skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That Sir Terry had a facility with language is true. It also does no justice to that aspect of his writing.

How could anyone with half an imagination read something like "Octarine ... the undisputed pigment of the imagination" and not laugh? I'm not even going to mention the reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits, or Cohen the Barbarian, or the many names of Bloody Stupid Johnson.

I find it marginally painful that someone is hesitant to try reading a new (to them) author. If one turns away from Pratchett in hesitation, what fate might befall Chinua Achebe, or Ryszard Kapuscinski, say? I wonder if it says something about the kind and quantity of pretentious garbage (literary, cinematic, political, and otherwise) that surrounds us and pervades almost all aspects of our lives - so much so that we are afraid of spending a little time reading a book that we might not like?
It’s amazing then that Diet Coke and Coke Zero exist simultaneously despite apparently being the exact same flavor!
Just wanted to say I appreciate your comment and your spreadsheet. Thank you.
Have you ever considered that's because this is an optimal solution to the problem ?
Yeah this is pretty much the reason cops seize money from unbanked people who try to use their life savings to buy something decently expensive. Because who could possibly be dealing in that amount of cash legitimately, it must be criminal.
> Annoying points with passkey is that one way or another, your creds (ie the passkey) has to stay on your device/app or you are fucked. Good thing with password is that you can have it not stored on any device and just used when you need.

The key is just a bunch of random data used as a cryptographic private key. You could make an authenticator that argon2id's a passphrase to generate the private key, to go back to the world of passwords.

Meanwhile, the average person using passkeys will become immune to phishing.
Take us back to the year 2001 and this would have been regarded as witchcraft. Hell I think it's witchcraft now.

It's incredible how dismissive people are. I mean it's like looking at the wright brothers plane and saying, "I think this is a bad application of propellers."
Cockpit is locked off?
You don't, but obligations under GDPR include taking "reasonable measures" to protect the private information you're obligated to collect. The point I was making is that this underscores is how difficult it is to define "reasonable measures" because not collecting private information is not always an option.

GDPR is not just about being obligated to ask for consent. Its requirements go a great deal further. Probably. Maybe. Depending on what someone unknown with an unknown background considers reasonable based on unknown factors.

I'm sure that will be easy to write requirements around. Right?
The folks who treat databases as "that thing behind the ORM."
Solr is better in snots use cases but does things like sparse indexing very poorly and Postgres is actually worlds better
… and where exactly would this second pilot be? The flight deck remains locked from the inside during flight post-9/11. There are a lot of concerns regarding two pilots, not just failure of one of the pilots but also mal-intent of a single pilot.

Eg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
Yeah and those drivers did all the rendering on PC before sending it to the printer as a bitmap: another way to make the printer cheaper. Good office ones spoke PS and let you offload the PC immediately.
-- interesting - total opposite for me - #1 cause of commercial aircraft accidents is pilot error - by a long shot - personally - looking forward to the day humans are not involved in flying an aircraft --

https://nci.edu/2021/06/08/the-most-common-causes-of-aviatio...

https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oam...
You're making an assumption out of thin air here: that consciousness is somehow produced or emergent, or that if it isn't you're in the realm of spiritual or something. What's your basis for that assumption other than just asserting it?
We really should be turning that space into housing
I'm thinking rather of competitors the name of which I forgot, that came out at the same time or slightly before the iPhone, that had the new capacitive touchscreen tech (and used it for a full sized screen with a simulated keyboard), but little else in terms of "support" needed for a successful phone.
I'd be interested to see what freedoms you think you have that don't exist in the US. This is such a popular thing to say that I imagine it can be easily described.
Ok but postgres is the wrong choice for everything - never ever have I seen a database so out of touch with actual database requirements.

Working replication - barely and still awful 2 decades after MySQL

In place upgrades - nope

Access control that doesn't require root access to filesystem - nope

The list goes on...

Disclosure: I do postgres in production for 10000s of machines in like 49 countries, I understand how databases work and have been doing this for 20 odd years, it's a bad choice because postgres is written by purists, not people who deal with it in the real world.
You know you can buy premium seats on most airlines, right? The revealed customer preference is the cheaper ticket. This is a good thing, not a bad thing.

For printers, it's getting hard to even be able to buy something at a premium that will let you refill the toner yourself. But jumping to regulation to fix it is a bit of a leap, especially if your argument relies on the airline ticket thing.
The problem with your thinking there is that you're making an assumption that removing rights is automatically a bad thing or a loss that affects us all, which is quite simply not true.

Removing rights can be a good thing.

Shall we bring back the right to have slaves? Shall we bring back the right to murder those we don't like? Removing those rights from people has only made the world a better place.

As you say, rights are rights.
I laughed at this line from Isaacson's "bio" of Steve Jobs:

“As the Disney folks were showing him around, Jobs turned to Katzenberg and asked, “Is Disney happy with Pixar?” With great exuberance, Katzenberg answered yes. Then Jobs asked, “Do you think we at Pixar are happy with Disney?” Katzenberg said he assumed so. “No, we’re not,” Jobs said. “We want to do a film with you. That would make us happy.”
“If you cannot afford an attorney, a GPT cloud instance will be appointed for you, subject to the standard Community Guidelines of acceptable opinions held by defendants.”
These sorts of places also tend to have database admins in one team and programmers in another team. All database changes go through the database team with tickets or whatever. It's a huge pain in the ass to navigate and enable quick changes.
I bought a somewhat rare car with cash several years ago. The seller had a buyer lined up across the country (and showed me evidence), but said that if I could bring him cash he’d sell it to me instead. I went to the bank, brought him an envelope of $100 bills, and it was mine.
Yeah, I've used it in Haskell for ignored variables, holes, type wildcards, etc.

Another interesting little rabbit hole that this little conversation led me to: In the Chrome (and Firefox) developer tools, the variable for the previous output is "$_", which I imagine that is the case because of how common it was to assign the main export of the Underscore.js library to "_" (and in the days before a lot of websites would mostly e.g. have their site's code in a webpack-induced closure, they would e.g. grab underscore (or lodash, in those times?) from a CDN and pollute the global scope).

Since _ is a valid identifier, it also turns out that in Node.js's REPL, it warns you when you clobber _, but (weirdly) not if the clobbering is with a block-scoped declaration.

$ node
Welcome to Node.js v18.12.1.
Type ".help" for more information.
> "asdf"
'asdf'
> _
'asdf'
> var _ = 1
Expression assignment to _ now disabled.
undefined
> "asdf"
'asdf'
> _
1

$ node
Welcome to Node.js v18.12.1.
Type ".help" for more information.
> const _ = 1
undefined
> _
1
> "asdf"
'asdf'
> _
1

And obviously, there's no warning for assigning to it outside of the REPL (`node -e "var _ = 2;"`), which makes obvious sense to me.
It is. I’m good at business letters, request emails and memos and have helped many coworkers and friends with them over the years. They are the experts in the domain of their request but wording it effectively isn’t easy for them. This is especially true when emotions are involved. I’ve been happy to provide help with the structure and general wording. But it’s better for them to have a tool that can get them going on a few seconds.

At the same time, expectations around correspondence will change when everyone can generate a decent document. There will still be opportunities to be recognized as an expert writer.
I quite like Canon Pixma G-series. To refill ink you have to just open build-in catridges and pour ink inside. Manual includes instruction how to reset ink level sensor (not sure why this needed but nice to know anyway). So far (year and half in use, print 1-2 color pages every day) I have no issues.
The idea is to store the secret in some sort of a secure tamperproof system.

Yubikeys need a PIN to unlock.

Android, iOS, macOS, ChromeOS etc demand user to authenticate to unlock, with hardware TPM. The hardware limits number of guesses on PIN.

(Of course, you can throw all that security out the window by using a FIDO implementation that doesn't do that.)
When I saw DDD, I was thinking the debugger, which is rather nice, but seems not to have been updated for well over 10 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Display_Debugger
Not for everyone though. I find it a really useful use case. Sometimes I struggle with adding the "useless fluff expected in formal communication" that turns two simple facts into two paragraphs - and chatgpt is great at that.
Thanks for reminder. I got a new phone and forgot to opt out of "study"
It's a perfectly legal way to buy a property in Germany. Of course this gets abused to launder money because you can also buy a house worth a million in cash.
Will OpenAI’s ChatGPT Kill Google?
I've been in and out of flutter quite a few times. Only word of caution is, its built by Google, so have a backup plan always ready.
> everlasting

There are many non-constitutional rights (such as this one) that are not everlasting and laws can also be adapted.

I really don't understand the value of your post as it sounds like speculation based on wrong preconditions.
The person I was responding to said large sums, not 10k specifically. This bill/rule thing allows member states to have an amount lower than 10k.

If there are prolonged power outages or some sort of disaster, prices will increase for food. Don't forget with the amount of inflation we have also increases prices for food.

Some people like to buy canned food or other food that lasts in bulk to get lower prices.
Have you considered you’re just a shitty dev?
This feels like flamebait.
Let’s assume that there was no cash limit, a malicious government could still achieve the same result by changing the currency or even just issuing new notes and instructing banks not to accept old notes.

I guess you would have an underground economy for a while by those that are willing to be old-cash only, but good luck paying tax and other items that require the new currency/notes.
€10K is not that much.
Copyright denied because the model’s pose is not unique
10K isn't that much money today, relatively easy to do.

But much more importantly, inflation means 10K is less and less every year.
Yes but that's plausible only if they had set the rate in 2018 and had never refreshed it for more than two years. "Not exact-on day" is a bit stretch to explain an almost a three year difference, isn't it?
They suppressed Trump’s account before the election…
How can you get 2x bw squats at home? What are you squatting? Your fridge and oven?
A few days ago, in anger, I asked ChatGPT for an email to Apple and I must admit that I finished the prompt with "The aim of the mail is to waste as much of reader's time as possible."

It was quite good, especially after a followup prompt "Not confusing enough. Make it more confusing.". But of course I didn't send it in the end.
Twitter Files Part 4
Webauthn is immune to phishing. The message sent to the server cryptographically depends on the target domain. With Webauthn, you can't be fooled into typing your password+2factor into gmai1.com.
I guess you are comparing the efficiency of solar panels (20%) with the efficiency of photosynthesis (1%-2%). The problem is that solar panels have a 20% producing electricity, but using that electricity to make fuel has a very low efficiency.

From the article:

> When air was bubbled through potassium hydroxide dissolved in ethylene glycol and the CO2-loaded solution subsequently hydrogenated in the presence of H2 and a metal catalyst, complete conversion to methanol was observed at 140 °C.

Even with catalyst, organic reactions have an awful efficiency. In many of them the reactives produce not only what you want but also other molecules. In this case it's hard to imagine, because methane is very small and all side products I imagine like COH2 can probably be converted to methane inside a hot recipient full of H2.

Anyway, even if you lose no CO2 as side products, the reaction may lose a lot of energy as heat. Photosynthesis has many intermediate steps that help the conversion to be more efficient (and also because photosynthesis builds a bigger molecule that is harder).
And if the banks decide that they don't want to serve someone like you? Then what?

Or if the banks all decide to introduce very high fees for transactions?
My comment only referred to rendering.
They don't trust a smartphone app provided by their banking provider but they trust a random bloke they've never met with 10k in their back pocket. Right. Makes sense.
The 4% efficiency is starting from sunlight. This overstates the case, because any solar scheme wastes most of it. That doesn't mean solar energy is impractical, any more than the roughly 1% conversion (if that) of sunlight to food calories in a farmer's field would make agriculture impractical.

Also, that scheme is a thermochemical scheme for sunlight to hydrogen. Producing H2 gas by electrolysis driven by PV would be more efficient.

It's a common nuclear talking point that solar is impractical because of efficiency. This is a bogus argument, since comparing efficiency of schemes that use different inputs is comparing apples and oranges. Sunlight is cheap and abundant and can be wasted without intolerable pain.
The hn responses are stunning. It is insane that a pro privacy crowd supports the removal of freedoms, such as cash payments.

It is amazing how many hn users appreciate their bank and government to keep track of their purchases and hope more people will become like them - just because they can't imagine buying anything worth 10k.

When even HN is in full swing anti cash - and with current inflation rates 10k probably won't even purchase a propper bike in the near future - we will enter dark times for any privacy loving individual.
You must be very slow using your phone.
Right, but if you're picking CSV, you likely expect to interoperate with a provider that's not yourself. And then there's no way a parser can handle all CSV formats in the wild.

e.g. the example from my comment on the last CSV discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28223719)

What variant is this:

1,5,Here is a string "" that does stuff,2021-1-1

What is the value of the third column?

Is this a CSV file without quoting? Then it's

Here is a string "" that does stuff

Or is it a CSV file with double quote escaping? Then it's

Here is a string " that does stuff
The other pilot is working from home.
Actually, the plural of "vir" is "viri"; Latin "virus" doesn't really have a plural but if it did it might be "via"; "virii" isn't the plural of anything; if it were, it would be of "virius" which I'm pretty sure isn't a Latin word at all. (If there were an adjective "virus" its comparative would have "virius" as one of its forms, but it wouldn't become "virii" in the plural, and in any case I don't think there is any such adjective.)
Much less efficient at producing watts perhaps, but less efficient at producing liquid, transportable hydrocarbons? I doubt it.
> Why doesn't Amtrak simply pay UP adequately to get priority? UP is prioritizing freight because it pays better. Fix that.

Is it really that simple?

Freight trains are _long_, Amtrak passenger trains are relatively short. It's far easier to sideline an Amtrak train to let a multi-mile-long freight train pass than it is to sideline that same freight train for Amtrak to pass.

It's not my area of expertise at all, but I assume there aren't huge quantities of such long parallel rails scattered throughout the network for freight trains to move over and wait.
I'm confused. Do you eat 500-1k calories of sugar a day or calories overall?
> What if your government decides to take all your money from you for no good reason?

They will succeed? With or without this limit, you're fucked.
Since we’re going to be talking about automation quite a bit here, I found Sully’s take on automation in the cockpit to be quite relevant:

> “I’VE COME across a number of people over the years who think that modern airplanes, with all their technology and automation, can almost fly themselves. That’s simply not true. Automation can lower the workload in some cases. But in other situations, using automation when it is not appropriate can increase one’s workload. A pilot has to know how to use a level of automation that is appropriate.”
…
“Whether you’re flying by hand or using technology to help, you’re ultimately flying the airplane with your mind by developing and maintaining an accurate real-time mental model of your reality—the airplane, the environment, and the situation. The question is: How many different levels of technology do you want to place between your brain and the control surfaces? The plane is never going somewhere on its own without you. It’s always going where you tell it to go. A computer can only do what it is told to do. The choice is: Do I tell it to do something by pushing on the control stick with my hand, or do I tell it to do something by using some intervening technology?” [0]

[0] Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, Jeffrey Zaslow
https://a.co/2iSmRDH
Better to have the final say come from someone at the controls rather than a desk in Silicon Valley. Humans aren't going anywhere.
I’ll leave you with this my friend. I don’t think you should feel lost or too far gone :)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/
Redis doesn’t “solve” sessions.
Anyone involved in the construction business has made a single transaction of over ten thousand euros in cash? What for?
Depends on the nurses qualifications and specialty.

Licensed vocational nurse don’t earn a huge amount.

Registered nurses (4 year degree+) make ok to good money.

Advanced practice nurses make good money overall. But they have post- graduate degrees and still don’t earn what a good senior developer does.
Shall we bring back the right for privacy now that we have no crime anymore?

Removing those rights from people has only made the world a better place... ...
Dang can you fix the title? Date should be 2016 per this slide: http://triskweline.de/unpoly-rugb/#/19

I wonder what the dependency pictures on the earlier few slides would look like today.
> I went to the bank [..]

Would a certified check so the same trick?
Every added service also gets multiplied by the number of environments you need. Sure, prod is just one. But you need a staging env too. And CI needs the service to run the tests. And you probably want a feature-branch environment. And local development of course. It adds up and every service you add gets multiplied by the number of environments.
> if they don't contain too much logic or complexity.

I think this is the catch. Most folks who are arguing against SP have been burned by huge complex stored procedures with nested dependencies with deeply intertwined business logic and rules. I completely agree that you shouldn't use a SP in that way. But to help perform maintenance, or to audit, or perform data correction all make sense when kept small and simple.
> PINs are usually short and can be easily bruteforced

The tamperproof hardware compartment storing that data is supposed to rate limit the guesses (and maybe lock up after too many tries).

Ask FBI how easy it has been guessing iPhone PINs.
As a frequent Amtrak passenger, I can attest to the unpunctuality of the Union Pacific and other freight operators. On several occasions we have been delayed by a passing freight train that was an hour or more behind schedule, causing us to miss our scheduled connection. During one such occasion, while traveling on the Coast Starlight from Eugene this summer, I was treated very rudely by the conductor, who kicked me out of the dining car despite having a reservation. Precision scheduled railroading is anything but precise.
Carbon capture is not a scam, but it is premature. It could make sense once fossil fuels are abolished, or at least we stop using them at fixed locations where CO2 can be captured without releasing it to the atmosphere.
It's a lot to put in a sack and bring to a store to pay for something.
-- Mentour Pilot covered this really well today --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIShArZ15_0
I was hoping so much this would be about Ursula von der Leyen
> Additionally, methanol, which is a liquid with a boiling point of 64.7 °C, is a superior fuel for internal combustion engines and fuel cells, as well as a convenient high density liquid hydrogen carrier. Methanol can be converted to ethylene and propylene through the MTO (methanol to olefins) process. Hence, the production of renewable methanol and the associated methanol economy holds significant potential to replace current fossil fuel-based economies.

No! Quite toxic. Don't want that around consumer-facing products. (Any more than in the engine coolant and wiper fluid it's already in)
I'm still completely amazed you can pluck the signal of cohesive language out from under the noise floor of large-corpus statistics. It's like something from Blindsight.

I thought code-division multiplexing's ability to pull a signal out from under a hundred dB of noise was magic, but this is far more unexpected, and I don't think you can honestly say anyone 10 years ago would have suggested this level of (linguistic) accuracy, speed and accessibility and not get laughed out of the room. "Ha ha, pull the other one, the novel-writing machines were in 1984, that's just an old science-fiction trope"[1].

[1]: It even used the word Ingsoc that's not in the prompt, and made the contextually correct connection to the Junior Anti-Sex League: https://pastebin.com/GQR9aRKT