skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There absolutely is. While the kinetic and political situation in USA is much less severe than civil war China, initiatives like ESG, DEI are about changing the culture and thought patterns of individuals. They are forms of reeducation. And I do support some of these "new" ideas, but we should be clear-eyed about what's going on and how it could escalate if there is further political breakdown.
Not to subtract from GP's experience, but here's a good journey of someone porting linux to an older device (Chumby) https://hackaday.com/2022/12/21/chumby-gets-new-kernel-soon/
I don't think I articulated myself well, I wasn't taking a judgement. There is no logical inference that a company needs (or deserves) the profit margin it had last year, for example, that's just a fact of business.

My point was essentially to stay viable, the bank needs to have some profit margin. Here is a classic business choice between maintaining or improving profit margin, and maintaining or improving services.

So my point was they could obviously remaining viable while offering higher rates, they choose not to because it increases short term profit - if they think they are losing enough business to other banks with better rates, presumably they will start raising them to compete.

The fact that they can't really meet current federal rates and stay profitable is interesting, it suggests they have some pretty heavy cost centers to carry.
What Hemingway means in the 21st century
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/04/16/kroger-stores-sta...
I don't think this analogy is sufficient to answer that.

we may need to delve deep into types and causes of cancer
> They should have tried to make a better desktop OS

Wouldn't office suite be a better target? Everyone uses it. Lots of low hanging fruits. Easy to win the heart of geeks. Ample opportunities to integrate with other enterprise services.
> it's not really reasonable to compare this one to it, no?

Are the fees, minimums, limits and rate structures similar? If so, then the inflation thing is irrelevant. They either beat it or don't, but at the end of the day, you're still comparing who has the better APY and what not regardless of that differential on inflation.

If HYSA's (which this is, by reasonable metrics and their own definition) beating Inflation is important to you, that's a separate discussion to be had first before shopping specific offerings, as that's a discussion of a systemic problem and if HYSA's are relevant to you at all in the first place. Hot tip, in high inflationary markets like today, HYSA's don't beat inflation.
I can type at 100 words per minute. Typing "programming language" after every search will cost me maybe two seconds per search. The savings are trivial. The costs, however, are not trivial. I have on several occasions spent half an hour trying to make a search engine handle a query that I know worked in the past. And that's when I find what I'm looking for at all. They have optimized the happy path but made failures worse and more frequent.

What really bothers me is that no one asked what I want. These companies replaced my tools behind my back. I have seen literal fistfights between machinists over people messing with their tools. This is at least that bad and probably worse. Software is central to how I make sense of the world. Software is not just part of my livelihood; it is how I make sense of the world. Changing my software behind my back is like "upgrading" my eyes while I sleep. Why do we accept that such a central part of our world is completely out of our control?
CIT has two options:

Savings Connect [1]: 4.50% APY, no minimum balance, no fees

Platinum Savings [2]: 4.75% APY, min. $5000 balance to qualify for APY, but once you qualify 4.75% APY on whole balance (not just balance above $5000)

I use the savings connect personally and am considering whether or not I want to open a platinum savings account.

[1]: https://www.cit.com/cit-bank/savings-connect

[2]: https://www.cit.com/cit-bank/platinum-savings
That's because the side that supports individual rights has a wide diversity of opinions. Including those who would like a more totalitarian state!
Could we get some facts and examples? This is heading in the direction of a "no it isn't, yes it is" type discussion.
The saddest part of bank interest is that on top of it lagging inflation, but also gets taxed aggressively making it effectively lag by inflation by an even wider margin! Being a borrower is the way to go, where your interest payments are less than inflation AND you get to deduct each year on your taxes and save keep more real dollars in your bank account than you would otherwise. I just hate debt personally, part of my upbringing. But I wonder if there's some reit or low fee investment vehicle that makes it easy to take advantage of this dynamic while still being able to sleep at night. Any ideas?
The original assertion was that psychology works just fine in marketing and advertising, and you asked "does it really?" Here you say, "Sure, advertising works".

While quantitative data on how it works and how effective it is might be lacking, the point is that it does work. The remaining questions are of the "more study is needed to draw any conclusions" kinds of objections that the tobacco industry used to obfuscate the hazards of smoking and that the petrochemical industry uses today to prevent action on global warming. It's is this kind of uncertainty and doubt that I'm asserting is why so many people are still unclear about how much influence marketing and advertising have over their choices.
Misdemeanor Bail
The policy is to not send any "sensitive company data" into ChatGPT, which I 100% agree with. How we implement a given Vue component or a particular API isn't sensitive or particularly novel so if I strip the business logic out I do honestly believe I'm complying with the spirit of the policy.
Founder here, apologies this happened. Please email me at michael@phind.com with your IP and I'll take a look.
Yup, but you're losing less than most other liquid options.
How so?

Search already does that (sifting through data and giving me its best results) so you're already trusting a middle man here.

If AI can get me results that I can tell are better than older search algorithms results then that's a win. Either way I'm still having to verify sources.
It's 0.35% to 0.65% better, until those rates inevitably change.
Related to that Goldman Sachs seems to be taking everything they are learning from Apple and applying it to Marcus, their growing consumer banking brand, and Marcus certainly seems low-margin targeted.
What legacy cruft? (speaking specifically of SMP boot here)
It's the Tensor chips as another commenter mentioned. My feeling is that these should be cheaper in the long run than A100s from Nvidia because you're not paying another company's profit margin, plus they should be able to be more specialised and therefore less wasteful of compute, and therefore cheaper.

I guess the counter to this is that if Google is developing them for itself only, then there's fewer economies of scale on the development process.
Microsoft dealt with with the too-rich-to-work problem and the founders-and-earlies-lost-interest problems in the 80s and 90s. "FYIFV" (despite being a bit of a tech urban legend) and "Quietly Vesting Disease" (QVD) and all that. They're an actual grown up company that knows how to build and vet leaders.

Google is not a grown up company - it runs the way a 2nd generation dynastic family runs their businesses - haphazard and sloppy and entirely surviving because of a cash cow and nothing else. Plus, they have a fairly substantial crew with "rest and vest" as a mantra at least for the folks I knew there prior to 2008..
I mean, it says "United Kingdom of Great Britain" on the front of my recently-issued taking-back-control-of-Britain blue passport, printed in Poland by a French company using Spanish presses and software, Italian ink, Finnish paper, and equipped with an RFID tag made in Turkey, all of whom beat out a company in Sunderland for the contract, who have since gone bust.

Yay for Brexit.
> These days

The DS9 folks have outright said that they've not done things because people assumed or guessed online. The first one that springs to mind is Eddington.

> Although "The Adversary" shows Eddington was misidentified as a Changeling, public opinion nevertheless became wary that he was a member of that species, to the puzzlement of the DS9 staff writers. Stated Ira Behr, "After 'The Adversary', everyone on the Internet was convinced that Eddington was a changeling, even though we went out of our way to show that he wasn't. We all looked at each other and said, 'There's no way this guy is ever gonna be a changeling!'" Behr laughed. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 253))

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Eddington
Well, cancer is caused by a series of inopportune mutations, and prevented when the immune system clears out cells it recognizes are different. I don't like where this analogy is heading!
SEC Charges Crypto Asset Trading Platform Bittrex and Its Former CEO
I'll exit this conversation, but if you click the link, you'll see that the title is "Nintendo Is Deleting People's Mario Maker Stages Without Telling Them Why".

The summary paragraph says, "Ultimately, the lack of communication is what’s frustrating. If Nintendo wants to have strict policies, that’s fine, but let creators know what they’re dealing with, so they can work around it. Not everyone has a million Twitter followers they can easily share a level with, so it’s unfortunate that some well-made stages may be permanently gone simply because they got lost in the noise."

If you have a beef with the article, you'll have to contact the author.
Sideloading, otherwise known as installing software you want, on hardware you own.

Love how the term tries to make it sound so suspicious.
FBI makes arrests over alleged secret Chinese 'police stations' in New York
By that metric, you can place organized religion, self-help programs, and the public education system in the same bag.

It's true, but it's as uselessly true as weighing the pros and cons of having two arms given how many of Hitler's footsoldiers were observed historically to also have two arms.
The only "data" I see there is a couple survey results from 2016.
This fund owns 3 month or less T-Bills. There's zero credit risk and effectively zero duration risk. It's an automated Bond ladder of US T-Bills. Though you can save 0.05% in management fees by laddering them yourself
Love the references, but describing a Dr Who theme as "dance" sounds like a stretch.
No. I think the term “function” is overloaded here.

My point was that I viewed it solely as a _programming_ function and not a _mathematical_ function (even though it exists in math libraries), hence my last sentence “Of course, it makes sense now that I’ve seen it.”

Out of all the functions in math libraries that I’ve used, floor/ceiling are the only ones where I had this idea for some reason. It was obvious to me that Math.sin(x) and Math.abs(x) can be graphed. I’ve seen those graphs over and over again. But whenever I used the floor or ceiling functions, I just thought in terms of rounding up or down with a predetermined rule to finish whatever piece of code I was working on.

But as others have pointed out, I have actually worked with the floor function as a mathematical function in several math classes. I have seen the graphs. They just weren’t called floor or ceiling functions.

I just never made the connection that they were the same and I don’t recall any computer science professor or TA “bridging the gap” to what was learned in the math classes.
Too many users perhaps
This is a step in the right direction, and personally I think that low-level deposit accounts are ripe for serious competition. There are thousands of banks and credit unions (~9,000 if memory serves) all offering the same risk-free product, but the rates and fees can be wildly different.

The FDIC publishes some decent statistics about average yields for various deposit products.[0] As of March 2023, the national average for savings accounts was 0.37%. The largest banks (Wells, BoA, Chase, Citi) offer 0.01% interest. That's 1 penny for every $100 you loan them.

That low rate made sense when the federal funds rate was low as an incentive for banks to borrow from consumers rather than the government. But now the rate is almost 20x more than it was a year ago, so there's a larger incentive for banks to borrow from consumers.[1] This should drive more competitive rates offered for consumer deposits.

If you're earning less than 1% APY on your checking and savings account and have $1000 in it, spend an hour researching an alternative. Going from 0.01% to 1% alone would earn you $10 more per year on that amount. If you have $10k, that's an extra $100 for maybe an hour of your time.

[0] https://www.fdic.gov/resources/bankers/national-rates

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds

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On a related note, I'm part of a team working on a service to monitor all the deposit rates across all financial institutions in the US in real time. If you're interested in learning more or signing up for the alpha launch (targeting Summer 2023), shoot us an email at bankrank.alpha@gmail.com
I didn't downvote, but links opening a new browser window, except for the occasional auth pop-up, hasn't been a thing since... 2008? What browser still doesn't use tabs by default?
Isn't that kind of vacuously true? Of course fact checking infringes on the freedom of the press. It's supposed to constrain the press to tell something at least in the vicinity of the truth.

That notion is controversial, because of the obvious conflict of interest in having the government police truth about itself. But it should also be pretty clear that "press freedom" wasn't really intended to be about making truth irrelevant. It was supposed to be about giving the press the opportunity to tell the truth, and hoping that the truth would generally win in the end.

It seems to me that is hope is worth reconsidering. That's not to say throwing it out, but I always get nervous when I see people talk about "freedom of the press to lie" as if it were an obvious and unquestionable virtue.
I just buy shares of VUSXX from Vanguard. Currently 4.63%. But really, if you have money to invest, you should have a real stock and bond portfolio that's going to beat any savings account.
> I'm away from my hobby OS to double check, but isn't it the cae that the Start IPI includes a page number which drives CS?

I double checked, and as I understand it, with traditional APIC start IPI, you get to pick the CS address to be (0-255) * 0x1000; although how much of the first 1MB of physical address space is available within that depends on the system memory map. I just start one AP at a time, and use the top of the code page as stack space until it switches to the intended kernel stack, and then that AP starts the next one. That's not time efficient though; you could pretty easily start as many APs as you've got low pages available; although the option where everybody starts from the same place and they figure it out among themselves is probably simpler; because there's never a need to wait for an AP to finish starting before starting more APs; just saying, you've got options, they don't all have to start at the same CS:IP.
> That’s the reason that it has such a thriving tech ecosystem.

By "market leaders" you mean the very many American companies fuelled by unlimited investor money that lose billions of dollars a year with no chance of ever turning a profit?
> I guess most people are in the "I will allow myself to be pressured into stuff I don't want"-camp. I guess those are the people that also cave under pressure when being social engineered for access to their credit card.

Yes, this is why a lot of US states have laws allowing you to undo a transaction within 24h and sometimes 7days if the buyer is over 55. I think a lot of the durations go up for items typically sold by a sales person (i.e. furniture, windows, etc).
The Romans had an interesting calendar. The lengths of their months were fixed and they had a 13th "intercalary" month that got inserted every few years to keep the months roughly in line with the seasons.

Because everything was completely regular, everything was the same one year to the next, so you didn't need a unique calendar for each year. Consequently, calendars would be engraved in stone on public monuments and the wealthy would have a calendar painted onto a wall in their home.

The year would be written out as a set of 13 columns, with each column being a month. They would then have the list of days in the month going down, and would note any holidays for the day.

The only wrinkle in the Roman calendar were the "nundinae," which were (very loosely) a sort of Roman weekend. But the nundinae happened on an eight day cycle, so they didn't line up from one year to the next. The way they handled this was that they labeled each day in the year sequentially with a letter from A-H. Then all you needed to know was which letter corresponded to the nundinae for that particular year. (And, of course, whether that year had the extra 13th month.)

Here's what a typical Roman calendar looked like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_del_Teatro_Romano_d...
> the Intel ME/AMD PSP can't be updated

Yes they can, their firmware is in the same flash as the system firmware.
Ask HN: How is your mental health?
Mental health check. How is yours? Are you feeling happy? Anxious? Fearful? Indifferent? What would it take for you to feel better, realistically or unrealistically?
Estonia is 300 EUR per capita.

https://vm.ee/en/estonias-aid-ukraine
Time to shower Samsung with cash.
The repo: https://github.com/hwayne/tla-graphing-demo
Cancerous tumors represent corrupted cells or "hyperindividualists" that enrich themselves at the absolute expense of the host, and may end up killing it and themselves in the process.
> and not checked luggage, or the passengers themselves?

Checked luggage are weighed and accounted for at check in.

For passengers - just assume 136 KG (which is really generous) times (the number of seats plus total crew)
To make an analogy with Linux, the weights are (up until now) a very large closed source firmware blob.
Flooded lead acid needs to be topped up with distilled water, and shouldn't be kept near living quarters due to possible outgassing. If you run them dry, you will permanently damage the batteries. To recycle them, you have to drag them somewhere automotive. The premium you pay for LiFePO4 over lead acid is almost no maintenance and you can drop them off almost anywhere electronics are recycled to enter the recycling supply chain.

Batteries are going to improve rapidly over the next decade, and the battery you replace your current LiFePO4 with at end of life is likely to be much better when that time comes.
I understand the problem, but I am concerned by the solution. The problem is that C semantic is quite clear on the subject[1]: dereferencing a null pointer is undefined behavior, not "non-standard behavior" which would suggests correct albeit non-portable behavior. I don't know of any compiler switch that tells the compiler to "define" this behavior, like `-fno-strict-aliasing` or `-fwrapv` do.

[1] ISO/IEC 9899:2011 §6.5.3.2
It used to be. Mastodon removed it when they rewrote their entire UI in React in favor of their current messy "copy-paste a url into search" setup.

The old follow button would just open a popup where you entered your home instance + username. It would then redirect you to your instance (not needing a sign in cuz you're already logged in on that) and your instance would do all the magic for following.
Lol optimize to help the customer or Amazon?
Bell Labs and like we’re throwing money at a wall too without a clear customer and yet they still invented the transistor, the PC, digital video cameras and so on.

Wtf is Google doing? They don’t make good products and they don’t invent that much useful stuff. They’re like the rich kid with a bunch of money trying random different things without focusing on one thing to get good at it.

I’m sure at this point Google is just a system to finally pay engineers a lot of money so they can retire earlier. Everyone that I’ve ever known that wants to work for Google is doing it to cash out, myself included.
I think you're both right. Change comes from above and reflects from below. "We hire the best" has become "we hire the best at passing a generic set of tests" because they want hiring to be a thoughtless, automated process.
The funny thing is it doesn't really bother me. I'll probably just memory hole this apparent fact and one day when one of my kids buys a bag I'll recount this story to them as something inspirational.
>democracies and anarchies historically get steamrolled by dictatorships and autocracies

Is that actually true? Probably not in the 20th century.
We also used "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" for both of our kids. It works outrageously well and we've recommended it to all our friends with young children.
I don't disagree, we should always have a critical stance and understand how the systems we build can and will be subverted against the intended design.

But that isn't a reason to not build them, and in this case, the effort is to repair an already broken system that has been subverted. If creatively deconstructing it isn't an option, we have to add more "features" and this case the added constraint of functioning code.

We can disagree all day what functioning code means, but the goal is worthy and should be explored.

How we apply policy that meets the intended goals and isn't gamed is the problem for law makers. Good thing we have spirit as a backstop and not just letter. A certain hedge fund and a billion dollars in AI and civilization could collapse.

Right now, the inmates are running the patent system, if we value everyone's ability to participate in innovation, we need a way to reduce BS patents and make them intrinsically more valuable as a form of knowledge transfer.
>If you had told me 3 months ago that Bing would be a serious threat to Google, I still would have laughed.

Every day I enter a few difficult queries on both Google and Bing to see if Bing gives me something better. I'm still laughing that people think Bing is a serious threat.
Ask HN: Are we becoming more misanthropic?
I saw a comment today on here today that’s stuck in my mind a bit. (I don’t mean to single this person out, it’s just what got me thinking today, and I didn’t want to provide the content without a link to the context)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35601525

Are we becoming more misanthropic? I’ve noticed that this kind of inanimate verbiage is becoming more common. “Organics” here but also people calling others “NPCs” or just the general fatalist point of view on climate change being almost completely uncontroversial among people I know. (“we should just give up, humans are evil anyway”)

I’m sure there’s always been periods of time in history where everything just looks bleak, but there’s people who are forming their opinions right now that haven’t lived without the anxiety of multiple existential disasters encroaching on the existence of their own species.
>I do know at least one person who is reckless with "no questions asked" warranties, and would ask for a refund with a straight face after trying to use a router to reduce spaghetti sauce spattering when he microwaved his dinner, but these people can't be that common...

There's common, and then there's common-enough-to-be-costly. REI had a notorious lifetime-return policy that they ended relatively recently because of abuse. How common was the abuse? No idea. I don't know many people who would Return Every Item (as the joke went), but it was common enough that there was always some really beat-up climbing shoes at their member garage sales.

And anyway, there's (at least) 2 kinds of costly: cost of returns, and cost to reputation when unqualified people brick their device, then tell all their friends that their router/refrigerator/laptop stopped working.