skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even for those it doesn't ruin, outsourcing your thinking is a poor way to get smarter.

How many phone numbers do you know in your head versus when you were younger? I know three phone numbers from memory - my wife’s, my mom’s (she has had the same phone number since I was born) and an aunt that lives at my grandparents house since they passed and she has the same phone number.

When you go to a new city, do you try to find your way around like you use to or do you use GPS?
Show HN: I made a travel website over the afternoon with Bolt
Whenever I visit a new city, its almost impossible to find the best places the city has to offer on Google Maps. I simply want popular places (say 1k reviews or more) AND 4.5 stars or more rated places. Google makes it so hard. So this afternoon I made a small app with Bolt just to do that. If you search a city, it will show you the best places with more than 1k ratings and over 4.5 stars. No much customizations.

PS: I also programmatically create a blog about the city you just searched and add it back to the website. Not bad for an hours work in the afternoon.
Just buy SoundBlaster.
(just kidding)
> adult-themed books more about personal problems with sci-fi on the side

I'm not sure I agree with this. I love the sprawl trilogy, but my feeling has always been that the entire plots are excuses for the big set piece events. The characters exist so that he can write vivid scenes and try to paint a picture, everything between is just so they get to the right places for him to do that.

> it is actually part one of a number of book with the same character (e.g., Count Zero).

I don't think there's were any character overlaps between Neuromancer and Count Zero, are there? Mona Lisa Overdrive certainly does.
I’m curious, what’s an example of a “neo bank” that you say doesn’t offer bill pay? I’m sure they exist, just wondering who they are.

Bill pay sends a bank check which is covered by the immediate withdrawal of funds from the customer’s account. In most cases, the customer would be fine with that or even prefer it, to ensure they don’t accidentally bounce a check.

However, I’m wondering if another customer base can be someone who has bank bill pay but wants to float the funds until the check is cashed. Maybe they don’t have the actual funds yet but want to write a check against funds they expect to have soon (risky but people do it).

Do you restrict writing checks that are for an amount greater than the current account balance?

Lastly, I’m wondering how you handle deliberate check fraud. Victims will try to sue all associated parties. How does your liability work in those cases?
This is an opportunity to learn. The way WebAssembly is defined is the standard way PL semantics are defined.
I meant a text UI, something like lf or ranger that displays a TUI. The nvim terminal does not work 100% for that use case.

In vim I can just run lf to select a file and then return to vim.
I have yet to see cooperations integrating radical islam.
Plaid, when able, uses OAuth or similar APIs; they (and all the other financial aggregators) use screen scraping only when that's not a possibility. A lot of the big banks have already made a deal with Plaid in this regard.

If you have a Capital One or Citi account, both use a direct integration.
I can tell you the same thing I was told when I started my program: no thesis represents more than 1 year's worth of work. The reason it takes most Ph.D.s 5-10 years (8 in my case) to graduate is that you have to fail, and fail, and fail again for 4-9 years before you find your thesis project.

In my case, I started on two exploratory gene knockout "fishing expeditions", both of which didn't turn up anything interesting after a year. Then I crystalized a protein and submitted it to X-ray diffraction, but the results were not good enough for a "high quality" structure, and besides the structure we did find was not particularly interesting. Then I switched to working on NMR structures, but ended up switching universities (politics...there's going to be lots of politics) before that went anywhere.

At my new university I switched to structure modeling and worked on a project my advisor suggested for about a year to optimize a modeling routine, but even the optimized version didn't turn up anything interesting. Finally, I landed on a very intriguing problem that could have had far reaching implications. I worked hard at it for almost a year, only to realize that even state-of-the-art modeling was at least a decade away from being able to begin to address the problem I needed to solve. Finally, I returned to a question that a professor had asked me in my first year of graduate school, half jokingly, assuming there was no way to answer the question. For about a year I worked hard at it, finally arrived at a very interesting answer, and graduated.
It's still baffling to me that the US, unlike most other countries, have never developed "push" bank/credit transfers.

Checks might have been useful historically, but I really can't think of any use case these days where I'd prefer writing a check over just instructing my bank to pay somebody directly, which has the huge advantage of being more secure (my bank and I can agree on any security measures we like, vs. having to trust various third parties to "authenticate" a piece of paper and a signature) and avoids having to "balance my checking account" entirely.
> AI has the potential to remove drudgery from our work - tasks that are easy to automate, are almost by definition, rote.

I like to think that the best kind of automation when it comes to writing code is writing less code, but instead writing it with strategic abstractions embodying your best understanding of subject matter and architectural vision.
How I wish Ruby had been adopted as the glue-lingua franca instead of Python. I get zero joy from writing Python.
Understanding the code that is being generated, not how the model works. That's his whole argument, just speak English and vibe with the thing, don't worry about the code.

Stating the obvious: to understand the code you have to read it and interpret it.
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I conditioned myself to fail
It's the most "enjoyable" language to write in my opinion. I totally agree. I wish I got to use it more at work, now it's all Go and Python.
How does this have nearly 500 points and zero comments?
I paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to my contractors via paper cheques. Completely wild to me as someone who grew up with the practice. You'd think we had a better way, but wires and ACH transfers are still relatively clunky.
Yeah Cardi B is pop music.

And whoever heard of Lauryn Hill, Salt-n-Peppa, Erykah Badu, Eve, Lil Kim, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot?
This is what I tend to use HN/Reddit comments for... I know I would probably be better off writing a blog, but I'm too busy procrastinating to make that happen.
That is really cool and deserves the descriptor "brain-like", thank you for answering my questions!
Not sure what a neo bank is, but I don't think I'd trust an institution with my money that couldn't even be bothered to integrate the standard "check writing and mailing" package. I'm pretty sure every instance of "Bill Pay" is the same software, re-skinned for the bank's color scheme.
> One is that I really don't like being in charge of my own destiny with this kind of thing.

> I don't want my career and life to evolve by happenstance.

OP is looking for someone to benevolently direct their career path...

>Do you think this was good advice? You took their advice, even if it seemed a bitter pill at the time. They were most certainly part of the process for your promotion.

>It feels like this senior director is in your corner. I'd schedule a 1:1 with a simple agenda of "looking for advice".

And as you pointed out, they might actually have it! OP, consider these things. If you truly don't want happenstance OR yourself to direct your path, you're going to have to stick with a benevolent individual who will, so you should stick to this senior director like glue.
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Yes, but I think it's a revelation to many people that things like this map to queueing. Literally _everything_ related to performance is queueing, but we use different words for different scenarios, like "contention."
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Question from a relatively uninformed sysadmin/freelance I.T. provider—will these new iMessage functions allow for 3rd-party applications (ie—CRMs, client support platforms, etc.) to read and/or work with incoming iMessages from my iCloud account? The only thing I really miss since coming from Android was my ability to consolidate all of my client communications, many of whom send text messages first and foremost (which I prefer).
Valid question though, and the answer to what I think you wanted to know is >3 months:

> the clams are “paid back after three months of work by releasing them to a place from which they will never be caught again”. [---] this is done because they eventually become resistant to contamination in the water.

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/poznan-mussel-water-plant...
I just got done interviewing with a big tech company and a successful outcome, I really don't understand how someone could even pull that shit off in an interview. It sounds harder than just doing it the honest way
I was told that a long time ago. But it turns out if your routing and account numbers aren't MICR'd, and you in fact hand wrote the entire instrument, it will not work.

(We tried it a couple times at two different banks. With n=2, our p value was < 0.05 :)

Is there some sort of standards document somewhere that outlines the minimum viable check? Because handwritten in crayon on a napkin... I don't think that even "technically" counts. At least not anymore.

But on the other hand, I suppose a payee could accept your Crayola-napkin-check and just punch the numbers into their electronic check submission system?
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Accept now bank will accept this "technically a check". If they can't send it through their reader for scanning, then it will not be accepted. As someone else posted in another comment, the fonts and placement of the information on a check is standardized for ease of automatic reading.
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In this case at least, the concern would be in preventing government fraud.
I'd say I write about 2 to 6 checks per year? It's the easiest payment method that doesn't come with transaction fees (eg 0.3-5% for a card; similar for app payments). So it's pretty common for higher-ticket items where the transaction fee costs much more than a check+stamp and neither party wants to eat that cost. Things like paying home contractors, property taxes, buying a car or other expensive items.
Did a global variable write this?
What benefit does gambling have?
Oh, it's not that I can't understand their point of view. Mario is part of our culture now, and I don't think we should let such things be under tight control of big corporations for more than a decade or so, in part also to give them some incentive to innovate.
It almost looks like something I could make myself, but cutting those tiny pages while keeping them perfectly indexed would surely be where my diy would go wrong. Good work OP for working out that special sauce!

It's a clever idea, and it's encouraging to see that there are still clever ideas at the small-business scale still waiting to be invented.
>Innovation would suffer, but 80 million is sufficient for a diversified modern economy.

This is laughably naive. Not only would "innovation suffer", but it's pretty doubtful that current technology could be maintained with a population as small as that. Humans are a (weak) hivemind intelligence, and everything we have now is only capable with a population as high as we have it currently. Sure, there might be some inefficiency going on, but it's tens of percent, not hundreds of percent.

>In a depopulated world, the average persons labor is the same,

In a depopulated world, we don't have double digits of one-in-a-billion geniuses. We don't have 1% of the population doing agriculture work, because they can't spare 500,000 people to build and maintain agricultural mechanization. Because they can't do that, they'll actually need to employ even more people doing it with less automation and more manual labor. These things don't scale linearly. (Even if they somehow caught on that the ag mechanization paid dividends, their version of John Deere can't do the same thing because all of the other industries that make John Deere possible don't exist). Regressing back to lesser forms doesn't work, because back when John Deere was making 50,000 small tractors a year, there was demand for small tractors.

And that's before we even get to the part where if those 80 million have the same demographics that we have now, with an excess of old geezers...

I suspect strongly that if we could somehow go do the Star Trek thing and visit countless alien worlds that show a variety of (human-like) aliens, their technology level strongly correlates with their global population, and that in instances where global population somehow declined, so too did their ability to retain that technology.
>It's still baffling to me that the US, unlike most other countries, have never developed "push" bank/credit transfers.

ACH and Zelle are both "push" transfers, although the former isn't typically available to consumers. Businesses certainly use it to do direct payroll deposits, for instance.
Agree 100%.

I’ve made peace with python, accepted that I need to use it, but I hate it. Death to for loops.
Once I got to the chase scene with Fleetwood Mac's Tusk on the soundtrack of the first episode I was hooked.
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I think the confusion comes from the distinction between culture and counterculture. The irony (or lack thereof) lies with the observers expectations.

If someone's expectation is that a green Mohawk means someone is throwing off the cultural legacy and expectations handed down to them, then yeah, a toddler with a Mohawk is pretty ironic. If someone just thinks is a haircut that looks cool, obviously not.

If someone thinks or remembers when Mohawk had that meaning, they might read into the fact of it being changing to a simple mainstream aesthetic cosmetic option.
I feel like this is the obvious next step for chain of thought reasoning. Excited to see work on models that try and transform the intermediate thinking space tokens, down to language. Allowing us to still try and see what's happening inside the "mind" of the LLM, if that process is even possible to map to language anymore. I also wonder what the implications of this research are on chain of thought reasoning with reinforcement learning, since from my understanding many of the reward mechanisms set up during reinforcement learning are around the structure of thought process.
Loved this writeup, because queues are the most important and general concept in reasoning about performance. When you realize this, you start seeing them everywhere. Locks, async IO... everything is just interacting queues.
This was a fun read! I wrote a Wasm interpreter in Scheme awhile back so it makes me happy to see more people writing their own. It is less difficult than you might think. I encourage others to give the spec a look and give it a try. No need to implement every instruction, just enough to have fun.
1. Open Ally Bank account (there are others but this definitely works)

2. Setup recurring bill pay for your check payment.

3. Setup recurring external transfer from your hipster bank to Ally or equivalent in step 1.

$6.99 isn’t worth replacing the above system that has another distinct advantage over this: you have two layers of cushion from your main account.
My understanding is that this service will print your account details on the check. The “bill pay” services typically are not writing checks against your account, they withdraw the money and use their own account.
Knowing the horror stories of intercepted checks that are cashed, this is not a triviality.
$6.99 per check? That's expensive!

I have envelopes. I have stamps. And I have a checkbook. The only thing this is saving me is the (minor) physical labor?

Not worth $6.99 per month. More for the times I have to write checks for other things (e.g. paying contractors).

Besides, when I bought my house I bought one of those 300 address label sticker thingies. How else am I going to use those?!
I am not against rationalism at all despite my quoting of Hume. Reason is essential and has done much good to the world. It's just that things tend to get kooky at the tail end of any distribution.

The rationalist community have some of the smartest people and the best blogs, and they think through things much more thoroughly and are much less prone to biases and fallacies than most online communities.
Yeah, this definitely requires splitting state-impactful activity into its own function. That's good practice anyways, though I understand it might be a pain in large codebases. Regional tags are definitely an interesting alternative!

For the UI example, I don't think you'd use durable execution for most of the UI--it's just not needed. But maybe there's one button that launches a complex asynchronous background task, and you'd use durable execution for that (with careful workflow ID management to ensure idempotency and allow you to retrieve the status of the background task).
Runaway consumption is bad. But it increases profits quarter after quarter. You're right, people will not give it up. Neither those who want to consume more and more, nor those who profit from and foment that cycle.

Consumption under capitalism is therefore a problem, because it creates and reinforces rampant consumerism, which is destroying the habitat.

We will drive society all the way into the ground before we give that up. I understand that. But I will not contort my mind into convincing myself it is either natural or ok.
I join my dad occasionally to watch the lakers games on tv. Recently he had his bills set up and was writing checks and placing them in envelopes.

I remembered specifically helping him resolve a bill pay issue for one of his payments so I asked why doesn't he use bill pay for all of them?

He says he likes practicing writing, the physical nature, and the routine of intaking these bills and mailing them out.

he's retired.
I assume you disagree with there being such a thing as "responsible AI use", because besides that, I completely agree with everything you write, including my own experience of "spot wrong answers, but feel becoming lazy".

So I suppose you think that becoming lazy is always irresponsible?

It seems to me, then, that either the Amish are right, or there is a gray zone.

Being a CS teacher, my use of "responsible AI use" probably comes from a place of need: If I can say there is responsible AI use, I can pull the brake maybe a little bit for learners. It seems like LLMs in all their versatility are a great disservice to students. I'm not convinced it's entirely bad, but it is overwhelmingly bad for weak learners.
Honestly I’m not so concerned with either.

Reddit: Except for the larger subreddits, on the smaller ones moderation is done by a few people where common sense still seems to rein and fake news is quickly called out. As long as Reddit doesn’t start censoring topics which the Trump government now considers controversial I don’t worry.

Hacker News: I do not worry about that either. Though since the election results a few unconditional Trump supports seem to come out of the woodwork, common sense still seems to be the primary tone here.

Those are really my personal criteria: Sane moderation, no hiding of topics that might be controversial to the new government. In both of those Twitter, and from now on Meta seems to lack.