skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have both and they've been great resources. I had been wondering for a long time how to add arbitrary height to a raycasting engine, and that book finally showed me how.
Businesses don't do free. It is not what they exist for: The 'Stallman movement' isn't compatible with the the tech-company, the employed software-engineer, etc.

I think what the OP is getting at is that the for-profit tech industry needs something akin to the Hippocratic Oath [1]. As software engineers swearing to a set of 'do no harm' ethical codes could well be a first step to becoming a recognised professional.

I can certainly see a future with a framework like that. If a doctor does something unethical it could affect the life of a few people. If a programmer does it, it could affect the lives of billions - it's not a hard sell that something like an ethical code is probably well overdue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
That's because you are used to and expect card frauds. In UPI, the only way money leaves your bank is if you enter your PIN. Even standing instructions (called payment mandates) are required to notify you before they execute and you can stop/cancel it at anytime. (like Apple App Store subscriptions, but for everything!).
Hey @davelondon,

Sudhanshu here, from Cheq UPI.

We're a part of YC S23 and our team launched the Cheq UPI payments app specifically to help international citizens and NRIs avail UPI.

https://chequpi.com/

Some testimonials from our early customers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ct5WY9vOz4

We launched officially in August, and are growing fast.
Next time you travel to india, do give us a try :)

PS: We don't need an Indian bank account to help you make payments.
The freedom is already dead when something goes from a hobby to an industry and to the most important strategy.
When we talk about Currying I can grok these, but if I saw that ES6 example in the wild and FP isn’t on my mind I’d be so confused when reasoning about it, especially if it was more complex than adding.

Haskell better be good at Currying since it’s named after https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
Banks are in general happy as any cost is offset by reduction in cash handling cot. ATMs installation and maintenance are costly, branches even more so, you can reduce that. Also, for the merchants, cash handling cost is greater than 0.

> I suspect at some future point UPI (non-wallet) transactions will be charged a small fee and wallet transactions will not.

Right now, it is other way round. Wallet transactions above ₹2000 attract some fees for merchants.
> you’re somehow entitled to more of his lifetime dedicated to the features important to you personally.

They never said this, only that developing a product to be used by a lot of people and completely disregarding a (arguably very common) use case is arrogant.
No, the problems were pretty much the same everywhere. The article is germane to all countries. Scientific authority was relentlessly abused everywhere and the trust issues are now global.
Tangent: Why do some sites (like this one) disable pinch zooming on mobile? It makes graphs and pictures illegible, which is incredibly frustrating.
I would expect it to result in a large and slow Turing machine instead of a small neural network.
Withdrawing money from a credit card is taking on debt. Credit and debt are related concepts. Ask yourself this will you have to eventually pay interest on the borrowed money or not?

You can have other (non credit, say savings) bank accounts for security too. It's just as easy (or easier) as getting a credit card here (in India).
> That same logic says you should not vote either.

Indeed.

> 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.

That's an impossible number of people to coordinate on something like this, and even if, I doubt banks would care. There exist no less shit banks, and retail is a rounding error anyway.

Banks aren't shit because of incompetence or a not-give-a-damb attitude. They're shit because it makes them more money, both directly and by reducing risks.
Mentioned this on the parent thread, but there are new UPI apps coming out in the market which don't need a bank account.

https://chequpi.com/

For example
Not that it is for everyone; but i have used Sailfish OS for just about 10 years, and it has been quite fine.
Any country that isn't a total sh*tshow will have accessibility regulations around that. Let the accessibility folks fight for you.
Hardly realistic. You dont need to outlaw anything to make it steer in one direction. All you need is friction and incentives.
if they implement them then the criticism morphs into “more tech for others to use when spying on us”.
> We don't mean anonymity. Acting in secret is not freedom - acting openly and not being persecuted or prosecuted is freedom.

So, if I openly state that I do not acquiesce to any government (all external force is immoral imo) - does that mean I am now free, and no longer subject to its laws, pay taxes, etc?

So, I don't think your definition of freedom cuts it. Any answer that assumes 'government' as part of the answer, and justifies acting with force against others, has to be wrong (immoral).

Far better to follow the golden rule:

Do not treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated

I think that does it.
I understand language models quite well. I have published research on this on renowned conferences.

I also know how they learn. And I know how the biological brain learns. The differences are just technical. The underlying concept is really the same: Both learn by adjusting the neuronal strengths between neurons based on what they see.

Legal responsibilities is sth different. This is up to politics to decide.

My argument is purely on the fact that what humans do and what machines do is extremely similar, and the differences are just technical and don't really matter here. This is often misunderstood by people who think that machines don't really learn like humans.
Using ICICI bank iMobile you can create a random UPI id totally unrelated to your phone number I agree with the problems you mention, and in general there is an increasing trend of taking phone numbers of customers in India, e.g. once at a Nike store, I was told the purchase couldn't be complete without the phone number.
You can create an alphanumeric UPI handle on most UPI applications.

This will hide your phone number.

Eg: My UPI id is sudshekhar.cheq@trans.

Most other UPI apps allow you to create such handles AFAIK.

Nowadays, you can also keep your bank details private by using UPI with a wallet instead of savings account.
I just looked them up. $5M and 4 years spent for a JavaScript lint tool. I'm not sure what problem there were solving
Curry’s Paradox
How to Get into Film Photography (and Why You Should)
The NPCI is nothing like VISA or Mastercard. And you are right pointing this out is only a technicality.
I think the ship has sailed for the web. Many apps don't even bother with making functional webapps any longer; the go to market are mobile apps for the censorship platforms.

The web lost. Now it's just a transport layer for mobile app API requests.
> If you're letting HR who have no idea what they're doing, go from "a hundred CVs" to "two openings" you are bad at your job.

What I said was different. How many CVs should we eliminate before calling people back for the two openings? What if the pile is 500 CVs? Call all of them? I guess you stop coding for the next two months and that's ok? Or maybe you let HR help you sort the CVs by priority.

> who have no idea what they're doing

I've worked with some very talented HR people. Maybe you haven't been so lucky.

> HR's job, like legal, or many other departments, is to facilitate what you actually do which in this case means work like chasing references and ensuring the candidates have somebody who can answer stupid logistics questions without bothering the interviewer.

HR does more than facilitate. They protect the company from legal threats, just as one example. In the case of needing to trim down a huge stack of applicants to an actually manageable stack, then HR will do things like search the internet for people's reputation. If you think that's not their job, that doesn't change the fact that they are going to do it anyway. HR very often has a say in candidate fit. Especially if HR is responsible for company culture, as is often the case these days.

> Picking software engineers, especially if you actually care whether they're any good, is not the purpose of an HR department.

At most companies the HR department is pretty involved in the hiring process no matter what the position is. At smaller companies maybe less so.
> they have permanently kneecapped their market-share to near-pointless levels.

they have 25% of the mobile browser market share.
Which ownership rights do the sellers retain now that they didn’t previously? I’m not familiar with any ToS that permits a company to repossess your PC or parts of it.

If you’re talking about manufacturers making their devices more difficult to repair or voiding warranties based on minor modifications, that doesn’t mean you can’t do what you want with the item. It just means you can’t force the company to fix or replace it free of charge when you do.
An SVM is a quadratic program, which is convex. This means that they should always converge and they should always converge to the same global optimum, regardless of initialization, as long as they are feasible, I.e. as long as the two classes can be separated by an SVM.
Good. Native apps should stay relevant.
VPNs requiring KYC is the same as outlawing non-KYC VPNs.
Happy to see Pulsar represented :)

My favoured terminal editor though is Helix which isn't represented.
Id imagine a flexible skin added to the outside of a robot containing lightpipes or fiberoptics coming back to a camera. This lets you detect collision on the outside of a robot at 30-60fps extremely cheaply. Cheap passive collision detection is missing from robotics and this is a step in the right direction. With multimaterial 3d printing you can make a wide variety of different shells for robotics which can automatically detect failures, collisions, damage and stress for the cost of the plastic and a camera sensor.
A lot of people were just born into this too. People under 27 or so have never known anything other than this pretty much.
> 2025: Google removes the ability to install Android apps from outside the Play store, citing security concerns.

This is not happening for sure.
Look how apple is being sued from everywhere because of it.
Not a single one of those points will come true.
> And of course: we owe it to the web to use Firefox.

Mozilla is hanging tightly on the Google's tit though. It won't be shocking to see Firefox deteriorate rapidly should it start gaining ground on Chrome. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Credit card annual interest rates can be as high as (or even higher than) 50%. This is not trivial, it can (and does) ruin lives. It is a type of debt (though conditional).
I always use wordpad to take notes. It's fast, no-nonsense, always pre-installed but has just the right amount of rich text formatting.
While not foolproof, a good metric is being wary of any platform that wants your phone number(google, facebook, discord, twitter, etc), these tend to be the ones that seem like places you can build a foundation on, but really they are ephemeral and you can unilaterally lose access to years to decades at any time. Get the data exports if available regularly if you are using them.

Try to roll out your own internal commutation services in house if possible, it might be a hassle, but now you are likely seeing just how valuable it is to have true control over your own accounts.
Man, I don't know why I remember all this stuff. It is exhausting.

So I remembered : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318

> Hey HN,

> I’m Jordan from Superpowered (http://superpowered.me/), here with my co-founders Nikhil, Nick, and Ibrahim. We’re building a calendar app for the Mac menu bar.*
>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.

This is baffling. First, how much % of the day do you spend naked? 1-2%? So the success rate of any given call is going to be 1-2% at most, given that otherwise theres nothing scandalous to post. Second, do people just instinctively accept video calls, while they're naked? That seems very unlikely to me.
“Cruise showed KRON4 footage from the night of the incident to explain its side of the story. Due to Cruise company policy, the footage was not released for public consumption.”
Why would it be double the time ? At this point I would assume there is a proper CI/CD process and this should just be another target.

And when you look at Homebrew users versus App Store users they are like separate circles on a Venn diagram.

I am also building a Mac app and will definitely make sure it's on Homebrew. Crazy not to.
thanks for the comment. yeah, i expected as much.
pdf and rtf are totally different things. rtf is nearer html - in fact Apple Mail changed from rtf to html in very early OSX possibly 10.3
> In the before-times, [...]

You used to get full schematics along with the electronics you bought.

And by "get", I do NOT mean that you'd have to ask for them.

They'd be shipped WITH the products, on paper. It was a normal part of your purchase, just like the manual.
It's not that the PCs come with more strings attached than they did before - it's that many people, especially younger generation, are so used to those strings controlling their lives through their mobile devices and everything being a service, that they don't realize the same isn't true with a regular PC. At least isn't yet.
What does this mean, "WebKit based too"? WebKit is primarily developed by Apple, Safari is the canonical browser that uses it.

It is actually Google's Blink that split off of WebKit, not the other way around.
The pandemic your grandparents forgot about
> 2027: Non-WEI compliant websites are marked as "insecure" by Chrome and Safari. Accessing them requires confirmation through a "yes, I accept the risk" dialog box.

Did I misunderstand WEI? It's an API a website can use to confirm that a client is "authentic", so shouldn't this rather be "Goodle/Apple/Facebook/... drops support for Non-WEI compliant browsers".
They don't. I think the commenter was guessing by generalizing from software/subscription service ToS's, which are ubiquitous; plus the fusion of hardware/software in inseparable packages, like the iPhone hardware, which is a brick without an ongoing Apple subscription.
I would choose an domain which you can ping through the vpn and run traceroute against it. Then run the traceroute just through your normal internetconnection. Save the output on BOTH.
The next thing is contacting support via mail. On the phone its easy to say that you didnt do step x and hang up. Emails can also be send to responsible people, so it can reach the second level much easier.
And then what if the URL changes or the creator completely changes how it is hosted.

It seems odd to place the onus on users to help drive traffic for a paid product.
> and stops there.

What makes you think that's happening? This is just one of multiple things the EU has done and is doing about anti-competitive behavior. The EU has been doing far more than the US on this front. Don't mistake US complacency with the EU's efforts. It feels like you want to let "lesser" evils go in favor of just the "big" ones. Don't you see how immoral and problematic that is?

> but realistically aren't particularly major

Your opinion and not fact. It seems quite major to me.
> The reality is most “work” is fundamentally unchallenging, and with the exception of some smaller, early stage companies, the day-to-day will generally feel closer to high school than college in terms of complexity

About that. I want a job where I am challenged, can work in interesting problems, and appreciated for my effort. I would die of boredom in an unchallenging environment. My current goal is to get a PhD from a good uni. Research will be challenging, and as CS is a great field where you can get immediate feedback by just building things, even outside of your curriculum/task.

The courses or their complexity in college didn't hurt me- it's the bureaucracy- doing everything on their timelines, their ways. I aced in some courses, but overall grade was low. I simply avoided mandatory courses that I didn't find interesting.

I am not really fit for a common workplace. So, if I have to give up on very high achievements, I will settle for a job with job safety and lot of free time. Like working for the government. So that I have decent amount of free time for family, playing music, games, making Quantum Computing videos on YouTube, reading, and contributing to open source, and writing blogs.

Until I give up, I am going to push through for some more years (5-6) to get what I want in my life.

(I don't know if my thinking is right. :|)
I don't think they can carry information.
On the other hand Firefox development could be paid with a small fraction of Mozilla's current budget. They are doing all kinds of un-/semi-related stuff. But of course, it remains to be seen if the organization could survive such a financial drought.
That's a false equivalency and you know it. When I pay for electricity and computer hardware, that money doesn't go to any software developer. When I pay for a Windows license, that money goes to Microsoft who maintain WordPad.
Or support them...
> Many apps don't even bother with making functional webapps any longer

It seems they have gotten inside your head. If services are no longer that, but "apps", then of course people lose sight of the problem.
If you were stranded on the desert island, what would you need to watch for?
Greg's Slide Rules – Pickett N4-ES
Yeah, her bank has stationed a cop to stand at every website login and proactively arrest hackers before they can get at her money.
And before this new widget that is blocked on current month there was in prior macOS versions a calendar you could navigate month by month into, so this is a regression. Might give this calendar menu bar a try
> I also suspect that many of the people who accuse Tolkien of having too much of a black and white sort of morality would be offended if they read, for example, a history of World War 2 that humanized the Nazis.

History that humanizes Nazi still ends up with them as bad guys who knowingly and intentionally committed genocide.
Seems like the implementation was impractical, but it's basically what we do with Obsidian and any modern knowledge management software. Feels to me like it was ahead of its time.
A normal European debit card works everywhere. Cash-only establishments are uncommon. With that said I don't know how complicated the procedure is for a non-EU citizen to get a bank account (and with that a normal debit card) after moving to Sweden and having obtained a permit for residency. For EU citizens it's not a hassle.
I moved out of Mexico about a year and half ago into deep south Texas in order to stay warm and have inexpensive rent but not be in Mexico. And supposedly because I was going to watch the Starship launches in person but I am too lazy and broke for that.

This article makes me think I should definitely find another completely different inexpensive area to live when the lease runs out.

But the recommendation to build a wall and hope you can choke them off doesn't sound very promising. I also personally think part of the problem is the extreme wealth disparity between the countries. And I know people will say that is because rich Mexicans hoard wealth more or something but that's only part of it.

I just don't think you can have a "real" civil society without effective government. Despite how horrible we know government to be, we can see the alternative in Mexico today.

My own opinion is that it's a humanitarian crisis that doesn't actually stay outside of the US anyway, and at some point we need an integrated and functional cross-continental American government and much more relative equity in income between regions. And if you can approach that then maybe you can work on a reversal of the criminal culture.

My suspicion is that a lot of this is getting worse with deteriorating real-world economics.

I am interested to hear about this "build a wall and choke off the demand" thing could really work out in the long run. It doesn't sound effective or humane.
One of the weirder things I’ve seen is that many of the squatter sites include a “moral justification” page for lack of any better description where someone from the squatting agency handling the domain has written how their customers have made smart investments and deserve to be paid, replete with all kinds of analogies comparing domain names to other investments.
Dunno UK seems to be pretty far through outlawing e2e encryption... Dumb gets through sometimes, they only need to be lucky once
> In reality alternatives like UPI and other peer-to-peer systems are more likely to be the payment systems of the future.

i find that very hard to believe as the user interaction for qr codes is a step backwards from using an nfc with a phone’s wallet. and once you use the nfc solution it’s very hard to switch back to a system that is less friendly.

of course, if you take the QR codes out of the equation and replace with NFC then i see no issues.

> Continued Mastercard/Visa dominance in its current form only really makes sense in countries with outdated and inadequate banking infrastructure, like the U.S.

you are wrong. if anything the system is getting more widely used. europe for example has very advanced banking infra and is all in on nfc, with mastercard/visa/amex widely accepted, and the system is being adopted everywhere.
yes, germany loves cash. always has.
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You can in general convert any log base a to log base b by multiplying it by a constant factor of log base b (a)
I did not realise you were the author of TFA!
the battery is there to minimize drift not act as a power supplement?
The receiver don't have to be naked. So, here is the story that got me to look into this a bit to learn what was happening. Father-in-law don't keep all the phone numbers updated, so, he picks up all calls -- mostly video calls from his kids and grandkids.

One day, he picked up a WhatsApp Video, where the woman on the other end was pretty much naked. Father-in-law was in the couch and gave the phone to my wife, asking who is on the other end. After some verbal exchanges to stop calling us; a barrage of WhatsApp message began -- screenshots of a semi naked women and father-in-law on a video chat.

I ignored the first time wife complained. By the 3rd, or so message, I called up a friend to give them a casual call and let them know who he was. Yeah! This whole scamming to get people's picture in phone screenshots getting "viral" seems to be a common scam in India.
No you DONT. You must live in a very abusive country if you think that is normal.
Do you think apple will reintroduce it in the Mac Pros?