skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect to stay connected periodically on FB to hear about deaths and funerals. For the generation that embraced it, communicating the fact of death seems mostly done over FB.
True enough, but his health declined in his late 80s. David Nichols is still going strong in his late 70s, Albert Hofmann died at 102, Ram Dass died at 88. I don't see psychedelics, and their use, as being particularly risky to physical health and longevity. Especially since many of us already consume red meat, tobacco, alcohol, etc.
Google is a psychopath business partner. It is important to understand this if you are to benefit from a relationship with them. They seem perfectly normal and useful, and then one day will "snap" and destroy your business, banning you for no seeming reason.

This seems a useful service. Yes, use it for your business benefit, but just understand that the psychopath may turn any time, and plan your business contingencies accordingly.
I'll try to do it without doxxing myself too much.

The team is criminally prone to overengineering. Feels like they read GoF and Uncle Bob's stuff, stopped there and concluded that engineering is a solved problem, with no tradeoffs involved. They're writing 2003-style Java in a language that's not particularly conducive to OOP (Javascript). Any time I solve something by writing a plain old function, my MRs are brigaded with kind suggestions that have an undertone of condescension. "Do you think this would be better solved by implementing the [Strategy pattern]?", "This hashmap seems a little out of place, have you considered adding some encapsulation here?" etc.

The signal to noise ratio in the codebase is woeful and finding out how anything works requires a JetBrains IDE and spelunking gear. I don't mind that, I love brownfield projects. The problem is that we keep moving in this direction and that I'm being forced, or at least firmly suggested, to keep producing more "brown".

The lead agrees that the codebase could be improved, but believes the churn (a couple of longstanding members with a revolving door of people) is on par with the rest of the industry and since the company is happy with us why fix what isn't broken. The team lead also don't code pretty much at all, so it's hard for them to perceive it as a priority. And the company is happy with us because the specific work we're doing is incredibly valuable -- we could be doing half as good. and still blow every other team out of the water because of the intrinsic value of our work. As long as our production doesn't go down every other day, we're the starchildren :\
You find this out the hard way when you design circuit boards for HF applications.
MicroMacro: Crime City takes home German ‘Game of the Year’ prize
Link to install the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iiasa.cama...
Brain disorders (like fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, which can be caused by drinking moderately before becoming aware of pregnancy) can do that to children of well-behaving and loving parents.
Now I’m wondering what proportion of wind is itself powered by heat vs. Coriolis forces…
> This law establishes a default position in case no prior arrangement for a medium of exchange had been agreed to or requested in a contract or such a medium of transaction could not be reasonably accommodated.

Yes. I think this is ultimately the crux of the matter, i.e. the moment that reasonable alternative(s) have been offered then the whole "cash is legal tender" thing (basically) goes out the window.

There was an interesting ruling in Europe[1] in relation to Euro cash where it was even ruled that European government bodies are not obliged to accept cash. The ruling basically said exactly what @Dracopheonix pointed out:

"Limitations on payments in notes and coins, established by Member States for public reasons, are not incompatible with the status of legal tender of euro banknotes and coins, provided that other lawful means for the settlement of monetary debts are available"

[1] https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/european-court-justice-deli...
Apple has been known to gradually implement new features, to first roll them out and refine for private usage and then once the feature is stable make it available as a public API.

Mark my words in two or three years Apple will ban developers from using third party A/B testing frameworks and require them to use the Apple-provided solution based on triald.
Protonmail is one of the few remaining email hosts that let you create a free account without a verified mobile phone number. It probably does get used for spam quite a bit - relatively to gmail/outlook/etc., not in absolute terms that is, IME most spam is from compromised hosts and botnets. Then again, the major mail providers, especial Microsoft, are really trigger happy and don't seem to care about the damage they do to smaller providers so it could just as well be lazyness or intentional anti-competitive behavior. I think at some point we will need legislation to keep email an open federated system.
Except it's been proven again and again that this is not even remotely the truth.

The number of people who can properly analyse complex software to uncover what it actually does is a line asymptotically approaching zero. While OpenSSL is an overused example, it still remains a good one.
EU lawmakers set to tighten up on crypto transfers
Dear diary! Today on HN, some advertising person compared advertising persons to Joan of Arc, and by the way, everyone's a con artist anyway so why worry?

There are nuances, but there is also bullshitting yourself.
This looks a lot like "GPS Status" and it used to be really good. Recent comments on the Play Store do not sound good though.
vscode lets you turn off analytics in the settings (IMO it should be off by default, untill a crash is detected).

Isn't that enough?
> while at the same time not adding a burden to any potential competitors (and thereby strengthening the existing monopolies)

Expecting some level of support being provided, especially in a paid B2B engagement, doesn't stifle competition. If a competitor can't provide basic support, especially when they're just starting up, then it's best that that business fails.

They're essentially modelling their business plan based on Google's worst attributes. That's not competition I'd like to see develop a foothold, or the type of competition we should be encouraging, let alone structure our laws to support.
WikimediaStatus.net
Windows XP is back?
This is probably more a problem of expectations in pair programming than pair programming. It comes the easiest to extroverted people with "standard" thinking patterns that are mappet to language 1:1, I also have to translate thoughts into words which is more of an effort than actual coding. But you don't have to express everything with words, if I can see what you are doing I can just follow that. I can't imagine doing it always, but for onboarding and from time to time its great. Not just for knowledge of the system, but learning how other people flows are completely different, what tools they are using and how their workflow looks like, etc.
You're probably right about card payment being a condition of the contract, but a contract has to be enforced by a court: the police, if they turned up, would shrug their shoulders and say it's a civil dispute. In the somewhat unlikely event of an English court being willing to accept the case and take it seriously, I would guess it would probably order that the diner pay the bill (which they could now do in cash because it is now a debt and I'm assuming traditional legal tender rules still apply), and that the restaurant pay the (probably much larger) court costs because, seeing as the diner had already offered to pay the bill in cash, the restaurant is clearly to blame for the matter coming to court and everyone's time getting wasted. The restaurant might also have to pay the diner's legal costs, if there were any, if the diner made a good impression of not having deliberately caused trouble.
I saw this reported here in the UK. I believe it was also mentioned in a recent Unherd article about the dangerous implications of this misuse of powers, but I’m sure you are capable of using a search engine.
They just indented their urls and the formatter now thinks it is code.
Before Facebook we were on Hi5 and Myspace, before that Usenet, Geocities,...

The time will come for Facebook as well.
He died at 88. Didn’t have heart trouble till 82. Didn’t have dementia till 86. And he took more (types of) drugs than any human ever. So, he was just a little bit more healthy than average, no?

Edit: Thanks for sending me down the 5-HT2b rabbit hole. This was the cause of the Phen-Fen appetite suppressant heart issues. All psychedelics do seem to affect 5-HT2b receptors. I assume this is a dose dependent effect—where a daily high dose of Phen-Fen would be much more dangerous than occasional low weight psychedelic doses. But I appreciate the grounded caution and more research is clearly needed, ideally before I’m 70+.
I think so. From what I gather from people who do use it, it's all about marketplace and business related groups. So it's basically Craigslist and yellowpages for cold calling at this point. These sorts of features simply don't work on their own, real use is what let's you get away with sticking ads in there, if all anyone ever sees are ads they change the channel.

Personally I think all the old guard of social media is dying, and doing their best to hide it. You smell the desperation in their decisions. YouTube, Instagram, twitter, Facebook, reddit, they all seem out of style and things like tiktok, discord and Snapchat seem to be where the hype is. Of course, they're dying at different rates, but they seem to have decided at some point that ux innovation was over, they were done iterating and began to focus on increasing profitability regardless whether decisions improve ux or not, meanwhile new companies began experimenting with different ux approaches and business models. I expect in a few decades it will be common wisdom that social media trends change fast and no social media company will expect to be able to rest on their size and buy up the competition forever.
They need to bring back the Jabulani from the 2010 World Cup
Ask HN: Why is the UX of the human brain so user-hostile?
why do we act in ways which harm ourselves? Why is it so hard to change ones ways?
Why U.S. Population Growth Is Collapsing
Redis Stack sounds like it provides the same features that ArangoDB does. Anyone done a comparison?
I predict this will encourage other market places (eg as Fiverr.com) to continue to go up market.
Vienna’s jews were rounded up into camps perfectly legally according to the Law. I don’t think this is a route you really want to go down.
Agreed, this will just make the abusers-vs-algorithm arms race iterate faster, while commercial social media giants watch from distance and take notes, receiving valuable research for free. :)
For the exact same reason a transformer works when it isn't grounded. Electromagnetic fields do not require a ground. But adding a ground to an AM radio does help to boost the signal (as does a long wire antenna to the top of the hot side of the ferrite coil).
Any tips on the best way to discern the truth?
I get "56 961 719 bytes (567,5 MB on disk) for 147 851 items" on my work laptop, which is definitely not enrolled in any kind of beta programs, and "56 157 910 bytes (566,4 MB on disk) for 147 806 items" on my home computer, which I unboxed yesterday.
Sure but some of us (self included) seem to have a bias towards waiting for perfect information to appear.
I looked at one of the files:

`~/Library/Trial/Treatments/SIRI_DIALOG_ASSETS/factorPacks/6242008c0f185b3e2ef6bf8e/assets/com.apple.siri.dialog.socialconversationfl#d5b431b/dialog/SocialConversation.catfamily/dalWhoIsYourValentine.cat/en.cat.bin`

the file is gzip compressed and the decompressed data reveals some strings that are probably related to the question asked in the `cat` file:

tag:valentine";Only localize if Valentine's Day is relevant to your localeJ2�SS[If I could have a Valentine, it would be all 7.5 billion people on Earth. That is<sub alias=",">…</sub> a lot of heart-shaped lollipops.]:�SS[If I could have a Valentine, it would be all 7.5 billion people on Earth. That is<sub alias=",">…</sub> a lot of heart-shaped lollipops.]

So this isn't just about a/b testing but also about feeding current data into Siri to allow some local processing of timely events.

Do note though, that I have Siri disabled on my Mac, so this is of questionable value
> I've never understood why a new ball in introduced only at the tournament itself

Well, its a simple answer I think - its the way to sell the most amount of balls and maximise profit.

Footballers (all professional sportsmen really) are entertainers - they are there to harness the energy we have for what they do, and turn it into profits.
Yeah, I can't think of a single real app or website I've seen that uses this style. It seems instead like a single designer doing some self-promotion by inventing these new "trends". And this one seems to be inspired by cheap DVD menu screens from the 2000s.
Here's a fun experiment along those lines: https://koaning.github.io/human-learn/ It's not a game, but it is investigating how having a human in the loop can improve ML models.
scrcpy + an app like opencamera works great for me
What's New in Python 3.11?
You can just manually install the official Firefox linux release. I've always done this since the Debian Iceweasel days and it works without issue.
I mean, he's using relative tolerance, not absolute. Most common arithmetic operations should be well behaved w.r.t. relative tolerance, unless you're using denormalised numbers.
Delphi Still Alive
Grounded a plane, yes, sorry. I meant they forced it to land (in the US case, by having neighboring countries close their airspace mid-flight).
Bear in mind that Scott is a big fan of puns. It might not be the phone number that is worth knowing.
No they don't, that's old news. 28 year olds chasing validation use Instagram. It's on its way out too. Real young people use discord, Snapchat and tiktok.
JDK9+ is important because Spring already prevents access to `class.classloader`, but it can be worked around thanks to modules (i.e. `class.module.classloader` works).
Of course not?
Silently dropping mail is something that should just not be tolerated. We need to enforce that email providers either deliver something (to the inbox or spam folder) or reject the mail at submission time - with legislation if needed.
> There are Reddit-like and YouTube-like implementations.

https://join-lemmy.org/ and https://joinpeertube.org/ that is. More on https://fediverse.party/.
My point isn't "the US is bad because it doesn't respect international law".

My point is that the US is willing to go pretty damn far to put some high-profile dissidents in a hole and throw away the key, and there is very little pushback both internally and internationally, which kind of undercuts the whole "the US government would hesitate to do X because whistleblowers would stop them" argument.
There's still plenty of uncommon words that are easy to spell. "Anodyne" is a good example, it even sounds cool, but sadly means something not so cool.
Ripple: Going Direct with Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pdf
I still have an account, but use it infrequently. Its really just life support for friendships and connections which have been in a vegetative state for years.
CVEs are frequently created for minor issues, like the recent Jackson bug that has very specific (and not frequent) case.
Does the End of Cash Mean the End of Privacy?
It's because it's BS. A football is a football. They make a new ball to sell it, and the players don't complain cause the changes are negligible in a real world environment. Wind and human imprecision have a much larger effect on a ball's flight than the difference in texture between a regular ball and a world cup ball.
Is it also possible to buy meth and turn it into ephedrine? That would be phenomenal
Why is it called SerenityOS Browser? Will it not run on other OSes?

And what language(s) do they use?
Solar-powered robotic beekeeping
> Nobody starts out as a superstar.

The superstar is a dictator with a strong halo effect. Think of any superstar developer and look into how they achieved that status. It's almost a certainty they were left alone to their own devices for great lengths of time. Which neatly coincides with...

> We also notice who's helping the team reach the next level and who's simply in it for themselves.

Capitalism relies on a contradictory stance: that the best employees are actually socialists that believe they are capitalists. Which is to say that a company wants employees that believe in the greater good (i.e. the team) but the employees need to feel like they are participants in capitalism through their efforts at their job. Otherwise they will realize they are simply being screwed (and probably demand real socialism, or a seat at the big boy table of capital). Adam Smith's self-interest is an inconvenience for the company. We even talk about such people with disdainful language such as "ladder climbers" or "sociopaths". We feel cheated when we see someone get a promotion by not playing by the established rules of the commune. Which is pretty much how all promotions happen. Similarly, few people get hired by going in the front door.

Businesses abhor competition. They get the government to rig their markets and carry their losses. They desire monopoly. So you have the socialist employee aspiring to be a participant in capitalism while the capitalist corporation aspires to socialism.

But let's cut to the chase: what this entire topic is fundamentally about is how to make your labor more predictable. More uniform. More interchangeable. And, ultimately, replaceable. Because, if labor was treated less like cattle and more like creative, responsible, independent adults we would not be having this discussion. The discussion we are having now is about how to babysit. That's literally why management exists. To manage. Human resources. Managers don't want employees messing up the production schedule and HR doesn't want employees messing up their legal standing. In addition, managers concern themselves with threats to their job.

Corporations want labor that is stupid enough to play along but smart enough to get their job done within the specified parameters. The illusion falls apart once labor realizes it and is powerless to change it (manifested as burnout, apathy, or rebellion). Then the stick comes out.

The absolute worst managers I've had were in the service industry. There, the stick comes out faster because it's much harder to convince someone they are getting a fair deal making $6 an hour. We, in the IT heavens high above Metropolis, don't often feel that type of oppression. But the dynamic is the same.
Temporary issues accessing Proton services
I would say fortunately.

Oracle premier support for JDK 8 ends today.
The author seems young (eg referring to early iphones as "early days")... so young they don't realise that this is all cyclic fashion.
Kubernetes only exists because people wanted to do Application Servers in any language, and now they are rediscovering them trying to sell us on Kubernetes + WebAssembly, the irony.
The UK (when part of the EU) limited the fees Visa and MasterCard can charge — 0.2% of the transaction for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards.

Electronic transfers (made by website, telephone, app, in the branch etc) between bank accounts are also free for consumers, although I don't think there's any rule requiring this.
Oh, I came across this long ago and forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder! Hope you will find funding via Prototype Fund too!

> Would you pay a doller per month for such?

For what? Hosting or development? I'd definitely pay $1 for development. :)

BTW, you say #Seppo, but the repo says ShaarliGo. Are you considering a name change?
Yeah this is impossible because code that isn't written cannot document itself and then the only option is to have a comment. And sometimes the meaningful thing is exactly what doesn't exist. For example here we're not doing X because of Y.
thanks for the laugh
Also experiencing this, ProtonStatus[0] is reporting "Some systems are experiencing issues", although all circles are green.

Loading / sending e-mail only yields an orange banner saying "Servers are unreachable. Please try again in a few minutes"

Edit: Mobile Apps, Bridge and Web Application is now reporting performance issues

[0] https://protonstatus.com/
> a unified ethnic group composed of genetically distant sub-groups

African-Americans are such group. In Africa, they have many different ethnicities. Their descendants in America are all African-Americans, they dont differ at all between those who are from Nigeria 200 years ago and those who are from Angola. Within Africa, there are Nigelians and Angolans and they are distinct ethnicities.

White people in America are such group. The descendants from Germans and French and Poland are all white Americans. In Europe, they are all different ethnicities.
Or proper graphics programming as well.
LOL, I read this as Apple Music Radio
Like I said, their website has become just unusable to me. I'd rather quit Twitter than use that.
It was obvious your suggestion was a joke. But there was a slightly surprising reason (besides the other obvious ones) that your joke-suggestion would be a bad idea. Hence it seemed interesting for the general discussion to explain this reason.
Maybe you should contain your outrage until it's based on something other than uninformed speculation.
> Either that, or the world should transition to Fedora.

So, instead of volunteering for Debian, volunteer for IBM?
What does it mean functionally to move it to snap exclusively? Removing it and maybe some of its dependencies from ubuntus default apt repositories? Would there be issues building it and providing it in a custom ppa?
CLove-Unit: Unit Testing for C made simple (also with IDE Extension)
“favors user experience” is such complete and utter BS, I cannot trust who writes stuff like that.
I've also disabled Siri and my ~/Library/Trial directory is only 3.6M (with no SIRI_DIALOG_ASSETS dir - so no valentines for me).

Maybe you should check that Siri is still disabled on your Mac?
I found the book enjoyable but drawn out. Felt like there was a bit too much repetition of concepts.
Makes sense about not wanting to go boating.

I've been deep into distributed consensus the past year—working on a 1 million TPS replicated state machine called TigerBeetle [1]. I would have enjoyed even more detail, only to understand the problem better, but I loved this line: "With me so far? Neither am I."

[1] https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle
> The main benefit is updating the webapps w/o restarting the server, itself.

I've never had this work properly in the long term, to be honest. Restarts with the Jenkins plugin would randomly freeze and fail or there would be memory leaks after too many restarts, or weird errors about it not being possible to properly clear up the resources from previously exploded/extracted .war archives.

Though i might have just been unlucky, who knows.
Britain has the Co-operative Bank, which isn't a cooperative company (one owned by its members), but was owned by a cooperative company.

The USA has many credit unions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_Bank
Reminds me of a math limerick:

(12 + 144 + 20 + 3*sqrt(4))/7 + 5*11 = 9^2 + 0

A dozen, a gross and a score

Plus three times the square root of four

Divided by seven

Plus five times eleven

Is nine squared and not a bit more