skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It discriminates against everyone except the minority of public administrators it ensconces. It literally removes the discretion and ownership of money if you cannot physically possess it. It polarizes people involved in grey market transactions into a permanent underclass who cannot escape it, and just partial cashlessness has been used within the last several or so hours to disenfranchise political opposition. That it is being discussed seriously at all is an offensively false equivalence. The only people who are "cashless" in a cashless society are the citizens from whom the cash is taken.

The arguments back like, "I have nothing to hide," or, "cards are just convenient," aren't centerist or neutral, they are the banal nihilism of people suited to scheduling prison trains, imo.
Ash Framework 2.0
> right to privacy is good

> oh so you think you're above the law now?
I honestly assumed it was more than this.
Near me (SE Michigan), I've seen them at 3 locations total: Kura Sushi (a conveyor sushi chain that's starting to enter the market) at 2 locations, and at a small asian boba shop in Lansing named Koala Tea and Bakery. Notably the second of those seems locally owned/operated. There are probably others. I wouldn't call either cafeteria style, though they're also not 'fine dining'.
Or those with bad credit. I have had two coworkers that couldn't deposit anything to their accounts because the banks would automatically charge their pending loans.

One of them was a victim of identity theft in which a five figure loan was made on her name, and the other had a legal order due to a debt from her ex-fiancee due to a cancelled wedding.
You might be right. I'll be honest, my approach to airports and flying is to have a few drinks once I get past security and then sleep my way as best I can through the flight. I can't remember if my passport was checked when I boarded on leaving Seattle.
> In many cases the US were the first to mass-manufacture..

Traffic lights?
Not so many actually?
This reminds me of the Monorail chapter in the Simpsons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_vs._the_Monorail
Some credit cards let you put a travel itinerary in their records, to reduce the chance of this happening (if I recall correctly, American Express will do it for you automatically, so if you buy a plane ticket to Rome, they'll know charges from Italy are probably good).

But yes, multiple SEPARATE funding sources and cash are a minimum when traveling, even within the US imo.
The discoveries that are being made about plant biochemistry (and soil and fungi and so on)and the implications for agriculture remind me a lot of the debates about diet and nutrition.
It keeps on emerging that we have such limited understanding of these very complex dynamic systems, and that all the technologies that have been applied have been based on massive over-simplifications and have accidentally made things worse.
Agree.

There is a sufficient hair trigger on fraud alerts these days that you really need a diversified set of cards when traveling--especially internationally. And, yes, get some cash though in post-COVID travel world I'm probably now stuck with a bunch of random foreign cash I'm never going to spend. (Pounds/Euros I can deal with but a bunch of other smaller currencies I doubt I can easily exchange.)

Travel notifications can help. But I've even had random declines for $20 purchases at US gas stations.
Your reasoning in this discussion is unbecoming of a board member. In your activity on that board you’re involved in a lot of open-ended conversations with a lot of ambiguity and high cost of failure. I hope you express yourself in that setting with a bit more humility and introspection.
Kubernetes is so complicated, the author got started describing it, then gave up and wandered off topic.
I haven't experienced a hotel where I actually need to do any formal "check out" in quite a while. I bet if you just leave with the keycard they will figure it out.
I learned programming in the late '70s on a Wang 2200T. The manual had a procedure it would recommend called "Master Initialization." Yes: turning the power off and on.
It looks extreme to me, and from my experience is closely related with a general fear of GMOs, strong dislike for plastics, a preference for "alternative medicine" etc. It's fundamentally an emotional approach that isn't concerned with "how do we deal with the waste?" but just grips on to that to rationalize the intuitive fear. Maybe I'm the crazy one, but I am not overly concerned about nuclear plants, I'll gladly live next to one (but not too close, I don't want to live in a shadow half the day) and have the waste containers stored a few hundred meters below me. And my willingness just increases with a thought of all the great things energy does for us.

Of course there are risks, but everything has risks attached -- we calculate the probabilities and then stop worrying about the risks if they're minuscule. And of course there's an economic part to consider, but I'm pretty sure if you counted the amount of hours Germans have spent in 2022 talking about the energy crisis, we could've been well on our way to 100% nuclear coverage if we had spent that time productively instead.
From your source: "Western sanctions, launched in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, have wounded Russia’s long-term prospects." Russia hasn't demonstrated that it can continue to manufacture advanced weapons (the ones with chips) quite the opposite. Wars tend to repel recession because they mobilize and borrow, that's not all good. Interesting that you clearly support Biden bringing industry back to the US.
OCaml 5.0 Beta Release
This beta version stabilised several opam packages, fixed several small internal runtime processes (especially the systhreads library), and tweaked the Domain and Effect interface, just to name a few improvements.
Also related: How Complex Systems Fail https://how.complexsystems.fail/
It might be. I ran 30h race earlier this year and had no hallucinations. I've not done _exhaustive_ research on this, I'm just recalling some undergrad neuropsychology. It could also be the environment. I suspect it's a lot less likely that you'll be seeing stuff that isn't there when you are in a familiar environment as opposed to running alone in the bush.
I don't remember him claiming to be good at anything but comedy. And he is good at it. It's not like he thinks just just awesome in general.
I'd love to see a smaller version too! The GPS-tracking-bracelet aesthetic isn't really for me, but I'm still intrigued by the idea.

The key components are a compass and motors, and since 2009 those have been dramatically miniaturized, thanks to the smartphone industry. Combine that with flex PCB and I bet you could fit everything in the form factor of a slap bracelet.
It is scary, but it's not quite what happened. The original nuclear exit was a plan over some decades and included a clear exit from coal power as well. It also included a multi billion dollar plan to accelerate renewable energy as well, one that still reaps dividends today.

Unfortunately, the Merkel government stopped these subsidies and dragged its feet regarding renewables for sixteen years. The flip-flopping stance regarding nuclear didn't help either, of course.
My dad is 78. He retired in 95 and never used a computer. He owns lots of them but can’t use them for day to day activities, preferring to go in person to pay bills and whatnot.

He loves to argue about convenience or as he sees it, massive inconvenience.
This site probably isn't your target audience....
> What if an outside board member wants to get paid $500K a year in cash

That's the thing, they (assuming you're talking about an investor or cofounder) wouldn't want to. They're holding onto a chunk of equity that would be worth maybe $10M, $100M, maybe even $1G, if the company gets to IPO, so they would NOT want to sabotage the company by taking a $500K salary from it now and have their shares be worth nothing.

Employees who have peanuts in equity have different incentives. They couldn't give three hoots about the company's long term success if they can get $500K this year for a downpayment on a house to send their kids to a good school district.
> Nursing is in huge demand. That woman most certainly had other options.

Part of the problem is the people creating the contracts are perfectly willing to place the burden on existing nurses and allow patients to suffer. Even when already short staffed, hospitals are not under much pressure to renegotiate a contract.
Which you claim based on personal history.
> it's a slang term for dimsum food!

My guess is that is intentional...
Also compliance. Some other company implements every regulation that gets dreamed up.
You can really see that Linus has been working on his communication skills. He's become much friendlier than in ye olden days. Kudos to him for that.
That was my first thought as well. It will be interesting to see future applications of this technology. If they can get the costs down and the charging is actually efficient enough, it'll be worth it.
That original comment looks a lot like a sarcastic jibe against the utility of talking as a concept, esp in the context of the UN and political institutions.
Magic mushrooms can cure PTSD
It's only recently cheap. It's true that if they had pivoted to Nuclear instead, they would not had these energy shortfalls and maybe even Russia wouldn't have felt they had the leverage to invade Ukraine.

The global output of battery storage isn't high enough to switch to solar/wind. Energy is a solved problem. It's a natural progression of mankind's command of energy. Wood->Coal->Oil->Fission. There's enough Uranium in the ground and oceans to supply humanity for million of years. We can't let a few accidents hold us back for ever.
> an adaptation of Epic to the Norwegian Health system

> How bad can something be that users go out in the street to demostrate?

I'd have to know more about Epic to judge but I'd like to note that these hospital systems can have a major impact on productivity and how much money you make per hour. These systems are usually really bad, they are usually purchased by hospital staff that doesn't have to use the software.
Remembering that the Ocean floor topography is not fixed. 'new island formed'

A new island is forming in the Pacific Ocean after an underwater volcanic eruption : https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-island-pacific-ocean-volcan...

List of new Islands : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_islands
K8s is a complexity sinkhole for 99% of companies. It's an insult.
If only there was a technical news aggregator full of experts in software hacking, whose users would be able to sort out newsworthy updates from background noise. They could call it software-news or hacker-aggregator or something like that.
How is facebook not the flagship?
TypeRunner – High-performance TypeScript compiler
But why? Most modern languages try to get rid of exceptions (Go, Kotlin, Rust).
Knowing that they exist, and what they are, is surely a step in the direction of intervention.
Selectors are typically more concise and easier for developers to use if they have front end development experience. XPath has marginal benefits over it, like referencing parents/ancestors, but you can often construct a selector to target the elements you want anyways. But since they are so similar, it really comes down to what you work faster with
Oh yes just posted something similar, I didn't see this post first.

Indeed the same thing I was thinking of, I wonder if this seafloor mapping thing will eventually discover the plane. Though perhaps the resolution is not adequate?

Edit: Someone (actual username :) ) just posted above that the grid cells are between 100x100m and 800x800m so that does indeed not sound adequate to detect a 777 accurately, sadly. The whole thing would easily fit into one grid cell of the smallest dimension.
Can Redis Be a Database and not just a cache?
Redis was always a Cache - is this really going to change? Redis is a Database?
Has anyone tried this yet? It looks promising, especially with JetBrains behind it.
Popular crates could be "symlinked" into a global verified namespace, problem solved? I can't see any downsides other than some extra administration perhaps.
Astronomers discovered something strange about 'hazardous' asteroid Phaethon
Yes, but can we buy it yet?
I do not think having multiple pairs of gym shoes is normal outside of the very poorest countries. I grew up in the US and I never had multiple pairs of gym shoes. Neither did many of my friends. We had "shoes" and "dress shoes" if we were fortunate.
How about this: neither are secure. If you want security, use PGP or something like Wickr (if you trust Wickr's security claims).
Still the best coding soundtrack.

Need more like this.
Well, honestly, there's always something that could be done, and be done better.

Even if you think there isn't, a better approach is to start a company to maintain the infrastructure under contract at some fraction of hiring full time people.

Then you can legally take on 3x workload and be paid for 2.5x current salary and everyone's happy.
It's really a testament to just how large the ocean is. Remember there's more than twice as much sea than land and we lose things on land too. Things on land might not be under 3 miles of water that takes expensive, specialized equipment in remote locations to actually reach.

I do hope for a resolution for MH370 one day but we know the bullet points: it was a deliberate action by the pilot (and/or the co-pilot) to depressurize the plane, run it out into the ocean and (most likely) make a "soft" landing after which it would fill with water and sink. There's alot of evidence for this and no other proposed scenario fits the evidence.
Just random question: are you using iphone?
> I have no idea what exactly he is trying to say

It's right there in the quote that you pasted. Not sure what context you're missing.
> „If Japan can’t control the technology nobody can“

Nuclear technology is risky but Fukushima isn't a good reflection of what modern nuclear power plants can accomplish. The reactors at Fukushima were designed half a century ago and were known to be flawed 35 years before the accident happened [1]. It's ironic that the plant was running longer than was originally planned in part because of Green opposition to newer power plants.

[1] https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/16/fukushima-reactor-flaws...
How about letting the person asking the question take a stance on that instead of you being offended from the side-line? I think it might be a very important piece of information to figure out a strategy going forward.
Article says:

> On the other hand, they don't create the noise, or the constantly moving visual distraction of a regular, bladed turbine
I am not sure I understood your arguments because of where these get applied. I generally mean to apply these when we talk about business constraints - in my field of supply chain optimizations, these kind of things come up often. How many trucks do you plan between nodes? If the answer is 2, it means many. Being explicit about 0 and 1 means that if that constraint is broken, it means a more through code analysis as it would lead to some unexpected breaks in various systems.
There is no such thing as pure altruism, where did I say there was? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism#Evolutionary_explanat...) I gave my own reasons, that's all. But it's not monetary.

Why do people like you seem determined that nothing good can exist in other people. Your tribe turns everything to shit.
"Ami" isn't just any slang term, it is a politically loaded word. Besides being used as a common derogatory expression it was often used by the RAF[1] and their followers, especially in the slogan "Ami – go home!".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
I've been paying for years, because I agree with these principles. It's a good service.
in my experience the hard parts in software are remote interactions, i.e. behavior that localized unit testing has a hard time to capture, and concurrency.

so the valuable tests, those which actually find issues, are the tests in near production environments under near production load.

now I'm not sure if you describe just superficial testing, at all levels, including the "integration" and "selenium-ish" level?

did you ever measure code coverage across all tests?

my thinking is rather you only need to consider unit tests for those paths that are not touched by your integration and system tests.

my aha moment was when SQLite, famous for their efforts in full MCDC coverage, found uncomfortably many bugs through fuzzing. the SQLite team realized they didn't add corner case checks where it was hard to create a test case "because nobody provides suchandsuch input anyhow".

so my take would be to measure the coverage in the testing of your organization, to look at what you find and to then decide as a team where you have business risk level "undercoverage".
In many cases, you don't have a choice to be born into a state. You're subject to it just by virtue of being there. It's not a choice. That's the difference.

That said, like pure authoritarianism, pure democracy as a state governance system also has failure modes, and its merits are also debatable.
One problem with cashless is it gives a ton of power to all intermediaries, which often are duopolies. Google and Apple. Credit card companies (Visa and Mastercard). These are able to extract a significant sales tax (“fee”) from users and shut down accounts with little recourse. And the fact that it gives the government power to both monitor all transactions and immediately halt all transactions with that individual is like a massive Big Brother capability combined with a digital shackle that can keep anyone they want from moving. Can’t use public transit, can’t use micromobility bikes, can’t use taxis, can’t use airplanes, can’t use your car (how do you get gas? Pay tolls?), can’t even walk far as you can’t buy food.

I remember, growing up in a more “End Times” focused evangelical denomination, they were always talking about how barcodes or credit cards are maybe like the “Mark of the Beast” number in the book of Revelation, without which you can’t make any transactions. That’s paranoia, of course, but it’s also kind of a good point. A fully cashless society using our typical methods puts a massive power into the hands of the government and a few very powerful corporations.

It also tilts the power differential in favor of employers of all sizes. a local small business coffee shop I frequent doesn’t pay super well, but they do tipping. The owner can easily keep track of how much tip money comes in and uses that as an excuse to employees that they can tolerate getting paid only $8/hour because they have tips. The employer also has control of the tip money that’s paid in cashless form, and it’s not unheard of for employers to take some of that money or withhold it. I prefer to use cash for more and more purchases, but for basically all tips, I tip in cash. (And I agree tipping in general is lame, but I don’t want to punish employees for that.)
96% of european uranium demand is met by imports, 4% is domestic, and 20% are imported from russia.

Source: Euratom Supply Agency - Annual Report 2021 - Page 14 https://euratom-supply.ec.europa.eu/publications/esa-annual-...

Also look at page 26ff which states that it would take years to replace current dependency on russia, not only in raw ressources, but also enrichment and recycling services.
Ah, at first I was like why is this person hijacking my comment to make a completely unrelated point, but now I see you’re just being anti racist.

Should I never use crack cocaine as a metaphor ever again?
> For a start, do we know how expensive (per unit energy) US Navy reactors are?

Price does not matter. It has to work reliably, not only in calm days of peace, but during times of war. Having a source of power to move the big boats without relying on external supplies is worth the price. There even were experiments to generate jetfuel using nuclear power on carriers, certainly not because it is cheap.
For malicious intents, yes. But, for legitimate reasons where you need to have an "rg" package with a completely different use case, owner namespaced packages might provide a uniform solution.
The target users are non-technical users. Think accountants. They are technical and not be able to use command line tools.

Other than that, I appreciate the feedback.
99.9% of people have eyes and fingertips. If we’re going to require eye/fingertip authentication to function in society we need to solve for that last 0.1% as well.
I believe that this type of employee-hostile practice, among with many others, is partially driving the epidemic of homelessness in America. There are people who simply find life on the streets less unpleasant than grinding away under an abusive employer to pay rent.
So, then the main purpose of stablecoins is crime.
> while consuming my small and expensive roaming package.

I'm curious. Do you get roaming charges having cross state-lines in the US, or do you have a nation-wide data package? Here in the EU, I'm on a plan that gives me unlimited data anywhere in europe, for around 30€ a month.
Pretty sure the nuclear still comes ahead after averaging those out with all the nuclear plants that have gotten quietly decommissioned with no explosions, though?
That's also easier way to design it in Factorio. When I was playing with Space exploration mod that's precisely what I did, the base sent "shopping list" and the provider sent stuff on that shopping list
Funny to see these glass house dwellers throwing stones. They are all 100% correct when they trash eachother's platforms. They are all terrible.
>How are there 70 year olds today that worked throughout the 90s and 2000s without coming across a computer?

Manufacturing, retail. Those are just two things that I can name where I personally know people in their 50's who have no real access to computers.

>I do wonder if these problems will eventually fizzle out, as more and more people have been exposed to technology throughout their lives and will be able to use it in their old age.

I bet they don't fizzle out. Technology is always changing. At some point in their past, even the 99 year old who couldn't turn on a smartphone today was hip on the current technology of the day.
An excerpt (hopefully apropos) from Digital Vegan

"Computing choices create real power relationships and enable
invisible abuse, by exclusion or marginalisation. Computing choices
probably have a far more profound effect on peoples' lives and
practices than their choice of friends, religious affiliations or
sexual preferences. Roughly, according to the American Time Use
Survey and the 2014 Pew Research Social Networking Fact Sheet, we
spend on average, 0.5 hours a day in prayer and group worship, 0.5
hours engaged in social and conversational activities, 0.35 hours in
romantic and sexual activity and 8.0 hours of screen time, of which
3.0 hours is interactive [Pew14]. This places computing, and the
choices of operating system, applications, and workflows right at
the centre of a Western adult's life."

Street protests over software does seem a tad odd. But as power
concentrates in the hands of ever fewer digital oligarchs I expect
we'll see all sorts of push-back against effective mandates and
life-patterns foisted upon populations by unelected power.
To my knowledge this is the only wrong crate I've ever installed due to my own error. It's... not a good feeling to read this message, even though the author turned out to be doing me a favour. :)
Certainly Xi doesn't think that he's anti-business, and much that he's done mirrors the EU's actions vs monopolies. But Xi also has no understanding of business, and wants to micromanage everywhere. I think he's already had a large chilling effect without wanting to do that. He could easily, clumsily, kill off most of the geese laying golden eggs for him by instilling more terror of the government than hope of profit. I'm not sure that'll happen, but reading his speeches to this new PRC congress I suspect so.