skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who just left berlin for good after growing up there, it is repulsive to see a brit mourn the worst and backwards parts of "berlin" just because they are connected in his mind to some romantic roughness. Slowly fading of Cash only mentality, Piss and Smoking everywhere are among the very few positive developments i could see before deciding to leave. (Though it is still nowhere near feeling like a convenient or modern city.) Can we please stop using user tracking as an argument against supporting cashless payment? I have heard this so many times and no one talks about removing the option to pay by cash, just not forcing you to run half a kilometre to a ripoff cash machine in the middle of the night, just stop this.

That aside, i see a stream of friends leaving berlin with me in a relatively short amount of time, everyone has his own reasons but for me it was a mixture of not being affordable anymore, being backwards and inconvenient as well as feeling unfair (i moved to a different country, this is true for all germany) Most importantly i really feel the people changed quite a bit in the last 7 years specifically, not just in my surrounding but also the vibe of people on the streets and shops, everyone feels fake and pretentious, not in the tourist sense but in the sense of looking at instagram profiles of people you dislike.
Yes, used the wrong term of course, I meant something to show the idea.
I'll never understand the name - "Windows Subsystem for Linux" sounds like a way to run Windows on Linux, not the other way around.
> I literally pulled those quotes from the Transparency Institute’s page on the corruption index

Such organizations literally calculate those 'indexes' on ! perceptions !. They ask the people if they think their country is 'corrupt', and people respond yes or no.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021

Leaving aside just by selecting the 'right' sample you can make anything happen, there is a bigger elephant in the room: Cultural differences.

In countries like France, Russia and Eastern Europe, complaining is a national sport. People socialize by complaining about everything, foremost, the government, the bureaucracy and so on. So if you ask even a neutral observer, he or she will literally spam many complaints and will strongly state that everything is corrupt.

Conversely, the cultural paradigm in other countries is way too different - in the US, for example, the existence of lobbying and the immense, mind-boggling money in politics are not seen in the same way. They are seen as 'problems', but they are not the game-breakers that should launch the US to the top of the index. They are merely labeled as 'flaws'.

> the Nordic countries rank fairly well as being uncorrupt

Its true that these countries do better in objective criteria related to what we describe as corruption. But their presence in any index does not validate that index. To start with, neither the Nordic citizens see the immense revolving doors and cooperation in between their defense industries, their governments and how their defense industries do business with repressive regimes and all that goes around it as 'corruption'. Many are not even aware of its existence.

And the elephant is in the room for them too - Nordic countries have a cultural propensity to stoicism, and they also say that they are happy in polls for happiness indexes, and they rank high in them. And yet their suicide rates are far higher than the countries in which people say they are unhappy, but live longer and healthier (like Spain etc).

So these indexes are just PR and propaganda vessels that pitch the world view of their establishment and their society's culture.
FedNow is no different from Zelle; it seems to me banks could still mess it up, and most of the complaints here (that you can't reverse a transaction you sent) would still apply to it, since that's kind of the point.
"But it doesn't matter much either way. It's the people that matter. And for a given set of people working on a given technology, the time to act is always now."

So agree with this sentiment. It matters less about when you start a company. It's how you execute. You might be building something very timely, but if you can't scale then it hardly matters whether there's a recession or not.
I am sure prostitution does well too.
“Addiction By Design” by Natasha Dow Schüll is a good book to answer this question.
Is it true that if I had $50K in a bank, for the sake of example let's use Bank of America, and the bank just straight up loses my account and loses track of the fact that I had that money with them, FDIC does not ensure I get my money back? Would I just be reliant on the bank having good will towards me and giving me my money voluntarily? Is there any consumer protection that actually protects the consumer against business malpractice like this if FDIC doesn't?
I haven't seen, but would love to, a tech startup that is guaranteed not to sell out. I don't mean a promise from the founder on a blog, but a legal structure. I'm not sure what what form this would take or if it's such anathema that it could never be but it would be great to see.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's tired of the bait-amd-switch of companies who are all about freedom until they get acquired by a giant and then start hastily walling their garden.
> We shouldn't expect every file format to roll its own error detection.

On the other hand, why not? If you are dealing with files that are usually 200kB+, putting 4 or 16 bytes towards a checksum is not a big deal and can help in some unusual situations. Even if the decoder ignores it for speed, the cost is very low.
I just tried in Firefox (confirmed in Brave) and found that there is another element which is added next to the article's title and can be clicked to show the table of contents with a link that says "move to sidebar" (which also does the thing).
Because stolen guns are very valuable and the owners have to officially report them stolen to avoid all the possible criminal charges.
RAM. Devices with less than 2GB RAM were dropped.
Do you mean Acroforms?
I'm 49 now, and can't say a lot has changed in my career due to age. The only real change here is that with the job I accepted most recently, and where I've been for nigh on three years now, I don't do much coding anymore despite having a title of "Principal Engineer". A lot of what I do now is closer to management, even though I don't have any people reporting to me.

Now in regards to life more broadly ... the big changes have mostly been around health & fitness. I was great up until about 42, and then things took a bit of a downward turn. I went from having no (known) chronic issues and mostly only needing the doctor for sports related injuries, to developing type 2 diabetes and eventually have two heart attacks. Luckily, despite all that I can still mountain bike, run, etc. but I'm definitely starting to notice that I don't have the energy I used to have. And now I'm on a pile of prescription drugs and see the doctor a lot more regularly.

The biggest thing I'd say to someone who is right around 40 is this: if you're in good shape physically and are active, KEEP IT UP. If you're not very fit and aren't active physically, please for the love of FSM, find a way to get active and get fit. And when you do get there, don't stop. That was always one of my problems throughout my life: I'd go through "phases" that would alternate between me training for competitive sports and focusing on fitness to an obsessive degree, and periods where I was a complete slob / couch potato. Too many of the latter are, I strongly believe, a big part of why I saw the health decline I did.

I hate to be the preachy type, but please take this to heart. Adopt a healthy diet, find a way to stay active, maintain your cardiovascular health, etc. It really is worth it, especially as you age.
Why aren’t there any legal protections for the children of influencers?
I'm simply saying that HTTP is perfectly fine and it's not legacy.

Of course it's easier to pay for a certificate from a certification authority that maintains the infrastructure, and no, Letsencrypt is free only on the issue side, but maintaining HTTPS has its warts (for example: renew the certs every 3 months!)

but the problem is not HTTP, HTTP in the hands of people who know what they are doing is completely okay, if browsers ban HTTP I predict an explosion of protocols like Gemini or something similar

A lot of low power devices don't need or can't handle HTTPS and there's no problem if what they do doesn't need security nor identity verification.

Meanwhile it's baffling that we are pushing for internet non-public non-state-run identity authorities, while in UK, Japan, Russia, USA and many other countries such an authority don't even exist for real people...
I do need something like that. I think "location based reminders" in ios/android come close, but wouldn't this be cool...

Type out a list of things you need to do in code:

1. We need to accept batch applications not just one
1. To accommodate this, we need a new parameter in the Gizmo accepting function
2. The REST API needs an optional new parameter to accept an array of applications. The code in this function also needs a new error if the array is populated as well as the old parameter for the single application.

Then say in VS-Code a special thing would go in and find all locations in the code that match this and show files that need adjustment. The files would be clickable and when you scroll down see visual annotations of the areas that need change.
The bank does need to cooperate to accept the transaction "instantly", but mostly they do since it's good for them.
What does "make a profit" mean? Is that the money from IPO? Or money laundering? Idgi
The graphs ranking GPUs may not be accurate, as they don't represent real-world results and have factual inaccuracies. For example:

> Shown is raw relative performance of GPUs. For example, an RTX 4090 has about 0.33x performance of a H100 SMX for 8-bit inference. In other words, a H100 SMX is three times faster for 8-bit inference compared to a RTX 4090.

RTX 4090 GPUs are not able to use 8-bit inference (fp8 cores) because NVIDIA has not (yet) made the capability available via CUDA.

> 8-bit Inference and training are much more effective on Ada/Hopper GPUs because of Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA) which saves a lot of registers

Ada does not have TMA, only Hopper does.

If people are interested I can run my own benchmarks on the latest 4090 and compare it to previous generations.
It might leave you logged in for a short period of time (in case you are planning to back to the app), but it logs you out relatively quickly even if you do not “close” the app.
Wouldn't FDIC insurance cover this? For the average person they'd be fine, if they have over 250k in the bank then they aren't the average person
Because slot machines are synthetic dopamine generators and humans have thousands of years of evolution tweaking us to favor dopamine-generating activities.
"On the other hand, OpenAI moderation doesn't do anything for Kenyans."

Have you worked at OpenAI in Kenya?

Because you're speaking in absolutes-- as though you're an authority on the topic.

Let's use basic logic: Working at a technology company by its nature provides:

- Increased experience with Computers

- Increased experience with Data

- Increased experience with Business Processes

- Increased experience with AI Technology & AI Business

- Increased experience with Potential business ideas for startups due to exposure to the business processes of the company and the potential therein for improvement

- Pay
So is it just a matter of disclaimers?

Can you say "fat people who are physically and mentally capable would benefit from eating less than exercising"?

What, specifically, are the harms this is trying to avoid? Does it avoid people incapable of exercises accidentally injuring themselves? People blaming themselves when they have no ability to exercise and no control over their diet?
Not sure if this is new information or not, but this post mentions that Bitwarden is planning to support passkeys starting in 2023.

That's great, since AFAIK all existing passkey implementations are tied to a specific browser or OS, and have no way to export the keys, which isn't great for a program designed to own the keys to your digital life. I'm hopeful Bitwarden will solve that problem, and that their example will encourage other popular password managers to do the same.

(...or at least, I think "passkey support" means they plan to support storing passkeys in Bitwarden itself. I hope it doesn't just mean they want to let you use a passkey to log in to Bitwarden. That'd be really disappointing, and probably a poor choice strategically given that passkeys aim to eventually render traditional password managers obsolete.)
I don't think that's accurate. The bigger issue is economic access - poor people can't afford to stock up since they are often living paycheque to paycheque. Even middle class folks living in dense urban centres have access to car shares and delivery services. Yes there is a cost, but it's usually quite cheap.

As for storage, except for the smallest apartments, most storage spaces can be optimized quite a bit for very little cost just by purchasing containers that fit spaces properly, have good seals, and abandoning commercial packaging, especially for products that are packed for shelf appeal, not bulk storage.
I'm a corporate lawyer (and not one that works for tech clients) and I have long had an interest in programming and tech. I'm not the only such person in my field, either. Software development has never been more accessible or high profile so I think these days you get people from all fields who may have an interest in it.
- Ziglings is great - https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings

- zig.news has some good posts https://zig.news/

- Zig's language docs: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/

- Zig's standard library code https://github.com/ziglang/zig/
Without free movement of workers across borders labor is not a free market.
I had looked for something like this in a recent round of optimization to get a feeling whether it's really worth it optimizing individual css selectors. What I took from (old) articles was that it's generally not and the effects are too small to measure, but maybe they never expected to work on large DOMs with lots of css.

What I'd really like is something that'll run a performance recording and allow me to step into it at any given time to see what HTML + CSS is currently in effect, those things have been the most annoying to debug when styles are applied while content is still being parsed and flex is resizing when new columns appear as nodes are added and causing layout shifts.
Even in languages with a garbage collector you make decisions that impact the lifetime of an object. That is not what makes the memory management manual.

For instance, you can still have a memory leak in Java if you maintain a reference to an object that you never intend to use again. It’s still up to the programmer to prevent this.

> With true automatic memory management like tracing GC or reference counting, you have no idea where the or when the memory will be freed as you write the code, and the answer will usually be different over different invocations of the same code.

This just isn’t true, and it would be anarchy. You know that the object will be freed sometime after the last reference to it dies. This is the whole reason to use automatic memory management.

Reference counting approaches typically go even further and free the memory immediately when the last reference is eliminated.

And this is basically what Rust does with ownership. When the object goes out of scope and ownership is not transferred, the memory is freed. It’s just that it doesn’t always need the reference counting part. But you can rest assured that it will be freed.

With manual memory management, the programmer must manually free the object, and there is no automatic method to do this once there are no references. That is what makes it manual. The programmer might forget to free the memory or they might free memory too soon and try to use an object after it’s already been freed. This is not the case in Rust.
> Cool. And which of those can I generate using excess electrical energy from my solar panels?

Perhaps use the excess energy to power an electric wood chipper to process your garden's waste? Wood chips made from small branches are quite rich in nitrogen.

> Over the last 3 years I've imported almost 5000kg of animal manures into my gardens.

What size garden do you have? The recommended dosage of manure is 30-50T per hectare, so 3-5T per 1000m2, but this is for the most exigent vegetables.

> Its more important for me to have the independence and control over my food-supply than it is to hold to a particular relgiosity around where my N comes from.

When you use a chemical fertilizer you depend on the manufacturer and distributor. How can this be called independence?

There are important differences at the soil biology level between the N coming from a chemical fertiliser or assimilated by soil bacteria. The former induces plants to use more water, necessitating more frequent watering. It also infiltrates ground water and pollutes aquifers. Another externality is greenhouse gas emissions in the process of manufacturing it.

> When that fails, I'll use a pesticide.

I'm not passing judgement but I think it's important to understand the consequences of our choices. At this point it is common knowledge that chemical fertilizers and pesticides are harmful to the environment and to people's health. I think it's important to be aware of the externalities implicated in all those choices. They might be easier, faster, cheaper in the short term, but in the long term they may prove to be introducing problems that are much harder, slower, much more expensive to solve in the long term.
I don't see any support for tagged PDF output. That's important for accessibility, particularly for screen reader users.
And scale doesn't mean technology.
My grandpa used to tell me about hand-cranks to start an engine[1] and maintaining a car prior to antifreeze (had to drain all the water from the radiator in the winter).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pLp4tlIw0
Crypto isn't terribly hard, depending on the exact context you have in mind when you say 'crypto'. It boils down to keeping your key safe and accessible, or in the custody of someone who can keep your keys safe and accessible.

You can literally stamp your keys into some steel plate, bolt them somewhere safe in your house, and forget about them for 30 years. You use a hardware wallet for your day-to-day and a separate hardware wallet for your savings account and transfer between as needed.

It's not for everyone, but it isn't hard - it's just new context.
It's not reversible by Zelle, but it is reversible by the bank. Zelle is just an intermediary between banks. Some banks make it easier to get a fraudulent transaction fixed than others.
Google Research, 2022 and Beyond: Language, Vision and Generative Models
they're not amateurs

reddit mods are paid by outside companies and interest groups to specifically get access to places so they can control narratives

non-associated mods get offers from companies and interest groups for them to be in their favor

other, more nefarious mods have their own botfarms that they use to control narratives in their own massively popular subreddit because the police don't arrest themselves

media corporations, companies with specific interests, and intelligence agencies have all learned to play this game, reddit should have put the spots up for auction
He's a regular guest poster on the blog:

He's been consistantly wrong about renewable stuff since 2015

https://judithcurry.com/2015/05/12/true-costs-of-wind-electr...
The part you're missing is that candidate A might be just as better than and just as sociable as candidate B. But if the manager knows candidate B, candidate B will get the job. The result is that the best person did not get the job. It's observation bias.
I recently implemented WebAuthn for a toy project, and while it took a bit to wrap my head around the details, it’s fairly straightforward if you know the problem domain a bit.

I’d say we’re going to see polished libraries soon that will abstract all the details away, but services like this may help less experienced developers to quickly get secure auth working.
Wow that is crazy, Microcenter in the USA had 4090s going for under $1100 USD not too long ago.
1: The data is obviously completely bogus unless you believe there were only 11 burglaries in Florida in all of 2021. You can't draw anything from it.

2: Texas is the second most populous state, so total # has little value. You need the per capita number to understand whether their might be some deterrence happening. Unfortunately the Statista data is garbage, so it isn't worth calculating.
Can confirm it was fairly common in the Marine Corps, even some of the grunts and motor transport guys would get interested on ship duty. When you're bored as hell you'll take anything you can get.
Do I believe they know the project "very well"? No, probably not, but that's an extremely high bar to meet.
The same way that downloading a picture that you don't own is. You're only making a copy, not removing possession of the original from the owner.
I kind of want to point out the discrepancy in saying "I get syncing without sharing my data with anyone by sending my password database to Apple". If your argument is that the database is encrypted, how is Bitwarden different?
In addition, many of these virtue signalers are not donating their money or time to help with anything that they virtue signal on.
One small note, but Nim's comptime support is on par with Zig's. It's preferred using comptime and templates over macros when possible.

Here's an example (1) of a compile time object to key value layer I did without macros. It's a basic wrapper to split an object's fields into separate key-value pairs for storage. The problem is that the storage system only has 16bit ints for keys which makes collision a large possibility. So this wrapper checks at compile time that there aren't duplicate keys.

1: https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/nephyr/blob/main/src/nephyr/e...
Not being a non profit or charity, I'm fairly sure profit was a need for sustaining the business before investment.
It’s also not the toilet companies job to resolve that is it?
I would also recommend "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" [1], as you are learning hands on with some practical stuff: from generating Excel-files to PDFs, from sending e-mails to work with files and folders.
At the end you will have some tools to automate some of your daily tasks for real. Oh, and it's free to read as well.

[1] https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
It's an open secret that investors get 20% of the upside for 1% of the work of founders. Parrot enough plausible nonsense to impressionable people to get favorable investment terms and you're well on your way to monetizing your position as a newly minted thought leader.

Nice work, if you can stomach it.
> HTTP/1.1 can serve these same functions as Gemini with immeasurably broader support. As the commercial web switches to HTTP/3 the demographic left will reflect these aspirations.

So ... because TCP-based HTTP/1.1 might be deprecated on major browsers in the future ... then it's great that Gemini has it's own browsers (optional), application-level protocol, and port, and that it doesn't currently depend on existing HTTP infrastructure?
Doesn't necessarily matter what LastPass "would have also led their customers to believe", the mathematical reality is still that LassPass vaults are crackable in a way that 1P vaults fundamentally are not.
https://www.helpwithmybank.gov/who-regulates-my-bank/index-w...