skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "If you use “kind girl behind the counter” language about the 0.01% most aggravating customer once, you will not be a bank teller tomorrow. So bank tellers basically never use those words, and instead can inflect “Can I help you, sir?” in a way which leaves absolutely no doubt as to how welcome the new arrival to the branch is."

I found myself nodding along to a lot of the contents of this article, but I totally disagree with this part... it runs totally counter to my experience. To be fair, maybe my experience was the exception that proves the rule (or maybe things have changed since I worked front-line at a financial institution), but the expectation that you would be cold or unwelcoming to a customer (or prospective customer) based on class or perceived class was absolutely not the case. Like, I cannot stress that enough. Don't get me wrong, there were procedural safeguards such as "no checking account if you have <650 FICO", but you were expected to be welcoming to everyone who walked in the door and "they seemed poor" would certainly not be an acceptable excuse for snubbing a customer.
The most important concepts IMO:

1) packet switching

2) protocol stacks
> I think they missed an opportunity by not making the surface of the battery a trackpad.

Apple for the most part doesn't merge two unrelated functions in a peripheral or component.

For example, they never did the "2 in 1" thing with the Mac that Windows vendors did by having a tablet using a touch interface that was also a laptop using a keyboard and mouse. The result was a device that wasn't great at being either a laptop or a tablet. I have a Surface 2 in 1 and it's not a particularly good experience.

The early adopters of the Apple Vision Pro will already have mice, trackpads, etc. on their Macs and iPads that will work just fine.
101 in sf is the same way. it's a highway not a freeway, but it's just a city street that goes across the city.
> If you solve the commercial data privacy issue here ... because it is the root cause.

I think many agree that this is a fundamental part of the problem but the article is about the NSA who has been known to gather a massive amount of information on the public through entirely their own means. But no doubt destroying surveillance capitalism will be a big win for the privacy, security, and safety of the public. From the government, foreign adversaries, and other members of the public alike. But the war will not be won despite victory in a major battle.

> We don't need a law that prevents the government from buying records about your internet traffic.

You're right. We shouldn't need a law and this will likely come down to a court case that would make explicit the spirit part. As government entities are not allowed to obtain evidence via means that an average citizen would. Which is the entire point. If the gov would need a warrant to collect that data themselves, they need a warrant to elicit that evidence (distinctly different from evidence freely and voluntarily being given to them). Meaning they need a warrant to buy the evidence.

> We need a law that prevents companies from selling it to anyone.

We need laws to prevent the collection in the first place.
Yes, it does count as burglary and you would still be a victim of burglary regardless of if you left your front door unlocked.

Insurance might decide to not cover you for not having a minimum level of control in place, but you are still a victim of burglary.
Argh!

It was so useful for when a client deleted or changed a page in their CMS and had no recovery position or backup!

And by Client I mean Me most of the time LOL
My grandchildren will be begging me to join the hivemind, but my crotchety old brain will complain back at them about how a keyboard and mouse are just fine.
[dupe]/Related:

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39196390
What's the rate on welders going blind as they age?
Or we could pay grad students and post docs actual wages and have no skill shortages.
I dumped passwords for token logins on https://mitta.ai
Unsurprisingly, it's completely locked down.
"Professor" and "researcher" are synonymous at American research universities.

I've worked for two world-famous research universities. Getting tenure is insanely difficult, and has approximately zero to do with teaching ability.

(It's different for adjuncts, lecturers, others who are hired to teach. But they have different titles.)
Do you have any examples? I'd actually find this helpful for probably the same reasons lol
> Viture Glasses

Holy moly that website (https://www.viture.com/). It looks like a huge amount of development effort went into it but it's almost completely useless. I went looking for detailed information about the product and was relieved to find the "learn more" button (which I'd initially mentally dismissed as a GDPR cookie compliance button), but it just opens an autoplaying marketing video with all the controls disabled.

(If you do want to read about the product their Kickstarter page was a bit more digestible/normal for me: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/viture/viture-game-and-... .)
That would highly depend on the particular EU country.
I feel like this has become such a big thing because of SSO, very few apps don’t offer SSO and thus they all do this. Truth be told tho, I’ve seen apps that have both fields and as soon as it detects a SSO domain it hides the password field, so it could go either way…
> There is a difference if you report to the cops and if the cops come to you and ask you to report. These are completely different.

So, when the police ask the public for information related to a crime, it should be illegal? I disagree. The police shouldn't be prohibited from asking anyone for help.

> I do not think it is hard to read as "The government is not allowed to collect information on people without warrants and without due probable cause."

It might be easy to read it that way, but that doesn't make your rephrasing a correct characterization of the writers intent. The 4th has never prohibited the government from collecting public information, information volunteered by the public, anything they observe in the course of their duties, or literally anything else that isn't compelled. The government has always collected these types of information, both now and at the time that this was written. The writers were aware that police need to collect information in their own investigations, and from other people, to do their job. This is why they specifically wrote what they did, and did not write your rephrasing.

> What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

Right, phone booths do not have any rights under the 4th. And if Charles Katz is in a phone booth, he expects the conversation to be as private as speaking in a phone booth is. But if Charles Katz gambling partners at the other end of the phone decided to snitch on him, that's legal for them to do, even if Charles Katz didn't want them to.

Make no mistake, Justice Potter is definitely not saying "if you tell someone about a crime, it's illegal for them to snitch". He's saying that there are situations in public spaces where privacy from direct government surveillance is expected. Phone booths, bathroom stalls, changing rooms, etc. These are public spaces with some expectations of privacy. But there's nowhere, anywhere, that other people are prohibited from talking about you to the police.

> The government (or "friend") creates a private corporation. Private corporation does everything that the government cannot do without getting a warrant. Private corporation then gives the information to gov. How is this not a loophole?

Because the government has a monopoly on the use of force. If people working for a private corporation searched or seized information from others by force, it would be a crime. Data brokers do not use force to obtain their data. There is no search or seizure happening when you volunteer your data to a data broker or their affiliates.
In my opinion, the fix should be to make it expensive to post spam.

For example, every legitimate user of my open source project is probably fine with paying $1 to file an issue report. So I'd like to have a user setting that says "don't let anyone contact me unless they pay for it".
ChexSystems is the big one afaik
The revised code here gets to correct estimate:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39198581

Roughly similar to what I wrote too.
AFAICT/R, JP Post banking used to be really barebones, even for late 2010s Japan. No credit cards/debit cards, not a lot of financial products, etc. In recent years it seems like they have added a credit card and a debit card and online banking as well.

On the flipside, they are one of the most ubiquitous ATMs in Japan and your local post office will double as a branch for JP Post Bank (which are everywhere).

Oh and it's nation wide too! Which is kind of important for a country where some banks restrict activities and branches to their direct locality.

Man. I wish patio11 would talk about Japanese banking more because to most American audiences that system is also just, completely something else.
> high-quality teaching has incredibly high leverage.

This is not a claim supported by the literature. (Though it is a very popular one.) The results of teaching are overwhelmingly determined by the student getting taught. Variation in the teaching itself has a minor effect.
The board had a fiduciary interest and did what was best for Elon. They had no rational other than “I love the guy” and “it’s what he wanted.”

The judges only interest is having to act in the best interest in shareholders in the absence of the board performing their duty.
I'm also struggling on the same problem. One technique is to read the code base in reverse. For example, pick a variable or a function or a statement or an expression, trace its source upwards.

This will create a graph from destination to source, then flipping the direction will help to traverse from top to down.

I get lost on the problem, I made sure I'll not use computer science concept to solve this problem.

to be simple,

For each identifier in the code base, trace its source.
For each trace, sort it in order of code execution. For example, in case of javascript this is simple problem because there is no concurrancy.

I'm trying to solve this to create a code base refactoring tool, and one step further to automatically watch the code refactor itself. Initially I thought it was cool, but I couldnt take a step or two.
The market may be looking at the Europe where instant wire transfers are free and people use them (paying rent, phone, anything recurring, paying for larger items like a car). Often people use them to split a lunch bill.

Mastercard/Visa is a huge thing here in retail but PayPal is really niche. No app leveraging the instant wire transfers is getting much traction. The network effects are huge and the card fees apparently aren't that high.
The author explicit mentions it twice.
A Pediatrician's Two Weeks Inside a Hospital in Gaza
Couchbase Capella adds iQ, AI coding assistant
iQ allows developers to interact with the Couchbase database platform using natural language conversation, making database interactions more intuitive, efficient, and accessible. Developers can use Capella iQ within the Query Workbench in the Capella UI and within VS Code and JetBrains IDEs.
Stop humbling them, I still own a bunch of stock.
Find true love in an American and immigrate as family. That’s easy peasy
Really exciting article from Hutter et al. I feel like I’m beating a dead horse with how much I comment about Solomonoff induction on here, but I am constantly both amazed and perplexed that we don’t have thousands of research labs going about AGI via a top-down, theory-first approach—i.e., starting with the upper bound of what is possible and working down to the nearest resource-constrained physical approximation to it.

Can we bootstrap our way to basic AGI by tinkering with neural network architectures and scaling up the hardware? Maybe. After all, the human brain sort of echos that approach. But at some point, in order to sustain continued improvement toward optimal AGI, there will have be a strong algorithmic component to sequence prediction that is based upon a very deep understanding of what is computable (assuming the physical Church-Turing thesis). I don’t really see a way around that, because the foundational principles of algorithmic and computational complexity ultimately determine the upper limit of our ability to predict the future, which is kind of mind-blowing to me (and even more so considering that much of the theory was developed over half a century ago).

But wait! What about the halting problem, NP hardness, the NFL theorem, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, Blum’s speedup theorem, ..., [insert your favorite pessimistic no-go theorem]? Yeah, so what? Most of these nonstarters apply to “almost all” valid problems, which ironically happen to overlap with “almost none” of the problems we care about, because the distribution of real world problems does not coincide with the distribution of problems randomly sampled from a formal language. If that were the case, then nothing would be predictable at all because prediction-making beings could not exist in such an environment (in other words, real world problems tend to exhibit Kolmogorov-compressibility in the form of mathematical substructure that leads to heuristic solvers that are particularly effective beyond what average-case complexity would imply).
This is my biggest gripe with macOS. Natural scrolling is good on a trackpad but is a divide by zero in my brain for the mouse
It was definitely "WAR PLAN 2014.1 LATEST VERSION" or "WAR PLAN 2014.1 FINAL DRAFT" that was the right one
Both of those have the same answer. Why would they not?
Friends of mine pursuing Swiss citizenship had a much longer road than what you describe above. I know them to be pretty fastidious when it comes to paperwork exercises and they did not have citizenship after 10 years, though they indicated they were on a path towards it.
It automatically recycles into an artificial reef.
After the presidential election in Taiwan earlier this month, many important political figures (current president, next president, opposition leaders, A LOT OF parliament members...) suddenly got on Threads and started posting there actively. Their followers naturally also followed them there.

As for the reason... I still don't understand why lol
Not much longer until Search joins https://killedbygoogle.com/
> due to a cheque that had been cached

Cache invalidation is hard.
People I communicate with are in APAC and western Europe.
You make a good overall point here but you've really compromised it by saying 'white men' because:

1. That particular phrase has been massively overused in a disparaging way by 'wokists' and a lot of people are going to see those words and just assume you're 'one of them' and ignore you

and

2. The SV AI set isn't particularly white.
Note that the result of this was a large drop in total agricultural production. It wasn't so much that people left the cities to work the fields as that the people who lived in the cities died.

Cities have never replaced themselves, by the way - urban population has always come from people leaving the countryside. When the inflow shrinks, the city will shrink even if no one leaves.
Beej's guides are so concise. Helped me a lot ever since high school.
Plagiarism-detection programs became an unlikely political weapon
Really? what kinda macbook pro do you need to run it fast? will a M1 with 16GB ram work? or do we need something super beefy like a M2 fully decked out at 96GB ram to make it run?
Access lists alone are not sufficient
Authentication alone is not sufficient
IDS alone is not sufficient
Encryption in transit alone is not sufficient
Etc.
“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.'”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
You know, I have been annoyed by this trend but I had not considered this. I think you are absolutely correct. It’s to support redirecting them to an SSO provider based on their email address.
It depends if you're converting it to cash or hiding it in a cache.

In most cases you mean the former.
They're effectively accelerating how quickly people recognise that they're loons, which I think is a huge plus.
These AR/VR are definitely a doomed profile unless somehow these things were given away for basically free.
IMHO success for any new technology usually comes from:
1. Does it make you look more attractive? NO
2. Does it make you money? NO except for the YouTubers who will surely be pandering about how meme they are. How many streamers us VR? Oh yeah...
3. Does it make me more valuable to others? No? I can't see a mass adoption are where having a computer strapped to your face which enhances your productivity. This may be the area most attackable by some great use cases, but I don't see them today (once again, mass market in a way that Apples of the world would give an F).
I don’t even know what the point of using google search anymore is...
I mainly need one reason: Microsoft doesn't hoard all your data
The article it’s well built and the author is knowledgeable about the business side of check cashing, but as soon as I saw the title graphic, I thought “oh boy, here we go.” I assume the author had the best intentions and I acknowledge the somewhat tongue-in-cheek style, but the soigné tone and the assumption that the topic is alien to and deeply beneath anyone reading the article is obnoxious. Check cashing places were an important part of my scrappier younger-adult years— cultural rifts like this have always kept me from being truly socially comfortable among a big chunk of the tech crowd no matter how much noise they make about inclusivity.
Can you paste the original russian and i'll try to translate better? i suspect that " weapons of mass destruction" was a mistranslation of an acronym to WMD, which got then expanded
> This wouldn't even be an issue if America didn't still rely on the utterly archaic check scheme for transferring money.

It still will be for as long as many people cannot get and maintain a free bank account that is usable for transferring funds via whatever scheme you envision replacing checks. And the property that checks have, namely that some percentage of them get unwound for various reasons and that percentage varies substantially by customer, is very hard to get rid of. As long as that property exists, access to a bank account that provides that mechanism will be an extension of credit and thus not universally available.

It's possible that a system for instant payment clearance, like FedNow, might reduce the problem of insufficient funds and similar clearance issues. However, that doesn't eliminate the possibility of bad/fraudulent/etc checks, just reduce it.
Not a unique explanation, but thinking about it like this might make it easier to understand the right answer and the wrong answer that was initially intuitive to me.

Imagine calculating the odds by choosing the first ball from every permutation of red and green balls. And then do the same by choosing a random ball from each permutation. The odds of getting red on the first pick in either case is 50% - but it's not the same 50%!

With an example of three balls, there are 8 permutations. If we take the first ball from each row, 1-4 have a red ball, and so from there, 1 and 2 have a second red ball, making the chance of a second red ball given a first 50%. However, if we take a random ball from each row, we are guaranteed to get a red first in 1, and more likely to get one in 2, 3, and 5 than the others. In those cases, red will be next 67% of the time. (100% for 1, and 50% for 2, 3, and 4.)

1. rrr
2. rrg
3. rgr
4. rgg
5. grr
6. grg
7. ggr
8. ggg

Like in the Monty Hall question, knowing that the first ball is red tells us something about the rest of the balls, that most of them are probably red too.
watchOS 1.0 launched in April and got a 2.0 in June that same year

it'll be a beta
> The last 4 companies I worked for bought back stock all the time…

That effects all shareholders equally - the remaining shares are worth a little more. Awarding more stock reduces the percentage of the company each of the remaining shares is worth.
I'm tired of sloppy testing. This issue was discoverable via a fuzzer as noted in the bug report. Software that accepts external inputs needs to be fuzzed regardless of whether it is written in a memory safe language or not. Uncaught exceptions and panics are still bugs and recovering from one without clearing internal state could lead to a security hole.
I see your pathological proof of existence and raise you an asymptotic probability of one:

“The halting problem for Turing machines is perhaps the canonical undecidable set. Nevertheless, we prove that there is an algorithm deciding almost all instances of it.”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0504351.pdf
As opposed to European exceptionalism that assumes that whatever is done in Europe is not only standard but also better?
The professors I know are experts in their small domain (and most of them are really smart, but this is not my point here). They know all the nitty details, I am always amazed by their wide knowledge in discussions. I think for a society it is easily worth it to pay people to dig so deep into their field of interest and the market is not the right mechanism to enable that.
I also think Youtube is nice to get started, but I found it insufficient for graduate level material.
Eglot does that automatically though. It detects when you're in TRAMP and launches the language server in a remote. Of course, it assumes that the language server exists at the remote, but that should be the case.
> Where was AMD?

Crushed by Intel's illegal anticompetitive antics?
If there is more demand for chemists, the wages will go up which in turn will incentivize more Americans to pursue being chemist as a career.
I was going to mention the typescript as well. How does typescript in electron get access to multiple mice hardware and also control multiple cursors?
I would have thought that would be near impossible without going native.
The decision to ship Vision Pro before the design team considered it ready/good enough was his decision. That's more a product decision than an operations one. But yeah otherwise he is reportedly hands-off and disengaged from internal product demos including of the Vision Pro.
I'm sure some people in the cities died if they couldn't find a better situation for themselves, but what I had read was that many abandoned the cities because life there had become unbearable for whatever reason, generally caused by severe mismanagement by the society's rulers.

If people are leaving academic professions to work as stockers at retail stores, this does not bode well for American society long-term. You can't have an advanced economy and society without an academic class.
Lessons learned from payments startups
But that isn't 'The whole room is your "desktop".' If you are restricted to having your desk in front of you, you might as well be looking at virtual screen(s) on your desk.
But it's good enough for beverages: https://plabottles.eu/
WLOG means "without loss of generality". Originally from mathematics; a proof by division into cases may say something like "assume, without loss of generality, that X is even ..."; WLOG flags a statement that applies just as well to other cases with obvious analogous changes. As generalized to non-mathematical writing, WLOG means "I could make an obvious analogous statement here about similar things for similar reasons".