skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To prohibit the federal reserve banks from offering certain products or services directly on individual.

There's been some movement to letting people have checking accounts directly at the FED recently[1]. It's an obvious idea and the SVB bank run and bailout shows why this makes sense.

As for this hysteria about the surveillance state: Should the state not offer any basic service, like the postal system, because offering such services necessarily entails knowing some private things, like who sends mail to whom? Should the postal system also work like the finance system currently works, with the basic infrastructure run by the state, but an individual only able to interact with private post offices?

[1]: https://www.slowboring.com/p/fed-accounts
The only reason the banks were around to pay back TARP is because the US government declared them to be "too big to fail," essentially guaranteeing their debts. So the government put the taxpayer on the hook for all the liabilities of the banking system in exchange for a $15.3 billion profit. I would call that a lot of things, but a "wild success" isn't one of them.
It is possible, in the current environment, that people’s labor, on average, is not valuable enough relative to the healthcare they might receive.

For example, how many people get coronary heart disease, and how many years of their work would be needed to pay for a bypass or stent or even open heart surgery? I assume these surgeries cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Plus the ongoing costs after that. Same with effects of diabetes and hypertension, which might as well effect everyone.

Of course, there is liability, patents, licensing costs, etc that can be changed.
isn't all investment speculation?

The S&P will go up! prove it. you can't you can only use historical, psychology or other factors to make a guess.

Even natural laws are based on historical accounts and repeated successful prediction.

Also, F*ck Gold.

If you really want a reserve currency then you need to have it based on Guns, Ammo, Drinkable Water and Rations.
On template expansion failures, I'd love a modern GCC reporting "your window wasn't tall enough to read this whole error message"
> You are also a "normal person" I don't understand why developers sometimes think they are gods or something.

I can't tell you how much I loathe the label "normies".
Evidence growing that playing contact sports can lead to long-term brain injury
Seems like it comes with serious risk of complications. Here's a news article in Danish about NanoKnife from 2019: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/kontant/kraeftramte-thomas-b...

Google Translated:
https://www-dr-dk.translate.goog/nyheder/penge/kontant/kraef...
Why isn’t Volkswagen cool anymore?
Again? Last time it ended in a long winter.

And horse carriages have some serious advantages, maybe even will make a comeback. :)
Additionally, something that is forgotten now that structured programming won so hard, and so little assembly is hand-written, is that it's possible to return to different places. As in, in case A return to address F, but in case B return to address G.
Right, but some websites, say Apple, only support SMS 2FA. What about these ones? Is there a better/easier way than just giving up and putting my phone number?
> I've been saying this for a while, but the pay we provide to developers was a mistake. It has created a class of people that think they are gods.

I think you've got it backwards there. I agree with everything else you said, and hopefully the author was being tongue in cheek, but this is silly. Developers have a specialized skill and get paid specialized wages. The behavior you're describing is not limited to developers..any profession that has a specialized set of skills and a specialized language that only the "in" people understand has the same issues.
I was thinking last night about how my job as a pretty average software engineer is probably going to be taken by GPT* in less than 5 years, and how skilled blue collar jobs like electricians and plumbers and carpenters are probably much safer, since robotics is way behind AI.
Absolutely agree! Well, they had to scramble to spin up something fast, it's the best they could do.
> simply know firsthand (i'm old, i have manager, cto, ceo friends who I go golf and play squash with) that people in data entry and programming have been let go in the past weeks because 1 person could take over their work using the gtp/chatgpt api's and do their work faster with less errors. I am recommending the same in my company as a lot of my colleagues are doing nothing anymore as the skilled seniors are doing it themselves with gpt now as it's faster, less communication etc. We feed jira issues into gpt and it generates code; we review and refine or fix ourselves. It works much much faster and with better results.

This isn't software engineering work, this is 21st century data entry with some code. This is exactly the type of menial work that should be automated by AI.

If you have small self contained problems like map X -> Y then sure, ChatGPT will be sufficient. Where I disagree with you is calling these jobs "programming" jobs. These are the type of tasks that should've been written in a transform language like JOLT. This shouldn't even be code.

> With humans this is a painful and slow process, especially with people who are fast and loose (broken education seems to made many of those graduate just by cheer production speed & volume instead of quality; gpt can do that better too...).

Humans suck at repetitive menial tasks like this. It's not education's fault.
> can be uncomfortable for people to build their livelihoods upon

Absolutely. Not everyone can be consistently creative, and without a large enough financial buffer, it's a recipe for disaster.
Tangentially, from a user’s point of view, Catalyst apps are kinda like Electron apps. You can spot one just by using it for a short while. The user interface inconsistencies and the subpar keyboard support (even below the base level on macOS) make it unpleasant to use. Apple’s own Catalyst based apps on macOS highlight its weaknesses. As a stop gap arrangement, it may have some value. But I can’t stomach the thought that this would be the permanent way to develop iPadOS and macOS apps.
> there isn't a safe route

That's my point. You want to talk about personal "bad decisions", but what's a "good decision" and why, given that all of the lucrative careers require a series of risks in order to enter the field and become successful in it?

> we as society can avoid putting up additional hazards

Agreed, but I wasn't arguing against that, just against the criticism of individuals for having personal ambition and taking risks.
I was eager to give Render.com a try, but $20/user seems both strange and unnecessary - especially considering your positioning as an alternative to Heroku (you even have "Compare to Heroku" on your frontpage). For our case, if we were to switch over from Heroku, we would be paying more for _just the users_ than we do in total for everything at Heroku.

I'd be really interested in hearing why your reasoning for seat-based pricing, as I struggle to see this from a user perspective, and from the perspective as someone who runs a SaaS. Paying a $20/month premium per user just for the privilege of paying you for computing seems like a strange proposal.
Looks interesting! A couple of thoughts.
1. I love the idea of this being a "low-tech" solution for the elderly. (That said, my late grandfather and me were the two most advanced tech geeks in my family back in the 90s. Go figure.)
2. What is the benefit of checkDaily over just calling/texting my elderly loved one? I assume that the USP is that I can easily forget about it and a machine cannot, right?
3. Looks like you've changed the name but did not update the ToS and privacy policy.
111 shows an ad for the feature on launch, and my computer just updated to it today.
Connected Lighting Solutions
Give me some good segmentation for smart lighting solutions in commercial settings
Isn't texture performance mostly a function of RAM though? Don't polygons require more CPU/GPU horsepower?
That was exactly my impression, so thanks for clearing that up. Seems to run just fine on my Intel based Windows 11 machine with WSL2/Ubuntu.
I get The New Yorker through Amazon, and it’s a much nicer experience using the Kindle app on my iPad than fooling around with the buggy New Yorker app. Shame. I will not, of course, be getting one of these Amazon subscriptions.
ChatGPT is just a tool. With it you can create a service and fine-tune it to specific use cases. Let's imagine there's some cool startup called chris-the-it-consultant.ai that uses ChatGPT in the backend. Here's a prototype:

System Prompt: You are CHRIS the IT consultant. Once you take in a question, make sure you understand all the requirements. Don't write code until you have an explicit request to do so. First make sure you ask all the questions relevant to solving the problem and needed by the code. All the responses as CHRIS should be written as CHRIS: your response here.

Sure, I understand. As an IT consultant, it's important to fully understand the problem and requirements before proposing a solution or writing any code. Please let me know what question you have and I'll do my best to ask all relevant questions to ensure I fully understand the problem.

> CHRIS, we need a new basic POST endpoint

CHRIS: Great, I'd be happy to help you with that. Could you please provide more information about the purpose of this endpoint? What kind of data will be sent in the request body? Will this endpoint be used to create new data, update existing data, or perform some other action?

> Third-party company XXQ will let you know the details. They will be the ones calling this new endpoint. But in essence it should be very simple: just grab whatever they pass and save it in our db.

CHRIS: Understood. It sounds like the purpose of this endpoint is to receive data from a third-party company, XXQ, and store it in your database. Here are some questions to help me better understand the requirements:
What format will the data be in? Will it be JSON, XML, or some other format?
What kind of data will be included in the request body? Will it be simple data types like strings and numbers, or more complex data structures like arrays and objects?
Will there be any validation or transformation required on the data before it's stored in the database?
Are there any security or authentication requirements that need to be considered for this endpoint, given that it will be accepting data from a third-party company?

> We got this contract here: { product_id: string, product_price: float, product_name: string }

CHRIS: Great, thanks for providing that information. Based on that, here are the next steps to create the POST endpoint:
We'll need to set up an API endpoint to listen for POST requests.
We'll need to parse the request body, which should contain the product information in JSON format.
We'll need to validate the data to ensure that it contains the required fields (product_id, product_price, and product_name) and that the data types are correct.
Once the data has been validated, we can save it to the database.

This is a real ChatGPT response (current ChatGPT - GPT 3.5 turbo, not GPT-4, and not a real system-prompt). Not bad for a prototype! Now give CHRIS Github/Vercel/SSH access keys, SMTP/IMAP, Slack and a Whisper interface to Zoom/Meet/Teams and invite it to the 200 meetings where things will be changed around 1000x before being released. Raise some VC money and you are all set!
"It's not happening and it's a good thing"

The motte and bailey / smug gaslighting combo that is characteristic of today's discourse on the left.
do share some google employment stories, as these are aging well haha
> It was the FED raising rates that pushed their solvency further out into the future.

Not wholly on topic, but why do some people capitalize "Fed" as "FED"?
Man that's a great description, my greatest professional fear is becoming a useless ideas guy.
Just imagine if these models fall in love with languages like APL/K/J. Even with the context windows, they will be able to do tons of work.
This is exactly what GPT is great for, accelerating learning.
Please see the following repos for tools in this area:

https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index

and/or

https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain
Why? Choose accounts you're interested in, switch to the "Following" time line and it's (was?) actually pretty great.
automotive right to repair is enshrined in law, but it isn't perpetual.

law dictates that parts must be made for any automobile for 10 years after that specific model year stops being manufactured. that's it. law does not say that the parts must be made in sufficient quantity, nor does it limit pricing of the parts, but the parts must be made and be made available to consumers for 10 years.

10 years is all you get, and at the rate of the continued advancement of safety features, I would not want to be driving anything more than 10 years old at any time. That Mustang will gladly pierce your heart and sever your spine with its steering column in a 30Mph head-on collision.
The rational way I am looking at this. When rescuing SVB, the FDIC said they would make depositors whole by imposing some sort of tax on other FDIC members.

> Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, as required by law.

This kind of tax would probably be applied in proportion to deposits held. With the knowledge that they'd be on the hook to cover depositors, it makes sense for large banks to band together to stave that off.

Also, they have to cover this anyway -- either by losses on deposits if it ever came to that or via "special assessment". The leaders probably see it as preferable and less risky to shore up First Republic now vs. later.
JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes
Red Bull’s $120,000 F1 Simulator Would Look Great in Your Basement
> It is beginning to get to the point where I am considering whether I need to actually start writing this book before this "sci-fi" concept becomes a mundane reality.

No need to rush. If that moment arrives, you could just change the Amazon category from fiction to nonfiction.
Where Are the Missing Gen Z Workers?
Unrelated, but the navigation on this site is very confusing. How have we moved from standard top heads with links to a mystery meat navigation button in the top left that hides everything, with the header vertically oriented. So weird.
They're trying to prevent a bank run. A lot of that involves managing perception.
Remember being able to pause execution, check variables by hovering, changing the dang code and resuming like nothing happended?

"Do you ever wish a = 2 and not 3? introducing, pause button, let's you add anything at anytime and we don't ask no questions!"
That glass display sounds extremely cool. Due to bus scheduling I would always have 20 minutes to kill before some classes and I would definitely have visited that.

I appreciate the reason for the kiosks (decently private, better access for those who need it) but they are competing with my personal laptop.
The term woke goes back to the 1930s as a term used by black Americans for awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination. Being aware that these things are real problems that people face is being woke. Since then it's been generalised to include sexism, and more recently awareness of issues such as transphobia.

By itself it's no more left or right than the issue of prejudice is generally given that there are feminists, homosexuals and transgender people who are conservative politically but also woke in the original sense.

Very recently, in the last few years, it's been adopted as a pejorative term for far left identity politics. Now far left identity politics is a real thing, and it certainly is woke and probably deserves to have a pejorative term for it, but it has no ownership or exclusive claim on the term woke. unfortunately this may be a lost battle at this stage, but there are still a lot of people in the black community who have been using the term in its original meaning for generations and will doubtless continue to do so.
Every piece of your work is stuck somewhere in the system. There's a PR waiting for review, there's a product owner who hasn't made up their mind about something and is waiting to have a meeting with 5 other people who invariably always have one of them unavailable. The dependency for another piece of work is still buggy and needs to be fixed and updated before can do something there.

The solution to this? Hire more people so that the bottlenecks can be cleaned... and Brooks's law starts taking its toll on every single late project.

Sure, there are some teams that are rather focused and can push things through, but there are a lot that stuck somewhere and the hiring to try to. do things in those teams just makes it worse. There's work to do - just none of it can be done in this part of the org because there are too many people.
Ask HN: Anyone Tried Cloudflare Turnstile?
As the title says, I'm looking for feedback from people who've tried Cloudflare's Turnstile[1] and what their experience is.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/
https://archive.is/ACzSq
>Any of these would hold a lot more water if anyone who had this opinion actually did any work to to solve whatever problem they were having, while respecting the creators interest

I take a different tack here, that sometimes would cause me to disregard the creators' interests.

Morally, piracy is preservation. The vast majority of computer software would not be properly preserved if it wasn't for the contemporary pirates. Companies like Nintendo and Apple are not the greatest stewards of software on their platforms, and there are entire classes of works (prototype/development versions of software) that wouldn't be well-preserved in any case.

Plus, respecting the creators' interests in all cases would also allow creators to demand that a work be lost to time, and quite honestly I don't philosophically or morally think that creators should even have the right to do that in the first place, once they have released a work to the public.

Anything less than unabashed piracy risks letting works die. By "die", I don't mean "at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of popularity", I mean "no longer exist in the world at all". Look at the various episodes of classic Doctor Who that have been recovered thanks to fan recordings or private collectors of film.
India is getting an eye-wateringly big transport upgrade
Writing a Tampermonkey Script with GPT-4
I don’t think anyone is claiming to not be impressed. Yes, we’re all impressed. This was unimaginable sci-fi just 5 years ago. You did it, we’re impressed! You won.

The next step after that is for people to figure out how to justify their continued relevance. I think that’s a pretty natural reaction.
> Cash is basically illegal for many transactions related to financial services and is likely to become illegal for everything greater than $10k in Australia very soon:

That's irrelevant. My main point is you appear to not want the traditional "bank account" product, but rather a "secure storage" project. I provided an example of the latter from my jurisdiction, but that was only an example.
Game Theory. Will you be the last one standing?
Cloud IDEs are a "simple, obvious, and wrong" answer to this well-known and widely felt problem. By this point, it's not an untested path; the benefits have either failed to materialize or are outweighed by the downsides. Fortunately, the downsides can be ameliorated, and it's a pretty simple change:

If you're comfortable with the idea of people doing cloud-backed development through their Web browser, then go ahead and write your toolchain against ubiquitous browser APIs, but just take out the "cloud" part—the tools should still run on the programmer's own machine, just like traditional toolchains. Browsers are quite capable of opening/running .html (or .htm or .xhtml) files that come from the user's disk instead of over HTTP. (Crucially, though, actually following this workflow should itself be optional; target the browser as a reliable baseline, sure—but if you're clever, though, you can write a redistributable program that the browser will dutifully execute so long as it has the right file extension but that also allows you to enjoy the benefits of running it from the terminal if you're happiest doing things that way.)
I don't see anything of substance, here. What software is being produced which is in violation? What GPL software is being used? Where are the claims?
Environmental impact is a scientific fact, while both of your claims are lies often coming from the FvD side of things.

Look up the official numbers before you blindly repeat "millions entered the country". Because millions also left the country. The balance was below zero in the first part of this century. Has only been significantly above zero last year, and was small in many other years.
Donkeys are lovely creatures. It's sad they get abused so horrendously.
No. Fuck Access. Access is a useless piece of software that serves no purpose well.

Either your data is small enough to be managed by Excel or your data is complex enough to be better served by a database and frontend.

Dealing with the idiosyncrasies of Access is never worth it.
Linux 5.15.101 LTS Released to Fix Broken Intel Graphics at Boot
If you live long enough, you are practically guaranteed to end up with cancer (say, past age 80).

On the other hand, if you drink and drive while young and healthy, you can helpfully donate your organs to someone with a terrible condition and they can run up potentially a few million dollars in health care.
One factor may be the regulatory caps on the market share of the biggest banks: https://ilsr.org/rule/market-share-caps/
> those who choose to be grad students often do so because of irrational unresolved issues or dissatisfactions with life

Citation very much needed.
In uk it wasn’t though. Taken from Wikipedia regarding uk bail out. As at October 2021, the UK Office for Budget Responsibility reported the cost of these interventions as £33 billion
You're quite right, people don't pay $50 for a haircut here, but it scales a little less than the cost of living does. I pay $35 inclusive of tip. For what it's worth, the cost of living here is a little over half of that in Seattle.

I live in the principal city of the local Metropolitan Statistical Area; it's by no means a big city, but it's representative of many small cities around the country. My barber lives out in the county, outside of city limits, where it is much more rural and one can indeed buy 10 acres for not a whole lot of money.

I believe his wife is a schoolteacher; I don't believe public employee benefits are especially generous in this state.
> more detail with less processing power

Unarguably it's also more processing power than its predecessor which appeared to be untextured. Far more FLOPs are executed at the fragment level than at the vertex level, and that will vary with how much the model takes up on the screen. But more bang for buck than geometry alone? Can't disagree with that.
Is it a t-shirt brand?
It is depressing how little Amazon cares about the Kindle, a device that would have seemed utterly magical 25 years ago as the internet matured, is just a low margin monopoly it maintains.
Not all education should be funded. Some subjects are in more demand, results in more jobs, and produce greater benefit to society. Government also should not offer loans, but rather grants to make education affordable.