skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subcidies are 90% of the reason our country is turning to shit. It leads to corruption, massive distortions and zombie companies that only exist as parasites on tax payers. From the ballooning student debt, to the ridiculous military industry, to prisons being at record numbers, etc. We need a lean and efficient economy which functions "as is", a true and fair free market. Politics should have close to no impact on it and sadly, wirh forced lockdowns which did nothing good (0.2%) and bailouts being handed out like candy, we are very very far from the dynamism which made the country great and free. We need a minimal operating system for the people to run good games over it, we live in Windows Vista.
It depends on how the payment is integrated, i guess.

Is some relatively local stores it's along the lines of:

- check out an item in the cart
- you're taken to a payment processor's page (gateway)
- there you pick your payment method, e.g. which of the supported banks you use
- then you enter your bank's user ID and personal identifier
- then a prompt pops up on your phone (though you can also use a "code calculator") with a reference ID
- you enter your PIN code to confirm the prompt on your phone, granting the gateway access to your bank account
- it then lists your payment accounts, from which you pick one that you'd like to pay with
- then you get yet another prompt on your phone, this time you have a separate longer PIN to enter for confirming the payment
- you do so, the payment is processed and you're taken back to the store page, with your order placed

Note: that app (SmartID) that's used for the codes and confirmations isn't actually maintained by the bank, but is a separate entity, so to make a payment you might have to rely on the shop being up, the payment gateway being up, the confirmation solution being up and the bank also being up. Despite all of those vectors for failure, i've actually had a pretty good track record with this solution (i've only seen the bank's service crash once and the occasional store have issues).

Oh, and the app can also be used to confirm authentication for online banking: you enter your bank user ID and personal identifier, which makes a prompt pop up on your phone, so you also get 2FA there out of the box!

For anyone wondering: https://www.seb.lv/en/private/daily-banking/smart-id

Of course, the bank also has its own app where you can make payments to specific people, or request payments, as well as view your account balance and see how your investments are doing, which is pretty nice, though you cannot use it for confirming those purchases.

On global stores (e.g. the likes of Amazon, eBay, AliExpress etc.), however, the process is generally far less involved, you just check out an item that you want, shortly afterwards the money shows up as "reserved" on your account. If you don't recognize that order, you can dispute the charge. Of course, if you don't have card details saved, you would need to enter that information first (card number, name, expiration date, code), but the end result is the same there.

That said, despite the seemingly more cumbersome approach of integrating with the bank directly for payment processing instead of going with just the card approach, i'd say that it has some security advantages for sure! With this approach, even if my bank account is compromised, no one can make payments without having direct access to my phone AND knowing the codes (as long as the system works). Of course, many still choose to pay with their cards instead.
At what point does peaceful protest become none-peaceful through the consequences of the protesters actions?

I.e Gluing yourself to the road could be considered peaceful however if you're doing it outside the A&E Ambulance entrance to a hospital is it still peaceful?
That's an extreme example however in this case can it still be considered peaceful considering the economic,.. etc impact on peoples lives?
Just want to advocate that, while the difference isn't currently so large that it's obviously visible, Firefox already has better Ublock Origin support than Chrome (and by extension, Brave) have.

This kind of comes down to what your tolerance is for the occasional ad slipping through -- if you need the best Ublock Origin support right now, use Firefox right now. If you only care at the point where it becomes really noticeable, then maybe that won't matter until after Manifest V3 becomes a requirement.

Anecdotally I run into people who say that Safari's adblocking is fine, and if those people feel that way about Safari, they aren't going to view the loss in effectiveness on Chrome as being a dealbreaker post Manifest V3. So I also kind of wonder how many people are actually going to switch just because they lose Ublock Origin.
Cars are also digital service platforms which can and do take away things. I am currently playing a safety score minigame to unlock enhanced driving features. If I pay $2000 my software will enable my minivan to have a 0-60 of a Ferrari. This is all premised upon a connectivity package I'm obligated to pay for but have been gifted for a year by the manufacturer.

To put it more bluntly, my eyeballs are watched by AI to make sure I pay attention enough to deserve the full use of my vehicle.. it's beyond punitive, it requires my positive behavior.

ALSO bonus, if I did something with my vehicle that resulted in losing my account, I would also lose access to my home electricity system.
IANAL, but it would be interesting to hear from one. My opinion is that your data is a currency. You spend it in exchange for goods. So, I believe that, yes, you should own the services you have paid for with data.
My first reaction was: "No idea what they do"

Then I read the "Host your blog right here on PretzelBox." and clicked the Blog link on top. "https://pretzelbox.notion.site/8d8ba84f16ea456984020cc15efad..."

And I thought to myself "So it's a well-marketed notion whitelabel reseller." You're probably good at marketing, but I'm not sure what Cloud back-end infrastructure IP you would have for sale...
Sorry for the harsh attitude here.

You work as devops engineer for 15y and you reply-all to spam emails?
I believe you have it backwards. The high salaries increase the levels of debt potential doctors consider acceptable.
When I develop an advanced nonstandard technique for chemical analysis and deploy it stealthwise to overcome industrial challenges, people show great interest in what I'm doing back there. Ex-employees have gained a lot and taken it around the world years ago.

When I pick one of the more outstanding developments and prepare a decent scientific presentation, it's just one of many and lost in the shuffle.
What are the chances that Xonsh or Pyp will be installed on a system I wish to use?
Something like improvmx but, like $3-4 a month instead of $9 with just bare bones POP3 and SMTP for personal use only would suit me.

I'd like to self host data and webmail and pay somebody else manage the headache of delivering and receiving.
Show HN: Writerly, content generation AI that can write just about anything
Can we allow a small minority to shut down an economy indefinitely? That seems like a big problem.

It is also hard to gauge just how small of a minority of Canadians this is though. It feels pretty small but it is hard to tell. If 80% of Canadians are vaxxed that means this is just 5-10% of people at most.
Poor Alder Lake performance when building Firefox due to bad scheduling
Four years is a pretty short amount of time.
This might all be a distraction from a bank run.
That's deliberate.

It's cheaper. If they don't let their customer service agents have any autonomy, then they don't have to hire for things like 'judgement' and can just throw warm bodies in a chair, which makes people easy to replace and cheap to employ. It also prevents your cheapness from causing issues; if you hire decent people and rely on them, then it causes issues if those people leave en masse or start siding with your customers over you. "Sure, Mrs. Johnson, I'll forgive last month's bill; they don't pay enough managers to check and I'm quitting tomorrow what do I care?"
The police job in the history of modern republics was never to maintain "public order", unless by that you mean preventing disruption of existing systems of privilege. I can only recommend reading Michel Foucault "Discipline and Punish" about the society of control, and the roles of the police and judicial system.
“With no need for court orders, banks can freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.”

The politics of this particular situation aside, this feels like a terrifying development for future protests, and public discourse in general.
It might be a bad deal, but it's not a scam. The say they'll give you webmail and they give you webmail.
Spot on.

By reducing the size and weight of the cars we use gives more than relying on magic new innovations. We use 2000kg cars to drive around a < 100kg person.

If we with the snap of a finger replaced all the coal and oil and gas we use with wind and solar power plants I'm not convinced that would be much better. Not maybe worse, but not better.

Wind mills everywhere, solar plants covering huge areas of land and a lot of metals and energy needed to construct all that. It just moves the problem around.

A small gasoline/diesel car is better than a big electric car.
Or why not a small electric car such as this Citroen Ami or Zbee from Clean Motion:

https://www.citroen.fr/ami
Or
https://cleanmotion.se

Saving and reducing quickly now gives more than hoping for the new fancy technology being in place in 10, 20 or 3 years from now.
Another day, another answer to "what is Bitcoin good for?"
> Twitter banned an ex-president.

For a good reason. I support bans if they're reasonable. Banning VPNs instead of accounts abusing a VPN is unreasonable.
Walking is the efficient mode, but only up to a certain speed.
the first two are impossible -- looking at the 10k scientists who program at CERN
This is because we work for businesses that are fixated on generating revenue and profits rather than on improving the human condition.

Since this is Hacker News I'm sure there will be some who can say the two are compatible, but it will only appear that way to the wealthy and the elites -- the rest of us will gain none of the benefits and will be seen solely as "customers" or "partners" from which revenue must be extracted.

One only need look at the transformation of business from selling products to selling services, changing a sales relationship into a rental relationship. For businesses operating key or critical technical infrastructures this is equivalent to a corporate "universal basic income", such as will never occur for the common man.
Not OP, but better margins I assume, for roughly the same work/responsibility?
I'm late to this party, but isn't it reasonable to read this metaphor as a bomb's premature detonation causing the bomb-setter to be lifted into the air by the explosion?
Cryptocurrencies rely too heavily on infrastructure from our economic and societal systems to provide any kind of defense against economic deterioration.
I don't know why people are all that surprised really. This is what commercial space is going to look like. SpaceX isn't NASA. They aren't gifted a budget by congress to carry out their mission. They have to pay for it justify the cost with a profit somewhere a long the line. Getting sponsorships, partnerships and paying customers is all a part of that.

The age of rockets just having a flag painted on them are over. For every mission that isn't bought by the government, expect the space suits to look more like racing suits.
That was my first thought. I haven't seen The Expanse, but in any case, Heinlein preceded The Expanse by decades.
Hotmail did a fair amount of commercials https://youtu.be/IQRZcfAwn0g
You answered a comment talking about how market forces would have lacked for the private sector to build rockets (in opposition to how the public sector didn't need such economic reason to do things):

> What would have been the economic imperative that would have jump started the development of rockets in the first place?

With this one:

> What was the economic imperative to build a ship to cross the Atlantic?

How is it “not commenting on state or market force”?
Well that...seems tyrannical.

Imagine if Trump did this to the BLM protestors, using the same argument (which would've been before vaccines, too).
You’re not engaging in good faith. You used the word “coup” in your post above to try and paint non-violent protesters seeking redress from their government as being akin to third world insurgents.
Can't macos use chrome for file-access-api instead if Safari does/will not support it?

Same issues with PWA support as far as I can tell, maybe Macos users just install chrome and use that too?
For their software management stack.

My customers want API compatibility with AWS and convenient deployments like on Heroku. So I needed a software layer to convert bare metal boxes into Cloud VMs and to imitate necessary APIs. And of course base images, buildpacks, etc. to convert a git link into a runnable docker image, like what Heroku does.

So basically I purchased them for all the scripts, tools, and stuff that happens between "Customer does a git push" and "Docker images are running on the correct bare-metal servers with the correct configuration"
Anyone on the left should be aware they are going to use any new powers of control or punishment against the left in the the future (and more often and more significantly and increasingly so over time).
Take a healthy variety of non-technical courses as well as your technical courses. They're both important. This is a good time to experiment with a variety of subjects and learn what you enjoy. It could also have a significant impact on your employment; part of standing out in an interview is getting along with the interviewers and sharing unique knowledge and experiences that make you memorable.
GNU is special because without them, the whole system wouldn't exist. They did:

1. Most of the technical work on version 0.1 of having a working system.

2. Most of the ideological work

3. Most of the legal work (Linux is GPL too)

They're the original "inventor."

Linus finished building it, but without Linux, Herd would still eventually be ready, and we'd have the same thing, only a couple years later. I'm not trying to downplay this contribution; Linus and Linux are pretty special too. However, Linux wouldn't have happened without GNU; Linus could not have created all of that.

Many people have since improved upon it. Like the Ship of Theseus, their original work is a tiny portion of the system in 2022. However, without them, the whole system would not exist. If that didn't happen, even things like Android, many iterations later, couldn't exist, at least in anything in their present form. "Open source" wouldn't exist either (which was created as a counter to "free software").

It's hard to overstate this contribution.
I use the free plan from Zoho and it's been solid. But... I have been using it for a while and it is my understanding that certain features I have (IMAP) are no longer in the free plan.
I got hired out of my college's career fair. My boss said I stood out because I actually cared about the field. I was an officer in the college's Linux Users Group. I had side projects. I could talk about technical things I hadn't taken courses for, I read technical books for fun. I had a string of part-time/summer technical jobs already. I showed interest in learning more. Nearly everyone else they saw at the career fair did exactly the technical tasks their courses required and not much else.

I had three friends who got hired into Google upon graduation. They spent a lot of times on things like the Facebook Hacker Cup, studying graph theory, learning things from obscure programming languages or 40 year old research papers. One was in both the LUG and robotic flight club, doing big competitions. Their GitHubs didn't look as much like side projects, but they still published whatever code they wrote. They'd focused hard on skill building that was highly relevant in challenging technical contexts.

So that's my suggestion to stand out: show that you care about your craft, not just meeting assignments. Juniors are hired based on who they can be molded into, as much as for any skill they already have.

Example: if you want to go into game development, see if you can give a talk at a game conference sometime during your degree. If you nail the talk, show something original and intriguing, make it quality and memorable, you'll get access to job opportunities where you're treated like a competent professional instead of a dime-a-dozen fresh graduate. A degree takes long enough to do something novel that's worth presenting.
> Reddit's CEO, like Jack Dorsey, denies 'shadow banning', even though you can test it by getting -100 karma and watching your comments reach nobody

Jack Dorsey was the CEO of Twitter, not Reddit.

Edit: Fair, I stand corrected. Leaving comment as-is.
And sadly Blazor WASM even in .NET 6 has runtime performance slower than React, with 5 Mb hello world download.

The other big advantage of Blazor server is you can remove the separate service layer project and deployment target entirely, reducing total code and total infrastructure significantly.
It's not offensive. Just very 'uncanny valley' somehow. Like autotränsläyshun and/or ai-barfed.

And for (whatever-)framework I'd use "Gerüst" or "Schablone", Ansichtsbibliothek makes no sense whatsoever, "Zeichenhilfe" maybe a little bit more.

Btw. Bang ist "der Knall" in German.

Try https://dict.leo.org/german-english/ for all sorts of synonms for real irkmastery ;->
My point was only that this is a temporary denial of service, not an asset forfeiture. Finally, do you have experience with Canadian banks? Temporary account suspensions are relatively common for unpaid debt. There are defined processes, federally regulated banks have a position called ombudsperson and there is always the OBSI.

Moral is, don’t ignore court orders in democratic countries.
How would you even solve porting without breaking legacy systems? You can point the MX records to another provider's server (or your own), but porting single email addresses won't really work.
Amazon kindle TOS take 9 hours to read: https://inshorts.com/en/news/man-takes-9-hours-to-read-amazo....

That's if you understand it entirely, including the legalese, on the first read. That's for the kindle only, not for amazon the website, nor alexa or prime.

I accepted 3 TOS last week, as a dev, it's almost part of my job description, but let's focus on normal people and say they don't accept TOS for Github, FIGMA or AWS, but only for stuff like youtube, gmail, msoffice, whatsapp, instagram, etc.

Let's be _very_ optimistic and say you have 20 TOS (excluding IRL contracts such as the bank, insurance, etc) forced on you every year by services: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Telegram, Facebook all have different TOS for difference services.

Then you have the TOS updates, that don't come as a diff of the previous one, but as a haystack with the changes as needles. So let's say 10 more to read, again.

Let's average reading time to 5 hours (I'm being very generous), and assume you understand the implications (at this point, it's not generosity, it's abnegation). That's 30 * 5, or 150 hours, that you are supposed to spend each year on reading those ? What do you do, take 3 weeks of vacation just for that ? Also don't forget to sleep, eat healthy, exercise, educate yourself, and socialize.

I hope you don't have a full time job or kids.
For example: that mayor withholding already allocated funds until the library removed anything that didn't reflect his views on LGBT people.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/mississippi-mayor-withhold...

You might have heard of a queer-majority community stepping up to help raise funds to replace what he denied: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdpen/mississippi-furry-boo...
Looks like a handy tool to calculate the required hard drive size to store videos from CC's in my art studio.
Sometimes, I feel that one month archive isn't enough. I want to store more. I definitely should buy a new HHD. Your calculator has also confirmed this )
There is a very simple solution, the government lifts the restrictions and resigns. New elections are held and then the people decide if they want a new government that will punish protesters or not.
You’re not wrong, but I think that’s an argument for regulating the maximum usury rates for all such platforms.
For me - it becomes an agenda when they’re collecting the information for no other reason than to collect the information - or - they’re using the field to show how progressive they are. Unless gendering language is somehow critical to the operation of the software - why collect it at all? I have the same feeling about birthdays - I’m automatically assuming it’s because you have “sell customer data” on the 5-year business plan.
Apparently it also includes people who donated to their cause. A peaceful, non-violent cause. Wow.

North Korea, look out!
I think that author has a point - most of the time I also save pages just to have it saved, and never look at it. But, on the other side, if you need something again, you need it badly in my experience.

DevonThink solved this problem for me years ago. I just pull in all the documents/pdf/web pages/text, let it auto-categorize them && forget. The only difference is that it has quit powerful and fast search, so that I can find them again in seconds. Bookmarks never worked for me and I don't have time and dedication for Zettelkasten-like systems.
Has anybody come up with AI tactics specifically aimed at simply generating new grammatical sentences from a single-language corpus? Meaning that the results aren't judged by meaning or coherence, but by adherence to a grammar, with an attempt to maximize variety?

The goal would be to do that well with languages where we know the grammar and can evaluate the results, and through that find a general tactic. Maybe find a few general theories on how much input that takes, and the character of that input.

If you can extract the grammatical rules with reasonable certainty (not likely with a collection of seals, of course) figuring out the content would just be Mad Libs.
They didn't even want to give extensions that kind of capabilities (and in the process significantly crippled mass downloaders like DownThemAll and others), so yeah…
China Is Showing Off the Digital Yuan at the Olympics. Can the U.S. Compete?
Notes apps? Never found a good one that really worked for me. Rhodia notebooks - simple, effective and permanent. I write stuff down to remember, the ideas never die...
The reason Occupy failed is not because of marketing, it's because they were not organized to face the raw powers of the State protecting Wall Street moguls. By peacefully demonstrating on sidewalks, you're not having any meaningful impact and you're not being heard.

Someone in this thread mentioned "civil disobedience" movements. Studying the history of such movements (anti-apartheid politics, workers movements, womens rights, anti-colonial struggles), we quickly realize although having a mass of non-violent protesters (popular support) is important, the actual balance of power lies with more militant groups putting actual pressure (sabotage, blockages, attacks) on our overlords to change things for the better.
Also sold a business of similar size to the parent. Basically if you're sub $1M revenue and not growing massively, then the broker websites are good solutions. Anything else, most businesses will be sold via investment bankers, an acquirer will come out an seek you, or you reach directly out to a potential acquirer.
Is there some point at which people will start rejecting this arbitrary and excessive exercise of power?

This sets a dangerous precedent for a country that until now we considered a liberal democracy with freedom and respect for individual rights. I wonder if we're all headed to a point where state control and erosion of freedom are widely accepted by the public in our western democracies.