skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a government recording device

Many people believe this is happening with your phone. It's a recording device after all, and usually carried by most people. If not you then someone nearby likely has one. All these conversations can be transcripted automatically and the vast amounts of text can be analyzed by AI for whatever purpose they want. The infrastructure is already available.
As a non-professional user of Reaper, it's one of the best deals in software. I paid $60 years ago and I get updates almost every time I launch it.

My license is good for 2 major versions (so for me, up to, but not including 7.0). So when 7.0 comes out I will gladly pay $60 again.
Ask HN: Are waitlist launches a no go on Hacker News?
Pretty new around here. Is launching a waitlist for an upcoming product a good idea? If yes, how much context-sharing is too much or too little?
We know that most startups fail to scale. Perhaps there is a pattern regarding certain things...
The Unix philosophy was a very rough guideline from the 70s, not a divine commandment that must be followed unwaveringly.

There are a gazillion examples of excellent pieces of software that don't do "one thing" that can be piped as unstructured text into another program.

Imagine editing a spreadsheet like `cat foo.xls | select-cell B3 | replace '=B2+1' > foo.xls`.

Laughable. But how many people decry Excel for "not more than one thing"? You probably haven't even considered it.

I'd put it up there with "premature optimisation" as one of the most damaging programming mantras.
You can use nitter to access Twitter content anonymously at the moment:

https://nitter.net/SarahKSilverman
Whole EU and EEZ has standard approved verified electornic signature format. So in EU even cross country signing is possible.
Yes, the cotton fabrics (sheets, towels) produce a lot of lint, the synthetics practically none. That's consistent with the cotton stuff wearing out more quickly.
The top of the article says it's a 2018 republish
How do they define “toxic?” A list of naughty words?

Strange topic of research for an economist.
this is how it works:

whales with huge amounts to invest simply collude to buy everything in size. they add, add, add, add to their positions.

This draws in everyone else. index funds automatically, and hedge funds that need to "outperform" the indexes.

Then the whales sell.

On the average they make money with this methodology.
Ha, I had completely forgotten this was a thing I used to do. Thanks for bringing back good memories of scrolling through .txt files. It might sound tedious to those who never tried it, but the Clickwheel was a genuine pleasure to use for so many things. I still miss it to this day.
It took me a while to figure this out but I think YC are particularly looking for answers to that question that result in a win-win, ie where you hacked a system to your advantage, and to everybody else’s advantage.
My partner definitely does not know the difference between Git and GitHub. He's not much of a programmer but yeah.. maybe this is like Java vs JS all over again. Or jQuery vs JS. That one makes me extra sad.
I always wonder when increasingly hostile climate is going to start redistribution of population. So far it seems like people are extremely resilient and would rather stay then move.
I get what you're saying but Hitler never went to jail; his forces were eliminated by the armies of multiple world superpowers working together. Imagine if such manpower and might were used to eradicate homelessness and hunger.
>"Really no idea why it insists on splitting it into 5 partitions when just a seperate /usr/local mounted with the wxallowed flag is mostly fine."

Because OpenBSD recommends having nosuid on everything that isn't /, /usr and /usr/local, and nodev on everything that isn't / (where /dev lives).
While I don't disagree about the state of journalism, you can only fit so much information in the headline, and the similarity to what visitors to the US have to do is called out in the article. The headline itself in this case seems like a fair and accurate summary of the story.
Bingo. People pay thousands of dollars for the mere option of buying or selling 100 shares of a stock a few years in the future at roughly the price it is now.

I imagine there would be folks willing to pay a lot more for their future options, if such an options market existed.
Hopefully HAMMER2 is ported to it soon. No hope for ZFS. Having old school UFS is a deal breaker, even though most Linux users still live with a comparably old Ext4, but once you get used to ZFS you don't want to go back.
-- FreeBSD user
Anecdotally, I've never seen so many folks laid off on LinkedIn since I've been on the platform. Some are going on 3+ months. Recruiter spam is at all time lows. Are these companies getting by with less?
> I was a bit surprised that a twelfth century source would refer to apes.

The Roman empire extended into North Africa and they would absolutely have been aware of the wildlife. Hannibal actually launched an attack on the Romans that involved bringing war elephants across the Alps [0]. Subsequent readers of Roman authors would have known about the animals the Romans knew about, e.g. [1], which in turn made their way into medieval bestiaries (along with unicorns and a few others).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal%27s_crossing_of_the_A...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiologus
The bull hits from below to above: the object is rising. A "bullish" market is pulled upwards.

The bear hits from above to below: the object is falling. A "bearish" market is pushed downwards.
Unsold electric vehicles are piling up – people like the idea but are not buying
I worked for a Swiss firm and never noticed anything strange.

Both founders are German speaking. Good guys.

Although that was a small firm not a giant
Compiler Performance and LLVM (2019)
This doesn't add up to me. I thought "People over processes" was a pillar in the agile manifesto.
IIRC this might have been covered in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, in terms of a lack of commitment.
Sadly you still have many sites that have stupid password rules like requiring numbers and "special characters" -- but no spaces, and no, periods don't count as special characters, and blah blah blah. Point being, the ideal of a simple phrase that's easy to remember gets thrown out the window when you have to deal with all the different rules.
One of the many consequences of global warming is going to be a reckoning of trying to support large cities in areas that fundamentally cannot sustain them. Las Vegas, Phoenix, even Southern California do not really have any business existing in their present forms.
But the rest of the car is the same. Just the battery and its charging circuitry vs hydrogen fuel cell + pump mechanism(?) differs.

Edit: And do they make plugin hybrids - https://www.toyota.com/priusprime/
You are correct, though my knowledge of finance is insufficient to give you much more detail.
Jitter: Generate portable language VMs from high-level specifications
> GNU Jitter is a software automatically generating a portable, very efficient language virtual machine with performance close to native code, starting from a relatively high-level specification provided by the user.
Most likely it's a lack of talent, and lack of political will to actually take IT seriously.
I don’t agree.
If a company creates jobs in a third world country which would have been otherwise created in their “own” [1] country if not for cost reasons is morally and ethically in a grey area.

On the other hand, said workers in the third world country that has seen their conditions and prosperity get better will only want their conditions to get even better. This is what happened in the first world. A company preventing that is immoral.

1: own in the sense the place that contributed (schools, taxes, stable political system) to their growth to a point that they have wealth and expertise to invest in other countries.
years ago I made a habit of making small changes to contracting agreements. The net results off the top of my head? most contracts sent were written for one side, not both sides, making some changes to defend my side simple self-defense (I didn't change the compensation terms); I only got the changes accepted two out of three times or so; when the tides of tech changed, I was the first to be left out.. it seems in hindsight that this was some kind of "larval state" for me.. I had to either get more authority in writing to become stable, or, be replaced by compliant, more desperate, more outsourced "talent" that could do specific tech work. As an intellectual, I went back to school, and lost the chance to embed and define authority in contractual relationships at the same time.
There’s a huge influx of refugees into Europe and the US mostly from hotter places.
I don’t get it: how does AWS benefit if the TAM delays resolving the ticket/
An old greek proverb says "chicken and woman need a hand" (to eat the chicken and to pleasure the woman)
Title here is missing the vital "Highway" word, and the main reason is that the EV number inccludes city driving too.

Having said that, their highway testing seems less "real-world" than the EPA tests, driving at exactly 75mph for hours at a time?
Why Businesses Can’t Stop Asking for Tips
The signature is just a physical manifesting of assent. It's presence is indicative that you've agreed to what you're signing.

Signature comparison is a line of defense.

More broadly, There's a whole set of practices that assume a relationship. You scoff at signatures, but in their heyday, my local banker knew me and knew my signature and he could spot a general forgery or even unusual patterns. Every economic transaction I engaged in came with a relationship that helped mitigate fraud.

Even voting in the US today carries remnants of this. If you go to a small town to vote, you know the election workers and they know you. There's no need for an ID and there's no question of fraud. Everybody knows everybody. If you try to vote and nobody knows you, if you've got the paperwork, you'll get a smile and you'll vote, but you can bet your ballot is flagged for extra scrutiny afterwards.

We need more of this system in the modern world.
Think of all OSs, hypervisors, mainframes and their own platform, iterations, versions, flavors, builds, dependencies etc...
I personally once serviced what looked like a 2003 windows server in a DB office where it has a weird logo to it, just like it was a custom/special flavor built for DB, I beleive at the time 2003 was already EOL but they were probably paying MSFT millions to keep supporting it.
Standard flash disks use wear leveling - which is not normally present on micro SD cards. Have a look at the SD cards that are designed for dash cams, body cams and industrial applications
Wow every format imaginable. Even the ebook as gba rom
From what I've read, the power supply can make a big difference here, in addition to getting quality microSD cards.

I've had a Pi Hole running on the same microSD for 6-7 years now with only one hiccup (and that was a software thing - a fresh install got it back up and running on the same microSD). It just has a regular SD card (not a high endurance one), but the power supply came from adafruit, and it's been connected to a UPS for most of its life.
People are resilient here means that we have cheap enough energy and air conditioning as well as access to fresh water. Raise the cost of energy 100x and extracting fresh water and especially air conditioning becomes less economically viable than moving. Then again, the whole desert is wide open for building large banks of solar farms.
You may be attributing lack of financial means to resiliency. It cost money to move and if you are already struggling to get by you may not have the money.
In the old days, we would just google it. These days ChatGPT will write a nice answer:

“A bear market is a financial term used to describe a prolonged period of declining stock prices, typically by 20% or more, across various financial markets. During a bear market, investor confidence is low, and there is a prevailing sense of pessimism about the economy's future performance. It is the opposite of a bull market, which is characterized by rising stock prices and increased optimism.”

It’s kind of cool to have a tutor like this. Wish it could teach math.
But we are talking about "learning curves" and "supply chains". You still haven't explained why they won't be able to catch up and make a good affordable EV.
Other hard things of software engineering
Sources? I haven't seen that (yet)
the concept of fine print, i believe, is to provide more detail on terms you already agreed to. Like "what happens if the delivery is late"

It is not to introduce entirely new terms, like "actually you have to pay for this"
As a counterpoint, I've been completely unreasonable with my use of fossil. Wildly different versions on different systems, often from years apart. They get whatever binary existed when I set up the system and stay on it. Some osx, some variations of Linux, a freebsd box. I think windows if I go back far enough. Synchronising between them in ad hoc fashion.

Some repos are over a decade old. One is over 10k commits deep, another several gigabytes in size because I checked in whole dev environments.

Every now and again it told me it wanted to rebuild and that succeeded. I routinely ctrl-c it partway through a commit if I notice a typo.

It has _never_ dropped the ball on me. Fossil is by a wide margin the most reliable program I've ever used.
But is that because of the heat or simply because in general the norther hemisphere is richer than the southern one?
do they even have jurisdiction? have the speakers agreed to arbitration? otherwise it's just more spam.

edit: ah, okay, so they signed a "license agreement", which is basically a scam. welp.
Doesn’t work if they decide to go to arbitration.
You are assuming too much about me without having a single clue.

>"What if I like vertical monitors, or want 5:4 etc."

Your choice. Mine - not to work on cell phone. This might change if they will stop crippling smartphones and let it to be hooked to a decent monitors / (future high quality display glasses)
ICCL official to take DPC to court next week over personal data processing
Hammer2 might be a bit intrusive in the FS subsystem. Less than ZFS, for sure, but is not a trivial task.
>Are they supposed to compare to the signature I put on my card?

Probably historically; I think I've had it rarely in the distant past.

Signatures are fairly uncommon these days. And the places where you sign a pad you just swipe a finger and no one blinks an eye. I'd say it was just outmoded POS systems but I've seen it on newer systems too. It probably does, as someone else wrote, constitute a bit more assent than clicking a button does even if not much.
And if the article involves the police doing something terrible, use passive voice. 'A small child was struck by bullet' rather than 'Police officer murders toddler'.
At their core, online communities are extensions of offline communities.

Yes, that core may attract people who never have and never will participate in the offline core and those people may dominate numbers (HN is a good example).

Online tools reinforce and amplify communities, but r/justinbeeber isn't bootstrapped. It exists because of the meatspace component.

Stackoverflow exists because people write code.

Facebook exists because people have offline lives...Facebook brings up the important point that there is no "Facebook community" all it's many communities have real world basis.

Anyway, "writers" is too broad. Experts will commune with other experts when they aren't busy writing and the platform will be dominated by people who like to dominate online communities (just like HN).

For what it's worth, if you don't care fifty-eight bucks a month that might signify your commitment level to the project. Or not.

Good luck.
EVs are coming and we must adjust.
Link to the declassified “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” document at the top of this article:

“The Art of Simple Sabotage” (2019) https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...
wxallowed flag is required for some ports that write to pages that are also executable.

OpenBSD prohibits this except when code is run from a partition that permits it by means of a mount flag. Otherwise you get a core dump.

And all the partitions are largely an availability feature: if errant code fills up /var/log then /home is still usable.
Came here for this comment. Gavin is a role model!
What the actual f. This corporate paradigm needs to burn to the ground.
You must be that lucky person who doesn't live in Poland. An electric administrative court in Poland doesn't even check if the provided evidence is correct in any way. They automatically assume the plaintiff is right, according to the official law. And if you don't object plaintiff's accusations, you lose. They try to contact you by mail, but if they can't, they don't care. It's your fault they couldn't deliver mail to you which looks just like any other scam.

The scammer fakes the evidence, submits the case electronically, can request any amount of money and wins by default. Nice, isn't it? You've officially lost in this circus "court". Good luck proving anything to the real court now, as it would consume a lot of your money, time and mental sanity. In the meantime, the scammer is officially allowed to seize any of your money they decided you "owe" them.

You would not expect something like this exist in an EU country, would you?
It's not a 90min stop to go 500-600km in a lot of modern EVs. More like 10-20min.

I just looked up a trip in A Better Route Planner in a Hyundai Ioniq 6 going on a trip around Texas, 495km trip. 4h44min total trip time, 8 minutes of charging.

Do you really not take a 10 minute break in nearly 5 hours of driving?
out of curiosity what do you use it for in the non-professional realm? just interested since honestly reaper looks very intimidating as an outsider looking in
Communication is still pretty special as a tool. Humans evolved specific hardware to support it. While humans have evolved hands for tool usage, that's way more generic...
Only physically though.

Many years ago, possessing the values on a passport constituted verification. This data was stored and after a significant number of leaks, this data alone was useless as it became public knowledge. The next step was requiring a photo of the document. The photos were stored, and after a significant number of leaks, the same thing happened. The next step was ID selfies. Then the same thing happened. Now it’s selfie videos with the ID. This too will become useless when those videos are leaked.

It’s a never ending battle. A passport is a physical document and should only be used physically.

Online, we need public/private key authentication. It’s the only way.
I would love a place like this. As someone who is learning iOS dev and has a background in web dev I would be very open to a couple hours here and there to help someone in their project...and probably not charge an arm & leg if it is in a tech I am learning for fun!
Sqlite is going to outlive basically everything. That's not a serious hazard.
I'm not a professional in any of this, but just from reading comments it appears that devs seem to prefer the latest, greatest, coolest thing while admins seem to prefer the oldest, robustest, boringest thing.
I love gutenberg, but how did they allow the reading experience to be so awful. It could be so much more if they were to update the basic template or whatever directions they provide for content submission.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1189253504/climate-change-mig...

I refreshed NPR this morning and it's literally the top story.
Are you actually asking a question relevant to the thread or just spamming a self-promotion?

I ask because I don't see any reason that paid open source contributions wouldn't be as good as non-paid open source contributions when it comes to gaining/demonstrating certain types of dev experience (though ofc without the benefit of also potentially showing character traits related to being willing to donate time for free), so I'm struggling to imagine you wrote that comment actually hoping for any answer other than "great thanks for telling us about the thing you founded". Apologies if I've incorrectly jumped to a bad faith interpretation - if so, you could maybe be more clear in explaining what your question actually is; if my assumption was correct then I'd suggest thinking twice before using low-effort and low-value comments for promotion, since people (and in particular people who would be valuable to have using your service) are liable to be put off by any product/company/service that spams in such a way.
This is not surprising at all, and is not specific to Deutsche Bank or even banking in general.

This is a property of large, bloated legacy companies in any field. IT is still seen as a cost center and a secondary concern rather than the enabler of their business. As a result, pay/resources and "political capital" (for the lack of a better word) are allocated accordingly.

IT folks there aren't given the pay nor recognition they deserve, so no good talent joins or stays for long enough. Junior talent that joins ends up just learning from the mess and has no chance of actually becoming "good", so the problem continues.

Furthermore, the messy and unefficient IT systems benefit many people there, from lower-level menial positions whose jobs would be obsoleted by good IT to managerial positions who have a large list of reports to manage which gives them prestige and justifies their salary. Third-party suppliers also benefit as a bad IT system requires constant attention while a good system would require less attention (and a competent in-house team can attend do it, requiring no third-party involvement). Bad IT can also serve as cover - problems can be blamed on it instead of incompetence.

Fixing it incrementally from inside is politically impossible as people who rely on the status-quo will fight you on every step of the way. The only potential way is the organizational equivalent of a "full rewrite" - set up a subsidiary, give it unlimited money and task it with building a competing product. Operate it like a startup with the appropriate culture (especially regarding tech). Once the product is competitive, migrate customers onto it over time. This should be feasible at least for retail banking as UK fintech startups proved it's not actually impossible to create a bank from scratch. Rinse and repeat for every vertical of the business.
They must be. I’ve been out much much longer than 3 months and I’m ruined now.

I’ve had recruiters contact me talking about these roles they had that look like a perfect fit, nearly all of them ghosted me before any interview could happen.

It’s totally an employers market now. Out of the few interviews I’ve managed to scrap together most have been shockingly hostile, feeling more like an interrogation than an interview. And I’m not just talking about tech companies, even the non tech companies seem to be doing this now.
Because everything else about coding that is not debugging is arguably better in vim/nvim.

I'm one of those. A happy user of IDEs for a decade, but after trying and embracing vim/nvim all the IDEs now feel slow, bloated and clunky. Even with vim/nvim plugins.
This is almost always due to a couple trying to settle in a neighbourhood or school district or home beyond their means, at least in the US.

Even a tenured professor at Columbia, who won the Nobel prize and loves their work and has a wife earning a matching compensation, would have a pretty miserable life if they insisted on mortgaging a large Upper East Side townhouse.

It's the same in Palo Alto from what I've heard.