skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately squatters steal mobile apps source and republish it with ads or in-app purchases. Apple does nothing to prevent it, so legitimate developers have to stop providing source code.
That same logic says you should not vote either.
If even some 10-20% of IT professionals (with salaries to match) up and leave for a less shit bank, trust me, they will care.
I believe that the values are mostly present. They just don't have many easily understood and widely known ideals to compare to.
> The Stallman movement failed

The stuff you read on hn...

Seriously, you think it failed? I think it succeeded wildly beyond anything anybody imagined at the time, to the point that very large entities threw everything and the kitchensink at it to try to make it fail. Which exposed them for the criminals they were.

We don't need anything that is more compatible with 'business owners' than what we've got. What we need is education, so that people stop telling each other that the free software movement failed, but instead point out that without that free software movement the operating system, the browser and the applications on the computer that I'm writing this on would not exist.
For this “desert island” use case, a solar powered quartz watch seems like it would work the longest, of COTS options today (although a mechanical watch might be fine without servicing).

Of course, my favorite watch in this case would be something like the Breitling Emergency (https://www.breitling.com/us-en/emergency/) which could call for rescue. Looking forward to a satellite connectivity version in the future — iPhones are able to do this now, so something like the Apple Watch Ultra 2 may be able to.
>a fledgling, but increasingly popular, social media site

Aww, so innocent sounding. AWS was such a big bully in terminating their relationship with that client. It's not like anybody died as a result of that extremist speech they were popularising, right?
Chat Plugins with AI Agents for Startups and Small Businesses
I’ve been using UPI since its very early days when it used to fail quite often. UPI is still one of the best things to happen in the financial scene in India. However, these days, personally, I’m trying to reduce it to either known people, or established institutions. I wish there is another layer of tokenization when one pays via UPI, like how Apple Pay does. I wish that the transaction is obfuscated and the phone numbers and/or UPI ID are hidden.

You pay for a nice hot cup of ₹10 Chai on the streets but then you got a phone call later on - naively to upsell something, or the next step up, trying to scam you. Unlike me, my wife continues to pick up every incoming phone calls. We have had enough calls from people whom she paid via UPI trying to sell or this/that and what not.

There is a scam going on in India. Random females, who are either naked or scantily clothed, will call up on WhatsApp Video. If you pick up the call, say while in the bathroom and not fully clothed, they will take screenshots and threaten you that they will make that picture “viral” to extort money. I won't be surprised if there is an under-belly of phone numbers and other data being sold that were collected via UPI payment transactions.

Cash is still OK at the tea-stalls, the random shop, etc. Well, when I just wanted to have a simple Bombay’s cutting-chai but the chai-guy wants my phone number, and everything else -- I'm not comfortable with that.
Visa/Mastercard aren’t as ubiquitous as people imagine, despite Visa/Mastercard trying to acquire their way to global market dominance.

The are many developed and developing countries that operate their own card networks, peer-to-peer payment technologies, and generally cheaper faster alternatives to Mastercard/Visa, with many merchants preferring them to their U.S. counterparts.

Visa/Mastercard may have dominance in the English speaking west, and many tourists location for the English speaking west, but assuming Visa/Mastercard is some gold standard the world should aspire to is very naïve. In reality alternatives like UPI and other peer-to-peer systems are more likely to be the payment systems of the future. Continued Mastercard/Visa dominance in its current form only really makes sense in countries with outdated and inadequate banking infrastructure, like the U.S.
Rip C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories and back it up somewhere. WordPad.exe is standalone. If you're running Win7+ you'll need the en-us/muis/etc, if you pull from an XP install wordpad.exe is all you'll ever need to do.
Oh that’s beautiful and localized
Eh, this is something HN does automatically after submission. It also sometimes drops words.
Thank you for pointing out this mistake. Fixed it
The 3.5 jack device required no digital hardware. It was literally just a magnetic read head wired directly to the jack. This generated voltage just like a microphone. The phone app would then “listen” for the cards data. Incredibly clever and dirt cheap hack for making a phone into a portable payments device.
So drop the "can change name and licence number after booking" feature and kill this, done.
they usually have a sound box, which will announce if a payment is made to their UPI id.

Related - https://restofworld.org/2023/india-sound-boxes-paytm-phonepe...
I did read it years ago and it's bad... I mean even ignoring what he did to Tolkien word and the whole premise it's still poorly written.
> That swift code is painful to read.

I you mean the Swift code in the article, that almost looks like Kotlin :-)

Swift requires type constraints on the original add function, but infers them for addFive.

func add<T> (x:T, y:T) -> T where T: Numeric {
x + y
}
let addFive = {(y) in add(x: 5, y: y)}
let result = addFive(3)

Edit: in Swift 3, one could write

func add<T>(x:T)(y:T) -> T where T: Numeric {
return x + y
}

and call that as

add(x: 2)(y: 3)

or, in two steps, as

let addTwo = add(2)
addTwo(3)

That functionality was removed, though. For reasoning behind that, see https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals....
Private comms will stay private as long as you can install an illegal decentralized chat app that won't spy on you. Once you can't do that without losing bank account access on the device, most people simply won't install it and stick to monitored comms.
I was tinkering last night and it was amusing to have Windows XP Wordpad spawn a Windows 10 Wordpad instance in OLE mode.

https://i.imgur.com/51BySZ0.png
Have you ever seen and IDP? They’re a complete joke as an identity document, a child with a potato could forge one.
Okta discloses some customer network breaches
> ie enabling petty spending greases the wheels of the economy and lifts people out of poverty.

The lack of "petty spending" is not the reason India has a poverty problem.
This website has been up for a few years but I don't see much progress when it comes to implementation.
Where can I contribute to this part of forgejo? And how to start?
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, C/C++, JS, TypeScript, React, Flask,
Docker, OpenGL, WebGL, PyTorch, ...

Résumé/CV: szabolcsdombi.com

Email: cprogrammer1994@gmail.com

GitHub: github.com/szabolcsdombi
What's with this seeming worship of sovereignty? "Sovereignty" is simply a pretty word for "collective might makes right."
I think the problem with the revenue rhetoric is that these services are consumed by the general consumer and the people that read this discussion generally are only a neglibile size of that market segment. So, even if all HN readers affected and all wired reader, etc changed service due to this discussionit would still be a rounding error on that company's report sheet in the end.
More than none:

https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/systems

https://ryf.fsf.org/
Aren’t landing pages against hn rules?
Ask HN: How to report network routing issues to Akamai?
Any network traffic going from my location to certain parts of the internet (akamai, specifically -- this includes apple store (such as software updates), apple connect, bing and many other sites) are simply not getting replies. Simply going to a different city fixes the issue, or using a different ISP.

I'm able to use a VPN to get a different route from a nearby city that works fine. So, this isn't really a major issue... however, this issue has been ongoing for nearly a week now and I'm finally annoyed enough to figure out that I should probably tell someone because they are clearly unaware.

Unfortunately, getting past tier 1 support at my ISP (yes, my wifi router is plugged in, yes I have a wifi signal, yes I rebooted my computer, yes I rebooted my router, yes I rebooted my modem) is basically impossible.

Anyone know how to properly report this?
The banks provide 4G-enabled speakers either for free or very cheap.

These speakers automatically read out any credit into the account.

Even a vendor who can’t read can use UPI to reliably receive payments.
Magic Leap AR will cease to function
Location: Austin, TX (USA)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Whatever

Email: <mailto:ekqf4wmu@duck.com>

If you are working on <substitute your own pitch in the vein of
"disrupting the laundry experience" here>, let's get in touch.
> your job is to write and commit code, you are the corporate equivalent of infantry. In short: a grunt.

And if I am being treated as a grunt, I will act like a grunt aka I don't care more than my bosses. I will even abandon ship at the sign of incompetence and point out the incompetence to others.
Safari is WebKit based too since a few years back
Author here. Got the official repository wrong for NPU firmware. Fixed it now, belongs to user "airockchip" on GitHub and latest commits have been authored by Randall Zhuo from Rockchip, so it seems to be official at least.
Just Build It...
But you can drag and drop a word document to slack...
Ahem Politkovskaya, Skripal, Nemtsov.

Also, by saying "a lot calmer" you are normalizing murder.
No, that logic says you can vote or you can not, it makes effectively zero difference.
Call to action? The author did nothing to encourage engagement on the topics only on his article. No information about how you could get active yourself or how you could approach the topic politically just FUD.
The other day I read an HN comment that thought that when you buy consumer PC hardware, it comes with a ToS that limits your property rights as the owner. It's the kind of uncanny experience I run into more and more often lately: talking with people so immersed in our new normal of cyberpunk dystopia, they seem not to remember how things were in the before-times. So accustomed to exploitative corporate gaslighting, we're forgetting the basics of civilization, like, what are ownership rights?

In the before-times, when you bought something, the seller relinquished all claims to it, as an established legal principle (and a social norm and a moral obvious-ity). You can do whatever the fuck you want to your own PC, in your own house! Who would step into your home and tell you "no"?

Stallman was right: if you erode the norm that you control your own software, you lose the hardware, too. Free software is sort of a consumer right that enshrines what ownership of computing hardware means.
> what debt?

You are taking debt whenever you use credit card. If you miss/forget payment, some tech fault or sometimes just because you can be charged hefty interest or charges.

You can keep a separate account for your daily transactions.
I think it is notable that all the stuff that happened is fairly minor and all the stuff that is going to happen is going to economically devastate anyone who brings it in. Freedom does amazing things for an economy.
In most cases, the ones who do sue are neither - they’re companies themselves, with shareholders of their own, or funds with specific regulations (which amount to much the same, if not more specifically profit-oriented).

These are not people, they don’t think morally the way people do. These are not demons, they are not evil themselves - these are more like machines, algorithms tuned to maximize profit. This structure is our paper-clip optimiser, already in place much before the AI revolution. If there is a devil, they are the ones behind setting up this entire system, not a player in it.
> So there’s the notion that —-in case your air plaine crashes and you land on a desert island—- a quartz watch‘s battery will drain in 5 years and you’re left without a watch, but the thing is: A mechanical watch needs to be serviced every five years (taken apart, lubricated).

Except if you get a watch with Citizen's Eco-Drive, which is where the power comes from ambient light and not a battery:

* https://www.citizenwatch.com/ca/en/technology-eco-drive.html
>Just bought a 4 node EPYC server with 128 cores, 512GB DDR4, 16x NVMe slots with 15.3TB of P5500 storage populated for $2500.

That is a 32 Core EPYC CPU, 128GB DDR4, 4TB NVMe SSD per node for $625. I am assume you mean physical core and threads. But I am surprised you could get an 32 Core EPYC for $625, unless it is not even a Gen 3 EPYC but much older. The 128GB and 4TB together would have costed at least $200. Meaning you need to get the CPU for less than $350 to leave some cost with PSU, fans and Server Case.

Either it is heavily discounted or this is a 2nd hand deal.

>Seems like almost insanity to get so much compute for that price, and yet in 5 years, as always, that machine will be considered slow and inefficient compared to the latest iteration.

Likely not.

That is because DRAM and NAND price has fallen to close or below BOM cost. Your 512GB DDR4 and 15.3TB SSD is less than half if not close to a quarter of its price 18 months prior. The EPYC CPU also has stepper discount due to slower HyperScaler expansion. Basically unless we have two or more node cycle to bring down cost, the current purchase price wont last.
Exactly, this one!

In a system that doesn’t have any forms of rewards, this should be a logical path to follow. In fact, Tommy has considered this approach as the way to go from now on but only when he got hit hard by his first experience.
my tldr: this explains

1) why huge models are important (so the gradient is high-dimensional enough to be monotonic)

2) why attention (aka connections, aka indirections) is trainable at all;

and says nothing about why they might generalize the dataset
It is the one Chrome fork that sees some development.
(Yes, of course the forkage was the other way). So while they do have a seat at the standards table, i can't say i see much potential (or results). They also don't offer it outside their own locked-down platform by the looks of it. I.e. they have permanently kneecapped their market-share to near-pointless levels.
Dan brown just before Frank Herbert?
There's an ultra-low power mode in newer TMS430s, and you can use an external ultra-low-power RTC.

From memory, it's under 100nA on paper, including things like the power switch leakage. Crazy stuff.
The CPUs are designed by Graisler Research in Sweden, who have decades of experience in space electronics and probably have thousands of CPUs currently orbiting the earth.

And yes, they have RISC-V versions but I don't think they have been battle proven as much:

https://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/processors/noel-v
Needs a prediction on when censorship of legal content by network infrastructure companies like Hurricane Electric becomes normal.
Germany is another outlier. Mainly big chains will accept amex, and small places might not accept credit cards in general, though that has been getting better thanks to SumUp.
Given your last paragraph, what is the net trend in society of that happening with enough speed to outpace other negative developments?

Would it be more accurate to say that the Free Software movement is in need for an update, or making next steps, to provide a better outlook in this regard?

Edit: Changed "Stallman movement" to "Free Software movement". I am a FOSS advocate myself, but not interested in deeply engrained notions around Stallman himself.
> The reason is that there is no ethical-philosophical compass guiding computer technology.

The reason is that there is no ethical-philosophical compass guiding people in the greater part, computer technologists included.
It’s the scanning beam, that LCDs simply don’t have. But fear not, a single LED will also work and was recently reverse engineered: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/691827
VPNs wont be outlawed. But they will be KYC and backdoored encryption - so like an typical internet service provider. VPNs are used all the time in the cloud for legitimate reasons so outlawing is impractical (like outlawing a kitchen knife)
The Social Life of Bats
Wiki says it is this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nyquist

Woah. He has a huge list of "Known for"!
Made me think. What are non-obviously bad names that were allowed to stay and weren’t?

Off the top of my mind:

- Siri means ass in Japanese. Apple kept the name and except for some initial memes people seems to be used to it.

- Colgate apparently sounds similar to hang yourself in some Spanish dialects (Argentinian according to google). I’m a bit uncertain if it kept its name there

- Kalpis (Japanese soft drink) changed its name overseas as marketing feared it sounded too similar to “cow piss”

- Moana/Vaiana. Disney used different names for this movie between America and Europe, allegedly because of a name clash with an Italian politician/adult movie star. The name change wasn’t an afterthought as the original cast recorded all relevant lines and songs with both names for a simultaneous release across markets.

- the 2002 movie “XXX” was read by many as an word for pornography and top result on google for the name returns porn sites along with IMDb. Unabashedly the studio went on to create 3 movies in the franchise. I think that shows even obviously bad names can work. XXX was advertised on billboards and prime time TV across territories.
More Countries Ban Import of Japanese Food for Nuclear Contamination
I have read Atomic Habits and meditate almost everyday. I also made some minor changes to my life learning from AH.

I don't have an attention deficit. Neither do I use social media or other common culprits of the day. I don't have any problem focusing or learning. Or, as another user mentioned- accountability problem.

My problem is staying focused at something for months or years. Something shinier comes along and I switch to that.

When I was a child, I got away unaware because everything required little effort from my part. I barely studied outside of my classroom and still aced all tests. In college, although I got below average, I still graduated. With almost zero effot. About a dozen of my peers dropped out even after a lot of effort. It was a hard major.

I am responding to all comments as the writing is also reflective to myself.

I think I also have the problem of being unable to assign priorities to things that I want to do. I want to do a lot- and I want them now. I have to change this, I guess.

And I need to finish things that I start.
Caterpillars are a bellwether of environmental changes
You assume there is a “less shit bank”. Not everywhere is like the USA with a wide choice of banks. In some countries the banking landscape has, through mergers, become limited to just a few choices, and they all require SafetyNet attestation for their phone apps.
Digital timelines are typically zoomable interfaces, though usually only in one dimension. I built one that scales 300+ orders of magnitude: http://www.timepasses.net/
Or phrased differently, you'll have to pay extra to keep it from them.
Discovery of the historic Great Lakes schooner Trinidad
When you compare UPI to western instant payment systems, the most important metrics to look at are consumer choice (banks and experience apps), cost of acceptance, settlement speed and fraud/clawback rates. UPI has broadest interop based consumer choice, free to consumers and lowest cost overall, highest volume of transactions, has fastest settlement and extremely minimal fraud. It is also most inclusive – it works with smartphones, feature phones and soon with only voice calls. It also works offline. And it works for everything from buying a cup of coffee to sending money to your grandma to doing investments in mutual funds and stocks and making large purchases like buying a car.
It seems like Apple is intentionally dragging its feet in implementing new web standards in Safari (webusb, webgpu, webmidi, bluetooth, filesystem, etc) in order to keep native apps relevant (which is a big cash cow for Apple).
There are seniors; there are also those who simply will not carry a
device that constantly broadcasts their position and contains
microphones and cameras that are ultimately controlled by some
company.
No his point, that Russian fears of NATO is legitimate, is bollocks. He seems to see everywhere American Imperialism, and think in this frame.

Russian government did not give a damn about NATO expansion, it is a mafia with no ideology. They would have invaded anyway, under some other false pretense.

Keep in mind that Chomsky denied genocide made Khmer Rouge in 1970 and genocide in Srebrenica, _just_ _because_ _perpetrators_ _seemed _to_be_ against US imperialism.
You can extend this to the whole of "the west". In fact, you even have this effect between west german and east german culture.
"voting makes no difference" is one of those rules which apply really well to the individual, but if you apply them to a larger group of people, they become wrong.
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> I never understood why anyone would even want a banking app though; there is nothing int can do that a website can't.

Some banks are phasing out code cards or SMS verification for 2FA, and the only way to get the second factor for logging into the online banking website on your computer, is to use the bank’s app on your phone.
> Morality is deontological. Good actions are good, period. Furthermore, they don't backfire.

Looks like you never read the scouring of the Shire
Fortunately assert is hardly part of the language itself, you can provide your own macro for it and you probably should.

Among other things you probably DO want to get rid of them when doing coverage analysis-- unless you like seeing your code base that truly has 100% branch coverage report as only having 30% coverage due to all the invariant checks that can't be triggered because the code isn't buggy.
Transformers as voltage amplifiers.
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)

2) opening an account isn’t practical for tourists, but of course if you’re living in India for even a short while, it’s worth it.

3) Allegedly UPI will work for NRIs / OCIs with foreign phone numbers. In reality most banks haven’t implemented it yet.

tl;dr - “onboarding” onto UPI for short-term visitors is mired in burdensome bureaucracy, and this isn’t a technical issue with UPI, it’s a result of conscious choices by Indian regulators.

The real win would be if you could load up a UPI wallet like you’d do with PayPal. Perhaps initially restricted to people with a valid visa. But regulators haven’t figured that out yet.
I have seen previous articles on this when it was China banning some Japanese imports as political but now as more countries start doing the same people start realising there might be something to it. I wish everything was not made political for views
Can anyone recommend a great source code example of a menu bar app?

I've got the urge to hack on one of my old ideas..
I feel like it'd be easier to rally your student body to get rid of the stupid payment systems altogether and do what some other schools do: $free.99 laundry, paid for by a per-semester lump-sum "laundry fee". The washers and dryers are standard fare - still commercial units, just set to $0.

It's so much nicer to be able to card into the laundry room, throw your clothes in, hit start, and leave without having to fumble with Enshittification.