skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but connectivity is also not a problem in the denser areas. I live in a medium sized city in the midwest, I have access to 3 Wired Broadband Providers, including 1 Fiber, with a 2nd fiber provider rolling out in the area and could be accessible to me in the next 18-24 mos...

hell even my former home, in a town of 1500 people, I had access to 1 wired Broadband, and 1 Fixed Wireless, and I just learned that a fiber provider has plans to complete wire most of the rural areas of the county by 2025...

Deregulation is not the problem, government corruption is.
I believe in some states this is required.
Those costs remind me of the cost for dealing with emergency water damage.

They would be extraordinarily cheaper if they were working nonstop, but the asks are so intermittent they have to charge enough to maintain availability of the service. This becomes especially true and high cost-of-living areas.
Absolutely. As far as I know both Fujitsu and the Post Office were aware of the bugs in the system, and deliberately covered them up.
"The Bank of England destroys between 10-30 billion pounds worth of notes per year (no longer fit for circulation)."

The difference is that when BoE destroys notes they are accounted for by either the issuing of new notes and or crediting their withdrawal with a bank-entry credit thus the money in circulation does not change.

Burning notes willy nilly effectively reduces the amount of currency in circulation because the central bank thinks the money still in circulation and doesn't replace it. This is why in many countries defacing or destroying the currency is unlawful.
“Our best configuration as code language ever.”
I usually just use flour and water. Sometimes I add some salt. As far as I understand, this is very common, though perhaps less common for homemade styles of pasta.
The article mentions that removing a bundled plugin would break the code signing. I suspect allowing you to not update a bundled plugin poses a similar problem, they probably have a single signature for the entire package including bundled plugins.
Powertoys got a significant update for foreign users just 4 days ago.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases
Built-in fetching of http resources and reading files from the filesystem[1] combined with turing-completeness are features that I wasn't expecting from a configuration language. I wonder if the complexity this brings is justified.

1: https://pkl-lang.org/main/current/language-reference/index.h...
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> Smart people at the top...

Who exactly? Where are these people in power defending physical cash or recommending an alternative monetary medium resilient to grid failure?
This is where we learned that! Ceph does it, because separate components are responsible for each of underlying storage, S3 API, and FS API. We tripped on the Seaweed FS and the Garage FS indicia, where "FS" in these contexts typically means File System. But, neither SeaweedFS nor GarageFS is a File System at all; with grace and lenience they could be mildly regarded as Filing Systems, but the reality is that they are actually object stores. SeaweedOS? SeaweedS3?
Thanks for the helpful clarification and very interesting
This is the kind of decision a company makes when they are panicking about getting left behind by the latest thing.

A somewhat similar example would have been Microsoft way back in the 90s and 2000s bundling their own browser and then almost forcing you to use it. “We have to own this!”
Interestingly, this is exactly the reason the Lua langue was conceived more than 30 years ago.
https://github.com/d60/twikit
I pay ~$440 a month for two vehicles. My buddy in PA thinks it’s because I live in New York.
A money printer doesn't just magically create money out of thin air. Printing it as a cryptocurrency would use less energy than printing it physically. Alternatively the government could just edit a bank account it already has and just increase its balance.
I think 2) seems incorrect. What you can’t have is unbounded loops and recursion. Bounded loops are perfectly fine and I don’t tend to need unbounded ones when programming (with exceptions being infinite loops for handling asynchronous events, which a configuration language doesn’t need to do).

Recursion is trickier. I think banning it or simply limiting stack depth seems fairly reasonable? In fact I’m pretty sure most Turing-complete languages have a stack depth limit, so unbounded recursion is not allowed for those either. I don’t see a limit being a problem, because again this is a config language.

I don’t see why HTML escaping needs Turing-completeness. It shouldn’t need any unbounded iteration (it should be limited to the size of the input string) or unbounded loops. In general, I can’t think of any typical data processing code where turning completeness is required, but could be wrong. Do you have any practical examples of transformations that need unbounded iteration?
I was mostly thinking about when rooms are too full but if the audio is recorded properly, it's still better than nothing and also I'm not sure if the sound was bad in some rooms because of the mic or because of the loud speakers; a recording might be better in the second case I suppose.
There is necessary complexity in the domain rust is trying to cater to and rust is the simpler way to approach those problems compared to its competitors. Just because you don't work in those domains doesn't mean they don't exists.
It's very difficult to find Linux apps that work well with touch controls.
I worked in IT for 20+ years too, so you do need to flaunt your experience around.

Yeah, well, this is why you have 2 year update cycle, like Ubuntu, Debian or you have overlapping support periods like Redhat. You can update you system every once in a while, you know beforehand what will be in the next release and when it will happen. Not some insanity of rolling or semi-rolling packages like BSDs have.

Yes, security updates are always a lot less risky than quarterly FreeBSD updates. Quarterly does not receive all sec updates anyway, but do receive some. Worst of both worlds.

In fact I think, FreeBSD is not suitable for majority server purposes exactly due to terrible support cycle, despite clear technological advantages (ZFS, Jails etc.). If you limit yourself to some narrow uses, completely serviced
by the base system, then yeah you may use it as server, but that is very niche use.

FreeBSD actually is a good replacement for Arch-like systems, for workstation uses, exactly due to its semi-rolling nature and separate base systems, this will cause less breakage compared to Arch.
Both the Post-Office/Horizon and OFSTED scandals involve blind
deference to unfit technology that have led to deaths. We have been
covering these on cybershow.uk with three hour long episodes in the
pipeline for release soon. If any HN readers are in the UK and worked
for Post Office, OFSTED or at a school and want to contribute insights
do please get in touch.
What the police and other authorities 'can do' is a world away from what they 'actually do', in 99% of cases.

You could be unlucky if your crime passes a certain threshold or affects someone with power but, most of the time, it will not be investigated with the resources of the state.
What is stopping us? A legacy code question
HLS -- created by Apple, just about everybody uses it for streaming on the web.

And I think CSS animations and transforms mostly came out of Apple; at any rate, they're very similar to the animations and transforms in UIKit that originally came from NeXT.
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YDB – an open source distributed SQL database
>how much the police can do to trace cash

It doable but not at all trivial.

>It's well past the point of being worth forging

The news seem to indicate plenty of forgers still, e.g.:

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/poss...

>it is likely that future banknotes will use einks

einks are too expensive right now?
To be fair WSL is quite cursed. There are a lot of things Microsoft has done that result in less than good workarounds.
You should rather look at go.mod file, and it doesn't look bloated at all. They could maybe drop cobra and use something with less dependencies, they use pflag package already so maybse use only that, but uhh I've seen much, much worse worse, as a daily Go user I'd say it's fine
>> Frontier, a company everyone knows is going to go bust

Does everyone know that.. what make you say that? They seem to be doing pretty good with the hand they were delt

Frontier has an aggressive push for their fiber services.
What do you suggest, then? Vote? Formally complain? Spread awareness? I've been doing all that, that's how we got here.
When the industry will cry for it, universities will magically start offering (and heavily incentivize) Computer Engineering degrees instead of Computer Science ones
> "it is impossible to predict exactly what positive and negative outcomes could result."

Sounds like the science is pretty clear and it shouldn't be done.
You can just disable it.
Gotta be the Putnam Award comeback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
> Generally it's accepted that the value went up because it became more rare as the number of unit went down.

That's true.

> Or similarly because if all the money represents the price of everything in the economy, as there is less money and assuming that everything in the economy didn't change, then everything has now a slightly lower price.

That can't be true in any meaningful way, because all the money doesn't represent the price of everything in the economy. "Everything in the economy" is always worth many multiples of "all the money".

The definition you'll see in economics is MV = PY. It's defined with reference to the concept of GDP, and the variables are:

M is the amount of money (that year).

V is the "velocity of money", the average number of times that a particular dollar gets spent (that year).

P is the price level. The value of money (that year) is 1/P.

Y is the amount of non-monetary stuff that is produced (that year).

(I would be happier if Y was the amount of non-monetary stuff that existed, but that does not appear to be how economists prefer to talk about it. This set of definitions lets you say that MV is equal to NGDP.)

You can characterize the effect of destruction of money as a reduction in M or as a reduction in V. If you take the view that the money still exists, because it's listed on a balance sheet somewhere, then M has not gone down, but under that view V still has; it's impossible to spend that money. Assuming everyone's urge to spend as a function of their ability to spend stays unchanged, you'll see that the party who locked up $1 million (by destroying it) will, as a result, spend less. Everyone else in the relevant universe is unaffected and spends just as much as they would have anyway. Then, by our special analysis, the amount of total money spent has gone down, and the amount of money in existence hasn't, so the velocity of money has gone down.

Y is unaffected by the destruction of money. For PY to go down while Y stays constant, P must go down, which means that 1/P, the value of money, goes up.

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Note that the implication of this velocity-based analysis is that, if a miser with tons of money in bank accounts that he'll never use happens to one day withdraw some of that money and destroy it, there will be no effect on the value of money. This is correct; that money had already been effectively destroyed when the miser committed to not spending it.

(Over a much longer term, the effect of destruction would be visible when the miser's heirs inherited a smaller amount of money than otherwise and consequently spent less.)
agree. also labels on the vertices would be helpful
Where "format" is used in the lightest way possible. (NEVER try to unpickle anything that was not produced by pickle itself (preferably the exact same version))
> teachers need LESS oversight?

They absolutely do. In fact they're going on strike in the UK over
intolerable working conditions, and while the MSM report this as
ostensibly about "pay" the deeper reason is that they are
micro-managed to hell.
Even assuming that blocking DNS were sufficient to stop spyware (it's not), how exactly am I going to block DNS for every single application that may or may not phone home without my knowledge, including applications that are hardcoded with DNS server information that doesn't respect the system settings?

And yes, I have seen (and blocked) applications that have made requests to 8.8.8.8 when I didn't have my system DNS server set to that. I would have had no idea if not for Little Snitch alerting me.
Normal behavior is forgotten. Only weird behavior survives
2 hours seems short for a poc, in my experience. What general criteria do you have for such a barebones poc?
> There’s almost always a handling fee

Citation needed. I've been depositing cash for years, with multiple banks, and nobody has ever charged a "handling fee".

> safe transportation of the funds

Yes, a lot of people have this irrational reaction to carrying large amounts of cash, as if your unremarkable Toyota miraculously sports a giant "BRINKS" logo every time you carry cash, attracting the attention of would-be criminals everywhere. I assume you believe that thieves and pickpockets are regularly carrying millimeter-wave scanners to see what's in your pockets, briefcases, backpacks, etc?
The solution would be not to bundle the plugins then
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iOS, chrome. Same - what platform is supported?
if israel “carpet bombed cities” how many victims would there be? you are a hate inciting antisemite
> These people said they didn't care, and they're literally in the news saying "why didn't anyone tell me?"

Then they should either read the news or remove their no junk mail sticker? Attempting to suggest that political mail would have swayed brexit is stretching the analogy pretty thin, too.
The killer app for any technology is porn. If porn is better on VR, we’ll see a decent number of sales.
Has nothing to do with 8-bit. Deep OS level knowledge can and should be taught starting from 64 bit (where most OSs run) and maybe tiny speck of 16 bit because most BIOS still runs on 16 bit intel

It's about exposure to syscalls, C, assembly, lower level debugging and just making sure people aren't afraid to touch that layer. Same goes with other foundational knowledge like packets and networking protocols
I understand. I was raised overseas, and am intimately familiar with non-US cultures.

I love Scandinavian socialism, but I have also watched as US-style capitalism has permeated even the most resistant societies.

The Internet, and the platform it provides for social contagion, are probably responsible for that.

Additionally, it is easy to have socialism, with a relatively heterogeneous population, but nations like the US and, increasingly, many other nations, make it a lot more difficult.
> So often people claim ‘I didn’t mean to’ [...] Scholars who specialise in academic plagiarism say that almost all professional researchers who are investigated for plagiarism defend themselves by denying intent. The idea of ‘I didn’t mean to’ as a defence against plagiarism reflects, I think, a deep human tendency to want to hold on to a belief in our own innate goodness.

My philosophy on a lot of such things is that wanna-be surgeons with shaky hands get told "sorry", wanna-be professional singers who lack any sense for musical pitch get told "sorry", wanna-be CPA's who are bad with numbers get told "sorry", ... and wanna-be's for various professions which require correctly-attributed writing also need to be told "sorry".
So much you can learn from footprints! Walking, not running. Weight, age are hinted at by size. The makeup of the traveling group. Haven't invented shoes yet. Even some guesses about habits - lived on what they found in the sea? Used beaches as trackways? Liked weekends at the beach?

Makes my mind wander, to think about these people 90,000 years gone. They call them Hominids, but weren't they just 'people'? Not that long ago, not really.
It's not a silicon valley canard to overwhelmingly expect electricity and running water in the US. The difficulties faced by the Navajo are not representative of the country at large. The major service providers have preferred to put in place regional monopolies, rather than extend their fiber capabilities, that is the root of the issue.
You're seriously using a refrigerator from the 1930s?
There are several alternatives to Little Snitch on Windows (and Linux). https://alternativeto.net/software/little-snitch/?platform=w...
When you have such large numbers I can’t expect that there are zero people without these services. So to me this is a specious argument- we certainly did blanket the country with electricity and phone service. There will of course always be households without. I hardly see this as a “bubble” view.
In true n-gate fashion I believe the n-gate collapsed under the increasingly worse takes he had to come up with to counter the bad takes the n-gate witnessed from an hackernews. The parody indistinguishable from the idea of the original that was lost years ago, in a blurry confusion of what was and what the thought of what it was was. Having lost the meaning of its existence, it merely ceased to exist.
The reality is most business prefer the 3% fee because the cost of Cash processing is higher when you factor in Bank Fees, Security, Accounting, Theft, and other factors.

[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005244/en/New...
You know that's the best question anyone has asked me on HN.

I simply said "smart people at the top". I didn't say there were any.
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Not so - it was the majority of their music industry earnings, and they are apparently quite haunted by it to this day!
Just bolting on thing after thing to make it sort of work, maybe, sometimes.

I'll be sticking with ipv4.
In the UK we have £50 notes which are notoriously difficult to use as cash since there are many counterfeits in circulation and it's hard to differentiate between genuine and fake.
We also have notes issued by Scottish banks which are legal tender throughout the UK but good luck finding a retailer outside of Scotland willing to accept them.
I’m not. Visa and Mastercard collected $138 billion in service fees in 2021. They are among the most profitable companies in the world. You’re pretending that cash handling is a binary. You need a blend. For example, after extensive testing we are not going to send wire transfers exclusively in gold bricks. Though the loss weighs heavy on me.

But you should be very careful in eliminating cash.

I assume cash handling fees are made up by banks who want more transaction fees. That’s not a real thing in my experience. I many times have gotten a discount for cash. I have not shopped a few places because they don’t accept cash. But I have yet to be charged a cash fee by any of the banks I use.

And they have insane surveillance data on their customers from doing so. Data that is used for all kinds of unintended purposes.

Cash is also one of the last strongholds left to maintain anonymity and keep purchasing information truly private without handing heaps of data to the corporations that make a buck off your receipts—or worse, to hackers, in the case of a data breach.

To say nothing of the unbanked… which is a massive issue.

If that’s the future you want, we don’t see eye-to-eye. You are giving up a LOT more than you realize.
Fair, I think the difference here is that by simplifying Chinese characters into Kana, it also removes the semantics from the character completely, but that is also not completely unheard for Chinese either (like 的, for example).
Generators on film sets aren’t the type of thing you power your house with in an outage; they are a truck sized, high power piece of specialist equipment. Running one of those generators safely with zero downtime is absolutely a job. People think of movie sets as dangerous places due to stunts, fire and explosions. I was always weary of the electricity.
Russia amplifies calls for civil war in the U.S.
The point is that other tools achieve the same with less complexity in the users mental model.

If you use the undo button because your word processor doesn't do what you want a lot, maybe look for a word processor that's better designed.
Webpage caching used to be a quick and easy way to by-pass government censorship in my country. AMP pages still work and allow you to access banned resources such as BBC.
Honestly, maybe a majority of modern engineers not being familiar with anything but the pointy tip of the stack is a good thing.

I come very much from the old world - I learned to code on graph paper, as that was how you saved your work, and being able to wield a scope and iron was kinda mandatory for being able to meaningfully use a computer.

As tech grew up, so did I - and while it’s useful to be able to understand what is happening from clicking a button in a gui down to electrons tunnelling through a bandgap, particularly when it comes to debugging the truly arcane, I actually find that the level of abstraction I carry around in my head sometimes gets in the way.

I look at newer techies bouncing around with their lofty pyramids of containerised cloud based abstracted infrastructures, and I almost envy the superficiality of their engagement - I can’t help but look at it and see immense complexity, because I see behind the simple and intuitive userland, and that makes me run for vim and some nice bare metal where I know what my hardware is doing.

Maybe I’m just getting old.
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perl has the distinction of being designed by a linguist and, for many coders (like me), it has a very smooth and easy feeling …

… others dislike the idea of $ sigils as “noun” markers and @ sigils to denote plurals but imo these features trick your brain into engaging these natural language concepts.

In contrast, I feel that Java is “heavy”, Python is “sciency” and so on.

The other distinctive aspect of perl is that it does not seek to constrain and block the coder. Strongly typed and opinionated languages (like Rust and Haskell) can be frustrating since they force you to code their way. That’s fine - it’s in the contract. perl is for when you just want a bag of tools to get the job done without becoming a wrestling match.

This flexibility also means that non standard code is easier to write in perl. The tool gets a bad reputation at the hands of poor coding practices. A higher level of trust and self-discipline is needed.

perl6 - now renamed to www.raku.org, continues the spirit with a cleaned up syntax and a lot more features in the core language
Definitely not as a whole. Sure, there is a lot more bad software than ever before. But that is because there are a lot more bad developers than ever before. And that’s because there are a lot more developers than ever before.

It is easy to find examples of crap code out there, as they tend to stand out. But we take for granted all of the good stuff.
It was their entire remaining royalty earnings. They also deleted their back catalogue so they couldn't earn any more. I remember having to buy Japanese imports when I wanted CD copies of the White Room and Chill Out as a teenager. It was only a couple of years ago when they finally reissued any of their work.
What does Pkl stand for?