skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that you, Jamie Quint (look at his nickname, it says that), a previous Senior Director of Monetization at Reddit (see his profile), answer being accused of a poor moral compass by insulting the person who did (calling them "dumb", and trying to belittle everything they have to say as "not important, unique, or interesting") shows that you in fact have what you've been accused of - not only by me but by the community of reddit as a whole:

A poor, or even no, moral compass.

I'd lean as far out of the windows to speculate that what has often been said about people in positions of power applies here:

Those positions attract people who are completely unable to perceive empathy, and who act solely out of the desire for power and narcissism.

It's a shame, you cause so much harm for society - and you probably are unable to even perceive the harm you're causing because your brain is just not wired to be capable of empathy.

If you want to do the world a favor, go read up what a psychopath is, and by that I do NOT mean to insult you, but rather the actual medical term "psychopath".

Ask yourself whether it applies to you, and learn to protect society from yourself if it does.
It is an entirely self-inflicted wound.
https://archive.ph/LcqJg
>I never understood why anyone would even want a banking app though; there is nothing int can do that a website can't.

A mobile phone app can let users "deposit paper checks from home" without ever driving to the bank branch by taking a photo of the check with the smartphone camera. Last time I looked into it, a desktop website couldn't enable check deposits with a webcam. (EDIT: I don't mean technically not possible. I meant that the banks deliberately chose not to have the websites utilize desktop/laptop webcams as an alternative to smartphone apps.)

Smartphone bank apps also have "push notifications" to immediately alert you of suspicious activity on your account.

But if one never uses the extra features that smartphones bank apps enable, then yes, desktop bank websites can be seen as perfectly equivalent.
> Withdrawing money from a credit card is taking on debt.

i understand where the confusion comes from. i use the term “credit card” generically for debit and credit cards. sorry for the confusion.
Their are business like Source Hut that are built on the basis that they will not do some of the things people like Github do.

And I am glad that they are profitable.
> So the success rate of any given call is going to be 1-2% at most, given that otherwise theres nothing scandalous to post

OP didn't mention it explicitly, however, chatting with a scantily clad person on the other end can be used as blackmail material too no matter what state of dress you are in.
That's what I'm talking about, yes. Being fully aware of the platform risk, and managing that risk actively.

One could always understand the tradeoff (this ban happy service brings me more public, exposes me to leads, as opposed to: they ban on the slightest mistake and are misunderstanding), but as every risk: It should be managed with any of the four basic risk management actions:

- Elimination: which in this case, would be to not use that service at all

- Mitigation: reduce the risk the most (your example of backup exports, etc)

- Acceptance: being aware and recognize maybe alternatives are more costly than accepting the risk

- Transfer the risk: let someone else handle the risk for you (insurance, for example)
Why would I use blimpy-mode when you can access blimpytyper.net from any machine anyway?
sorry for the confusion. i use the term “credit card” generically for debit and credit cards.

most people i know have debit cards.
That's an incredibly in-depth review, especially w.r.t ergomomics comparison. I don't think I have seen any ergonomic keyboard review like that. Thanks.
The thing is, we will. And do.

I mean my face is of course my fortune, but it is also my username. A frankly it's a username I have been using a lot longer than 'lifeisstillgood'.

my analogy is that one upon a time we were all walking dow the street in Victoria London during one of Sherlock Holmes "peasoupers". Only people who got up close to you could see what you were doing and even reognise you. But technology has cleaned up the air. Now anyone can see from who knows how far away. The privacy we thought we had because of the peasouper is revealed to be a mirage, we were always walking around naked, it just was harder to see.

We can simply accept this, or far more likely find a cultural consensus. Privacy can be violated for the public good (hunting offenders, medical epidemiologists etc), but otherwise you are not allowed to use the knowledge you have to exploit or influence. No adverts based on prior activity, no Cambridge Analytica creating ads just for you.

We are heading there. That Facebook and amazon more or less publish every ad campaign is incredible - imagine trying to persuade parliaments in 50 countries to pass that sort of legislation.

We are a long way from that "cultural consensus". We will probably get halfway there in the grey areas - like facebook deciding to publish all ads. The British politician Nick Clegg is likely able to make more influence globally at Facebook than if he became PM.

But we are in the culture wars, and we need to fight. The law, the application of the law - these matter online and offline.

So vote. And vote in primaries too because that shapes so much.

(Weird idea - Oz has compulsory voting to ensure votes reflect "everyone". What if we had compulsory political party membership so that parties and primaries reflected the population ...)
I have thought about it, but didn't pursue it in a deeper manner.

I will try to set aside some time every day- for learning/working on things that make me grow. I haven't been able to do this yet.

About lowering expectations, to do challenging, esoteric things for all my life (otherwise I will die of boredom), I need to upgrade myself (like getting a FAANG job, or getting a PhD, etc.)- to do that, I will need to learn discipline. Or I risk hitting a glass ceiling.

All of what you advise are well thought out and genuine. Thank you for your advice.
Sigh. Another of the long line of defeatist non-arguments.
What is your point? Should we all just roll over and die?
Writing just to be contrarian?
The UPI protocol lets the acquirer lookup this to get additional information, and this is being used by several acquirers, notably Smartbuy@HDFC to provide phone numbers to merchants.
Honestly, I guess the difference between how much food a whole family goes through and the amount that one or two people go through. When buying for your family or for roommates, a standard bottle of milk or loaf of bread will be gone in under a week. On your own? You might get through half of that if lucky, with plenty left over going to waste.

So you have to really reconsider how much you'll be able to eat/drink before it expires, and often buy way smaller portions than you would if shopping for others.
Yes, 2044 is the year when Tolkien’s best-known works enter the public domain (unless laws are changed in the meantime).

By then, AI can probably generate Jackson-quality movies with these recognizable characters in near real-time. It should be a fertile era for Tolkien fans who will finally get to tell their own visual stories within this universe.
I think it's doing fine as it is within the limits of the law. If you want more you're going to have to either operate outside of the law or you're going to have to have the laws changed. But within the law the Free Software Movement used all of the available space, to the point that almost every other license out there is less strict than theirs.

What needs to be updated is the the knowledge of the users and of the programmers. But we've been co-opted as an industry for the most part by very large bags of money and a service oriented eco-system is the capitalist response to the free software movement.

Doing an end run around that is hard to enforce (see the various licenses that address this loophole directly) without having the backing of a regulator. I see this as a simple swing of the pendulum, which it has done several times in the past regarding centralization and decentralization of computers: single machines -> single machines with terminals and time sharing -> mini computers with terminals -> microcomputers -> networked micro computers -> networked micro computers using peer-to-peer services -> networked micro computers with access to services -> special purpose computers (terminals!) with access to services. So if we want to do away with these we'd need to focus on the technical implementation of federated services that do not require central services at all. One thing you could advocate for is to restore peer-to-peer capabilities of residential internet but the fear of the hacker card will be played to counter that one. But there is also still pressure to push the pendulum one more step to the right: identified access to the internet and without that no service. This may well happen, I would expect a country like the UK or Australia to be first to implement this.

Also note that there is no actual technical driving force behind the pendulum, it doesn't have to swing at all, it could just as easily get stuck. The important common factor between all of the above was that someone (or lots of someones) made a lot of money by driving the swing.
Just a capacitor should do for that purpose?

Also since this is e-paper, maybe you can just update the display incrementally.
Another tangent — I don’t get why people writing technical blogs use Substack, where support for math and syntax highlighting is nonexistent (math) or minimal (code). Something with Hugo plus PaperPad theme would be far better. I suppose Substack is popular because of the newsletter features.
Fun fact: It's possible to password protect apps using the PC software with a two character password (there's no encryption, it's just intended to slow down anyone from casually examining user data if they happen to find the watch unattended). When the DLU boots up, it initializes the password variable to "NS".

It doesn't really mean much, since all apps default to unprotected on boot, so you can never use it, but it's interesting.
Thank you, I’m glad you appreciate it. I spent way more time on it than I would like to admit. The original version actually did run a small model trained on the data in the browser to generate the predictions.
Overpass turbo, a web-based data filtering tool for OpenStreetMap
Good read, but it focuses a lot on conveying information to the user. The issue nowadays is often the other direction: Interacting with GUIs often feels clunky because there are unnecessary steps, moving buttons on websites or weird mouse rituals that require dragging something a very certain way.

Improving on that should be more of a focus imo.
The for profit industry has been very happy to integrate the fruits of the FOSS labor.

And yes, we need an ethics framework for the IT industry, but we need liability more than that and I don't think either is going to happen in the next 10 years. Maybe if there is a mass death (> 10K people at once or so, a few 100 doesn't seem to have made a difference so far) on account of a software issue we will finally wake up.
Is this an April joke?
I ended up leaving, as did most of the other senior developers, so I wouldn't know the details.
My editor trashed my inquiry into child sexual abuse. Now I know why.
It's just the inverse of the exponential function, that's all
That appears to be a soft CPU...VHDL for an FPGA, rather than an actual CPU.
You think it's that easy, but, as frequently the case with transformers, I believe there's more here than meets the eye.
I loved Ruby: an OO lang with some FP on top where it makes sense. I found Kotlin to be very similar to Ruby: primary on OO lang with FP on top where it makes sense, but now with compile-time types (slightly but fundamentally better than Java's) built in.

The main thing I miss in Kotlin is proper, first-class sum types. There is a trick with using inheritance to achieve it, but not good enough for me. They've become a fundamental tool for me (same level as record (data class) and collections).

I get how that would make Java-interop much harder, and that that's likely why they've been left out.
Thank you very much for taking the time to write the comment.

I notice so many similarities with you.

I will definitely keep what you advise in mind.
>And I need to finish things that I start.

Do you, though? Try reading Barbara Sher's "Refuse to Choose". There's a place in the world for everyone, and not everyone has to be an administrator to succeed.
UPI payments to merchants have had MDR for a while now. And there is a government fund to compensate banks as well. Cost on its own isn't the real reason for banks to be unhappy. Banks were unhappy because they were not used to this kind of pace of feature growth and user growth. It put operational stress on their teams and their relatively old systems (much newer than western banks). They also saw it as a zero-sum game where UPI had opportunity cost w.r.t growth/profit in credit cards. But the reality is somewhat different. Affluent class still uses credit cards (for loyalty points, irony!) and cards market has grown quite well too. And as digital usage expands and banks have embraced digital, they see UPI as an engagement driver and they make money on selling other financial products including credit cards and loans. Anyone who isn't thinking this way will be killed by competition soon enough.
Problem is, robots can explore and learn for us.
What do you mean?

Because they seem to be very competent when it comes to software creation
August 2023 Retrospective of a Programmer in Berlin
Seiko used to have a series of watches called Kinetic, where an oscillating weight charged a capacitor or battery. Weird that it's not mentioned in the article, as it seems to be just what's under discussion.

The issue is essentially solved for quartz, even Casio's electro-mechanic models can be powered by ambient light.

Edited, Seiko, not Citizen.
The physical verification process is required to respect the AML guidelines established by the RBI. The process itself takes less than 5 minutes but must be done once the foreigner lands in India.

In Blr/Mumbai/Delhi, our team can arrange for home verifications as well.

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No idea how this got double-posted
oof, that part about some MAME developer telling him to fuck off on his valid criticism that his pull request got modified and merged ineffectively.
This post is generated by ChatGPT. Please don't mock us with this garbage.
The original chat appears to have used GPT 3.5.

About once a week there is an article about how GPT can’t do something out together by someone with a lot of time, but not the $20 to pay for GPT 4.
Not illegal at all and widely practised. Single market does not mean prices have to be the same everywhere.
Microsoft did choose to open source WPF a few years back [0], but I don't fully remember the situation there. I remember hearing discontent about the decision on /r/dotnet.

The opposing reactions (discontent MS did open source something, discontent that they didn't) are odd. I don't fully remember the details there though so can't make a meaningful comment.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-told-were-not-happy-...
I paid almost eveywhere in Amsterdam with my Indian Visa card and it worked quite well.

Even the GBV Transport network lets you use NFC cards directly, without having to buy a separate card or ticket. You get a charge 6 days later after they tally up your trips.

I like UPI, but paying with NFC Cards is so much simpler, easier, and faster.
> I have one guy in our company who wants to unravel any list comprehension or map/generators functions (python) because he doesn't know anything except "for X in Y"

I'm that guy at my current place of work. Incidentally, I'm also always the guy called in to work out why something doesn't work when the guy who made it (and loved streams and CompletionStage) has moved on to a different job.

I can read and write generators and maps just fine (I do it all the time when writing little one off scripts), but debugging in that mess is a hell. When I write something that will outlive my tenure at an organization, I reach for what everyone knows. I write in a dialect that even somebody right out of programming 101 can understand, because god knows what sort of clown they're going to hire after me.
When the makers of Irish Mist whiskey liqueur decided to start selling to the German market it caused them some laughs but afaik they stuck with the name
> 1) is somewhat impractical, because it’s easy to miss the airport desk which does this, and if you miss the opportunity it’s not easy to go back there (Indian airports don’t really allow you back in if you’ve exited)

These money exchange counters are before airport security and accessible without "entering" the airport.
> Youtube, Gmail, Spotify, banks and a few other major websites start using Google's WEI API for internal user reputation scoring, forcing non-compliant browsers through more captchas.

You forgot the biggest threat: CloudFlare
Do I have to list every asset type and their relationships, to make a point about a word?

I don't think it is surprising that the word "wealth" is used by a lot of people in different ways.

I was accused of using the word incorrectly as in "Wealth" means only "Rich" people. I was wrong because a lot of "non-Rich" can also manage their "Wealth". Someone in the comments even considered having 5Mil of assets to be NOT Rich, NOT wealthy.

It seemed like in the comments there was push back that just because they are managing their "Wealth" that they are NOT Wealthy, and so don't lump them into that category.

Instead of "Wealth" meaning, long list of asset types.

I think maybe that is the point. If you have enough 'assets' and free time to ponder the concept of "wealth" as units of exchange and the nature of money and future earning power, then you are probably "Rich" to many people.

So if you are needing a software tool to manage your "Wealth" then you probably have more "Money/Assets/Fungible Stuff" than most, like >5% of worlds population, so you could be considered "Rich". Then because you are "Rich", "Wealthy", "Have lot of Money", yes, you can be grouped with "Rich" and people can have opinions on the group of "Rich" people.

So I think it is ok to assume if someone needs tools to manage their "Wealth", that I can assume they are "Wealthy".
I always figured XXX was an attempt to prevent people from finding it on torrent sites.
I'm sorry but I maybe feeling "off" today, but we should all be beyond kindergarten political philosophy. Anarchy is what it sounds like - awful and not some middle class libertarian utopia.

Yes we need government. And these days we need government to roll up its sleeves and be government. We know you cannot arrange the bread delivery for London through one department but you can force privatised water companies to invest before dividends over periods of decades.
One factor this ignores is that there already exist tens of billions of general-purpose computing devices capable of running arbitrary code. They aren't going to magically disappear. They've already been made and they can't be unmade.

Given enough nuisance, people would just stop upgrading. We've already seen this with Windows itself — I know people who are still, in 2023, using Windows 7 daily for the simple reason of hating everything that came after it.
It's not enough for the majority of people to oppose a trend. There are plenty of issues where trends continue despite scattered opposition from the majority.

Widespread activism could make a difference. If it becomes a major point of contention in elections, that could make a difference. These don't happen 'by default' though.
How can you tell that it's not actually magnetic foil on your card? It's possible that the foil can be coloured, and my understanding is that the foil is still required today for international use cases
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Thanks for this read. I enjoyed its down-to-earthiness. I felt pranked at times the author's assertions of obvious truth that are quite challengeable. It felt like there were many but here's one I could recover:

"There are no languages whose form is in a state of development. And their forms are all basically the same."

I made a double take at that, and moved along for the ride.

Ultimately I wonder if my enjoyment of the piece is because it takes great acrobatics to be bereft of reason, just enough to make you think. No, not you. That other you.
My first computer was a BBC B. The schematics were IN the manual!
For more hilarity, a blog post I wrote in 2006 on currying in Java using CGLib tricks:

http://cromwellian.blogspot.com/2006/07/fun-with-generics-an...
While I share the author's fear, the timeline they created doesn't really work.

1. Windows 10 S has mostly been a failure.

2. Web Environment Integrity, while horrifying, has not been rolled into Chrome! It's an early proposal. We should work to ensure it goes nowhere.

3. The above greatly pushes out the plausible timeline for events currently listed next to 2024, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2031, and 2032.

An aside, I don't find "Apple enforces notarization" to be significant, since it only applies to code-signed applications. It would be better to list "2012 – Apple blocks unsigned apps by default on Mac" and "2016 – Apple hides option to allow unsigned apps from the Mac GUI." The rollout of System Integrity Protection should be in there too. I'm personally not against any of these changes in isolation, but they are absolutely part of the slippery slope the author is trying to highlight.

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but I think the article would be more powerful if the content was more plausible. If you already agree this is a problem, the specifics don't matter, but if you're trying to show the pattern to someone new, the facts you present are important.
I've recently been learning how to tie some decorative knots. This site is fantastic, but suffers from the same frustration point all resources seem to: not explaining how to calculate the length of rope you will need for a given knot so you can cut it before starting.

I can't believe so many beginner tutorials seem to forget this very basic first question of "how do I prepare my materials?".
A 3x4 matrix (often 4x4 in practice) can represent any sequence of 3D rotations/translations/scales (and a camera projection from 3D into 2D).

Then you just need multiplies and adds to apply the transformation to each vertex.
I still have the circuit diagram (paper copy) that shipped with my Acorn Atom in, ahem, 1981. Didn’t ask for it!

(Edit: with the help of the circuit diagram we did make a simple mod to one of the output ports of the device)