skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, banks are allowed to legally sell financial poison?

You will rarely catch me defending the banking industry... but what you're calling "financial poison" here is just how mortgages work in most of the world. A variable rate loan isn't inherently predatory, that's how most loans work.

There are many legitimate reasons a buyer might prefer a variable rate mortgage: the trade off is easy to understand. It takes ten seconds to do an internet search for "interest rates past 30 years" and see the risk. I refuse to accept that most people with ARMs were taken advantage of.
> If the electrification saves money, then people will happily pay up for a technician

That’s the problem: it often doesn’t. I’d have an air-to-water heat pump heating my house today if the quotes I got were remotely cost-competitive with a replacement gas boiler. A payback of “never” or “not within the projected lifespan of the equipment”, coupled with far fewer people who can service the equipment and far less likelihood that any part you need will be right on the truck, means that a lot of houses, including my own, have a gas boiler installed and maybe will electrify in 20 years if it’s competitive then.

I’d have even paid a small premium ($3-6 thousand? Sure! But not well into five figures) to go air-to-water, but not 2-2.5x as much to buy into a possibly hard-to-service (due to lack of experienced techs with non-standard equipment, not because the equipment itself is a problem).

The UK is so far ahead of the US in air-to-water that it’s crazy to think we share a planet.
And how much did you help her when she was still alive? I think your complaint is unjustified.
Physical labor has a shelf life as the body ages. Need a way to give folks a path to skill and earn and eventually transition to less physical work as they age, using what they've learned to contribute in more knowledge based roles (staff electrician, etc).
I’ll chip in as john.<reasonably common surname>@icloud.com.

I still get email from AT&T for John Notreallyme who I believe is in his 80s and lives in Montana. He signed up in-store and I got emailed all of his details.

I got the first email that asked me to confirm my email address. Obviously I did not do that.

It makes no difference. I don’t know why they bothered.
I had a go at something like this when my kids were born. We were after names that could be pronounced in both Danish and Gujarati. After grabbing name lists from various websites, I generated phonetic translations of each name, and then looked at the names that had the shortest edit distances in the phonetic representation between both languages. It was a great exercise in taping bits of software together, and I ended up coming down to a shortlist of 7 names. I very proudly showed this list to my wife, and she showed me her list of names that she had written down.

Turns out two of the names were on both the lists, so we went with them. I have a feeling that it wasn’t so important that they were on my lists.
Fellow nic addict of 18 years here. If you haven't yet I'd recommend trying out Tabex. I'm still addicted but was able to cut it off by like 85% this year with its aid.
John von Neumann Interview [video]
They sent out a warning to every single one of their users about this. It's that big of a deal.

But unfortunately it's not as big a deal as microsoft's other fuckups.
The only video footage I've managed to find of John von Neumann.
Ubuntu Unity DE used to offer this for all GTK apps through the HUD. You could hit alt and type to get to the menu item you need.

Gnome turned out to be a poorly thought-out opinionated mess, learning all the wrong lessons from Apple's work.
CTF Writeup: Abusing select() to factor RSA
You can see the town Grindavik (camera 1) shake regularly. Could be the wind, or one of the 800 earthquakes per day.
You should have taken those Monopoly sets to the Sentimental Value Pawn Shop.

https://youtu.be/wTfDh2LlOHo?si=oawJZn1pSzCQ488J
Does the government also oppresses you when they take away the option of companies selling you lead-poisoned food and shit luke this?

Regulation is, in the vast majority of cases, good.
Nvidia, even on Wayland since the latest 545 driver, works just fine if you use the proprietary drivers.
I wonder if positivity is linked with confidence on some subconscious level
The lack of trained electricians is a short term hurdle. But there will be a surplus of people with all sorts of skills related to gas and oil based heating systems that can retrain to become electricians. And a shortage usually means the money is good. So, that's an incentive.
I turned on new outlook briefly when the banner popped up at home.

Then I got rid of it entirely when the top unread email was an ad instead of actual emails. The fuck?
High prices are part of the problem, but I don't doubt that this stuff could sell at these high prices if they were able to keep them on offer long enough. If old phones aren't cool right now they will be again soon enough. More likely somebody is going to make a killing in the estate sale.

The website could use a little work. I actually like the old school design, but higher rez photos, re-organization (there are five different places for novelty phones! https://www.phonecoinc.com/list.asp?map=1), and removing sold out models (or at least moving them to their own section) would make using it a lot easier.
What an awesome contribution from German government. Thank you! Unsurprisingly, there is a lot whiners here. Linux desktop scene is full of those circle jerks. Can't we just relax for a bit and be thankful for the fact that one of prominent Linux desktops got a nice little funding. No sir, complaining, and whining are the way of life around here.
Obsidian for sure. You can export the pdf with the same styling you see on screen.

You can also use it to make your book a knowledge base.

Check out their docs for an example of what can be achieved.

https://docs.obsidian.md/Home
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler, and Enterprise Integration Patterns, Gregor Hohpe.

both predate microservices, and both are still very useful today.
This is the same problem as white-hat security: you need people who know an awful lot about how bad guys work but are good guys. Security has developed a legitimate market over the years, but that took time.

You could try to ask independent consultant(s) who you trust to work on that problem and let them grow that practice. The problem is that they would need to have access to marketing platforms.
I'll never forget when I was a freshman in college in 2010, someone from the language team at Google came to give a talk on this new little Go programming language they were working on. (For the life of my I can't remember who it was and that makes me very sad.) And ironically at the time my biggest thought was seeing the hand-drawn gopher and thinking "THAT'S the logo they're going with?!"

At that time it was this cool but incredibly niche new thing...and now that gopher is iconic and the language is extremely popular. Who would have guessed what it would become?

I think becoming the go-to language in the cloud native/kubernetes landscape has really helped the popularity as well.

Personally between Go, Ruby, and some Bash I never feel tempted to reach for any other languages to get my work done.
Yes, but only because nicotine is cheap, easily available, won't cause any real immediate problems or drain your bank account.

As a substance its no where near as addicting as heroin, no one would actually ruin their lives for nicotine in case it was illegal and expensive.
China permits SMIC founder to have churches on company campuses (2008)
I have the first edition and thoroughly recommend it. The rules he sets out seem to adequately account for any architecture. I’m slightly surprised that the second edition covers microservices.

Have you read it? Do you know what angle he takes on them?
Wouldn't it be accurate to say that as far as GUI toolkits the gate keeping is really just GTK? Few seem to complain about QT being to minimalist.
And a better vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTd9q7Livrw
Why use IIFEs in JS now that we have block-scoping with let/const and modules to isolate data? (open question)
There isn't honestly that many email clients left. What do you suggest they use, Thunderbird,.. and what, The Bat?

Outlook comes with Windows, it works.

What in some sense has me worried is that even Microsoft doesn't really care about native applications anymore. It's rather hard to take a software company serious, when they don't even want to develop to their own native API. The whole thing is primarily a result of Outlook becoming a blood webapp.

Is there honestly any reason why they couldn't bundle the real Outlook, the one they sell to businesses?
> "The results from our studies revealed a consistent, and to the best of our knowledge not previously identified, nuanced pattern, wherein the tendency for women to disclose more than men depends crucially on the nature of the information shared."

Just to clarify: when these papers say "not previously identified", that is academic vernacular for "not previously written up in a peer-reviewed article", not "hasn't been pointed out thousands of times in history by everyone from poets to stand up comedians".
I don’t understand why people don’t understand this.

We put solar panels on our roof not because we love the environment or civilization or are worried about saving the planet but because it ultimately would save us money on utilities. For everyone else on our local electric monopoly who didn’t lock in rates with a buyback agreement, they are now paying more for electricity, installation of solar panels costs about the same, but their break even period is nearly twice as long. We are a lot less retro-fit solar installations now.

Would I like an electric car? Probably, but the economics don’t work for us. 15 years ago I estimated gas would need to be above $5/gallon for years to justify the cost of a hybrid, let alone a full EV. We got close to that in the last year, but now fuel is back around $3.50 and once again the economics don’t work.

When compact fluorescent came out, I bought them to reduce lighting costs by 50%, and then did the same with LEDs. I’ve replaced 1000W servers in my house with systems that can run in dozens of watts.

I can deal with a 3-10 year pay back on long term items (stove, heaters, etc.). Our electric company, however, cannot be trusted, so I do everything in my power to reduce what I use from them. Unfortunately (or fortunately), our NatGas provider has not screwed people over so thoroughly. I have no intention on replacing gas appliances only to be more beholden to the electric company.
I don't think those examples are similar.

A tenured professorship or position at a prestigious institution provides a lot of resources and status that the minimalist approach does not. I don't know a single professor who would accept living in the very modest setup I proposed.

Also, I don't know any research organization that provides room and board for long-term faculty/staff. IAS does not work that way. Surely there are universities that provide room and board for graduate students, and some summer research internships will provide room and board. But those cases are rare in my experience in the US, and are only be temporary at best.
Have you done actual GI / microbiome tests before and after to see any cause/effect? Sounds a bit extreme when you could just follow the 4 K's of Kefir, Kombucha, Kimchi, and Kraut over a long period of time.
A friend of the family was half-Norwegian and half-Kiwi. He was born in Norway and his parents named him Bernt, a common Norwegian name.

When they moved to New Zealand, he quickly found that his name was pronounced "burnt", and after some time decided to change his name to Brent.

Many years later he moved back to Norway, and quickly realized "brent" is Norwegian for "burnt"...
What is the point you are implying?
That’s an application, not a DE, problem. There is no reason to use the defaults if you have particular needs, or spend much time in some environment.

People don’t make much art in MS Paint, or code in Notepad, despite those being the default for most computer users.

I think GNOME is very explicit in pushing you towards using independent applications that best fit your needs, while also providing simple to use, but not very feature-rich, defaults. I appreciate that approach.

That was my point: I understand who power users of terminals are; I understand who power users of graphics software are; I understand who power users of CAD are. But a DE is a glorified application launcher; there really isn’t much there of which to be a power user.
We may have different definitions of "nice" here: it's easy to drop $20k on a single Italian leather sofa.
> One reason is that you pay up front for access to annual slot. You really have to want to go every year at the same time to the same place.

Our neighbor's timeshare works by paying for X weeks/year, but then they reserve the weeks they want, reservations open a year ahead of time. The weeks are not fixed.

(Absolutely not defending the world of products sold with high-pressure sales tactics.)
This is great. Running Wayland has only been getting better.

Hoping this transition to default will get the attention of developers at Zoom, and they can get screensharing to work in their native app without resorting to browser mode or some virtual camera hack. My biggest gripe for sure.
> This does not solve the problem that many of us do not want to hire convicted criminals.

The issue that keeps people from hiring ex-offenders isn't hard to solve:

One part is social. This one requires a little leadership and a little bit of re-defining what is an acceptable attitude.

The other part is a financial issue and is EASY to solve politically: most business insurers will raise rates or not insure companies that hire ex-offenders.

In my home state we were able to get a law passed that shifted liability for a hired ex-offender who committed a crime on the job to the state so insurers could not make hiring ex-offenders ridiculously expensive.

We were able to sell the idea to our legislators and local city councilors with a simple trade: the Democrat-controlled city council wanted to pass laws making it illegal not to hire ex-offenders. The Republican-controlled legislature wanted to give tax credits to businesses that hire ex-offenders. I suggested instead of passing unconstitutional laws or handing out corporate welfare we could solve the problem by making it illegal to charge more to insure a business that hires an ex-offender, and at the same time, absolving the insurer of having to pay claims because of the hire. The city and state decided to try it out, and it's helped a lot of people over the past eight years.
The crucial piece is your link is:

> 4To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments.

This has been interpreted that any objectively possible way to de-anonymize is reasonable. In particular, considering that all the data of the organization doing the anonymization can be used to try to de-anonymize.
Read Ed Yong's book "I Contain Multitudes". This area has been more/less blocked for many decades and with recent innovations and pipelines we may be able to start finding causal patterns.
I’ve received two data breach notices in the past week, one from my healthcare provider and the other from the bank that holds my mortgage.

In both instances they said to lock my credit, and provide free credit monitoring for a year.

I find this egregiously insufficient to the point where I think we need more regulation in this space. They should provide lifelong credit monitoring and full insurance on any financial fraud that now occurs on my behalf, as well as immediate presumptive financial compensation.

That aside, the root cause here is that identity in the U.S. is a dumpster fire. We have no distinction between unique identifier (SSN) and secret (also SSN). Every other security question is just another version of the same factor type (something you know) which is easily accessible to scammers.

There is quite literally no agreed upon way to prove you are who you say you are.

We need DMVs to begin issuing IDs that are physical with digital capabilities, like credit cards. We need the equivalent of Apple/Android Pay for identity online. We need to mandate that banks support digital IDs. And we need strict enforcement for people who misuse a digital ID.

I believe that the consequence of ignoring this problem is at least tens of billions of dollars in GDP annually lost to fraud. And perhaps more importantly, it’s an insidious erosion of our status as a country of laws.
Another fun one was the Netflix Prize, where Netflix published an anonymized dataset, but some researchers at UT Austin were able to de-identify many/most of the users in the dataset by linking them to IMDB profiles based on preferences.
I’ve not seen much on HN I’d consider ruthless. It’s just not sugar coated. Places like product hunt are pure sugar IMO.
Ugh. English <-> Mandarin names are just a mess. Most of the suggestions can't even be expressed phonetically in Mandarin.

English <-> Russian is much better, but it misses the mark a lot. It also offers a lot of names that are too informal (e.g. Tanya is an informal variant of Tatiana).
Or just leave it open to (presumably) prevent its future use.
> Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Make your llama generation time fly with AWS Inferentia2
But solar has <50% efficiency so you're looking at less efficiency overall. But yeah seems finicky. And won't you need to also spend a bunch of extra energy desalinating/distilling for either option?
Agreed. I drink coffee because I like the taste and the caffeine gives a little boost. I could be said to be dependant on caffeine, as I get withdrawal symptoms on cessation (headaches) - but I feel no compulsion to drink coffee, as there would be with addiction.
It's not going to end well either. See also the urgent push to switch everyone to electric from natural gas. Up until now, energy sources were diverse (oil, gas, renewable).

Literally everything is going to depend on a centralized grid for energy delivery. Can't drive, cook, work, or do much else anymore without electricity from The Grid. Your solar panels feed the grid before they feed you.

We haven't seen warfare on our home turf since the 1800s and never really had to consider what happens when infrastructure gets attacked. We're only now starting to learn what happens when supply chains are compromised.
Svelte/SvelteKit is currently killing it in increasing popularity. It is easy to learn and fixes design patterns around some of React's hard to learn and long to type patterns like state management and reduction, and integrated server-side rendering.

I recommend to take a look

https://svelte.dev/

Naturally it is smaller and newer than React. But innovation is born from the fact people want to make something better than React.
Why do they get passwords by viewing your mailbox
> East Asians work even more and they seem to be overtaking the Western Civilization lately.

I think East Asian working culture is pushing the limits of human physiology and psychology. I've seen documentaries on South Korean work culture, for example, where people consistently receive less sleep than is healthy because they work so much. To use the example of Korea again, their work culture is probably contributing to the low birthrate which is ultimately counterproductive.

There's a vignette I've heard about a movie theater. Imagine someone in the front of the theater stands up to get a better view. The person behind them then needs to stand up to maintain the same view. Eventually everyone is standing up, with the same view as before and more uncomfortable than when they were sitting. It's an analogy for heavy work cultures, which can be counterproductive and unnecessary after a certain point.

Could French work culture be more productive than American, or Korean, work culture? I don't know, but it's not simply a matter of measuring short term outputs and ignoring externalities such as rates of depression, alienation, poor health, or low birthrates.
Had government acted as quickly as their population wanted them to st the beginning (that is: before it was too late), stay-at-home could have lasted much less time: when a things double every 4 days and take 2 weeks to half, waiting just 16 days before lockdown makes you need two additional months of lockdown to get back to the same point, which is exactly my point about people in charge not acting before it's too late.
The opioid epidemic has killed a good chunk of my friends over the years. It was rampant in the form of "cheese" when I was a teen; one of my closest friends was left to die when he began vomiting from an overdose. When I was in the Marines I saw Marine after Marine prescribed opioids for pain and injuries after deployments, many of them separated out and continued using. As an adult I've lived in the Bay Area and Portland; I've gotten to observe first hand what culture these drugs cultivate on our streets. I've gotten to see opioids make their way, sometimes by mistake, into the rave scene and the constant fear it creates among people who want nothing to do with those drugs. We have Narcan at our house because people consistently use the church parking lot next door to shoot up in their car. I've personally ran down the street and through the fence to go bang on doors because I saw someone passed out for too long - not because I want them gone, but because I don't want to see someone else die.

To put the entire mantle on dealers would be a mistake, imo. Their choice to sell can come from a variety of incentives: sometimes from clout, sometimes their upbringing, sometimes lack of opportunity, sometimes lack of education, many times a mixture of the above. Often enough these people are users themselves; the pain the people they sell to endure they also typically endure.

I don't view this post as victim-seeking and I don't really view him as a victim. Instead, I view this as a critique of prison culture that reinforces its outcomes. I view him as someone that wants to change and has the capacity to change, but there is little if any pipeline or incentive to do so. If there is one, it seems frail. When people want to change we should have a stepped pipeline for reintroducing them to normality and finally society.

Like you, I'd like to see less opioid related deaths in the future but I think there's more than one way to get to that goal. If there's a way that can make productive citizens out of people rather than shutting them away forever then I'm all for it because, frankly, the threat of a felony or life imprisonment didn't stop people before. In fact, that's when the prison population and recidivism bloomed.
My spouse receives union publication and she showed me a similar story that had me scratching my head. The story was about a union member who was losing his home through foreclosure and he and his wife had nowhere to go. Reading a bit further revealed that the union worker had stopped paying his mortgage because of a misunderstanding about supplemental insurance that he thought covered his mortgage. He ignored the many notices of foreclosure, ignored the court summons, and yet was surprised when he and his wife were evicted. The quotes from the homeowner revealed a tenuous grasp of reality. I felt really bad for the guy but he clearly made a series of very bad decisions. The article headline suggested he was a victim of greedy banks, yet the reporting was clearly pointing to a deeper problem.

The writer appeared to be taking for granted the idea that housing is a right not a privilege. It was a weird take.
Thank you for sharing that negative information.