skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will always be a standard good for the basis of trade in proxy for government backed currency. The best choices will be durable (won't rot for a prolonged period of time), fungible (easy to convert back to digital cash), useful, and small to facilitate exchange at various magnitudes. Many choices will not fit cleanly and will all be less palatable. Notably, foreign physical currency, US stamps/bonds/checks, alcohol, or canned food would suffice. Ironically, a digital US currency should bolster alternative digital currencies.
> skill levels required and potential lethality

Why does that matter to the government? It requires skill to use a knife, and if it's mishandled it can cause severe bodily harm; should we require people to get a license to use a knife in their own kitchen? If it's because of the potential lethality to others, then surely we ought to require licensing for all motorbikes (including small motorbikes); what if a toddler wanders into the bike lane where these small-engine motorbikes are permitted?

> speed

Non-motorized cyclists can hit speeds of over 120 km/h (admittedly an extreme case, but still): https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/122... . Should we require licensing for non-motorized bicycles simply because the vehicle has the potential to hit a certain speed? Wouldn't it then make more sense to require licensure for anyone who travels faster than a certain speed, and for any two-wheeled vehicle to be registered and plated?

Again I concede that there are naturally differences between large- and small-engine motorcycles. My point is that regardless of which rubric you choose, whether it's safety, skill, whatever, the decision that a mechanical engine requires licensure but an electric one does not, or 125cc motorcycles require licensure but "electric bicycles" do not, wherever that line is drawn is there for historical reasons only, not because of the safety or skill rubric, and therefore is arbitrary, therefore is unjust, therefore should be reformed to be more consistent than just whatever we have today due to historical accident.
That article does indicate limits in Norway when an entrepreneur is involved, though not when both parties are private individuals.
Hopefully they've at least shared some with you, because it's delicious.
They picked a new landing site late in the program and didn't get the topography near that site, or run enough combinations through the software in test.
I was under the impression if you don’t declare it then there is no legal burden on the government to return it to you, whether you have a reasonable explanation or not. Whereas if you declare it and have a reasonable story/sufficient paperwork they can’t/shouldn’t take it.

The point being that in cases where there is no funny business (at least in your opinion), you are strictly better off declaring it than taking your chances on not doing so.
I meant "some people don't use online banking"
I haven't listened to the song, but if it alludes to politicians and pedophilia, that's a QAnon reference, which would put it firmly on one side of the political spectrum...
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

There is nothing capitalistic in surveillance, there is nothing capitalistic about our regulated market.

These are the hallmarks of a socialist regime - and, surprise!, you live in one.
Are Euros accepted in Denmark when the currency is the krone? I recognise that Denmark is part of the EU, but it has an opt-out for the Euro. Is it standard practice to accept Euros in general, be it 500 Euros or less in parts of the EU that have not adopted the Euro (eg. Sweden, Romania, the Czech Republic, etc.)?
To his credit, Narendra Modi has increased ISRO's budget a lot. Many years they have received more than promised! So he kind of deserves to rake in the limelight.
How fast are bank transfers over there? In the US we have "same day" for small amounts, and a multiple day long clearing for bank to bank personal transfers for larger amounts, ie what you'd pay for a car. Then you'd need a bunch of their banking info.

I don't know about your experience, but I'd like to limit the amount of PII I give to the type of folks I buy used vehicles from. With cash, you both go on your way with the title. Its not to say they were criminals, but I also don't have much reason to trust them beyond the transaction.

For example, I was helping a friend buy a motorcycle. The seller arrived on the bike, we checked it out, paid, etc. He had a shirt on that said something like "stop domestic abuse". Then when his wife/gf/partner showed up to pick him up, he immediately started throwing verbal abuse at her. The guy was unstable but it wasn't immediately obvious. We already had the bike, the title, and we were on our way.
10s of thousands. That has to be some kind of record.
Nonsense - it stops criminals and tax evaders from doing the things that they do to undermine society.
> Are you also proposing a $160/gallon fuel tax?

I've witnessed two political decisions that led to no cars on the roads (the UK fuel strike 23 years ago, and the COVID lockdowns), and in both cases they made the sub/urban environment better immediately.

As soon as batteries or whatever can replace hydrocarbon engines for the average person, then sure $160US/gallon or whatever.
I challenge you to analyze them over the long term. I believe you will find they are poor reasons that don't hold up to long term thinking.
The world worked fine before electronics. Sure, the adjustment period would be harsh, but it’s silly to think civilization would end completely.
The good guys change hands a lot, but the bad guys are always the same amorphous group with small rebrands.
How happy are you with responsiveness and such? I'm also considering getting one. But I wonder how good carplay works on a bike. :)
Be open and curious about CS. There’s a strange mindset in some parts of the hacker community that considers CS to be wholly academic and divorced from the actual practice of programming. It isn’t. And it’s very rewarding.
Wow, as someone from the US I always thought the $1 notes were far superior to the equivalent coins in other countries. I dislike having coins in my pocket, but already have a note or 2. Adding a couple more adds negligent space.
Cloudflare Workers and TCP Socket Timeouts
They want to go down in the history books the way JFK's "we choose to go to the Moon" did without experiencing the "mind-blowing" event afterwards that made the speech historical.
Friend, I recommend carrying cash and using exclusively cash from now on and raising a stink about this legislation while there is still freedom to push back on it.
A sad developer treatment, and a sorry-ass state for a platform, but not related to antitrust law, much less a "textbook antitrust case".

For starters, Apple is not a monopoly. You are not a monopoly on your own platform, especially if that platform doesn't even have the majority of the relevant market. A company makes a platform or product so that they dictate the terms and if it's a marketplace, what and how it accepts to sell in it.
this is just awful. fucked up country
> Why does it seem like such "macOS bad Linux good" comments always compare the default macOS experience to a personalized Linux environment?
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> Why does an out-of-the-box Mac have to fulfill the same requirements we spent hours configuring for on a Linux machine?

Pretty much all of their complaints are addressed out of the box by most of the major desktop environments. Install whatever popular distro of your choice and you can trivially put two windows side-by-side like you can on Windows.
I can't understand how Svelte is not more popular. From first time I saw it 4y ago I thought it was game changer, did not change opinion.
That's not true anymore, at least not for all phones: https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation
Option 2 would of course be a SSR React MPA these days, not a SPA, so we have to worry about NPM supply chain attacks server-side too.

Option 1 can be done by one sensible person with intermediate PHP/Python knowledge, and maintained fairly easily and cheaply forever.

They're different jobs. You can take the interview for that option 2, and you can push for doing option 1 instead. What will end up happening is that they employ someone else.

(I speak as someone who spent a couple of months in the mid-2000s mostly writing a partial XPath implementation in Flash ActionScript, to be used in a single product to interface with one other 3rd-party system. It was a stupid idea from day 1 and definitely not mine, yet that was the job! The insanity is not new.)
Wouldn't it be great if they tailored the questions to software engineers?

Q. You find yourself at a party, but you forgot your pants. Do you:

a. Pretend that you have pants and hope nobody notices.

b. Accept that this is a dream and just go with it.

c. Go home and find your pants.

(correct answer: a or b)
Missed that context, meant regarding the article.
‘Tesla syndrome’ explains why tech is making us miserable
Then they can monitor all transactions and turn off purchases based on what they want the population to buy. Too much meat for a week, sorry can’t buy more until next week. “But I worked for this money” too bad.

It’s effectively “the company store”, except government (“by the people and for the people” - ie your neighbors) dictating what you buy. They just happen to also invest in the companies they direct you to.
Why? None of your business. Where it comes from? None of your business. Says who? Me, twice.
Leak of 75k employee records was insiders' fault, claims Tesla
> The nose mark is hard to decipher since it's used so rarely and mostly by elderly computer users, but the dueling smilies (...)

Russian smiles are even more advanced. They use only one sign ")" and "(". Of course you can multiply them.
Fun fact, 500 euro bank notes are worth more than 500 euro as they are used to illegally move money (because of their high value/weight ratio).
550 euro 6 years ago, as per Nicola Gratteri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugqeLgOPZM
Or you could just carry the credit card and pay at the end of the month, skipping the business with 'stablecoins'.
But did you make a single payment with more? I understand that's the limitation
> But also have been feeling out of my depth recently, perhaps regretting my lack of solid CS background.

I have a CS degree, and honestly the biggest practical value I got out of it was learning things that were cultural signals that let me part of the programmer "in-group" - I can talk about misc. cs stuff that will resonate with other programmers that have had a similar background.

In terms of things that I think are actually valuable like skills that help build things and write better code, there are much better alternatives than a universty degree. Just building things in my spare time and building things the way I want has taught me so much more. Sure, looking back, there are some things that I value highly that were taught in university, but it the signal-to-noise ratio was too low, to the point of being useless.

So I think the best thing anyone can ever do to improve their knowledge in software is to just build something that other people use.

If you're worried about fundamentals, I would say just shore up on some basic data structures (linked lists, hahsmaps, trees, maybe some graphs - this pretty much covers 99% of use cases). Rather than learning these as theory, I would strongly recommend just reading wikipedia, and writing code with them in a functional language like haskell. And also maybe some leetcode questions.
Here in Switzerland, I have a daily cash limit to put in ATM (there are ATMs allowing cash deposits), and this limit is about 50000 francs (52400 euros). Daily. Fully anonymous. There is no limit, of course, for in-person deposits (and withdrawals) at the bank counter. You can get millions in cash. And you can buy and sell gold bars anonymously.

I love Switzerland. Not that I have that much money, but I love this kind of freedom.
Works with technology as well, the speed limits in your neighborhood were probably set when cars had drum brakes and poor visibility.
"60% of the times, it's money laundering every time."

Please provide your reference.
How can you still think this is a conspiracy after Epstein?
Errors in the MMLU: The Deep Learning Benchmark Is Wrong Surprisingly Often
> Facing massive datacenter costs, ...Other companies with large datacenter costs followed suit, many monies were saved.

I can't think of anyone who doesn't want to save money on servers. Seems like a pretty good general win to me for using the client.

> complexity is generally the enemy

Agreed. But minimizing complexity doesn't require not using a heavy client. You can go fully the other way and make the backend a relatively simple permissions and validation mask on top of a database and let the front end hold all the relevant state.

Use client side rendering and have simplicity too.

I will admit that an SPA turns out to be easier to mess up and design really poorly, but I believe that this is a tooling maturity issue rather than fundamental to the platform. SSR frameworks have had over a decade longer to mature.
In the US, a lot of places won't readily (or at all) take $100 bills. The US is sort of in bill and coinage denomination stasis (denominations are essentially the same as they were over 50 years ago) though it's probably largely academic at this point given that many people basically don't use cash.
How to get the cash when the ATM does not have power?
How to check if my website is online in Asia?
Hey everyone,

I've built a website that I'm hoping reaches users in Asia too. But I'm a bit worried. Just because it's up and running from where I am doesn't mean everyone in Asia can see it. There can be regional internet issues or even country restrictions I'm not aware of. Does anyone know a simple way to check if my site is accessible from various parts of Asia? Thanks!
in italy is 1,000EUR for a while, similar in other EU countries with varying thresholds. I personally prefer how the UK does it or other countries where private individuals have no limit but if you have a commercial activity you must have some regulation in place

> The consumers can make cash payments without any limits.

> The traders, however, need to register themselves with tax authorities as 'High Value Dealers' if accepting cash payments in excess of €10,000
Do you consider sending them to another person cashing them in? I'm referring to bob's stablecoin -> bob's fiat -> alice's payment, and suggesting that their goal is bob's stablecoin -> alice's stablecoin, and avoiding the stablecoin->fiat (cashing in) phase entirely.
It's good except all the fat phobia and hate for people on welfare. So no, it's not about class struggle. It's about rich politicians who help out fat welfare slobs instead of hard working people like himself. It's a conservative fiction.

Anthony claims he is center, but center in US means right-wing everywhere else.

Until Anthony makes a song about the Rich Men south of Richmond, lets wait and see about the class thing.

He did make a recent video called "Moving Forward" where he talked about how there used to be a sense of community and that people now are very disconnected from each other. He talks about how you need to help your neighbor even if they are different than you. And that we need positivity and not hate. It's a great message.

His message about diversity is excellent and I'm glad he is pushing that. I think he probably realized he attracted the wrong crowd.
What a travesty.
I think this article confuses "simplicity" with "less code". Often times when we talk about simplicity, it's about overall conceptual design, and on the note of dependencies, it's often _more_ simple to use something that does the job and brings in some more dependencies than it is to aggressively try to prune and end up costing more maintenance burden.
Same way NWA "Fuck the Police" did: people wanted to listen to it?

The shape of this story over the last two weeks has me wondering if theres a "persecution Promotion" program available from some PR firm: "become a subversive hero for only $800k.." If there aint yet, there will be soon.
How does this compare to Nvidia Triton? It's also a dockerized inference server capable of running ONNX, TRT, and many other compiled models. Automatic request queuing, HTTP & GRPC interfaces, configurable delays for dynamic batching, multiple models per GPU, integrations for metrics and tracing, etc. etc.

Is Inference looking to compete directly with Triton, or in a different niche (CV)? Does it make a different set of tradeoffs?
Why in 2023 is this still an issue?

Frameworks and browsers should be designed that if you totally ignore rtl support, the browser/framework just does some usable default.

Just like if you don't set a font size, the browser chooses one for you. Or if you don't specify the background color, one is chosen for you.
Similar path for me. The book The Effective Engineer by Edmund Lau was spectacular.

Push yourself full! Yet be kind with your progress. Best of luck fellow!
Warning: that link doesn't open a PDF, it's a website with Javascript pdf viewer. Javascript tyranny forever, I guess.
This is the US version of the events.

It's always interesting to watch any EU-specific topic come up on HN and see people on one end of the EU assume that their lives, local laws, and customs are exactly the same as the lives, local laws, and customs on the other end of the EU. And then when a deviation comes up, they assume it's an American thing.

It seems like people in the EU should explore their neighboring countries more. Or at least stop assuming that the EU is one homogenous society modeled after their own personal experiences.
Interesting take. Haven't heard the argument before that it saves server costs. Not convinced that this is the case, but perhaps, for a google.

Reflecting, I suppose that businesses relying on Php/Laravel or Ruby are probably still enjoying simple SSR development. I've personally transitioned to Java and then .NET, and haven't seen SSR since. Which corner of software are you in, where you see SSR still being dominant?
I am confused by your post. What are some good reasons to allow cash payments above 3000 EUR?
Ask HN: Seeking Browser Extension for Faster Variable Prompt Input
I'm looking for a browser extension that can help me manage variable prompts and speed up the process of inputting variable prompts as VS Code snippets do. Does anyone know if such an extension exists?If not, I'd be happy to create it myself.
In the Netherlands the manned cash checkout lines are as long as the cashless checkout lines even when there are cashless lanes available
Not GP but I also have severe reflux - I've had it years. It's been really bad lately.

In related information I've found that fortified yogurt helps not only my reflux but also improves my mood. But it never seemed to be enough to actually solve the reflux problem.

Just ordered the supplements. Truly hope this solves the problem.

Whoa I just realized that I have a hiatal hernia too. I didn't realize that's what that was. I hope this is a day of solutions!
I’m not sure what the point of this comment is. Nobody thinks this is how stomach cancer works.
What did you buy for over 1k in cash? I can only imagine a car or bike, but you said walking, so I'm curious...
Average is around $120 for an hour for them.
I cannot speak to the modern Web development, as I can only have a glimpse over the shoulder of someone else doing that every once in a while. But, I see a similar problem with development environment configuration and management. It's common to have multiple configuration files for multiple utilities that are supposed to do something in development environment: run tests, lint source code, spawn a mock-up of the system being developed, perhaps some VCS automation and often all sorts of integrations with other tools used in the project.

Projects become cluttered with various "dot-files" with various configuration formats, and because those tools need to cooperate somehow, you also see bits of configuration for one tool embedded (while escaped) in configuration for another tool, and sometimes even multiple layers of escaping.

There are usually straight-forward alternatives that simplify the process, make it more uniform. My explanation for why those alternatives aren't used is vanity. Users of projects with unwieldy configurations pride themselves on knowing and using a bunch of (unnecessary) tools, they like to appear savvy to their peers by discussing advantages of and new developments in these tools. And because the explanation is so simple and so unflattering, few will dare to acknowledge it.

It's also usually the case that one would need at least some years of experience to accumulate all the useless knowledge of development infrastructure tools, and so these "opinions" about tools will often come from more senior programmers in the group, often driving the junior programmers to unquestionably accept the unnecessary complexity of their environments as status quo and come up with all sorts of rationalizations for why it's normal to have this many cross-referencing configuration files and various infra tools.

I've lost count of arguments I've lost when suggesting a simpler automation solution which didn't use (an unnecessary) tool. Here's just one example:

A project aims to deploy a Python application with external dependencies (packages) in containers. Using pip to install stuff in containers was problematic because it took forever (due to solving dependency constraints, downloading from PyPI, installing a bunch of stuff irrelevant to the target application s.a. scripts for dependency packages, or tests etc. finally, poor network utilization). I suggested having a CI job which pulled vetted versions of packages on-demand, then have it strip those packages of unneeded cruft, put them in a tarball and use that for building containers.

You had to watch the guy who was a level above me in work hierarchy and was somehow responsible for CI get red in the face and start making saliva bubbles as he was getting ready to destroy and ridicule my "insane" idea... all because it didn't use pip.
> Why would someone need to pay for 10k in cash?

The answer to this is very simple: none of your business.

I take strong issue with the word "need." Why do you need that car? That television? That four bedroom house? Why do you need that bow and arrow? For sport, you say? Why not play some ball game instead? Why do you need a chess set when you can play digitally online without killing a tree? Why do you need those fancy clothes? Why does your family need that Disney World vacation?

Let's limit your life choices to what someone else decides that you "need" and then ask if life is still worth living.

The fact is that freedom and liberty comes with it the ability to not have to explain or justify our life choices to others. Will bad people abuse it and do things you don't like? Yeah. That's the risk that comes with it and we have a legal system to identify and deal with those bad actors. A legal system that ought to exist to serve and promote liberty for the innocent, rather than eliminating it and destroying it for everyone out of fear and suspicion that some people might be up to no good some of the time.

So unless there is evidence of wrong-doing, it really is no one's business who they associate with, who they trade with, what they trade, how much they trade and why. And "need" has absolutely no relevance. "Because I want to" ought to be good enough.
Bank transfer are immediate or next business day.
To send you some money I would only need your IBAN[0] which looks like this: GB82 WEST 1234 5698 7654 32

By the way, you're still allowed to use cash for private transactions, so you can still pay whatever amount of cash you want to a private party to buy an item.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num...