skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK I can use my bank's app/website to send money to another person's bank account.

What do these 'sending money to people' systems do more than that?
I know that your comment can be read as unfairly hijacking a news item without adding much, and I'm also somewhat annoyed with it.

But I know the place it's coming from. After having been in tech for 20 years and having had the chance to write some code that runs on billions of devices now and so on, I also can't shake the growing sense that few of us work on solutions to relevant problems anymore, and the best we seem to be able to come up with - strapping screens to people's faces and forgetting the world - feels increasingly dystopic and like giving up completely. There's other stuff going on, some of it far more exciting, but my "where will this go if we build it?" critical filter is definitely a lot more primed now than it was in the early 2000s.

And I think that's probably a good thing.

On the news item though: I think an interesting new core UI gesture. If you remember those system-global text actions that were popularized in NeXTSTEP (and still stick around in systems like KDE's Plasma), this feels like a modern spin on it.
Whoa man, someone is posting a website with a conservative bias to HN? Heckterino! Bring ze downvotes!

How about some actual criticism of the text in the article itself?
Only unstable third-world countries do that.

The Bank of England honors all of its old banknotes: "There is no deadline to exchange old banknotes with the Bank of England." https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/exchanging-old-ban...

The United States has never demonetized any of its coins or banknotes. All of them are honored and are in fact still legal tender to this day -- even the $100,000 bill! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_denominations_of_Unit...

Although Canada has revoked legal tender status for some of its older bills, "The Bank of Canada continues to honor them at face value" https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/about-legal-tender/
Thats not what this about. Go play with your blocks now.
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Speaking of hospital standoffs, is Ammon Bundy still on the lam?
AV Linux 23.1 "Enlightened" Released
There would have been to compensations if they just had not persecuted the people for a known software bug. Might still have been cheaper to wait for a new system
I dont know about tech companies but I can assure you that all professional fields require a certain level of academic qualifications.

Lets consider my area of knowledge. Psychotherapy.

Here is the UK there are indeed so called "fast track" courses which offer certification as counsellors and a stepping stone to higher levels of qualifications but are basically worth very little on there own.

There is a level 3 counselling diploma offered at Sandwell college in Birmingham for the cost of £1,500.

This is not a diploma it is a certificate. Very manipulative advertising. A level 3 certificate is the equivalent to an A level.

Reading the small print it clearly says "This qualification does not qualify learners to practise as a counsellor." and "Learners must already have achieved a Level 2 qualification or similar".

Also imagine if you could read the complete works of Sigmund Freud in three months, without also learning German to fully understand it.

To practice as a counsellor, not a psychotherapist, you have to complete an absolute minimum of a one year level 2 skills course, a one year level 3 studies course and a further two year advanced level 4 diploma course. A full four years of study and practice.

It is also a requirement that you must be in personal therapy for a minimum of 40 hours each year during the final two years of the diploma at your own cost and complete a minimum of 450 contact hours with your training provider/tutor. Here in the UK a level 4 diploma is the eqivalent to an academic degree.

Unless you have met all those requirements and been accepted as a member of a recognised professional body like the BACP or UKCP you will not be able to practice as a counsellor. All employers require this membership.

Coding bootcamps may well be valuable once you have qualified in the tech field of your choosing and as a means to further your continued professional development but not as a means to becoming a recognised professional in that field.

For me, bootcamps and fast tracking are an unnecessary waste of good money.

Is it not possible to cheat or side-step the fundamentals on your way through academia with bootcamps and fast tracking.
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I am new to openbsd, in fact I downloaded openbsd yesterday on my desktop. But I am having some issue with it such as connecting to mobile hotspot is there any place to ask for help. Thanks
it looks like gamblers sustain the world's human population :)
Drunk and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon doesn't sound like a good way to protect one's son in any situation.

Nothing prevents parents from acting like adults, and doing so might even set a good example for other children.
swappable batteries is something NIO does, but agreed it not widespread. Tesla wanted to this at one point but they cancelled the idea. not sure why
In a vacuum, both of those first two considerations are easily resolved by hiring even more remote workers from an area with low pay (and low cost of living), and who share similar timezones and primary language.

But still: As you say, the best way to defend against this is to simply be the best.

(The second best way is to become very fluent in technical use of the correct second language and learn to sleep on a different schedule, so that foreign workers can be closer to peers. Americans have been good at working weird shifts, and our society historically supports that to a fair extent, but the language thing is something that we have not generally been very good at.)
Tails Report for December 2023
I manage a small (understaffed) team and we managed wonders during the pandemic. Other teams in our company also kept producing like crazy.

Now that we are forced back into the office, morale is crashing.
>> Incels will overestimate women’s minimum standards for mate-preferences. They will also overemphasize the importance of physical attractiveness and financial prospects and under emphasize the importance of kindness, intelligence, and humor

> I feel like this is the most obvious answer and most in line with everyday experience.

People who fall in such far end of the spectrum are highly likely to have suffered abuse in their childhood, and as a consequence, they're not able to bond romantically with the opposite sex; under this model, superficial characteristics (beauty, wealthm etc.) are not the cause, they're just the easiest rationalization that they can find.
PipeWire: Greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux
Personally I think taking the journalistic perspective of the publisher into account when reading an article is important.
Back in the day when I was a kid, I was dreaming of my game too and I stumbled upon GameMaker. I don't know the state of it now but from my experience it was really easy to grasp even at a fairly young age without help of any adult. I wonder what could I achieve if there was a senior at my side to go through the hardest parts together, but it was definitely one of pivoting experiences in my life which led me to study the world of programming. It also made me realise that i can MODIFY and create ADDONS for many great games around like minecraft and ace of spades, so I started to create custom narratives and objects inside them. Sharing these on forums with other fellow modders and regular players created a very strong feedback loop and kept me motivated to do it for the rest of my childhood. In the end I did not create any really polished and finished game or big mod, but I make a living crafting business applications now and the temptation to let go of everything and start the next masterpiece of a game never leaves my mind :)
Debugging Android Early Boot Failures
Rail/Road doesn't compare to ships in terms of throughput by weight so the land route to China from Russia, even if the freight train system were robust, would not handle the same amounts that a trans-oceanic route like China to the Americas could handle (or even China to St. Petersburg if that were needed)
> If I need to do 100% remote, because I may have a light cold and don't want to spread it, I feel miserable after two weeks.

I will say - moving from fully onsite to fully remote was a bit of a shock for me, and initially I felt the same. Overtime I replaced the in office "social" time with out of the office social time (going rock climbing with friends, joining a sports league, etc).
this was interesting. to me at least.

a paper is in peer-review about possible bio-signatures detected.
Same. My mom was so unbelievably excited about eventually having grandchildren, it was one of her biggest desires after she'd lost her job and stayed home to take care of my various illnesses. She passed 2 years and 2 days ago. She had a long and... there still aren't words to describe the absolute horror. But i stayed there because i was the only one who could work from home and who could stay positive in the face of the impossible.

By the time i realized i should've been having every conversation possible she could no longer speak well, it just went one day, i have a recording of her struggling but i don't think i could ever bring myself to listen.

One new thing that's cropped up is thinking how much she'd enjoy some new youtube video i saw, or how funny she'd think a new "advertising photoshop fails" subreddit would be. And yeah, the grandchildren. There's a strong possibly she will have never even met my future wife. She didn't see my brother get married. She won't see me get aPhD. She was 60 and was there for so many things but the cycle just keeps moving on.

Life simply takes things, we're the ones who think we deserve them. The fact that we're anything at all is the greatest gift and the greatest pain. But i believe Tolkien said, "What punishments of God are not gifts"
I used to use GameMaker when I was exactly 9 so I would definitely recommend it. Scratch always seemed like it was not at all made to acheive any sort of playable game but GameMaker has a low barrier to entry but can make real stuff. I would try my best to convince him that he might have to learn to make something scaled down and 2D first, and as others have suggested, talk to him about his bigger vision game and brainstorm it for the future. That was definitely what I was doing at that time - making simple stuff and really enjoying actively dreaming about the bigger stuff.
Construct is awesome! Much of the app logic can be done simply by dragging and dropping, you can add javascript if you need advanced functionality, the editor is fast and provides that instant gratification so useful in the early stages of learning.
Yes, the horn blaring is really crazy.
If you ever want digital cash then that digital cash has to offer the same benefits real cash has: anonymity from the state. Until then you're stuck with credit card companies selling your data.
Older ARM cpus had a whole extension named Jazelle to execute jvm bytecode in hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
The Polish sample is really good. Sounds like an audiobook recording.
Every time I open FB, I see only sponsored and suggested content, and never any content from friends, pages or groups I'm in.

Since a few years I moved my social media presence on Mastodon and Instagram (too many non-tech people stuck in Meta-lands). Honestly, I am kinda happy to see many of the pages I follow on FB moving to Threads, yes it is still Meta, but with the incoming ActivityPub integration it feels better.

I wonder how long until Meta will eventually integrate FB with Threads, so that you can easily crosspost between the two, as FB seems to be in maintenance mode since a while and I think Meta will eventually shift focus on Threads more (so expect Threads groups, Threads marketplace, Threads messenger, ...).

Hopefully with ActivityPub I can follow my racing teams pages from my own Mastodon-server and delete my Meta account (finally)...
Is there any such open source table format for row based data?

I've been dabbling with implementing a database, and adopting a format would be much easier.
Are all the details of this out in the open yet?

Certainly there were bugs that made it seem like there was more money coming in than actually did, but it seems like also there were capabilities in the platform that would also allow editing records to make it seem like there was actually less money coming in, which would enable skimming money out of the system almost (?) invisibly.
It wasn't going to make tesla a competitive advantage the way integrated battery has.
TD games didn't originate in WarCraft, from my understanding[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_defense
I use Keypirinha's Everything plugin to access Everything within the launcher. The upside is that your queries are saved in history. You can scroll to that query in history and make the search again or edit that query.
Oh what a tragedy! It looks as a consumer the worst thing that could happen to you is that you go to buy something and it is cheaper! It undermines consumer confidence!!

Seriously I do not understand why people feed their brain with (mis)information given by obvious antiEV zealots.

Prices went so high, they do correct. This is good for consumers.

Some media are not your friends, they were sold to owners with obvious agendas. It could be "EV are the best"(so our boss could make lots of money selling "clean energy" to the Government, or "EV are the worst"(so our car manufacturer or Tesla short seller owner is happy).
Maybe one should revise those thoughts. Apparently all of us will have issues with cow's milk. Some of us just have problems with even small amounts.

At least this is what our specilist at the hospital explained to us.
> It doesn’t seem “vintage”.

And a 7-year old machine isn’t necessarily obsolete either.

Apple uses those two words to mean specific things (vintage: >= 5y, < 7y; obsolete: >= 7y) as it relates to their support policies. Full support up to at least 5 years, some support up to 7, no support from then on.

Honestly, it’s pretty refreshing to be able to summarise 99% of a company’s product support lifecycle in such a small paragraph.
The article simply says that according to Auto Trader (a classifieds website for cars) electric cars lose 23% of their value the first year. Where's the conservative (slur word) bias in that? Or the bias, for that matter.
I listened to that but I must have missed that. I remember him saying he uses visual studio & visual studio code and that he tried vi but didn't like it.
That 3D game is pretty good, to be fair.
This looks amazing, good work!
When I was ~9 (maybe 8, maybe 10) I picked the GW-Basic book from shelf (my dad had that for some reason) and started reading. I was fist thick and mostly a summation of commands, so it did not made a whole lot of sense, but hey, I had a day off from school (or was on sick leave) and had already finished the (much thinner) MS-DOS book. And I just loved computers.

Luckily when my dad came home he explained that we actually had GW-Basic on the computer (an IBM XT my dad had bought second hand from a friend's dad who was IN computers). That's where it all started. My dad could keep up for a bit but soon I had to rely on whatever the local library offered, and later a floppy disk that somehow made its way to me (copy by copy) full of useful TXT files and examples. Oh internet where were you.

So I feel a bit reserved towards the 'YOUR SON DOES NOT WANT TO LEARN TO CODE' screams that seem only based on very, very little context. But I do agree with the general advise, best to not jump to conclusions and go by their (the kids) pace.
Advent of Code 2022 in Rust – Solving days 1..=3
> Does Singapore move any freight by rail?

Not as far as I know.

However, if you can build any rail at all, you can build freight rail, too.

It's mostly in the US that freight rail is noisier than passenger rail. As explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39023890

If you are building new freight rail in your country, you can avoid problems (1) and (2) from that comment. Freight rail doesn't take more land than other rail (if anything, it has lower requirements, because lower speeds mean tighter curves are possible). And freight rail doesn't have to be noisier than passenger rail.
While that is true, specific people people knew that the system is faulty and lied in county. They should be in prison for perjury.
We don't use FB, we are used by it whether we have an explicit account or not
> That may make it a politically acceptable substitute for cash.

I think you misspelled unacceptable. Anonymous donations are a massive source of corruption, which is why they tend to be capped by law (and even then, I'm sure a lot of bad people manage to get around it).

Political money needs total transparency.

(Unless you meant "more acceptable to the general public for average transactions"; in which case I agree, but I suspect it will be the opposite for governments and law enforcement agencies...)
Also reminiscent of Mondex, from the same year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex
16-bit x86 support requires supporting the old segment-based real mode memory models and _near / _far / _huge pointer types, which can be very fiddly. I'm not even sure if the existing standard extension for "multiple address spaces" in C can accommodate this, or if something even more bespoke is needed. If it can be done it would be great to have in LLVM, if only for completeness sake.
Shiyu reveals East Asia's advanced material culture dating to 45K years ago
I think it's fair to point out editorial bias as long as it's relevant (in this case I think it is), AND is done consistently (eg. Guardian articles should be called out for their bias when relevant; I have no idea if that is the case with the poster you are responding to here).
Wow, overly dramatic and without a point. It’s a demo for a product that is supposed to make money.

What did you expect, a FLIR image of a tank then circling it to find the model? Or a dead palestinian child next to an object in Gaza, then circling the object?
even security focused products like foxit's are probably best known for their vulnerabilities
A. This doesn't happen because many C-suite people have commercial property investments.

B. Language issues, cultural issues, and time zone issues all have negative effects.

C. Or it could mean labour is more productive because it has more free time and is less stressed. There's no pointless commute and some chores can be done in the background. Getting slightly distracted by laundry is far less of a loss to productivity than being constantly distracted by conversations, office noise, pointless meetings, and so on.

Your arguments are all MBA-level arguments, which means they look superficially convincing but they lack systemic insight.

There's plenty of evidence that happier workers are more productive. Treating workers like people instead of machinery has comprehensive business benefits. The only real cost is a reduction in the self-perceived relative status of the C-suite.

Essentially this is an argument about hierarchy and loss of face, and not so much about measurable business costs/benefits.
I did not say that there was a bias in the article? I said the publisher has a bias. Which they clearly do.
4-bit quantized llama gets borderline-acceptable performance on an iPad CPU[1], and there's no reason they can't further optimise CPU perf for this task. IIUC, LLM inference is mostly constrained by memory size and bandwidth (hence the aggressive quantization), rather than raw compute.

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/844
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Oh, yeah, of course! I didn't realized! Thanks!

I've finally managed to be able to see them in browser's developer tools, but now I see that their payload is shown encrypted. Well...that's another problem, though: I'll keep investigating.

Thanks again!
You're confusing Taler with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs, the Eurozone incarnation of which would be the Digital Euro). I suppose the project being funded through an EU grant could mean that it's in consideration to be used for the Digital Euro, but your criticism would apply independently of whether Taler or another technology is used, and Taler could also be used in different contexts without those limitations. The CBDC and Taler concepts live in different spheres, and it doesn't make sense to criticize Taler for pain points that you have with CBDCs.

Btw, I haven't seen anything like an expiration date in the proposals for the Digital Euro [0], could you provide your sources for that claim?

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-an-ec...
I'm using mullvad’s extended DoH. I can't even visit twitter anymore. I hope it's putting a dent on suck's hidden island’s budget
Or, you know... just show them in the camera since they're still on Zoom.
They forgot one: Natural disaster deleted all the data and there was no backup.

I was a paying subscriber to a great little site called magweb ~20 years ago. They scanned old and new (military) history and (war) game magazines and posted HTML versions, with permission of original publishers. It was really nice and explicitly allowed users to print or save copies of articles. No DRM. Perfect example of how a site for reading magazines online should work. Everything just basic HTML that even worked great to read in phone browsers 20 years ago.

Then Hurricane Katrina hit and the server that was apparently running out of the owner's basement somewhere in that area was flooded, with no working backups. I still have not found any traces of most of the 40000+ articles, other than the few I had saved, that used to be on that site. Since it was paywalled only a tiny part of the site is available on the wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050529083811/http://www.magweb...

(No, I can't imagine running a business and scanning magazines for 9+ years and not make sure to have backups of everything.)
Omg I haven’t heard the name Angel fire in YEARS
I just bought a used Thinkpad T470, and with arch linux (btw), hyprland, and neovim, I’m starting to like this machine more than my M1 macbook. The one thing I always thought my M1 couldn’t be beat at by an IBM compatible laptop is battery life, but the T470 actually has very good battery life. I’m not using the T470 for anything CPU intensive, but it’s the same with my MacBook. Just hobby projects, mostly writing code. I’m starting to wonder why I paid > 1k for a MacBook when a $200 used thinkpad is totally fine.
Apparently better than we ourselves do.
Attention is a currency. Why does it matter, and how to leverage that fact?
Keypirinha supports plugins. One of the plugins is Ditto which uses Ditto for Windows to access clipboard history.
You are repeating what has already been stated and explained. Throwing insults doesn't change what's already been written.