skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FSA contributions are pre-tax, so there's a benefit to the employee for all the rigamarole. Personally, my predictable eligible expenses were not usually at a level where it made sense, and then the one time I thought it did, the billing didn't match, so I had to find extra things to expense, and it was a giant pain. Especially when the rules changed and over the counter medication was no longer eligible.

Clearly, the financial companies behind this have an actuarial interest. And the employers have something to check off; not sure if they also get to save on some payroll tax on the elected amount?
Competition law is toothless today, so crooks like Apple get away with abusing it.
I value my privacy. I don't have a relationship with data brokers and I see no need for them to know anything about me.

For the record, I have no issue with targeted advertising within a single org. If Google shows me ads based on my search history or youtube history or gmail contents, that's great. If I don't want Google to know anything about me, the process is easy; I stop using Google/Youtube/Gmail.

If Google shows me ads based on an online purchase at an unrelated web store, that's completely unacceptable. If I don't want Google to know anything about me, it's not clear at all how I would do that.
I think Chicago and maybe all of Cook County Illinois are a notable exception to that, and with goofy, overbearing codes to top it off.
At $25 a pair they’re worth a try. Just ordered a pair. Thanks for the tip.
You're inside a bubble though. The 100 MAU is certainly totally misleading, maybe 1/10 of that in reality, and something that's only out for a few months can easily rollercoaster up and down as people try it once for novelty and then forget it.

I have a good group of friends who keep me grounded - we all went to my average state school alma mater, and none of them are in tech.

Not one of them has brought it up, no one uses it or cares about it, and only two of them even know what it is beyond having seen some headlines.

The playoffs have gotten about 200 texts recently, AI 0. This is closer to the reality on the ground.

I'd venture almost all of the hype is students and kids who are excited to see what mischief it can help them achieve, techies who just like playing with new things, and companies trying to cash in. All of those are non-durable.
Do you think there's any chance the current court will take a stab at it? I was shocked when they touched Roe, and IIUC the structure of the Commerce Clause precedent isn't entirely dissimilar from Roe (i.e. both stem from very creative readings).

(Quick genuflection for the potentially offended: I am pro abortion rights at the national level, but I think they should be implemented properly, i.e. through Congress, because a precedent of improperly implemented legal standards threatens the entire democratic system).
Oh ... join "waitlist".

Nope, stuff to do.
Focus on not falling for the same playbook used in big tobacco and big food:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879177/#sec-2t...
I've been on that Matrix, there's like one guy in there who thinks that centralized key rotation is real. I didn't really see anyone else while I was there.
That's part of the reason I love running too. A minimum of fuss. It's funny that you mention rock climbing, because it's the same reason I love bouldering. You only need shoes. Climbing has something for everyone - trad for the gear heads, bouldering for the people who can't be bothered with planning, sport for people somewhere in the middle.
My new #1 HN comment for 2023
No one switched it around, that's my point. The digit order everyone uses is the one best suited to mental arithmetic in LTR languages, where the most significant digit is first. See the book Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin. It's also the best suited to getting a rough idea of the number quickly in LTR languages. That's because the digit order everyone uses was designed for LTR languages.
Toyota Gets OK from California to Sell Hydrogen-Electric Semi-Truck Powertrains
> Meanwhile, HVAC guys near me charge $700 to run a thermostat wire 5 feet.

Yes, in many areas that’s what it costs for a worker and helper to not be able to work on another more profitable job to do the job for you that only takes fifteen minutes. He still has to spend 30 minutes driving and maintain the same liability insurance and van lease and helper pay.

Part of the problem people don’t want to go into the direct to consumer trades is that the jobs are physically demanding, intellectually demanding (keep up on code changes, lots of esoteric knowledge about situations rarely encountered, and then there’s the customer service angle with homeowners that insist “it shouldn’t cost that much to run a wire five feet.”
I bought a battery powered blower (80v pack Kobalt brand product) thinking it would be quieter, but it's a different kind of loud. What surprised me is that it has a tiny propeller (about 4 inches diameter) that spins at ungodly RPMs. I would love to see a product with a large diameter squirrel cage blower with an electric motor.
a CA double-header! WOW!

i used to read BYTE mag over in the UK in the early 90s before i moved to USA; CA was such a heavy hitter in the early 90s!! i guess it never really was the same in the post-Wang era(s).
Right. For personal projects, once you're using Nix you're really free to prioritize basically anything else over package availability. That's one of the joys of it!
As I recall, the average electric leaf blower emits around 70 dB, while the average gas blower puts out 80-90 dB (although some advertise themselves as quieter, I am dubious but have not verified by running these tests myself). The electric leaf blowers are noticeably quieter, and what noise they do make is much more concentrated on a smaller set of frequencies than a gas blower, which is kind of all over the spectrum when it gets going.
Which libGL.so should I be distributing alongside my application?
It's ok, you still have a lot of credit left from pointing me to the Monty Python Gurdjieff thing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26115822).

(Lest anyone get upset about the 'credit' part - I'm joking)
but it will take effort to get it into that state.

Yeah, this exactly. There's a local horticulturist who specializes in replacing lawns with meadow-ish, native species setups. I had him come in and look at what I'd need to do to get there (no more mowing? Drought resistant? Fewer/no chemicals? I would like to subscribe to your newsletter...).

It's a lot of time/work: from getting rid of the grass, conditioning the soil, finding the right balance of species to thrive in your conditions, to keeping the invasive species out. Pretty much if you aren't regularly maintaining it, the same crud trying to take over your lawn will take over and smother your prairie. So...maybe it's 'less maintenance', but there's still good bit of maintenance.
> Classical mechanics are fundamentally wrong.

All physical theories are “fundamentally wrong.”

> You can’t

A classical apparatus is part of the QM framework.

Ergo: the commenter doesn’t know what they are talking about.
> The App Store continues to promote competition

This sounds like "War is Peace", "Ignorance is Strength".
This very much varies by municipality.

In the coastal big cities where I've lived, you cannot pull electrical permits without a license. And you cannot do electrical work without a permit.

Same for plumbing, which is even less justifiable, I think.
Or you know, a drawer with a notebook in it.
This is so depressing, seeing that justice does not look like to make sense anymore in face of money and political power plays.
Like for the Assange case.

Sure there is no proof, but I'm quite sure there is some form of corruption going on in getting that kind of justice decisions...
Yeah, seems like a (barebones/underspecified) IRC.
If you read Oracle's "Ask Tom" entire comment section history you will pick up more senior tips than you ever would working in person.
Jack is great. He has a big heart. He should fund retro secure scuttlebot (rss). We're putting together a team right now.
I mean...there are a lot of anti-social developers who truly want to believe.

But really, people are just going out of their way to resolve the cognitive dissonance: they know that important intangible collaboration is lost in a world of remote work, but they prefer it anyway, so they convince themselves that the human aspect doesn't matter.

Also, don't forget that HN is filled with junior engineers. It's true that a lot of what you do when you're a junior engineer can be done in isolation, and when you get to a self-sufficient junior level ("senior engineer" in modern parlance; achieved in about 3-5 years), it's easy to ignore all the times that someone with more experience made a one-off comment that saved hours of labor or headed off a thorny problem. They forget the number of times that someone wandered over to chat, "interrupted" them, and changed everything.

The sibling comment is a great illustration. I can't tell if it's parody, but it reads like it: "just don't have whiteboard meetings about architecture," indeed. Whiteboard diagramming obviously never happens at every company, ever.
Best treehouse ever. Made my day seeing this.
Coinbase Sues the SEC
Well, the mess up is not from the system. It is from my own mistakes :)
If hubris were to creep up on anyone, I'd say the richest man on Earth is a good candidate for it.
This actually has nothing to do with public forums. That was your insertion. The point is that the way we interacted with public or private niche communities on the internet informs how we interact with our private always-online work-chat. We're learning from and working with highly qualified coworkers aligned on the same problems, not randos.
Crypto payments only
Something about this reminds me a lot of Michael Hart and Project Gutenberg.
Fastai has a course offered as a book and as a MOOC that serves as a good foundation for folks with a SWE background.

Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Coders-fastai-PyTorch/d...

MOOC:
https://course.fast.ai/
That's Nix with extra steps.
Xerox had two meetings with Apple, in December 1979. Neither they nor Microsoft was ever able to "walk into their offices and see everything they were developing ."
There are already employers on writer subreddits reporting they've been directly laid off due to GPT systems. Legacy ChatGPT produced mediocre text but GPT4 outperforms some professional human writers when prompted correctly. For 90% of writer jobs that's more than good enough.

I don't know what the effects of AI will be but I know they will not be small or subtle.
That is currently unclear.

Apple is likely to maliciously comply by allowing external links yet introducing new restrictions and guidelines that will dissuade developers from even trying.

This would be in line with their attempt to charge further commissions in South Korea and the Netherlands after being forced allow alternative payment systems for certain app categories.
The record is actually pretty clear:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/100909-la...

Think of all the makes of tyre you know. Who would make the most tyres each year? The simple answer is Lego! Since 2006, Lego makes around 306 million rubber tyres each year for its construction kit toys. In 2010, this number was topped at 381 million tyres, easily beating all other tyre manufacturers. Even though Lego products are unlikely to fit an everyday car, they do fit all descriptions of a standard tyre, albeit of the solid rubber variety. Even the rubber compound used for the Lego products would not be out of place on a domestic car.

"Largest tire manufacturer" could reasonably be interpreted to mean:

* Largest company that manufactures tires

* Company that produces the most tires by mass/weight/volume

* Company that produces the most tires by number of tires

If you read the record, it's clear they mean the latter interpretation. By that interpretation, it seems like LEGO clearly is the winner.

The things they make are tires: They are rubber-like and go around wheels. There is no rule anywhere on Earth that says tires must not be on toys.
Sorry, I was not aware of that. Thx
No definitely wasn't. Tucker never gave much credence to the dominion angle on the election either. And Blackrock owns a decent portion of fox and dominion too so it's all pretty silly in the monetary angle. Dominion was just a fifty million company a while back when it was acquired, now they deserve 1.6 b or half that in damages??? How exactly...
The four types of Safari extension
Formerly richest man.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/elon-musk-is-no-longer-the-r...

/pedant
Establishing the basis for mammalian intercellular computing with mRNA switches
> Yes I was thinking of the theft scenario, for remote usecases it is definitely safer.

The thing to keep in mind is that the remote threats are bigger and more common, and the "local theft" scenarios fewer and impacting fewer people. Obviously, it is terrifying as an individual user when a device is stolen with enough PIN information. But on the other hand, you can't so easily automate stealing devices physically from people. It is much harder to steal things to anything like the same degree of mass stealing credentials in remote attacks and database breaches.

For most ordinary users, they are much more at risk of remote attack or remote phishing than local theft. Device PINs are probably the right balance for the average user's threat model. (If you have larger concerns about device theft than the "average user", then plan accordingly. Find the right mix of other offered unlocks and snoop prevention mechanics as feels right to you.)

> But there are important things missing.

I think at this point in your post you are confusing Webauthn/FIDO keys in general and Passkeys specifically. In general, websites should absolutely allow you to register an entire keychain of public keys beyond just any single device's keys. (It's often the sign of a bad Webauthn implementation if it only allows a single key.)

Passkey standards themselves are an extra couple of levels of Webauthn standards on top of that. They include things such as synchronization of keychains, including recovery keys, manufacturer attestations about keys ("this key comes from the secure hardware enclave of an iOS device"), and the use of Bluetooth LTE for local FIDO key delegations (using a QR code to kick off a handshake between your Windows PC and your Android Phone to sign something over Bluetooth LTE, and Bluetooth LTE with physical proximity only).

The general goal of passkeys is to have keychains with keys from every one of your devices represented plus the ability to say that "these keys are somewhat more important" such as the keys from your personal phone as the true "master keys" of your passkey.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have all agreed to interoperate in their implementations of Passkeys. In theory, the Passkeys keychains should all eventually "merge" into a single synchronized keychain representing your entire device ecosystem, generally with your personal phone as the "lead" or "head" at the table. In practice, for now, most Passkeys operations I believe still should assume that a user has N Passkeys (and N times M keys in general).

But yes, Apple is currently in the lead with Passkeys implementation (with UX in all of iOS, macOS, and Safari) and Google isn't far behind in Chrome implementation (though I hear Android is somewhat behind still) and Microsoft currently has the most "catch up" to do in terms of Passkey UX.
Not yet visible to the average consumer, but it is hardware and hardware projects take pretty much 5 years to go from green light to products in stores. There is a LOT in the pipeline ... projects, products, startups.

Note that the forever "no incompatible changes" RISC-V base user mode and privileged ISA pretty much started with the publication of Priv arch 1.10 in May 2018, less than six years ago. It was ratified as 1.11 (mostly just documentation improvements, and minor tweaks) in July 2019, less than four years ago. The User mode ISA was stable already in 2015.

Essentially July 2019 was the starting gun.

RISC-V cores announced in late 2018 (SiFive U74) and mid 2019 (Alibaba THead C910) are just now making it into mass-production products at affordable prices, such as the VisionFive 2, Star64 and PineTab-V, Lichee Pi 4A.

That's just normal hardware time scales.

There is a flood of products in progress now and coming out over the next 3-5 years, by which time RISC-V products will be at least matching today's Intel / AMD / Apple performance levels. Those companies will have moved on by then, of course, but probably not far.
I meant what I said you cheeky bugger.
Same. My account is some 16y 10m old.

I use Reddit less and less YoY and even day to day. But the day old goes I’m out.

Frankly I only use it for fairly niche subreddits and even then it’s more like 10 minutes a day.

I’m also not a core demographic at this point anymore.
Oh, I see! So it's the Fourier transform (in the abstract sense) from the integers to the circle group, except that then you extend to all of C (well, possibly minus the origin). Interesting! Yeah as someone previously unfamiliar with it, it would have been substantially clearer had you referred explcitly to applying the Z-transform, rather than switching domains, which is the sort of thing that will only make sense to someone who already knows about this.

So wait does that mean you weren't actually sure if this approach to that step would work? I assumed you were saying you had a proof, not just outlining an approach you thought would work. (I mean, obviously you didn't have a proof of the whole thing as the overall statement is false, but individual steps might have worked.)

But I have to note -- even if the proof works, then if you're applying the Z-transform, then you are once again not sticking to the realm of the discrete! Complex numbers are a continuum matter. So that approach still doesn't yield an integers-only proof!

> As to the question about the valid approach, intuitively I see this, but wondering if there was a formal proof of some kind, or is it taken as given?

I'm not really sure how to answer this -- what would a formal proof here even consist of? It's easy enough to do it in any instance, but the problem is, how would you even formally state the general principle?

Like you could do large classes of statements, certainly. So for instance, if what we're doing is purely algebraic, then you could say, if A and B are algebraic structures, and i:A->B is an injective homomorphism, and S is a set of algebraic equations all of which are always in the image of i, then all of them are always true in A; but of course there's way more types of statements one can make than algebraic equations.

So, uh, yeah, one can write down any number of statements like that, but I don't know how you'd formally abstract it into a general principle...?
I know you are, but what am I? - A rack of GPUs somewhere
Would it still be correct to consider it as having happened simultaneous to the life of someone living in 1381?
I'm in similar circumstances. Same age, a lot of intellectual interests, physically very active, don't feel old at all. And yet, that feeling of "been there, done that" is very recurring. When I think "I'm too old for XYZ", I take it as a sign that I've learned all I can from that type of experience and that I should move on to other pursuits.

>How do you maintain your excitement for something that you've done a bazillion times?

For me it's two things: 1) With a few special people, it doesn't matter if I've done something a million times, the interaction is always extremely rewarding and we always get new insights about what we're doing and the world; the activity is not novel in itself but there's a sense of progress in either skill or understanding; 2) Very obvious in theory: try something you've never tried before.

The hardest in my experience is to find friends who want to keep up with this. I crave novelty and progress of some sort, the feeling that I am a better person today than I was yesterday. I don't have a hard time meeting people, but it's getting harder and harder to find (and keep) my tribe. I suspect a lot of us feel something similar – this craving for a community of people you can relate to, spending time together, learning together, working together towards some shared goal. It's hard to make this happen at work and I haven't found it in hobbies either. The closest I've been to fulfilling this itch is with occasional side projects with others, retreats of different kinds, slow travelling, etc. I'd love to figure this out and make it happen more often with more people.
A simple way to answer that question is – is the only roadblock to building a custom browser in iOS that Apple will reject it during the review process? Or are there some fundamental missing APIs or piece of functionality in the platform itself? The latter gap will not be fixed even if you are able to bypass the App Store.
I agree with this so much. As someone who has had a fair share of notorial interactions, it's low hanging fruit that notaries are not being used to authenticate users.

It could even be a means of fighting spam/bots while maintainh anominity.
Well said. I get so tired of these also.
it wouldn't be too terribly hard to make "cash" less anonymous, for instance, serial number scanners in cash registers - like banks have those safes that are computer controlled and pop out the exact bills and counts you request, just replace all cash registers with either cashless self checkout or those vault style dispensers and receivers. If every point-of-sale has the serial scanner, cash is now no longer anonymous. They'll know who got it, and if someone else gets it scanned then they know that there's a link between you and that person.

there's already enough cameras to capture every angle - including the ones at registers that clearly are there just to capture your face.

The only reason i can see for a cashless society is: someone is going to make shedloads of money on the microtransactions. Visa, MC, AmEx, JP Morgan, etc.
Project has not seen an update in almost 2 years... :[
My Galaxy Note 9 can do it. I use the OpenCamera app, which gives manual exposure control, manual shutter speed control, manual focus, and can shoot in raw. Of course auto modes still work. That's a nearly 5 year old phone, though it was rather high-end for the time.
Ask HN: Which university degree is most conducive to personal growth and wisdom?
Setting aside proclivities to particular fields, eg. interested in computers, so study computer science.

I'm wondering which degrees develop well-balanced, clear thinking, and satisfied students?

Which degrees equip one to live a good life? Or is this an unrealistic expectation from institutions of education?
Given the abysmal usability of the app I would not call Snapchat a design oriented company.
Where is Bard?

Oh it's still waiting for its Google Authentication Numbers.
"Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from something more than just misunderstanding. The persistence of poor methods results partly from incentives that favour them, leading to the natural selection of bad science." ...