skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The plain idea of UPI is that it is publicly funded digital infrastructure

UPI is developed by NPCI which is a consortium of Indian banks (public and private), supported by RBI[0]. It is a not-for profit, but not publicly funded.

The fees are lower right now since they want to proliferate the use and get a monopoly over Visa/Mastercard. Once done, expect them to be at par. They just added some fees this march [1].

The distrust is not conspiracy theories but common sense when you observe how other entities have behaved previously.

[0] www.npci.org.in
[1] https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blexplainer/interchange...
> It’s amazing how normalized this practice has become.

Really? After COINTELPRO, the FBI was legislated into domestic-only knowledge, in an attempt to pen in their abuses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

This, well worse, actually, was only to be expected from the Patriot Act.
Mental hospitals were their own kind of horror. The current complete lack of mental health supports is bad, but don't let those rose coloured glasses fool you, 70s style institutionalization is not the answer either.
I'm thinking maybe the Gamer's Nexus approach might work well here, where they buy failed hardware to do an autopsy on it -- and then publish the results of it on youtube as they recently have done for the ASUS high end motherboards that cook the AMD chips.

It allows the the media companies access to the failed hardware to do their own autopsy on it, and it saves the users from needing to go through a painful RMA process, complicated by companies not willing to admit fault.
Thanks, I see now. For some reason I thought you were talking about non-medical help for yourself. I guess you are in some sense looking for non-medical help navigating the medical system itself.

I'm guessing any advice I offer you would have already thought of, but maybe you can pay over the counter for a medical consultant in the UK or anywhere for that matter
> The funny thing is that you say it like the bad behaviour here [...] yet you are still against any accountability for the perpetrator.

I wasn’t addressing anything beyond the generalization offered that “personal accountability is becoming bourgeoisie [sic]”, which was the only claim in the post I responded to. If I want to discuss the specifics further upthread, I’ll respond to something discussing those specifics.

Assuming that I had a message other than what I said which is not reasonably related to either what I said or what I said it in response to is... quite a reach just to have something to argue about. I’m sure you can find someone actually saying something you can argue against, rather than something that requires you to conjure a fantasy point just to get upset and aegue against it.
No built in tail recursion optimisation.
Does it matter? If people are opportunistic then you should remove the systemic issues that make crime seem like a good risk. If people are desperate you should do the same thing. Either way the correct response is to make crime not seem like the best option for someone to do.
The new president in Colombia is also all-in on tourism, saying it will replace oil and gas as a source of revenue.

Kinda crazy to me, but I'm no president
When my TODO app had “buy milk” in it :-)
Yes, those tardigrades should go back where they came from! Free the crater!
>They've been one of the largest and most successful chip manufacturers for decades, because their products provided real utility at affordable consumer prices...

Do not forget all of the anti-competitive AMD nonsense over the years. Sabotaging AMD performance on benchmarking is my stand-out, but there were also the payouts to Dell and others to purchase exclusively Intel chips.
One of many issues. The European eel gets hit by just about every possible thing due to its many and varied life cycles. Larval stage is subject to disrupted ocean currents due to climate change, juveniles are subject to an enormous illegal fishing trade (as the most prolific remaining Anguilidae, they are used to supply eel demand in many areas where local species aren’t doing as hot) as they reach European coast, young adults struggle to navigate up waterways due to dams and whatnot, adults spend their lives being fat in the mud and absorb lots of pollutants, then when ready to breed they face the dams again going back out to sea. They’re also under immense pressure from an invasive swim bladder parasite brought over when Japanese eels were introduced to Europe sometime in the 20th century.

And these are just the headline threats for each stage, there’s myriad smaller ones. The reason for their decline is almost certainly a case of lots of small threats overcoming their ability to adapt, rather than one discrete cause.
> They don’t have enough weapons to target military infrastructure any French nuclear strike is going to be leveling cities, hence their focus on small number of high yield fusion weapons.

According to wikipedia the French have 280 deployed nuclear weapons. That's a lot.

I believe the explanation for the high yield bombs is exactly the opposite of what you are proposing.

A strike aimed at just killing as many civilians as possible is best done with lower yield weapons. Russia has 2 very large cities (Moscow and Sankt Petersburg); for any of the other cities using high yield weapons has very diminishing returns. I just modeled on nukemap [1] a strike against Russia's third largest city, Novosibirsk. A 100 kT bomb kills about 156k people while a 1 MT bomb kills 486k people. An ten fold increase in yield results in a three fold increase in casualties. If you go to Belgorod, a ten fold yield increase results in less than double the number of casualties.

Where high yield nuclear weapons make sense is against military hardened targets. There a 100 kT bomb might not damage a missile silo, while a 1 MT bomb might obliterate it.

[1] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
No, you only have to look at the factors involved in causing the Chernobyl accident, which are not shared by any commercial reactor any country other than the Soviet Union has ever built. Unless you're merely content to let FUD and baseless fearmongering define what you should believe.
> Soon, our app with me compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon

This is great. Not because I want Facebook on Mastodon - but because it will be a prime example of the network effect at work. Small-time instances that want to keep Instagram users off their feed can (and probably will) completely defederate with Facebook's service. Larger hosts will face internal pressure to support them, but it relies on Facebook moderating their content and being a good citizen.

Simply put, it's been a long time since we've seen FAANG make an honest attempt to work alongside an existing community like this. Protocol states that we have to give them a seat at the table, but Facebook will need more than that to be taken seriously. It will be fascinating to watch larger apps adopt ActivityPub, even if you hate Facebook, Mastodon or both.
Not really - budget is allocated (and taxes often created/raised) based on degree of public outcry/crisis.

No crime, no need to pay for a prosecutors office (or a lot of cops).

A variant of ‘use it or lose it’, which is the standard in gov’t and large Corp budgeting.
When even the comments are devoid of examples...
head in sand time
I, too; am a huge fan of GBA homebrew dev, in high school; honestly, it was supremely helpful in me mastering the C language, and; even better - it led to my DS development days, which was far, far, more fun.

Dealing with the DS, especially; wow. Two screens, touch input, I gotta say, as a developer it felt like an open canvas; even if I was; like...15 at the time, lol.

It's what led me into iOS development when the App Store was officially announced. (I must've been 18 at that time? 19?) I, again; saw this as a multi-touch open canvas for creating basically anything my mind could imagine, at the time; the extreme restrictions Apple placed on App Development were actually nothing compared to the limitations of e.g. the DS, much less the GBA. (at least the DS had a wi-fi stack, lol...)
law abiding citizens. for criminals it's usually other way around ("progressive" DA drops the gun charge and the rest becomes misdemeanor, etc).
Thanks! That does look pretty reasonable: https://authp.github.io/docs/authenticate/ldap/ldap
>KeePassXC... which are other password managers compatible with KeePass database files, are not affected according to vdohney.

Great.
During the rupee demonetization a few years back, getting cash required queueing up for hours. About the only silver lining of that whole debacle was the boost it gave to digital payments, because cash was so broken.
Maybe if they had a little more to show for it I could be more understanding. Money has a lot of good uses; I feel certain the $300k spent on this POS design could have a far greater impact elsewhere.

Travel is great, but in a pinch you can find most of the world’s great ideas are written down in books or on the internet. The difference in cost is quite substantial.
No - it doesn’t solve anything. Some cheap crappy collection of houses that are “maintained” by whom? The psychotics and fentanyl users? The “solution” creates a ghetto that has to be maintained by city expenditure. And after that dumb expensive mess fails, then what?

Maybe that’s your neolib solution this entire time - ghettos. Typical.
that's the real issue.
Russia’s Nukes Probably Don’t Work – Here’s Why
And the thumb stuff. You can buy 32-bit ARM chips that have zero binary instructions in common with any 32-bit ARM before 1994.
That description is not correct for any of them. Apache can use either an event queue or a thread pool, and nginx is also multithreaded and not forking. So there isn't any difference, except that Apache has a bit more knobs to tweak.
Looks like you think about "Basic English" which is a bit more formalized than Wikipedia's "Simple English" - see https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English (and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English )
Determining the optimal JPEG quality for screenshots
There are a vast number of “obscure hardware platforms” especially once you include embedded systems. There are also many circumstance where you must write unsafe code. While you could in theory use Rust for most cases where C is being used, there are a lot of cases where it would be a bad fit. There will never be one language that can do everything well.
String-to-String Algorithms from Stanford NLP
I find that often 3.5 (no 4 access) will apologise and offer a different (sometime even correct!) alternative.

For example, when it comes to Kibana it doesn’t known it’s way around the UI, or at least this week’s UI. It doesn’t kno so it keeps confidently incorrecting itself.
sgtpepper.norway.torden
https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1657721856781066241/p...

sgtpepper.norway.spring
sgtpepper.norway.glow
https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1657721426013503490
The expression exists in English:

Wooden language is language that uses vague, ambiguous, abstract or pompous words in order to divert attention from the salient issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_language
>Not from these guys.

Good call.

>Certainly, ideas cannot impact society without “effective placement,” but there would be nothing to “place” without them. They are the seed of all progress, the beginning of every great invention.

They're correct about this, but as I mentioned just recently the proper attitude can make a world of difference.

They're also correct about Intrinsic Motivation.

>They subsequently analyzed this information alongside the number of hours worked per week (a proxy for effort) and the number of patents issued in the past five years (a proxy for creative production).

>The authors found that effort and innovative production were much more correlated with intrinsic motivators. R&D scientists who chose their positions because they provided more independence and fulfilled their curiosity worked more hours and had more patents to show for it.

These are not very good metrics, nor even ideal test subjects, but still point toward the realistic conclusion. It takes a lot to hide this, unfortunately there is usually more than enough effective obscurity in place to conceal more widespread recognition.

>Nor are ideas abundant. Indeed, there is evidence they are growing rarer by the year.

Wrong.

Misguided research organizations are bound to be less effective than free-flowing creativity.

>What incentives encourage originality?

Real natural originality requires no incentive.

>Who should you hire to boost an organization’s innovation?

Someone who doesn't need any incentive to create, only to perform their best without undue limitations.

>And how do you harness the abilities of a collective?

If the collective has less-effective creativity than a single individual, you don't. You can't lead by committee.

Like I said, you don't harness this, you unleash it!

I think the best ideas come from people who do not have the resources to implement hardly any of them.

The ones that don't let that stop them, eventually do come across something sensible to implement and go forward with the resources they do have.

And continue not to let that stop them from the endless stream of new ideas which are still out-of-reach to take action about, including those that will certainly never come within reach. They're too busy taking action at the scale they do have. Like a train that can't be stopped.

The action they are taking may seem so small and insignificant, for so long compared to one of their more lofty but out-of-reach concepts, these are most often considered merely "idea people" with no big concrete accomplishments.

Usually those with the resources to build rails across the continent are often the least likely to seriously consider a small-scale model railroader to have anything worthwhile to offer. Far below the radar of someone or committee who is already in a position of moving & shaking in a more noticeable way at bigger scale, even when they recognize the need for new ideas other than their own.

Too bad.
North America is everything north of South America.

Central America is the land between Mexico and South America. It's also part of North America, and also part of Middle America.

Middle America is Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands, Columbia, and Venezuela. The latter two countries are in South America, the rest is in North America.

Middle America is also a term for flyover country in the US. Which is how it's almost always used in the US.
Seems like a bad example. You didn’t give it something to apologize for and used it as an example of it not apologizing
The Tenerife Disaster: A Cabin Crew Perspective
im really enjoying reading your samples. It's a very lightweight way to explore books i don't know about and haven't read.

i like it a lot!
Moloch demands profit.
I think it's time to change the 90s-inspired security recommendations.

I work from home. I feel much safer with my password written on a piece of paper than with a password manager. God forbid the password manager is cloud-enabled.
Alpine Linux + NGINX should be reasonable. Otherwise, you can try Caddy [0].

[0] https://caddyserver.com
Yes.

https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
Hoping for the Best as AI Evolves
Can't help but agree. I especially don't like removing ring3 I/O port access. It was/is the fastest way to trap out of a VM without SYSCALL or some other mechanism that I could measure.

Segmentation also has its uses, and it's a shame that they are steadily removing it. Having a way to set up a 1:1 memory range without even touching the page tables has always been faster than messing with pages. Indeed, it's always been more performance to either have a fully static page table or just disable it completely and run in 32-bit mode. For certain tasks, it's still the fastest.

But these are all niche uses. These days, who thinks about anything other than Windows and Linux use cases?

To me though, AMD64 made most problems go away, and the architecture is just fine. Perhaps they want to do away with many of the now rarely used instructions?
Google already does this themselves. If you search for rare words (e.g. try "indubitably") it will absolutely pull up videos that have the word in the auto-generated transcript and nowhere else (not in descriptions, not in comments).

Also, using "site:youtube.com" on Google works perfectly for me. If I look up "site:youtube.com david letterman" it gives me the David Letterman channel, followed by a seemingly infinite number of Letterman clips. Precisely what I'd expect.

The only thing I can reproduce that you're complaining about is that Google (and YouTube) search don't seem to index YouTube user comments, in contrast to Reddit. But Google doesn't seem to index comments-attached-to-content anywhere on the internet -- not even comments on articles at mainstream publications like the New York Times. Which is probably more of a feature than a bug -- comments on both YouTube videos and news articles tend to be a lot of emotional reactions and repeated opinions which aren't worth searching at all. In contrast, many (not all) Reddit threads are often very informative and the "main content", so it makes sense Google indexes them.

So I don't really see anything to complain about here, from my perspective.
Here's an interesting thread with some examples: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1620927983627427840

Also, Youtube has plenty of videos where people test ChatGPT's biases.
You are absolutely not required to get an ID or passport at the age of 16.

You can walk on the streets without carrying ID, unlike many European countries.

Because of the driving culture in the USA not driving / having a DL means you need to take other steps to get an ID.

But the law does not require you to have an ID.

In general I do like the idea of having to prove ID when voting / for work, however I am weary of the government collecting so much data. The less they know about me the better.

Same goes with DLs. I give my address, DMV sells it and I get car warranty spam. Should be illegal.
Modern farmers still generally live within a days walk of hundreds of other people. 1 million acres is a mega farm and still fits in a 1.6 X 1.6 square mile box while needed several people to operate.

It’s again wealth that allows for the modern system of roads and private vehicles rather than inherent necessity. Remember the post office is sending vehicles to every single one of these properties 6 days a week on the cheap. A bus doing the same would be really inconvenient, but also quite cheap.
https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1647543597674160134/p...
mary.neapolis

in this example mary.neapolis is the precise address of a restaurant in Naples/Italy where you can open it within your favourite maps app, you can rename it or you can follow the user in case suggest similar places
The Nano doesn't drain its battery every 18 hours.
I am sorry this happened to Neeva. My much less known search engine costs me little $ + my time. This makes a huge difference vs VC funded ideas that need runway and hype to IPO. And nowadays hype is in high supply. It almost feels like people are experiencing hype overdose
I don't know how you can take a response that says "don't fight the willpower war, just give in and adjust your life so you don't need willpower" and interpret that as the polar opposite of what was written.

It is people like you who are the absolute worst to deal with. You take a specific example which probably does not not apply to your body, completely and completely twisted what was said so you can both be a victim and feel superior.

I specifically stated a diet that for a person who is working out a couple of hours per week, there is a way to constantly eat and minimize the caloric intake despite large amounts of food. I did not remotely suggest stuffing your face all day is a willpower-based solution to a thyroid problem.

I'm 5'11. In my early 30s, I was a 31 waist, 170lb, benched a full set of 400lb, ran cross country, and had 6% body fat. In my late 30s, I was a 34 waist with high blood pressure. I made the change in my diet, and a few years later, I'm a 31 waist, 170lb, normal blood pressure, and 10% bodyfat, and I eat as much as I feel like, just not whatever I feel like.

This is a solution for maintaining a healthy weight in an active lifestyle, that uses zero willpower, because my willpower is bad. This is not a solution for someone with a thyroid problem who needs to lose almost the weight of my whole body.

I don't know what it is with you and this other guy. You read very simple basic text, and you reply to something you've completely made up. It's like your brain paints a virtual world for yourself where you can feel constantly offended. No one's out to get you. No one's making fun of you. People are talking about something that clearly wasn't for you, so you inject yourself into the conversation so you can feel attacked. Stop that.
I was thinking, for myself; growing up as a SEGA kid, I'd far rather implement a GG/SMS emulator, heh.

I would say my interest is perked, though! I have a number of projects at the go currently that I think would prevent me from really dedicating all the effort I'd need to a project of that magnitude, but...it's also Z80, yeah? Mainly?

I did mostly Genesis ASM back in my ROM hacking days, which was 68k, with a Z80 sound chip.
What’s the basis of this strong claim?

Some people are opposed to suicide under any circumstances because it is proscribed by their religion. They have been told by an authority that it’s wrong. They hold a strong bias against it.

For people without that view, why would they be biased? Are they not free to come to their own conclusion? Having an opinion does not preclude a good faith argument. And holding an opinion contrary to someone’s dogma does not make an opinion dogmatic.
> I wonder how this will affect quirks such as A20, ... All oversights and mistakes made by Intel over the years

Well, the A20 gate was actually IBM's creation, in order to make the PC-AT system compatible with running real-mode DOS programs.

Intel simply, later, incorporated it into the CPU because it was already part of the PC architecture (and had been for years) at that time.

Now, one could argue Intel had no business incorporating it into the x86 ISA, but it wasn't ever their oversight, they were just reacting to the reality of the systems in which the vast majority of their CPU's were used.
The US switched to direct cash block grants for low income folks. The program is called TANF. How you get that money however is left up to the states. Some use it to fund things like religious summer camps. If you read the following article you will see why.

Red states also introduced a lot of red tape under the guise of preventing fraud. It instead prevents qualified folks from getting the help they need!

https://www.cbpp.org/research/family-income-support/temporar...
I'd just like to point out one substantial difference. The autonomous part of the car is software so when if fails in a strange way that is also dangerous the natural question is how much is this going to happen across all the cars that have this software, and also how much can engineers understand why this happened to prevent it in the future. The answers to those questions are not straight forward so even a single incident has much wider implications than a human making a mistake.