skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I moved to the UK, I was advised to open a bank account with either Monzo or Starling, which are the two online-only startup banks in the UK. (They're actual banks, not resellers backed by other banks, or money transfer apps like CashApp.) This is because their identity checks involved scanning a single identity document and sending a video of myself saying that I wanted to open a bank account. All the traditional 'High Street' banks wanted all sorts of documentation - Council Tax bills, infamously - that I simply didn't have, because I'd just arrived in the country.

I know why all this is necessary. London remains the financial capital of the world, and launders a lot of dirty money. Monzo in particular has strict limits on cash withdrawals and deposits, because their accounts are often used in the illicit drug trade.

I have no objection to AML and KYC regulations, but it's absolutely crucial that legitimate people who don't fit the usual patterns - people like recent immigrants - have access to the banking system.

The social media aspect of TFA is attention-grabbing, but I think it's a red herring. The more concerning aspect is the suggestion of AI. To what extent will those algorithms be used, and to what supervision will they be subject?

In the 1980s, my father was an 'Automation Engineer' in a bank. He built an 'artificial intelligence system' for assessing home loan approvals. It was one of those fill-out-a-form-and-we'll-tell-you-how-much-you-can-borrow things that are all over the Internet now - entirely deterministic and transparent.

That's how banking needs to work, at least for individuals. Determinism engenders trust.

Modern AIs, on the other hand, are for algorithms that are too complex to be explained. If you've got those controlling people's access to finance - not just loans, but money they've deposited in their own bank account - we have a serious problem.

'Cash is King' is not a solution. Before my Dad worked at the bank, he worked in the payroll department at a soap company. He had to drive to the factory with the paypackets - one for each employee, containing their wages in cash - each week, and hand them out. That's utterly ridiculous.
I also had my debit card skimmed. Contacted the bank the same day but funds were locked. So, I ended up just using my credit card for purchases in the long run until the dispute was resolved. FWIW I am hyper vigilant looking for card skimmers at gas stations, etc. but somehow I still was targeted.
Agreed - but as I said with Foundations specifically, that you could change the characters each series and keep your anchor characters (i.e.: those that live on literally by being robots, or through projection). It's also pretty amenable to cutting back and forth in time. In other words multiple parallel timelines, which a number of shows have pulled off. There are enormous underserved audiences for clever complex formally innovative TV, and a whole bunch of money going into fluff that (at least in Apple's case, seems like it isn't drawing an audience now - let alone in future rereleases, as the prestige shows of the 90s did).
Oh, I'm certainly the same, just some rando enjoying my popcorn.
uucp would not be written until years later.
If I understood the article correctly he intends to let the community make suggestions to selected developers which work on the source somehow. So maybe part of the source will be made visible.
I get an average of 2.5% cash back on all purchases made with my credit card. I pay the balance in full each month and have never paid an interest charge. Why on earth would I not take the free money?
That chart about amex winning on deliquencies rings true. UK side at least amex seems incredibly fussy about clients. They declined applications from two friends - both local equivalent of CPAs (and to my knowledge no major financial issues).
Balmer presided over Microsoft's transition into irrelevance. He wanted developers to write software for Windows. He did not want them to write software for the world that was changing, opening (the internet, Open Source, etc.) which is why developers gave him a middle finger. Just like any large corporation Microsoft stopped leading and started chasing and could not keep up until they struck gold with the XBox.
I like the distinction between technician and engineering. So much of software development is just technician work and has nothing at all to do with engineering.

Unlike other countries in the US you can call yourself an engineer as a job description without any restrictions, so far too many people have taken on that job description, even if it does not make any sense.
I can think of nobody who rates him highly. Even among Googlers when he first took the role we were all like... really?
The steelmanned version of this is that morbidly obese people rarely run up and down the street mugging and robbing people to get their next fix. (And that in aggregate people's tolerance to petty crimes is much less than their tolerance against controlling innocent people's lives.)

... and during the 20th century "performative law and order" was -- how should I put it -- big, as in the 1937 Nazi rally was attended by about a million people, and the 1939 one was called Rally for Peace (but cancelled a few days before and instead of the Rally the Nazis attacked Poland)

... fast-forward a few decades later, still September, but spin the globe a bit, and dear Nancy and Ronald are concerned about drugs! oh my ... while they supplied arms to Iraq ... and Iran at the same time, directly violating a law he personally signed.
During Ballmer's tenure, the Office division spent a lot of resources building apps for iOS. Ballmer saw a demo, realized that they were better than the Office apps available on Microsoft's own phones and tablets, and so blocked the release. The company sat on the apps for multiple years. When Nadella came on, one of his first decisions as CEO was to release them to the public.

This single incident perfectly demonstrates Ballmer's failures and Nadella's new vision. Had he remained at the helm Microsoft would have continued to stagnate and sink with the likes of IBM, Cisco and HP rather than stay on top of technological shifts and become the biggest company in the world.
Honest questions (this might be over my head...):

My assumption (is it correct?) that sorted Vec<(u32, u32)> represents start/end times in a tuple?

What comes to mind at first is always storing less information. Do you _need_ 32bits? What is the granularity of your time intervals?

Then, it might make sense to encode intervals differently if you have a lot of adjacent slots:

Instead of using start/end times, you might be able to use just a single time and tag it. The tag would tell you whether you're looking at the next (adjacent) start time, or at an end time (rest of the slots are free until the next time).

That could be encoded as an enum like so: Start(u32) | End(u32). I assume that this would take up a little bit of memory for the tag and then 32bits + padding for the rest. I'm not familiar enough with Rust, but I assume you end up with at least 40 bits unfortunately because of alignment.

Another approach could be to use a i32, you only get half of the granularity and would have to do a little bit of bit twiddling but you have a much more compressed data structure.

(Aside: In Zig this might be a bit easier because you can have arbitrarily sized integers).

You said it's a read heavy use case so it might be useful to only having to search for an end tag (or "negative" number) in order to get free slots.

Another, slightly more radical, approach would be to only concern yourself with availability, flipping the problem on its head, or at least have a separate availability data structure.

This could make some write operations a bit more involved, but you'd have a data structure that specifically cares about finding free slots.
I think Gates has given away ~$50B - which would seem to be enough to tip the scales? I'd rather compare the billionaires by what they redistribute vs. the size of their hoard.
The design of this pack seems to make it very easy to get right.

Right means that the cells must be installed in the correct orientation, must all be the same make, model, and age, and must meet the continuous discharge rate requirement for the application.

I'm sure someone will find a way to get it wrong, but people also find ways to mishandle fuel for internal combustion vehicles with predictable consequences. The accident rate doesn't need to be zero for this to be a good idea.
Married at 25, divorced at 35, met my new wife about 6 months later.
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I have been an Amex card holder for nearly 30 years. It's one of the few brands I have real loyalty to because they've saved my bacon so many times while traveling and in other ways.

The conclusions of this analysis match my own personal experiences discovering that friends and others I had success with in business were also Amex cardholders. Amex cardholders are generally more affluent and better at understanding and handling their own finances compared to cardholders of other brands. I chalk that up mostly to Amex being more selective about who they issue cards to.

As an investor that means there's a lower risk (or higher risk adjusted return) for every dollar Amex holds on its books compared to other card issuing lenders.
> backend onto the same ancient libxmlsec codebase

If anyone is looking for SAML bindings and is using java and wants to avoid libxmlsec, my employer has an open source set of bindings for processing SAML requests: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-samlv2

It does depend on Jakarta XML: https://jakarta.ee/specifications/xml-binding/
I’m in the 1% and I’m moving to New York because I love the transit so much
Though few, if any of the contemporary audience would have known this. It wasn’t one of his historical plays. It was just casual context.
I have done some side projects with tkinter, the coding is not too terrible but the looks are atrocious. If I had it to do over I’d go with Electron.
vaxry is quite edgy, doesn't believe in structural marginalization and is also part of the anti-CoC crowd.

i think this blog post is all you need to read if you want to know if you specifically want to engage with this community: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists

personally i find it quite obnoxious when people pre-empt that i'll have a miserable time by claiming I just need thicker skin to participate and that it's okay because life is hard, in a project i might want to volunteer time and effort to. just me tho.
Do not take this article for granted. There are so many incorrect explanations in it. This is a really bad writeup for a security blog. I really don't know where to start ...
It didn't make a different though. Linux still went down so clearly the design is enough
The survival instincts of a bag of rocks.
Yes but that misses the point. The pragmatic (not to say economic) motivation for type systems in the first place is to eliminate bugs in software. If you make them more complicated it makes it harder (more expensive, cost is always brought up as a barrier to correctness) to use them.
> So he is no longer viewed as highly as he once was:

What does it say about sam altman if 'winning by jack welch' is his all time favorite book.
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A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
Not that similar at all other than both having a reputation for being pretty (Enlightenment is almost 30 years old so other WM/DEs have caught up to and surpassed it on that front IMO but it had a reputation for being one of the nicer looking WMs back in the day).

Enlightenment also supports Wayland these days.

Hyprland is a tiling window manager so it is typically compared to things like i3, bspwm, xmonad, etc.
The text is opaque, but:

> However, the Group believes strongly that the explicit focus on the provision of more highly useful
information to relevant government agencies, and feedback from them on the information provided,
will yield dividends in the form of more effective measures being taken against criminals and their
illicit activity.

So they want to superhighway all of your transactions to your government and then let it judge you without any due process. I don't see how that's any good.
Steve Ballmer is worth $147 billion.

Not by any stretch of my imagination is the man underrated. I'd say, like many American CEO's, he has vastly been overrated through a failure in capitalism.

If I do some back of the envelope calculations, a teacher makes about 50k a year, so about 2 million in a career. In his career so far, Steve Ballmer has made as much as 75k teachers do in their career. For comparison, Arizona has about 50k teachers.

Now, the man has achieved a lot, maybe even a lot compared to other CEOs. But by this measure, he must be overrated.
This article is borderline comical. The thin list of his accomplishments focus on increasing revenue ($15B to $70B) and launching or acquiring successful initiatives (Xbox, Skype, Azure). Then the rest is a recollection of his biggest embarassments, like terrible mobile products, misguided Windows strategy and trailing AWS by 7 years.

Reporting on business issues is always muddled by a lack of proper comparisons, along with cherry picking. For example, this article makes the argument that increasing Microsoft's revenue by 4x was very impressive, even though the stock value stagnated. However, when evaluting his tenure as owner of a basketball club, he is declared successful because its value doubled. The problem is that Microsoft was eclipsed compared to its peers at the time - Google, Amazon, etc. -, and likewise the average basketball club doubled in value as well.
Amex has been constantly loosing merchants in the UK. Most recent case is eBay no longer accepting it.
I built this a few years back. I ordered the parts from different vendors, but I got the PCBs from JLPCB.
Still use it daily and love it. A few things broke but it was easily repairable.
Are they config time issues or runtime? That is to say, do the issues occur when you are integrating a new customer, or are they with current customers where something changes or pops up and there's an issue?
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The cells are welded together in ordinary ebike packs. The packs are basically designed to be disposable as a unit, even if some shops can replace those cells for you.
Microsoft's ORIGINAL vision. Microsoft products are now all about the centralized services, ads and subscriptions.
> Your connections or other posts (e.g. about how some emergency means you're suddenly short of cash) could contribute to an elevated score.

This sounds more like a way to send desperate people into a death spiral by raising interest rates or denying credit availability right at the worst possible moment than any kind of system that would prevent crime.

> The proposal doesn't go into much detail about how they imagine it will work, but it sounds like they're just saying that a statistical model (based on a larger set of data) would be more useful than a set of rules based on a tiny set of inputs. This seems entirely reasonable.

It's implying they want to invade everyone's privacy to set up a hallucinatory black box that destroys lives at random under the guise of... I'm not even sure what this is supposed to do. It's not going to yield anything that would be useful in a prosecution so it's more like opaque government-facilitated denial of service without due process. Far from reasonable, it's total crap.
Link to the study: https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models

It's definitely biased but still interesting.
You don't, but companies sure do, and they're the ones with deep pockets.
> My cat is funny. "Funny cat," I say, walking up to it. "What are you up to?" It sits up straight and looks at me with a tilted head, as if to say, "What's wrong with you?" Sometimes I just have to laugh at how funny a cat can be. So I say, "Okay, you're funny. I'll give you some treats." It stretches out a little and I give it some treats. It eats them up quickly and starts

This is kind of like 3rd grade English. What would be required to go beyond that?
I worked for Deutsche Bank for 2 years.

Before throwing stones, I knew it was a mistake going in, but I needed a job desperately and I was thinking I will sabotage them, from the inside.

Imagine my surprise when I realised I don't really need to sabotage them - they're doing it already on their own.

Every 6 months we got mandatory AML trainings - watching a couple of videos and answering some fairly basic questions. Every time, the same videos and the same questions - I had colleagues who simply wrote down the correct answers and completed this in 10 minutes.

I had colleagues who were actively helping (low level) drug dealers - taking their cash, depositing it their own private accounts and then transferring the funds to some other 3rd party (fairly low amounts, under 10k).

BaFin (the German banking supervisory authority) is useless (see Wirecard, Solaris, N26) - I personally made reports about another financial institution - got a boilerplate reply after a year that they'll look into it and nothing since then (this was more than a year ago).

I left the banking and fintech world and will never go back (unless I have a real possibility to sabotage them from the inside).

The cherry on top: I sold my car to a private individual and they paid me cash. We, of course, did a (ADAC) contract and the next day went to my bank (Postbank, part of DB) to deposit the funds (around 15k).

The clerk was on the verge of calling police because I had so much money on me. Even showing her the contract, explaining that I work in DB and I know what the AML regulations are etc made no difference. In the end I had to deposit 9.900 in my account and the rest in my wife's account. (you can't retrieve more than 10k, but there is no restriction on deposits, you just need to show ID)
The signal:noise ratio is decreasing because it’s easier to generate noise. I think paying for content (or content curation) is probably the way to curate high-signal information feeds.
The linked article already spelled out the benefits
The problem is that the definitions of in such footnotes would be full of terms that one also needs defined.

For example here's the first few sentences from the Wikipedia page on Compact Sets:

In mathematics, specifically general topology, compactness is a property that seeks to generalize the notion of a closed and bounded subset of Euclidean space.[1] The idea is that a compact space has no "punctures" or "missing endpoints", i.e., it includes all limiting values of points. For example, the open interval (0,1) would not be compact because it excludes the limiting values of 0 and 1, whereas the closed interval [0,1] would be compact.
Give it ago, for as little as £20[0] you can get a Raspberry pit kit which would let you build something similar to a micro mouse, ( I'm not sure if the actually raspberry pi is included/required.)

[0] https://thepihut.com/products/camjam-edukit-3-robotics
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Generally when you are hosting videos you don’t pick one set of transcoding settings and stick with that. You transcode many many renditions and then serve up the appropriate one depending on the client. It’s quite difficult and expensive in terms of both processing and storage. This is why it is so difficult to unseat the incumbent platforms like YouTube. It’s also why so few people do this on their own.
Thanks for the thorough response. It seems like you have it way worse than I do, sorry about that.

> Now you seem to be describing your focus in the terms of willpower

I'm not entirely sure what's the role of willpower in all of this. Maybe I just have very little of it?

> So why do you consume YouTube 2x speed only and always?

I get exceedingly impatient when watching videos at slower speeds, specially in these days where most youtube content is 20min+.

> How do you work from home? If you can't do work from home... How do you manage it when you tried? Do you dedicate a space that is only for working at home? Do you only use a work provided computer that is separate from everything else? Did you make sure to wake up in the morning take a shower put on some nice clothes and then "go to work" by going into that room that is dedicated for work at home and has your work computer?

All of that is correct, yes. Still while I hear many people complain about strugling with work/life balance when working from home, I'm like that meme "wait you guys are doing actual work?".

> Getting an ADHD diagnosis is not an excuse for a lack of knowing how to do things.

That is definitely true. But i'm gonna be honest here. I seek a diagnosis with the intent of trying drugs or ADHD psychotherapy, and see how I fare with these. I am however way more hesitant about trying drugs without medical approval, so I'm not considering this route anymore.

> But guess what you could still do all of the therapy stuff without an ADHD

Yeah, that's a possible venue. Though my psychiatrist mentioned that therapy would help as long as my inattention is a product of some other mental illness that's not ADHD. I'm not convinced that's the case for me, as I consider myself quite stable mentally, but I might give it a go if I don't see any other easier alternative.
> Just speaking practically, the biggest reason to support SAML is that customers use it.

This is a huge reason to support SAML, I agree. You can talk all day long about how OIDC is better, but if a customer or application only supports SAML, that's what needs to be implemented.

Especially since single sign-on is usually an enabler, not the whole value proposition of any application.
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I am one of those people unironically excited - the social parts of the internet have been dead and filled with bots for a long time. Now people just see it more.

Maybe they’ll go outside.
The code are located at:

1. https://github.com/apache/fury/blob/main/java/fury-core/src/...
2. https://github.com/apache/fury/blob/main/java/fury-core/src/...
I really want to see some evaluation benchmark comparisons on in-chunk augmentation approaches like this (and question, title, header-generation) and the hybrid retrieval approach where you match at multiple levels: first retrieve/filter on a higher-level summary, title or header, then match the related chunks.

The pure vector approach of in-chunk text augmentation is much simpler of course, but my hypothesis is that the resulting vector will cause too much false positives in retrieval.

In my experience retrieval precision is most commonly the problem not recall with vector similarity. This method will indeed improve recall for out-of-context chunks, but for me recall has not been a problem very often.
Certainly, I was only focusing on the UNIX side of the history.
In that vein you can also ask lots of similar things, as in, why we're not refrigerators, or washing machines, or any other inanimate objects which carry out some mechanical-related stuff.

Trying to come up with a compelling reason for why we're not "biological computers" (and this "trying" in itself is half-giving away of one's point in this types of discussions) would involve long discussions going all the way back to the French Enlightenment and the likes of La Mettrie, not sure any online discussion would get to the end of it.
no, it's one of most well written PIR's I've seen. It establishes terms and procedures after communicating that this isn't an RCA, then they detail the timeline of tests and deployments done and what went wrong. They were not excessively verbose or terse. This is the right way of communicating to the intended audience. It is both technical people, executives and law makers alike that will be reading this. They communicated their findings clearly without code, screenshots, excessive historical details and other distractions.