skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as backing up photos, most of you have too many photos. To make your life easier before downloading all these photos go through them with the critical eye, and ask yourself if people would be interested in seeing this photo 50 years from now.

This is so true. It doesn't even need to be with a super critical eye. People take multiple shots of the same subject then keep all of them. IMO if you are keeping all of them then none of them are special so delete them all. If you insist it is special but can't pick then just pick one at random and be done with it.

People are such hoarders when it comes to pictures and it means they never, ever look through them because there are far too many.
Allow me to say that your answer seems particularly naive.

As another HNer has already commented, control of physical space trumps any hacker doing anything. Particularly true when you can't simply H-Bomb an enemy, or the entire world would rise against you.
Show HN: FinWise – The modern way to manage your personal finances
Hi everyone, I'd like to share FinWise (https://finwiseapp.io) with you, which my wife and I have been building over the last few months.

FinWise is an all-in-one personal finance management tool, including budgeting, net-worth tracking, financial planning & forecasting and a couple of other things which we're still busy working on like couples/family budgeting and being able to set and track goals.

It's designed to make managing all your personal finances as simple, easy and painless as possible, and we've put a lot of effort into making the website as simple and intuitive, whilst still being powerful and offering a comprehensive set of personal finance tools.

A non-exhaustive list of things you can do with FinWise:

- Connect your bank & investments accounts with Plaid & Yodlee (Or manual imports).
- Currently US, CA and ZA. EU, NZ, AU and others coming soon!

- Track and visualize your net-worth.

- Budget and save money.

- AI transaction categorization (You almost never have to manually categorize your transactions).

- Transaction splitting, tags, notes and attachments.

- Import transactions with CSV files from Mint/Empower etc.

- Export account, transaction and insights data to CSV.

- Plan, project and forecast your future finances (In beta).

- Spending, saving and net-worth insights and analytics.

- Multi-currency support.

- Goals and goal-tracking (Coming soon).

- Developer API access (Coming soon).

- iOS/Android app (Coming soon).

- Privacy-focused. No ads, selling data or anything like that.

- Just about SOC2 and ISO compliant (No certificates yet, but I've done a few SOC2 certifications in the past.)

We made FinWise because we were not able to find a personal finance tool out there which offered all the features we wanted, and which was simple, intuitive and easy to use. There are lots of personal finances apps around, but we felt most were either too basic, over-complicated or too expensive, or limiting in some way.

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If you'd like to learn more and try it out, head over to our website: https://finwiseapp.io

If you have any feedback or questions, please let me know :)

Find us on X/Twitter:
Me: https://twitter.com/jasrusable
Nicol: https://twitter.com/NicolNvojacek
FinWise: https://twitter.com/Finwiseapp

PS: There are some interesting technical aspects of the project that we are particularly proud of which I am planning to do more in-depth posts on soon, namely:

- How we implemented our AI transaction categorization system.

- How we built the entire website to use optimistic loading, so no loading states.

- How we kept the codebases extremely simple and intuitive, allowing us to move quickly.

- Going open source once we hit critical mass.
What even defines "swearing" and what benefits do you gain from adhering to an arbitrary limit on your word bank?
Another UK person here.

In London. You can do just fine with only a card. Quite a few coffee shops and lunch places only accept cards.

In Nottingham I've not seen a place that only accepts card. The Buses still accept cash
Meaningful improvements stalled years ago, it's not exactly the 90s anymore. Games from the mid-2010s still look perfectly fine. "It's old" isn't an excuse if there's no real benefit to be had from upgrading.
I'd say instead of good, it's what I call gold plating. Not in the cheap fake not real gold way but in the "sure a gold plated muffler would be better than an aluminum or zink plated one", but is ultimately not the best place to invest that much resource.
Interesting thing. It does have clicking sound artifacts though. Is it the programming or some GC / other periodic thing in a browser kicking in?
Yes, and also: if anything, technology enables more than ever anyone to build anything. There may be discrimination if you need to rely on external help (investors, etc), but there are many very successful bootstrapped tech startups. You don't need anyone's approval to make money online these days. You just need time, the willingness to learn and a computer.
Not Easy
Receiving is only half of the conversation though - eventually you end up in a situation where you need to reply from the same address.

Also, be prepared for the tech support questions, the "I never received an email from X that they swear they sent", the "My emails seem to take ages to come through", the "My emails are ending up in the recipients spam folder", etc...
Agreed. I use
- A feed reader with multiple sources
- On X, I started by muting words and accounts. I now only watch one highly curated list
- Here
- podcasts
- Engaging with relevant people directly

I'm sometimes a bit late on new trends, but I spend more time on long forms and reinforce a meaningful network in the process.
The title doesn't seem to match the content. The comments are talking about hardware accelerated encode but I didn't see anything about accelerated decode being dropped.
Vimeo changed their model and are focused on paid business users now
Something that goes without comment by the uncritical author is Illich's vile comment that medical science and its quest to extend life at all costs "extends the suffering of cripples". In other words, he doesn't see the life of disabled people as having value.
> individual designers and engineers are not the right people for that

That kind of depends. The product-minded ones (who are naturally interested in the "producty" kind of work) are excellent people for that. So you may find that in some companies the people doing product work are either engineers or designers. I've often done that from the engineering side, and I've seen it done really excellently by UX designers too. In other companies you may have dedicated people.

In my experience, whether it works well or not is less a function of how the roles are divided and more a function of whether the individuals doing product work are good at product work (which is difficult to find, even when they are dedicated product specialists). I think I would probably argue that due to the nature of the job being a lot about connecting different functions of the business and synthesising into a coherent whole, product people tend (on average) to better at their job when they do also have experience with at least some of the other roles they are interacting with (although this isn't necessary to do the job well).
They just work. They aren't pledged, though, so no guarantees can be made about what they actually do.
Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First: Flexible Resource Allocation (1995)
Amazon Certificate Manager issues publicly-trusted certificates, so they have to abide by the validation rules mandated by the Baseline Requirements, which do not permit what you desire.

CAs have often sought to bypass domain or CAA validation for domains which they believe are hosted with them, and this has repeatedly proven to be a bad idea because it relies on the CA to maintain accurate records about what domains are hosted with them. The source of truth for this information is in the public DNS, so it's more robust to require CAs to check public DNS records.

See for example the now-forbidden DNS Operator Exemption to CAA, which I advocated to be banned after Microsoft bypassed CAA checking for domains which they thought they controlled but really didn't: https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/0T...

If your domains don't otherwise have public DNS records, maybe you should be using private certificates instead of publicly-trusted ones?
Using a more lenient host, and publishing the un-paywalled content on IPFS could be a more sustainable option that would also be harder to take down.
Great list that I wish we all would consider more seriously. Version two should edit the list down to core ideas to avoid repetition, and suggest some ways to address one or more of the items.
But it's also bloat on a rescue device. KVM has to and only has to work when a remote computer is unable to come back online, no need for computing power or app marketplace to fix that.
Other things aside, the style of war Russia is engaged in has little to do with the lack of (or neglect of or unimportance of) cyber aspect, it has more to do with the fact that Russian officials did not expect a war at all. For them it was more of "freeing good population from their bad and corrupt government", to the point that some troops had their parade uniform when going to Ukraine, to celebrate rather than to fight.
So the physical presence was a requirement since it is hard to parade remotely ;-)
[EDIT] Clarify the point
This article was published today.
> The radical change I'm referring to is the drastic cut in energy consumption to make renewables work at our current scale.

Unnecessary. You’re thinking linearly. We don’t need to cut energy consumption, it will be met and exceeded by the current exponential growth of renewables and storage. The “we have to do less” crowd are wrong and bad at math.

Aviation isn’t a solved problem yet but that’s still less than 3 percent of fossil fuel sourced greenhouse gas emissions. There are far more pressing concerns like banning domestic fireplaces.

I would be more concerned about the ocean shipping industry, one which is just screaming out for nuclearisation, but of course that would be protested by ignorant faux-environmentalists who care more about telling others what to do than what’s actually good for the planet. (For some light entertainment, read up about fractional distillation and learn about exactly what it is most cargo ships burn. It ain’t avgas, that’s for sure. But nobody cares because intercontinental trade doesn’t work as well as commercial aviation as a target for class warfare.)

> That means doing less things, which no one plans on doing.

No one plans on doing that right now. But once we divert the attention of astrochemists away from studying the terraforming of Mars and towards the intersection of politics and sociology, I’m sure they’ll come up with the solution.

> it seems we are not on the right trajectory

It would seem that way if you think linearly.
Yeah, thats the achivement too. I guess they are stick to 32bit protected mode of DOS, using DOS extender.
I don't think most of the programmers or managers knows about this, they just assume computation is right; and for sure the correctness check of the bank balance is done on the application level.
<< Maybe that's the issue with me. The more I learn, over years, the more cautious I become about forming an opinion.

Yep. Naturally, there is a weird social pressure to have an opinion now even if it ends up being just wrong later. Somehow just waiting is not acceptable. You need to take a stance and declare yourself as team A or team B ( or more ), which only adds to the further tribalization of our discourse.
> As far as backing up photos, most of you have too many photos.

Photography is a hobby for many people. I don’t think you get to prescribe people how to spend their time (curation takes a lot of it!) and/or money on their own enjoyment as long as it doesn’t harm others.

I have two close friends, both of them quite into amateur photography. One takes about 10 times as many photos as the other and never deletes any of them, the other is quite selective in what they shoot and even more selective in what they keep; their camera roll is their curated gallery.

They sometimes have a very hard time empathizing with the other’s approach, but both seem pretty happy with their choices :)
Adware and spyware are malware. Youtube delivers both. uBlock blocks them.
> It is an obviously wrong approach.

Is considering oneself an omniscient Oracle the right approach?

> If you have access to the opinion of people who devoted their whole lives to the field in question, why would you seek it from an influencer that perhaps gained fame from being an authority in a couple of non-related fields?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)

For myself, the domain(s) that the "influencer" has skills within is crucially important, as certain domains encompass or intersect with almost all others.

This is an interesting comment section from certain specific perspectives, but if one lacks the necessary background you could miss out on the show entirely.
> I've never understood why I as a consumer, even as a developer, would want to get interested in RISC-V, or any architecture,

Why are people into ham radio or trains or mechanical watches? Some people just find stuff neat.

I don't have any practical use for a RISC-V mobo that an x64 system couldn't handle. I just think it's cool. It excites me.
SiFive != RISC-V

Hopefully, we will be able to allow SiFive to fail gracefully and the architecture will keep going.
The problems typically arise when someone decides that everything everyone needs is coffee and internet. What is enough for you might not be enough for someone else, particularly people who grew up resenting the fact that they only had a few things.
It's not just about "opinion". Diversity of gender and ethnicity is important, because many tech products fail for users who are non-male and/or non-white. Some examples off the top of my head: facial recognition that doesn't recognize black faces, tracking technologies that ignore the issue of stalking, only giving two options "male" and "female", input fields that require US-style formats for names, phones that are too big for smaller hands, etc.
A first course in linear algebra still assumes background information, because linear algebra is not a basic topic. It’s not meant to be a first course in math. Math builds on itself and it would be incredibly inconvenient if every course everywhere would have to include a recap of basic things. And proofs are among the most fundamental things in math!

Programming courses or articles or books, beyond the 101 level, don’t teach you again and again the basics of declaring a variable and writing a loop either! No field does that.

Wrt linear algebra in particular, there are plenty of resources aimed at programmers thanks to its relevance in computer graphics and so on. They typically skip proofs and just tell you that this is how matrix multiplication is defined, but they don’t teach you math, merely using math. Which can be plenty enough to an engineer.
I guess they'd rather have people pirate it then.
> programable calculators are already on the edge in some exams

Flashback to 2 decades ago where I'd scan and OCR large parts of text then copied them onto my Casio calculator over the serial port it had (on a mini jack even, IIRC). Didn't have a lot of memory, but enough, especially after doing simple find/replace operations like replacing all 'the' with 't', 'and' with 'a' and so on.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybook...

"I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric."

(if you've never read the whole thing, it's worth it, far beyond the list)
HTM Spatial Pooler–A Neocortical Algorithm for Online Sparse Distributed Coding
Rules and regulations are not needed to constrain compassion, they needed to constrain sociopathy.

A Sign does not trigger an emotional response in me. My emotions were triggered by the action of the person walking their dog without a leash design told me that other people were compassionate, just like I am.
I am not a digital nomad but as a parent of 3 young children, I cannot even imagine doing something like this especially for a long period. So tough for kids. I think some have done it but stopped after 2-3 years. It must be extremely difficult to do it.
It didn’t require it. It just was one of the first major titles that supported full ray tracing. If you didn’t use that then it could run on much more modest systems and still looks great.
TIL am a criminal for working around restrictions of paywalled content using some browser addons.
Someone correct me on this but those companies only see the vendor and the amount - not specific items afaik. What I'd be more worried about are the rewards programs at the big retailers - that's the way to really analyze a persons behavior.
It was just an example of how exams that required calculation aids were in my school back in late 2000s.

Feel free to adapt it to modern days but the concept stays the same.
The whole greenwashing thing of big tech is mostly a scam in my opinion or at best delusional. Watching the Apple event and segment on recycling made me sick. It's reduce, reuse and only then recycle. Sitting there patting each other on the back for some recycling, while simultaneously sabotaging reparability and long term use, which goes directly against reuse. And what about reduce? Wild idea, release an iPhone every two years. More innovation per release, less limited resources used. But nooo, every time there is a conflict between their bottom line and not destroying the ecosphere, they pick the money. And they in this context are capitalistic companies, including Microsoft.

One can only convince me of their true values when they choose them when it's inconvenient to do so.
That last one seems like a pretty big deal though. It's not just how you tested, but "other critical information" about the model.

I imagine the government can deem any AI to be a "serious risk" and prevent it from being made public.
Large Language Models and the End of Programming – CS50 Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh [video]
I think we have seen that opposite is true. Both russia and its allies has a lot of hackers etc and so does Ukraine and its allies. Despite this we have seen very little use of hacking other than DDOS public site and defacing sites.
That review is completely respectable and something I would leave if an extension added popups asking for money to my browsing experience.
Great list I general, I mostly agree. But.

"Copycat companies & products stifling innovation"

I feel like if as a company you've made something that's easily copyable, then that's your problem.

Successful products are both popular & hard to replicate
Brings me back to all the time (and paper) I wasted in the 1970s writing programs to do abstract ASCII art on line printers. Watching those patterns made me feel like a child again!
Morally, I consider ads to be outright evil, especially the modern day cancer we call advertisement where they track every singular molecule of your existence. As soon as these scumbags stop hiring psychologists and other similar professionals to make the most addicting and psychologically impactful advertisements possible, then maybe I'll consider them less than pure evil.

I still have uBlock turned off on a few sites, though that list is becoming vanishingly smaller. 4Chan, funnily enough, has the best ads, where it's just old school banner ads on the top of the page and the very bottom of the page. No click hijacking, no embedded ads made to mimic organic content, no fucking audio and flashing lights ads. The only type of targeting those ads have is that the general audience that goes on 4Chan is into anime and Japan, both of which I don't care about. If the internet still had these kind of ads, I think adblockers would be much less of a "problem", but since 99% of them are invasive garbage, whoever is pushing them and whoever argues it's "immoral" to block them can go fuck themselves.
Sorry for the harsh words.

Obviously I can't speak about excitement but if you're worried about cost, you might want to research aws grant or things like that.

In 2019 my company invest in a startup, while doing IT due diligence I found out they get $100K AWS grant to be used for 2 years. Fyi this company business is writing articles about baby and almost no revenue at that time.
I had no problem reading it on my phone.
With the first assasination of politician, drones will be regulated harder than weapons in EU.
You could just use Kagi summarizer which cuts the BS too

https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html

The Road Ahead discusses the progress and future of RISC-V and SiFive. RISC-V has grown rapidly from a basic ISA to powering high-performance applications. SiFive has also expanded significantly but recently restructured to focus on the most promising opportunities like AI. While this caused speculation, the CEO explains they remain well-funded and committed to delivering the best RISC-V products. As AI is integrated everywhere, RISC-V is becoming critical for its flexibility and ability to meet power and performance needs. SiFive will continue driving the RISC-V revolution across industries like mobile, automotive and datacenters. The CEO is confident SiFive will revolutionize computing in ways not yet imagined.
If you are using TXT records like "029845yn0sidng0345randomnyosndgf03548yn" then how do you know which one to delete once you are not using that service? Do you just go back and forth between different services to find the one (some services only show this while you are in a validation phase, so finding them later might be a pain), or do you just leave them around?
You can bet some of those those IP's listed in the SPF record are going to be interesting to look at.
I wouldn't agree - consider the hyperbolic transforms used to describe space time "bending" wrt relativity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lorentz_transformat...

In mathematics, transformations equivalent to what was later known as Lorentz transformations in various dimensions were discussed in the 19th century in relation to the theory of quadratic forms, hyperbolic geometry, Möbius geometry, and sphere geometry, which is connected to the fact that the group of motions in hyperbolic space, the Möbius group or projective special linear group, and the Laguerre group are isomorphic to the Lorentz group.

Mathematicians were following up on "what happens when you discard one of Eucilids Axioms" and discovering there was an entire world of consistent hyperbolic geometry and more.

Some time later:

In physics, Lorentz transformations became known at the beginning of the 20th century, when it was discovered that they exhibit the symmetry of Maxwell's equations. Subsequently, they became fundamental to all of physics, because they formed the basis of special relativity in which they exhibit the symmetry of Minkowski spacetime, making the speed of light invariant between different inertial frames.

If you read mathematics histories it's a common complaint that it's nigh on impossible to discover something new and esoteric that doesn't soon end up with a military application; the ongoing search for interesting but useless mathematics is akin to the search for the fountain of youth.

It is the case (IIRC) that quaterions arose directly from Hamilton's search for a better way to describe mechanical motions in three dimension spaces - ie created to be useful from the outset.
Related: Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez. He wrote about a near future world in which non-state actors could use swarms of cheaply made drones to wreak havoc.