skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What makes this news more interesting is the fact that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has abandoned its Threads account but is still maintaining its self-hosted Mastodon accounts online.

The title made it sound like BBC have picked a side, but the reality could be that they still got a few more months left in their experiment with Mastodon. Maybe it's still too early to tell anything concrete at this time.
In my city, cash businesses are the first to be knocked over for drug money, so increasingly more and more businesses are forced to go cashless. By forcing all businesses to accept cash, this would re-spread the risk of armed robbery or burglary around.
>Forcing people to have a bank account or a credit card to buy food enforces a monopoly on money.

And allowing businesses to not accept cash allows them to streamline operations and offering products/services at a lower price.

What does monopoly on money mean? Why didn’t Washington DC go out and invest in infrastructure to take cash from people and give them debit cards?

Because that would leave the politicians more liable and the costs are easily visible. Much easier for them to punt the responsibility and costs to a small portion of the voting populace.
Can you be more specific - what did you try doing specifically?

OBS works fine from what I've heard but must admit I don't use it myself.
Being incompetent is possible even if you’re not a US national.
Image input in Bing basically can't handle non English text. Has nothing to do with its Chinese translation ability, which is great.
It’s an expensive burger restaurant, not a grocery store. Having a bank account and a debit card doesn’t mean “participating in a debt-based system”.
Note that I'm not suggesting we eliminate private credit creation or that the government issue loans, what I'm advocating is a government supplied and run electronic payment system.

They already supply a payment system (cash), it's just not electronic. Last time I checked we're not hurting for lack of competition in the "minting currency" industry, and in fact when this was competitive (ie. before the Federal Reserve was formed) the US was a total shit show and it couldn't get anything done.
This is done several other industries. Hospital emergency departments cannot refuse critical care. Most states mandate carrying car insurance and also have an assigned risk pool of last resort for people who cannot get a policy normally.

The benefit of a service mandate on private businesses is that it avoids having to set up a government retail-facing firm. Starting a public option is re-inventing the wheel. Either it stays starved of funding so it sucks, or it gets momentum and existing firms complain about unfair competition from the government.
For some important context, The "Attention is all you need" paper that established the transformer architecture that most LLMs use, is a paper about explicitly machine translation.

It the idea of using transformers for non-translation tasks was only briefly explored at the end of the paper. So it really shouldn't be surprising that LLMs are still good at translating.

Yes, the hallucinations are less than ideal, but the extra freedom is part of what makes their translation abilities so good when they do get it right.
And it's not look google translate is completely free of "hallucination" type issues. It's well known that dedicated machine translation models will assume (aka hallucinate) genders when going from non-gendered to gendered languages.
Please do this state-wide in California. Or hell, nation-wide in US.
Digital Devil Saga indeed
Shake Shack does not have the capacity to help a society. They do the only thing they can to in their power - remove the incentive for stealing.

It is up to the gov't to enact policies (carrot or stick) to prevent robberies.
There was a smart guy once who went crazy. We should assume smart people are crazy.
Besides the point but visa actually gets about 0.14%
Help employers to find you by getting rid of bad recruiters.
Which is why citizens in the US will keep getting harmed and killed at a rate unheard of in developed countries.

Just today:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/03/tennessee-businessman-fatally-...

Father of 3 kids, murdered by a career criminal.

Over 60(!) prior arrests, wide range of violent crime, never served more than 6 months.

You guys have no solutions, no alternatives. Nothing besides empty platitudes of "social justice" and "serious arguments".

Bill Clinton briefly course corrected, three strike laws and such ... and crime started plummeting. As if banning leaded gasoline was the reason, haha. But then, social justice reared its head and here we are.

Crime and murder is coming for even the most bleeding heart socialists:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/03/disturbing-video-shows-moment-...

Watch what the consequence of this total idiocy of soft on crime does to society. Watch a fellow liberal getting stabbed to death.

As if this is normal in a civilized country.
I think there's some hallucination creeping in here!

(1) This HN discussion is the only Google search result for each of these syllabics strings.

(2) I tried using https://syllabics.atlas-ling.ca/ to transliterate these to Roman letters, and none of these was transliterated in the same way as the GPT-4 output (although the third one is somewhat close).

(3) I searched and found that "hello" in Cree is likely written ᑖᓂᓯ (not ᑌᔭᔭᑎ), while correctly romanized as "tān[i]si".

Your approach is clever, but I think the language model is still ultimately overconfident (and confused) here somehow.
FedNow is a payment system by the government providing the rails, but we'll have to see how it evolves. Zelle's implementation/rollout, which is a similar product, but owned/operated by the banks/corporations, has been messy. Venmo, and CashApp, however, are fairly popular.
Curious if some of the hypergrowth from this inadvertently lead to the 65M datadog bill.
Louis Rossmann called this ages ago. Future Motion sounds like a terrible company.
That argument breaks down when you look at how these laws were actually created and changed over time.

People didn’t pick 0.08 BAC and then lower it because they found 0.08 BAC wasn’t low enough, instead the same organizations kept pushing for ever lower limits so they keep dropping independent of any actual impact.
> I suspect the reality is the human cost of dealing with versioning in an API is the problem.

Well, yes.

- You release a new API version. Now you find a bug. Now you need to fix the bug twice.

- You decide to change the way a feature works. You can't get rid of the old code. Now you have two copies of the same API that work differently and need to be documented and run tests. Perhaps they each need to maintain their own data models.

- Every API version means more code. That's more room for security vulnerabilities.
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Freedom units?
"Many people equate the word "daemon" with the word "demon", implying some kind of satanic connection between UNIX and the underworld. This is an egregious misunderstanding. "Daemon" is actually a much older form of "demon"; daemons have no particular bias towards good or evil, but rather serve to help define a person's character or personality. The ancient Greeks' concept of a "personal daemon" was similar to the modern concept of a "guardian angel"—eudaemonia is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly spirit. As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons and demons."

that naming convention might turn out to be more prescient than people thought. Can't wait until my Catholic school education pays off and I chant at my computer in Latin
1password,YNAB for finances, migadu for email.
I am evaluating kagi again, but it's really frustrating using it with Italian language.

Also evaluating chatgpt, it's actually pretty good at some tasks.

Logseq, it's open source but i donate for it. Just mind blowing, brought me away from notion. When my wife asks "where did you put..." i check my #location tag. Same for food recipes, or how tall my daughter was 2 months ago, and so on.
That's not an accurate description of the history of this issue. There's a ton of crazy stuff in the actual history, no need to make stuff up.
Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes
You can accept debit cards and not accept credit cards. That is actually really common in Europe. Chargebacks for most CC providers are around $50-$100 now, so you can do it for small items, I wonder who uses cash to buy something that would make a chargeback worthwhile for a thieve? They would have to rotate cards around to get that.

More likely, thieves were using stolen cards, and the chargebacks were probably legitimate (a thief trying to make money on a chargeback would be pretty dumb anyways, since it would be tracked back to their identity regardless, and the bank would shut them down quickly they made an unusual habit of it).
Interestingly, you are the kind of person that Agi is facing ridicule from. Someone being offended FOR others, even though, nothing of offence actually occurred.
Debit isn't always cheaper.

https://dharmamerchantservices.com/faq/visa-consumer-interch...

Scroll down and check out the debit rates. 22 cents a transaction for credit union debit cards isn't cheap.
They made it free a couple years ago and rebranded as Cloudflare Tunnel. Currently an excellent free option though technically you're not supposed to use it for anything other than basic HTML sites.
How is the box coming under pressure without additional energy being introduced?

If that energy is from the sun, then it's part of the same calculation.

(And anyway, evaporation is faster under less pressure, but the same objections apply.)
I spent about $150 USD on a battery, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD to breathe new life into a MacBook Pro 7,1. It’s only a core 2 duo and noticeably slow, but cool to see that I could do it.

I bet that SSD upgrade will be huge (or was it already an SSD in that model).
What state/country is this in? I think it's an interesting approach but I have never seen any store in the US (or anywhere else for that matter) that takes cash but doesn't give change.
I did some psychedelics, and my friends did even more. They were always telling me about their truly groundbreaking personal epiphanies, but they never really changed their lives.
there's been a few similar products that you could learn from, for example: https://www.producthunt.com/products/lava-beta
I wonder how much of that was each one being largely one-vendor operations. Even high-margin markets like servers and HPC can't compete with selling a billion cheap chips for white-boxes.

If there had been an "Alpha Inc" akin to the ARM Ltd model, I wonder if the platform could have survived longer. It might be able to tap firms that want to play in the high end market, but weren't interested in buying from a direct competitor (picturing those big beige Dell Poweredge PII cubes, but with Alphas in them), or they might have gotten a better deal out of stuff like AMD using the EV6 bus for the Athlon.

Aside from that, I suspect there was a significant aspect of vapourware to the Itanium strategy. Peak Intel had great manufacturing process and an endless bankroll; it was easy to assume that they'd deliver a product that would be impossible to compete with, may as well give up on another architecture. By the time the Itanium product shipped and everyone saw what a lemon it is, it was too late to reallocate the resources and make up for years of lost effort.
This of course means we should ignore reasonable criticism of the contestants in this contest.
I've been Todoist user for many years, premium user as of this year. As well as reminders, tasks, and appointments, I use it to quickly take notes, record thoughts, etc.

It's been great until this week when I hit their ridiculously low limit: 300. That's not many tasks/notes, especially as each sub task is counted individually too.

Why is it so low? I'm a paying user. I'm probably burdening their servers with all of 10kB of text! It's such a gut punch, it makes me regret paying for it a little, just because of how petty and hostile it comes across and because of how needlessly disruptive it is to my usage.

If anyone from Todoist happens to see this, please bump that up by an order of magnitude or two. For premium users, at least. It's awful. It breaks your product for me.
Everyone rags on nickleback, but at least they never changed their sound really, and still sound like a 5 cent Creed cover band, U2 was amazing until they weren't, and they'll probably never get back to their roots where they can actually make real music.
I like processing, and the “p5.js” variant. Schiffman’s coding train videos and “nature of code” (version 2 any day now) are how I learned of it and are really interesting and fun.
https://github.com/nature-of-code

I used p5.js to overlay some graphs on a photo I took which ended up in a coffee shop show.

There is value to this and it seems a shame the foundation seems to be miss-managed.
I’ve donated in the past and I’m going to have to look into it before doing so again.
That could make sense.

On that note, there are also desalination proposals out there that rely on heat pumps, where great is transferred from the condensing side to the evaporating side. (Obviously additional outside energy is required.)
Isn't FedNow more like the NPP in Australia that enables things like Osko and PayID?

It's not quite the same as a postal savings system because the customer still holds their primary transaction account with a private bank. If, instead, customers have their primary transaction account with a government run service (the reason it's called a postal savings system is because historically this was the post office) it would mean that the government is essentially giving retail access to the central bank transaction clearing service.
If the perp needs fent and Shake Shack has cash that can be used to purchase fent, the robbery is a product of need.
I'm having trouble parsing your argument, to be honest. In a cashless society, the government has a near-absolute power to shut down or penalize any economic activity it deems undesirable - whether that activity is criminal or not.

In a society that permits cash, the government's reach is still long, but not nearly as complete.

Unless you always expect governments to be perfectly benevolent and well-attuned to the needs of all social groups, it seems prudent to fight for cash to remain a valid payment choice.
If you chose to live like someone 100 years ago, you could probably get away with working 3.5 hours/week, or fewer.
Is that really any different from Netflix being card only? Or worse being online-only so you need a relationship to an ISP?
The 10th amendment gives states nearly unlimited right to enact any law. Many states literally have emergency power laws which grant the Governor essentially dictatorial powers (to create and enforce laws himself; by decree), which was used for lockdowns and mask mandates.

It's a common misconception that arises from state legislatures doing nothing for several decades, but the power is there.
I think those are called disco balls.
With a commensurate decrease in compensation.
Society criminalizes "victimless" behavior all the time for really good reasons.

Like: if I try and kill my neighbor, but my rifle jams as I shoot, there's no victim, right? Or: if my friends and I get together to plan the burning of a synagogue, there's no victim. Or: if I offer to pay you to kill that pesky neighbour, there's no victim (until you go through with it). Or: if I offer to buy goods off you that have you stole, what I am doing has no victim (the goods were already stolen).

The notion that "victimless" crime is somehow in a category of crimes that are lesser or "not proper" crimes is unjustified.

We have above: attempted murder, conspiracy to commit arson, soliciting a murder, receipt of stolen goods - most of which I think people would regard as serious crimes.

Societies criminalize things that are considered "bad", victim or no - and that reflects the contemporary moral viewpoint of the society. Sodomy (of the consensual variety) was a crime many places, and now it generally isn't.
I support broad legalisation plus taxation. Very similar to what's common for alcohol and nicotine around the globe.

Despite being legalised, alcohol still causes problems. But I doubt banning alcohol would decrease problems on net (especially compared to heavy taxation).
Tell that to the guy who charged $4k of jewelry on my credit card. I've never been robbed of a penny of cash and now I'm having to sue my bank to get that money back.
nice! I should pay more attention to current events I guess.

Next, please tell me they came out with a OSX Server replacement that handles computer sign-on without needing some $10/month MDM service.
> unlocking more value for our stakeholders

yes yes, older FPGA lines being discontinued or going 3x in price in last ~3 years was just great
I get the sentiment but in practice I think many would be against the govt being in possession of their funds given attitudes towards the IRS
> I don't love that I also have a 3% tax going to VISA/Mastercard/Amex/...

You don’t. The merchant you are buying from is choosing to pay 3% for credit card payments because they believe incentivizing people to pay with credit cards will result in them earning more (via higher prices or higher margin goods) than incentivizing them to pay with debit/cash.

If a merchant wanted to, it would be trivial for them to give you a 3% discount for paying with debit. In fact, Target gives you 5% off for paying with debit via their Redcard, but I suspect they do not advertise it because they still want their non savvy buyers to use credit cards. And they want to funnel their rewards seeking savvy buyers to the 5% discount since they bet the cost benefit for those people does not work out.
I guess support would also have to be added to yarn and pnpm at the very least before npmjs.org can consider enabling it for new public uploads.
The government provides a public payment system that's accessible to all and that protects privacy. It's called cash.
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Hello,

My name is Yoofi Quansah, currently a Senior Software Engineer at flipt.io where we are building the future of feature flags.

I started this initiative of spreading the knowledge about the basics of DevOps/Platform Engineering through a free and open source repository.

It all started with teaching one of my friends about who wanted to make a career transition. Through the initial lessons he grew a bit discouraged because of the learning curve, but over time things really started to settle down for him, and I realized through that I had a bit of a passion of teaching and sharing this knowledge to people who otherwise might not knew it existed.

My goal is to expand this repository and create a community around learning in-demand skills related to engineering.

I am also a black African male, so seeing minorities succeed in this field means a whole lot to me. So it was exciting seeing that growth from my friend (also a black male) from 0 to now understanding the concepts he initially thought was impossible to grasp.

I would love thoughts and feedback for the current format of the repository.

Thank you!
The immigration issue in USA overall shows massive incompetence of US Congress and then I really admire the US founding fathers who made it impossible to get anything done in Congress. It is a feature and not a bug. I know at least 3 major bad ass Chinese researchers moving back to China purely because of harassment by immigration department. All of them did exceptionally well in China. They however would have preferred USA.

USA should realize that it is their system that makes the country great and not skin color or race. Chinese, Indians, South Africans and many others can benefit immensely from US society. Protect your systems and not race and USA will continue to be the leader.
So what is the foundation spending money on?
What are robberies a product of?
Many cash only businesses are such because they aren't allowed to take credit cards (anything dealing with marijuana ATM).
That's broadly true. Though do keep in mind that therapeutic doses of stimulants for treatment of ADHD are tiny fraction of 'party' doses.

Btw, nicotine works well against ADHD for most. (Smoking is about the worst way to get nicotine. Plasters or even vaping are better alternatives.) See https://gwern.net/nicotine
I'd bet that most Americans also say they are comfortable living in black communities, but we know that most of them pay a lot to avoid black communities.
Polls aren't good data for things like this.
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In TDD Russia, developers write production code to cover their tests
I feel that examples argues the opposite.

It's not entirely known how every step of that attack went down, but "breaking low quality crypto" hasn't factored into any incident write up I've ever seen.

However, nearly all ransomware uses rsa. Therefore in this particular case, high quality crypto caused harm.

(To state the obvious, I'm not advocating for bad crypto, just discussing this case).
Wandering a bit astray now, but Operation Choke Point 2.0 is currently underway, with the goal of debanking the cryptocurrency industry. Same playbook, different set of undesirable businesses.
Ok, so we should regulate the hell out of meth, heroin, ecstasy, etc. It doesn't make sense to federally ban a drug like LSD considering how little harm it causes compared to the drug alcohol.
I just think this is so cool! It’s amazing to watch how the person explaining’s fingers dance or looks like a piano player.
I think the overarching point was that you should trust the government with anything because they have the power to make laws, and if they wanted to make laws that harmed you they would just do that. I disagree, however.
Just curious. Where can I find such a discord server?
Maestro is 0.3-0.4% in Europe, which isn't bad.
There is no labor shortage. US prime age employment is far below that of other rich countries. We have a huge amount of slack.

And yes, "just pay more" is the solution. There is no shortage of Lamborghinis, but there is a shortage at $1000. Machine operators near me are paid $12/hour, the equivalent of 2009's minimum wage after inflation adjustment.

Yes, wages are too low. Yes, it's good to pay more money and for everyone to be forced to pay more money for wages. If you want cheap services built on extreme inequality, you're free to move to a 2nd or 3rd world country.