skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering [pdf]
> Invest in America, Live in Europe

France looks to be a darker and darker place with all sorts of civil unrest every six months or so (the last time was in June 2023, and it felt like a civil war had started). Now the current agri-food industry runs a soft civil unrest yet it could degenerate quickly as Macron's many governments are showering people with promises of money while they have none (France is set to borrow in 2024 as much as it will earn through taxes.
A browser full of dark patterns is not an excellent browser.
Pkl was built using the GraalVM Truffle framework. So it supports runtime compilation using Futamura Projections. We have been working with Apple on this for a while, and I am quite happy that we can finally read the sources!

https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle

Disclaimer: graalvm dev here.

Edit: typo
Anedoctaly, just last month, my APC UPS started complaining that the battery was dead.

I bought a 3rd party battery replacement (12V), opened the unit (which is not made easy by APC) and was getting ready to replace the batteries, when I measured the current and it was 12.5V. The replacement one, measured 12.3V

I still have no idea why it's complaining the battery is going bad.
> Honestly, when is cash faster?

Try to give a random person $100. Can they accept credit cards? Unlikely. Do they have the random cash app installed you use? Maybe. Do they have a bank account? Depends on where you live, and it could take days, and you have to bring long numbers with you and input them into your banking app.

Or simply turn off the internet.
Currently in China which is pretty much fully cashless and I fucking hate it.

Get Alipay. Link your credit card. Put in a pin, but no not that pin because it has two consecutive numbers. Pick a different pin. Forget it by the time you need to pay and reset your pin. Go to the grocery store and have to download a new app to pay, they can’t take Alipay even though it’s the same parent company. Oh the machine didn’t work, so pull your phone out again to scan. And the endless additional services you need to sign up for to avoid price discrimination upwards of 200%.

It’s a nightmare. Japan has it right, keeping with a cash based society.
Yes and no. First it should be a German Miele. But in general, new Mieles aren’t as good as old ones. Across the board. Washers, dryers, dishwashers. The only benefit they offer is energy efficiency (at least based on brochures). If I had to buy again, I would opt for second hand refurbished Miele/Bosch/Siemens with at least 10 years of age. Where I live there are lots of second hand shops that even offer warranty.

Our fridge however is Japanese Panasonic. Not a common choice in Europe but it’s been great so far. Zero maintenance. No frost. Has some minimal digital control but we don’t touch it. YMMV.
The universe and unfriendly monsters are eating up all your accessible apples.

And that pleases me.

Because you're forced to turn into a monster yourself. If you don't want to starve and die.

So a little skilled zealotry is kinda essential. ;) So is probably persuading and selling others to your side. So that you can form a competent party of universe survival enthusiasts.
Throwing Carl a bone just meant another delicious episode in the stew of his career.
Teddy Roosevelt as president tried to put this in place in the US once a upon a time too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board#:~....
Sorry for being off topic, but just tried powertoys based on your post, and holy cow! What an amazing piece of software. I particularly like the file unlocker feature, and the Windows implementation of Quick Look.
What if people don't like Perl for real reasons and not just because of knee-jerk taboo?

I've actually written a few Perl programs and I really did not enjoy the experience at all.

Its regex engine has good Unicode support, if you can figure out how to enable it. I'll give it that.
What advantages does Turing-completeness provide for a configuration language?
Man, you can't even post a comment in the article without knowing how to edit a wiki yourself.
We already have this. It's called bitcoin. For offline payments, there's physical devices like opendime and potentially Chaumian mints like cashu.
> I am fairly convinced that using cash will slowly be labeled as a "criminal" activity and gradually shamed into non-use by regular people.

Of course. The only people who need cash are criminals and terrorists. Now move along citizen.
I have to agree with this. Stating that cash is more convenient is just false. It might be more familiar to some, or more culturally accepted, but saying it's more convenient than just touching the machine with your card or phone - outright false.

That's all completely separate from the fact that cashless payments shift immensely shifts the power balance and takes away all of your payment privacy - irreversibly.
Is printing tons of physical money solving problems people actually have either or is it just increasing costs from having to manufacture, transport, secure, etc physical money.
Jsonschema is still json and yaml is absolutely not comfortable to work with. It’s only enough for simple configs. As soon as you have the urge to use a template you should replace it with something else.
The Amiga was such an impressive computer for its time. I remember having an A500 when it was still fairly new, and compared to anything else out there it was way ahead in terms of graphics and sound. I had mine hooked up to an old amp and big speakers, and the sound that came out of this thing was amazing. Graphics were so colourful and fast scrolling too. It’s amazing to think that the Amiga series is only one generation newer than the Commodore 64/128. There were also a lot of good games for it, so the game developer community must have embraced it too.
"If we had a comprehensive public transit network, then only the people who need to drive would do so. Then you could raise the licensing requirements."

That's not a prerequisite for raising licensing requirements. In fact, claims tend to be highest in major cities that do have public transportation networks. So the people most likely to lose their license are more likely to have access to public transit.

Pedestrian and bike deaths are an extremely small percentage of road fatalities and injuries. If you want to make an impact on insurance cost through reduced claims, you need to take another action. Higher quality drivers through more stringent education and testing is the most comprehensive way to do that with the lowest infrastructure cost.

Note that not everyone would lose thier license. Many of the people involved in accidents today are ignorant and could be brought up to a possible level with better training.
It's becoming more common but for someone like my housekeeper, I may not even be home and can just leave a check on the counter. As I say, I could doubtless make alternative arrangements but a check is the default and it's easy.
Lol, I actually experienced something similar in Australia recently trying to sell second hand goods.

Of course I asked for payment in cash, which the buyers duelly provided.

But it occurred to me as I observed the new $50 notes in my hand, which were of a new design that I'd never seen before that it had actually been so long since i'd handled physical currency that I wasn't really sure whether the notes in my hand were legitimate designs or not.
I was given a chequebook when I opened my current bank account in 2004, I've written 8, all of them in the first 10 years.
Well I suppose that's what I'm asking, is that the case? I'm not aware of other projects that have a separate plug-in due to LSP shortcomings, so just interested if there is something they're doing that's not possible/won't be in the LSP one.
This is preposterous. Bitcoin is more traceable, more transparent and more censorship prone than every form of currency conveyance we know of including cash, diamonds, physical gold, etc… The fact that’s 2024 and some people still believe Bitcoin enables privacy just goes to show how crypto enthusiasts are candy brained fanatics.
Writing raw JSON is very error prone and you have to repeat yourself a lot. I think everyone who has worked with it has had some surprises, I certainly have.

Similar to why do we write Python instead of assembly, or why do relational databases typically have things like datatypes and constraints?
Link here is borked but the post is still there on Reddit. Here’s better links:

1. The screenshot submitted: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs...

2. The discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1ahbzje/okta_layo...
Could you do this with fibers that are also in use for communications?

It makes sense that if you tune your transmitter/receiver to squeeze absolutely as much data as you can through a fiber, the results will be very sensitive to the conditions along that fiber. So, monitoring the error rate should give you precise information about the fiber's characteristics.
Aren't the phone payments backed by credit cards or do they by preloaded vouchers?
Perhaps so. But they're too late the damage has been done. Unfortunately, they should have acted 30+ years ago. The need to regulate back then was just as obvious as it is now.
No C library sounds like a purposeful omission to slow down third party integrations.
(Since when is privacy a right? Just curious. I always saw it as a privilege. Having my room with my bed to sleep in.)
> Building modernized VoIP-based landlines that still offer the 48V analog POTS interface would be phenomenally expensive

Not sure about that, this was done for the whole German phone network a couple of years ago. People can still have their analog phone directly connected to the socket in their house but now their call will be a VoIP call. Not sure where the transition from the analog signal to VoIP happens, but I guess it's a the end of the customers copper line.
>I can barely enjoy a full day without being required to bring my phone / debit card with me because the register does not accept cash.

But how do you get a regular re-supply of your cash to pay the places that take cash?

For me, I would have to make a regular trips to the bank ATM machine to withdraw cash. That type of errand is inconvenient which is why I haven't done that in 15 years. It's been so long that I don't even know what my secret PIN code is to withdraw cash. I pay for everything by credit-card.

I can see where bringing a debit card can be inconvenient but the alternative of ATM withdrawals is inconvenient too (and also vulnerable to physical loss/theft).
Do we have some comparison with energy consumption by banks?
"Efficient" use is using 2% of all energy just to do 7 transactions a second and allow people to speculate?
When I was visiting China in 2019 it was just about still possible to use cash, but it was obvious the way things were going. As a visitor I wasn't able to use any of the available cashless payment methods (no bank account, for a start), so I don't know how visitors and tourists will cope.
If it was just one I would have assumed the same, but Intellij, VSCode, and Neovim..?
Anytime a show/movie/etc makes a joke about “How much do you have?”/“That’s exactly how much X costs!” I think back to his character.
Bitcoin is getting better all the time. There are more people focusing purely on payments in the bitcoin space than you think. The lightning network is halfway usable now, and federated mint type systems (like cashu[1]) are very promising.

[1]: https://docs.cashu.space
Ubuntu Touch has nothing of value in its app store. Even the mail client sucks completely.
But if the cray government(s) wanted to, they could prevent you from turning that BTC into fiat and vice versa.
For Firefox Desktop, just create a bookmark with your search URL and assign a keyword to it, e.g.

URL: https://api.hackertarget.com/geoip/?q=%s
Keyword: @geoip

...then Alt+D and queue off the keyword directly from address bar.
That would not work at all in many countries. There are some with a strong attachment to cash.
That's not for building.
source: just trust me bro
Assuming they (or someone else) owned the notes, yes. By reducing their own holdings, they raised the value of everyone else's.

If the notes were counterfeit or had otherwise managed to come into existence without being owned by anyone, then no.
In the US, we have $100 and $50 bills officially in circulation, but many places will refuse to take them as payment, even though they will take smaller denominations. I believe this is usually described as avoiding counterfeit money and/or not keeping more than a certain amount of cash in the register.
Here's a blog post by ESA that talks about what controlled reentry means. https://blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2018/11/16/basics-about-con... Controlled requires precise aiming towards a targeted location. Not just the operator deciding to do something. By ESA's definition Starlink de-orbits aren't even "semi-controlled".

This generally involves landing at a precise location of the Earth. It goes by a nickname, Point Nemo. A patch of ocean in the south pacific farthest away from any land. It's also far from standard shipping lanes. If you can't achieve this type of targeting it, definitionally, is not a controlled re-entry.

> It simply means aiming for a certain latitude by adjusting the orbit accordingly

You cannot aim a satellite for a "certain latitude" as orbits cannot follow lines of latitude. That's not how orbital dynamics work. I'm not quite sure what you meant to convey here.

> This also means that the target is not "all over the world" as you put it - it's a very narrow, well defined stripe/trace (remember the scale we're talking about here!) and that's exactly what a controlled de-orbit is about.

No it's all over the world, definitionally, because low earth orbits cross the entire planet as the Earth rotates. The possible locations the satellite can re-enter span a large portion of the globe from the negative to the positive latitude equivalent to the spacecraft's inclination.

I think you have a major misunderstanding yourself. If there's some term I'm using that you don't understand please let me know so I can help you.
I can't imagine any major government would willing give its citizens anonymity when they have such a perfect excuse for ratcheting up surveillance with a database of our entire financial lives.
If you like this style of UI, check out serenityOS (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity).
To add to this, I also anecdotally know many more people who lost Bitcoin due to bad key management or keeping their Bitcoin in a platform that failed instead of cold storage. I don't personally know a single person whose money disappeared from their bank account for no reason.
Okay, but somehow the rest of the billion people manage it?
Citizens United says that something that’s undeniably speech—a movie about a politician—can’t be suppressed merely because the speakers pay for it through the vehicle of a corporation. What do you think is incorrect about that?

If Citizens United has gone the other way, the Trump administration would have been able, for example, to order Facebook to suppress posts about COVID death tolls near the election.
I started using digital payments once I got an Apple Watch. Double-click a button on the side, tap the watch on the reader, I'm done. Very little friction and good security; it is really a no-brainer. Provided the reader accepts Apple Pay, that is....
Sorry, my comment was too vaguely written, but I meant to imply that it won't be the government that does this, but regular people enforcing social norms.

"We aren't the kind of people that use cash," and so forth.
I have a hard time getting change, because in my country ATMs like to spit out large denominations. But for my daily activities (the bus, really) I need change. In the cases where I would need a large bill I use credit cards.

The highest denomination in my country is worth about US$40, but that is a large amount of money. Yesterday I payed for lunch for 4 with about half that.

So I wish the larger denominations would just go away.
I live in a cellular dead-zone that is prone to frequent power outages so I am highly reliant on fiber Internet for both voice and data. My telecom backup power supply uses a discreet charger-battery-inverter setup. The battery in the middle is rated for 125AH at 12v and is a deep-cycle flooded lead acid (not AGM). It only powers my optical network terminator, firewall and POE wi-fi. It keeps me connected for days, not hours.

Sourcing a proper deep-cycle battery requires a bit of research.

Simply splicing a big-ass battery onto a consumer grade UPS won't work well, the little battery charger might not be able to fully recharge the new battery. The charge-discharge profile is all wrong.

Enterprise grade UPSs are not optimized for battery longevity, they are designed to recharge quickly and maximize runtime, both to the detriment of the batteries. APC in particular is notorious for overcharging batteries which can cause swelling and eventual rupture if they are not replaced on a regular basis. Also older APC "SmartUPS" would power off your load if you tried to use a regular serial cable to manage them. Surprise!

If you are looking for something robust for home use I suggest a reconditioned off-lease Eaton 5PX2000 with as many external battery packs as you want. They support network management, the front panel is actually useful, and they can be programmed to maximize battery life rather than runtime. They require a 20a 120v circuit but unless you are loading it up to more than 75% capacity you can get away with a regular 15a plug and an adapter.
For someone who understands git, it certainly is not. But if you are not aware of how git works, committing things when HEAD is detached could to confusion in the best case, and lost commits in the worst.
Lightning has pretty good sender privacy.
Cash is useful in cases where your phone/card isn't working. E.g. if your phone has run out of battery, you are in a location that has a poor signal, your account has been locked due to a suspicious/unusual transaction (even if legitimate), etc.

You don't need it all the time, just for emergencies.
It was the French who pushed for a Latin based writing system for Vietnamese in an attempt to improve literacy in Vietnam and to also cut the cultural umbilical cord with China.

If China itself were colonised by Western powers towards the end of the Qing dynasty or after, the fate of Chinese characters in China could have become quite different, although it is a matter of speculation, of course.
We all just read an article about society going cashless without any Blockchain stuff. No need to print physical money just hand out cheap loans digitally.
Yeah bro you affiliate linked it.
I don't understand, how does this negate any of what I posted?
Nadella probably cheers for more ads revenue, more Azure lock-in, more o365 subscriptions, more edge market share and more silly AI usage because those must be the KPIs at this point, and it doesn't really matter nor shows in those KPIs whether they grew from inherently user-hostile patterns or based on merit and quality.
Don’t most bank reimburse atm fees? I just keep my cash topped off whenever I go to the grocery. It’s a lot more convenient to pull out my wallet than to look people up on vemno/zelle imo.
True, and if you're stuck with a fridge that's hooked to the internet regardless...

OTOH, this item's context is "KISS, because the complex products are hot & steamy piles of failure modes, all eager to show themselves off". From that PoV, the alarm features kinda sound like yet more things to break down.
Well to be fair, in my country (Denmark), that is mostly the case. For normal purchases, using cash is very much not the norm.

But paying a carpenter, cleaner or similar, who will give a lower rate (and not pay income tax and VAT), that is very much the norm (though socially frowned upon). Also drugs I guess.
In order to maintain her home telephone service, my home-style conscious mom was forced to go from a from a single copper pair through the wall to three massive black boxes mounted in a very conspicuous location in the dining room.
What is that first link saying? That teachers need LESS oversight? This must be a joke.

Also what does software have to do with that case?
From the folks that brought you plist, introducing yet another format, pkl!
Bank accounts directly I’d assume. Why add another layer of indirection?
For someone I need to pay regularly like a cleaner I would set up a bank transfer recipient in my banking app (or website) and then payments - either one offs or regularly scheduled - are simple, instant and free.
Since SCOTUS hallucinated it into being to make their pro-abortion ruling in Roe v Wade. It's the only time I've seen the right to privacy taken to the extreme.
Glad there is better tooling, but in 5 years, when I'll need it, I'm pretty sure I won't know how to use it.

I've had to build a deb package once. It's crazy how few docs and resources there are to do so, and how of poor quality they are.

The package format itself is quite complex, and you don't know if you must do something imperatively or decoratively, when to trigger it in the workflow of the install, if it makes sense to use debconf or not, how to use debconf with something else than bash, good practices, where to put things, to copy files, etc. And that's before you have to deal with dependencies.

Then you have to repeat that for rpm.

No wonder people are attracted to flatpak and snap.

Creating a installer for mac, windows and linux is a hell of a work. Not to mention making sure it compiles and run on all those platforms.

Sometimes more than coding the program itself.
Is this a joke? Why? We have so many usable formats already. Every language can do JSON. What problem does this solve? Or is this another Apple solution to a problem that doesn't exist?
I think the advantage here is that it's ordinary money, which if people fail to obtain it, will lead to them defaulting on their debt and losing real things.

When you have enormous amounts of debts denominated in a currency, so many time the price of those things that would be lost, its value is almost entirely determined on what interest rate the central bank sets. If you hoard it to get people to default so as to obtain the value of the collateral, the central bank will printing to stop you.

Meanwhile, there's no point in trying to do that kind of thing with bitcoin. The value of the collateral is probably less than the value of the physical cash. What you do then is to invent your own bitcoin and hope that somebody will accept units of it.

For this reason I believe that the fair value of Bitcoin is zero, but I can't know when it ends up at zero, so I'm not shorting it, just as I am not shorting the US real estate market, even though it's clear that from a discounted-cash-flow PoV it must be incredibly overvalued, provided that it wasn't incredibly undervalued back when interest rates were at 1%.
Energy could be taxed higher, but it would make other users (like regular people) of energy unhappy. So far energy is "cheap", but it does not cover the total eco damage it makes.
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The fact that the mean absolute error doesn't even change all that much from ARIMA suggests to me that there's no magic here.

Though mean absolute error is a bit of a weird measure. They're basically testing how closely a model predicts the median.
A lot of people confuse which one Shayamalan is.