skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice any solution is probably good enough so long as it actually differentiates those use cases. Just move the slider to the region of the web you're interested in :)

Spitballing a little, if I had to manually put those on an axis I might rank them as:

(0) Sites like the Guardian that think their content is good enough to stand on its own and ask for payment (I personally want that search slider to be able to remove/include sites trying to monetize things tangential to my query, and while the Guardian pretty clearly cares about money they're also likely trying to monetize the thing I actually want to see if they show up in my search results).

(1) A tech-focused personal website that incidentally also has your CV and consulting rates.

(2) Sites like StackOverflow where the user-generated content is probably similar to what it would be outside of the site, but a money-focused censorship/environment has filtered the nature of that content.

(3) An AI on Kubernetes in AWS cost management site self-linking all of its articles and prominently displaying your AI on Kubernetes in AWS cost management consulting availability.

Not everyone has my personal preferences. I could definitely imagine somebody wanting all of those to be some kind of roughly the same monetary reward ranking and maybe want a separate axis/categorization describing the type of monetization.
AI assisted prompts to users to provide more structured context[1], de-duplicate, cluster, prioritise. All things people _should_ be doing but can't be bothered to or aren't incentivised to.

Who here hasn't been in a standup where a task was created against a CL that only had a title "FIX" (with the intention of filling it out later)

Complex Project Management in other sectors (construction) is starting to see life in this regard. Unfortunately much of the digital transformation of PM to date has focused on capture and reporting. Capture is capture but the problem with reporting is that nobody read the reports before and aren't going to read them now they are in dashboard with endless possibilities to slice and dice.

Automating insight is next but insight is difficult to draw when you have tens to hundreds of people building an often unreliable, usually bespoke, and piecemeal semantic model over time; quality and context is scattershot and the datasets not large enough on their own and not comparable to others.

[1] e.g. Clippy but AI that gets better as teams provide feedback: Does this issue relate to x or y? Is this issue A more important than this issue B? Was this issue A fixed by this PR B?
> at least one case where protestors attempted to burn down an apartment complex

On the footage, he described seeing two individuals lighting a fire in the lobby shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday. After the suspects leave, another individual is seen coming into view and quickly extinguishing the fire near the elevators, Munoz said.

...

Police have not confirmed any link between their investigation into this incident and the ongoing convoy protest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-police-arson-in...

https://muckrack.com/matias-munoz
I had my only personal UK bank account frozen without warning for weeks. The first I knew of it was when the call centre wouldnt answer the phone for 45mins from the shop where I had just tried to use the card. Had to abandon the process and go home. Next morning, call the bank call centre, do security get told they cant talk to me. The processes to get the account activated was interesting, I couldnt complain to the govt ombudsman until I had exhausted the complaints process with the bank. Problem was the bank wouldnt talk to me, every time I called the call centre, passed security checks they would tell me they couldnt talk to me, so you are kept in a legal limbo of sorts. Govt ombudsman couldnt do anything until the 1st stage had been completed. So the rules are exploitable as most lawyers will also demonstrate in court.

So yes have some cash but behind the scenes data sharing does go on, it could be a simple conversation down the pub or a contract to process some data or provide a service.

Signwritten vans & trucks give the game away to neighbours as to whats going on.

Get some crypto where you can draw cash out of a machine, there are plenty of bitcoin machines and online crypto currency exchanges to move money around the world. When the Greek govt debt crisis kicked off, bitcoins spiked as people moved their money out of Greece, some events like this will also trigger a spike in crypto because its less bulky remembering a string than shipping tonnes of gold across borders.

The less reliant you become on any one entity the less any one entity can mess you up especially when you dont agree with their politics, methods or employer.
Not sure I understand. Do you mean from the point of view of the merchant?

From the point of view of the consumer, I don't think I've ever done anything differently in regards to tax paperwork with regards to differences in method of payment.

Even from the merchant's point of view, I would imagine credit card payments are easier to keep track of for documenting purposes. Unless, of course, your intention is tax evasion, which I know quite a few merchants (including family) do with cash.
One huge difference people often forget: Steam gives you (essentially) unlimited keys to sell elsewhere. Steam still pays for the infrastructure and everything, but they get a 0% cut because someone bought the game on GreenManGaming and then added that key to steam.

Just imagine, alternative app stores, you keep almost all the convenience of the apple one, for free.

You can also give keys away, but if you do that too much, they do apparently limit you ;)

Another thing: The store app is not a disaster. Compare it with Windows, Epic… Those are all horrible apps that mostly behave like browsers, but then differ in some ways (in addition to the often bad performance). Hell, for a long time, the back button did not work in the Epic store. Steam managed to have their store not be a disaster pretty much since its existence.

And Windows/Epic are not even the worst examples.
I remember when Origin started, they had no language setting and forced you into whatever GeoIP decided. I don’t even remember what my issue with UPlay was, but the experience was bad enough that I would never again play a game that uses it.
> Microsoft is throwing the towel and bowing to Steam's cartelish 30%

I would be quite surprised to hear that Microsoft didn't cut some sort of Very Good Deal with Valve.
That’s a specific editorial decision[0] to present work in The Economist’s voice rather than the individual journalists’.

[0] https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/...
> The best time to start a pension is always twenty years ago

Does the US not have a mandatory pension program? We have "super annuation" here which is a mandatory payment employers have to make into our pension accounts, minimum being 7% on top of our salary. Very rarely a company will add more to your super.
> There are people who actually replied with something worthwhile.

And you dismissed it as still not being difficult.

The Timescale folks did all the hard work of finding product / market fit for you. If this problem is so trivial, you'd make a faster, cheaper, more reliable product and steal their lunch. Not only their lunch but Clickhouse, AWS Timestream, etc..
I think actually you will find in the normal course of life your recourse against a financial institution that freezes your funds in Canada are many and very affordable, even free.

It is a highly regulated sector, there is frequent reporting and quick reviews. In the specific case of the GoFundMe money TD Bank was immediately at the courts begging for someone to tell them what to do.
There's also "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook" (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-and-linux/97801342...)

For more such resources, I have a list here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/curated_resources/linux_cli...

I have also written CLI one-liner books for grep/sed/awk, currently free for Twosday: https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/oneliners/Twosday
No, it's convenient because anyone can accept or transfer it without a middleman. It's a physical thing you just give to someone. You can't (reasonably) censor it or block it or sanction it without just disabling the whole currency.

I was just describing the fact that it's not some sort of crazy idea to pay bills using cash. If HN weren't full of 21 year olds we wouldn't even be having this chat, it's like these guys forgot that not even that long ago we just paid each other with envelopes at the end of the week/month.

Like, they're literally saying that you can't do X, where X is something that most of us did less than 50 years ago, and no we didn't spend half of our days running around.
I'm not sure I quite understand, but doesn't the bureacratic structure of cashless payments also provide the benefit of automatically documenting all your transactions for you so that you don't have to keep track of them manually?

Unless, as I mentioned in another reply, your intention is to hide such transactions for whatever purpose - i.e. I know quite a few merchants use cash payments to avoid paying taxes.

But that's all from the merchant's perspective. From the consumer's perspective, how does any of what you mentioned above matter? I have an account, a friend has an account. I send him money via Venmo or Paypal or whatever. The middleman might take a trivial fee for the transaction, but it's so trivial I nor the recipient are likely to care, and is outweighed by the convenience factor over using cash.

With cash, we have to meet and exchange the money. Or use snailmail. With say Venmo, I open the app, press a few buttons, and my friend has the money in seconds even if he is physically hundreds of miles away.

If I'm paying a merchant, then I just swipe or tap my card to the reader, wait a few seconds. I get a receipt and I'm on my way. I'm old enough that I made a few online purchases by sending cashier's checks through the mail. It was not a pleasant experience.
The arson link provided says "At this time, there is nothing linking the incident to the ongoing demonstration"

Has that changed?
The organizers of the protest were all different varieties of white supremacists, and their explicit goal was the dissolution of our democratically elected government.
As a counterpoint, I've found The Economist is quite good on my own domestic politics when it does cover it - albeit rarely.

To me this quote underlines the importance of reading news from varied sources rather than not reading it at all. I mean clearly 99.99% of news I ignore, but if I think it's important I'll read about it from multiple papers because the one I primarily read - the FT will have its own viewpoint.
I know someone who keeps newspapers because the narrative/facts of some stories gets changed over years once the fuss has died down. Basically history is rewritten, so choosing any one news outlet for your source is dangerous.
Can you give some examples of such fields?
We have gone through “the next 2 weeks are going to be important” for 2 years.
~no regwall

https://medium.economist.com/why-are-the-economists-writers-...

and previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14015708
Wall Street Journal - there's a quip from someone that when he wanted to read things he agreed with, he opened Jacobin, when he wanted to know what was going on in the world, he went to WSJ. Being based entirely on serving money anchors you to a certain reality that can't be swung to far left or right. The journalism has had some really great scoops these last few years - they broke a lot of the Facebook drama, and some tax evasion shenanigans - while the editorials tend to be pretty principled conservatism ("we'll give a voice to anyone, but we'll put a letter from the Editors in where we call them liars" seems to be their approach to Trump and co).

National Review is similar to The Atlantic in that their long form pieces meant for print publication are wonderful, and tend to be rather nuanced, whiletheir short pieces meant for immediate internet consumption are heavily biased. They're interesting in that they take a "big tent" approach, and will allow a lont of dissenting voices to appear under their mast head - this was always true but became really rather evident during the 2016 elections.

The Dispatch is made up of authors and editors who didn't like that Trump supporters were allowed under the "Big Tent" of the National Review. It's edited by Jonah Goldberg, and David French, who shows up as a guest writer for the Atlantic every now and then.
I believe I grasp it on more levels than you. I have listened to the Russians, Ukrainians, people of Donbass, and what they actually say, publish etc.

It is the oldest justification in the book: “You see? All I did was expand my defensive capabilities and those guys are being belligerent just as I said they would! We are good and they are bad!”

This tweetstorm may be instructive — it is quoting warnings issued by the very people who hatched the NATO strategy: https://twitter.com/clintehrlich/status/1482563442641108993?...

Kennan literally predicts what you say here.
Emergent is my favourite. Perhaps it has been poorly described to me, but it doesn't seem to add anything to the ideas it gets applied against.
Vitess v13.0.0
> Govt mandates businesses carry insurance

Insurance against what risk? The risk of receiving money that was once owned by a criminal? If the government is going to make that illegal, then you can just list that as your concern, without introducing the extra complexity of insurance companies.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435299
Just use Perl.
Yep came to say the same, because a lot of software is already hosted in a lower friction way by GitHub and similar. So unless you have a need/want to host it yourself and maybe benefit from the optimizations then why bother?
At least I had the right of a judgement and the right to have a defense attorney on the old system.
Err... I think I pass this one.
The protest was organized by white supremacists calling for the dissolution of a democratically elected government! Convoy protestors in Alberta were arrested with conspiracy to attempt murder! The discussion on hacker news has been insane.
> Are you just blaming any and all crime that happened during the protest on the protestors and thus inferring the entire movement is violent?

This is a pretty useless and disrespectful response for a few reasons. Firstly, it's pretty obvious from the links and the locations things happened that these were directly related to the convoy or at least convoy adjacent.

Secondly, I don't doubt that there were nonviolent people involved, I saw many of them via livestreams. I've posted elsewhere that I think if the Convoy wanted to still be protesting today their goal should have been to avoid picking a fight with residents and instead focus on the government itself. The saying goes, one bad apple spoils the bunch. I think it's highly applicable to what happened here.

The word on the street regarding the building arson attempt was that people in the building were blaring music and shouting stuff at the convoy protesters who were parked in the streets below their apartment building.

That was just the first such incidence during the convoy. During a separate day some people were attempting to handcuff a door shut[1] but fled the scene once they were confronted. There have been no other recorded incidents of this behaviour in Ottawa that I can find anywhere, ever. It would be a leap to assume this is just coincidental.

But let's assume it's just some anarchist being opportunistic, what about the literal mountain of other information provided?

[1]: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/mcleod-street-condo-residents...
> It is entirely unclear what Trudeau hopes to accomplish by holding onto these powers.

It’s really quite clear
Show HN: I made an iOS app recording RGBD videos and a web app playing them
Ah yes, the fallacy of quantitative supremacy and human fungibility, that illusory phase of statistics kindergarten. Imagine a fictional universe where Steve Jobs was cancelled in his early career. "But it was only one person". How many human lives would have been impacted if Steve Jobs had been deleted from technology history? 2021 smartphone adoption is north of 3 billion humans.

> Very few people will ever hit this. Ever.

And this story has not been #1 on HN for five hours, nor has 500+ comments, and is not being read by journalists in multiple countries, or city-state regulators who care about equality, or engineers who build payment and surveillance systems, whose opinion can't possibly factor into the feasibility of building one of several alternative futures. Not one of those "few" people can change the future of electronic trade, of which payment is only a subset.

Nope, we have a singular cashless trading future and it's not subject to human negotiation beyond surrender. Or is it?
Well having googled that quote and found nothing by a normal news site I'm not clear why anyone would think the Twitter account you linked to is anything other than pure fiction.
This is something I've wondered specifically for Musescore 4. They're releasing their Orchestral library as a separate 7.5gb download, but instead of using bit-torrent, they're making you download a download manager. Seems so bizarre.
Absolutely. For instance, pervasive CCTV isn't in itself a bad thing, but pervasive CCTV which can be (and is) accessed arbitrarily is a major major problem. I'm fine with CCTV which records to encrypted offline storage, which can be unencrypted by court order only, with as strong a probable cause as you would need for a wiretap or a search warrant.
If you looked at the engineer of worldle, he tried a lot of similar games before eg. On mobile.

Dating back since 2013.

So, while it could be created in a short timeframe. A lot of experience/thinking went into it.

Edit: changed 2016 to 2013
MKBHD interviewed Josh Wardle, the author of Wordle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_e2IEaR4aA&t=1008s
None of those publications are leftist in the least. However, they do all happen to share a very strong neoliberal bias—which would put one in more of a corporate centrist bubble—akin to watching just CNN and MSNBC on cable. If you want news without extra commentary, just go straight to Reuters and/or AP.
Is that actually true? Because I thought it was "content" owners hunting for torrents containing their stuff and then sending DMCA complaints (or local equivalent) to the ISPs of everyone in that particular swarm.

Are there really ISPs that just blanket block all torrents? I've never used one that does.
Well yes but that is a whole other rant. It’s been right under the threshold of “annoying enough to remember how to mute a phrase in Twitter’s web client” for a while.
Same here, but I have no ethical qualms about going nuclear. I don’t have time to run the maze of bs dark patterns that companies concoct to try to force me into paying them.

Whenever I’m trying to cancel anything, if there isn’t an obvious and easy way to do so, I just send an email to whatever customer help/etc. mailbox I can find notifying them of the cancellation with 30 days notice. In the mail I tell them that after 30 days I will claw back any payment via my credit card.

I’ve only had to do it twice, and only had to claw back 1 payment, but I’ve never had an issue.
I would never go back to that store and I would tell my friends not to shop there.
Windows 10 claims it distributes updates in a peer-to-peer manner. Or at least it used to. Does that still happen?
Reason magazine is in broadly the same territory.
Qwik – The HTML-First Framework
$100/mo cable, 5 lattes/week before work at $5/latte… it’s not so far off (unless you decide to litigate the definition of “few” or the average post-tax price of coffee in Nebraska or whatever). It’s illustrative.
That's unclear. The arson unit is investigating is all I've seen and can't find any updated articles on it.
USB C is a case study in "There's no way that can be according to spec" and being disappointed every single time
We have a "game" channel in our friend discord channel (like 10 or so if us). All interesting content has been completely drowned out with wordle shares, and there's no end in sight. I'm glad people are having fun, but I would like that channel back.
Same, although I use Nixos with Pantheon WM.

Since it boots to desktop in 10-15 seconds I don’t have to deal with the overnight power issues everyone complains about. And since it doesn’t run a hundred automatic background processes it’s much quicker to start working than my MBP was.

Printing on the other hand…
Much of trust among humans is built by close actions being near each other and feeling how relations unveils.

Digital things and means don't trust: we build protections, hoping that they are enough. Even mentally
.... and stop being ageist while pretending to support equal opportunities.
Mastermind with words.

It's success reminds me of Flappy Bird.
It's a mass phenomenon not a great game.
Oh yeah, and postman teams practically removed all your stored requests.

In the same space, i love how Telerik kept Fiddler Classic useable!
That’s the idea behind Artifical Wombs. NICU has a high thrive rate for 22-24 weeks premies. If we can keep the fetus alive till they can get to NICU care, the problem is solved.
If you travel its worth having multiple servers in different countries, but its also worth having different webmail from different providers.

I find the emails that get through from one email source in one country to another to be quite interesting. Are AV/AS systems blocking the email or something else?
Meh. I don't really have a reply for this because we just obviously have really different worldviews so it's not going to really work.

There is no consumer, or merchant, or hiding of transactions, or taxes, or Venmo, or Paypal, or any of this stuff.

I'm standing next to you and you have an apple. I give you $1 for apple. I don't care about any of that other shit, it's like this whole invented set of problems that you've got a whole lexicon for.

Yes, if I buy something online I don't send cash in the post. That should be bloody obvious.
The way motor carriers work is weird. Enforcement folks at the state and federal level sample for inspections based on company size, violation history, and areas of operating authority.

Basically the best drivers will only work for the best carriers, but you need to work up. If you work for a shitty company and get inspected, you are sanctioned for mechanical problems, including things like ripped seats. (Funny, as police car seats are always torn up)

Once you have those violations, you’re stuck working for shitty carriers.

Long story short, stay away from old trucks at night, especially near state borders. Chances are they’re problematic.
This was a good look back at 2048/Threes and all the clones

https://www.theverge.com/22914955/threes-2048-ketchapp-copyc...