skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your argument is "I can't do a bank run," that is the point. That is what regulators and policies to prevent systemic failures is for. Either my bank won't fail (JPMC) because it is GSIB [1] or FDIC will step in. There is someone with authority and trust of last resort. With crypto, it's just a bunch of tech bros saying "trust me." [2] If you trust tech bros more than regulators with regards to making your deposits whole (See: SVB, even when exceeding insurance limits [3]), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[1] ("Global systemically important banks")

[2] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/charts/top ("$69,522,310,172 has been lost to hacks, scams, fraud, and other disasters since January 1, 2021.")

[3] https://fortune.com/2023/03/12/all-silicon-valley-bank-depos... ("‘Systemic risk exception’ invoked to fully protect all Silicon Valley Bank depositors, Fed rolls out new backstop for banking sector")
You need your bank to allow you what you can do with your money?
> A banking license, granted by the government, is quite literally a license to print money via the fractional reserve system.

How do new Bitcoins enter circulation again?
I built an app for job searching with some features I've found useful, and I'm excited to share it with HN! The main features include: job recommendations, automated emails when relevant, new postings go up at companies you're interested in, and analytics.
Nordic is a very high volume supplier of BT chips for consumer applications, but is getting crushed by a wave of very low cost Chinese competitors. Among the western chip companies, they are the ideal candidate for RISC-V adoption. I'm very curious to see what TI is planning for RISC-V as they begin to seriously engage in the low cost general purpose microcontroller market for the first time.
Putting all the blame on the banks is simplifying matters. A lot of this is consequence of regulation.

KYC requirements makes touching customers with crypto really risky, since KYC essentially codifies guilty until proven innocent. High volume cash businesses have been seeing this a lot too.
Same in Germany, where the left party and labor union drive a campaign against Tesla Grünheide (just southeast of Berlin) with very nebulous claims such as safe working conditions or wages. Those claims are never backed by hard numbers, just anecdotes about work accidents or in case of wages pure accusations.

The German IG Metall is quite obviously teaming up with the Swedish IF Metall (does anyone else recognize the similarity in their names) to keep their power. It will be interesting to see how this will work out.
To be fair without environmentalists the EPA would not have existed and would also cease to exist in the future. Hth
Arrows' trajectory it's highly parabolic and they are affected a lot by the wind.
OTOH, a modern crossbow could be highly effective on relatively short distances.
China Shaken by String of Cancer Cases Tied to Top Oncology Lab
Non-paywall:
https://archive.ph/nXzPZ
Enabling YJIT comes at the cost of using a noticeable amount more memory so it might be tricky to get going on a single server deploy that runs let's say Puma, Sidekiq and Action Cable (3 processes) on a $10 or $20 a month VPS.

But the good news is in Ruby 3.3 they are working towards reducing memory consumption even more. Someone from Shopify recently tweeted this in response to a question I asked about memory consumption:

> Our goal is to make the memory concern of YJIT to not be a thing for Ruby 3.3 anyway, so this really shouldn't be much of a concern

That's really exciting news. I mean it's already a huge deal to have YJIT and is worth using but now it's looking like a zero downside win all around and there's going to be no reason not to enable it.
Everyone has wire diagrams they just need to release them
Workplace as a Non-Place
Hooray! I used rust eons ago when even toy examples were fairly slow to compile and after coming back recently I've started to really love rust and have been using it when ever possible without even thinking about compile times, but I do have one project that has grown a bit and I started getting deja vu when it takes 5+ seconds to compile a simple change I start thinking about not saving things to trigger my analyzer until I work out some other things to not try to work them out while my laptop turns into an aircraft engine.

Very exciting as this is the one pain point for me personally so any and all progress is much appreciated
There are vendors that will sell you a single home package locker. I believe parcel pending is one.
If data centers powering things that are a net-negative for societies should go, I vote that we start with "social" media.
The government doesn't dictate when you take your vacation. They only dictate that if you want four consecutive weeks of vacation during the summer no company is allowed to deny it. Your employer is however allowed to say that you get your four weeks any time during that period. Most people typically vacation in July so the whole country basically closes down then.
And your tainted funds associated with a flagged address can never be associated with it.

An empty new wallet doesn’t help you pay for groceries right now.
Seems like a good article about the long histories of two types of weapons, and the many deeper differences between them - accuracy, training, supply chains, etc.

Beyond the the obvious (both nasty nations and scared nations will keep their guns and bullets), the article seems blind to the fact that artillery, landmines, and other non-gun weapons cause ~90% of casualties on modern battlefields. Granted that those things fall under the same "it would be so much better if only..." idealism - but omitting them throws some credibility shadow on their historical account.
I don't think Python was designed to call into C, is there some document from the early days claiming that was a major design goal?

1. The only way to integrate with C or other langs in early Pythons was to write interpreter extensions against the internal API. The cffi module seems to have appeared as late as 2012.

2. The Python interpreter API is not an excellent way to extend it, being as it is just whatever happens to be the internals of CPython specifically. There's now an HPython project that is trying to define a JNI equivalent for Python i.e. something vendor neutral, binary compatible and so on.

A language designed to call into C would have had a much easier to use FFI from day one.
You can check my comment history, I have never purchased a cryptocurrency in my life and have been loudly critical of it since the first mainstream mania in 2017.

However, I do not believe banks, which we allow to exist, should be allowed to become non-elected dictators, blocking fully legal transactions based on whatever the media mood of the day is.
For those who aren't in the know: Nordic is arguably the leader in small embedded Bluetooth SoCs today. I've written a lot of code for these things. Nordic selling a RISC-V product would open the door to RISC-V in tons of low-cost embedded devices.
Sweden has a long history of high quality manufacturing, spawning world renowned companies like Volvo, Astra, SAAB, ABB(ASEA), Bahco, Nobel, etc, etc, etc.

If Tesla doesn’t want to put up an assembly line in Sweden because their management is too stupid and greedy to see the advantage of a unionized workforce, it’s their loss.
You can do whatever you want with your money - the bank just doesn't want to get involved in money laundering and other criminal stuff.
It's free R&D, can't blame them.
Thanks for the feedback! Bummer about the DALL-E thing, it does seem to be hit and miss. It's always interesting to see where prompts start to fall apart.

One thing I find neat about this bot/convo format is that since it's so call-and-responsey, the bot doesn't tend to get lost.

The card gen was a bit last minute, I'll have to play with it some more and see if I can shake out the flakiness.
Personally I think the market is a pretty good mechanism to handle that: if you underpay employees will seek employment elsewhere.
Of course this would get upvoted on HN. A blog post by an impractical contrarian outsider who's seriously suggesting that the entire world replace advanced weaponry with stuff that got phased out hundreds of years ago, because it would be "low-tech and sustainable". He even suggests that it's unrealistic not because it's the opposite of the entire point of weapons (to kill more things faster and easier), but because it would require "global cooperation" and "uninventing things".

The Onion couldn't come up with this. It's so embarrassing. And yet, as I type this, dozens of people are taking this premise seriously and debating it on its merits. Humans really are doomed.
> Simply put each window manages their own process tree as its much cleaner. Its very simple.

And not correct: Processes can have multiple windows. Or no windows.
I guess crypto is used just for scams and other crime though.
So in Germany, 1.827 per 1000 die, but it is a sacrifice we are willing to make.
people bullshit at programming and don't treat it like a genuine craft all the time
yeah...

Honestly, I think governments in some places (Sweden certainly) should just formalize these practices and make them easier and more transparent.

Work is getting international. There is value for Swedish workers and the economy here. Companies (even with good faith) can't deal with unlimited jurisdictions directly.

If it's formalized, it can be managed.

For some countries (Eg France) it would probably too hard or conflicting. For sweden... why not?
This is quite clearly a list of banks that will prevent you from doing one stupid thing with your money, but will not prevent you from doing many other stupid things with your money.
Here's an article showing how Musks other company, Tesla, has a 3x larger injury occurence in Berlin as e.g. Audi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37689959

You all really need to stop shilling for that dude.
> Hand-held firearms are usually assessed or compared in terms of performance characteristics such as lethality, range, and rate of fire.

Can someone link one of those assessments?

Most assessments I've seen usually focus on accuracy, penetration, and reliability.

Accuracy is usually measured in MoA in US.

Penetration is usually measured using ballistic gel. (12 to 16 inches against an unarmored human)

Reliability is measured with "Mean Rounds Between Failure".

Effective and Maximum Range, and fire rate of weapon is definitely measured, but it's not something that I would think is highlighted compared the other metrics above.

I'm not sure how one would measure "lethality". Debate over "stopping power" goes back a long way, but it's not something that I've seen is easily measured or compared against.
Let Amazon sell you a garagecam that they can feed into their driver surveillance system.
This is what is so annoying with companies these days. Microsoft has them by the #%!!$ and they’ll continue taking all the productivity loss and other risks just so someone can check a box and say “We trust in Microsoft to manage this, and we’re off the hook.”

There are solutions like the Owl extension for Thunderbird, but that’s for the adventurous ones who want to take risks.
We're using a Rust monorepo too.

async-stripe takes over two minutes to build due to codegen. We're considering switching to dolladollabills.

Our core API server takes a minute to build, and we have about a dozen services and command line apps, a bunch of little shared library crates, two desktop apps, and a Bevy app.

Our Github actions docker build takes ~10 minutes if you don't include the tests, but we're starting to shave off more time. (Our monorepo is 105589 Rust LOC total)
>why would there not be a block list of “known bad addresses” (for cryptocurrencies)

It’s a good question.

The soft libertarian crypto-advocate answer might be: Because this discrimination based on ‘badness’ of transaction purposes is antithetical to the whole original ethos of Bitcoin.

The practical answer, in my opinion, might be: Because this powers the adoption of Zero Knowledge obfuscation technologies that make tracing transactions almost impossible. So then the only solution is a total ban on all non-approved, untracked financial transactions, which is a frightening intrusion into personal liberties.

And, obviously, many people’s answer would be: Yes, that sounds good, and it will protect us from many bad things.
You’ve never been not allowed to say whatever you want
Nah, they grow and spread until they consume all the resources. It's a very good analogy.
Well sounds like something the people of Wyoming will love. They hate big bad government trying to tell them what to do. Let them drink the slurry.
I understood Nordic as a company immediately, however I did not know this Nordic. The first Nordic that came to mind was now called THQ Nordic, which I figured couldn't be what was meant. So after a lot of confusion I now know this semiconductor Nordic
I put my money in a bank to keep it safe. I'm not a bank or a fraud department, so I'm okay with the bank I trust to keep my money safe putting the brakes on something their experience says might be a problem.

My bank isn't on this list, but I wouldn't mind at least getting a text or app notification asking me to confirm it in the unlikely event I ever did anything with cryptocurrency.
I am not pro-union, but oticed this, too. The story went from #3 to nirvana in milliseconds.
Yes, there are some examples I’ve seen in the past year of images specifically generated to make image detection think it’s X when it’s really just a mess of shapes and pixels
An Expedition Finds a 'Lost' Mammal and a Shrimp That Lives in Trees
> It’s difficult to type and think at the same time

Maybe for the author. I think best at the keyboard. As others have noted, once you reach the point where the typing is both quick and unconscious, words just kind of happen.

Obviously at a gross level one's typing speed isn't the bottleneck in coding; you need so little ASCII on screen vs. with prose. However, being able to get even "bad" out quickly can help you rough out an algorithm quickly. The ability to get the code onscreen at the speed of thought is very, very valuable.
How is this a valid argument? One's enemies don't get to choose how they receive coins. Even if an L2 exists, one can still send via a classic L1.
Also, the same actually doesn't apply to lowering emissions. You can get humanity to lower emissions by introducing technologies which are just better than the fossil fuel alternatives. This in turn should not require global cooperation.

But for some reason this strategy does not seem well-liked amongst climate change activists.
If the data includes credentials but that isn't explicitly mentioned when asking for consent, I seriously hope that won't hold up before a judge.
How much cloud workload is 100 async from everything else? And while eletricity might be cheap I guess you loose that gain from taxes on importing equipment and trying to recruit qualified staff.
You can already use Matrix, with all advantages of email plus end-to-end encryption, rooms and more.
> Meanwhile, no country has succeeded in outlawing SUVs

All sorts of vehicles are banned from roads. Not banning SUVs doesn’t indicate that were unable to ban SUVs because of some lack of ability to regulate vehicle types on roads.
I specifically talked about this quote from them:

> if over the long term the most productive devs at a company are only shipping on the order of 100 LOC/week, progress is gonna be really slow.

And that is what I took issue with. It's specifically talking specifically about the most productive devs, and about shipping code.

I was not talking about per feature or per project. I was talking in general.
Not that I really paid attention during those other waves but weren't they justified? Sure in today's time you might have a bunch of alternatives you prefer to do but it wouldn't surprise me if somebody made a new language 20 years in the future based on Rust but without XYZ mistakes.

i.e. JS allow webpages to do stuff without needing to reload the page every time. It basically lets you make mods for the browser! Like JQuery was really useful at the time and not now because everybody browser implemented their methods.

i.e. Ruby (Rails), IIUC it was super easy to do CRUD sites without spending as much time on the tedious plumbing/infrastructure stuff.
FYI the standalone encrypted DNS profiles for macOS (.mobileconfig files) do not work if you're using Little Snitch or Lulu to block unwanted network traffic. This is a limitation of macOS that Apple hasn't bothered to fix.
Everyone can withdraw all their money at any time, as long as the any time is not the same time. According to the Bank Of Englad, 96% of money is held electronically (bank deposits),
4% of money is held physically in the form of cash (banknotes and coins), so while they may allow it, you'd need to give them time to print up some notes.
That's not accurate. Most hardware works out of the box with zero config on all the major distros. There are always some machines with unsupported hardware of course, but it's more the exception than the rule nowadays. This is especially true if your hardware is at least a year old.

I would say that "Generally", it's not a thing you need to worry about. If something isn't working, it's probably a configuration issue on your side. The easiest way to avoid that is to pick an immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue, Suse MicroOS, and soon Ubuntu Core Desktop. Combine that with Flatpaks, and you pretty much never have to touch a terminal or worry about a broken system.
You’ll need to also add -flto to your LDFLAGS.
Yes, you got it ... it is exactly that. And it is perfectly legal in Sweden.

That is how you become a member of the world top 10 countries for Quality of Life.
> Children of wealthy people who have no motivation to contribute anything to the world, learn no skills, and are lazy, should not end up on the same level as hardworking skilled children of poor parents. They should end much lower. Barriers to this include enormous inheritances, the housing market (prices driven up enormously by hoarding and inheritance), the cost of university education, vast disparities in the quality of education available in different areas, and nepotism in the jobs market.

My gripe is with the above. Why would they try when they don't have to? Would you? And what does it matter to you that someone just spends money they inherited? It's like winning the lottery.

And what has someone's else wealth has to do with university costs?
This was reminiscent of that Oscar Wilde quote, “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
The Sea Monk Creature
>It seems very odd that the government would dictate four consecutive weeks

Because summer vacations are part of the culture, and considered important. That rule allows families to take long holidays together, with other families, etc.

I realize that it's a foreign idea... but this is a foreign place.
Sure, I’ll concede this much: if you’re middle age, mediocre and lazy then the Nordic countries are a paradise on earth.
When talking about Tesla in Sweden, what does that even mean? Do they have a factory in Sweden or just some dealerships and repair shops?

And how about the rest of the world blocking mail, services, etc. for Volvo and Polestar?
Can You Understand Gen Alpha's Slang?
ICBC, the biggest bank, hit by ransomware cyberattack
You mention they still need windows for an accounting software, did you decide to go with another PC brand then and might I wonder if these issues would be different with another brand?
> is getting crushed by a wave of very low cost Chinese competitors

Oh lordy. Bluetooth is about to get even worse? AFAIK, Nordic's harwdare and software are among the few high quality Bluetooth stacks.
> Now if there's a collapse...

True. But compared to the chemical / metallurgical / etc. skills and supply chain needed to keep producing modern bullets...making and using bows is trivial.

[Edits - emphasis added.]
There's a line of reasoning that argues that chemical/biological weapons have not been banned because they're inhumane, but rather because they're costly and ineffective against a technologically advanced peer. Few things you can achieve with a chemical bomb against an advanced adversary cannot be better achieved with a nuclear bomb, while steamrolling an inferior adversary is easily possible using conventional means. See https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch... for a longer discussion.

If one subscribes to that view, there's no argument that this was a collective decision for humanities sake, but rather a cost/benefit analysis by the military.
The parents hiking America's longest trails with five kids
Yes you are absolutely right. In this case it is about Tesla, owned by the richest man in the world. In other cases it has been about a salad bar run by an ordinary small-business owner. The "Swedish model" is that they should all sign collective agreements or else the unions will be very unhappy and you will have a hard time to continue running your business.
I think there is some interesting truth to this line of thinking, though it is misguided. To some degree, a diesel ship is not an all-out improvement over a sailboat. It outsources much of its cost to the environment. In this manner it is a tradeoff.
I agree, but there are whole teams at Google working on open source projects, and they probably have starter projects?
if you don't have time to look into it then you shouldn't just blindly spout incorrect information, just saying.
Curtailment: When We Throw Away Clean Energy
> Cloud-first

Well, IMAP is already "cloud-first" by itself; so this is "cloud first and second", also known as MITM.