skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>CCP don't want the citizenry to have easy and low cost access to capital markets

It's more like like PRC is still a developing country with substantial amount of poor people and little social safety/welfare net. CCP doesn't want people, especially the poor, who mostly skew old, had/has absolutely retarded financial literacy except savings, to investment (gamble) their nest egg. Trading in the 2000s when stock market was bananas. Mass speculation / herd mentality / scams. Government had to intervene so folks didn't lose their shit with no fall back.

Stockmarket is easy to invest in for ordinary citizens, IMO that's why it's being controlled / profitability (and losses) mitigaged. Reality is if you have mostly retail (individual) investors vs institutional, and individuals = a billion superstious traders is recipe for market volatility, which is net bad. People think professional financiers are the answer, but IMO that's just goign to self select for financiers who knows how to play to the masses.
no personal projects in the morning is great advice.

one of my biggest traps right now is using the morning (when i have the most energy & feel most focused) to tinker with my own creative projects. i can look up and it's 2pm and i haven't applied to any jobs, reached out to my network, or worked on any interview take homes.

if i turn around and it's mid-afternoon before i start doing the stuff i need to do, this typically means the day is shot.
Trying to remember how Zed Shaw once phrased some of the shenanigans in Ruby codebases, I'm pretty sure it was something about "chainsaw juggling monkey patching."
I have more bank and credit accounts than the average person, probably. 5 bank accounts, and 8 credits accounts I can remember as active off the top of my head.

Every single one works with GVoice, except Venmo. Chase, Cap1, Fidelity, etc. Not small players.

So while I think you make a fair enough argument for sure, it doesn't seem to be the case when nobody else does it, and makes Venmo seem like a pain in the arse.
What is going on in a datacenter that motivates a protocol like this? I admit I am ignorarant. Is it for internal allocation, say traffic between Kubernetes nodes, this is envisioned?
EU common charger rules: Power all your devices with a single charger
Oh, so none of this has anything to do with Signal. Ok!
In practice, these companies get a phone number I possess for 1-3 months on a travel SIM rather than the VOIP number I’ve steadily maintained for two decades and by which the US feds know me (because they don’t care).
Yeah, I went through it once. You also have to wait for 30 days IIRC.

There are unofficial unlock tools on Linux / macOS, though: https://github.com/topminipie/awesome-xiaomi-bootloader-unlo...

The problem is, you can create as many Mi accounts as you want. They can make it slightly harder by verifying your phone number, but that’s also pretty easy to circumvent.
Interesting. Due to its emphasiss on BFS, it's the opposite of something I've been trying (I named it the "Tree of failures").

My assumption was that humans don't try a breadth-first approach. Instead, we split a task into a short-step (instinct and intuition selected), and long-step that summarizes/stores the next steps. The key idea is to recursively evaluate a task as a short-step (high-res - gets executed) and a long-step (lower-res - is just stored), until it succeeds or fails. If it fails, we must walk back keeping a summarized tree of failures in state so that we can exclude them in future selections.

The effectiveness of instinct has a steep fall-off at longer distances - so it's better not to chart out of a series of steps. When we do BFS, we drive down the value of instinct in favor of compute. I guess ultimately, it depends on the type of problem you want to solve.

Reach out to me if you want to prototype it with me.
It's not readily obvious _how much_ more capital you end up with if you make slightly more profitable investment decisions.

Saving $10k per annum and earning 10% on it will make you 1.6 million dollars after 30 years.

If you can get 20% instead, you'll have 11.2 million.

If you somehow managed to get 30%, you'd end up with over 87 million.
quick q: why decaf? have been considering cutting out caffeine for more sustainable/natural energy throughout the day vs. a huge burst in the morning, but haven't committed.
You're over doing the duplicate submissions of this

(2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535570

(6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42510198

(11 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42467755

(15 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42428180

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
I would love to see a 'Donate to Firefox' button in Firefox. I would even donate on a monthly basis.
Good topic for sure. I did not write this bit of code, but I use it a good bit. Adds a little shell animation to jazz things up: http://crn.hopto.org/unix/spinit.html

# Note that it uses the same mechanism.
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Dupe (19 points, 14 hours ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552004
This is certainly my ignorance; but I am curious. What kinds of work are required to keep a theme up-to-date?

And, I guess it's also worth asking: would it be reasonable / possible to offer update packs / update prices for people fixing it? Or do you think there'd be even less return on that?
I think you should not sell advanced industrial equipment, electronic parts and computers to everyone willing to pay because they can be used to produce things (including things that shoot, fly and explode). Sell only what can be used for entertainment, not for manufacturing.

For example, make an export version of GPU that has very poor precision and makes mistakes in calculations. Nobody notices if the pixels in a game are colored little wrong, but you cannot do science on such a GPU.

Also restrict export of scientific data. Keep monopoly on manufacturing things.
https://archive.is/uBMVw
Having a surface 5 pro laying around here, with a bitlocker encrypted disk, which turns quickly into a BSOD during boot.
Do you think it could work in auch situation? I'm still waiting for an exploit to the tom to extract some pictures from the disk
Very interesting!

Perhaps inappropriate to ask, but are you thinking the implication is anal sex, or the ‘eating ass’ cultural element, or something else?
I appreciate how you phrased this - I struggle most with 'mundane, daily, repetitive tasks.' Approaching them with intentionality and presence of mind seems good, if not difficult.
South Korean adoptees and families rocked by fraud allegations
I remember in Win98 it being hidden in the Windows folder, if you didn’t know where and what to look for, it was pretty much impossible to find.
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Is that an ad? It definitely sounds like one.
Their browser is fine. But so is Chrome, and Chrome wins by default because it's installed by default on Android and Android really pushes you to it. Once you're using Chrome on Android and have all your passwords saved there, Firefox is a difficult sell.

I can't think of a single Firefox feature that's better than "I don't have to faff around with passwords". Maybe if they allowed adblock on mobile, but last I checked they were fannying around requiring nightly builds and whitelisting extensions...
Related EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force (269 points, 2 days ago, 389 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42534851
Starting with a Google Sheet is perfectly fine, but for building a non tabular user interface, or having a few thousand records, I would directly switch to something like SQLPage with a SQLite database.
Also, that is clearly a workaround that took some research to do. Aka you’re probably in the top 1% of the population from a ‘figuring out workarounds’ perspective.

VoIP is so well known (and automated) to do, even at $.10, it would be a magnitude easier to do.

Banks are always slow, and behind the times - because they are risk adverse. That has pros and cons.
Discussions

(405 points, 29 days ago, 343 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42290448

(419 points, 14 days ago, 212 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429606

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So you prefer to sit on 50 liter of a highly flammable liquid instead.
Very into this.
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> "This [comment] is all weasel words."

The subject was "this", referring to the comment.

By what standard of English did you reckon my post incorrect? I appreciate your effort to cheer up your parent post, and to improve my language skills, of course.

(I'm not the language usage police, though I am fussy about correctly rendering people's names.)

I didn't understand your gainsaying about invalidating awe. Whether or not the poster's awe was a real and worthwhile feeling seems to me entirely independent of my opinions.

I find your aims admirable. However, I regret to say that for me the irony, and purpose of this comment thread, have indeed been lost.
say your figure is correct. now also tally the subsidies on all of bill of materials as well as favorable loan terms.
You can also visit Sad Hill Cementery from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It was rediscovered and renovated by fans in 2015. It's near Burgos, also Spain, but not close to Almería.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Hill_Cemetery

It's also a very beatuful area for hiking around there.
US made like ~8 million cars post war, and now ~16 million.

IMO industrial base is not really issue (except shipping).

Issue is PRC with 4x more population and heavy coordination ability simply moved manufacturing dial to 11. Realistically 50, i.e. last year PRC shipbuilding produced comparable tonnage to entire 5 year US ship building program during WW2. It's not just loss of industrial capacity in some sectors, it's PRC is operating on an entirely different scale that US industry never had.

Building "back" in "Build back better" isn't enough, it has to be much "better" than US manufacturing ever was.
I’ve never understood how John Gruber presents himself as a connoisseur of fine UX and typography, and then for decades publishes a bland, often difficult-to-read site.
The strange part is the M MacPro still has the monster 100W power supply from the intel days. Why on earth did they leave that?
But then the argument that opening iOS up is going to cause security issues isn't effective either.
In addition to all the other weirdness about this, their email announcing this had a fascinating bug in it:

I received an email with subject "Bench is Back — Here’s What You Need to Know". The contents looked like a copy of the previous mail: "We regret to inform you that we will be shutting down Bench services. Effective immediately, [...]".

On a hunch, I checked the HTML version rather than the plain text. "<p>Bench has been acquired by Employer.com and we’re thrilled to share with you that as of today, December 30, 2024, we’re back in action.<br /><br /></p> [...]"

Somehow, they managed to send out an HTML mail that has the plain-text of a completely different mail. How does that even happen? What possible steps would lead to sending such a mail?

-----

For anyone curious about the complete contents of the mail sent to Bench customers (the HTML one they seem to have actually intended to send):

Dear Bench customer,

We wanted to get in touch with you to give you an update on Bench Accounting.

Bench has been acquired by Employer.com and we’re thrilled to share with you that as of
today, December 30, 2024, we’re back in action.

What You Should Know

Is anything changing?

No, you will continue to work with the same great team, platform, and service. We’re
preparing to wrap up your year-end financials and get you set for a smooth tax season in Q1
2025.

Who will be doing my books?

The same great Bench team will continue to be supporting you with your books using the
Bench.co platform, ensuring that you have a seamless experience moving forward.

Next Steps

To continue working with the Bench team and platform, simply login to your account, and
click “I Consent.”

This gives us the permission to continue supporting your account, and transfers your data
ownership from Bench to Employer.com

If you do not wish to provide consent, you will have the option to opt out. Please note
that once opted out, we cannot reverse the action nor can we provide any refunds.

We know the sudden shutdown of Bench disrupted things, and for that, we’re truly sorry.
This acquisition is about turning things around and making sure your bookkeeping needs are
met — better than ever. We look forward to working with you for a successful tax season
ahead.

Thank you for your patience and understanding, and please reach out if you have any
questions.

The Bench Team
> this exists. It's called USB and yubikey

An extra physical device is a non-starter for mass adoption.
Yeah I find Iosevka extremely readable and love how narrow it is. Basically the only monospace font I use.
> That's not different on the West.

It's entirely different, since this doesn't happen in the West. When did a billionaire get disappeared for re-education in the West last time? When was one forced to stop an IPO or sell their shares?
> it's 100% expected that you'll leave family forever as a coming of age as early as possible

I don't believe you.
“Junk phones”, lol. Gratuitous hate without any substance.
Of course it does! Those higher crime areas are using up limited time and money that could be better put to use making your life better, but instead it's being used to deal with all that crime and criminals.

Your live is measurably worse because of it.
Basically what parent said, little personal database tables. Example: I have a list of 100 movies I want to see, and I have columns like date watched, year released, should I rewatch again in 10 years, notes, etc. I want to be able to do two things:

1. Sort/filter by columns (ex: status = not watched)

2. Add markdown like "[[Steve]] told me to watch this" and have backlinks etc. work seamlessly with the rest of my notes.

I know you can do that with Obsidian "properties" but I don't want 100 separate files for my to-watch list.

And I've tried a few of the Obsidian database plugins too, but as far as keyboard usability none of them came close to VisiData or LibreOffice.
Genuinely terrible prompt. Not only in structure, but also contains grammatical errors. I'm confident you could at least double their score if you improve your prompting significantly.
Thanks, that does seem more plausible than the one I found.
> their success is an outcome of a brutal competition in the past, orchestrated by the CCP. [...] this company (and other companies, which might've died already) were definitely recipients of state support in the early days.

So, like VCs do in the US.

Look, I'm not a fan of state capitalism, but you have to admit, it's way more targeted/effective than classic capitalism or corporate capitalism. I wish that countries that do not have the US money do the same.
What advantages does this have over adding `.json` on the end of any reddit URL? Is there not a sizeable risk that Reddit will block you?
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In theory? Sure. In practice? Establishing DDR links involves a lot of negotiation between the memory controller and the RAM and being in a situation where you can maintain the same timings while also dumping data isn't going to be easy. I wouldn't expect this to be an off the shelf solution.
> destroy its car industry

The car industry that closed factories all over Europe and sold expensive cars made in poor countries?

"Too big to fail" is not a product statement.
Today you sell a country a computer, engineering software, books, chips and industrial machines, tomorrow you have missiles pointed at you designed using that computer and manufactured using that machines.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page it appears like this is made by Fakespot, https://www.fakespot.com/our-mission. They explain that they make money through ads, for their other similar product, wouldn't be far to guess that's the future strategy here as well.
When is the number from?

Is it one of the numbers where someone has divided the cost of building a new factory by the number of items produced in the first year and arrived at a huge loss per item produced?
They actually even sold them at a lower price in China than in the west, to exploit price discrimination.
The Thujone must definitely metabolize in some way to create that feeling even at trace amounts.

While ranked lower amongst enthusiasts, I’m partial to Kübler Abinsthe. It’s always a great euphoric drunk and without the head heaviness of many alcohols once you get to a certain level of inebriation.
Mozilla's problem for me is they wasted their market dominance by hiring grifters as their leaders and allowed bad actors to come in.

I have nothing to base it off other than the results, but someone with a tinfoil hat would wonder if Google chose or influenced the choice of Mozillas leadership to allow Chrome to grow by destroying it from the inside. They were already basically bankrolling the whole company so it's not a big stretch.
You're jumping to some pretty extreme conclusions, I'm not in favor of plutocracies or autocracies and I think everyone should follow the law.

I come from an ex-communist country myself and I can tell you that what the political class was doing back then was definitely not "for the people". If you were part of the political elite (or a boot-licker) you had access to fancy things like cheese and chocolate, got to travel outside of the country, could occupy a good job, and other benefits.

I've seen corporations & billionaires run out of control like in the US where political bribery is legal and the government ends up catering to the 0.1% and not the majority of their constituents, and I'm not a fan of this, though I don't think the problem is democracy.
That’s the issue with these “semantic” color schemes, high complexity with (maybe subjectively) low value. Look at this.name(), is it a variable, a property, a method, a bird, a plane? Who could tell without that lighten(resaturate(green, -20%), 17%) hint hardcoded as a fixed value?

Decent coloring systems use a few colors to structure the code/data/ui and that’s it. Nobody needs these hundreds of accents, it’s just a component of upselling.
That just sounds like a remix of "real communism has never been tried". Lots of things are possible in theory, but in practice a big part of why anyone would describe a certain country as "communist" is due to that country being a one-party communist state. If in practice a multi-party democracy and economic communism mix about as well as oil and water, a country still being a single party is relevant.

You can split hairs about marxist-leninist communism and politburos and some sort of pure economic communism, but that mostly seems like pedantry.
> As a matter of principle, I'd never use a browser which is funded by an advertisement company which lives off my data to show me ads and rob me of my privacy and cognitive capacity.

You can’t use Firefox either then
The thing about 'thinking" in problem solving I think is that thoughts often produce new questions which then guide the overall problem solving. I wonder is this something like that?
I'm sorry for for leaking negativity into your internet. I don't think negativity is inherently undesirable, but I don't think it's useful to express it towards people's selves. I meant only to criticize the comment without further implication.

In fact I went and got some references I really liked because I was hoping to add what I felt was missing from the discussion on entropy. My motivation in the end was to share my personal feeling of awe, and in a way that was accessible to the parent poster as well as other readers. How do you like that internet?
Do you have any alternatives that you think are better?
The older Nordic SDK wasn't too bad (once you get over the learning curve). Trying to start a project from scratch is challenging though, so much easier to pick the closest example, get that going and modify from there.

However, they've deprecated the old SDK [0] in favour of Zephyr [1] and quite a number of people struggle with it (check the forums and general internet). I have less experience with Zephyr, but both of them use a lot of python support tools which seem to suffer from versioning amd compatibility problems (even trying to keep a stable platform has been difficult here, what works one time doesn't work a few months later). YMMV.

[0] https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/sdk_nrf5_v17.1.0/page/ind...

[1] https://www.zephyrproject.org/
My thoughts exactly. I honestly think that the majority of SWE work is completely unoriginal.

But then there are those idiosyncrasies that every company has, a finicky build system, strange hacks to get certain things to work, extensive webs of tribal knowledge, that will be the demise for any LLM SWE application besides being a tool for skilled professionals.
I think you're saying that if Ford buys cheap and good batteries from CATL that's fair, but if BYD does that's a hidden subsidy. Right?
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Today, I realized for the first time that I could post on Hacker News. I’d like to share an interview conducted in October 2022 with two core creators of Cyberpunk 2077, Igor Sarzyński (narritive director at CDPR, cinematic director in Cyberpunk 2077) and Marcin Blacha (story director at CDPR as well as in Cyberpunk 2077), where we delved into behind-the-scenes topics that my blog partner and I are particularly interested in.

Thanks to a friend who used to work at CDPR, we have the chance to conduct the interview in English via email. However, since we run such a small blog primarily aimed at a Chinese-speaking audience, I’ve always felt that many of the creators’ invaluable insights deserve to reach more people in the English-speaking world who care about this game.

So, I’m sharing it here with you all.
Monzo (online bank in UK) let you see all your transactions in a Google sheet (with some caveats e.g. interest earned is skipped). I wanted to make a total wealth chart over all years.

It's so damn complicated in Google sheets. In MS Excel I could simply make a pivot chart, apply any aggregation on days/weeks and be done with it. But with Sheets I had to make a new aggregate column, filter data in another new column, and make a chart on that.

Your comment does explain that API is why they export to sheets and not excel but Google sheets is way behind in ease of use.
Why bitlocker specifically? Will GPG encryption survive if an attacker can dump the RAM at any moment while it encrypts a file?
What's the unconditional rate of errors in posts generally? Without the prior I don't know if whinginging about spelling or grammar makes my posts correcter or incorrecter.
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That is enough to distribute malicious code though, at least in certain scenarios. Someone might create a setup where reviewers check/sign one version of the source code, and what gets distributed is another version with the same hash.
But would you not agree that using a yubikey can improve security?
If you chose to label TPMs as security by obscurity, so be it, but it doesn’t make them less useful conceptually. Shitty implementations and complexities of UEFI do that.