skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an ordinary person, who thinks democracy is mostly a sham to pacify the people with an illusion of agency, I am very interested in the answer to "What will they do next?", because the answers hint at how I can protect the people I care about. That being said, I don't think they are lawless. I believe they are operating by a code, and that the Roe reversal strongly hints at it, at least in part.

With the "engineering problem," I'm dubious of the whole enterprise. The combinatorics are well beyond even the best minds at this point. It's just high iq verbal wranglers making terrible messes, then using a barrage of re-definitions, convenient omissions, misdirections, PR campaigns, and jargon to cover their tracks. And they refuse to even scratch the surface on things like consciousness or the soul. The operating theory seems to be: "Turn everyone into a "last man" who wants for nothing, and it will all work out!" They get very angry and insulting when you quibble with this.

I'm fairly confident that, at the higher levels (tha one puh-cent! [in reality, a portion many orders of magnitude smaller]), the micromanagement is in service of a goal far more ambitious than any utopianism. They would like to reach for His throne. Mankind must be re-configured if they are to have any chance at this: the race, assembled into a synthetic divine being; the man, reduced to a cell. Judging by the present trend, this will probably be an existence of pure suffering.

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
What good would it have done for OP to list the names of "families that nobody talks about"? Listing Bezos/Musk is an easy way to just say, "richest mother fuckers in the world". You don't have the same impact if you list a name that nobody knows.

Because then it would be, "The US government works for the Clarks of the world," and we'd all be going, "Huh?".
you should seriously look at how "UPI" from india works. its fee-less, offers the same protection and maybe more becuase you have to actively accept/decline payment and they can even set up stuff like autopay mandate and all.

its tied to your mobile number AND your phone so it "might" not appeal to everyone but still, there are banks who offer it over their internet banking channels so the tech can be used in a browser setting which does help. There is already existing "fraud protection" mandated to banks so its not like the whole "mastercard does that so they need their share". they don't and india is slowly transitioning AWAY from plastic.

this is a "gimmick" i suppose because UPI apps already support using your phone authentication to confirm a payment so yeah...... mastercard does not get this data and they want to make it "cool" to lull banks into shoving the cards down their customers' throats
Beeple's Twitter account is hacked and used to promote fake NFT mints
looks like a digital debit "gift card" system.

Smart. Its a clever way to deal with legal boundaries on transferring money. Should be interesting to see them get it past Australian regulations.
The industry is pushing behind Blender in a massive way. There just isn't the same sort of energy behind GIMP and Audacity.
AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy
It's written by a kid. The style is guaranteed to be a little weird.

That said, I think this is really interesting information and would have found it even more informative back before my first kiss.

On subjective vs objective: yes, both are important, but it's typically _really_ easy to find everyone's fuzzy opinions on any particular subject, it can be much harder to find useful facts. So searching out _only_ the objective can easily come from that.
If one is on the Python 3 train, is there any reason to not always be on the latest release?

Is it better about breaking changes than the 2 to 3 adventure was?
I should fess up that I actually do own one property in an HOA, so my declaration that it’s “not for me” is a little dishonest. It’s definitely a place that I don’t care about as much as my “real” house, so I’m a little more able to tolerate the silly rules. It’s a condo, and for example I’m not allowed to change my exterior blinds in any way. Gotta keep the exterior look of the building uniform, right? :eyeroll: It does have its advantages though. The place is very well kept and its resale value reflects that.
That's a relatively new feature btw. The lines of rhel 6 did not have that for example, afaicr.
I hate that I missed this response because it's a fair criticism.

Yeah, there are definitely details Heroku didn't have; for example, we only had something like the past 500 (or was it 100?) lines from a customer's logs; you would need to have an add-on to retain them.

There were no internal logs to consult about app performance; the New Relic install requests were probably to see if there is an issue related to the app. If the issue went deeper, we would work with the engineering team for the feature in question; but with the volume of tickets, we would have to categorically rule out an app issue first as 99% of issues happened while I was there. I think it is fair to say Heroku's support tried to embrace the "teach a man to fish" strategy, and that wouldn't work if the problem wasn't with the app.

I can't really speak to the billing issues, but that team was tiny; two or three people. I could definitely see them getting overwhelmed, and I heard about the lack of detailed billing support.

(Out of curiousity, were you using Heroku's docker product? I could definitely see that as having caused the sort of problems you mention as Heroku's docker platform was not vanilla docker.)
Have you not tried Greenlight? My 3 kids have had greenlight cards since they were 12. The mobile app UX isn’t great but it checks all the boxes on features.

Few products have made our personal lives so much easier. Not having to ever get/give cash for them is amazing.
> Language agnostic unit test framework

Does Cucumber (https://cucumber.io/docs/guides/10-minute-tutorial/), Fitness (http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide), and similar abstraction frameworks meet your need?

> Hudson (Jenkins) replacement (self-hosted) written in typed Python

No offense, but this seems squarely in the "I want a faster horse" camp. To say nothing of the fact that the existing Jenkins is written in a statically typed language
Software Engineering at Google (Web Version)
I’m at a Crypto/NFT Conference and
The least surprising bit about this crackpot is that he also happens to be a nationalist.
Have you turned 35 recently?

Jokes aside, the real joke is that HN’s font size for comments is 12px and the smallest text on this page is 9px. But dare you not complain about HN style, or else. Awful choices for a 100%-text website.

I use HN at 150% on my computer an 115% on my phone.
I believe the parent was reacting to your suggestion to make batteries interchangeable, not to your suggestion to make all chargers compatible. I came away from your first comment with the idea that you were suggesting that I should be able to take the battery from a Leaf and transfer it to a Tesla and have it both fit in the car and function correctly, and I believe that's the notion that the parent was objecting to.
When you send that phone back, it’s going to get cleaned up and sold in Asia or Latin America.

I was at an open air mall in Borneo (Kutching) and saw all manner of new/used iPhones in official-ish Apple packaging.
> I also wrote a 16 bit compiler for DOS, with 16 bit ints. I know all about it :-) I've also developed 8 bit software for embedded systems I designed and built. I've written code for 10 bit systems, and 36 bit systems.

I'm not sure how this means that int is 32-bit.

> I infer you agree the software is not portable, despite being standard conforming. As a practical matter, it simply doesn't matter if the compiler is standard conforming or not when dealing with unusual architectures. It doesn't make your porting problems go away at all.

I guess we could venture into arguing what "the software" and "portable" here means. What I mean that I was working on standard-conforming C codebase that worked correctly on both architectures I mentioned above. This is what I consider portable. Having standard-conforming compiler for both does not make the problems go away, but it makes things much easier than having two non-conforming almost-but-not-exactly-C compilers or totally proprietary languages.

I know that DOS was bad. It's been more than 20 years now. Let's get over with it.
Plans for Everything
How can I find more of these vintage Disney videos? Are they shorts? How are they categorized? I remember watching a few growing up and I'd love to track them all down again.

It's useful information, applicable to so many, and delivered in an approachable, engaging and nonjudgemental manner. I really appreciate how clearly it conveys that stresses/strains are a universal feeling, and a part of life.
My own observation is not scientific. Still - I saw a big impact after taking Vitamin D. Note that I do not take any supplement or medicine, almost never, even when I am really sick. I had various unspecific problems (random infections, inflammations etc.) - all of these disappeared after deiciding to take Vitamin D daily half a year ago. I do not have an explanation other than it works.
How many retail investors would be prepared to intelligently vote a handful of shares in ten different companies each week? Just digesting all their annual meetings sounds close to a full-time job. If I care a lot more about a handful of companies, I’d probably hold their shares myself.
This comment right here is literally the truest.
> Even using your numbers, if you want to keep say only 3 months of data, we're talking about 1-2 PB already.

Am I doing the math wrong? "1 billion" was supposed to be lifetime stays, but let's say it's per year. Here's the math using 'my' numbers:

1 billion stays per year * 100 searches per stay * 150 bytes per search = 15TB per year

1 billion stays per year * 1000 page loads per stay * 15 bytes per page load = 15TB per year

How are you getting petabytes? If 3 months is 1-2 hundred million stays, you'd need to store ten million bytes per stay to reach 1-2PB. (And images don't count, they wouldn't be in the database.)
Wow. Why the hell do contracts allow for this lol, that's crazy. Also - I think this is an American thing.
>Moreover, the legal limitations on currency trade there means that the conversion rate is not true. This is why Russia wants payment for gas in rubles. If the conversion rate was true, they would convert the euros to rubles themselves. But instead they want Europe to pay for the difference.

I don't understand. Europe is paying for gas in rubles at face value. You say rubles are worth less than face value. So Europe is paying for gas at less than face value. That seems like it helps Europe, not hurts it.
A little bit of tip of tongue touching is genuinely nice. Full on "here's all my tongue" kissing generally isn't, should probably only be used to _briefly_ punctuate some related action or feeling.
NYC, SF and a few other US cities have banned cashless stores, so all is not lost.

As long as there's a choice to use cash, digital alternatives will have to compete against reality rather than narratives.

USD in circulation continues to increase: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CURRCIR
Scan of the Month – iPod Evolution with Tony Fadell
It's true-ish, in many of the same ways Lisp can be described similarly. Pure lambda calculus is impractical except for pedagogy, so both Haskell and Lisp add enough knobs to make LC practical.

The big differences are:

1. Haskell is lazy while most Lisps are eager.

2. Haskell automatically curries; Lisp doesn't.

3. (1) and (2) enable Haskell to have a very different syntax from Lisp which is largely free of parentheses. And they remove some of the need for macros in Lisp. Not all but some.

4. Haskell has static type analysis with Hindley-Milner. Lisp does type checking at runtime, and optionally a little bit at compile time but it's by no means a global type inferencer like H-M. So Lisp potentially runs a bit slower because of this, but Lisp can also handle edge cases for types that static analysis cannot (because of the halting problem).

5. Haskell encourages a side-effect-free programming style; Lisp neither encourages nor discourages side-effects.
This doesn't really seem worth it to me. There just aren't enough extraneous characters. We can drop the `func`, but most of the others are near equally long or exclude information like return types. Making return types implicit seems like a much larger language change.
you actually made the point of it.. when the populace is unarmed, the thugs can bully / rob / coerce just using muscle and knives, which makes the law abiding citenzry less safe imho..
but of course some will see it that way and some will not - much of individuals view point depends on where live / work.. people in nice places, surrounded by other nice places are more insulated from the more prevalent daily violence of the less nice places - the people who live and work in thos different places often see it differently.

anyway the saying is still true - outlaw X and only outlaws will have X - just like we outlawed drugs and have had a big expensive war on them for a long time - they are outlawed and wow, outlaws have them.

Sure you'd see some street crews using guns less if very few people had them, but you'd defeinely have gangs that had guns, there's just too much money in the game, and you already have supply chains getting kilos of other things to you that are not supposed to exist in the country.

Also if the criminal groups in Germany had Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador and their neighbors a train ride away, they would absolutely be using guns more imho.

Every place on earth is apples to oranges when trying to compare the situation in the US in regards to these interconnected issues.
I assume law enforcement would have access to this also but a hand scan I think is just a vein scan. So I don't know how useful it is to law enforcement but I would be extremely suspicious of large monopolies working with government against citizens. I may be wrong about how useful it is to LE.
I sure hope so because I'm out here reading Stroustrup and CLRS to start a career at 30. But it really seems like there's a glut of tech companies with investment capital paying people 300k to make apps for stuff that's trivial. Juicero tier stuff, all over the place. I worry it will collapse and SWE is gonna be your run of the mill 45k job from then on.
Touch ID is excellent and fortunately has returned via the power button on iPads. Let's hope it arrives on iPhone power buttons.
I have no issue with transporting our bodies around. The world is out there to be enjoyed in glorious noScreen resolution and at maximum framerate you can take in. Let alone using all the senses of the human body.

But why do we mostly use vehicles so tall, wide, long and 20x our body weight? When the large % of use cases are to carry 1 or 2 people at 60 or less?! It could be fulfilled with a fancy go kart, like a Smart Car. And I would argue for even smaller/lighter.

There are many historical reasons for this but we need something to influence purchasing habits towards smaller cars.
What? Renewable energy from wind or solar is vastly easier than burning fossil fuel and then trying to get the resulting CO2 back out of the air
you know... you debug and find out
Author's own micropub blog: https://me.hawx.me/
My principle gripes:

- I cannot search for tags.

- I cannot select tags in the Android client. Most especially, if I'm reading an article and want to cross-reference similarly-tagged articles, because that's what I'm interested in right now, I cannot.

- I cannot search by multiple tags simultaneously.

- I cannot readily edit tags in the Android client. For this and most other tag operations, the best thing to do is to pull up the Web client, manually enter the tag in the URL, then use the (relatively-recently-added) edit-tag function (usually to fix typos, etc.)

- The <backspace> key does not function on Android. It is not possible to use backspace to edit errors when entering tags.

- Suggested tag order changed earlier this year from a highly-weighted most-recently-used to collate order. Meaning when tagging a set of similar articles, input/entryis far more cumbersome.

- "Flip mode" pagination is fragile and broken. I'd prefer a pagination far more like Einkbro using touch zones rather than gestures.

- I cannot create or export a list of articles to export to myself or share with co-workers, friends, etc., of interest. Pocket could be an excellent references generator. It is not.

- There's no print-to-PDF feature from the Android app. (Einkbro's print-to-Epub is vastly more useful in this regard, as I've posted recently to HN.)

Pocket has added a search-in-page feature. That only took years. Still, it's forward progress. But given that my gripes list (see up-thread) is five years old, that's pitifully little to show for.
Actually, this guy said it best: https://twitter.com/PaulMorganPhD/status/1528412297248575489...
Butter contains trans fats. Are you proposing that the government should ban butter?
Obligatory:
https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms

Granted I'm the author, but until I get around to rewriting it from the ground up, I really think it saves a lot of time for editing single cells, querying, and viewing in a headless environment.
Cult of dd :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896675 / https://eklitzke.org/the-cult-of-dd
Why not use `tee`?

I regularly do `cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh foo@bar tee -a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys` without repercussion. For larger files I usually use rsync as you can resume interrupted transfers
It’s hard to tell how it works from the article, but this is not a major issue if it’s used as a second factor for authentication. Apple Pay is an adequate system imo. It requires both your face and your physical phone to make a payment.

It’s not exactly a realistic threat that someone steals your phone and builds a model of your face to use at a retail checkout.

I could see biometrics being used as an alternative to card pins where you tap your card and then scan your hand. This would be more secure than the current system where you can tap under $200 with no authentication.
The boy who cries wolf is definitely in the wrong, that much is true... But that doesn't remove blame from the townspeople who ignored his cries. It's not a binary absolute, where one person being wrong absolves the other of any wrongdoing.

Intelligent, moral people aren't obligated or forced to jump into action when someone makes an accusation of racism. We can take a moment to consider the available facts, the context, and decide whether the charge of racism seems credible.

It does take effort, so there's a limit to how much attention we can give to these things... But we can also respond to the false accusations, and push back on them for being distractions and wasting the patience of people.

We get the society that is as good as we choose to put in effort to make it.
I'm not sure you understand how an equity cushion works.

Suppose you start a company with 1,000 kg of gold. No other assets, no liabilities. Currently, that gold is worth about 60 million USD.

Now you issue 1,000,000 'stable' tokens. Each can be redeemed for one USD. For simplicity, assume that you just give them away.

At current gold prices, your tokens are 60x over-capitalised. If the gold price collapses 90%, your tokens are still 6x over-capitalised. That's what I mean by an equity cushion.

A 'run' is everyone trying to redeem their tokens. If that happens, you just sell one million dollars worth of gold, and pay that obligation. You are not running out of anything here.

In historical practice in eg Scotland, the banks that issued private bank notes there kept an equity cushion of about 30% around. That means for every 70 pounds in liabilities, they had 100 pounds of assets on their balance sheet. (For comparison, in our example of 60x over-capitalisation, that's an equity cushion of 59/60 = ~98%. Or for the 6x over-capitalisation, it's 5/6 = ~83%.)

It's called an equity cushion, because on a balance sheet the excess of assets shows up at equity.

That equity on the books is very different from the banks shares. It's the difference between 'book value' and 'market value'. See https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile... for a table with price-to-book-values (PBV). You can also look up that value for any specific firm online.

> I don't think it really matters what the underlying assets are. Once the bank runs, it'll probably run dry.

That might be true in the most trivial sense: if a bank has plenty of underlying assets, like our example that was 6-60x over-capitalised, there will never be a run. So the 'once the bank runs' condition would never happen.

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Technical detail: I completely avoided the question of reserves here. Mostly, because it's not actually very interesting. The bank will keep some reserves on hand, so that they can pay out routine redemptions immediately. They would be well advanced to follow the role model of the Scottish banks: their notes came with an 'option clause'.

The 'option clause' says that the bank can either redeem notes right away at par, or they can opt to 'pay' with a super-senior IOU that accumulates a punitive interest rate but that the bank can choose to pay back any time.

That option gives the bank time to liquidate assets, if they ever ran out of reserves. The punitive interest rate re-assures customers that the bank would not abuse that privilege it willy-nilly.

(Of course, that mechanism only helps with illiquidity. It does not protect against insolvency. But that's fine: it's better for the economy when insolvent companies cease operations.)
There is also no safe stock, right?

(No need to list the differences between stocks and cryptocurrencies.)
Millions will sit on lots, that’s for sure. Who is buying electric cars right now?
I think it's worth pointing out that uncharged PHEVs still work like hybrids. They benefit from regen braking and can optimize when to most optimally use stored energy.

I do wish more folks with PHEVs would ensure they're plugged in as much as possible, but I'm still of the position that they have a reasonable usecase while the world transitions.
May become? Sounds like the author missed that it's already used in lots of extremely important places. Among other use-cases, Android uses SQLite for > 10 years.
I can imagine the future involving the removal of ATMs tbh. They are becoming less and less of a requirement in modern economies.
How exactly did you heal yourself? Knowing what you know now, what was most effective?
interesting to see Apple venture into SERVICES rather than PRODUCTS. it’s typical “milking” strategy: get as much as you can from the success of iphone before it’s too late. as long as these services keep bringing cash to the company, I don’t think Apple will introduce yet a new category of products, such as Apple Glasses.
I really miss desktop apps. They worked so well and didn't have half the problems that come with web apps.

I'm working on a project, for fun not for money, that uses Golang and talks to a SQLite database for things like accounts and user content. So far I really enjoy writing it a lot but I have to admit that it would probably have issues if it scaled to a large number of users.

In fairness to SQLite it was designed in a different era technologically. Maybe there will be a replacement for the web app era if we distill what we like about SQLite
>> That's not to mention the growing uncertainty around the JDK/JVM.

> What do you mean by this?

Agreed - four years ago Oracle changed all the licensing but I thought they did a bit of a 180 on that in the last year or two.