skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't store much stuff, so I mostly backup to AWS S3 and Backblaze (duplicated). I use Arq on windows and mac machines, and restic on linux. Job done! I'm looking at getting a NAS soon myself and then I'll backup or save to that as needed.

If you're not storing much then it's pretty cheap. For me it's mostly just photos and important documents, it comes to no more than a few 100GB total and costs me maybe 5 USD per month if that.
Kurt Gödel in the Movies
I wouldn't doubt if there was a gullibility gene
Where do you have trouble with hundreds? I could imagine somewhere like Kansas but in any normal city that shouldn't be a problem. To be fair my niece thought it was odd that I had a few hundred in my wallet but at my age I prefer to have plenty of cash.

Oddly now that I live in Germany instead of the US, cash is more common since systems are down more often and it's not considered all that weird.
In its current state, it’s just a landing page with almost no information that links to a Google form.

I’d recommend adding more details to the landing page about what this actually is.
Dave Learns How to Fork (2021)
> Code that is no longer being touched is not done; it's dead.

Scripting code I wrote in 1998 worked in 2005 and still works today. Javascript I wrote 5 years ago, works today. Language choice matters as much as how it's executed. I assume VMware running a vm from 2008 is still running somewhere.

If it's not being executed, it's dead. There's a big difference from the "always needs to be maintained" assumption.
I would be in favour of creating a EU system and mandate it, and shops can decide to opt in into visa and mastercard if they want.

I don't see why we must pay fees to foreign companies and give them all of our data.

But the average swede doesn't care about privacy at all. We have a website where you can just look up the address of everyone.
Honestly, this sort of thing should be considered “shippable”, and the fact that it isn’t has been holding Linux back for 10+ years.

I’ve been waiting decades for a Linux distro that just buys a few commonly produced laptops that are likely to be produced for a few years, and then tests the crap out of them and applies this sort of polish.

Current gen thinkpads probably would have fit the bill for the last ~30 years, for example. I was hoping the pinebook pro would be this, but it has a few severe hardware issues (suspend battery life, DSP noise) that don’t look like they’ll be fixed. Similarly, the XPS line has the capacitor whine problem, and are based on Intel (which has been exclusively shipping power hungry hot messes for the last 10 years).

If the M[1-3] end up being the models where Linux finally gains stable support for reasonable laptop hardware, then so be it.
If you want the ability to run as much of your GitHub Actions locally as possible (which you should! Testing via pushing commits is painful) you can arrange your actions so the majority of the logic lives in shell scripts (or Python scripts or whatever) that are called by the workflow.

Then you can run those scripts locally and iterate in them before you try them on GitHub Actions.

I agree: Actions would be more useful if I could run the entire stack locally (an official implementation, not a community-maintained clone). But it's not a big enough inconvenience for me to care very much.
Sounds interesting! Would this be the Ted Koppel one? There seem to be a bunch of books called "Lights Out".
Don't forget compensating the injured party for any consequential losses. Which in this case might be a house or the income from a good job. See how fast they clean up their act if they can be held responsible for six or seven figures of damages every time they make a serious mistake.
> As another poster has said, code you no longer touch is dead

This is a poorly considered sentiment.
Barter economy is a myth. If you think that's wrong, do a mental exercise -- try to imagine how that would work in practice.

We never, as a species, had any meaningful instance of barter economies. We've had the concept of debt since before we had currency. I imagine this is what we would try to "return" to if cash disappeared, and people needed to exchange goods and services without authorities and intermediaries. This would though require a community, a social fabric -- something that has been steadily eroding for a long, long time.
What if the millions of hours drained on internet were spent in nature or doing stuff in your city ?
My strategy is just to keep the yaml to a minimum and call python scripts within the action to do anything complicated. The GHA yaml is just used for defining when the action runs, and on what architectures, etc. It's worked well for me.
People don't like accepting them because 1. It feels like a huge denomination, and with that comes fear of mishandling and counterfeits, and 2. You have to then make change... and you only have so much of that

And then on the customer's side, you're just back to carrying a bunch of 20's and 10's
Only the US has percentages that high.
Plenty of online casinos exist as well.
Shakespeare was advocating for RAII?
GHA is "good enough" (GitLab CI was/is much better IMO), and it'll likely never go away because of how dominant GitHub is.

Also, a simpler solution that takes a bit more discipline is writing all your CI tasks as scripts/makefile|justfile targets/etc and using containers to run them in GHA.

IIRC containers are a little slower than running scripts in the VM directly (more than it must necessarily be), and also cross-platform builds might be slightly more complicated...
I think my number one pet peeve of this species is that people are so strongly inclined to assume that everyone’s experience is about the same as their experience. Empathy can be such an uphill battle.
I recently saw a good video[1] covering the history and appeal of gambling machines. My takeaway is that the primary reason people play these is not because they think they're going to win money. This especially true of pachinko where "cashing out" is a convoluted process of trading balls for prizes for cash.

> If they never paid out, people would never go and the casinos would not exist

This is self evidently false based on the linked article. Random chance games that have no possibility of ever having a net payout attract tons of players and make a lot of money.

I think the problem is analyzing this with the economic "rational consumer" model of human behavior. Gambling is not rational but extremely popular because people are not rational. The whole industry is a trap that feeds users dopamine rewards in exchange for money. Once you're in, the payouts have little to do with it.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jQIHqkudgNY
It's scary how closed-source our development platforms are.

That's why building a fully-self-contained VCS, one that includes CI, is on my roadmap, but I fear the open part of our industry will fail before I finish.
Same. My local astk runner does the heavy lifting.
stupid question: can they backpedal end of the program and fix this? We need to keep as many people “housed” as possible. can we use our defense budget for it? Sounds like America is safer if vets have homes, or else why the hell would anyone join the military.
> And trading it out is not only an option, but likely the preferred outcome if you ask the majority of buyers.

I’d bet if you ask the majority of buyers they wouldn’t know and wouldn’t care.
Animal torture is highly prevalent in the world. It's even part of our mainstream supply chain from food, cosmetics, or medicine. Torture for the sole purpose of torture is what you are describing and not what I was referring to.
There was an exploit that let you access the GPT-4 vision model months before release (and this restriction) and it could do this: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1020661972322230272...
I've seen quite a few of these in Milan but they're not listed in the website so maybe there are copycats around too
For what it's worth, it's very clear to me which is better even on my iPhone's speakers (as well as on my desktop's "real" speakers, of course). Sound preferences are deeply personal, but I'm still pretty shocked GP can't tell.
Xprot was not open source. Here's a reverse engineered version from much later https://notabug.org/freemangordon/pulseaudio-nokia/src/frema... which turns out to read the ambient/battery temperature rather than coil-specific one. Kind of a similar idea, but more of a really simple precursor to what Asahi did, with no kernel level protection.
I don't know what percentage of addicts want treatment, but I understand that the treatment centers in Portland metro are very hard to get into because they are so busy.

Edit: this is an interesting podcast episode with a Congresswoman from Colorado about the problem. Her own mother was addicted to opioids and she talks about how hard it was to get treatment for her mom's addiction. Her mom wanted treatment badly and despite her being a prominent politician it was extremely hard to get the treatment. Meanwhile insurance and the government kept paying huge amounts of money the many times her mom overdosed: https://cnliberalism.org/posts/podcast-fixing-the-opioid-cri...
Yeah, the interviews with the Pepsi execs, most specifically the guy that was in charge of their marketing, were the actual most interesting part of that docuseries.
I love GitHub Actions for basic CI/CD use cases, but I agree with the criticisms that testing locally is a major pain point and coding as a YAML DSL is a minor pain point.
What benefit would there be for people to create chaos and collapse in such situations?
In Europe it's intolerable - it's much nicer in the US with 25 cents being the max denomination for a coin.
Imagine saying that about someone with any other disability- your sentiment is beyond crass
So how do I send gold to Chase, and how does my friend in Rome get receive a wire transfer in EUR?
They also added webcam support and an installer for the M2!

If the status page is to be believed, it’s getting extremely close to daily driver status for me.
Ferengi.. lol that made me chuckle.
Everything, all at once: inside a single Jeopardy clue
Cool! Sounds a bit like the weekly founder meetings that https://www.startupschool.org/ had, which were a lot of fun and very helpful.
In sweden supermarkets have coins machines, you just pour them in a hole and they get counted.
Adding an explainer now
Interesting. So, on top of, I presume, whatever DSP you get from the sound chipset/SoC, there could be other layers of DSP throughout the hardware too. That seems like a real pain in the ass, to be honest. (Though personally I'd really prefer something that protects the voice coils from overheating to be in hardware at least, if nothing else.)

(I still do genuinely wonder what's going on inside of SOF on modern Intel laptops, too. That's not separate from the chipset and I don't think it gets tuned for specific laptop acoustics. So what does that do?)
If only there were phones made by other manufacturers where the experience, which you know in advance, is different from the iPhone experience which you also know in advance! Then this wouldn’t be a monopoly!
It might be a huge dockerized stack but it does indeed run out of the box, gitlab-runner too. If I managed to run it without pain, it qualifies as "easy".
Thanks for sharing, I was unaware of dagger.io!

I'm curious now -- are there any other alternatives with similar philosophy/benefits?
The book does indeed discount barter almost entirely. In the context of human societies over millennia, it's a fringe practice at best. This is even mentioned in the wiki article.
I've been in a situation like this three times (twice in my youth and once about a year ago). Five days without any food, only water and herbal tea.

Only the first 18 hours or so are a problem (depending on your eating habits) day 3-5 are the best, because your mind is really clean and you don't feel any usual discomforts from eating late or eating something you shouldn't.

You do feel light and weak of course and I'd recommed avoding any hard work but otherwise 3-5 days without food is completely fine (assuming you don't have any conditions that require a stable intake of food).
Laws, rules are enacted regarding those things all the time. A soda tax to stop kids from getting fat, driving under the influence is a crime.....

As with everything else on this planet, it's all about moderation and the ones that can't help themselves, fuck it up for everyone else.
> Uh? Where did they not accept cash?

When I was in Stockholm and Uppsala in 2019, all supermarkets I visited had signs posted saying that they do not accept cash. Around the same time I read an article from an American newspaper (New York Times?) about how, for example, even Swedes selling coffee at events could easily get payment terminals and no longer wanted to take cash.
> starting with an empty program and adding instructions till it correctly implements the programmers program

This would require an algorithm to check if the output program and input program have identical behavior. However, this is impossible as per Rice's theorem.
If you have a name, address, and phone number associated with a customer account, then you have collected PII. Good luck avoiding that.

User tracking actually requires linking to associate online activities with user personas. Anonymization systems are designed to break linking.
It's a terrible way to uniquely identify a person; it was never designed as such. For instance, there aren't nearly enough of them – they get re-issued all the time.
Statements like these make it hard not to discount the whole article:

> By their nature, fiat currencies are manipulatable.

Like it's some kind of big revelation, when it's basic AP macroeconomics monetary policy.
I mean, I think Naughty Old Mr Car has a clear incentive not to do that. Imagine what would happen to Tesla’s share price. He’d be margin called within hours.

It might take a while to grind through the courts and regulators, but the outcome would be obvious, and the markets would see that.
EU CRA and the Open Source Ecosystem: Make Industry Pay
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Maybe try asking it to list what's in each square before giving the final answer
And someone living in Columbia or Peru, which is approx same timezone as Missouri, who make literally 1/10th the wage of someone in Missouri … now has the ability to get your job.

Be careful for what you wish for, is all I’m saying.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_countries_b...
I think it has little to do with earning money. That's just the hook. It's a human condition/disease. Just like the hoarders. You need to experience addiction first hand to understand it, be it video games, smoking, collecting useless stuff, or just any kind of addiction.
Tracer Structured tracing log library for Godot
You never got momoney back from pacman yet people spent a lot of money on video games.
Artists Can Fight Back Against AI by Killing Art Generators from the Inside
I will take this moment to plug Landscape's Anonymous Founders community - https://www.landscape.vc/community

Great signal to noise ratio in my experience.
Isn't this normal enough?

https://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=co...

Good enough when placed against many UNIX windows managers, or the developer beloved Plan 9 and Inferno GUIs.

It failed because like Xerox, it stayed mostly inside ETHZ walls, a few European universities and zero industry interest, too much focused on building UNIX clones.
The reason I think users don't mind Apple's control of their devices is that the reality is that users don't control devices, programmers do. Also, security requires constant updates and updates cost money, so it's not realistic to use a device for a decade, because you won't have security updates from any company at that point. Apple has better updates over time, which is reflected in it's higher resale values.

So on my iPhone, I feel that Apple protects us from bad programmers for the most part, because if you look at Android and the lower quality of many of their apps and the way large tech companies run over the users by installing spyware on their devices, but Apple to some extent is protecting us from Facebook and Google and keeping us more in control of our devices, by limiting which applications can be run on them.
It's not at all difficult to find open, unbiased, independent information about China. You could apply for a visa right now, travel there, and talk to people yourself. It's not difficult. This isn't the Mao era any more.
Absolutely. Well played on his part.
> Defining a language to run scripts in parallel with some constraints is actually quite easy if you just pass the script to an existing interpreter and let the language mainly deal with the constraints around order and parallelism (and code reuse)

Isn't this Make?
Places don’t like to accept them.

- buy a pack of gum with a counterfeit $100, get 98 real dollars back

- even with legit currency, it can throw off the drawer. Business might have a policy for cashiers to never have more than, say, $200 in the drawer. Force half of that to be your $100, and now the cashier has crippled change-making ability. Business have this policy to make them less tempting to rob and limit the damage if they are.
After my phone was stolen (it went missing after a move and it was renamed) and I was able to to remote wipe and disable it, I am 100% okay with it.
Poorly phrased. You mean casinos wouldn't exist if the expected winnings were positive (or more precisely, not negative enough to offset their fixed costs of rental, maintenance, and salaries).
Github Actions gives me literally free server time across an extremely wide range of OS'es that I dont have to worry about at all, including Windows and OSX, which I therefore dont have to deal with in any way, buy any license keys, none of that. It's nothing short of miraculous for us as it's how Python projects can have binary wheel files for dozens of OSes and Python versions: https://pypi.org/project/SQLAlchemy/#files . This task remained impossible for years (to be clear: because I don't have a server farm, or Windows licenses, or however you'd run OSX on a headless server, or any kind of resources to fund / manage dozens of images and keep them running, or any of that) until GH Actions made it possible.

Now is this all part of Microsoft's evil plan ? It probably is! But unless someone else wants to give me a free server farm that includes Windows / OSX up and running without me paying anything / writing containers / storing images / etc. I dont see this aspect of Github actions losing any popularity.
Translation: Tesla thinks the quality of the Cybertruck is going to be terrible.
> Sadly, I feel like SR can only really be "understood" as a complete theory. All the individual phenomena (time dilation, length contraction, relativity of simultaneity, constant speed of light etc.) are very hard to understand, because you cannot just take one of them and add it to classical relativity without immediately running into paradoxes.

This is because you implicily used the (wrong) postulate that "phenomena of special relativity can be iteratively added to a a lassical description of a non-relativistic theory".
It isn't really viable as a carbon capture measure, and there's been a lot of research in recent years to show that decades of tree planting campaigns across the world have very often failed outright or--in some cases--been a net negative to communities, ecosystems and forest coverage, and/or atmospheric carbon levels.

Saplings are cheap. That's why planting trees is such an appealing "solution." All of the math is based on the assumption that the saplings survive until they can mature and start sucking in carbon. Most don't; one study found mean mortality rates of 44% after five years over 176 sites in tropical and sub-tropical Asia[0]. A Turkish effort saw over 90% of 11 million trees dead in under a year.[1] Other studies have found similarly horrible numbers, and that's not including the other ways[2] such projects can fail: degradation of grassland ecosystems that were already highly effective carbon sinks[3], decreased biodiversity, increased fire risks with non-native saplings, cultural and economic losses, etc.

There are wildly successful reforestation projects, but they take considerably more investment, local community support, and active long-term monitoring and intervention.[4] All of which undercut what originally made mass tree planting so appealing as a climate solution: the seemingly cheap cost.

We absolutely need to plant trees, both in urban environments because the quality of life benefits of urban trees are so numerous that it's an absolute no-brainer and as part of wider reforestation efforts, but it's never going to be a silver bullet for climate change. It's just one of many, many things we need to do.

0. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2021.009...

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/most-of-11m-tr...

2. https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22679378/tree-planting-for...

3. https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22662490/grasslands-better...

4. https://www.science.org/content/article/reforestation-means-...
This site is one of the building blocs that Graham Hancock uses to paint an alternate prehistory, involving a forgotten antediluvian civilization that was supposedly responsible for transmitting esoteric seeds of civilization to such disparate places as North America, Mesopotamia, Central America, Polynesia, Indonesia and more. He builds on older, fantastical stories about Atlantis, the lost continent of MU and others and has quite a following.

He is most certainly wrong about most of it. But the notion that prehistory still holds a lot of amazing things waiting to be discovered, much of it buried deep in the oceans after the sea rise that occurred after the glaciers of the last ice age melted away just 10.000 years ago or so is most probably true.
Local actions can be defined with a dockerfile. I haven’t used this approach extensively, but it seems like a simple way to use actions while also removing significant dependence on the platform.
Compensating physical limitations to create a neutral sounds profile is useful regardless of the size of the speaker.

I have a custom-made subwoofer that can hit 12Hz (measured), and creating a DSP profile to compensate for my room + speaker acoustics has significantly improved the listening experience.[1][2]

[1] https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/beocreate-4-channel-am...
[2] https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-dsp/blob/master/doc/r...
Yes, and in the process, contribute to Nvidia’s monopoly.
Can't these security mitigations be disabled if you are willing to endure the increased security risk ?

(Though an hardware switch would be better for these.)
Although this has nothing to do with tech, being an engineer, I couldn't help but mentally deconstruct what it's like to answer a single Jeopardy clue, from my experience of playing 3 matches. I decided to take some time to organize those thoughts into a post. Hope it's the sort of thing folks here would enjoy.
When I had a credit card I couldn't stop using it even pass my limit. Credit cards work when you have self-control and to many who don't it's a wreck of your life.

If you have a credit card and then suddenly made redundant then what? They all good and fun when you have an income but as soon as you loose that, your screwed.

At least with debit it's real time and that if you need that extra in a pinch, setup an overdraft.

Credit cards are form of evil and I'll stand by that.
It is regulated at least in a number of countries.

In France for instance, only certified operators are legally allowed to run online money games (https://www.economie.gouv.fr/cedef/jeux-et-paris-ligne).

It is just as dangerous as « regular gambling ».