skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I’d probably learn more from hearing Tim Cook talk about iPhone vs Android, or Elon Musk talk about NASA vs SpaceX, than I would from hearing from almost any impartial observer. I’m by no means a fanboy of either, but I respect the fact that both of them have spent a bunch of their life learning about this stuff and understand it at a level I don’t. Of course I’d treat it as a biased source of information, but I’d still treat it as informative.
Please do not break the site guidelines yourself, regardless of how bad another commenter's posts are or you feel they are. It only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Luckily for humanity that won’t actually be necessary because in the next 20-30 years we're likely to revert to savagery and barbarism, and "civilized" behaviors won't matter anymore (assuming one of our "leaders" doesn't do the epic stupid and get us all "nuked" out of existence).
The world is, in general, in trouble. We are absolutely obsessed with scale at all costs, and the costs will be humans and a lot of other things in the wake, as already apparent. Humans are not meant for “at scale” activities because they require things like that found in Amazon fulfillment centers or Apple’s iPhone factories. They are tedious, monotonous, and soulless jobs that are heading for more and more automation.
> blackjack is also possible to play with positive value for the player[1]

Unless you're talking about card-counting (it's fair if you are) it's not possible to "play" with a positive value for the player; doing what you have to do to get that 2% or whatever means you have to strictly run an algorithm and not fuck it up. Screw up once and that 2% is gone.
In a way it is nice way to grow Rust ecosystem quickly at-least. Likely makes existing libraries better, and fills up the missing holes in ecosystem. If everyone builds just new stuff, it will likely grow at slower pace, and much smaller ecosystem for libraries.
A lot of home gardeners drive their SUV to the box store to buy plant saplings in plastic pots and small plastic bags of compost/manure/fertilizer, then in a separate trip to the big box hardware store to buy kiln dried dimensional lumber for a raised bed, then pay a contractor to drop off a few tonnes of soil for that raised bed, then plant their saplings in their brand new garden. Then harvest time comes around and if they're really committed, they'll can their own tomatoes! Boiling a huge stock pot of water on their gas stove to pasteurize their 6 quarts of sauce. On the net, this type of home gardening uses dramatically more resources per unit of output than production farms. It can be worth it because of the freshness and quality that you can gain, but unless you're paying a lot of attention and effort (saving seeds, using more natural nutrient sources to amend the soil, etc), you're not doing the environment many favours by gardening.

That said, topsoil loss is one part of commercial farming that is not nearly addressed enough - it's a nonrenewable resource being squandered and literally washed away every season.
Seeing how Intel hemorrhaged talent that went straight to their competitors, like Apple, I’d say your distinction is not very relevant.
I'm surprised nobody ever manufactured the floppy-disc equivalent of those audio-to-casette-player adapters. Making one would be a fun project...

But the real, practical answer is that there are floppy drive emulators that speak (whatever protocol floppy drives speak) to the host, but which let you plug a USB Mass Storage device into the front:

https://www.amazon.com/Gotek-SFR1M44-U100-1-44MB-Floppy-Emul...

Just rip out the machine's floppy drive and put one of those in its place. Button on the front pages through virtual "floppies" stored as files on your USB stick. It's sort of like using a game-console flash cart.
What are you publishing that has a binary that big but can't use a container image?
If you look on any of the pet websites for breeders, I don't know how many you find actually IN Cupertino. Mine was in Valley Springs (look it up).
Well there is this famous post by Greg Maxwell where fees almost reached the block reward amount (pull out "champaign"): https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...

As long as there is demand for block space, a market will exist. Also, block size can be increased. Bitcoin will need a hard fork anyway to fix the year 2106 problem (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=760).
> The Act requires CSPs to preserve stored communications at the request of certain domestic agencies, or the Australian Federal Police acting on behalf of certain foreign countries, in advance of a warrant to access the information being issued.

> ...

> There are two types of preservation notices—domestic (‘which cover stored communications that might relate either to a contravention of certain Australian laws or to security’) and foreign (‘which cover stored communications that might relate to a contravention of certain foreign laws’).

> In turn, there are two types of domestic preservation notices—historic (‘which cover stored communications held by the carrier on a particular day’) and ongoing (‘which cover stored communications held by the carrier in a particular 30-day period’).

> A foreign preservation notice only covers stored communications held by the carrier on a particular day. The Ombudsman and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security will have oversight in relation to preservation notices.
> Besides, even if we could agree, what could we do about it?

The same thing we do for other paradigms (system architecture, programming concepts, etc.) - find and document common patterns, then find ways to transition to the patterns away from things out of pattern, and lastly introduce automatic refactorings that do fix these things in bulk.

I definitely agree with you on the evolution thing. Homebrew is a similar DSL for installing packages on macOS. It has the problem where things get deprecated from the DSLs (Casks and Formulae) which leads to not being able to run various commands until previously installed software is fixed.
And it is not early days anymore.

We have given it enough time to realize the claims as a Twitter alternative and it has simply failed. Twitter had tens of millions of users in its first 6 years. Mastodon is still struggling and considers 20 people as 'trending'.

Mastodon is a total failure, and virtually no-one is there or uses it frequently or daily other than the general hyper tech-crowd and that is the fact.

Regardless of the $48BN takeover, I'm already seeing the Mastodon circus running back to Twitter as they knew Mastodon was going the way of the Mastodon; extinction.
But you are locked to cloudflare DNS.
Windows support has been a target since 2013. That's too long for me to put any credibility in projections on when it will be generally released.
A lot of city buses won't give change period. It doesn't have much to do with it being a $100 bill other than that making it an especially terrible deal for you.
This really depends on where they live and how big a family they are supporting.

I’m not struggling but I feel it on six figures with a family of four in a HCOL area with a special needs child and one income.
Everyone uses US$ for large transactions, or they did when I was last there. Contacts specify payment on in dollars too.
I haven't seen this covered in mainstream TV news, save for a segment earlier this week on PBS News Hour.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-an-obscure-cellpho...

Rather sad that it isn't more widely discussed.
In Florida, if you go to any regional lottery office on payday, you will see people come in, cash their paycheck at the window, convert every dollar into scratch-off tickets, then see if they actually got paid that week.

That's a government office doing that.
We may be reading those rules pretty differently. Your GP comment seemed egregious to me.

Also, don't miss the point that we ban accounts that use HN primarily for political or ideological battle, even if they're not breaking the site guidelines in other ways (and regardless of which politics or ideology they're battling for). That's because it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pepsi/Coke soft drink prices are insane here. Local grocery store chain is now as high as $2.99 for a 2L. Meanwhile 7-Eleven always has them on sale at 2/$3.50.

Anything that makes me drink less of them is better shrug.
I think my town is like that for various taxes. They farm it out to a third-party, presumably for "free," and the third-party gets their profit by charging a fee of some sort. So I either physically send a check or, for regular payments, I set up check payments through my bank.
You can get yourself permanently blacklisted at any casino by just asking - even inveterate gambling addicts have brief moments of clarity.

You don't even need to run naked down the slot aisles and belly flop onto the craps table.
Ok but it is kind of ridiculous that we have to solve the whole "lack of trust in institutions and the media" and also "unreliable global supply chain" problems -- very real things we should be working on, sure -- in order to make sure our laptops charge at full speed reliably, right?
In this case, the problem was with installation of the app itself - once sorted, it worked well.
Yeah not very many. We’re looking at getting either a Samoyed or a Bernese Mountain Dog, and finding good breeders is hard.
There's a few landmark lawsuits I'm patiently waiting for now that these tools have become widely available and can be used by anyone for purposes that are not not necessarily academic:

a) Artist/copyright holder suing LAION, OpenAI, StabilityAI, or other scientific/academic entity for the unlicensed inclusion of their original work in a publicly-distributed model/data set.

b) Artist/copyright holder suing someone for the use of an AI-generated image that is almost identical to their original work, and/or for using their name in the prompt that generated the image.

c) Artist/copyright holder suing someone for unlicensed use of their original work, while the defendant claims the work was created using AI and therefore is in public domain.

Anybody else have similar predictions?
You could just tap a contactless credit card.
And one that bombed out to a DOS prompt:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1unxbe/in_case_you_wer...
So what if it's hard. That's very different from impossible. If humans can do it, why do you think a machine will never be able for the rest of time?

Some of those things sound like something a machine will become much better at than a human ever could.
Mostly feeling it in the necessities: groceries, household items, etc.

It’s meant we’ve diverted funds from wants to needs to continue hitting our budget targets, so we are fine so far but it’s noticeable.

This is in a HCOL area, low six figures, single income.
> Why hide it if it’s legal?

True, if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear. That's why it doesn't matter if the police have the data.

Actually, that's bullshit, as is "Why hide if it's legal?". The obvious answer is that The Court of Public Opinion will convict on many counts that are both legal and ethical.
No, this is exactly what I want to avoid. If I choose to change jobs then I need to find new housing.

I want a social life outside of work, and privacy is essential. As an example I generally do not want my colleagues to know who I am dating, or if I am dating more than one person.

People should only know what I choose to share. Separation between work and my personal life is essential.
> Fetishizing the tools used to accomplish things, rather than doing the thing...

What you are describing is fascination with the engineering aspect of things. That's something I would expect the HN crowd to easily relate to.
Long running lambda functions are called AWS Batch. It’s a relatively unknown service but pretty decent if you need something like a GPU or long running jobs and can tolerate a 90 second cold start.
If true, the article should be changed. Isn't the stratosphere extremely dry?
You'd think after a few cops got caught abusing these systems to spy or harass victims or former partners that they would be banned from doing anything without a warrant.
Or replace the floppy drive with a floppy drive emulator which uses an SD card as a storage medium. They're popular in the retrocomputing community. No other hardware or software changes required, and you replace a whole bunch of moving parts that are bound to fail with something simple and solid-state. Same deal for hard drives in old PCs: image them, and then pop in a faster and moving-parts-free drive emulator.
> At least lotteries supposedly go towards public projects.

They don't, it's a scam. Other than that the fact that money is fungible (so sending lottery money to schools really doesn't mean anything), when you crack open the books (which is never done, and there are always contracts that include never doing it), they don't make money. In Illinois, which has always had a huge lottery, it never even broke even. Lotteries are just one of the many vehicles for politician self-dealing.
> Bitcoin had been 51% attacked before

Are you thinking of Bitcoin Gold?
Ask HN: Who do you use for background checks?
I have a relative that’s looking to rent out his spare bedroom and wants to do a criminal/tenancy background check on a possible tenant. Her asked for my help and I realized I have no idea what is a reputable service to do this.

There are so many fake-looking sites filled with artificially long wait times while they “generate” a report and I can’t find a single service that gives pricing for a one-off check.

This is happening in California.

I am sure I’m ignorant about all of this, so please educate me!
Many years ago, I interviewed at a company that manufactured equipment used by fabs. My impression was of a very stressful environment.

Their latest equipment had some issues that were only showing up on production lines, so they wanted engineers to babysit the equipment at the fabs, and write patches on the spot for any issues observed. They repeatedly stressed how much money their customers lost for any downtime, and how there must not be downtime.
Your logic is not sound.

As long as birth rate remains above the replacement rate, population will not drop.

Pakistan's birth rate has fallen significantly (but still above the replacement rate), so you will expect population growth to plummet, but not the population number itself
So you’re critical of others for working at a place you have worked at? How does that work?
People wanting a "global currency" -- you can stand down. We already have one. It's the US $100 bill [1].

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/files/coin_109...
Re 'people of color', correctness wasn't my point; offtopicness was.

> I was referring to the anecdote story at the beginning of the post. I believe even in the US, bleaching your skin has been an obsolete practice so I am not sure which point the anecdote was supposed to make.

If you had posted that originally, instead of a shallow dismissal that came across as cross-examining, it would have been fine. Even better, you could have posted "I believe even in the US, bleaching your skin has been an obsolete practice" and followed it up with a curious question. You may have been unsure which point they were making, but that doesn't mean there wasn't one. Why not simply ask for it politely? Your entire comment was the antithesis of that, which is why I responded to it in detail.
I hope you have a cap on your twilio billing
If (some) cops aren't using this to track their partners/children/enemies, I'd be extremely surprised.

You can drill it down to an individual target easily if you know one place they often are.
Is there a way to figure out how good of a job I'm doing avoiding tracking? I don't even think it would be unlawful to ask someone with access to this tool to look ones own phone up to see how much tracking data they are getting.
I guess most answers up to now are from ‘across the pond’ or people earning very high salaries?

Inflation is wiping out my savings. I didn’t have much disposable income left after basic expenses, which was okay considering I’m in a EU country. But gas first doubled, and now tripled from the already high price. Electricity went up a bit. Food got a bit more expensive, but I mostly buy grains, fruit, and veg so I’ll live.

I’ve no major expenses left to cut after switching providers where I could and lowering the boiler. It’s not that bad though, it’s still a perfectly good middle class life, with enough comfort. Doctor visits are still 4€, the apartment is cozy, and everything will be okay; but I don’t know how the lesser privileged are going to handle winter.
On an OMNY machine, you have three payment options:

1. Contactless credit, debit, or reloadable prepaid card.

2. Smartphone app.

3. OMNY card.

Source: https://omny.info
I think the first thing everyone here needs to recognize, is that this is primarily a MANUFACTURING / FACTORY jerb.

99% of humans in the semi-conductor field are not designing masks and worrying about etching time or whatever nonsense marketing NANOMETER terminology is in place.

They are building "don't fuck this up" teams that are focused on quality manufacturing and how many PPI in the air, highly caustic chemicals, and FUPs not failing. The same stuff everyone with an assembly line deals with turned up to 11.

Then there are the IT folks who have to ensure that all these proprietary ASML or similar monstrosities are not compromised by some field tech with a compromised USB stick.

The nightmares I've had about that, multi-million dollar machines controlled by Windows X and never patched and yet somehow allowed to talk to a network that also has access to the Internet and rando field techs with "updates" on a stick.

Its almost as scary as how much international business relies on some random Excel file updated by humans.
Artificial != unnatural
You can also use words to express your criticism in a more constructive way instead of being snarky and talking down to the GP like they are an imbecile.
Not people, but I'd like incumbent mega-corporations be compelled to not lock down the devices they sell.

And device drivers for android, at minimum, since the ASOP folks could use them now. Linux would be great because it would eventually thrive in an environment like that.
Yeah, soft drinks will kill you. I used to drink Coke and I don't miss it at all. I'm amazed that my former self could drink that.
We should really mandate little bands on USB cables, like resistors have, to tell us their properties.
"If you can't replaced, you can't be promoted" -- sometimes attributed to Lee Iacocca

Don't manage your work from a place of fear. If you really don't want to be promoted, that's fine. I respect people that have that opinion. But don't try to ensure job security by slowing the organization down to reassure yourself you're too essential to replace.
What service people don't take credit cards these days?
He was literally trying to have a wall built to minimize illegal border crossings commonly used by opiate smugglers?
A metrocard machine once just ate a $20 from me, and then gave me an error message saying it was unable to charge by card, or hand back the $20.

And if I wanted my $20 back then I should send a letter to some address.

I did, but I guess they just saw "oh, doesn't even live in NYC. Fuck him, and thanks for the free $20".

I'm still bitter.
> Nix's system of overlays depends on laziness too to provide efficient late-binding familiar from OOP.

As an OOPer, inheritance is one of the things that is generally trotted out as the worst aspect of OO languages. This leads to the mantra "favor composition over inheritance". Much has been written about why and how. But it seems to cause the same pain points that people talk about with respect to laziness in Nix. "Spooky action at a distance" is one of my favorite ways of describing some of these problems.

(I'm not super familiar with Nix, so I could be misreading the points about laziness. Please forgive me if so.)
Evolution is proved by looking at the animals of the past, and animals today, and noting how and why they have changed.

People who think evolution needs to be proven tend to think evolution and Origin of Life are the same subject. They are completely separate, and need to be understood that way so we don't continue to have people think that everything alive is exactly the same way it was centuries and millennia ago. Because they aren't.

Evolution doesn't even go against creationist beliefs. Most of our modern foods only exist because of our understanding of how evolution works.

Origins of Life tends to dispute a Godly creation event, although so far it never suggests what that original life spark was - nobody knows (yet). And that's probably where creationists should really focus. At least then they can compare apples to Adam's apples.

Things evolve. It's impossible to not notice that. But the argument is actually about Origin of Life as a subject entirely on its own.
its interesting to note that floppy disks are still more secure than anything usb. what can you move on to that is both secure and cheap?
What about, "treat AWS workers better"? Pay your people for their on call hours! Let them work on side projects and games in their spare time! Give them more than seven paid holidays. Give them more than two weeks vacation!

Only six weeks of paid parental leave?

I would absolutely be willing to pay more for AWS if I knew that amount was going to treating the poor folks who built it all better.
I am pretty surprised they don't compete with Stripe. They have some Amazon pay thing I'd never use, but competing with Stripe seems obvious.

Same with Twilio. They do kind of compete with them, but not really.

Their managed airflow is insanely basically unusably expensive, I don't get that.
$20s are OK. That's the usual thing that ATMs spit out. But I've had various problems over the years where I've wanted a few hundred dollars because of some issue. I have more card redundancy these days--because you have to given anti-fraud systems. In the past I've have carried traveler's checks but that doesn't really make sense any longer. I do like having a good $500 of cash with me for foreign travel and probably more for more remote locations. $100 bills aren't essential but a few can be useful as an emergency reserve.
What do you mean when you say "blow up"?
Is the M1's design really that technically impressive? The product itself is revolutionary, but my impression was that its main technical advantages is that ARM is more efficient and they had a monopoly on TSMC's 5 nm process.

I think general mismanagement explains Intel's decline more than money or working conditions. TSMC pays embarrassing low, which is why a lot of engineers end up being poached by China.