skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been paying with contactless from my AppleWatch nearly everywhere I go for many years in the US.

I think my pharmacy was the last normal retailer to get it (they had been dragging their fear), and even many of the gas pumps around me got contactless 2-3 years ago.

Even many restaurants seem to support it these days.

The only time I don’t try to use it is for large purchases because I’m not sure what transaction size limits my cards have for contactless. I also don’t at fast food drive throughs because I’ve never seen a good solution at one. The poor person at the window always seems to have to hold a terminal out, possibly on some stick. And it seems like more trouble than it’s worth.

Practically every terminal that was installed to be able to support EMV many years ago had contactless support. Some places were jerks about turning it on, but it’s really really common for it to work even if they don’t have signs advertising it.
The work antithesis has been doing here has me really excited as well.
That doesn’t appear to be the case any more.

https://forums.sonic.net/viewtopic.php?t=17580
Yahoooooo!
It will recognize famous people, but you can't tag people yet. That's something on my roadmap. Is that something you're interested in?
I think effective brainstorming is actually a matter of prompt engineering, which is to say, breaking the model out of its box and into unexplored territory. See https://twitter.com/repligate for some extreme examples of this.
IT Tools – Handy online tools for developers. Great UI/UX, no tracking and free
Now I’m curious: what’s a useful example of a Datomic transaction that reads a value in multiple of its elements and modifies it?
Ooh, something I know a lot about!

I had a total proctocolectomy in 2018, and now I have an ostomy :)
I'm thinking of adding support for text files. Only thing holding me back is that it would make the app much larger.

I'm also considering making the models more a la carte so you can manage which ones your want to use depending on your use case. That way you could use for text, image/video, or both.
I have a pet-theory that certain older folks are cautious with technology because they grew up with stuff that would break expensively if you pressed the buttons in the wrong order.

Then when they see younger people just randomly explore-clicking to get things working--because their experience is that it's a safe tactic--that can gets misinterpreted as expertise, leading to: "Wow, kids these days just know technology."
If you want to be in Europe, have cold weather, higher salaries, relatively low taxes, and a decent environment for families, then Switzerland is probably the answer.
I thought the exact same thing and was immediately skeptical. Glad I was wrong.
I'm working on a Windows version! I'll let you know when it's ready.
Amazon is now selling the "chinese crap made to last 2 minutes":

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=grip+strengthener&rh=n%3A14333021...

I will no longer use Amazon for anything where I actually care about quality or getting a legitimate product.

A few weeks ago I ordered the same USB charger a second time and got a different (but similar) item altogether.
> However, I’m looking at things from a per use basis because I’m not really attracted to drinking. So for me it’s about what risks are associated with drinking a beer vs dropping a tab vs smoking 1 more cigarette.

This is not a useful metric at all, and is incredibly naive. Each of those activities carries with it the relative risks of addiction and long term harms. Your metric can lead to absurd conclusion that cigarettes are perfectly fine because nobody ever got cancer from having just one. The danger in tobacco is that people don't stop at just one.

> You can reasonably safely consume a lot of alcohol without issue, as in 1-3 beers a night for a decade

Some people can, but a significant minority of the people that try that will run into trouble and find their habit escalating. Even people like you who seem to think they are above addiction. And those who don't suffer addiction from that pattern will have increased their risk of cancer and various other diseases.

> but daily LSD use

Is so rare as to effectively constitute a complete fallacy of argument. That's the point, virtually nobody wants to use LSD on a daily basis, even amongst people who like and use LSD. Its risk profile is significantly lower than alcohol or tobacco as a result of that.

Seriously, go read up on this stuff, it's fascinating as well as enlightening.
I made it past 5 levels, and I don't really think I understand what is happening. There's some sort of mirror thing that I can't seem to control, and I can click on things, but I get less stars if I click on things.

I pass if I try to mirror right to left, but mirroring in the opposite direction does nothing. I have trouble controlling where the mirror plane is. It seems on the 'Tap' level I should be able to solve this by mirroring left to right, but I can only click on the white square to pass.
> The vast majority of candidates are like me - some combination of time constraints and lack of superior intelligence will prevent them for excelling in those interviews or even trying.The vast majority of candidates are like me - some combination of time constraints and lack of superior intelligence will prevent them for excelling in those interviews or even trying.

Surely that's an attitude thing more than a true limitation? Just because the hill is steeper for you doesn't mean you can't still get to the top.
Goldratt is suggesting in Critical Chain that you convince people to give accurate estimates (as in 50% confidence) instead of building in safety. He’s asserting that this fixes your problem with estimates only ever being under instead of over.

But I just finished the book a couple days ago and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how on earth you’d pull that off in software. Doesn’t work with Scrum at all, and management has to be 100% on board or the betrayal when people get punished for “bad” estimates will destroy the company. I’ve only had that kind of trust one time. And maybe half of that level a couple others.

Among other things the reasoning is this: if you give someone two weeks to finish something that takes “about a week” they will start it a week later and chew up all their safety. And if they complete 4 day tasks in three days they’ll delay delivery because they get punished for asking for more time than they need. And further that a lot of these delays aren’t just procrastination, or funny accounting to work on tech debt off the books (though that does happen IME). Instead it’s the consequence of multiple chains having steps that require the same constrained individual or machine. And trying to reserve that resource when the start dates are up in the air.
Startup means new business does when dealing with economic stats. It means something else in the tech world.
Also I’d expect lots of countries to collapse into anarchy, no particular reason to believe that whatever rises from the ashes will be any better.
The older I get, I realise that the most joyful accomplishments are in building something reliable that is also useful to a lot of people.

The tools/stack used to achieve this matters, but only so much.
I'm pretty sure all roads lead to either playing the game or otherwise not doing anything of value to Nintendo whatsoever (ie who cares if you bury a box of roms in your yard)
Makes it *much* less interesting.
No offense man, but imo, you have a lot of incorrect assumptions just because you are inexperienced in the topic. People live in Romania and Dubai for very different reasons. You can run a very profitable business and pay very little income tax anywhere, and have personal real estate, cars, investments, etc, registered to business entities worldwide. This is not a "pay 40% income tax or leave" situation as you think it is. And moving to Romania, believe me you will encounter other issues with running a business there. (I live in the Balkans.) Good luck.
The election will probably be won or lost on apathy. In any rational world, it would be a D storm because the R side in this has gone completely gaga. But, apathy, and messages to tell lefist students to stay home "as a protest against Joe's stance on Israel" are going to kill the margins.

The real sold and tangible information is that the economy is not demonstrably worse under Biden and very probably better, and that doing barely OK compared to selling the house for hookers and blow is pretty damn good.

90% plus of the spend on Ukraine is spent.. inside the US weapons industry. It's been a giant pump priming for all kinds of industrial base. That alone is worth singing about because Trump wants to believe he can stop spending the aide money inside the USA and can talk a peace outcome in 24h of being sworn in...
World in a Box
Got two jobs and refuted one offer. In the middle of 2 interviews.

I don't have any tricks. I'm just a bit luckier I think. I am quite unlucky in certain other ways that I consider this a necessary complement.

I'm a mediocre data engineer at best, but people usually look at years of service and automatically assume 6 years in some well known but non-faang companies is good enough -- well in most places it indeed is enough.

Neither do I practice LC -- I did have a few LC interviews but everyone agrees that DEs are inferior to other SWEs so they only gave me easy/medium. I prefer companies that don't give LC interviews TBH. I'm fine with SQL LC though.

The only thing I'm doing is coding personal projects using Python or Java or C so I brush up language skills, in this way at least I don't need to Google for list comprehension or enumerate loops. But I'm so burnout by my day job that I don't work on personal projects very often.

I don't love my old or new job. I desperately want to switch to a low level job, no hope as for now. I don't consider myself being success as I hate my job and don't know what to do next.

My company is not hiring at the moment so good luck to everyone who is seeking for a job.
I personally dislike 1-1s weekly. Monthly ok.
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I have mostly seen people getting what they were getting in cash+stock in big company as cash in a startup or a little bit less. As someone who has worked in companies of all the sizes, this post is not only incorrect but also written with a intention.

The only thing that's true is working in average startup is quite worse than working in average big company. But even then, it definitely becomes clear in a year or two and you can leave it. On a long enough horizon, it doesn't matter if you get bit less earning for a year.
Might you possibly have a link?
-itis refers to a specific physiological phenomenon: Inflammation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation)

swelling can happen without inflammaion, and mild inflammation may occur without noticable swelling.

-osis is a generic suffix for a process or condition: metamorphosis, scoliosis, hypnosis.
Definitely. It’s the only reason I’d buy. I’ve got thousands of photos and I need to search by individual or by combinations (eg, “what’s that picture with grandma, grandpa, and uncle”)
Pandemics burn out eventually. The weak are killed off, those who survive either have natural immunity or are strong enough to recover. The pathogen itself also evolves; it's not really good for a virus to kill its host, as that limits its ability to spread.
50 years of text games

https://if50.substack.com/

Not just if you're interested in text games, but dealing with technical restrictions, early inspirations, and some of the things we've lost.
With Laurence's response it doesn't sound like he stole anything at all.
This is the kind of opsec feature that looks good on paper but could sometimes get people killed - even people that didn't actually set up a second pin (how do you prove to the guy pointing a gun to your head that you didn't set up anything like that??)
Immunity builds up over time, and diseases etiolate (become less virulent) because in the end, Ebola isn't a winning strategy for the DNA inside the virus.

We don't die of the English Sweating disease, which killed people inside 24h (notably Thomas Cromwell's family, in Hilary Mantel's telling of his life)

> they didn't magically end. People just got tired, it became too expensive or politically inconvenient, we collectively turned away and pretended "it went away"

Look, I get why it feels like this, but there is another take on this. The mass immunisation did what it needed to do for us: removed the high risk of mortality and replaced it by background levels of a mostly serious but not fatal disease.

The risk is of a new disease, or a new strain. It can be just as bad. If the peridicity of that happening was 10-20 years, you'd have the long tail of the antonine plague, modulated through RNA vaccine development timeframes and the rise and fall of mass public travel.

If we just become homebodies and stop flying, Plagues will become local again.
It’s interesting that technically an individual camera’s sensor is itself an array of smaller sensors that capture individual pixels. So you have like a tree of arrays

Maybe we can keep stacking them. Build an array of arrays of cameras/telescopes

What would be the limit?
This is literally what a sliderule is.
That is what driving me nuts about these threads.

These aren’t free markets. They’re government regulated into being something else entirely, then people stomp their feet and complain about capitalism.
They use way more fuel in hilly areas.
I should have been more precise. I meant in terms of being like the old Roman Empire. More in terms of vastness than anything.

The army for example had dropped about 75% in size by the timeframe I mentioned. And this is only the eastern half of the former empire.

So the empire was a shell of itself in terms of extent.

Would be as if California, Nevada and Oregon lived on as “Western America” in 2400 with continuity of govt. Impressive in some way but also nothing a contemporary from our time would recognize as being “The United States”.
You mean a 1A violation like the government pressuring media companies to push their narratives?

Because we have seen this year no one seems to care enough.
I sure hope so! I missed the serendipity of web 1.0 and then in the past couple of years I realized it’s all still there! In fact, there or more sites than ever behind the sheen of these giant companies.

I hope this next iteration brings a proliferation of tools that can help regular folks take part in that (personal sites, blogging, guestbooks, etc) without getting trapped in a walled garden or social network.

We’re trying to do our part to help at our company (Good Enough) with https://pika.page/
IDK, but the claim was that debit cards offer none of those rewards, not that they offer the best possible rewards compared to credit cards.
Remix is already essentially a Vite plugin + React Router. That change was started at least 9 months ago and went stable 3 months ago.

https://remix.run/blog/remix-heart-vite

https://remix.run/blog/remix-vite-stable

At this point the separation between the two projects is seeming more and more like a lot of rigmarole for nothing. Imagine running two projects that are 90% the same, and every time you change one you have to make a release and update the other, etc etc.
I'm sure some aspects of this can be achieved by manually programming GPT-4 links to other specific services. And obviously, some interaction tools would have to be written manually even for an AGI.

The difference though is the amount of work. Today if you wanted GPT-4 to work as I describe, you would have to write an integration for Gmail, another one for Office365, another one for Proton etc. You would probably have to create a management interface to give access to your auth tokens for each of these to OpenAI so they can activate these interactions. The person you want to sync with would have to do the same.

In contrast, an AGI that only has average human intelligence, or even below, would just need access to, say, Firefox APIs, and should easily be able to achieve all of this. And it would work regardless if the other side is a different AGI using a different provider, or even if they are just a regular human assistant.
A big C could be $3M in losses per year vs $2M in profits.

Or always coming in second on contracts or sales and getting $0.
The right thing is not storing data on a single 2.5 consumer SSD because the endurance on those devices are trash and the fail at super high rates.

They aren’t designed for a linux server, they’re designed for a disposable Windows laptop that will be chucked in the bin after a year or two. I’ve learned this lesson the hard way over, and over, and over again with these little cheap SSDs.
This is such a misleadingly narrow headline. Utopia's a decade old and has been a mess from the business side pretty much the entire time. Even Google fiber in Provo's somehow giving better rollout service than they are. I was excited when it was announced as a teen but it's been a long road of failing to live up to expectations for all but a tiny fraction of our residents in the rich parts of our cities. And it's supposed to be a public-good program!
People forget that Photoshop worked on a Silicon Graphics box. It was indeed the way to go, so long as you could afford it.
My mother had the same issue. TouchID would stop recognizing her finger less than a day after setting it up.
Oh, I think we’ve seen it make the issues a lot worse.
You can install the addon on mobile firefox.

Ironically because of addons I now use firefox exclusively on mobile.
> My conclusion to all this was kind of a sad lightbulb moments -- all the past pandemics, they didn't magically end. People just got tired, it became too expensive or politically inconvenient, we collectively turned away and pretended "it went away". The quarter-century timeframe on the Antonine plague looks starkly realistic in this light.

You make it sound like it's just a political decision, but a main reason why attention fades because the virus just becomes less deadly. E.g. the Spanish flu killed >20 M people, and yes you're correct it didn't go away, essentially every current flu virus can be traced back to the Spanish flu. People are just not dying from it to the same degree, so naturally we pay less attention.
People also bypass this stuff by just using gmail or some other provider instead of their work email. We receive the lesson over and over that if you make a system too hard or too inconvenient to use, people will just do their own thing. But we never learn.
I wish I could give many tips, but I think right now the most important thing is to find connections so that you can skip HRs, and advertise yourself if you have strong personal projects.
Lovely project. When comparing images from this and other scopes, remember that almost all Astrophotography nowadays has moved on from exposure from a single light pipe into a negative, and development onto a photo: They are constructs from grids of sensors, with differing receptance across the RF spectrum (visible and non-visible) subject to intense signal processing, and false colour projections.

About the only point you can discuss as a comparator is the angular resolution and even that means asking how much has been interpolated.

I love modern astro images but I am unsure we even should call them "photography" because they're "painted", by the astronomer or their appointed colour artist.

"this one has more IR boost, but I added a hint of green for dramatic effect"

Also to the angular resolution thing, we're often also looking at what is projected into our mind as a 2D structure. The horse head nebula is a 3D state of matter. It wouldn't look like JFK's head from our angle, but might well from another point of view, or a melon, or like.. nothing at all.

Most "constellations" are not physically interconnected in any sense, and are not a group the way a galaxy or star+planets are, and need not lie the same distance away from us. They're the view of these objects on an imaginary surface painted by the astrologers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving
It's a bit more nuanced than that. If I work for an airline and I quit my job while in flight it's definitely not false imprisonment that they don't land immediately and I'm definitely not a slave. It is sad what has happened to these Mariners but if they had been on their normal journey it would have been multiple days or weeks without the ability to go on shore. Likewise if they quit their jobs while enroute it is not slavery to not immediately travel to the nearest port.

Slavery entails loss of many civil rights, not just being restricted in movement.
>The south, and the USA as a whole, would never have been as rich if they didn't have slavery at the right time. It was important enough that h he confederacy was willing to fight a war over it: they knew, and they were proven right, that losing slavery would plunge them into poverty, as it did.

If the South was so enriched by slavery, why did they have such a lack of guns and industry with which to build them? And why could they only buy less than a tenth of the guns that the North bought?

The answer is that they never industrialized because if you force slaves to work expensive machines, then those machines will be sabotaged. Slavery cripples your ability to mechanize.

If slavery really were better for the economy, then the South could have won the war even despite their lack of numbers - if the South had armed every single soldier with a breach-loading rifle (they mostly just had smoothbores, mostly muzzle-loading) then the North simply wouldn't have been able to push the offensive and would probably have been losing ground. The South's strategic goals were easier than the North's - the North needed to annex the south (or re-annex, semantics) whereas the South only needed a stalemate. The South mobilized first, so if anything they should have had more guns than the North.

You're quite correct that slavery is wildly profitable for the slave-owner, so they had more than enough capital to industrialize, so why didn't they?

>In Southern Europe, if you consider serfs different from slaves (they were, but only to a small extent).

The ethnicity is important here: if a serf runs away, there's no obvious inherent indicator they're a serf, making it easy to make a new life nearby (e.g. a few towns away). If a black slave runs away in the Antebellum South, then other villages will assume he's a runaway slave until proven otherwise - that runaway will have to escape the entire South. The serf's greater ability to escape if he's treated too poorly gave him bargaining power that limited the abuse of feudal lords.
http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=math

This one is funny!
I believe that Livepicture was fast because they loaded the full image as a set of tiles.

I also believe that Photoshop was 'inspired' to introduce layers in version 3 in response to Livepicture's layers. It was layers which caused Photoshop to explode in popularity.

Adobe then went on to sue Macromedia for using tabs in their interface. Bummer.
Thanks, this seems to be close to what I want. Let me read a chapter and find out. I do love the technical stuffs.
> many companies are moving to .Net Core on Linux

Why? Is it to port windows software to Linux?

Is anybody starting software on Linux using .Net?
You'd think, but this is actually no longer true since the pandemic. Most startups are remote-friendly, but being remote removes a lot of the networking opportunities that used to be part of the startup experience.

I feel like being an fte at a startup is an even worse proposition than before.
Congrats on the launch!

I think here's a few players in this space (dev-friendly BI tool) already:
- Holistics.io
- Lightdash
- Hashboard

These tools all allow analysts to use both/either a local/cloud IDE to write analytics logic, and check in to Git version control.

How do you plan to differentiate with them?
That's if there isn't a "bug" where it sends that data anyway.

Also, it's closed source.