skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in agreement with the article and the linked Twitter thread about the dangers of a cashless society. Cashless is a place where I've definitely done a 180 - even 5 years ago I would have been 100% for a cashless and crypto based society.

In addition to the power it would give governments and mobs as the article points out, there's already a growing group that's increasingly locked out of society as we transition to a more digital world: people in poverty and the undocumented (often one and the same). You can imagine how a cashless society can create increasing feedback loops of poverty as more and more goods and services are unobtainable to people on the bottom rungs of society.
Hi jwkane,

I'm sorry that you've been negatively affected by hyperbeam.com. I'd be happy to discuss the abuse you're experiencing, and what we can do to help.

We try our best to discourage hyperbeam.com as an ad-hoc proxy — the goal of the product is to provide hassle-free watch parties.

Edit: my email is scotty@hyperbeam.com
And it's one for which exceptions are a perfect fit. Even if at the entry point of your "parseJpeg()" function you instead return a variant<result, error>, internally propagating that error via exceptions is the "correct" design. Otherwise you're littering the code with branches, which makes the expected common path slower.

Which the paper covers, that's the std::expected section: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p254...

As a bonus not only is using exceptions for this faster, it's also less error prone. There's much less risk of any intermediate function or helper abstraction failing to propagate an error code properly.

Well, it would be if exceptions weren't avoided like the plague in C++ because they have a, well, bad implementation, which can't be meaningfully fixed without ABI breakges (as the paper covers)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

> 15.2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

People who donated had all their money confiscated by Castro.
If he’s concerned with rights derived from fungible instruments, I have to wonder why he chose the example of a group already able to raise millions and paints them as victims, while ignoring the millions of existing victims across society who, through homelessness or the injustice of the legal system, find themselves without bank accounts or credit cards, and suffer the material consequences of not being able to use many basic business services.

The author could have chosen to stand in solidarity with those actually suffering, but instead clutches pearls over a theoretical wrong done to a group who never needed nor deserved that concern in the first place.
Thanks for your comment, I'm betting that the M1 example demoed here should be easy to build, and I really do want the M1 for my work. I'm just lamenting how annoying it is to install the packaged versions of PyTorch for GPU since that's what I'm fighting with at this very moment!
The next step will be somebody who is in "digital jail" and can't pay taxes so ends up guilty of tax evasion too.
Agree -- the product is interesting but the marketing site design is rough/unfinished to the point where I wouldn't trust the service. I currently use Loom in a similar capacity and think there's a big market for this type of service. Congrats on the launch and good luck!
EZ Pass website says debts can be settled in cash at their service centers. So yes you can settle in cash, but it is likely a massive pain to do as you suggest. Their site also says you can prepay your tolls in cash, to have account in credit, using the same service centers. I suspect almost no one does.

"Cash or Credit/Debit cards are accepted at any of our Customer Service Centers."

> https://www.ezdrivema.com/ezpassma

> https://www.ezdrivema.com/ezpassservicecenters
Lol give me a break. This was a handful of people directly involved in the protests occupying Ottawa for three weeks who had their accounts frozen. Comparing the governments of Canada and Turkey is just absurd.
Agree with this all, but I don't think the simple answer is sufficient. Cash as an option must be preserved, but the abuse of this power over cashless transactions will still happen. Cash itself will become even more of a probable cause and associated with crime if the abuse is allowed to preside only over the cashless transactions.
That article is from 2015. A lot has changed, though some people still complain.
> how the current situation is a direct consequence of those talks.

Putin just said it's a consequence of Lenin creating the fake entity of Ukraine on territory that should be Russian exacerbated by Stalin transferring additional territory that should be Russian to the fake entity of Ukraine.

Sounds like Russia (or at least Putin, who definitely has a l’etat, c’est moi thing going on), thinks the fundamental problem is the fall of the Russian Empire, not NATO, which is just an impediment to restoring the Empire.
> Can you pay taxes in cash? I don't think it's possible in my country.

In most countries a tax payment that is due counts as a debt so is covered by legal tender laws, which do require that people accept payment in cash. It may not be an option presented to you, but it is usually legally available to you, if someone is trying to enforce a debt such as payable tax.

Note that legal tender laws don't apply to a service or product that has not yet been provided - only debts - and also note that a business that has to enforce a debt and that you pay in cash may decline to do business with you in future.

Finally, note that not all currency is legal tender - for example Scottish bank notes are not legal tender, so you can't insist on paying your debts with them.
Thanks for this! I just finished the tutorial and really enjoyed it! Found myself hoping for more. Maybe a small series that would teach one the necessary basics of Clojure so one could actually do a real project in it afterwards. That would be awesome :)
Me cruising the blue groomers very much feels like skiing.

At least to me.
I agree that this needs to be taken very seriously. However, the author overstates his case significantly when he writes:

> Doing this to someone—a small business owner in BC, a public servant in Winnipeg, a student in Halifax—who made a small donation to support the convoy is a clear abuse of power.

However:

> The RCMP, banking sector and federal government said Monday that account-freezing powers bestowed under the Emergencies Act to help authorities deal with convoy protests do not affect donors to the protests, despite unsubstantiated claims by a Conservative MP that a constituent had her bank account frozen over a $50 contribution.

> “At no time, did we provide a list of donors to Financial Institutions,” the RCMP said in a statement Monday. [1]

Facts are important!

1: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-rcmp-banks-an...
Driving is also easier and more convenient than walking but it would be absurd to suggest that everyone should have a car available for them to drive as a constitutional human rights.

Another counter point is that cash is arguably easier and more convenient in some aspects for some people.
Carrying cash is exactly how you lose it all to police corruption, sometimes called civil asset forfeiture.

Cash is no answer without sufficient legal protections. And if you have sufficient legal protections, cash mostly just buys you inconvenience.

The problem isn't businesses going cashless. The problem is leaving structural control over money to profit-seeking enterprises.
Fortunately, it is not. As this discussion shows, people more tend to avoid exceptions for various reasons (both good and bad) than to abuse them.
My experience working with tape is that 100% of the time I fuck it up and it gets stuck to itself, stuck to the wrong other thing, and probably I even accidentally tape my fingers together. So how easily can this new tape that even sticks to intestines be removed?
Well, I majored in physics, so to me the cow is always a sphere.. but you know, all models of reality are imperfect, no matter how complicated. And it’s true that I have no idea where on the curve we might be. I would certainly not use this model to make specific predictions- that would be silly. It’s more the general behavior of the system I’m interested in. But you can definitely make refinements. For example, if you add renewables then you still get a peak, but it doesn’t go all the way to zero afterwards.

I do realize too that my model makes assumptions- which have not been demonstrated to be true. So, that’s where I would attack it. Which assumptions are false?
Joe has not stood still since 2017 either, he profits off the outrage just a much as any other media company that makes money from viewers or listeners.

His podcasts used (going back a bit before 2017) to be chill conversations ranging from interesting to bonkers depending on the guest. He is consumed by politics now unfortunately, and it just gets tiresome.
More depth and nuance I say.

I find just skimming headlines gives me facts but facts are kind of useless. For example you could tell an alien that the average human drinks 1 cup of milk a day and the alien would have a fact but be completely unable to contextualize it.

Longer form articles help you contextualize it.

Of course, you still have to be careful that take into the account the unintentional bias of the source (i.e. a 3/day milk drinker would tell the alien that people don’t drink enough milk, and they’re not lying… they just see life through their own experiences).

So you really need a combo of regular news media for facts and a variety of longer form sources for contextualization.
Yes, the blind following of "patterns" because you think that is what makes for "good code" is a perfect example. Especially when fitting the predefined pattern bends your implementation otherwise out of shape.

A design pattern is a way of communication. If you turn it into a procrustean tool you don't even understand why they exist.
Because they wanted a modern language to power their platforms. Objective C is ancient, and showing it.
> Incorrect, the battle is partly won in several U.S. cities (including NYC & SF) which passed laws to mandate acceptance of cash.

I presume this[0] is that story... If i understand correctly, federal law also requires cash to be accepted to repay a debt, which perhaps interesting to some, usually includes restaurants; you eat your meal, and incur a debt doing so. Perhaps with takeout they could refuse to hand over the bag/box until its paid w a credit/debit card, which is their prerogative (except apparently in SF, NYC, ...).

[0] https://www.technocracy.news/cash-is-king-san-francisco-to-b...
It isn't normal in my experience, but situations like this often have a history behind them that isn't obvious, which can become normal for the team even if that wasn't specifically the goal. They may not even realize that it has become a problem.

I suggest you talk directly to them, and express how you feel, but do it in a straightforward way - State facts. State how those facts make you feel. Ask for a change of behavior that would make the situation better. See what they have to say.
> And likely is exponentially worse the colder it gets.

Not quite. If we assume that the human body is a black body, the radiation loss is proportional to (T_body)⁴-(T_outside)⁴, where T_body is the body's temperature and T_outside is the temperature of the surrounding[0]. So not quite exponential but still pretty significant.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law
The question I ask is if Bethesda spent all the time on technical things would they make the amazing games they do? Give me a Bethesda game with bugs over any other smooth game with no heart any day.

Every company has an attention budget to spend from.
They just recently updated it. (https://www.ea.com/ea-app-beta)

Doubt they'll drop it, but who knows.
Having a British accent is great for this. I just say ‘I’m moving back to England’ and it’s like a magic spell.

Makes up for being complemented on my English ‘for an immigrant’.
How does it "make our democracy stronger"?
That hinted branches are not useful tells us nothing about the importance of branch predictor footprint. When hinting branches gives you a bigger L1 cache footprint, it has a high cost. Compilers nowadays use code motion to implement branch hinting, which does not burn L1 cache. (Maybe code motion is what you mean by "hot/cold splitting"?)

Anyway the hint we really need, no ISA has: "do not predict this branch". (We approximate that with constructs that generate a "cmov" instruction, which anyway is not going away.)

How does using exceptions defeat return address prediction? You are explicitly not returning, so any prediction would be wrong anyway. In the common case, you do return, and the predictor works fine.
Thanks for the matmul sizes, but the question I am more interested in is precision. Matrix multiply throughput can be dramatically higher for tensor cores[1] than normal shader ALU, specifically for reduced precision arithmetic. I'm wondering to what extent that's accessible on the M1, and to what extent IREE can address them.

Regarding prefix sum, the specific question I'm interested in is that SPIRV OpControlBarrier with device scope gets translated into threadgroup_barrier(mem_device) [2]. That's insufficient to make decoupled look-back work. Conversely, if you're not using decoupled look-back, you're not getting the full throughput on GPUs that do support that barrier. I'm wondering how your infrastructure deals with that.

[1]: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/programming-tensor-cores-c...

[2]: https://github.com/linebender/piet-gpu/blob/d81e5cb4ee145abd...
I will confirm that Vile is an excellent editor. I don't know if I'd consider it a vi-clone, because the vi-ness is kind of skin-deep, but it's performant and works well.

(In school, early 90's, there was a large vile following on VMS, which is where I mostly used it. I don't recall why it was preferred to Vim on VMS, however. Perhaps we didn't have Vim easily available or installed. But I digress.)
> FB wants, hard hitting news, and opinion pieces

Yeah...in 2018 after being dragged through the Cambridge Analytica mud for over a year at that point, I'm gonna guess that it wasn't FB that actually was responsible for the shift that just so happened to impact independent media companies.

The NYT sends their regards...
I noticed this problem is especially prevalent in US American news.
There is more opinion, opinions of opinions, and breaking news of opinions than news in the news.
Who cares if AOC slams Ted Cruz or Tucker Carlson reacts to Rachel Maddow. And that I know all of these names is already a crime in itself ;=)
'Libertarianism' in the USA,2021 means something quite different than the term as it applies in a historical, academic context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_in_the_United_S...
Doubtful that the technical underpinnings of the API have changed all that much since 2015.
> Well that's unfortunate

How so?
Paying taxes in cash is almost the most important core thing. It's utter violation of basic concepts of fiat currency for that not to be possible. The whole point of cash is that it is legal tender, and it has to be acceptable for taxes. Any country that violates this is really denying the basic concept of cash.
Your last sentence sounds like civil forfeiture and I certainly think it should be outlawed.

As far as cashless society winning, I dunno, I'm definitely worried about that outcome, but it's straight up illegal in my state to not to accept cash in a retail establishment and a good number of bars I go to don't accept cards at all. I use cash all the time and I find it way more convenient than a credit or debit card. My wallet doesn't randomly prevent me from opening it at a grocery store I have been to a thousand times and stop me from paying for groceries.
There was a burrito shop on my block that had a bitcoin pay terminal (well, they had a bitcoin atm like device to get cash at)... they've gone out of business and I haven't seen another one since - some POS terminals have bitcoin support I've heard, but I haven't seen one yet... Until I can buy a coffee with bitcoin at Tim's bitcoin is not a serious competitor to oppose the cashless society.
You seem to mistake this with public mass transit as it is now in some parts, whereas the problems you describe don't even exist in other parts. Depends on culture, enforcement, whatever.

Besides that, why not compare this with rental cars?

You'd probably order this by app on you smart gadget. Car from pool of (just recently) free cars arrives. You check it, see/feel/smell/tell something icky, check NOPE! on the app, signal for next car. Meanwhile former renter gets negative points for leaving dirty car, points accumulate, raise dirty renters rates accordingly. Nudge, nudge, problem solved...
BTW: you totally sucked me back in. Great discussion partner. Normally, when I say I won't respond again, I don't. Never personal, just letting the other parties know intent. Giving consideration. Hoping to get it back and usually I do.

In your case, the great comments... ah well. Happens. Nicely done.
The article shows that this approach adds to runtime even in the non-erring case.
Understand things like, "what is in shampoo", to take an example from the article? I like to understand things too, but there there's plenty of things to learn, and I think one can benefit from being choosy.
Just remember that a society without cash is one in which every single member of society requires the explicit permission of multiple unaccountable people they have never met each and every every time they seek food, shelter, or clothing.
Not sure what it was like in 2011, but FiDi is definitely a residential area for at least the last few years.
So how are you going to buy games if you've killed all the launchers. No Steam, no Epic, no GOG Galaxy. Are you going to download everything over http from your browser?
> Compare how the first iPhone was marketed to cryptocurrencies and Musk's products.

This does not get talked about enough, and it encapsulates much of what's gone wrong inn SV over the past 20 years.

More precisely, it's how products are announced rather than how they are marketed.

After developing it in secret and making the industry partnerships required to make it a success, Jobs came on stage with a prototype iPhone, ran it trough its paces, said "This will be on sale nationwide in six months." and he delivered. No one really doubted that Apple would deliver.

Compare that to Elon Musk's announcement of the Tesla Robot. He announced the specs and literally had some guy in spandex dance around dressed up like a robot. (I'm not hating on Musk here, just using him to illustrate a larger trend)

I think the media became so enthralled with Apple's big spectacle announcements that they (or perhaps all of us) forgot that the spectacle is supposed to be about something.

Whether we are talking about EVs, tech, ICOs, or DAOs, we've somehow reached a point where the attention is received and the money is made by announcing rather than delivering.

And if that's the case, why do all the hard work required to actually deliver?
If you ignore American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawaii, governments that were destabilized and replaced with US-approved leaders, and US military bases in dozens of other countries - sure, yeah, the US remains in north america.

The parent comment has been flagged, but if I recall this conversation about hostility - trying to argue that the US is not hostile and that Russia is somehow unique and uniquely deserving of punishment is ridiculous, which is my point by saying the US has caused millions of deaths in the past 60 years.
> Sorry for the tangent, but am I the one who finds it’s odd that this was done by the Highway Patrol?

In many states, there are some domain specific LE agencies, but also one general competence agency. In several cases (sometimes as a result of a merger between Highway Patrol and State Police where the former name was retained) the general-competence LE agency is the highway patrol.
Reef ball burials: 'becoming coral' when you die
so, at one point I planned a trip to New York and a hurricane made an appearance in the area. Had to cancel everything (you could not fly in there) and we actually got automatic refunds on anything. If this can happen with New York and a hurricane it can definitely happen with Ukraine and a war.
What does spending all that time clueless mean? I'm sorry but I just don't buy it.

>Uh, are you saying that if I live in a nice little house or apartment unit in a Californian city

My point was that if there is a drought and we need to save water this will be highly visible. The water company will tell you, the bill you pay should be higher, etc

> By the time there are legal consequences, isn't it too late?
nope. breaking the law always involves a reward and a risk. The risk/punishment is not properly calibrated for the consequences but there is no reason why it shouldn't be.
How precisely do the police seize the assets of tens of thousands of people simultaneously?

They can't. This is a completely different issue, one which doesn't go away if cash isn't involved. The police could just as easily decide to seize your car or your watch or your computer or the clothes off of your back. On a one-by-one basis.

It's mass surveillance vs. targeted all over again.
For me, it's that my 20 year old account has games I bought 20 years ago. I can trust that anything I purchase from Steam will be around for a long time. No other company has demonstrated that kind of reliability, except maybe Apple.

Plus, I think Steam is a superior product.

That being said, I also try to buy on GoG as much as possible, since I really prefer to have DRM-free games and I want some competition in the market.

I have an Xbox Game Pass subscription, but will never buy anything from the Microsoft store because their products are bundled into encrypted archives (so no modding/changing games). Plus, it has a nasty habit of leaving 40+GB binaries on my system that can't be deleted from within Windows.
We do, and frankly need to reject the cashless society.

Cash is pretty great. I am a fan, and have all the usual, ordinary reasons most people do.

Cashless seems like a goal others want, but most people probably don't.
That is highly unlikely and worth the risk. Also, GP isn’t advocating keep all your money in cash. Just for paying cash where you can.
What makes Bitcoin any more resilient in this scenario?

Govt mandates businesses carry insurance, insurance company releases list of Bitcoin wallets that their patrons are forbidden to have interacted with. Done.
Putin’s Aims in Ukraine