skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>"The only way to solve this problem is for the product/service provider to know about you and the fact that you have a problem."

Only way?? No.

No no absolutely not.

If/Since we are talking ideas and hypothetical, the preferred way would be for me to search for a product / indicate my need, and then marketplace to provide / compete for it.

The whole notion that advertiser must understand what I need, all the time, without my involvement knowledge or permission, then shove what it thinks I need up my throat constantly, is dystopian.

Basically, I think we are mixing up a pull paradigm to satisfy the consumer, with a push paradigm to satisfy the business. This is not to be naive about realities of world, business, saturated market, crappy products and differentiation, etc. But it peeves me when companies lack self awareness to be honest with themselves about which model is beneficial to which party.

Edit (and if we are going to talk about consumers being ignorant of the realities, let us not please pretend that the ultimate purpose of advertising is to perfectly satisfy a need with optimal product. Ultimate purpose of advertising is to make a sale. Sometimes, that sale is in fact optimal for the consumer. We can disagree how often that occurs as a percentage.)

Edit edit : the more I think the more I disagree. It's the word "optimal" that really bugs me - there's nothing optimal about modern online advertising. Clever, persistent, pervasive, desperate, obnoxious, hard work, devious, are some attributes that come to my mind. But it feels far from optimal - there's so much money and effort in this arms race which is increasingly hostile between an advertiser and consumer, and knowingly so; google and meta are 300 billion worth of not optimal :->
software engineer is not same as civil engineer. (i gues the capacity/abiltiy to learn is there, but still.. there is quite a difference)
Well, they crashed hard, so there is your „impact“...
Doesn't really matter why it happened only that it did and because of that Europe and Japan are democracies.
https://help.meetup.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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You should have said you bought electronic equipment for your students in the first place :-) I can respect that.

I see that pencil trope all the time. In Seattle, they run a school supplies drive every year and pencils figure prominently on the donation list. This is a school system that spends $16,941 per student, and yet begs for $.05 pencils.

"San Francisco Unified School District spends $17,464 per student each year" sez google. I infer your complaint is misdirected at the taxpayers, and should be with mis-spending by the school administrators.
Huh, I am on Ubuntu 22.10 (current dev) and changed the track pad speed yesterday. I think it was part of the regular mouse settings in gnome.
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>They are no longer legal tender.

The $1 and the $2 notes stopped being issued in 1989 and 1996 respectively. They are not demonetized and you can still exchange such money at any bank in Canada, or the Bank of Canada, for its face value.

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/about-legal-tender/

>While all cards in Canada may have chip and PIN, no such event occurred where across the nation everyone started using it for every purchase, like there was no transition

What the hell is this supposed to mean? EMV-enabled cards were rolled out as each bank got onboard, replacing cards at expiry with EMV-enabled ones. Eventually no further non-chip cards were issued.

After a while, the same thing happened for contactless as well.

>nor different options to use with the same card.

EMV supports multiple applets per card, so you can absolutely have a debit and a credit card in the same physical card, choosing which you want to use after you insert it into the reader. These are unusual, perhaps because most people seem to prefer separate cards.

>The assertion that the United States is somehow behind Canada in payment technology because all credit card issuers do not issue cards with chip and PIN seems invalid to me.

The United States isn't just behind Canada, it's behind Europe, Australia, and most of Asia, as well.

I can send money from one European country to another in a regulated maximum of 15 seconds 24/7/365 (look up "SCT INST"), but the Americans can't get it from one bank to another in the same country quicker than a day or two (or sometimes three, apparently). Never mind consumers trying to punch in someone's ABA routing and account numbers to pay them... lol nope, hence the mess of insecure third-party services like Zelle, CashApp, etc.

Skimmers aren't really a thing in Europe because everything is EMV, and I don't mean the abortion which is chip-and-signature (although that still proves possession of the original card).

>Additionally the surprise at not requiring signatures. Merchants have been accepting contact-less enabled card payments in the United States, requiring no signature, for quite awhile.

Again you speak from whence you know not. Google Pay and Apple Pay use a different CVM, referred to as CDCVM, for which there is no PIN as user authentication is handled by the device (hence the need for a fingerprint or face scan before they can be used). For small transactions plastic cards are permitted to perform contactless transactions without a PIN in most countries for convenience as the risk of fraud is low given the maximum cumulative cap of perhaps €50/$50, configurable by the issuer, before a PIN becomes required, which caps the bank's liability in case of theft (since the cardholder is not on the hook for it).
Cool kid. Imagine what he could have done with supportive teachers if not burdened by poverty.
Finally, an archive.org URL at the top instead of archive.ph. Nice one.

The later has a "bot protection" page that looks like Cloudflare's but someone suggested it is not. Makes sense because archive.today and Cloudflare were in a spat some time ago. Archive.today wanted to allow monitoring of users' locations, e.g., via EDNS Client Subnet, but Cloudflare did not send ECS.

Unlike Archive.today, Internet Archive does not try to force users to enable Javascript or make them solve CAPTCHAs. Nor does Common Crawl.

It is interesting to contrast the Internet Archive (IA) with Archive.today. The later is vague about how it is funded and admits it could sell out to advertisers in the future.^1 There is obviously no small amount of data it could collect about user interests and behaviours that could be used to support advertising. For example, what usage data does it store, if any. What are the Terms of Use for that data. There are no public statements about any restrictions on what the website operator can do. The operator invites users to "Ask me anything" but AFAICT the website has no Privacy Policy. The operator admits it sends the client's IP in a X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. This is not something one would experience with IA. The server hosting the page being archived receives an IA IP address as the client IP address, not an IA user's IP address. IA has a Privacy Policy, last updated in 2001.^2 Unlike Archive.today, I feel reasonably confident IA wil not sell out to commercial interests but who knows.

1. From Archive.today's FAQ:

How is the archive funded?

It is privately funded; there are no complex finances behind it. It may look more or less reliable compared to startup-style funding or a university project, depending on which risks are taken into account.

Will advertising appear on the archive one day ?

I cannot make a promise that it will not. With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.

2. YMMV, but IME but the fewer "updates" to a Privacy Policy over time the better.
each engine is a little different as well. it's like learning to perform with a partner - like another dancer, musician, etc. you have to find the sweet spot where what you want and the tool *can do* line up.
> In a world of 8,000,000,000 how many people know that there is Coursera which has top-level courses that can change their lives, improve productivity and make impact?.

I would bet there are more people who know Coursera exists than people whose lives would literally change if they took a few Coursera courses (though that doesn't mean that there aren't some people whose lives could be changed by Coursera if they knew about it).

However, seeing an Ad for Coursera is not likely to help anyone find out whether Corusera can actually help them or not - since there is absolutely no way to tell from an ad whether the product being presented is going to be even close to fit for purpose. The only thing the ad tells you that can be trusted is "Coursera is a company that is trying to sell online courses" (note: that doesn't mean that they actually provide online courses, you can only trust that they are trying to sell them - see the myriads of ads for mobile puzzle games whose gameplay has literally no relation to the game play shown in the ad).

Note: I'm not trying to take potshots at Coursera here - they are a reputable business and have many good courses - which I know from my own and friends' personal experiences. I'm trying to look objectively of what an ad for a company you know nothing about can actually tell you.
It's really to the point now where we need to ban "smart" TVs, since every single one of the manufacturers is demonstrably unable to handle the responsibility of engineering these things correctly. Sony can't do software, Samsung can't, Google as a proxy is even worse than letting Sony do it, TCL can't, Apple doesn't make a TV. Nobody can handle it. And it's bad for consumers even IF they could do it competently, since TVs need to last a decade and none of this software is decently reliable for a decade's worth of upgrades.

Fucking ban it and be done with it. If the Euros are going to force Apple to adopt USB-C, which is idiotic, then we can do this, too, which would actually do some good.
I'm able to set the trackpad speed in both GNOME and KDE on Wayland with libinput. In GNOME, it is under Settings > Mouse & Touchpad > Touchpad Speed. In KDE, it is under Settings > Input Devices > Touchpad > Pointer speed. Do these settings not show up for you?
Can you provide some rough statistics of each group size from your personal experience? Not asking to trap you but I am genuinely interested whether in practice it is useful to focus on the underlying cause.

Intentionally sloppy vs. inexperienced/tired/overworked/ADHD sloppy
In terms of throughput, technically yes, you are leaving performance on the table. However, in HFT the throughput is greatly limited by IO anyways, so you don't get much benefit with it enabled.

What you want is to minimize latency, which means you don't want to be waiting for anything before you start processing whatever information you need. To do this, you need to ensure that the correct things are cached where they need to be, and SMT means that you have multiple threads fighting each other for that precious cache space.

In non-FPGA systems I've worked with, I've seen dozens of microseconds of latency added with SMT enabled vs disabled.
When you rate products on Amazon, do you just get one vote for "this is my favorite product" and you can't express any opinion about any of the others?

When students are evaluated by their teachers, do the teachers just say "this student is the best" and not express anything about any of the others?
No has mentioned Subprime Attention Crisis yet. It’s worth reading. The whole thing is a hyper-inflated, opaque house of cards, and its collapse will cause a lot of pain.
As a fellow X11 apologist, this was pretty cool to read. It's nice to see that things are shaping up, even if there are still quite a few rough edges.

Having said that, I'm still a die-hard Xfce user, and until someone makes an xfwm4-like Wayland compositor, and ports (at least) xfce4-panel and xfdesktop to Wayland, I'm not gonna switch.

Edit: ok, looks like there's Hopalong (https://github.com/iridescent-desktop/hopalong), so we're part of the way there, even if it's pretty new.
Ultra frustrating, impossible learning curve. Tried twice several hours apart, no progress. Congratulations if that's what you wanted.
Sahil Bloom: Last year, I had a conversation that changed my life
I argue only that organisms evolve to occupy whatever space is available to them. This true of organisms, it is true of businesses. Both respond to incentives.
I am expecting 4 of them to land on my doorstep any moment now. downsides are of course cost and weight, upsides are that I can read them in bed and don't require a computer nearby. Not being able to type/cut/paste immediately is often an asset when I'm trying to get to grips with new concepts. Running the code in my head helps me form hypotheses and experimental goals.
https://arewewaylandyet.com/ lists Waypipe as a kind of equivalent for that. I haven't tried it; does anyone know how well it works?

It also lists FreeRDP and wayvnc.
I actually still use this feature a lot. I run some linux software on a server and can see the window on my main desktop without any need for rdp, vnc or similar. It’s really great!
The point of notes is to use information that presented fleetingly, to drive further activity, inform decisions and guide expectations.

The complexity must reside somewhere... but not during the moments I am taking notes.
The comment I was responding to asked:

> what happens if one of the "subscription" hardware parts that has been deactivated has a problem that renders the rest of the bike unusable.

In this hypothetical scenario (which is quite unlikely in the first place), you pay for the hardware once when you buy the bike, and again if it were to hypothetically fail out of warranty and disable the bike. My point is that this is the same as any other out-of-warranty hardware component.

You are imagining a different situation, I guess, and asking what happens if you are paying for a subscription for this functionality and the required hardware fails out of warranty. I don't know about that but the article doesn't actually talk about a subscription at all.

And regarding being enthusiastic about paying twice: in my mind, parts cost for the subsystems we're talking about here is just completely inconsequential. And so the two groups that are griping here are:

A) People complaining about paying what amounts to $25 extra for some sensors and electronic components they're "not going to use".
B) People complaining about paying $25 in the base price and $475 in software upgrades, rather than $500 as a single line item, for something they would have bought anyway.

I think both groups are being silly. And yes, I don't really care about "paying twice".

If you think the result here is that the total cost of the KTM is too high relative to the competition - well that is a really boring complaint. You can always go buy another bike.
It feels like it's a race to the bottom where if it didn't exist everyone would be better off, but once it does exist everyone has to compete.

Without ads we wouldn't pick products blindly we'd simply have more product-comparison sites.
The difference there - you can at least verify your ad is being shown, even if it is not a guarantee of effectiveness, and use other estimates to see how many people see it such as foot traffic or TV viewership.

I have no real way of knowing how many people see my online advertising, I just get a number and a bill, and I have to trust them. The pixel does help for visits but not views and other metrics.
You're not making any points, and your comments are written to be inflammatory (unlike deltree7's, who is clearly advancing the conversation, even if I don't agree with them).
I think he writes to people who have issues with starting due to decision paralysis due to multiple options. Complicated note systems are fine if they come from natural evolution of users "note enviroment", but a hell if you don't have any notes yet, and thus no idea if you should organise them by tags, date, lenght, topic, graph of links or their combination.
What about the judiciary being canonically one of the 3 powers of the state, by design split in a democracy ?
...and it's usually extremely slow, even if you are connected via 1Gbit wire.

Edit: replaced 10Gbit with 1Gbit. And also I love using this feature even with all its slowness
On the other hand, this works increasingly poorly as most desktop environments and software assumes there is no network involved (for example, last time I tried running Firefox over a forwarded X session I got a bunch of errors about a broken GL context). And you can do the same thing, with usually better results, by using VNC instead (and there are indeed VNC servers for Wayland, for example wayvnc).
Without x2go most apps aren't usable over the internet now because x11 was designed around assumptions that are no longer correct and you end up with multiple round-trips during rendering.

Even X2go provides an experience that's strictly worse than using windows via rdp.

It just seems completely pointless to even bother with something x11's network transparency if you're designing an x11 replacement nowadays.

It would be much better to focus on a new vnc replacement for Linux that can use low latency video codecs when needed for games, etc.
might be an off-beat opinion, but I think the rules are perfectly clear as is. Took me around 5 minutes from first sighting.
Few reasons. Main one is that containers are a complex problem to implement. You need to mount a bunch of filesystems, set a bunch of limits what app running in container can and cannot do, and then do all the plumbing to network it (firewalls, redirects etcetera).

VM is essentially just the last part and usually simpler too ("just connect it to switch like it is separate machine" is common solution"). Sure you still have some complexity around storage but that's just "here is a bunch of blocks", no need to make overlay filesystem or mount image layers.

Then we are at level of generic OS. The features docker/systemd/k8s uses were not "designed to make containers", they were designed to be used for anything you wanted, from as complex as containers to as simple as "let's put this processes in a cgroup so we can limit memory usage together. And with flexibility comes complexity.

Then we have a problem of both systemd and k8s/docker managing same interfaces so both have to play nice with eachother. And we get to even more complexity when kubelet-controlled containers also need to manage system stuff, like say networking via kube-router.

It would be simpler if say k8s' kubelet directly managed everything all at once but that means it would also have to do what systemd does (boot system, setup devices and partitions etc.) so while total complexity would be lower, the kubelet itself would be more complex.
Labor symptoms can vary from woman to woman, and even within the same woman, they might fluctuate from one pregnancy…
If you have the scope to run an embedded project with architectural pontification, you're likely both (A) paying too much for hardware, software or people; and (B) probably ignoring the path of least resistance with available code.
Mark Spitznagel wrote a superb book on austrian investing [0] (risk management with an austrian perspective, so not exactly the same). Personally as a mathematician, I prefer this to the economists who think that because the use lagrangians their ideas are somehow more valid, or worse yet, sophisticated. Either case, I don't see why austrian economics get more dirt than say, MMT.

EDIT: Spitznagel works with Taleb and his fund, Universa Investments, had a 4000% return at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic.

[0] The Dao of Capital
> Wayland wants every frame to be perfect. That means no screen tearing

Such idea was quite central, but it still ignored some uses cases where tearing is acceptable for lowest perceived latency possible (competitive gaming and such).

There is a current effort to address that:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
Many systemd commands have support for remote commands by setting a --host param to the address of the machine you want to invoke the command on.

It's similar to how --machine works for containers under systemd, but using ssh to communicate.
Why should I have to use a different "profile"?
It's a lot more than just cool compositing effects. If you are just trying to get some work done reliably with a dynamic multimonitor setup, Wayland is vastly superior.
Same exact thing happened to me when launching a product that was only available in the US.

For whatever reason, Google was showing my ads to people on the other side of the planet and then taking my money for the privilege.
I often find nebulous discussions around "systems" tiresome, not because there aren't better or worse systems, not because we can't make improvements, but because very often it results in a waste of time and energy spent on grievance and kvetching and wanting the stars to align perfectly instead of making the best of your situation.
I would love to see a minimalist Linux distro for ARM SBCs that shipped Wayland, river (or Sway) and foot as its default environment. I guess the interest just isn’t there.
particularly online advertising

Online advertising is far, far better than other forms. Marketers can tie individual sales to specific ads and improve ads by making them more like successful ones. This kind of specificity isn't possible with TV or print ads.

what the ads show

A good chunk of advertising is "brand awareness" not necessarily just selling one product. The point of brand awareness is to associate your brand with its brand values in a person's mind.
One of the pillars of the mars civilization is that all laws should be written in clear language
You can also use Gimp via a RDP or VNC session, which will give much better performance on low-bandwidth connections, since those protocols do damage detection, only sending updates of what's changed, and (lossy) compression.

I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that the whole X11 is network transparent thing worked great when apps used the X11 drawing primitives. These days a significant number of X11 apps just render _everything_ (often including window decorations) "server-side" as bitmaps and then send them over the wire to the client to composite them. Essentially the X11 wire protocol has become a bitmap pipe.

Wayland does the "bitmap pipe" thing more efficiently than X11.
Frankly, it's still pretty obnoxious. And that's not on you, that's on the original.
If we don't have quote for expressions but only for symbols, we can still write the interpreter function, and give it a test case by writing an expression which calculates the code that we want to interpret. Even without quote the language has given us a representation of the syntax that we can rely on.

We have it as a given that (list 'lambda (list 'x) 'x) produces (lambda (x) x).

We do not have such a thing in lambda calculus. We could create an extended lambda calculus which has it.
Yes, I buy physical books. It's for purely practical reasons: the interface is better. With physical books, you can flip back and forth more easily and insert more useful notes. Even things like footnotes and endnotes still work better in physical books.

While I have technical ebooks, they tend to be the kind that don't require much cross referencing, i.e., the kind that can be read cover to cover like a novel.