skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a strong motivation yes, just for fun no.

One motivation is that you want to travel to Israel and to some Arab country, which do not accept passports with stamps of the "enemy" in it.

I don't know if they verify the motivation in any way or whether it's enough to say so.
Anecdote but I have had the same friends since I was 4. Like kindergarten friends. I have new friends as well but my kindergarten friends know me even better than I know myself. It's awesome every time we hang out. We basically laugh at everything. We learned to laugh with each other and literally created each other's sense of humor and social personality.

I honestly feel so lucky.

One of them moved 6 hours away but we talk and game every week on discord.

I'm from small town canada. People here are notoriously less ambitious than Americans or at least than big city Americans.

The one college friend of mine who moved to silicon valley I don't get along with anymore. He's just tuned to a higher frequency of activity and we can't share time effectively. It's like the SV lifestyle created ADHD in him. We can never just do nothing. We always have to be discussing something "important" or doing something "cool".

Sometimes I like to sit on my deck for an hour and let the thoughts creep by.

I used to feel envious of his wealth, power and prestige. But now that I have a wife and child and can see my distant future, I do not envy him.
Earth’s health failing in seven out of eight key measures, say scientists
This is not really about marriage vs friendship, but two kinds of friendship imho… this could just as easily have gone the other way (new friend attacking her romantic partner).

But (also imho) no one really knows what marriage is anymore anyways.
You may not need a CRDT
You could become a developer on each target and make your own client secrets (like I do for `rclone`, `msmtp`, and `offlineimap` access over OAuth).

OAuth makes the app authenticate as well (so that, e.g., API limits can be accounted for across all app installs). It really hampers FOSS clients because the secrets are just…there. Or you make all of your users use prebuilt binaries or become developers to get their own client credentials.
> The Fed is not stepping in to buy more treasury bonds, so the private sector -- individuals, 401(k) plans, pension plans, endowments, mutual funds, etc. -- must find additional liquidity somewhere to step in to buy the new bonds

The private sector doesn't "have" to do anything.
Overview with less click-baity headline:

"U.S. banks saw record deposit declines [-2.5%] in Q1 as profits remained steady: FDIC"

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-bank-deposits-fell-rec...

> "The FDIC said the $472 billion in deposit outflows in the first quarter was the largest it had recorded since it began collecting such data in 1984. The decline was primarily from uninsured funds, as insured deposits actually rose $255.1 billion, or 2.5%, amid the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank."

This apparently means there was a 5% drop in the total uninsured funds, meaning likely about one-third of those funds were broken up into cash sweeps (into multiple smaller deposits, each under the FDIC limit for insured deposits)?

edit [uninsured funds exodus = 472 + 255 + ? offshored] ?
Workspaces Study – The future of macOS is people centered
I have opened myself up for more subscription services over the last couple of years. I freelance. My income is generally 'high', but irregular. Monthly subscriptions aren't irregular.

Having a need for a tool for 2 months on a project, then... maybe needing it 4 months from now means I have to keep subscribing to the service even when I don't use it. I've kept things around at $30/month for months longer than I needed to because there wasn't a good way to export the data, then reimport it later if I needed it again in that tool. Taking time to determine the impact of stopping a subscription isn't always simple.

I'm paying for 2 services that do something similar. Tried the second one that said "oh, we can import your data from the other service!". It can't, but I didn't try soon enough, and now I have setups in two services. My own fault for not trying soon enough, but taking time to manually move from svc 1 to 2 (or 2 to 1) will take a lot more than than any 'savings' I might get from these.

I've paid for jetbrains for years, and I pay for some hosting/cloud services (linode, DO, AWS, etc). I've paid for copilot. I've paid for some other IDE helper/services. I've got clients who pay for dropbox/similar.

Average of $25/month, but times... say 8 on average (monthly or yearly external services I use)... That's not nothing to me. I can live with it, but half of these I'm not using regularly, but am somewhat held hostage because cancelling the service will lose my data which I may want to use on another project in the near future. So.. I keep holding on to things I'm not using in the hopes that I'll "save 2 hours/week!" 4 months from now.

Some of these services don't play nicely with sharing - many bootstrapped services don't give me ways to share my account with someone else, or transfer my data to a client, for example. (some do, but not all). Even if I want that feature, and I'm a paying customer, if I'm in the minority, I won't get that feature.

I understand your sentiment about "stop being cheap" but... even once I got past that, and got comfortable paying for more services, it's not always a good ROI (short term, usually yes, long term... no).

"to make your lives easier". My life would be easier if I could use the service for a time, export all my data, cancel, then resume service by bringing my data in again later. OR... let me 'pause' monthly rebilling for a few months. An account 'freeze' feature - suspend service and billing for X months, Y times per year - would let me feel I'm getting more value when I need it. Yes, it would disrupt projected cash flow, but it would "make my life easier".

My gym lets me do this. I can 'freeze' my membership for up to 4 months at a time per calendar year. I've done it when I know I'm going to be out of town for a few weeks - no way I'm going to use for the next 6 weeks. I'll freeze for the next month, then resume.
It disappeared.

Fed policy for the last year has been to disappear money, which should eventually fix our inflation problem.

Cash is dwindling for the first time in a generation. The economy will act differently than most of us have seen in our lifetimes.

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M2, a measurement of how much money is in our economy, has been shrinking for months.

Then again, M2 expanded too much during the COVID-19 era policies (we overreacted to the problem. But I don't blame policy makers for taking bold action). So this is a somewhat natural backlash that the Fed needs to manage.

We are, and have been, undoing QE and raising interest rates simultaneously. This causes lending to be more expensive and savings to be better.

Alas, we all have debts to pay (lots and lots of individual debt, record high mortgage rates and car loan rates). We all have a bit less money as a people compared to last year.

So in practice, we are seeing personal savings dwindle and credit card debt (and other debt) balloon due to these interest rates.

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EDIT: Downvotes? Lemme explain further.

Since the peak in M2 of April 2022 at $22 Trillion, we're down to $20.9 Trillion, or roughly a loss of $1.1 Trillion in M2 (a measurement of how much money is in existence). The easiest place for cash to disappear is from liquid-savings accounts. Its very indirect: Fed raises interest rates, indirectly raising mortgages and car loan costs, raising what people are paying each money, eventually lowering savings accounts. But the "buck stops" somewhere, and its probably going to be in a liquid savings account.
I reboot after update just superstitiously.

Also out of superstition, I avoid hibernate -- when I walk away, it's either on and locked or shutdown. (I also did this on Windows; a mixed state just seemed off-puttingly and worryingly complex to me.)

Given what you said, and because I hear hibernation is notoriously buggy on Linux, both superstitions have rewarded me. :D
May I ask Any resources that have helped? What stack do you use
Privacy and private property rights are deeply intertwined (it is, for example, what makes it unlawful for me to walk into your house uninvited and install a hidden camera, or to walk up to your house and stare through your bedroom window while you make love to your partner). Would you argue that, because historically a right to own and control access to private property has "been rare for most people", we shouldn't view it as fundamental, either?
Or perhaps I don't want to get fleeced and/or locked in to a model where if I stop paying, I lose access to an offline program that costs the app developer NOTHING extra for my use
Imagine if we had just given that money to Ukraine instead, sheeeesh I can't believe the pro-russian banks wouldn't do that
Meltano CEO here. Looking forward to discussing! @tayloramurphy, our Head of Product & Data, and GitLab's Data Lead when the Meltano project was started, will be here as well.
Nitpick:

a) No it doesn't. Here are mainstream news outlets that uses the word "Lost" in the context of bank deposits decreasing, and we all know what they mean, and no way implies that they don't know where the money went.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/economy/first-re...
https://fortune.com/2023/04/24/first-republic-bank-loses-bil...

b) The report itself doesn't use the word "Lost" once, so its a useless nitpick.
It would only be a circular argument if autoimmune conditions were the only way to become stressed. As it stands, this sounds more like a "vicious circle" (whereby one caught in this cycle has a hard time exiting it).
You'd rather use explicit function calls for all linear algebra and geometry operations? I don't think adding two vectors using an overloaded + is that spooky or distant.
Playing Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal is the quickest way for me to get into flow state. My eyes zoom out, I see tiny pixels moving and associate them, react to them, hand and eyes perfectly in sync. My brain basically turns off anything that isn't related to rip and tear. It's such a weird sensation because I know I'm in it because I'm not focusing my eyes on any one thing, it's like I focus to infinity and just sit still and shred.
A bunch of CEOs sitting on each others' boards have little reason to constrain the growth of CEO compensation, and every reason to give each other golden parachutes.
OR immune damage due to covid itself, which was a more popular theory with more mainstream medical support last time I looked into it about ten months ago.
Rust hasn't grown in scope very much since its release, but in places where it has grown, particularly async and unpin, I find that there features interact very badly with lifetimes and borrowing. I am often forced to ditch borrowing across async method calls and to put everything in Arcs, even when the lifetime is well-defined and it could be easily used if it had been scoped threads instead of futures. I fear that newer features will be incompatible with older ones in a similar way, but fortunately there are no such features on the horizon.

Considering all that, I still see Rust as the most sane choice for writing native programs. I don't really want a "better C", I want to write memory-safe software with confidence, and that means static analysis or a thick safe runtime, whatever is more suitable for the use case.
TypeScript -> Svelte(Kit) -> Postgres -> Vercel
Back in the old comic book days, the act of drawing darker parts of a person or object to indicate lighting or shadows was called “shading”. The name stuck because the first shaders were focused on that. Later, these GPU programs were used for other things, leading to somewhat nonsensical-sounding terms like “vertex shader”. But yeah, that’s why they were originally called that: they shaded the dark parts of an image.
I primarily use the regular web interface. That's because I barely use Reddit anymore after using it a ton before. More and more, I found that things that shouldn't be nsfw were marked so, the interesting people have mostly already left, and the site optimizes for "engagement" like everything else, meaning it's full of catchy junk.

I joke that if this guy (pointing at myself) is doing your thing, it's probably jumped the shark. What does it mean when this guy has already grown tired of your platform?
I’m picturing a long 50’ aisle filled with racks and a guy with a huge box marked “replacement CPUs” and a screwdriver.

Good lord, can you imagine how long just a few of those would take in a data center?
This is literally fine.
Symptom of "MBAs eating the world". They got fired in the first layoff round, back around 1998.
It’s actually incredible how cheap we are. I catch myself doing it, and what makes it even more ridiculous is how much I won’t even think twice about spending on other things that are just hobbies. Why does my brain think it’s fine to spend hundreds of dollars on a microphone or a lens or even a plugin that is actually also software, but $50 for a tool that will help me with my 40 hour a week job is out of the question.

A bit more on topic though, I don’t really see this as a tool aimed at developers. Watching the demo on the site, this isn’t really how I interact with css at all. I don’t need a color wheel or draggable sliders with ultra fine resolution. The real utility, for me, of a tool like this, would be if you could set up essentially an internal style guide that would limit the possible options for all of the values to retain consistency. Then it would be great for finishing touches, sitting beside a designer or something.
You are talking past me.

Kids are not the center of my life.

We all have our own interests and goals. That includes kids, too. Get used to it.
Not only doable, but most likely right?

If there’s a world in which a group of rich people can pay for a technical system that will rigorously seek profit via managing all the employees, at a rate lower than they would pay a CEO, and with equivalent effectiveness? 100% this will happen.
All but individuals and possibly possibly 401(k)s do, in fact, have to do something. They have targets to meet. They don't just sit on the money.
I like calls and texts as well ;)

One option would be to have a 5G hotspot AND vowifi feature phone, but it'd be much more convenient as a single package (not to mention I'm not even sure there are more vowifi feature phones than 5G feature phones)
well the parent to child relationship is not a procreative one. New family units have to form that are procreative or that society will eventually crumble. So it’s not simply subjective. The marriage relationship is procreative and a bedrock for society. I don’t think a society having greater / lesser deference to parents as authority figures takes away from that reality. The parents themselves are in a procreative relationship, and are matriarchs and patriarchs to their line. And clearly the cultures that demand “more” love to parents than a spouse, do not (cannot rightly) demand intimate love. So I would question what “more” love is.
The "ventilator" frenzy turned out to be pretty ugly, too.

We embraced much error in our eagerness to have a global pandemic. I wish we could articulate those errors, and remember them, in hopes of preventing their repetition on the future.
Zuckerberg unveils Meta’s newest VR headset days before Apple reveals its own
If the private sector doesn't step in to buy newly issued treasuries, you would have a failed US treasury auction!!!
If the fed doesn't buy more bonds, what does it do with the money to "destroy it"? Light it on fire in the parking lot?
It will likely never be finished, but the stuff that is there is solid gold, and is how I first learned shaders years ago.
Yes, yes it does. The document says ... "Total Deposits Declined Substantially Quarter Over Quarter, but Insured Deposits Increased"

Declined makes sense, "lost" doesn't.
The report literally tells you explicitly about how many banks opened and closed during the quarter and the relevant number for the assets they hold
That clearly isn't true if it wishes to continue to exist.
As a community HN is still a fantastic group of passionate early-adopters who care about their work, so yes - I believe this is exactly the best place to ask questions like this.
> unionize and strike (if youre not a dev)

Why is unionizing and striking not ok for devs? That seems a little cowardly
What are the use-cases in which it might be worth switching from Rust to Zig?
The question then becomes why; it's not some random fluctuation where every single person happened to fall on the left side of the spectrum of socialization. Have to look at systemic issues for that.
Great asset. However, the 3d viewer is not equal to that of sketchfab, which currently hosts a number of public collections e.g. natural history museum of Vienna https://sketchfab.com/NHMWien

Using the inspect model feature, sketchfab allowers users to see the mesh. Vital info if you plan to download and use the model.
I've been using Firefox for years, but I'm more impressed by Brave (desktop). In fact, Firefox feels stale and have been like that for some time. Features in Brave include: vertical tabs, independent search, a RSS Reader (Firefox previously removed RSS).
This is it, mainly. You'll be able to see it here https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MMMFFAQ027S eventually.
You’re not alone, tons of people think the way you do. Any time the topic turns to “middle management” here on HN, there are developers complaining about their managers. But someone directly managing a dev team would not satisfy the definition above.
> Developers have high incomes, but are quite frankly, extremely cheap.

We're not all making 100k+/yr, $30/mo is a significant amount.
It's not really surprising that purely functional programming is expressive. Indeed, it is as expressive as "opaque" programming.
It's not like 1/3 of people are that perseptive to begin with...
The spam is bad, but often I don't think they know what the results mean.

I love the spreadsheet I get every month. Just a list of vulnerabilities instead of anything curated. We noticed 5 vulns in an installed version of Firefox. Better list it 5 times just in case.

A few times now there were connections from some malicious IPs on our mail server on the mail port, and I was asked if we could block inbound connections. Open ports are a vulnerability, you know?

Never mind that the firewall already blocked that connection in particular.
Money (deposits) are created at the point that loans are made. Money is destroyed when these loans are repaid. The money supply (specifically M2, that includes deposits) can shrink if less loans are created compared to loans being paid off.

Raising interest rates has this explicit effect. There is a lag for this affect to be noticed in the system.
Even though the original company went out of business, maybe the trademark is still owned by someone. They could use ICANN's dispute channels to challenge ownership of the name.
Yes, that's correct: reusing developer's computers means you're trusting all of them. At small scale, that may be acceptable because you probably trust them all a lot anyhow, and perhaps are unlikely to have a strictly hermetic and isolated build system.

When the team is bigger or when security is more important, it's important to have a build system where you're confident that no one can subvert the output, and that includes ensuring that very few people can control machines running distccd.

Another way in which it shows its age is that, by default, there are only netblock based restrictions on clients, and connections are over unencrypted TCP by default (last time I looked), although there is an option to use SSH (or I guess Tailscale or similar.)
When the headlines were “AI is going to cause a loss of tech jobs“ I heard “AI is going to manage my company (the part I don’t want to do) while I build the things that solve customer problems (the part I do want to do)”
Apollo had 30 billion requests last month. It's not clickbait. It's math.
I found it annoying that I had to go searching through multiple pages to get the full list of things that this is made of.

On the product page[1] I had to scroll all the way to the bottom and expand 2 of the "Got Questions" sections to get info:

> Our BURST Floss is beautifully packaged in an eco-friendly sustainable case, the textured filament has expanding technology for a deep clean. Charcoal coated for adsorption and anti-microbial for healthy white teeth, the unique black coloring of the floss exposes plaque lurking in the mouth.

> Yes The BURST Floss uses Microcrystalline wax, there are No PFAs.

Then I had to search through multiple questions on their FAQ page to finally find this[2]:

> Is the BURST Floss biodegradable?
> No. The BURST Floss is comprised of Polyester so is not biodegradable.

So we have:

- Polyester
- Microcrystalline wax
- Charcoal
- an eco-friendly sustainable case

I can't tell if the Microcrystalline wax _is_ the Charcoal or is something separate. No explanation on what the case is made of. "Eco-friendly" is vague, I'm guessing this is because it's re-usable, not because it's biodegradable.

1. https://www.burstoralcare.com/product/floss?color=black#

2. https://burstusa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360053208094-...

I also want to add that Burst was listed in one of the parent links on flosses that failed the test for PFAS. (if you trust that site)

> According to our EPA-certified laboratory, these products contain detections of organic fluorine, which is a chemical marker for PFAS “forever chemicals.” This section represents some products that have levels that are clearly intentionally added, while other brands have levels that are more “unintentionally added” from contamination somewhere. Brands with jaw-dropping amounts of organic fluorine we marked with *.

> Burst Refillable Dental Floss Juniper & Berry — 208 parts per million (ppm) organic fluorine

https://www.mamavation.com/beauty/toxic-pfas-dental-floss-to...
> we all know what they mean

No, the readers of fortune and the NYT business sections do, "we all" do not.

> The report itself doesn't use the word "Lost" once, so its a useless nitpick.

Actually, it's pretty important, the FDIC avoided the word.
Let's see if I understand this. My finance jargon skill is low.

The Fed buys US treasury bonds for $XB, the treasury pays them the money plus interest, and the Fed then does nothing with the money?

That sounds like a way to lower the money supply, which is exactly what I'd expect of a central bank trying to fight inflation.
Without watching the video, "Sakes Alive!" has been floating in my head for 40 years.
Central government can force any covered entity to publish which standards they (do not) support, to produce an audit, and in the last instance, instruct them to comply. This is a specific provision on top of generic rules and regulations, where central government can step in the place of a lower government if they are non-compliant.

Also, citizens (or NGOs) can sue entities (including central government) for non-compliance. For example, in 2022, the NGO Urgenda won a case against the Dutch government for not doing enough about climate change (less than needed to comply with international treaties), and now the political landscape is in turmoil because there's no consensus which polluters should stop polluting quite as much.

In practice, the list of standards is just tacked onto procurement procedures. Since governments and contractors love to bicker, a missing security.txt can be something to hit the vendor over the head with (and withhold payment for a month, to make this year's budget).
And yet I have it in my very real world (and unexciting) Subaru for years and it never does what you say. I’m guessing it has some idea of differential speeds , not just distance-to-object