skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the infrastructure. Some websites have "Cash on Delivery" options or going to a convenience store to pay.

When I was in Asia using UberEats and Food Panda, "Cash on Delivery" was the recommended option by most of the locals.
Yeah but this is fine if your next boss is Linus Torvalds
They’re widely known enough to have their own wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sit...

One site on that list, for example, TorrentLeech.org has been around for almost 18 years and has hundreds of thousands of active users. In fifteen years I’ve never had an issue.

There are also foreign language trackers that are largely immune like rutracker.org - you just have to make sure to download the English versions
I see that the Wall Street Journal has switched to Artificial Intelligence/Real Stupidity to write articles.
And they know that it's much easier and safer to have it provided, rather than have to hunt for it.
That sounds like a Boeing playbook. Changing action on button down vs up is a HUGE deal.
It's public domain but no scan is available even though it's found. So it won't be available for viewing unless the owners decide to screen it (unlikely given its age) or scan it.
Could you please review the site guidelines and stick to them? Your comment here broke quite a few of them, including:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Don't be snarky. [...] Edit out swipes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's the network that's the problem.

In Europe, the Visa network went down in 2018. see https://www.wired.com/story/visa-outage-shows-the-fragility-...

In Canada, the Rogers network went down in July 2022 for several hours which caused debit card transactions to fail (after the outage, Interac said it was going to add a SECOND network provider - *facepalm*). Many businesses which relied on the Rogers network for credit card transactions were also affected.

from https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-outage-interac-debit...:

"Small business owners were among those hardest hit by the outage, which left them unable to process debit card payments.

Sharif Ahmed, the owner of Plantforsoul plant shop in Toronto's west end, said the outage left him feeling helpless, as he turned away customers who didn't have cash."
My silence.mp3 story on Android was this: I was using an android device to play background music through a PA during breaks in activity. Every time I'd start a song there was a "pop" I assume by the audio output amplifier switching on or waking up.

My solution to avoid this was to play "silence.mp3" in a repeat loop in another app, and then my music app would play over that and there were no pops when I started a song. IDK if the pop problem has been fixed, or whether it was a software or hardware issue.
Thanks for posting this. Will follow up.
Deleting every reboot sounds a bit aggressive. I used to have a .sh script in a cron job that would move downloads to a separate folder after 48 hours, keep them there for 3 months, then delete them permanently. A couple loops and some mtime checks.

Abusing /tmp sounds fun as well tho.
> Different states then passed laws.

A "secular" state will treat all places of prayer and worship the same. If it controls only Hindu temples but not churches and mosques, it is not "secular."

> Ofcourse they do.

The constitution and the RTE act treat minority and non-minority institutions differently. Everything from the funding structure, to what can be taught, to how the teachers are appointed, to whether religious education can be imparted differs. Hindu institutions can do certain things but under restrictions that are not applicable to minorities. Again, this second-class treatment is considered to be "secular."

> Stop spreading this hate about us vs them.

I am not the Onlygodist here. It is Onlygodism that creates us vs them.

> national security bogeyman

So the insurgency in Kashmir and Nagaland does not have religious characteristics and is purely secular in nature? The partition of India was done on a purely secular basis?
not to mention the privacy aspect.
Cash has a lot of costs as well. For example it’s easier to steal, it slows down transactions, and it requires a larger payment device and overhead of transferring it to a central location. It’s not at all clear that cashless even with fees is more costly to a business.
It might, sure, but it might also have to do with the fact that people carry almost nothing in cash compared to 40+ years ago.

In 1985, when I was a child, my father would care around $300 on him effectively at all times. Credit cards were still new, and checks were a limited option, most places you still needed cash. That's the equivalent of $850 today. I rarely carry more than $200 on my person today (less than the cost of a fancy dinner for two in San Francisco). The only reason I'm able to do that is because the vast majority of my transactions settle on a bank card.

You can argue that the change is surveillance, but the stark decrease in untraceable value I carry on my person is clearly an incentive for robbery that has been lost. It's also likely a major reason for the near-elimination of pick-pocketing in western society.
OK, I think that's a valid consideration. I don't think you'll get much pushback for prioritizing the will of the people, and their disinterest in living in a war zone. I have not read anything on NPR or CNN calling for the expansion of war in the Baltics. But they run opinion pieces too, just like most other media outlets.

I was expecting something controversial. :)

The counterargument of course is that the region was annexed by aggression, which is dangerous to legitimize. Letting the bullies win is a recipe for creating more and bigger bullies.

But sometimes there are no good answers. I don't know any trustworthy sources of information from that area (only expats and news reporting which are all various degrees of clueless and biased).

Avoiding inflicting war on a reluctant people sounds humane. Restoring national sovereignty to a conquered people sounds noble. Impeding the spread of territorial aggression and natural resource theft sounds righteous.

Personal opinion, pragmatic I think: You can't retake Crimea without obliterating Russia. You can't obliterate Russia without horrifying consequences. Don't retake Crimea, but draw a very clear and public line, and allow no concessions regarding the next Crimea (Ukraine). This turns out to be very close to the foreign policy of most of the world.
Just want to comment that the 'liberals' in Canada r the definition of right wing liberal - pro business, pro oligarch, f the poors, flood the market with cheap immigrants labors while raise the property value sky high.

They would give the plebs some scraps of coz. It's better to be homeless with some food than being hungry
Is it a good idea to put more solar irradiation onto Earth than we already have? I thought climate change was due to us causing accumulation of solar that would otherwise diffuse into space.

Assuming they're not shading Earth, robbing someone else of sun. Are they? Is Mr Burns' solar blackout machine becoming a thing?
> Thankfully, Android now has “bedtime mode” feature, which allows me to make it so that phone calls won’t cause my phone to ring between 10AM and 8:30AM. If my mom happens to die in a hospital in the middle of the night, I’ll just have to find out and be sad the next day.

wtf
And Therac-25 was trying to remove hardware interlocks from Therac-6 and Therac-20, to fully rely on software, AFAIK.
No it doesnt.

The public at large can be forgiven for not assuming a half version is the difference between being factually incorrect or not. If OpenAI actually even has confidence theyd call one model “sorta true sometimes” and “mostly true but only for certain things depending how convincing you need it to be”.

Users wont care whats true or not and blind trust in LLM output is the issue.
I used to do a lot of IT work for the CEO of a client company and would visit his house often. He moved into a new house and in the garage had several lifts installed for his cars. And I was talking to the guy who installed the lifts and explaining that I didn’t know CEO worked on his cars and he explained that CEO probably doesn’t - there was some fad at the time and all the rich guys around town were getting these lifts installed. He said he had so much business he had to hire on a bunch of new people.
I've been doing the same for over a decade (closer to 15 years) at this point, except instead of a folder I just create an image of the drive of the computer I'm backing up. The only problems are that navigating old backups to find things is starting to become a chore and duplicates abound. I think the next time I have a bunch of time to myself, maybe between jobs or something, I'm going to take a couple hours each day for a few days to organize it all for better accessibility.
And here I thought I was the only one.

At first I just moved everything into a folder named "old" that sat in the same place, and eventually probably wound up having 20 or 30 recursive folders all named "old".

It wasn't until after probably a decade of that I had the big-brain moment to actually bother labeling them by month+year and put them all at the same level in an explicit backup directory...
The main reason I carry multiple cards, and Cash was because my debit card was used for fraud once, which shut down my card, and it took several days to get a new one.

Now days they can print you a new card in real time at the branch, but still I will never not have cash, and not have a backup card

I also NEVER use by debit card for anything other than ATM now, credit cards and pay it off every month... I dont even carry my debit card anymore, it is locked in the safe, and a bring it out when I need to get more cash.
What's wrong with junk food?
> What percentage of the diagnostic radiologists won't bother to even review the AI output?

If someone’s not going to do their job, why does AI matter at all? Why wouldn’t they just use the same boilerplate text for everyone today?
I am a big fan of Azure but MS's vendor lockin strategy has left a very bad taste in my mouth. Perhaps all cloud services are like this but my main beef with them is they make it difficult and inrediblu costly to get security logs out of their platforms to somewhere else and what I've heard consultants who look at many customers' deployments say is the same thing, great product but hope you like vendor BDSM.

I partly get it, but the strategy of getting as many products as possible from one vendor is horrible these days, pick a different vendor just to force them to prioritize getting along with other vendors.

If you are a C-level exec, be cautious of this. Get at least 3 cloud providers and force people to use both so they can move around and save on costs. The more people do this, the less hostile these enormous cloud providers get.
There's a distinction between pumped hydro on a river and when it uses two artificial basins. The second does not have the water rights problem.
Yes! We have faithless actors as well. Civil forfeiture is another one. They should not be able to confiscate people's property until they have had due process and found to have unlawfully come to said property.

I use Canada as an example because it was a vast and wanton act by the government affecting and threatening thousands of accountholders at once.

It's a shame we don't have more libertarians representing the interests of the people in the Congress.

Can only hope whomever might be the next president would have the Coglioni to reform civil forfeiture.
I live in none of those cities, so those rules don’t apply.
They all say that but it works fine for smaller dollar amounts (say under $100).
Yes, I was mistaken it with Sapience, the property we share with Chimps, Dolphins, and very likely Octopi
> Honestly, this attitude—equating moderate criticism with “rabid hate”

I was responding to this comment: "I absolutely hate the way fellow Indians will just try and deflect negative stories about India as western propaganda."

Nice try trying to change the tone of his sentence (which was "I absolutely hate") to "moderate criticism". There is nothing "moderate" about "absolutely hating" something/someone. I was just responding to that "extreme" emotion he was projecting. Such extreme emotions might win you the mob but it won't change facts.

> causes me to pause every time I get excited about India

Okay. And? What difference would it make to India's growth trajectory if you lose your excitement? Is it going to make any dent?

> But the way you tank that balance is with blind jingoism.

Lol. As an Indian the only content I get to consume majority of the times, from Western media/press, is how shitty India is. And this has nothing to do with BJP/Modi but has to do with how India has always been projected in the Western media. Take literally any media clip of India showcased on Western news channels and you will have at least 1 clip of Mumbai slum (which is the smallest portion of Mumbai, a part of Maharashtra state in India) projected as India itself. It is like Indian channels showing Skid Row as USA. So if you feel some sort of "jingoism" coming from me it is purely a response to the nonsense I always see on Western media whenever India is talked about. As it almost always projects and enhances stereotypes already existing about India and Indians. And lets not forget the most common tropes: poverty, illiteracy, drinking water, sanitation, slums, education, electricity etc. No matter how much India improves and solves these issues (many of which are close to 100%) it still wouldn't satisfy West's craving for denigrating India just for kicks.

So if I feel defensive about it, don't construe it as jingoism for the sake of it. I actually feel the difference in standard of living after being born here and lived for 34 years. I presume I have more experience about how much India has changed compared to Westerners or even NRIs who abandoned India for greener pastures and sit in the West and pontificate. Sorry if I sound jingoistic but I don't really care. Especially when the West doesn't really care about how India is denigrated repeatedly in their Media.

And if anyone has even a mild amount of criticism of the West, they get banned/cancelled in the West or worse bombed out of existence (Iraq/Syria/Libya). So much for tolerance to free speech and human rights.
Sorry, this is a lot of nonsense. Any government that has the ability to prevent dissidents from paying for stuff also has the ability to employ much more brutal and effective methods of quashing dissidence.
I interpreted it more as “it’s a trail of information that could be used against you” instead of literally, but I could be wrong
It varies from country to country. 3 phase can let you send more power with the same copper, but it requires the connector be larger and with more pins, so there are arguments each way -- even in the countries where 3 phase is common. Most EVs don't come with onboard chargers bigger than 7-10kw, which can be readily done single phase, but is somewhat easier with 3 phase. But very little reason to use a 3-phase plug standard in North America. Only a few stations would provide it and almost no homes. Most people never charge at public level 2 stations.
Doing CMD+Shift+5 on macOS shows the full clip menu, and in the Options section of the bar you can select it to always store the cutouts to clipboard instead of a file, or always open them to Preview; even send them to another location.
No that isn’t what I’m arguing. I’m arguing that your position that Churchill deliberately exterminated Indians is completely absurd
"you are not your code" is what this article made me think about as well. In theory, that expression is true, but in practice every person is an emotional being. Why do programmers program? Because it pays the rent or because they like to solve problems? Well, it is a combination of both. Constructive feedback works. Feedback about subjective details usually have an adverse effect. In that sense, it is very good if you can shake off/try to ignore the 1 or 2 star reviews, and learn from the 3-4 star reviews,showing the good and what can be improved as well.
As an aside, perhaps a bit counter to this, after quite a bit of searching, I have not found a way to tell macOS to NOT delete the /tmp folder on reboot.

I have no real problem with the 7 day life span of files there, but since I actually do put quite a bit of "temporary context" into /tmp, it's a bit annoying to have it wiped out on restart.

Now, yes, of course, I can simply create a new folder, create my own 7 day sweeper and be done with it.

The simple nut is that I've been using /tmp for 30 years (like vi, every unix machine has a /tmp), and it's a bit hardwired into my muscle memory. And since the machine is supposed to do my bidding, not the other way around, it would be nice to be able to configure it to not do this.

But, hardly a crisis, I'm coping.
They aren’t allowed to carry guns at marijuana dispensaries, for federal law reasons similar to why they can’t take cash. It’s a weird business to be in, you pretty much have to drop all your cash into a safe as soon as you get it.
We used a toothpaste with novamin in it. That didn't help her. She doesn't eat much sugar. She's 40 something kg and eats very healthy.
Same here. I backup once per year. No organization effort required.

Any info I need to retrieve can be found by searching for filenames or the various file metadata.
Interesting. We could probably sell cards with crypto on it with immediate resolution by simply transferring the passphrase/wallet rather than on the chain.

Could do it with pure stablecoin.
I just use Splunk forwarders and indexers on Stack Hub. Log analytics on Azure Cloud. What issues are you having? I couldn’t get our security team to approve the use otherwise
Money order physically sent to a mailing address. Slow, and a bit inconvenient, and there is no support for automatic recurring debits. But it does work, and it worked before the Internet.
Magic Packet Technology [pdf]
The article alluded to the idea that reducing floor area and would reduce the cost of getting parts to the right place. If your process is 500 feet long instead of 1000 feet long, you just made your material handling workers up to twice as productive.
It's more like that AAA devs always target high-end GPUs.
Very well done article, thank you!
I hope you will be proven right!
Can you please not post shallow dismissals, please not call names, and please make your substantive points thoughtfully? A different version of your comment here could have explained your point neutrally and in detail—which I think could have been quite interesting and we could have learned something from. But this type of flamewar putdown just pours toxins into the environment.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
The cost itself is obviously incidental--the point is that public ownership of the shelves means public control of what's on the shelves. It's not "censorship" for the public to control what content is given a platform in taxpayer funded libraries, any more than it's "censorship" for Apple to decide what products are given shelf space in its stores.
Even with cash, you can't buy a plane ticket without handing over all your info. Which is a good thing!

And, if I had to guess, the booking of hotel rooms probably has more to do with liability rather than tracking. There are plenty of ways of getting a roof over your head without using a credit card; though IMO they are likely a downgrade.

While your statements resonate with me, it's a bit hyperbolic to say that electronic payments/banking are the only way of exerting the control you're worried about. I think there are a lot of good points in this line of complaint about centralized private financial systems, but the ones you're raising are a bit fringe.
You read it right the first time. I am just referring to the malicious party. By saying "better leaders" I mean get rid of the malicious part of your leadership. That will result in a better leadership, thus "better leaders". I must admit, maybe I am expressing myself a bit too mathematical here.
Would any Chinese commenters like to weigh in here? I'd love a first-person perspective
Would not Vitess be a better approach or does it not work at their scale?
Japan's getting creative since they currently important a large amount of their energy in the form of fuels on ships.

That is not gonna last if they want to continue decarbonizing.

They are averse to nuclear, they are an island, and they don't have a great relationship with most of their neighbours from whom they could import electricity directly. So instead they have crazy things like this and hydrogen.
> Marketing occasionally makes some boneheaded moves, ones that are sometimes counter to the things that keep me here? Yeah, it's hard when that happens

What's obnoxious is when the stupid infects the code itself.

As GP said:

> Somewhere in all of these companies exists the belligerent ** who orders the subordinates to inject inappropriate profit-seeking changes into the product.

I'm annoyed whenever I find a new pro-tracking, anti-privacy, or pro-spam setting which is ON by default and usually with a poorly documented setting hidden in about:config rather than a logical place in Settings.

I am sure that pocket and mozilla VPN are perfectly good things for some people, but abusing Firefox itself to push ads (especially when such ads are hard to turn off) is a dark pattern.

I'm sure that analytics can be helpful in some cases, but it's tracking and should be off and opt-in by default.

Marketing seems to corrupt the open source aspect as well, as pro-user changes that marketing disagrees with are rejected; when users submit issue reports complaining about the obnoxiousness and suggesting changes, they are closed because the dark pattern or obnoxiousness is an intentional feature that marketing wanted and refuses to give up on.
I call that folder "glacier" named after the AWS product with the same tradeoff: easy writes in exchange for harder reads. I also have a physical "glacier" bin in my closet and drawer in my desk.

It's surprisingly easy to reliably remember that I would have put something in the "needed infrequently when I'm willing to spend a few minutes looking for" drawer.
You just described ever single automotive, aerospace or heavy machining equipment supply chain currently running on this planet. Every single one of them.

But yeah, Tesla is the first company to try that.
Yup!

I mean, there was a lot going on down there. If you ever find yourself browsing Prague real estate, definitely inquire about secret doors in the basement, trap doors, tunnels, and the like! If there's stuff missing in the pantry, you want to be able to rule out your neighbors.
Very interesting. With a good TrackPoint implementation (including getting the buttons right), and a decent touchpad for people who prefer that, I could see standardizing on it for fleet laptops.

They have even better open source thinking than Lenovo (which inherited some good thinking from IBM), and the US provenance is significant to some companies.

(Though I'd probably standardize on Debian Stable rather than PopOS.)
I wish they'd actually link to the study.

Tag the writer and the AP on Twitter and embarrass them for not including it. This works sometimes, and over time it nudges outlets towards including direct links.
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