skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Emacs for editing computer programs (and version control, some documentation, etc), as a calculator, and for interacting with R via orgmode. I don’t use it for reading email, editing other documents (gdocs, wiki, jira, etc), browsing the web, or even interacting with shells (I might call sort from Emacs but I don’t use shell-mode or similar.
Or denylist/allowlist to abandon that outdated language.
The most notable hardware of the original iPods were they took a gamble during design on soon to be released high capacity 1.8 inch hard drives. Before that MP3 players were either low capacity flash based like the Rio (I remember having one with just 64MB!) or monstrous discman sized devices running 2.5 or 3.5 inch platters like the Nomad.
Okay but the problem to be solved here isn’t analogous. In the case you described, they’re uninsurable be used they’re legitimately high risk, and the government forces their insurance as a favor/pity/charity.

In the case of adult entertainment etc, the government’s regulation has cause the risk, and that untouchability, so it can’t then endorse the very interaction it was banning. If it could permit these businesses to use banking, then the solution wouldn’t be necessary in the first place.
Awful big "ifs" in that second sentence ... "if this continues" ... "if it continues further"

"Volatility is steadily going down" ... it IS?! Everything I see shows it as volatile as ever

Gold is continually minable (to some indefinite future point when it's not ... but that is an awful long way in the future)

Bitcoin will max-out at 21m coins (a notable number of which are gone forever (including 5 or 6 I had when it was only "worth" fractions of a cent))

Building an economic base/standard on something that is not fixed in nature is, IMHO, a far better system than basing it on something that is either fixed or quasi-fixed (eg gold/silver)
The term "flexible economy" makes me feel sick.

Flexibility in the economy only creates flexibility for those at the _very_ top. It creates potential instability for literally everybody else.
If Bitcoin or Ethereum or any kind of cryptocurrency achieves mass adoption, why would there not be a block list of “known bad addresses” that would flag your wallet and the grocery store would refuse to transact with you?

Governments, corporations, and individuals would all want to have guardrails in place to prevent fraud and abuse. Let alone, any kind of attempt at controlling transactions to terrorist organizations or sanctioned individuals.

You and I could certainly transact privately but if your wallet address was flagged, I would need to do so using a separate private wallet address and never transfer funds to or from that to my wallet address that I use with my employer or the store. Maintaining perfect opsec forever to never link those addresses lest the big bad government flags me.

So why wouldn’t they have the same systems in place that they have today if we were on Bitcoins instead of dollars? And if the issue is bad governance, why would we even need bitcoin? It’s clear the solution is fixing the government and corporations.
> You don’t think, for example, that most people would think it’s a bad idea to write software to facilitate showing teenagers unattainable and more desirable versions of them selves?

That ship sailed with the invention of the printing press. This conversation happened in the fashion industry with publications like Cosmopolitan long long ago.

The difference is in fashion magazine it is editors who choose what to project. With apps, it is teenagers themselves who create versions of themselves because kids compare themselves to others and it gets very clique - the apps aren't the problem per se, it is human behavior that is buggy and that is the real thing to fix because the next thing will come around that feeds off of the same suboptimal pathways in our brains, whether it is designed intentionally to make money or not.
There was a uranium enrichment plant in the south of France that was colocated with a nuclear power plant. It consumed 3/4th of its power output—2.7 gigawatts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricastin_Nuclear_Power_Plant

- "Three out of four reactors were used for powering the Eurodif Uranium enrichment factory until 2012, the year that Eurodif was closed."
I wonder why we don't see datacenters in places with "infinite" potential for electricity generation in cold climates like Iceland. If your workload isn't sensitive to external network latency (you're just crunching numbers or doing long running computation in data you can move there at a normal pace), that sounds very cheap.
For a long time, Chromecasts didn't run Android and Fire Sticks did (and they were cheaper and easier to buy).
Elixir may not be statically typed, but at least it isn’t object-oriented.
You work to get paid so that you can use the money to make the world a more pleasant place to live in. The pay is really the secondary thing once the scales fall from your eyes. This holds true at all levels of society.

"Sucking the company dry" is a really shortsighted way to optimize for your own best life. You're going to have a better life if you use your resources to actually accomplish something that contributes.
The older I get the less I care.

I do want to live old enough for my kids to become self sufficient adults. So yes 1000 sounds about right.
Self promotion moment:

If you enjoy the Result/Either type and API in Rust, I made this project just for this: https://github.com/linkdd/rustic_result

I also made https://github.com/linkdd/rustic_maybe/tree/main for an Option/Maybe type.

NB: Those are not types, but I'm waiting for set theoretic types to update those libs :)
It looks like all the left-leaning porn posters have moved to BlueSky (to the point the main feed was unusable, last I checked).
Is the NFL making progress in tackling its concussion crisis?
> where the workers are prohibited from painting your cars

It is not like this is a fact of life which is outside of tesla's control. All they need to do is agree on a collective agreement and their troubles go away.

Their refusal to even negotiate is the source of their problem. "When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do" When in Sweden....
I agree about ad-injection and data collection, but if they wanted to prevent side-loading they would have done it by now, at least via the main route, which is the Downloader app they seem to have no problem hosting in their app store

Amazon doesn't have much to lose from allowing you to install x piracy app, in fact it's a selling point for a lot of people. yes a few people might not subscribe to prime, but I would be surprised if that outweighs the ad revenue and device sales
> If you don't want to buy crypto, don't? I don't need a middle man for that.

I already don’t! But I also want my parents to be safe from the modern day equivalent of tech support scam, and good to see that some banks are being proactive about it.
I pay, indirectly, for deposit insurance and bail outs.
> I mean, the US could have Europe by the balls if it wants to. How much does it cost you all if we pull out of NATO? (I know Sweden is not in NATO.)

Why would the USA want to remove one of its most effective soft power levers in the global scale? For Tesla? Lol.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38190600
Would GDPR actually do anything in this situation?

From what I understand the data the car acquires is not being sent anywhere. It just gets uploaded to the car and is used to speed up operations that would be slow if the car had to talk to the phone over Bluetooth when it needed the data.

The car vendor is not processing your data. They are selling you a device that processes your data. I'd have guessed then that you are the controller for this data processing and so you are the one responsible for GDPR compliance.

In the case of a rental car, I'd have guessed that the rental company is the controller, and their GDPR obligation would be to tell you that the car caches data if you pair your phone with it and for them to erase that data when you return the car.
if they wanted to prevent side-loading, why do they allow it via a free app in their app store?
Something I think helps it, is it has the allure of re-writing a project from scratch, thinking about your mistakes ahead of time, and lacking most of the technical debt.

This isn't to say it lacks any technical debt, but that the language feels very transparent and thoughtful. Contrary to say, a language built by a big company(.NET, Go) or built by strong opinions(Python). Rust in comparison feels modest in its delivery but ambitious in its design.

Its terrible reasoning for picking a language to write a project in, but Rust feels trustworthy I think.
I’ve wondered that too, and earthquakes/eruptions is my guess. They are more prevalent and unpredictable where geothermal power is available.
> Why is x11 so backwards?

Because it was built in a different time. Back in the 80s and early 90s, X11 provided a way for institutions and companies to mix-and-match their hardware and software environments, each with different capabilities. They would have big iron running expensive software and cheap(er) terminals that could display those applications across a campus.

In a university environment, before there was a PC and network in every dorm room, before laptops were a thing, this was awesome. You could walk up to any workstation or X11 terminal on campus, and immediately have access to all of your applications, files, and everything else. And when PCs and networking came to the dorms, you could get an X server for your PC and do the same.

But those days are long past; the networking use case, which was one of the most important aspects of X11, is pretty much no longer relevant. It's really surprising that Wayland still hasn't completely taken over, and they still haven't figured out how to handle certain interprocess communication that would allow screen sharing and other common desktop functionality.
I want to live forever

But this world is incredibly broken - and extending lifespans (without the attendant expansion in birthing years, etc) can only create a self-collapsing system
Cyber Attack Forces Biggest Bank to Trade via USB Stick
More tech job layoffs announced at Google, Amazon, and Snap
Probably more than 1/5.
For those who feel this way, the best solution is to partner with companies who don't take this approach. For example, Hugging Face.

It's an easy fix.....don't be a part of that ecosystem. There are plenty of open alternatives.
Wikipedia is using the US meaning of the word for some reason.

I'm don't think translating "firskola" to UK English as "charter school" would be correct, just like no one uses the term "charter school" to refer to institutions in the UK.
Looks cool! Why didn’t previous email finders include verification?
That's nice ... today

No benefit for those of us who lost coins early on when it looked like a goofy fad
Live how? Like today’s healthy 60 year olds: yes. Like today’s unhealthy 100 year old’s: probably not. Certainly, I’d prefer 500 years like today’s 60 year olds over that.

Quality beats quantity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year)
Hey, don't diss cryptocurrencies like that! They're not only good for pedestrian crimes like drug dealing and money laundering, cryptocurrency is the the currency of choice for the sophisticated criminal - the ransomware operator, the tax dodger, and the sanctions evader love it!
Unity Likely to Reduce Workforce, Drop Services and Reduce Offices in Q4 2023
That’s a lot of wrong information in such a short post

I assume you’re referring to the RMT /deputy/ leader. And just one person, not plural

And it’s not a six figure salary. Just over six if you consider total comp
$(nproc) as the value might work. (On Linux)
> it is a source of perverse pleasure to me at how hard the governments of the world are having to work to try and contain it.

Do you also take perverse pleasure at environmental pollution and how hard everyone has to work to contain it? What about road accidents?
I am generally against crypto (although was 'for' it 10 years ago). But I wouldn't be happy if my bank did this unless they also put in place similar restrictions, presumably for 'my own good', on transferring money to online gambling apps. I see too many advertisements for online gambling that I'm quite disgusted by it.

The only justifiable rationale for blocking such transactions, IMO, is to try to help your customers from being scammed or, more broadly, putting themselves into a precarious financial situation. Hence why they should have similar blocks on gambling.

But really, where I transfer my money is not the bank's business, and they often offer their own products that would allow people to put themselves into a bad financial position, e.g., trading on margin. So it comes off less as 'this is for your own good' and more as 'we will not allow you to engage in what we see as our competition.'
Sorry - my european centric view might have skewed my argument a bit. I have never seen a tipping jar in a shop in Europe
Marc Andreessen on AI Copyright Issues: But What About Muh Money?
A bank's misuse of money is carefully hidden, covered with a generations-old veneer. Read about the last three bank system crisis with the London-New York system in dollars.. there are dozens of good books about it. Decide for yourself who you want to do business with..
> It's handy to have a list of banks I can trust to not do anything stupid with the money.

That would be a list of banks that never - auth funds to dodgy looking overseas entities but will still lock your card for getting gas 4 counties away.

A list of banks that never did that would be meaningfully helpful. Alas, no helpful lists.
In many ways it’s actually the other way around: If you already are a millionaire then the Nordic countries are wonderful places to live. But if you’re not, but young, talented and ambitious, then the US is the place to be.
I use permit/reject since they have the same number of letters - lines up nice.
Right, I think a good takeaway is: In extreme cases of anything, you are likely to want to get doctor input -- but presently "seeing the doctor" is in no way a guarantee of anything?

More like, do your homework on whatever it that's wrong with you. Often, a doctor's input is very helpful, but that too comes with limitations and caveats.
Happy to oblige: https://github.com/Frizlab/BanksAgainstBitcoin
What I'm trying to say is, to me, that just generally sounds like a pretty large share of adult content no matter how you shake it. I could be over-estimating, but I'd assume it outpaces all of the other major social media platforms and most websites of similar magnitude in general that do allow pornographic content but are not explicitly porn sites.
You are absolutely right. It's a collective action problem in extremely large cohorts (regional/national populations). As such, it can probably only be realistically solved by legislation banning the practice. Individual action on the issue is ineffective and victimizes the wrong parties.

The good news (?) is that tipping in the US has strange sociological effects that make it a good target for legislation. It has been found that various groups are more or less likely to A) leave a tip and B) receive a tip. That makes it pretty clearly a discriminatory practice.
Spark does the same thing. Infact, many email clients do this, so you may want to read the fine print before using them.
This has nothing to do with protecting customers from scams but everything with US pushed extreme AML policies and laws. The banks have to show the money trail and they worry the can’t with crypto so they just block it so they can tick regulatory boxes while shitting all over their customers. It’s very much not a good thing or because of you, the dear client.

No one cares until their account gets randomly closed without recourse.
It was not obvious to me this was talking about a company called Nordic Semiconductor, and not "The Nordic" as in the Nordic countries.
If I'm being honest, if searching for keys is enough to effect my productivity where people notice, that company is not a place I want to work.
Oh now I understand what this is. Swedish have a standard of how fast you work MTM and others have as well. I bet Tesla doesn't want to follow that and want people to work much faster.

So, some average speed of worked might be MTM 90-100, but in Sweden is like 70, because studies show they get injured much less. And if you see videos of workers, they appear to work like in slow motion.

This might be one of things they have dispute about.
You were never able to do what you want with your money after you've given custody to a bank. For example, try taking it back...
You could argue advertisement does the same.
Correct. The secret room would appear at levels 20, 30, and 40 if you didn’t lose a life.

I watched a video last night about how the special items are calculated. Blew my mind- I thought it was random.

https://youtu.be/8ufe9swEtzg
It seems very odd that the government would dictate four consecutive weeks at that time of year. Why do they get to decide when you should work or take the bulk of your holiday?
As far as I understood, they are using Gradle as back-end only to test the idea. If it works as intended, Gradle would be replaced by a new build tool.
This question, module 2:

How would I extract the character s using indexing?

Doesn't have a correct answer even if you select then all in turn. It seems to have a spurious ' on the last item which I believe is supposed to be correct based on the text feedback.
Pretty sure the person filing lawsuits would try and stop you
Which (the outdated language) is the language that 99% of the english speaking world still use and which was fine until 5 minutes ago.
Because as a society we have been taught that trade work is not worth doing. One of the things you just said is what I always hear. I had an uncle quit a high paying job at Apple to become an apprentice plumber. Within 5 years he was making just as much and loved his job and wished he had done it earlier. The Apple job was 'too much stress' and 'when I leave a job site that work will be done or done within the next day or so'. He retired in his late 60s doing it.

Not all trade work is swinging a hammer or lugging huge things around (what we have been sold). Most of it is fit and trim work. Fiddly work where you are making sure that wire is lined up just right to fit in this wall or knowing where to put the pressure hose. Yeah swinging the hammer work and lugging stuff around is how you get started. You 'put in your dues'. It is a form of hazing. Sort of how we give interns the 'build this weird form that no one will ever use' work.

I know the trades guys are doing decent. The ones I see are driving around in brand new f150s (go look at the prices on them). As scarcity for their work is driving up prices. I can put up a job opening for a programmer and have 200+ applicants. Do you think the trades are getting lots of people asking to do this work? No it is seen as 'low class work'.
Smells like leverage for the next time they renew their ARM license.
Emails reveal Amazon and Google tap friends in government to influence policies
I agree with that, I'm just pointing out that ESB is a mainstay of SOA but not microservices. The idea that SOA and microservices is the same is a common misconception borne from the idea that SOA is a generic pattern rather than a specific architectural philosophy.
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2
Thank you, this is a Fantastic resource.

Once it more fully built out, I can talk to my parents about moving all their assets to one of these banks.

They are already on the receiving end of scams and their bank stopped a fraudulent transfer to someone claiming to be my brother.

Last thing I want is them sending their money to some unrecoverable crypto scammer.
I don't want my bank to decline my debit card when I have the funds. But I appreciate that they do it as a measure to evade fraud, because I've had that kind of fraud perpetrated on me and, prior to that, it was easy to imagine that it could happen. So a little friction in my transactions is a cost not a benefit of my banking. But the benefit I get from that cost is fraud protection.

Same thing applies here. If crypto were, on a measure, as fraudulent as it was not, then this might be heavy-handed. But as it is currently the source of more fraudulent activity, at least as it concerns these banks, than forthright activity, I'm happy for my bank to toll the cost of preventing crypto financial exchanging, for the benefit of fraud protection.

YMMV, of course. Different strokes for different folks. But, like the parent commenter, I'm happy with how my bank purports to handle crypto transactions.
Are we allowed to use "blacklist" again?

I was hoping the pendulum would swing back to sanity on this.
Much the opposite, just this week Klarna had to sign a collective bargaining agreement after unions threatened to strike, quite a first for a big tech company here.

The labour market in Sweden cannot exist without unions, the government does not meddle much in the market, it does not set even a minimum wage, it's all part of negotiations between employers and employees (represented by unions).

Unions are essential for the self-regulation of the labour market between its participants over here.
I recently bought a surface 5 for my parents, who need a windows machine for their accounting software.

My initial impression was, this is pretty cool.
They’ve replicated to Apple unboxing experience, and it even tries to do a passable job of the Mac startup and setup experience.

Until:

- I can’t log in without a Microsoft account (apparently you can remove this later, but I still haven’t worked out how to do it, and I’m not about to set my parents up with another email/password combo, so they’re using mine to start

- it asks for a keyboard locale, which then relocated the @ symbol somewhere totally bizarre (why it would allow this instead of forcing the keyboard it is installed with is beyond me, and I just chose UK vs USA, as I am used to this choice being more important for autocorrect and AUS spelling is more UK than US. No - apparently there are a bunch of keyboard layout differences that will then mean you need to google in an external device to work out why the @ symbol has moved, which means you can’t log in with your Microsoft account

- there’s 45 minutes of software updates

- ‘New’ outlook is the default choice. My parents use Google workspaces. The message informing me that all their email would be mirrored on Microsoft servers was horrifying. It took me an hour to determine it still had ‘old’ outlook installed but it was not default.

- I was continually horrified at how it tried to sell me things or inject ads or data or news feeds into every component of the operating system

Bottom line, it’s going back to the store. It’s nice that in their move to compete with Apple they’ve also introduced a 60 day no questions return policy.
Regardless of how you feel about crypto (I have never been a fan), the fact that banks and credit card companies have become non-elected dictators regulating all of global commerce should be alarming to you.

A banking license, granted by the government, is quite literally a license to print money via the fractional reserve system.

If we're granting you a license to print money, you cease to be a private business who can choose your customers. You are a provider of government infrastructure, and should not be allowed to block any commerce that hasn't been declared illegal by legislation created by our elected representatives.
Did you just match the order of the previous poster, associating the word "deny" with a prefix that has been used to harass and marginalize society's most vulnerable for hundreds of years?

How dare you?
Funny how Brooks’ Law is still something people are learning: “ And counter-intuitively, adding more people to an early-stage project doesn't make it go faster.”
While no country comes close to USA Finland does have a lot of guns.