skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at an investment bank which made daily FX transactions to cover trading in world markets to their nostro accounts, and these could easily be in the 10-100 million range on a given day. Transactions like these are not particularly surprising in that context, so processes will be in place to reduce the workload on operations staff, so that they only need to validate exceptional transactions.

If you have 10 business units trading 50 world currencies, checking 500 transactions for FX every day is a total chore hence it would get automated, and only unusually large transactions would be flagged. Rules like <10m goes through automatically would be tuned over time so that the workload on operations team members would add actual value without being onerous on their time.

So, depending on the business we are talking about, a 25m transaction could basically be lost in the noise. Given the mention of the CFO being london based and the operations team being in HK, it sounds like a typical investment bank setup to me.
There are stores in the us that do the cardboard box method
However, consider the environment, quite hostile, where being a part of the tribe is about as starkly life-or-death as it gets. Stay with the tribe in the deep of winter: you live. Get chucked out for a couple hours in the deep cold (and I mean ... COLD) and you're dead in hours.

Yet southern populations of people always have reputations for being hotheaded, but northerners (stoic scandinavians) have the opposite.

It could be this one trick you click, but it could also be rapacious evolutionary and social evolutionary pressure imposed by nature.
There are fiber optic image inverter used inside military nightvision image intensifier tubes(IITs), I think that's the "fibers" mentioned here, although I am not sure if it's relevant for this application.

IIUC, it's a disc shaped dense bundle of fibers, fused at the ends and twisted 180 degrees, so to behave like a Porro or a pentaprism, but are lighter and simpler in specific ways it is in an IIT manufacturing line.
JPEG XL would have been a much better choice for HDR photos on Android than the abomination that is UltraHDR.
Re-read that. Microsoft uses hardware to attract customers?
You are replying to one of the authors of the original report...
> This seems like a setup to counter the bag bans by the plastic industry.

The "study" cited was literally conducted and written by the plastic industry, so that's exactly what it is.
So just the wolves then
it's a practical approach to serve normalized data but monitoring systems are most valuable by making abnormal conditions inspectable. proper modeling of a system has this power

so while this seems persuasive, it's fundamentally about normal data which yields little value in extrapolation
This would be an awesome coffee table book. Each page a separate tag and also several pages of high quality shots from various angles showing the building, parts of the building, surrounding areas, etc... interviews with some of the taggers.

I would purchase this and would love to have something like this.
Regarding one man project. I always think of contributing back to the community. But things are not at all simple. I wish developers of projects would do weekly knowledge sharing videos. Or at least record themselves going through the code.
One word: sandboxing.
There is https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI which looks very interesting for F# case.
Russia also supplied the majority of their energy as gas and oil, quote from IEA:

> Lacking indigenous resources, Armenia imports natural gas and oil for most of its energy needs (78.6% of total energy supply in 2020), mainly from the Russian Federation (hereafter, “Russia”). Natural gas is imported from Russia via pipeline through Georgia, but also from Iran through a barter agreement under which it exports electricity in exchange.

So the digs at Germany seem hypocritical.
> There are a number of bag that pack down to self enclosed things smaller than a phone.

Are the bags of a reasonable size when expanded? Can you please link me? I've never found anything both big enough to be useful and small enough to keep in my pants pocket at all times.
What sort of mobile gaming related things have you seen Apple push back on?
One if my students, years ago, bult an amazing laptop (that's what we called it) and was very proud of it.

He mentioned it in an application to an Ivy League university, but did not know to call it a cyberdeck. They refused him admission because he did not know that term.

The lesson is: There are millions if bright kids who reinvent things, but are denied even admission to college because they are not part of the in-crows that knows the jargon.

I wish I could remember his name.

Also, the one my student built was quite rugged. That might be what impressed me most about it.

Making it rugged is another level of skil that most makers never obtain.
That's an old saying. It's not so clear-cut now.
Those prices are not what I remember from back then, at least in Europe. Comparable 386 and 486 PCs cost way, way more than an Amiga 500 or later 1200 respectively.

The filfre.net Digital Antiquarian articles on the Commodore/Amiga history are incredibly well researched, and paint a more comprehensive, nuanced version of the usual 'mismanaged to death' narrative. There is a very cogent insight that I first read there, that roughly goes as this:

the Amiga architecture of a 2D oriented console-style custom chipset was badly suited for the gradual transition from coding to the bare metal to having an OS managing the hardware, accessed through APIs.

Keeping up would've meant a complete reinvention of the platform and its ethos, with a much bigger push on OS development, not only the next hot chipset. Commodity, standardized hardware running Windows ultimately got good enough and won.

And as someone else remarked, +1 on Wing Commander, and later the golden era Lucasarts adventures, being the actual beginning of the end.
Gatekeeping.

The barriers to entry have dropped to the point of disappearing. It's why the industry is so vibrant.

"The odds are good, but the goods are odd."

The core group of CS & CE graduates are as good or better than their forebears. That hasn't changed. What has changed are the number of folks without CS & CE degrees entering the field.

You cite VS Code modals yet scoot over a huge truth: without Electron, Microsoft would never have invested as much into an IDE with consistent UI and feature set across Windows, MacOS, Linux, and more including both amd64 and ARM architectures.

You complain about an annoying modal without recognizing that without Electron, you wouldn't have the app! Or it at best would be Windows-only. Or perhaps a limited-features version for MacOS like their Office suite is.

Then of course there's the realization you can embed VS Code in a browser with essentially feature parity with a desktop install.

Electron paved the way for VS Code to be installed and run on a Chromebook. A Chromebook!

Do you get how amazing that all is? How the VS Code marketplace is filled to the brim with tools for every programming language and subsystem you want or need? Many are crap and many are solid gold.

There are undisciplined developers, sure. There are undisciplined plumbers, roofers, auto mechanics, electricians, medical doctors, CPAs, school teachers, and on and on.

I've met CS PhDs that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag outside of academia. I've met folks who haven't graduated high school do incredible feats of software engineering. And all points in between (which is where I have been in my career).

It's not collapsing. It's becoming normalized in our society. This is what that looks like.
No but I wouldn't be shocked if compatible watches influences people's choice of smartphone, it did for me.
Also, I keep hitting myself in the wall when installing 3.12 Python
Thats vague and comes off condescending, and also just doesnt make any sense. Care to elaborate?
what didn't they do?

Start with a search for the phrase "Killing the indian in the child". That is a deep dive into darkness.

1) Forceful re-adoptions where the government would take kids from Inuit parents and give them to white parents.

2) Residential schools where they would forcefully take a child and send them away from their parents and not allow them to speak their native language or even dress in their native clothes. Someone else mentioned the "graveyards behind schools".
Really?

Do you want a real-world example have a look at US White House:

> President Obama talks on the phone aboard Air Force One. April 10, 2014.

> The Airborne Executive Phone has the red light on, which means it's a secure call.

https://www.electrospaces.net/2017/01/the-presidential-commu...

It is further made more clear because NSA literally calls their secure network the red network.
It is interest free if the IRS pays you within N days of you filing. If they're slower, then they pay interest.

Where N is some value between like .... 30 and 90? I forget.
I live in NYC and I don't carry a bag when I go out, which is the problem. I don't think this is entirely uncommon.
One is the title of the blog post (which I was heavily involved in writing), the other is a title of a news article that summarizes the blog post.
The longer I've had a CPAP the more I've thought they should be more over the counter because literally any problem is unresolvable without it taking too long. Though this case is extra insane.
I have seen this for ages and thought it was some design limitation.
Didn't attempt to report it as vulneribility ...
It would be kind of a cult, if Apple products weren't more pleasant and joyous to use by far than any of the alternatives.
> Why not clean it with a cloth?

How much does it cost to clean the cloth? How much time and effort relative to the cost of the bag?

This is why targeting specific products to reduce consumption is stupid. Just hit all fossil fuels with higher and higher taxes if you want less fossil fuel consumption. Or all products an externalities tax if you want less waste.
I'm not ignoring anything, but if my Lamborghini got out-accelerated by a Toyota I'd be upset about that, too. There's all sorts of other things to be upset about, again compared to the Quest 3. External battery pack and weight issues. No PCVR support, so you can't use the established ecosystem of games. No controllers at all, even for what could be an emerging ecosystem of Apple games. No headphone jack (I can't believe we're still doing this). The EyeSight thing doesn't work and it seems like all the marketing for it was simulated images.

The parts that are better end up not mattering. Why do I care if the resolution is better if what I want to do with it is play PCVR? Why do I care if it's great for watching movies if I'm not a loner who lives by myself? Why would I ever want to be represented by some nightmarish Persona thing?

Again, there are just way more compromises here than is justifiable for something that's literally 7x (at minimum!) the price of the competition. I want the iPod of VR/AR, this ain't it.
If the environment is so hostile that life keeps appearing, failing to find a foothold, then getting crushed by statistics, then if some resilient life does eventually develop, it might be able to survive in such a hostile environment only through internal/external cooperation or symbiosis.

For instance, if two or more extremophiles evolved together but remained separate species. They might even require one another’s contribution to successfully procreate. And successful procreation might be rare.

That sort of life, if it evolved to consciousness, would be averse to any form of damaging competition.

One poorly timed selfish move and the hostile environment wins: everybody dies.

This cooperation imperative would be built into their biochemistry, same as war is built into ours.

You’d probably still find insane or outlier members of their society, who are radically uncooperative or individualistic. But they would be rare and containable, otherwise their species couldn’t exist.
I would, a million times, pick writing web apps over interacting with Xcode in any capacity or deal with the proprietary project formats or deal with git in an iOS app project or debug the arcane errors that xcode spits out. Drilling down to figure out where a div is that I need to change is child's play in comparison. You are citing imaginary problems. CSS-in-JS is not that bad and, given the choice, you don't even need to use it. In contrast, you have no choice but to use Xcode and Apple's incredibly poor DX to ship to iOS and I do not want to suffer that
The problem is one more unique to being a walker in a city. You're out and about, maybe just walking to the park or something so you brought nothing with you, but the park you like is a 15 minute walk from your apartment.

Near the park there's a great bakery. You see they're having a nice sale on a box of a dozen croissants, and their croissants are the best in the city. So do you:

- Grab a couple boxes, and a reusable bag to carry them in?

- Walk 15 minutes home to get your bag, then 15 minutes back, then 15 minutes back home (45 minutes total) just so you don't pay $3 for a bag?

- Carry around a bag all the time even though you had no intention to buy anything when you left, and use it only a few times over the hundreds of time you leave your apartment?
Color or shading would go a long way towards telling obstacle from hole-in-obstacle.
I reckon the implication is that the titles are different in a way that changes the flavor of the report substantially.
>• What spur of the moment shopping are you talking about?

"Honey, can you get eggs on your way home? We just ran out"
I don't buy the causality argument, it's based on the same incomplete physics that tell us FTL is impossible.

Besides, that only applies to truly superluminal velocities, it doesn't hold for other forms of travel like wormholes or warp engines.
One important thing for me was being able to fix broken cloud storage paths that had become out of sync for whatever reason. This was a frequent-enough issue for my users of Google Drive, and to a lesser extent, OneDrive that I had built some tooling around it into our MDM. This worked by calling the subcommands `fileproviderctl materialize`, `fileproviderctl domain remove` and `fileproviderctl evict` to clear these broken paths and restore the sync to a working state. No longer possible.
Experience is subjective I'd say, I certainly disagree with that after using the old iPhone of my wife for a year to not make more ewaste. I found the whole thing buggy and confusing, I finally got rid of it after an error loop when installing apps meant that I had to format it again to fix it.

I'm sure most users do love it though, to each their own. There's certainly enough space for all kinds of products and all kinds of consumers.
Sometimes I like to think that this plane was landed in anyone of the 10's of airfields around Snag and the men were the first batch for the MKUltra Project, which started in the early 1950s and officially sanctioned in 1953. It involved illegal activities, including the use of U.S. and Canadian citizens as unwitting test subjects, aiming to develop techniques and substances for use in interrogations and warfare
C-suite is too busy migrating to yet another database to worry about frontend.
IMO if your goal is to get up and running fast as a single developer I would suggest that you pick a battle-tested server side framework in a language you already know (Django, Rails, Flask, Laravel, Play, Express, ASP.net, whatever), and use HTMX or its equivalent for the framework you’ve chosen (Hotwire for Rails, Livewire for Laravel, etc.) along with vanilla JS and either Bootstrap or Tailwind for CSS. Keep it simple.

On the other hand, if your goal is to make complex interactive apps, or if you do not want to to launch apps yourself and instead want to be more employable by midsized or large companies, pick up React.
I have been considering doing that but I wasn’t sure if there was appetite.
Reusable bags are big and heavy to carry around everywhere. Ironically the old disposable bags are much better for this reuse scenario.
I know, but if your file already ends in one, it adds a second one, if it already ends in two, it adds a third one, etc.
The important part is within the wasm sandbox. Don't run multiple components in the same WASM instance because they can't be properly isolated from each other.

That's why traditional operating systems have processes that can't access each others memory. WASM instances don't have this sort of "internal isolation", anything running in the same instance can access all memory in that instance, memory safe language or not.

Again, language-level safety doesn't matter here. It makes a lot of sense to write the sandbox itself in Rust, but it must not matter whether code running inside the sandbox is written in Rust. If that would be required, the sandbox has already failed.
Taxing the sale of reusable bags to fund a PSA campaign might be in order.
It doesn't. I have games using webgl with SDL and Emscripten and they run fine
That study was paid for by a plastic industry trade group. Funny how their press release leaves out that detail.
It depends what the multi-party authorisation is trying to protect against. Normally you're trying to protect against insiders stealing money by authorizing a payment on their own. In this case it's quite possible that multiple people inside the company signed off on the transfer and it all happened "by the book".
https://www.debian.org/distrib/
...wait, wouldn't the plastic industry be delighted that people are using more plastic?
If you don't already carry a backpack or other bag, you don't have anywhere to put grocery bags. It's not like they fit in your jeans pocket.

And I do a lot (the majority?) of my grocery shopping spur of the moment. Basically when I'm on my way home and realize I have extra time and it's not so late that the grocery stores have closed. And my life is such that knowing whether I'll have time to shop that evening is entirely unpredictable.
This being HN, it's worth noting explicitly:

All humans, including children, live with irrational tendencies which they never become fully aware of, much less fully control.

Moreover, our hardware/software is probably many orders of magnitude better at identifying irrational patterns in others vs. ourselves.

Moreover moreover, we've all seen how nearly anyone's attempt to change those patterns in themselves happens at a glacial pace measured in decades or-- if they're lucky-- years.

So you'd better carry around a queue of recent cases where your own irrational tendencies caused you to make sizable errors in judgment. Or some kind of static analysis tools that can constantly remind you of this truism.

Otherwise, this being HN, you're going to get roped in to a discussion where the implication is that adult humans can avoid irrational tendencies by spending a few minutes reasoning our way out of them from first principles. (Well, unless the implication in the comment you're responding to is that adults should also be told and accept lies as a means to some end.)

Edit: clarification
one thing which doesn't seem to mentioned here is that paper bags are not a one-to-one replacement.

a plastic bag is a useful item that is used over and over again.

a paper bag is an awful noisy, loud and inflexible item that is immediately discarded after use. even people that would be willing to use them more than once (i am definitely not), cannot do that due to how easy they get torn.

so, instead of buying a handful plastic bags per year, i now have to buy hundreds of paper bags.

even accounting for improved recyclability, is it really a net-benefit if the amount of required items (paper vs plastic) increases for a factor of around 20 - 40?
I am reading "Use of weapons" (Iain Banks). And after quite a few other Culture series novels it feels empty and repetitive.
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Me. I've tried again and again, but they all wind up in a pile at home. I forget to empty them and take them. They're never in the car when I need them.

I probably have had twenty to thirty reusable bags. Most of them get thrown away.

Not everyone is built the same way. I think this is hard/impossible for people with ADHD to manage.
"Number of bags" is only one way to measure this. It's probably the only metric that went in the right direction, so that's the one they report.
> The Firefox maker said it's neutral with regard to the technology, citing cost

Since they pay their CEO $7MM per year, this is a profoundly infuriating argument.
Thanks for the correction, I believe the correct one is "germane" though,no?

> Writing a prompt hardly counts as "creative".

clicking a camera shutter is not creative either. Choosing the subject and which picture is worth preserving is.
Every day I think about how great the web is, and how much of a shame it is that Apple has tried to destroy as much of the web as possible by getting developers to make iOS apps instead of web apps. If there was no app store the web would be so much better. We'd have more variety in our content consumption, our social media sources, our algorithmic recommendations, our digital experiences.

The web runs on everything, and there are so many great APIs that can be used to make immersive/next gen applications like WebXR. But someone making some WebXR app and charging for it on their own site wouldn't make money for Apple, so Apple never promotes these web apps.

Long term... the web never dies. Companies come in and extract their profit and then die. But the web never dies.
I built funnels for SiteBehaviour. Please roast it
billionaires do it all the time with 1 person
I like the juxtaposition of this comment and the one before it, saying "if we had to authorize every transaction of a few million, we wouldn't get any other work done".
Although, this comment is a little extreme.
There is something to be said about, developing the child for the environment they're going to exist in.
In an Inuit Community where everyone is cool headed, it's the right thing to be a cool headed person.
But, the average world is not the same. There are more hot headed people than hot headed ones out there, and managing them requires one to speak their language.
> They aren't that cheap and it's easy to keep track of them.

I think some folks may be thinking of different types of reusable bags. Where I live the "default" reusable bags at the grocery store, which are basically pretty similar to disposable but bigger with thicker plastic, are 29 cents. They do sell hardier bags that you can by that are like $1.25. But I think tons of folks throw away those $.29 bags after one or two uses.
Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
Replies are accurate (more precise?), it is more true to say that buoyancy in a virtually incompressible liquid is not affected by gravity because even if gravity is increased, the water experiences it the same as the buoyant mass.
Yeah, I was wondering what personal blog could produce something that sounded like a genuine journalistic article, then realized midway that I was reading CNN. Kudos to them
So I don't know Canada but when the ban was first bought in in Scotland a lot of people, albeit still a minority, had similar views but within a year or two no one really cared.
> They inevitably enter a rebellious phase

This is not a feature of most cultures, or at least they don't remark on it.

If I were to guess, it is caused by our practice of sending kids to school.