skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> paying the ~€5 a month fee for a bank account

That's the problem right there. Bank accounts should be free by force of law. A bank charging depositors for literally anything is just absurd. They should be paying you, not the other way around.
Which of these guys gets the social security benefits?
Indeed, rule of law has been known to be a farce for some time.
As a commercial lawyer, I often have to exchange drafts with another lawyer somewhere else. Almost everyone will accept Word, far fewer are happy with a Google doc. Obviously I can generate a Word document from Google, but that isn't quite the same.

A specific problem in this scenario is tracked changes. Google has a history/version control but it does not map particularly well onto Word's tracked changes, which the other party will understand and is likely to want to use. Passing things into and out of Google will often result in loss of useful information like that.

Personally: Word is the absolute best piece of software for dealing with numbered lists that is easily available. In many ways it is terrible of course, but it is less terrible than anything else. Getting numbering right is important.

Google has gotten better. It used to be very bad at larger and more complicated documents. But it still doesn't have all I need to write a really good contract (at least by my standards of "really good").
> Cash handling is typically in the neighborhood of 0.2%-0.3%, so you were apparently overpaying […]

This is not universal, and banks in different countries charge different cash collections fees. The cash collection fees are also structured, e.g. whether the daily collection is required, or every other day, or once a week.

It does not end there.

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.

Now that we are done with material things, we also have to consider all things immaterial that the cash handling entails.

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. 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. 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.

That is just some of the peculiarities of how cash is handled, and I am not sure whether cash handling turns out to be cheaper for an average business with a substantial number of cash payments a day.

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).
It's not the stolen identity that's the issue - it's the real person who actually has that identity.

If he had stolen an identity from someone dead we'd probably all just kinda shrug.
> Can anyone provide a summary of this article?

Well that’s too much work. But here is an LLM produced summary of the text:

Molly Templeton's article, "On Letting Go of the Idea of 'Keeping Up'," explores the pressures of contemporary reading culture, contrasting it with the joy of reading she experienced in childhood, symbolized by earning gold stars for each book read. She describes how, as an adult, reading has become entangled with competition, social performance, and the need to keep up with trends, turning the solitary pleasure of reading into a public performance marked by obligations and quantifiable achievements.

Templeton criticizes the way platforms like Goodreads have transformed reading into a task-oriented activity, where success is measured by the number of books read, detracting from the intrinsic value of reading itself. She shares personal anecdotes from her time in New York's bookish circles, where she felt the pressure to be well-read and current, highlighting the anxiety that can come with trying to meet external expectations.

Templeton recalls a turning point when being asked about her recent reads felt more like a competition than a shared interest, prompting her to reevaluate her relationship with reading. She argues for a reading culture that values personal experience over productivity, emphasizing that the number of books one reads should not dictate one's worth as a reader.

Templeton advocates stepping away from the competitive and overwhelming aspects of online book communities to reclaim reading as a personal, unquantifiable joy. Her reflections serve as a reminder that the true value of reading lies in the individual growth, enjoyment, and insights it provides, far beyond any statistic or social media status.
You wouldn't - you'd write it in the safe C subset?

Presumably it's easier to rewrite part of your app rather than the whole thing.

But I'm all for a safe version of C17 (or C23/24). It's so disappointing that there isn't a standard memory-safe compiler/runtime/ABI. (And while they're at it, the stack should grow up rather than down.)

Perhaps CHERI or similar will catch on someday. Maybe Apple could try implementing memory checking for clang and Apple Silicon.
> In relative values it's worse than 100 years ago

Relative to what? 1926 was after WWI devestated Europe and I think Germany would have been in very bad shape from the Versailles Treaty.
HN is owned and operated by a Silicon Valley startup incubator, so it's at least Big Tech adjacent.
Gotta get those numbers up to pump the stock Timmy.
Well, he also lied to police, substantiated with lie with false documents, and this resulted in someone ending up forcibly medicated and imprisoned for an extended time.

He knew the guy was going to trial and his comfortable life was more valuable to him than honesty or this other man's existence.
Strings of unknown length were never in play. The comment was specifically about a separator in a date, which has only 2 potential conventional lengths depending on if you're using a 2 or 4 digit year.
In my view, Apple's car project always seemed a bit nebulous and potentially misaligned with their core strengths which is high-margin consumer electronics.

Some quick googling suggests car margins for manufacturers are no where near Apple's margins.
Yes, this is the killer feature. It lets you curate your searches and filter known sources of noise.
I understand that this is coming from a place of privilege, but I was raised with regular maid service cleaning our home as a child and it's just something you learn to live with. You pick up after yourself for the easy things like throwing out garbage and picking up your clothes on the floor so the maids can do the heavy work like deep cleaning everything that's not in the way. And it's not necessarily unaffordable for biweekly cleaning.

You don't hire a maid service to clean up after you, you do it because they do a better job at all the stuff you really don't want to.
There's a plan for $54/yr for 3600 searches.
When you get in the habit of reading, it's remarkable how quickly you can do it. It's quite easy to read a book in a day when you read every day.
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That was gen 6 and only gen 6. Every other generation doubled the frequency.
Yeah $500/yr fee is ridiculous. I think my card is 1/4 of that and I’m sure I break even the first month since almost everything I pay for goes through that card. Utilities, cell phone bills, after school program fees (and before that daycare), all other recurring bills besides mortgage/car, restaurants, groceries, anything else I want or need to buy go through the same card. Always pay the balance in full each month no matter how painful.
At a population scale that's not as true as one would think.
Nontech CEO … bigly oof.
We're all dirt under the boot of cancer patients and orphaned animals
Microsoft isn't on the same side. Microsoft goes all over the world funding trade groups that say they want to regulate Google and Facebook, because Microsoft rightly perceives that they have a competitive weakness against them and nothing to lose by hosing up those markets through regulation. It started with FairSearch 15 years ago, only the names of the front groups have changed.
Working out whether a lawyer is good, and more specifically good for what you want, is difficult even for another lawyer.

People often ask me for recommendations of a lawyer outside my field, or indeed in my field if I can't help them because my firm is conflicted or for some other reason. The thing is I don't personally use lawyers, so I have only the vaguest idea. I can tell some things from firms' reputations and their websites, but even for me it is a hard call.

And the law firms I have most experience of in practice tend to be the ones which I would go out of my way to disrecommend :-).

So I agree, that is a problem. Particularly for litigation. Unless you are doing litigation a lot - which is likely to be bad news for you - you can't get experience of a lawyer and decide that you like them. Word of mouth is also rather less useful.
Unfortunately my "serious business" of $2B revenue dropped Zoom and Slack like a hot rock when they signed an enterprise Microsoft deal, because Teams is free, and usability, productivity and job satisfaction be damned, and your jobs are moving overseas anyway and nobody dares complain there.
Not perfect, but helps to determine if something is worth the time: https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html
How do you say so confidently without stating your sources?

Charging and long drives, both tough conditions somewhere that isn't my home city both would be major issues. They sold off the cars at a low cost so not sure how they amended depreciation doing that.
Maybe, or they are just claiming they report all the articles where the CIA influenced them as a cover.
It depends on the specific flavor of prostate flavor one has. It can be aggressive, but it can also be one of the most passive cancers out there.
ML-based obstacle avoidance does not require a camera. The latest products consciously avoid cameras to assuage fears that the images captured could be sent to the cloud.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...
I linked the section of the PCIe Wikipedia article that could be updated with this latest 512 GB/s spec ann, which is newer than the 242 GB/s max spec listed in the infobox.

No idea what the problem with that was.
Still have to wait in a queue though
Firefox users: you may want to disable the "Search for text when you start typing" option, it steals focus away from the controls.
Is vercel just hosting for react devs?
in the article they say it's explicit and it's 20 to 1 and goes to 100 to 1 for some targets. which makes it obvious it's not a rule but an order of magnitude to estimate the importance of a target. you know like when we use the Fibonacci suite as a measure for the difficulty of a backlog item during the planning game
When I used to appear in court a lot, I ran into plenty of intelligent people who managed to mess up badly because they didn't follow simple, clearly advertised, rules. So even though in theory it should be simple to do something, in practice people often get it wrong.

i.e. even where it isn't opaque, it is surprising how many people mess up.

(Of course that includes lawyers)
Dare to Fail Gloriously
> But video recording and streaming? Why would anyone prefer to use MS Office for that when OBS exists?

OBS is very powerful, but the complexity of its UI can scare non-technical newbies away. MS Office gives you a lot less power, but is much more welcoming when you aren’t technical and this is the first time in your life you’ve ever done it
Kagi is one of the greatest quality of life improvements I've had in a while. Here hopes I'm putting my trust in the right place though, search history is one of the most personal and identifiable datasets possible
I have paid dearly for all those people that actually use Google. The 25 for Kagi and 5 for Orion RC I give happily. Good search engine.
It wasn’t just any bank, it was a bank insured by the U.S. government. The U.S. government does not take being lied to lightly.

By the way, anyone who has applied for a mortgage in the U.S. has seen many, many warnings about how lying on a mortgage application is a federal crime that carries very serious penalties.
Is that the lab test? Isn't false positives and false negatives high with PSA?
So many of the same things apply to running/Strava and living/Instagram.
I hate to be that guy that's clearly ignorant on a particular topic, asking "why not just do <extremely hard or nonsensical thing>?" but I've always wondered..

Why can't you just make a Linux kernel module that takes an arbitrary ELF and runs it in kernel space? This is identical to what unikraft describes doing only with their own kernel. We have firecracker starting full Linux very quickly these days.. no more worries about missing syscalls, drivers, weird scheduler behavior etc? It would be just like running your app as a Linux process but sans the constant hops from ring 0 to 3 and back.
I don't think this is about safety though. Some laws are justified, but answering emails after hours seems a bit of a stretch. Someone getting physically injured is bad enough to require a law, but someone getting a little more stressed or having to look for a better match in a different company is not bad enough for government to be stepping in. There is nothing wrong with working after 5pm, it's really a matter of preference, and government enforcing one way or another would be a huge mistake. To flip your examples, why not have government enforce everything about all jobs? Why not have all jobs be 9-5, in office, only 5 meetings a week, etc. etc., and if companies deviate they have to pay money... hopefully you can see that would destroy the economy with companies grinding to halt in terms of productivity.

I think this line is somewhere around physical injuries or really extreme scenarios, and yes this means that right now even in the U.S., the gov. (especially CA) has too many laws around employment.
To clarify: The article addresses secret World Trade Organization discussions about limiting member countries' abilities to regulate big tech.
I remember using the original StarOffice to write up some consulting work that I’d done, it just have been the early 00s at the time, and I thought it was excellent - a worthy competitor to MS office of the time.

And then over time it felt more and more bloated and slow, to the point where I started to think I maybe misremembered how good it was when I’d first used it.

Is it just me? Or did it fall deeply into a hole? My recollection is that it hitched its wagon to Java for no good reason that I could see.
Wow. I haven't looked at the ITAR list in decades. There are lots of electronics items on there now that have useful civilian applications and can be built at low cost. You can build such things, but can't ship them cross-border to or from an ITAR country.

I'm amazed at what people are building as hobbyist RF gear. I wonder what test equipment they have. The test equipment for GHz RF is very expensive. If you build it and it's not working, you may need test gear.

(I tried to build a LIDAR in 1990s. It didn't work, and I didn't have access to gear that would let me see what was happening up there.)
Hopefully they have a plan to contribute to LibreOffice.
I really did miss working at the office where if I wanted to focus, I could.

extremely easy to mitigate as long as you're both not sitting on the couch or at the kitchen table in a small apartment or condo. even there, you might be able to carve out some home office space for focus work. depends on how longterm you view it and it actually is.

kids is another story altogether. definitely need a bigger boat in that case.
You can do Docker Swarm with a single node (both manager and worker). For a high availability setup, you need a majority of manager nodes for a quorum, so a minimum of three nodes to tolerate a single failure.

I actually just migrated my 4-node homelab from Docker Swarm to standalone instances. My nodes all have very different performance characteristics so I had every one of my services restricted to a specific node - in effect, not making use of most of the useful features of Swarm.

Some features of Swarm are nifty, but in particular I found that a) managing every service onto a single node is counter to the point of Swarm and b) I didn't like any of the options for storage. (1. Local storage, making containers even less portable across nodes. 2. Shared replicated storage, complicated. 3. Online file backend, expensive. 4. NFS shares, and then my NAS is a point of failure for every one of my nodes.)
I think this comment encapsulates quite exactly the point of the article: reading as a gamified chore that puts you "well ahead of the crowd" and somehow measures (or influences, even?) how successful, smart, rich, interesting, etc. you are.
Pirate websites to download books. They are right now the largest libraries that have ever existed. Anna's Archive is the largest, LibGen is the most famous one.

Their roots are from Soviet times, when underground librarians distributed books out of control by the government.
This looks fantastic. Can't wait to translate some non-trivial TLA+ to test it out.
I lost access to mine. I have the username, password and recovery email, but it won't let me in because I lost my phone.
Only lawyers really know how to vet lawyers for competency, I've found. More people use the quality of the jingle as a guide than any useful way to discern competence, partly because people broadly fail to understand what a lawyer is supposed to do (and this differs depending on context, civil proceedings and criminal proceedings and administrative proceedings concern sometimes vastly disparate interests and in turn, responsibilities and expected outcomes).

The best way, generally, is to survey other lawyers in the same field and jurisdiction and cross-reference to see if a firm or solo practitioner gets more recognition from their peers independently, btw. It's how lawyers find representation in fields they have no familiarity with. The jingles at best are entirely irrelevant and may even be an indicator that the firm relies on volume more than it really should.

edit: should mention that this generally applies for criminal or administrative cases. The civil arena is far too big and varied for me to suggest a heuristic that can be generalized since it concerns so much work that is wildly different and also, comparatively few court appearances (although I'd likely use the same method, but starting with my classmates, if I need to hire someone for a civil matter, if I have a classmate who practices in the field and in my jurisdiction).
I am curious about what that hidden reference is to
Of course it is, how would you classify it?

> The valuation of Y Combinator's companies is estimated to be at least $600 billion as of January 2023.
Doing that trip this summer, very excited! Hoping I can get my bike buddies to break camp early.
Why would they agree to something that would put them out of business
Because it's already nearly free to add 'smart' functionality to a TV? High end boards these days are mostly arm boards at first place, and add a smart tv function to it don't really cost too much cents. (You probably just need some extra storage) Why would they want to sell a dumb TV if you can make it a smart one almost for free?
Vms and virtualization is amazing and I don't get anyone who hates it. Their entire purpose is to limit blast radius and that's like the most valuable thing for me when it comes to maintainability. No colliding libraries or dependencies, no broken installations or upgrades polluting my system, all for an honestly super minimal performance hit.

I feel like the same people complaining about containers today are the same type to complain about compilers back in the day
Serious question: Why don't you use LaTeX to prepare the presentations?

A few things I could think of: the templates for presentations are less varied, less diverse, could look repetitive. With Office, you can make the most crazy designs.

That's it. LaTeX generates PDF presentations that work everywhere and look very nice, they even have navigation buttons on the corner.

I wonder if we could teach ChatGPT to create LaTeX presentation designs.
I was looking for information on the VBX/OCX component market just as I was reading your comment! Thanks!
something to be said about 'sexes in the workplace' here. women continue to make real progress toward equal representation in the physical workplace, which inevitably detracts from time for domestic responsibilities; and apparently a fair number of men are now taking their careers home, to the extent that it permits them to maintain some degree of organizational 'presence', while inevitably taking on more domestic responsibility. remarkable sorta-flip for sure.
That could be a function of the content you routinely consume? Those discussions absolutely happen, they just don't usually crop up on SV incubator forum sites.
4x 2.5GbE? Wonder if they make a 1x 10GbE version as well? :)

Couldn't see one in quick searching though. :(
Where can I get that 229MB file? Sounds like a fun test set.
That means LibreOffice is not native but Java?
Might depend on how recent. As a result of past annoyances I haven't revisited it in the last 12 months, except accidentally. The memory of the annoyance remains, whilst the specifics have been lost to time.

I'll give 'er another shot. I'm aware of my tendency to happily burn big tech for the slightest sleight.
I assume that the olive oil I buy in the store is very old compared to fresh-pressed oil. Similarly, my aunt has an avocado tree, and her fresh-picked avocados stay ripe for weeks, unlike the store-bought kind that have a sweet spot of ~36 hours.
Wouldn't an Access alternative be based on SQLite?
The switch from 2D to 3D was so seemless and beautiful I actually gasped.
> The only non-junk PCIe3 option that's even advertised here recently is the overpriced WD Red SN700.

Those WD drives seem to have some real issues, at least with ZFS and btrfs. :(

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793
The most cost-effective tool that we have today is the simple PSA blood test. However, I'd argue this is unnecessary at your age.
This article from 2018 argues against widespread PSA testing as a screening tool:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/new-study-once-again-cas...
There should never be anything wrong with lying to the police... They're allowed to lie to you.

In the article's situation it was causing ongoing harm to another person so this is still pretty bad though