skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, but we've never had that: pubs don't do banking under normal circumstances because they're outcompeted by the banks.

Really what happens is that the banks don't wish to be outcompeted so if something starts taking their business under normal circumstances then it gives them the incentive to fix the problem. But that's exactly why the alternate systems should be permitted -- it gives them the kick in the ass needed to make the banking system fix its shortcomings.

> OTOH, these kinds of systems tend to have the problems that all the reddit alternatives have: they capture the least attractive and most problematic business because they only end up employed by an unusual subset of people.

That's what they're for. They serve the needs of the people who the traditional banking system doesn't serve.

And it's not obvious that this is even the case, if they would be allowed to operate openly instead of being something you only use because you cannot use anything else.

For example, there are different kinds of businesses. In some cases the business itself is questionable, e.g. because it's very small and has no reputation history, and then you want a payment system (like credit cards) that offers buyer protection and chargebacks so the customer can feel confident that if the seller doesn't send the goods they can get their money back.

In other cases the business is perfectly trustworthy but it's the kind of business where the customers like to commit fraud, e.g. because the goods can easily be resold after being purchased with a stolen credit card. For this you want an irreversible payment system so the honest merchant can't get ripped off by these scammers.

Sometimes you want a payment system where the buyer can be anonymous, e.g. so that nobody is tracking what kind of literature you purchase.

You don't want a one-size-fits-all system, you want the diversity. Which you can't have if the law mandates one specific kind of system.
And you'd be fine in Germany.

HN paints an overly gloomy picture of Germany. All points mentioned contain a kernel of truth but also a pessimistic linear regression concerning the outlook of the future. We've got a very minor recession going on, that's all. The economy will turn around next year.

The energy crisis is of the higher price than usual variety (and is already way past its peak; look at the 5y chart: https://ycharts.com/indicators/germany_natural_gas_border_pr...). The greenefication of our electrical grid is ongoing and will cost us a ton of money over the next 5-10 years, but will pay off after that (yes, it would have been better to keep the atomic power plants running until then; that's one of the few irrational decision done by the previous conservative government and confirmed by the current government).

We had a large immigration spike in 2015 and another one in 2022 (Syria and Ukraine), overfilling the immigration centers.

Aging population is a thing, as in any other western country. Turns out that immigration is one of the things that counteracts it! And we're currently (and for the next decade) in serious need of unskilled labor, so even the 40% of syrian refugees that haven't gotten work yet (many of those because of the slow bureaucracy...) will be needed.

It's certainly not all sunshine and rainbows, but it's also certainly not a crumbling country without a future.
I was thinking of it as the starting point, then you evolve from there.

Tbh, views are a bit of a leaky abstraction (for example when it comes to constraints) so adopting them gradually seems like a good idea.
yes. It is like Product Hunt
Some people can, but it's not common. For me the image isn't stable or detailed enough. I imagine it would get better with practice.
It's called fractional CTO and is most definitely a thing.
What I find interesting is the size of the assumptions people are capable of casually making in order to make a point of theirs sound legitimate.

You are implying that the creator of the project is pushing this onto their daughter merely for his own vanity - where do you get that from? I browsed a few pages on the site, and couldn't see anything at all that would suggest that. Quite the opposite in fact, there were several gentle suggestions of the daughter having a lovely time and being very interested.

How do you know that the daughter hasn't instigated the whole thing in the first place, by repeatedly showing curiosity as to what her Dad is doing on his computer? That it started off small, and built up from there, a two-way development of someone sharing their interests with a younger co-explorer?

I don't know what the case actually is, of course; but I'd imagine you don't either.

As someone who's been involved with education for a good few years now, my experience is that kids are much more capable learners than seems to be generally believed.

One reason for this seems to me to be how schools are structured, but maybe the fundamental thing at the heart of it is the limiting beliefs of people throwing around opinions like yours. I say hats off to this father for attempting to share his interests and his passions, with his daughter and the world.
I hate to minimod, but this comment absolutely does not deserve to be flagged. It's not flaming or baiting, it isn't violating guidelines or spam or anything. It's not trolling.

The downvote is for disagreement. Do not flag to downvote, please. FFS let's keep up the standards here and not devolve into reddit.
> There's no way to launder real-life CSAM. If there's a victim, it's a crime

The point is with an AI-generated image you don't necessarily know whether there's a victim or not. You can take an image that wouldn't exist without training data sourced from countless victims, and credibly claim everything is perfectly legal and that there wasn't any victim. That's the danger I'm referring to.
Ok, I understand. So first you want to see your schema as a property on a database (which is just a bunch of tables with data, I guess), and see if there is actually any such database, or if the property is always false. Second, assuming that there are any such databases: Given certain commands which operate on databases, is there any sequence of commands which transform the empty database into a database such that the schema property holds for it? Actually, you probably would want the property to be true for every intermediate step as well, right?

Sounds interesting! Although in practice, solving this is probably not that important, because if you cannot come up with some examples of constructing databases for your schema and application, then the schema is the wrong one pretty much by definition.
Thanks! I knew someone would have the details. Are there alternatives you think would work in a distributed model like this that address these concerns ?
Do tires shed more dust at higher speeds? I wonder if this has always been a known but unstated problem, or if increasing highway speeds are causing it to get worse.
> Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working drivers for Linux?

> Why are these companies like intel, Razer, nvidia or AMD..

The question makes no sense. As one of the Reddit comment says: Intel and AMD are among the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel.

The real-world is pretty much powered by millions of Linux machines running on Intel or AMD hardware (for the most part). Try replacing that with Windows servers and their "working drivers" and then we talk.
> I've only come to realise that blaming manufacturers for failing to keep up to date with a constantly moving target was totally unfair.

The intention of keeping the kernel moving and unstable at the inner layer is intentional: it is a negative incentive to make people at least publish documentation, if not outright publish driver source code, in the open.

The userspace-facing layer of Linux has remained very VERY stable over the decades, no matter the consequences [1].

[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/design_linux_...
yes, for example, an insider at google could conceptually have forged a mail. just don't consider that probable. I think its more important to understand the limitations of what DKIM is telling us.
They were never truly democratic in the first place, I don't see what the problem is. The strategic value of their country lies primarily in their geographic location and the tech oligopolies (similarly for Japan, Japan's democracy story is even more sordid).
> You don't need to install a toolchain to use it. The build tool should handle everything for you and should handle clearing caches of unsued toolchains that are no longer needed.

I don't want a dozen clangs and gccs wasting disk space (& increasing initial build times) regardless of who manages them! And I don't mean one project having a bunch of toolchains (I pray that never happens), I mean having dozens of random projects on my computer, most having been built just once and which won't be touched for an indeterminate amount of time.

> Warnings should be looked at. If the errors are not important you can add flags to silence them.

Yes, developers should look at them (and developers can look at them even without -Werror! or, as said elsewhere, it could be enabled conditionally). Users won't get much out of them, other than being annoyed at the project if they prevent the project from being built.
Of course, the system is abused, business costs are used for selfish human purposes by the controllers, but this is a super super minor issue in the global scheme of business. The advantages of taxes businesses have to outweigh the costs, and the costs of taxes business are the following:

1) create unbelievably complex laws to tax here and there and what's allowed, what is exempt, etc etc etc.

2) For all the complex laws, we need:

A) politicians who can understand so that they can be changes
B) Judges who can judges by them
C) Auditors who can make audit businesses following them
D) Business executives who specialize only in finding ways around them
E) Accounts and Tax advisors who also need to learn them
F) Business employees that comply with them (save every receipt, so the costs can approved!)
G) Software developers who can write unbelievable complex software for those unbelievably complex laws (i.e. Accounting software, IRS software, etc.)
H) All the IRS agents who have to do the back office paperwork

And of course all of ^ those have enormous costs. Biden for example wants to spend $60 billion to build IRS tax software. $60 billion. six zero - billion.

3) And finally #3 which you're not going to believe: we take the money from good business, most businesses are good businesses, and we give it the corrupt politicians who piss it down the shithole. Wonderful!!!!! All the work just to transfer the money to someone to spend it even it worse!!!
FWIW this information is easy to find via the pubpeer browser extension. It puts a banner on this HN page which leads to a comment page which has this rebuttal linked there.
Not so much, but pretty close

> YouTube Music is not available in your area
Can you quote actual statistics, not merely sensationalizing articles, demonstrating an increase in shoplifting? As far as I've seen there is no evidence to back up this common assertion. The narrative that is floating around is doing a lot of work to convince people it's true but where are the facts?
Just in case you're not aware, Soros conspiracy theories are a dog whistle for the less-publicly-acceptable "jews control the world" conspiracy theory. Of course it's not racist to criticize a specific person for specific actions. But that's not what the vast conspiracy theories around Soros are. Whether or not you are acting in good faith, you are repeating antisemitism (maybe unknowingly) when you bring this stuff up.
I don't doubt you can generate ~100 watts cycling forward for hours. But the approach this system uses is that you need to cycle backwards. As far as I know, that's pretty annoying way to move your legs.
All 50 states will adopt them if federal highway funding becomes contingent on having them.
> Case in point: can you copy text on your phone, and paste in your computer (and vice versa), seamlessly as if it were the same device, without any configuration, hacks or programs needed?

I am guessing that AirDrop, Sidecar, etc have absolutely nothing to do with hardware-software integration, and have ≥ Layer 3 implementations. KDE Connect and Microsoft My Phone are competitors.
WSJ Quote: " X’s ad revenues have dropped, Musk has said, in part because his management has scared advertisers away"

Musk has blamed ADL (Anti-Defamation League)

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/9/6/23859771/elon-musk-ant...

In a series of posts on X (the site formerly known as Twitter), Musk repeatedly blamed the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for a 60 percent decline in the site’s revenue — alleging a coordinated effort by the group, which monitors extremism, to push advertisers away from Twitter after Musk purchased it last year.
Does InfluxDB support event-based data models? For example, imagine something simple an SQL database's query log. Each query is an event, with data such as latency, rows, block I/O and so on, and metadata such as the database, the full SQL query, and so on. This is the kind of use case where traditional "measurement"-based time series databases like Prometheus aren't a good fit, because you have huge column cardinality for the labels (one value per query). Meanwhile, more general-purpose columns databases like ClickHouse and BigQuery have no issues with this type of data.
What is the Indo-Iranian etymology you are proposing?

There is no attested word "achaara" referring to a pickle in any Sanskrit dictionary I know of (I just checked several). The standard Sanskrit words for pickle have very clear analyses, i.e. avaleha ("licked down"). A similar analysis of "achaara" in Sanskrit would lead to a nonsense meaning of "not-moving".

Whereas, there is a clearly related Persian word "achaar" for a similarly preserved food, which apparently doesn't appear in any Indian texts prior to Mughal rule of South Asia.

Even if there were a shared Avestan/Sanskrit antecedent, many words that share a common ancestor in those languages got re-borrowed in their Persian form into Hindi during Mughal rule.

For example, the common Hindi word "garam", meaning hot, is a direct borrowing from Persian "garm". It replaced a related word for hot/heat from Sanskrit: "gharma" (the loss of original aspiration on the "g" is a feature of Persian). Both words share the same origin, but the Persian version is the one used across South Asia today.

Similarly, Hindi "chaador" meaning "blanket", is a Persian borrowing that also has a Sanskrit cognate "chhaadana" meaning "cover".
The concept you're describing is a "cognate".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate
Sorry but your claim is that Linux is the driver of churn?! That’s a wild thought.

Hard for me to imagine how Linux could be more responsible that the incentives of capitalism, eg planned obsolescence, the race to the bottom, and consumer demand for more and better cameras, storage, etc.
This sort of thing has been going on since ... well, forever. I was reminded of this post [1] by Phil Agre in the RISKS Digest from 1988:

"I've noticed that responses to attempts to complain about uncorrected technical problems tend to take certain recurring forms ...

What has happened? Someone, in this case a customer though in other cases it has often been an employee, complains that something is badly amiss with some system, receives no redress, and finds that their reports are ignored. So they make noise about it. The response?

1. Misplaced accusations of uncooperativeness. ...

2. Condescending lectures about how `incredibly complicated' the systems in question are ... "

etc. See the post itself for much more:

1. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7.09.html#subj1
Sadly, the problem I see with Bruno is that users migrating from competition are actually low-value targets and would never pay for anything. Regardless with what happened to Postman and Insomnia, they didn't loose any significant market share (again, only a certain minority, which would never pay anyways). Most of the people will just accept the new conditions and go on. It's not worth the hassle for them to migrate

Good luck!
De-clickbaiting the title is IMO a good thing, it's similar to what the YouTube extension DeArrow does, crowdsourcing more accurate and non-clickbait titles and thumbnails. It's made by the people who made SponsorBlock and it's great.
> a lot of prime real estate is taken over by an army of hotels that are only at ~50-60% load on average

Isn’t this a textbook case for Airbnb (or something akin to it)? Residents live year round, except during the festival, when they rent out their homes?

Put another way, would the hotels be open to long-term leases which black out the festival?
And some scientists aren't exactly helping by making it seem as if this inherent conflict between 'this' and 'better' isn't part and parcel of the whole but instead driven by personal conflict. The damage done like that is likely long term fairly massive, hopefully prospective scientists won't be discouraged by these vendetta like phenomenon.
It's true that Americans call pickled cucumbers "pickles", they are far and away the most common kind, but we're aware of what pickling is, and have pickled eggs, pickled radish, pickled beets, and while we don't refer to sauerkraut as pickled cabbage (we call it, well, sauerkraut), we do know that's what it is.

We don't eat as much Branston pickle as Brits do, but it's available in most supermarkets.
A lot of the innovation in the GPU space and competition between Nvidia and AMD happens at the driver level.

This could be an
I agree. There were (or still are) various levels of untouchables, but not everywhere, not same people, and not same level of strictness. For example women if some areas are considered untouchables when they have periods (same home, same family, daughters, wives, mothers). Then the financial status. Then caste, tribe. Or language. Or geography.

I don't agree to any of the above.
That's a fascinating idea. I hope someone (you?) pursues it.
Which countries ? I’ve never been to a place where as an already paying customer I had to pay for the restroom. You often do see signs ‘customers only’ on the restroom though.
This. Although you are downvoted but that's it.
For me, it's very much about finding the right level of abstraction. And sometimes things take a lot longer to understand because pieces of the code focus on the wrong abstractions to see how it all fits together. You see that a lot in large orgs with teams with their own coding styles/conventions, focused on their own assigned goals.
So Mozilla can:

1. Integrate IPFS as a first class citizen. This alone would be a huge step forward for the new web.

2. Provide a competitor to Electron with better features and installation experience.

3. Create a Steam-like cross platform marketplace for lightly vetted apps from #2. An experience that should ideally seamlessly blend the UX of signing into Slack in the browser vs having it installed. This has been a holy grain of web apps for three decades and now finally there are ways forward.

4. Marry browser identities with website authentication. Kill passwords with a logical successor to Persona while also providing credentials sync across all your devices and OSes.

5. If #3 and #4 are successful, then their own OS finally has a place in the world. Native FOSS OS a la ChromeOS but works both on desktop and mobile thanks to #2.
The positive externalities are even more enormous, which is a problem for environmentalists.
> Per Guidelines you should put years in the Title.

It's certainly the convention on HN to put the year in the title for older articles, but it's not one of the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

(minor point but I can't help it)
What could work well is forcing manufacturers to release hardware documentation that is sufficiently detailed to allow developing drivers without reverse engineering.

Perhaps forcing them to do so a couple of years after hardware release, so that it does not interfere too much with trade secrets.

This would avoid perfectly functional hardware to go to the landfill because of no further software support, and it would also prevent incredibly time-consuming reverse engineering efforts.
I lived in West Oakland for 10 years. Not immediately adjacent to a freeway, but surrounded on 4 sides by a freeway within a half mile. All flat surfaces are eventually are covered in black grit unless it rains. I assume it was not just tire dust but also diesel soot.
The security on this website is fantastic. They have disabled the use of the arrow keys to scroll the content of their pages. This must obviously be due to a previously unknown attack vector via the use of the keyboard. Bravo!
Why do you say SPF is obsolete? What has replaced it?
Are you implying that nuclear is not renewable?

Tidal wave energy usage would cause us to lock with the moon in 1000 years

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/tide.html
> I have seen on TV that one of the favourite Indian meals is Paratha and Pickle. Is it a common meal?

It's certainly not uncommon, though I think it's often paired (for good reason) with yoghurt. It's more of a breakfast/snack meal than a full lunch meal though, however parathas & pickles can be components of a full meal too.
The superstonk crowd were my first real interaction with people fully in on a conspiracy theory. It was a huge learning experience for me - I'd always sort-of believed that if I was ever face to face with, like, a flat earther or whatever, I'd be able to talk them out of their beliefs. Super naive, I know! Interacting on that subreddit though really hammered home that people in a conspiracy theory don't really _read_ your post, so much as flag it as non-conforming then dunk on it. It was pretty eye-opening for me, and I'm really glad noone in my life has drank the kool-aid on any conspiracies because I'm not really sure there's anything you can do.
I think your comment shows a very strong inner city, urban bias.

The vast majority of Americans both need and love their cars. Very few people would support some movement that aims to restrict automobiles in any way.
General magic and Tony Fadell
The minimal-div minimal-span philosophy of this blog
This is true. But note that is the case for anything, not only learning about computers. Accepting this as the status quo means accepting our kids to be amoebas.
But must not be the like that, youtube can also inspire to do things, like sport, or also learning about computers. I have good examples around me. Guidance is everything.
They don't directly care about CRE. But their wealthy friends (and most likely most F500 CEOs) own or are invested in CRE. By convincing all their CEO friends to force RTO, they can boost the CRE. Also some of biggest companies are effectively invested in CRE because they built huge campuses and while those are technically owned by others, they are in super long term leases which require them to have a certain number of people there every day, as well as local tax breaks that they get for having a certain attendance.
I have always felt this is where recommendation engines go wrong.

If I watch a cat video, it'll think all I like are cats.

I may like content about Foo — something entirely unrelated to cats — if I watch it. But since I have never watched anything about Foo before (perhaps because I didn't know about its existence), it won't recommend me Foo. Therefore I wouldn't know it exists. Hence I never see it, even though if I had seen it I may (or may not) have liked it.

Meanwhile, after a point I get tired of all the cat videos, and stop using the service.

I want recommendation engines to occasionally recommend totally fresh content unrelated to anything I ever watched.
>Turns out that immigration is one of the things that counteracts it!

But where will they live? Germany has a housing shortage it refuses to fix, but is constantly importing more economic cannon fodder.