skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abolishment of the Civil Service Commission in 1978 that guaranteed competency invited incompetent employees into the federal workforce. And if you've ever worked with someone incompetent, you look for the exit doors as fast as possible -- or a way to push them out. But given its hard to fire people in FedGov, all the competent employees work in the private sector as subcontractors. If a politician ever wants to bring back state capacity, they need to bring back the CSC.
> going to prison for having debt is also a thing in the states

LOL no, except for some narrow definition of debt which only counts criminal activity.

Foreigners are so credulous when it comes to what they hear about the US.
The Sinusoidal Tetris
They're talking about RPOW. It's well known and not proof at all.
Good plan! I think this is a relatively common practice within some corners of the telecom world.

At university (Western WA in B'ham), I worked for our campus resnet, which had extensive involvement with other networking groups on campus. They ran layers 3 and below on the resnets, we took DNS+DHCP, plus egress, and everything through to layers 8 and 9.

The core network gear was co-located in a few musty basements along with the telephone switches. DC and backup power was available, but severely limited under certain failure scenarios.

All of the racked networking gear in the primary space was labeled with red and green dots. Green was first to go in any load-shedding scenario. Think: redundant LAN switches, switches carrying local ports, network monitoring servers, other +1 redundant components, etc.

I'm not sure if the scheme was ever required in real life, but do know it was based on hard-earned experiences like the author here.
In the world where the programming language theory kept developing, rather than being stuck in mid-80s.
Not being familiar with the reference [0], I was confusing thinking that the brine was somehow supposed to... taste like a lady? Seems to me that "The Lady Tasting Brine" (or Tea, as the case may be) would be more clear.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea
Incomprehensible to you that this a sincerely held belief? In fact I have been the victim of violent crimes, and I have given statements advocating for maximum leniency. I want what is best for my community, and retribution is not.
The obvious intermediate step is that you add an actual expert into the workflow, in terms of using LLMs for this purpose.

Basically, add a "validate" step. So, you'd first chat with the LLM, create conclusions, then vet those conclusions with an expert specially trained to be skeptical of LLM generated content.

I would be shocked if there aren't law agencies that aren't already doing something exactly like this.
I don't think Mastadon will ever take off without a major change in the tech, because content is way too hard to find due to the lack of centralization. I am signed up but basically never use it for this reason.
It's really not. A low bitrate but high resolution can look like shit in many scenes.

And there's really nothing stopping Disney or whomever from bringing 4K 3D movies to Quest. Many of the porn companies have 8K 180 degree 3D streams compatible with Quest already. It's nothing unique to the AVP.
If only it could fit in these damned margins!

I’ll bite, what’s your “good guess to figure it out”?
This exactly. It’s not the platform, it’s the people. I think social networks work fine for small niche communities where conversion stays focused. The problem with all general social networks is that they eventually all devolve into political flame wars. Everyone is just over it.
Slightly off-topic on this, but are there any apps that manage posting across BlueSky/Mastodon/Threads/Linkedin?

With the fragmentation of social networks and different audiences being in different places, it's a bit annoying to have to manually post in different places (taking account of things like hashtag formats and post length limits), it'd be nice to have a site/app that helped with that.
I feel like the addition of being forced to work to benefit the man, while being paid little to nothing, while being physically abused, while losing the little free time they had, might just make those two things not the same.
Digger's low-level CLI API: CI as compute back end
Same. I have text replacement rules in iOS for pretty much every expletive.
Also a satisfied Optery user. Been using their service for the past year, from what I can tell, they seem to have the most robust solution in the space.
I don't have the 16, I have the 13, but I've been impressed. [The slots would be cooler if they were hot swappable, but it's generally not been an issue.] - Holy shit I can hot swap. Ignore this. Other points stand ;)

Build quality has been good, it survives being chucked in and out of my backpack and it's survived a drop off a bar stool to hard tile.

I really hope they keep iterating and improving, there's certainly things that could be better, but they're on to something in my opinion.
I can't help but be a bit miffed that despite ostensibly being a privacy service, optery is still running a bunch of third party scripts on their site, including google...
That's what the wealth relationship shows. The only correlation is with the mental retardation range.

Indeed, it seems very very likely that all correlations alleged of IQ, on independent performance measures, are just in this region (ie., that positive correlation above 100 comes merely from a trendline fit in the negatives).
I think there is a CE somewhere missing :)
You mean running the same request multiple times should always give you the same results but does not?
Personal capital, now empower. I don't think there's a better one that's free as well.
LunchMoney is now the sole closed source application that I (1) love, (2) use daily, (3) blows away OSS alternatives. Jen is brilliant, the product is great. It just gets steadily better over the last 4 years, while remaining the same core product, visual identity. It's web, not-mobile, first, and I love that, too.
Game Pass = Death. Mark my word, 20 years from now you will hear parents complaining that their kids only want to play outdoors or do things that make a mess in the house because video games won't be fun anymore.
They'll sell you a new case too. Once you've swapped out all the parts you'll have a real nice upgrade.

I have the 13 and it's almost perfect so take this in good humour.
I don't understand how people believe they just "end up" like that. You don't ever need to see celebrities and related junk online. Just follow your friends and don't follow anyone else.
No you borrow against them at super low interest rates so you can have and spend the money anyways.

Then at your death there’s a thing called stepped up basis so your heirs inherit it at the market value not the original value.

So your family net worth can go up by hundreds of millions without any of that being taxed at all.

Yes it’s really as fucked up as it sounds. The very rich simply don’t pay taxes like you and me.
> Why does he have any money at all at this point?

wasn't one of the big points during the IPO failure that he borrowed money from the company, bought property and then leased it back to them?

it seemed jail-worthy at the time
The UX around card and SEPA payments sucks, though. I hear UPI is nicer.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
Which is mostly what I feel also happens with LLMs producing code. Useful to start with, but not more than that. We've still got a job us programmers. For the moment.
Show HN: Unflip – a game about unraveling XOR patterns of overlapping squares
I mean I’m sure that’s what the processors want people to believe. But even if those problems are difficult, they aren’t insurmountable: I’m sure that libraries would be developed over time that would allow for these things to happen, securely and without error, much as the SSL libraries have developed over the decades.
"This atrocity is legal" is really not a very strong argument I don't think. Chattel slavery was legal until it wasn't, marital rape was legal until it wasn't, etc etc. The fact that our constitution explicitly allows slavery is a stain on all of our souls. But it is completely irrelevant in a discussion about the ethics of allowing slavery.
Absolutely +1 for private offices. Have been arguing for this for years now. I am actually surprised and puzzled why engineers did not demand this earlier..???
IMF PortWatch: Monitoring Trade Disruptions from Space
Wut? Tesla's releasing vehicles without the self driving? That can't be right can it?
To add on to social media precursors, which can functionally be called social media 2.0 if one is following historicism, randomdata mentions newspaper society pages as similar to timeline feeds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39272068

And basically forever we've had dedicated gossips for social media 1.0.

I'm kind of with prmoustache. It becomes a thing when people start treating it like a thing, and said treatment involves the labeling.
My hope anyways is that there are more effective countermeasures. I remember Twitter not being nearly as bad before, but that was possibly just because verification actually meant something more than "have $10" and blue checks weren't turbo-boosted.
Plasma physicist here. While this is an idea worthy of study, the answer to the (spaceweatherarchive.com) title question is "no". The researcher's article makes simple errors in what they call " undergraduate physics" (electricity and magnetism), in basic plasma physics, and in basic algebra.

As one straightforward example, their estimate of the (change in) Debye length ignores that their equations (2 and 3) are in terms of the square of the Debye length, so the purported change should be only sqrt as large.

As another example, it's not clear why the author focuses on aluminium in the upper atmosphere, or worries about small particles of aluminium shielding the earth's magnetic field from space. While a conductive shell can shield a changing magnetic field, it needs to have long-range conductive paths. A mesh has this property, but a mesh is not the same as a suspended dispersed powder, even if the individual powder particles are conductive on the nano-scale.
Frankly, this is probably just going to manifest as a digital currency. Add 10$ to your wallet. At the end of the month that's distributed or something
But they (we) do use debit cards as one tho.
Ironically you might be better asking GPT this question.
The obvious question is what your business model is. I know about your "we plan to sell domains" post from a bit ago[1], but that seems... optimistic, to me. Not sure I want to buy into yet another startup with no business model (e.g. Keybase).

[1] https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan
Most utilities I use daily have --long-flags for all of these. Using completion (prferrably https://github.com/unixorn/fzf-zsh-plugin) you can complete them pretty quickly and without knowing the precise name.
We’ve demoed a dual NVMe module already and have open sourced the design for third parties and the community to create their own modules. We’ve seen an Oculink module and an FPGA module in development (and this is before the first laptop shipped).

The system is made of thixomolded magnesium and CNC aluminum and is tested to the same drop survival standards as most other high end 15-16” notebooks.

The Verge timed their Graphics Module swap and did it in <3 minutes.
Oxford dictionary's definition requires ownership, so if the prisons/corporations do not actually legally own the person, then technically it doesn't qualify as slavery regardless of what sort of forced labor is required.

But is such a distinction really helpful to the discussion? If someone owns another person and forces them to work but doesn't force them to obey them, does it technically count as not a slave because it doesn't meet all three requirements of Oxford dictionary's definition. Will it really help if we then start comparing dictionary definitions of "forced" or "owned"? Or even what counts as work. A prisoner required to clean their cells and return their trays after lunch are forms of labor that could be done by janitor... is that work?

I don't think these matter once you have locked someone in a cage, even if it is a slightly gilded. Metaphorically speaking, no actual gold leaf or gold paint in use.
YNAB has turned my financial life around. I wish I had started using it 10 years ago. They also have built an importer from Mint. Some highlights I love:

* One window to every account I have, which mostly automatically updates/syncs

* Envelope budgeting has forced me to look at every penny and figure out what it's for

* API to work with other tools (for me, Splitwise - https://github.com/vascopinho/split2ynab/)

And here's my referral code for a free month: https://ynab.com/referral/?ref=ASH303nViLPCKyr-
The life extension / cryopreservation gunk is something that has roots in a thought form of 'extropism' that you'll see in rationalist forums like lesswrong.

I think it's deeply flawed and anthropocentric.
Why people think the US economy is doing worse than it is: A research roundup
>I actually was looking for a used framework motherboard because it seems like a fun project to use it as a mini server that could eventually become a laptop

Sure, but the amount of people who want to do this is in the single digits as there's way better and cheaper alternative for such tinkering projects.

Not exactly a sales and market share driving force.
Or you could take the view that, in fact, this is one of the things LLMs are very good at, ie making sense of complexity.
The ideal case would be if you did something similar to what Timescale does with their compression/data tiering and kept "recent" data in a "regular" table so that transactional performance (including updates) is maximized but then "archive" it to columnar storage.

But also in general, how does `pg_analytics` compare to Timescale's compression or their tiered storage? My understanding is that compression is on disk and tiered storage is parquet files in S3.
Lexis has some AI feature built into it:

https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-ai.page

I haven't had a chance to test it out as anyone should be a bit weary to add more paid features to an already insanely expensive software product!
Have you ever asked a lay-person which browser engine they prefer? It’s like asking which map tile pyramid renderer you prefer, Google Maps or Apple Maps, or Mapbox? No not the content or the features, the renderer. That abstract thing behind the scenes that is far from the forefront of your mind when you’re engaged with actual content.
> "he did that on purpose"

maybe. he was really trying to hide is identity.

i guess its an occams razor type of thing.

he did also encode the headline from the front page of a British newspaper in the first transaction i believe.

https://monnos.com/en/blog/genesis-block-chancellor-on-brink...
YNAB isn't too expensive though I don't like that they went to an annual subscription. It does sync with most accounts (I don't use that feature but it seems to work well for others, pretty sure the same syncing backend as Mint and others use).

GnuCash can sync with some banks but I only had luck with one of mine, and never tried with other account types like investment and retirement accounts. If you're willing to do a bit of work, your banks will provide CSV or other export options and you can download that and import it into GnuCash. Doing that, I had to tidy things up a bit but it wasn't awful if I did this somewhat regularly so the number of transactions to examine wasn't high (like once every week or two, versus once every few months).
A human that screws up either too often or too spectacularly can be disbarred, even if they passed the bar. They can also be sued. If a GPT screws up, it could in theory be disbarred. But you can't sue it for damages, and you can't tell whether the same model under a different name is the next legal GPT you consult.
Why is it collecting dates of birth?
I've switched to a paid annual plan with Monarch Money. The app is sleek and it works fine, but I'm open to switching over to something open-sourced and/or free.
> Incomprehensible to you that this a sincerely held belief? In fact I have been the victim of violent crimes, and I have given statements advocating for maximum leniency.

Well, I won't call you a liar. I've seen people do this before, and I've always been just... confused.

> I want what is best for my community, and retribution is not.

I think this is the crux of the disagreement.

My belief is that retribution is the immune system of civilization.
The latency is too high for me using the wireless Mac display on Vision Pro. Would be a lot better if we could use that wire...maybe it's possible?
Thanks for asking this question- I'm in the same boat. I keep meaning to see if Yodlee is still a viable option (they used to be what Mint was based on).
There's a calendar that will show you how many months you have left.
https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/months.html

Making a plan to make each month count is something I thought about recently. Something to remember each month by.
It's a big enough chunk that you could for example take a trip somewhere, lose 10 lbs, or learn a new skill.

It's a bit of a change of perspective to think of your life in terms of months.

Kind of like not to think of the world as countries, but inter connected cities.
I've been using Simplifi by Quicken and it's been very nice. It's around $50/year, I can track all of my transactions and bank accounts.
(My experience with watching movies on VR headsets- haven’t tried newest generation)

Have you ever watched a CAM version of a movie? I feel like this kind of activity peaked in late 2000s…

That’s what it felt like watching a movie in VR to me. (In my experience with non-luxury headsets)

It’s worse picture quality than my phone.

For me, watching a movie in 4K on a TV is very very different than the equivalent of ~< 720p, blurry mess with giant god rays.

If AVP can deliver on what people describe, it’s compelling. Still probably won’t buy one though
Absolutely and utterly wrong. The EU has zero jurisdiction in the US and no treaty covering GDPR. The US is not extraditing Americans to the EU for violating the GDPR, anymore than it is for violating EU, Chinese or Russian censorship laws. If the EU wants to setup their own Great Firewall and block off America that's their right, but absent a treaty and domestic implementation their laws are not our problem. No different from anywhere else. If the EU wanted to prosecute an American for it then sure said American should not travel to the EU ever but that's easy.
Government hackers targeted iPhones owners with zero-days, Google says
Consensus search – Ask a question, get conclusions from research papers
What's the underlying card?

I've had excellent experience with amdgpu and the vega integrated graphics.

There's a second driver amdgpu pro that might be worth a look though I've never used it.
I know many counter examples. Maybe you’re projecting?
I hot swap the ports on my 13 all the time - what are you talking about?
I tried lunchmoney and I really wanted to like it but just couldn't make it work for me.

I ended up using YNAB.
I'm guessing this was inspired by the following thread (by Derek Sivers)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39169197
> satisfying your want for revenge isn't a good enough reason to have the big expensive system that is prison

Retribution is an important component of justice [1]. Its utilitarian purpose is to prevent out-of-the-law reprisal.

You see it on HN, where certain topics attract someone who will be “sickened” or “disgusted” by some thing or other, and reflexively want something horrible to happen to everyone involved. (If you’re honest, you’ve done this too. It’s a childish impulse inherent to being human.)

[1] https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/reasons-...
A legal LLM would be significantly crippled without the knowledge stored in the universe of non-legal documents.
Many of these programs have been superseded by industry specific information sharing groups anyways, mostly because JCDC kinda sucked.
This is so bad that I cannot even comprehend it.

No one in my department could or want to ever get away with something like this; absolutely appalling.

Scary, I considered applying to a faculty opening there at UNR.
Read the original relational database paper by Codd. The problem is that trees of data are not flexible for querying, you really need a graph. If you draw it out on paper, you will find a relation is a very efficient way to store general graphs. I'm actually suprised to hear this from a C++ engineer, because sorting and searching columns of data is the name of the game in C++.

Another key problem they solve is separating the logical representation from the on disk representation. You can evolve and and optimize storage without breaking anything.

The other problem with files is that you have a disconnect between in memory and on disk. You have to constantly serialize and deserialize. Sqlite has quite a bit of info on this: https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
I wouldn’t have opened the app, but I find I stay browsing around even after I view the post. Threads really does seem to be alive in the same way twitter was. I haven’t yet naturally opened threads yet, but I’ll probably hit that point soon.
in some places this works even when the budget literally zero. that is without any money i can call someone, and let it ring until i get the message that i don't have enough money. but the receiver gets the ring and can call back. it makes sense, because it will encourage someone to spend money to make a call.
Yes I also saw the latency complaints which is obviously another artifact of deciding to go wireless on a device that.. still has a wire!
A Relay (we used to call it the BGS) crawls all of the PDS hosts on the network and aggregates the data. This makes it possible for services to subscribe to all events on the network without putting load on PDS hosts directly.

Anyone can run a Relay. They're somewhat comparable to Linux distribution FTP/HTTP mirrors.

Bluesky will always run a Relay, but other organizations will hopefully as well. We expect these might be organizations doing other things in the ecosystem, universities, and possibly open consortiums.
It just strips off the final one.
I have a Framework 13 with AMD running Linux, with absolutely no issues at all. I reboot it once a week after installing updates.
Before coil failed, making this something that happened in the background seemed promising.
That is correct. It is a feature. It is a challenge how to make it more clear to the user.
I'm biting the bullet and moving to GnuCash myself. It seems intimidating at first but playing around with the UI made it less scary.

As I get older I'm also just doing fewer transactions in general, so it's easier for me these days to keep a hold on manual entry.
Requiring phone number is a straight no go from me, sorry.
One use case where SQLite is a good option is for embedding as a local database in an app. Starting local-only with SQLite allows you to defer a lot of the backend effort while testing an MVP.
An option I don't see mentioned usually is Every Dollar. It's from Dave Ramsey's company, so it carries all of the opinions of his "Financial Peace" system but it may be a good fit for some.
Note, it requires SMS verification
All right, what if legal GPTs had to carry malpractice insurance? Either they give good advice, or the insurance rates will drive them out of business.

I guess you'd have to have some way of knowing that the "malpractice insurance ID" that the GPT gave you at the start of the session was in fact valid, and with an insurance company that had the resources to actually cover if needed...
You forgot the /s I think... right?