skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In France (at least from observation, no data here) most people use cards, but there is a sizeable group that still uses cash. Large shops now have marked registers that explicitly accept cash, but most don't. There are still some restaurants and services (some doctors, smaller barber shops) that only accept cash. In general I only have small amount of cash on me, use it maybe once a month.
Yeah and so I don't know exactly how I'd want to see this solved but I think something like an open source reputation databases could help. Folks could subscribe to different keystores and they could rank identities based on spamminess or whatever. I know some people would probably balk at this as an internet credit score but as long as we have open standards for these systems, we could model it on something like the fediverse where you can subscribe to communities you align with. I don't think you'd need to validate your IRL identity but you could develop reputation associated with your key.
For the same reasons as you'd juggle clubs on a unicycle and play piano - increased core body strength and flexibility improve dexterity and extend your chair sitting typing lifespan.

Also helps build strength for when you climb those 300m comms masts or enduring those crazy G turns flipping lines in low level geophysical aircraft surveying.
That example only applies if the image you use is also in some way sold by Getty Images. This is not likely to be the case in this instance.
italy, mostly cashless wherever I can (e.g. at the local market in a very small, remote town)

some merchants use the excuse that their POS is currently “not working”, or there are “connectivity” issues. with recent laws coming into effect every merchant has to accept cards, or be fined (ridiculous percentage..)

i always got some cash on me in case I stumble upon those ingenious and cunning merchants, but it’s getting less common that I actually don’t really need it
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So the Java API is deprecated and replaced by a Kotlin one? I guess both are on the JVM so there is a migration path...

Well except Google's Java is like version 1.5 or 8 - while Oracle Java has kept moving forward and has many more features at this point as far as I understand. I think this was the crux of the issue for running Clojure. I don't know the Java lib compatibility story tbh. I imagine many libraries won't run on Android
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A potential reference to the Batman-Robin Administration?
One kernel driver is nothing in 28 years of development, the head of Windows security (David Weston) is the very first to admit C++ is not going away from Windows that soon.

I am fully aware of all those efforts, several links have been posted into HN from me, you can find all of them on my submission history.

A language alone, without the ecosystem, certified compilers and plenty of other industry needs isn't enough, it takes time.

Food for thought, despite all the best efforts and almost painless compatibility, after 40 years, there are still industries that would take C over C++ without wasting a single second thinking about it.
From Kazakhstan here. Didn't use cash literally for a couple of years. AT ALL. Almost everything can be paid via mobile app (though basically only one bank - Kaspi bank). Products (including dill at bazaar), taxi, even public toilet - everything can be paid via transfer from one Kaspi client to another.

UPD: But cash is still accepted in most cases. Have no idea why some people still use it.
Congress has generally refused to seriously legislate anything other than banning lightbulbs for several presidential terms now.

But in this particular example I don't think it's enough of "thing" to even consider bringing up as a bill, except maybe as a one-pager that passes unanimously.
I completely agree on batteries (and I believe this is in fact why most devices are being replaced was what I was getting at!), but where is that point practically for SSDs?

With typical usage, it should hopefully be out many more years than the laptop gets security updates.
Thailand. Cash is rarely used these days. Some shops/restaurants have stopped accepting cash. I sometimes withdraw some from the ATM out of habit, or just to be on the safe side. Then I find myself not using the cash anyway and it sits in wallet for a few weeks.

Even smaller payments, like paying 10 THB (US 25 cents) for a bottle of water, are done digitally. It’s so prevalent that I hardly even use a debit/credit card anymore unless I have a specific reason.

The payments are done by scanning a QR code at the shop, or in the P2P (person-to-person) scenario by scanner the other person's QR or entering their mobile number. All banks support these payments and for the P2P scenario, you basically link your mobile number with the national switch and point it to one of your bank accounts.
Holy cow you were not kidding….

> Illich’s central contention was that persons are relational beings embedded in a matrix of the natural cosmos, convivial community with others and, as a fallen but still faithful priest, God’s grace. As the maverick thinker saw it, Western modernity rent asunder this multidimensional oneness of “Life.”

The whole thing is full of this… sounds like Depak Chopra level word salad trying to hide the obvious behind confusing vocabulary.
Today I learned I swoop the outline of my texts and then bash the sentences.
Yep, I think this is a step in the right direction. I don't know enough about the specifics of Worldcoin to really agree/disagree with its principals and I know I've heard some people have problems with it but I think SOMETHING like this is really the only way forward.
Delivering Safe C++
51. Using terribly thin fonts with low contrast colors leading to unreadable websites.
Really. When armed men enter the room any team of hackers is immediately pwned, and raises hands up. FWIW if current wars prove anything it's that no matter how sophisticated miltech got, the real control is still by infantry present at wanted place
This feels like you're unaware that, for all that remains to be done, less than half as many people are living in extreme poverty today as compared to 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:To...
"Here's a great first course in Linear Algebra!"

"If you can't read and write mathematical proofs, this isn't for you."

Math snobs are funny, and are fully to blame for people hating math.
Lack of vision and patience.

They’re playing checkers instead of chess.
> They need to either start charging everyone for access or stop complaining. I pay for access to a lot of things but I'm not paying money to avoid ads.

Then don't. It's fine. However please don't complain about not being able to get access to the content on Youtube without paying or watching ads.

> I sure as hell am not gonna pay money to watch videos with hard coded ads.

That's up to the content creators, not Youtube. Very few of my subscribed channels use hard-coded apps and if they do they need to make up for it with worthwhile content.
If you live in the US, not participating in the banking system and not having a bank account is not a thing that you can do, except for religious reasons. From the moment you're born, you're on half a dozen companies' radars for credit reporting and scoring purposes, and most of the major purchases that you need to make to survive require a bank account with a good balance and a good credit score.
Huh, interesting.

> Establish an advanced cybersecurity program to develop AI tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical software, building on the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing AI Cyber Challenge. Together, these efforts will harness AI’s potentially game-changing cyber capabilities to make software and networks more secure.
That’s not what it is. People are looking around, shaking their heads, with an vague feeling that things *aren’t right* and waiting for someone to be like “alright everyone we’re heading off to start a new life frontier, let’s go!”, and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk feel like the charismatic alphas/cult leader you should be hitching your wagons to.

Because sometimes the crazy cult leader ends up being right, revival (much like the religious revivals of the 1830s in the US) and making a big change when society is in flux is just something in our blood. Problem is right now nobody wants to actually buy 60,000 acres of undeveloped land to get it all started, they just want to profit off of people via parasocial relationships.
I doubt the core Chrome team agrees with that. This was said by someone in charge of negotiating search engine deals for Android and such, not someone in charge of Chrome.

I'm sure the Chrome people see the ads people as a wallet for their development as much as the ad people see the Chrome people as a vessel for their ads.

In the end the ads people bring in the money so they'll probably get their way, but last time this case came up on the front page there was an example of the quick search feature testing well with users (clearly originating from thr Chrome team) clashing with ad delivery, and only after the ad people raised an issue did Google turn back the changes. This suggests to me that the ad people have some influence on the decisions the Chrome team makes, but the two teams clearly have very different goals in mind.
We used them in 10th grade "advanced" math (Canada, I think the equivalent in the US would be AP?). TI-80plus in the early 00's. We didn't have laptops in classes.

Main use case was quadratic equations, which were a significant part of the class. We could plot them to get an intuition of the effect of the parameters. Plot them to visualize the zeros (or the absence of zeros), or the minima/maxima to get intuition on those. Same for finding intersection points of a quadratic function and a line, or two quadratics. We also programmed the quadratic formula in it, to get faster results instead of typing it out each time.

Other parts of the class were trig and stats, from what I remember I don't think we used the graphing/programming much in these parts.
Don't forget that life expectancies were much lower back then, and that he was assassinated. He certainly would have been happy to continue into his 80s if he could.
The problem is that getting to that point requires quite a bit of capital. The hard part isn’t building the app, it’s buying users, largely through advertising, and then filtering the assholes through moderation staffing. Both of that costs a lot of money, up front. To date, nobody has come up with a way to monetize dating apps in a way that doesn’t negate the benefits of the app.

Personally I’d love to see someone figure out a way to do an activitypub based dating app, where people can build small community instances funded directly by the users.
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No it doesn't bother me, actually the opposite.

I feel much more comfortable spending money, knowing that;

1. It's the banks money, I can contest any changes on my statement before any money leaves my account.
(consider paying for a bathroom renovation and the builder runs off with money or goes bust. The bank takes the hit, not me.)

2. That mass-data helps protect me, such as, abnormal usage can be queried for protentional fraud automatically.
I've never understood why I as a consumer, even as a developer, would want to get interested in RISC-V, or any architecture, since I'm not sure what, if anything, would be noticeably improved or different to me.

Unless it's for curiosity, then that makes sense to me.

The only thing Apple Silicon improved on is battery life/power consumption/thermals and yet there are lots of people who think it's better across the board despite faster x86 chips existing on the market.

I think excitement about architecture among end users is often not based in reality as the whole point of operating systems and high level languages is to abstract it all away.
By the same mechanism, Autistic people may be less likely to agree with the social group's view of an example of injustice. Especially if the wider agreement has a contagious element that oversees its facts. Instead, ASD people may be more prone to attending to injustices that they can individually percieve.
'watch this watch this' - back to the future.
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Yes, I started using it 6 months ago.

We only have one team of 5 developers.

Compared to Jira, it is not gut-wrenching terrible.

My employer's project manager left the month after I started, so I took over his overview.

I switched from Jira to GitHub Projects because I value my life as a developer.

It's not as feature rich, but that's a feature. The integration with PRs and commits is top class.

Projects can span multiple repositories, which is neat. We are mostly mono-repo, but we do have one active project using a different set of technologies.

I have one long-lived project for getting our main product ready, containing several milestones, some of which have deadlines yet to be determined, some deadlines stretching 6 months into delivery.

I use the kanban board for keeping track of what my colleagues are working on, and for measuring how much is left. I don't use the roadmap feature, because my employer has a time estimation problem right now, but it looks very neat.

I use a "tracking issue" label that just lists other issues. For example, a tracking issue for a particular customer. I really like how doing "- #123" in an issue or PR expands that into the title and an icon indicating if it was open or closed. This is just standard GitHub functionality, but it's super. Sometimes tracking issues are created from doing a customer integration test, where a failed test is converted into a task. But until they're a separate issue, they're just a bullet point in the tracking issue.

I'd like to be able to export an interactive overview of a subset of issues for customers to look at between meetings (which is possible to make with GitHub's API). But it's not strictly necessary, as screenshares / screendumps of the issue tracker is typically fine.
This struck me as so absurdly anti-social with a pinch of blatant dismissal for why certain rules in public spaces exist to begin with that it reads like you're intentionally trolling the parent in bad faith.

You know what also doesn't care about the rules of ordered society and the potentially deadly consequences of breaking them? Animals.

Disagree? Only a fool spitting into the wind would permit me to unleash my seemingly subservient Dobermann into the "reality" of instinct for just a minute while we had that hot debate in a public park. I care about its life---and the lives of peaceful strangers there to also enjoy the public space, and the lives of birds making a pitstop on a long migratory journey, and the lives of squirrels that call a resident tree home, and even your life when you decide to raise your voice in a way that may or may not be perceived as threatening---to recognize the unabashed arrogance of doing so.

That's the empathy perspective you're missing.
Think we had Encarta '95 or abouts.

I think it was a good tool. Had to uninstall it a number of times when hard drive space was low.

I remember using it for homework like History. I was luckly it provided a sentence or two. Not enough to really learn something.

Perhaps Encarta '98 onwards were much, much better.

Today, we have Wikipedia, google search/maps, assitance like Alexa and, now ChatGPT.

Imagine the next 20 years.
I believe teamspeak is also pretty popular in the milsim community due to its support for mods in games like Arma 3
That's very much in question now. I can no longer watch YouTube videos when I have an ad blocker extension installed. Instead I just get a warning that I'm violating their ToS and need to disable my ad blocker.

YouTube has been rolling this anti-feature out slowly to more people for the past few months. It will presumably hit everyone sooner or later.
I mean my Yubikey is really easy to use, on computers and with my phone. Any broad change like this is going to require an adoption phase but I think its do-able.
Ильич is a patronym (son of Ilya). Lenin's father's first name was Ilya.

It's not clear whether Иллич (pronounced differently) is related, apparently it's used as a given name in some countries, or it might be an unrelated surname, or it might be a misspelling/mistranscription of the Russian patronym. Who knows!
I'm German, but in Bogota. Famously, Germany has a strong affinity to cash, credit cards have seen a slow adoption, and the cultural aversion to debt makes them still a bit "off", though they are accepted in the majority of places. More common are bank debit cards, but every business will accept cash. It's been historically common to pay for used cars in cash, out of a mix of spending limits on cards and a paranoia that this should be a transaction of equal immediacy.

In Bogota, well, much of the country is unbanked or underbanked. You can pay ANYTHING in cash through the ubiquitous "cash payment" officies (like Pagatodo). You give them a reference number the service gave you, and cash, and they mark your bill paid. This works for a five-dollar power bill, internet bill, evenfor as a thousand-dollar flight you booked online.

There's a paypal-like phone app, Nequi, that almost every colombian has as well, far more common than credir cards. While big stores and restaurants will accept cards, a small (and not licensed) street vendor will often have a QR code to pay by Nequi. This needs no special equipment and no special permits, apparently.

There are many signs "cash only", and many signs "cash and nequi, no cards", especially in small stores.

Nequi, however, is not available to foreigners, even to those who live in Colombia with permits. Cash is everywhere.
Australia here.

Most places still accept cash, but approximately no-one uses it. Store staff almost always assume tap-to-pay, and have to cancel the transaction if you pull out cash.

Bill payment is done with a pre-authorised debit transaction, credit cards, or using an Australia-only (I think?) system called BPay. Most utilities, etc, have a BPay number, and most (all?) bank apps and websites support BPay payments.

Person-to-person payments used to require entering bank (called BSB: bank, state, branch) and account codes, and took 2 days to transfer. In the last few years there's a new system (called PayID) that uses email or phone number identifiers, and offers instant settlement.

So ... basically anything legal is now done electronically.

During COVID, many stores stopped accepting cash, and some of those never started again. At this point, it's only a small proportion, but I imagine it will grow over the next few years.

I worked on a BBQ stall at my child's school fete recently. To take electronic payments, you had to go to a different designated stall and pay for tokens, and bring them back to the BBQ stall to exchange for food. I noticed that many people carried an "emergency" $20 or $50 tucked in their phone case, and broke it out rather than do the extra steps to get tokens.

I personally withdraw a few hundred dollars every few months: one of my favourite restaurants is cash-only (very rare!) and the farmers market vendors seem to prefer cash too. But that's about the only times I use it now.
It also had other 4-color RGB modes other than magenta, cyan, white, and black, but that was the most commonly used one back in the day (even though it looked terrible IMO).

For example, here's a game (Kings Quest II) where they used the red, green, and brown palette with the background set to blue. A mode like that gave better options for color dithering since R G and B were all available, see here:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/123/kings-quest-ii-romancing-...
I agree with your logic, but I'm not sure on the conclusion

In my limited anecdotal data*, you learn to handle as much stress as your formative enviroment exposes, and the problems start when the stress ramps up too fast for a person to adapt

Which is why, for someone from a "worse" backgrounds other people "feel soft", is like comparing a strongman to an average person and expecting them to handle similar weights, but then they also tend to have other coping mechanisms, which may or may not be a net positive

*Venezuelan migrant here, I recently saw on reddit list of suicide rates by countries in LATAM, Venezuela was I believe second to lowest and it was a significant difference, even after a crisis large enough to move a population the size of Laos out of the country
Related: My European bank will ask if I actually need the plastic physical card, and unless I do, they'll just issue a virtual card to load into my phone/smartwatch.
I think as men we have a deep seated need to have a strong leader we respect. If we went into the woods and made a tribe I’d for sure want Joe Rogan or Elon Musk making the decisions. Joe Rogan gives even the village idiot a fair shake to make their point on his podcast. It’s like watching a wise king preside over court. There’s not some big gay mystery here, it’s hardwired “if we go hunting a mammoth, I want Joe Rogan leading the hunt and presiding over the feast!”.
I can see this would be appealing for some heavy Instagram users, but compared with other services it sounds a little steep.

From a quick Google: The average Netflix user spends 2 or 3 hours a day on the platform: 60-90hr/month for €8-€16. Instagram users spend 12 hours a month on the platform. YouTube premium is €12 to get rid of their much more intrusive ads, plus downloads, music etc.

https://blog.hootsuite.com/instagram-statistics
> 10. Algorithms that amplify bias, misinformation, and polarization recklessly undermine democracy.

> 50. Disrupting journalism's advertising revenue threatens democracy by eroding public information.

...so addressing point 10 would worsen point 50 or am I reading it wrong?

And honestly, this list of complaints is quite timeless (and not even limited to tech, contrary to the title). Yes, there are a couple of specifically tech-related points as of 2023 (namely, those about AI) but other than that... "the concentration of disproportionate wealth and influence among a small group fosters plutocracy", how novel. "Utopian tech promises lead to disappointment when vision ignores complex human reality" — that happened with electricity, aviation, radio, and television, too, naming only the technologies, never mind the small- and large-scale ideologically-motivated social experiments.
Understood, however they know if it worked or not, and nothing prohibits them from announcing that it worked.