skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did. Not that hard to move from injecting cats to inject chemicals or newest novel research chemical to formulate happiness. Imagine if a business can jump on that as a subscription service.

"Sign up Today, never be sad again." Sort of a opposite to the dopamine feedback addiction loop that powers social media and cell phones.

Actually, wait, ycombinator is open for startups...

Can just replace a timed morphine drip with a non-scheduled analog, make it an inhalant that ties into the HVAC and measures ppm so it's non-invasive.

It does have potential.
>Incorrect, the battle is partly won in several U.S. cities (including NYC & SF) which passed laws to mandate acceptance of cash.

It'll be interesting to see how this battle gets affected by the trucker protests. Historically such bills seem to be largely supported from a social justice point of view[1] (ie. "we need to force businesses to accept cash because cash-only shops are exclusionary to marginalized people"). With the canadian government freezing the bank accounts of freedom convoy protesters, this push could be also associated with the (alt-)right as well. This could translate to a bipartisan push to get accepting cash enshrined into law, or a situation where cash/crypto becomes a right wing dogwhistle, eg. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/24/bitcoi...

[1] based on a unscientific analysis of this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/nyregion/nyc-cashless-ban...

The relevant sections were:

>because of financial circumstances, unwilling to for philosophical reasons or vulnerable to its darker aspects.

>“We are reining in the excesses of the digital economy.”

>But critics of cashless businesses say they discriminate against people who lack bank accounts and credit cards, while also raising the specter of hackers stealing personal data tied to digital transactions.

>Bronx households, the agency said, were around twice as likely not to have a bank account.

>“I worry about the real-world discriminatory effect that cashless business can have on New Yorkers, especially in communities of color,” Mr. Torres, a Bronx Democrat, said.

>“I think it’s incredibly discriminatory not to accept cash because some people can’t get credit,”

>“It is exclusionary,” she said, “because people without means are less likely to have a credit card.”

2 mentions of privacy/security, 6 mentions of social justice
Yeah… I should probably set up the daemon sometime. I just tweak my config so much (it's Emacs, c'mon) that it's just been simpler for me for some reason to just launch it fresh for forever.

native-comp doesn't do anything for start up. Good tip though—I've been running bleeding-edge Emacs for a while now. ;-)

I ran `esup` and figured out most of the slowdown is from the otherwise excellent straight.el [1] package manager. I put

(setq straight-check-for-modifications '(check-on-save find-when-checking))

in my init, and now everything is really speedy!

[1]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#my-init-time-got-slo...
Some developed societies don't actually make it legal to rob you as long as you wear a police uniform.
Just for the record:

- I've owned and/or used Thinkpad laptops for over 20 years. Occasional others, including MacBook Air and Dell. Old-school ThinkPad is damned hard to beat.

- In the phone space there's virtually nothing that appeals, with much of that being the technology, carriers, and practice. If I have to carry one ... I probably won't anyway.

- Android is a disaster on numerous fronts. The fact that it's also the best contender running (PinePhone / Librem, please up your game* is ... well, it just is. Based on over a decade of use and multiple devices.
Because procedures are a fact of life, not some "bad design." (And the need for the void "return type" in C is just a recognition of that fact.)
Podman got introduced in the typical RedHat fashion... Which basically boils down to "F... you, I am taking your toys away, here's how you are going to do it from now on. Oh doesn't work, well F... you then."

I was a sysadmin managing primarily RedHat servers when they yanked Docker away and replaced it with Podman which was capable of handling absolutely zero of our use cases (they all relied on the docker daemon). It couldn't even build our simplest containers from Dockerfiles.
I agree with OP. Not enough credit goes to how simple, but great of a product Wordle is.
> Can you pay taxes in cash?

Sure, if you're willing to schlep all the way to the nearest IRS office to you that has a human in it that will take your cash. Which might be hundreds of miles away.

There are good reasons why most people prefer not to pay most things in cash.
We don't need "everyone" to use cash for "everything", just some people to use cash for some transactions.

It is legal in most jurisdictions to give discounts when paying with cash. That is enough motivation to use cash for larger purchases, since it saves costs for both the merchant and the customer. The only loser is the now-redundant payment processor.
I thought it would be obvious what I meant. I should have anticipated the lawyers in the audience here.
Genuine question here. I run gentoo on an NVMe drive and I have zero reason to use sleep or hibernate as my machine gets to the DE in under 30s.

What use cases are there that absolutely requires these features when boot times are so short?
You could remove references to crypto without changing the rest of the article. That way the cool educational bits remain, and helping bad people do bad things with very very little effort is gone.
Shopify’s Evolution – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
There’s a documentary, Consuming Kids, showing how psychologists work with child focus groups to iterate on maximizing the impact of TV commercials targeting young audiences.

Immoral doesn’t even begin to describe this phenomenon.
No license is required to operate a vehicle on private land... it is only on public roadways (which are public land) and public accomodations (privately owned parking lots that are publicly accessible) that a license is required.
The difference is scale. If you make an error, it’s just you that makes the error. If an autopilot dev makes an error, it is amplified to every car on the road. Right now, there’s not a lot of those cars on the road, so we have no idea what that amplification even looks like. We’ve had 12 deaths, with what? Half a million cars on the road? A single bug will hurt maybe a single person right now. If all cars were driving themselves, a single bug could kill millions in a single moment.
I've been finding more and more.

In fact, a local ski resort ($99 season pass - cheap type of place) only allows ordering via the Toast App. No credit. No cash. App only.
You still need to have a bank account to do that, and bank accounts are one of the first things law enforcement freezes when they want to take away people's assets. Objecting that the deposits you made into the bank account were cash won't help much at that point.
> The people out number the military by nearly 300-1.

Armed military and paramilitary government agents, including active and reserve military and internal security services are about .9%,of US population, not the .3% you suggest: 1.4 million active, 800k reserve, 700k police, for 2.9 million of 330 million.
I went back and watched his older games. He has some very interesting moves all the way back when he was 13.
But I hear his retreats are very expensive and luxurious.
So, CPU exceptions such as a "page not present" TLB fault should not be used to implement virtual memory.
No COVID was the last push. Germs and all that.
How do you reject the cashless society? You need to get so many people on board. Look at Canada. You'd have to get a huge proportion of the population to go on strike, and for a very long period of time.
Then... why not just use docker?
You probably know this, but to anyone reading this: Be very careful with alprazolam. Benzodiazepine dependence is absolutely not something I can recommend.
Look it’s just buzzwords all the way down. There’s only a handful of people who can do this stuff. {Your business} will drop some buzzwords, someone will write an if statement, management high fives all around and fat bonuses. Deal with it.
https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13256
> Or maybe quantum immortality occurs, where your consciousness jumps into a universe where you are still alive despite all the odds.

I was walking down some very steep stairs once and almost tripped. I caught the handrail, but for the briefest moment, I was struck by the idea that in a potentially infinite number of parallel universes, other versions of me failed to grab the rail and tumbled to their death. It was quite an odd moment, I didn't worry about the fact that I had nearly fallen, I just felt bad for all the ones that did.
> I'm not actually sure how many of it's provisions still stand, but they are a much smaller subset than the massive umbrella of powers initially approved in 2001.

I'd be curious as to how many of those powers simply got spun out into other covering legislation/banking law. I suspect quite a few.

Particularly in the freezing of suspicious funds, AML/KYC, banking secrecy, etc. If anything I think we've ramped up the regulation and lack of due process to 11 more than de-escalated.
Thanks for the more up-to-date insight! I remember receiving requests to submit and review papers to their astronomy journal when I was a PhD student, and had decidedly avoided them since then.
(Could be that it was supposed to be a bullet point introducing a new line, which HN purged?)
Languages with async/await and exceptions have already solved this.
I'd rather pay to add Linux support rather than skip the windows tax.
Thank you! Actually I did some tests recently with SingleFile Lite and was able to save a page weighting 120MB+ so the 43MB limit seems obsolete. There are still some annoying issues though.
Nah, you're just not thinking about it.

Trivial solution: I walk to bank some day once a month, give them cash, give them account numbers, sent. It'd be done in all of ten minutes.

Does it exist where you live? Maybe, maybe not. Hell, if I knew you I'd do it for you, I'd enjoy obfuscating my accounts.

And no-one is saying that literally every transaction has to be done in cash, just that it should be _possible_ to do so.

The idea that cash is this hilariously inconvenient thing is a complete fabrication and I frankly tire of that discussion. You're talking about moving small physical things, it's a solved problem, everything around you right now is a small physical thing.

edit: posters are responding about the businesses that exist in their area. by this token it's "inconvenient" for me to use cash because the japanese place down the road doesn't take it. well no, they're just being dicks, there's no _fundamental_ inconvenience.
Is there a name for this second, opposite effect.

I find it pretty common in all areas I hold some expertise in.
The remote has a microphone on it, and the TV itself has APIs for capturing screen content. Not really things I'd like to share.

Alternatively, they could just brick the TV.

I agree that it's highly implausible that my neighbor would do either of these things, but they could, if sufficiently motivated.
> The headset supports haptic feedback, eye tracking, 4K HDR, 90/120Hz frame rates, foveated rendering, and a field of view of 110 degrees, and it connects to the PS5 with a single USB-C cable.
So does bitcoin work without the internet? Otherwise, does everyone have internet and the devices to access it? How is bitcoin any better than other digital payments/assets?
Facebook also gave him his startup.
Somehow everyone making those arguments is also happy to overlook the reality of operating such weapons in any purposeful way.

I'm not aware of any military that deploys a precision marksman without a spotter. That makes a precision rifle a two-soldier job. .50 caliber machine gun? two, maybe three boots? Squads will have members with DMRs or LMGs but they aren't suitable for the same task -- they just extend the capabilities of the squad.

Extend that to thinks like fighter jets, nukes, comms, etc. etc. and the actual threat of any of those is drastically reduced outside the crazy people do crazy things category of events, and even then, you're going to need a big group of crazy people.

The replacement and actual threat already exists and was popularized in the Middle East in the 70s and arrived here in the 90s but it isn't sensational but I'm not confident I wouldn't end up on yet-another-watch-list by saying it explicitly. So, yay, freedom.
+1

We agree that the world needs more PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB educational content, and welcome any help!
> I want functions to have a side channel to the user/operator that is not necessarily in the main flow path.

That is the essence of the Common Lisp condition system, and you can get there in most languages with closures, or at least function pointers, and exceptions or some other non-local return mechanism using a combination of callback functions for the conditions and unchecked exceptions for the default, unhandled case. The key is that you don't try to catch the exceptions, except at the top level where they are simply reported to the user. Instead you register your condition handler as a callback function so that it will be invoked to resolve the issue without unwinding the stack. It helps to have variables with dynamically-scoped values for this, though you can work around the absence of first-class support as long as you have thread-local storage.

C++ actually uses this model for its out-of-memory handling. You can register a callback with std::set_new_handler() to be invoked if memory allocation with `operator new` fails; if it returns then allocation is retried, and only if there is no handler is an exception thrown. Unfortunately this approach didn't really catch on in other areas.
Autopilot can prevent some accidents that would have happened if only a human were in control. It probably prevented more than 12 deaths like that.
If you do this, which would be awesome actually and I second the request, I recommend shooting the bookmarks to http://web.archive.org/save/<url> to make sure the archive scrapes it at the time of bookmarking.
Agreed, although with the caveat that Nature is not regarded particularly well in my discipline. In fact, most for-profit astronomy/astrophysics journals carry some stigma.
The Eight Schools of Innovation
At the very least, I can be assured that Steam is actively being worked on. I get an update every time I sign in!
Who cares? It's not your duty to police the net.
Easy Science ML
The initial charges against the journalist could have been subterfuge to divert media culpability over recently acquired oversight privileges. I'm not suggesting that teachers aren't tech literate but perhaps there are some that will only remember the first headline, "journalist hacked me". Teachers unions also tend to vote in blocks.
Good links.

In addition this interview by en ex-CSIS (Canadian spycops agency) employee suggests that the funding is getting to the organizers by some means other than those which go directly through payment processors. It would be interesting if these measures were also actually ineffective. I was a bit skeptical of her claim that bitcoin ATMs in Ottawa were a likely source though:

https://thebigstorypodcast.ca/2022/02/15/trying-to-follow-th...
> Several of the vaccines claims are falling apart, further stoking the fears. When people write about this, rather than showing why they are wrong, they are cancelled out. This leads to further suspicion, and the cycle continues.

This is not happening, though. It's all false.

The vaccines are proven to be safe and effective - billions of doses administered, very few adverse reactions, easily as safe as any other vaccine available.
Another point in favour of version 2 is the timing that ended with them releasing with Intel 11th gen rather than Intel 12th gen or Zen 3/4 really is unfortunate. 11th gen Intel is not as much a gain from 8th gen Intel in power usage or performance as either 12th gen or zen3 are from 11th gen
They have it now. The trick is to stop buying Windows hardware. Looks like this is just more of that rather than Linux (or just not broken) hardware.
If we can fix "that" (government seizing your cash), why can't we fix a similar with cashless? Maybe the government hasn't technically seized it if they just make it inaccessible, but the effect is the same.
You can stop that one! https://www.valpak.com/coupons/show/mailinglistsuppression

Unrelated to my original post, but I have been on a quest to purge all the junk from my physical mail. It is a huge PITA, but in almost all cases you can email someone and eventually get them to stop.

The other big ones that cut a lot of junk are DMA choice for catalog opt out (https://www.dmachoice.org/register.php) and the pre screened credit card offer opt out (https://www.optoutprescreen.com/).
2021 in Books
"Disengagement" here means the car tells the human to take over control immediately. There's not really an analogue for human drivers.
People not uncommonly pass away while having brain activity recorded via EEG (source: I read EEGs in the US). I’m not sure why this article was published.
Thanks for letting me know. Have you filed a Github issue? If so, could you point me to it? Thanks!

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
Read Clojure Distilled and try to complete all the Clojure Koans.

1. https://yogthos.net/ClojureDistilled.html
2. http://clojurekoans.com/
Screenshots added :-)
I disagree. Populism is too general a term, but to the extent they exist in the US they are decidedly opposed to democracy.
Another day, another answer to "What is Bitcoin good for?"

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408611
I didn't ask a question. What I did do is make a logical assertion with a wee little bit of outside support. I then pointed out that you seemed unable to articulate a material response, which is still the case.

Did I miss anything? (there, that's a question :)
I have run my own private mail server off and on for over 25 years, so it is just something I am used to.

I just had an invoice from someone using bill.com blocked by spamassassin, since I set 4.7 as my spam level (it was 4.8)

2.5 FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO Freemail in Reply-To, but not From
1.3 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_24 BODY: HTML: images with 2000-2400 bytes of words
1.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
-0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature
-0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain

Usually I look in my spam folder once in a while, but I was busy in the past month and didn't know he had sent it.

Anyhow it works well enough for me. I set up SPF in DNS a few years ago. Have not had to do DKIM or DMARC yet - if I need to, or if I have the time, I'll probably put them in.

It's nice to have full control of your mail, DNS etc., but I have been doing it so long it's second nature for me.
Only for specific APIs - nativescript does everything.
"Please return to the office" lol
That seems like an incorrect reading of the thread. Seems more like ‘I like long lines and found little evidence that they are bad.’ I think I believe that he’s read roughly all the studies and that they are unconvincing. That doesn’t mean they’re aren’t people for whom the formatting is problematic. I think it’s also a bit of countersignalling about the nature of the blog.

There are also easy workarounds like making your window narrower or using your web browsers built-in ‘reader mode’ or opening up the inspector and adding a single style to the body element to set a max-width, so I’ve never really understood this problem.
Really shows how the news basically sets the background music for everyday life around the entire country.

My Chinese friends have said that the evening news always comes in three parts: 1. Chinese leaders are busy; 2. Chinese people have good lives; 3. People outside China have not-so-good lives
Yeah, this gets missed a lot in conversations about climate but it's crucially important: the carbon cycle is a necessary part of the environment - the way we're messing it up is by emptying a long-held buffer of carbon (fossil fuels), and emitting carbon faster than it can be reabsorbed, while diminishing the reabsorption process through clear cutting, soil erosion and ecosystem destruction. Producing some CO2 is inevitable; we need the amount to be sustainable, the cycle to be balanced, and to stop emptying large carbon buffers. We can use hydrocarbons if they're made of atmospheric CO2. if anything, they serve as a temporary buffer, like a CO2 cache.

I really need to get round to starting my blog on cybernetics and system dynamics one of these days; I see these kinds of misconceptions all the time across so many subjects.
Indeed, everybody has been going along with sanctions of nations and organizations with the wrong political opinions, up to and including frozen bank accounts or even prison for so much as financially supporting those nations and organizations. But that was terrorism, so anything goes, right? Up here in Canada, the Conservatives proposed, and the Liberals enacted, a law (Bill C-51) to classify interference with "critical infrastructure" as an act of terrorism. But that was targeted at those pesky pipeline protesters, so anything goes, right?

So now the shoe is firmly on the other foot, and I can't help but wonder if folks will finally realize that disruptive protests are a necessary component of democracy, or if we're just going to keep going in circles because the entrenched politicians stay in power when their voter bases are at eachothers' throats.
What happens to people's mortgage payments? Alimony? Child support? Food for the week?
Yeah, and they managed to deny all four when they arrested a priest (Artur Pawlowski) for refusing to practice his religion.
Thanks mate, really good material!
Discord and Github have submerged a huge amount of the Q&A that used to be on SO.

When my team struggles with a new library or stack, we go to the maintainers' Discord. Most of them seem to really want people to engage there.
Sure.

Using cash is not actually inconvenient though.

I often find that people use the term "convenient" to mean "more pleasing to me" which is completely different.

It's not more convenient for me to buy milk from Amazon than it is for me to get it from my corner shop, it might be more pleasing if I didn't like seeing or talking to people. Those are two different things.

By contrast if I had to wash my clothes in a river it would take me literally hours of manual labour every week and they wouldn't be as clean.
NATO was not created to protect Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Those countries were part of Soviet Union at the time, and joined after its collapse.
Exactly, as we see from the history of fiat currency, where acceptance for taxes was initially a monopoly given only to the fiat currency.
React Native is based on NativeScript – which provides the JS layer and access to native APIs RN needs.
> Calling Thing::default() clearly communicates that your just getting baseline values and not a lot of magical other initialization stuff going on— with a Thing::Thing() in C++, you're really at the mercy of whatever the project conventions are for how "fat" the constructor is going to be.

In C++ the constructor without arguments is called default constructor.
Of course the expectations depend on conventions, but usually it's something from uninitialized garbage to an empty state.