skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want the end of private banking for your average deposit accounts [1]. Commercial banks don't make money off the accounts unless they can charge extortionate fees (overdrafts) [2], and credit/debit interchange is going down drastically when Fed instant payments roll out in 2023 (they are showcasing functional apps/use cases internally in the next few months, and are on schedule for their go live date). Government is accountable to its citizens, commercial banks to their shareholders. The logical conclusion is to offer deposit accounts and instant payments to all as a utility, and support infrastructure to allow other institutions (private banks, fintechs, etc) to extend credit.

But to equate public good deposit accounts, simple rows in a database tracking fiat, with communism is grossly disingenuous. Shall I defend the US Post Office, Social Security, and Medicare (other wildly successful public goods with high approval ratings) against being painted as "communism" as well? These are fundamental components and public goods of a developed society, and financial infrastructure falls into such a category (as you cannot live without it, and if you attempt to, you are going to learn how expensive and hard it is to be unbanked/underbanked).

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=fedaccounts

[2] https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/
How many times has story been posted today?

Since obviously neither of these fields is a "walk in the park", and it takes years of training to be able to do them -- basic intuition suggests that other forms of intelligence are involved beyond the 6 local-scale domains cited in the study. Having to do with lateral thinkng, holistic analysis and long-range goal planning, for example.

From the BMJ study:

Results The neurosurgeons showed significantly higher scores than the aerospace engineers in semantic problem solving (difference 0.33, 95% confidence interval 0.13 to 0.52). Aerospace engineers showed significantly higher scores in mental manipulation and attention (−0.29, −0.48 to −0.09). No difference was found between groups in domain scores for memory (−0.18, −0.40 to 0.03), spatial problem solving (−0.19, −0.39 to 0.01), problem solving speed (0.03, −0.20 to 0.25), and memory recall speed (0.12, −0.10 to 0.35). When each group’s scores for the six domains were compared with those in the general population, only two differences were significant: the neurosurgeons’ problem solving speed was quicker (mean z score 0.24, 95% confidence interval 0.07 to 0.41) and their memory recall speed was slower (−0.19, −0.34 to −0.04).

Conclusions In situations that do not require rapid problem solving, it might be more correct to use the phrase “It’s not brain surgery.” It is possible that both neurosurgeons and aerospace engineers are unnecessarily placed on a pedestal and that “It’s a walk in the park” or another phrase unrelated to careers might be more appropriate. Other specialties might deserve to be on that pedestal, and future work should aim to determine the most deserving profession.
Then people could choose. The choice cuts both ways by providing a pragmatic path for government market constraint as an alternative to the cat and mouse games of exquisitely intricate regulations.
I think you need to come up with a more compelling point against this than "the USSR had it".

You know who had public transport? The USSR. Public transport is as bad as an idea as communism.
Multiple employees of the Mayfield Consumer Products factory told NBC News that they took shelter in bathrooms and hallways when they first heard tornado warning sirens, then supervisors ordered them back to work when they mistakenly assumed the danger had passed.

“I asked to leave and they told me I’d be fired,” Elijah Johnson, 20, told NBC, claiming that he was among a group of about 15 concerned colleagues who were refused permission to evacuate.

“‘Even with the weather like this, you’re still going to fire me?’” he said he asked his manager.

The manager replied, “Yes.”

From TFA.

To underline that: managers threatened retaliatory firing of workers taking shelter within the factory itself.
Elite Engineers Are the Athletes of Tomorrow
USSR Communism also had a fire department - should we get rid of that as well?

Argue on the merits of something, not because a county had it or didn't.
I would really appreciate it if someone could help me understand what the last few sentences of it meant, it kind of flew over my head:

"So I guess this is kind of an argument in favor of humility, or against open-mindedness. If you have high openness to experience (and if you read this without a gun to your head, you probably do) you might wonder why so many people have low openness. Maybe this is part of why."

What is "this is part of why" referring to, the entire article? I just don't really see how any of it would lead people to be less open minded
OTOH, this just feels like pushing some app solution on something that doesn't need it. Different strokes.

And "right time" is highly debateable given the current tech at determining sleep cycles.
I do not as a general rule see anything but rather just have an understanding of the concept elephant - I think of the word, also if someone tells me don't think about X I can, so the whole now you can't stop thinking about X joke falls flat.

But I can make myself visualize it at different levels, I can do a quick command visualize in which I have sort of a flash of what is meant but it isn't a continuing image in my mind. Right now when I did the visualize Elephant thing I got a bit of an image that looked like the center elephant off the cover to Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=841&lang=fr

If I do a much longer close my eyes and visualize I can make that image I flashed on more concrete in my head.

As a general rule I do not consider myself a visual thinking but a language oriented thinker. I understand things better by reading than I do by looking at images.
The problem are the vaccine mandates.

If you (soft or hard) mandate a vaccine, and you kill someone with it, that's a lot of responsibility to take, if the vaccine didn't go through a full trial.

If the vaccines were as optional as eg. flu vaccines are, then a simple waiver would solve most of the issues.

(a 20yo girl died in slovenia due to jannsen vaccine not that long ago, and she got vaccinated, becase she was soft-forced by the government mandates (48 hour testing, far away from home, but unable to use the bus without a test, to go to the testing site, 12eur/test,...).
The point isn't the pay gap part, it's the USSR part. They're trying to paint her as a communist.
Pascal's wager.

But the big flaw there is rather straightforward: which god? Is worshiping a false god better or worse than not worshiping at all?

Should one avoid eating pork in case the Jewish/Islamic god is real? Or maybe avoid eating beef in case the Hindu religions are the true ones? Or maybe the Jains have it figured out, and you should really be vegan to be safe? Perhaps the Aztecs were right, and we're way overdue on our sacrifices?
At home I have my BMCs on a network segment where they can't talk to each other, to the Internet (so no auto-updating), or even to any of my client machines. When I want to use one I connect a patch cable from my laptop to a designated breakglass port on one of my switches.

I do run DHCP/NTP/etc on that subnet, but those services are running in FreeBSD Jails connected to the host OS with vnet(9) "epair" interfaces given RFC3021-style /31 addresses (and/or the IPv6 equivalent) and firewalled with PF on the host-OS side such that none of them have the ability to explore any other parts of my network if they get popped :)
Many are lucky enough to work on their own or with other seniors in their respected domains.
$60/yr for a touchpad driver for every Linux user in the world is quite reasonable. Plus, you get to stop paying after it's done, and no one can take it away from you :)
I think this is also the result from Rust being really good in two spaces that have faced little competition before.

Anything that was written in C or C++ before, and anything written for the web (Rust seems to me to be the only language that cross-compiles easily to WASM, and is useful in the required GC-less context).

So now there are a lot of programs in C/C++ that people have been using for years that often cause some kind of issues, because it's really hard to get memory safety right here.

And there are a lot of things written for the web, where people want something more sane than JS, and even though typescript already filled that hole in a sense, there is just so much space here that Rust still has little competition here.
When I started at Twilio, I set my title on whatever chat we were using to something silly like "Director of Naptime Initiatives". (Well, ok, when I started we just had a poorly-used internal IRC server, so I guess this was a bit later when we got HipChat or whatever.) Sadly, these days the title field on Slack is synced with Active Directory, which has the human-readable title name, plus the level number.

It's really dehumanizing. I think I'd rather not know people's titles, just what team they're on, and their role.
That would be a very, very bad plan we are not talking about, because it would make people so radical, that in the end they rather shoot people of the other tribe, than getting the shot. (and that already happened)

It would make them form secret circles, where they only talk or listen to each other further radicalising themself. And they do not have a choice, because they have their dogma of vaccine == poison - so they feel pushed to connect stronger in their own circles of "awakened minds".

And with the deadly disease not at all deadly enough to kill them all out - this "no talk about plan" will just make them stronger effectivly.

Before they were just weirdos spread out. Now the weirdos are organizing and arming themself.
If only we had a technology solution to payments and money transfer that didn’t depend on the whims of anyone, some sort of distributed cryptographically secured system?
How PlayStation 5 Was Built
You know that your vote doesn't matter in large-scale elections. Being a busy person, you don't go out of your way to vote. When discussing an election with a friend, you mention you didn't vote. Your friend and others in the group socially ostracize you. You don't understand why, but after a few times you just say that you voted. In all future elections, you leave work early and indicate to your friends that you voted. You know your vote doesn't matter, but you also know expressing that sentiment has no benefit. You secretly wonder if the pressure to vote is a social norm engineered by one side. After some time, you hear a new friend indicate they did not vote. You publicly scorn them, for the social benefits.
This is the kind of problem Elon Musk could solve.
I don’t know when you last looked but as of a few months ago Pinecone has a free tier that fits 1M items with <100ms latency.
Yes, I knew I would get called out for an anecdote on this website. Thanks for not disappointing.
it isn't apples to apples. Some studies show that SA has >70% seroprevalence [1], most of which from infection. If it holds that recovered immunity confers __better__ protection than naive vaccine immunity [2], then that 30% decrease might as well be from the protection conferred mostly by the former, and we have no idea how that would translate to vaccine naives, who are the majority in highly vaccinated developed countries.

[1]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.18.21266496v...
[2]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.21267114v...
The government already has that power - there are lists of people that banks aren't allowed to do business with, because the government says so.
On the other hand, back when insurance companies could deny coverage for pre existing conditions, if you did know and didn’t tell them about a pre-existing condition they were able to deny coverage and drop you when something happened that would be expensive. Even if it were unrelated - I know that there were stories (I don’t know if true) of insurance companies doing this because people didn’t report having acne when they were young (presumably the kind that required medication).

There are also questions like what do you do if there is no treatment available - imagine a disease that simply kills you when you turn 27 - would you want to know when you were 10?
> This is a brown M&Ms problem

No it's not.

Brown M&Ms gives you one thing to check.

This misspelling is part of 1000's of things that could be checked.

A misspelling can indicate counterfeits, a serious issue on critical infrastructure, unlike the Brown M&M's which is just a joke check. Yes it's weird someone illegally counterfeiting will misspell, but it happens for complex reasons [1]

[1] A recent example - "Fake Vaccination Cards Seized At O’Hare Were Spotted Because They Had Misspelled Words" - https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/09/07/fake-vaccination-car...
Governments have that power already. Various AML legislation can make any high street bank to not only block your account without reason util you prove your innocence, you can't even withdraw any of your money in cash. It happened to me in the UK, my account blocked with no reason for weeks until I summited all documentation. I was a foreign student at the time, almost destroyed me, no money for rent etc.

In any case, it's a orthogonal issue, government power vs democratic accountability, the highly regulated private banking system certainly does not protect you against it, they will do whatever the government asks of them as long as they can maintain their key rent extraction monopolies.
The worm hypothesis is a hypothesis, and a good one. But it is a hypothesis. assuming good sounding hypotheses are true and running with it have been the root of a lot of problems in this pandemic.
Get your point, but I kind of like it. It tells some really important info, and they are hardly alone. Python 3.x was breaking change. Until they they stayed in 2.x versioning a long time. And we will never see a Python 4.x
If you can’t research the scientific literature effectively, that’s on you.
The NY Post is about as trustworthy of a source as the National Enquirer.
Love it. Simple and effective.
For me, the ball and table had no color - they were almost wireframes. I think the task reminded me of studying physics in university so much, that I imagined a diagram of them, not the objects.

Yeah, the more I think about it, what I "saw" looked really like a blackboard drawing of ball and table, including the shading on the ball and everything being from the "default isometric angle".

Weird.

But for the usual "imagine a beach" aphantasia test, I do imagine real beach with sand-colored sand, trees, people, sea, sound of waves and screeching of seagulls. Which makes me think two things - some aphantasia might be learned by teaching people abstract thinking, and that the artificialness of the example might be biasing.
> and cutting off the users who disagree with them instead of Doing One Thing, and Doing It Well

Your complaint is the opposite. You're complaining that Wayland is trying to do one thing & do it well instead of trying to be a kitchen sink.

X11 is the antithesis of Unix philosophy. It tries to do a hundred unrelated things (compositing, clipboard, drawing, input, etc...)

> Admittedly, there's not an elegant solution to any of this. However, in this specific example, I think the best course of action would have been to just outright plagiarize Apple's Quartz.

Or Windows' DWM. Or Android's SurfaceFlinger.

Android being Apache 2 would have been the more obvious one to take code/design from in this case, but desktop Linux seems to have a general disdain for anything coming from Android.
John Kennedy, or as we like to call him here in New Orleans, Foghorn Leghorn, has never met a foreign origin person he doesn’t want to throw to the dogs as red meat for the cameras.
Age of Financial Misinformation
I tried to setup my music controls with dbus but not all the keyboard shortcuts function either for some random reason, so its fundamentally broken if you want to change it still can't do all that x.org does.
You seem knowledgeable so maybe you can help me with this. So you said:

> Smart contracts eliminate the intermediary. Whether you are selling for $2 or $2M, it's gunna cost the same small fee (and the fee is going to be negligible within a year).

Okay, fair enough intermediaries suck. Let's replace them with smart contracts.

But what happens if there was a bug in the smart contract? What happens when a situation such as death occurs that wasn't considered when the smart contract was written? Who settles such disputes?
An Apple Music fan got a call from Tim Cook’s office
this is nice, especially for the function clauses

Elixir is my daily drive and working in Java made me miserable until I started working around the lack of pattern matching facilities

Error handling is the worst part, I think a simple

switch (retval) {
Ok(val):
...
break;
Error(err):
...

would make Java much more pleasant, even without full pattern matching everywhere.
Ask HN: What datasets (public or proprietary) do you use on a regular basis?
What are the pain points (if any) and what tools to do use to pipe in, analyze + present the data?
It's more of a conspicuous display of incompetence.

Some politicians make a point of displaying this so that donors know they aren't going to be somebody smart, ambitious and dangerous like Ralph Nader.

One example was Karen Bass, who bent over backwards to praise Scientology once.
I just want to write f(g(), h()) without nine lines of useless noise that editors don’t know how to hide. I guess it might be possible to write a generic function that uses panic/defer to return an error from a subexpression.
She was nominated because they knew she would have no chance. Now a moderate can be put forth and Biden can blame the donkeys
I'm not sure how to figure out which situation results in more scrutiny and due process. I can buy that private corporations are under-policed, but I'm not sure the government would police itself either. Maybe the best is a kind of adversarial relationship between the public and private entities? Anyone know of compelling studies on what ultimately is best practice for compliance?
> she means progressive elites like her

Funny, all the "reporting" mentioned here seems to come from NewsCorp properties. And is "reporting" like the above.

I'm not defending her, I'd honestly like to know more. But I'd like to read it from a trustworthy source.

Especially considering how much bullshit redbaiting is going on around this - you get that when they don't have anything better to throw.
SSDT gets you most of the way but not all the way there. It can rebuild a table by copying the rows if you're changing things that are evident from a diff of the production schema against your desired state, if it's not possible with ALTER TABLE. But for complicated arbitrary transformations, it does make you use a trapdoor where you write a migration script that gets executed after the desired state is applied.

In practice, we consciously avoid doing this, but we are perhaps making sacrifices for the tool's limitations. I've occasionally done hacks like creating a new table with the desired new shape, then creating a view that converts the old data to the new format and merges it with the new data. SSDT is capable of deploying that, but it's not the greatest situation.
It seems like we are talking in circles. The original debate was that there were two options for dealing with climate change. One was expensive and painful and the other was cheap and easy.

The cheap and easy one is we just all decide to voluntarily reduce consumption. That isn't feasible for the reasons listed in previous comments.

The expensive and painful one is a combination of disincentivizing consumption, offsetting carbon emission, creating carbon capture technology, etc. As I said before, a carbon tax is part of the expensive option because it obviously makes consumption more expensive.

That isn't to say a carbon tax is a bad solution. I generally support one. It is simply a recognition that a carbon tax is not the cheap and easy solution of us all simply reducing consumption. If you want a cheap solution either people need to voluntarily give up consumption or they need to be forced to give up consumption.
> The payment system is essential infrastructure...

You know that almost everything can be nationalized using that logic, right? You like Commie blocks? Because this is how you herd 99% of the population into concrete tubes while the elite enjoy their sprawling ranches surrounded by federally protected wildlife reserves.
No, it is on you to provide proof for your assertions. It is not my job to verify your claims.
This happens a lot. Usually starts with one popular post about a topic. Then someone explores deeper and finds another interesting article on the same topic, and submits it.
This is a reasonable conclusion to draw after what most people experience on Windows or Linux; however, if you've ever used a MacBook touchpad for a few weeks, I think you might find it appealing:

1. it never clicks when it isn't supposed to

2. its acceleration curves are beautiful

3. it's always accurate when you intend to click on a particular pixel

4. there is no interaction between keyboard and touchpad (e.g. on Linux there is a "disable while typing" feature which disables the touchpad only because the touchpad experience is not perfect, therefore completing disabling it while typing is better than refraining)
you were probably remembering 'st'
Theology of Productivity
suddenly, current state of public transport in the US makes sense
About 10-15 years ago the European Space Agency was advertising that philosophy. IIRC they contrasted perfectionism (or zero risk) and slow learning against smaller experiments and faster learning. There was also some third term contrasted, perhaps that being that all-or-nothing huge projects demand a shift toward zero-risk and slow learning.
This is the same woman that wants to abolish private banking accounts and was arrested for shoplifting.

She is as red as they come.
https://old.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/n3mjj3/native_vs_vm_b... you can also do this. If you want to use wayland without issues GNOME works well if you wanna login to another session, VFIO will give you full windows game support (Win VM will use the GPU in windows driver mode).

For anyone who wants a functional desktop on any DE, x.org is the best, and cannot be replaced currently by wayland in features or software compatibility.
Interesting. If the problem is just finding the data, why not make the product a way to load data into "your favorite data visualization tool". I'm not really the target customer, but will people really want to use yet another data viz tool (idk).
You have to like such blatant partiality in the coverage: “USSR-born and educated”, the insistence on “ending banking as we know it” while waiting five paragraphs to actually explain it’s about splitting the lending activity from the management of people accounts and has nothing to do with the Soviet Union, the completely irrelevant quotation on the gender pay gap. I really like American media. They are so bad they make even the terrible ones in my country look half decent.
"Ensure people have reasonable rights to keep wearing masks or something in public. "

When was that ever forbidden, except on demonstrations?
> redshift,

This was also a showstopper for me. Now, however, in Debian Sid `redshift -m wayland` works fine (although Gnome also has its own

> my global hotkeys,

They can be configured in your compositor. For those used to using i3, Sway makes this easy by being mostly compatible.