skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada is at the forefront of contactless payments. Most Canadians had a contactless physical credit card before Apple Pay came to Canada. Because of that, most people in Canada don't bother to set up their phone; they just swipe their physical card, no pin or signature needed for lower amounts.
The nice thing about Apple is it's incentives are not misaligned. Its revenues are largely based on selling products, not people's data. Whether or not they sell data anyway is perhaps an open question but decisions should tend to err on the side of product sales and most consumers want to control their data.
Pagico looks interesting, would you mind saying a few more words on what you like about it?
BBC Archive – Commodore Amiga (1985)
Bill Gates works full time in spending money on projects with social good like vaccinations and searching for solutions to things like mosquitoes, disease, clean water, education, poverty, woman’s health, energy, sewerage, reducing methane emissions from livestock.

Musk does fart jokes.
That's not a paradox at all. Healthy food also benefits everyone, yet fast food dominates.
I should say it was 3 years before RFC 2068 (2616 superseded).

When Microsoft came out with their extension, and then it eventually ended up in HTTP/1.1 (or at least some version of it), we pivoted to a primarily client-side product that offered read-ahead caching, metasearch (could perform a query on multiple search engines like Hotbot, Altavista, Infoseek, etc. -- this was pre-Google) and save and integrate the results. It would also then rerun those queries periodically and highlight new results, and you could save or bookmark.

We also used that search technology in a product that would monitor trademark use, which companies used to keep track of where and how their trademarks or brand names were being used. We never made enough to keep that side of the business running, while the web consulting/development side grew and grew. These were pre-2000 days when businesses were wanting to "get online".
If a big company is so bereft of design ideas they have a process to collect them from interview debrief and build them into product requirements, that company is dead. I'm very skeptical that ever happens.

I'm sure that there have been times when someone mentioned design / arch / marketing strategies in an interview and later saw the same thing implemented, but I mean have have had multiple times in my life where I told nobody an idea and still saw it implemented somewhere else. Ideas are not half as unique as people like to think they are.
So, your point here, is that people complaining about algorithmically timed email-harvesting popups over articles are annoying you, and you want them to know you plan to continue this practice despite their complaints? OK. I think those people plan to keep complaining about how it annoys them, anyway, too. We all good now?
As Microsoft's old lay offs from the Windows team had shown, the company can just keep producing a crappier product and things will just carry on.
Let's hope so! So much better than being the generation holding the bag when the reset happens.
Great author and one of the best teachers! This book is being rewritten to use JavaScripts p5js- original version is written for Java processing.
So, the same companies that overhired and ended up with underskilled developers are somehow going to accurately identify the underperforming developers and lay them off?
And the offroad equipment is still as optional now as it used to be.
New rules ban subscription traps and fake reviews (UK)
Submitted every few months for years now, not a lot of conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=natureofcode.com

Discussions with more than one comment:

- Release announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709551

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300510

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060179

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410201

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632361
If god had meant for man to live on Mars, He'd have given us... I dunno, rockets and the science to terraform a planet, or something I guess.
A “theory of everything” may never be found
I agree. Ever since I started working remotely, I've seen an increase in the quality of work I produce. This is partly due to having a quiet environment at home. Also partly due to having more energy to put into work because of having no commute.

I do think people should disable unnecessary notifications and setup blocks of focus time on their calendars.
This happens with any sufficiently large platform. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon all offer large platforms and the developers develop a "feature" on that platform. They might come up with the same idea independently, or more likely the big one steals the small one's lunch. And the "scouting interview" happens at every level, even the smallest players dangle nice offers to goad some useful info from candidates.

Sometimes the features are obvious though. I remember developers complaining when Android got a built in flashlight toggle making almost every flashlight app redundant - and thank God for that, this is a legitimate feature of the platform.

I can't read the full article but on one hand Apple poached employees which sounds legal on the face of it. On the other hand the patents for the technology that Apple filed were not legitimate [0] according to the courts. So the issue here seems to be more that the patent review process is weak and requires a lengthy and expensive court case to clarify. Something a small company may not afford.

This isn't "just" that Apple&Co are abusing smaller players and copying products or features. The problem is systemic because Apple&Co bought and paid for the entire framework in which everyone else operates. Your elected officials, legislators, laws, rules, regulations, and courts are tailored for Apple&Co, or at the very least are heavily favoring them with very few exceptions. Until that's treated everything else is a symptom. Decades ago the kiss of death from the company I was in came from IBM. Same story, less resources to fight it in court.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/court-says-med-t...
> Haha, you've missed the issue.

That's not very nice. The root comment said nothing about making the system handle this automatically, it just described an idea for a potential fix to be applied to this particular case:

> It should be straightforward to make a little LD_PRELOAD shim to implement the new operator new on top of old overloads and thus restore proper functioning.
I thought "/shurdles" problem was to be solved via "chroot".
Yeah it's quite nice to do something where you aren't constantly attached to information flow.
Musk defends freedom of speech. In his own flawed way, but better than many.

And that makes a lot of people incredibly angry/scared.
Feeling like you’re productive can feel pretty nice.
What race to Mars? At best three entities are even aiming to send people to Mars, and all of them at a quite leisurely pace: NASA, ESA and SpaceX. And by all accounts, they are cooperating more rather than competing.

Some people take Elon Musk too seriously. His timelines are always overambitious. Starship will not be going to Mars (even unmanned) any time soon. Even though Musk says it's necessary for interplanetary travel, at least the first dozen or "Starships" or so will have much less ambitious tasks: Launching Starlink satellites, maybe other commercial payloads and of course going to the moon. All of those missions require multiple prototypes. I'd be surprised if any Starship makes its way to Mars in the next five years. More like ten years, even for the first unmanned mission.
It's called Strong Customer Authentication in the UK. I'm merely repeating what I understand of it, and what I have actually read on bank websites. For example:

"In a ‘card present’ scenario, the convenience of contactless at point-of-sale would remain, however customers will be asked to complete a Chip and PIN transaction when they reach the maximum total contactless spend, or have exceeded the card issuer's limits for consecutive contactless transactions since they were last authenticated." [1]

"When you spend around £100 in shops (across multiple payments, not just in one go) without having used Chip & PIN , we’ll do an extra security check by declining the next contactless payment and asking you to use Chip & PIN instead. " [2]

[1] https://www.barclaycard.co.uk/business/business-matters/frau...
[2] https://monzo.com/blog/2019/09/11/strong-customer-authentica...
If you're a beginner absolutely give it a try!

I implemented all of the book almost 10 years ago in Python and pygame. I was starting to code professionally back then and it is responsible for much of the confidence I needed. It definitely is more about nature and math than code. If you're the kind of hands on learner like I am, then I'd recommend using this as a resource to learn to code first before learning about theorectical data structures. Thanks to the author, I am now in a position to buy it :)
> - Related: be sure to understand the difference between transaction vs explicit locking, a lot of people assume too much from transaction and it will eventually breaks in prod.

I recently went from:

* somewhat understanding the concept of transactions and combining that with a bunch of manual locking to ensure data integrity in our web-app;

to:

* realizing how powerful modern Postgres actually is and delegating integrity concerns to it via the right configs (e.g., applying "serializable" isolation level), and removing the manual locks.

So I'm curious what situations are there that should make me reconsider controlling locks manually instead of blindly trusting Postgres capabilities.
Both my Canadian and Spanish banks have the ability to show me my card details in the banking apps themselves. I pretty much rely on my phone for everything here in Spain (even most ATMs even have “tap” NFC abilities) so getting card details in an app is convenient for online purchases, instead of finding the card itself.

Both my banks have the card details behind the login screen (faceID or user/pass) to just open the app, and then a PIN to see the details, so it feels fairly secure.
Those metrics demand a much deeper and proper investigation of data to materialise into a quantifiable way for management, management is pretty blind to anything that isn't easy-to-crunch numbers. Probably due to education in most MBA curricula.

Everyone who has worked in an open plan office knows the pains, the constant interruptions, not only from chatter or shoulder taps but the incessant movement of people around, the alertness of being aware of people behind you, so on and so forth, but those are not easily quantifiable. Much like UX, to build a case for something that empirically most of us know is better takes a lot more effort than some bean counters/MBAs pointing to a number in a spreadsheet.
What problems do you think living on Mars solves?

You’ll never have the environment we have here (even in its currently declining state).

Do you think society will be better on Mars living in indentured servitude for generations?

As Lennon said, “war is over, if you want it”. It’s the same with the problems we have down here.
That is funny, considering as how private companies are the same thing as the state.
"And in fact, if you get your internet through Elon Musk’s satellite constellation, Starlink, you have agreed in the fine print—which you probably didn’t read—to recognize Mars as a “free planet,” subject to no Earth-based regulation at all. "

wow.
Fair enough.

I suppose in the current situation, we have too much demand and scaling isn't so much a business priority relative to other ongoing events, so it's kind of the startupy view of tech I'm looking for.

I think you are right that the queue is a case example rather than the true problem, so to say.
I was under the impression that it was not fully rigorously accounted for because its not exactly a simple calculation. So galaxies were still being modeled with newtonian physics in at least part of the calculations which neglects field self-interactions.
It's a super exciting idea to get to Mars.

And if we indeed manage, we will jumper further and farther. Only 100 years ago, there were no planes. No planes are like ants. Unimaginable.

Indeed have to take care of our home. And we can do much better.

But it feels silly when people shame people for wild and excitement dreams. Are we not allowed to have fun? Everyone not working on cancer research should be shamed?

It might even serve some purpose one day, but for now it's just exciting and thats important in its own right.
I curse both sans serif fonts and the modern day proclivity for omitting proper capitalisation every time someone starts an email to me with “Hi Lain”
First time known GTK supports CSS.
Problem here is: you can get astonishingly good phones today at the 300$ range or below that are comparable to premium phones (including the iPhone) from just few years ago.

I am a long time multi OS users, and I just don't find Apple phones priced in any way to merit that plus in price.

E.g. The cheaper Google Pixel 6a offers more or less what the iPhone 12 Pro or 13 base offers in terms of battery life, performance, screen, camera, so it all comes down to what? OS?

Why would I spend such crazy $ for a brand new iPhone 14, even the base one, when I can get a comparatively as good phone for less than half the price and change it again next year or two when I will get at similar prices a phone much better than the iPhone (not that it matters, I honestly believe all this tech and GHz on phones have no use in most people's lives and how I see them using their devices).

May I just say that despite the Apple hype it's an ecosystem full of problems and cons as well, especially for more tech-inclined people?
Hm... I'm not sure I understand. Why would you expect no_core to be specified? It's an implementation detail of rustc, not part of the language.
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> With that in place you could acquire events from the queue like so:

UPDATE event_queue
SET acquired_at = now()
WHERE id IN (
SELECT id
FROM event_queue
WHERE acquired_at IS NULL
ORDER BY occurred_at
LIMIT 1000 -- Set this limit according to your usage

)
RETURNING *;

Would you need a FOR UPDATE in that subquery?
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"Also the weird split between software engineers and application developers or web developers ? "

Yes it suggests these stats are meaningless, and only provided to fit the 'developers are doomed, don't be asking to for a raise now' narrative.

Just another part of the inflation-reduction and capital-clawing-back-labor-power plan.
Brethren. Brothers don't always come in pairs. I think Wall is mistaken.
What jury duty taught me about product management
Not sure why I got downvoted...there is indeed a big wave coming next week for my company.
Mars isn't the end goal.

It's a step on the way to going even further, beyond our solar system.
There must be work in your area that isn't backbreaking physical labour or computer knowledge work revolving around rapidly changing fads.

How about working for the government or public companies or institutions?

ChatGPT knows a lot when it comes to information that's public in the internet or open sourced a lot, like web dev, but a lot of business require institutional knowledge that's always in the heads of the workers and never opensourced online like electrical engineering, embedded programing, train operators, plumbers, electricians, PLC programming, etc.

Knowledge work is so much more than web dev or copyrighting.
Would you rather they just disappear and die?

When people's dogs become older and inconvenient it is common for people to rationalize putting them "down" under the notion that it's some great benevolent act, instead of a selfish one. "Oh he couldn't jump on the bed any more so it was time to put him down". It's gross, but you nod and smile and pretend like they're being rational.

Similarly, many people want older people to disappear, and this is often masked in some benevolent "it's because I care so much" nonsense. People who want the elderly to disappear into some home somewhere where they can be sedated until they die. They can't jump up on the bed anymore, you see, so it's for the best. e.g. "I just want you to enjoy your retirement...best time of life...disappear"

A lot of older people want purpose in their life. They want to work. Particularly in Japan where there is an incredible pride and life purpose behind contributing and plying ones skills. I went down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos feature hole in the wall restaurants in Japan, and it was amazing how often it was quite elderly owners who would show up early and run the show, and it was clear they loved having it in their life.
I read somewhere old people in Japan commit crimes in order to land in prison because life there is better.

But I stand corrected if this is an urban myth.
Are you talking about the GPDR? In Finland, are you allowed to store personal information? Can you maintain an address book or contact information on your phone? Does the law distinguish between commercial and non-commercial uses of personal information?
> Tldr; yes, but it doesn’t scale well beyond trivial outputs.

I understand that the current LLM architectures are fundamentally incapable of goal-seeking and that they lack any concept of "correctness". However, I also recognize that somehow, the incredibly "wrong" architecture of ChatGPT is able to be useful.

I'd like to think that with access to a sandbox runtime environment, a significantly larger context window, and perhaps additional copies of the LLM "supervising/orchestrating" multiple "lower" copies of the LLM by breaking down large work into smaller tasks, that the current ChatGPT architecture could scale well beyond trivial scripts.

And then I hope we abandon this LLM architecture and develop architectures which can actually internally work towards "going beyond" in terms of quality of output for a given task.
Is there any evidence that it's paid? I mean, it does strike me as an ad, but I can't see anything factual to confirm that it's paid.
We've already seen him banning accounts of people who were saying things he didn't agree with so I really don't think we can say he defends freedom of speech. What Musk seems to want to do is make money off of attracting and offering to signal boost what would be otherwise unpopular speech.

He's monetizing speech, not making it free.
From Quantum Mechanics by Landau and Lifshitz:

The possibility of a quantitative description of the motion of an electron requires the presence also of physical objects which obey classical mechanics to a sufficient degree of accuracy. If an electron interacts with such a "classical object", the state of the latter is, generally speaking, altered. The nature and magnitude of this change depend on the state of the electron, and therefore may serve to characterize it quantitatively...

We have defined "apparatus" as a physical object which is governed, with sufficient accuracy, by classical mechanics. Such, for instance, is a body of large enough mass. However, it must not be supposed that apparatus is necessarily macroscopic. Under certain conditions, the part of apparatus may also be taken by an object which is microscopic, since the idea of "with sufficient accuracy" depends on the actual problem proposed.

Thus quantum mechanics occupies a very unusual place among physical theories: it contains classical mechanics as a limiting case [correspondence principle], yet at the same time it requires this limiting case for its own formulation.
What is the Muslim or Islamic World? (2010)
That's pretty sobering, since you can produce/capture quite a lot of energy with 100km^2 of clear, flat ground that has a view of the sky.

Not least by just putting normal solar panels on it and jettisoning the whole space part.
The website you linked to itself has a cookie banner. One that says they'll assume I consented if I continue to use the site.
If you think Py2.7 is old for RF work, you'll be really unhappy with the 15-20 year old gcc you get as part of the SDK for your board.
It's fine to build a business on top of another company's platform. You do need a contingency plan, especially if what you offer can be easily replicated in that platform.
That also would have made for a nice performance benefit passing to zero-copy type calls. And reduced complexity for new languages written in C implementing their own string types. Tcl was irritating when it was first invented, as it directly used C strings, and couldn't process binary data at all.
For what it's worth, compliance with basic ethics of governance should not be a partisan topic. Clinton, Biden and Trump all fucked up massively (and Trump, most obviously, the hardest).

Neither of the three should be in any position of power any more, alone because of the precedent that Biden and Trump's laissez-faire attitude towards top secret documents set for the lower rungs - after all, why not take top secret documents home and share them with others when Trump (most likely) did the same?
You don't need to register as a non-profit, but doing so may afford additional tax benefits to your donors.

Charitable organizations exist in The United States. The unsupported claim that it is impossible and that 'capitalism' is preventing charity, is probably what made this thread so inflammatory.

The statement laments the state's regulations (which don't prevent charity in any case) while blaming markets. From my side this reads as a non-sequitur.

History tells a different story in regards to mutual aid societies. It wasn't markets which prohibited mutual aid, but the state itself.

>Mutual aid, also known as fraternalism, refers to social organizations that gathered dues and paid benefits to members facing hardship.

>For instance, in New York City in 1909 40 percent of families earning less than $1,000 a year, little more than the "living wage," had members who were in mutual-aid societies.

>The first major blow against fraternalism occurred when the American Medical Association gained control of the licensing of medical schools. In 1912, a number of state medical boards formed the Federation of State Medical Boards, which accepted the AMA's ratings of medical schools as authoritative. The AMA quickly rated many schools as "unacceptable." Consequentially, the number of medical schools in America dropped from 166 in 1904 to 81 in 1918, a 51 percent drop.18 The increased price of medical services made it impractical for many lodges to retain the services of a doctor. Medical boards also threatened many doctors with being stripped of their licenses if they practiced lodge medicine.

>The next most damaging piece of legislation was the Mobile Law. The Mobile Law required that mutual aid societies show a gradual improvement in reserves. Until this time, societies had tended to keep low reserves in order to pay the maximum benefits possible to members. High reserve requirements made it difficult for societies to undercut traditional insurance companies. The Mobile Law also required a doctor's examination for all lodge members and forbade all "speculative" enterprises such as the extension of credit to members. By 1919, the Mobile Law had been enacted in 40 states.

Further examples of regulatory capture follow.

https://mises.org/library/welfare-welfare-state
On this topic, there’s a fantastic movie on Netflix called “Space Sweepers” that I highly recommend.
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Luxury is just one of their offerings. They are one of the few companies where the "cheap" version of their products is just last years. This is actually super nice and speaks not only to how they're not purely luxury but how they make stuff that lasts a long time.