skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah so you get consumer surplus if you pay 2.5% to a credit card processor instead of paying more than 3% to physical cash logistics. Everybody's happy besides your weird sense of "insane."

Furthermore you get a lot more than just writing a few bits with a credit card transaction. You can bypass the cc companies and cash logistics costs by taking checks. But certainly the revealed preference is to not do that.
This is a real concern, but even if I keep cash for use in an emergency, stores and banks would also need to be prepared to handle cash in an emergency and I doubt they are today (since no one uses cash).

Telling people they need to use a less convenient payment method only to keep it alive for an emergency also seems doomed to fail.

The correct solution is probably to force banks and critical stores to always accept cash + encourage people to keep some cash for an emergency. But changing the banknotes (and making the previous ones invalid) every 10 years doesn’t help with encouraging people to save cash at home.
That’s another one of those US-isms that blow peoples minds: that dollar bills of any age are legal tender. That and the use of paper checks. I think it was the mid 80’s the last time I saw a check.
It's way higher than thousands, at least for water. Millions of people in the US have their own wells for water and septic systems for waste water.
That really isn't a good assumption. The West is undergoing a bureaucratic collapse where incompetent or out right maliciously corrupt people are subverting regulators.

I dont trust regulators and have a five stage reverse under the sink filter. Result? In the last five years in my little section of the midwest:

- I've dodged Pb poisoning when my local water authority switched corrosion inhibitors (note, this is after Flint MI)

- I've dodged vinyl chloride poisoning from the Palestine OH fire that Federal regulators pretended was a nothing burger until dead cows started showing up everywhere.

Not to mention the countless times the lines are fixed and the water comes out brown (this is "safe" because it's iron oxide. Except it is only mostly iron oxide plus all the crud that has caked onto the pipes.)

Best case scenario I trust the regulators. Even then F- ups happen and Id rather have a filter I keep myself.
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The whole _point_ of Pkl is that it is both rich enough and integrated enough though?
The translation from JSX to JS is rather easy, though. It is just syntactic sugar.
budgets are a value statement.

just cause you're an ant here doesn't make you ethically culpable.
> The third AR thing I saw was the loading screen of Super Fruit Ninja, which allows you to throw a strawberry at a pig that’s running around on your floor. This seems slightly less historic.

That seemed to me the most historic if true!
Thanks, appreciate the help!
AT&Ts stock price is at a near thirty year low, their dividends are lower than ever and they have a massive amount of debt.
Great. I suppose humanity is done! We've figured it out! This is as good as it get folks! Back to work! Pareto optimality and all that.
For me the biggest thing is having more control over my time. I enjoy working with my coworkers, and generally like the challenge, etc of working, but the biggest blocker to me continuing to work long term is being fully control of my time. In my current role, I can work from wherever I want, can step out (some) in the middle of the day, etc, but I'd love the ability to do something like take 2 months off work. Obviously this is difficult in any role where other people rely on you though.

All of that said, I look at my current life and job role, and compare it with friends, and I have to same I am honestly pretty spoiled, it could be a ton worse. That said, more freedom is the name of the game for me.
Are there alternatives to the "take home exercise"?

I've had several bad experiences with those where I waste dozens of hours of my own time only to be rejected or have to decline the offer shortly afterwards.

So now I pretty much don't apply anywhere that uses take home projects in the interview process.
I wish more businesses would (could?) give cash discounts. It's the answer to the convenience and rewards offered by credit cards. If I can save as much or more by paying in cash as I can by paying by card, then I have a great motivation to start carrying cash around!
The taste depends on the quality of water and what sort of chemicals they deliberately put in the water to keep it "safe" for human consumption.

Here in Sweden and many other European countries, the tap water is indistinguishable from bottled water.
Ah! Well this is the hole that Pkl does a very good job of filling!

Being able to use Pkl code-gen to create language bindings means you can take any arbitrary Pkl schema and turn it into native structures in your language, typed based on the Pkl schema. Then you can let Pkl do all the heavy lifting of parsing and validating a specific config, and turning it into native objects in your language.

So no need for double declaring types. Declare them once in Pkl, generate the equivalent types in your language, then just start using those types like any other primitive. The Pkl bindings will handle the loading glue for you.
How does removing the shebang save two megabytes? Seems like a lot. Is it the env binary?
I like to stop by the ATM on the way to the store and get a few bills out, then use it at regular stores. It freaks them out every time but I find it is a better money to use.
Over the Edge – Microsoft’s Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice [pdf]
Who is to say that this does not change one day? Look at how leading products such as MSFT Teams is managed.
>In that case it's a donation primarily to the rich.

[laughs, in disappearing bitcoin]
I don't see the usual 'uninstall' button for this plugin, it has 'uninstall update' instead. After I've pressed 'uninstall update' the plugin is still in installed plugins list (but with an older version).

To be fair, it's not possible to uninstall any 'bundled' plugin, like Node.js plugin in Webstorm. But for AI assistant they could make an exception: make it installed by default, but no bundled, so that users could uninstall it completely.
The only fallacy here is that you expect anonymity to be 100% provided by cash.
I’ll add it to my wish list!
Ha, my first thought too. Some new kind of movement to follow the Powermatic 80, perhaps?

But like someone else said, a very interesting read.
Sounded like Italy. Same exact situation. The interbank payment consortium even created a cashless payment system called “Satispay” that lots of consumers and small retail businesses use on a daily basis.
> I have three separate items on me I can use to pay - my card holder with bank cards, my phone and my watch. That's more redundancy than with cash, which is one item (wallet).

All of which are electronic and depend on centralized services. Bank notes and coins work offline and without electricity.

Not too long ago, a restaurant I went to with a coworker had an Internet outage and no card or mobile payment would go through. I paid for the whole bill since I was the only one carrying cash, then we went to the nearest ATM to reimburse me.

I always carry cash. I don't use it often but it always works, even if everything else fails.
I started using VueJS when I got thrown off the deprecation treadmill by Angular.

Regardless of whether something is a hobby project that you want to only touch a couple times a year or a big project with dozens of developers, having your platform deprecated under your feet and being forced to do migration work sucks.

Vue is now on version 3 within 10 years. That means anyone who relied on v1 has had their work churned away under their feet, twice.
It’s not surprising that a lot Murica is decades behind most places in the world. Especially places where foreigners visit.
At first I thought this was kind of pointless, but I actually think this is a decent way to get to the basic principles of a file type. A sort of minimal-working-example of a file, giving you an overview of how the file works and what is required to get something valid, if uninteresting.
I never used the phrase zero sum, and I don't think it's appropriate in this context at all.

There's almost nothing that happens in a modern society that isn't a good deal for some of the people involved. Consequently, "it was worth it to X" isn't much of a metric. I get the sense that you're not a big fan of the concept of externalities.
I really don't know how bad all of this is, but it's surprising that graduate engineers don't know how to configure a basic network without DHCP.

On one hand, you can have a router at home from your ISP, and everything seems to work fine. On the other hand, there are a lot of existing misconfigurations and security issues with these routers, which ISPs used to update their firmware automatically.
To be fair, gym memberships are often crappy rent-seeking contracts. They love it when people start memberships for their New Year’s resolutions and then stop coming in February but keep paying, and they often try to hike the prices on you, renew automatically, and make it difficult to cancel. I’m perfectly fine with paying for a gym but I absolutely hate signing up for memberships. Currently I’m going to a city-run gym that has a day rate, and it’s more expensive than a monthly or yearly rate, and I still pay it happily and I feel like I’m getting a good deal, because I’m paying as I go for what I use and I’m not locked in and there’s no risk of wasting money.

Maybe she’s actually staying more motivated to go this way, maybe her engagement is higher than if she paid. Or, maybe she’d love it if you gave her a gift and pre-paid for 6 or 12 months of membership somewhere? You could even tell her you got a deal, which is true regardless of what you pay. Valentine’s Day is here…
That’s a three paragraph rant but provides zero examples about what values it is you object to.
C# doesn't have ownership/lifetimes and the kind of safety that comes with them.

Also, at the scale of Microsoft’s core global services, when you are paying for the processing, fast enough (or “CPU efficient enough”) isn't the same as with common apps. Even small efficiency gains are going to yield sufficient savings to be worth a fair amount of developer time.
And color correction is listed as its own line item (see “DI”).
It's nice, but it comes at a cost. For example, every user of toml forever will have to put strings in quotes. Why? Because having other types creates ambiguity, that is resolved by this one simple trick.
But if you don't quote them then you have "the Norway problem" like in yaml.
I believe it started shipping bundled in 2023.3.
People SAY that want well made, simple things. But people will generally not PAY FOR simple, well made things when much cheaper options are available. You and I might, and many others as well. But the vast majority of folks will not pay more for a higher quality, longer lasting item.

Another example is Speed Queen for washers and dryers. They are substantially more expensive and look very plain and even old fashioned. But they are built to last a long time and be repairable. They have a large part of the laundromat market because the laundromat owners do value these qualities. But they have very little of the consumer market, because consumers don't.

Consumers also tend to favor nice-sounding features that are in fact unreliable and frustrating, such as ice makers in the refrigerator compartment.
> I do wish they just contributed to nickel or something else though rather than doing their NIH as usual.

They’re contributing to a ton of OSS that’s NIH:

https://opensource.apple.com/projects/

K8s, spark, cassandra, netty, zookeeper, solr, containerd
This is how I feel about small repairs. Most of the time the five minute fix is easier than dropping the item off at a repair shop.

On the other hand some fixes aren't worth getting the tools and doing the research, nor taking the risk of making the problem worse.

A big part of adulthood is figuring out what is and isn't worth fixing yourself.
There is no free lunch, but intelligence comes damn close.

Monkeys living in a cave could drastically improve their lives by banging rocks together and making simple tools. Another big improvement comes from fire. Again when the rocks are stacked into buildings. By having more rocks, and arranging them more intelligently, we can hugely improve life. This is economic growth.

Your arguments against growth fail: first you say “other systems” (they all suck because they all have one thing in common - they are planned) can cause growth just as well as capitalism. Second you say growth is bad because the environment. Third you say that only rich people get the growth anyway. Fourth you say growth comes from siphoning wealth from the poor.

Well, I have news for you. The people who benefit most from growth are the poor. In my native Africa, there are millions of babies who are currently not dead due to economic growth:

- the state left the farmer alone for five whole minutes and it turns out he managed to grow some actual food when he didn’t have to pay so many bribes, taxes, and obey 1000 regulations

- technology improved business and trade, so mom and dad can buy food now

- some guy named Bill Gates donated mosquito nets and medicine and genetically modified crops that have all the vitamins.

Your ideas are rooted in ancient, pre-growth economic models. Poor people simply aren’t a good source of wealth; otherwise why aren’t dictators who do seize their wealth from the poor indredibly rich & celebrated? Why are Bezos and Musk and Gates the richest? They are producers, not seizers.
I've also heard it called "fuck you money".
A RO undersink system costs $200 dollars. And it blocks everything but dissolved gasses.
asking for experienced people and then asking for leetcode interviews haha
I don't think you understand the difference between a public health official and a biochemist. He cares what proteins think about his work, not what Bari Weiss does. It's not a persuasion job.

Anyways, my point is: we have subject matter experts on virology on HN. They tend not to participate in COVID threads, which are invariably overheated and Weiss-ian.
Power Law of Practice
I'm subscribed to the issue. I'd have gotten an email if it was fixed.
Oh so that's why there's a company-wide kill switch on account.jetbrains.com that requires an admin to explicitly opt-in to AI features.

Do any of you even use the stuff you complain about?
I've ran into this a few times, not just with flagging but with hiding too. It would be really helpful to have a confirmation dialog and/or a banner on the screen after the action was taken that would let you undo it. To answer your question: I think most of mine were on mobile but it would be nice to be able to have it in all environments if possible.
Sonic announced expansion to my neighborhood 2 years ago with a status tracking page and everything!

Status hasn't changed since the initial announcement 2 years ago...
Probably they were introduced as marketing and when more-preferred customers realized they never mailed anything in, and therefore the rebate price is misleading, it ceased to be effective marketing.

Sounds like it was also the difficulty around “doing it right” which is probably different per seller. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/consumerism/rebate_madness01...
Can someone help me understand why rust was needed to accomplish this?
I'm confused, what is the innovation here? A QR code that points to a Youtube URL and doesn't work without Internet?

From the 1960s-80s magazines came with "flexidiscs" which could play entire songs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc
Lab notebooks are often digital today. Of course they shouldn't get lost and all changes need to be logged. The software described here would be entirely unacceptable as a lab notebook.
or further afield, Spilhaus: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/...
The EU has indeed banned most of the rent-seeking on payment cards by setting upper bounds on various fees that can be charged.
I get it, but I have to disagree on two ground.

Firstly, in UK law there is an implicit assumption that computers are "reliable". This means that the burden of proof is on the accused proving the software has bugs, rather than them being presumed innocent until proven guilty.

That means in the Post Office example, people were convicted because they couldn't prove the software had bugs, they were just saying "you have to prove I'm guilty, because I'm not", and the court said "no, we don't, computers are reliable and that proves you are lying and therefore guilty".

In the Ofsted case, given that schools can be put into special measures, teachers and headteachers fired, and in one case a headteacher killed herself because of the data collected and decision made on it, if those systems are not reliable they are not fit for purpose, because it turns the innocent into victims in terms of criminal, and civil employment law.

There have been calls for this assumption to be changed [1], but right now: if you are innocent but a piece of software says you are guilty, in the UK the burden of proof falls to you, regardless of how awful the people, their processes and conduct are on the other side.

Secondly, there's a deeper moral issue here. Engineers are arguably aiding and abetting. It is almost certainly the case that engineers working on Horizon and Ofsted systems did not tell all the truth all the time at the bequest of their managers and other colleagues throughout all this.

"Just doing my job", is the excuse of the scoundrel. I do not buy it. If you're complicit with despicable people, you're complicit. End of.

Yes, UK HMG has answers to give, culpability and responsibility, but let's not pretend that engineers built terrible systems, didn't have to face any consequences, and were enabled by arse covering exercises further up the chain.

We can - and must - do better than this.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/update-law-o...
> There is no proof that they're doing what you're claiming.

do you recall when Plex started ingesting your media history and then emailed all shared users in your library what you were watching?

Many Plex users were pretty embarrassed to be outed for soft porn to family members and colleagues.

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/180maoe/plex_cr...
You don't need to be rude. I was trying to help. It's not like you were clear what level of detail you were looking for, and plenty of people don't.
> People who think this more likely don't realize that Android uses the Linux kernel

Do you really think people at the FOSDEM don't know this?
And saying that android use the linux kernel is honestly close to saying that mac os use Unix...
Plus the userland and systems api are fully google proprietary, you couldn't just make a android app work "on linux".
I worked on a few films back in college. It's a huge deal if the generator goes down. It completely stops production, especially when shooting at night with giant lights. It's not possible to run most productions off of the normal power grid due to the voltage and amp requirements of the lights. At least that was the case before LEDs. I'm not sure what the large studio production lights are using these days.
and how would you cheat?
>will be the sole option.

I mean this sincerely: you could move.

In 2012, I left the Castro Valley part of sfEastBay and moved to a small Southern town with fiber optic 10gbps available at every electric-supplied address (I lived 8 years inside a rustic national forest with a fiber/copper jack on my ramshackle cabin's powermeter).
Early 2000s, I had some friends in politics, and some reporter friends. Neither group believed that authentic "grassroots" movements existed. That is, every single "Citizens for..." Organization was funded by lobbying groups or PACs or millionaires.
not sure why this is downvoted
Is it really needed though?

If people can set up and operate a basic Debian server and a bit of networking that I suspect is more than enough for a cloud where anything lower is concealed anyway
Exchanging value between two economic entities using primitive card numbers seems crazy when you have better ways.

Try to explain buying with a credit card online 200 years ago to someone who has never seen it.

You type in about 23 digits (16-digit card number, 4-digit expiry month, 3-digit verification code) to make a payment.

But these digits only change every few years as you renew your credit card. So many parties will learn of your digits and you won't know who leaked them.

The merchant on the other end can take out any amount of money from your account; it's pull-based, not push-based.

The merchant on the other end can trap you in a recurring subscription without your knowledge or make it very hard to cancel.

People have credit limits in the thousands of dollars, and in any single transaction you are liable to lose that much money. Meanwhile, you can't lose more than the hundreds of dollars of cash in your wallet.

You can call your card issuer to dispute charges, but now you're at the mercy of an intermediary.

The intermediary skims about 2~4% of every transaction, for the luxury of being able to spend your own money.

You can't process certain types of transactions in an offline environment, such as debit cards during a power outage or on an airplane (though Wi-Fi is slowly becoming more common).

And you think cash is crazy?
That's because people upload copyrighted content.

Nobody would care about Youtube if it wasn't seeded with millions of movie clips and music videos years before the copyright holders got their act together.
I don’t think it’s that it required Rust, as that the people who wanted to implement that feature wanted to use Rust, and that motivated the Thunderbird gang to do the needful to make that an option.
Are "Random shell scripts from the internet" categorically worse than "random docker images from the internet"?

With the shell script, you can literally read it in an editor to make sure it isn't doing anything that weird. A single pass through shellcheck would likely tell you if it's doing anything that is too weird/wrong in terms of structure.

Auditing a docker container is way more difficult/complex.

"Dockerize all the things", especially in cases when the prereqs aren't too weird, seems like it wastes space, and also is harder to maintain - if any of the included components has a security patch, it's rebuild the container time...
Radical Idea: "Landfill" taxes on appliances. Manufacturers of basic, last-forever stuff pay ~0%. Manufacturers of breakdown-o-matic junk can end up paying 100%. And the ability to pay has to be backed by tightly-regulated insurance policies - so CrapCo can't just vanish into corporate shell games or bankruptcy when the tax man comes knocking.
The core issue here, is the campaign responsible for conversion or not?

Some of the most profitable businesses of our era are just endless free trials and, surprise, they are just portals that sell ads.
so you admit that you discriminate on appearance or personality
It's not about germs, it's about the taste -- it's about removing chlorine.

I personally don't like my water to taste like diluted swimming pool. After the first time I tried a blind tasting of tap water vs. Brita-filtered at home, I never drank straight from the tap again.
Bank notes are not re-issued 1:1 with destroyed notes.

>> being hard to measure doesn't mean it doesn't exist

No in this context it does. Either you can measure the increase purchasing power or you can’t. And if you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist in this specific case.
DEFLATE is basically huffman(lz(X)), which is obvious enough. The part that no one ever seems to motivate is how precisely you fit those together, ie. there is one tree for literals/length, another for distances, plus the extra bits.