invaders in a body bag regardless of who they decide to target.
Awesome thanks for answering it.
How did they get access to the bank app on your phone?
Yeah, it is pretty complex and differs heavily by state. I know that in GA, for example, lottery proceeds go towards HOPE/Zell Miller scholarship fund for college students (which I am immensely grateful for, as it funded most of my own college education). Though, sadly, I've been reading over the past few years that it is on its way to drying out :(
It doesn't matter what banks accept; they are required to by the regulator. That they try to weasel out of it just means they need to be regulated harder and at more cost to the executive suit.
False. Every time you transfer money from an account at one bank to another you're using ACH. Same with moving funds from banks to stock brokers or brokers to banks.

The real reason it doesn't compete is its slow, and many banks have terms of service that say something like "You can only set it up between accounts you own" so sending to other people is often technically a violation of your agreement with a bank.
I think "self-anointed do-gooder" captures the idea perfectly. Many of these folks want to help Africans and many low-income countries, but arguments on Hacker News and government decrees don't help the poor.

Only free trade, preferably between rich and poor countries, can lift the poor out of poverty. Initially, it starts in a way you might consider "unfair" but soon, that unskilled labor learns better skills and starts to negotiate better wages.

So, like I said, many of these "do-gooders" sincerely want to help Africans but their approach hurts even more.
You must be soo easily fooled by low-hanging-fruit hogs
>> A couple of 10's of kg of fixed nitrogen a month

And for any other nitrogen uses. Haber-Bosch was originally conceived as a process for making cheaper explosives.

Wikipedia: "Allies had access to large deposits of sodium nitrate in Chile (Chile saltpetre) controlled by British companies. Germany had no such resources, so the Haber process proved essential to the German war effort. Synthetic ammonia from the Haber process was used for the production of nitric acid, a precursor to the nitrates used in explosives."
>If all goes to plan, these improvements will be the default on all wikis by the end of 2021, timed with Wikipedia’s 20th birthday celebrations...

And even its future is in the past. What was the point of this submission, at all?
In Belgium since last summer you have to accept at least 1 form of digital payment system. Some places try to bypass it by only accepting some obscure creditcards. Most places that didn't accept card now also accept payment via the app Payconiq, which has lower fees than card payments, but uses the same network.

It also became illegal to add fees for using cards or refusing cards for small amounts. It's also still legally mandated to accept cash btw, although you're not obliged to offer change.

Our terminals have slowly evolved to support NFC cards and payment systems such as Apple/Google Pay, but those are rarely used here in my experience. I think it's because those systems are generally blocked here by credit card providers, plus we tend to prefer to use debit cards instead.

Source: https://economie.fgov.be/en/themes/sales/payments/obligation...
> and unwillingness to be held accountable

I believe that one of the design considerations between the banks that developed Zelle was specifically to move more liability to the customer for fraudulent transactions.
That strongly depends on your definition of "usability". If it means appealing to the lowest common denominator, that's probably fair. Open source software tends to lean technical, because it's made by technical people for themselves. If it means being useful to the people who use it, then I don't think your argument holds water. NeoVim and Emacs at least fairly compete with VSCode, npm is not at all special in the world of package management (Julia's Pkg and Elixir's Hex come to mind as OSS superior offerings), and the world of programming languages is chock full of better languages.

To directly counter your "npm + TypeScript + VSCode", I counter with "Hex + Elixir + NeoVim".
Does this work for your average hospitality worker, or is it really only a solution for the techno elite?

In every institution I’ve worked at if you do something that accumulates fines you and your management get fired. Since it’s a small street, you also effectively get blacklisted. They’re also highly influenced by their credit rating and credit spreads for day to day operational financing, which negative reputational events directly impact. Boards are also really unhappy with these situations and C level folks are often fired. I think you understate the consequences, even if the bank itself can afford to pay the fines.
Is there a roadmap to getting to a 1.0 stable release?
Install an energy recovery ventilation system[1] [2]. If you have the money.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_recovery_ventilation

2. Schematic picture: https://www.panasonic.com/nz/hvac/products/energy-recovery-v...
As does sowing suffering, hatred, and pain in the world.

However, it is a poor solutioning to actually improving your conditions.

You see this kind of illogical thinking from unhinged school shooters.
It would be somewhat less objectionable if the "house" didn't take a cut. There's no good reason for the military to profit off this when they could offer the "entertainment" for free.
This is fantastic bite-sized example of exactly what makes Prolog and other logic languages so different to program in and will probably become my go-to example for introducing what's so special about Prolog to programmers with backgrounds in other programming languages who are looking for examples that involve "real-world" programming tasks.
I did qualify it with the "consumer" adjective, but I also have several pairs of expensive studio monitors and the HP1 sounds way better (though it lacks the "transparency" you need for mastering, but this is irrelevant as it doesn't even have an audio input anyway - lossy and latent AirPlay2 via Wi-Fi is the only way to get audio into them). They're somewhat of an engineering marvel.
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That quote smells like BS. There are a lot of people who don't surf, and those reasons aren't why.
Why don't Americans use direct money transfer from one bank account to another, like rest of the world?
I lol everytime I see these problems.
It doesn't work well if the layout of wifi transceivers it was trained on changes
Lenovo would have been successful with or without.
It might be really high value if it gives Norway claims to much more area and a larger exclusive economic zone in the Atlantic.
Or the space heater is more efficient because it's not producing light.
What's the most challenging thing you had while working on the project so far? It seems like the project has a pretty complex goal, so I wonder what things were the more difficult ones for you
I have no idea how what Steve Jobs said about the iPhone 4 over a decade ago is supposed to be related to a random HN poster's suggestion for fixing a HomePod.
Well done. I wish you all the success in the world.
How about the part where certain plugins and extensions which work with Azure and some other Microsoft assets are not permitted in the forks of VSCode?
That seems like a bad strategy since employees that are most in demand will be the first to find another job and leave.
i think 50% of HN would sign up for a part-time job if such things -- in a Professional/IT context -- existed.
They are military. They signed up to live under military discipline. So how about imposing on them the discipline of not gambling, at least on base? The Navy has strict rules banning alcohol on ship: strict rules are not impossible
...and he contributed music and SFX to Space Rubbish, an awesome bullet-hell Asteroids clone. https://vimeo.com/18472447
Richard Stallman once said he'd rather use software that was slightly less good over non-free software.

If you think this is insane or don't understand the viewpoint, I refer you to the fable of the wolf and the dog.
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-dog-and-the-wolf.html
>(Most people who stay in one job really mean lots of different jobs inside one giant conglomerate)

It doesn't even need to be a giant conglomerate. Roles evolve. Products/projects/priorities/technologies change. Certainly at the two 10K, give or take, employee companies I've worked for over ten years, I've done a lot of different things even though I went by some variant of the same title the whole time.
I will bet the do for the people who wade through customer support, but the vast majority of folks likely will just improve their profits by paying fees they shouldn’t have accumulated.
What I mean is the new users of the 2020's don't necessarily understand better the old paradigms. My daughters are more comfortable on Gnome 3 because it is closer than their parents phone UIs.
VB.NET has only superficial similarities to VB 6 and before. Microsoft discontinued the original VB in favor of VB.NET, but the engine lives on in VBA and Microsoft has used VB6 to build various internal things (I think some of the UI to Windows Defender is VB6).

But for most "Microsoft shops", VB6 was a dead end, and that left a lot of VB developers out in the cold. They had to reskill with the .NET stuff (significant, especially in the early 2000s), or starve.
To grok something and to utilize something are two entirely different levels of understanding and it is not honest to conflate the two; most people don't grok the existing financial infrastructures either.
> WinUI, WPF, WinForms, Win32, WinRT, MAUI
Literally the reason why I retired from developing rich/native windows apps. I also got burned when they pulled the rug out from under Silverlight.

Is MFC still a thing? Don't forget to add that to the list!
People buy insurance.

Wearing a helmet is no different of a concept.

One could argue that insurance is required by law in a lot of cases.

People are ok with that, but not laws requiring helmets.

The whole point of wearing a helmet is because accidents are rare and usually unexpected. It isn't like someone leaves the house expecting to get into an accident.
What was the decision making of chosing Zig for Bun, a very promising but immature language?
I remember when I played with that, was mostly to try to run some old worms/exploits and write win32 offensive code for windows XP.. stuff worked pretty well actually.
There are a lot of people who select a major only to discover upon graduation that the pay for it is minimum wage.

Everybody has activities that they enjoy.
Given how, for some topics—especially about itself or AI generally—ChatGPT seems to really get stuck in a rut, I suspect there's a lot of manually-written processing and categorization and massaging that's happening before (and, probably, after) the AI-proper gets ahold of prompts. I further suspect they audit responses to find topics where it comes up with shitty ones, and then fix those with the same kind of manual process.

I'd love to know how much of its seeming smart is because it's just that good and how much is because humans directly intervene, on some level, in how it responds. Is it that much better than other efforts, purely from machine learning, or has it just had tons and tons more human hours put into tweaking it than others have? How much of it's "real" AI and how much is good ol' hand-written decision trees?
I think about this too, but I'm not terrified, I'm excited.

What a great opportunity it would be to build something new based on things we actually value and not on threats made by dead men:

> This gold thing with my face on it is more valuable than other gold things without my face, and if you disagree I'll kill you.

-- Julius Caesar

... and we've been following that pattern ever since.
It can't be reconciled. Which is why there are going to be more posts about air exchangers on HN in the future.
Likely weighted by (at least) story points (I hope).
Even in the new design the line length is way too long. I get complaints about wasted screen space, but you really don't want lines of text blasting all the way across the screen either.