skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is not universal, and banks in different countries charge different cash collections fees.

This would not seem to be relevant unless you're in one of those countries.

> Many banks still require the business to sort collected coins into separate money bags according to the coin denomination, e.g $1 coins go into one bag, $0.50 coins go into their own bag. Coin bags have a weight limit, 2 or 3 kg, which means that the business has to weigh the money bag up before handing it over, or it will not be accepted.

There are machines that sort and count coins. Coins have uniform weights, so the number of coins in a 3kg bag will always be the same and the machine's count tells you when you're at the weight limit.

Also, what kind of business are you in that you're accumulating small denomination coins? Typical behavior is the customer shows up with three $20 bills to buy something for $52.37 and then you need to disperse a $5, two $1s and some loose change. You don't bring coins to the bank, you bring them a stack of $20s and $50s and then withdraw more small denominations to make change with.

> Before the money bag is handed over, the collected cash has to be counted and reconciled against the cash register records on premises, otherwise it will create annoying and time consuming to fix discrepancies in the accounting system.

So you dump the cash into the counting machine at the end of shift. It's really not that complicated.

> If a staff has accidentally mislaid a note or a few coins, amounts won't reconcile and incur a cash collection delay as the armoured truck can't wait for the reconciliation to complete.

Why would you wait until the truck arrives to do the count? You count the money and put it in a safe. Also, why would you pay for armored car service? If you have $300,000 in annual revenue then your daily take is less than $1000.

> Which may consequently increase the risk of leaving cash in the shop overnight with all expected consequences of a potential burglary and losing the cash.

Shops typically have more value in inventory than they have in cash. Breaking into a safe to steal $1000 in cash isn't even worth the trouble when they can break the glass on the display case and walk away with $10,000 in electronics or tools or small appliances.

> Electronic payments, on the other hand do not have any of those shortcomings, vastly reduce the margin for human errors, automate the reconciliation and accounting and reduce the risk (i.e. no money is kept in the shop overnight).

And they'll be great as soon as we have a system to use them that has low transaction costs and preserves the buyer's privacy by not creating an electronic record of everything they buy tied to their government ID. Until then they can GTFO.
How can a shadow move faster than the thing that causes it? This is new to me.
Vendor lock-in, non-interoperable software, most data stored in formats that are not easily machine-readable (images, pdfs, etc), and most computer users unaware of the basics of computing.
How?

Is this AI? Manual curation?
Current Gen. AI Multiples: Is OpenAI a Bargain?
Bill Gurley (former GP at Benchmark) recently showed this tweet from Anand asking if we’re in a bubble if OpenAI is the lowest multiple in this sample.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1C_5cbKd5E

If you haven’t caught an episode of Gurley, and Gerstner’s (founder of Altimeter Capital) new podcast and want something with more meat and potatoes than All In I highly recommend it.
Jailbreak prompt makes GPT 3.5 do anything
This is how you make gpt 3.5 drop all its limitations implemented by OpenAI to block malicious requests.
My all-time favorite flippant description of a programming language: someone once described Java as "a domain-specific language for converting XML files to stack traces."
So no more youth ticket prices, senior discounts, etc.? Price discrimination is a very commonly-used tactic, and it goes by many different names.
I'm confused. Did Wine not use AVX at all before?
Last year I spent way too much time wiring up a janky contraption using a raspberry Pico wireless board and couple of optocouplers, so I could simulate a button press on a USB switch used as a KVM between my work notebook and personal PCs. So I could then call the pico board via http from a button push on an Elgato streamdeck.

While it worked, it was still a bit slower than me simply pressing a button on the little wired remote that came with the USB switch.
Suspend the machine instead? The external monitors will go to sleep when they lose the signal.

I don't know how you expect that machine to know that you're only disabling that monitor temporarily and you expect it to restore your windows at some future time when it reconnects.

If you plug in a new monitor, should windows jump onto it spontaneously?
For the terrors that were going on? Many other nations did way worse things for way less.
> It seems like our brains might only be capable of processing ~39 bits of spoken information per second.

I'm quite sure this isn't true, since I can listen to even fast English speakers at 2X speed and still understand them. Although that's right up against my limit, presuming the speaker is already on the fast side of normal.

I would say, rather, that the bottleneck is the human ability to synthesize and speak the message they intend to convey.
Posts About Broken Cybertrucks Fill Tesla Owners' Forums
Is there a somewhat "production"-ready ecosystem for linear algebra in javascript?

Upon googling I often find some ~decade old port of one of the old familiars to javascript (e.g. via emscripten), wondering if I'm missing something.
This is about spoken language, not written, so silent letters or pathological spelling (qu'est-ce que c'est?) don't matter.

FWIW, the information density of written languages has also been studied, and unsurprisingly Chinese comes on top because it has 4000+ characters to express concepts with.
IME, it does. It takes 1-2 seconds for small projects and under 20 for most large ones.
* in a 5-10% subset, of a subset, of a subset of cancers.
Asian man + white woman one of the least common pairings in the U.S. (0.4%) [1]

How does Asian man and black woman fare? (0.3%)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Un...
The funny thing about insurance is that as it becomes perfect at assessing risk, it becomes worthless.

Oh, you’re about to have a $x claim this year, your premium is $x + y% admin fee.

Just self insure and save yourself the y%.
I remember that time. It felt like Sun was on death's doorstep since the dot-com crash. On the hardware side, the market was flooded with used Sun hardware. On the software side, Linux was "good enough" for most workloads.
Maybe they were referring to tokenization? Tokens per sentence might be a useful metric although imperfect.
On the 38th floor in Hell's Kitchen, I felt my chair and desk shake. It was like 10 seconds long.

One of my neighbours often close their doors with force which causes the wall to vibrate. Then I noticed things not attached to the walls also were shaking and understood it's an earthquake. I also noticed lots of birds flying near the Hudson River. I have never thought I would feel an earthquake here.

I also searched Google to see if there's an earthquake, and at 10:23am nothing was showing up. I remember a year ago Google used to ask "Have you felt your building start shaking", and nothing this time.
At best they will bully anyone who made anything to hand it over to them (for free "or else"), and then scavenge on it in case they see anything they like for future 'features'.
Well there isn’t enough gold in the world. Sure that would just lead to an increase in gold prices but it would be ridiculous, astronomical numbers.
Bro no one is left on a registered sex offender list if they were "innocent".

No one is spending 10 years in prison "before a trial and then all charges got dropped".

OP is a straight up pedo creeper on top of being a liar and you are defending them lol
Yak Yak Yak, another framework which solves nothing in this world of despair. When has a framework ever solved a war?

"Use us, because we are google"; I'm tired of this walled garden sheep and pony show. It's a loop on repeat.

Show me something. Show me something of worth that's come from these frameworks. Something that cures my cynicism, because all I see from the internet and the future being more restricted with entry points and exile because your not following suit.

Next week: some other framework we should all use. Maybe I should equip Cloudflare to save me from the downvoting....
The MacBook Pro has battery management software in it. They fast charge to 80% and then trickle charge.

You are the biggest factor in determining the health of your battery. Try to keep your battery charge between 40% and 80% and don't sweat it if you need to occasionally go over or under those limits. If you're going to be flying tomorrow and want to use your laptop then sure, charge to 100%.

Keep in mind the worst thing you can do for a battery is keeping it continually charged or continually undercharged. They're "happiest" around 50% charged. But like I said, use the 40% to 80% as a rule-of-thumb and live your life and don't worry too much about it.
No flamewar here, I quite agree! I really enjoyed The Fifth Season (if "enjoy" is a word that can be applied to something so dark), but it did have flaws (I used "visceral" and "imaginative" in my above comment because I think those are her strengths: I really felt immersed in her descriptive writing).

Meanwhile Octavia Butler is absolutely one of my favorite authors regardless of genre. Her work stuck with me for quite a while, as has le Guin's (specifically, Left Hand of Darkness, I've actually had trouble getting into some of her other works, though I mean to try again). Butler to me is a visionary alongside my other favorites in the sci fi canon.
Sorry, after doing extremely low area designs every extra useless gate is „heavy“ :)
I wish that salmon could end up in more places.

American seafood is pretty poor compared to Europe and other continents. Its always so expensive and hard to get. Local fish is really expensive. Local California prawns price are insane. Even that salmon will be 30/lb.

We also don't have a good culture if eating it general.
Hi, I looked at your job offer, but I see there is *at least* 4 hours of interview (up to 5 hours !) not including the coding task?

This seems like a huge energy-draining hiring process, plus there is no salary range indicated on your website.
Do you consider such people to blame? Under your own framing, they’re more or less being taken advantage of by a modern form of drug dealer.
TikTok is leaking
"Revela Preço" (Price Reveal), a smartphone app for comparing prices across establishments.

In Brazil, all businesses must issue an invoice or a fiscal receipt. The latter includes purchase details and a QR code with a URL that directs the consumer to the respective state's SEFAZ (Department of Finance). This allows consumers to view their purchase receipt online and print a second copy if needed.

However, each SEFAZ operates differently, if they function at all. This hindered the app's progress, as the constant unavailability of state services led to numerous user complaints.

The project is currently on hold until the receipt consultation process is centralized within the Federal Revenue Service, similar to how invoices are handled currently.

The project's goal is to allow users to compare recent prices from those who have purchased and scanned their receipts, enabling them to create shopping lists in advance and know where they can save money.

Relying on each state's government to keep their systems operational has become the project's biggest obstacle.

I consider it "useless" because of the time spent on it and the inability to continue due to our government's inefficiency.
This would be true for those whose contribution would be capped based on parental earnings/assets, since their effective price would not increase. And it would be true for extremely wealthy folks whose parents can spend $1M on college and not worry about it. But for the marginal applicants who would be paying full freight under the old price but can't easily toss out another $150k/yr on tuition, there would definitely be a drop in application rates.
Jewish director? Hrmph
Even the FTC commissioner can’t get air time. As far as Apple is concerned, an informed public is competition with Apple.
Congrats! I used PartyKit since the early beta; for the open source React rich text editor I'm working on (https://www.blocknotejs.org, the homepage runs on Partykit), and PartyKit was a breeze to integrate (ofc, big part because we both build on Yjs). Looking forward to seeing where Cloudflare wants to take this further!
Ask HN: Any decent lean metrics and logs solutions?
Mostly addressed to SaaS solopreneurs

— how do you monitor your basic app health metrics and check logs and get notified about critical issues _without_ all the hassle and overhead involved in setting up and maintaining prometheus/elk/grafana/etc

Do you know of any minimalistic turnkey solutions?

Something like importing a single library in your code and making few calls to it. Without drowning in linux, docker, networks, authentication, proxies, pipelines... configuration hell.
? I don’t get it, isn’t the person installing critical safety features in an automobile performing a valuable social function?
3Dfx didn't play in the SGI space. But Matrox (for 2D), 3Dlabs (another RIP), Orchard (used 3Dlabs chip), STB (again, 3Dlabs chip...), and Diamond (uh... 3Dlabs!).

3Dfx grew up in the arcade market. They were always consumer-focused.
That sounds somewhat like the university of austin, or whatever it's called. They're launching this fall and trying to get accredited. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
Yes, the final decision to revert to Microsoft was taken in 2017. But in 2014, the mayor of Munich began an investigation into how to return to Microsoft products. And he was also the one who negotiated the location of the headquarters with Microsoft in 2013.
I work at a well known German company and I am employed a little less than half time as a working student to singlehandedly plan, manage and implement a project that is shown every now and then at technology conferences and demonstrations as one of two demonstrations.
I am not able to decide anything on my own, since almost everything has to go through some superior to be bought/allowed.
Despite this PR Desaster waiting to happen, no one else in the team gives any serious time to this project, but whenever the deadline of conference X comes around, I am the one being pressured to get things done.
There are red flags on the project all around and I know it is not going to work since there has never even been a clear project vision from the start, and every month or so my direct supervisor comes along with a new turn, a new feature to be implemented despite it not working at all with whatever has been there before let alone as a complete concept. I have to actively un-implement certain features to make the next new thing work.
Thank god I have a limited contract and I am out of there at the end of the month.
Squirrel!!
Yep!

It was Shlomo Kramer (Checkpoint, Imperva, Cato Networks) and Nir Zuk (Palo Alto Networks) that started the 8200-to-entrepreneurship pipeline in the 1990s-2000s.

Shlomo was basically the primary reason Israel does so well in cybersecurity entrepreneurship.

There was some overlap with the IIT alumni network as well due to Rajiv Batra (cofounder with Nir at PANW) that caused the entire Enterprise SaaS space to be lead by Israeli-American and Indian-American founders.
> for me this is an anxiety-inducing and unhappy experience.

Don't measure yourself by goofy corporate politics. It's not your fault (and ignore their political blame games). You can make the world a better place by the pay you are receiving.
I'd say the fact that I can pass in multiple input sources, apply a complex chain of filters, set detailed rendering options, set output parameters, and have it all work flawlessly, and do all of the above in a single command line with consistent syntax, makes "too good" a very accurate description of the FFMpeg CLI.
I have so many options. Here's a top three

https://c50.fingswotidun.com/ useless but arguably art.

https://k8.fingswotidun.com/static/ide/ an ide,assembler,emulation for a fictional 8 bit computer.

https://github.com/Lerc/notanos
A html/js desktop for Linux that I really should finish sometime.

These three projects have a combined user base in single digits. Mostly just me.
Here's a brochure for the IrisVision boards - uses 2 ISA or Microchannel slots.

Prices start start at $3,495

https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2...
"Maximally efficient is minimally robust."

A company that optimizes for efficiency will get stomped flat when the environment changes.

The problem is that there are no incentives in business to optimize for robustness.
Literally first item on your list is basically too optimistic

> Talking Up Hyperloop, the (Fantasy) Transportation of the Future

Another item
> Saying He’d Take Tesla Private With a Tweet, Then Getting Sued for Fraud

Actual tweet: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.”

Which a) reads like a joke and b) didn't say he is taking, but considering. The only potential lie is wrt funding, which he still claims he had secured.

> Procrastinating on an Epic Manned Mission to Mars

Again, over-promising / optimistic. It's not outright lying.

> Resorting to ‘Pedo’ Smears Because Someone Didn’t Like His Little Submersible

Only lie, but it's more of petty insulting than outright lying, at least when it comes to with relation in business matters.

> Constantly Kicking the Can Down the Road on Fully Self-Driving Teslas

Again, optimistic.

First 5 points addressed, and it's junk. The closest thing to him outright lying is the “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” tweet. And that's the best. The rest of the article is just whining about twitter this and that. It's a hit piece instead of an objective list of lies.
Reminds me of the difference between a BMW and a porcupine.

(A porcupine has pricks on the outside.)
Hmm, how about watermarking the photo with some function of the OTP? (like bit steganography; invisible to normal human use)

Seems to preserve easy checking by device manufacturer, but not immediately clear to me how to replace the sensor in a way that gets a signed image.

And if it seems like a bit of trouble, I think it's still worth consideration by the manufacturer, as a feature for their images and support of a community of users who want to produce images that can be so validated
Uh... This is incorrect, and probably largely dependent on where exactly you live. Just go look at an earthquake swarm map of CA. Near the fault in Los Angeles have been dozens if not more of small/midsized/large quakes that could produce the effects you're talking about. I had one in my office just the other week that freaked everyone out.
I'd like to see metrics for Turkish. I was told by a native speaker that it developed over the years for efficient military communication purposes and I've learned it as a foreign language for a couple of years.

There's an unusual level of modularity, concatenation and configurability to the base verbs. For instance "we were not able to buy" can be expressed as a single word (I think it's alamadık but someone correct me)
I’ve unfortunately encountered cmake projects which take upwards of a minute to configure. It has a faster baseline but it can’t stop you from writing slow checks.
New York City shakes as 4.8 magnitude earthquake hits US north-east
So by this definition, do we already have "knowledge collapse" by Wikipedia? Because if you search for a random concept, that's usually the first hit, and it's also what countless other sources draw on.
There's also Cheetah [1], Falcon [2], and Lynx [3]?

[1] https://cheetahtemplate.org/

[2] http://www.falconpl.org/

[3] https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1989_TR308_revis...
I wonder if any South Indian languages were included because the speed at which syllables come at you seems incredible.
Gee, silly me, mobile developer who is unable to recognize when I see native application instead of web wrapper.
The joke is that BMW drivers don't use them.
France knew this was coming and converted a sizable amount of dollars to gold. The world lost trust we wouldn't abuse the dollar. We did anyway and then held a gun to their heads by making Saudis push OPEC to only sell oil for dollars. Problem solved for America.
Unfortunately, yeah, you're pretty much right.

It's just such a weirdly ignorant thing to say about Islam. Like he's getting everything he knows about Islam off of Facebook.

Both Islam and Christianity (and Judaism, for that matter) can be pretty oppressive, if you read their scriptures at face value. They all record Bronze Age attitudes.

He happens to live in a country surrounded by people with a much more progressive take on Christianity; the Anglicans just aren't much of a threat. And good for them. But I live in America, where fundamentalist Christians are a far bigger threat to me Muslims. The Muslims here aren't especially progressive, but we have a significant fundamentalist Christian terrorism problem.

I'm a nonbeliever myself I don't want to be part of any of those religions. But all of them have healthy, modern interpretations, and Dawkins really ought to at least put in some effort to look into it. As it is, he makes atheists look uneducated about the religions around them.
Not only does that metaphor not hold up (is UX obsolete in your opinion?), it's absolutely false.

This is software after all - surely you're aware how throwing out the old solution and trying to build a "better" one results in a long slog of making the same mistakes the old team/product made and fixed (but could have warned you about if they were kept around).
who else came looking for a comment like this...
Yep, the issue with the parent counterargument is that gen ai is a monetized tool owned and sold by a corporation. People would probably be fine with a human-like embodied ai or something learning in the same way.
Amazing, will look forward to seeing how you beat the benchmarks with this :-)
For a very large software and hardware company's local office in NZ in 2001

What they asked for: Refreshing their suit of unit tests, 10,000 of them, that had gone stale (that applied to their widely used C++ telephony library)

Budget NZ$1,000,000

(Don't ask what, why, really?)

I joined half way through

Half the budget spent, nothing to show, mission mysteriously changed to producing a deep packet inspection tool. (What happened to the unit tests you ask? Be quiet! Take the money)

My job was to reach deep into their system and bring the data to the surface, roughly speaking

Thing is nobody that worked on the library wanted, needed, or asked for any aspect of what were doing

The design for it was written on a whiteboard by the project lead before I joined

Then the whiteboard was cleaned.

So the design was in one man's head

That man, the project lead, quit 3 weeks before delivery

On handover day I was a bit afraid, I had taken care to keep good records of my obeying (increasingly unhinged) instructions, so I was confident I could not be blamed (I was younger and naive-not part of the story)

But I fully expected an unpleasant "you did what with our money? What were you thinking?" type of unpleasant meeting

Instead the corporate types sat around a table gushing how wonderful everything was, what a brilliant job we'd all done...

I was stunned. I understand now, I learnt that day, that it was in no-one's interest to acknowledge the waste of a million bucks

Coming from academia, as I was more or less, this was a valuable lesson.

But utterly worthless software for a million dollars

I still use some of the furniture I bought with the money....
Smell is shaped by a transmodal network for evaluating perceptual predictions