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When Mansa Musa toured Africa he built new mosques and paid the local workers in gold. Sounds great - skilled labour should get paid well, and he was paying very well. He ended up destabilizing (some people go as far as saying "wrecking") the Egyptian economy for decades. Basically put 22 tonnes of gold into a gold-based economy and suddenly it was deemed less valuable.
sounds like someone that's never taken that tropical sabbatical
Anybody care to explain on how it achieve such numbers in comparison to node and deno?

Why would anybody not use Bun, other than the cost of migration, given the performance improvement?

Nevertheless, amazing performance. Feels refreshing to see more improvements to the JS/TS community.
The intent (which is how law and regulation are interpreted), as expressed in the regulator comments on the regulation (e.g. 2(m)-4 at the link above), was to make sure the cost, to consumer, of using electronic services, is the same as having a human do the task.

Just imagine calling, or going to the bank to make a similar transfer to a scammy zelle one. I assure you the person you'd be speaking to would have to ask you some very pointed questions about that transfer, and not out of the goodness of their hearts.

banks try to replace humans with software to reduce their costs; reg E basically is "you're only allowed to harm your own workforce doing so, not your customers"
If it's static, at least it's not the worst kind (though I still "select element -> remove" when I see those): the ones that bounce down when you scroll up even one notch, covering the very thing you were scrolling up to see, are the web design equivalent of someone slapping you in the face.
We're talking about different threats.

If a Gemini server I connect to somehow has tracking, yes, that will track me. However, the threat I'm talking about is ISPs tracking me, which TLS protects against. It's interesting that people seem to be unwilling to see that even as a topic, and keep veering off into other discussions.
There has been a lot of politics. It's yet another case study for "why we can't have nice things."

When XMP first came out, Adobe tools would look at all the metadata in, say, an image file (such as EXIF) and re-express it in XMP format. I liked that a lot because I could read that XMP packet with my RDF tools and have complete access to all the metadata with very simple software.

At some point other people in the industry accused Adobe of undermining other metadata standards and Adobe was pressured to only use XMP for data that could not be expressed with EXIF and other formats. This takes away complete and easy-to-work-with metadata unless I write my own tools that can convert the EXIF metadata to XMP and merge it with the XMP which might be in the document.

The semantic web community also has some blame here as it never embraced XMP, if Adobe had had more industry support it might not have nerfed XMP. I very much like how XMP adopted solutions to problems like keeping track of the order of authors that communities like the one behind Dublin Core haven't had the moral fortitude to address... Keeping Dublin Core in the category of "metadata for an elementary school library" as opposed to the world beating solution that XMP and DC could have been.
Calling it unusable seems like unnecessary hyperbole. That said, it does seem like a step backwards! Do these things get A/B'd with static signup pages? Surely they are going to lose some signups for this. Maybe they don't care!
I agree. I was envisioning that after we shipped the people who don't like teaching off to national labs that the universities would just focus on teaching and could pay those people better.
Room detection isn't exclusive to Sonos, unless you're claiming YPAO/Dirac/Audyssey also licensed it. The HomePod is different because it does detection at the source, where everything else needs you to sample with a mic or phone app.
I turned overdraft coverage off at my bank. You can turn it on and off on-demand through their website. If your bank won't let you do this, consider another bank.
Could you explain to me why this is an anti feature? It seems harmless at worst and useful at best to me, e.g., having access to the search feature and lagnuage select during scroll here. (Serious question, I feel like I am missing something after reading this thread.)

I guess I dislike it on mobile when it takes up too much space.
Also worth noting the 14 year tech bull run and ever increasing amounts of capital looking for a return. In 2000-2010 it was in many ways easier to bootstrap as everything was smaller, complexity was less with simpler browsers and no smart phones, UX expectations were less, and salaries for software engineers were more in line with average professional salaries.

Not that I disagree with your assessment on pg's incentives and YC's change in position over time, but the environment for software startups is also materially different now that affect you whether you take VC money or not.
That piece of the puzzle is systemic, but it has a personal side as well, overlooked by people who claim things like the avocado toast guy is right. Humans need an escape valve to relieve stress without going crazy. In today's society, these escape valves cost money; so people do need to spend some money on a little affordable luxury, whether it's going to the movies, playing video games or indulging in a tasty food.

Perhaps in the past the destitute poor could find some free escape valves to this end, but modern urban society limits access to the social interactions and natural resources that made them possible.

It is a fallacy to suppose that living a monastic life would save enough money to get out of this extreme situation. Even discounting the mental imbalance it would cause, if your income is so limited, the meager savings of suppressing these small luxuries would not radically change your financial situation.
My girlfriend also lost 3000. Somehow money was sent from her phone to someone in Texas. We contacted chase and they said "you did it" so no refunds. But we didn't! She works from home and there is no other IP other than her phone in her Chase account. So how did this happen? We filed a complaint with the Police and tried to figure out what we can do through other channels. Turns out nobody cares!
It isn't. Law and regulation are interpreted by intent, not by a google search (also see official interpretation 2(m)-4 there)
95% every pull, no. But over long periods of time, that's about what most machines pay out.
Shameless plug to my own passkey manager, which is 100% open source: https://bulwark.id

One of the big challenges to passkeys right now is that they aren’t as versatile as passwords, but this doesn’t have to be the case. Passkeys should be able to be exported and stored anywhere you want (ideally in an open source solution). Bulwark Passkey supports that right now, but I’m glad that other products are also providing solutions to users for the same problem.
why is this project constantly benchmarking against deno and node? it seems to attract good attention this way but I wonder what else it offers besides performance.
Is there an A/B test at play? I don't see anything unusual or GPT-ish about the signup form. The only "unusable" aspect of it is the slightly-more-annoying-than-usual captcha.
I'm not entirely sure I follow your argument. 1.75MM rear endings occur yearly. Decreasing that number does seem relevant. Could / do these auto-brakes decrease that number? You seem to think no, per your second quote comment - I'm not sure, I haven't done any further research to see if there's a trend. I wouldn't be surprised in either direction, honestly. The ratio of accidents to "near miss" is probably hundred(s?) to one, but could this make it more? I don't know. Fwiw - I'm anti-auto-brake as a rule, but I'm just curious if the data would be in their favor or not.

I don't have an auto-brake feature, only ridden with people who do. I believe that most of them do have some sort of warn prior to brake - but to your point, there are so many situations where this could falsely trigger that it would likely end up being tuned out, at least as I imagine it. Actually, my truck has one of the "warning" things, and I ultimately turned it off for this reason. The number of "immediate danger" warnings that would flash when I was driving, e.g. alone on a country road at night, made it not worthwhile to me. I can imagine an auto-brake would be even worse that way though, lol.
Yes I probably oversimplified my stance. I still eat carbs, just drastically reduced my intake. Especially highly processed carbs, and now aim for complex carbs as much as possible.
Is a 4090 practically better than a 3090? I just built a new home DL PC with two 3090s because I knew I could fit them both in the case, whereas with the 4090 it seems more than one could be difficult. Also wondering if I can pool the RAM somehow, nvlink won't work because the 3090s are different sizes, and apparently nvlink doesn't do much more than pcie anyway.
The amount of trouble and complication front end devs make for themselves because they refuse to learn CSS is incredible. I've literally heard people call it "raw CSS" as if they were toggling in instructions on the front panel of a minicomputer.
Love passwordstore, been using it for almost 6 years with zero issues while watching my friends run frantically from one compromised or greedy password manager to another.
Eventually, yes it does.

Most therapists will coach the depressed to exert self control and do things they don't want to.

Medication can help, but behavioral change and pattern formation are crucial to recovery and preventing relapse.

Most of it boils down to just do x, even if you don't want to, because you logically know it is important in combatting depression.
Visual Studio Code's Free version is crippled by, among other things, not being able to use certain language servers.
"It's bad to help old people retain the ability to walk or go to the bathroom on their own or remember their children, because rich guys might benefit" is the most horrifyingly vindictive argument I've ever seen.
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I would ask the other way ... why use Bun if the other products are mature and good enough? I've seen Node forked (to Deno I think) and then eventually they merged it back.
Talk about government recycling programs, that's almost like money laundering when what they pay servicemen just comes right back in the form of captive gambling addicts.
Used KEF Q150 if you mean full sized speakers. Or these: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-surround-sou...

> Or in Audiophile terms, what is the DT 770 Pro of home stereo setups?

You want speakers with a weird treble hump and sibilance?
> Almost everyone using GPUs for work will join NVIDIA's Inception program and get rebates... So why look at retail prices?

So maybe they were including information for the hobbyists/students which do not need or cannot afford the latest and greatest professional cards?
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The problem is that most of the time, threads like that quickly devolve. They go from intelligent, thoughtful conversation about an issue to people ranting, throwing insults, personal attacks, etc. Or just armchair financial experts giving terrible advice. (Par for the course with that particular subreddit)

Money can quickly become a heated discussion. I'd assume behind that thread is a wall of much worse comments that had to be removed. Removing them all gets exhausting, and sometimes it's better to just lock the thread and move on.

I really don't think they care one way or the other about BoA.
I wouldn't. Getting laid off is a lifechanging event, on the approximate level of an immediate family member going to the ER. Both require leaving the office immediately.

My teammates (if they are still employed) can sort it out.
Did you use VB6? It was less a language and more of a wysiwyg windows desktop GUI application builder. If that's what you learned in school and it was your first professional job, you would have a very difficult road ahead of you learning something like C. Maybe 3 out of the 20 were successful moving on. 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.
Some may see that story title as almost clickbait.

An average bank clerk's salary in Kenya is about 30,000 Kenya Shilling per month which is about $241 US dollars. At $2/hour, the data workers were making around $280 US dollars per month.

If there really is an aggrieved worker, I'm sure the pay is not great when compared to salaries in the US but the worker isn't in the US or dealing with US costs. One of the reasons many around the world seek to emigrate to the US is for American salaries and only realize when they're in the US that the cost of living in the US is often much higher than "back home".
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Some v interesting stuff here from Tariq from Qatalog. Illustrates why LLMs could be a lot more powerful than most realise - but also why the way we build products will need to change.
Exactly right, thank you for saying this. I will never forget back in the 00s, when electronic market makers were squeezing out floor traders and the pits were closing down, an outraged floor trader exclaimed to me: “They’re using .. COMPUTERS! To trade!”, in a tone that suggested how grossly unfair and (in the spirit of many a hacker news comment) how insider-trader-y it was.
VB6 is an entirely different beast. A professional VB6 developer who didn't have formal training was very well insulated from what their code actually did - that's not to say that they weren't, or that their weren't extremely talented VB6 developers. It's just that for many developers who fell into it from scripting or who invested all of their time and learning into the pre-.NET ecosystem, they had to choose to relearn a significant amount of technical content. Even though the languages were syntactically similar, jumping from VB6 to VB.Net meant learning an entirely new framework and object model, and having to deal with some issues that were hidden from them before.

In many cases it was as different as using BASIC vs Pascal or even C to write CLI tools (a hurdle I jumped in high school in the mid-90s, and despite doing alot of stuff with PEEK and POKE in basic, understanding pointers took me longer than I care to admit :P)
Micro-front ends: Composable Decoupled Front ends
> I was told the week I landed "there's two type of people

Same when you live somewhere remote like the Yukon or smaller places in Alaska. People won't even really associate with you until you've been there a full 12 months because they don't want to invest time in someone that is likely to just leave anyway.

-48C (-55F) is a hell of a thing, but the lack of sunlight I personally found much, much harder.

The wonderful part though is that virtually nobody lives there that doesn't love it, because if you don't love it, you leave. That means the people that stay are passionate about it, and do every possible activity all the time - more so in the dead of winter!

(I stayed 4 years, miss the place intensely)
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> Otherwise you appear to willfully misunderstand. These may not be your priorities, but taking offense and framing them as "crazy" does a disservice.

So make your own Go compiler & package manager and stop complaining? The language spec is open.

Or if putting your money where your mouth is feels too hard...

Use an implementation of a corporate sponsored language that has free and open tooling around it... ex: GNU C/G++

Or fuck it - use the GCCGO compiler... https://go.dev/doc/install/gccgo

Because it turns out if this really is your priority - there are active ways to handle it because, despite being corporate sponsored, the language definition is still open...
This is for making PDFs using C# code, right? And you can preview it while you work? I was wondering if that is available for other programming languages.
Wire transfers are also reversible. It may not be easy or cheap to do so, but it is possible (the Citigroup $500mm mispayment is a great example: the error was done August 2020, and Citigroup are still working to undo it, at an expense to them. I'm certain it'll take them a few more months, and God only knows how many more billable hours at the very least).
Why would you quit when you'd get severance if you're laid off?
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I was looking at local classifieds (Kijiji), but it is true there are plenty of pretty reasonable (~1K CAD) listings on ebay.ca that ship from abroad.
Slightly? I can't make out things easily, on my smaller screen phone.

And it asked me 4 times, before I gave up and just mashed random answers (and got kicked to the start).

It's silly.
>BS? Based on what experience of yours?

In addition to having lived (for a short time) in Kenya, worked for a company based out of Nairobi for nearly 5 years, and worked with Kenyans that whole time (in other words, I've seen this stuff firsthand in Kenya, which is the whole point of the article, and my comment)...I have also lived in, worked in, and studied in other developing countries, and seen firsthand what happens when high-paying companies swoop in and change the economic landscape.

You know what actually happens? Positive economic change. Isn't the whole point of HN (and YCombinator) to disrupt the status quo, and promote growth? Destabilizing a corrupted, top heavy, status quo where more people now have a chance to grow in life rather than live in abject poverty is a good thing. Nobody cried for the Taxi companies when Uber & Lyft came along, because they destroyed a parasitic, rent-seeking system (Taxi medallions) and the experience for the end-user (both driver and rider) was significantly improved. Same logic applies here.

>The result:

--> He was threatened with harm by bosses of local companies.

Why? He took all their workers.

Yet there's a flipside here that you're completely missing. Those same workers had a significant improvement in their lives, most likely able to accumulate what for them was generational wealth, or enough to give their kids a shot at a real chance in life. Those people had enough to stimulate their local economy much more than anyone beforehand. THAT is what drives positive change in 3rd world or developing countries. Keeping things the way they are economically with no disruption in the 3rd world keeps people poor and unable to grow which leads to bigger problems down the road. Giving them a real chance in life by paying them more gives them and their families a larger ability to make real change in their countries and communities. That should be celebrated.

Put yourself in the worker's shoes - if someone offered to 10x your wages, what would you do with the extra wealth that you now posses?

Having also lived in that part of the world (Mexico, which isn't the quite same as Honduras but analogous enough) , I understand how things sometimes play out in cases like this. The local bosses in your example were probably doing quite well for themselves and keeping a fat cut of the output of their laborers who were paid pennies, and not happy that their game was now being played by a bigger fish than they could fry. So, they acted like a cartel and tried to threaten the new king in town. Did some of the local companies in your example die? Yeah, probably. But nobody is entitled to stay in business....that's sort of the whole point of globalized capitalism - you compete, and you can win or lose, sometimes through your own fault, or sometimes through no fault of your own. Sometimes someone will steal your lunch, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. That's the reality of it.
Wow. I greatly dislike this signup page.

Give me static forms without heavy JS, please!
No, this is patrick!
Python is not immune to this (for different reasons though)... If you want to be snide online, make sure you're correct first :)
Will those basic web pages be less than 250 lines for the equivalent look? I'm skeptical.
Agreed. I know I'm taking it on faith that this implementation is robust and secure when it might not be. However, I feel okay about it knowing that it would be very difficult for anyone other than me to access this Docker instance in the first place. And if I'm outside my home network, I'm interacting with it via the VPN.
What? Seems perfectly fine?

I know interactive "one-step-at-a-time" signup forms may not be popular among the HN crowd, but let me tell you, they sure are wonderful in non-tech enterprise. At least in my experience. I guess you could argue that the target audience for Github isn't exactly non-tech enterprise employees, but I can't speak about people outside of that user group as they are the ones I have experience with.

I must admit that I can't remember how it worked when I signed up many years ago, but I'm personally liking this new version.
A ziggurat?
(The one and only WalterBright! What an honour.)

Terribly sorry about that. I've moved you into the list. It's been a long time now but I really did like D and its meta-programming features.
I took some quick measurements. The previous version leaves 2% of my browser window as whitespace containing no images or text. By comparison, the new version is 53% whitespace. That seems pretty extreme to me.
There are PDF generators that work just like that. As a web developer who uses C# on the backend, QuestPDF is exactly what I want.
I mean... it seems fine, a bit odd for sure and the padding on the green confirm button need to be fixed but its fine overall. does the job
It runs with that option but trees don't render properly so it's not perfect.
Ah yes, ram and flash storage, the things famously known for breaking in modern compute hardware
A lot of current IG is NSFW. That's not the issue.

The issue is that allowing topless women will encourage even more of the porn industry to use IG as a lead generator. There's already a ton of that for OnlyFans.

That's not a moral problem for a rational person, but it's potentially a huge problem for advertisers. Fidelity doesn't want their ad directly above a nearly-nude woman in a leather bondage outfit.
If you have life aspirations to do a Masters/PhD degree, now might be the time.
Who got hurt by "destabilizing the labor economy"? The bosses who were perfectly fine resorting to threats and extortion? It certainly wasn't the workers.

It is fine to recognize that people who wield economic power might be upset when a new economic power arrives in town, but to describe the new guy who is trying to do the right thing as somehow immoral is classist nonsense.
Microsoft has a long and infamous history with CSS selectors.
That they start off by saying they parse selectors right to left is shocking, but not surprising.
> Law and regulation are interpreted by intent

Nothing in Regulation E indicates an intent to cover intentional transfers by the account holder to scammers. Quote something specific if you disagree.

> also see official interpretation 2(m)-4 there

None of those scenarios match "I willingly sent money to something that turned out to be a scam". At all.

Each example in that interpretation is that of an unintentional transfer - bank employees doing it, stolen devices, being under duress.