skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's only like ~55 billion us banknotes in circulation (according to uscurency.gov). It wouldn't surprise me to find out that banks' counting machines scan each of them, and put the serial number and location into a database, and that database flags bad serial numbers and things like "this serial number is also claimed to be in a vault 1000 miles away" - causing the bill to be flagged, set aside, and turned over to the secret service.

The working set of data needed for this type of thing could probably be stored in a couple TB - small enough to be in a single (beefy) server's RAM.
Pokemon is significantly better at this than other trading card games (like Magic):

- The rarest cards in every set are usually just alternate art versions of other, more common cards from the set.

- They release products with more powerful cards that have become popular recently, to increase the supply.

- They release good decks based on what is popular in tournaments at a good price ($25-$40, iirc).

- They release copies of tournament winning decks at a really good price (like, $15 for the whole deck). These are proxy cards—they have a different back, they, don't have foil, the printing isn't as high quality. But if you wanted to try out a good deck, they're incredibly cheap.

TCGs are inherently predatory, but Pokemon seems to realize it's played mostly by kids.
A law that protects the lower players and punish blood-sucking corps? Not very soon let me tell you.
Just a thought from a random stranger but you might want to consider the possibility of celiac disease. It takes a couple months for antibodies to build up so the time scale you mentioned here stood out to me. Celiac disease has huge impacts on mental clarity and energy.
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As much as I'd like that to happen, it seems to depend on some big "ifs." Fingers crossed, I guess.
> Because there are two unstoppable laws of the universe:

> Physics.

> Laziness

Redundant. Physics says an object in motion wants to stay in motion and an object at rest (a lazy object, if you will) does too. Ergo, laziness is a property of physics. QED
Are there any equivalents that work in Windows 11? There were a handful that worked in previous versions of Windows but lots of them won't work in W11 and those that say they do are risky installs.
You probably shouldn't "murdoch aside" conservative media control. He's a huge huge huge part of it himself, in the entire english speaking world!

Sure, profit chasing plays a part in it. A big reason why Youtube and Facebook push you down right-wing hate rabbitholes at the slightest hint that you might bite is simply that hate, oversimplification, and bullshit lies just drive engagement better than a 30 minute video essay on just how complicated this one tiny subsection of homelessness is and how much human labor and time it takes to work on it.

Humans like easy answer. Humans "engage" more (in ad-company parlance) with hate and things that cause anger. In a free meme market, the most shallow, most hateful content will always rise to the top.

But letting those incentives play out that way is a choice. Letting everything consolidate, an activity that is known to be detrimental to a free market, as long as they lower prices for a couple years before taking advantage of their monopoly is a very dumb choice. Reagan made plenty of dumb choices, but there were enough smart people in his cabinet to tell him exactly how this would play out. You don't live through the cold war and not know that owning the largest media narrative is power. And oh boy is it.
ok, well assuming you're not naive, not jut chasing some prestige or money (because those are far from guaranteed), you have to learn how to both become a good software engineer, and how to interview. Too many people focus on the latter, not realizing that is only a problem if you're getting interviews.

To actually build up the resume and skills of the craft, I would invest and contribute to popular, widely used Open Source projects that have an active community, conferences, mailing lists and the like.

This will take a lot of investment, but having non trivial contributions to core software many companies use is often a better resume tick than an internship or experience at a no name company.

I had multiple well known, non FAANG big tech engineers invite me to come interview after they saw my contributions to some larger Open Source projects.

Then, passing the interview is another story, but there are many paid and unpaid resources to guide you through that process.
The problem isn't actually running the builds, so much as selecting the commits. Ordinary bisect gives you one commit to test at each step, and one result to report. But I want to be given n - 1 commits at each step, evenly spread out along the search range, and I want to report all n - 1 results at once, to cut the range by a factor of 1/n. If the testing process doesn't utilize all available cores, this will be faster than just testing commits one at a time.
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Ah yeah, those look like opt-in calendars to me I think. Definitely other datetime libraries do that. They just also require opt-in AFAIK.
And programs like PEPFAR are still not being funded. I honestly didn’t appreciate how ambivalent so many people are to deaths of 20 million of their brethren.

https://data.pepfar.gov/

https://www.datim.org/
Neither is Llama. And yet Yann LeCun of Meta keeps marketing it as open source all the time. I've noticed people like LeCun and Clem Delangue of Hugging Face engage in broad open washing to make their work look more positive. It feels a lot like 'stolen valor' situations.
Heh, I installed this and immediately found out that "LegacyScreenSaver" has leaked 40 GB of memory.
Great images the black-white/grey against white background
Mathesar repo is heavily optimized for commit count. Large number of commits are spelling/padding changes. This should set off alarm bells for anything looking to use this.
I ran into that too. Turns out that you need to add in the path you want to search when invoking the command. If it's your current working directory, use `.`
I feel like I can learn the material without going into an undergraduate program, however as you mentioned that pathway is the best way into getting an internship. Do you think the best-case timeline would still be ~5 years without going through undergrad? Or would it likely be extended? I appreciate the comments/advice.
I don't disagree on the principle you're advocating for here, but this example isn't about massive surveillance systems. CLETS seems to aggregate various databases police already had access to, probably some of which include data that ideally we wouldn't collect at all, but vehicle registration has to be stored somewhere and cops always have and always will have access to that.
Animals are amazing, something to hold onto and keep us sane in the coming storm.
Reads like a warm breeze.

The bonds we forge with other animals can bring another source of durable meaning to our lives. Even a brief show of trust from an animal while present in their environment can create a memory that lasts forever.

One of the more pleasant aspects of being human.
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Why are some countries missing? For example Tunisia?
A very worthwhile intro.
My son converted an analog organ to a digital organ - I think he used GrandOrgue if I recall.

His "Converting an Old Organ into a Digital Organ" video [1] quickly became the most popular YouTube video on my tiny channel

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kb6SQpgSqk
Given that DeepSeek apparently trained off OpenAI's outputs and effectively stole their IP, is this really a sign they mastered 'kaizen'? Or that they continue to practice industrial espionage effectively? That said I think there is some truth to the claim when you see how fast China is advancing in other areas such as nuclear power, or aerospace (drones), or in building out their military.
I thought this sounded familiar, and yeah it was covered here in the past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226725 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7631091
> Another huge problem is that law allows union bargaining agreements to dictate what happens to disciplinary records, that officers are allowed to resign when there are investigations happening that effectively kills them, etc. Once an investigation starts you shouldn't be allowed to resign, or at the very least the investigation should still continue and you should still be able to be punished after.

I don't think requires any union pressure; the department is happy to be both rid of a problem officer and not have to put it in the public record just how bad the problem officer was.

I have a friend who is a cop in Indiana (a "right to work" state), and after talking with him, I've realized that the department, as an organization, can largely be modeled as an entity that takes action to minimize its liability (individual officers are mostly shielded from civil liability, but the department is much less so). Apropos to this subject:

- They want to minimize the number of apparent past bad actors that will be revealed during discover because a lot of past bad actors could be presented as a pattern of poor hiring and/or training. Allowing officers to resign to kill an investigation is golden).

- When something bad happens and it makes it into a courtroom with sufficient evidence that it happened, they want every officer in the department to testify that the action in question is definitely not common practice and completely contrary to training. Such testimony would be greatly undermined by a subpoena that revealed several investigations finding officers to have engaged in such behavior in the past. Again anything that stops the investigation before it can find anything material could potentially save the department millions of dollars in future liability.
Arguably, the fact that they knew in advance exactly what you would need to do to avoid the issue means their process control is incredible!
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Thank you, we hope it does help a lot of people.

We use privy, one of the best-in-class wallet providers that basically creates a self-custody wallet, but uses email/phone/social auth (and encrypts/shards the actual keys). So you wouldn't be at risk of losing them like you would with a vanilla wallet (you can of course export the keys if you're more crypto-savvy)

We're doing a pretty slow and steady rollout to catch where users are running into issues, but it's a pretty controlled environment re: messing up. You could accidentally send money to the wrong address if you wanted to transfer to another wallet, but that's not a core functionality (located on a side page) and certainly not one that the average person is using. Outside of that, there isn't really anything else you could severely mess up.
Speaking of 40k, I'm curious if anyone has created a FOSS 40k-alike game, where every unit has a standard 3D-printable model that is itself a FOSS asset.

Not that that'd be too interesting on its own; but it'd almost certainly spawn a community of people creating and sharing derivative works of those standard models. Could be entire apps / package repositories / "character customization engines" built on snapping together standardized unit components like LEGOs and then printing the result.
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I don't understand why if they used the words 'well-regulated militia' that so many pro-gun people argue that what _they actually meant_ was "any random person". They had words for that and they chose the words 'well-regulated militia'.
Motivating journey. Was there any material/resource (e.g., books, courses, etc) that helped you develop the knowledge base? Or was it mostly from working on projects, job experience, and the startup experience?
Yes, I would be stunned if a major mfg like Brother didn't have their own method of fingerprinting.
In terms of a logical implication P -> Q, certainly not.

Rhetorically, it does have that interpretation.

When some unconditional proposition is presented together with some red herring conditions, a less informed reader may take the interpretation that the conditions are relevant; i.e. that it is falsified when the stated conditions do not hold. Because, why would the presenting expert include irrelevant conditions?

"I've noticed that Smith doesn't beat his wife in public."

That doesn't logically imply Smith beats his wife, but he does have to be beating his wife for the "in public" condition to be relevant. To assume that the condition is relevant is to assume that Smith does beat his wife. If the condition is not relevant, why is it there?

I'd like to be able to assume that all conditions given in serious writing about STEM subjects are relevant, so I don't have to waste my time suspecting they are not.
There's a library Valve made for spatial audio for games (inc. VR). I've played around with it a bit, it's incredible. I'm surprised more games haven't adopted it.

https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/
What if my repo is older than git?
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It really depends on the natural area in question. Not everyone is really motivated to build up the skills required to do things like navigate via map and compass to actually tackle natural terrain safely. People die every year in the Angeles National Forest and its almost always because they didn't prepare for the conditions and didn't let anyone know that they were hiking that weekend and therefore where to aid search and rescue when the missing persons report is filed.

However I think smaller urban/suburban trails have probably never been more popular. You know the sort of 1-3 mile loop in the hills or woods trails with a convenient parking lot. Those are filled with trail runners, dog walkers, people pushing strollers, etc.
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In my opinion, the dominance of post-USSR countries (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus) among makers/hunters is not surprising at all, and can be explained by a somewhat inflated, romanticized, almost evangelistic view on computer technologies in these countries.

The computer technologies and associated market could freely develop in those countries after the USSR collapse in 1992. This tendency was fueled by the abundance of high quality STEM education traditionally available in the region. (Historically, STEM education was subsidized by the USSR government and its military ambitions.)

I believe that the digital evangelism arose due to exceptional freedom of IT companies in those countries. While other, more traditional industries have been raided and decimated by their own corrupt governments, the IT sector remained out of reach of dirty hands.

Those circumstances gave the IT industry in the post-Soviet countries a significant advantage. It was a melting pot of new ideas, makers, universities, companies and startups.

Since then, however, the dynamics changed due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. A lot of companies already committed an exodus to other jurisdictions, while remaining companies will be forced to make it in the future.
Every time I order these things I am astounded at how cheap they are for what you get.

Sometimes volume really is magic!
So you're saying your name shouldn't be associated with every possible negative thing that can be related to it?
The chance of getting into BigTech as a software developer is less than 1%.

https://igotanoffer.com/en/advice/how-to-get-into-big-tech-c...

And that includes people with degrees in computer science and experience.

And even doing the preparation for the interview can take 6-12 months with a CS background

https://www.designgurus.io/answers/detail/how-many-days-to-m...
Ha! Nice :)
Oldest file I ever had to fix was the same age as me: 1986. Found a bug in 2013. Timezone math.
Been using stats for 4 years now, never had any issue with it. why pay when something free and open source is available.
Wow, I hadn't heard about that. It seems the FAA inserted themselves into the culture wars. I take it all back. Every single thing is now based on identity politics.
Unlike `Float`, we don't worry about `nan` for our comparisons
Our code base still has ghost comments about code being just so because the NeXT compiler won't accept it any other way. No one has the heart to remove them.
Solution/hack: buy one of those ink cartridge refill kits, but put black ink in the yellow cartridge. That way when you want to see the dots they should come up nice and clear?

Obviously this is not going to work out well if you actually print in colour.
User B is sending a peer-to-peer transaction, akin to a Zelle or Venmo. In most other countries, these peer-to-peer payments (PIX, UPI, etc.) do billions of transactions per month. And since you're sending your own funds, you're not a money transmitter. If we do work with any larger entities (e.g., an OTC desk, liquidity provider), we'd certainly be cognizant of the relevant licensing.
There are a million files in the Meta monorepo starting with FB. I don't think they even changed the practice.
So they have the rug pulled out from under them by DeepSeek, and then they say they are now worth double?
Because we started with a focus on orchestrating forms and tasks, I'd say we're more suited for complex, long-running workflows that involve a lot of stop/start steps assigned to different teams (e.g. review and approvals) mixed with automation in between.

We actually integrate with Zapier i.e. you can trigger a workflow from Zapier, and we can trigger a zap from within a workflow.

While Zapier has also done some great work in the AI space, I'd also say our Ai builder goes a lot further in being able to fully set up a workflow and then continue to help users edit, change and refine them at any point. We're able to do this because a lot more of the moving parts are internal to Workflow86 (forms, tables, tasks etc), so the AI has more context and control over what it can do.
> theyd want to shut off on the odd snow day that makes lines invisible

It'd sure suck if they go into cities run the local taxi companies and human drivers out of business only to shut down every time there's bad weather leaving people without access to transportation.
> it's abnormal to read everything with a qualification like "in our bodies" as a implication of some other hidden meaning.

It is absolutely normal to read every condition given in some technical subject matter as being relevant, and decent writing satisfies this.

It takes extraordinary effort to maintain a constant suspicion that every stated condition might be irrelevant to the proposition to which it is attached.
For hobby projects, paying attention to the datasheet model / reference application diagram, layout, PCB and other notes is likely to matter and still be the right thing when you can't tell any better - even when the datasheet does not mention the optimal decoupling capacitor. And that's because NOT doing that can lead to problems too difficult for the hobbyist to troubleshoot. At least start with the model layout and only then increase the decoupling capacitance. So many hobbyists seem to totally ignore the reference layout.

In particular adding capacitance in random places or seat-of-the-pants-ing a layout is not helpful.
Good. The US should be drawing from its most promising startups to advance technology and stay ahead of dictatorial authoritarian regimes.
I assume you mean you went iStats -> stats
C uses zero-based array indexing. A C array variable is a pointer to its first element, and an element index is just an offset from that. Element 0 is at start + 0, element 1 is at start + (1 * element size) etc.

Which why the fields of the 'tm' structure [1] (used to represent dates and times) are zero based§. Makes it easy to index into eg an array of day names using tm_wday. I guess at one time Java.util.Date was a leaky abstraction layer on-top of such an api.

§ Except for the tm_mday element, which curiously is 1-based. I've always assumed that this is because it is unlikely to be used as an array index. A long time ago I'm ashamed to admit that I used tm_mday == 0 as a quick check for an invalid tm value.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/chrono/tm
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Correct! There's certainly a lot of regulations to navigate, but we are strict about NEVER touching the fiat in any country; just connecting buyers and sellers.
Wouldn't that just ruin the document you were trying to print?
Most of MtG’s secondary market value is protected by how difficult it is (or how costly it is) for cheap printers to match Cartamundi’s (and other global printers) offset printing processes. The number of counterfeit tests (green dot, black layer, Deckmaster, etc) that are simple and useful for basic users to determine counterfeits all trace back to the printing processes WotC uses.

I am amazed by how much value is protected by such a small technological detail
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I paid for it, and paid for one upgrade, but stats looks like it covers all of what I am interested in.
It primarily refers to what you consider interesting.

When you have a decent number of posts and some visitors you can see which sub set they find the most interesting.

You can also make a blog about things that don't interest you at all. This is the shortest route to success and you will hate your new job :)
Absolutely following all US Sanctions and AML policies (setting up more rigorous KYC, transaction screening, MTLs etc. as we speak). We're a US company and intend on doing this the right way.
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>He was quite open about the fact that none of it was real and would happily describe how he created each piece.

His heirs probably won't be so forthcoming.
You must be lucky. Anything the relies on their floating ABI breaks on every update (C dependencies are very common for certain tasks)
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I think you’ve discovered the corollary to the “Everything I don’t like is woke” that people say right wingers do. “Everything we don’t like is fascist,” says the far left.

Only way to avoid being called either a fascist or woke (and I know some who are accused of both!) nowadays is to never say anything.
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