skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sharing a personal anecdote - when Apple Pay first launched, it only worked in the US. A more accurate statement though was it could only be set up in the US. I very shortly after moved to Australia, where tap-to-pay is the standard.

It was kind of crazy because despite not officially being supported, Apple Pay worked everywhere in Australia. Whereas only a small handful of merchants supported it in the US, 99% of point of sales in Australia supported it because it was based off the standard.
Yep. I remember having a chequebook. Pretty sure it was around the mid 1990s. I don't remember ever using one, or ever renewing the chequebook. I don't think I've seen an actual paper cheque since the job I quit in 1998.

(I'm from Australia.)
I love the internal/external labeling. With a little thought it can make for code that reads more nicely than is possible otherwise.
Of course, part of this is that a lot of LLMs are now being trained on data that is itself LLM-generated...
Also not OP, but 90% of everything I do happens in an SSH session. It doesn't really matter what I run on as long as the terminal isn't completely broken. I run `ssh TheHost exec tmux a` from all sorts of devices. A NeXTstation would do fine except I prefer my custom USB-only keyboard.
I don't know. My bottles of water aren't completely flatten when we land, something that I remember was always the case. Keeping in mind flying in the 90s means taking planes manufactured in the 70s and 80s (including a Caravelle!).
Take a look at https://github.com/apple/swift-testing It is under active development as Swift first replacement for xctest. For CI service, Xcode cloud does support running tests on mac and iOS hardware. https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/
One aspect that I find discouraging is the significant opportunity cost associated with the time and effort required during the job search process. Instead of using this time for skills development, exploring new technologies, or excelling in a current role, it's consumed by:

- Tailoring resumes to suit ATS systems (now with AI/other automation)
- Leetcode and study for live interviews
- Identifying suitable positions on job boards for cold applications
- Probing your network
- Responding to unsolicited contacts
- Chasing ghost recruiters

It's disheartening and frustrating to remain unemployed for an extended period, especially when I possess relevant experience and expertise, yet continually face rejections due to the challenges of navigating the recruitment pipeline.
> Other individual forms of life don't "evolve".

Of course they do. Populations can evolve with successive generations without ever killing off large numbers of creatures. They simply do it slowly as conditions change and those with certain genes become advantaged over others and become more common. It's the "passing their genes to the next generation" which becomes a huge problem when everyone in the current generation dies or any creature that is born dies before it can reproduce.

> There have been a number of significant extinction events that happened in the past that were much faster than whatever humans are doing now.

But not faster than what we're capable of doing if we start geoengineering and it all goes wrong. The dinosaur killing meteor took a long time to kill off everything that it did (on a human timescale). How long exactly is uncertain but likely thousands of years to tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. Time enough for a whole lot of generations. We might not have that long if we poison our atmosphere, destroy the ozone layer, or kill everything in the oceans.
This is the birthday paradox. The rough approximation is you need sqrt(n) values to get to a 50% chance of having a duplicate. Sqrt of a million is a thousand, and if they're every 30 seconds, that's ~8 hours or so. So you probably get a duplicate or 2 every day.

There's _much_ better approximations than the sqrt one, but I don't know them and the actual math is too hard.
Isn't the ultimate goal of parenting that your kids shouldn't have to trust anyone but themselves?

Parents who don't have a plan and need help shouldn't have had kids. The grandparents and great grandparents would just get in the way of these goals. There shouldn't be anything magical about getting to know your family. If you got to meet them, great, but you're your own person and developing that is so much more important.
0%, if my 10 years taking public transit multiple times per day is representative.
There must be at least some truth to the fact that it makes the process more difficult. In Central Texas the most prominent grocery retailer by far is HEB, who has purposefully and intentionally not supported any sort of NFC payments, presumably because it somehow makes it easier to track people’s purchases over time by preventing NFC.

FWIW they are the only holdout. You can pay with NFC at Walmart, Costco, gas stations, regular retail outlets, etc almost anywhere else in Central Texas. HEB absolutely sticks out like a sore thumb in their lack of NFC support. And it’s not that they aren’t tech savvy - they own and maintain an Uber-Eats like app here called Favor that works pretty well. They clearly understand technology
How many of those hours are spent golfing with other executives?
Researchers in Japan have created the first "n-channel" diamond-based transistor
Nice. I wonder how many people will end up being in the path of totality but not able to see it anyway - like mission critical jobs at a power plant. That would be painful!
Question:

- I am older, established, and have done a number of successful startups in various roles.

- I have a family and can't spend a summer in California.

- I don't need the seed funding YCombinator provides, but I don't mind it either. I can self-fund a bit

However, I'd truly enjoy the experience, and with my next startup, I'd be glad to trade off the equity to be in the YC community. I think I'd learn a lot from it, since YC does startups very differently than I have (learning might go both ways!).

Does it make sense to engage with YC in any way next time I do a startup (or before)? Or am I far enough outside the target demographic?
Oregon Just Struck a Blow to Parts Pairing and Won a Decade of Repair Support
Can anyone ELI5 how Apple & Google Pay work in detail? I used to think they simply pass on my CC details to the merchant or the merchant's chosen payment gateway in one way or another (obfuscated or not), and the OP suggests the same. Moreover, I noticed that some merchants refuse my payment when I use e.g. Google Pay with my Amex instead of my MasterCard.

However, I'm sometimes under the impression that Apple/Google take on the role of a payment gateway or a payment method themselves. After all, they collect all my transaction data, and it also seems payment terminals at the grocery store needed special support for the Apple/Google Pay apps. Interestingly, this comment[0] is saying the opposite, namely that at least Apple Pay is very much rooted in standards.

But what is Apple and Google's special proprietary sauce then? Why are these apps so hard/impossible to replace by open-source alternatives? Is it because only Apple/Google get full access to the NFC chips on iOS/Android?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39845805
https://triangulate.streamlit.app/
hybrid is likely the best case scenario, and very unlikely if you’re in an individual contributor role with a higher level clearance.

One way to “get around” this is work it as a 1099, charge a high bill rate, and then just work less overall.

But, if you’re trying to move outside of a major contracting area like DC, youre probably better off just getting a remote private sector job.
From Texas HB 1181[0]:

> (b) A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an Internet website or a third party that performs age verification under this chapter shall require an individual to:

> (1) provide digital identification; or

> (2) comply with a commercial age verification system that verifies age using:

> (A) government-issued identification; or

> (B) a commercially reasonable method that relies

> on public or private transactional data to verify the age of an

> individual.

The issue is that:

- Asking porn sites (whose traffic is mostly nonpaying lurkers subsidized by very horny whales paying for EVERYTHING) to scan licenses, is technically non-trivial and extremely anti-privacy, and

- Leaving (B) undefined means means exposure to way more lawsuits

Reducing this law to "proof of age" misses a big part of what these govs are really trying to achieve (tar-and-feathering people who privately enjoy spicy entertainment)

So given the ubiquity of VPN services that users can use to actually privately enjoy the world's oldest form of entertainment, it is easier for Mindgeek et. al. to IP block and create an even bigger problem for these governments to deal with (introducing a semi-private communication channel to people who didn't know this was an option).

[0] https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H...
Do you have resources on what specific results did not hold up?
"Tell 'em, they're dreamin'" *

Rupert Murdoch always has to have his cut. Still a leech.

* The Castle (1997 movie)
If a UI innovation makes me think, it shouldn't have been added.

Innovations should remove friction.

They rarely do.
Notes from Belgium:

- A full time working week is 38h by law. If you do work 40h, you get that time (so 12 days/year) back to compensate.
There are talks about a 34h workweek, but that seems unlikely in the near future IMO.
We tend to have 30m lunch breaks, not the 2h long siesta like in the south.

- You are required to take your holidays. Your employer can get in serious trouble if you don't, so "leaving vacations days unused" almost doesn't exist.
Some systems allow you to transfer your extra legal holidays to next year, but the base 20 you basically have to take every year.

- We also have 10 public holidays. If you have to work on those, you get to recoup the day. Same goes for work on Sunday for most people, if Sunday work is even allowed in your sector.

- Sick days are normally not something you have to worry about as an employee, provided you have a doters note (which costs you 4€ for the visit). Although most places are starting to relax the note requirement for short (1-3 day) things.
For short sick leave, you'll get 100% of your wage from your employer. Once it becomes a long term thing, you fall back on the health care system, which usually covers 70% of your wage. Some employers contribute the other 30%.

- Health care wise: We pay contributions via our wages into a "mutuality" based system. There are a few choices (1 government run, the rest are non profits) that offer different benefits, but the base coverage is mostly the same. Enrollment in this system is mandatory.
More and more employers offer supplementary healthcare that can have benefits like full reimbursement of brand medicine instead of only the cost of generics, getting private rooms during hospitalizations for free, additional dental coverage, a new pair of glasses every year, ...

Note that this is all assuming you are an employee, not self-employed. There are also some legal differences between blue- and white-collar workers, but are slowly being removed over time.
How did you go from 48 grand a year in salary, to 112 grand, in just 17 months?
The college educated also live in very expensive cities. What they make in gains of income gets subtracted by landlords.
What do you mean? Apple has lots and lots of documentation saying that function signatures exist! (/s just in case)
What is the point of a State owned broadcaster if it operates like a private equity firm? How is this in the public interest? I'm surprised this happened so quickly.
Amazon expects to save $1.3B by reducing offices and terminating leases
Viewing the eclipse from an actual hot spring would probably the perfect viewing scenario.
There are other possibilities, for instance a disconnect between need and a willingness to pay to fill that need that is not economic in nature but political.
This reads like a parody of American individualism that a Chinese government newspaper might write.

The ultimate goal of my parenting is for my kids to realize they're part of a community that gave them tremendous advantages, and to which they have a duty to give back.
What's the one-line on that: there is consensus that Shapefile is on its way out but no consensus on its successor, not GeoPackage or anything else? Where can we simply see as of today, what % of geospatial files in use are Shapefile, GeoPackage et al??

(I tried to estimate from references to formats on https://gis.stackexchange.com/ but it just gave me a headache.)
Claude Haiku can do a LOT of the things you'd think you need GPT4 for. It's not as good at complex code and really tricky language use/abstractions, but it's very close for more superficial things, and you can call haiku like 60 times for each gpt4 call.

I bet you could do multiple prompt variations with haiku and then do answer combining to compete with GPT4-T/Opus at a fraction of the price.
Jeez, some of the voters in this thread should prly imbibe when they go to this meetup on 420
> But it doesn't discount the fact that it's easier to start a family for someone with a stable job with a support network.

It is easier, but people have been having kids in all sorts of various situations for, well, as long as the human race has been around.

Kids are way more resilient than we think.
> if there are already too many.

The increasing of class sizes refutes the claim that low teacher pay is due to too much supply of teachers.
Beautiful Do Nothing Scripts
No data checksumming is one of the main reasons not to trust APFS for valuable data. Maybe it is fine on Apple SSDs, but what about terabytes of data on external disks?

Why checksum metadata if the SSD is so safe?
The article doesn't summarise the differences between developing these cross-platform apps vs only targetting Apple and that is the most important information really.

Did I miss it?
Maybe some people do. I have to keep checking which one is system 1 and which is system 2 every time I hear the terms, because they're not self-evident. Intuition/logic is.
Yes, I went to Wyoming in 2017 to observe the eclipse and couldn’t believe that people were still driving around within minutes of totality - at that point just pull off the highway and stop and look!
I'm in Australia. All the major and I'm pretty sure all or almost all of the minor banks and bank-like businesses (Building Societies and Credit Unions here) use a thing called PayID. I can send almost everybody I know money just by using their mobile phone number or email address, and the transfer happens from my account to theirs literally in seconds. I can also send money to anybody's BSB/Account Number, and that happens pretty much overnight. Writing a check feels like an archaic thing my parents used to do, like dialling a rotary telephone or sending a fax. I'm pretty sure if someone offered me payment by check, I'd turn it down assuming it's a scam. (I'm 56, for comparison)
It's still a tradeoff: in a previous team switching languages it openned the door to function with 5+ parameters, when that was highly throwned upon otherwise.

It's a tool to help better manage complexity, and that naturally invites more complexity as well.
We have many ways of turning cellulose into useful calories. Fire being perhaps the oldest.
Meanwhile, in Taipei...

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-40-tops-is-the-n...
My sister has lived in Dubai for about a decade and just had her daughter there. Some of the best IVF facilities in the world are in Dubai btw. Dubai has changed a lot over the past 20 years.

As a kid I lived in Qatar and Oman in the 80s (born in Scotland but my dad worked in oil and gas), so I have experience with gulf states of the sort maybe you're thinking of in your mind. Yes - those places were often not great places to be a woman. But 2024 Dubai is a much different place. I visited my sister in 2022 when I had to travel to Abu Dhabi for work, and for the first time Dubai seemed like a place where I could imagine living on a long term basis.
More succinctly: hope is not a strategy.
At least $300 for bridge or tunnel tolls.
Poorer people are taking the PATH.
That does sound promising. Thanks.
Yes, especially all the delivery trucks that bring goods in from online retailers directly to the steps of buildings. I'd support a heavy tax on those, since they are the most dangerous of all the vehicles. Would also like to see a tax on scooters and mopeds that food delivery drivers use.
lubbock is at the top of this list. while this city is very conservative, it is also the home of one of the biggest colleges in Texas (Texas Tech). so them topping this list is not at all surprising.

all of the other cities on this list are very (relatively) large east texas cities.
Can't you just look up the IP in rDNS? You definitely can, I just tried, but it's not 100% clear to me if you can keep a name out of there if you try.

I don't think you can, I mean DNS is public.
FINRA was an early adopter of AWS cloud. Here’s a case study from a full decade ago, 2014. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/finra/

When I heard back then they stored every side of every trade without getting hacked, I figured the Fortune 500’s security concerns with moving data to the cloud were likely to melt away, for better or worse.
"In other words there's no "best" or "perfect" time to have a child. There is only when you feel personally ready"

Yup. And it takes 2 to feel ready and to be sure, to do it together. At least for some time, even though a divorce is not the end of the world, if done right (very rare), but it can be for the children, if it means war between the parents and using the children as a weapon to hurt the other side. That is way too common.

So yes, having kids can be awesome and meaningful. But it is a very serious commitment, maybe the most serious there is, where my advice would be, don't do it, if you don't feel ready.

(I felt ready, but it was and still is very very tough at times)
> no one should deliberately have children as a tool for their own person growth

I’m not suggesting you’re saying this, but there seems to be an idea floating around that any motivation to have children that incorporates your own good is evil. There is absolutely nothing wrong with anticipating and desiring an ancillary benefit to having children or from any other relationship for that matter. Yes, if it’s your primary goal then that is cold and inhuman since children have a right to exist and be loved and cared for for their own sake, and they and other people do not exist merely to sate your desires. However, the fact that they also sate one’s good and ordered needs and desires and that those are part of the equation of forming relationships and having children is perfectly natural and an unavoidable human experience across cultures and times.
It's gonna be hard to include all of that in your eye-catching, behaviour-nudging poster.
VPN providers will make smarter VPNs.
The Tankership Tromedy: The Impending Disaster in Tankers [pdf]
Ram latency is bad, GPU is spending half the time doing nothing, but in return using RDRAM allowed for 2 layer PCB making whole thing insanely cheap to manufacture.

https://gmanmodz.com/2020/01/30/2020-the-year-of-n64-again/

https://gmanmodz.com/2020/10/05/n64-3x3/
Good info here
https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/ep25-how-applegoogle-pay-handl...
na; whales will just use VPNs and call it a day.
Because you can’t use those burner numbers to make brick and mortar purchases.

Your assertion was objectively false.
Psychology is the study of the behavior of singular minds. Economics is the study the behavior of many minds acting independently.
> You can get a Bank Cheque!

> I've purchased a car privately this way.

I've done that, for a motorcycle. It was in 1999. I've bought a dozen or so vehicles since, all paid either in cash (for inexpensive ones) or bank transfer (anything over about $10,000). I'm also in AU.
Ask HN: Dyson Sphere
People have proposed the idea of building a Dyson Sphere around a star. What's the proposal to transmit the energy to somewhere we can use it? How would we do this?
Where the Bitter Lesson Ends
I'm going to take the opposite view and say paying teachers 32k is a bad thing--here's an article from an hour ago saying that 90% of Illinois schools have a teacher shortage tied directly to low pay. Clearly this salary isn't signaling that the market is saturated with teachers.

Setting aside the merits of teaching and childcare on their own, failing to fill teaching positions now in favor of other jobs is going to lead to students who are unprepared to continue to fill said jobs in the future.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-teacher-shorta...
I believe you confuse an inequality of Energy(Fat) ≤ Energy(Food) - Energy(Activity) with an equation and are trying to disprove it with a counter-example. People saying "calories in, calories out" don't help with this confusion too. Another variant of your argument is "but different people extract different amounts of energy from the same food so there!". This being an equality, both arguments make no sense. I give you more - the "Energy(Food)" is calculated by burning the food in question and measuring the energy produced. It's guaranteed to be more than most humans could extract from the food as most humans excrete more complex chemicals than carbon dioxide and water, which burning food produces. But it does not matter because this is an inequality and not an equation. E.g. in your example the inequality still holds, you allegedly increased the Energy(Food) but the energy stored in fat did not increase, as asserted in the inequality.

A counter example to disprove this would be somebody gaining more weight in fat than the weight of fat needed to store energy from consumed food. Of course, this would have been broken pretty fundamental laws of nature and would have caused some kind of revolution in physics.
I think the most important lesson, it’s borderline impossible to design any good system without clear use cases.

Ukraine has these use cases, also high motivation to tackle them. Ukrainians are controlling battlefield with commodity computers https://en.defence-ua.com/news/how_the_kropyva_combat_contro... They sunk multiple Russian warships with long-range naval drones https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68528761 They recently started large-scale testing of cheap flying drones with computer vision-based target recognition on board https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/03/21/ukrain...

However, US is at peace. Which is a great thing by itself, but it means it’s too easy for them to waste billions of dollars developing technologies which look awesome in PowerPoint, but useless in practice.
If you're open to alternatives, Proxmox does HA.

It also has some decent clustering capabilities enabling online VM migration between hosts (equivalent to VMotion), which can go a long way towards solving related use cases. :)
Looks like there are other use cases besides passenger jet - freighter and tanker won't need the extra exits.

Also one of the other mockup pictures seems to show multiple possible exits per side. Maybe there are only two regular-use exits at the front, with extra emergency exits on both sides a little further back, but which are not opened during normal operations: https://www.jetzero.aero/hubfs/Z5-0029-cloud-hero-GENX-JetZe...
At Lightcraft we're building the RoR of VFX -- a camera tracking iOS app and heavily automated tooling to remove the drudgery of traditional shot creation and let small teams tackle larger projects.

This video shows what happens when you mix an iPhone, a Sony FX3 camera, a couple of greenscreens, our Jetset Cine app, an ex-Weta compositor, and of course 1 barn.

More hacker types should be filmmakers, and this is a first step in that direction.