skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the Google Professional Architect cert about half a decade ago and it did help me understand the cloud quite well. It feels like "a marketable skill". I got more cloud certs from Azure and AWS later, but only the first "hit" in terms of learning because it's all the same after. But the first one really helped me understand the landscape.

For me, networking or security (mostly due to the networking part) are probably next to help understand something relevant and used by senior devs sometimes.

The other route is just to grind FAANG interviews for data structure. As much hate as it gets and as much as I haven't personally done it, it might also be the more practical way to go for job security.

Honestly, a lot of great front end devs don't know any of this stuff and are just amazing with React, know all the tools (Storybook, Figma, Contentful, Netlify) etc and are good with that.

P.S. Auth - you might want to learn Auth0 or Okta and the underlying principles. Comes up on every project.

P.S.S. You are going to get a lot of biased, personalized opinions here like mine, so really try to see the rationale and decide what YOU need. For example, I see IoT just in the post below - no one cares about IoT if you aren't specializing in IoT. He also wrote a hypervisor it looks like - no one will ever have him do that irl, unless he decides to dedicate his whole life to it. Etc - nothing against that guy, just convenient example.
> Why do I get the feeling that you hope for this outcome, from this comment?

I do not hope for it. But if it happens, may it serve as a warning and example to everyone else who has freedom and does not currently cherish it enough. I know that what happened to the truckers in Canada when they had their electronic assets frozen certainly woke up people in Canada to a degree.
For a quick check https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?url=https://des... but you probably want a tool that emails you when the website is down. Look for "Website monitoring", there's dozens of services and most have a free tier. https://uptimerobot.com/ https://www.statuscake.com/
Worth checking out Billy Bragg's restructuring - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNFR7pgxDY
I am looking for a browser extension that can transform placeholder of input (text which disappears after mouse click on the input field) into a legit text. It might save me a lot of efforts sometimes.
I am 100% certain that you can evade taxes, and do crime without cash. Even movies have criminals do wire transfers. It is hard to have, say, negative interest rates though.
Which can be seized at the border unless you also bring all the necessary paperwork to demonstrate provenance.

This is one of those things that sounds simple, but in practice, YMMV.
What are some good reasons not to allow it?
Cash is money. Cash is immune to bank runs.

If you have $10,000, then you have $10,000.

If you deposit $10,000 in a bank, then you have $0 and a promise from a bank that has $1,000 and a promise (from somebody else) for $9,000.
> roadside transactions are often done in cash

You're paying 3000 Euro for eggs?
In the US don't cash transactions over $10K (by businesses anyway) need to be notified?

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8300.pdf

I assume this and most other restrictions are to stop tax evasion and money laundering.
Well they're not obliged to do business with you at all.
Whenever I buy a car, tractor, cattle, pump repair, implements, out-buildings, solar system installation, fuel storage, etc...

Because I pay cash and keep the bankers out of the transaction it costs me less and it costs the seller less. I negotiate this ahead of time. Most people in business would rather have cash in hand than wait on the bank and pay their fees.
Perhaps worth noting, too, that Tesla have gone from >80% BEV market share in the US in 2020 to (probably) below 50% right now. (Probably because they were at just over 50% in January, and analyst predictions had them dropping below 50% within months.)

They're still absolutely dominant in the US, but losing ground fast. And, anecdotally, their BEV market share in Europe (based on what I see on the road and whilst shopping for used cars) is much lower. In the UK, I believe it's below 20%.
Bitcoin is a surveillance system.
I live in the NL.

And even though OP is too dramatic.

The fact is that much of the world news Snowden was revealing already, was common practice in Netherlands for a while before that; and it was publically accepted.

For instance they could & can eaves drop on your phonecalls without any warrant needed from an independent judge. They just need approval from a commission they can create themselves: https://www.aivd.nl/onderwerpen/afluisteren.

There is definitely a big issue with the Government having too much power, lack of independent checks, and being hard to hold them responsible.
What happens when your bank says: "no." ?
500 Euro bills show up in action movies as part of shorthand for shady dealings. Like a visual cue that something is not on the up-and-up.
Not surprised to see the patriot act talking points that EU residents are using to justify making rules about other people’s money. after all, Europeans and the redistribution of consequences go together like bread and butter.
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> They can't control the black market in drugs, what makes them think controlling a black market in cash, which is a million times more desirable, will be any more successful?

Well, for one, they control cash production

> It's not a lot of money, and given inflation, diminishingly so. This is targeted at law abiding smallholding farmers where roadside transactions are often done in cash and farmers everywhere have a lot of tax relief precisely because they provide food security for nations - and it's to the benefit of criminal networks to top it off. The architects of this policy are disgusting.

Do you have any actual example of that ? What transaction do small farmers need to do along roadside for thousands of eur ? As kid of small farmer I don't remember anything like that ever happening.
Probably harder to steal their cash than for a hacker to phish their bank accounts.
I feel like there must be a better source for this information
The first sale doctrine applies only to physical copies of copyrighted works. If the movie you want is only available on streaming then, even if you bought a perpetual license, the first sale doctrine does not apply, and you may not be able to sell or lend the movie you 'purchased'.
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It's your money, to be spent as you wish.
> I haven't listened to the song, but if it alludes to politicians and pedophilia, that's a QAnon reference

You need to re-examine your biases then because Jeffrey Epstein is (or was) very real. If QAnon are the only ones talking about the problem of pedophilia in politics then you should be more like QAnon in this regard.
Burning Man is shut down because – get this – flooding
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You:

>what are some good reasons to allow

Me:

>what are some good reasons to ban
There are different (distinct) laws.

You cannot enter any EU state with more than the equivalent of 10,000 Euro cash unless you declare the amount at the point of entrance.

If border controls finds you with more than 10,000 Euro you will have to pay a fine.

Then you can walk with any amount of money, but when you pay for something there is a limit (500 in Greece, 1,000 in Spain, 5,000 in Italy (was 2,000 in 2022), no limits in Germany, etc.) to any single payment in cash.

And there is usually a provision prohibiting "artificial fractioning" of payment, i.e. in theory if you buy something worth 1,200 and the limit is 1,000 you cannot pay that with two invoices/receipts 600 Euro each.
For fast check use this tool https://pulsetic.com/is-website-down/

But, if you want to monitor your website, create an account and add it to the system alerts.
I appreciate the data! However on the second point, I will note that I don't know of any term used recently by rural communities to describe urban dwelling. City Slickers being the only term that I know but have never heard or seen written in news.

"Flyover Country" is thrown about often however. Especially around election time and regarding how they are controlling to much of the country's politics.
Exactly this. Much like the tale of people only using 10% of Microsoft Word, yet everyone uses a different 10%.

Strange the article doesn't address this tension between all the various stakeholders and tension among their priorities. I want the simplest thing that satisfies my need and want, yet no simpler. If others are using it then it'll already be more complex or one or both of us must compromise.
Easy workaround is that you do more than one cash payment.
The reflex of people didn't got faster so while some could probably use some reasonable bump it's not as much as you think.
> You can cross the US border with more than $10k

To be honest, just because you can (legally), doesn't mean you should (do it). Carrying cash in the US is dangerous, and not just because of regular street thugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

They do not need to prove anything to seize your money. Stealing from people carrying too much cash on them has become a national past time of the police in the US. There are police departments that rely on this to provide them with funding :

https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-131/how-crime-pays-th...

> In some Texas counties, forfeitures fund nearly 40% of police budgets.53 The Cook County, Illinois state’s attorney’s office’s 2016 budget anticipated $4.96 million in forfeiture revenues, which it earmarked to pay forty-one full-time employees’ salaries and benefits.54 But forfeiture proceeds are not just used for policing activities; with little accountability, law enforcement officials have also spent them on extravagancies like expensive dinners, parties, and personal expenses.55

> As a result, the decision to pursue a forfeiture is often governed not by justice, but by “department wish lists.”56 Police civil forfeiture trainings include instruction on “maximizing profits, defeating the objections of so-called ‘innocent owners’ . . . , and keeping the proceeds in the hands of law enforcment.

It's often talked about here :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975143

> And over time, across all 50 states and the federal government, those small sums add up: between 2000 and 2019, according to IJ’s calculations, authorities seized roughly $69 billion from people, most of whom were not even charged with a crime.

All it takes is "mmh, this guy has suspicious cash, and we need some funding, let's steal it and say it must have come from drug deals, while not actually charging the owner with any crime".
Poland, Germany, Japan and probably others will surely disagree.
The idea of "increase fuel tax 1% each month that our country emits more capita carbon than the world average, and decrease them 1% if we emit less" would seem like a very sensible law.

But alas, very few laws use that kind of structure - not only in the USA, but anywhere in the world, and not just for environmental stuff, but for any regulated thing.

Instead lawmakers seem to prefer to see some problem, make some move, and then if the problem still exists repeat the process.

I don't really understand the aversion to 'automation' of that loop.
My dad bought a 20k€ car in another country with cash because the bank transfer would've taken too long.
Caloric restriction is one longevity-enhancing technique that prison supports.

Also, activity restrictions means exercise is one of the few available hobbies.
And you clearly want to carry 3000+ EUR in your pocket than paying by card? Europe is safe, but I will definitely not walk around with that much cash on my person.
SSR has more potential for security issues because you're often rendering some set of data from your database, which may come from a user, out to a browser which will then parse and execute code based on that rendering.

You have to be sure your data going into the database doesn't have XSS escapes or your rendering of untrustworthy data doesn't have such XSS escapes.

Which is why you shouldn't roll your own SSR unless you are fully aware of this.

SPA doesn't have this problem as it will generally insert DB data into the DOM as text, no possibility of escape or execution by potentially malicious database entries. Not that you can't have issues in an SPA, but you have to do work to bring them about.
Here's a suggestion, plagiarized from a friend who is an experienced meditator! For one month, meditate for one minute. Set a timer on your smart phone, and do one minute. If you miss a day, restart the month. After a month of consistent practice, if you find yourself invited to do so, graduate to two minutes. Build from there. After quite a few years, I have found that a 20-minute sit at the beginning of the day and a 20-minute sit at the end of the day work for me.
Sorry to assume where you're from, but I'm guessing America (either North or South)?

In EU you could pay for all those things with a quick and free bank transfer for any amount, so you wouldn't even need to withdraw and travel with all that cash on you. There's no "bank fees", there's no "bankers" to keep out of the transaction, because they don't take any fee.
It feels so natural because yin and yang are not two separate things but two sides of the same thing, just like two entangled particles are.
Why do you need cash for that?
> By the way, the boiling frog thing has been debunked many times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

It seems to work well for things other than frogs, like normalizing microtransactions and gambling in video games.
I still got nothing out of NGs courses. I vaguely remember something about matrices, how to decide how many parameters to change when training, and some other very-vague understanding things. I don't really understand why they are "the gold standard", but I also don't do any ML "irl".
I have an Applied Math & Computer Science degree, but was largely self-taught and working for computer manufacturers before doing the degree.

When I am learning something new or working on something difficult, it's important to keep motivation high to avoid getting bummed out, frustated, and quitting, especially if this is self-directed and not required for a job. The way I do that is to start with a working program, no matter how small, and then extending it in very small increments. After each increment you should still have a working program. You might spend a lot of time thinking about how you want to implement a feature (the design phase), but also spend time thinking about how you can get to a larger goal with baby steps. A good analogy for this is if you are contributing changes to an open source project: the maintainer doesn't want to see a 10K-line pull request that they've never heard of before. It's much more likely to be accepted as a series of smaller changes with a larger goal.

By doing these small increments, its much easier to isolate problems, because you haven't introduced much new stuff at once, and always having a working program keeps your motivation high. If you don't have a working program because of some changes, it forces you to be disciplined and fix things before continuing to add more new stuff.
Here's a start.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/search/?q=water%20damage...
Antitrust isn't limited to only monopolies. That is just the most easily discussed violation, no?

For example, you are not a monopoly on your own platform, but working with anyone to raise the prices on another platform is illegal under this framework, as well.
it felt elitist to use d for dao instead of t for tao.
True. The rule is actually max 40k for goods purchased from a merchant. Services have no limit.
Because you don’t live in Galt’s Gulch.
Because you are offended by Cracked's font? They have a long reputation of good research.
There are for sure tradeoffs here, but in Germany for example they recently made paying in cash for real estate illegal because it was obvious that almost all those cash transactions involved crime money of some sort.
Edit: As noted below cash here refers to paper money. The same law also prohibits real estate purchase with gold, silver, diamonds or crypto currencies.
Note that in most of the EU you also have to provide ID to do a real estate transfer, for exactly the same money laundering reasons.
When it comes to those that are public and in English, the Gophers Slack is quite good: https://forum.golangbridge.org/t/how-to-join-gopher-slack-ch...
Bad for construction!
The interesting story here is how unknown artist can become so popular literally overnight.

The reason for posting this is more to discuss mechanisms how this can happen. I have feeling that as with Barbenheimer meme there is something all these marketers are missing.
The part that breaks is magnetic autofocus/image stabilization mechanisms. I don't know exactly but electromagnet drivers getting fried by back EM force or something. Or could be severed coils. something along those.
The laws are there due to anti-money laundering. Since virtually no cash income (in those country) is viable - think salaries, etc., it's not hard to be followed. All retail sales need a valid VAT receipt, all of those receipts have source of the payment as well. Wholesale tends to be never in cash (requires tax administration approval), the laws might differ, of course - however that's a common framework.

So it's sort of automatic.
> I am confused by your post. What are some good reasons to allow cash payments above 3000 EUR?

Privacy would be the biggest and most important reason and probably enough to end the conversation right here.

But we can also include

- ease of payment. Count out money and you're done.

- vendor gets their money immediately, no 5 day hold like there could be on a check or money transfer

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Gleeful at no more easy transport in or out, eh? Will the regime, I mean The Party, oops I mean The Cabinet, also be removing the noise cameras installed along the roads when they remove the roads? Or are those going to be kept there to protect the people from ideological deviants?
It is not my business but the government creates the money and it is their business. It always has been.
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Hmm, our limit is 15k and I consider it somewhat reasonable — it doesn't seem to be too big of a privacy invasion.

3-4k is something else, I had no idea the rest of the EU has it so low. I don't like it.
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This seems a US centric problem. No one in Europe has carried checks since the 90s and large bank transactions are really a non issue as they resolve within a banking day and for a small fee you can usually do real time transfers too.
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So maybe we should fix fractional reserve instead of having an issue against cash? I would rather pay $10k with a bank transfer than having to carry that much on me.
When are we going to outlaw (as in actually enforce laws) on intelligence agencies honey-potting politicians as a strategy for foreign policy?

Because any article that talks about Terrorism yet fails to account Jeffrey Epstein style honey-pot operations which implicated people such as Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, etc... is really meaningless to me.

Justice does not exist when Laws are selectively enforced, and propagandized with "muh terrorism" or "think of teh children" by the same governments which are complicit in negligence towards massive crimes happening in the underworld of world government leaders.
The song was good, the vibe/message to me was somewhere between "working class hero" and that song from the Simpsons episode where homer is the manager for "lurlene" the country singer: "you work all day for some old man, sweat and break your back..." not to be taken too seriously but still representative of real feelings.

The insane response in particular by rolling stone about "Reagan era tropes" and other fearmongering with simultaneous "debunking" was what got me, as in it really seems to have struck a chord as dangerous wih a certain crowd.
The article claims that Apple's compiler doesn't use the instruction, so it seems like the compiler author did indeed forget or never learn about it.
There is also a good chunk of countries with no limit for cash purchases. For example there is no limit on cash purchases in Germany with the exemption for real estate and rent above 10k a month. However it only it only came into force this year and so far it doesn't seem entirely clear of it is constitutional [1].

More interesting in my opinion are new proposed EU laws standardising money laundering laws in the EU, which seems to include a 10,000€ transaction limit for cash transactions...[2]

[1]https://www.lto.de/recht/juristen/b/barzahlung-verbot-immobi... (in German)

[2]https://www.dw.com/en/the-eu-declares-war-on-money-launderin...
I feel a lot more comfortable wiring the money or using checks or so on than traveling across a border with that kind of cash.
How can anyone who is not Richard Feynman to be addicted to ketamine? Its effect is shit, and overdosing can make user a vegetable.
htmx for the win.
I found that the most helpful line in the document, the point at which it felt safe to laugh.
Iirc only banks can't refuse.
This is very wrong.

For one thing, I don't think the motivation of Google and Meta was datacenter costs, though I could be wrong about that.

But it's not that "VCs were pushing client-side SPA", it's that lots of the companies that wanted to build applications, found that they had a set of problems that was best solved by things like Angular. The state of the art before that for highly interactive client-side apps was JQuery, and for a few years, things like Backbone.

Angular solved a real problem - people wanted to build more complex and more interactive client applications in a browser, but just using regular JS (or JS with Jquery) led to really messy applications and was very hard on development.

You can try and handwave all that away as an echochamber, but I think the majority of the industry moved to SPA frameworks as solutions for building client-side apps.
You’re confusing a distribution with an ABI. They are not the same thing. Totally different philosophy.
I don't it's hostility per se. If a company closed down their office, then it's certain that they are now remote-only and the RTO aficionados will have no choice but to find a new employer that shares their preference.

But if only a subsection of employees work remotely in a "hybrid" or RTO setting, and the person in the office still has to sit in on Zoom calls all day then the whole point of being in the office is redundant. They're just working remotely from the office.
It makes money laundering harder for low and intermediate level drug dealers. Netherlands is a major importer for drugs: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Hamburg are major ports for drugs. Drug wholesalers in EU would rather transport millions of euros abroad, and use these euros in Africa in order to buy gold and other metals from locals. All of sudden, one ends with gold, sell gold back to refiners and get paid with bank transfers. It is a trade based money laundering. What the West want is to abolish cash everywhere across the world, it is an impossible goal. Even if Zimbabwe wants to abolish cash and use digital transactions, ordinary Zimbabweans don't want to participate in that.
They can already do that by rationing meat, like they did in WW2. Require that you have the correct stamps for buying what you want. Or probably introduce some horrible mobile app for it. No need to outlaw cash for that.
So if you sell a house and want to buy a new one, you have to pay for a mortgage you don't need?