skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy enough to find statistics on this sort of thing.

"By number, checks declined at a rate of 7.2 percent per year since 2018, dropping to 11.2 billion [in 2021]."

That's about 35 per person per year.

It seems to be around 1.2 billion in France (17 per person), around 100 million in Italy, and much, much less in the other EU countries.

Overall for the EU excluding France about 0.25 per person.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fr-payments-st...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/443677/cashless-payment-...
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Why is that surprising? I just charge mine while I’m getting ready in the morning and it last all day and does sleep tracking. My Ultra lasts multiple days on a single charge.
The (1984) PC/AT keyboard has the same protocol as the PS/2 keyboard.
First 'thermodynamic computer' uses random noise to calculate
Space is big and there are a lot of planets, I get it.

The odds of life are 1/N. We don't know how big N is, but it might be much larger than the number of sub-atomic particles in the universe. Perhaps N is (10^100000)^10000000000.

I'm, of course, not arguing we should stop searching or having philosophical arguments. (Although, to whomever it may apply, we could stop down voting comments that make objectively true philosophical arguments like postingawayonhns.)
I really love emacs in the terminal. I created a docker image that looks beautiful (and identical) whether you're editing locally or remotely. It's configured properly for 24 bit color and unicode, and it also has all the underlying binaries for native compilation, lsp, ripgrep, fast json and so on, all ready for both amd and arm. Caveat -- I haven't used it on windows yet. https://hub.docker.com/r/wwarner/emacs-gopy
It’s not bizarre if you believe the bible is a reference manual to existence as some more literal religious types do. In that sense it’s pretty obvious why some people want the universe to be 10k years old.
I am the proud owner of a .lol domain :)
IPNS and IPFS revolutionize internet data storage and management. This guide explores their functions and Filebase's integration, providing an affordable, user-friendly platform.
Was perhaps the web easier to index 20 years ago though too?
That conclusion isn't rational. Neither in terms of the framing of the evidence that supports it, nor in terms of the logic that follows.

Next, I don't see how anyone can generalize these conclusions when company specifics are specific.

Last, being unemployed also eliminates the harmful externalities of the fundamental task of commuting. The only reason that managers require for RTO is that they want to see your face. The manager role exists to make human decisions as to what will be best for their specific company. As far as I know, random uncritiqued research doesn't yet manage companies.
NB: The repo had its last commit 10 years ago. The `Makefile` doesn't work at all on ArchLinux.
*reward= you get a free pizza friday once a month
Flutter is what rescued Dart from certain death, after Chrome stop caring and AdWords took over from what was left in Dart 1.0, as most well know language designers on the team like Gilad Bracha and Kasper Lund left Google.
In English "macaroni" is a kind of pasta. (I'm being deliberately vague because which pasta it is seems to vary.)
If you're waiting for your life to be stable enough to have children, most likely you're never going to have them.

As years go by, life becomes more complicated, not less. With or without children.

Having children also involves sacrifice, improvisation, unpredictability, suffering... and lots of people are apparently allergic to all of those things.
I specifically look for the quick TLDR in the thread since the titles are frequently so non-descriptive of the linked content.
The title and graphic suggest an article about the most delicious treat known to humans, and the post is about software. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I personally am seeing issues with this too. Any time I search for something niche, and hence want some real world feedback, adding reddit to the search returns bot postings. Half the time you'll read comments that are fake reviews and the equivalent of Amazon bot reviews, in reddit comment form.

I long for the internrt of old. Everything is enshittified
>and escape hatches like Mutation (for our GraphQL API).

Can you explain in a bit more detail what you mean by escape hatches (sounds dangerously fun)
Most GPTs will give up their prompts with a little social engineering. You should just try asking. Some have countermeasures but most do not. Out of respect for the author, I wont post it here but these listed GPTs are no exception.
If that employee was a contractor or freelancer, would you consider overemployment a problem?

If the employee is underperforming it's totally unrelated consideration. If not, this is a discussion of why you are employing one. To do a job for you or to sit in 8 hours for you?

You need to start thinking on why you are paying. If someone can fill in 10 jobs' requirements at the same time, none of the employers should be concerned. Or only be concerned why they need only 1/10th of that employee?
All of the math departments I’ve been involved with have had department-wide lecture series. Actually, all of them even had regular lectures meant to apply to the entire college.
Shameless promotion, I might have the tool for that :) https://github.com/agenta-ai/agenta
We're building a platform for evaluating prompts (and more complex LLM workflows).

From what we've seen from users, the results for prompts are highly stochastic. It's hard to make generalizations. For example, a user building a sales assistant discovered that by simply changing the order of the sentences in the prompt, the accuracy improved significantly.
They're trying to pull an Apple, that you can use whatever browser you want, but they want you using their rendering engine underneath, as apple with webkit, Microsoft with edge, which is just a clone of chrome with all the google spyware replaced with Microsoft's.

The problem is you're stuck with all their suckage in doing so, such as poor bastards using IOS that get no basic privacy protection in the browser with extensions like ublock origin or noscript, and Microsoft simply trying to keep themselves relevant to continue slurping your data first hand.

With the web by and large having moved to using https/tls for everything, it's no longer easy to see what people are doing passively sniffing traffic, even the os, so now they build browsers to go back to watching everything you do via the rendering engine client.

Even this wasn't good enough for Apple that they implemented their default-on "privacy proxy" to provide justification for running almost everything out of your phone through them network-wise too. Plus you're held to using only Apple's webkit that they release security updates constantly for, since beside imessage is the most popular infection vector to get malware on iphones. Google is trying this now too with their "privacy vpn" (ha), I'm sure monkey see monkey do Microsoft will soon too.

This is why the EU is trying to force Apple to allow 3rd party rendering engines, to open up the ecosystem. Someone should really apply the same to Microsoft for doing this too. They might get sued if they just deleted chrome and told you to use Edge instead, but this passive aggressive and overreaching coercion is truly sinister they play at.
The Irish American FBI/CBP agents deporting illegal Irishmen in Boston certainly are.
There is an old saying that a recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. Nearly everyone could have an anecdote that might point to a strong job market or one that points to a weak one.

There are definitely many tech workers out there struggling to find gainful employment based on their current skill set and/or local conditions. There seems to be enough of them that things are not looking particularly rosy at the moment.
What, in your opinion, is the sensitive and inclusive way to discuss a category of business that the author can fairly assume a significant fraction of the userbase has never interacted with? Should the author discard that assumption and presume every reader is deeply familiar with check cashing instead? We know, with reasonable statistical evidence from the FDIC, that this alternative assumption is untrue.

I ask because there is, as far as I can tell, no obvious way to do it. You could just as easily write an essay talking about carrier-provided phone financing, and it would expose a similar cultural rift where most Americans don't do that and are only very vaguely familiar with how it works.

Or is the glaring thing that you dislike here the clearly stated assumption that most of the readership is not like you? In which case perhaps we should simply request that authors not state such assumptions while they make them anyway in the interests of being maximally informative.
Yeah I agree. But my point being it is a pretty tangential thing and also the first thing you think of in the US. The scale of "have to do" is really low, to the point that you start with something pretty easy and that's largely it as far as "official" moving activity.
He actually didn't.

He left out plenty of interesting details.

And not sure why you are randomly hating on BBC? Who said that this article is a must read because of BBC?
Exactly. N5 is sort of an outlier, it's a process where a bunch of technology bets and manufacturing investment all came together to produce a big leap in competitive positioning. It's the same kind of thing we saw with Intel 22nm[1], where Ivy Bridge was just wiping the floor with the rest of the industry.

Improvements since have been modest, to the extent that N3 is only barely any better (c.f. the Apple M3 is... still a really great CPU, but not actually that much of an upgrade over the M2).

There's a hole for Intel to aim at now. We'll see.

[1] Also 32nm and 45nm, really. It's easy to forget now, but Intel strung together a just shocking number of dominant processes in the 00's.
It is likely because the bank doesn’t know what checkbooks you own and use, and has no way to know it. You could have ordered more third-party checks (legal, not fabricated), and if you do, commonly you would use a different sequence starting point for those, so that you can distinguish which checkbook you used. More commonly the case for businesses but you can buy them from Intuit for example: https://intuitmarket.intuit.com/checks
>I guess we let our science skills rot for 20 years.

Americans are world leaders among chemists, so I don't think you're correct in this case [1].

It looks much more like saturation, with only 7200 openings per year [2]. And over 13000 annual graduates [3].

We have an excess of chemists in the US, as best I can tell, and we should expect pay to reflect that.

[1] https://research.com/news-events/world-ranking-of-top-chemis...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/che...

[3] https://cen.acs.org/education/graduate-education/numbers-s-c...
>If I understand other comments correctly then one problem was that the growth was predicted before Musk and friends wrote up the comp package.

not at all. the growth was not predicted, and most thought the deal was crazy (CEOs make deals that are never achieved all the time).

One argument was that the deal wasnt fair because Elon wouldnt work harder for an extra 50 billion, because he already stood to make 100 billion if he hit the milestones.

Like any company, any money that isn't spent on compensation belongs to the shareholders.
Tech CEOs to face tough questions on child safety online
If window icons and drag and drop are corner cases "that go against the explicit and specific designs of what the protocol should do" the "specific designs of what the protocol should do" are clearly wrong.

Besides that, only RedHat and Collabora consultants are pushing for Wayland. People that actually use their computer (as in requiring e.g. drag and drop to work properly) stay on X11 and have done so for the last 16 years.
Does Microsoft have any idea of the amount of stress they cause? They clearly don't care, at least at management level, but I wonder if they are even aware.
And the original name for that type of pasta in Italian is "maccheroni" (which are straight tubes, unlike the ones used abroad for "mac and cheese")
Yeah I clicked here thinking this would be an interesting story about why macarons are so popular these days or something. When I saw a code block I closed immediately. I'm a programmer but I don't care about every random, poorly-named library or framework that exists.
Think they replied to your comment accidentally
But works. The post already doesn't sort a decent percentage of stuff correctly as it is, I'd never trust it to correctly identify which mail needs to go to me when some senders may put the first name, others the last name, others my name, others my partner's name, others including the cat's name as a joke, and others not including a name at all. The sender also needs to send something in the right timespan (before you stop ordering the service) in order to get your new address. This is also assuming nobody in your household shares a first or last name with the new inhabitants

Compared to what seems like a big mess of telling only the post and hoping everyone will get the memo from them, telling the utility, my employer, family, and a few insurances that I moved (updating the info on the self-service site or sending support an email) seems like the better solution to me
Part of the problem here is that methodologies are like religions where a lot of people say they follow the same thing but if you check their day to day activities you’ll find substantial differences. There aren’t many examples of high-functioning teams using SAFe and that’s at least in part because the kind of places which it appeals to aren’t set up to support that, and any other methodology will struggle in the same environment.
> We're talking about basic sanity checking for fraud. E.g. Do bank account holders typically write billions of checks such that the simple subtraction of 2 different check sequence numbers is billions apart?

When I last used checks (about 30 years ago?), my sequence numbers would vary by that much because I used them to encode metadata about the check. Only the last 3 digits were actually a sequence number.
https://www.volza.com/p/precision-machine-tool/import/import...

Looks like they still haven't figured out this)
Cosmetic in what sense?
Planning everything in advance, vs iterative, incremental delivery are pretty different ways to do things.
The aliens collection method is not as appealing to the end user, tho.
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A few developers will do that. However people who need to drive will soon catch on that parking is hard in those buildings and so they will go elsewhere. This is a self correcting problem if you let it run its course.
This is basically how I respond to requests myself. Sometimes a single short sentence will cause me to slowly spit out a few words. Other times I can respond instantly to paragraphs of technical information with high accuracy and detailed explanations. There seems to be no way to predict my performance.
The Far Side – By Gary Larson
As far as I can see, the jobs that have easily transitioned to WFH were also the jobs that everyone already envied even when they were most commonly practiced in an office.

If roles were reversed, maybe a programmer would quit to go flip burgers in order to be at home, but would a burger flipper quit to program at home where they otherwise would not quit to program in an office?

I suspect if the burger flipper had an inclination towards programming, they would quit to become one either way. So the social contract may not be impacted all that much.
Which platforms will be caught by the EU's Digital Markets Act?
When covid first hit I was working with a lot of laboratory scientists in R&D. I can promise you that even the most gifted scientists weren't making a substantial monetary premium, except for the handful who were individually responsible for breakthroughs that led to commercially successful pharmaceutical products.

The market for laboratory scientists is fairly saturated and the wages are much lower than you might expect, given the relative importance of the work to society.
Show HN: I wrote a Script to auto-remove SSNs, Emails, etc. from ChatGPT prompts
Catching up with the best model during this a race is very hard and costly. Such a solution is very much needed as it’s very cost and time efficient.
Or in English macaroni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni
There are multiple versions of N7. The N7 and N7P are DUV while the N7+ is EUV.
Copying China's belt and road?
Yes but the employee has no incentive to return to the office so that they can be more easily replaced. Return to office is one-sided: middle management think they will gain something (they won't), but the employee gains nothing and loses a lot.
But you would still need a boatload of a hundred unique VMS to run your serverless functions, right?

If you have a big enough SRE team to manage your serverless stack, economy of scale means that development teams utilising these can reduce their infra management costs. It is about the ratio of engineers utilising the stack compared to those that need to maintain it.
Godot has its own UI/layout system. They offer text labels, controls, anchor points, and other conventions for laying out UI. It's not simply coordinate-based like you might expect with a canvas.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/step_by_...
I went to a few HPC/NVidia seminars there - it’s a real program but you are right about the composition.
It feels cheap to me to write off an ecosystem that did amazing things because sometimes the job might be simple. Its rooting around to try to be unhappy. And it's unclear that it really is a problem. An endpoint in node and a small react app can be be cobbled together in an hour. That same basis in skill scales up nicely. Is there really a complexity problem? It seems like a hand wavy excuse.
The uses and limits of quantum key distribution [pdf]
I went back and forth between the X220 and the X230t (pictured in the article).

It is a nice upgrade. But it was still difficult to justify the upgrade to myself—spending money on laptops is never something I relish.

And the X230/220 were both chugging along—they struggled with the modern internet more than day-to-day software tasks.
How does this compare to RisingWave and Materialize?

https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave
https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize
Well i can only speak from my experiences of course. I do apologize if i may have offened anybody or my respons may have looked condescending.
Not that i have huge discussions with religious people all the time, but a couple of years ago most religious people i have spoken to used that sort of logic as a sort of argument/proof. I found it quite funny that the Big Bang actually was first proposed by aRoman Catholic priest and physicist Georges Lemaître.
I was going to post the same thing. At the organization I worked at, so much got decided and invented in informal settings, and so much design done in (productive!) meetings around a whiteboard or smaller prototyping in a shared space.

Everyone continued to work _really, really, well_ together online during Covid quarantine - and we successfully onboarded incredible new hires. But something was missing. Individuals were productive, but collective decision making took longer in so many small hard-to-measure ways. Arguments took a little bit longer to resolve.

I have no measurements on any of this. You’d have to measure full product lifecycle for hundreds of products to get it. Even ‘how long does a design take’ or ‘how long do arguments take to resolve’ would need to be measured for years to get anything objective. Conversely, I’ll admit, the answer to ‘do people get more individual work done more efficiently at home’ was probably ‘yes’ - although collecting data for that would also be basically impossible over a time frame lower than years.

I _feel_ like work at home hurt the overall organization in ways that _really mattered_ - innovation, maintainability, shared knowledge - even just in ‘soft’ relationships (Does your manager know that other manager well? Does the one individual engineer have a (or any!) relationship with that other engineer working in a similar, but on-the-org-chart-disconnected system? Do your engineers get along with your designers?).

To debunk it would take literal decades to see how the organization was really affected. And even then, economic trends, market competition, even just quality of product _ideas_ - all the stuff that can affect the success or failure of a company or product - would make it really hard to tell how much work-from-home affected things.

So all I think it’s _possible_ to go on is ‘feelings’. And it sure felt to me that when we were all WFH something was ‘missing’. Novel innovation was a little ‘less’. I didn’t get to know designers or people in HR like I used to. That new hire, though they were doing _great_ remotely, was _so happy_ to finally meet people for real after a year, and the team so pleased to meet them. I think they were slightly more productive, and the team trusted them better, after they finally worked ‘in person’ together.

Maybe I’m just not ‘feeling’ the productivity gains from WFH because of my own bias, and maybe they are so large that they’d overwhelm the added ‘informal collaboration and personal relationships’ friction, but I don’t think so. I think the company would just slowly, over a timeframe of years - decades perhaps - get less ‘innovative’ and slower to react in a way that, from the outside, would just look like a company ever-so-slowly losing it’s edge.

I guess the proof of all of this will just have to come from future results. In twenty years, do the most successful, innovative tech companies tend to be the ones that work remote, or the ones with in-person offices? But I know the answer I’d bet on.
You're not using "immediately settled" in the same way as the parent.

Zelle transactions are subject to reversion or cancellation ... for days?

Compare to, say, settlement cycles in SWIFT: https://www.swift.com/news-events/news/preparing-t1-global-i...
I also really like this form for regular communications, though I use spaces. It feels more natural than ISO format while being unambiguous. You can also add the day of the month and it's nicely balanced between letters and numbers, and you can also drop the year when it's clear from context:

"Hey, are you free for dinner on Wed 23 Aug?"

ISO is great for records and filename, but it's clumsy in conversation:

"Hey, are you free for dinner on 2023-08-20?"
When I look at the document, all of the images are just grey rectangles.

Maybe the document was infected with penicillium?
They name install media accordingly - if you have access to MVS or VLSC you can check it yourself.

Consumer includes Home and Pro.

Business includes Pro, Education, Pro for Workstations (which is Pro without dark patterns even when not domain joined) and Enterprise.

These ISOs also usually include all N variants.
Godot has very comprehensive GUI components. You're working with buttons, labels & windows, not at the rendering level (unless you want to!)

Here's an overview of what's available: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/index.ht...
AR Passthrough is the big v 1.0 feature for this generation of headsets...I'm sure Apple and Meta were developing in tandem without knowing what the competition was doing. It's a really need addition that brings significant improvements...and I could see Apple developing it as 'this is streets ahead' where Meta was just improving tech they already had.

At the end of the day, this is Apple testing the waters and trying to get a positive cash flow to help offset significant R&D...what they're showing is pretty impressive in a number of ways, even as it's lacking in others.