skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CFO's comments to The Guardian in December 2022 (the article also mentions the auditor's concerns)[0]:

> Mikko Salovaara, its chief financial officer, told the Guardian in an interview that the company was on the brink of getting a banking licence from City regulators: “I think we’re at the very last stages. Really at the finish line.” Salovaara said the UK licence was a step towards achieving Revolut’s aim of becoming a “truly global bank”. It would allow the company to offer “an increasing set of services to our customers, particularly credit.”

Sounds like another Wirecard. There's even the cliched startup quote "we want to be the Amazon of banking". WC wanted to be the Paypal of Europe. Amazing how far you can get before you've earned a single cent of profit!

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/01/uk-fintech-...
I cannot see anyone trying to argue anything about why it was successful, only you have decided that that is the point.

I've merely pointed out that it is widespread and that there are (at least) three reasons for people to speak it.

Edit: Note, if you don't wish to speak it, that's fine by me - I'll be just as happy to not hear from you again :-)
I thought those things were BS. Social media is different. It’s addictive to a degree that goes far beyond TV or video games and the content is shockingly mindless and toxic.

The average content on social media (at least if you let yourself be led by algorithms) is easily as bad as the worst content on cable TV. Some of it is worse than almost anything on TV in a very specific way: it’s utterly mindless. I’m continuously shocked by the mindlessness of what trends on YouTube for instance. It lacks even basic plot or structure, just endless repetitive spectacle or people faking excited reactions while doing the most banal things. It barely qualifies as filler yet people eat it up.

Then of course you have the political and cultural trash. Right, left, up, down, but no matter what it is it must be dumb and extreme and inflammatory. The most successful stuff in this category either serves to inflame hatred toward someone else or feed narcissism in the target audience.

Absolute trash, it seems, is what maximizes engagement. I don’t like what it says about humanity.
SPB.
Ok, I believe you about your subjective state (obviously!). Just please don't post more comments like the GP to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
IMO Mojo isn't competing with Julia. It's competing with Rust. Manual memory management, you have to type annotate every variable (if you want good performance), and no overloading doesn't seem to me like a language aimed in the same area as Julia.
That's why we're aiming for in-orbit manufacturing, isn't it?
Look on the bright side, https://badday.mov/ works now.
I like terseness while reading as well. I get angry and bored with verbosity.
Yeah, maybe not the best idea. And pointless, because we intend to release all torrents soon anyway (most are still processing)! Removed this part, thanks for the feedback.
Anyone who even briefly used Instagram, Snapchat, etc., in the last decade would know they were far from wholesome, especially when the 'influencer' stuff started gaining traction. So I would be surprised if TikTok failed to clear that low bar.

In fact, it's so unlikely, considering the vastly greater scrutiny they're under, that I'm beginning to suspect it's more to do with geopolitics then any actual aspect of the social media platform.

And it doesn't help that nearly every comment debates geopolitics whenever one of these articles is posted. Wanting Beijing to buy more soybeans, be less obstinate about the WTO, vote against Russia in the security council, etc..., is fine, but I'm getting tired of everything being dragged into this browbeating contest.
That’s probably what it is. The Spanish original uses “al revés,” one meaning of which is upside down:

El paciente M: el hombre que empezó a ver el mundo al revés tras un tiro en la cabeza en la Guerra Civil

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-05-10/el-paciente-m-el-hombr...
Even better, well, take everything literally except for the parts that are provably wrong. If one part is not true, then any or all parts may not be true. And since there's almost no evidence for anything miraculous in the Bible then AFAIK it's all untrue until proven otherwise. I should mention I was a deacon when I was in my 20s, so it's not like I was raised atheist.
I hope you realize that militialism under excuse of historical revisionism is a fascist thing, right? Look up what fascism is.
I'm glad you noticed the "linkbait/misleading" exception in that guideline because it's an important one!
Salsa dips into $10M to fire up payroll features for software companies
Video games, movies, and music weren't able to hit users with micro-targeted ads/propaganda/"content" meant to modify individual behavior in ways often harmful to them or society as a whole.

Unfortunately even that has changed now that everyone uses streaming services and plays always-online games.
> CEO and the board must serve prison time for things like this. No measure less than prison for the CEO and all board members is enough to curtail this

This is the sort of overreaction that kills reasonable responses, like making HP reimburse everyone whose printer they disabled, trebled, plus pay a big fine to a regulator and also enter into a consent decree. Hit them with a market cap decimating fine. Then let the Board eat its own.
Agreed.

I thought the same thing about Python's indenting originally (and still do). But the ecosystem was enough to overcome it for me eventually.
A comment attacking someone for being a shill is expressing skepticism in the most trivial way, and serves to throw a debate into a flamewar rather than actually discussing the flaws of their arguments.
According to the arch wiki that doesn't always work so well (didn't try it, though). But what does, is signing the MS certificate with your own key. I do that on my work laptop and it works well. I don't need windows on my personal one.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...
Just more evidence that we've learned absolutely nothing from multiple decades of SQL injection attacks. Experts and language designers try to address a problem, and yet collectively we are getting stupider as people "build" "applications" on top of "AI". We're back to building with mud bricks and sticks at this point.
> but execs are going to do their very best not to pass on costs to shareholders.

But it's not up to execs, execs don't control the share price, no matter how much they wish they could. The market does. The market sees the fine, it adjusts the market cap, done.

> Even if shareholders foot the bill, why would that be a desirable outcome?

Because shareholders elected the board. That's the entire foundation of joint-stock corporations, that shareholders get the rewards but also suffer the losses.
Julia is a language that you write more or less like python, but in cases where python would chase a million pointers to figure out what the type of a variable is, get an instance variable, call a method, etc, Julia (if written correctly) does just in time compilation. The first time it has to call a function on a combination of types it hasn't seen before, it compiles the function for those specific types (into LLVM IR, and then native code) and stores the compiled code so that subsequent dispatches of that function with those types are instantaneous, calling directly into the compiled code. You do not need to add type annotations for this to happen; at runtime, Julia checks the types of variables (which may have even been determined when the function was compiled, eliding the runtime check, if it was used in a context where the types were statically known; see below) to determine which version of a function to call.

This is a strength, as the only thing you have to do to get the performance of fully compiled code (modulo things like GC and bounds checking) is make sure your functions are “type stable”, i.e., their type information can be determined statically. (In fact, in Julia you get better performance by writing more, smaller functions because you'll have more regions within which the types are statically inferrable.) But it's also a weakness because the first time you start up a REPL and call a bunch of functions, each of those functions has to be compiled from scratch, which takes a long time (google “Julia time to first plot”).

Julia has other niceties such as very flexible math (promotion between every pair of numeric types) and a lisp-like macro system with homoiconic code, which make writing numerical code and scientific algorithms highly ergonomic.
If your democracy can be thwarted by free speech from a bad actor, then your democracy is shit.
You'd be surprised how often people make that argument to justify breaking the rules - e.g. that they were just calling attention to someone else's badness. From a moderation point of view, that issue is orthogonal. You can "illustrate" without breaking HN's rules, and that's fine. But if you break the rules, we have to moderate, whether you were "illustrating" or not.
Interest rates of the average VISA card are insane and most people can get a better loan product if they need the money. VISA makes tons of money for being convenient but insanely expensive.

https://wallethub.com/edu/cc/average-credit-card-interest-ra...
Is American turnover in Congress actually that fast enough for this to happen? We have more people over 40 than younger people and the influx of youth is being floated by an immigration policy that favors middle- and upper-class, basically the brain drain, of the rest of the world (read: people interested in business-friendly policy, etc), and older people, say, everyone 40 - 60, will have even greater life expectancy, so those who are in power may be in power when current teens are adults, just as Nancy Pelosi has been a Congresswoman my entire life and a good chunk of my mother's.
> They built computers during that era, but they we never a "player" in that industry.

HP was definitely a player in the PC industry and has been the number one manufacturer at different times..

https://statisticsanddata.org/data/best-selling-computer-bra...
You regulate or outlaw products when they negatively impact self or public health or safety.

There's a brief scene on Bojack Horseman involving a commercial for some chicken product. In it, a kid yells at his parents "I don't want to go to school, I want Chicken-4-Dayz!"

Some kids are badly-behaved. They get a lot of validation and reinforcement of their behavior from these platforms, especially since any disciplinary misstep by a parent invites CPS visits. But we should ask why products like "Chicken-4-Dayz" influence children to reject their own actual needs and tone that shit down.

I hear a lot of stories from teachers about teenage boys coming to school exhausted beyond functioning. Child labor abuses from working extra shifts at the factory? No. They're up all night all week playing Call of Duty.

When people opt to consume a product instead of doing the things they need to do to survive past their consumption, it's addiction. All controlled substances have this trait. Given an infinite supply of amphetamines, most people will dehydrate or starve to death.
Why? HP has documented that they do this for years.

The solution is really simple. Buy a printer that doesn’t do this. Many exist. They cost more, because HP sells these as loss leaders.
Can’t you just ask another LLM to analyse the text of the input to determine if it’s an attempted prompt injection?
> Potentially less toxic than the average twitter post that you see, which is very different

I don't even use Twitter and you still tried to turn this around on me as some sort of gotcha. You are contributing to the problem. Grats
Seriously, this is cool...but a real coup would be to build an IBM 1401 emulator running on a System/360 emulator running on QEMU.
So you’re saying that solar farm land should be taxed like farmland?

That would remove the bad incentives. Personally I agree.
Wow, fantastic!

> amusingly the executables i built 15 years ago still run on current gnu/linux; not sure if that would be true for things linked with libx11 and libxext, certainly not libgtk

win32 is how you write software you want to run forever thanks to the large user base.

I'm hoping for a wine cosmopolitan binary that would render to sixels: that would run on about everything, with qemu ensuring it keeps working if/when arm64 or mips64 take over amd64
> How did we get to the current state of software?

Though playing mp3 was a heavy task consuming most of the CPU. It was hard to do anything while listening to music.

Or think about how pressing Ctrl-S once a minute became a reflex, because MS Office crashed so often.

Hell, anyone remembers how unstable Windows ME was? Or how desktop Linuxes were practically non-existent?

Current state of software is _amazing_ compared to what was available at that time.
If a textbook is eye-opening, that's partly due to the textbook but it's also because you were at a moment in your understanding of that subject, that your eyes were ready to be opened and just needed a trigger. For me, TAOCP in high school was a big one. I don't claim to have understood very much of it, but spending evenings in the library bashing through the parts I could make sense of gave a total change in perspective.
Known by who?
More complex than the immune system?
No classes, weak typing despite having multiple dispatch, 1-based indexing, no real DL libraries with comparable baseline to pytorch/weight portability

There are no reasons to not use it if you like gesturing from a distance
While reading, I kept asking myself why someone would care about getting to the front page of HN (saving up this fake points to get something good?) until I reached:

> Step 3: The secret sauce
We always end with a section that is called: Final thoughts. This is your moment to shine and drop a punchline that talks about your product/service.

And, there it is.
If she has a good RNA repair mechanism isn't it heritable or do you posit she bought it or made it from wool and toothpicks?
There’s a huge leap between fucking up your accounting systems and doing outright fraud. This isn’t even close to what WC was doing, at least from the available information.
Details here: https://medium.com/p/73a65f901cad
The page seems to have changed since I've set this up, but this is what I've followed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...

The advice around the keys and signing is pretty generic. What's arch specific are the various integrations with the package manager than handle automatic signing of the kernel image after an upgrade.

Lower on the page there's a section about signing MS's certificates, so you can dual-boot windows while using your own keys. I have that setup on my work laptop and it works fine.
This link says "Matter lighting device" over and over but never says what that means and there are no pictures.
If you’re going to road trip in an EV you have to plan out your charging in advance. Luckily there are apps for that, PlugShare in particular. You should have adapters so that your car can charge at RV parks. Charging will force you to stop which is both good and bad. It’s better if you can stop at interesting places. Again that takes planning.
> You've also seen a bunch of my content on Hacker News because I'm one of the only people writing about it - if very much like not to be!

With all due respect, I would also like to market someone else who has also been posting similar content, but for some reason those posts never make it to the top. If you don't believe me, you can check the following submissions:

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35745457

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35915140

They have been consistently putting the risks of LLMs. Thanks for spreading the information though. Cheers.
Iridium SBD Emulator
A simple emulator for Iridium SBD 9602/9603 transceivers and GSS written in TypeScript (Node JS)
Maybe because most non game apps never pay the 30% fee (Netflix, Spotify, apps that see physical services like Uber, apps that require a subscription outside of the App Store) and according to the Epic lawsuit, most of the revenue (80%+) comes from slimy pay to win games.
In other words, they had to hack their own system to get anyone to pay attention to the advice of creating informative articles with a story to tell.
I don't think there can be much better praise for a site's moderation approach than someone deciding that creating relevant, high-quality content is the best way to "beat" the algorithm/approach.

And someone doing that has certainly earned the right to include "one sentence that is the least salesy you can do" of self-promotion.
Energy-saving HTTP serving, too.
“What we learned writing our backend in Rust”
As one of those others, I can confirm this is indeed still true as of Phoenix 1.7. `--no-assets` will not add any CSS or JS to the project other than empty `app.js` and `app.css` files in `/priv/static/assets` for you to fill in yourself if you want. You are completely on your own to implement an asset pipeline of your choosing. Of course, if you want LiveView you will have to bring some JS back in.
It’s frustrating to see people argue this. Not because it’s wrong, but besides basically anything that makes it not worth doing will work. The debate to be had is over what is to be done to put policies that discourage this activity in place. Bikeshedding what to do basically just passifies the urge to debate the actually important thing.
The Revolut UK banking chief executive also just quit 'for unrelated reasons' after texting a death threat to a customer: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/13/revolut-exec...
What about if you were to use it to write code but the code itself has logic to restrict what it could do based on the execution environment. Whether it's external variables like email Allowlist or flagging emails as not allowed. Your assistant if it tried, it would not have access.

In that sense I agree it could be a problem solved without "ai". Simon's approach does use another language model, maybe we need to build more way of logically sandboxing code or just better fine grained access control
Maybe they were right, and social media is even worse.

TV, for instance, has pretty clearly been a net negative due to its impact on the social fabric and people’s, especially children’s, minds. The fact social media is even worse doesn’t change that.
To me it kind of is a constitutional democracy. We decide the rules of the system (constitution) and the community votes within that system (democracy). I've used this metaphor a fair bit over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Proto AGI GPT4 can’t faithfully translate Python to Julia?!
That's a possible mitigation mentioned in the article.
I did a double take when I saw "continental philosophy." Usually I don't expect that to be mixed with math, since it's roots are more in the humanities.

How are exactly does continental philosophy factor into these other topics?
Even if its not a given just set it www.yourdomain.tld to redirect to yourdomain.tld
blog post might be slightly better starting point: https://ubuntu.com/blog/matter-on-ubuntu-getting-started
Matter is the protocol that’s going to replace the vendor-specific protocols for Apple, Amazon and Google smart home devices.
> I think they would have got less flak matching the more popular 0-index languages.

Possibly, though those of us already in the space would have found it a (slightly) less pleasant language then.
It's like GVFS, but for pieces of a file at a time as well: rows, columns, or cells. A snapshot is recreated by putting those pieces together. If you have ten million rows in one file and only add a thousand rows daily, each commit will only contain those thousand rows in its tree, not the sum total that will then be diffed by your favorite diff tool, but really just the bidirectional diff. It is the low-level materialization of the diff Git paradigm whereby during merges and rebases the 3-way difference between object trees is taken and acted upon, but placing the diffs themselves (data-level diffs on top of file-level ones) under those trees, overriding Git semantics in that Git will now deduplicate the diffs, not the entire original files, in order to recognize them as new objects and commit the new tree. In git, you can see in the video the same file diff being overwritten, representing a new piece in every commit.

While you don't need the ten million rows to commit each new thousand rows, they are needed upon merging in order to detect conflicts. Object content referenced by S3 pointers is fetched if and when needed, but the git objects themselves are fetched since they are really small. It is neither partial nor shallow clone strictly, as all the objects and trees are downloaded in the current implementation, but the S3 pointers enable similar delaying and filtering behavior, like with DVC.

Sorry if the repo size is unclear, hope this is better:
~180 kB: current state at the branch head, includes pointers to S3 (exact size depends upon packs and indices), plus full history, also with pointers
~890 MB: current state at the branch head, after downloading all files referenced by pointers in the Git history from S3, plus full history, with pointers
~130 GB: commit history, this is what the repo would weigh on DVC or Git LFS, this repo corresponds to a use case with many small updates

With increasing repo size (even when the 2nd, 890 MB state, increases in size, let alone the fully materialized history), this enables working on the 1st (kBs) and still commit changes.
Netflix is down by a lot.

Some of that may be due to temporary outlook during the COVID pandemic.

However, it's still down by more than 10% from a pre-lockdown stock price of ~380.00 in February 2020.
Are getting two new cars or trading both in against one new one?

If two then one EV and one PHEV might make sense as you could skimp on the battery a little.
Well in reality it's a gradual decrease over time as the fine moves from hypothetical low-probability to actually happening. By the time the fine happens it's often already been "priced in".

But so what if the stock is back up the following week? More things happened over the following week. You're missing the fact that it would have been up even higher if it weren't for the fine. (Alternatively, the stock also might go down even further the following week. But similarly, it wouldn't have gone down as much if not for the fine.)

This is not theory, this is how stocks actually work in the aggregate. If they didn't, you'd be able to make a lot of easy money off the stock market otherwise.
Pssh, these are precisely the kind of burdensome regulations that are leading fast moving, thing-breaking companies like Revolut to leapfrog traditional finance /s
My mistake. There are bigger examples 60 and 80 years ago.
The US generally imprisons only those people who commit serious crimes. There are likely some biases that result in imperfect application of the law. We’re working on it.

China imprisons and enslaves people simply for being members of the “wrong” ethnic group.

Please explain how these are even close to the same thing.
There’s nothing in the article that indicates that regulators are considering a criminal investigation.
> like making HP reimburse everyone whose printer they disabled

won't happen, because most of the customers live in different countries with different law systems

> hit them with a market cap decimating fine

won't happen, because most of the costs is beared by people in foreign countries who don't matter to US courts, and most of the profits are gathered by people in US (company, owners, shareholders, employees, budget)

It's not an accident that most of the time google and apple are fined by EU and VW is fined by USA.
No, the vast majority is in LEO and will drop in a few decades.