skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And these are all choices. I just don't think they are informed choices. Or optimal choices.

So, elsewhere there are calculation re energy use per person in "western world". They tend to land around so many KJ per day which tends to be something like X times 3000 calories per day, which is like have X servants / slaves. X often turns out to be 40 ish. Now imagine you had 40 people working each day for your benefit. Some would work farms to feed you, some would carry you to work. But overall, is the current layout of your life, the one you would plan if you really had 40 servants?

(No we ignore the weird sexual plans here, and the worst unethical plans).

What I am saying is that the industrial revolution has transformed energy allocation and use. But the way we happen to have built the world does not mean it's the best way.

Maybe it's too late for the UK but the citizens of China, India and Africa might be able to learn something useful.

But I hope we can learn how to rebuild our worlds to benefit us the most.

Out of interest I think Demoocracy plays a huge part here. So many people feel powerless or unable to direct or control resources. Whereas they would know what to do with 40 servants.

And yet 50% of resources and activity in our society sits in private companies that are outrageous dictatorships. The resource allocation of that 50% should be waaay more democratic - either through regulation or just voting by the owners of capital (the employees ! The ultimate beneficiary of stocks (pension funds usually vote with the execs. why can I not vote my pension fund alice how Inlike?)

And finally the 50% under government ownership - again I do vote but local government in UK is a joke, years of cut backs have decimated courts, police, etc. These are probably not the choices most people would have made locally.

We can remake our world - once we take the levers of power away from those hording them (I would say elites but despite that being a correct term, somehow it has been corrupted to point at the wrong people.)
Oh hey, I had the ODROID C1 a while ago - though I lost it at some point. :(

Nice to see they are still around!
As a crypto enthusiast I looked into what it would take to accept ADA payments on my membership site without relying on a payment provider. I was surprised by the quality of the documentation and realized it was quite feasible to implement. I decided against it as the sentiment around crypto (even a proof of stake chain like Cardano) would probably have a negative net result on customer acquisition and retention. It would have been a fun endeavour with a potential poor outcome.
> To some critics, Mondragon’s overseas workers, who are not owners—it outsources to low-cost locations, operating a hundred and thirty-two production plants in thirty-two countries—are a sacrifice to the dragon of capitalism.

Ah of course, I knew there was a catch. Capitalism consumes all morals!
When I was in the states I found that a lot of places would have locks / codes on the bathrooms that required you to purchase something prior to using it. Not fun when you're desperate to go and there's a big queue.

The European model is normally coin operated which is still a little annoying but at least if you know and carry a few coins you can get in quickly.
> JSON is the only popular language in the PLDB without comments.

Some folks actually tried addressing that limitation (and some others) with JSON5: https://json5.org/

Though sadly it never really caught on outside of a few niche projects. At the same time, however, I've seen some projects out there also use JSONC or another non-standard version that adds comments, since clearly people want them: https://komkom.github.io/jsonc/
Sure, it depends on `xclip`, which you might need to install, and `perl` which you probably already have. I only run it while I'm actually copying and pasting as I don't like leaving loops running, that said, with the 1 second sleep it's really not so bad.

#!/bin/bash
while true ; do xclip -sel primary -o | perl -pe 'chomp if eof' | xclip -sel primary ; sleep 1 ; done

Note that this affects only the primary selection, e.g. the copy-on-highlight and paste-on-middle-click clipboard. I hardly ever use the rodent, but when I do, this is what I use it for. You could easily adapt the script to the Ctrl-C Ctrl-V clipboard.
Why is day of the month 1-indexed but the month is 0-indexed
My favorite keyboard of all time is the one that came with the Atari 400, so to answer your question, no you are not the only one.
JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs
A cashless society is a tracked society. It is a society that is more brittle, in that a power fail makes things revert to barter. Transactions have more friction in that cards and readers can and do wear out. It also sux to be a tourist since they’re probably charging 3% currency fees every transaction.

Yeah, you get a record of every donut and coffee but so does everybody else on the network who cares. And members of such a society damn near disappear when there’s an issue with their account(s).
> Language models show that language is predictive, not rule based.

Training language models by making them predict missing words in a text is a trick to optimize their ability to extract information from text. That doesn't mean that making humans do the exact same task is the optimal way to learn a language. And it definitely doesn't mean there are no rules.

Millenia of linguistic research have succeeded in identifying a lot of rules in every language. You don't have to learn them explicitly, but it speeds things up a bit.

If you think there are no shortcuts to learning, you're either blind to the shortcuts you used, or you missed out on a lot.

Like dictionaries. They just tell you what a word means in a language you can understand! That saves a lot of time compared to having to figure out everything from context.

The Wiktionary entry for the particle に https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%AB#Particle lists eight different uses and has a note on the different nuance of ヘ. Do you think this entry is completely useless? If someone looks up に, what information should they get?
It's not free but affordable.

Terminology is not the same, however.

When I was twenty years old I enrolled at the University of Bern for Computer Science. For that I had to go to preparatory school (Gymnasium) between 15 and 19 years old. It was a harsh school. I learnt the languages French, Latin and English and I had to write essays in German. Then there was geography, math, biology, chemistry, physics, human sciences, programming. Finally there was a round of examinations. 4 hours of math, 4 hours of essay in German, 2 hours of essay in French, oral examinations, etc.

For the university I had to pay about 1000 francs, about 2000 dollars a year for tuition (the conversion rate is somewhat arbitrary because 30 years ago the conversion rate was completely different, so look at this more like a ballpark figure). I was able to pay this myself because I had some odd jobs financing myself. I could live at my parent's the first years then I moved out into an appartment sharing with friends.

This is typical for Europe: students usually are able to finance themselves.
Blender is a foundation:

https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/
Checking if the heater is working is a different task than telling the heater what to do. You can't fail to tell the heater what to do. However, it's your job as the programmer to make sure the heater is doing what it's supposed to.
And early Blender sucked ass compared to today. While it starting as a commercial product might have helped at start, right now it's no longer the case.
It's probably personal opinion. I'm not a photo editor, I have never used Photoshop so that has not introduced bias.

But I have found Gimp to be wildly inconsistent in the UI. I never remember how to draw a circle, for example, when I just want to add something to a screenshot because you have to use the circle cut tool and then choose a different option which I never remember because it is unintuitive. Yet its easy to have a paintbrush that draws one of those texture patterns that I can't imagine anyone ever using.

As such I then don't use it.
> Fortune favours the bold

Or rather corrupt politicians, oligarchs & murderers. At least according to your USSR example.

> Many were selling drugs when it was illegal and picked up valuable skills that can be used to leap over others who didn't take the risk

I seriously doubt most of those skills are really transferable to the post legalization market in any meaningful way…
This is a very strange argument, because banks do not lend out deposits.

Deposits are created jointly with each new loan on its balance (and destroyed when the loan pays back).

Offering higher deposits is actually a higher cost for a bank and lowers its profitability.
Personally, I think that SFTP can be a decent option. Though on Windows hosts that want to access said files, I've found myself needing something like RaiDrive or a similar piece of software: https://www.raidrive.com/

That said, the performance is pretty good and it seems rather stable, I haven't had many issues to date at all. Though my use case is also decidedly simple: just a "push" setup for files/backups when I want to move things from one of my local HDDs to another one that's running on a homelab server. Some might go for a NAS setup, though the simplicity of a SSH key for SFTP is hard to beat.

No idea why Windows doesn't support something like that natively.
Worse, there are a lot of SW engineers who have no idea how a computer works. One common mistake is that code is executed "instantly". Especially in embedded, this is problematic.
I was just watching Colin Furze's Underground Tunnel series hah!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjbAdaOBLBlS1MPKXYmq...
I can’t help feeling like we engineers are shooting ourselves in the foot with the open source culture: Most challenging and interesting work is turning into unpaid (open source) hobby projects. Professional software engineering is more and more about cobbling together various open source software, fiddling with configuration files and other menial tasks. Also, where is my “open source lawyer” or “open source doctor” whose work I can download from GitHub for free and file my issues / complaints with there?

I guess this benefits the mediocre software engineer (who can now accomplish things by cobbling together open source that they would never be able to accomplish from scratch), and perhaps it’s also a plus for the top 0.001% who are good hustlers too and can make a career out of touring around conferences as some kind of nerd celebrities. But for the skilled and professional engineer (say top 5-25%) I’m starting to feel it’s a trap.

(Open source is great for basic infrastructure though, like operating systems, compilers, interpreters, frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch, etc. I’m definitely not against it in general.)
You realise that this is a North American problem? The rest of the world has public toilets.
You should see germany: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric...
This is really the crux of the issue, if you gotta go you gotta go. Sure you will try to find a suitable place but eventually you get to make a decision between your pants and whatever is around (and hence the need for high enough density of publicly accessible facilities)
We were taught civics and society alongside math. Children/pupils/young adults also did cleaning, tree planting, everyday group work. I'm surprised some countries don't have that, it helps make a better society.
That’s extremely helpful. Thank you for taking the time with a newbie.
If it were only that - there are features that will never be implemented if certain utterances by core devs are any indication.

I am more a PSP than a PS guy and I really tried to use GIMP for my image editing needs on kubuntu. I even ran a pinned patched version of it fixing the save/export "bug" (Another boneheaded ideological dev decision).

A few months back I wanted to add a few straight lines to an image. In PSP these would be vector object that can be adjusted in size, color and position. In GIMP not so much. It has only the pencil tool with an alt mode holding shift that does straight lines.

However I needed to adjust the lines distance from each other slightly - What followed was a lot of cursing and repeated attempts, switching to the path tool followed by discarding that idea and switching to making a layer per line. After finishing I deleted what I had done and did the same by starting PSP 9 in WINE in about 30 seconds.

I did some googling and found the reason why GIMP lacks any useable Vector functions is that vector functions belong in a Drawing program not a Manipulation program. And GIMP is the latter. This is a paraphrased from memory quote by a GIMP dev.

That probably means that not putting any vector function in (even though stuff like the Text function really benefits from vector layers) was a decision long ago that passed into ideological canon by now and is probably a huge task to implement.

So I am currently back to using a PSP version from 1998 for editing images on ubuntu. Even though its buggy as hell. Newer version after the Corel acquisition sadly come with a DRM service that balks at wine. I have licences for a few of those I would love to use.
> Same birdie told me Aerospike has customers who replaced CockroachDB, when they found out it has trouble scaling past a point.

Elaborate?
Maybe I misunderstand the author’s goal, but using the “random number” from the payment amount and regularly checking wallet balance, just seem incredibly rudimentary compared to an actual payments system…
Theres a really good rant/writeup about thumbnails and gnome/linux.

https://randthoughts.github.io/little-rant-about-gnomes-file...
>Right now nobody is really interested in using Crypto for payment. I like to find real use cases and looking forward to buy real stuff with it, but most people just hodl, especially when markets are down.

I saw Solana and thought, okay so it is possible to build a scalable cryptocurrency, but then again, the culture of speculation and excessive amounts of volatility make cryptocurrency useless for payments.

The only promising cryptocurrency I have seen so far is the non pegged stablecoin RAI which is basically trying to emulate central banks via a smart contract that uses control theory to adjust a redemption rate which is effectively an interest rate that changes the unit of account rather than the quantity of money.

Anyway, what this means is that cryptocurrency currency is still trapped in its degenerate gambling culture and we are at least a decade away from seeing real innovation in the cryptocurrency space beyond the usual tulip mania.
You just have a really good internet connection. Lags a lot on my mobile internet.
>It just doesn’t make sense for the average person to start their own cooperative, especially in any competitive domain.

What do you mean by 'competitive domain'? State of the art like Amazon or many competitors like Ben and Jerry's [1]?

If it's competitive like Ben and Jerry's, wouldn't that be the best environment for a cooperative? You can use your network to assemble an initial team and then build something that the market wants because everybody already knows the market. You create one more offer that will find its niche on the market.

Where else does an average person have enough domain knowledge to make a better investment?

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...
Being quite not “younger”, I welcome comments from those who are. This reads like data collection from a variable quality source as I can’t imagine people wanting to work for GM or IBM. Talk about two bastions of 1950-1970 economic power…

I can understand wanting stability and particularly benefits (if in the us), but I don’t think it exists in the form people are remembering. Best to have a skill set that one can show others, and ideally some concrete results. Ironically, companies like these two will hold onto the oldest workforce unless specific actions are taken to eject them. IBM, though, has shown it has no scruples in this area.

And save your money as you’ll be “old” at one point and so discarded.
Ouch. I’m super curious why you found it such a waste. I found it super interesting (I guess for all the reasons in the post)
> repeat offenders who abuse the restroom will be blocked.

Forcing the banned people to use some street or park for their relief would be better? They obviously don't care where the literal shit piles up as long as it doesn't diminish their profits.
Yes, I'm aware of the war going on, and that it affects politics and economics, and therefore, valuable lives. But the complaint originated with the lack of 2FA, and then went straight under the bus for completely unrelated items.

2FA is a certainly a useful layer to add, but also not the be-all-and-end-all of account security.

There isn't a list of 1) secure trustworthy companies because of 2FA, and 2) everyone else is untrustworthy and dangerous. Wells Fargo doesn't even require 2FA.
That is not a win for open source because reducing payments is not a goal of open source. Assured continuation of availability and ownership of user's data is the explicit goal of the FOSS movement as stated by RMS. That means that it will continue to run on your hardware, and won't lock your data, and you can fix the bugs and suit it to your purpose.

Money was never the issue.
What about when you just want things to work, rather than running into some weird abstraction related issues along the way, that you cannot solve due to any such solution not being popular enough for your use case to be covered?

That's kind of why personally I'd just go for Helm or something of that variety - popular enough to have plenty of tutorials and answers about it, simple enough to just be viewed as a bunch of templating, going from values.yaml to your filled out template files that can be applied against a Kubernetes cluster.

It even generates a lot of what you might need (deployment, service etc.) as a part of the base set of templates, thus you don't have to waste your time trying to write manifests from scratch and have plenty of workable examples for setting env values etc.
Because for most instruments, it is. A violin player won't move up for a full half tone for a D sharp, so there'll remain a small pitch difference between them.

It's only for the small subset of keyed instruments like pianos that pitch is quantized into 12 subtones. But even there, organs use a different pitch to key mapping than keyboards.

For a very interesting rabbit hole, search for "Wolfsquinte", which is a chord that sounds nice on keyboard but horrible on organ.
I have seen articles about increases of dementia, and probably submitted them here. Some say it is the phosphates. Nonetheless, it is far from being a "oh well" situation (I just posted earlier, it is doom), and yes, more references would be in order.

My impression is that "«people»" are typically "trying less and less", and taking more and more bad (regressive) compromises. If there is an acquired physiological issue I am not sure, and it certainly calls for getting more details: I clearly see a cultural issue.
The dollar is used to pay for cleaning and attendance. This is an existing system. The US used to do it.
I can heartily recommend https://inwx.com - they have exceptionally good support.
Haven’t used them in production because their license doesn’t allow operating as a service.

I have used an alternative.
Yes. And using a "unique" number between 0 and 99 gives you an indication of how many transactions this system is designed to support. (Not many, it seems to me.)
Reread first two sentences of the post that started this thread. They clearly state that books are being published and what goes into getting those books published. This wasn't about what OP "considers publishing to mean", it's what OP considers to be worth being read.
You can turn off solar and wind and by doing that you don't have to throw away electricity. It seems more likely that they're subsidized meaning they can drop their prices below zero yet still make a profit.
By this logic, there are no unjust laws ever? They’re all perfect because they were made by elected officials - who are obviously never corrupt or selfish, or lobbied by others?

In fact, why do we even change laws? We must aim to only make new non-overlapping laws preserving the integrity of our previous ones.
Hah, I wondered why there was an uptick of attention to that old tweet.

We should be slightly careful — while I can't deny that there's a small element of "ITYS" about that tweet, should it really count if I then left it up to Intel to follow up?

I whined that we hadn't shown that it was safe. The credit really does need to go to the RETbleed folks who put in the work to truly demonstrate that it wasn't.
So put the charge on the entrance to the bathroom so you have to pay to get into the bathroom. That is how bathrooms in London train stations and airports work. Then it does not matter if you are going to use the urinal or stall, or even the wash basins.
Can be solved with a hotspot that only works for the facilities.

Alternatively flip it around and the toilet scans your QR - this could even be a bit of paper. Ultra low tech.
> You can purchase fake items in this test shop with testnet coins of Solana and Stellar.

> Please let me know what you think of it.

Literally not a single point of contact anywhere to be found anywhere on the site. I guess you mean here instead?

Also your login error message is just a db response :)
Which VC would invest in that?
Yeah normally you’d create a new address to receive payments from each user. Addresses are essentially free so this is how everyone else figures out which user deposited money into their cryptocurrency wallet.
And if I didn't do a computer science degree?
RMS is on record as supporting BSD style licences for certain things because without them, proprietary software would have an even stronger stranglehold.

https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3

So it's not totally black and white, there's tactics and strategy involved. The less money going to Adobe, the less power and control they have. If they can force you to pay, they can force you to do other things. If they can't force you to pay, then they can't force other things as well.
Whilst I hate facts as much as anyone else, the sun has several billion years left. Having anything in space has occured entirely in my lifetime. I think it is a good idea to keep earth livable for a few thousand years as a backup plan.
From designers perspective, it having CMYK flow through all of GIMP would make me switch from Krita to GIMP.
To avoid the "all eggs in one basket" issue with companies that have arbitrary rules and little to no support, on purpose. Same reason I don't use Stripe or Shopify or SendGrid.
Yes, that's a big problem. You might harm your reputation including a Crypto payment option.
Ye. People are overstating the problem with having public bathrooms. It is just that it need cleaning like hourly and be closed during night so people don't sleep there.

Even if you don't have users who pee all over the ring and floor the bathroom will look like a mess after 100 visits.
Surprisingly solid article. I'm not a great online writer by any stretch, but most of the advice in the article seem to agree very well with what I've personally found helpful with finding the inspiration to write.