skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Paris (France), I always use my credit† card, for everything from a drink in a bar to groceries to burgers to whatever. Most of the time, I use the contactless feature of my plastic card (works for anything under 50€), and sometimes, using my phone using Google Play, which is linked to my card, but doesn't have the 50€ ceiling for regulatory reasons.

I used to carry some cash for my nearest automatic laundery machines, but even that one now features a contactless payment dongle, so it's nearly useless for me.

† I say "credit card", but most plastic card WE carry on France are actually debit card, i.e. there is no specific credit card balance to top or anything, it's directly withdrawned from your account. (There is something hybrid called "differed debit card", that mimic some of the credit card experience, but it's basically buffering your withdrawals, without any "true" credit happening).
But even that rings hollow. in this job market, you keep tech people and just reassign them. Hiring people later to execute on the new vision is hard and expensive.

Or maybe they're just not planning on growing, which is a brave strategy in the tech world.
I'm in France. We've been using chip & pin cards for small-ish transactions since the early 90s, but it's only with Covid that the last few remnants who didn't use contactless (e.g. me) finally stopped using cash.

There are a few holdouts (e.g. I took a bus in the country side last week that only accepted cash payments), but that's about it.
Hurfa durfa.
This is much less restrictive than the cryptography export restrictions. The sky isn't falling and OpenAI won't defect to China (and now arguably might risk serious consequences for doing so).
Expiring vs. Permanent Skills (2020)
The problem is that there are no good upgrade paths for 1080ti. It's roughly as powerful as 3060ti. But there's no point to upgrade to a card with a similar performance and less VRAM. So the only upgrade path to feel a noticeable performance gain is to buy RTX 3090 or RTX 4090 and those are very expensive.
Just because the rest of the world has lawless areas doesn't mean we don't pass laws. If you do something that risks our national safety, or various other things, we can extradite and try you in court.

They're not suggesting the banning of anything, they're requiring you make it be safe and prove how you did that. That's not unreasonable.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_Unite...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction_over_i...
I know a guy who socializes with a lot of women who turned him down for a realtionship, for what it's worth.
> The feeling of the cash flowing out of your hand is much more palpable than when you use a card :)

I prefer using credit card, as it's easy to lose track of how much I'm spending with cash. With card, I have a statement at the end of the month so I can see what I have spent.
It's pointless to speak of usefulness without specifying a utility function.

It is just as possible to differentiate as it is to integrate.

If it is determined a priori that unfalsifiable propositions are not useful, then knowing the result of the Halting Problem is not useful. Isn't that silly?

I strongly object to categorizations which discriminate against valid science (knowledge? truth? understanding? reasoning? Useful facts?). Is all.

The human process of trying to udnerstand reality is continuous, not discrete, so it's silly to reason about it in terms of discrete categories. It necessarily leads to confusion; and the sort of gatekeeping and self-justification Carl Sagan is guilty of.

Science benefits much more from being defined too broadly; than being defined too narrowly.

I'd rather be too permissive then ignore the junk; than be too restrictive and never even encounter good ideas which were erroneously discarded as junk.
there are better fringe OS:es if you care about security.

QubesOS for example

https://www.qubes-os.org/
Czech Republic. Usually my girlfriend has ~$5 on her for stuff like lemonade stands or public bathrooms, and I'm the irresponsible one who hasn't carried cash since 2018. Some pubs, very small stores or small tourist attractions (climb a tower, see the inside of a church, etc) are still cash-only, especially in the rural parts of the country, but visiting or living in Prague (the capital) cashless is easy with zero issues.
Show HN: Easily Visualize Your SQLAlchemy Data Models in a Nice SVG Diagram
I made this on Friday for fun, but I think it could be useful for people. If your application has pretty complicated SQLalchemy data models (and the app I'm working on now has gotten super complicated, with dozens of models with complex interconnections), then this very easily generates an attractive SVG that you can open in the browser showing all your tables and how they are connected. You can be up and running with this in less than a minute— just open it in Google Colab, replace the sample data models with your own, and run the notebook, and you should see the SVG displayed almost immediately at the bottom.

I attempted to also generate an HTML file containing the embedded SVG as well as some JS to enable nice interactive hover-on effects (I wanted to highlight the border of the table you hover over and then change all the outgoing connections to other tables to be red, and all incoming connections to that table to be green), but it wasn't working and started turning into a slog after an hour. If anyone knows how to do this, please submit a PR!
> Pain is real, and the absence of pain is objectively better.

But that’s observably false. There are persons who don’t feel pain, and they are considerably more likely to seriously injure or even maim themselves than normal persons. That’s hardly “objectively better.”

Furthermore, the existence of masochism shows that some people prefer pain to its absence at least some of the time. Thus “Pain is real, and the absence of pain is objectively better” is just your subjective opinion.

Since we’re talking about subjective reports regardless, we may as well rely on the subjective reports of the people having the experiences rather than the subjective opinions of others who aren’t having the experiences.
Nope. They made great software, and not so good hardware. They went away because dot-com bubble burst and tech world cancelled orders of the hardware. Also, bad business decisions linking their success with sales of hardware, instead of support for software.

> "Sun is responsible" for the problem, said a project manager at a large European bank that was affected by it. The manager spoke on condition of anonymity. "Their architecture was fundamentally flawed because there was no ECC checking on the cache memory. This is something you get in even the lowliest Intel processor that costs a few dollars," he said in an e-mail message.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2585204/sun-fixes-serv...
Yes, we have much higher thresholds on software patents [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur...
It's a procedural graphics generator showing some text/ascii art and transforming it on the fly. The source says it is a showcase made by a swiss company.
Where does Mify excel over

(a) Paas for example using cloudflare workers or somekind of container service

(b) Terraform, Pulumi etc.?

Can this allocate other dependent infra like storage, network, databases, CDN, firewalls and DNS? Or work well with other providers that can?
I don't know why he's making it harder than it actually is. It's almost as easy as the MSP430s. Using the arduino-ide complicates things IMO so that's probably where he's gone down the wrong path.

A simple makefile, avr-gcc, avrdude and the attiny85 datasheet is all you need. He has the programmer I use judging by his description.

Makefile i use for my projects https://pastebin.com/pntGaWk7

edit: I think he isn't using the same programmer. He's using that annoying one where you have to either unplug + plugin before each flash with arduino or ground the permanent reset pin. Chuck it and get a proper avr programmer.
I think will is pretty aligned, unfortunately.

There’s a pretty good series called For All Mankind about an alt history where all our Cold War military spending went to space instead. We are going to Mars in the 90s. It’s plausible.

Not that many people care about exploring the universe. Far more care about squabbling over little bits of dirt on Earth.
I'll wait
The only real reason I can see for a tech guy to be into dance is because women are also into it.
Show HN: Black Friday Deals List 2023 – Live Now
Every year I curate a BFCM deal list on github.

It gets a lot of attention from makers & developers worldwide

In the last 2 years, 1000's products have earned $10,000 or more in extra sales just from reference from this repository.

It's a free curated list to help everyone (Makers and buyers), you can add your product by filling out this form:

https://formnx.com/f/63pk80

Or sending a PR directly on github
Pretty cool!

If you go to the index page it tells you what it is; a studio for design and code based in Switzerland.

https://ertdfgcvb.xyz
I think it's worth keeping in mind that HN is visited by international audience, "most exams" will be clearer with geographical attribution. I guess most exams worldwide are pen-and-paper (which is not necessary bad, btw)
Luckily, cash is still a majorly accepted payment method over here from my experience. I did my weeks food and charity shop shopping all with cash on the weekend. Markets are still very accepting of cash as an example. We have options still but for how long, I'm not too sure but hopefully indefinitely.
This is a great opportunity to try to avoid the old mistakes of regulatory capture. It looks like someone is at least trying to make a nod in that direction, by supporting smaller research groups.
It's changing in larger cities. I only have to use cash very rarely now - in small Döner or pizza shops that evade taxes.
Software is definitionally not "scarce". There is no national defense war effort to speak of. Finally, the White House is not requesting "materials neccesary to the national defense effort"–which does not exist–it's attempting to regulate private-sector business activity.

There's multiple things I suspect are unconstitutional here, the clearest being that this stuff is far outside the scope of the law it's invoking. The White House is really just trying to regulate commerce by executive fiat. That's the exclusive power of Congress—this is separation of powers question.
Try closing the tab. Fixes it. Nothing to worry about, your battery is fine.
And please enlighten us with the prompt that helps to remove bs for PR articles
Puerto Rico (USA Territory) - Digital payments in the form of debit or credit cards are pretty much universal here, but most fast foods, small business and even semi-formal business (mom+pop) accept an app-based payment called ATH movil. This system is sponsored by the largest bank here (although it's not owned by them). This is so strong here that many businesses apologize when they can't accept it, and the smallest business only accept either cash or ATH móvil.
Not all the local banks and credit unions support the system. So when you don't have cash and cannot use ATH móvil to pay, you might feel excluded from the local economy.
In my opinion this bank is using the app to consolidate the oligopoly in the local market. Which is almost a monopoly because the other banks are insignificant to them (in size). Of course, they share the system with other tiny banks and credit unions, so you cannot claim monopoly. In addition, the system belongs to a company that they spun off a few years ago.
It's unlikely that it will ever come to steam, it was funded and published by Epic, it's basically a second party game.
I don't see it coming to steam unless egs closes.
Remedy made a deal with Epic to publish 3 games, some people say Alan Wake Remastered was the first, and Alan Wake 2 is the second.
Facebook and Instagram to Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe
I have a few fans but they seldom react with more than polite applause
Yep, that's my favorite feature of apps like dydx and uniswap, being able to log in with your wallet keys. This is how things should be done.
Look at people who are consuming corporate-paid subscription to "Headspace" and alike meditation apps. Ironically these apps are solving the problem created by latest capitalism (or corporatism if you wish): unsatisfaction with ones life. People searching for piece in corporate-sponsored meditation apps is a direct representation described in these lines from the article:

> Illich defined conviviality as “autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment.” He contrasted this to “the conditioned response of persons to the demands made upon them by others” from above and afar in the name of advancing progress. “I consider conviviality to be individual freedom realized in personal interdependence and, as such, an intrinsic ethical value,” he wrote in “Tools for Conviviality.” “I believe that, in any society, as conviviality is reduced below a certain level, no amount of industrial productivity can effectively satisfy the needs it creates among society’s members.”
>Note how actually clever texts (probably including the source texts that this is about!) are rarely written like that.

Please provide some examples that aren't STEM texts?

There's a whole other world of literature out there that isn't how-to books.
And that's also literally what this is, it's the president executing the provisions of the Defense Production Act of 1950, which is not only within his power to do so, it's literally his constitutional obligation to do so.
A lot of complaining for a website you will have visited 5 seconds in your entire existence.

Your computer is fine.
> The ease of which we can take and store and save our images is making those memories cheaper and therefore less valuable. Photographs should trigger a memory, photographs shouldn’t be the memory.

I don't think this is true. Otherwise we wouldn't treasure photos of our great grandparents, or even of ourselves when we were babies.
I've also seen a huge increase in anti EV & renewable energy propaganda.

A look at the posts from a right-wing Facebook user I know are recently all about it:

* Anti windmill posts
* Human induced global warming not being real
* EV charging stations powered by diesel-powered generators
* EV bus catching fire
* 'meme post' about an EV simply displacing the greenhouse gases to the power generator that's far away and using a battery that's poisoning children who make them
* Cost of driving EVs are equal to $17.33 per gallon of gasoline

Seems there is a real concentrated effort going on.
Based on the context, my guess is they meant to type TPS (or mistakenly added the M on purpose). It seems clear to me they are discussing the invalidity of criticizing 'lean' or 'TPMS( likely TPS)' as processes when the real issue is sole-source suppliers.
WARNING: libertarian content ahead.

> And take note when one doesn’t fall, study them the hardest.

Here you go, all three of them (including Ludwig Von Mises too):

Hans-Hermann Hoppe on “For a New Liberty” by Murray Rothbard at 50

https://mises.org/wire/hans-hermann-hoppe-new-liberty-50
That woman is thin and six months pregnant.
Was that ever in question? Perhaps to cocky console players who never used a mouse, but not players that started off on PC with mouse & keyboard...
Removing the "mode=screensaver" parameter from the URL:

>ertdfgcvb

>Studio for design and code based in Lugano, Switzerland.

>Specialized in procedural graphic design for screen and print; research and development, prototyping and implementation of interactive installations for exhibitions, stages and events.

And here is a link with some of their art: https://foundation.app/@ertdfgcvb

There are also some links in their homepage too. The I liked the most was: https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz
If you know what you want.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

I sure never anticipated cosmetic surgeons twerking on Instagram in their scrubs to advertise themselves between the videos of a chick jumping into a confused Labrador's mouth and that one of the kid on a bike being shocked by the existence of brown chalk when they see a Pokémon drawn on a sidewalk.
Japan mulls eased residency requirements for foreign entrepreneurs
This is the intent of Altman's Worldcoin project, to provide authoritative attribution (and perhaps ownership) for digital content & communications. Would be best if individuals could authenticate without needing a third party, but that's probably unrealistic. The near term dangers of AI is fake content people have to spend time and money to refute - without any guarantee of success.
So keeping all payments in one places makes you less safe? Doesn't spreading out purchases between banks, credit cards and payment systems make it more likely? If I were that worried I'd pick on system that seemed to have the best track record and stick with it, which would probably be all Apple with things drawn on a mid sized bank chain with a good reputation. How does single sourcing not improve security?
Seems like this list could have been written 10 years ago. Honest question: What’s changed?
So they paid some lip service to the ban matrix math crowd but otherwise ignored them. Top notch.
Reads like pretty normal English to me, even though English is my second language.
Weird list with fancy words that don't offer much of explanation which opens up for making different interpretations.

> 2. The lack of diversity among founders and investors propagates harmful exclusion.

As an example. What kind of diversity? I assume she is writing about gender and ethnicity but in reality I think the diversity of opinions is what is most important to prevent harmful exclusion. I could read it like she mean diversity of opinions, diversity in a specific area like gender or just diversity in general. I assume what I assumed because I read the other points and people with left wing beliefs rarely care about diversity of opinion even if they claim to care about diversity.

Overall I don't understand several of the words that are being used, altough I am not a native english speaker I consider myself to be pretty well versed in the english language.
>> Literally requires the exact same cognitive load as using keys to start your car. The problem is that so many people got comfortable delegating all their financial and data risk to third parties, and those third parties aren't excited about giving up that power.

This perfectly describes the current situation with passkeys.

Passkeys are a great idea--they are like difficult, if not impossible-to-guess passwords generated for you and stored in a given implementor's system (Apple, Google, your password manager, etc.).

Until passkey systems support key export and import, I predict that they will see limited use.

Who wants to trust your passkeys to a big corporation or third party? Vendor lock-in is a huge issue that cannot be overlooked.

Let me generate, store, and backup MY passkeys where I want them.

That doesn't solve the general "I don't want to have to manage my keys" attitude that some people have, but it prevents vendor lock-in.
I'm in Taiwan. I have a bit of a hobby of checking out digital payment systems everywhere I go. I checked out Japan, Macau, Hong Kong, China, Germany, France, the UK, and obviously the US.

The thing that is the most glaring difference between the western countries and the east Asian ones is that in the US and Europe, there is an ultimate goal of try to force people to use e-payment systems to get some kind of regulatory benefit. Therefore people also constantly push back for fear of excess control, and the government tries to mandate it to force only digital payment.

The approach in the Asian countries seems to be the exact opposite. From mpay in Macau, to Suica/Pasmo/PayPay, 街口支付/easycard in Taiwan ....

Most of them had their origin in transit card system(China is different). But they then had a proliferation of QR code payment systems that competed with each other for dominance.

The difference between the east Asian approach and the western one is that the east Asian one never needed to try to ban cash to push for e-payment. It offers so much convenience and other benefits that people don't really think about it in those terms. Want to pay your parking bill? The license plate scanner is connected to the machine at the front. Is privacy compromised? For some parking lots yes, for others no, but the speed of processing is so much better than anything I've seen in Europe.

Nobody is talking about banning cash here or in those other societies, but many people will not use cash, because its too much of a hassle.

EDIT: I guess I don't know enough about the smaller EU states since someone below just mentioned MobilePay.dk

But regardless, there is a level of competition in those Asian e-payment systems that does not seem to exist in "the West"
Navy boats are not typically open to the public.
Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous - I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It
I don't like tone-policing in general. But when I opened this post the negative comment we're talking about was the top comment. That's makes me much more sympathetic to someone calling out the cynicism.
Ah right. Should have posted my reply here. "Cocky console gamers".
If I remember correctly the US military has their own payment network (Eagle Pay) and issues stored-value cards to the enlisted.
Can you finally pay for the metro tickets with card in those big, clumsy machines (not the one located at the central)?
https://archive.ph/KIxDa
ImprovMX
Show HN: A shell tool to create daily notes
I wrote this to easily create daily notes. It does very little - creates a file with a template and puts them in a directory of the current month and year.

I was using Obsidian to manage my daily notes before this but in the back of my mind I was worried about privacy.

I hope you try it once!
Denmark: Personally 100% Apple Pay or MobilePay (DK based system). I haven't even touched a Kroner bill or coin in over a year. It has the added benefit of I just take my phone everywhere I go. The ultimate slim wallet is no wallet!
Not a lawyer, but I'd expect it to be illegal if it happens while they're under investigation or trial. Could be tempering with evidence? But in "normal" days, it would be strange to be illegal to delete anything.
You realise that these random-Joe companies currently develop and sell AI products to cops, goverments and your HR department because the CTO or head of IT is incompetent and/or corrupt?

You understand that already people have been denied bail because "our AI told us so", with no legal way to question that?
> Is our need for "the world will end!"...

Consider the popularity (and profitability) of fictional works in which that threat looms large.
> The point of applying the razor is that, if there's no evidence to support one model over other, your best bet is to chose the simpler one now, because when new evidence comes to light that will favor one over other, it's more likely to favor the simpler one.

I highly doubt that. The history of science has plenty of examples where more complex hypotheses turn out to be more correct. E.g Einsteins relativity is more complex than Newtonian mechanics, but nevertheless better matches observations. The current model of the universe is far more complex than the Ptolmaic model, the periodic system is more conplex than the four elements etc.

Occams razor applies if two models make the same predictions and therefore neither can be more correct than the other.
This is well within the president's powers under existing law. If Congress disagrees, they can always supersede.

This isn't even close to legislating. Look at some recent Supreme Court decisions and the amount of latitude federal agencies have, if you want to see something more closely resembling legislation from outside of Congress.