skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did you skip over the meat of the article in the second paragraph (and a graph) to complain about something in the 14th?

Credit card lenders wrote off $46bn in seriously delinquent loan balances in the first nine months of 2024, up 50 per cent from the same period in the year prior and the highest level in 14 years, according to industry data collated by BankRegData.

> The citation is clearly to another internet source

How is "data from Moody's" (likely internal, unreleased, or subscriber-only) clearly an internet source?
> So if someone steals you machine with an encrypted hard drive they need to...just turn it on?

That'd bring them to a login screen. Without your password or biometrics, they're not getting past that. They'll have to figure out some kind of workaround (like a RCE exploit, or booting an old, vulnerable Windows bootloader somehow) because they can't do the usual "replace the software keyboard with cmd.exe" workaround as the drive remains locked.

Without Bitlocker, you can plug a Windows drive into your PC and browse all the files. With Bitlocker, you need to faff about with exploits and vulnerable Microsoft software and dumped memory, and even that doesn't always work.

With Bitlocker configured in TPM+PIN mode, you can't even do that, as you don't have the password to unlock the TPM. You could also put Bitlocker in password-only mode, but that's much easier to brute-force. Same goes for LUKS, by the way, which also supports TPM and TPM+PIN in most Linux distros these days.
Well we did have TrueCapitalism in the FreeBanking era where all banks could issue their own currency and they would go bust every Tuesday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking
Or, just get off social media. You all predicted and wanted handheld pc’s, it’s your choice as to how you use it.

I love my phone, it gives me directions on the road, streams all my content, the camera literally protected and helped me evict my violent neighbor. I wouldn’t have had a camera on me.

Just look back at all the things we used to carry around. It’s truly a wonderful device, the most versatile and easy to use device we’ll see for a long time. But us users are in the infant stages. We trust everything about it then point the finger at the whole device when it’s the software that’s the problem.
Even legitimate users might want to disable CSS and pictures and whatever, and I often do when I just want to read the document.

Blind users also might have no use for the pictures, and another possibility is if the document is longer than the screen so the picture is out of view then the user might program the client software to use lazy loading, etc.
Sqlite supports recursive CTE
It's one of those "useless in theory but extremely meaningful in practicality" things, IMO. Getting the correct PCRs is going to be a whole lot harder than putting a sniffer on the LPC. It takes the attack from something that random TikTok security "influencers" sell devices for to something which requires meaningful effort.
OK, but is your production DB also SQLite? If not, I would not. I found the differences between it and PostgreSQL too big and was getting too many false positives.

Also code complexity on a few levels of recursion of transactions is an easy thing to abstract away with almost zero performance penalty -- depending on your programming language of choice.
you should follow a statement like this with some links mate :)
I did that last night. It didn't have any issues booting back into Windows after booting to a live USB.

I didn't change any parameters of the Windows boot option or the rest of the system.
Thank you.

> The classic phylogenetic classes are a fantastic model, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong :)

For the record, yes, I know. Unfortunately, we need models to organize the world in our limited brains, and the less intimate experience one has of something, the more simplified their model. This isn't my day job! :)
I've worked on multiple sites like this over my career.

Our pages were expensive to generate, so what scraping did is blew out all our caches by yanking cold pages/images into memory. Page caches, fragment caches, image caches, but also the db working set in ram, making every single thing on the site slow.
It would be interesting to know why the Kenyan Government proactively levied a tax on EV imports. Usually this would be to protect local production but if the local production cannot supply, it is self-defeating.

I guess the real problem is that Governments are not agile enough to change this things as needed e.g. lets remove tariffs for 6 months and then revisit. If the locals can produce what we need, great, if not, we allow imports again.
A hobby project of mine (in Elixir) uses SQLite as primary database. Each test runs in its own fully isolated SQLite database. No mocking (or transaction rolling back) needed. Most of these tests take less than 1ms to run (and when they take longer, it's because of something else).

This kind of setup makes the usual Ecto Sandbox approach feel slow, but I do agree that the way Elixir approaches this is great!
I am completely on board with that idea.

It shouldn't be a crime to be homeless. It should be a crime to do criminal things.
I hate this kind of ephemeral research that will be outdated in a few months. Instead of analyzing "why" at a fundamental level LLMs can or cannot do something, researchers just show what current models are or are not capable of.

And often times the results are not replicable either.
There was a huge corporate profit boom as well.
Not sure if this is still a valid approach, but on a large Django site with a lot of unit tests, the cumulative setup/teardown/reset cycles was killing us. We found that setting each test to be wrapped with a transaction that was aborted on teardown, caused the per test cleanup to drop radically. We also kept a canned database for testing so that running the test suite didn't have a large startup penalty to populate the database with test fixtures. Keeping that ready db between runs also sped things up a lot for devs.
A television is not a point on an orbit, but an apogee is.

But anyway, you have clearly decided what hill to die on, and who am I to kink-shame.
Have you used indexes on any of these tables? I see that it can be done but I'm curious as to how that plays out. Any hints?
Is the cookie law useless though? At least, it's helped me. There have already been several sites that I have just navigated AWAY from because they didn't allow "no cookies" and I decided that site wasn't worth it. Pretty useful in my opinion.
if I am reading right, any time you set up passkeys on a web site, you add half-a-dozen passkeys from various services? Yeah, this sounds totally impractical to me.

Have you considered stopping using passkeys and using strong passwords stored in password manager instead? You will have approximately same level of security:

- Either way, if one site is compromised other sites are not affected (because password managers have site-per-password)

- Either way, you will be phishing-protected (because password managers autofill based on host name, and you are smart enough not to override it)

- Either way, it'll be game over if you get a malware on your computer (because it will steal your passkey out of 1password)

... but your UX for new website would be dramatically simpler.
For-profit media is not journalism.

It kind of used to be. There was a level of responsibility despite the organizations being for-profit. But I just cannot pretend this is sufficiently true anymore.
Bond is bi

https://www.licencetoqueer.com/blog/what-makes-you-think-thi...
Of course, all creatures will eventually. I just meant in the next 10,000 years.
I think what you wanted to cite is "Financially Fragile Households", Lusardi et al, 2011. But, instead of getting the conclusion from the opinion page of the WSJ it would probably be better to read the paper and especially the notes by reviewers at the end of the article, particularly the comment of Pence which is almost a rebuttal.
In addition to what the other commentors have said, regularly going out to eat or have a drink or two adds up quick, and being unable to do that during the pandemic forced people to save all the money they would otherwise have spent on that. This left people with a bunch of cash to spend on other things.
The Upside of the Pentium Bug (1995) [pdf]
The term definitely preceded the organization. The term was in use for years before OSI was formed. And OSI was clearly formed in order to provide some clarity to what was meant by “open source”. In other words, if there was no ambiguity in the phrase “open source”, OSI would never have been created.
It’s funny, I did a lot of python programming early in my career, and I didn’t realize just how afraid I was of refactoring until I started doing embedded work. Even as bad as the weakly typed C type system is, I found the compiler to be a godsend for changing my code later.
True. But those sites should only enable them when you decide to create an account/login.
My understanding is that the word's use has morphed over time and it could be used to mean ethnicity back in the day (probably still can, I'd expect "Irish race", "Scottish race" or "English race" to parsed as intended in most contexts). Given how D&D uses it the people who wrote the game interpreted "race" to mean anything basically humanoid that looked systemically different which seems like a reasonable take for the times. Then people rolled with it because we're generally talking high fantasy where science has no meaning and "race" rolls off the tongue better than "species".
Quite dumb considering this was an issue with pretty much a single, low-cost consumer vendor (Crucial?).

If nothing else, use it in combination - the encryption of OPAL drives is always active anyway, all that changes when the feature is "active" is whether the key is stored as-is on the controller or whether its protected by a passphrase.
Datomic more or less works like this. I wasn't terribly impressed in general, but it did make tests a breeze.

Unless you use Clojure though it's probably not a real option.
PostgreSQL stops many data bugs at the door due to being so strict -- something many programmers start rediscovering is a good thing by choosing stricter programming languages with time.

I love SQLite to bits but the test harness I have to put around my apps with it is a separate project in itself.
MLTon: A whole-program optimizing compiler for Standard ML
I assume some folks prefer the videos but if not, then why are they getting made?

The creator can use the tool themselves and post it with ads. In fact, I'd prefer it.
At least in the Python world, it’s trivial to bring up an isolated DB instance using a docker compose file and a simple pytest plugin. Hardly seems worth the effort to mock the DB in cases like this.
No love for _The Spy Who Loved Me_? Maybe Dalton isn't your favorite Bond, but his entries are at least par for the course rather than a serious plunge.

I'd agree that the last 25 years has given us a lot of duds and _Casino Royale_ is the main exception. However, I think it's more likely that Purvis and Wade are the issue here, as the 1977-1997 era showed that Eon could make a decent original Bond.
In-order parallel designs are "VLIW". The jargon indeed gets thick. :)

But as to OO: the whole idea of issuing sequential instructions in parallel means that the hardware needs to track dependencies between them so they can't race ahead of their inputs. And if you're going to do that anyway, allowing them to retire out of order is a big performance/transistor-count win as it allows the pipeline lengths to be different.
'high speed' with the phrase:
'reducing the register-mediated signal transfer time between circuits to less than 1 h, thereby achieving fast sequential DNA computing. '

If you thought your 6502 was slow be grateful, Bio works a lot more leisurely.
I'm glad you said "less" dependent. Never forget that what you're striving for a balance point appropriate to yourself. Your goal isn't to attain one end of a scale.
Completely agreed, that's why I have advocated for periodically (once a month) revisiting the test suites with them by doing re-captures of real data. There are frameworks that help with this.

Is it a chore? Absolutely. But peace of mind is important.
1. Corporations are too powerful and responsible for too much tragedy of the commons, especially with regard to global trade.

2. The end goal of corporations is ultimate wealth concentration and the destruction of local economies.

3. Corporations combined with technology means too much technological growth at too fast a pace

The world would be better off without the biggest 10 of them for sure.
In the early 1990's, I purchased a "Telepath" modem from a company then known as Gateway 2000 along with a computer and other gear. Qmodem for DOS was included with the Telepath.

I had used a number of different terminal programs on a handful of machines of the era, but I never found one as robust and as easy to use as Qmodem. I used Qmodem for several years. I quit using it when the local BBS scene wilted away.

Thank you for your father's contributions to communications tech and BBSing. My condolences to you and your family.
Built something in 2024? Show us what you’ve got!
As 2024 comes to a close, let’s take a moment to celebrate the things we’ve built this year.
Big or small, if you’re a proud maker, share your creations with the community!

Who knows—your project might inspire someone to kickstart their own idea on the last day of the year.

I’ll go first:
I built nodeland.io – a mind-mapping tool that manages notes as dynamic mind maps.
I truly believe it’s one of the best tools out there for visual thinking and organizing ideas.
Here is another FRED chart that may be instructive, although I am not clear on the difference between "delinquency rate" and "balances past due" ("accounts past due" is different still)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RCCCBBALDPD30P
related

"Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?" (5 days ago, 113 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42508087

"Ask HN: Best books that you've read in 2024?" (1h ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552852
All SSD's with OPAL are always encrypting your data. "Enabling" the feature just means that you change from a random on-device key to a key encrypted with your passphrase.

(Whenever you wipe the drive through OPAL, you're just overwriting the key.)
“A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]
Level up your portfolio game with Web Presence: An open-source React app
The scene discussed:

https://youtu.be/QML28YQBvyc

And the excellent scene that follows (after the train stops without any passengers departing, or so the gang thinks):

https://youtu.be/uhYLfK8GSr0
Still too little good info. Many bogus statements in news articles.

- "Skidded off the runway" - no, the aircraft landed straight, gear up, and too fast, and stayed on the runway to the end.

- "Hydraulic failure" - don't know that yet.

- "Shut off good engine" - then why so much engine noise in video?

The flight recorders have been recovered but are damaged. They can still be read, but not just by plugging in a cable as normal.
If you can short the reset pins while the computer is running and make it restart without losing power, then yes, I agree. But if you have to shut down to make your modifications, then you won't get past the PIN prompt.
The article talks about (well, at least, opens with) instances where Courts have ordered that belongings be restored, but where cities have failed to do so. One example is that of a woman losing her husband's ashes.

I think it is callous to comment about how homeless people happen to be in possession of their belongings without at least reading the article. It is a fair comment, however, to ask if examples are cherrypicked to tug at the readers' heart strings, with an agenda in mind.

I do think this article uses numerous tricks to promote this agenda.

- Referring to residents as "housed residents", as if homeless people should be considered "residents" in neighborhoods they have no business being in, in the first place.

- Saying that people are _usually_ forced to move without any connections to housing or support, but then following up with the qualification "sometimes" in the next sentence.

- Citing an example of a lady whose daughter's picture was taken away, as well as her tent, during a cold winter, while not presenting the viewpoint of people who are affected by homelessness in their midst (people such as you). What about _their_ humanity?
It's nice to have a better core game. D&D is perhaps the only TTRPG known to have such sparse content that players have to fix the rules themselves to make the game playable.
Thank you for postings this. Highly recommended.
> The exception obviously is the _Casino Royale_ with Daniel Craig, which most fans view as one of the best Bond films. I've forgotten the specifics, but that book was unavailable to Eon for decades due to some copyright and licensing shenanigans.

Some info on the copyright issues here [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(1967_film)
Same. The situation is clear as mud.
Yes please? If only TV and movies would show the full range of human sexuality and not just cater exclusively to the vanilla fetish crowd. To quote the immortal words of the Joffrey gif from Game of Thrones, “talk shit get hit” can be comedic, dramatic and, in a well-crafted context, sexy content in a movie. Romance novels and fanfic have been well aware of this for an eternity, and certainly pull no punches when it comes to people slapping.

The issues with Bond are that he’s uniformly portrayed by white men who are only portrayed sleeping and slapping women. Give us a Bond who sleeps and slaps men with the same abandon that he does women, and interest in Bond movies will go through the roof. And:

An intelligence agency that only employs straight male secret agents is an intelligence agency doomed to fail from the start. I have to hope someday that the Broccoli family grows a spine someday and shows us a Bond who is a woman, being just as much of an arrogant slut as Sean Connery’s Bond. They did a great job with that Bond, and certainly that’s a desirable archetype! It’s just gotten boring and overplayed to see that leading Bond role manner only played by the same boring and overplayed white men for decades now.
Inflection-3 Models
It's a good point how well republican presidents get away with contra affairs and weapons of mass destruction, but democratic ones are held to a very high standard. Good to keep in mind.

To add to the flaws of the D presidents, they typically are a continuation of complex foreign policy issue, like Obamas drone strikes and keeping Guantanamo Bay going. R crimes are usually nothing but power/money grabs.
I mean, if you go far back enough "dwarves cannot be wizards" was a core part of D&D as well.
Moody’s report could be aggregating the Fed data, but we’ll never know without a real citation.
We're fine with insurance companies sending adjusters out to inspect property damage or collision damage. We don't just expect them to pay for whatever the contractor or body shop says was necessary.
Vivek Ramaswamy Is Uninvited from My Sleepover
https://archive.is/AtnF3
> feel they were "COVID rich" is something I just can't wrap my head around.

I think that term ("Covid rich") isn't meant just for the checks, but for the general increase of disposable income.

If you are low income, $2-3k in checks can effectively be a pretty big windfall as people note in this thread.

If you were middle income, there was probably a bunch of discretionary spending on e.g. meals out, shows, vacations that you didn't spend compared to previous years. It's not hard to see that being an "extra" 5 figures for lots of families.
Then just use a database for unit testing as well.
> which is that that defaults are up ≈25%.

Thanks! I feel like this is actually the next reporting step that the source article needed to do. The original data source citation is helpful of course too.

But my feel is the FT author is trying to avoid just listing the numbers, so tries to cleverly explain them and unintentionally creates a meaningless statement. Instead, they should exercise a tiny bit of analysis and tell us on a relative basis the metric has changed since the premise is that it’s changed a lot, how does “higher level” even compare to what the readers can relate to or comparing to another time they where high or the previous record holder. In any case, if I read it’s 25% higher than 2019 I immediately can see how that would be concerning and drastic change and makes me want to read more.

The cynical part of me thinks it’s possibly just a way to increase word count and write with less numbers. But this is one of those cases when the author should use the data to create information for their audience to consume instead of describing the raw data (raw data nearly never needs description, if you’re tempted to do that, just cite/recite it directly). In short, information > raw data > convoluted descriptions of raw data.
I didn't claim it had a trademark, but if you literally skipped entirely over the comment I was responding to: he quoted the Spotify docs for their podcast APIs as an argument why podcasts are RSS/MP3

And his second link literally confirmed how entirely wrong his own claim was, within literally the first paragraph. Which you seem to have skipped over too....

So where does that leave us? With now two very confused commentors that seem to be unable to read, hence my previous quip about reading comprehension
It really isn't that challenging to get going with JWT auth in AWS. Gitlab has pretty good documentation for how to use Gitlab ID tokens to assume roles that includes everything other than how to generate a JWT here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_services/aws/

And of course generating OIDC PKI JWTs is pretty easy and well documented elsewhere.

The harder parts in my mind are:

- Updating this OSS project to serve a JWK from OIDC .well-known
- Convincing people that this method of authn is safe and that those keys are securely stored
Hahaha wow I just checked Apple UK and the base 16GB/256GB is £600. 32GB upgrade is +£400, 512GB upgrade is +£200.

It should not cost that much! 2x Mac mini M4 16GB/256GB should not cost the same as 1x Mac mini M4 32GB/512GB!

Can someone help explain this in a way that isn’t just absolute price gauging of the higher end customer base? Are the components genuinely that much more expensive?
I think the use of the term "race" probably comes from early Dungeons & Dragons. The original D&D had dwarf, elf, gnome, and hob^H^H^H halfling as character classes. It used the term "demi-humans" for these.

In 1978, TSR produced "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons", the first of many attempts to clean-up and rationalize the game's basic system. It appears to me that this is where they first factored out race (i.e., [human, half-elf, elf,...]) as a separate PC characteristic.

From my cursory search, Tolkien seems to have often referred to dwarves, elves, and whatnot as "peoples" and used the word "race" for different subgroups of those. He at some point wrote (in a letter, not in the stories) that that at least elves & men were able to interbreed on ocassion, and thus were technically the same species. But he was mainly interested in the drama around half-elves, and left open questions about dwarf/elf and hobbit/ent pairings for later explorers...
Moore was unrealistic but the OP does not imply that we need to keep the style on the level of Roger Moore.
I’m having trouble getting thinking this through. If the rate was inflation adjusted, would it appear better or worse?