skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cashless is not really an option in my country. For social security the state has the right to look into your complete transaction history. If someone would become unemployed and someone gave him 20$ to buy something, the state would again withdraw 20$ from the help the recipient receives.

While it is the task of the state to minimize tax burden of unemployed people, it isn't difficult to imagine that this is a bit detached from reality. Sure, there is exploitation of social security, but this kind of financial surveillance of people needing help isn't conductive to a solution. So in emergencies cash is more or less required to keep people afloat.

If we hadn't scrapped banking secrecy in the last decade or two, going cashless would be more viable. But to be honest, having some cash in hand still feels a lot better.

Also while I support social security, there is an effect that non-wage labor cost make buying work quite expensive. So a craftsman has difficulties to pay another. He would have to work countless hours to be able to finance the work of another for a single hour. The reality is that a lot is solved with undeclared work. There is of course abuse as well, but I would say that it has become mandatory to finance a lot of services people need. Otherwise many people would not be able to pay for it.

From my experience it is the urban population with lacking life experience that just sees the convenience of being cashless and doesn't even think about issues like this. Sure, if the greatest challenge is waiting in the supermarket line, cashless does seem to offer a lot.
> require good quality saws and a tight fit

The Aztecs and other South and Central American societies were capable of fine stonework so I think they at least had the potential to do fine woodwork.

Even a poor quality wheel and axle makes a useful wheelbarrow.
>Get tinted windows.

1) tinted front windows are illegal in CA, with very few exceptions

2) burglars break in on speculation, even if nothing is visible. That's why Teslas are constantly broken into via the right side rear passenger window -- immediate trunk access.
Technically you’re correct and I think he should have mentioned this. Would have been interested to see what kind of arguments he’d bring forth…

As I said in another comment though, making war costly is basically just waging war. Maybe it will become too costly in one month, maybe one year, maybe five. Maybe Russia will lob a couple of tactical nukes in the direction of Ukraine. Maybe China and India or India and Pakistan get into a hot war because Russia is distracted.

Exhaustion is not a precise strategy and it’s not a short-term or even mid-term strategy when one looks at the Soviet-Afghan war or the Vietnam war. Years of death and destruction can hardly be called a strategy.
> The US and NATO knew about troop build up 5 months back. They are as inept as the Russians in controlling/producing outcomes.

How could they have controlled the outcome? Especially that of a dictator dead set to recreate Imperial Russia?

NATO couldn't get involved directly in any way. Indirect measures such as sanctions would never have been approved preemptively, they had to wait for the attack first, in order to have public opinion accept sanctions.
The state handing money means that some parts of the state ruling infrastructure consider the cathedral building to benefit a small part of society - the part that keeps the "representatives" in power. Especially in Europe, where church power has waned in the last decades, I don't think it's appropriate for a government that is supposed to also represent Muslims or Atheists or Buddhists to spend significant resources on the building of a cathedral.

That being said: as a non-christian German I gave a - to me significant - amount of money to the Notre Dame rebuild. I like the idea of helping build a piece of art that will survive me.
I don’t know if it’s just because I hopped on the bandwagon in the past few months, but it really is starting to feel like Nix is gaining momentum.

You can use it on Mac, WSL, Ubuntu multiuser, Docker, in an nspawn container, or through NixOS on a drive. You can build a livecd iso or a Raspberry Pi image from the same flake that you use for everything else.

I work in embedded with Yocto every day, and I can’t help but think that Nix is going to eat their lunch in the next decade.

There’s really never been anything (usable) that’s like Nix. I think it’s inevitable that it takes over everything.
Amazing. Love muni-fiber efforts.
Salary negotiation strategies everyone in tech already knows – but you don’t
Out of curiosity, you got these scam calls in Finnish? I always thought that US was a specially good market for these scams because you have ~300m potential victims and a good supply of english-speaking people in poorer countries who are willing to participate on the scheme, so a Finnish-speaking ms support scam would be hard to understand from this point of view.
>Robberies are reported because that's corporate policy.

Most robberies are of non-corporate property. Unless the owner has a specific incentive (e.g. making an insurance claim after taking deductibles into account), there is no official report made, because there is no reason to.
No, you could do it in a way where the voter can verify their vote was recorded correctly but can't prove it to anyone else. Trivial method: require the voter to assign random numbers to each candidate. They remember the number of the candidate they chose. The voting system later says "you voted for 6".
You can run combustion engines on ammonia but I believe the most likely scenario is catalytic conversion back to H2 at high efficiency and use as hydrogen, supplementary to LNG or directly. It doesn't target cars very well at present.
> firefox that will never ever change its UI

You should probably promote /customizable/ UI.

It would be basic common sense, but given that I have seen Firefox versions use directly unbelievably insane UI, sheer lunacies - such as psychedelic progress bars in FF for Android -, good sense is what faults.
I'd be keen to hear why tmate isn't a good idea in terms of security.

As I understand it, the use of tmate is not so different from physically sitting next to a colleague and both of you taking the hot-seat with the computer.

Is the vulnerability around sending a shell to tmate.io? If so, I believe there is also an option to host the software on your own server.
Not tried that but I've heard it's even possible to build custom Android distros.
How to Fix the Broken U.S. Retirement-Savings System
> To offer low wait times you need drivers idling ready to pick up customers. Meaning you need to pay drivers in excess of what you will earn from riders.

That only matters if:

1. You want a larger geographical coverage

2. You want to push out competitors by undercharging.

Local-area Uber clones sprang up like mushrooms in the night when Uber pulled out of certain cities.

> Until you reach critical mass. This is what has lost Uber so much money.

Uber has lost that much money because they were trying to fend off competition and landgrab by charging less. The minute they have to charge what the trip really costs, then the market is suddenly a profitable one and competitors will come in.

My point was that landgrabbing in this market is pointless because you cannot price-gouge later. If Uber decided to raise their rates to become profitable, local-area equivalents will enter the now-profitable market.
You overestimate home many people even see grass these days :)
Maybe it is true to some extent but the mechanism is different: maybe those who have low self-esteem work harder to be more competent than those who are comfortable with what they know.
True. I still think spraying "the forest", a significant work of artisian carpentry, with flame-retardant foam would have been the way to go.
Thanks for all this! I really like the first `grep` solution. Dunno how I didn't think of that myself ...
If a bad app that isolates all of its actual functionality into an expensive subscription mode isn’t a scam, it’s at least a rip-off, and really walks the line between scam and terrible product priced outrageously. At which point it might as well be a scam, because there’s clearly dishonest marketing involved.

The regulation is that an egregiously bad app should not be allowed to be present on a top grossing list. Apple should inspect this case and allow dissatisfied customers to receive refunds accordingly and swiftly.
There’s actually a pretty interesting approach in which: voters can see that their vote counted, everyone can tally anonymous votes, and it is resistant to DoS https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RR14b.pdf

Of course, the real problem would be explaining to the general population that this works. Great in theory, but will never pan out
Zero trust, it’s not that you don’t trust your staff —- it’s that you don’t need to.
Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify
Null Island, the most real of fictional places [pdf]
Have you checked out Logseq? Joplin? All good alternatives IMO.
I wonder what about the third world countries with weak cyber policies.
The only output of the machine could be a bit of paper that you can view through a window and verify. Doesn't really matter if it's closed source.
I know that there’s a very active matrix channel for Nix on ARM that is mostly dedicated to pinephone/smartphone projects, so I imagine there’s some android tooling there but I don’t think it’s “android” in the AOSP sense.
36yo and worked in software all my life and I have never am had a burnout. I hardly have ever been stressed!
>people seem to forget that historically russians tend to fight on despite heavy losses.

Yeah, but only when they were defending their motherland from evil external invaders they could see and go face to face with, while now Russian territory is currently not under attack, so Russian troops have very low morale, knowing their being sent to fight Ukraine, a friendly country they have no beef with, and die there due to outdated equipment, poor leadership, bad quality MREs or none at all, and under the constat threat that somewhere out of sight lies either a Bayraktar drone or a guy with an NLAW ready to blow your shit up, all this so one maniac can have his old-age power trip.

Not exactly the combination of factors to motivate you to fight, when you could just as easily have been chilling at home in safety, like you did in the past 30 years, if it weren't for your great leader's blunder.
Yes, it really isn’t difficult to find someone to take either side of a claim. That happens every day.

During the Supercollider vs Hubble debate, where the US government would only pay for one, I remember reading how unimportant Hubble would be.

As for the race to the moon, I’m not sure where that stands as an investment. I’m certainly glad we did it because we still wouldn’t have done it. However, spending that large sum over a decade (2% of government spending a year?) is usually impossible to justify.

We can’t say, for example, “Before this decade is out we will… [insert bold goal]”

But hey, even if that goal was to cure cancer(s), it wouldn’t be inspiring enough and most would say it’s impossible. In the end, we’d have to settle for simply cutting the numbers of deaths dramatically
I got HP Zbook Power G8 for work. It was fine on a table, until one day I tried to use it on my lap while cross legged sitting. The corners of the display lid (now pointed downwards and back), were so sharp I couldnt leave my PC in my lap. I took a metal file and lightly filed the corners the same day, fixing the issue. While I was at it, I also dropped a little glue under piece of paperthin metal cover that was already getting loose. On a less than a month old laptop, boasting Generation 8 in its name...

The fact that the trackpad comes without dedicated buttons is a tradeoff of size, but the amount of force needed to perform a click (even on the side where least amount of force is needed {yes, it varies}) is so high that the mouse WILL move a bit before click is registered, as your finger gets squished. Using anything but touch-tapping on it is impossible with single finger.

That same year I got my first ever macbook, M1 Air. I guess I dont even need to explain the difference in every aspect comming to mind between those two machines to illustrate my point.
These inspired also us to open a hackerspace (or hacklab as we call them here). It has been interesting to see patterns happens in real life. Especially the Sine Wave pattern comes and goes by the time.

Also I recommend people to read through these.
I think this is just the classic problem of two engineers talking past each other. I think by "general purpose computing devices" the other poster means "general-*use* computing devices".
Often these pieces are written for the author's benefit, to help them sort out a topic in their head, more so than as a genuine attempt at education.

Thus, they tend to be at the level of the author rather than some imagined audience. That isn't wrong or anything I think. Not every piece of written text needs to be understandable by everyone.
Good to know. :)

Another "queer" naming issue in Windows (JFYI), backslash and ALT+0160:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/131103-win_nt~bt-can-be-omitted...
I wonder what would come of it. I added it to my bookmarks.
Not a bad assumption. I'd be shocked if they weren't all over this and I don't think NATO involvement is such a huge secret. We've been sending weapons, training people, donating billions, and probably sharing intelligence as well. And lately politicians are falling over each other for a photo opportunity with Zelensky in Kyiv.

There probably is a fair bit of clandestine operations going on inside the Ukraine as well. I would expect no less. Business as usual in an active war zone and the stakes are pretty high. From a NATO point of view, the Russians self destructing their army in this misguided war is a huge unexpected opportunity. I don't think anybody really expected that they'd go there but now that they have, it would be a shame to not make the most of it.

The Russians seem to have gotten stuck committing major troops, ships, planes, tanks etc. and it seems that they are losing quite a bit of that and also that it isn't actually enough. Not a good picture; no matter how you spin it.
It's sub-optimal, but I guess now you would have to trust the community build - https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-11-unofficial-lineage...
Many people in the fediverse have several accounts on different servers. I have an account on a Norwegian instance where I mostly follow and interact with Scandinavian folks and another account on of the bigger, international instances for more general use.

I think of the fediverse more like email, where it is natural to have a couple of accounts for different uses and with the possibility to host/manage your own.

Sure, you could make your own bubble if you really want to, but that takes some conscious effort, like blocking your server of from the rest of the network, basically functioning as a walledgarden. That is not default behavior.
The Russia–Ukraine crisis is bad news for China’s economy
The first oxygen producing organisms altered the planet way more than us. In a way, they terraformed Earth.
The blind taste tests I have seen were of self proclaimed wine lovers.
They can’t communicate with humans, and their thought patterns are likely very different to ours. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they are just as complex. Whales and dolphins especially.
US pledges not to conduct destructive anti-satellite tests
Accelerating Fully Homomorphic Encryption with an Open-Source FPGA
Pro tip: now use this info as a counter argument for things that will actually take tons of time or are totally impractical (bonus points if your claims are equivalent to "man's ingenuity can do anything" or invoke things like Alcubierre engines).
So we don’t have to trust that the company wrote it correctly. https://www.wired.com/2009/08/diebold-audit-logs
There is printf %q, a bashism I think

Sample usage to escape var called v
v="$(printf '%q' "$v")"
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Yes I do want to do the thing I just said I wanted to do
Really? Microsoft seems to never think about how to make stuff better for their customers and it is showing. There were a lot of good studios working under Microsoft as publisher, but these ideas are not conductive for better products or supporting developers.

And no, of course that is not an improvement at all and I doubt developers would see much of the returns here.

Sport games might be an exception here since advertising is already so ingrained in it that people might not notice anymore.
If you can verify your vote, how do you stop threats or bribery being used to buy votes?

Show me your receipt saying you voted for Big Ron and I’ll give you a fiver and/or won’t hit you in the knees with a spanner.
I thought it was Original Sin.

And we keep having original sins. The original sin of America is slavery. The original sin of the Internet is advertising. We ain't ever getting back in.
There's quite a good series on Netflix about the club called "Sunderland 'til I die". The timing was sort of perfect, when it started Sunderland had just been relegated from the Premiership (England's top tier) and I think it was intended to be a series documenting them rebuilding the team and immediately getting promoted back. In reality thought it didn't go like that at all. The team collapsed, their wealthy owner lost interest and stopped supporting them financially, they made a few management blunders and suffered more tragedy that I will not spoil.

I don't support the team, but I still found the series quite fascinating and found myself rooting for them to succeed. I was surprised to see two of my university friends in the show - Sophie (one of the backroom staff who clashed with the management) and another friend who happened to be in the crowd and got an extreme-closeup before/after a goal in one of the match sequences.
California agriculture doesn't produce a lot of important dietary staples, and the ones it does can pretty easily be grown in places that don't suffer from frequent droughts.
So much complaining. Look, someone telling you to read a manpage and integrate an existing solution is not elitism or sociopathy. Coupled with several factually wrong statements about "inherent security" and spyware.

I didn't find any curious or thought-provoking content on that blog.
Even trackpads that were actually clicking were still miles ahead to what I have in my latest generation HP bullsh*t
Yeah, this is similar to the "10x, but they work twice as many hours a week". It's not someone who's more productive, it's just someone who manages to be more productive by making everyone less.
In my part of Sweden, young women used to be alone with the cattle in the forest all summer (http://www.hhogman.se/summer-pasture.htm)

An ancestor of mine, something like a great-great grandmother, woke up to see a family of very small, about knee-high, people driving their flock of very small cattle.

This wasn't very unusual. Everyone knew about småfolk (little people) and they were usually described in similar ways. On Sundays they could be seen on the forest pathways leading to church, wearing traditional Sunday clothes.

This fascinates me. Of course I don't think there's a parallel society of tiny humans living in the Swedish forests but I don't think that most people were lying either. I wonder what makes you experience something like that.
I don't think any politician or really very many people at all have really built a career on cessation. The reason they are trying to ban vaping is because the health effects are still not well understood.

There is also the fact that many people who never smoked are getting into vaping and becoming addicted to the nicotine all the same. Not as bad as cigarettes, but not a healthy habit either.
I can install it. But it still wouldn't come up.
I use the Privacy Redirect addon for the same reason. On the rare occasion I want to visit twitter, I get redirected to nitter which unrolls these threads quite nicely.
Australian compulsory superannuation started in 1992 at 3%, stuck for years at 9% and is on 10% heading to 12% across the board. Tax free on retirement, reduced tax going in. It was instituted by a Labor government and almost universally runs via industry 'superfunds'. Voluntary contributions are permitted over the compulsory part to a ceiling.

Very few Australians don't benefit from it, temporary workers do incur some costs for no benefit and the very low paid lose net present value benefit.
That's not really how smear campaigns work.

Using a very extreme example: if I got 4 people to call you a pedophile, then people will believe it until you submit proof that you're not.

The problem is that it's impossible to prove the absence of something, so you're forced to push back on me: "Where's your proof that I'm a pedophile", where I can reply with anecdotes or other useless information.

The point is not to "prove" you are a pedophile in that case, the point is to make people associate your name with pedophilia, and to make it unclear if you are or if you aren't. 80% of people will not look further into it.

Pedophilia is probably too extreme of an example and people may be more critical of pedophilia accusations than, say, racism ones.
The phrasing of GP's comment implies that GP is an actual user of the system. Has actual experience. You shouldn't say "there's no way" etc to people who have experience when you have none.

I'm curious what an actual user of the system thinks the benefit of Autopilot is, compared to other cars that also require the driver's attention all of the time.
My goodness, well I think I know where your anxiety came from.
We are using already existing models based on open-source research. We have other models that OpenAI does not offer (e.g. super resolution) but they’re not in the app.

The reality though is that DALL-E 2 is still not open for access; open-source models are.

If you know how to get API access—besides waitlist of course—please let me know!
Oral history seems to be surprisingly robust. As an anecdote Socrates was critical of how writing makes you forget things.

https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...
Russia isn't exactly winning here, and russia has totally destroyed most of its soft power and degraded the impression of having a scary military in the process.

Like if you approach from a purely machevelian perspective:

* Nato's major enemy no longer has as many friends as it used to

* NATO now can witness russia's capabilities

*NATO members are now reminded why NATO is useful. Countries who previously didn't want in, suddenly do.

I don't know what NATO did/didn't do, but the outcome so far seems like the ideal one NATO would want geopolitically, so it doesn't seem like they are inept to me.
> A free OS with free firmware is definitely better than a free OS with proprietary firmware, but both of those are way better than a proprietary OS with proprietary firmware

How about all three? We have plenty of very good "open with proprietary firmware" distros, many very similar to debian (Ubuntu, PopOS, Mint, Manjaro...), but not that many good "fully open" ones. That is the whole point of distros. If we dilute Debian's fully open philosophy, we don't really gain anything in middle category, but lose one of the few remaining good fully open distros.

To fix your example:
"Oh, you say this Debian thing doesn't support my network card? I see why everyone recommended that Pop thing instead, I'll use that then."

Debian is not a friendly distro for users who don't know what they're getting themselves into and that's fine. That's why nobody should (and nobody does) recommend it to Windows users looking for their first Linux distro.
Schedule a cron job to run some program to heat up in the mornings.
One of the Laws of Power is to have a "harmless vice" to display your faults. It makes others feel more comfortable and secure around you, especially if you're a high achiever, when they can see an obvious flaw.