skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such central database, for one.

All the transactions are controlled by multiple independent parties, whose interests do not align to do that as they’d lose their customers to their competitors when it came out what was happening.

Some of the data does go through central clearing at some step (ACH, Fedwire), but credit card charges, Zelle, cash, checks deposited at the same bank, etc. do not.
What’s the purpose of putting this on the package index instead of just a GitHub repository?
NASA's Lunar Orbiter Captures Views of Japanese Lander Crash Site
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36116663

Then there are the people defending the steps to the cashless society because those steps happened to be on people they didn't like: canadian truckers and pornhub.

I recall one explicit comment I can't find now so I am willing to believe I hallucinated it.
When the return value can indicate that an error occurred, the caller can only know the function actually succeeded by checking that value.
You're citing Wikipedia as a source on this issue?
Thanks for explaining what you meant by "somewhat". One of the people whose opinion about JFK's quote gets a lot of play is Victor Mair, Victor thinks it'd be better to focus on teaching Pinyin rather than get Chinese kids to invest so heavily in the Han writing system which makes alphabetic systems look trivial - and if you're willing I'd be interested in what you think of that as somebody who learned the Latin alphabetic writing system (for English) first, but was heavily exposed to spoken Cantonese much before that.
I imagine so, but in this instance the flag is a big stinking deal because the UN had just allowed the flags of Palestine and the Vatican (Observer States) to be flown for the very first time. This wasn't a case of "we've got to print out flags for every single country and fly them all at once", these two flags were given special attention.

Also note my edit: the Twitter thread zokier found shows Benedict XVI seated next to a red-tiara'd flag in 2005, as well as the one that was sent to the moon in 1969.
Capita hack: 90 organisations report data breaches to watchdog
I also feel strongly we need some sort of semi-local payment system that connects merchants, local banks and customers. Sending a payment to my local municipality should not involve wall street.
> In fact, once the emergency is over they're required by law to hold an inquiry on whether the action was justified in the first place.

So the government will investigate... the government. Do they at least wait for an administration change? Worked out beautifully for police departments...

> the Senate or the Governor General - or honestly probably the King (albeit risking a constitutional crisis) - at any time, and all the temporary laws expire.

Are any of those actually elected or are these just positions nominated by ... the same government who declared the suspension of rights?
It seemed like the only people who could remotely have been considered excited about the concept was a very particular slice of the tech media echo chamber.

The Snow Crash Metaverse was kind of fun to think about. The Mark Zuckerberg Metaverse was DOA given the trashed reputation Facebook had by the time the pivot was announced.
The world of Gondwanatheres is fascinating! I haven't looked at the most recent research but the controversy over their placement is very active and trying to figure out the current state of the controversy requires basically pouring over every relevant paper from the last few years.

Wikipedia currently lists them as part of the Allotheria clade which we're not even truly sure were real mammals. It's not clear whether they are like marsupials or whether they laid eggs like monotremes. It's not clear if all the members of Allotheria even belong together, which makes placing the clade fraught with danger. The only nearly complete skeleton from that clade was probably a carnivore because they found a little dinosaur skeleton inside it.

It's a giant, fun mess and I suspect we'll never know how to precisely place them without phylogenetic evidence.
Some of us started with editors that didn't have syntax highlighting at all.
even though not explicitly, i have already answered your question.

you should pass the transaction, as you should be in a neutral position.

edit: to clarify, payment providers/processors nowadays are a core utility function in our society. imo this is not something you can consider a regular private business.
This sounds a little bit like representing boolean functions as binary decision diagrams -- although for a superoptimizer presumably each node in the DAG would correspond to an instruction from the target instruction set, which might do something rather complicated, not just a primitive logical operation between a few bits.

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

(i first read about BDDs in Knuth's, "The Art of Computer Programming", Volume 4, Fascicle 1, then spent an enjoyable few weeks going down a rabbit hole of building a boolean function to decide if an input 2d grid of bits was a maze or not, then uniformly sampling mazes from it...)
Michigan woman hospitalized after self-driving Tesla crashes into tree
Jetbrains was hiring mathematicians working on homotopy type theory to do something similar if I recall correctly. The idea is that HTT can be used to generate equivalent programs to that which is in your buffer and do something like superoptimization. Maybe I am hallucinating.
Streaming services are removing tons of movies and shows
This ignores all the justifications that the other commenters have laid out.

You are not "aiding and abetting" by handling the money. There's already a well-established body of law outlining who is and is not culpable for a crime. We don't need to debate it from first principles here.
The website could hold it in escrow while they wait for your cash? It isn't hard actually, just a couple more steps. I mean not everyone needs 2 day Amazon shipping.
< file command

Is perfectly valid.

To me, it just makes sense to put input on the left of a pipeline.

IDK why others don't, but :shrug:
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This looks really cool! I'm going to try it out. And a neat stack too. FYI https://flashpost.stevennatera.com/ is performing really oddly on chrome, long flash of unformatted content, laggy scroll. Works fine on Safari.

my user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Seriously though cool project! I signed up and I'll be trying it out Tuesday.
> “laziness” is a reductive view of the upsides.

They're obviously not clear enough to elaborate upon, although there's room for a discussion about wheels. A cashless society saves almost no effort.

The reason I support government fiat crypto is because banks get a free ride, holding customer deposits and playing with them, but giving nothing in return. But I also think that if you have a physical store that sells to the general public, you should be required to accept cash. Government crypto is still an account (or any number of accounts.) The physical token is cash.
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Happy Memorial Day. We are grateful of the work you put in for the country and the world.
You are backing up Wikipedia's claim with Twitter evidence. Not even Wikipedia would accept that.
Ah, gotcha, understood.
The hypothesis is that the net benefit to society is higher. The banks can only offer higher returns based on the value they capture, which might be a lot less than they produce.
The doing nothing treatment leads to death 100% of the time since you don't do CPR on people with a beating heart.
Giant refactor + no unit tests = data loss. The history of Linux in a nutshell.
>You never know what the background color of a terminal might be

You can set the background color to. So if you set the background to dark grey you can assume the background is dark grey. Assuming the terminal supports color that is.
https://lfw.dev/ and its redirect works for me.

https://lofi.software doesn't redirect using HTTPS. If I change the URL to http://lofi.software it redirects appropriately.
False positive paradox.
A retail exodus in San Francisco, or is Union Square still ‘beating strong’?
Those are people arguing for cash-less society.

> No one is arguing for a cash-only society.

My statement was about the opposite, i.e. co-existence rather than exclusion :)
Oh, the Olympics has done worse:

https://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149244038/ceremony-plays-bora...

> Kazakhstan won the game but lost the award ceremony. A parody of the country's national anthem was played by mistake after a Kazakh athlete won a gold medal. Organizers of the shooting competition in Kuwait are apologizing for playing the Kazakhstan anthem from the comedy movie Borat.
It is a fundamental that cannot be altered easily. I'd advise actually go the reverse, enhance that mindset and try to burn yourself eventually.
My point is that going above 0 exposes you to extremes, especially the further north you go.

Risk management is important.
I'm afraid most of the JIT methods of 'not needing storage, everything is just in time', is in fact asking the suppliers to do storage for you.

JIT tells a supplier, 'I need X parts available at exactly Y time. If they are late, I will punish you massively. You can't deliver them early either.'.

So the supplier builds the parts early (so that any machine breakdowns/unforseen problems don't cause them to be late). The supplier then stores the parts till the exact time and delivers them. Parts are still stored, just the cost and effort of the storage is borne by the supplier.

You can see this if you take apart a car and look at date codes on, for example, microprocessors. They'll be months or sometimes even years apart.
It would be interesting to modify this for optimizing BrainF programs.
It has a very simple instruction set and there are lots of example programs available.

To avoid generating useless things like "++--", you could have the optimizer generate instructions that are translated to BrainF operations.
So instead of ">>>--", the optimizer would generate "Move +3; Add -2".
I think it's important to have focus and direction. It's very challenging to have hobbies or side projects when you're focused and have direction.

For example, you feel like you're wasting your time reading a fiction book when you could be doing X to make more progress. Playing a video game? Forget about it. I got to a point where I wouldn't even listen to music because it may take some other gains away.

I struggled with these same problems ( I'm not even Asian =P ). I wish there was some magical fix, but there isn't. What I found to be best is to embrace it... I picked roughly three things I want to excel at and I center my life around those things.

This means I won't ever learn how to make digital music, pixel art, read X fiction books or whatever, but life is short. I'd rather excel at a few things I care about deeply and pass on everything else.
> I just feel like the history of government is the history of abuse

Privately run corporations never abused? Oh come on. Without a government, they will burn, rape and steal for one dollar of profit more.
Your experience is much different than mine. It has been so often a waste of time that I've given up editing (or reading) Wikipedia.
China's influence on Japan has been huge... It's very odd to read a claim that Chinese culture has had little impact on Japan!

Of course there are specifically Japanese aspects but more often than not there is Chinese influence. Architecture, writing, religion, dress, food, everywhere.
While I understand that, how do you square that with one category of business causing way more chargebacks than average?

Do they just have to eat it? Or can they charge higher fees to those merchants? If the latter they could quickly use that to discriminate. $100/tx fee would kill most any normal business.

Perhaps the problem is the government doesn’t provide a non-cash lowest common denominator, so people are basically forced to use Visa/MC?
Pardon my language. But this is utter bull**t. Have you even read the link that you shared? It says:

>> "Special CBI court allows ED to question Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain"

>> "The ED is now probing the money-laundering angle"

>> "Jain is currently in Delhi's Tihar jail in connection with a money-laundering case, which is also being probed by the ED."

Do you know the difference between "jailed after investigation." and "jailed while being probed"?

If tomorrow CBI arrests you on allegation of money laundering and then keeps you in jail for one year while investigating, are you fine with that?

Can you please point me to a single news article which says they recovered any cash? And how much was it?

Can you please also point me to a single BJP leader in whole country who has been jailed while being investigated?

The SA accused BJP leader against whom women wrestlers are protesting was a BJP guest in yesterdays parliament event.

I am just amazed at the analytical abilities of some of today's "engineers" and "entrepreneurs". :(
You're not the first person to propose this, but like all those other people, you are wrong. 6.3 is the latest "stable" release. It is the version front and center on kernel.org. There is nothing "bleeding-edge" about it.
But hey, it's serverless and scales to zero.

And some guy banged it out over the weekend, which means he's a rock star.
I think this is a well-played, long-term Vatican conspiracy to use internet virality to get the entire world to recognize its flag.
"life with oil is ruining the planet"

It isn't ruining the planet, just altering weather, for good or bad.

"fundamentally break it as early as 2030?"

Who is saying this?

ALL of modern civilization is only possible due to cheap energy from oil. We couldn't make solar panels or wind turbines with only power from solar panels and wind turbines.
Yeah, this looks like "Wikipedia is wrong because it's Wikipedia" as opposed to the encyclopedia actually being wrong.
AGP Pro returns. ASUS even made graphics cards/motherboards with AGP Pro.
> Relationships were shallow and lasted only so long as convenient.

Some people don't value that and so, a life married would be a burden.
That's perfectly fine too. If you aren't going to invest the money, that's exactly what will happen. You use TVM - time-value-of-money - to compare multiple options of what to do with some money.

For an economist (and I'm not one so I don't know), they probably use the real growth rate of the economy in their calculations, because this is what the country in question has been shown to do with its money. The real growth rate takes growth and inflation into account.
On the other hand: More payouts are made for people NOT providing lifesaving care when they should.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/legal-risk-of-not-performing...
Long ago I read something like...

A debugger needs to be smarter than the person who wrote the code being debugged.

If someone is at their smartest when writing a section of code, they are thus unable to successfully debug problems involving that code.
> still feel some kind of way when seeing classes (with methods!) being used for IDs, though.

Depends on the language.
In many languages strings are classes in general, so it makes sense that a new type for a strong is is one as well
I'm another armchair physics layman, I'd thought it was something like a "virtual particle" which gets created and destroyed so quickly in the process of performing its very important duties (that is, making sure things act as if they have mass).

The hard part being to isolate it and get it in an "observable" condition where you can actually see it.
In the US it is catching on, particularly outside of the population dense centers of cities. You see signs now charging surcharges on card payments to cover the processing fees, thus disincentivizing card payments.

Personally I do everything in my day to day life with cash. I don't want to use a card, ever, if I can avoid it.
I was put through all the way to Calculus in High School. Didn't do much for me, I didn't really ever end up using high level analysis in college. The math I did become interested in was set-theory, topology, logic, those sorts of things. I feel like its more important to teach kids those latter topics than analysis, since almost nobody uses analysis in their day to day lives, but operations of logic and abstract algebra and the like can always apply and also help you think about the world differently.

I would say: logic, set theory, algebra through elementary/middle school. Then introduce maybe some geometry and basic trigonometry in late middle early highschool. Then you can have different tracks for different areas of math: kids who really love analysis can do an analysis track, kids who think set theory is the shit can continue with advanced logic (maybe some philosophy of math?), geometry as well. And for Juniors and Seniors who are really, really into math, you can introduce advanced topics like analytical geometry or algebraic topology and the like (although I think those topics are probably more appropriate for a college level class).
Try to extrapolate. If nobody has an open port to which a connection can be established, how will the network work?

Trackers don't enable hole-punching, existing peer connections do[0]. And hole-punching is hardly a reliable measure to base your network on, if NAT or connection-tracking is implemented in an address-/port-dependent manner[1] then hole-punching becomes more complicated or fails, especially for TCP.

[0] http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0055.html
[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4787.html#page-6
Also a countertop swivel chair physicist, my understanding is that Higgs bosons are recruited as virtual particles all the time to bestow other particles their mass. So everything is able to consort with the Higgs field at any time without expending energy, because those are only background virtual Higgs, not full fledged particles with a sense of self

You can also create bona-fide Higgs particles, but you have to put in a lot of energy to do it (like the LHC does), and it will proceed to immediately disintegrate into lighter particles, which is what the LHC is observing in detectors

I think that when particles use the Higgs field to get their mass, the virtual particle is only a temporary ripple living on borrowed time, so it can interract with other fields but has to go back to nothing when the interaction is over, like a local variable in a function.

When you have a real Higgs, if it decays into say two photons, then yes you have a wave in the Higgs field dissipating, while equal energy/charge/<other conserved quantities...> waves replace it in other fields

(IANAP. This does not constitute physical advice.)
Like this maybe?

https://godbolt.org/z/6fnhT6h9v
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It's nicer to add plugs to lamp posts. If you can retrofit existing posts, there's less electrical/digging work involved. If not, you are adding lighting at the same time.

E.g. https://ubitricity.com/en/charging-solutions/ac-lamppost/
> All teams are different, and a good rule of thumb is to write code the least skilled or experienced person can understand on its own without guidance.

This. Also, if your team develops on framework X and people are hired based on that, stick to the damn patterns used by your framework!

I had once worked with a developer that one day unilateraly decided that the abstractions provided by the framework we used were not good enough. Instead, we should use the abstractions from a "design pattern" described in a shitty blog post they dug up, and "everyone should read". There wasn't enough pushback, so we had ended up with some seriously unmaintainable code.
IUUC Xeno's goal was to create a taxonomy for security topics. If you will take a look here:
https://ost2.fyi/System%20Security.html
You can find a bigger plan showing the relation between various numbers of courses. Of course, we can only create minimal courses (compared to those taught in universities) about coreboot or UEFI, but in the long run, we should put together one of the most comprehensive firmware training with open and free access for everyone.
You can read more about that motivation on other pages of https://ost2.fyi. Security is a broad topic covering various aspects. Please let us know if you have ideas about improving the used taxonomy since it takes enormous effort to put all security topics on the chart and build a map for students that will provide a seamless learning experience.
Worldcoin the Shitcoin for Humanity?
I came into this thread thinking of recommending this book. Are there any other books like it that discuss managing complexity, maybe not just for software engineering?
No - you don't give your identity to the ATM, or to the website. Which is lucky, because Georgia doesn't even have a good record of every citizen's name....
South Korea's race to become one of the world’s biggest arms dealers
And yet, people know things all the time without evidence and due process.
They have to pay themselves for their own content so by removing it they save money? What kind of accounting trickery is this?
5% of the US population is unbanked. A "cashless" society would shut out a massive number of poor, undocumented, homeless, etc and make life even more difficult for them. It would also cause skyrocketing issues with burglary, mugging, etc.

Many porn actors have been blacklisted from the US banking system.

Conservatives got tired of losing US supreme court cases over censorship laws and regulations and shifted to enforcing their morals via the private banking system.

Ever notice that there's no law or regulation requiring banks provide even basic checking service to anyone who can establish a valid identity?

Going cashless cannot happen unless either the government starts providing essential (checking, savings, credit card, and home/personal/auto financing) services they are mandated to provide to everyone (which will never happen because the banking industry would lose a ton of control) or banks must be mandated to provide non-lending services to anyone and provide lending on an identity-blind basis (ie, only metrics may be used, none which identify the type of banking or business or employment or spending you do.)
The Brain-Computer Interfaces That Could Give Locked-In Patients a Voice
The hardest part is supporting the platform for 7~10 years. With those lifetimes, writing code is like 5% of the effort, the rest is supporting it for years and handling all the nasty bugs that show up when thousands of engineers pound on it 24/7. They don't teach you about that in college, and I wish they did, but I doubt anyone would take a class on how to support software even though it's the most important part.
I don't have the large code base experience, so I'm talking a bit out of line.

However, contra OO, I submit that keeping the data orthogonal to the methods is a win.

Restated, I haven't seen much win with objectifying everything and having a huge object inheritance tree. Probably useful in some domain.

Recently looking at botocore. There are no classes for AWS services; just a "database" of JSON documents enumerating "shapes" and "operations", and then some wrapper classes that dynamically instantiate classes where needed.

Feels as though AWS may be on to something, though doubtless their server-side code is non-trivial.
Archaeometric Identification of a Perfume from Roman Times
When I was growing up in Rhode Island in the 90s we had twice-daily newspaper delivery.
Nice! I'll have to add those to my wall of index cards with useful commands.
I was taught you are supposed to break the cartilage.
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