skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then write to your selected member of parliament and complain about it, help campaigns and candidates next election who better align with your view, or run yourself!

What about an online petition or a bake sale?

Less sarcastically: there are frequently situations in which a majority may democratically decide to make a minority behave in a certain way. I think it is relatively clear from opinion polls that a majority of Canadians do not agree with the behavior of the truckers. So writing to an MP or running for parliament will probably be a fruitless strategy. Hence the protests.

It would be trivial to find unpleasant, widely-condemned situations in which you and I would probably be united in our opposition.

The difficulty comes when the minority being forced to behave in a certain way are non-appealing in some way. Democracies need to find a way of dealing with them. It will be horse-trading, negotiation, cajoling, appealing and arguing.

None of those strategies were applied by the Trudeau government before they became hysterical and tried to claim they were having a Canadian version of Jan 6th.

I am certain that many Canadians both do not agree with the apparent demands of the truckers and simultaneously do not agree with the application of the Emergencies Act.

I found this podcast interesting: three interviews with people who were doxxed as donors. I disagreed with the first two, but the third one seemed like a very sane person: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/756-how-i-ended-up-suppor...
...which will promptly lead to militant vegans pointing out that life begins at conception, leading to howls of laughter from the back of the room and pro-abortion activists uncomfortably shifting their feet.

Bring popcorn.
> 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.

There are a lot of people who are invested via their job, their business or their literal investments, into cashless payments. Big public companies like Apple and Google have made billion dollar investments in cashless payments, and a lot of people hold their stock and/or work for them.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vsct.vsc.m...
The danger from being infected from germs or viruses through cash is highly overrated.

Studies have shown that among bank notes, microorganisms can survive for a significant time only on bank notes made of polymer. Most bank notes in the world, including US dollar bills, are made of cotton, linen or a blend of the two whereon microorganisms tend to dry out more quickly.

Copper is antimicrobial, and that includes "gold" coins, of copper alloy. Most "silver" coins, including those in circulation in the US and most of the EU are of copper alloys too. Steel coins are not so good though.

Bank of England has summarised several studies (starts 1/3 down the page) :<https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2020/2020...>
Got it; thank you for the clarification! Someday I'll try my hand at some 6502 assembly.
Eh. With 7.8 billion people on this planet, there is so much going on that you can find examples to support any narrative.

Want examples to show governments tend toward corruption? Easy. Want examples showing governments working well? Sure! Examples showing citizens exercising power? Yep. Examples showing citizens being crushed under the heel of their government? We have that too! Black people being killed by police? Sure! White people being killed by police? That happens too! How about police getting attacked by civilians? Google has you covered.

> How many more examples do we need

If you go looking for examples to support your narrative, you'll always find them. We need data and analysis. And no, the plural of anecdote isn't data.
Nowadays we ask "will it run LibreOffice?"
Because the difference is not just the socket.
The order is retroactive. It simply specifies that institutions have a duty to cease dealings with people involved.

https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=41...
Yeah, this is one of the big advantages of bitcoin's ASIC race that has long ago obsoleted CPUs and GPUs for mining. It means that bitcoin doesn't economically incentivize botnets stealing valuable generic computation cycles that could actually be put towards better use. Although you could still argue that it's crowding out chip foundries that could otherwise be producing different chips. But you could also argue it's funding greater economies of scales of chip foundries, making chip production cheaper for everyone in the long run.

It also means that bitcoin miners are completely tied to the success or failure of the bitcoin network, since their hardware is worthless for any other application, and therefore can't be easily coerced to harm the network. A network of miners who have generic chips could be more easily coerced to harm the network since their hardware wouldn't be a complete sunk cost.
It has other anti-yelling-past-each-other features. For example, after a comment is made, there's a delay before anybody is allowed to reply.

I doubt anybody in the middle of an argument would cool down and change their minds, but it does provide an opportunity to go look at something else and forget about going back and dropping that zinger you planned to launch...
How do you pay for digital goods with cash?

Are you suggesting that every single online business that exists should have a mailing address to mail cash or checks, and have people to process them?

I imagine that you pay for software in some form, as an example of a digital good. Do we need to go back to burning CDs and buying software in physical stores with physical money?

Reject it all you want, but there is no going back.
Google leaves TODO message at the top of basic HTML homepage
If you visit the basic HTML version of google.com right now (turn off JavaScript, search for something, return home), there's a TODO at the top of the page:

> // TODO(b/219794336): Hide keyboard when opening from Dragonglass homepage

Here's a screenshot:
https://severnaya.net/google.png
Yeah, it’s wack how people want to buy the laptop with the best perf per watt ever.
Shrug.

I guess my note book is less "convenient" than notepad.exe. More moving parts.

We're just not on the same page here, sorry, I don't get it at all. It's like, are we counting the waves of the hands or what? I'm literally here now and I've just pressed about 300 buttons to write this message, are movements rationed?
Being asked to motivate a team to meet a deadline is to sustain a "moral injury".

Give me a break. I wouldn't have been surprised if this was from a lifestyle magazine like The Atlantic; but, this is from Harvard Business Review!? They're just not serious people anymore.
It should go to some completely unrelated dedicated fund. Like the University fund or state parks fund. Leaving it in the general fund means the state could just grant that money back to the departments.
If Facebook has physical servers / datacenters in the EU, they're clearly subject to EU regulations: If they get fined by European courts, that stuff could be seized / sold to pay the fines, or employees on European soil could be arrested.

How does it play out if Facebook thumbs their nose at EU regulators and just says "We'll do what we want anyway"?

What if they just shut down their servers / datacenters on EU soil, lay off all Europe-based employees, and set Facebook's DNS to IP's of US-based servers (or otherwise non-EU)?

Could EU courts order European ISP's to block Facebook at the DNS level or blackhole traffic to Facebook IP addresses?

Could the situation reach a point where Facebook executives -- or even rank-and-file employees -- risk being handcuffed and sent to a European jail if they go on vacation to Europe?
and all of this right as the Federal Reserve is looking at making a digital dollar, what're the odds
I'm actually sort of a "word" person. I've written books for publishers and do a fair bit of writing for my job. But crosswords have always fallen into the too much work category for me and I've never really connected to word games in general (including Scrabble).

But, yeah, I like Wordle and it hits a sweet spot for me.
If you watch the other economic activity and internet activity of that e-commerce business, you could deduce how much activity it might be generating. No real e-commerce biz doesn’t have ad spend or other marketing activities, no e-commerce biz doesn’t have a sell rate that is %100, etc. Much like how the irs audits laundromats via their water and power usage. Are they consuming enough water and electricity to justify their revenue?
I'm not disagreeing that it's a straw man, but... some people do carry all their net worth in cash everywhere they go.

Not anyone with any substantial wealth, ofc. But I thought it was worth saying out loud.
Are you asking how or why? If it's the latter, one thought is there doesn't need to be any grand design, but merely that consciousness gives some sort of evolutionary advantage. It reminds me of Matthew Walker's potential hypothesis that sleep is our default state. So why would wakefulness exist? Conceivably because it confers some evolutionary advantage. Consciousness is sometimes referred to in the same terms of "wakefulness"
https://www.theonion.com/facebook-employees-explain-daily-st...
aaaaand done! Thanks again for the suggestion.
It sounds like you're talking about taking cash to your bank and depositing it into your own bank account, which of course you can do. The original commenter was talking about taking cash to your bank and somehow very quickly distributing it to everyone you owe money to this month.
Having worked on teams that do it well, and on teams that don't, it's because people were never taught the right approach. They tend to write bad tests making the experience frustrating.
Any solutions? Can't really ignore globalization, because you fall behind the rest of the world who's embracing it. The genie is out of the bottle.
Naughty Dog is (big) one that comes to mind immediately. Check out their GDC talks. GDC in general is a good place to find in depth technical talks from devs.
> Once I had a dream that was so lucid it felt more real than being awake.

Have you ever taken DMT? Not to imply that what you experienced was physiologically related to the drug. It’s just that being “more real” than reality is often how intense psychedelic experiences are described.
> Until people discover that the next place they wave their watch

I'm not sure this has ever caused a reversal. There is a minority who speaks out, which sometimes gets traction enough to cause some sort of change, but the majority take the path of least resistance.
I dont use a WAF but I dont see any reason they couldnt work together
Presumably, the US government still accepts payment of taxes in cash, so that cash-based businesses that can't get a bank account can still pay. Perhaps the situation could arise in other countries though.
... but wasn't the OP saying the *claims* (specifically) were bullshit? That's what I'm reading in the OP comment now, but perhaps it was edited.
https://youtu.be/JSxNW5dDYEY
this looks cool but apparently the entire project seems to just boot up a few days ago
When distributing over torrent, you need at least one seeder with a good connection. You obviously. So you still need to host a server with your package on it, and configure a torrent client to seed it.

I know a lot of HTTP/FTP storage space providers, or I can just put my binary on Github (Github Pages, or Release asset), or host it on a CDN like netlify. I think there is more solutions than real numbers between 0 and 1.

But I don't know a single "torrent seedbox" provider. Setting it up yourself is not complicated, but since it's DIY, this alone explains why it's not more wide-spread.
Does this happen often to people?

I can count on less than one hand the times when I was asked to do anything I felt was immoral.

Maybe folks know better than to ask me ...
The only time I've ever been mugged was by some cops. They stopped me, searched me for drugs, and took cash out of my wallet.
> this is literally how cash deposits work (in the US)

I wasn't talking about cash deposits. I was talking about paying bills. I can't go to my bank and give them the account numbers of all my bills and have the bank pay them for me. If I wanted to pay each bill in cash, I would have to schlep to each individual company I pay bills to and pay them.
In fairness, the leaders of this protest are on video literally discussing topics that would be considered racist (ie: depopulation of the white race).

If I had access to my laptop I'd locate the video (self-filmed) where Pat King discusses this exact topic. Someone may be able to find this for us.

Edit: found with great difficulty on my phone - https://mobile.twitter.com/VestsCanada/status/11779958944085...
> Any solutions?

don't compete with morale-less losers!

you can be a ethical company and let others follow your example
If it saves 100 but kills 12, that's a net 88 fewer deaths.
Without question, you should strongly refuse to do unethical work you disagree with. Never compromise your ethics for a paycheck. It's absurdly easy to find employment as a software engineer.
Looks to be a common itch to scratch. Alongside some others that have been shared, here's one I bookmarked a while a go that does similar:

https://skimfeed.com/
While this is technically true, it leaves out important contextual information and could lead people to get a very wrong picture of the situation. It almost feels like an attempted "gotcha".

It was legislated by the Conservative party to replace the War Measures Act (created in 1914 in response to WW1), which was deemed too easy to abuse if someone wished to suppress civil liberties.

Before the Emergencies Act, there was a broader Act. It was replaced with a stricter Act. It was not used by those replacing it. In combination, these two acts have now been used four times:
- WW1
- WW2
- The October Crisis (also known as the FLQ Crisis)
- The current convoy protest

Its use was also considered during the early stages of COVID-19, but was unanimously opposed.
> he GP comment was specifically saying that they had "never heard of any bank" offering the service of taking cash and depositing it into a provided account

No, I said I had never heard of any bank offering the service of taking all the account numbers of all the bills I have to pay and paying them for me out of my bank account.
At two ends of the spectrum, there are monopolies and then there is fragmentation. It feels like, hypothetically, massive consolidations of power/monopolies can be broken up with regulation, and that would be better for competition. But if in practice consumers only ever go back to the storefront/service that is functionally superior and that most people use, would it make enough of a difference in the long run? If there was finally enough regulation to allow alternative app stores on iOS, what exactly would motivate enough consumers to care about the new alternatives? (Knowing that timed exclusives on PC tend to generate considerable pushback.)

There is no option to force consumers to use the other products with regulation. They will only be driven by the competence/exclusives/network effects of other platforms. Maybe the end outcomes of having multiple options will simply be a partial result of how competent the other development teams are in comparison to the larger and objectively better platforms, in spite of the fact that consolidation is considered bad in principle. It seems to be getting harder and harder for even large entities like Bethesda to create successful alternatives in spite of all the resources they have.

The blowback that multiple companies have gotten for choosing to release games as Epic Game Store exclusives and Discord becoming gradually ubiquitous are what I would consider examples of this phenomenon. Average people simply want to use the larger, better platforms, and they aren't convinced to move when alternatives exist.

Because of the sheer size of platforms like these, success might just be defined in terms of momentum and ubiquity by now. You would be up against convincing a subset of millions and millions of people that you can deliver a functionally superior platform, and if their friends decide not to move, then they would have good reason not to move also. Developer cuts tend to be criticized, but I would think that most users of Steam wouldn't even be aware of such issues since they stay local to the development side and don't impact their experience, and so they keep using Steam anyway.
That's not what this article says. Here's the relevant text:

“Just say whatever you need to say to get them to stay. We can’t lose any more techs or we’ll have to announce huge delays on the launch. I’m holding you accountable for making sure that doesn’t happen.”

Brian,* an executive Ron coached, told him about this ultimatum he’d received from his boss. He explained that the project had been under-resourced, people were exhausted from working under impossible deadlines, and he felt ashamed of the corners he feared had been cut to meet them. Now, being asked to manipulate and lie to his people crossed the line for Brian. Despite feeling guilty for abandoning his team, he resigned.
> Does this happen often to people?

in e-commerce and shady web hosting companies, yes
A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Curves
From the people I've talked to, Epic Games and Riot developers seem to have their shit together as far as being able to scale their backends to millions of players. Improbable too (although they're more of a game services studio), who are the creators of Thanos*

* https://www.improbable.io/blog/thanos-prometheus-at-scale)
> The original commenter was talking about taking cash to your bank and somehow very quickly distributing it to everyone you owe money to this month.

Exactly.
I just don't do things that I don't want to do. Like, in general.

If I can't understand why something is a good idea I don't do it.

This isn't some selfish thing, if I think something will on balance help more people than it hurts, I'll probably want to do it and probably will do it.

It's that simple to be honest. I find it weird that other people don't seem to work this way. Maybe I'm autistic, innit.

It's worked for me so far.
Nice work! Dark mode?
As someone said, those are a pretty narrow slice of news consumers.

I would add that the news does a terrible job of serving and educating those interests.
That's a bit misleading, considering it was replacing the War measures act that was even worse. Mulroney's government didn't "create" the law, they just toned down the original (which is also why we don't call it "martial law" anymore but it's in the same vein). And IIRC, the only two PMs in Canada's history that actually enacted the war/emergency measures act outside of an actual war are... the two Trudeaus.

Actually it's funny since Mulroney never used it either even when it could have been justified. He was the PM during the Oka crisis [0], which was a full on armed conflict between the army and first nations nations that also lead to closed bridges & deaths. I can't imagine what we would call that nowadays if we call the truckers insurrectionists, terrorists, etc. I guess they understood the monumental consequences of enacting federal emergency measures liberally back then

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis

(It lasted 77 days, involved at least fully 100 armed militants, blocked 3-4 bridges around montreal for sometimes weeks, killed police officers, involved a literal 5km frontline between the 2 sides and yet Mulroney was very worried about involving the federal government and even more so playing with emergency measures. Even better: the government actually talked with the protestors and didn't treat them like untouchable non-citizen foreign agents. The crisis was solved with negotiations)
Spotify Car Thing is a $90 thing that plays Spotify in your car
HBR has been at this level for a while.
Why does no one mention the more blatant use of the Ennis house, in The House on Haunted Hill? The exteriors were used for this, while the motif of the blocks were the only part used for Blade Runner.
> them beginning to starve within days because they don't have any way to pay for anything immediately

I mean, if that's the only scenario you care about, you can just carry more cash in your wallet.

But when you said "a system that allows governments to arbitrarily "turn off" thousands or millions of people at the push of a button", that sounded like you were worried about more than just not having enough money for groceries for the week.
Bitcoin increases the chances of a dystopian authoritarian future happening, precisely because for the most part the use cases where it actually works better than the regular banking system are when someone is trying to evade the law.

Proponents like to imagine that people using it to evade the law will mostly be using it to evade unpopular laws such as laws that restrict civil rights, but I thinking they are being way too optimistic. There are far more people who are simply criminals and fraudsters who need to evade popular laws in order to blackmail or steal from or scam ordinary people than people who need to evade unpopular unjust laws.

This will lead to public support for laws that extend things like KYC down to even small ordinary transactions and the government knowing how much you have and how much you spend and where it all came from and where it all goes. To make that work the government will need a lot more surveillance but the public will be fine with that.
bombcar’s reply is correct. Too late to edit my comment now, but the main thing I was praising is actually the Parallels graphics driver.
Thats the one - thankyou! Its interesting that google doesn't index the transcript of youtube talks.

Great detail I'd forgotten: At the time twitter took 460ms of compute to process each request. Almost all the CPU time was in bcopy, constructing the big string backtraces for exceptions (that were then being immediately discarded).
I’ve been using it since beta! It’s a great app, and I’m grateful to you for making it!
The name "GitBOM" and use of the logo breaks pretty much all of the Git trademark rules: https://git-scm.com/about/trademark
This is a potentially interesting project, but as a word of advice: Git's trademark[1] explicitly prohibits uses of "Git" that imply closer provenance and/or association with the Git project than actually exists. The name "GitBOM" made me think that this was an affiliated project at first, which it doesn't appear to be.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/about/trademark
I once chased a job from a company whose business model I consider extremely unethical. The recruiter said straight up:

“This is how the industry is, we don’t like it, and we don’t have expect you to like it. In fact, if you did like it, we wouldn’t consider you. Our company’s practices make things a little better, or at least not worst, and we have bright lines we don’t cross.”

I thought it was really great they were up front about things, and I wish I got that job.

I knew a founder who worked in the seedy end of an industry (non-profit industry, ironically) and walked out when it got bad.

I consider myself an ethical person. But when people say “yes it’s wrong, you don’t have to like like” that goes a long way with me.
Mine makes me wear clothes on the video conferences, despite nobody being able to see below my chest.
I mean if they asked me to go into the office, I've not told them I wouldn't consider trousers.
Its about 10 years out of warranty :)
the only design flaw i see is that the color blind mode colors are not intuitive choices.

I'm not color blind but I play with some friends who are, I have to switch color pallets to share results.

in color blind mode its light blue for right letter wrong spot and orange for right letter right spot.
mentally, to me this is the wrong war around.. and it drives me nuts and forces mistakes on my end.