skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a small business owner, why do I need to deal with the extra expense of taking cash? I need to hold a float, take security measures to protect it, take time to count up, take time to go to a physical bank to deposit, all sorts of extra costs in staffing or just plain time. And all for a fraction of a percentage of my customer base.

It just doesn't make sense and I don't see why I should carry that burden.
My favorite thing in this is that it is easily recreated with about fifteen lines of css. Truly a very well crafted animation that fully builds on the joy of seeing the reveal.

Edit: realized my point seems reductionist. I meant that to be that it is not just a technical marvel. The artistic choices that went into building it are truly impressive.
Cloning the AirTag
Jeez. I take "lots of cash" out of the ATM, because when I do it, I do it all at once.

Also... drug dealers are cashless, they are using Monero! :D Ha!
While the linked article and the twitter thread it links are both quite good, your core point is absolutely correct.

As stated elsewhere, this is a minority government. If there is a single actual case of someone donating some small amount and having their account frozen, with the corresponding life mayhem, may the Conservatives use it to bludgeon the Liberals.

But there hasn't been one. Not a single case. A couple of opposing politicians and twitter personalities have invented vague claims of cases, but these are clearly a fiction (or have been clarified as "but it could happen" scenarios).
it kind of depends.

there have been big pushes against red light cameras and similar automated license-plate enforcement in the US. which is actually kind of a wash, when you consider the alternative is often the unequal manual policing instead.

in an older version of this, I know some places had and then removed the ability of tollbooths to cut speeding tickets. (It's pretty trivial to establish speeding if you get between two tollbooths faster than the speed limit would otherwise allow.)
I think people are fixated on Cuomo but just replace with _____ that constitutes most national and international news. A person in Indonesia shouldn’t give a shit about Andrew Cuomo, but they do. That’s the central point - NYT and others have way too much influence.

I’m glad you acknowledge the larger picture.
This is exactly how I'm reading this ad, but I also wonder if you have to be very familiar with Curb to see it.
"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.'

Just recently we've had scandals with Credit Suisse and HSBC banking criminals and laundering drug money, add in all the tax heavens which are fully in UK/US jurisdiction and I think total volume of bitcoin transactions willvpale in comparison
(disclaimer: I work on Flutter Web)

Curious what's not working in Flutter's accessibility. We are aware of multiple bugs, some specific to a particular assistive tech not interpreting our ARIA attributes that we need to work around, but our accessibility support is rarely described as not ready.
A few months ago, it cost $4 in BTC transaction fees alone to buy a $2 bottle of soda. Last spring, it cost $60 in transaction fees to buy a $2 bottle of soda.
I'm old enough to remember when Google didn't have user accounts.
In general, I agree with you, and often make the same point whenever the notion of "objectivity" in US news media comes up.

However, just within the last couple of days I read an article (it was linked here on HN but immediately flagged) called "Why Progressives Hate Black People", published on substack.

Now, the article itself contained quite a lot of interesting factual information about homelessness in the SF Bay area, some of which I was not aware of (and checked out to verify it.

However, the overall framing and the tone throughout the writing was just a completely unnecessary and even misleading hack that tried to prove a point that doesn't really seem particularly relevant to the story, only the agenda of the author.

Contrast this with reporting in an outlet like the NYT. Complain all you want about the NYT's egregious journalistic errors (and there are many), the overwhelming majority of their reportage does seem to me like a good faith effort to inform the reader about something. It may get the details or even the entire story wrong, but it isn't engaging in outright and unnecessary polemicization on the topic. Yes, the writers and editors still had a point of view, and perhaps even a desired conclusion, but don't feel it necessary to bash you over the head with "LOOK AT THIS! LOOK AT THIS! THE HORROR!"

Consequently, even though I continue to not believe in "objective news" or "objective journalism", there is still "hack journalism" and "good faith journalism" (not sure about those terms), and they are not the same.
Can't you use S3 to seed a torrent?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_GetObjec...
They bootstrapped Steam by forcing it on CS players, and many of us oldschool players boycotted it by playing on old servers for months. I was probably one of the last of those to give in and install Steam because I feared what would happen if they were successful. They were successful beyond anything I thought possible at the time, yet they've justified none of my fears.

It's probably wishful thinking, but I like to think Steam is such a force because Valve have earned and kept the trust of many (initially very skeptical) gamers over the course of _decades_ at this point. I'd rewind the clock to the Before Steam times if I could, but short of that--if I have to pick my poison and choose _some_ platform--it's Steam with zero hesitation.
Try getting rid of cashless stuff. It’s really liberating.
ECC and it should be a few cosmic rays :0) but I wouldn't try to write code to work with random bit changes, but implement distributed protocols that can handle a bit of hostility in the data center. Although when the people calling your libraries are bad enough in your call chain, I have found it worth changing the opaque void * from a pointer to a hash value that you look up in an "allocated" structures hash and can return an error rather than dereferencing when they call stuff 5 minutes after calling "de-alloc." (To stop complaints from people calling de-alloc, then calling "do-something" then crashing then blaming my code because I de-ref the opaque pointer.
As someone who went from managing three people at a high profile ad agency account to going back to IC. I'd like to say: It's so much more complicated that what this article lays out.

I was asked to train three totally green hires after only 3 months on the job myself. It was terrible. And I quit. But I loved the agency I was at. And I might love managing people under more sane circumstances. Now I'm an IC making more money with no reports and I'm back to being someone else's junior.

These things move quickly and I feel like keeping your eyes open is more important than placing oneself into a broad category of "career end." It's not as if roles are static and these things are defined as you go. Roles morph and people and projects come and go. Flexibility is more important than having an end in minds. Having an 'end ' is a fools errand. And is what encourages people to sit in shitty jobs because their boss promised them they "get what theyre looking for" just in a year or so.
Oh, I almost forgot, after a Wordii game is over, the word is shown as a hyperlink below the puzzle. The link takes you directly to the definition of the word.
But philosophically, they should just abort.
Thanks! That name took a lot of thinking for sure :D

Good luck for YC, and don't give up if you get rejected, it took us three tries to get in haha.

We don't use VNC, we send an H.264 stream over WebRTC. Also, checked out your demo, and it seems you use VNC?
I doubt there was significant violence. If there had been, there'd be lots of criminal charges or video and photo evidence. The story you linked is vague and there's no evidence that people starting a fire in a building are linked to the protestors.

I agree with your other point, that Canadians largely oppose the protests.

What I don't understand is why the Emergency Act was invoked. I've heard no reasonsble explanation for why police couldn't disperse protestors blocking roads or arrest them and impound their vehicles if they refused to leave without the act.
It's not weird at all. It's completely commonplace, whether or not you agree with it.
The Brave browser has a BitTorrent client built in, though I've never used it. Not a major player in the browser market, though.
> Presumably friends and family at least have some alternate cloud email?

Not necessary, which is part of the flexibility. I've been myfirstname@mylastname.com since the mid 90s. Initially I hosted it at a desktop at work (things were different back then). Then it's been hosted by a couple ISPs, and then I've been running my own email infrastructure for the last ~decade. If I ever decide not to, it's easy to seamlessly transition to third-party hosting, but it'll always be the same email address/domain.
On the flip side, with the rise of persistent social networks and the long memory of the internet, people may be thinking about their overall ethical image "globally" in the same manner, and it being hard to wrap one's head around.

Of course with government spying, China probably isn't the only one with a "good citizen index" calculated based on the monitoring. All it takes is for once three letter security agency to want to assign "danger" scores to citizens, as well as "importance".

Your are also correct that if capitalism and its inherent sociopathic reward system promulgating to some form of reproductive reinforcement or selection, then in the long term bad things will happen.
I’ve never taken any psychedelic of any sort. On the other hand the brain is basically a drug factory, among other things, so my experience may well have some overlap with psychedelic use.
> If it sucks, quit and go to a better one.

Again - easier said than done. It’s easy to say, “just quit and go to the unicorn that will make you mega rich”. It’s much harder to actually do it.

I’ve worked at a variety of places. All the way from research, seed, various rounds of funding, to going public, public companies, and long term enterprise. No one was any good at predicting whether these companies were going to make me rich.

The people I know who got rich were just lucky - that’s about it. They weren’t good at selecting companies or figuring out ideas. They just got lucky.

Spend enough time talking to people in SV and you get one thing above all - survivor bias is real and alive.
"I avoid Dell like the plague, and advise everyone else to do the same."

But who is still trustwoethy.
Yes, I would like to have seen some mention/comparison to known optical flow methods too.
I also subscribe to The Economist through DiscountMags. They have a price lock feature now where they will auto-renew you at the same price as the previous term. I locked in a print+digital deal a couple years ago and now it's set and forget. Typically, they renew you about 2-3 months before the old expiration, so there's no risk of missing issues and any leftover time gets added onto the new subscription period.

No affiliation, just a very satisfied customer.
The CIA didn't decide to make it public; the Pakistanis discovered it during their post-raid investigation.
You probably see them in response to people saying that renewable carbon processes are bad because of CO2. Which is the erroneous view that I was correcting.

You and I may know about the specifics of the carbon cycle that are being overloaded, but clearly GP was applying an incorrect mental model. Which, even if you know about the carbon cycle, you can do.
If anyone's looking to distinguish themselves in the hosting/VPS space, I'd pay extra for a provider who verifies the personal identity of the server operator before allowing outbound email traffic. Make me jump through some hoops and pay some more, I'm game!
There is WebTorrent, which uses WebRTC. instant.io uses it for file sharing, for example.
It's a Super Bowl ad. Of course people are talking about it. What they aren't talking about is the actual value proposition of the business running the ad. This is a huge mistake made by non technical marketer. Thinking that "any publicity is good publicity." Getting a bunch of press for an outlier ad doesn't necessarily mean anything for the bottom line. And, moreso, the default is that not much will happen just because you made a stir with an ad that doesn't actually drive interest in your product.
In this aphorism, “prove” has an archaic meaning: “tests the rule”.

The point is that handling the host unreachable is almost always semantically higher level than the code opening the connection. This the code opening doesn’t implement the policy of what to do when the situation occurs. In the case, say, of a hard-coded address then it’s possible the author of that piece of code does know how to handle a host unreachable case.
Depends exactly what the "rust converter is" - for example if it's a chelation agent, which removes the iron from iron oxide, then it may be a reasonable thing to use.
I will say - while there is plenty of stuff that will turn rust black, but what they describe sounds does in fact sound like a chelation agent (like evaporust or rust-911) used on rust. The result will often look black because it is no longer iron oxide.

The article makes it sound like they are simply concealing, but chelation is not cosmetic - it is a chemical process that removes iron from iron oxide (because it is weakly bonded), but not from the rest of the metal.
It will not corrode further from the "rust", because it is no longer rust when it is done.

(it still obviously has to be protected from corrosion again, but ...

The other part is that it's unclear what state they are delivered to peloton in from the supplier. If they are bare steel still, it would be perfectly normal to occasionally get rusty steel and have to clean/prep it prior to painting. Usually it is VCI protected/etc, but this is not perfect.
It would be ridiculous and wasteful to reject bare steel parts because some of them are cosmetically rusted and need to be cleaned up.
It's not possible to find iron/steel that doesn't have some oxide present. The only question is how much.

If they are supposed to be delivered powder coated or whatever, normally it should not be rusted. This would be more concerning.

Some of the article reads like nonsense - like they say "some that were sold were rusted internally".
I'm not sure what the person quoted actually said (hopefully not that), but that's literally not possible as described. Iron oxide, as one might expect, requires oxygen.
It can't rust inside-out.
Maybe they mean that there are rusted parts inside that are no longer accessible or something.
So don't start with those words. Or, force yourself each day to start with one you haven't used yet. That's what I do. I now forget what the "optimal" word is (STARE? AISLE?), but my first guess usually has something like a B or F in it. While it's not optimal generally, it is satisfying when you get the word in 2 or 3 guesses because you lucked into the right initial guess.
> I'm literally sat at my desk inside my house with cash in my jeans pocket now.

Which you, at some point, had to withdraw from an ATM. And which slows down your transaction time at a checkout.

I do have a phone in my pocket. I would have my phone in my pocket anyway. It's great that it now means I don't need to manage bits of paper and metal too.
As to the slow shifts, I said they were the opposite of rare, and indeed constantly happening as consensus shifts and is rebrokered.

Which was a response to the comment I was replying to, regarding distinguishing actual danger from everything else.

Danger, to me, means subversion of democracy and/or individual freedoms. Which means either a minority wilfully shifting the zeitgeist out of proportion with their strength of support or taking away people's freedom to participate in democracy.

It does not include everyone deciding to gradually change their ideals.

If the country as a whole is becoming more racist (to create an example), in terms of population percentage, then that's a structural social issue that needs to be addressed as such. Awareness of current news isn't going to enable one to address or change that.
You’d have to keep people around longer. Thing is - people don’t want to stay in the industry as software ICs. They want to be in product, management, or something else. Being a software engineer is often just a stepping stone to the next thing.
GitHub/GitLab releases makes it easy, free, and has virtually no overhead to distribute software to millions of users globally. Setting up torrents and making sure they stay seeded costs time and money, and torrents are less convenient for most users.
I certainly wouldn't buy that pretext for COVID-19 vaccination. Would the company let you cover health insurance yourself and stay unvaccinated?

And required what exactly? Healthy diet or vaccination for remote-only workers, because of higher health insurance premiums? IIUC, it's outright illegal for that to affect health insurance. Smoking seems to be literally the only exception for health insurance [1]:

> the Affordable Care Act, passed in 2014, prevents insurers from pricing plans according to health – with one exception: smoking status.

[1] https://www.krqe.com/health/can-health-insurance-companies-c...
I believe you will like this then:

How to acquire 1,024 public IPv4 addresses which are worth $60K for $500 -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29844651
Supreme Court will decide whether web designer has right to turn away gay couple
I understand what they're saying but I don't trust their math when they claim "simply cutting cable TV and a few lattes would instantly boost their savings to 15%." That implies that cable TV and a few lattes accounts for $2.5k of spending in a year.
I don't know about founders specifically, but I do know that Australia already has one of the easiest paths to migration for skilled workers, at least for non-American, non-EU citizens like myself. I found the immigration process into Australia to be relatively pain-free.

Something I would like to see is an easier path for non-skilled immigrants. Note that "non-skilled" here doesn't mean unskilled, it just means "lacks paper qualifications"
I gotta concur. It's also really easy to rationalize/ justify in either direction, of not doing something because you don't feel like it (and thereby attach reason to your desire), or on the flipside, doing something you actually don't believe in, but excusing yourself for why it's good for you to do so and rationalizing some guilt so you don't have to deal with the inner tension.

I heard in general, it's fantastic to be aware of your feelings, but they need to be managed, rather than given the reigns for decision-making. Like, you need an executive functioning overseer that fields, filters, guides, challenges, and at times even overrides your feelings, without denying or snuffing them out.
Be careful with that. There may very well be fine print that allows them to continue taking funds after the initial period, same as with a credit card. A personal check (in the US) contains all the info a company needs to debit your bank account.
> For what it's worth no issue tracking system I am aware of has avoided buganizers huge gravity well

Even some small, well managed, projects will develop hundreds upon hundreds of issues in their trackers. Can't imagine how you'd deal with that at such a massive scale.
yes lol, the title made me think "I'm bored, lets make my life more black-mirror-esque"
The major problem with login.gov from the IRS' perspective is that it doesn't provide identity verification which is absolutely needed. We will see how they work around that, but they still may have to outsource that to someone like id.me.
Jesus Christ, just go look at the Ipsos/Nanos polls. Do you think CNN made that up out of thin air? Those are reputable polling agencies. Barely 50% of CPC voters supported the convoy protestors methods.
You can’t explain its success by product greatness only.

I mean sure wordle is fine. But the no-ad and once-a-day features are what the new york times has been doing for years (and yes it works really well). There are probably _thousands_ of other mini games that are no-ad and once-a-day.

The sharing part is pretty cool. It does encourage bragging and probably played a big role in its virality. But yet again, there must be plenty of other games that do that well (and we’ll likely see an awful lot more of them).

Again I do think that wordle is pretty good, but its success is more easily explained by lucky timing and reaching some big influencers early rather than amazingly smart design.

The reason I am posting this is that I think people shouldn’t think that if they build something as good they will have the same success. And I find it a bit dishonest to say “oh of course it had some success, it’s so great” after the fact.
> The idea of rejecting a cashless society is eerily similar to Project Mayhem from the movie Fight Club, with all the chaotic anarchy that supposedly comes with it.

Fight Club is satire.
I'm canadian. That's not true for me, nor many people I know. Canadians have "liberal elites" just like the US, and they tend to over represent on HN, but there is not some Canadian phenomenon about trust in institutions. We have apathy and only get politically involved when we absolutely have to, if I have to stereotype. But it's certainly not because we trust "institutions" especially. I've heard this only recently as a general talking point abou Democrats/liberals, but it seems like something that just got made up to justify current support of orthodoxy. It certainly wouldn't have been true on the George W Bush days for example.
I just took it upon myself to get the old draft restored and to add sources to assert notability.

Moved draft into article namespace.

This isn't my first rodeo. We'll see how it goes.
Plus a whole number of other distributed projects over the years. Everything web3 is just hyped ideas that are already out there, in some cases for 10+ years.
So cash is convenient because you have the option to not use it, and use a digital payment instead? Really?
The Atlantic. The New Yorker. The Economist. These are neutral to left facing. In a feeble effort to avoid being put in a different bubble, does anyone have something that an educated republican/conservative would read?
When I said "weird" I meant the logic was weird (read: illogical, unreasonable, etc.). I wasn't trying to claim anything about whether it was common or unusual.
To paraphrase the message you're replying to:

The inconvenience of credit cards manifests itself after making the payment: when you're filling taxes, or when whatever information derived from your payments is used against you.

You're trading immediate versus delayed inconvenience.

At least that was the argument. I won't argue that most people will never feel these second order inconveniences.