skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their OS, PureOS, is a Debian derivative.
Sadly? I wouldn't really want a phone that had a battery physically larger than a AA battery.
If you get on the bad side of the banks, it's much worse. You can't get a bank account at all, or you can't keep the accounts you have.

If you had credit (overdraft or credit card), it is taken away exactly at the moment you need to use it and you're put into unauthorised debt. If that happens you may not get credit from anywhere else. Where I live, even high-interest payday loans will likely be declined at that point.

If you run out of funds, you're probably going to incur compound charges as bills continue to try to be drawn.

In a cashless world run through bank accounts, at that point your friends can't lend you a little something to help with immediate necessities like food. Anything they send is instantly absorbed by charges and/or cancelling unauthorised debt (which was authorised when you incurred it - remember you're on the bad side of banks and they took away existing credit arrangements).

So you can't buy that food, and your friends can't even give/lend you a little money to help - you'll need friends who will directly feed you.

If it lasts for long, you can't rent somewhere to live, and you can't get paid for decent work. (These two things are already bad - where I live a poor credit rating means rental agencies will decline a tenancy or ask for 6 or 12 months rent (and 1-2 months deposit), and people who can't get bank accounts can't take jobs that only pay wages to an account. The two are linked and it's tough to get out of.)

Don't get on the bad side of banks in a cashless, banks-only society.
I'd be interested in hearing anyone's experience with holidays and China B2B.

Is it just kind of known that things stop there for certain weeks? Or are these formally set out in schedules?

My only experience has been B2C, where the experience is generally {no response} -> {a week later: "Oh, everyone was on holiday"}
Flavored tobacco or flavored weed. Etc. If you're a smoker it's just better than the plain stuff. It's like the pleasure of smoking shisha
Suppose you have three proposed optimizations, all of which save the same amount of power. Change A requires no modeling changes, change B requires modeling changes with well understood impacts, and change C requires modeling changes where the impact is unknown. If you could only implement one, your priority would probably be A > B > C.

Since it's not clear to me what the consequences are on the modeling here, I'd put this in category C. If lots of people start using it, it could move to B. The ideal would still be A though.
Has anyone experience with officehours.io? I like the concept and it sounds like something HN would typically be interested in but all previous posts about them didn't get any traction.
It’s pretty easy to buy a high end phone that you can actually own if you don’t use a ridiculously hyperbolic definition of ownership.
Ad tech can be destructive but it’s picking up the tab for a lot of useful tools. It’s a tough one. If ad tech were to dissapear tomorrow I suppose we’d just go back to an Internet more like the mid nineties perhaps?

It’s an interesting thought experiment. What would the Internet become if ad tech were to dissapear right now?
Exceptions are not just data, at least not if you do not always catch them immediately (in which case they are just pointless).

They introduce additional control paths which are hard to reason about. In many languages these are not even explicit. Exceptions require an additional syntax to handle them. And having exceptions requires significant language infrastructure and comes with a huge toll on the structure of software projects. See my topmost comment.

> In your example with parallel processing, you could throw an error as exception, let it unwind the whole stack, catch it and return as the result of the task.

Which would catch only the first encountered error per thread. And not catch all the other errors that we could encounter and report after that.
Hiding the newsfeed is the key. Keep events and messenger. Use Firefox fb container and a vpn to limit what fb knows about you.
There is a practical benefit of locality in traditional distributed systems that may get lost with companies centralizing their operations for economies of scale.

If your bank is local, as is your merchant's, you could design the payment network in such a way that, if your region is cut off from the rest of the Internet, local communication can still allow payment authorizations to go through.
Definitely nice to have tools (compiler warnings, static analyzers) that can keep you from hurting yourself.

Of course many projects don’t use them, for various reasons.

I wonder: is turning on full compiler warnings, then fixing them - is it making my software better, or just satisfying some type of neuroticism?
«Until you realize that >90% of Bitcoin hashing power is controlled by a handful of Chinese guys»

It's false. You are repeating a sadly misunderstood aspect of pooled mining. Articles writing such sensationalist claims are written by people who don't understand that a mining pool representing x% of the hash rate doesn't mean they "control" x% of the hash rate. Their end-users, who are distributed around the world, are the ones who control the hashrate, who own the mining hardware, and who choose which pool to use. That is, if a pool were to use the hashrate maliciously, users around the world would abandon it and point their miners at more trustworthy pools.
Great point! You have the money for as long as you can withdraw it (mistakes, liens etc etc)
Alibaba Singles Day sales hit over $1B in 85 seconds
What happened to the weird tire logo?
Rob Pike – Concurrency Is Not Parallelism
You're confusing art and sex, but OK.

Well yes, feminine women are considered more beautiful. Many women often wear more masculine clothing to hide their femininity for this exact reason. And yes, in the same way being unmasculine men are not highly valued by women, unfeminine women are not highly valued by men. Too much hair, or a taste in baggy flannel clothing makes a woman feel less loved by society in the same way. The culture is pretty consistent here.

You may find biology tired, but it's motivating most life including our own. That the observation is common doesn't invalidate it, any more than the year-zero style narrative about everyone hating women being fashionable invalidate them. The truth exists independently of popularity and fashion.
The Canadian Government Announced a $49.3M Investment into General Fusion
I thnk parent is including laptops.

Those last far longer, are rarely resold, and would need to be more repairable in general.
Yes, agree with all that. Even grit though is variable and contextual. Some people have family and sports grit but not business grit. Also changes over time. I used to be pure grit, now only on work days :)
Software perspective: Fatal error, I'll just make a change and recompile.

Hardware perspective: CPU cooked itself because frequency regulation was accidentally turned off, time to wait for new parts from China + assembly.

It always amuses me how laisez faire folks are about things like ESD. "It's never caused a problem before" isn't a reason to ignore best practices and not work defensively.
Well, no:

Article: "...they told the venue they sold 150 tickets (a sell out) and only one person actually showed up who bought a ticket."

Even if they pay the band only after the show, the venue might get $16 for several hours of staffed operation.

People attending a show buy tickets, food, and drinks from the venue.

So, the band's payment is typically easily recouped because the venue expects a minimum guaranteed income (say 40% capacity, average of $6/attendee spent on incidentals).

If zero people show up, they have the expense without the income, having sacrificed the night that could have gone to a more popular band, while also paying workers and incurring utility expenses.
So assume he's an Aussi and paste that second paragraph back.
The best payment experience I’ve had is cash. I pay for what I need and when I leave the festival I can still use my “credits” hassle free anywhere I like.
There is no better way to do errors imo, unless you're going the erlang way of "let it fail". Errors can be passed to the caller the same way exceptions are, and it becomes an endless pursuit of where the error is actually being handled (if at all). I agree that some syntax sugar helps, see Rust, but it doesn't completely fixes the problem.
Another strategy that works for me is rather than cutting news entirely, strictly stop going on sites that are sectionalist/ overly politically biased.
No, this is totally not how it was. People used to speak quite freely at home (aside from when Stalin was in power, and even then).
A sales dude could do that with a $200 chromebook. You don't need to spend $800 (plus keyboard) to manage email.
Is this for real?

How would the the DHS or another US entity know about payment transactions made on a canadian bank account?

And, I realize that cannabis is not legal at the federal level in the US, but how would lawfully purchasing a cannabis product years ago disqualify you from entering the US?
My New Vegan Life
I’m surprised central banks haven’t become involved in digital currency before. I guess software isn’t their core competence.

I guess if anyone can pull it off the swedes will. And I don’t think they are offering a replacement to physical cash here - just an alternative
This looks a lot like OData - a REST-ful API standard with schema introspection, patterns for defining and traversing resource relationships, well-defined guidance around mechanics, tooling support. In particular, the "Microtypes" concept resembles how entities work in OData - rich query support for collections (eg. sorts, filters, order by), "expansions" on related resources, even inheritance semantics (ie. being able to request a derived entity as its parent type).
I wouldn't exactly consider myself optimistic about safe general AI either, but there are extremely strong incentives in the direction of developing greater generality. Not sure we have the luxury of not having some form of AGI in our future.

The current safety progress certainly isn't ideal (where ideal would be "oh hey we figured it out, boy that was easy"), but it is roughly in line with what I'd expect for a smallish new field trying to lay foundations. No one knows what to do; there may not be any other option than to flounder for a while.
I have no love of Go nor of Java, but Python's packaging is a nightmarish tower of babel built upon a mountain of spaghetti.

There are so many incompatible, NIH wannabe solutions to packaging in Python. Recent tools like pipenv have made things easier from the user standpoint, but if you dare to look at how the sausage is made it's still an absolute mess.

Even if newer packaging tools are better, there are still tens of thousands of packages that use the older, nonstandard, even messier solutions.
It seems like their goal is accomplishing something difficult that can only be done economically by a large manufacturer operating at immense scale. It is a reasonable strategy to effectively create barriers to entry from competitors, and preserve the ability to earn relatively large profit margins.

There have been articles on Hacker News where people talked about it being extremely difficult for a hardware startup to do something as simple as achieving a uniform color to plastic components, or packaging their products in white cardboard like Apple.

One could argue that Apple is not accomplishing the goal of producing a premium product, but whether it is still a good strategy depends on a lot of numbers that are difficult to find. How much of the value of a MBP that is entirely replaced for the end consumer gets recycled back into the refurbished programs? 20%, 50%, 80%? What percentage of units have to be replaced? 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%? What is the margin on each unit sold? How much would fixed manufacturing costs increase if they retooled the entire line to revert to older style keyboards? How much is the damage to Apple's reputation costing them in dollar terms?
We agree. The fact that ThinkPads and MacBooks are both slim today suggests that people want slim laptops, contrary to the claim of the grandparent.

That TP 340 I bought in 1994. It was a marvel for its time and much more affordable than the contemporaneous Mac: a more stylish brick like so:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/540c_ope...
That's a Thinkpad 750 from 1993.

Either way, arguing against "consumers don't really care about having the thinnest brick on the market" by invoking early 90s hardware by comparison is of course a B/S way of arguing things.
And yet nobody has ever censored my bitcoin transactions.

Banks, on the other hand, censor transactions all the time.
We chose ReasonML to build the next version of Learn Anything. So far the experience has been quite pleasant although the ecosystem is still young.

https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything
Show HN: I created a miniature SaaS to automate putting addresses on envelopes
I am not aware of any real world usage of these models. They are hard to train, and most of the papers consider toy examples.
Why is it odd? You're just calling a function with two arguments.
Aren’t men’s shirts produced with independent chest/shoulder/waist/neck measurements?
This is a formal proposition. If it catches on I expect others to explain it in various levels of complexity but this document is intended to be dense and deeply descriptive.
I wish I could pay 50% more for a laptop, so even if it's just less fast, 300% thicker, could still survive for 5 years without fainting.

It seems thinkpads or some other dell laptops (or other brands?) have some kind of military grade requirements so they can sustain not only punishments and mistreatments, but also not have those faulty gimmicks that are caused by fragile designs.

It's the difference between wanting a fancy sports car and a good old military vehicle. There are designs that are well thought out, and are just more reliable in the long term. I don't want shiny, performant cool object, I want things to work. Not aiming at apple in particular.
Racism! Stong word, but this is what the Swedish cashless society is: indirect racism. Those at the margins of society are excluded from participating in society because they don't have Swedish bank accounts or Swedish credit cards. Many clubs and pubs require that to enter. Indirectly, this means that non-Swedish (non-white) people don't get into the club. Not direct racism, but indirect (the outcome is the same, no white people allowed entry, or to participate in society).
There is no wait time when using a Bitcoin Lightning transaction: http://lightning.network/

There is no wait time when recipients accept 0-conf transactions (which is always the case in a brick and mortar store, because 99% of the time it's safe enough – there is even smart tools that verify the transaction is sufficiently broadcasted to reduce risk).
In Denmark we have a festival called Skanderborg festival, and they build both your ticket and your cashless payment into the festival bracelet.

Disney does that at Disneyland and Disney World in America: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/plan/my-disney-experience/...

You can also use it to unlock you hotel room and to link to those photographs that are taken of you when you're on the rides.
> I agree, but unfortunately I don't believe a society being run by humans would ever implement that

This was already implemented for hundreds of years. It is called "paying with cash".

Sure, there are some minor edge cases, like dollar serial numbers that are sometimes tracked to catch bank robbers or whatever, but cash is mostly anonymous and untraceable.
I've heard plenty of complaints from ultrabook owners that they find the "knife point edge" design that many of these have unconfortable to handle.

Generally speaking, maxizing a single aspect of a design is rarely a good choice. Making notebooks or smartphones as thin as possible (or pretending to do so, the strategies used here are borderline gaslighting) is not an intrinsic good.
How do you keep track of dirty writes on structs? I want to only persist if the struct was actually changed. I could add getters setters, but a lot of the Go community seems to say I’m stupid for wanting to do that. I could track externally from the strict, but that seems backwards.
Super cool! It reminds be of Netflix's Flamescope[0] also from Brendan Greggs work at https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-flamescope-a57ca....

The reasons heatmaps are "news" is because not everyone has any formal exposure to data/stats curricula. The concept is easy, straight forward, and nearly obvious but unless you're in the position to have datasets to try to understand (such as a class where they have datasets and questions posed for you!) you just don't hear about this stuff.

What often happens is that you have a problem you're trying to understand: e.g. "Why does this crash?" or "Why is this slow on Wednesday?", and you use the data you have available to solve it. You don't normally have access to the kinds of data at the resolutions you need for something like heat-=maps to come into play. You're ops not a the application engineer and you just have 50-90-95-99 latency percentile graphs pre-aggregated in minute windows in nagios or graphana and maybe a few more of those for IO, NET, CPU, and thread counts and you're trying to correlate between these to form a hypothesis.

If it's important enough AND you have bad luck AND it can't be solved with more hardware, THEN you go deeper. You get to start actually trying to decide what new data is worth collecting ad-hoc, during what time intervals, etc. Only then do you even have data with the resolution where it's worth talking about heatmaps.

That's why this is and interesting reintroduction or new to people. The post helps justify the data that you'd need to collect in order to use heatmaps as much as advocating heatmaps themselves.
From their manifesto:

> The Corporation will release all software written by The Corporation under a free software license.

> The Corporation will release all hardware schematics authored by The Corporation under a free hardware license.

If you are talking about the IP blocks that are bought/licensed from third parties, then you are right, but I suppose that these are replaceable by equivalent blocks in future versions, without the user noticing. In other words, users don't depend on these blocks, so for all the user knows, these blocks are commodities.
You can chroot into a normal ARM distro and run the X11 server directly on Android. Works pretty well unless you need non-ES OpenGL.
A trip through the peer review sausage grinder
"The oldest part of the population have a hard time adapting to this situation"

Also immigrants, non-Swedes and vulnerable people in society have a hard time. But the white people find the cashless society works well for them I suppose.
Most folks would disagree and say that blue is actually the least sensitive to changes and green the most, and allocate precision accordingly. See remarks here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_color
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I really appreciate your comment, thank you.

I had the idea to continue this "series" with the Raptor Codes but, as it was replied, it is under a lot of patents and I have to admit that it was discouraging. What a frustration for the readers to understand something but no being able to use it freely.

I am not so sure about the LT Codes either.
My car also had an issue and I had to bring it in for a part to be replaced.

Why is it so special when this happens for a major hardware vendor like Apple? Is the expectation that hardware has no bugs? Is that realistic?
That's nice to know, although I'm not talking about just selecting a mod. The point is to configure all policies of a social network -- enrolling, banning, messaging, posting, collective decision making, connections to other societies, etc.
Come on, a title like that isn’t meant to be taken too seriously.

And you’re reaching a bit far. You can write a perfect function that adds two 32 bit integers. There is a subset of code that can be written perfectly. Especially if you don’t need Turing completeness to write it.

Zig just tries it’s best to make it easy to write as much as possible of low level code in a perfect way.
It's not that safety progress isn't ideal, it's that as a problem set it's fundamentally in conflict with the concept of AGI, so intractable.

It's akin to trying to come up with a firearm that can't kill innocent people. The problem isn't even coherent.

The only solutions are:

1: Redefine what AGI means, like openai has done.

2: Prevent AGI altogether
Most of the cashless festivals return your unused "credits" pretty quickly after the festival.

The real problem comes when the system breaks down- which I've seen happen at plenty of festivals. At that point if cash isn't an option then commerce simply stops- screwing both vendor and customer alike.
REST allows for clients and servers to evolve independently. If you can constrain that you can probably design something significantly simpler. That’s not a shortcoming of REST, though. The channel between your mobile client and your backend would probably be better served with something more like RPC than academic REST.
Javascript (programming language) and Browser (runtime environment) is a perfect piece of combination.
With JS, you have many choices of implementation.
With Browser, runtime error doesn't crash user's device.
It's a short excerpt from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I clicked the link thinking it wasn't that. Because I know and love that book. For those that haven't read the sequel Lila, I highly recommend it also. It goes into what Quality actually is in enormous detail, how it works, the different types and levels. While ZAMM is typically concerned with relatively simple systems (like a motorbike) and how humans interact with them, Lila is more the biological, social, societal systems humans are a part of, anthropology/anthropologists trying to study them, and how those systems work, how each has its own Quality.. (long story!)

A few years ago I read Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and was immediately struck by, well, the form is exactly the same as Pirsig's books - nature/observation writing interspersed with slabs of philosophical/theoretical. Lila is even mostly set on a boat going down a river also. Thoreau probably does both styles better, but Pirsig has a focused theme - 'has something to say'. So if you like Pirsig, you'll love Thoreau's travel books.
Nice to have a tendency to escalate. Certain things have a tendency to creep along the nice-to-have-|-must-have continuum. IMO, digital money generally does.
It's big news when car manufacturers do major recalls too
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We have known how to do untraceable transactions [0] since 1982.*

We have known how to do untraceable transactions since 3,000 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money
You are talking about an edge case which just isn't true.

It is entirely possible to live your entire life, paying with only cash, in the United States. The hardest part would likely be paying rent, but even that isn't unheard up to pay with using cash.

Society is not cashless. The edge cases you are talking about rarely ever come up. If it is possible to only pay with cash, then the last hop is all that matters for you as an individual.
Same is true for the JVM or Python, no?
It's not how much money you have, it's how much you pay. Money is generally gotten by having done useful stuff for other people. If you're going to limit access, it's more fair that people who sacrifice some of that money get priority.

It's not egregiously unequal -- it's a fair admissions fee that everybody (visiting during peak season) has to pay.