skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, what you have described requires a central authority to 1) manage access to the funds (instead of trusting the tipper not to spend the funds he gave the tippee), and 2) avoid blockchain overhead by spending from accounts directly. Double spending then is prevented by trust in the central authority in both cases. The only useful part of the crypto currency left is the account-less nature of it, which can be done off the blockchain (has to be really here per number 2).

It's a UX problem in the payments space, which is not really a problem crypto helps with is my point. Definitely see the problem, just don't see the crypto angle.
I did work in a startup worth $100M, and it was becoming more and more corporate every day. Might be wrong, but I think a startup worth that much (1B) is way past the point of challenging innovation.
Yeah, NeXT was way more mature. Based on BSD, after all, what else can you say. And the GUI dev tools were second to none.

But to the end user, the look and feel of BeOS hasn't been matched still.
How else do we incentivize companies to make sure things like this don't happen, if there's no punishment for companies who do them repeatedly?
Totally agree. I used to browse the site and now I block it from my search results.
I don't know if their numbers are accurate but the basic idea actually is fair. A fair part of the retail cost of power is the cost of getting it to the consumer.

It's the dirty secret of solar power--the numbers only make sense if you can sell back power at near retail rather than at wholesale.

I don't understand the charge for simply having panels, though.
even the codesandbox failed for me :/ just fine in Chrome.
You can still install XQuartz, though.
Until human society stops serving abstractions (like money) over things that are real, then real things will continually face consequence. These will still over into our lives in a multitude of ways until we no longer have real systems to support these abstractions.

Loss of natural life is such a failure. Today we speak of stock markets, governments, businesses. Someday, our main concern will not be these shared dreams, but meeting basic needs. This can already be seen in homelessness. How long before things like this means our planet can no longer manage pollution, or produce soil healthy enough to feed us?

As a believer in the concept of memetics, it is clear that standing in defense of the real is a battle that is being lost, but the consequences will not be escaped forever. One such consequence is the pandemic and my society's inability to deal with it due to serving things that aren't real. I think that a million dead will be remembered with whimsy in the coming decades as not being so bad.
You can't legally call your food a hamburger if it's 90% meat glue and 10% cow.

Can we not do the same with cables?

Whoever is responsible for setting standards must be getting some good kickbacks from all this...
You can get a refund if you won’t need your licence again before it expires, and you have at least one complete month left on it. Not helpful e.g. a two week holiday.
If you want to take down a fence, first learn why it was built. I can guess at reasons but it would be interesting to hear from a city planner on the reasons and history. My guesses:

* The sidewalk is public space. Does the public give away free real estate to the restaurant, to be used to generate revenue by the square foot? If the restaurant wants outdoor dining, they can build it on their own property. Perhaps the city should at least charge rent (in non-pandemic times).

* Cities don't want loud drunk people on sidewalks, i.e., a bar scene on the sidewalk. Public alcohol consumption is generally banned in most places in the US, afaik.

* It obstructs sidewalks, which have an important purpose and were built to a certain capacity. Analogously, should we allow dining in the street, blocking a lane of traffic (structures could be built that would shield patrons from the street). Possibly, there was less foot traffic during the pandemic so the problem wasn't as noticeable.

* Laws that apply to one person apply to every restaurant in the city. Maybe the temporary pandemic situation limited how many and how did it, and we don't want every restaurant building outdoor dining on the sidewalk.

The title is inflammatory: Assuming 'progressives' are bad, caused the issue, the issue is somehow bad. I expect more from the Atlantic than joining the lynch-the-progressives mob.
Basically all of social media is like this. You provide content to Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, whatever because you want people to see it. There is an edge case where you make money by getting famous, but usually people are just doing it for attention, same way they are for anything else. Why do people write answers on StackOverflow, Quora, whatever? They want people to read their answers and think they're smart.
I think they would have been better off forcing manufacturers into that situation, and that the feature list has grown so large that it’s no longer a sensible specification for purchasing decisions, which will erode consumer trust.
I love my 2020 RAV4 hybrid. Like absolutely love it.

But after an incredible horrible experience with Toyota connected services support re renewing and issues with the connected services not working, this is my last Toyota EVER.

When this lease is up, I will go shop for a new car at any vendor other than Toyoya.
There is something worse than appeal to authority: appeal to non-authority.
All I can say is this is really fucking impressive. When I played with the demo my jaw dropped. Amazing work!
True. Sometimes you gotta vote with the pen (legislation).
It would seem to me that unless we start to see commensurate increases in hospitalizations that we don't really have much to worry about when it comes to Omicron.

EDIT: There was so little data coming out of SA that it was too hard to tell if this variant was following the trend of more infectious but less severe that is typical with viral mutation. I would imagine that question is going to be answered pretty quickly.
What I'd love to see added to Messages is the ability to block unknown contacts from sending me messages with links in them.

It would reduce the amount of junk texts I get daily and give me plenty of peace of mind knowing my family isn't falling victim to scammers / phishing attacks
> There is a workaround of disabling SocketServer so it won't be exploitable, but I believe 1.2.17 still has an RCE in it by default.

Sorry if I'm being dense, but wouldn't the workaround be not enabling SocketServer? AFAIK, it's not used by default, it's something you have to decide to use explicitly.
Given the high water table in Florida, only people living in the countryside have septic tanks. None on the coast would have a septic tank
I just went through this, buying a car to replace the one I'd had for 13 years. Oh man, I had no idea how terrible the car industry had gotten; it was every bit as bad as you're fearing.

I had a slight preference for an automatic transmission but ended up looking mostly at manuals since those often lack a few of the "modern" anti-features. I wish I had better advice to give, the experience honestly bummed me out quite a bit.
How can we better communicate the urgency with people who do not find it an issue?
Time Person of the Year 2021
Thanks for your's and whakim's thorough conversation about this -- some of the nuance is really hard to articulate without the historical geopolitical context and you summed it up really well!
god bless youtube, what a specific piece of history to have a reference for
When i had a very old Samsung tv, my Nvidia Geforce videocard produced a nice image to the tv and Dolby AC3 sound to my even older surround set via a nice hdmi to optical out converter in between.

Now i have a not-so-old Philips tv and suddenly i can't get dolby ac3 sound anymore. Why? Because the GeForce communicates with the tv and the tv responds it only has stereo. The surround set has no hdmi input or output so it cannot communicate with GeForce.

I have tried everything from hacking drivers to changing EDID with some weird devices. Nothing works. Stereo only. Very frustrating.

I was recommended to replace my surround set or my tv. Both pretty expensive solutions for some weird hdmi communication bug/standard.

So i bought a $20 usb sound device to get Dolby AC3 sound to my suround set.
All because i replaced my old tv which couldn't communicate with the GeForce about its speaker setup.
You’re neglecting per capita resource usage. Population control in low-usage high-birth rate countries has insignificant effects. Reducing usage in high-usage countries has outsized effects, and a low replacement rate is not enough to mitigate them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_...
Have you seen a car? Have you seen a parklet? If you had, you would understand perfectly well.
Wow. How has the battery in your MacBook Pro not died after 12 years?
Btw I also own a Volvo and at least here in UK you get emergency services regardless of whether you pay for the Volvo On Call subscription or not. Breakdown cover is provided for every new Volvo as long as you do the service at a Volvo garage, nothing to do with On Call subscription either.
Well said, I agree with that, although I do think there is a difference between trusting a central authority to maintain an opaque system vs merely being a regulatory figure maintaining a transparent system. If that’s even possible :)

We are currently still trusting places like Coinbase as much as we would need to already, to implement this sort of system. Why? Because you’re right - it’s a current UX problem of payments, not something crypto inherently solves.
Anecdotally to this anecdote about iOS usability, my mom didn’t know about the control center or how to switch from wifi to cellular data.

iOS isn’t easy to use because Apple markets itself as special and smart, instead it’s easy to use because we live in an age where people use computers and can guess at most things.
I don't mean this in a mean way at all but when I read this my mind mostly goes to wondering if the energy spent on marketing and building yet another product we've seen thousands of iterations of would be better spent on trying to think of things that produce genuine value. (Another chart app? Again I don't mean to be insulting at all but it doesn't seem to solve much that hasn't been solved already.) Maybe engineers should be learning how to sit in an empty quiet room for hours and just brainstorm ideas until they hit on something that would really be useful since once you come up with it implementing it can usually be done in a week.
its kind of mind boggling to start thinking about all the stuff we do that's detrimental to birds habitat (and basically every other animal). Even down to the tiny factors like yard maintenance: do you blow/rake/bag every little thing in your yard and send it to a land fill? you just stole food/housing-material from birds, squirrels, etc...
I really don't think that teaching people better ways to do things is exclusionary.

The OP even included the reasons why their version is preferable.

You really see that as complaining and gatekeeping? An 'utterly and completely necessary "correction."'?
Starts off with a good normal corporate lesson on patents, then gets into the really really really true & good stuff.

> "In all cases where I have had cause to read such documents, my first reaction has been revulsion, but then revulsion is my first reaction to waking up in the morning as well. The revulsion to patents stems from the fact that all the software patents to which I have been exposed have had several things in common: They lay claim to obvious ideas that any software practitioners might come across in their working careers, and they are overly broad, rarely novel, and seem to be written by an infinite number of monkeys attempting to bang out a version of Hamlet on ancient typewriters.
>
> All of which is to say they are not legitimate, but you cannot get up in a court of law and say that. Instead, you must spend hours meticulously deconstructing every claim. The claims are not written in either code or plain English, but in a legal code meant to protect the lawyers and their clients' intellectual property. While you might glean an understanding of what the patent intended from reading it, it is more likely you will just wonder why anyone bothered to write the patent at all."

A system so unable to discern invention from just making a random claim is immoral, busted, broken, & de-legitemizes the idea & essence of government itself. Software patents are patents on ideas, and technical society has a moral obligation to end this oppressive ridiculous system.

Recently NVidia ceo Huang got a patent for screenshare document opening, but in VR[1]. This ability to just add complications, to add a clause that makes a boring idea somehow "new", is vile. Treating VR like a brand new form of computing, when Huang is just using it as another screen, is to me a key example of a system utterly unable to understand the supposed property it is supposed to be regulating & discerning. Our intellectual property regime is legally, morally, logically broken.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/nvidia_huang_patent/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29518454
The movie saves it for me. Like, I appreciate the last 3 episodes of NGE from a 'psychoanalysis of the writer' POV, but the real entertainment is in the catharsis of End of Evangelion.
On the other hand: Ender's Shadow also introduces a rather ridiculous and unnecessary origin story for its central character ("Bean"), involving an evil genetic scientist. This plot line continues through the rest of the spinoff series.
> You don't think it's plausible

Sure it's _plausible_. I even used to think that kind of thing was _possible_, long ago.

But I've come to the conclusion since that it's virtually impossible to "scale down" your income like that. And that you can't actually choose to accept lower pay to obtain more options (in software anyway), contrary to highly plausible economic theories.

Do you have any real world evidence other than that it sounds plausible?
I just want to point out that the overall sense of superiority in the comments here is somehow funny. I feel like we’re also the “dumb average Joe” for a lot of companies, and most often for way more than $8/mo.
ESG? Can't find anything on the Wikipedia disambig that makes sense in relation to kintsugi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESG
Another important question you could ask about the fence is: how come those people over there manage to do just fine without the fence? (and going deeper, do they, in fact do just fine?)

The obvious point of comparison are most southern (and some northern) european countries that have lots of outdoor (often on-street) dining, apparently without much deleterious effect.

What would be so different in the USA as to create a different outcome?

Sometimes, that asshole Chesterton put up a fence without a good reason at all.
I'm slightly doubtful that this is an authentic thing (by which I mean: "actually practiced in the 15th/16th centuries"). Most of the content around this technique on the web is not in Japanese, and even the Japanese Wikipedia entry about it [0] is quite terse.

Or maybe it's just that non-Japanese people have more interest in it than Japanese do?

If anyone has more knowledge about kintsugi, I would love some historical references which confirm that this technique was actually used in the past.

[0]: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%B6%99%E3%81%8E
Do you do so? If not, why not?
http://distill.pub/about/

It’s been done and it is amazing. This is the best journal in the world imho
What do you mean by modern?

My 2013 car has a physical lock pull, which the door lever is connected to, so the lock opens when you pull the lever to open the door.
This is the same idea behind giving a gift card (if it's done thoughtfully).
I would not want to live in China due to the government's authoritarian tendencies.
I'd love to give this a read from someone with a lot of experience in the source material, but given a $50 pricetag for a book I don't need to read I'm not into it. Who are your editors?
Counterfactual Theory of Value
Is there a big difference because 3.5 and something digital?

I know 3.5 is worse on a technically, but I've never been able to actually notice the difference.
Which was worse for the dinosaurs, the asteroid impact or us?
Well, that seems to be using macros to cover up the syntax, which of course the C++ committee isn't going to recommend or use for anything new (nor should they).

The actual implementation of Maybe doesn't seem to force anything, it just returns a pointer to the stored value. There's no enforcement of any kind that anything is checked as a result. There's some hoop-jumping with friend classes to "hide" the readMaybe() function to make the non-macro usage as ugly as possible to strongly encourage using the macro-convention, but that's hardly "enforcement".

It's a cute syntax & macro pattern, but it's hardly a good fit for a C++ standard, either.
Wolfram language uses Arb (an LGPL library) with no acknowledgement
I wonder if there is a curated collection of stats somewhere on the lifecycle numbers on social media ventures?
I'm not saying there aren't costs associated with building or running these services that need to be paid for. But owning the OS and pushing subs in the default apps is just as annoying when Apple does it as when Youtube does.
Meh, the actual marginal harm is nil. Someone genuinely believing in "Birds Aren't Real" was going to latch on to something.
So only two of the three interested parties then ;)
Outspend dozens of large deep-pocketed industries in lobbying and misinformation.
Quora is pretty terrible these days. Tons of low quality spammy answers, annoying forced sign-in prompt for viewing certain questions and answers.

Same for stack overflow and related sites. A lot of long-term contributors but no payoff, no recognition. I guess you can put in on your resume.
ESG is primarily an acronym for sustainability and not throwing away things:

Environmental, social and corporate governance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social_and_corp...
>How could it be harder to move civilians and a wooden plank compared to a locked SUV? Aha

One is a locked SUV whose windows are designed to be broken easily and safely in case of emergencies, pop into neutral and push out of the way sort of quickly (depending on whether or not there's even enough time to do that, but I digress). This SUV has wheels whose direction you can adjust in order to to help maneuver the vehicle easily.

The other is a structure often built considerably longer than even a few SUV lengths, weighed down so that guests and weather don't move it, and made out of material that is considerably less easy to break through in an emergency situation than the aforementioned tempered/laminated safety glass. Said structures may even contain even more hazards - eg, gas-powered heat lamps - than you would find in a traditional parking space. This structure is bulky and doesn't have wheels to help change the direction you want to move it in.

>Imagine thinking this with a straight face.

The irony...
I've definitely had problems with external storage on Linux machines

> Why wouldn't it work? Bulk storage is bulk storage

You would think so, but anything using UAS is a complete mess and you can't be sure it'll work. I can only assume devices implemented the convenient parts of the spec and fail randomly.

Happened often enough the kernel flag for the USB quirk to disable UAS was stickied on the Raspberry Pi forums when USB boot was new.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=245931
That’s impressive. We’re around $100/mo for everything excluding fuel on our 2005 CR-V, bought by us in 2011. It’s going to have to last several more years to get down under $90/mo. (If your friend said that 10 years ago, I guess I’m under that already.)
$8 is a lot but to be fair, Disney+ is almost certainly losing money per subscriber. $8 in this case also has to cover the cost of the 4G connection, which likely is in the $1 to $2 range.
Sounds like a useful filter then.
Yup. Subaru offers remote start via an app at $75 for the first 3 years when you buy a new car, but it renews at $300 (prepaid for 3 years) after that.

Ridiculous
Jimmy Carter's legacy is not fair and is more about a political mob's pitchforks than his actual accomplishments
thank you so much. I just watched how differential steering worked and it was so cool.
In population dynamics, you often see periods of decline and gain. How do we know that this is a genuine long-term decline as opposed to a temporary downswing? I’ve always wondered.

After all, not every population can grow forever. So which pieces of news should we be alarmed about, vs which are expected?
Admittedly this is one explanation, another could be that people simple like helping others.
I would argue that in practice, the only difference between implementations was an inconvenience to me was on Mac - I have to use gsed instead of sed, etc. Everywhere else, it's pretty much consistent from the one-liner user POV. On the other hand, I occasionally encounter different python versions, which always includes some mental effort to tune in.
Typical "crypto" delusion.

Ordinary old-fashioned "fiat" coin would help at least as much.
> Perseverance and Endurance are a rarity in today's society.

No, they're just quiet.
Have any software? My Turbostation is looking for more software.
Somehow none of those issues are a problem in Europe.
Fraud, Sloppiness, and Statistics
> I think it is harder than we think, at least for the goals that Europe wants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpM_zKGE4o

it seems that the main issue is that some invested in concentrated solar while photovoltaics energy cost fell from being 2x expensive to being 4x cheaper of the concentrated and just beating everything out at $0.03/KWh. As i said - cover the desert in solar panels. Transmission is only 7% loss to Berlin.

Instead Europe is building gas pipelines from Russia and others. Again, money talk, and that clearly shows that nobody takes climate change seriously.
How are you measuring perseverance and endurance? I find that such claims tend to be completely made up, based on some "sense" you get from hearing a couple of viral stories.
I feel this. As someone who owns a forty-plus year old car that has more than 770,000 miles on it, I care much more about function than appearance. I don't want original - I want better. When something goes wrong, I see what, I see why, and I try to fix it so it's better and stronger than before.

Likewise, I don't strive for authentic and original when fixing up old VAXen, Amigas, or Macs. I want functional, and I want new caps that're better than original.

It's nice to know there's an appreciation for not original, but better.
>City staff said they don’t see any way around putting restaurateurs through a more intensive process to make their outdoor structures permanent

What? Make the current rule changes permanent? How come this is not considered as "a way" and dismissed out of hand? I'm genuinely amazed at the lack of imagination here. 5th graders could solve this problem.
To be fair, languages which require explicit unwrapping also provide syntactic short-hands for the most common idioms. Long-handed if/else (or pattern matching) is used to implement the short-hands or as a last resort.

See also value_or and the C++20 monadic methods on std::optional.

http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2021/p0798r6....
That seems a bit of a dichotomous view on a complex web of interconnected "realities" and "abstractions", and I'm not sure if "real" is a great term for an opposite of an abstraction, which is also real in a lot of ways.

Otherwise you are getting _very_ close to the N/S dichotomy in Jungian psychology and the Myers-Briggs type model :D and the growth idea there is transcendence of the dichotomy, bringing strengths of both ends forward, rather than regressing to the one-sided way.