skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we should heavily regulate cash transactions, limit the sizes of cash deposits, implement strict know-your-customer rules for any entities dealing with cash, and enforce reporting rules for transactions between any accounts involving significant cash-derived balances instead?

That argument doesn't work. In fact yes, the government understands that printed money is untrackable and we have extensive tools to deal with that, up to and including the formal sanction of entities that try to evade these controls.
If you start from scratch, regardless of history, you're fetching at least the size of the repo. In many cases, that's hundreds of MBs for every build and I'm a huge fan of building for every commit. I find that a colossal waste.

I have a very old fashioned and "not recommended" setup with Jenkins that only pulls new commits, because it works out of a persistent working directory. Works wonders for a Django/ES6 project and sips bandwidth. I wish more of the modern containerized, start-from-scratch and so on setups would work in a similar way wrt the bandwidth they use.
Tangentially, what is the limit of what can be put into a license or contract (that remains enforceable)? Can you just put any arbitrary requirements, as long as it's not against the law?

Like, if I lease my house, but with a clause that the resident should never change their name to "Jack" in their entire life, will that be laughed out of the court?
That is a reason to launder money, it's still money laundering. It's valid to believe that this justifies money laundering and to believe that money laundering should be legal, but it is what it is.
Exactly my first thought. With a libertarian hat on, of course anyone can do anything with whatever they create. That's someone's right. But to call it "open source" with some license that attempts to define morality? Good luck with that.
The term "Open Source" has a specific definition which covers practically the same set of software that "Free Software" does: https://opensource.org/osd

If the license doesn't grant the users freedoms, it won't match the definition. A commonly used term for software that has its source code public but isn't FLOSS is "source available".
That was Pro 10.5 2017, it’s still a very fast device. The Logitech keyboard didn’t have this dedicated button and I last used it like a year ago, so I’m glad the issue is nonexistent now with proper hardware. Thanks for the response.
Visa/MC have phone numbers you can call for support and dispute resolution. What happens for BTC lightning?
Games actively train a player's "skill". I define the player's skill as the player's ability to use the mechanics in the game to meet the challenge the game is presenting.

The way to make a game more replayable, then, boils down to 3 things:

1) Make the game more challenging. This forces the player to change their approach to problems (because their old solution no longer works)

Multi-agent games do this by having a variety of opponents.

Single-player games do this by ramping up the difficulty, generally by making the execution requirements tighter. More complexity, or less leeway for mistakes.

Leaderboard-type games do this by using a "best score" as the goal. (e.g. Rhythm games, racing games, etc.)

2) Adding and/or removing mechanics that force the player to change their approach to problems. Again, this is either because the old solution doesn't work, or you must use the new mechanic in the solution.

3) Add randomness, mimicking either of the above.
(e.g. Roguelikes/lites, deckbuilders, etc.)

There's also the possibility of extending play-ability by "creating new content". I think this isn't really "re"playability, since the generated content hasn't been "played" before, but procedurally-generated content and sandbox games have this sort of code-generated-novelty-as-replayability.
Yes, the government considered strong cryptography to be a munition and said it was illegal to put the source code of PGP on the internet. Courts ruled against the government in Bernstein vs. United States, saying source code was speech protected by the First Amendment. That's why we can all use strong cryptography today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
It's not a service, it's a tool. North Korea probably used Rust at one point, should we sanction individuals who contributed to Rust as well?
Nix uses string antiquotation, not string escaping. It's one of very few languages which has it. And yes, it is sane, very sane. The only sane solution to this problem.

Edolstra's thesis advisor was the first to create a scannerless GLR parser:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scannerless_parsing

The first versions of Nix used a scannerless GLR parser, because it's the only way to prototype sophisticated features like antiquotation without going completely mad. Once the syntax was completely locked down it was rewritten with a separate scanner and LR(something) parser, but they're intricately entwined. The scannerful, non-GLR parser is faster but basically frozen and extremely difficult to modify. Fortunately Nix's syntax has been exceptionally stable for the last decade or more.

True string antiquotation is a feature that every language should have, but unfortunately with current technology it forces you to choose between a slow parser or a fast parser that's almost impossible to modify.

Some languages have "string interpolation" which is a weaker, more fragile form of antiquotation.
You could develop SkyNet and have it invade every computer on the world to monitor usage. It still leaves many problems like codifying the definition of evil, airgapped systems, detectability and how evil would you consider invading everyone to be.
Amazon ‘drop-shipping’ resellers cost a family candy maker millions
> And are you sure all the ideals in your set can be considered objective, naturally sharable, as opposed to ideological and partial?

Agreed, they are not objective. If you wish, you can change my first phrase to "a more dystopian future", if you think it's worse.
About time! Shows why you should be conservative!
...and on top of that, many founders do want this for good reason! Even with "laser vision" with respect to the future of your product, it's likely that you'll benefit from advice from someone with decades of experience.
Is there a solution like this for Microsoft Teams ?
I think the better Epson printers have a ‘maintenance box’ which absorbs excess ink and can be replaced.

In general borderless printing causes a lot of hassles. A borderless print looks like a traditional photo print in that the printing extends to the edges of the paper but actually the problem is that the printer doesn’t control the position of the paper exactly so it prints an image that extends off the edges of the paper so some traces of ink have to get absorbed.

One consequence is that something on the edge of a borderless print can be cut off so if something is important to the composition you have to leave some extra space.

I hear stories of people who use off-brand inks who have terrible messes with those ink pads used for borderless printing. As resentful as you might get about printer manufacturers, off-brand ink is not consistent with getting good results.
I like parenthesis - simple nested containers. All other syntax adds unneeded bug inducing complexity.
It's super complicated, but it's like alien legacy code from the far future. We can nitpick the obvious flaws but we are probably also completely underestimating some of the problems it had to solve. A typical person's immune system can often crack diseases in a few days that all the world's laboratories have spent decades on.
I always thought that credit cards were for poor people, since why would I ever need a loan with 15-20% interest.

Then recently I hired a car and they forced me to take the zero-excess insurance (50% of the cost of a one week hire for a convertible) because I didn't have a credit card.

I'm now in the market for a credit card, but I have no interest in any of the credit features, I just need it to be accepted as a credit card worldwide. Unfortunately all comparisons online focus on the interest rate that I couldn't care less about.
Battery tech is still evolving. We've went from NiMH in early Prius models to Lithium-Ion to Iron-phosphate and solid state batteries are around the proverbial corner (5+ years).

Meanwhile diesel and gasoline haven't changed that much in the last 100 years. Synthetic options are being developed, but the cost is still over 5x more than gasoline - even at current inflated prices.
Riffing even more, what if the usage is through a chain of dependencies and I sit in the middle with my project?
And how is it going to increase information in the output by having AI involved, if these AIs aren’t actually thinking and pouring out of their own entropy source into outputs?
I'm over 1000 credits into Dalle so far (I know, I know..) and you're on the money. You can go a lot further than impressionism, though. Specifying the names of famous illustrators, photographers or artists. Specifying the media used. Lens types. Colorways. Film types. Lighting. The right combinations can yield some incredibly realistic looking things, even faces, and then for the rest of it, there's Photoshop, Gigapixel, and other tools to patch things up. (I've had more luck creating 'elements' with Dalle and then montaging them the old fashioned way.)

The images used in the blog linked by OP are okay but stylistically all over the place. OP acknowledges how difficult good prompts are to write. Beyond that, though, you still need to think like an art director and establish a way to set a common style to avoid jarring the readers, and Dalle alone can't do that.
Probably GitHub acted in their own interest here, or Microsoft has received a gag-order not to publish anything.
Those ultra high annual fee cards tend to have substantially better rewards than cheaper cards. For the sort of person who might spend $50,000 or more on travel in a year for example, it can make sense.
Yeah, the late (post acceptance?) changes seem questionable on their own. Presumably they were reminded that the US gov argued and won with the Supreme Court, that they have unfettered access to all non-us-resident customer data of all US companies, and said companies subsidiaries, regardless of local laws. After all, as we know the US Declaration of Independence says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all residents of the united states are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
A decade ago any comment that was less than a couple paragraphs would be almost instantly down voted. Sadly that is the case today. Threads are a lot noisier, and I even see some bad joke reply threads appearing here and there. A dramatic shift in culture.
People did all this long before Bitcoin.
I'm confident that society would be so radically different that trying to predict and prepare is a fools game.
How did you configure your browser to not allow websites to hijack how scrolling works?
It's kind of the opposite. If you have a network error, often you shouldn't bother to try handling it, the best strategy is often to zero out your state, give up and try again later.

By contrast, you should give up parsing a JSON if it's a config file read on startup but probably not if it's user input.
PowerShell and Python have very little in common
> and so many things we don't even have a plan for,

Why do you have the impression "nobody" is planning for these things? These topics are talked about endlessly in every medium by laypeople. Billions of dollars in public and private sector investment is being funneled into everyone of these topics.

The complaint about grid capacity baffles me. The USA used to regularly growth capacity by well over 30% a decade. It only stopped expanding because energy efficiency standards were so damn successful that net usage declined in spite of population growth, and the majority new capacity went to displacing coal production.
> Having private transactions using a public blockchain ledger.

The question was what other use the tool had. "Private transactions" are 100% isomorphic to money laundering, the only difference is the words you use to explain it.

In fact, "private transactions" are, in fact illegal. You're not allowed to do that in the industrialized world. It's true that small-value cash transactions are de facto private, in the sense that the government decides to look the other way and focus its laundering enforcement on larger players.

But no, that ship sailed decades ago. You're not allowed to have private transactions, because if you have them then the criminals will, and we as a society have made a bargain to give them up to reduce crime and corruption.
case closed!
I find the images fairly distracting and they take all the focus on the above page. The artwork also isn't very consistent which makes it feel like a jumbled mess. When you click a post the image takes the entire screen and pushes all the content below the fold. It's more like browsing a community art portfolio instead of a tech blog.

I'd prefer smaller thumbnails or icons that give more context to the actual post. This way they could add some benefit, such as helping to visually categorize the content. As of now, they're just a bunch of random illustrations taking up valuable screen real estate.

That being said, thanks for sharing, it's interesting to see an example of someone integrating DALL·E 2 into their workflow.
Sheesh, what a eurocentric post.
It similar to the question, "if you could do just one exercise, what would you do?" And you have all these answers, it is the squat, no, it is the deadlift, please guys it is the power clean.
It is not a useful question because you will never be in the position of choosing just one exercise to be done for the next month, year or decade.

Memorization is important and understanding is important, and the two are not in any conflict whatsoever.
another could be genital mutilation, or giving puberty blocking hormones to children.
When writing a library, wouldn't the prudent thing to do be to return a Try/Either or have the method accept a function to invoke in case of an error (like an IOC solution)?
> That temporary measure turned out to be not so temporary!

Actually it was temporary. The Fed bought things up and then stopped, and then started reducing assets:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

And then COVID hit. They're reducing assets now (quantitative tightening). Odd Lots had a recent episode on this, "What the Fed's Big Balance Sheet Unwind Means for Markets":

* https://play.acast.com/s/oddlots/6edf697f-abc7-4960-8060-aed...

* https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/what-the-feds-big-bala...
The electrical system in the US.

Many many other countries are just fine, it's just the US grid that's singularly messed up. Most parking spots in the nordics have had 230V 16A plugs in them for over half a century for engine block heaters.

You can just shove a gas pipeline over anyone's land with one permit. But if you want to do power lines you need federal, state, county, city and land owner permission. And in some states anyone who can SEE the power line from their property can veto the permit...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism

Goal posts firmly fixed.
I find that the guy in the video kinda looks a bit like he could be Musk's son. Funny stuff..
I never said it was the end of history. I was just remarking on non portable, multi thousand dollar devices needed from the consumer side. But you are right, it was a bubble.
Newer battery chemistries are being developed which try to minimize rare earth minerals. But are we going to be able to develop these new batteries quickly enough?
Before I knew they were valuable, I saw a couple for sale somewhere for like $5 each.

I was like "oh God there's one of those mechanical computer thingies. I've got enough going on in my life. Figuring that thing out is not how I wish to spend my time"

Similarly I passed on the old model m keyboards: "the ergonomics on these things are wretched. They're heavy, noisy, and missing modern keys I use in my window manager"

Now I check, I always check
Coaches Poll top reactions: Notre Dame, Texas A&M
Part 5 is writing macros to make certain things parens free
Tornado Cash co-founder reports being kicked off GitHub
In my experience, APIs that throw rarely define all the exceptions that can come from it, especially transitively. I see exceptions as a failed (because undocumented, but still important for correctness) attempt at compromising between halting and returning an error.
Personally I have 20 cards, most of which were aquired over a couple of years ~8 years ago. You can apply for 6 cards every 6 months or so (2 per bureau assuming they only do one hard pull) without significantly reducing your credit score for the next year.

I'd guess the limit is ~400 right now since you'd have to start collecting decades ago.
We ordered something on Amazon and had a Sam's Club box show up. It was weird, and we quickly figured out that it was arbitrage. I can see how neither Amazon nor Sam's Club has a huge incentive to shut down these sellers, since ultimately they both profit from their existence.
I front paged a couple times back in the day. In the neighborhood of thousands of pageloads and hundreds of concurrent users. Totally trivial for static HTML, but most people get into trouble with hand-rolled or poorly tuned blog frameworks that make multiple database calls on every visitor.
I think you are not the target market for cloud services.

Companies often buy services based on cost. If the cost is less to get a server in Beijing, many will choose to get one there.

The country in which the server is located has little to do with the privacy or security posture of the service.
Exactly this.

There is no more point being saddened by it, then there is being saddened by Bears having teeth.

A toothless bear is no better off being so, because those teeth are useful and necessary for it to be a bear and/or equivalent in it’s ecosystem. It’s a part of it’s success and it’s future. It is a part of what makes it a bear.

A bear that felt bad about having teeth though? That is one unfortunate bear.

A bear that tries to tear out it’s teeth? That is a bear that longs to not exist as a bear anymore (or at all), and the most unfortunate being of all.

If a bear happens to wish for a world where it's teeth weren't necessary, that is nice! But that doesn't much help that bear stay fed, survive the next winter, or reproduce.

To the immediate parent posters comment regarding being saddened by the extreme focus (and spend) on destructive capability globally among us humans - it is sad, if one cares to dwell on it. I see out ability to do it as a sign of our luxurious position - not having to worry about if we will be fed or starve to death, if we will survive the next winter, or our being able to reproduce.

Mostly due to that extreme obsession, the resulting tens of millions of (recent) dead bodies, and hundreds of millions more that did not end up dead because of them.

Maybe I'm in a bit of an existential mood today, eh?
> The concept of a credit card is an anachronism

No, it isn't. Having a financial intermediary between you and entities you buy things from is a genuine benefit to you as a consumer: it means you don't have to give everyone you buy things from direct access to your bank account, as a debit card does. It also means that if your credit card info is stolen, you have a third party that deals with the issues involved instead of you, and you don't have your bank account funds tied up while the issue is being resolved, as you would with a debit card.

Of course, in a sane world this genuine service would be sold as what it is--financial intermediation--and the market price of this service would be determined in a free market. It's quite true that we don't live in that sane world, but that doesn't mean financial intermediation isn't a genuine service that is worth having even in the insane world we actually live in.

> In this day and age, there is no functional difference between a debit or a credit card

Yes, there is, there is a huge functional difference. See above. Ask anyone who has had their debit card info stolen and had funds fraudulently taken direct from their bank account.
Note that the Julia package manager (while very good) is very similar to (and largely inspired by) the rust package manager.
Not true at all. You can charge an EV at 5miles/hr on a standard 15A circuit, the same amount of power drawn by a hair dryer. You can generate that much power from 4 or 5 solar panels.

5 panels per EV deployed near where the EV charges will unburden the edges of power grid and not force any upgrades in the feed lines. High power charging stations are another matter, but the grid is sized for peak load, with a bit of coordination I don't see those being much of an issue either.
Right, like something like Varnish.
The iPhone’s Focus mode (almost) kept me off my phone on vacation
Yes, just how no two json implementations support the same schema.
It shows their hand. Instead of the sweeping regulation required, they are going to sanction it and pretend like they've fixed the problem.

All they've done is Sanction 'A tool'. Why would sanctioned entities care if they used a sanctioned tool? it honestly makes no sense to me.
Imma be honest, working as an artist who has to come up with Dall-E prompts and as a programmer who has to maintain a codebase slapped together from GPT-5 output sounds equally horrifying. I think I'll stick to my grug brain engineering.
I don't have the moral fortitude to defend Mormonism as a religion, but based on the model of organized religion as a theocratic social insurance program (which it has been since, at least, Leviticus), your complaints don't seem entirely unreasonable:

> membership costs 10% of all you earn

10% is less than I currently pay into my state's social safety net programs.

> If you are in dire straights as a member and require assistance, the program is geared to get you off their assistance ASAP.

Shouldn't "returning people to self-sufficiency" be the goal of any social safety net? As far as I can tell, when you build classes of people whose lives are exclusively and indefinitely supported by welfare, things don't go well (especially when the people who fund the social welfare system get a bit strapped for cash).
dilution is good for you
They unban you if you email them. “longsword” is an allowed word though.
Why? It's basically an elaboration of the same advice I gave eight years ago. And I was not the first.
I meant: meaningfull (lossy) compression
Disclaimer: I am also very skeptical of the whole concept of vertical farming, but...

That 5 hectares of land per person metric is totally inapplicable here. Sort of the entire point of vertical farming is to be (in theory) vastly more efficient per unit of land. If you believe the claims it's somewhere between a 10 and 50 times reduction in land usage for same output.

5 hectares is also on the very high end for estimates of that metric. It also drops hugely if you're not relying on animal products.

I don't think vertical farming in apartments is the future, but I think your calculations here are also way, way off.
It's theoretically possible to use the gasoline not being burned in those cars to generate the electricity for them.
Wow, reddit is HOSTILE to non app, no account users. "this community is available in the app" previously it used to be only nsfw thar gets locked.

Well, back to old.reddit.
Home charging should be the default. You come home after work, you spend 15 seconds plugging in and that's it. You get 100-150km of range overnight by doing essentially nothing.

Most people don't commute 100km+ every day, so the car will be topped up every morning.
Piggybacking on this thread because I'm also interested, specifically in using FreeBSD on a 2019 MacBook and using docker on Linux trough bhyve. How well does FreeBSD run on a MacBook? Any compatibility issues?