skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with this.

I've always found that people throw around this word "inconvenience" without even defining it. It makes no sense to me.

Both paying for and accepting payment for things in person are strictly easier for me to do in cash. It's literally just handing over a bit of paper.

There's always some resort to "but I don't have cash". Well duh, that's a circular argument. If you don't use cash you don't have cash and so you don't have cash. Try harder.
Yeah, it's a driver's license that's a privilege not a right. Own all the cars you want. Create a car museum if that's your thing and you've got the funds.

But behave if you want to actually legally drive any of them.
> I can buy games with confidence and know they will run - even if school requires a Mac next year or the only machine around is Dad's Linux laptop.

This hasn't been my experience. Plenty of Steam games have fallen by the wayside as operating systems evolve. GOG is slipping in this regard as well, but began as a way to buy and run older games. It also provides some nice pressure for Steam and its publishers to compete and reduce DRM.

Then there is Mac dropping 32 bit support, to which Steam seems to have thrown up their hands.
Not that I agree with the characterization, but they might be referring to Linus Sebastian of Linux Tech Tips, who invested a bunch of money into the company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxbc1IN9Gg
The key issue with using Bitcoin as a digital form of cash is that Bitcoin lacks a key property of cash: fungibility. Combine this with the transparent nature of Bitcoin's blockchain and you have a currency which is an authoritarian's dream and not a currency that could/should replace cash.
Podman is only used for bootstrapping the cluster with the OpenShift installer. The cluster itself uses cri-o.
Governments have occupied people's lives for 2 years now. I think you can bear a few days of honking for freedom.

Businesses weren't closed by protesters. That's what they were protesting FOR: to have things open up.

The protesters weren't harassing people: the government has been doing it for 2 years.
Also as noted in the article, things like electricity, internet and other utility cannot be paid in cash either here.

In the United States you can.

Almost all bills, utility and otherwise, can be paid for in cash at most supermarkets or other money-handling businesses. ("Currency exchanges" in Chicago, or whatever your local equivalent is.)

Also, every utility company I've had serving my last five apartments has had a public lobby where people can make cash payments. I suspect even cell phone bills can be paid with cash at a cell phone company's retail store.
My cash says, "Legal Tender For All Debts Public and Private."
Nah, if Russia experiences a strong economic downturn, it may fall apart.
It's not about trust. They can have all good intentions in the world, but still fail. Because as Elon says: "The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is not well understood. It’s 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes. The machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself."
The USA is not America either.

And it is unfortunate that many Canadians do not understand that they are living in a state in which the parliament can be suspended by the unelected representative of the Queen (prorogation -- the same issue that led to Australia deciding they wanted to change their constitution) and that the not withstanding clause makes a mockery of the Charter.

Hopefully this wakes a few people up and gives some new impetus to the reform movements.
> The simple answer is to reject the cashless society.

We can't. Too many transactions are conducted remotely now, and you can't send cash over a phone line or over the Internet. And having those transactions remote is not just a minor convenience; in many cases the transactions would not happen at all if they had to happen in person, and a lot of wealth creation would not take place.

The simple answer is, as the article says, to view freezing people's bank accounts and credit cards as a punishment at least as serious as imprisonment, and to view doing it without first having a trial as at least as serious as imprisoning people indefinitely without trial. Right now most people do not view it that way, and governments reach for freezing assets as a tool of first resort because they do not view it as having serious political consequences. That is what needs to change.
> Incorrect, the battle is partly won...

Not in the slightest. You can mandate that people accept cash, but you can't force people to pay with it. 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.

So let's figure out what kind of benign future we actually can build. "Everyone decides to use cash again" just isn't going to happen.
If there was a gate at the entrance to the road and they verified you had an EZ Pass before letting you drive onto their road, sure. It's the same as a coffee shop not giving you any coffee until you've paid using a credit card.

If they put up a sign that said "don't use these roads if you don't like the payment terms" and then you drove on the road anyway, that would technically form a contract between EZ Pass and the driver. However, contracts are made to be broken and any damages would be payable in cash so we're back to the start.

The legal tender thing has nothing to do with the agency being part of the state. Private debtors must also accept cash.
So with Tensorcores you use TF32 which is more like FP19-ish and the marketing makes you think you get 8x the performance. But if you want actual FP32 precision you will need something like [1] but then your performance in the Tensorcore path is _only_ 2X faster than the SIMT path.

I'll leave the prefix sum for other devs who know more :D

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass/blob/master/examples/27_am...

//part of nod.ai/shark team
US is not hostile towards Europe.

Russia is.

Nobody gives a shit about the bad stuff US is doing elsewhere. It is utterly irrelevant to this conversation about European decisionmaking regarding Russia.

What you’re getting at is meaningless virtue signaling.
I didn't watch TV in China, but was struck by how all the subway ads were "public service", like "here's a picture of our traditional culture." It felt calm and reflective in comparison to those of Korea or Europe, but of course the goal of the ads was to build a sense of collective consciousness.
This is a bit of a stretch. The purpose of the service has to be processing jpegs where they are expected to be bad. Moreover, they have to be mostly bad; i.e. the service is specifically intended for finding rare good jpegs in a deluge of bad ones, as quickly as possible.

In a situtaion where are more bad jpegs than good ones, we still don't necessarily care that they cause the slow path, if the purpose of the service is doing meaningful processing with good jpegs.
It took a while, but my 92 year old mom is now comfortable using remote access in Zoom to let me help her. We use it often enough--typically a couple of times a week--that she stays in practice. She calls me on the phone anytime she needs help, I start a meeting, she clicks a link to my Zoom personal meeting room that I've put in her browser's Bookmarks bar, she shares her screen once she's connected (this was the part that took her a while to get), and I request remote access. We've both got fast internet connections, so we go from zero to remote access in under a minute.
The thread is referring to using two regular (glass) screens and folding those.
Do you have an article somewhere which explains your set up? I would love to block Google tag manager as well, but don't quite know where to start.
* companies that can squeeze all possible computational abilities … to show amazing graphics with complex logic … can't make a simple GUI.

The wage slaves they've got working on the store and launcher front-ends are probably not the same highly talented designers and others that they have working 80 hours trying to panel-beat a game into a shape that they can get out of the door without too many major patches being needed in the days following release.
hear your pain and we really want to make it easy (after we make it work).

//part of nod.ai / SHARK team.
Where are these places that can afford the luxury of two devs writing one line of code? Absurd.

Anyway this is standard, most senior devs have junior people skills.
I live in the downtown area of Ottawa and found the protests to be annoying but respected their right to do so. It's strange seeing the hyperbole that pops up in the news contradicting what you can see with your own eyes outside.

I have to go through police checkpoints to get to my home. I'm dealing with political divisions ripping through my friends and family right now. I'm scared of how this is pushing us to more centralized, unchecked, and unjust power in the hands of government.
Falling back on cash helps here, but you are not wrong.

It is an important matter! Needs to be worked through, rights established and enforced.
I mean, aside from the noise torture they shut down a city's downtown core for 3 weeks, continually threatened, harassed, and assaulted it's residents, released multiple statements and videos calling for overthrowing and arresting elected leaders (especially women / people of colour), and the municipal police force proved itself incapable of enforcing the law and keeping Canadians safe. Not to mention the other blockades that halted more than $300mil/day in trade.
I think that the lesson from baseball is that people spent a long time basing decisions on measurable but irrelevant things like the shape of a player’s bottom, and they thought they were being clever and reasonable and making good decisions. Lots of software development isn’t solving particularly novel problems but it can be quite varied, and certainly performance can be hard to measure and output can be dependent on things outside of one’s control (eg if an experimental project doesn’t pan out). But I don’t think that should mean that one should give up and judge people based on things that seem reasonable but don’t work (eg apparently algorithms style questions) or actually irrelevant things like (probably) height or (presumably) the shape of someone’s bottom.
Cyrus SASL 2.1.28 has been released with SCRAM improvements and CVE fixes
No need for scare quotes; it was (still is?) a real thing. My local rural grocery store has had a hard time getting coins for making change basically since covid started.
For me, it's medication. Alprazolam, whenever I feel that my anxiety level is unjustifiable - and panic causes a lot more physical pain that plain anxiety, so I kinda know if it's a panic attack.

Over the years I started getting used to it - not much to worry when it comes, just pop alprazolam.

It's a medical condition.
> Putin just said

And the other president said:

> "Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault."

At least that one really believed himself.

If you believe in Putin's words directed to the most dumb (and thus extremely patriotic) citizens of his [own] country then I have no stakes here anymore.
You forgot that Apple's App store hast the best, and incidently only, reviews for iOS Apps. For the same reason it also features the 'best' search for consumers using Apple devices.
Right.

I don't think that they're even able to track this because coronavirus lockdowns meant that they had this massive trough in business anyway.

So now they'll never know that I just don't shop with them. I'm not gonna run around moaning, I'll just go to that cool Chinese takeaway down the road that doesn't have its' head up its' own arse.

It's actually kind of nice because it means I go to more down to earth independent places.
A smaller demonstration outside the War Museum was ongoing Sunday and Monday [1], I think there were like 3 people left there today. The authorities did not interfere since the protest was peaceful and lawful.

Many of the more hardcore members of the convoy have moved just outside of town to Arnprior and a nearby truckstop. [2][3]

[1] https://twitter.com/RevengeBunny/status/1495677761578536960
[2] https://twitter.com/davidakin/status/1495847634321514498?s=2...
[3] https://twitter.com/Gray_Mackenzie/status/149549454587381761...
Check out https://mxroute.com Someone mentioned them on HN a while back and said the service works really well. Note that I have not used this service myself.
The people out number the military by nearly 300-1. If you think a million soldiers are going to occupy the USA without resorting to obscene levels of violence (such that money is not your concern) you're a bit mistaken.
A law was on the books for decades but hadn't been used. It has now been used (in a rather restrained way, considering what it could be used for). This use is now being challenged in court, which will likely clarify what restrictions the use of that law actually has. Eg, did it respect the charter appropriately? Was it appropriately justified?
I was wondering the same thing but I did read another article today that talked about all the random port numbers becoming hard to reason about. In that post the author talked about using the .test TLD and either the hosts file or an internal DNS server once you grow to that scale.
There are two distinct problems: content and content access.

Games, tv shows, films, these are the content we want. Netflix, HBO go, Hulu, steam, battle.net, these are content access systems.

What consumers want is legal access to all content they desire with competing offerings for the way in which they access the content. Competition drives quality, innovation, consumer value.

The problem is that we have a system today where the content access systems have monopoly control over subsets of the content. So there's no competition around the access system- if you want that content, it comes bundled inside that content access system. You have no choice if you want the content, so why would anyone invest in making theirs the best?
I was really shocked to see kali Linux, a penetration testing distribution, mentioned on this. I wouldn’t normally include it in handbooks like this as it can be dangerous to encourage daily-driving a distro like that if they don’t fully understand the risks. Maybe I’d recommend ParrotOS instead :/
But how do you use docker to run a container on boot if not with systemd? One nice thing about podman is that when you stop a container you’re really stopping the container. With docker you’re just breaking the client server connection.
I believe the point is that it would require orders of magnitude more resources - a prohibitive amount of resources - for an overbearing government to strip citizens of physical assets, vs. the ease and subsequent temptation of doing so digitially
During COVID, which has been the period with the highest house growth across all markets, I understand there has been a negligible amount of immigration.

The foreign money laundering has been known for 20 years and none of the major political parties has done anything to slow it.
I actually looked into the incident with the donor's account being frozen. From what I could understand:

1. The person made a donation to the Freedom Convoy.

2. Trudeau signed the Emergencies Act, giving rather broad power to freeze bank accounts without due process or clear recourse.

3. The person's bank account got locked due to an unrelated reason (false positive on the fraud check system).

4. The person either didn't contact the bank, or the bank was ambiguous, so they contacted their MP.

5. The MP, that is generally arguing against the right to freeze accounts [0], used it as an example to illustrate his point.

So, key takeaways:

1. The recently passed legislation makes it possible to freeze the supporters' bank accounts.

2. It has not been done so far.

3. People are on edge, expecting it to be done.

4. Making the power less broad, or putting some provisions about basic life expenses could be a good idea.

[0] https://twitter.com/markstrahl
> I'm really happy to see that many people from many places on the political landscape see "debanking" as a line that should not be crossed.

It depends on the politics of the people involved. The Obama DOJ executed Operation Choke Point nearly a decade back.[1]

> Critics of the operation accuse it of bypassing due process; the government is pressuring the financial industry to cut off the companies' access to banking services including access to capital, without first having shown that the targeted companies are violating the law. Critics also say that "it's a thinly veiled ideological attack on industries the Obama administration doesn't like, such as gun sellers and coal producers."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
> in the same way most software engineers today are Docker/cloud proficient engineers

oh shit, are we all supposed to be now?
> I can trust that anything I purchase from Steam will be around for a long time.

Unless the publisher pulls it or pushes an update cutting music because of license deals expiring. Or gets a stealthy replacement with a worse remaster. Or your OS drops 32 bit / x86 support.
You should have A/B tested this question in your brain prior to writing it …
Tesla’s Chip Trick
Canals of the United Kingdom
Huh, the more one learns.
Go talk to Rohan Grey (https://willamette.edu/law/faculty/profiles/grey/index.html), who is one of the few people who cares about this that isn't also a private cryptocurrency shill.
If you’re in NYC, you know that it’s high. They have become significantly more aggressive in the past few years
> Google decides to cut you off from your emails and cloud storage?

I seem to remember some articles, on this very venue, recounting horror stories of being deplatformed by Google.
The Westminister system with party whips actually enforces this behavior. Apparently it has been getting worse:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservative-m...
I think I get what anger means here. I think the OP meant that you need to express your angry feelings that come from the frustration; just holding back will only make it worse. Don't think OP meant to be violent.
I wonder how it works for positions of fame.

Actors/actresses get paid based on public demand.

Same thing with sports. Women's teams don't drive the eye balls or ad revenue, typically. Are they to be paid the same as male counterparts if part of the same org?
That Steam was a first-mover is basically irrelevant. PC gamers are a particularly demanding audience and they will abandon your product in a heartbeat if a vastly superior one comes along. For instance, TeamSpeak and to a lesser extent Ventrilo and Mumble more or less dominated voice chat for many years. Then Discord came along and those older products became irrelevant practically overnight.

Valve uses its 30% cut extremely effectively by continuing to invest in the happiness and convenience of its customers and, just as importantly, its developers. For instance the profits of smaller developers dramatically increased after the new discovery/search features landed, enabling exactly the kind of people who would love your game to find it easily. Contrast that with every other store where it's basically impossible to find anything but the most mainstream top sellers.

Maybe Epic could afford to actually make the Epic Games Store a useful product if they took a higher cut of sales?
Your email is the key the castle, if it gets hacked then all other accounts can be taken over via password resets too.

I trust the teams at large email providers far more than myself to secure it. Not worth the risk, IMHO.
CHAZ was literally an armed insurrection. They didn't "occupy", they tried to secede before changing their minds and relabeling to CHOP.
Thanks, that is a good idea, I should add a one time modal in the next few hours
> The problem IS businesses refusing cash. The public really does not benefit

I benefit quite a lot from not having to use cash. I pay all my bills with credit cards. That means I can do it remotely, taking a few minutes a month, without having to leave my house. Having to pay each bill in person, in cash, would be a huge cost to me in time and effort. And if the companies I'm paying those bills to had to have the personnel and infrastructure to support all or most of their customers paying in person, in cash, the costs of the things I'm actually paying them for would go way up.

Sure, if you're going out for coffee and you'd rather pay with cash, it's a hassle if the coffee shop doesn't accept it. But that just means you go and find another coffee shop that does. That's a very different issue than the issue of cutting off people's access to non-cash methods of payment, which is what the article under discussion is talking about.
Well, the "environment" may decide for you in some cases, but there is no default action as such. You log an error and either terminate or ignore - depending on which causes less harm.
If only there were a digital cash that you can self custody, easily verify and transfer.

In all seriousness, I think some form of cryptocurrency could serve this purpose and move us away from relying on banks that act on behalf of the state. Obviously there's a whole lot of baggage with the current cryptocurrencies out there today, but there's no reason we have to resort to carrying around pieces of paper or voting for the right people to ensure our assets and livelihood are outside of the reach of the state (at least without going through the proper legal channels).
Even at the semi-professional soccer level, coaches are making use of analytics. For example, they get information about where other teams are - or who is - losing the ball.
Then, the game was pushed toward extreme (and boring) control of ball possession largely by analytics. When I played at a decent level, it was considered "criminal" to pass the ball in close proximity (up to 20 yards) to the net while being "pressured" by the other team. Nowadays, it is very rare to see a team that gives up possession easily.

AC Milan had been using "Milan Lab" since the early 2000s and it was whispered that it used neural networks to predict the probability of injury. It was a largely unsuccessful experiment at the time-players were very often injured (also, Milan's head of the medical/performance team, Meersseman https://www.jpmchiropratica.it/en/studio/jeann-pierre-meerss..., was pulling players' teeth because he believed that some teeth could give postural problems and thus increase the likelihood of injury, see Seedorf).

The analytics/data science revolution has already arrived in soccer, but the reasonably large effects have been, due to the nature of the game, less visible than those in American football and baseball.
I'm a huge fan of the plain text share functionality that Wordle uses (introduced?). Loving it in the various clones that are coming out as well and I hope it becomes a common "simple share" approach in other applications.
Being employed also makes candidates more attractive. If you don’t have many resources, why waste them trying to compete for the same subset of the pool of good candidates as everyone else when you can get better efficiency going for the candidates which the competition undervalues?
I was hoping to find other comments processing the question of why such a lousy song was a hit beyond what the article describes…
Colossus/Guardian did exactly the thing it was built to do, and that humans claim to want: prevent war. I think that's a pretty good track record and Forbin overreacted a bit.
Sure, so then you've declared war.

Socratically, consider what would have happened if Trudeau would have had to send in the army to violently remove property from all of these people.

I'll submit that a different, far more reasonable solution would have been arrived at.