skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, a custom UPI ID won’t save you from your phone number being shared with merchants. [1] UPI payments also leak the person’s full legal name on transactions. Whether this is useful in merchant payments (not personal payments to known people) is highly doubtful.

[1]: https://scroll.in/article/1045536/are-your-upi-payments-farm...
As a solo dev contractor who got my business to $500k/year during the pandemic - I echo a lot of the sentiment in this post.

An extension to the post I want to touch on is that VC funded startups are not the only way to break free from the dreadful corporate games.

Working for yourself at your own pace is.

As an industry we're surprisingly very behind in normalizing this.
> It could easily cost$5-10k in travel expenses to travel somewhere and establish accounts, plus the costs to account for and audit and maintain.

Maybe don't travel to Dubai (or similarly most-expensive-countries-in-the-world) then and establish accounts in a country that doesn't wildly out-rich you. Also, you don't have to stay longer than just a few days most likely.

Besides, many places to allow internationals to signup for accounts also allow you to do a video call with account manager rather than going there in person.
In the Arthur and DW ActiMates (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36656190), my teammate, Craig Ranta, implemented the Real Time Clock using a Microchip 12C508 or 12C509. It ran at 32.768 kHz.

Using the microcontroller was advantageous because we could implement a custom interface (data and wake up alarm signaling) to the main microcontroller, the functionality was exactly what we wanted, super low power and very inexpensive.

He had to deal with complications like maintaining the time, running the interface, maintaining the alarm, all at the same time.
The lynch mob come out when people declare beyond the shadow of a doubt that COVID-19 is bio-engineered.

I have a very strong hunch that COVID-19 originated from rookie mistakes related to research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Unfortunately, we do not have enough proof, and can never move past the wishy-washy phase of it's probable. The Chinese apparatus made sure to quell any source of information that might leak.

People declaring it as fact without referring to the unfortunate reality that China has cast a veil around the origins of the virus is not helping the cause of truth.
Shell is pretty special though - it is a very frequent secondary language. In fact, even Kotlin itself uses bash:

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/scripts/buil...

So sure, replace Java with Kotlin, C++ with Rust, Python with go/julia/ruby/whatever.. but bash or sh is here to stay. (And that would be bash or sh, not fish or nushell or something...)
16 is the most important but needs expanding/modifying. Have a budget for everything, not just having fun. The easiest way to feel wealthy is to desire spending less.
Fuck their trade secrets.
How are white males a privileged class? The top 1% sure, but the average white male?

If anything, white females are a privileged class.
This is a real shame. There's value in simple apps that come bundled with the OS and don't change for years. Wordpad is the simplest way I know to get a sample of a font. My workplace doesn't use Microsoft apps so there's absolutely no chance I'll be able to use their recommended replacement of Word.
> The AI debate is pretty dumb imo. It’s not a winnable fight. Background actors and stunt people and minor voice actors are ultimately fungible.

That is the power of solidarity: when the high profile actors say they'll go on strike to get AI banned, their voice will be heard. Almost all of those earning many millions of dollars now started as small scale actors or writers themselves, and while there are a few who got completely fucked over from affluenza, most still remember their roots and know who and what was responsible for them being able to rise where they are.

This is something that the IT industry could finally learn... for example, if the AWS Cloud engineers, support staff and all the other high paid employees went on strike in solidarity with their delivery workers who have to piss in bottles, guess how fast Amazon would clean up its act?

There's a reason why so many of the richest people in the world made their riches in tech: because tech workers couldn't be arsed to engage in collective organization, instead preferring hyper-competition with everyone fighting for himself and only himself - while not realizing that they could have enjoyed far more of a share of the profits, had they collaborated!
We also live in a sufficiently interconnected world that, if something goes really south in the US, I'm not sure having a UK bank account or a bunch of cash and gold in a Swiss safety deposit box is the get out of jail free card it was in cold war spy novels.
Curious if anyone here has built/bought a tiny house or has any recommendations? My folks live up in Northern Nevada and have a small patch of land they've thought about putting one on, but I'm having a hard time figuring out a reputable place to buy one.
Worth keeping in mind that though it may be optimal according to some mathematical criterion, that is no guarantee that it's the best for the purposes you have in mind.
how is your paper different from all the ones like 'transformers are really x' where x is the author's special field of study
Off topic, but FYI Euronews was basically bought by Orban a few years ago.
So you're advice is basically to give up?
You swap systemic risk for physical security risk if you hold substantial hard currency.
You'd like to expand that a little, suggestively how you know this? Or you're expecting rebuttals that amount to "No, it doesn't"?
Ah... But you see, now you're arguing in "bad faith" because you're trying to protect the kiddie diddlers!

...Understand I don't see it that way and applaud you for your way of thinking. I too have had to wrestle with the very uncomfortable "bed fellows" as it were that adhering to consistent application of principles inevitably results in.

The fact remains though that in a large swathe of the population, the ripping off and sacrifice of personal privacy is considered a small price to pay to inflict harm on that subpopulation. My issue comes in in that once you make the exception for one subpopulation, the slope is set.

Though even your "just delete it" has dystopian ramifications. Imagine that were implemented like Tianenmen Square? Recordings that are not blessed? You're still leaving in somebody's hands essentially executive control over what information can be allowed to exist, which is an unconscionably powerful lever to build.

This is one of those rare circumstances where "do nothing and clean up the mess" may be the most wise course of action.
At least for me, if they can strike for about twenty years I might be able to get through my Steam backlog.
Wrapping Up the Westworld Series
Good idea but does that exist? Is there a place I can buy a Michael Creighton book DRM-free?
You'll be surprised by how many people want what she have.
The Keanu Reeves Whoa API
Even in Soviet Russia, when things were so dire people used to die in scores for a multitude of reasons in a country that was defeated in WWI, ravaged by revolutionary and counter-revolutionary gangs of all sort, with epidemics of cholera, typhus, and multitude of other diseases running entirely unchecked due to complete collapse of all institutions of organised society, the Spanish flu is remembered. Not as a "worst thing ever" it was in the U.S., but it is remembered.
What Is a Streaming Database
The goal of this post is to describe the differences between - stream processing, real-time OLAP databases, and streaming databases. This knowledge will help you to organize and add structure to your research to enable you to make the best product decision for your real-time use case.
I don’t follow the Harry Browne portfolio advice, but I have read Craig Rowland’s very good book about it [0], and I disagree. The Permanent Portfolio has had pretty good overall returns extremely consistently despite its low (25%) stock allocation because it holds four assets with poor correlation and rebalances between them, and because one of them is cash.

These assets each do well under different economic conditions. The cash asset does well during periods of sharply rising interest rates since it retains its principle and gets higher rates, while all the other assets get wrecked. Because cash’s correlation with the rest of the portfolio assets is 0% or negative, you tend to store some gains from the other assets in the cash section during up years, and then use the cash section to buy other assets once they have down years - in effect buying low and selling high. This is why the permanent portfolio gets pretty good returns with a low standard deviation: the cash protects the downside, but doesn’t significantly hamper portfolio performance due to the rebalancing effect. (It also helps that your cash should be in short treasuries per Harry Browne’s advice, which almost always have better yield than bank accounts with basically no risk).

You could remove or titrate down the cash portion, but then you’re left with three risky assets in stock, gold, and 25- to 30-year bonds. (Anyone who doesn’t think long bonds are risky doesn’t understand interest rate risk). Does this raise the expected return? Yes! But it also raises the risk of extended periods of poor performance, or acute periods of terrible performance. The Permanent Portfolio made 1.8% in 2008. It didn’t have a 10-year rolling period since 1972 with real returns below 3%, with all of them falling between 3 and 6.1%. A 60/40 portfolio achieved better returns but with much higher risk, including full decades of negative real return [0].

Ultimately I think your objection to the portfolio is because you think it’s advantageous to take on more risk. For a young investor with high risk tolerance I agree with you, but for older investors and retirees who need to be mindful of sequence of returns risk, and young investors who can’t stomach volatile portfolios, I think it’s an underrated choice.

Even if you’re not convinced by the rest of the argument, consider that holding half your fixed income in cash and the other half in very long bonds tends to produce similar performance to holding it all in intermediate bonds, which is often the recommended duration for an investor’s bond holdings.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Portfolio-Long-Term-Investm...
Perhaps not at the kind of shop that deserves to go out of business. I do this literally every day from function snippets to entire systems.
I have no idea, but it may be related to 'mad cow disease', which peaked around that time.
Do you think people go to movies to see a building or are they going to see an actor?

Estimates show that movies may be losing up to 15% of potential revenue due to lack of promotion by actors.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-offi...

Something tells me having the electricians show up on the red carpet may not have recovered that loss
Not at all. But I think it’s worth pointing out that it’s a privilege to even have wealth to manage in the first place. It is commonplace to disregard that privilege in these sorts of discussions on the topic of wealth.
@dang This is fantastic, front page material for sure
Maybe I am thinking of windows
Yes absolutely. Majority could not care less about these actors. And no one should. Just find comparable or superior talent outside this pool.
Thanks!!
Makes lot of sense
I wonder if there exists a framework for integration that follows a rational approach. Psychology in general is a field full of esoteric and hardly scientific approaches. What I found about its psychedelic subfield is even worse. Behind a facade of science, it’s still very much New Age stuff. I had a psychedelic experience in a group setting with people that are supposedly experienced and knowledgeable about the science. It was actually worse than when I tripped alone and integration has been hard.

Does anyone know of a rational technique or theory to do the integration work?
Tesco gives workers bodycams after rise in violent attacks
Yes. The article itself is about lobbying against a law the President is proposing (and pushing through commissioned studies, hired experts, &c)

See eg this polemic from House Republicans blaming him for it: https://waysandmeans.house.gov/report-on-direct-e-file-progr...

And here's some straight reporting on the executive branch trying to implement it in roundabout ways, plus efforts on this bill: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/politics/irs-free-tax-filing-...
Nbr of digits in the hourly rate? Remote work is usually two digits number while freelancing on short term projects would be at least three digits.
They are defently targeting chips.
That TPM requirement is artificial and is easily bypassed though. But then big corporations would probably not do that for the fear of angering Microsoft.

It just makes me angry that Microsoft seems to have no clue what they're doing now. They seem to put their own agenda above all else. They base their system requirements on their misguided vision, not on the actual technical requirements of their software.

And ReactOS is still unfortunately as far from being usable as it's ever been.
Here is what I meant:

Standard SVM classifier: Maps an input sequence to a 0-1 label. Example: Take a paragraph and return its sentiment. During training, label is specified.

Transformer's SVM: Takes input sequence, suppresses bad tokens and passes good tokens to the next layer. This is a token-selector rather than classifier.

Example: Take a paragraph and output the salient words in the paragraph. We don't know which words are salient during training, the model has to figure them out during training.
One of the most popular add ins for World of Warcraft released in recent memory is one that adds voice acting to all of the quests that were previously text only. No voice actors were hired as part of its creation. I doubt a return to silent protagonists is what we will see in this space.
Yup if I would pick a language that’s closest to Jai I would choose Nim. Both have a bytecode-VM interpreter to run comp-time code (unlike with Zig where it still tree-walks the AST), have similar template codegen systems (though Nim also has AST macros), and has good interop with existing C/C++ code.

The one issue with Nim I had while trying it out is that there is an incredibly rich amount of features but many of them seem half-baked and it’s constantly being changed, so you’re always a bit unsure what’s a feature stable and safe to use or is “experimental”. But at least it’s been public for quite some time and you can actually use it right away…
Roth vs. Traditional 401(k): Where to Put Your Money for Retirement?
“When stocks are great”… ie buy low sell high, easy to say but damn near impossible to do.
I'm looking to allow users with stock, unmodified software stack to easily connect to a local only wifi network with minimal headaches. Magisk, etc. is not an option.
This is an awful, overly-simplistic, unproductive, and arguably inaccurate mindset to have in life.
I know nothing about this. But my first guess would be that it refers to the dark magnetic tape stripe on the back of most bank cards.

Of course it is a bit silly since everybody uses the chip interface now.
> I suspect my style of game play is more common that you would believe.

What % of people playing games do you think play it this way?
https://archive.ph/ogv54
considering technology is evolving faster than humans, using technology to exploit the unchangeable stupidity of humans seems like the winning move
Turns out your abyssal tattoos in Baldur's Gate 3 are D&D equivalent of [,,,]
Nope. An alphanumeric UPI handle won’t hide your phone number [1]

UPI payments also ~~leak~~ share the person’s full legal name on transactions…and the phone number.

[1]: https://scroll.in/article/1045536/are-your-upi-payments-farm...
>>I'm sure there are pieces of the multi-hundred-million dollar movie-production process that are easier to automate that script writing and acting.

You assume that is not already happening? How many physical effects people where displaced or had to find different things to do when CGI automated large amounts of physical effects?

How much bigger would be budgets need to be to do physical effects instead of CGI?

I am sure their are tons of other examples of automation and technology that allows a movie to be made with far less people.

That is the natural progress of things.
Like everyone else, a liquid and very low risk (modulo inflation) financial instrument. (The definition is often a bit broader in financial statements.) I'd posit that, in this day and age, $100K (or whatever) in bank notes is going to do you very little good if you lose access to all your accounts.
[[Turns out your abyssal tattoos in Baldur's Gate 3 are the D&D equivalent of accidentally getting 'egg drop soup' inscribed in Chinese characters.]]

>> What do they say? Well, it's almost like poor Tav has been stencilling the names of body parts onto themselves in case they forget which one's which, Nameless One-style. The row of Barazhad characters across their head reads, uh, "FOREHEAD," the ones on their chin? "CHIN". Their cheeks? "LEFT CHEEK" and "RIGHT CHEEK". You get the idea, but there is one unintuitive addition. The string of characters that decorate your character's collar don't say throat, or neck, or oesophagus, or anything like it. They read "LARIAN STUDIOS". Gotta rep the brand. <<
Geneticists develop novel base editors
In case you are wondering, SLC = Simple, Lovable and Complete - it shows up in the 2nd half of the article.

So basically the author has reinvented agile software development? Publish a complete, working product regularly, and keep adding new features with each iteration, all while keep the whole thing working.
Are you an immigrant ?
If yes, What are the problems that you are facing currently ?
I think the issue is that Bank Accounts also need phone numbers linked to them and it seemed like only one phone number could be tied to an account. Having a secondary phone number used to combat spam also being the sole number tied to a Bank account could be bad. I could be wrong about the single phone number for an account, but that was what I experienced recently.
Foucault foresaw our identity crisis
I think it'd be fine if all I did was google docs, email, etc to just have an iPad.

TBH This says more about how clunky and annoying the desktop OS is. Do most people care about 80% of what it does? Especially when I just want to edit some docs, browse the web, and use a few apps? What's the argument for having a laptop?
Last year I had the opposite problem!

Ended up stranded on a motorway less than 2 miles from home in a Tesla Model X. The Supercharger I'd planned on using was down due to a regional power outage, and even though the dash indicated I'd make it, the charge vanished quicker than I'd expected.

It was a cold night, which probably didn't help with the battery drain. Had to pull over on an uphill incline and activated "tow mode" just before the car's display went off, as i'd worried they wouldn't be able to move the car. However, this meant I had to keep my food on the brake pedal to stop it rolling backwards and it's surprisingly tough to keep the car stationary on a slope with a brake pedal that's no longer power-assisted.

Ended up waiting a good hour and a half for recovery, foot stuck on this heavy brake the whole time. It's moments like these you really miss a manual handbrake. High-tech is all well and good until you're left stuck on the side of the motorway, in the cold winter.
Not as fundamentally different as you want them to be. They're both saying "This is something the government has authority over, not individuals."

And once that authority is vested in the government, the government shall use it as those in control of the government deem fit. I trust a world where HE can misbehave but there's always another service provider down the pike a lot more than I trust one where the government's dictating who may be compelled to peer; the government, given enough time, always rolls around to being composed of people who de-peer me. Or you. And when they're calling the shots, there isn't a HE competitor down the pipe to turn to.

You keep saying "impossible to host." It's not. KF can still host; they must continue to seek out the coalition of providers that will work with them, the subset of the collective network willing to hear them. It's a big world and they're out there. But it's a vanishingly small group for no other reason than what KiwiFarms does and what they represent. Sometimes, people are all in agreement that something's wrong because it is.

> If this form of mob controlled free-market censorship (or any form ) is here to stay much much harder to censor means of communication will start popping up to keep the kinetic breaks from engaging

That's hardly an argument against the status quo; better point-to-point security benefits the people against oppressive governments. If this provides incentive to build it, good.

> What ever you are doing or trying to do, cutting communication channels can not be the likely outcome.

I used to subscribe to this fallacy. It turns out, cutting communication can be extremely healthy. The government owes everyone a platform for practical reasons. Individuals? They cut ties all the time. Always have. Sometimes someone just sucks, y'know?
We haven’t used functions as our text parsing has been pretty high fidelity so far. It’s because we provide an example of the format that we expect. We didn’t feel like fighting too hard with LLMs to get structured output. You will also notice that our input format is not structured as well. Instead of unidiff format we provide the AI side-by-side diff with line number annotations so the it can comment accurately - this is similar to how humans want to look at diffs.

Our OSS code is far behind our proprietary version. We have a lot more going on over there and we don’t use functions in that version as well.
Please, please go on. I would love to hear about why you feel that way (I do as well, but it's just from reading Kotaku)
Sounds desperate on behalf of SAG-AFTRA. I call bullshit.
Still accessible here: <http://web.archive.org/web/20201029102523/https://github.com...>
Custodians of the Custard
Timing the market is hard but periodically rebalancing your portfolio is easy, and generally recommended.
For having dabbed into both, I’m not sure psychedelic culture is better. The promises of psychedelics are higher and in my case the hopes were higher too, so it took me longer to acknowledge the issues with that culture. But many prominent people lie about their respect for science, and in the end I doubt there are fundamental differences with the field of meditation.
No not yet, but that’s right .)
Indeed, it's an issue. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We'll think about how to handle this situation.
You're more easily replaceable as a remote worker, you're also dependent on the whims of your employer. It's easier and more beneficial to develop the skill of chasing down clients vs chasing down jobs in a remote work environment. You also don't have any options for residuals and your working largely to pad someone else's pocket and not your own.
Since there was minor dispute in Europe going at the time, one that went on from 1914 to 1918, it was not that Spanish Flu that was censored, it was all news in all beligerent countries that was censored concerning the war, including the flu.

But yes, that's how it got the name. Most likely, it started in the US, was carried to Europe by the US Army, spread across front lines on the Western Front, and from there across the globe.
>just look at the sanctions done to Russians when the West decides to stoke a war!

Worth noting that the sanctions on Russia were due to Russia invasions of neighbors like Ukraine (and Georgia), not "the West" deciding to stoke a war. "The West" was using sanctions to _avoid_ stoking a war in responding to Russia's various military offensives against neighbors.