skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember seeing this comment (paraphrased) when ADP was announced:

"We'll know for sure if it becomes available in China. If it works in China, it's clearly cooked."

Well... it's going to be available in China, it looks like. However, some consideration of the ground situation perhaps should be considered. Potential reasons why the CCP is willing to permit it:

- China doesn't really need a warrant, or a good legal reason, to go and arrest someone they don't like. If they don't like what you are doing, they have no problem showing up and seizing your devices physically... and using the $5 Wrench attack (or just, a really long time in jail if you don't give up the PIN) to get around it.

- Another possibility, "he had it enabled, therefore he's more likely a criminal." Even if he's just an innocent person, it's a useful thing to blame.

- Remember also that iCloud is handled by Chinese data center companies... so anyone enabling it might actually just be a useful flag to the CCP that this person thinks they are interesting, and so increase surveillance elsewhere.

- The CCP doesn't really care what people individually think, but how they influence others - so, if he has nasty thoughts but keeps them to only to himself (and thus doesn't come up on surveillance), so what?

- And to add to all those potential reasons, so what if iCloud is E2E when when the CCP can scan all their WeChat messages and SMS texts? The odds of a "criminal" doing illegal stuff in iCloud alone isn't high. Besides, if he shares anything with anyone, it becomes non-E2E.

- The CCP can hardly keep track of all their party members - as of 2022, 96 million people were members. Perhaps the ability to get some of their disparate members on E2E-encrypted cloud storage outweighs the risk. If it prevents even one national embarrassment...

That's just my thoughts though on why the CCP may tolerate it. I don't know though for certain, obviously.
This is false.

Texas and California are roughly tied in burglaries per capita, 370.7 and 369.7 per 100,000. New Mexico has the most, at 648.8/100,000. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/232580/burglary-rate-in-...) Interestingly, New Mexico has a bit more than three times as many guns per capita as Texas. (https://www.statista.com/chart/21894/firearms-in-each-state/)

Property crime rates are going to be suppressed in Texas among the (undocumented) immigrant population because of a justifiable lack of trust between them and police. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pam.22221) The NCVS should give better data, but I'm damned if I can find it.
It’s all mind-bending fun until the interpreter starts blowing one of its internal stacks. Then it’s hours of tedium tracing through queries looking for ways to contain the computation.
That's not political correctness, it's Puritanism.
IMO, the risk is pretty minimal. Zelle isn’t a 3rd party payment platform — it’s a feature/standard a bank implements to give you instant peer-to-peer bank transfers. Zelle the company is owned by the banks, including Bank of America.

So this is just BoA adding a feature they partly created to their banking suite. That in itself isn’t a red flag.

Zelle itself is also secure. You have to be fully logged into your bank account to use it! So it’s as secure as any banking service.

The reason someone would use Zelle is p2p bank transfers between people you know. Like if your friend wrote you a check to cover their half of a hotel on a vacation. Just replace that with Zelle. It’s better than, say, Venmo because it goes directly between bank accounts immediately, without the intermediate third party and waiting 3 days for Venmo to give you your money.

The only risk you’re exposed to is if you blindly send money to someone you don’t know, which you shouldn’t be doing on most platforms. (For example, you only really get buyer protection using goods and services type transfers on other payment apps, which have extra transaction fees.)

I think the end line is that banks should have better fraud protection for bank accounts. Including debit cards, ACH, checks, and Zelle. I supposed my summary is that Zelle isn’t really unique. It’s just faster bank transfers
It's well established that foods with high glycemic index can cause tiredness. As for your original question, it's directed toward my own experience but I phrased my response with "you"... either way refined carbs reduced my energy levels.
Starting to look promising. Work projects not working yet due to the need of `dgram` and `async_hooks`.

Would leveraging `async_hooks` be possible in the future with the used non-v8 engine or would there be some alternative?
Your keyboard might be under warranty still
https://www.statista.com/statistics/232580/burglary-rate-in-...
I don't actually blame them for this, because they have to make money somehow. If they make money by having your money in your account for a few hours/days, idc.

So long as they make it frictionless to start a withdrawal - a tap or two, that's all I ask.
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers

If using Wayland is a hard requirement then I would recommend choosing GNOME over KDE for the desktop environment. I've been using KDE on X11 just fine for now.
Whenever people pushed the banks, they were made whole. The problem with any such issue is that it requires some knowledge and patience on how to get the bank to comply, and most people lack those (through no fault of their own: this isn't trivial).
People complaining/adoring it/in general talking and sharing link to signup is PR dream.
not just turn profit. But ridiculous unsustainable amounts of profit at the expense of the users until its bled dry then it will be sold off
I would rather refer you to the reality of the starving developer.

I don’t know about you. But I can’t seem to kick my addiction to food and shelter.

The best method based on my experience and talents that I know how to adequately feed my addiction is by exchanging my labor doing software development for money.
We've bucked this trend at auxon.io, and for the large part it has been stalwartly supported by our investors. Quality pre-seed and seed stage investors seem to have a different mantra than is being expressed here. Though I've certainly encountered investors who typify the criticism here. However, what I heard a lot of from our investors is something more akin to, "The biggest killer of startups is premature scale."

Somewhat amusingly now that the capital environment has shifted dramatically, we have investors coming around who used to give us side-eye for being discerning and fastidious (and also our investing resources early to acquire government & adjacent customers), but now they treat us like secret geniuses or something. Because we have a reasonably stable baseline to build from. We're aligned with key markets that continue to spend money even during down markets and recessions. Not to mention we're also not in crisis having to massively disrupt progress and morale by laying off a bunch of people (in fact we're hiring, though still judiciously of course), which is HUGE since team and execution is everything.
I really haven't thought about this much but it's a brilliant idea. Maybe I can use it to get into YC & raise 1 bajillion from a16z?
If the goal is providing entertainment, why not just adjust the payout to be 0 profit?
The Gates' definitely had money. His dad was a lawyer and founded a law firm. Definitely helped.
*fit the bill - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fit-t...
> But all the restaurants I visited have shifted to bringing the portable pay unit for tap-and-pay at the table, which I much prefer to leaving the card on the bill in the US and having it disappear for a moment while they ring you up at the central POS (still the standard practice in the US places I live near).

Perhaps offtopic, but that's such a ridiculously scary concept to me. I was already nervous when in another country the person behind the register took my card to swipe it for me, I don't think I would ever let them just take my card!
Recently we are having issues with recaptcha/hcaptcha as bots seem to have broken them or got very cheap services to solve them. Only Cloudflare Turnstile helps us now. No wonder also github tries harder to block bits now
In this case, the union could be forcing better treatment for the people laid off (notice, severance, timing, etc.) and also the people staying (no “do your job and your former coworker’s or you’re next”).
What new Python features are the most useful for you?
In recent years Python ecosystem evolved significantly. From using requirements.txt to dependency management tools like Poetry, from simple typing to Protocols [1] and Variadic Generics [2]. We've got walrus operator, match case statement, and finally even faster Python. More and more low-level libraries are being written in Rust [3].

What new features, tools, libraries (already implemented or being worked on) are the most useful for your work with Python? What are you the most excited about?

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0544/
[2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0646/
[3] https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-core
Almost every laundromat bill changer I've used accepts 20s. I always felt very self-conscious getting so much change at once, but maybe it'd be more fun if it had lights and bells on it.
Coming from the web dev space into backend on a project that heavily relies on PDF generation, I would say that something like a PDF often cannot be expressed with just markup and a stylesheet. There's a large difference in something like the web (it must be expressed with some fluidity of layout) compared to a very static document like a PDF. Page breaks, readability, print supply, watermarks, paging, etc all has to be considered.
Because human eyes and brains aren't computers, and it's actually hard to read small text on long lines and low vertical spacing.
If experience is exercise, name a more exercised force than the US military.
In this case, it's even worse. Prolog is computationally complete. With everything that comes with rice's theorem. Every non-trivial property of a program being generally undecidable.

Datalog, on the other hand, isn't. It's terminating, like SQL. And many program properties are indeed decidable.
I certainly thought that.
FedNow is scheduled to come this year and provide instant money transfer. We already have delayed money transfer services run by the government.

Zelle is just a private sector solution since the government hadn't built it out yet.
One thing that would be quite reasonable is a longer Visa grace period after losing a job. I don't see what harm this would do. The Visa grace period is currently 50% shorter than a tourist visa to give context.
I started my career in 2008 in the UK, just as the GFC was hitting, with no degree. Yet, I had a ratio like 5:5:4.

I assumed the UK had it worse than the USA, but maybe not?
" there are four kinds of countries: developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan, and Argentina."

-- Simon Kuznets
The dev tools that are not developed or supported by a for profit corporation that are “top notch” are not “great”
I'd argue the exact opposite.

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.

Marketing is way cheaper, social media is a grind but it's a game you can play to acquire users/customers for _free_.

There's more stuff going on online, more people, more businesses, more everything. Think about the entire "creator economy", other bootstrappers, Shopify sites, etc.

Yeah some stuff has gotten harder, more platforms, higher UX standards. But on the whole I'd rather bootstrap in 2023 then 2010.

Check in with me in a year though.
Can’t we rename OpenAI to ClosedAI?
Because most people like it and it improves metrics.

From the discussion on sticky header [0],

> Our preliminary results show that an overwhelming majority of test participants reported positive experience with a sticky header. Participants mentioned they enjoyed the ability to access important functionality from any part of the page.

> Overall, there was an average 15% decrease in scrolls per session by logged-in users on the 15 pilot wikis in the treatment group (with the new sticky header), compared to the control group (without the sticky header). This indicates that our hypothesis was correct - adding the sticky header to the page reduced the need to scroll to the top of the page significantly.

> there was a 2.8% and a 6.8% increase in the percent of people who were able to successfully complete at least one edit using the edit button within the sticky header,

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...
The problem with arguing/advocating on behalf of others is that you can arrive at a state that no one actually wants.

IE a group of friends wants to go to dinner, one suggests tacos even though they dislike tacos because they think that will make the group happy. Everyone agrees even though they hate tacos because they don't want to hurt the feelings of the suggestor.

This frequently leads to suboptimal outcomes.
> Whenever people pushed the banks, they were made whole.

That's a good strategy to keep the heat off and avoid new regulation actually being made to cover the scenario, especially when it's a rare step taken by consumers. I tend to do the same if someone chargebacks us at work; it's not worth fighting, even if we're legally in the right.
20 years ago I wrote software to automatically scan paper checks, OCR and MICR data, and then do ACH transactions...

After seeing all the problems and insecurity in the banking system I now keep at minimum of 1 month of expenses in hard cash in my safe at all times, and I have multiple accounts at different credit unions, and I stop using banks completely.
What China - a superpower with a very confrontational and combative attitude - can get away with in its own back yard might be quite different from what modest little Norway can or would try to do in the Greenland Sea.

Also, talk to a few volcanologists and marine engineers about trying to build airfields on the tops of barely-above water active volcanoes. (Vs. China is building on shallow, solid, inactive atolls.)
I'm not sure what you're hearing is "we can't do it without corporations" so much as it is "the ones sponsored by corporations are better."

I mean, GIMP exists, but any one of a half-dozen commercial products built by fewer people in less time are easier to use and have better feature lists. It's not that it's not possible for GIMP to be best-in-class, it's that it isn't best-in-class. (And sure, dear reader, GIMP works perfectly well for you. Great!)

Given more time, I'd love to explore the idea that "most of the corporations were built on free languages and ecosystems" given how many of the companies we're talking about today seem to have some roots in C, developed under corporate control. But definitions are everything in a statement like that, so it probably would take a lot of time to sift through and ultimately convince nobody either way.
That would obviously depend on how much you want to maintain your visa.
How are you paying "more taxes"? Those are the types of taxes you're obliged to pay already. Someone needs to pay for schools and roads!
IMO sales and marketing expenses should be minimal—essentially limited to testing different channels to see if they work.

I'm sure this depends on the business but I'd say if you need a lot of marketing spend in order to experiment it's a sign that you may not be enough of an expert on where to find your customers and you either need to find a way to gain that expertise or pivot to an area where you already have it.
Lastpass allows you to link your personal-personal account into your work account, so that you can access your personal-personal data while logged into a work account. Work-personal accounts should be stored in a personal folder in your work account, then work-work accounts are in shared folders that cross multiple users.
As did my Dell Latitude E6520. I'm not sure modern Dell still have it, but back then it worked great!
Microsoft is laying off 10k employees
Would subscribe to this newsletter if you were to pursue the problem. Have lots of interest in the space but zero of the resources, access to sun, space or chemistry skillset so can only live vicariously on the topic.
Everything Wrong with Dora Metrics
The question is whether 18k people fired from a company that employs 1.5M people is newsworthy.

Assuming no discrimination here, I believe it is not and the constant talk of it is just a clickbait and trying to find news where there aren't any.

It would be different if this was large portion of the said company, but it is not.
Just off the Alaska Highway in BC there are two lakes right next to each other, officially named "SNAFU" and "TARFU" by the military back in the day when they built the road. They're great places to camp and canoe.
> I claim "You can/should start something like AirBnb in a bad economy, but not Google."

Yet AirBnB was born into a good economy (that, in fairness, was on the cusp of going quite bad), while Google was born into an economy that was just starting to recover from being bad. Not when you start but when your product is ready to ship may be more significant. By the time Google was ready for prime time we were in a good economy. When AirBnB was ready for prime time, we were in a bad economy.

Skate where the puck is going, as they say.
Safe to say it's a fraction of a watt at most. Some sources found via a quick Google search indicate that the light output from a 70-watt incandescent light bulb is equivalent to about 100 standard candles. Sounds truthy enough.
I was kinda using 'luxury item' rhetorically more than specifically, but it seems to have derailed the main point. (Whoops. Live and learn.)

With that said, expecting anyone to shell out x dollars/month, so they can pay to park, or scan a QR code - rather than tapping a plastic card, or handing them a piece of paper - doesn't really feel like technological advancement.

For clarity, I believe there are many other things that Smartphones do, which definitively make life simpler. (I believe technology should make life easier, or better - or at least be useful.) And, I even think it makes sense to have certain utilities combined that don't really provide an advantage alone, such as: If you can pay with a phone and not need to carry another payment method, sure - why not just pay with a phone?

Again, the point I was trying to make originally was if you choose not to use a smartphone, you will run into situations where a stupidly simple process has been not supplemented (or improved), but totally replaced with 'you need a phone and data plan'.

< Disappointed Muhammad Sarim Akhtar Meme >

This is a real frustration point that anyone considering living without a smartphone will run into.
A lot of “SJW” rhetoric is telling people that you know more about their circumstances that they do and know what is best for them, as your shown by your comment, to an actual previously poor person in Africa who used what we would call low-wage jobs to pull themself up by the bootstraps.
Unnecessary negativity. The sky is not falling...
>They lasted about 6000 hours - we could set it in a calendar

I commented it on HN [1] not long ago and people said I was spreading conspiracy theory.

And how it used to be a thing called capacitor marketing [2] and how Apple / Mac "used to " set itself apart.

And let me just say this again because somehow the act of understand electronics is completely lost on modern days internet or more like in the West, planned obsolescence is still a thing and just because they aren't as bad as they were ( 6 months or at best 12-18 months ), doesn't mean they are not doing it. And more often than not, it is still the same old capacitor trick 20 years later.

Edit: And some comments below are writing just about that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29296839

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28468287
Ugh. The overall style may be a matter of taste, but "give us your email before you have any idea what else we're going to ask for" is obnoxious.
> What is the carbon footprint of GPUs? How can I use GPUs without polluting the environment?

> I worked on a project that produced carbon offsets about ten years ago. The carbon offsets were generated by burning leaking methane from mines in China. UN officials tracked the process, and they required clean digital data and physical inspections of the project site. In that case, the carbon offsets that were produced were highly reliable. I believe many other projects have similar quality standards.

Crusoe Cloud (https://crusoecloud.com) does the same thing; powering GPUs off otherwise flared methane (and behind the meter renewables), to get carbon-reducing GPUs. A year of A100 usage offsets the equivalent emissions of taking a car off the road.

Disclosure: I run product at Crusoe Cloud
When Microsoft committed a whole host of criminal acts including funding a criminal pump and dump scheme targeting competitors with fraudulent lawsuits Satya Nadella had already been among MS leadership for years. If you were part of the MS leadership team in the 1990s and 2000s you were at least tacitly OK with profiting from crime. The only difference between then and now is deciding that open source can profitably be used and can't realistically be crushed.

It's like the mob boss deciding there is money to be made working together so he stops trying to have you whacked. It's certainly a better position to be in but not one that engenders trust nor should it.
In your opinion, what would the ideal password management business model be? A non-profit like Signal? (Not rhetorical, actually curious what people want here.)

As a thought experiment, let's say there are 1000 people who get annoyed when a software product they use takes VC funding. For those 1000 people to sustain a software product with a team of 5 for 10 years at 150k average per head. you'd need 7.5MM dollars just to break even. That's $7,500 per user, or $750 per year. I doubt many people would be willing to pay that just to have a product that never takes VC funding.

And note that's just to cover labor costs. If you want it audited, that's a solid 25k per audit. Operating costs for website and infrastructure, etc. Now if the product was exceptional and beat out other products in the space and generally had a slice of the pie, the number of users would increase and per user cost would decrease. But also doing as much with a team of 5 is no small feat.
I would rather call it optimistic_nihilism(https://tinyclouds.org/optimistic_nihilism)
It's one time fee and it's probably used in other places.
Ten Countries That No Longer Exist
I have accepted that one has to keep moving around. Password manager, backup software, it goes on.

Right now I am hunting for a non-subscription note taking setup that will replace SimpleNote.

So I’ll move to the next option from BW, just like I moved to it from LP.
Using HTML/CSS for PDFs really just isn't a good idea in my experience. It makes layout extremely cumbersome. If you just need to spit some data out onto a page, sure it works I guess. However, doing more complex page layout with an actual design element often introduces scenarios where a markup language just can't work.
I don’t know about the situation in Nigeria. How come the black market rate (740) is so much higher than the “officia” markets (450)?

Are there rules and regulations preventing access to the official forex markets?
Not sure why the downvotes- colonialism is a direct result of thinking we know better than 'those people'
Webpages and pdf (paged documents) are fundamentally different, you won't be able to support easily headers and footers, page-breaks and orphans on a webpage. You can create basic invoices on webpages, but anything more complex (and by that I mean any serious word document) will require you to twist HTML. Try to have column headers to repeat on each printed page on a HTML page.