skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really, most people should have charge cards and not credit cards. Charge cards are meant to be paid off at the end of every month.
> at a loss of $220M.

Due to an $800M lawsuit settlement - without that, they'd have been on $580M profit. Which isn't terrible on $5B revenue.
> First you use your credit cards to keep things going, eventually that runs out your now in twice as much debt at much worse interest rates, and soon that's gone.

Consumers have more financing options then ever, like when you buy a mac book over 18 months interest free versus paying straight up. Car loan preference has gotten longer: 5-6 years for example.

Its not necessarily good that more financing options leads to more debt, but its not apocalyptic either. This really depends on how they're measuring, and if they count balances that are being paid off in a timely manner or if these are minimum payments incurring interest.
"eventually SPAs -- with no way for search engines to easily index things."

It's funny Google can't index a SPA, given the tie to Angular (2500 apps in use in-house). Wouldn't be so hard to build something that could.
At least you know what got broken
I had not heard of Kagi but I will check it out.
It goes to show that the demand for C++ is not actually that high.
What really matters is how human institutions and organizations shape each other's incentives and costs [1]. Instead of aiming for abstract, intangible goals like "small" or "big" government, how about developing a sense of institutional design and relating that to a set of moral and political values. That way, it's actually possible to debug disagreements, either reducing them down to moral values and hopefully leaving it out of the public sphere or locating actual policy questions with less room for aesthetics and more for evidence, studies and sensible debate.

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10481/w104...
Derek Sivers is definitely a real person. You can trace his history, well, back when he was in America, using public records.

But, I think as even he has admitted, his online presence is a well-crafted persona.

And, aren't we all doing that?
Every systems turns to shit over time. Any power designed into it ends up abused and then we have to live with the abuse or the mitigations. Political systems, regulations, technology platforms.... We can't have nice things because we can't trust everyone with power.
On both Google and Duckduckgo, I have come to loathe the mass of nonsense pseudo-blogposts on dev topics from some contentfarms that have started to poison all search results a couple of years ago. I wish there was a search engine that eliminates all that crap. I can block individual sites, but it doesn't help.
I think people would have argued with him. There are people that fawn on him one day and then complain that 'the algorithm has shadowbanned them again' the next, and he spends a surprising amount of time engaging with them. It's like some weird parody of an abusive relationship, with the world's erstwhile richest man and uber-CEO earnestly and repeatedly appeasing influencers like 'Catturd.'

To an extent I think this is political theater, as opposed to ineptitude, petulance, or poor financial decision-making. Twitter is an important piece of virtual territory because it's still the platform for breaking news and pretty much every media outlet publishes and promotes stories there, as well as most politicians, govt agencies and so on. Like it or not it is the most 'realtime' mass market platform.

That gives Twitter tremendous strategic importance, even though its social graph is smaller and more ephemeral than Facebook's. Size is not everything; reach matters too. That strategic importance makes it interesting to state and non-state actors, because capture of that territory is loosely equivalent to control of radio broadcasting capacity or printing presses in earlier eras. If you think of Twitter as a magically effective print and distribution store for pamphleteers with a huge secondary ecosystem around it, the shutdown of free API access is essentially a market takeover. Musk was spitballing yesterday and suggesting that from now on API access would cost $100/month and require ID to use.

(It's interesting to me that Google could have owned that space with their News product, although it has always been a one-way thing rather than socially driven. Their failure to own that space is a direct result of their aversion to user configurability and selection.)
Hmm. Makes me wonder if Derek Sivers really is his given name. Maybe it's a pseudonym? I guess I could email him and ask. And before you ask, yes, Dingosity is not the name I was born with.
I wonder how the morale is on the Google search team these days.

Maybe they can make a paid search that eliminates all affiliate sites in the results.
First of all: Thank you for your outstanding work!

And sorry to ask this here, but how have the recent layoffs affected the flutter team?

We're using flutter as our main framework for our app and it's quite important.

The layoffs have sparked some fears that flutter development might slow down.
Maybe they can't find new talents because they are looking for cheap workforce?
Why do you have credit card debt at all? That’s why they think you are making less.
This wasn't as funny as you thought it'd be.
Lol true, and I'm currently working on a project leveraging a clip model which is why my answer is largely skewed towards vision transformers. By no means a complete list :)
It’s been my experience that economics is a very hard subject to grasp, so what I typically see on forums where someone posts something like this is a lot of disagreeing and back and forth (as is the case here).

The issue I think is that… economics is a very hard subject to grasp. Lots of moving parts. I think your comment oversimplifies the point it’s trying to make, but it kind of has to in order to be understood by laymen. Bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.

I think what you’re saying though is that higher interest rates = more money in companies’ pockets = higher wages paid to workers = the price increase of goods and services being absorbed, and the interest rate increase having a net-zero effect.

I don’t know enough to agree or disagree, I’m just trying to reword what you’re saying.
More or less what CrowdView does.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507965

- https://crowdview.ai/
Unionization is amazing. I do not know why especially people in US are so against this. Did they just gave up and are okay with the big corps fucking them over withouth having any leverage?
Troubleshooting Azure DNS Timeouts
I still don't understand why this behavior -- leveraged buyouts -- should not be illegal. Congresspeople are tools, I guess.
As an employee, I wouldn't be too miffed about a fake "on-paper" promotion with a fancy job title. In the short run, it's not usually beneficial to anything other than your ego, but in the long-run that fancy title is your ticket to job-hopping to a better situation.

From a business perspective, this seems like a sort of a penny-wise, pound-foolish decision because an employee who has a fancy "Director of X" title is probably more likely able to find employment elsewhere because of their fancy job title. In the long run, a company will probably pay more through having somebody swap jobs, having to pay extra to poach somebody, and pay for recruitment and training.
This is the right calculation. It baffles me that there are so many comments assuming the homicides are committed by current students.

Correct it further for the fact that convicted murderers are overwhelmingly male (93% according to your same source) and old Etonians begin to look downright peaceful. But that wouldn't make a good article.
Edit to “spending money they do not have for unnecessary purchases at huge interest rates”.

Obviously, certain circumstances can cause someone to need to use credit card debt to shelter/feed themselves and their family. I would be willing to bet the vast majority of credit card interest is not caused by essential needs.
Netflix would increase the salary of employees if they had higher offers. This idea is supported by Reed Hastings and IIRC was mentioned in https://www.norulesrules.com/. To get a raise, you are encouraged to get a job offer with that salary to prove you're worth it.
> I'm not sure why the general tone of HN seems to be that modern farming isn't changing at all.

Indeed. Perhaps somewhere out there is a parallel forum filled with farmers opining about computer programming, with equally inane remarks like "Have those programmers ever thought about making languages that translate into machine code instead of writing everything out as ones and zeros?"
The Philosophy of Mourning: Imagining the End
"The future of the Web is what suits our business model" /s

But in all seriousness, the web has websites, it has apps, it has games. Pick a tool that's appropriate for the job and forget about what is the past/present/future.
In some circumstances,you can also call the bank and ask them to raise your limit
> > But shunning any conversation about PL advancements because alternatives have them and C++ doesn't is immature and unproductive.
>
> Who is doing that, either?

Unfortunately many. You can even see these comments on HN.

Sometimes people even get angry over the whole RIIR stuff, or if Rust gets introduced into a codebase, and the project moves away from C++. It's like they ignore the listed reasonings the maintainer explained completely.

Or when people speak about memory safety people pivot it into a general security conversation, ignoring the merits of the borrowing system.

If you speak of the benefits of Rust enums (or Algebraic data types in general sometimes, sadly) it gets called "glorified tagged enums" (or syntactic sugar for them).

People saying "well boost has a library for that" and talking about beast asio to compare it to Rust async, etc.

Or saying C++ can do have the same or similar value ownerships semantic through shared_ptr/unique_ptr when that's simply not true.

Or when people say "well standard library uses unsafe" (without even knowing what "unsafe" in Rust means, I might add)

Uh there's so many other misconstructions or misconceptions that I've seen, but I don't go around collecting them so I can't really remember more from the top of my head.

Look at the Chromium discussion when the devs decided to introduce Rust, or the recent Fish shell announcement, or when Linux decided to add Rust. Full of "but C++..." shills who haven't even contributed to the projects

> My personal opinion is that the language who eventually becomes most relevant will be the one with the _fewest_ PL advancements, and that will be a sad thing, but is life as usual. Or what was popularly considered a PL advancement last decade will just be seen as a side step in the next. Again, the usual...

I disagree because I think nature (and humans) seek to reduce the amount of energy spent on activities for desired outcomes. Ie, we want to optimise the process, and we are lazy. Rust saves me mental and emotional energy. Since changing jobs (from C++ to Rust) by burnout has been recovering and I'm feeling more energised after work too. And the current job is arguably more straining as it has more responsibility. I don't think Rust is quite there yet either, but it feels like a step in the right direction.
subprime residential mortgages are lower, but commercial is way up.
The age-old certs debate: Have you noticed tangible benefits from a cert? I am considering getting one, but purely to increase my earning potential. I tinker on AWS all the time for work, but have 0.
I've never seen a YouTube video not play on Firefox. What does the error say? Can you give an example URL?
Cash is worth more to me than what the credit card company thinks about me. What a bizarre take. Carrying balances is a positive thing if you pay on time every month.
> Chrome is customizable too

Not really. Got a link to a Tree Style Tab that properly renders itself in a chrome sidebar? Because that's still not possible.
It brings me nothing but good experiences already, and I for sure will smile at the end of my days here on earth knowing I at least for some time had a positive impact on others.
I do dollar cost averaging and have since the early 90s when I first heard the term mentioned on a radio investment advice show (mutual funds, then). It has served me well. Recently, I started to do this into a couple index funds of my own creation using Fidelity’s Solo FidFolio and Stocks By the Slice (fractional share) features.
Perfect username chef's kiss
That's not the general API - that's the 30 day search API.
Set up a custom Lens in Kagi.

Here's the form to do exactly that:

Create a Lens

Name of the lens

Describe what the lens does, up to 300 characters. (optional)

The style of how results will be rendered

Lock your search results to a specific region

Choose Region

Include only these sites in results (up to 10, comma-separated)

Exclude these sites in results (up to 10, comma-separated)

Include pages containing these keywords (up to 5, comma-separated)

Use keywords in autosuggestions automatically

Automatically use your supplied 'Included Keywords' in autosuggest when the lens is enabled.

Exclude pages containing these keywords (up to 5, comma-separated)

File type

Include results before this date

Include results after this date

Yesterday

Show results from Yesterday to Today (UTC)

When checked, before and after times will do nothing.
I think plummeting savings (down to $600B from $4T as of October of last year) is probably the best indicator of a major incoming recession. The layoffs haven't really significantly impacted anybody outside of the tech sector and I think that's in part because consumers are still spending. However, they are spending their dwindling savings, not extra cash, and getting into credit card debt. This will eventually come to an end and then it will really hit the fan. I also don't see FED stop raising interest rates any time soon which puts even more pressure on economy. It's hard to see how any of this will result in a "soft landing."
Well the government owned every legal business and then was pressured to dispose of all those businesses quickly when the USSR collapsed. It is not surprising that that kind of environment invites massive amounts of corruption, especially because there was almost no one before privatization who had enough money to buy those businesses for their true prices. At a lower level it probably has more due to do with low wages and general disillusionment with "the system."
Thanks for the pointers!
Do you have any video/media/recordings of your experiments?
The data is not shopping at my local Raleys.
>Once people start wondering, they need to know.

You're projecting.

>That’s a problem if you really want to be anonymous.

Large emphasis on really.

Stop conflating secrecy with privacy. The former is another pair of shoes entirely.
Having their concentration broken 100 times an hour with surprise egg content will prepare them well for a life on Teams.
I remember an interview with one of the founders of openAI, saying that if it wasn't the transformer architecture it would be something else. What really matters is the scale of the model. The transformer is only one of the possible configurations that work well with text. It seems they stuck to it because it is really so good so why break things.
Agree; and in general I think people underestimate how heavy and potentially dangerous extensions are. Adding an extension is like loading an additional webpage on each primary page load, and it can make as many requests and consume as many resources as it wants. It can also interfere with or alter the behavior and performance of the primary page in any manner that the DOM allows. As a web dev who has investigated a lot of performance complaints, disabling extensions is one of my first debugging steps.
As much as I love his films and their stories/values, the elder Miyazaki is definitely not the greatest of people.

He was one of the first instances I can think of where I came to understand "don't meet your heroes".

Edit: Never met him in person. Mostly meant 'meet' in a figurative sense.
It’s not relativity. Einstein pushed first for the american atom bomb because “the germans will make it anyway”. Then he realised that it was way too harmful and recanted.

Nothing to do with relativity, just with “if I don’t do it others will”.
I also pay for Kagi. Similar to others here, I had switched from Google to DDG, but found myself going !g about 50% of the searches. With Kagi, I almost never use the !g bang.
> Twitter was a big driving force in that movement. Being able to track moment by moment activity and movements and how this shaped the Arab spring is not something you could achieve with other sources.

Would anyone have been able to do that without paying? Years ago, someone told me you could get at most 1% of the "firehose" without paying, and if you paid you could get ~10% (however the free sample wasn't a subset of the paid sample, so they still grabbed both and de-duped).
Mint Mobile customers had numbers and Coinbase hijacked around T-Mobile breach
That's an interesting life story, JD
I’m helping! Being unemployed sucks. I’m having more trouble than I’ve ever had getting a new job this time around.
Here you go, a primary source: https://radiationserviceswa.com.au/missing-radioactive-sourc...

excerpt>>>

The risk with radiation sources dramatically increases within 1 m – we can calculate the dose rate using the ‘inverse square law’:

At 1 cm, the dose rate will be 10,000 time higher …. 16,650 mSv/h (or 16.65 Sv/h)
At 1mm (ie, if you were to pick the source up with your fingers), the dose rate would be 1,665 Sv/h – this will cause some serious damage to your fingers and surrounding tissues.

>>>

I'm a little suspicious of their inverse-square calculation, though, as by their logic the dose rate would be infinite at a distance of 0m (skin contact). That's clearly not the case.
That makes a lot of sense.

My case is different. When I've run my own companies, I'd post stuff online related to that. But even then, it's under a persona -- I feel it's even more important then, actually (I also use personas in real life in that circumstance. It's very useful to be able to identify as the secretary, the sales guy, whoever, in order to dodge time-wasters such as salesmen.)

But if I'm working for someone else, I'm not posting anything directly related to my work.
Or the let's-move-the-historical-headquarters-to-Chicago top management, so that the engineers wouldn't come and bother them.
I've actually used it quite a bit and he's not "flat out incorrect". I'd say you're the one wrong.

It might reply that when you ask it something that it can deduce it can't know, but ask it something reasonable and it will almost certainly hallucinate it instead of telling you it doesn't know about it.

> What function in Unreal Engine makes an actor transparent?

> The function to make an actor transparent in Unreal Engine is called "SetActorOpacity".

(There is no function called SetActorOpacity)
If its your throat it could be GERD. I went from 3-4 cups a day to green tea...
Very good, Old Sport!
I default to DDG (have for years) but the results are typically so completely useless that I switch to Google most of the time.

Google results are usually only slightly better than DDG, and this is aggressively worsened by Google's extremely user-hostile experience (for this particular user), but sometimes that's sufficient to get me where I'm trying to go.

Rapidly reaching a point where I'm best off searching Reddit and hoping what I want was mentioned there at some point and turns up in a result, but they also have a user-hostile (for me) experience, subpar search, and an ever-increasing amount of plain gibberish noise to sift through.

I'm basically at the "The web was better before Altavista" point.
I have an alter-ego that I release music as. I like that nobody knows who that is, but weirdly I think my alter-ego is a much more likeable character than me.
You could use email aliases
Google’s surprise February 8 event sounds like a ChatGPT clone is coming
instead of bookmarking if are fine using another extension, then use "Session Boss" to save and restore sessions
I use VPN's when I can, I mix up my browsers, and I've largely abandoned social media. Hopefully it helps shrugs
Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context
I think this is great. Love the simplicity and the features. Every time I have tried to launch one of my past products I've always looked for easy landing page builders, so I know the pain first hand.
Ask HN
Does the Chinese Balloon have Nuclear Bombs on board? Is that why it hasn’t been shot down?
Last time I used flutter for desktop, setting custom window size required an external package. I think it's a significant use case for many people.
Banksy is way more famous than Satoshi and has remained pseudonymous
Note that I said "That's supposed [emphasis added] to be what Social Security is for."

The question is not what the federal government is actually doing right now (if anything) to help people affected by inflation but rather what the federal government could do to help people affected by inflation.

Some people in the comments seem to be claiming that driving up interest rates is literally the only logical possibility, and nothing different could be done.

The equation of retirement and stock market investment is a deliberate policy choice designed to push large amounts of working class money into the stock market, thereby benefitting the speculators and financiers.
Why not just debit cards? Pulls money directly from your account, you can only spend what you have, expenses are visible directly and works everywhere a credit card works. In many parts of the world, people basically use debit cards for everything, credit cards only for some cases.
The lasting impact of 9/11:

- financial: the forever wars of Iraq / Afghanistan are somewhere around, per google, 8 trillion dollars. In terms of global warming mitigation then (yeah, it would never have been spent on that) or in terms of opportunity costs of budgeting now and the near future, that is a huge loss. That is a quarter of the current US debt (31.5 trillion dollars). It is a almost a third of our annual GDP.

- freedom: it instituted dangerous protocols for surveillance, jailing of US citizens without trial, assassination of US citizens without trial (Obama), the "enemy combatant" designation, mainstreamed use of torture and extraordinary rendition. I'm no war historian, but I think the only other war that resulted in such massive expansion of federal government power, and the creation of agencies to exert such power, was WWII with the beginnings of the CIA and NSA. Did Vietnam or Korea result in such expansions and institutions?

- trust: granted we always had an iffy relationship with this with banana republic atrocities, supporting dictators, the Shah of Iran, etc, but Iraq really destroyed a lot of American standing worldwide, and considering the immediate aftermath of 9/11 was a surge of sympathy/support, that says something. America arguably lost a huge amount of it's soft power. Everyone knew it was an imperialist grab of oil by oilmen in charge of the White House. Consider that this was the early days of the EU and China was on the rise. Iraq likely lead to countries seeking leadership and aid from those rather than America as a serious option.
Which has a similar effect to the cards not being available. If you're renting an apartment and riding a bus to work, what exactly are you going to put up as collateral? Organs?