skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Never had any serious problem about it during 15 years of desktop linux use as a developer machine.

You're not the typical customer of Windows.

> Grandma would not have more problems than unplugging the pendrive where the file was opened from, and trying to save it, for example

Actually she would, because in that case writing to the same file handle would error, not happily write into the ether.

Also, you have one tech-savvy grandma. I don't think mine even knows what a "pendrive" is (though she's seen one), let alone try to open a file on one, let alone try to save her files on it, let alone use pen drives on any regular basis.

> You just made a strawman you are sticking to.

The only strawman I see here is your grandma using pen drives to save files.

What I'm pointing at are real issues for some people or in some situations. Some of them you might be able to solve differently at a higher investment/cost, or with hacks. Some of them (like the UX issue) are just trade-offs that don't automatically make sense for every other user just because they make sense for you. Right now Windows supports some things Linux doesn't, and vice-versa. Could they be doing something better? Perhaps with more effort maybe they could both support a common superset of what they support, but it's not without costs.
> But if there's anything on Windows remotely as capable as apt or pacman, I haven't heard of it

winget: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/wi...
Weird that we're regulating for that

Not sure if you really mean that, but how is that so weird? It's a not man-made phenomenon and the regulation would go against freedom in far more serious ways than this regulation does. Likewise there is (in some countries) regulation against solarbeds but nog against the sun. However there is advice everywhere on how to deal with the sun: stay out of it at certain times and places. If you can and want.
Humanity is putting too many cars on the road. And average car has too big an environmental footprint. And:

“We don’t need electric windows. In the 1970s, face-level vents were introduced, so the reason for having windows has largely gone away. And why do we need motor-powered seats? Most people don’t move their seat. All these creature comforts that we hardly ever use add weight.”

Go back to essentials, and you can shed a looott of weight (and size, too. Besides cost & environmental footprint).

That's the heart of the problem. The phenomenon described in the article is just one of many symptoms of this. And we (or our governments) are not addressing the root problem as strongly as needed.

Expect things to get worse before they get better.
?? where are you getting that equation from ??

Linked to SNR, maybe, but that's not the same thing as max TX power unless you're standing right at the edge of the cell.
These are not new alien bodies, they were "discovered" a few years ago. It was pretty big in the UFO community back then.

I think the consensus has been, for a while, that the bigger bodies are actual mummies that have been altered to make them look more alien-like and that the small ones are just bones and hair and whatnot glued together.

For a very long time the people holding these mummies have refused to really give them to the government for proper testing, under the guise of a conspiracy to hide the aliens. But they also, despite what they've said about openness, refused to really let anyone corroborate the findings. So yeah, it's most likely bogus.

But this was a public hearing. It's basically just a presentation that's done to congress. It has no real legal implications, though maybe some congresspeople might end up drafting a law because of it.

Also, at some point there's some links to the DNA sequencing of the alien:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/PRJNA869134

Here's the one I bothered to check. I haven't really done this kind of stuff in a long while so I'm not sure what the quality of the data is. But seeing as there are no peer-reviewed papers on the subject... well, it doesn't bode well. In the past this scientist also "confirmed" a supposedly "fairy" that was found. Of course, it wasn't so.
You might want to explain why you want this information. What’s in it for me if I share?
> José Jaime Maussan Flota (born May 31, 1953) is a Mexican journalist, television personality and ufologist.

> Snopes reported that Maussan "led an event called Be Witness, at which a mummified body — purportedly that of an alien — was unveiled. Later, though, that 'alien' discovery was debunked. The mummified corpse was shown to be that of a human child.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Maussan
> A fuel pump can fill up 6-7, maybe more cars in the time it takes to partially (say to 80% or so) fill up one electric car.

This is precisely my point with EV. Don't get me wrong, I WANT to buy EV, but the whole ecosystem is still not quite mature enough.

With my petrol car, I can turn up at a gas station with the tank near-empty and I can fill it up to full in 5 minutes, or 8 minutes tops if I'm "running on fumes".

Meanwhile if I turn up with an EV (any EV, even a Tesla on the superchargers) with 8–10% charge left, I need to sit in a godforsaken carpark twiddling my thumbs for 15–20 minutes and that ONLY gets me to 80% charge, if I wanted 100% charge (i.e. on-par with a full-tank on petrol) I'd be sitting there forever.

I'm not talking out of my head or from heresy. On a recent holiday I hired a top of the range EV and did a lot of driving as it was a road-trip type holiday. So I'm speaking from first-hand experience here. (And before the EV-fanbois come along, yes I did my homework, yes I spoke to friends who are EV owners before I left, so I was absolutely up-to-date on the latest "how to do it" for the exact car I rented).

So yeah, charging ABSOLUTELY needs to get to a point where it's on-par with "splash and dash" in the petrol world.

The related point is batteries. Clearly more mature batteries equals more range equals less need to charge. So that is another area ripe for more maturity.
They can't guarantee anything at all, and data link speeds are at best the responsibility of your carrier.
Recycling my post from when this link was submitted 32 days ago.

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While I highly encourage everyone to read this in its entirely, I think it's worth a quick summary of the bits that may be personally-useful to those who don't:

* If it comes to a lawsuit in a court case, DO NOT IGNORE IT. If you don't show up, collector gets a kind of automatic win called a default judgement, and that's how you end up losing your house or having money vanish from your bank-account. If you do show up, they might instantly offer you a discount deal, often because they know their position is very shaky and they don't actually want to spend money fighting a court case that might be unwinnable against a strong opponent.

* Ask for proof. Debt collectors often lack documentation that you are legally-entitled to. ("Debt verification" under the "FDCPA".) Many never got it form the original bank, and don't want to spend time/money getting it. Asking for that proof means they may just give up and move on to a cheaper/easier person.

* Don't be fooled into paying for other people's debt. At least in the US, debts end when the original debtor dies, except in the sense of money taken away from the debtor's stuff before it reaches heirs. You can't ever "inherit negative money". Spousal stuff is more complex, but don't get fooled into paying something you don't even owe.

* Debt collectors will often make threats that are both impossible and illegal. This means you can only benefit from having everything in writing. (Or by clearly announcing that you will record a call, and then recording it.)

* The law (FDCPA) only allows debt collectors to call family members in order to get your contact information... But some of them use this as a form of harassment/coercion. There's no magic-wand for this part.

* If you agree to a vague "payment plan" and then send them the first check or bank-account info, watch out: Even if you don't write another check, they will find ways to withdraw money out of that account at the exact worst moments for you... but the best for them.
Google's pretty fond of privacy things that "hurt advertisers", but hurt all advertisers other than Google harder than they hurt Google.
It don't know why it would be "an issue" — it's a part of the ECMAScript standard. Do they only implement new language features when something breaks and then wonder in release notes why somebody would use these features? Seems like not a good way to develop a modern browser.
You plead poverty with the ambulance company and hope they'll settle on a reduced amount with you. They may also put you on a payment plan, or report non full on time payment to the credit bureaus. Sometimes all 3.
Cars are crash tested against one-another, not against a benchmark car. This means that the tiny Aygo-X was crash tested with another Aygo-X, not with a Ford "danger" Ranger or a Range Rover or a Juke.
The problem is that many (most?) people won't be able to charge at home. Living in apartments, using public parking spaces. Owning an EV in that circumstance sucks.
You could make the exact same argument about the traditional banking system.
Not if you compare with the Fairphone. The Fairphone uses materials that are a lot easier to be recyclable and is supported for as long as Apple devices.
This is FUD. If you get to the point of having a contract to deploy your game on a console, I expect you could afford to hire one of the several consulting companies that will help you port your Godot game to the console. And yes, they actually do exist.
To the people downvoting, at least rebuttal.
So what do you suggest? Let's start bulding nuclear to have again in 15 years without a national industry to facilitate that?

The train is LONG gone and it's economic and political suicide to start now.

The whole "WhY DoN'T yOu BuIlD nUclEaR" is ignoring the large delays and over budget projects of modern reactors.
No, they just treat everyone, and their employer sends you a bill. (Sorry if that wasn't clear.)
Probably best to reserve judgement until independent benchmarks come out, but the new GPU cores _may_ be quite a big deal. The GPU core used in the last few gens of iPhone chip (and the M1/M2) is now quite old, and was actually supposed to be replaced last year. This one should be expected to be a significant leap forward (though, again, don't believe Apple on this, wait for independent tests).
one of the Co-founders of Lykdat here.

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At the core of our goal is to provide a retail market research solution that is affordable to most researchers. The industry right now is filled with extremely expensive alternatives (*whispers: not mentioning names).

It's important for us to get feedback so we've made a free demo page available to community to try hands on the solution:

https://pinsight.lykdat.com/demo
> in an objective non political way

While your whole post implicates that you are leaning to the conservatice spectrum, I will try to be as objective as possible.

Germany has been ruled by conservative governments for the last 16 years. These governments have hindered innovation (see German internet speeds for example) and lobbyists made sure that nothing changed in regards of mobility, energy, city building and whatnot.

The russian attack on Ukraine has made clear that dependency on foreign states is not a good idea and that we have to act on that swiftly. Acting swiftly comes with a cost for the moment for sure.

Energy prices are already falling though for example, renewables are being build, probably like never before, see [1] at the bottom, and dependency on fossil fuels is being reduced steadily.

That could have been done slowly over the last 16 years, but conservatice politicians were busy doing... I don't know what.

Nuclear is and was never a viable option. While fans of this technology are repeating it over and over, the German reactors were EOL. Also: The energy companies were only able to run those reactors because that has been subsidized in different ways.

The economic downturn is somewhat more complicated, I think.

Lots of companies have used the pandemic to rise prices. While that might have been a real issue due to logistics during the pandemic, right now it's only greedflation with companies rising prices "because they can". That hits companies as well as persons and leads to people being more frugal and results in the economic downturn.

The "downturn" also might be a more realistic view of the situation, as the current government is not that leaned towards pampering businesses and lobbyists as the former ones. Former growth is in parts the result of subsidizing, tax reductions, low interest rates etc. These are all valid measurements to boost an economy, but someone has to pay the price for that.

Now, there's also a price to pay for modernizing the country at a larger scale and businesses have to pay their share, too. I think that's only fair.

[1]: https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Dossier/erneuerbare-energie...
EU Directives have three stages:

- EU ratification
- national implementation
- national enforcement

The ratification is typically accompanied by an implementation deadline (usually in years) so there'll be cases of some countries following EU regs earlier than others.

Finally there's enforcement which is entirely in the hands of nation states pretty much - just because something is written in statute doesn't necessarily always translate to actual action.
> Is a mobile payment app more like a debit or like a credit card?

My understanding is that the mobile payment app is just a medium for a virtual debit or credit card

> on the internet credit cards seems to be the main supported payment method

Over many years, I've never had any issue paying with debit cards on the internet, except _once_ to rent a bike on a taiwanese website (bc they do a credit card hold).
...How do you propose they'll hide the packet going over the network, that decodes to a GET or POST request?

I assure you. That endpoint will not remain secret no matter how hard they try.
> arriving at loads more coal production

Where is this "fact" coming from? Coal is being phased out. Numbers for last year increased slightly, but that was due to gas, not nuclear shutdowns. For this year coal usage is on track to being at 2020 levels, which was an outlier year.

Source: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...
>The point is that there's nothing inherently immoral about family punishment from a consequentialist lens. Consequentialist morality is based solely on outcomes; therefore, if family punishment results in fewer crimes perpetrated on innocent people, there is not a coherent consequentialist argument for family punishment being immoral. It suggests that there's some cost/benefit ratio at which family punishment could be considered morally correct.

If one assumes that the families of those who commit crimes are innocent as well, punishing those families are also crimes against innocent people. By your own logic, punishing ten innocent members of a family for a crime committed by a relative against a single person makes things worse, not better -- as more crimes (and more innocent people hurt) are committed in executing such punishment than the harm caused by the initial crime.

In fact, in the US at least, we already inflict a version of this on the communities of those who commit crimes. If someone commits a crime and is convicted, they are generally discriminated against in finding jobs, getting housing, being able to exercise the political franchise and a variety of other punitive "punishments" that are beyond those prescribed by law.

This encourages recidivism, reduces potential economic output, reduces economic/social/political opportunities and otherwise negatively affects the families and communities of those convicted, even after completing the official punishment for whatever crime may have been committed.

While there certainly are folks who cannot integrate into society without harming it (e.g., serial killers) and, as such, should be permanently removed from society in order to protect the other members of that society, most folks who commit crimes are not such people. However, when we discriminate against those who have already been punished for their crimes, we intentionally put them at odds with society, increasing the risk of recidivism. And more's the pity.
In the UK, road maintenance is paid for by income tax, though reduced fuel duty will affect public finances. However, fuel duty has been frozen for a number of years, so it doesn't look like the Tories want to stop people sitting in cars.

The road damage from EVs hardly matters compared to HGVs, buses and the biggest vehicles. Road damage is roughly proportional to the fourth power of weight, so cars aren't responsible for most of it. This can be verified by looking at bus stops and invariably the road surface is damaged by the bus stopping and starting there. A similar effect can be seen at traffic lights.
Sites that get really big, usually do "give up" the old way of sending out the users data to a gazillion of advertisers. Because they have the inhouse resources to segment their users:

https://www.reddit.com/ads.txt

Meta, Google, Reddit, Twitter etc won't send out your request data to show you ads.

But unless you are a giant, it is not feasible and sites resort to send out request data to countless data brokers to find out what users are interested in:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ads.txt

If the users interest is available via the browser, that would enable smaller sites to do what larger sites do. Show toaster ads to users interested in toasters without the data brokers being involved.
At this point it's the degradation of the non-user-replaceable battery that's driving upgrades.

Having to get a phone to an Apple store, let alone mail it in for a 'battery service' and have no phone for a few days, is a surprisingly big obstacle to just replacing the battery and keeping an older phone running for another few years.
Wow, I watched that with the sound off and was surprised it's actually a car manufacturer's ad. What a misfire. In turn, that reminded me of this legendary ad misfire:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand_(cigarette)#Marketing
> 1. What to do with stale user data? What happens if a user doesn't open the app for a year? How do you handle migrations?

version = db.query("select value from config where key='version'").fetch_one()
switch (version) {
case 1:
db.migrate_to_version_2()
fallthrough
case 2:
db.migrate_to_version_3()
// ... and so on
}
assert(version == 3)
start_sync()

Just don't delete the old cases. Refuse to run sync if device is not on the latest schema version.

One of my Django projects started in 2018 and has over 150 migration files, some involving major schema refactors (including introducing multi-tenancy). I can take a DB dump from 2018, migrate it, and have the app run against master, without any manual fixes. I don't think it's an unsolved problem.

> 2. What about data corruption? What happens if the user has a network interruption during a sync? How do you handle partial states?

Run the sync in a transaction.

> 3. What happens when you have merge conflicts during a sync? CRDT structures are not even close to enough for this.

CRDTs are probably the best we have so far, but what you should do depends on the application. You may have to ask the user to pick one of the possible resolutions. "Keep version A, version B, or both?"

> 4. What happens when the user has millions of items? How do you handle sync and storage for that?

Every system has practical limits. Set a soft limit to warn people about pushing the app too far. Find out who your user with a million items is. Talk to them about their use cases. Figure out if you can improve the product, maybe offer a pro/higher-priced tier.

> Mobiles are really bad with memory. iOS and Android have insane level of restrictions on how much memory an app can consume, and for good reason because most consumer mobile phones have 4-6 gbs of RAM.

You don't load up your entire DB into memory on the backend either. (Well your database server is probably powerful enough to keep the entire working set in memory, but you don't start your request handler with "select * from users".)

You're asking very broad questions, and I know these are very simplistic answers - every product will be slightly different and face unique trade-offs. But I don't think the solutions are outside of reach for an average semi-competent engineer.
Unless at some point we (meaning humanity) introduce a carbon tax based on how sustainable are the means of production of a country.

Another thing. China has more people that Europe and US combined and so does India. With your statement you are somewhat implying that we (European as Us citizen) have a right to pollute more per capita than Cinese and Indian citizens. I don't think that's fair.
Why does the XDG spec have authority over software?
Didn't Germany just make a law that will cost 50 billion Euro and will - in the span of six years - save the CO2 that China puts out in a day. Brilliant decision.

Germany could shut down everything tomorrow and it wouldn't make a dent. Not making a dent _and_ ruining your economy will not make anyone follow your lead either.
Kent Beck worked at Gusto. He was a signatory of the Agile Manifesto. Therefore MVP in 1 month. /s
Point taken. But since it's short-term, as long as they delay deposits for a short time period, there is no problem.

Comparison with bank deposits: Consider March this year, when Circle-issued USDC stablecoin had a "bank run". It wasn't because of their treasury holdings, but because they put reserves in Silicon Valley Bank, which had a bank run. A transitive bank run, if you will. It only recovered because of FDIC insurance, which went above and beyond their legal $250k/person limit.

Treasuries are backed by the full faith and credit of the US government, without any per-person or monetary limits.
that's a cool project, will definitely try it out later
I think one factor in the gradual increase in car size is the problem of visibility.

A lot of new large cars are not only large ( taller and wider ), but have a tendency to have privacy type glass. This means if you are in a traditionally sized car behind you can't see much of the road ahead.

Driving in a busy city, the lack of visibility of what's happening beyond the car ahead is very disconcerting.

Solution? Get a bigger car yourself, with a higher driving position.
I'd suggest standing under the sun, great way to absorb radiation :).
But this change levels the playing field, doesn't it?

Previously only Google and other big data brokers could figure out that a visitor who looks at a jokes site is interested in toasters. Now every site can.
This is and probably will always be the case for any centralized stablecoin.

Unlike PayPal's traditional "black box" dollars, freezing and burning PYUSD are transparent actions broadcast to the network—it can be publicly analyzed and tracked in realtime.
There was a bug in some Linux driver installer that accidentally /usr, the whole thing.
Or, how to describe a nation living on credit. In Europe, we still prefer to use debit cards for normal payments.

It's really scary how much power banks and other financial insitutions have in the US.

Of course, they are almost as powerful in Europe.
If you want a desktop trackpad, the Apple one is about the best you're going to get. The keyboard is, IMO, perfectly fine, and certainly one of the nicer-feeling non-mechanical keyboards around these days.
Road to NumPy 2.0