skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have examples of life forms higher up on the food chain, in the form of cultural institutions like governments, religions, and corporations. Maybe dealing with an uncaring and differently incentivized AI as an individual human is similar to dealing with Google or the IRS
When you're old, feeble, handicapped, or unfortunately unattractive, these are all things you can never do.
I remember similar sentiments about am radio, paper books, vinyl records and the like but things tend to stick around.
What will happen is that you will have a bunch of very rich centenarians who will own just about everything simply for having a couple of decades head start on the newcomers. The same thing is already happening today. Unless you want to cap wealth and property this is not going to end well.

It's already at the point today where real estate and other relatively scarce resources are much more available to and owned by the wealthy who then use this to extract rent from the younger generations. Give those people another 80 years or so to do play the game and we will all end up in hock to them. You'll be born in debt to someone who was born a century or more before you.
Right, and Germany is seeing a rise in populism too so maybe they're also facing similar macro trends...

It's worth noting that both Scandinavia and Germany are far less economically libertarian than most Americans would palate too
I'd suppose he'd use a throwaway if he'd want to post anything. Otherwise it'd draw too much attention and get too many upvotes and replies, essentially killing the small amount of neutrality we get here.
In Safari: View → Zoom In

It's smart enough to remember the zoom level the next time you open HN too.
Microcenter is a great counterexample. The one here in Denver is always full of customers, and it's stuffed with all manner of computer parts, hobby electronics, and so on. It's how I too remember Fry's being back in the day.

I don't really understand how Microcenter does it, but they often have equal or better prices than Amazon, and in any case, they'll price-match. Also, there's no worry about whatever I buy turning out to be counterfeit.

The one slightly odd thing about the Microcenter experience is how all of the salespeople have little stickers to take credit for when they help a customer find something. Are they on commission? Is this Microcenter's way of identifying the most useful floor staff? They're never pushy about it, but it does stand out in stark contrast to pretty much every other retail shop I can think of.
What about the paper? Is the idea good?

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/017.pdf
> Running my own for about 2 years now. Spf dMarc and dkim set it is accepted by all mail providers. I also get daily reports from Google how well it behaves

This is false. The dmarc reports from Google do not actually give you the portion of email that is placed in recipients' spam folder.
> There's no way this is going to hold up in any kind of court.

The terms of service also include a binding arbitration clause. In my limited understanding (Not a lawyer), how the arbitrators come to their conclusion need not have any basis in law, and in the vast majority of cases, and will not get reexamined by a real court.

I fear there is a real possibility for someone to be forced through a Kafkaesque nightmare before this gets resolved.
The hard part of being gary is being ignored even when you know it's a bad idea.
Isn't that something that can be fixed with user-side CSS rules? EG, this for Firefox: https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/how-to-override-c...
It's mainly an anti-counterfeit thing to have that much info on them.

Fact is, there's even more that you can't see, there's microwriting on them too (can't find an image, but on the £5 and probably all others) and it's almost unnoticeable without magnification.

Can anyone find an image of this?
Venmo already lets you do most of this. You can access the balance via debit card. Others can send money by scanning a QR code.

If I were going to build this from scratch, I would not immediately jump into being a bank. Obtaining a banking license is not easy. I would instead partner with an existing bank or credit union. This would enable you to issue debit cards early in the process.

Why debit cards? The infrastructure is already there to facilitate payments. No need to get shops onboard. No need to build new hardware or software for those merchants.

I’m not sure what transparency is in this context. I’m not convinced people pretend to be homeless. I do believe some ask for money and instead use it to buy drugs or alcohol. I get around this by buying the food people want rather than giving cash. Also, I don’t carry cash.

If you do want to pursue this further, Stripe Issuing may also be able to help on the card front: https://stripe.com/issuing.
A quick note --just because China is not a major player in the semiconductor industry today, doesn't the CCP is not placing its state resources (both state financial backing [1] and the industrial espionage kind [2][3][4][5]) to try and incubate a semiconductor industry

[1]https://outline.com/j35sNG

[2]https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3005738/ch...

[3]https://www.wired.com/story/us-accuses-chinese-stealing-micr...

[4]https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/prc-state-owned-company-taiwa...

[5]https://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwans-technology-secrets-come...

What I've read about made in 2025 in the past few years, the motto of CCP can be distilled down to:

1) Whatever CCP can't build, it will try to buy

2) Whatever CCP can't buy, it will try to steal
Well, it is very often not theft. If they leave to a different juristiction, then local law applies.

This twitter thread from law professor Sarah Burnstien is related - https://twitter.com/design_law/status/1166326853952557059

Claiming continued ownership over something that is in somebody else's head after they have left your legal sphere is somewhat problematic.

Also, it is rather cheeky, as the US research community has relied massively on brain drain from poor or wartorn countries for quite a while now.
It still loads tracking (of course), but it is a vast improvement over their mobile site, and doesn't need JS.
That's not increasing line-height. I don't have a problem with my eyesight, I have a problem with poor typography.
For me mail is hard because software is convoluted. I need to install for a minimal usable personal mail server: SMTP server (postfix), IMAP server (dovecot), DKIM software (OpenDKIM), Spam filter (Spam Assassin). Also I would likely need to install Procmail for some basic mail sorting.
So that's 3 huge projects and 2 small projects. They need to hook up with each other. I need to learn configuration files for every of those projects.
Add to that dozen of different DNS things (and, recently, HTTPS thing), that you need to configure.
Also TLS certificates.
Well, that's a daunting task for me.
Some kind of simple personal web server software which does it all (may be not for 100k users scale), runs on low end VPS server (10 MB RAM consumption) and requires zero configuration for typical use-cases would help a lot.

And, yeah, don't tell me that delivering is easy. I did everything right, DKIM, SPF, PTR, all those things. No black lists. Gmail still does not deliver my mails sometimes.
It's weird that you'd be downvoted for expressing what you have dislike for.

> The color blue makes me feel sad

Downvoted! I love the color blue.

Edit: and now I'm being downvoted for this observation. Maybe Alanis Morissette would say this is ironic
I don't know. Both Wag and Rover have fund-raised $300M from investors. I would think they'd have responded to that line of questioning at least once.
> Seems fair, only because the headhunter needs to make a buck.

Seems like a relationship built on deep mutual mistrust!

I spoke to a recruiter once who wouldn't tell me the company she was hiring for, presumably to stop me going directly. But it was a ludicrous situation because of course I'm not going to agree to spend my time interviewing with an unknown company!
The twist here is that this language doesn't use actual pipes; it just creates representations of pipes that can be used by a different interpreter.
> Will I be able to even modify the way in which I enjoy my hobbies without incurring literally 100x the cost in an urban area vs. a rural one?

I think the point the parent is making is that the people in urban areas are the ones subsidising your extra-urban lifestyle, which would be unaffordable if you had to pay the real cost of all your services
Char is the only exception.

And now std::byte IIRC
We have an ecommerce website in straight php we haven't redesigned since 2011. Works fine, very fast, and capable of handling very large traffic spikes without missing a beat.
Trump is. He's having a very hard time these days, poor guy.
Beware: See previous discussion about their others products
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20798831
I was drinking Serbian water straight out of standpipes on the mountains this summer. Not dead!
"teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea" and then sell them stock and use the cash to buy a ship might be better.

Re brain syncing, the early tentative experiments are ongoing https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-neuralink-works-monkeys-...
> It’s not like it’s too late, especially with the US pursuing 19th century solutions to 21st century problems.

Of course not. It just requires China actually do the research for the tech instead of stealing it.

> The level of understanding possessed by the US presidential candidates for the 2020 elections is a little worrying. For starters, we have a number of folks who want to break up big tech without a corresponding plan to break up the oligarchies held by the big telcos.

Another set of 19th century solutions.

> The article alludes to a major Chinese shortcoming: that it thought it could own semiconductor manufacturing by owning the equipment.

IP theft isn't the same as IP research.

> A lot of US nationalism is centered on how the US leads in terms of culture. It would be precarious to assume that we should really be so advantaged, or more broadly, to pin your success on the failure of your competitor.

It's more than just culture. We have a set of law that protects our research efforts. In China, what protection is there from competition or even the government?
I left the company half a decade ago.
Just to be clear I actually loved borgcfg, just shared a war story. I'm happy to hear that the tooling improved. I'm unsurprised to hear that many still have mixed feelings towards GCL and ecosystem.

FWIW I'm the current maintainer of https://github.com/bitnami/kubecfg
whose name is shameless xoogler bait.
Yeah so good that alternative are in the work ?
See https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire/wiki

Pulseaudio is in the same park as SystemD today. It works as long as you don't demand too much of it and don't stray from whatever they deem to be The True Path. It is better for your simple needs. Believe me, those who have advanced professional needs don't think highly of it.

The support for this systems come from people that just use it as packaged and don't have specific needs. Which would be fine IF they weren't getting in the way when you really have specifics needs.

Even if some of the concepts are sound, execution is terrible. As the saying goes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Trump Heaps More Tariffs on China, Still No Deal in Sight
Are you really curious? If yes you could give some sources about what "you heard", otherwise it is not even fake news...
It was years ago, so I don't recall. Possibly daily with peroxide.

Though I intend for this to be my last reply to the endless stream of dismissive bullshit regarding the suggestion to clean your keyboard.

There are multiple other comments in this discussion also saying, in essence, "anecdotally, X helped me." None of them are getting the ridiculous levels of pushback this is getting.

"Clean your keyboard" (if you are in so much pain that you are desperate for solutions and will try random shit you tripped across on the internet) is such an innocuous suggestion that I find it impossible to see the replies here as anything other than a giant pile of sexist bullshit on multiple levels.

It's not like I'm suggesting people douse themselves in gasoline and light themselves on fire or spend zillions of dollars. Geez.
HN is trivially editable with userstyles. I personally use one for a dark theme; I think you can install a userstyle of your choosing on all browsers from which you access HN.
I loathe the modern web. Speed is a secondary to "hey look what we're doing with our frameworks".
Not really, the same questions are common in many large European countries too. In France the “continuity of public service” is harder and harder to keep going, as taxpayers balk at the cost of subsidising telecoms, post, hospitals etc for sparsely populated areas
That's probably because they're named after the RC tool which stands for "resource compiler".
I don't think "religious dogma" is narrow enough terminology to describe what is going on. The real distinction is between system-based and teacher-based ideas and practices.

With a system-based idea (such as Newtonian mechanics), you can learn it and use it correctly merely by reading some set of canonical works. Everything you need to know is in a book, and if you understand the book correctly you get the right results out of it.

Agile, on the other hand, seems to me to be much more teacher-based. If you want to know if you're doing Agile right, you have to talk with an Agile expert, and your own understanding is always under threat of being declared "not Agile" by the experts.

The choice between approaches is a tradeoff, IMO, there's not one best way. Interactive teaching is better at accurately providing the state-of-the-art opinions and practices of experts, while systematic ideas are much more testable and falsifiable. If you want to copy what a successful expert does, go talk with the expert; if you want to know whether the expert is right or not, read their book.
Number 9, "check the microlettering": https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/banknotes/...

A bigger but not clearer image here: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/5-pound-note
You can call disabilty politics censorship if that is what makes you feel good.
pretty much

when a western scientist goes to work in China, the nutters are angry because of "loss"

if an easter scientist comes to work in US, the nutters are angry because of "loss"

it's just in-group out-group identity politics bullshit...

just like how in times of slavery interracial marriages were a big no-no because it blurs the agreed-upon line of class separation ("which class does the mixed child belong in?" the biological expression of a mixed child [that we are fundamentally the same] contradicts the ideological expression [that we are fundamentally different]) so today any form of mingling is viewed as a threat to warmongers (who want to maintain a simple thus virally contagious worldview)...
I was going to comment about an older link that came up about skeuomorphic interfaces in Apple's apps, but I didn't want to look it up. Now, I just ran into a video with multiple layers of it within the first 23 seconds that I've watched it. So, I switched tabs back over here:

Caravan to Midnight interview on John & Yoko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJBwsaRmNgQ

I remember now thinking about it when talking to a friend about why he doesn't like electric cars. The acceleration lacks the intensity, mostly sonically as we discussed. And I said we could skeuomorphicly add it back in.
It seems to fall back to the old mobile website for me? This is after clicking the fallback prompt.
There were some rumors a few weeks ago about whether Fry's was going to close for good in the next few months (unrelated to the lease ending at the Palo Alto store).

I think the instigator was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgzDiMp4uY0
> The terms of service also include a binding arbitration clause.

Also wouldn't hold up.
Another awesome thing about simple sites like this is you can hack the CSS really easily with something like Stylus.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/styl-us/
UCEPROTECT was the pits and its operators were unprincipled lowlifes. Luckily they (like all the pay-to-delist BLs) never got more than minimal traction, so ignoring them and their BS mostly worked ('course you needed a /19 to be effective at doing that)
The amount of construction needed for that kind of project that would only benefit a small number of people... It's just absurd. Rural people would rather that money go into more important projects.
> But as women pose less risk, the cost for them to transfer that risk is higher. Now you’re discriminating against women

There are two main lines of thoughts in regard to this. The first is that no, that is not discriminating against women since the actor (in this case, the insurance company) is not taking gender into account when calculating the premium.

The other line of thought is equality under the law is impossible to achieve because people are not initially equal to begin with. The common quote people use to describe this is "The Law's 'Majestic Equality'" from Anatole France: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.".

Since discrimination law is a law following common law theory and philosophy, it generally ignores the objection that the second line of thought brings up.
Same experience for me.

Anyone have an archive link?
Imo it's up to everyone what they find comfort in, as long as they don't impose it on others.
https://lite.cnn.com/ as well - 107 KB
Yeah, now that I think about it I suppose it is natural for businesses to find ways to minimize those types of costs. I guess part of me doesn't want to see Fry's become another Radio Shack.
After tasting Takis, I no longer desire Doritos, which now seem bland and unsatisfying. Of course doritos still has the logistics might of PepsiCo behind it, such that it's virtually impossible to find a grocery store or gas station that doesn't sell them. I don't see how you can compete with PepsiCo even if you have a better product.
Alberto Manguel, who wrote the book being discussed, is a co-author of the classic "Dictionary of Imaginary Places", which was an encyclopedia that covered places described in fiction. These days, when video games and TV shows have their own wikis, maybe this doesn't seem very unusual, but it was pretty novel when it was first published in 1980.
This is an important question that no one seems to be addressing. Why is Fry’s closing only one store if they’re all hollowed out? One would think it’s because they have some plan to revamp the other stores, but there is no sign of that.
Ask HN: Is There a Doctor in the House?
How big does a crowd of people need to be for you to be more sure than not that one of them is a (medical) doctor or other health professional?

Obviously there are many factors that go in to this. Just a thought I had on my way in to work this morning.
@location: Light Pollution has gotten worse over time (with the exception of a few countrys with policies regarding that). VIIRS Data might offer a basis for choosing a backyard:
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=3&lat=4695853&lon=-...
time to get rid of aircon to save the planet! Good luck selling that to america!
This looks seriously cool and partly resembles how I think computation should be in that it is a series of steps that meat together in a data pipeline.
Convince smart and capable people to avoid creating value. A really good entertainment technology or recreational drug could help. Propagate cultural norms against trying too hard/selling out. There are probably some ed-tech startup ideas that would gain adoption by playing well to cultural biases while making children less likely to succeed. You could also try to make capital markets skittish and reduce investment in productive enterprises by engineering a crash or perpetrating many large scale, hard-to-detect frauds.

Inequality is produced by engines of value creation whose fruits accrue more to some than others. The simplest way to reduce it is to break them.
The decisions aren't made by the network. Decisions are driven by knowledge and data and a sense for how we are able to provide the best possible customer outcome.

It's not a "who you know.." sort of environment, but networking will make you more productive because somewhere, on planet earth, someone at Amazon, is thinking about that thing, you just thought of, and they're going to be super excited to compare notes and ideate with you!
I run my primary mailserver on DigitalOcean.
It seems to work fine. I think you have to have either your account, or the Droplet, active for 30+ days before they'll let you have port 25 open.
A large number of Americans sadly even refuse to believe he is American.
So cheap they don't even mention their prices on their prices page, that is cheap.
100% agreed. A dark mode option would be cool, but it's very easy to get one with user themes and alternative UIs.

I bet HN will look almost identical 10 years from now, too. I wonder how many popular websites can boast such a consistent design from their beginning?
In short, no.
One of the authors of the work here.

1. Thank you for your comments. The project is an early-stage research prototype, and we are soon going to add documentation and tests to the code.

2. In fact, not all functions in the API are fully implemented, the development is under process. At a high level, the functionality provided is to store and retrieve a secret key (SK). The function is denoted optional because in practice, the secret might not be inputted, instead it might be generated randomly.

3, 4. We appreciate the comments. At this point, we’re still adding more features and improving the documentation. We plan to release the code with tests in the future.

PS: Just added a disclaimer stating that the code is under development!
Well they're seeing a rise in immigration (which economically speaking has the same effect as offshoring) which is large enough to offset the equalising effects of the welfare state, and while I'm not super up to date on their politics, I'd guess the welfare state might also be weakening because of the need to support the influx of new immigrants.

Also, crime rises/falls depending on economic outcomes for the lower segment of the population. If there's too many immigrants unable to find jobs or integrate, crime rises which can cause discontent.
I'd never let strangers walk my dog anyway. Heard too many bad stories. Put out pads if they really need to go during the day.
More seriously, the 'matching industry' has two flavours currently that can make money.
There's the geographically diverse Uber model (I want the single nearest transport wherever I am) and the Tinder model (I want all the orifices near me).

For a dog-walking app (or many others, such as say house-cleaning) - you want an introduction to people locally, repetitively. Once you're happy with what you got through the app, you don't want the app.

Maybe what "Wags" should focus on is the broader scope of "I want a local tradesman to do something repetitively".

Provide introductions, take a nominal fee, allow end-user to change if they're unhappy (and take a very low fee for all the happy people)