skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something about the point you're making, but in 2023 the third party creditor already must approve any transactions where credit is extended (e.g. credit card)

Credit bureaus remain uninvolved with cash transactions since, er, well, there's no creditor to be concerned about creditworthiness? I don't see how "supercapitalism" changes that
Archived: https://archive.ph/jmHHg
Exactly, BitWarden is not as shit as others like LastPass or 1Password.
One detail the blog leaves out is that this employment and income collection extends to both Canada and Australia.

Much of the data is noisy and I won't even get into the gory details of data ingestion. I was wondering the other day why hedge funds and etc. aren't using them as an early indicator and I can speculate why. On the other side of the spectrum, your average Joe is at times inconvenienced by Equifax's inaccurate record keeping.
I put

*.myusername

in my global gitignore, so that whenever I have the desire to litter a repo with little working files there's no chance of accidentally committing them. For things like curl or debug output, that kind of thing.
I think it would go down, but by how much? And is it significant enough to remove the requirement to vent outside?
There is no evidence to support the idea that Phoenician travelers had sustained contact with early Germanic peoples, and especially not enough to significantly influence German language and writing. There is evidence to show Etruscan, Latin, and Greek influence on Germanic language and writing.

In human language there are often similarities between unrelated languages and these have myriad possible origins. As such, within the realm of linguistics one needs substantial proof to successfully claim a relationship exists between two otherwise unrelated languages.
It will not.

They will see the microscopically minuscule number of people who still smoke due to the black market and claim the entire effort to be an abject failure.

They will ignore the millennia of higher quality lifespan added to the population, the massive savings in public healthcare expenses, and the almost-non-existent second hand damage smoking does and just focus on the thousand or so people smoking smuggled cigarettes.

When you suggest that their position is somewhat analogous to not passing laws against murder because "well that dude over there got murdered so OBVIOUSLY the laws aren't not working" they will just look at you funny.
I think a more accurate sleep scale would be less than 6, 6 to 8, and more than 8 hours.
(we moved the reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34497773 to the top of the thread)
>>I look so much older than I feel myself to be, even though getting out of bed in the morning is getting more difficult each year and I become tired more quickly than in the past. My patients were no different—they would protest that they felt so young if I pointed out to them the signs of aging on their scans.

The human spirit is young and deserves a body that does not age.. Aging is an affront to it. It is a disease that we have a moral imperative to eradicate.
> To a first approximation, no one cares about Netflix’s back catalog.

People would care more, if Netflix would stop cancelling everything. I'm not sure they realize how much they're killing their own backcatalog revenue by making everything a one/two season max.
> Time flies like a banana.

> It’s pretty clear to a human what this means.

Is it though? The full quote is "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana". The humour, being the nonsense that the first phrase sets you up with a metaphor, the secod is literal.

"Time flies like a banana" means very little, because while "time flies" and "flies like bananas" make sense, as you said "time flies" aren't a thing and banana's can't fly.

As a matter of fact, ChatGPT agrees and said '"Time flies like an arrow" is a common idiomatic expression meaning that time seems to pass quickly. The phrase "time flies like a banana" does not have any meaning or usage in the English language. It may be a play on words or a made-up phrase.'
If the ß character is a forbidden character then the Chromium-family behaviour is correct. If its a legal character then the Firefox and Safari behaviour is correct.

If it is a forbidden character then registrars will not allow you to register xn--meagefactory-m9a.ca, and thus the problem will never exist.
The performance of matlab/Python the traditional engineering world isn’t relevant though, its just for modeling/simulation, it never runs in live systems.
It’s way cheaper to just buy a faster machine then to try and retrain a mechanical engineer who learned matlab in college on Julia, at least for now.
Or even if you have a common editor! Having to add several editors' worth of excludes to .gitignore on every project is annoying. Much easier if everyone takes care of their own local droppings, and the committed .gitignore can focus on project-specific ignores.
The difference in the US financial system of credit and a "social credit" system is that these systems measure only attributes about financial credit, and in fact, the US has laws that specifically forbid many social factors from being used.
I used to co-run a hackerspace, but we were always broke, and most attendees were heads-down co-working (that's how we funded it), and hardly any hackers because very little equipment.

If I were rich enough, I'd fund a free one, and just hang out there. Free, in exchange for you have to spend 30 minutes telling everyone else what project you're working on, or some other interesting talk every few weeks.
Is there any advancement people won't decry?

Defeating aging would be the most significant achievement in human history. But sure, let's worry about centuries old overpopulation concerns instead, despite having demonstrated them false continually.

Yes, a 2-3°C increase in earth's temperature would be an unbearable cost for DEFEATING AGING.

Aging and death are awful. Unavoidable, currently, and so must be acknowledged and prepared for, but still unspeakably destructive.
Link doesn’t even load on my iPhone in safari
You should write a longer piece about your coffee shop! and the process behind it. If you do, you should submit it to HN - and if you do that you should email us (hn@ycombinator.com) because we might put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
For anyone confused, I think the issue here is that the question is about response headers and the reply is about request headers. Everyone keeps saying the word header without this important modifier.
If engineers focused on this sort of stuff you suspect the product is the type that has no visits/users to begin with.
time for a pre-commit hook
Street View free solos: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=Scov79
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407397
I was curious what would happen if you fed this to chat GPT

“””
Sorry, I am not able to perform a Caesar Cipher encryption on my prompt as it is not a text string but rather a command for me to perform a specific task. Is there anything else I can help you with?
“””
Fabulous! I stand corrected. I just tried his last prompt and it works.
Right. The set of all integers which are both even and odd is a well-defined set. It just happens to be empty. The set of all counter-examples to the Goldbach conjecture is a well-defined set. We don't know if it's empty or not.
Ask HN: What is a good reason to join Google?
I am debating whether to appear as a worthy candidate to them. I remember the allure a job with them used to be but is it still that happy place for developers?
Yes, I was hoping people would understand that from the context.
For years as a young child in the 70s, I had to wash and dry the family dishes, but the worst part was cleaning ashtrays every day in the greasy dishwater.

Obviously,you had to use a different set of towels for the ashtrays. If you complained… Your prognosis would not be good.
Agree about the syncing - its not just you. I click on "Continue Watching" for a TV series that I have been watching - only to realize about a minute or so into it that I had already seen the episode the previous day. This has happened to me so many times that I would have wasted close to an hour just moving back and forth between episodes.
Let's not argue about what 'tangential' means or what Kant said (or McLuhan for that matter). If you can suggest a better word I'm all for it.

The point is that these generic-offtopic complaints are extremely repetitive. Maybe the first 1 or 2 (or 17) times one sees them they aren't a big deal, but after that it's bad to be overrun by them like weeds. It's not that they're wrong—rather, precisely because they have a point, they tend to get upvoted, crowding out more interesting/specific conversation. That then leads to complaints about the complaints and god help us. That's why we added that rule.

It's a tradeoff between the particular (yes the annoyance exists, yes the comment is valid—I personally agree with it) vs. the general (it's even worse to see these things over and over again, especially at the top of threads). Both are valuable, but only one can prevail and the global optimum is more important. If you really feel strongly about such formats, you should take it up with the people who are choosing to publish this way. Complaining to a link aggregator is like yelling at a photograph.

Thanks for the kind words, I think! - but... three links?

Also, I protest. The number of HN posts I "personally don't appreciate" is massively greater than the number I reply to. This is an internet forum, after all; I spend my days failing to appreciate things.
GaN doesn’t really change the link budget (it does have different compression characteristics than GaAs, but you just back off a little), the OP said as the size of the terminal gets smaller, so I assume they’re talking about the aperture size. You can compensate somewhat for the lost antenna gain with a higher power PA but depending on the antenna pattern, you might hit the ESD (energy spectral density) limit earlier.
This kinda has the vibe of every project that inevitably explodes due to the devs and mods either all burning out, or all turning on each other, or turning on the community, or vice versa, or all of the above.

- big ambitions

- a kitchen-sink list of features that don't have any particular philosophical bent other than "be good"

- a proposed audience of everyone

- insisting that it will be responsive to the community, unlike those other projects, but without any particular ideas about how governance will work better this time around

(there is approximately one single good centralized website with community governance and social aspects and it's Wikipedia. That's the only one. This would be the second.)
Ugh, I'm literally getting my first dose of cucumber today. quite funny to come across this. You still have to "bother" with it if you're migrating tests to a new framework etc
This is a difference between what's called "transitional" and "nontransitional" IDNA processing.

The WHATWG URL standard mandates nontransitional processing, which says meßagefactory.ca becomes xn--meagefactory-m9a.ca. Firefox and Safari follow the standard.

Chrome and Edge are still using transitional processing. Here's the Chrome bug to switch to nontransitional processing (which appears to be very close to shipping): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=694157

In 2021, Go's HTTP client switched from transitional to nontransitional processing and the relevant issue is quite informative: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/46001
It seems like promoting a fairer society is a priority for you, given your focus on paying fair wages. That’s great! Please consider extending that desire to serving people who do not have credit cards or bank accounts (or crypto …) Plenty of them exist and like coffee too.
"I can assure you that my comment was not generated by ChatGPT or any other language model. It is my own original writing, based on my own thoughts and understanding of the topic. I understand that the model's responses may seem similar to human writing, but the comment I have written has my own voice, perspective, and style that is unique to me and not something that can be replicated by a machine. I appreciate your concern and I hope this clears up any confusion." -ChatGPT

(Yes my previous comment was generated with ChatGPT. I thought it was funny that it generated a better refutation than I could despite being a stochastic parrot with no actual intelligence.)
> Given that even retail stores have added tipping prompts to their checkouts

Really?! Which retail stores?
I still haven't seen a clear explanation of how the # of iterations scales in relation to password length.

If it is true a few extra characters is as good as having sky-high iterations, the guidance should be on 'forcing' users choose long-enough passwords, not in this nitpicking over the 'right' # of iterations.
> Stack ranking seems to misunderstand how statistics work.

This is the fundamental flaw with stack ranking that really irks me. Stack ranking force fits people to a normal distribution but that's backwards. With normal distributions you're supposed to measure the phenomena then use statistical formulas to see if the data fits a normal distribution. Maybe it does. Maybe it's bi-modal, or tri-modal. Maybe the data is evenly distributed.

But no, companies butcher the concept of a bell curve and end up doing serious damage to the culture of the company as everyone starts optimizing their behavior to succeed in an utterly irrational system.
Shadows cast by objects on diffuse surfaces can reveal biometric information [pdf]
Oof, my Bitwarden account was created a while ago and was set to only 5,000 iterations. You can see and change the number of iterations here: https://vault.bitwarden.com/#/settings/security/security-key... (or if you don't trust links for something like your password manager: log into your web vault, click on the top-right dropdown menu, then Account settings > Security > Keys).

I've updated it to 600,000 iterations and so far don't see any noticeable impact on performance, both on desktop (using the Firefox extension) and on mobile (iOS).
No, when a company hires you, the company becomes part you. And you have every right to do whatever you want that you think is best for the company's future, even if it undermines what managers says -- be that whistleblowing, refusing to stack rank, refusing to hide the fact that a stack-rank policy exists.

If the company cannot convince you that its policies are efficient and moral, then that is their mistake for hiring somebody who sees the world fundamentally differently. If they don't want people to do that, they should tell every new manager in the hiring interview "Part of working here as a manager involves stack ranking people as low, even if they are doing great work, and not telling them they are under stack ranking, and if you cannot do that you won't want to work here"
The point is not about limiting it to AGI, the point is setting limits on what data is shared so that you as the consumer always control what a requesting company sees. Don't want your data shared? No problem, you can set to deny all requests. Only want to share AGI but not your entire return, just allow that field, etc.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your response also seems to indicate you don't work in financial services. No company is providing credit based solely on income verification (well, not that I'm aware of maybe some fintech is doing it). Most all credit providers are collating data from various sources to make their decision and it varies more than you might think on what goes into a credit decision.

Further, I don't think there's any need at all for laws for this as you suggest, rather just let the IRS offer it as a competing service with private industry. I know many companies that would sign up right away for such a service at the right price point.
> Non-technical here means knows basic math but is not familiar with measure theory; it does not mean _anyone_.

I guess "knows basic math" is relative; I tend to draw the "basic" line at "it's required for a high school diploma or GED", but I suppose I can blame my country's education system for that bar being much lower than what mathematicians seem to assume :)
There’s a YouTube series where an amateur cook re-creates recipes from various historical periods. Tasting History with Max Miller is definitely worth a watch: https://m.youtube.com/@TastingHistory/videos

He’s very up-front about the liberties that he has to take with historical recipes, as often times they don’t include things like quantities.

He also covers substitutions, as a number of ingredients are simply impossible to come by in the modern era.
From https://infosec.exchange/@epixoip/109585049354200263 (found spelunking from OP):

> consider the fact that the threat model for a cloud-based password management solution should start with the vault being compromised. In fact, if password management is done correctly, I should be able to host my vault anywhere, even openly downloadable (open S3 bucket, unauthenticated HTTPS, etc.) without concern. I wouldn't do that, of course, but the point is the vault should be just that -- a vault, not a lockbox.
Not sure why you've been downvoted, because you bring up valid points.

I have one to add, let's imagine that we science our way into living much longer - our bodies may continue to live, but what state will our minds maintain? Keeping a body alive by no means guarantees a healthy mind.

We might discover that despite the healthy condition of the human body, no sense of self is able to survive over a few hundreds years before losing coherency. Perhaps the human brain just wasn't designed to contain more than one lifetime. In such a scenario we would be sitting on a whole lot of perfectly healthy vegetables who will continue to live very long lives thereafter. I for one never want to live as a vegetable. My dad told me the same thing, if ever he's a vegetable then pull the plug. I would do that for him, and I hope someone would do it for me if the day came.
The layoffs were literally two business days ago..
That happens already. No big company is running on a skeleton crew. If they are then we have a bigger problem.
> Company A is going to get rid of 28,000 employees, while Company B is instead going to cut CEO compensation by 40%? How can you be sure whether you're joining Alphabet or Apple?

As a recently ex-alphabet employee: apple never went on a hiring spree.

They had restraint the last few years, with a significantly smaller workforce, and the result is (hopefully) no layoffs.

Fast money moves quickly and it might move away from you.

We should also be talking about Yelp at the start of the pandemic, who was predictably in a precarious situation. They offered to employ people part time (and still do) instead of mass layoffs. You can work as an SDE at 80% time instead, which gives you a stable (but smaller) income in a scary time, and it gives the employer a discount to save without layoffs.

Personally, I would take 80% or maybe even 60% time at my old Google job over a layoff. Everyone comments about “rest and vest” anyways, so 75% may be perceived as appropriate anyways.
That keychain is different from the publicly viewable one in settings
I built a CDC utility that reads from postgres and automatically syncs incremental table snapshots to BigQuery.
https://github.com/loicalleyne/leftshove
ChatGPT premium rolls out at $42 a month
Where will the senior and respected staff go? To other companies where they won’t be senior and respected
I think Graham Greene isn't appreciated much now. His " Human Factor" for example is a superlative example of a spy novel.
Their content quality took a big hit after they went from ESPN to ABC. They became noticeably biased in their reporting, using stats to tell a story rather than telling the story of the stats

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/abc-news-ffivethirtyeight-e...

I hope they can reinvent themselves and return to the methods and content that made them such a great source of insights
Any store can enable tipping on the POS devices. Many stores that used to not traditionally operate off of tips have added the option.

Big employers don’t do it as far as I know. Have seen it many times in convenience stores or small grocery
We'll be hanging in there by a few Threads.
I’m having trouble believing this. You’re saying restaurant workers are expecting tips from the delivery drivers coming to their restaurant for pickup? I’ve only ever seen drivers show up, confirm their identity and orders to the restaurant workers via an app, take the food, and leave.
It does compare to inputting a math question into a calculator though.

Do calculators mean that we shouldn't teach multiplication anymore? That we shouldn't have tests for multiplication? The calculator will always get the right answer.

The bigger question imo is what humans are doing with these new tools. We no longer need the human computers of old now that we have calculators, and almost certainly we can innovate over automated MBAs now
Hell yeah Brian Birmingham!! Way to stick up for your ethics!

https://twitter.com/BrianBirming
Reverse engineering old IBM prototype 4“ floppy disk drive from the late 1970s
The trick I've heard to use SSDs on devices without TRIM is to just leave like 15% of the drive unprovisioned (i.e. create a single partition smaller than the drive) to give the drive's built-in garbage collection plenty of slack space to work with.

If you're working with vintage machines they all have drive size limits in the 2-8 GB range anyway so you'll end up doing that anyway as you can't get SSDs that small
It was buried, so you might have missed it: "My sister had already had a couple of police visits about the previous incidents." They didn't skip the police at all: the police simply weren't doing anything until they had more information.
I'll deal with forever kings if it means not dying. I quite enjoy life.
Regarding recent reported security vulnerabilities from Cisco Talos
Lol that's because they don't want to pay interchange fees, not because of fraud. Any decent credit card has 2% cashback/miles. That money has to come from the merchant.
Most people wouldn't care if it wasn't for the shady things the payment terminals do. Like reordering the tip % to either be reverse of what is expected or random.

Additionally they wouldn't care is the % was standard.

From left to right: 15%, 18%, 20%. Leave it there and stop using dark patterns.
HEPA filters will filter out particulate but doesn't help with VOCs. For that you need carbon filters.
Tipping is not about price sensitivity.

On average, less price sensitive people will tip more, but there are no guarantees. Somebody who’s wealthy may still tip 20% over somebody who is less well off tipping 25% because they’re feeling charitable.

Or, more commonly, some people don’t tip at all, even if they can afford it. Anybody who’s worked in food service has experienced this.

You wont find anything close to a linear relationship between wealth and tipping percentage. Most will tip 20% ish regardless, because that’s what’s generally expected
> Drinking alcohol is similar in that regard, people are amazed (for opposite reasons) to find out 60% of Americans drink.

I'm technically in that 60%, but I drink so infrequently I barely qualify (outside of certain social events, I never drink, and never more than 2 drinks). I think I had about a dozen drinks in all of 2022.

I wonder what percent of that 60% are similar to me.
I can see the point of leaving a tip when a server has done a really good job (of course they should be paid a decent wage too). For me the annoying bit is being asked to tip before I have been served - I don't know yet if I would like to leave a big tip or a small one.
Since I can't opt out of this and all the scoundrels can see it anyway, I think I should just post my salary on my Linkedin page. If everybody did that, it would undercut this business and bring to light the inequities to the common people.