skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing will change while the homeowners have more political power than the renters.

Homeowners and renters of course have the exact same politica power, one vote each.

If renters are for whatever reason choosing to not exercise that power, what can one do? They are free to vote, please do.

That said, I always vote and not once has there been anything on the ballot on whether to build more in my town, so it's not like it matters on that front.
You’re not going to get a great value by staying at a Tru one night paying with a combination of points and money in East MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska.

But I’ve literally been looking at points vs money in every major city in the US and a few in Canada as I’ve been creating our itinerary.

With Hilton, when you pay with all points, you don’t pay taxes and fees and if you stay five nights and use your points, you get the 5th night free.

We stay exclusively at Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites and as a last resort Home2Suites so we can have two separate rooms (Embassy and Homewood) or at least have more space and a full refrigerator (Home2Suites). I work remotely and need the separate room to work.

You can’t really stay at a Waldorf or Curio when you are staying at hotels 280 days a year. During the winter we stay at our 2nd home/investment property.

Next year, we will be staying at the following places with all points for 7 days and getting values between .7 cents and 1 cent each: Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Fe, NYC, Chicago and San Juan. This is just staying in mid range Embassy Suites. San Juan is at the Caribe for 10 days.

We won’t make it to the following cities until 2024. But I’ve seen good values in New Orleans, DC and Hawaii.

I was just referencing credit card rewards above. But you get 10x per dollar at Hilton, 10x for being a Diamond member (automatic with the Aspire card) and 14x with the Aspire.

The calculation was based on .007 * 14.
Yup.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/08/17/adam-neum...
It isn't costing me 3% directly, it costs the vendor. Which is already baked into the costs and charged to all of the customers no matter their payment method (typically). So I get other benefits and points / cash back on my purchase, and anyone not using a credit card misses out on those things.

Its kind of a messed up system honestly. The people who are already well off and can get the top of the line credit cards get all kinds of great benefits. And the costs are subsidized by those who cannot get them.
Well I'm glad it's not just ordinary people saying it.
I think this is completely wrong.

It's not the 'credit' that drives this, so much as the 'digitization'.

That can be achieved without credit.

European countries have been doing it for a long time.

Canada has 'Interac'.

There is utterly no need for VISA/MC.

A fairly simple banking standard could make it so that you could pay for stuff with some kind of card + PIN and that's it. There'd be a tiny fee which would help take care of fraud. Done. It already works in large economies.

The US has regulatory capture by large corporations.
Congrats on the launch -- great minds think alike I guess... I've got a little think I'm still churning on @ https://nimbusws.com

Love the site, digging into the concept...

One question, how does Nimbus manage secrets/creds? Integration with KMS?
Article says 4%
"Discuss in groups?" I'm not following. Can you elaborate?

You can also upvote Rust if don't agree.

Thank you for your feedback.
I'm very excited about TerraPower's Natrium reactor. It's got nothing to do with the more widely known "traveling wave" reactor. It's also not a molten salt reactor (TerraPower is working on one of those too). It's not a Thorium reactor.

It is a Uranium reactor that uses liquid sodium as a coolant and moderator. Sodium is known to react explosively with water, but if it's only exposed to air it burns with a mild flame that can be easily put out.

The main idea of Natrium is that it is a fast reactor. This has 2 major advantages: it can "burn" the U238 isotope of Uranium (which constitutes 99.7% of the Uranium in nature) and the nuclear waste contains much fewer transuranic elements, meaning it decays to the background radiation level in a matter of hundreds of years instead of millions of years.

Interestingly, TerraPower lists not these 2 but some other 4 major advantages on their FAQ page [1]: no need for high pressure vessels (it operates at atmospheric pressure), compact size due to the fact that sodium is exceptional at transferring heat, higher efficiency of the thermal-to-electrical conversion, by a whopping 8%, and practicality (apparently sodium is not very corrosive).

[1]https://natriumpower.com/frequently-asked-questions/
Chip+PIN is 2FA. Something you have + something you know.

The issue is that you can process most debit cards through the credit network without the PIN for convenience.
I'm not sure what you mean by "similar ideas" to human rights, but with regard to democracies in Asia: Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mongolia, Taiwan, East Timor, Micronesia
> but it doesn't really explain anything.

I can help with that. It’s a phenomenon sociologists call a moral decline. Typically that term is applied to great empires that die due to one or more internal social factors.

In the case of software it’s likely due to an ever decreasing barrier of entry chasing ever decreasing expectations. Throwing money at the problem has, counter-intuitively, only accelerated the trend.
Is it possible to automate tar.gz files to compile and install on Unix? Or does there have to be a manual set of make files like BSD ports.
> Another thing that rubs me wrong is the recurring notion that we need to get rid of the text as a representation of code.

I completely agree with this notion. However, I feel like we're sorely missing out on some form of visual exploration. I feel like the majority of my time is spent trying to understand the flow of execution of a program I'm trying to maintain that was written by other teams that are long gone.

It would be so amazing to be able to "zoom out" from the text and get a graph view of execution flow through different files. And then being able to highlight a particular execution flow that you're studying would be great. I know we already have some flavors of this with "find all references", or something like Visual Studio's profiling tools that highlight flows of execution, but none of these have ever felt like they improve the exploration of the codebase very much.

It would be very interesting to see some tools that allow a more fluid exploration of an unknown codebase. More akin to zooming out of a Google map view and tracing flow from point to point, instead of diving headfirst into a million files looking for the correct information.
I'm partial to our data swamp.
It's pretty interesting if you do the math too.

The CAISO shows that their current power generation capacity is about 53000 MW.

A Tesla model 3 has 60kWh of capacity. A million of those would allow generating 60000 MW for an hour if they would be discharged from full to empty during the span of that hour.

In practice, they wouldn't be able to be discharged that quickly and there would be losses due to going from DC to AC, but it's interesting to think that the total deployed battery capacity of EVs could have a significant impact on the need for peaker plants in the upcoming years.
As others have commented, $14.5 trillion USD (even with inflation) is nothing compared to the US's current outgoings.

What I _never_ see costed is the other side - what negative cost will the climate policies have on GDP? I imagine that number to be far greater.

For example: Great, you increased fuel tax and got less people driving. Now people can't get to work, deliveries are now too costly, the cost of living increases because even basic items like food need to be transported to the store, with costs given directly to the consumer.

The single most concerning thing is that no politician appears to be doing these calculations. There is no open discussion about viable climate policies that don't crush the middle and working class into poverty.
There are about 25k who die from hunger each day and more than 1/9 are hungry... it seems categorically worse that we let this happen

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/losing-25000-hunger-....
There's only custom domains (your-choice.playit.gg) for $1/month or $6/year. I'm still working to develop premium features but for now the custom domain subscriptions cover my monthly server costs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08taxi.html
I disagree. A program is meant to produce useful output. Yes it should be written well (code clarity is a very strong correlator to the validity of a program), but the primary goal is that it should work.
There’s not a lot of meat in the article. Cephalopods it seems are a fantastic jumping off point for rewarding thought experiments about the mind and it’s relationship with the brain. But any claim to insight about “how cephalopods think” is pure bunk.
Free Market Economics is even LESS tied to the west in modern times than democracy.

There are very very few countries that haven't dropped centralized gov't controlled economies - even in Asia.
We don’t value all of our time equally.

Here’s an extreme example: we sleep a bit under 1/3 of the time. Let’s say you were given the option to forgo sleeping; you would have all that extra time, you wouldn’t feel the need or the desire for sleep at all. The catch is all that time gets lopped off the end of your life.

Would you take that offer? I sure wouldn’t! I’d miss out on a lot; there’s a good chance I’d never meet my grandkids, for example.
I presume inventory is not considered an "operating cost", which is fair enough. Rent absolutely should be one though.
Last time I installed it Manjaro’s value proposition was an easy path to getting Nvidia’s nonfree drivers working without hours of fussing about. Does some other distro fit that need?
you are right, "western ideas" would be all theory, all talk and very little regard to practicality, such as Marxism, the Domino theory, Pax America, pretend democracy in South Korea, "human right" concerns that's comes from your mouth, instead of the actual humans you're trying to save.
ok. so if you have a new registrar, then there is a registry-registrar conversation here bound in an ICANN contract. You really need somebody in the new registrar, talking to the old registrar AND the registry, who is motivated to push buttons (metaphorically) to make the old registrar want to give the data up. I am pretty sure that the names, and associated records, are "yours" if its "your" zone. The contract for services outside of DNS which may lie behind those names "let us host your web for you" are different: you could wind up with your DNS zone, and your web offline because they manage that too. Not all "hosting" is DNS only.

If you have a new registrar, this situation shouldn't be unfamiliar to them..
Credit card is still common, all good. I've seen an exception though.

If you're in a "tourist destination" area, then no worries, I'm sure they will offer credit card as a payment option to keep you in business, but it's likely to be more expensive than paying using PIX.

When I was in the south of Brazil I used the "iFood" app (biggest food delivery app in Brazil) and I could only pay using PIX. In other regions, other options were available such as credit card.

Even if you need to do a PIX as a traveller, you can simply pay in cash to some person (hotel recepcionist I guess) so they can use their account to pay the PIX for you. Technically this person will scan a QR code and pay using their bank account.

If you want to have a PIX account yourself, at the moment you need to have a bank account in brazil afaik. After having your account, you have to register it using specific types of identifier, for example your mobile phone. Non-brazilian numbers are accepted in the standard, but not all banks accept them for now. It certainly will go over changes. It's a relatively new technology.
It's not a 'natural' monopoly if they require heavy lobbying etc.

It's not the 'network effect' it's that the financial institutions i.e. the banking system want it that way, and will thwart any system otherwise.

It'll be easy to get away from the 3.5% fee we know that because of how it works in other countries.

America, shockingly, still does not use PIN chip cards, it's unbelievably nuts.

The simple addition of a PIN and a few other things can help reduce fraud substantially.

The complexity of the VISA network and disintermediation of 'ownership of the customer' creates problems for fraud tracking. At my bank the 'VISA' dept is totally separate from my other accounts - the entire customer service and data chain is separate. It's nuts.
Inequality just means the rich got richer faster than the poor got richer.

The poor's increase in wealth still outpaced inflation.

...and given that the poorest in poor countries had their wealth skyrocket out of poverty, outsourcing has absolutely been a win-win.
https://i.imgur.com/RXNrYmv.png

https://i.imgur.com/ZFPgRFl.png

Nothing there lol, otherwise I'd be in jail right now. Federal search warrant initiated by DHS. Obvi they faked the dog alert and visual 'evidence' because they were pissed I mentioned the constitution.
I don't know about demography but in my reading of various reports and so on the climate is more significantly predictable than most skeptics think it is.

The presence of many degrees of freedom does not make them all equally influential.
> pin is required here on both (and rightly so IMO to protect against skimming). Only for minor contactless payments it isn't.

Across Italy, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal, over the last thirty days, I never had to provide a PIN over contactless. This was true for minor purchases to €5,000+.
Yes, it's implicitly stated in the article:

> curl --proxy 192.168.0.10:2000 https://eth0.me

Just use this proxy + port in your playwright config.
It's hard to tell if something is genuine or satire these days isn't it...
The book mentioned in the article, Children of Time by Adrien Tchaikovsky is fantastic. Adrien does an excellent job of trying to imagine how distributed intelligence would work for a species as it evolves.
I agree that there should have been more innovation on thosd aspects of query languages!

It's a little bit tricky because there aren't much low hanging fruits for academics to write good papers about, so this innovation is up to programmers who want to improve their quality of life when dealing with databases.
The only reason this feels good for me is that it may kick off similar products from much better consumer friendly companies like Brother or Epson.
Hi there. I'm curious, what would you have as the #1 result in such a subjective topic, and why?
Its what I would call super slow.
It’s up to your bank. My max limits are $5k for known parties, $2k for new/unseasoned contacts (Chase).
There's an important difference here: bank accounts are not credit. If my card is stolen and charges are racked up, I'm no poorer until the fraud is detected and resolved. You don't spend cash when you use a credit card, you spend credit. There isn't a legal remedy for this.
> then get local root

With Qubes you already by default have local root [0], because LPE is usually almost a forgone conclusion if the attacker has a sandbox escape.

> A Xen 0day, alone, isn't useful.

I don't think there any attackers with the interest and capability to acquire a Xen sandbox escape that wouldn't readily have access to browser 0-days, unless the target is using something like Tor Browser Bundle with JS, SVG, and PDF.js disabled.

[0] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vm-sudo/
> Plus with Ceph I can add just one disk at a time to the cluster and disks don't have to be the same size.

I'd like to note that ZFS now has RAID-Z expansion which allows us to do exactly that! It's an essential feature for home users since it allows us to gradually expand capacity instead of buying up all the storage up front at great cost.

I too researched ceph for this exact reason but was told the hardware requirements were too high for a typical home lab, yet you're running ceph on raspberry pis... I should probably look into ceph once more.
Ecléctico delivers a world of music to your inbox
> Is grinding thru med school somewhat sacred? should they earn more than EEs? civil engineers? architects?

Everyone you mentioned should (and does in the US) earn more than 90k GBP. Nurses in the US (at least in California where they make 50-60$/h) earn the same as top pay grade specialty doctors in the UK according to that NHS payscale.

> yes, fixing noses or fake tits

No, there are many specialties which don't involve plastic surgery but make millions. Cardiologist, dermatologist, dentist, etc. Or if you're a surgeon and work at a big hospital, you can also make 500k+. All of these involve mitigating pain and suffering and saving lives.

Sorry you think plastic surgery is the only way to earn a good living in medicine.

> like almost everyone else. Newsflash - US is really expensive.

Compared to what, London? Amsterdam? Paris? The US isn't more expensive than anywhere else, and for a doctor working in the suburbs, it's way cheaper than any major city in Europe. Don't forget, health insurance for white collar workers in the US is cheap compared to their salary, and taxes are lower. Energy costs as well. And a 401k is a lot cheaper than paying progressive social security taxes that redistribute earnings.

At least the US doctor can afford a house, whereas the UK one will never buy one within an hour's drive of London in their lifetime.
Church choir communities are fun, supportive, flexible (you can walk into any church choir and belong), exciting (yes, I would like to go on a cathedral tour this summer!), and long lasting (sing into your 80s why not?). I heartily recommend them.

They are demanding, however. Think twice if you both sing and have small children. But they sure keep the mind sharp.

Pro-tip: if you’re an atheist, join an Anglican or Episcopal choir. Most of them are atheists too.
I've used python on and off since 2009 and every time I dive back in, there's a new standard. I feel like there's several 'proper' ways to do things and I don't really mind there being different flavors of packaging frameworks.

I do find it confusing because there's no real documentation of the various frameworks in one place. It makes it unappealing to invest in writing and maintaining anything in python because I don't know if the process I've used is going to deprecated soon.

Just a side note, I did end up finding and using poetry a couple of weeks ago and stuck to that as I was bouncing around setuptools vs pyproject and then needing to decide whether or not I needed a makefile, etc.
Oh fields. Got it.
Arch does have an installer? :)
sorry to reply here, looks like i can't reply to your other comment because it's too deep

it's not that i "have a new registrar" per se

it's that when i go to a new registrar and say "hey, my old registrar is abusing me and won't give me the zone files, can you help" they say "just get the zone files" on customer service patrick star mode :(

i don't know, maybe i'm being unreasonable?

i just want to keep my domains up

if i have to go to a lawyer i will but i really don't want to, that sounds very expensive and i'm worried the old registrar will escalate if i do that

i just want my zone files so i can leave, you know?
You just destroyed the argument you were trying to make.

The protesters were the well educated students. This will always be the tip of the spear for change.

Revolutions that try to leverage the uneducated masses are the most bloody and destructive - and they usually lead to dictatorships, not democracies.
More generally I think it's good advice to not install the fifth derivative of major distributions run by random people without the necessary backing or security personnel to take on the tremendous undertaking that is maintaining an operating system.

For one, it's not necessary. Most of these offshoot distributions do is install a desktop environment and put some theming on it, the package management is largely identical. Just install that stuff yourself, 99% of it is customization. Secondly don't install an OS from an organization you can't be sure is going to be around in 5 years, it's just asking for maintenance issues.
Though I cannot give an official statement, Microsoft has a long history of abandoning open-source projects once the employees working on them get bored, switch jobs, or move to other roles. It also doesn't help that the iOS Bridge wasn't used that much, didn't bolster UWP adoption (we all know how that went - developers were completely apathetic at best), and never supported Swift IIRC, only Objective-C applications. With more applications using Swift in part or even fully, and UWP being dead, and Windows 11 supporting Android apps on the Amazon App Store, the bridge is dead without major investments which Microsoft appears to have no interest in pursuing.
This varies widely depending on the issuer of the ATM, at least in my part of the EU (SW Germany).

My banking group has (I guess) >90% of their ATMs indoors; I can only think of ever using 4 or 5 locations that were outdoors (my dataset is probably something like 100 ATMs). But there are also some banks which seem to favour outdoor, or at least have less of a strict "indoor policy".

Especially "generic" ATMs at tourist spots or train stations seem to be outdoors.
Fwiw, I've used a combination of Arch, endeavor, and manjaro over the course of ~15 years. I've been aware of the issues that the author listed for some time now, and tbh, I don't really care, I still use and enjoy manjaro for the convenience.
I don't think banning the offender is in order to punish them for doing something wrong so much as to manually ensure it's not crawling your site
I use manjaro as a daily driver. At the time I switched to the distro it was perhaps the only accessible Arch distro and was highly recommended.

There does seem to be some stability issues (particularly in the boot/suspend logic/login logic), meaning that there are times where the system freaks out and will enable (for example) RAID in the bios. This gives a very disturbing recovery process, as a live-disk doesn't immediately detect that RAID is enabled and no drives are found by the bios otherwise, but the grub firmware remains in the boot-up process.

I wouldn't recommend Arch for all users, and the switch between AUR managers, packages etc is definitely some deep topics for most.

Personally I think Arch, even Majaro, is better than the Canonical path.
Mass transit is great unless your a shift worker. I start work at 4 am, my wife gets off her shift at the hospital at 10 pm neither of us can use it as the bus doesn't run when we need it. even if it did run 24-7 the nearest stop is about a mile away.
No, this is certainly not the first such system. I helped build one at a previous job where we could even value each battery individually in response to near real-time distribution grid conditions. For example, if a transformer is nearing capacity than a battery discharge downstream has extra value because it prevents the expensive transformer from being overloaded reducing it's life.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/opus-one-tests-...
See also Radio2Speech [1] which uses a UNet to recover audio from a RF beam.

[1] https://zhaorunning.github.io/Radio2Speech/
How about ophthalmic antibiotic ointment too?
Is that with your phone perhaps? With those there is no pin needed because you already authenticate on the phone itself. I don't have to with Samsung Pay either.

But on the card itself I have to above €75 (or after transactions accumulating to that amount)
The title sounds like a Michael Scott joke