skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point worth considering, especially given we've already seen the consequences of people and businesses going cashless and a technical glitch throwing everything into disarray.

Back in 2018, Visa's network crashed:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/jun/01/visa-outa...

It was absolute chaos. Most shops and restaurants lost a ton of business due to customers not being able to pay for products (many people here don't have cash in their wallets at all), and many of them couldn't sell even if they wanted to, since the card reader (and other parts of their point of sale systems) also relied on said network.

Having cash as an option at least means things won't completely shut down whenever this sort of error occurs.
The notion that this kind of thing need to go to any foreign company whatsoever instead of the excellent NHS Information Centre is idiotic.

The fact that it’s going to Thiel is bad, but not the root cause of anger among those who actually know something about this area.
> Note that if you use 1.1.1.1, you apparently can't visit archive.is links. I'm not sure why, but around a dozen people on HN have confirmed this. (At least as of a couple months ago.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
The operators of archive.* have a peculiar problem with eDNS, or rather Cloudflare’s lack of support thereof. Some details here:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-today-works-again...
What's awful with non-premium TickTick? I've been considering paying just to support it, not aware of a feature or limitation driving me to.
You must return the old iphone when you upgrade, and I am sure it does not end in the dustbin :)
One of the most significant advantages of digital learning for mechanical engineering students lies in the wealth of resources available online.
In New Orleans, I've seen it advertised as "cash discount." So I guess technically its not a fee on card transactions - it's a discount on cash ones.
I know of many software engineers who make at least as much as doctors. It’s just not that lucrative anymore.
All that's missing is the cigarette smoke and the sense of small-town desperation.
>Note well...Might it be that a frank conversation between adults is what is needed instead of puerile posturing?

If you're criticizing them for making a dumb joke years before there was any problem, when can they make a dumb joke? As the rest of the thread seems like a frank conversation between adults, as does their interview in the article.
Youi can't trust JD Power's awards because of methodology. Initial Quality is a useful metric for the manufacturer, but not htat useful for the consumer, because plenty of vehicle might have high initial quality, but low long term quality.

I've found that JD Power's rankings of customer service for financial companies to be far more useful as customer service is useful to the consumer on an instant basis.
BS from google I assume:
most of the spam I m getting has "unsubscribe" links on storage.googleapis.com
reporting to google? well, they don't give an f , same spam email comes again and again
Of course it's not. You're free to set whatever price you want, but if you set that price and then try to explain it as "this is what it cost me to buy it", that second part undermines your first part.

Your employer, to the extent they want to agree to this, is renting space from you and you're citing and setting the price to buy it forever as justification. That undermines. Just name your price and see if they take it or counter.
City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway
The reason has been known for a while now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
I didn't get that at all. Many of the topics covered later in the article are aren't a hit job, they are a reality and cover an underlying tone of the gathering. It seems like an amazing tradition and frankly a pretty cool thing. But, make no mistake, this is rural Mississippi we're talking about there.

There are some uncomfortable truths.
I guess you could tractably compute the optimal policy for every hand. What is it?
I leave it on voluntarily with my family. We all have the ability to see where each other is, but no one uses it for nefarious reasons because we trust each other. My brother will check where I am before calling because he knows I can't always answer. I will check quickly and see if my wife is at work when I finish to see if I have time for a dog walk or should consider starting dinner. It's nice to see how close my aunt is before picking me up for a football game.

I also share location with some friends. I have one who is a professional photographer, and it's neat to see the interesting places she gets to go. Her mother also finds it comforting that I can find her if she's ever unresponsive for a long period of time. Another friend of mine was passing through my town, and saw I was home, so stopped by to visit. Unexpected and pleasant.

Your last point is key - it's totally fine to not want this feature, but it's nice for those of us who do. To each their own.
I like to think some awards are less bad than others.
See Autocar’s blog[1] about how they voted for the Car Of The Year award which they do every year. It seems to be reasonably transparent.

[1] https://www.autocar.co.uk/opinion/new-cars/how-autocar-voted...
https://fastbootstrap.com/
Ghosting totally makes sense for creepy strangers on dating apps, but you really don’t want to make those where people expect to find intimacy, which a lot of people (especially nerds on the internet) seem too think is supposed to happen. They're basically the worst nightclub on the planet, and the $500 Tinder package pretty much proves why no one should ever use it
As someone who lived in Thailand for two years and experienced the joy of scanning a QR code on a postcard to pay a power bill, your experiences are not atypical: the U.S. is behind the curve here.
>Even so, if I was Apple, I'd probably still go out of my way to make sure these $17k watches will remain repairable for as long as it takes.

Leaving aside the fact that the whole thing seems like a branding mistake...

It can be repairable/supported for as long as Apple continues to make watches. It's just a matter of recycling/reusing the high value non-electronic components and making a replacement/updated watch available. That's pretty much what most "refurbished" electronics look like. It's generally a different approach than you'd take with a high-end mechanical watch where a lot of the cost is in the innards.
Switched off 1.1.1.1 for that reason a while back. Currently using OpenDNS which is now unfortunately owned by Cisco. Definitely a lack of actually open alternatives.
Crime cost Dutch society €2.5B in 2021; 700k bicycles stolen
Note that I mostly have issues with hardware released in 2015 being out of support (in this discussion). The effects of gold watches on the environment has to be anecdotal.

Somebody focusing so much on status so as to need to spend this much money is merely out of my understanding. Yes, it's some form of intolerance on my side and I fully admit it.

Now, gold is both rare and needed, and implies mining, and possibly underpaid people with awful work conditions. I find building such short-lived and futile items with it irresponsible. It's fortunate it's mostly anecdotal. This is what, among other things, I see in a gold watch. I also see how most of us need to work for years to save this amount of money, and that we'll have to use it on essential things like housing and still have to use a loan to buy, and they will spend it without thinking much about it. It's unfair, yet, they are proud of it. These people are so out of touch with the realities of our world.

Showing status is a double edged sword.

Of course, it works both ways. Someone wearing a gold watch probably wouldn't care for me. At least the relation is likely symmetrical.
As neutrally as possible:

Cloudflare doesn't support the DNS Extension that sends part of clients' IPs to the upstream resolver (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet). Cloudflare believes this is better for privacy.

Archive.is doesn't like this (because it prevents DNS-based CDN routing), and thus has a hardcoded exception to intentionally return bogus results to Cloudflare's resolvers.
1.3B Worldcat scrape and data science mini-competition
X is still good and very usable. I’m a heavy user, and I would love to be critical but the service HAS improved despite all the criticisms.

It’s getting better - I see improvements weekly to things. All the huff and fuss is from people I’m constantly wondering if they were even users prior to the Elon takeover. There was a large vocal contingent that hated twitter even prior to Elon on here, who again complained and often would note they didn’t have accounts but the service was still terrible.

The BBC and the rest should realize the service is still worthy, and Elon will allow people he disagrees with on the platform.
I'm really curious if there are common phrases in cover letters that indicate the letter was written by chatgpt.
How to ensure cyber resilience for DevOps data to mitigate hacks and outages
Actually we don't. We just need the bureaucracy and judiciary to overturn the last 50 years of subversion of the original intent of the antitrust acts. The appointment of Lina Khan was a good first step on that path. This case is a good second step.

But a new act would make the process a lot simpler. Judicial precedence is powerful and doesn't change quickly or easily. A new law would make precedence for the old law moot.

IANAL.
> Even with a verifiably random key

What's a "verifiably random" key?
Right now, who do you think looks more ridiculous?

a) Your strawman, who is apparently comfortable without privacy from the government, but does support free speech so they can be racist?

b) The guy who replies to a comment advocating for privacy by derailing the discussion with an inflammatory post, seemingly forgetting that the patriot act had bipartisan support, and in an ironic twist, also presents an anti-free speech position which demonstrates they themselves lack the integrity to defend civil liberties.
Jira's UX is a nightmare. Prior to "next generation projects" everything was shared across all projects. Every single issue type, custom field, screen, etc was shared across every project and board in an entire instance. For even medium sized teams that would quickly become an untenable mess of toe stomping.

On top of that, good luck making changes to anything. The structural configuration for board, screens, and fields is buried in a maze. Something as simple as changing the options on a single select custom field (say, to add a new team) consistently took me upwards of 30 mins of clicking fruitlessly through the UX every time I had to do it, because it was so unintuitively buried and hidden.

Personally, that's why I despise Jira.
I use OpenDNS. 208.67.222.222 doesn't roll off the tongue (or fingers) as easily as 1.1.1.1 but if you use it frequently enough, you'll remember it.
Reporter's Account of Video from Cruise Driverless Car Involved in Collision
> In retaliation to who?

Exactly.

This is a complicated psycho-dynamic.

Prejudice against some member of group because another (perceived)
member of that group wronged you is a road to ruins. As if "employers"
were all of one mind.

It's like kicking some random car in the street because the one ahead
of it honked at you.

However, behaviours are shared by example and through culture. (and
lack of challenge). It becomes normal to simply lie to a jobseeker's
face "We'll call you next week". And after a few experiences of that
one cannot deny or begrudge negative expectations that emerge.

What is needed is adaptation and robust challenge that calls out the
lie (everyone now knows it's a lie).

Something like:

Interviewer: "Hey great. We'll call you next week",

You: "So I didn't get the job?"

Interviewer: "Errr. What do you mean? I said we'd call you next week"

You: "Ah, but everybody knows what that means. You probably won't
call me. Because you have 100 people to call. I can see you're a busy
guy. If I agree to wait for your call, and you forget, that could make
you look like a liar. And I don't want to think that about you."

Interviewer: "......"

You: "So how about I'll call you! If I still want the job. Plus that
will save you money on the call. How about Wednesday morning at 10?"

If they balk, you can walk and at least know the score. But if they
agree, even tacitly, stick to it and call-in on time.

When confronted with weak behaviour taking ownership and
responsibility seems the only dignified way to avoid becoming jaded
and prejudiced.

Take away their ability to lie to you, and you won't have to suffer
diasppointment,
I’ve just started using Warp+ and it has been excellent for my specific use case: better peering to my Plex server while in another continent. Plex was unusable and now it’s not. Overall very happy despite this brief outage.
Unlike what people here were saying in the discussion yesterday, the pedestrian was not in a crosswalk.
Yup I’ve seen a large grocery store keep business going during an extended power outage with hand-written ledgers and cash transactions. Customers kept coming in to shop despite the outage.
I don't agree with his take on LLMs. There is something about them that feels very similar to the way my own brain works. Like, for example, when I perceive a smell that, somehow, activates a very old and almost forgotten visual memory. Sometimes, when talking to a LLM, it feels like one or two words in my prompt is having a similar effect on it.
If I made 45k in MRR, I would not tell anyone. Why attract competition?
> thus has a hardcoded exception to intentionally return bogus results to Cloudflare's resolvers.

This is a bad practice.
That depends on what you’re trying to do. If you want it to be an obvious example, @example.com is great. If you want it to look like real data, such as in a demo or a screenshot, it’s not so great.

It’s a bit like saying that every demo user should be called John Doe or Jane Doe if they aren’t actual people.
The voice chat works pretty great in other languages as well (seriously what's the point of ragging on a feature you haven't used ?) so not sure what the point of this is. There are countless more demos that were not in fact just a demo.
If you’re offended by a piece that suggests it’s odd to have a week-long all white get-together in a state where 36% of the population is black, I’d suggest the piece and the author’s supposed bias are not the issue.
well, that applies across the political spectrum. being hateful against a group is your personal choice
Why do we assume like and view numbers in social media are correct?
since there is no way to confirm externally, how do we know some of the like and view numbers are real, and not inflated by platforms algo ?
DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Seeing New Improvements, Initial Recovery
ty! this will be really helpful. i didnt no u can make ur own
We have a good sense that there are problems, but specific problems aren’t enumerated and so proving they’re not ok is tough.

The EU’s Digital Market Act is a good step.
Even for the top 10% some hospital bills are "honey, we need to sell the car" money. They'll wipe 1-2 years worth of disposable income. A 10 day hospital stay + airlift back home can be 120k.[1]

[1] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-widower-stuck-with-us-100...
I didn’t notice any difference until the last month or so, and now it’s not ordinary users posting thirst traps, but obvious bots “looking for love” liking and retweeting my posts seconds after I post them. It’s a different problem than Instagram, but it’s still pretty bizarre considering Musk’s complaints that pre-acquisition Twitter had too many bots.
Yes, and in fact getting a trade-in price is dependent on having a relatively current working phone. They don't give you a trade-in for any random piece of broken metal, silicon, and glass.
If I place a ton of buy orders just off the top of the book, without the intent to actually buy, other market makers and algos WILL react to the new weighted midprice and raise their offers. This is basic market microstructure supply and demand; if I signal I want to buy A LOT of something, others will raise their prices. When the price gets high enough, I cancel the buy orders and sell at a higher price. This is illegal.
They could start with a company actually in the UK. That would make people safer as at least they cannot easily retreat to the US and that’s it.
Unleashing the Power of No-Code for Software Developers
The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent (1915)
Can desalination save a drying world?
im an user since 2010 its def been worse. translation service works half of the time since the takeover, i see a shitton of useless tick marked content in my feed, the "Following" tab goes worse, the new ads on the responses are awful, and random position-jumping feed updates still happen. service has not gone better in any way
Granted, Notion isn't that different from Jira experientially -- it is vastly more flexible. But there's no comparing today's "everyone has a ticketing/task management system" setup to how things worked in the ~2000 Java era. We produced massive word documents to describe what we were going to do, and then broke them down to gantt charts in excel, and agreed what we were going to build in advance with formal sign-off by all participants. It was a very different feeling.
> It doesn't need electricity, a network of cables, satellites and routers.

To be fair, credit cards also don't. At least didn't need to, up until very recently, when most issuers stopped embossing their credit cards.

Imprinters exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter

Sure, the risk here is that the charge would get declined later on, but you get the same risk if you accept personal checks.
Well, we can - that's how VNC and other protocols work. But it has a few disadvantages.

The first is latency. When you scroll or click, you want the response to happen quickly. If you're streaming the response you have to wait for at least one round trip before anything happens.

Secondly is bandwidth. For all the snark about bloated images and JS libraries, the web is extremely bandwidth light. A 1080p video is less so.

Thirdly, it was tried before. Opera Mini used to render pages before sending them out. It sort of worked for low powered devices but had a lot of quirks which I think gave the idea a bad name.

Finally, it would be impossible to block ads on a streamed website. See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/the-future-of-the-web-is-vn...
Not really. While my mention in the previous post was 2023, I actually started coding this in the summer of last year. As I work on it once in a blue moon, might be a year or two away before I publish anything.

If you're interested in terms of approach, it builds on what I consider saner exports/re-exports of all the other packages that are part of a default installation (base, containers, text, bytestring, etc), and avoids reinventing where industry standards exists (no tls/http client stack from scratch but curl C bindings). There are a few other abstractions I've written in there, but those feel rather flimsy and might remove them.
Quad9 seems decent. They're certainly not as shitty as Cloudflare or Cisco.
Lovely game and art style, and the idea of 80s style games is great!

I would throw in my two cents with the following idea: I would love a modern, well made collection of classical games such as the one linked, available on many platforms, with cloud saves, even to the point of which game was picked.
I would love to decompress by playing Solitaire for 5 mins in my lunch break on my iPhone, come home, open the computer and finish the game up on the big screen and enjoy the cards jumping all over the place.
Show HN: Ambient, a multiplayer game engine and platform using WASM/WebGPU/Rust
Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed.

Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular architecture that allows other developers to make isolated packages (code, 3D models, tools, etc.) that they can add as a mod to your game.

Once deployed, these packages can be activated on-the-fly while running the game in the browser, acting as their own small applications inside the game. This can be great for testing out game features, but it also enables building games with others - whether they be friends or strangers. In the future, we hope that whole communities can build games together, not unlike open-source development.

The runtime already has many of the features expected from a capable game engine, including physics (PhysX), a React-like UI toolkit and a GPU-driven renderer.

Check out the blog post [1] to learn more, and to try out a live multiplayer demo on supported browsers. The team and I will be around to answer any questions you might have.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34906166

[1]: https://ambient.run/blog/platform
Ash: A gentle primer
It’s at least a plausible market opportunity—a way to differentiate themselves from Twitter and capitalize on the people who are repulsed by Twitter’s rage peddling (although the rage peddling cooled down a bit post-acquisition, especially with Community Notes, but platform culture doesn’t change overnight even if the algos and features improve slightly).
Give it a shot - you’ll see the difference. It is a completely different experience
I spent the last ten years pushing my family this way (my nuclear family, then as I got married, my wife joined the fold), and it pays off so well. My initial push was support - I can better support iPhones or Macs because that's what I had and they're all the same. No remembering what GPU is installed for which Control Panel option when HDMI isn't working, or being able to navigate to the exact weird section in Settings->General on iPhone by looking at mine. Since then, iCloud sharing has made sending notes and other enabled content so easy. They just don't advertise that stuff, and I don't know why.
I use https://www.dns0.eu/ but that doesn't have a fancy IP address
My brain read this as “Build Back, Ends Fast.”

I thought trends were changing so quickly I now miss them before I even know about them. Glad I still have a few years left of semi-keeping pace
Go to the gym.
> “As I see it, ‘intelligence’ needs something like the ability to know or understand some area,” he said. “If something can’t actually understand things we shouldn’t say it’s intelligent, not even a little intelligent, but people are using the term artificial intelligence for bullshit generators.”

I wouldn't go as far in blaming AI. It is certainly error prone and has very short autonomy. It's not better than subject matter experts in any field. But it can solve multi-step problems even when they don't look very close to anything in the training set.

I thought that as a pioneer in the free software movement, he would fully support LLMs that democratize skills and make them universally applicable. LLMs benefit from the knowledge of some and extend that help to others, much like the principles of free software. In fact AI is much more radical in making skills free than software ever was.
> Elon will allow people he disagrees with on the platform

I’m not comfortable relying on a single “benevolent” dictator decided what is and isn’t allowed on the platform.

Particularly because the benevolence or lack thereof is, at best, hotly debated in this context.
I find the idea that everyone gets to hoard and constrain the value of their own output sleazy.
Can a roof's material cool the outside air and lower energy demand?