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You're gonna love this, tipping at self check-out! https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/tipping-at-self-chec...

Soon, your local gas station's pump will ask you for a tip. USPS will drop an empty envelope for tips. When paying for a parking ticket, an extra line will be added for gratuity.
You’re at least the third person to say this without the disclaimer - only if the rubber flap was securely covering the ports when it was dropped in water.
Not on the “practical” side but not seeing anyone mention this here. This is a highly emotional time. I would add a personal letter for your spouse, children, surviving parents etc…
Something to remind them how much you love them and that you’re grateful to have shared your life with them.
Or whatever words fit.
I don't think anything he says to anybody right now is all that credible.
> Just add a CSS stylesheet which turns <textarea> into something half-decent, put a note that markdown is supported, and make a plain text editor.

If you're not going with prosemirror or similar off-the-shelf component, then this is the only way to not annoy your users. Augment it with a side-b-y-side RO view of the rendered markdown.

I mean, even the linked page is a confusing UI: you enter `**` for a bold sentence, and then when you arrow-left to the beginning of the sentence you cannot delete just the `*` you typed in.[1]

[1] I feel a better way to do this would be to not allow markdown to actually be typed in, so that the user never sees it. This sidesteps the confusion when trying to remove just the markdown. Let the user use shortcut keys and/or buttons on selections, because to remove a formatting rule they simply repeat what they did to create that rule.
This cognitive dissonance looks to me as possibly part of the reason for Trump‘s incoherent behavior with respect of the secrets he kept.
Ownership and allocation mechanism are mostly independent axes. Consider for instance Norway (extensive state ownership but highly market-oriented; in certain respects more liberal than the US) contemporary China (state control of most major firms but mostly market-oriented), Gaullist France (nationalized infrastructure plus minority state shares in other sectors, markets supplemented with indicative planning and state-directed investment) or the US during WWII (almost entirely private, full-blown central planning).

Venezuela's level of interventionism is unremarkable by the historical standards of the developed world. The problem is their poor choice of interventions.
This sheer ignorance around nuclear energy is the main reason I'm happy it already peaked in the Western World and is replaced by safe and clean renewable energies.

I mean, you don't even have to look far these days. It's Finland. You know...the country just around the corner of our old and new arch enemy, Russia. And you want to create an additional target for sabotage?

Also, you're talking about wasting money? Reprocessing is hilariously expensive, and they don't even have a facility. No country in the Western World will ever build one again because it's not worth it. You're still producing a bit less radioactive material in this expensive process, which has to be stored. The end product is more expensive than new fuel. It's a completely useless circle. Especially for Finland, which has a hole dug up already.

The whole nuclear energy project is a waste of money. Especially taxpayer money. The technology is overdue. New ones are here already. They are cheaper, faster to build, and they are actually getting better all the time. Unlike nuclear, which Finland had to shut down recently because it just wasn't worth the money to keep it running...
There is a fourth option. Nuclear waste can be used in dirty bombs and poisons as well. So waste sites should be somewhat secure.

So in the analogy it would be as if we left a stockpile of guns and ammo. I don’t think leaving a bunch of loaded guns around is a responsible way to hand the future to our children, especially since we can’t know what the future political situations will be.
We have been building our own database and programming language; we are 3 years in and almost ready to launch. It is the most complex thing I have worked with.
I am curious about the practical side of things and who this is for.

So I would like to ask you for a hypothetical allocation of time chunks per day for someone that wants/has a family and a healthy lifestyle (sports, eating healthy...)?

Please include in there: sleeping, cooking, exercising, spending time with your partner and with your kid, paying bills, and making personal decisions.

If the answer is any of these:

- my partner is doing everything

- other people are doing everything else except my work

Then I invite you to think about for whom is this lifestyle then.
I think that this narrative (about kids dying from climate change) has likely come out of the responses that attempt to downplay climate change, but also, for what appears to be a hot take on this issue here... I don't think it's bad.

We are an incredibly polarized society, and not even leastwise because we are spread across many different countries. There are so many ways that we are polarized.

I think, that makes climate change the best thing that could be happening in terms of a unifying common evil. While it is human caused, it can be human solved. The fixing of it is something that could unify humanity. And the only thing we really need to do to get there, is to focus on how it is a common evil for all of our children.

My only concern is that I don't actually know if we can unify/fix this in time to save our planet. They seem to think we can. I don't know if I'm that optimistic.

The big change isn't actually one that I need to see from kids. It's one I need to see from the parents of those kids. Cause there is a controlling minority of this country that is throwing caution to the wind as if this is already solved. That's the real danger, to me. I think kids understand that better than pretty much all baby boomers I've talked to about this...
Why throw goldmine into the sun? France already knows how to convert 95% of the 'waste' into new fuel, why just don't copy their approach and multiply by a factor of 10?
Have you heard the news that Google has sold Google Domains to Squarespace?
If you're like me, you may wonder why Google would divest itself of such a valuable asset.

After all, Google Domains seemed like a natural fit for the Google ecosystem, providing a one-stop shop for website creation, domain registration, and other web-related services.

So why did Google sell Google Domains to Squarespace? Was it a strategic move to focus on core products and services, or was there something else at play?

Is this simply a case of Google optimizing its operations, or is there more to the story?

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this topic. Do you think Google made the right decision in selling Google Domains to Squarespace? And what do you think this means for the future of Google's other non-core assets?
I am interested in knowing if anyone has any book recommendations regarding making money with open source.
How do I use my Yubikey to authenticate on an Android 13 Samsung S21
I had previously successfully used my Solokey (a Yubikey-like product) on my Samsung S21 mobile phone. I was able to use it to log into Google, Fastmail, Facebook, et al.

At some point in the recent past I lost my ability to use my Solokey. I parked this issue for a couple of weeks/months thinking it was more likely to be user-error and making a mental note to myself to investigate it later...

So then this issue came up again today. I was trying to add a Google Account to my Android device and it kept hanging at the screen where it tries to verify my security key. I decided to do some debugging. I verified the security key works fine on my Lenovo laptop running Linux. I can e.g. sign into my AWS account via Firefox using my Solokey as 2FA with no issues.

I did some digging and found the linked Google support post by a Yubikey user having similar issues with their security key on an S21. I know that Solokeys are not a well known product so it was interesting to see the same issues has occurred with Yubikeys as well. Like the poster in that link, I was only able to add a Google account to my phone after waiting several minutes for the security key request to time out and then using an alternative 2FA method.

What I find interesting however is that security key requests in either Chrome/Android or Firefox/Android on my S21 actually pops up a Passkeys dialog box.

The Passkeys screen appears in either Chrome or Firefox when I try to sign into services that require 2FA (e.g. Fastmail). Within that Passkeys screen there is no option for using an external USB security key. Not even clicking the 'Use a different device' works -- that button just takes me to a QR code screen for using another Passkey device to sign in. Plugging in the USB security key before or during the sign in process has no effect whatsoever.

Previously I was able to use my security key to sign in without any of this Passkey nonsense. It used to work more or less the same way it works on Firefox on Linux. Essentially it would ask you to plug in the key and press the button. Doing so would then log you in straight away. It seems Firefox hands over security keys requests to Android as the dialog it shows is exactly the same as in Chrome.

Timing wise I think I lost the ability to use an external security key around the time I upgraded to Android 13 (if not earlier).

Has Google used Android 13 to silently kill support for external security keys (like Yubikey, Solokey, etc)? I also wonder if it is part of their agenda to push Passkey? Or is this a genuine user error or some sort of bug? I have no idea as there is limited documentation on this.

Hoping there's someone out there in the Hacker News community with any useful info!
> Third, where do you get the idea from that Apple makes the best design decisions for consumers?

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/most-popular-phone-brands

If someone decides to buy the phone that is best for them, most likely designer of that phone is going to be Apple.

If you like maybe there is an argument it is Samsung or a Chinese company - but fact is that Europe, as far as real-world results, doesn't have a person on the continent who is willing and able to make a good phone. They certainly don't have someone like that working for the EU.

> First, the EU doesn't have that much power.

Less power they have, the more it matters what they draw attention to.
Funny timing - today's frontpage had a story on Huawei's alleged spying on Denmark's cellular network regulatory body (though to be fair, many commenters argued that it's very biased reporting)
I wonder how feasible it is do the course on Linux - I am interested in learning mobile dev but don't own a Mac.
They wouldn't be orphan if we knew who holds the corresponding rights. Selling the liquidated estates could help with certain out of commerce works, but I wonder how many such cases exists. Usually other publishers buy the catalogue just to keep it quiet and reduce the competition, even if they have no intention to reprint anything.
Organ donation will
You saying "it can be discussed" doesn't change that your model is flawed on its face, with no amount of extra layers of ad hoc workarounds able to overcome those blatant flaws....

A simpler solution is to start with a return to something resembling the original IP laws where one lost their rights within their own lifetime.... Theres a reason that was originally proposed, rather than lifetime protections, and why creators originally accepted it with glee... All parties need to remember those reasons, whether rights holder, state or consumer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wen in case anyone didn't get the reference.
Sheehan Quirke, better known by his nom de plume and Twitter handle The Cultural Tutor, hails from the parochial backwaters of England. He most recently worked at McDonald’s. And before that as a nightwatchman, when he spent the long night shifts reading and writing. He also has a law degree; but he never had any intention of becoming a lawyer.
I also worked on something nearly identical in US. It also failed with a bang. The site had a similar value proposition as the OP. $995 and off you go (we also tried other price points).

At the end of the day we just couldn't get enough customers. That is despite spending some serious bucks on advertising with Facebook and others.

I suspect you are right - home purchase/sale is too complicated for a regular consumer from a legal and practical standpoint and cost of failure is high. It's better to hand it off to a professional.
>>> Please, EU

you know... you could also try asking the US government to do it...
Reducing e-waste is an important part of addressing climate change, which is the most important issue, so: Yes.
Aside of that this file should be offline:

- your wishes as a patient (how do you want to die) ... It could happen you cannot express that anymore and someone has to make a decision. This will make that easier.

- give access before death (eg to banking accounts). So much easier than dealing with shitty processes

- if possible reduce your assets to money. It is no help to have a valuable comic collection which ends up on a yard sale or for the wrong price sold or it takes endless to sell.

- clarify the situation with everyone in the family so they do not fight over it

- generally keep your documents in order and sort out old stuff. You never know which files are needed

- write your medical history

- keep your will simple.

- get your digital life in order and keep it simple (photos on a hard disk, folder structure etc)
I saw Daniel Ellsberg speak at a Rotary event and got to talk to him later. Very humble and intelligent person. He said all he had done paled to what needed to be done about climate change.
Getting Hitched to “Love Plus” [pdf]
Brain Waves Synchronize When People Interact
It's all still susceptible to the same principle. You think Prime Minister Blah is having an affair because the French translators with the highest clearance you're using haven't been watching a particular children's television show and so are unknowingly mistranslating the references to it in the transcript. If the tape had been released on the internet some schoolteacher in Canada would have pointed that out.
One takeaway should be: avoid credit card debt unless you’re really in dire straits.

But also: while remote employment is the future, whether employers like it or not, it’ll continue to be bumpy as long as all the C-suite fuckheads idolize Musk.
That's really strange, I immediately preferred the second urn, since another probability can't be worse than 50:50.

The one other person I asked also chose the 2nd.
The prices they're charging for API access are wildly disproportionate to the cost of the physical infrastructure required to run the services.
For some context, the streaming website kick is funded primarily (solely?) by offshore crypto casinos, such as Stake.

That website has had massive deals with streamers in the past, but they have required those streamers to spend large amounts of the money gambling on their website as part of the contract, meaning that they would claw back large amounts of the money.

So while the number may look massive, in reality it will probably be a much smaller take home amount.
Proper link here: http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.h...

I also use XVI32. It's honestly probably not the best hex editor out there anymore, but I've been using it for well over a decade now and I'm used to its quirks.
If you're in a calorie deficit, it has to come from your C atom reserve storage.

Yes, and that will be your muscle mass as well as body fat if you're not exercising and maintaining a decent protein intake.
Wait, I don't follow (also I'm not American). Can't you just write a will in which you decide how the assets are split in % terms? Or perhaps that's what creates the "trust"?
Normalize not tipping. Press that "no tip" button if you're ordering at the register. Just do it.
that gives me hope for finding such a job later this year, thank you. Anyways, the video you posted is an admoneygeneratingtimewaster (length/information ratio, true to its codec: opus google) - one of the comments on its youtube page:

To put it bluntly, yes, economically Germany wants skilled immigration, but socially it doesn't.
Damaging for what? I agree that it could be damaging for overall productivity, but I would argue that it's very good for other things. Eg. peoples ability to focus on other things in life, like family and friend.

I find it strange that we would want to optimize everything for growth.
DB schema is missing. If there was an .sql script to create all the tables, I could run this reddit version.

Most of the information about columns and tables could be recovered from data.lisp and view-defs.lisp. Maybe also old.lisp
Hackernews loves to hate google, but I find gcp way more user friendly and simpler to understand and just get things running than on aws.
You click on the downvote arrow. However, you need to have sufficient karma for the downvote arrow to appear. You do not appear to have passed this threshold yet.

Also, if this was not a honest question but just a rethorical one: please read and take to heart the HN guidelines [1]. Essential part: It is better to explain why you disagree with the parent poster than to post snarky comments that do not contribute to the discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gypsy Moths in the United States
What reddit is doing is crazy and it will face consequences for it.
This kills me, everytime.

Will the future be Star Trek or Dune as far as AI is concerned?
> a failure of one service does not cascade and degrade the functionality of all other services using it.

This always struck me as a blatantly disingenuous generalization.

What are the two services being described here? It matters very much.

If my product is an email platform, and the "API service" accepted the "send email" request by enqueuing a "send email" message for the "email sender service", if the "email sender service" is down, it absolutely does degrade the experience of API service users: "your email is sent" vs "your email will be sent as soon as we're able" is two very different promises.

I think I'd like to work for the company who doesn't care about the difference in those two promises. It'd be very easy to just implement the worst possible solution and provide the flakiest possible experience. Of course, I haven't seemed to find those employers yet in my career. Everyone wants reliability and performance and everything else that sounds nice, all without specifying how the product should really behave. Where are the companies where I can implement these brilliant solutions without the downsides?
> Gender/race-bent remakes are still entirely original works with new scripts and new shots.

That's not what the word "original" means.

Sequels, adaptations, remakes, reboots, etc. are not "entirely original" because they're using existing stories or characters.

Whether you like those works or not, it's flat out _false_ to call them "entirely original".
Dump and pump?
Yes. I know very few people who hold "work is everything" or even work more than 40 hours.
I'm in the UK and we bought our house direct. We needed a solicitor but not an estate agent. Saved a packet. Most people I speak to are too scared to go out alone in this way. If it became more of a regular thing it would take off.
> I spent a couple hours browsing Lemmy instances today and I was shocked at how few users are needed to create replacement communities. Communities with about 2k users feel sparse, but good enough IMO.

It has become a joke on the fediverse that it is going to die any moment, tech journalists have written article after article over the years saying mastodon failed, it is going to die, it will never virally scale like venture capital funded corporate social networks did…

What they never understand is the localized perspective of someone in one of the small communities on the fediverse. Who individually actually cares if 1000, 5000, 100,000, 2 million…… or whatever abstractly large number of users are active on the fediverse? If you look up and see a handful, perhaps 60 active users who all genuinely engage with you and are interesting to talk to then the presumed fantastical future of a freer, fediverse of connected social networks existing outside of the rat race of corporate, consumption focused social media is already here…

Yes a small minority of people are currently experiencing that future, but it becomes undeniable that future can exist for everybody, it is a matter of simply more people waking to it when they please. The fediverse can exist as just a pebble on the shore of a corporate internet that dwarfs it, yet the potential always persists that the fediverse could destabilize and overthrow it all by virtue of being enough, just as a mere pebble, to bring meaning to the very next person who stumbles upon it.
That’s actually quite a good idea. Reddit become increasingly shit as people join a subreddit. Being able to restrict new users to a specific subforum and have topic forums would cut down on the trash.

There’s definitely possibilities there.
> It is my experience this lifestyle changes and grinds your character and not in a good way.

1. It's not like I do a bad job. In the hours I do allocate to work, I do an excellent job. I am able to do this because I have been in this role for years and that experience justifies the salary if I just show up. It helps to be excellent - especially when the job is so effortless.

2. It's not a lifestyle. What I'm describing isn't a large part of my life or mindset. So it cannot degrade my character. Because my character is being enhanced by several other things going on in my life that I prioritize over work.
My first year at university was the last year studends had to use punched cards.

Your programming workflow was:

1) write your complete program on paper

2) grab a box of fresh punch cards, find an empty and functioning card punch and type out your complete program onto cards.

3) very carefully pack them and walk them over to a card reader. Yes. I saw on more than one occasion grown men brought to tears because they dropped a box of cards scattering them across the floor and they would have to spend many hours sorting them.

4) stand in the queue at the reader waiting for your turn to read in the cards. In some places you did this yourself. In others you had to hand your cards to an operator that controlled the reader.

5) if you were in the main programming room of the datacenter, you would now walk over to the queue at the line printer awaiting the output of your program. Each output on green/gray continuous linked A3 paper started with a full listing of your code as typed. If there were errors in your code this would be followed by a huge pile of full code repeats indicating were things went wrong. I still think the enormous stack of pages printed in those cases was mainly to shame the programmer as they had to stand there waiting for the relentless ongoing machine gun like soundings of the line printer anoucing your failiure to the chuckles head shakes of the others standing in line. However, if you were at one of the satelite programming rooms spread around the campusses, , now was the time to go home as your output print would be delivered by van in the following batch typically the next day when you would go and pick up your output from all of them lying on a set of tables, hoping yours was not one of the bigger stacks indicating an error had been found.