skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up entirely pre-smartphone, so my education was mostly handwriting except a couple typed papers a year (and then even more handwriting in college—oh, the hand cramps on tests).

A couple months ago I had to write about five sentences by hand, and it dawned on me that that single act was probably twice as much handwriting as I’d done the entire prior two years, not counting signatures and such.

It was a really weird thing to realize.
Yup. Think apple stores use paint brushes for this. They helped me with this once before.
As a VC you would be talking to people seeking priced rounds, not convertible debt. Angels started using SAFEs because YC started pushing them. It doesn’t mean that convertible notes aren’t better for founders. Founders will conform to the market.
> If the govt. banned credit cards, you will then ask why poor people can't get credit.

Or alternatively, poor people would get their credit more from alternative providers. Like payday loans or pawnshops, or even loan sharks.

Those alternative sources of credit have exactly the same problem with shady collectors. The article alludes to that, but decides to focus on credit card debt.

The article also implies that perhaps regulation that encourages banks to offload credit card debt from their balance sheet might be to blame. If you instead had regulations that encouraged banks to keep credit cards on their balance sheets, and/or to make it so that debt collection agencies have to keep mentioning the co-branded sponsors (like Apple and Amazon etc), then collectors might have more of an incentive to be less shady to protect the reputation of established brands.

Reputation of established brands is very, very valuable, and does not require a lot of paperwork or bureaucracy to self-enforce. So that might actually be a better fix than enshrining yet more 'customer rights' in law, that only the literate classes who know how to navigate bureaucracy can actually enjoy.
If you can get refrigerant to a lower temperature than -10, you can still grab heat from the outside environment thereby heating your house.
> I suspect most people don’t even need them but use them for cash back and consumer protection.

Then make a debit card system with cash back and customer protection.
And kill a system that screw people with useless debts when there is no need for it.

Btw

> Because the vast majority of people use credit cards without messing up their lives?

You never know where life bring you. I can certify you that "good", "honest", "responsible" people can also get screwed under a mountain debts because some unfortunate life circumstances brought that on them.

This system just make that much easier.
In an age where the typical user has to install and reinstall games because storage is limited and games are getting heavier and heavier... that's going to be a problem.
I've seen some Valliant, Edel Auer Air, and Itho Daalderop heat pumps using propane have compressor issues. First generation issues, hopefully.
It's about clay tablets.
The most wonderful new hidden feature in iOS 17 and macOS 14
Credit cards are one of the few things where it feels like you're rewarded for playing by the rules and being prosocial and responsible. Everything else in society is set up to punish the middle class and the well-behaved, or so it often feels. So I very much doubt you'd get the middle class to vote for getting rid of them; if anything with the current breakdown in social trust I'd expect the opposite.
it's the web. links die. There's enough there to find the papers if you care. Which you clearly don't.

>Excel keeps all the bugs for backwards compatibility

They /fixed/ rand(). Announcements. Fanfare. The fixed version returned numbers less than zero.

yet again excel's calculating issues go way beyond double precision floating point truncation.
Good luck with generation-spanning vendettas created by such approach.
We can pontificate on how to define the scope of a system here. I will only state that, from the perspective of a consumer, you could consider this a Service on which the interface of find flight, book flight, etc. would appear to be the same while the connections internal to each of the above modules would have to account for the change.

Functionally, I suppose it's the equivalent of upgrading an ID field that was originally declared as an unsigned 32 bit integer to a wider 64 bit representation. We may not be changing anything fundametal in the functionality, but every boundary interface, protocol, and storage mechanism must now suffer through a potentially painful modification.
Assassin's creed mirage is supposed to come out next year, which would be roughly 3-6 months behind the console/pc release. Not quite 7 years.
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Agreed.

You can indirectly see some of this happening though: lots of places with lower margins (ie cheaper prices) won't accept American Express, but might accepts Visa and Mastercard. That's exactly because of the difference in fees.

If you go shop at merchant A that accepts American Express, you pay a higher price no matter how you pay. But if you have a non-American Express means of payment, you can shop at merchant B, which has lower prices overall (no matter how you pay). The economic effect is similar to directly passing on the fees transparently.
what proportion of excel use does this? 0.000000001% or not as much as that in your view?
In the past fews years, it feels like Unity had exactly one programmer for each important package like SRP/UI Toolkit and all the other employees were sales and PR.
Can you provide a larger context length? Looking for a replacement of GPT-3.5 16k model. Might be interested for a higher-scale project.
Nah I just pretend to pity them for working at a soul sucking job when with their 'superior' minds they could have been solving some real problems humanity faces.
I bought some cheap Chromebooks (100-150 euros, second hand), and removed nearly every app on them, apart for one for writing.

Having a separate device for separate tasks, can often be quite useful.
And with it goes millions of cables to the landfill
I made an open-source Pashto dictionary with a (local-first) word list (with spaced repititon review) that syncs with PouchDb/CouchDb. It's a free dictionary but you pay to get the word list sync. The whole dictionary is designed to be an offline-first SPA so a local-first DB/sync for the word made sense.

https://dictionary.lingdocs.com
Think this technique is often used to prevent the presenter from swaying side to side.
Well, challenging the debt on legal grounds shouldn't negatively impact your FICO score.

Presumably also if enough people broke this system, debt collection would be forced to change in a way that made it harder for people to do this. It is perhaps better if people who can manage to pay it do, so people who can't retain the ability to exploit the bad recordkeeping in the system as it is today?
All flakiness I’ve observed in code I’ve written has been dominated by things like “this job isn’t getting enough cpu cycles and the test assertion is too aggressive in such a scenario” or “lack of CPU cycles is triggering a race condition” or “statistical test X isn’t written robustly”. Not sure how containers solve these problems. My point being that this tool solves some problems for some teams and maybe for a lot of teams that struggle with this problem, but hard problems remain and this isn’t a silver bullet for that. You can’t outsource stability of the project-specific test infrastructure which is where most of the cost lies these days I think.
Free market is only possible because of regulators in the first place. Libertarians conveniently ignore this fact.
> Giving people bad at personal finance a free ride is not

I get what you're saying but if you've ever gotten to "I now have enough credit card debt for it to be A Problem", the baseline level of stress in your entire life gets pretty high. That doesn't mean that suddenly everyone has "learned their lesson forever", but especially for stuff like "I was bad at personal finance in my 20s, and now I am better but the debt is still around and a problem", helping people with that debt can just make somebody's life much better.

Nothing is guaranteed but if it were a family member and you had a way to clear out some stuff for pennies on the dollar, it feels like the right sort of thing to do.
Admittedly, the only thing I know about Jane Street is that the FTX sociopaths cut their teeth there, but I'm sure the rest of them are great.

You're right that market bending is too abstract for most of us to appreciate the benefits, but markets abstract away the humans, too. I don't pretend that the industry ever knows when to stop making markets efficient and ask for regulation because they're making paperclips out of all of our savings. Whatever benefit they produce should be a tool wielded by boring technocrats.
People also like to emotionally justify how they're better than others.

In some cases it takes on the form of a phrase like "world-weary nihilism".
A simple server uptime monitor util
It's for people who owns a lot of servers/computers at home and need to monitor its uptime.

For safety reason, it's impossible to expose the system to the public internet, we can only use the "push" strategy to report the up status. This tool is just for this purpose: request an URL at some interval repeatedly.

Recommend to use this with uptime-kuma (https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma)
Non alcoholic beer, wine, and champagne are pretty good. Athletic brewing and Brewdog make the best craft NA beer and they are amazing. NA corona, Bud zero and heneniken zero are good too. Same flavor profile as the original. I haven't tried NA gin or NA bourbon yet.
That is just another symptom of the problem I would say. Although it does happen, there are other mechanisms in place to protect you from fraud, which discourage fraud in the first place. I’ve been paying with debit cards for more than 15 years in Europe, tens of thousands of transactions and not once did I need to reverse one.
Size, your fridge needs a compressor and cooling system that is an order of magnitude or two less powerful than something needed to heat/cool your house. Even a car aur conditioning system is way bigger and more powerful than a fridge/freezer.
I want to run Assassin's Creed Mirage on a phone, that sounds really cool. I've wondered for years why people have to buy all these portable consoles when the iPhones in their pockets already out spec them.
Intel Xeon Max 9480 Deep-Dive 64GB HBM2e Onboard Like a GPU or AI Accelerator
NoSQL databases (in the sense of key/value stores) are a very old idea. I never understood why that was such a hotness. The pendulum never stops I guess.
I feel like you're conflating a few different things here.

Small pages and interactions are good, sure, but I don't really see a tension between this and local first. My homepage is static HTML (minus google analytics) and it works offline.

The multi-mb JS bundle is also a red herring. The only multi-mb JS bundle I ever worked with did not work offline at all. Feel this is orthogonal.

Also connectivity for people is usually something that changes with time. You have it in the farmhouse, but not out in the field. You have it at the office, but not on the road. So downloading stuff when you have connectivity and still being able to read/write what you don't is the real aim of the game here.
> credit cards offer credit. Essentially quick loans upto a limit with zero collateral

You say this like it is an unequivocal good, but I don't think it necessarily is. The world functioned before it was common to have instance frictionless access to a no-collateral high-rate loan.

Also, may I remind you these are for-profit loans, and the very article we're commenting under is about how they are disproportionately used to shake down poorer people.

I'm sure you can twist numbers in either way to say credit cards are net good or net bad for poor people, but it's not unquestionably good at the very least.

> Remember, nobody forces you to use credit cards.

Except two factors realistically do encourage you to. Merchants generally charge fixed prices regardless of whether you pay with credit/debit/cash. That price includes their expected credit card fee overhead, so because everyone else pays with a credit card, the price is higher. You pay that higher price whether you use a card or not, and only get the points/miles/cash back/whatever if you also use a credit card.

Secondly, credit scores force me to use a credit card. For some reason, private companies control my credit score, and my salary, savings, etc have no bearing on it.

Originally, I refused to use credit cards since I find them an unethical tool to transfer money from the poor to the rich, and so I had no credit score. When I went to rent an apartment, the landlord checked my credit score, and then could legally turn me away for not having one. Jobs I applied for checked my credit score, and could legally reject me.

I feel like the private credit agencies, and how widely credit scores are used, has in fact forced me to use a credit card, or else run the risk of each landlord running a credit check and then turning me away.
Can't comment much for Samsung quality, but that's a very slick looking matte design that will.. not match many residential units.
> Because people want one thing.

> The one officially-blessed Taylor Swift album. The one version of Beethoven's Fifth.

Millions of people have bought vinyls/CDs/MP3 replicas of these albums. These are not scarce works. The demand is not for the scarce original (who even knows what that means when it comes to music), it's for a faithful recreation of the artist's work and creative output.

On top of that, nobody who listens to these albums really just wants one album... they want to listen to music that moves them. Taylor Swift fans will listen to other albums that she puts out, and music from other artists that they enjoy. When Beethoven released his 6th symphony, it didn't make his 5th any less valuable to those who enjoyed it.

Because for most people, the value of art comes from its intrinsic beauty, not its "scarcity". Unless if you're someone whose only attachment to art is as a vehicle for financial speculation, which is sad but unfortunately common in NFT circles, etc.

> But if that's not true, it should be possible to point to, say, a series of similar paintings or musical compositions that are all famous.

Have you heard the term genre before? It's literally a word for a group of similar musical compositions. Most genres contain plenty of similar compositions that are all famous.

If people enjoy a work of art, there is almost always other popular art made that's similar to it. Turns out, you get bored if you just listen to one album over and over again.

When it comes to art, most people enjoy variety, it doesn't "confuse them" lol. This is clearly reflected in the market, as there are hundreds of unique genres of music, each with thousands of unique artists.
I am in computational chemistry which has some crossover with Materials Science. AI is useful for speeding up simulations, doing molecular interaction predictions, doing property predictions, doing molecular docking. LLMs are helpful as research assistants and helping design and run experiments. https://atomictessellator.com/

For example, my latest module (I am putting the finishing touches on this as we speak) uses LLMs to review catalysis literature and then summarize that and control another coding LLM that has been trained to run the simulation tools I created to try and reproduce the works in the papers. Yes, it works, the first catalyst discoveries were made just a few days ago.
Siri is nowhere near Apple quality standards as it is. had a fun experience with Siri the other day where I ended up sending someone the message "I'm just leaving now what the fuck are you doing", because it heard me, and showed absolutely no acknowledgement. Not the sort of message I ever want to send to an ex, but here we are.
OP said "all of it gets you drunk, which is what you're after"
100% agree, and it's scary.

By the way, did something like activeadmin pop up?
Guns and alcohol banned in Europe? That will surprise my hunting, schnaps-drinking grandfather. My gun-smithing hometown and the people at the Glock factory will be shocked.

I will need to tell them.

Jokes aside: guns are regulated where I am from, they are not banned. That means you have to have a weapons license and store guns properly. That license can be revoked and the guns taken if you have shown to be not mature enough to carry them, by e.g. threatening people or acting unresponsibly with guns. Xertain guns require special permits or expertise to be handled. And if you wanna shoot with LMGs, enter the military. Sounds reasonable right?

And alcohol? Legally we are allowed to drink beer at 16, hard alcohol at 18 — how is it at your place?
The new system on a chip is an insane innovation but it’s “under the hood”.
I was skeptical at first too, but yep, current AirPod Max model uses Lightning to charge.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211886
I didn't read anything I would want on my Mac. It seems to me that widgets would create confusion by taking actions I did not explicitly order. I don't want "clever" software mucking around in my thought processes. Sounds like another Touch Strip.
I think one approach is to complement tech with its analog/mechanical equivalent.

Have people play on a real piano but also complement with garage band. Use mechanical type writers alongside Microsoft word.

Get kids to understand the origins of many of our digital tools.
This was entertaining to watch because it felt like a parody, a silicon valley marketing sketch. The intros/outros, strained but restrained excitement, over things that are marginal impact.

Like most years, the iphone is iterative. The iphone 15 is better than 14. This is good.

14 was pretty neat with SOS. What was the last "big" update to an iphone, that really shifted the market? Face-ID? removing the front button?
The New Yorker had a great article earlier this year, by Pulitzer Prize winner William Finnegan, about Penn Station [1]. It's filled with examples, in case we needed any more, of how a handful of insanely rich people in this country can thwart the public good.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/the-fight-over... (Archived: https://archive.ph/HSsxD )
> What seemed like a straightforward review at the outset became absolutely fascinating, especially when we pulled all of the DDR5 memory from a system and watched it boot

I wonder X3D CPUs could do this with firmware that disables memory training and fills the caches so all memory accesses hit the ~100MB cache. Not particularly useful, but it would be neat
I'll point out that Samsung is a massive organisation that builds everything from TVs to Artillery to Ships.

10 years ago I bought a Samsung 4k TV, Bluray+Surround system, Fridge and front-load washing machine at roughly the same time.

All of them are still working.

The washing machine is flawless, despite being basically neglected most of the time.

The fridge is great so long as you don't over-crowd it.

The TV and surround system look and sound great, but the software got worse after purchase and they now work better as 'dumb' devices. HDMI CEC audio dropouts went away when I switched to Optical.

I will in the next 6-ish months be replacing the TV and surround system, but not with Samsung despite their still amazing looking TVs, I don't trust their software not to do dumb/annoying things.
Here is a good one guided by Wim Hof himself: https://youtu.be/tybOi4hjZFQ?si
> Dagger devs have de facto abandoned that language entirely in favor of churning out SDKs for the most popular programming languages— all imperative, all Turing-complete, and all, imo, bad fits for the space.

Disclaimer: I’m the CEO of Dagger.

You’re right that we offer SDKs for popular languages, which happen to be imperative. But Dagger remains a declarative system, so what you liked about the earlier versions is still there. The trick is that we moved the declarative layer from static CUE configurations to dynamic GraphQL queries. Then we generated client libraries in various languages from the GraphQL schema. So not only can you still declaratively construct your DAG like before, you can do it in whatever language you prefer. You can even run a DAG directly in pure GraphQL: see https://play.dagger.cloud which lets you do this straight from the browser.

A useful analogy is SQL: it’s a declarative language that is commonly combined with another, often imperative, language.

I hope you find this message useful and consider giving Dagger another chance.
Show HN: Convert JavaScript to TypeScript with ChatGPT
The ability to be bidirectional only requires a $20 valve (first result from a search is https://www.amazon.com/Fdit-Conditioning-Reversing-Refrigera...). That's not the reason for the cost.
I’m currently finishing a degree in Business Analytics and Management, though I have experience involved in business ops at a startup that was acquired and as an analyst/dev.

The more I’ve learned, the more I realize you can’t just halfass a new business idea part time, it takes relentless drive to push through obstacles when the going gets rough (money/time/talent attrition/competition/life) and nothing stays stable forever. Amazon started out as a bookstore and Digg is barely known by anyone anymore. Simple ideas go through the same lifecycle as anything else, just on a different timeline.

That said I’d be happy to pitch a few ideas and talk more. After all, that’s why I pursued this degree in the first place.
> This strikes me as the same as saying “but the homeless person might take my $5 to buy whiskey instead of a hot meal.”

Which is still a valid point. Don’t give cash to homeless people.
The post writes about multiplayer, especially at the end. In games, but also in basically every other application, there is a state known to players (the cards in hand, the map around, etc) and a state that must be secret (the cards of the other players, the rest of the map, etc.) The server with the knowledge of all the state can be a client like the others but it has access to the real database. It can have the code to resolve interactions between players or that code runs locally to players too.

In complex turn based games there is a lot to do locally before sending the move to the server. Think about moving tens of units on a map. The problem here is of there are unknown parts of the map to explore. You need a connection to the server. However anything else will run faster because it doesn't have to hit the network and a round trip to the database on the server.

The post writes about Figma being developed local first. You don't have to hit the network while drawing, if you don't have to collaborate with someone on a shared document. Then you send the state to the server and your private state becomes known to all the other coworkers.
The only time I've ever had to dispute a charge is when I bought something from a website that had apparently gone out of business without taking down their site. Weeks passed after my order, I reached out multiple times, and I never heard a peep from them. I just logged in to my Chase account, disputed it, got my money back instantly, then went on with my life.

That doesn't sound like something that's super easy to prevent.
You're not alone. My lightning to USB-C cables always break at USB-C side but not Lightning side. Also, a USB-C port in my M1 laptop stopped working and needs repair (and no, flossing pick doesn't help). I actually am wary about this change.
Another good example of resting and vesting. When you have million of $ RSU in your account, why bother getting new & cool stuff on the market.
That was great. Facebook?!?!?!?!?