skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The reason Steam and Netflix are so good and continue to exist in such a good state is exactly because of the competition.

I don't believe in this case that is demonstrably true. What has improved for me as a consumer with either platform since competition came - other then less content?

In particular with Steam, I don't believe there has been a single improvement relevant to me. Uplay, ea origin, battle.net are purely net negatives to me, in their own right and in their impact on steam.
I get what you're saying but isn't that fairly rare? Yes it obviously sucks when it happens, but an outlier in such a system vs everyone in the digital system isn't that hard to decide upon.
I find little comfort in it. By the time your 120-200 imperial pounds becomes food, you will have shat another 25,000 pounds that has gone into a sewer or elsewhere and fed some bacteria down the line.
Part of that "more convenience" is that people think it is all benefit and no cost. If a lot of people come to the conclusion that cashlessness is risky due to the easy with which the powers that be can flip a switch and steal it from them, the cost/benefit analysis changes. That is not to say everyone everywhere will suddenly and uniformly hate it. It just changes. The more people get hit by capricious actions, the more people will find their cost/benefits analysis changing.

The CBDCs are inevitably going to fail for the exact same reasons the central banks want them. The more control the central banks have, the more the CDBCs become merely 21st century company scrip and not currency. The more the central banks can arbitrarily reward and penalize you for political reasons, for social reasons, for economic engineering reasons, the more their "currency" fails to be currency on the most fundamental level of being a reliable store of value. People will realize they don't want them and they are too dangerous to hold.

But ye gods will they damage the world on the way to realizing this is too much control, because the once the elites think they have this, they aren't going to give this power up. They'll do everything they can to "ban" any other attempts at having ways of storing or conveying value until the whole system breaks, and they won't care, because even a failing system that they're still in charge of will be better than a system they aren't in charge of.
> Carrying cash is exactly how you lose it all

If you can even put your hands on it in the first place. A $100,000/year salary is roughly ~$6000/month after taxes. Where are you going to go to get 60 $100 bills every month, even if you could protect them?
I’m considering the same setup. However I failed to find any cheap or free outgoing SMTP service for personal low volume usage. Does anyone have any recommendation?
Congrats on the launch folks!
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Having implemented my own 5-letter word game, I can agree that much finesse lies under the covers. Wordii is for the impatient, letting you play more often if you choose:

https://frequal.com/wordii/

The many subtleties of this genre make it a great programming challenge. I encourage developers to try making their own version. I think you'll come away with a healthy respect for Mr. Wardle.
You're making this too complicated. Upload the video to youtube, then plug in your 16TB USB drive and copy the file there as well, then unplug the drive and put it back on the shelf. When you fill up one drive, you buy another, and the first one stays in the closet, forever. That's it.

If youtube deletes your account, you take the drives out of the closet and re-upload. If a drive fails, you use youtube-dl to repopulate it.

The only way this fails is if a drive dies / house fire on the same day that youtube deletes your account. If you are really that paranoid about it, keep a second copy of each drive at work / home. But you really, really don't need to.
A voice deactivated fire alarm sounds like something that would end up on the RISKS mailing list, where a bad implementation led to many deaths

(for those who don't recall, the Nest Smoke Alarm had voice deactivation that didn't really work well. https://bgr.com/general/google-nest-smoke-alarm-video/)
"Back in my day..."
The PSVR 2
The Westminster council report: https://westminster.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s44227/Westmin...

And recommendations: https://westminster.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s44662/Finalis...
Factors that push it in the other direction are desertion rates if we're talking domestic military occupation and fighting fitness -- how many police and reservists are actually able and willing to occupy a country with a likely insurgency for an undermined amount of time. Some percentage of that 2.9 mil number are not front line combatants. But also if the occupation is only in a single region then the denominator is much lower or if parts of the population side with the military.
OKD is the open source (RedHat, (IBM)) OpenShift, which wraps kubernetes ; sort of like AWX : https://github.com/openshift/okd

> [OKD] Features: A fully automated distribution of Kubernetes on all major clouds and bare metal, OpenStack, and other virtualization providers;

Single-node OpenShift 4 requires at least 16GB of RAM and 8 vCPU : https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/single-node-openshift-manufac...

> Single node OpenShift offers both control and worker node capabilities in a single server and provides users with a consistent experience across the sites where OpenShift is deployed, regardless of the size of the deployment.

MicroShift requires 2Gb of RAM on e.g. an ARM64 Raspberry Pi 4 or similar SBC:
https://microshift.io/docs/getting-started/
I have an update for everyone:

Models that lost writes in my test:

SK Hynix Gold P31 2TB SHGP31-2000GM-2, FW 31060C20

Sabrent Rocket 512 (Phison PH-SBT-RKT-303 controller, no version or date codes listed)

I've ordered more drives and will report back once I have results:

Intel 670p

Samsung 980

WD Black SN750

WD Green SN350

Kingston NV1

Seagate Firecuda 530

Crucial P2

Crucial P5 Plus

These are just my results in my specific test configuration, done by me personally for fun in my own time. I may have made mistakes or the results might be invalid for reasons not yet know. No warranties expressed or implied.
Have you considered an alternative world view? While it's true that we experience nothing while we die, there are good reasons to believe that that this life we have on Earth isn't accurately explained by purely materialistic means.
It's a bit buried, but the article says:

"We want to detect traces of RandomX (the CPU-intensive mining function for Monero) running on a cluster. "

This isn't for "Has someone rooted my laptop and started mining Monero on it", this is for "Have any of the nodes in my cluster (of potentially thousands of machines) been rooted and had Monero miners dropped on them." Your comment about being pwned totally applies to your container orchestration or hypervisor though...
> I'm not aware of a way to construct an std::vector without throwing an exception.

You use an allocator with enough pool for whatever you need to do and avoid out of bounds access.
A super quick search on google reveals two causes:

- The US mint slowed production to protect workers

- The shutdowns slowed circulation of existing coins

Given that a large percentage of coins are irredeemably damaged or lost each year (I once knew a particularly spoiled college student who would simply throw change away rather than deal with keeping them) it doesnt seem like much explanation is owed beyond that.
I think those things are true, and I live in Canada.

I strongly support Trudeau's actions on this, and I'm sad that the government took so long to crack down on the "truckers". It's deeply damaging to civil society when a few extremists can shut down a city without consequences.
If a protest is authorised and legal in the eyes of those that you are protesting, is it really going to be an effective protest?
"A pre-history that went back to the first recorded music" is, by definition, part of history, too.
> There are a couple of highly technical, highly capable game studios.

Which ones are those?
Ask HN: If TDD is so great, why is it so uncommon in the industry?
The same way you installed that launcher: by downloading it and running it.

For the record, I have no issue with Steam's launcher because it basically works (although it gets slammed on big releases, which is an issue) and it doesn't force you into a nonexistent social network.
I think you are forgetting a few key details:

1.) You are taking a government's word for it. As a US citizen, I can tell you that you should never, ever do this. My attitude with any governing entity is to trust but verify. If they don't provide a way to verify, assume they are lying. I'm a former Department of Defense and intelligence contractor. My experience working with these entities hardened my attitude to never take their word for it.

2.) You are ignoring the complete lack of due process with the account-freezing powers. Any Canadian citizen is a mere accusation or mistake away from being labelled as "being involved" with the protests and having their accounts frozen, with no ability to defend yourself or correct an error.

The complete willingness and seal-clapping from the majority of the Canadian public about allowing a violation of democratic norms, purely because it's directed at a minority whom they have dehumanized for years, has completely changed my view of the Canadian public. I've travelled in Canada extensively, and I'm dismayed to now realize they are even easier to mislead than the US public is. The utter shortsightedness of this is mind-blowing, with it's supporters seemingly oblivious to how quickly they can find themselves on the receiving end of it.
> No DRM, but your license key gets checked against the blockchain

Isn't that DRM?
Come on, this is a partisan hit piece. Which is too bad because it's a legitimate and serious issue, but any pretense of objectivity went out the door when we get to "Howard Anglin... was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Principal Secretary to the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney"

Call me when he starts going after long-standing issues like civil forfeiture: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-administr...
Yeah, it's super disingenuous.

Right now I can have any number of different assets and freely trade them in and out of cash. There is no off switch for that.

In digital currency land, once the account is turned off, that's it. If I can only pay via card, I can't barter at the local corner shop, I'm capital F fucked unless I can somehow convince a friend to buy everything for me. The end.

I'm convinced, utterly convinced, that these threads just attract propaganda bots or something. It's like they get stuck at the very top level of "but card means tap is save 0.1 seconds!" and that's it, all other executive function is disabled.
Fair enough, I see what you're getting at. But I think there is an important distinction: it's not the claim that actual perception goes on forever, but the subjective experience dilates to seem like it. It's quite a bit like the other discussion between the "easy" and "hard" problem of consciousness. You're speaking to the "easy" problem (how neurology correlates to subjective experience), where the "hard" problem is the measurement of how the actual experience feels to the observer.

There is still energy at the moment of death (e.g., your ATP doesn't instantaneously disappear), meaning for a few brief instances, there is still energy to perceive and during these instances, the subjective experience of time may differ from normal day-to-day experience. It's not to say perception actually goes on forever, but the subjective experience of time feels like it does (or, at least changes our normal perception of time).
Oh nice, I hadn't seen dispatchThreadsPerTile! I don't believe that's possible today in Vulkan :(

Our goal (though still WIP) is to have the interaction between user applications and our compiled code happen at the command buffer boundary - you would submit some work, pass in a VkSemaphore/MTLSharedEvent/cuEvent/futex/etc, we would use that when submitting our own work, and then we'd pass you back a VkSemaphore/etc you can continue chaining with. So one level of granularity coarser than mid-pass interleaving but still hopefully all pipelined properly with no host/device synchronization required. There will be programs that this doesn't work well with (heavily data-dependent stuff) but at least making it work turns it into an optimization problem vs today's representation problem!
Because it speaks to the large number of people who engage with music they enjoy and can sing/hum along to easily, not the small group of self-styled "critics" who can only find joy in tearing down?
This author is saying that we all need to 'accept the new reality' of digital money... but they won't accept the new reality of COVID and vaccinations. Seems like the author is just picking and choosing what aspects of reality to accept based on politics.
Have any of you used steam?
Getting detained police after receiving your weekly/monthly cash payment would look very suspicious to Officer Friendly as, surely everyone would agree, only criminals carry that kind of cash around. There are many twists and turns down the slippery slope.
We don't have high streets here. All my adjacent banks are in the middle of a parking lot not near anything else I'd want to interact with during my precious Saturday except maybe the grocery store. Sure that's a bad design and I'd prefer to live near UK high streets but that's beyond my control here.

This has nothing to do with sitting at my desk. Using cash would mean spending my Saturday at one of the least interesting location I can think of.
Heh. I saw the Ireland flag and immediately thought maybe just they forgot to put a wheel in the middle and just tilted it a bit wrong and looks they selling in my country as well now :)

I think I will just have to get a Dell or HP or Lenovo by now (if not another Mac). By the time they will decide to sell on this side of the planet they will either go defunct (just a sad prediction) or customised laptops won't be a limited fad-like anymore.
I added SkyNet (https://github.com/Adamm00/IPSet_ASUS) to my router firewall and it cut the probing way down.
Twitter's Ruby on Rails problem that the parent mentions - @26:30 https://youtu.be/LjFM8vw3pbU?t=1591
Ad companies are professional liars, as is Accenture
Im the same you only a regular iphone 8 not +.

I think the iphone se is made for people like us:)

But I dont plan on upgrading until this ones stops working.

Ideally I can find a phone that has a removable battery, then I dont think I would ever need to upgrade.
It is not an ongoing issue; I do appreciate the offer of assistance. If we see attacks coming through hyperbeam again that we can't address through other means I'll reach out.
> likely to be used in Canada against indigenous peoples

Actually the emergency powers declaration specifically excludes indigenous people - that is, they can protest, but others can’t.
Fun game but becomes fairly automatic when you know the best words to start with.
Lol even Frank Lloyd Wright had problems with zoning officials and the permit process...
The problem is one is appearing in Borat films and not taken seriously, the other is on the faculty at Harvard and writing op eds for the nyt.
You'll find a strong blue/white collar divide here, which also tends to follow rural/urban lines.

Once you get into the trades and workshops, cash is king for obvious tax avoidance reasons. It's rare someone in such regions doesn't at least imply you can pay a portion of an invoice/bill with cash for a moderate discount.

Small shops in those areas might be more apt to only accept cash, and you'll notice at chain stores like Dollar Tree the cashiers actually have cash handling skills vs. the affluent areas of the cities.

For most places within the airline network, you can easily avoid paying cash these days. I still recommend anyone who travels keep enough cash on them to get back home in a pinch, if at all practical.

This is personal anecdote, but I make it a point to pay cash whenever at all possible (to the point of being "that guy" in my friend group) so I likely pay attention to it more than most.
It’s not about a simple trick, it’s about a shift of mentality akin to finding a religion.
Anecdotical evidence only, but the people in my country that I know to be anti-mandate are all triple-vaccinated. We are quite used with vaccines, we kind of understand to some degree how they work and we decided to use it, same as masks and other measures, but most of these people are anti-mandates.

We lived under a Communism regime and many people died fighting it, some of us still remember and are marked for life by a fear of government mandates of any kind. Younger people don't remember, so we are also split on this matter, but there is a simple explanation for that.
That's what economy of scale does for you.

Also, this is what integration, that is, limiting the customization options, does for you.

Having a niche and highly customizable thing costs you extra.
The books do provide some in game lore, and are occasionally amusing. The notes and things mostly seem to be an inventory challenge.
I really like the idea of a native OSX app that takes your emotions into account and either plays music you like or shows your favorite photos that fade in and out. Something to snap you out of the crap zone.
There's still a level of certainty that comes from "this law survived legal review by the courts" that I find some value in.
We just need to preserve the ability to perform an anonymous transaction. Convenience of cashless is predicated on the assumption that you're willing for the tx to be on record. For tx you want off the record, cashless is not convenient at all. If one's position is that there is no need for anonymous transactions, that's a different conversation.
I actually think the OP and the comments are too focused on the programmer-related aspects of this. I'll add a few things.

1. It's not trivial but it's not that hard if you have a decent vocabulary and some intuitive sense for word frequencies (and word pair frequencies) for different locations in a word. The answer list does not seem to include really hard words as naively picking all the words in the MW dictionary would be. It's a fun 10-15 minute puzzle.

2. Five letter seems like something of a sweet spot.

3. The answer word list does not appear to have a lot of plurals or common vowel endings for past tense, etc. Or obscure words.

4. It lends itself to what I'll casual cheating, i.e. there are easy ways to get some hints without giving the answers away while focusing on a strategy.

5. Basically, it's got good gameplay for a casual game. It would be easy to build something along similar lines that didn't have as fun gameplay for a casual gamer.
In response to the 2012-2012 financial crisis in Cyprus[1], the Cypriot government decided to take 47.5% of uninsured deposits over the amount of €100,000 in the Bank of Cyprus, and all deposits over the amount of €100,000 from the Laiki bank. Greece did something similar with their bonds.

"Haircuts"[2] are regularly floated as solutions in financial crises. Just because it didn't happen during the last crisis, doesn't mean that it won't happen during the next.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%932013_Cypriot_fina...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haircut_(finance)
> The writing is on the wall; barring some sort of major social upheaval, cashless will be more dominant in the future. It's just too convenient.

In classic HN fashion, everyone disagreeing with this is focused on their own solipsistic perception of the relative merits, technical and otherwise, of cash versus electronic payments. But convenience always wins.

The not-yet-evenly-distributed future is represented by Apple Pay on the Apple Watch. You literally wave your wrist over a point-of-sale terminal and confirm on the screen. Once this experience is cloned and brought downmarket by a combination of Android, Fitbit, and no-name Chinese manufacturers on Amazon, very few will go back even to pulling out credit cards, much less enduring the complications of cash.

We need better legal protections for electronic payments and banking. Cash, for better or worse, is on the way out.
Steam game libraries routinely become worth hundreds or thousands of dollars as you spend more money to acquire digital goods. You can't move those to a different account, sell the entire account safely, or activate the titles you already own on a new platform. Nobody would spend all that money on repurchasing all their games just because the EA launcher is more shiny.

The lock-in cost is real and literal. It's far easier to migrate to a different voice comms system (which is free, usually), since you only have to convince your existing social network to create an account on the new thing.
This map is not current. It lacks NS1 leading from Wyborg, Russia, most eastern Baltic Sea to Lubmin, Germany, since 2011, right next to Rostock in the western Baltic Sea(in the scale of that map). And NS2 mostly parallel to it, with the exception of starting in Ust-Luga, Russia.

Maybe try https://www.gie.eu/publications/maps/ for a more complete view.
>The problem IS businesses refusing cash.

They legally cannot, at least not in the USA, and I doubt in most countries. Thanks to the legal tender laws, businesses cannot legally refuse the legal tender, especially in its cash form. Once a deal is made and cash is offered, service must be rendered or it is considered stolen. A fun way to exploit this (before coin machines) was to go to tow truck lots, offer pennies, and then report grand theft auto to the local sheriff when they refused.
"They're a private company they can do what they want"
One of my favourite features of Wordle is that the share functionality uses the Web Share API. It’s been available cross platform for a while now but this is the first truly huge use I’ve seen and I think a lot of the games success is because of it.
This was a fun read and feels like it deserves a longform blog post.
Can't you make deposits directly on the ATM? Where I live, the ATM takes your bills, counts them, and directly deposits them in the account you choose.

No need to interact with any of those pesky humans.
They have two tiers. I love their system.

The lower tier is like and Internet account. Validate with a password and 2fa, etc.

The next tier is required to log in to certain sites and requires you to upload ID etc to verify.

Once you have verified with that, you have an extra set of attributes to do more sensitive things on certain sites.
Like the Hong Kong protests? Those are illegal. I don't think your distinction is useful or clarifying. All that being illegal says is that the state has decided its not allowed.
>> The idea that cash is this hilariously inconvenient thing is a complete fabrication.

>That's a strong statement without considering that your experience might not match others'.

IMHO, both the original statement and the respond are opinions. It may well be the case that cash is universally not “hilariously inconvenient.” Without some empirical evidence, it is just a shouting match.

In my opinion, cash is actually very convenient to use and encourages reflections on spending habits.
There is a distinction between freezing someone's accounts and ability to open accounts for the long term vs. them beginning to starve within days because they don't have any way to pay for anything immediately.
What's that HL Mencken quote?

Something to the effect of "Democracy is the idea that the common man knows what he wants, and deserves to get it, good and hard."

If a group of people, in a free and fair election, decide to elect in radical, repressive Islamists, is that not democracy functioning as intended?
I would say, no need to plan out a career. But don't be surprised if you end up where you are currently heading. There might be unconscious things affecting your day-to-day choices affecting your career.
Pretty scary stuff.