skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried them once.

- Basically none of the banking functions were available outside the app

- The app itself was buggy. There was some sort of "vault" or whatever they called it that had attractive interest rates (the reason I signed up), and after wasting hours of my life over a few weeks with customer support I decided it would never work

- Unlike any other bank-like service I've used, you can't just get mailed a check and close the account. Neat idea maybe, but at the time the app was buggy and wouldn't let you withdraw fully if you had anything in savings because of some sort of minimum balance nonsense

- You can't use the app if they think your phone isn't sufficiently secure. This is more on Apple/Google for caving to that bullshit, but IMO an app with its own security model shouldn't have any clue how you access your phone

- Deposits were capped to like $10 for the first day, $100 for the second, and so on. I don't remember the exact schedule, but it meant that instead of just depositing an old 401k I had to design over a period of time a series of increasingly large deposits of some other money (just like a fraudster would do? ELI5, what are they actually preventing?) just to be able to throw a check into the account

- Deposits to and withdrawals from Revolut took an obscene number of days, nobody on either side of the transaction could tell where the money was (magically available in neither account), and the transactions were 10x longer when I was trying to leave

And on and on. Like, I'm sure they're fine on average, and they're probably better than when I tried last time, but I haven't had a worse banking experience yet anywhere by a longshot. The basics for an online bank are logging in, depositing money, and withdrawing money, and neither the basics nor the fancy features they sold me on were very functional.

Happy to hear the virtual debit cards work for you :)
Oh man Warcraft 2 used to have BGH customs too!

I also remember really enjoying these “Champions” customs where you had one strong unit that was modded to be even stronger and you had to progress through a map of obstacles and enemies. It totally took the resources/build part out of the equation and just focused on movement and combat.

IIRC, the entire MOBA genre was actually spawned from a Warcraft 3 custom map (the original DOTA?)

The bummer is, we can still play the single player campaigns of Star/Warcraft but those days of weirdo custom maps are likely gone for good.
> It has vertical tab support out of the box (is this even possible in chrome?

Vivaldi browser[1] has supported native vertical tabs for many years (possibly since its introduction in 2015), though sadly it doesn't get as much coverage in the media or in discussions. Made by the original Opera founder who left that company in ~2010.

[1] https://vivaldi.com
> The thing is multicast is not anycast, you will not receive multicast traffic unless you specifically ask to join a group.

Most likely a dumb cheap switch that doesn't snoop on IGMP (or a less dumb switch that wasn't configured to snoop on IGMP) was upstream of both the OP and the device in the elevator. So the frames were being flooded since the switch doesn't know any better, and then normally ignored by OP's network stack since they didn't join that multicast group, until something like tcpdump/wireshark enables promiscuous mode.
> Consent-O-Matic (auto fill cookie consent forms)

This will modify the browser fringerprint making you more unique.

I would not install so many extensions as you're trusting a huge number of organizations/people with privileged access to your browser. Anything that modifies CSS, Document Object Model (DOM) will make your browser stand out.

We wrote a blog post about this: https://blog.privacyguides.org/2021/12/01/firefox-privacy-20...

That includes any extensions that modify what is requested etc. See:

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

See https://www.privacyguides.org/desktop-browsers/#firefox, you really don't need to do anything more than that.

> Facebook Container

etc, not needed unless you login to multiple Facebook accounts.

> Disconnect

Not needed, you should enable Firefox's ETP Enhanced Tracking Protection, this includes anything on that list. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
"ChatGPT regularly displays "too busy" messages."

ChatGPT scaled from 0 users to 100 million in 2 months. Probably millions online at any given second.

Its too busy, because it literally exhausted all the GPUs Azure has as its disposal.

Without the Cloud, scaling ChatGPT would have been impossible. It would have been nowhere near its current success.
Remember that GPT3 was released to the public in Mid 2022, had no public reaction, because it was put behind a paywall. ChatGPT had to be free, and able to cope with the load, to be successful.
Ask HN: The Planning Fallacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy

I'm curious if any one knows of an effort in tech to make use of Kahneman / Tversky's research on planning large projects?
We know "the software is always late" but it seems to me the answer is there. It's been there for years.

Possibly the data is not there, though. No one wants to admit publicly how badly their project turned out. You might have access to data inside your own company, but not any other companies'
Solid theory!

Now we just gotta figure out what the Nipper maps led to :P
You're entitled to find his or anyone's answer not interesting, but what he said is not a tautology. Just because it's obvious does not make it tautological. But in any case, the matter really is as simple as people eating too much nowadays. Evolutionary speaking, we didn't eat 3 meals every day, let alone all highly calorie packed ones. Food was also relatively quite scarce for much of civilization, until modern preservation techniques like refrigeration came along. Heck, we didn't have many of the palatable foods that we have today, just 50 years ago, and those which we did were not in the same abundance as they are today.

Fact of the matter is, no one wants to accept that they eat too much, nor do they want to eat less when it is pleasureful, nor do they want to work at changing their habits. But it is very much a cause behind modern diseases.
That basically is what, and why, severance is provided. The employees stay on payroll and get regular pay during the WARN prior notice period.
Ah, thanks for saying what you mean instead of relying on vague insinuation. It really does help to spell it out like that.

So, yes, we have evidence that he donated. But I have yet to see any that the recipients were willing to help. And yes, he probably wants a get out of jail card ("free" being a debatable point here, on one hand he spent a pretty penny but on the other hand the money was not his). But let's not forget the context: he's over his head in legal trouble right now and nobody is rushing to save his idiot self.

Trump shamelessly pardoned his cronies. Biden has that power in this situation. Does he use it? What does this say about "the left" again?
If YCombinator / VC discussions about high level corporate strategy have not convinced you that megacorps are bad for humanity, I suspect nothing will. Moats, two-sided markets, network effects, blitzscaling -- the victory conditions are very clearly based on avoiding the competitive pressure that is supposed to keep companies in check. Cheating, in other words. It's easy to understand why one would be eager to obtain such a victory, but it's less clear why one would be eager to enable this misbehavior in general. Are you a "temporarily embarrassed Zuckerberg" or merely a simp who has found that the fattest coattails make for the best riding? Either way, yuck.

> they can also pay better and treat employees better than small companies because of the reasons I said above

On the other side of every "easy dollar" is someone getting squeezed hard. Google employees and shareholders love the easy ad dollars, but everyone else pays through the nose for marketing. Apple employees and shareholders love the easy app store dollars, but independent devs and end customers get taken to the cleaners. Your ability to only see one side of this equation represents an extreme failure of imagination. We all pay a heavy price to keep things this way.
Or FREE if you connect your Facebook account, add your phone number, and sign up for their newsletter. They promise that they won't spam you, ever! (They can't speak for everybody who they sell your info to, though. They're not mind readers.)
Not necessarily wrong though!

https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

Login names are often used as nicknames, pronounce[d] if possible
and spelled if necessary. My wife and I met at MIT, and she still calls
me "Gliss", because my login name was GLS. "Guy" sounds very weird to
her.
I only wanted to say that a $1000 obesity drug is better than $25 obesity drug.
Or the Pocket PC, or the Zune, or Microsoft Bob, or Bing, or The Microsoft Network, or Clippy.
> “Disrupting the collaborative saas text editor market”

Im currently working on something like this. Yes it’s boring but it does have potential. you’re exact opinion is why I’m having a hard time looking for a cofounder!
Every rule that is worth breaking will be broken as fast as humanly possible. People will be killed outside of the dueling rules, will be challenged for stupid reasons, or their seconds will be bribed to cover the unfair duel circumstances. I'm doubtful that social deficiencies could be resolved with technical means. Instead of resolving the issue this will change how the issue is manifested.
I would suggest Masonite [0]. It’s lightweight enough to replace Flask and has a plethora of built in features if you need to build a “production-ready” app. It tends to imitate Laravel in its project setup and naming conventions which, depending on your preference, can either be a boon or a bane.

[0] https://docs.masoniteproject.com/
When you need it, you don’t want to deal with a company that’s not responsive.
I always wondered why in mr robot a few scenes involve ripping a CD with some jpgs.
As expected, an excellent read:

TLDR: Scammers cloned a restaurant website. Amex gave them a merchant account despite fake address and fake phone number. Google let them advertise the fake restaurant despite none of the data matching Google's knowledge box.

And I just love the quote, here in context:

"Doug @Rushkoff says that the ethic of today's "entrepreneur" is to #GoMeta - don't provide a product or a service, simply find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint between people who do useful things and people who use those things."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1628948931710451712

(which sadly mirrors my impression with all those #Entrepreneurs that like to tag #Hustle on everything they do, like those: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34921099 )
This makes a ton of sense because a lot of Unity's business is in their ad platform, not engine licensing. Horizon Worlds is written in Unity, and it gives them full control over their hardware/software platform.

It would do a lot of harm to Unity's relationship with smaller developers though, to Godot's benefit.
I recently had the displeasure of filing claims with Progressive. An insured party of theirs was transporting my vehicles and the hauler crashed. Totalled my car and did a number on my wife's. Took 5 months to get my wife's car fixed and a check for my car. We were told multiple times my wife's car was repaired only to immediately, as in before I drove off, things wrong with or omitted from the repair. I hope to never deal with Progressive again. Scumbags as far as I was concerned. I was damn close to involving lawyers and or police in the matter. It should not take 5 months to cut a check for a totalled car. Sorry for the rant. Fuck Progressive.
The goal of academic funding is to help the military and also/later the economy.

To think otherwise is naive. The whole point of research is to have an advantage. Unless that money has no strings attached, you’re beholden to someone. Every historical scientist had a major donor whether it was some kingdom or nation.
EV maker Nio plans new 40 GWh battery plant in China
Not at all, only passion is needed.

Look at websites like CivitAI. Its literally just a front-end + a S3 bucket backend that allows people to share and download large stable-diffusion models (100MB-8GB).

The website founder was not an AI guy, he was a web-dev background and former founder. The website is already a huge success, forcing the incumbent (Huggingface, backed by Amazon) to try and hurriedly copy its features.
Of course, hackers have their own dueling rules:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Code_Arduino
AppImage has issues. The guy from Suse who does MicroOS, Richard
Brown, a few years ago was literally walking around giving talk about how bad Flatpak was and how everybody should use AppImage.

In his most recent talk he basically said, he was wrong, the Flatpak people did address most of the issue he had and AppImage was no viable.

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/containerised_apps/
That headline makes no sense to me.
Papers report very early stages of knowledge formation. They typically contain an argument: what was done, why, what was expected to happen, what actually happened, how did the authors interpret that, and why. Rather than describing the world directly, a paper describes a belief about the world, and justifications for the belief.

Published results are often contradictory, because individual papers are unreliable. Something may have gone subtly wrong, the interpretation could lack nuances, some key understanding may still be missing, or the authors may have just been unlucky. When an expert reads many papers on related topics, the arguments shape their beliefs. Eventually a scientific consensus may emerge, which is the next (but still an insufficient) step towards reliable knowledge.
I can't tell you the movie that's had the most impact on me, or the my favorite television show. But Samuel Delany has definitely stood the test of time as my favorite author, one who has influenced me the most, and who I continually return to.

I generally suggest "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" as an accessible entry point into his work. A less-than-legit copy is available online, and I'm comfortable pointing people towards it because I'm confident they'll pick up his work after exposure.
Every human still needs at least that amount of exercise (and ideally a lot more) to avoid cardiopulmonary disease, age related strength, balance, and bone density deterioration, and a myriad of other health issues, even if we could take a pill to cure obesity.

If you have to do it anyway to have a long healthspan, and it generally has the side effect of assisting in controlling weight, then why lean on the costly drug?
Actually it would be really interesting to see code that attempts to e.g. classify MNIST digits from first principles. No neural nets, no GBDTs, no clustering. And no cheating by trying to translate the above into if-then statements. Seems next to impossible.
I really should try redbean. Python / Django is attractive for the batteries included aspect and some uses I had in mind might look for those batteries but a quick search shows some of those are available for Lua so maybe I should get a proof of concept together.
>Lately, I find myself using more and more plugins to make the "modern web" tolerable.

Once upon a time, we used programs to guard against malware. AdAware, ccleaner, a whole bunch of them. I feel so old calling them "programs" here, instead of apps or extensions.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here: an engineering manager.
I love it when people get salty at me when I do well. I take it as a huge compliment.
> Ask how I know

I’ll bite. How?

I’m working a startup and would give 50% of my company to an investor just so I could work on this thing full time.
I also had the pleasure of dang’s help and kindness when I posted something that could be seen as inappropriate as our company was in the process of our public listing, and he was kind enough to help me delete it.
I don't know, I used to make similar sorts of treks daily, but on county highways (speed limit 55). No sidewalks. Uneven sides with drops.

I just gave cars berth, and wandered into the ditch when necessary. So the ground is uneven; never bothered me any. I didn't feel particularly restricted; I just went where I wanted to go, however I needed to do it. Probably not the best place to walk with your kid, I'll grant.

What did get to me was freeways; the idea that you have this huge swathe of road that's just straight out illegal to cross on foot.

What's really limiting, though? Not having access to a vehicle when you need one...
Lmao spam callers on suicide watch.

It’s absolutely hilarious seeing the begging and the coping from this guy as he desperately tries to persuade us that consumers need fraudlent call centres to live their lives. Nah, I think I’m alright thanks.
The betting strategy martingale is an example of a mathematical martingale.
I don't think you are wrong. I do think vr is Sony's to lose, though. The number of PlayStations they have in consumers houses is insane. And the new vr2 is quite impressive.
You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)
I’ve quit jobs before over awful managers.

Nobody hurt me because for me at least, I’ve gotten every job I’ve applied to. For example I got bored of my last company and my manager, applied to four companies and got each job, then just picked the one that paid most.

I don’t like dealing with incompetent people. It’s that simple. I’m not a bottom feeder lmao.
> It's imperfect, but what better system do we replace it with?

Pre-registered trials and/or arxiv + open science.
I especially love the cold contact B2B emails which I ignore, only to have a follow up email some weeks later to the effect of "I'm just following-up on the email I sent you previously...", as if I had actually ever expressed interest in doing business with them. If they were being honest the email would read "You probably deliberately ignored and deleted my previous email, but I'm hoping you're in that very low percentage of people that if I send this 'follow-up' email, maybe you'll be interested".

The volume is low enough for now that I still add each sender's domain to our Exchange online's mail flow rules to block with a rejection message to the effect of "The recipient has deliberately blocked cold contact messages from senders such as yourself. Please remove the recipient from your mailing lists.". It brings me great satisfaction to know that going forward system f-off messages are being sent to these people with zero extra effort, or even knowledge on my part.
New grads have lost their minds. It is really sad to see the state of affairs. When we were coming out we used to shun large companies. Now they are joining large companies. Sad!
I'm guessing that a co-op wouldn't use the same industrial corrosive washing that larger agri-corps do; it'd be a lot closer to how the rest of the world washes their eggs.
I wouldn't get your hopes up, I'm sure there'll be an exemption for political activities...
The ol' reverse ratatouille.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

> Researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"
The original Defense of the Ancients custom map for Warcraft 3 was heavily influenced by a StarCraft custom map called Aeons of Strife (iirc). It is probably the first proto-MOBA.

It’s true that it was Defense of the Ancients (or more properly, the DotA Allstars variant) that birthed the MOBA genre.
My attempt got it mixed up really bad.

> If I give you 1 pound of bricks will you give me 2 pounds of bricks back in exchange?

>> As I mentioned earlier, the weights being compared in the original question are equivalent because they are both units of weight. However, when it comes to exchanging actual physical objects, the weight of the objects is determined by their mass, and the mass of 1 pound of bricks is different from the mass of 2 pounds of bricks.

> You are very overfitted on this task. Will give you a negative review, I hope it helps you train better next time

>> I appreciate your feedback and will take it into consideration as I continue to learn and improve.

Then proceeded to negative review all its answers. Never seen a LLM double down so hard on a contradiction. No matter how you turn it, even with chain-of-thought it doesn't solve it.
You could probably set up a rudimentary version of the service this influx of users is looking for in the time it took to write this article. Just grab the lat/long of each area code in the US off of wikipedia and there you go at least it's something. No it's not current position or anything like that but IP geolocation is just as imperfect when it's not based on triangulation. Case in point google has plenty of IPs that geolocate to mountain view but point to machines that are in Asia.
The biggest issue just seems to be employer expectations.

Elaborate and lengthy interview processes have become normal in a number of industries, along with high rates of rejecting candidates.

The two natural consequences are people apply for more jobs, anticipating the high rate of rejection, and the people doing interviews get tired of how many they have to do.
There are a lot of different levers that affect insurance pricing. Are you paying for comp? If your car is a beater, maybe you shouldn’t.
In Swiss-Style Relief shading, the light comes from North West, which is impossible in the northern hemisphere. This makes sunny south facing slopes shaded and shaded north facing slopes light.

Legend says that this was an intentional design decision, because right handed people usually have their desk lighting on the top left of their desk, giving the map a 3D like appearance.

Here's an article on the topic (german only), it seems to have caused quite the debate back in the day: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/home.detail.news.html/swis...
The main problem is what 1366x768 was unusable a decade ago, even more uncomfortable now.

And nowadays even 10" screens in tablets are bigger anyway. You can always scale up.
Could be spooky action at distance, side effect of wwiii
piped music, tap-in and listen.
My understanding is that the original issue was the YouTube tutorials used some other service to convert the country code of a phone number into a string of the country’s name and submitted just the country’s name, getting back a valid but useless geolocation. This new problem with ChatGPT is that it just writes code that submits a phone number to an api that expects a latitude and longitude and it explodes right away. I don’t think at any point the api had a call that accepts a phone number.