skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Honestly, it is very hard to pay a total of less than 1% on foreign transactions.

I would argue that you are not looking hard enough if you're paying 1% on FX card transactions.

All you need is a multi-currency card from one of the Fintechs, that will get you down to 0.5% or less without any effort.

Of course if you're the sort of person who likes taking cash out of ATMs on holiday then you'll have to look harder, since there is usually a surcharge on ATM withdrawls. But even then its not impossible.
It is way cheaper because majority of Uber cost is the driver.

That is only true because Uber doesn't have to pay for buying and maintaining the cars in their 'fleet', having offloaded that cost to their drivers. If Uber were to move to owning robotaxis then they have to have to move the car ownership costs back onto their books.
There are countless ways to use the machine.

If citizens have little or no influence on their government it might be better not to horrify them with... shall we say... reality(?) If all we have is poisonous water for you then you can just drink it without knowing what is in it.

If we are going to do some kind of democracy we need you to have access and/or exposure to the full horror of the situation.

The market machinery needs a good definition of profit. If it must all be measured in one unit we can do that, money, gold, sea shells or quality of life, it doesn't really matter to the game.

We ironically build the proverbial hospital then go look for ways to profit from it. It follows that treatment must be as expensive as possible in order to maximize profit. You could consider the hospital the profit.

If we are going to modify your reality for you then your opinion is anything money can buy and we wont have the advantages of totalitarianism either.

There would be no difference between building or bombing hospitals. It would just be a matter of which is more profitable.

Other models of economic structure is a fun topic but we are not in a position to do it. We might want to rewrite it in Rust but the best we can hope for is some small modifications, close some of the worse bugs. It is hard to let the imagination run wild if it's not going to happen.
You can talk to a person and try to develop an understanding. You can’t fix a broken computer you don’t own.
Nice that it's quick and free. However, it's very simplistic.

Tried prompting to get a top-down view of a log split into 4 quarters and it would generate images with tree rings going the wrong direction, with a huge hole in the middle. Negative prompts could not remove the hole.

Seems to be based on a small quick LLM that might be best swapped out for a larger one. Though that might not fit the model.

Is it running the LLM clientside and that limits the size?
Just yesterday, I did C# Regex.Match with a supersimple regex: ^\d+ And it seemed not to work. I asked ChatGTP and he noted that I had subtle mistake: the parameters were other way around... :facepalm:
Sinister source aside... that is very detailed, 1980s vibe, but dated 2005. Talks about telephone directories, and picking up the phone in 3 rings.
Back when POS terminals read magnetic stripes, most in Europe didn't even support the Amex stripe in hardware, because it was different :)

Even now with contactless and chips (Amex has discovered chips right?) the only places I see Amex logos are 4+ star hotels and very posh restaurants. So it will be kinda useless outside the US.
OK here's how I think it works: from the wikipedia page on two's complement[1], the sign bit is the bit directly to the left of the most significant bit (not the first bit in the 32 bit representation), giving:

5 => 0101

And the only way I can get this to give -6 is if the bitwise NOT operator takes this entire representation (0101), inverts the bits, then creates a new sign bit and inverts that, giving:

~5 => 11010

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two's_complement
The entire “mystery” is due to you, the apostles, and everyone else not understanding what Jesus (AS) was talking about. I remind you in the Gospels (feeding the multitude) Jesus chides the apostles for taking things literally.

An entire thread is filled with discussion of “rope” and “camels” and the matter is missed.

“Kingdom of heaven” and “perfect” are the terms you should be focusing on.

Kingdom of heaven is the highest state of consciousness. Jesus (AS) certainly did not say “rich people will go to hell”. Try this: “Only with the help of God can a ‘rich’ man enter into the state of perfection known as “Kingdom of heaven””.

The most ludicrous reading is the official one: A goody goody who is even being more of a goody goody (‘I got to go and put things in order’) is rebuked. Is he is going to “hell”? Nonsense.

To be rich means to have possession. To have possessions means you have attachments. Attachment is contra detachment of the ascetics.

“Who can be saved?” “Only with the help of God” will a goody goody pass through the TEST of “attachments”. Attachments that are the source “trials and temptations” and can lead us to the clutches of ”evil”. See Lord’s prayers for your morning instructions, dear ascetic follower of Jesus. (To follow means “do as i do”...)

In sum: You will not go to hell if you have possessions. But you will not reach the state of “post-resurrection” 3 guys shining with light as amazed disciples look on.

Kingdom of heaven is a state of being here and now. What keeps us from experiencing it is ‘attachment’. Not even the most innocent of attachments are excused.

“Then who can be saved?”

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Anyone who had the chance to work with him?
Author of the article here, I'm Polish and my partner is Romanian so it's always fun to find slavic words that exist in the Romanian vocab, especially if their original/literal meaning became obscure in Romanian. Examples: Dâmbovița (oak tree forest in PL, and yes -- there seems to have been an oak grove near the river), slănină (słonina in PL, which literally means elephant meat, but that's probably popular etymology :)). Still wondering if Cacika was named after a duck (kaczka in PL).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacica
If you look at a company's shares as their real product, then a lot of these kinds of maneuvers start to make sense. I learned this from HBO's Silicon Valley, btw...
Am I the only locked in a captcha loop while trying to read this article :(
LiTScript – Literate TypeScript Version 2
U.S. regulator slaps Philip with another warning over sleep apnea devices
? ? Dwayne Dibley ? ?
A public speaking class. Public speaking is terrifying for most people, not just those with social anxiety. But it's a very learnable skill. Mastering it (or even getting half-way good) is like gaining a superpower. Suddenly you can do things mere mortals can't. You become the person that volunteers to lead the presentation, and so on. For me, this led to a mental reframe where I wasn't so much a socially anxious person as I was merely unpracticed/unskilled at certain social interactions.
The state and VW are quite intertwined, so I guess our politicians will not stop before they have driven this whole thing into the ground completely.

Ultimately, I believe this will be a good thing for Germany in the long run. But for quite some while, this will cause substantial pain to a lot of German citizens.
More likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning
It's not really a UX error when your helicopter-carrier invades Iran after one of your helicopters invaded Iran. In wartime. What were these warships even doing in the PERSIAN gulf? And why do they shoot Iranian airplanes in Iranian airspace while they themselves are in Iran?

I image "UX error" wouldn't cut it if a chinese missile cruiser shot down an US airliner while steaming up the Hudson.
Who decided the discussion was settled? That's needlessly dismissive. Just because Wayland devs used to work on Xorg and gave up? That's their decision, it doesn't dictate mine.

Most things can be improved and adapted, that is especially true of software.

I'm not convinced by what others are doing.
Mine (starting in late 1980s) was GW-BASIC -> Visual Basic (esp with Access) -> Ruby -> PHP/WordPress -> JavaScript -> everything else. It worked then because it was hard to find education material, and the alternatives (C, Lisp) were so damned hard.

I think the trade-off is that Python has an immense ecosystem - libraries (e.g. PyGame Zero), education material, people. Plus you can point to real-world examples of people building stuff with Python - you can make actual money with it. I'd be worried that teaching BASIC puts them in a niche - one where they make progress more quickly, but struggle to get out of.
NATO bombing of serbian power stations was done in response of Serbian ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, after the horrible crimes against humanity perpetrated by serbian forces in Bosnia.
"russians doing the same" is a blatant lie. What the russians are doing is a genocide.
A not so subtle difference is that the pilot shooting down KAL 007 identified it as a civilian airliner and proceeded to shoot it down anyway.

Another more subtle difference is that in the Iranian Airlines shootdown, the US took responsibility and at least apologized. Meanwhile the Soviets denied anything happening until they couldn't and then claimed it was a spy plane (legitimate target).
If you have a sufficiently large amount of hype, day 1 sales can give you enough runway for a redemption arc. NMS and CP2077 were two of the most hyped games in history and they barely managed it though, so I’m not sure it applies to the general case.
> (Even if the first bit were interpreted as the sign, shouldn't this be -2,147,483,642?)

No, in two-complement (U2) encoding, negative numbers "start from the top". This lets CPUs have same addition and subtraction instructions for signed and unsigned integers, and rely on overflows to get correct value. E.g. (-1)_i8 + 2_i8 = b11111111 + b00000010 = b(1)00000001 = 1
I remember trying this. It's a miserable diet that didn't give me the results advertised. I did drop some weight and then stalled out. The only thing I gained from the diet was a restrict in my perceived hunger which allowed me to lose significant weight after I left the diet and moved to intermittent fasting.

My friend had about the same results. I always wonder If this has a bias towards helping people who are very overweight and/or have an unbalanced diet. As far as I can tell, I've lost all the weight I can lose via a sustainable diet and I just need to find some time to do this whole exercise thing.
Adiuvo Launches Board with Spartan 7 FPGA and RP2040
Please get an active carbon filter for your air inlet. They’re not expensive and most cars only have the pollen filter version.

We found very high pollution values inside cars which in hindsight is very much not surprising due to what you noticed. A carbon filter brings it way down.
The importance of acquiring skills that AI cannot imitate
Is there any reason why I should use this rather than using ChatGPT Plus directly to do this?

What is the moat for this tool?
I first thought this was a post about flat design, then went and read the whole toot. Man, who'd expect UI to be bad enough for life and death operations.

Someone should post more details about the actually confusing UI that lead to this event. Would be a good lesson to most of us.

It also appears that Lockheed won a contract for using this system in 2023 [1]. Can someone share if they actually fixed the UI issues with it recently?

1 - https://news.clearancejobs.com/2023/03/13/lockheed-martin-wi...
Tl;dr

- some friend/foe “cursor” was not locked to a jet trajectory

- a fighter jet flew through it later, classifying it as a threat

- dashboard shows no altitudes

- identifier reuse led to invalid ascent/descent check

- captain decided it’s a classic attack profile
How ironic, a post about a user interface disaster needing an explanatory pro-tip for its UI.
Author of the article here. I was actually thinking about writing about this! I live in Porto and was born in Galicia, but a different one: the Galicia spanning from Krakow to Lviv. The universe is one big twisted noodle.

Different versions of Galicia exist in most of Europe, from Cornwall to Galatia in Turkey (named after Thracian Gauls).

Southern Poland, some parts of Czechia and (I think) parts of Ukraine were also inhabited by Celts, hence the name of the once Austro-Hungarian province.
Also, what was the US navy even doing there? The Persian Gulf is nowhere near the US.

It's as if Iran had their navy parked on the US east coast, it would be seen as an outrage immediately.
Show HN: Netchecks – A Kubernetes tool to validate assumptions about the network
A variant is in From the Earth to the Moon, where a junior engineer at Grumman confesses messing up vital calculations for the Lunar Lander to his boss, and finishes with "So… I guess I'll go clean out my desk." "What for?" "I figure you're gonna fire me now."

The boss's response makes a lot more sense than the usual fluff, though: "If I fire you now, the next guy to make a mistake won't admit it and we won't find out about it until it's too late."
I mean, half of Australia views Don Bradman as a hero and all he really did was play cricket very well.

Same with certain actors (Alan Rickman springs to mind), chess legends like Gary Kasparov, albeit on a smaller scale.

I think I understand what you're getting at - Charlie Munger didn't change the world the way, say, Jonas Salk did - but that doesn't mean that people aren't going to idolize him. He was at the top of his game, and incredibly bright and witty.
Having once been on the pipeline team at Weta Digital I know a lot of these people personally… here’s hoping this really scary moment for them plays out well, and doesn’t completely upend their lives.
I'm trying to tackle overpriced and restrictive IP geolocation services
I also posted the majority of this on /r/sideproject on reddit. FYI. Hoping its ok because it didn't make a ton of sense to re-write essentially the same thing with the same info. Also I don't feel like this is good as a Show HN because the thing I did is a subscription service.

Always feels weird to share links to stuff you build.

I started an api service back in 2010/2011. I was working on something and needed to get a website visitor's IP address in the web app. But because javascript in the browser is sandboxed (i.e. no IP for you), I ran into a problem I needed a solution for.

This led me over that weekend to build https://jsonip.com. It lets you fire off a CORS or use JSONP to get the results of the api call and use IP address in your app. It might not have been the first, but it was definitely one of the earlier similar services that are around these days.

Fast forward a little over 12 years or so and the api is still going strong. The service has been free the whole time and without any limits on the number of requests you can make. I'm supporting 60-70 million requests a day. In the last 30 days, its almost up to 1.4 billion requests. Really crazy to see that.

Another related feature I've looked at is geolocation. That's where you can take an IP address and get geographical info about it. They aren't super accurate at the most specific level (you aren't going to get a street address for an IP), but they do a great job showing approximately where an IP is down to the city level and sometimes even zip code. Its really useful in a lot of cases.

But one thing has bothered me about this. There's at least a handful of companies already operating in this space. Go google "ip geolocation api". Take a look through them and you'll see a common pattern.

* They're bloody expensive.
* They invoke artificially low limits on the number of requests you can make per month.

It doesn't make any damn sense.

I've been thinking about trying to tackle this problem for a couple years and I'm finally launching a service that I hope can attack the problem.

(Here comes the uncomfortable linking to things. Groan...)

Ok so here it is. https://getjsonip.com/#plus. Its a subscription service (big shock, right?) that lets you do as many geoip lookups as you want.

I hope this can be helpful to at least some small number of people. At a minimum, at least a few subscribers would help offset the cost of running jsonip.com for all these years.

Would love to get feedback if anyone has some to offer.
I presume because they already used Unity in Cities Skylines (the original), and it would be easier to build and improve on the previous edition instead of throwing most of it away and starting a new project with a new engine.
reminds me of `!!` which has been more common in my experience, as a way to coerce something negatable into a bool.

> This is obviously a fair bit slower than ~~.

I don't think the code posted before this comment is particularly fast, but are we sure this double-not is faster?
I joined Roblox in '12; 11 yrs and 4000 commits later, it's time to say goodbye
It's good to see old software being released as open-source with no-strings-attached OSI approved open source licenses.

Although this trend also attracts certain for-profit entities who like to release their code as "open source" to join the bandwagon, except the license used is decidedly not open source.
Not sure I agree, particularly with the 'I don't want to hear about the story' part. I have a bit of a general chagrin with the 'no spoilers' obsession. Yeah, there may be works like Game of Thrones where the unpredictability is part of the appeal (I wouldn't know though, tbf, never watched or read it), but that's not universal. Usually when I go to the theater to watch a classic play, I try to make sure to read at least a short plot summary beforehand, ideally a longer analysis, to be sure I get everything that's going on and also have additional context. I'd wish for a more general appreciation of the fact that not every discussion of a story before you've consumed it needs to be a 'spoiler' - sometimes it can actually be an enhancer.
Steam still craps out during large sales. I really wonder how Valve calculates that it's fine to keep losing out on (cumulatively) hours of sales each time.
IIRC a somewhat similar thing happened to Istanbul which is based on a greek phrase meaning: "to the city".
Thank you, that is just what I was hoping for.

It works very nicely on the linked thread:

- https://unroller.zachmanson.com/threads/https://octodon.soci...

And archives well too:

- https://archive.ph/kFoT9

- https://web.archive.org/web/20231129105248/https://unroller....
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is pretty low on civ casualties. Look at Gaza, or the Iraq/Vietnam invasions compare numbers (civ casualties AND time it took) and then draw conclusions on the use of the word genocide.

I also would abstain from using "russians" (or USAers, or Israelis) when referring to actions of the respective govts. Keeps the discussion cleaner of generalizations wrt people that may totally not support their govt's actions.
Wow, I was almost tempted to buy one from pure nostalgia. Not a big fan of the mouse cursor on the front, though.

I did find out in the article that MS released a 4K version of the old Bliss wallpaper, so I'll get my nostalgia fix for a lot less than $70- phew!

Here's the link in case any other old-timers want to enjoy it: https://msdesign.blob.core.windows.net/wallpapers/Microsoft_...

Windows XP will always be the best Windows version in my mind (thanks to nostalgia). I still have my original copy, probably the most I had paid for any software at that point as a teen-aged nerd. I do miss when windows wasn't so flat and boring. I used to just stare at the wallpapers!
And of course once you start watching James Hoffman's videos and seriously get into coffee, you'll quickly realize that high-quality coffee making is [currently] simply not automatable.
Good job! I've been playing with something similar in OpenAI Playground to asses contract's I get from my clients. It saved me a lot of time going through all the lengthy legal nonsense. This looks like a pretty nice free tool that take's this idea further.
But it must be expensive to run. I guess it uses the retrieval functionality and it must feed the whole contract to the prompt to work properly. So I guess it won't stay fee forever.
I thing there could be a lot of demand for something like this but with more advanced functionality like edits done automatically to the contract. I'm really looking forward for AI to replace lawyers in the future.
> the White Cliffs of Dover

...and here I stopped reading. Thw White Cliffs of Dover are famously chalk, and not dolomite.
Or the 'almost made it' section for aspiring jet owners...
You can't really compare how a nation judges being a victim of it's own mistakes directly to how a nation would judge being a victim of its enemy's mistakes. Obviously there's going to be a whole lot more skepticism and distrust.
I'm curious how this plays out in reality. Already you can make very crude copies/imitation of people like the Robot Dad mentioned on HN yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38433330

As time goes on these kind of things will get better and maybe you can have a copy version of you to chat to people you don't really want to talk to or do chores or the like.

As you get older and maybe go gaga the AI version of you may be closer to the old you than your physical self, and that could live on if you pass away.

Not sure if they'd do things while no one talked to them or just respond like GPT or have some physical presence or in VR or if you could leave money and power to the virtual you or not. Guess we'll have to see how that plays out.

Getting data from scanning a brain is probably a long way off but could be added in in a few decades if they get there. Sadly real world teleporters probably aren't happening. Though maybe in VR.

There's actually a YC startup for brain scanning but I still think that'll be a while https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/13/144721/a-startup...
Global commercial flight traffic averages around 100k flights per day. I don't know what fraction is within the radar range of a big ship in a busy area, but maybe 10k? So it's not trivial to avoid reuse within a day while still having 4-digit numbers. Especially when contacts are assigned numbers independently by multiple ships and then reconciled.
Any tips on similar tools for Postgres?
> incentivize workers to resign, and then back to WFH once that target is met and expenses need to be cut further

Sounds like fraud, and managing in bad faith.
Yes, that seems correct! I'll update the article when I have a moment and add a similar diagram as in the first section.

Thanks for pointing this out. If you have any other decent sources, besides Wiktionary -- please share. (my email can be found in my profile)