skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm dubious because none of their sources saying so have names.

Makes me wonder if their sources are trying to inspire fear to drum up business.
I don't know what it is like in the US but the UK banks charge quite a lot to deposit cash (Barclays is 0.9% for example). Also for a small business it's yet another job that the proprietor will need to handle themselves. Then you have the problems with staff dipping into the till, this almost sank the business of someone I know.
> Finally they transfer you to an easier assignment in the Moscow embassy. You make Vladimir Putin’s phone start ringing at weird hours of the night so that he never gets enough sleep to think entirely clearly. It’s an easy job, but rewarding, and no assassins ever bother you again.

Man... I really wish they hadn't..!
A cash-only society is also a more expensive one, for everyone: not only individuals are forced u to opening a bank account and owning a card, but the businesses have to pay fees to accept card payments.

I have seen many small businesses go back to cash only at the reopening last year to save money. If we stretch mentally, maybe a seemingly easier, more secure means of payment (cashless) can ruin the web of small shops in our cities...
> At the time when Debian 11 was about to be released, PHP 8.0 was 10 months old yet Debian's 11 was released with PHP 7.4. That makes PHP 7.4 the standard in Debian stable for at least 3 years after its release. But PHP 7.4 only gets upstream support until 28 Nov 2021 and security support is permanently ended at 28 Nov 2022, which is seven month from now. This means that unless Debian has some really good C developers, no one can provide any security fixes for PHP 7.4. Not only that, no one outside of Debian will be monitoring problems with PHP 7.4 because everyone else will long since have upgraded to PHP 8.

It’s a case of bad timing. Packages for PHP 8 were uploaded shortly before the bullseye freeze, which didn’t sit well with the release managers. See bug #976811 [1]. The maintainer also mentions in that bug thread that Microsoft will provide security fixes for PHP 7.4 after the EOL date.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976811
It’s the “if they can’t have bread, why don’t they eat cake?” response to the small business owner needing ads. They’ve never tried to advertise a small business critical to their livelihood. If they had, they’d know. That’s why their response is tone deaf and unrealistic.
Back when I tried mastodon a couple years ago, the friction required to interact with users and content from other instances was incredibly annoying to the point of turning me off completely. Favoriting something should not take more than a single click regardless if it's from my instance or not. This doesn't appear to be addressed (was it already addressed in an earlier version?)
This article is full of inaccuracies and errors.

> Due to the sheer size of the current Debian release it is infeasible for a small team to be able to audit all the packages, so there is a system of prioritizing packages which are more security sensitive.

This was, at best, poor communication. Of course nobody would ever audit all of 90,000 packages, easily billions of LOC. Especially not when the vast majority of these packages have a very small user base.

> The fact of the matter is that Debian has long been experiencing a decline in the amount of people willing to participate in the project.

The author is claiming an assertion of the fact. From a very recent thread "Is Debian sending people away" [1], there is no decline.

> Before that, Michael Larabel, the former leader had these ridicules points in focus for the future of Debian.

I don't know who they are, but they are not a former Debian Project Leader [2].

And so on.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2022/03/msg00037.htm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Debian_project_leaders
Saved you a click, these are only advices among the ballast:

> For starters, try to disconnect from work and social media. Dedicate some time to yourself and do something that makes you happy, whether it’s reading, going for a walk, or spending time with family and friends. You can also use the weekend to catch up on sleep.

> That’s why professionals recommend taking a break from work at least one day each week. And not just any kind of break — a real break. That means no checking email, no working on projects, and no worrying about what’s happening at the office.
That should teach tech stuff never to leave reviews and comments, too much risk involved.

This reminds me of how people self censure their real opinions in authoritarian regimes. It creates a climate against creativity and innovation, bringing the system down in the long term.
Banks already massively abuse this power, and in any case the UK and US have laws that allow seizure of cash and other assets in criminal cases.

So do private corporations like Ebay, which have a history of closing private accounts for random reasons.

But for context, this is a scare story without any real substance in the UK's premier far-right paper for rich kooks. The Telegraph is notorious as a non-reputable source, and I would be very surprised if there any serious moves to ban cash in the UK - or the US - any time soon.
No need for analogies. It's literally forcing the public to use - and give money to - private entities.

Banks borrow money cheap. Can a regular person do that? No. Of course not.

It's clearly about control/money. Same thing
This is the situation in Germany for example. You need to keep many paper originals for 10 years. You can follow a process called „ersetzendes Scannen“ but I‘m not quite sure how that works.

For me I just scan everything and than put it in a binder with a label (like 2022-1) and put the same label on the digital document. This way I still have the document and will be able to find it if needed, but I don’t have to worry about where to put it. They all just go into the same binder until it is full.
> Once you have a team full of experts, you're now spending two programmer hours to do every bit of work that could have been done in one programmer hour by a single expert.

You’re forgetting that it’s impossible for any one person to keep all the details of even a medium sized code base in their head.

I imagine the initial “planning” phase of implementing a change would benefit heavily from pair programming because it avoids the issue where you write a bunch of code to find out that it doesn’t work because of this one detail that you forgot.

For the learning (“knowledge transfer”) aspect, though, I think you’re right that it’s possible to reach a point where writing the actual code (not the design) as a pair is not worth it.
Why so scared of meds? From what I hear ADHD meds do work for a lot.
Dunno - did you see that Waymo is operating autonomously in SF now? I think that the revelation of the complexity of the real world is the most interesting part of the story.
Sure. I've been diagnosed with very severe ADD and I've been programming since I was 8 (now 34), professionally since ~18. I took medication for ADD but have since stopped, as it basically caused me to sit for 9 hours and work with no breaks or food. I still have plenty of issues related to ADD, but I'm good at what I do all the same.

It has way bigger consequences outside of work for me. Things which you are very passionate about are easier to focus on than things you are not, regardless of AD(H)D.
My little nephew categorized all Facebook users as "40 year old Moms drinking wine". Among a certain generation, the possession of a Facebook login is a cause for ridicule.
Official repo [0] says more than 80,000.

Edit: it seems to be the largest software repo according to this (2020) [1].

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-has-been-the-largest-r...
In a SoC (all phones) and most laptops with "integrated graphics", that's the way it works. Basically a multi-processor system with shared memory. It is actually more common in the wild than the PCIe model, where the GPU has dedicated memory.
You understand that rich people are already being taxed more than 80% right now, right?
It's not my introduction we're critiquing here. I don't give one fuck what Paul Graham invests in and I can't wait until he realizes nobody younger than him who isn't desperate to be a CEO-bro gives a shit about his opinion.
Lack of an assigned CVE is a really bad reason to discount anything, it's a bureucratic process with various tangential limitations, rules and delays.
Same, I didn't know what to expect when I started reading. Initially, (for the first two petitioners) I was expecting this to be one of those "how to optimise yourself" blogs that have been quite popular on HN and the author was using the idols for some sort of allegory to make a point. I'm glad I continued reading, what a delightful story.
Are you referring to existence of the exploit they say they sent to the Spring team?

I think in general it's a bad social standard that people get asked for proof by exploit about disclosed vulnerabilities. At most it should be a tool to convince the vendor if they're not competent enough to see the exploitability right away. In many cases developing it is more work than finding the hole, you're just doing work toward faster weaponisation by bad guys, and distracts from vulnerability research.
Step one of six on their site:

> Create an account, or sign in if you already have one.

The video is free.

You need scisors.
Unfortunately you're wrong. While some companies haven't yet made the leap from 8 to 11, most have. You'll find that Java 8 support is being deprecated if not outright removed across the JVM ecosystem.
Thanks for wording this so well. I notice it when a coworker asks for help, I usually have little idea how to help them when looking at the problem together, unless it's something obvious. But when I look at the code by myself, my mind is somehow free to explore it in "the natural way", and the answers may come quickly.
Russia already has versions of these in operation and with high adoption rate.

As nation states align into regional blocs, we can expect the continual fragmentation of the internet. US bloc will be dominant and default for most, but Russia (+ neighbours Belarus, Kazahkstan etc), China big enough to be on its own, M/E - what is going on there? And the big one, India, under Modi should be thinking about national alternatives to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter et al.

Each bloc will of course be 'free from foreign influence and disinformation'
I pretty much stopped using cash because of the pandemic. Pretty much every place I shopped refused cash to start with and I never went back. I had the same £60 in my wallet for two years and only used it because the notes are going out of circulation soon.

Having said that I still keep some cash on hand for emergencies.
You don't need to. All you'd have to do is hack up one of the reader view extensions so that it's triggered when loading a page rather than by clicking a button.
Switching every two years?

I just start to get going 1 year in. That's when I've learned enough to start having instincts for what is going on.

How do companies survive with that sort of turn over?
In next 10-20 years we all will be happily implanting chips with information about banking, tax, health, vote, employment history, criminal history, credit history, social score, DNA records, fingerprint records, driver license, keys to home, car and office, the BIOS of your notebook and phone.

In name of progress (e.g. cars vs horses), whoever does not have an implant will be designated as anti-chipper and will be marginalized, not being able to participate in most of social events, like sport and musical events, driving cars, public transportation, flying, shopping.

Maybe our generation (20-60 olds) will be able to come-by, moving out of big cities and living country side, the new Tick-Tock generation will not be able to understand how the life could be otherwise.
better advice than whole long article

though how should I find out about important news without reading the news? like what are current COVID/travel restrictions etc? it's easier to just check news site once a day than check dozens of gov sites
In the statement you quoted he seems to carefully avoid backing the protesting farmers, no?

I really don’t see how you could reasonably read that as a statement of support.
Best example on how politicians and big techs prevaricate.
I got diagnosed at 35. Definitely do it -- it's been life changing for me.

But don't stop with a diagnosis, get some coaching from an ADHD specialist. There's so much more to it than just attention -- emotional dysregulation, time-blindess, executive function impairment.

It's a whole thing. But with support you can cope with most of it. And most importantly learn to separate the condition from.your character.
There are a couple of (not very popular) plugins that can set Reader view as default. One of them is Automatic Reader View[1] which has an option to to show all pages in reader-view.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-rea...
> if someone can explain the architecture to you

This should happen anyway - pairing or no. What kind of onboarding are people doing where architecture overview isn’t a part of it?
Since “10x” was mentioned, two points to make:

- “10x developers” require 10x pay
- this is wanky as shit
Kaldi hybrid models (mixture of DNNs and HMM acoustic modelling with WFST based decoding) are still competitive. They’re only really outperformed by the largest models (and even then, that may be a function of investment in man-hours in tuning and data cleaning, rather than the capacity of the underlying models).
> for instance, any node with class skyscraper is considered hidden (maybe the logic is that those elements are shrouded by clouds).

Ha, you wish. Skyscraper is the name of a standard Internet advertising unit. It’s fairly common for adblockers to block it. https://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/skyscraper_ad/
In the analogy of pushing the child, the length of the swing determines the resonant frequency. In that case, is the LC (length*capacitance?) circuit the equivalent of swing length?

Also, with pushing a child, I don’t need to push every cycle, I can push every other cycle (1:2), every third/4th cycle (1:3,1:4), or 2 out of 3 (2:3), etc.

Is there an equivalent with radio? Can the LC circuit be tuned to half the signal frequency and still pick up?
Where are the specs? Am I the only one failing at finding them?
You could try paying for the content instead of leaching it for free.
Try about:reader?url=YOUR_URL_HERE. If that does not work, it means the URL does not support it.
>> Before that, Michael Larabel, the former leader had these ridicules points in focus for the future of Debian.

>I don't know who they are, but they are not a former Debian Project Leader [2].

That one at least appears to be a brainfart by the author; they meant Sam Hartman. Michael Larabel is the author of the Phoronix article about Sam Hartman.
> Yet Void is also suffering from a lack of maintainers, just like Debian, and as a result, many third party packages in Void Linux is hopelessly outdated.

On a tangent, i've been using Void for a couple of years now and i'm very happy with it.
All the packages i want are up to date ( and i do not require LTS or backported security fixes ).

Things like runit and xbps-src are relatively simple. I can htop and know why every process was started.

Maybe I'd just reached the right level of skill to 'get' it once i switched, but i never had the feeling i was in control with other systems such as systemd and apt.
why no free nights? I put kids to sleep around 19:30 and then I have free evening mostly just watching TV shows/movies and surfing to rest up until midnight, heck I even enjoy weekends with them, anything beats work
Yeah you just knew it's gonna be Hermione situation again.
Maybe you were looking for 2c-d "the tofu of drugs"? I would be >_>

https://erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal023.sht...
I’m not convinced anyone is saying people are leaving in droves… but for infrastructure where trust is key, when it comes to new customers, especially smaller ones? I think some are keeping it in mind.
Rob Pike quantifies your sentiment as "Orthogonal Features"[0][1], which isn't necessarily equivalent to "simplicity of feature set". But I do understand what you meant.

I think in this context tho, developer ergonomics can mean different things to different people.

It's easy to see how "Orthogonal Features" can be interpreted as developer ergonomics, as its explicitly limiting potential (not all) anti-patterns and produces fairly idiomatic code across the ecosystem. I'm able to go to almost any Github repo that contains Go code, and easily determine whats going on, whats the flow, etc. Certainly ergonomic in that context.

[0]: https://go.dev/talks/2010/ExpressivenessOfGo-2010.pdf

[1]: https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623555
Like IRC, but instead of controlling a server, channel or user account yourself you are in full merci of the auto ban bots on a closed platform. Instead of using one of thousands of thin clients you are forced to use one of their few thick ones, hungry for memory. And because nobody but discord can actually moderate, the platform is full of spam and scam. What they do against spam? Nothing, but requiring a phone number that works with their 2fa what automatically locks out people without a (supported) phone number, for a online chat.. what a time to be alive

Just like IRC, but doing everything wrong that made IRC great.
The article I link at the beginning of this one, Representation and Uncertainty, is about exactly this - how to think about the extrapolated concept of representation for life in general. Self-promo I know but I think anyone who resonates with your comment would really enjoy it: https://desystemize.substack.com/p/representation-and-uncert...
You might also want to check the other projects if you're not a python developer:

* https://github.com/redis/redis-om-spring

* https://github.com/redis/redis-om-node

* https://github.com/redis/redis-om-dotnet
My Hacker News client HACK for iOS and Android has reader mode ability browser. It can be set to be the default for hacker news sites in the app too. While on iOS, I was able to use the reader mode feature provided by SFSafariViewController, that wasn't available on android.

So I had to read a ton about this. I ended up using a heavily modified Kotlin version of Readability:

https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1464477788
Are there good con artists and bad con artists? Or is the entire profession bad? Some things don’t benefit society as a whole, just the in-group engaging in it.
> politicians who are ultimately at fault

In a democracy, it is the voters who are ultimately at fault.

But perhaps more to the point, it is the system that is at fault, and the system is very complex: institutions, physical infrastructure, social mores, common beliefs, canonical media and stories, traditions, language, ....

You can’t just point fingers at individual people in a large imperfect system and pretend that swapping them would fix it. Troubleshooting and improving large complex systems is really hard and improvements are usually incremental, except sometimes in extraordinary crises.
We are talking about a seperate explore tab, not your regular feed, which is still (and always will be) chronologicaly ordered.
> Banks borrow money cheap. Can a regular person do that? No. Of course not.

There are a plenty of cheap loans available to regular persons, but of course you have to be an adult to access those.
It already has been replaced, we are dependent on internet access and electricity.
The model generates a large number of solutions, then they filter those that actually compile and generate the right output when executed, then they cluster to select a few (<10 solutions) and submit them. They are not allowed to present too many attempts.

Here's a good analysis of the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9UAOmyah1A
For me, it’s sports schedules and scores. If I type MLS or NHL into Google, I get a schedule with todays games, standings, etc. DDG simply provides search results.

It’s honestly the only thing I still use Google for at this point.
Title should be fixed to say 9+ (as in the original source). I initially discounted the issue because v9 was a somewhat-experimental release that very few people ever ran in production; but later versions were mainstream, and if they are all vulnerable, then this is a major problem.
Nice! I'll try it out tomorrow finally.. after giving up on choco, and possibly on winget.

But in my case I wanted to leave something small (and busybox.exe is that small) /portable - for others to use (without the requirement to install scoop).
I question what is going wrong with Google at a management level. It's products have been undergoing a slow creeping rot since Brin and Page bailed from the company.

Google Search as a product is declining in usefulness due to a very silly decision to no longer support lexical queries(!) They've built a broken AI fad that delivers nothing but song lyrics and shopping results to long tail queries. The core product is rotting and no one is empowered to fix it.
It's called Corporate Memphis and it's a fad that graphic designers at seemingly all tech companies have fallen for despite the fact that it's ugly and people hate it.
You could deploy your own: https://github.com/google/seesaw | how-to: https://render.com/blog/how-to-build-an-anycast-network

Or have someone else deploy it for you: https://www.vultr.com/docs/configuring-bgp-on-vultr/ | https://netactuate.com/anycast/

All big cloud providers have anycast load balancer offerings. In my experience, Fly's load balancer is wayy more simpler than those to use (because it is the only way to load balance, like with Cloudflare).
Having a really good ability of viewing them, I feel like it relies on two separate skills :

- Fine voluntary control of your eyes' accommodation

- Ability for whatever system is creating your depth perception to be more "flexible", in the sense that it can more easily "lock" onto a depth perspective as well as switching between them.

Thinking about it now, I'm not even sure how much voluntary control people normally have over their eyes' accommodation, if not exposed to experiences that forces them to practice it. I can definitely remember a time where I was not able to focus my eyes at will, which makes me think that it's not something the majority of people can do (granted it was when I was a child, so it might just be something you learn with age).
Clerky is hiring senior software engineers (full-stack, Rails) everywhere
Where does the 5g come from? And, whats the distribution by economy and class, and by other dietary habits..

I mean sure: if there is some plastic leaching from tins, I get that. If the PET bottle my milk comes in leaches, I get that. But I eat a lot of fresh fruit and we bake our own bread. If the model assumes tinned fruit and package bread, without more information how can I assess my personal exposure?

How does tap water reduce 90k from bottled water to only 40k particle exposure? Whats the path of microplastics in the water supply? Did this assume everyone keeps tap water in plastic filter jugs? or that the water supply is plastic pipes and not copper or iron or ..

Again.. How much is this specific to a regime of water treatment in one economy?

I can believe this, if I get better evidence for this.
I can't imagine the plight of the unbanked is very high on the list of the Telegraph's concerns.
Rust also enthusiastically monomorphizes generic code. Templates vs generics seems to be more about the duck typing C++ templates use vs generics doing type parameters with statically checked constraints on the types.
They’ve always been ahead of Tesla.