skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you take white economy and black economy its maybe 50:50 in Pakistan hence the we are still using mostly cash. Most of the rich and the ruling class are rich because of illegal/untaxed wealth so its not in their interests to get a digital payment system. Where as the taxes are so high that the rest prefer not to use digital systems either. I don't know if its still the case but 15-20 years ago post dated cheques used to go from company to company without being deposited into the bank as it was an easier way to transport large amounts without it getting officially documented.
Even the most used digital systems in Pakistan have so far been of moving cash from 1 place to another. Like you deposit money in 1 shop and it is paid cash to your family in another shop.
Either the shop pay 17% sales tax by getting payment through credit card or takes a cash payment and hide the sale
You can disable this plugin but its mere existence can spook legal to force a ban pending "evaluation" and "compliance clearance". I should be able to uninstall it completely.

Unrelated to this, I've been getting repeatedly irked by JetBrains' insistence that I update disabled plugins alongside IDE updates. Why would I want to update stuff that I don't use?
It possible to disable this plugin. I have it disabled.[1]

The linked YouTrack thread[2] in the article says so as well. It is just not possible to remove the plugin entirely from your device.

Regarding the plugin being enabled by default the official response by Jetbrains says [3]

The AI Assistant plugin is enabled by default and menu items and tool windows are visible in the UI. However, AI Assistant functionality is NOT available by default, and NO requests are sent to the JetBrains AI Service unless ALL of the following conditions are met:

- The user has explicitly consented to use the AI Assistant and is using the trial or has purchased the corresponding subscription.
- The AI Assistant has not been disabled for a particular project.
- In the case of a commercial IDE license, the AI Assistant has to have been enabled at the organizational level. We’d like to reiterate that for commercial IDE licenses, unless this is explicitly enabled by your organization’s administrators, AI Assistant will not be available.

I'm not saying this is perfect and this can obviously still be a problem on e.g work devices.

[1] https://imgur.com/ETyFlCZ

[2] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-1760/Can-not-remove...

[3] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-1760/Can-not-remove...
I only develop for desktop, so not that interested in animation and prefer to stick with the standard desktop styling. But will make a note for the future. Thanks.
I don't think I've ever seen an ATM in the US spit out larger than $20s which is basically the largest denomination you can count on a store taking even though there are $50s and $100s in general circulation. (Which has essentially been the case for many decades.)
An Efficient Quantum Factoring Algorithm [video]
Parent is talking about MacOS, not iOS.
That's a strange way to frame it, you don't have to support every language to be successful. World domination might not even be the project's goal.
You get horny telling random people on the internet "your opinion doesn't count". I write free software to help others.

We aren't the same.
Change Star Trek to Soylent Green or Elysium and you're closer.
I have visited Denmark and this is definitely last country I want to live. Just simple the worst. I've lived and visited about 40-50 countries in my life, maybe more, it is hard to count.

For me Denmark is best example of modern slavery with brainwashed slaves. I was born in USSR and current Denmark looks very similar. The values of society are too far from what I respect.

I believe if this work in Denmark all other countries should avoid it with all costs.
I'm in Sweden, a strong contender for the most cashless country, and I don't know what the banknotes look like. They were changed some 5 or 6 years ago and I haven't paid with or even withdrawn cash since then. For illustration, cash is generally not accepted outside of grocery stores and some chains. For a typical restaurant, coffee shop or takeaway there's very little chance they take cash. Street vendors may take cash but will definitely have a proper cashless payment method.

I really don't like cash and am happy to see it basically dead in the country. I'm also very concerned about privacy, I'm that sort of HN person - never had a Facebook account, run self-hosted email for 20 years, use Signal for messaging as much as I can, etc. But I don't think cash is a good solution to privacy. I'd rather see laws and (better) cryptocurrencies as the privacy toolkit.

One common concern I see from US-centric articles is about your transaction history being sold for ad targeting, etc. That at least is illegal here. A store is not allowed to track your history of purchases or similar unless you opt in, such as via a store loyalty card. Banks are not allowed to disclose anything about your accounts except in some investigatory contexts, but definitely not for commercial purposes. So neither "the store will track my purchases because I pay by card" nor "the bank will sell my history to advertisers", which would be major issues for me, are actual concerns.
Tell me you're a bitcoin guy that's never taken a single Macro class without telling me...

Government prerogative is to create currency ex-nihilo; there's no need waste a bunch of energy in that process.
> The only people who

There have been political groups spreading and promoting exactly that concept.

"Thieves and junkies", they say. Forgetting completely "people with dignity" - also because that image is fading from aggregate memory.
FedNow (https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...) just went live in July, 2023. It will take some time for adoption.
I love it when Clifford Stoll chips in <3

And there’s also this TeX guy, can’t recall his name right now. Very interesting to hear.

And the legendary Putnam comeback is also unforgettable. Plus the Dropbox dismissal, of course.
The same way they prevent people from turning cash into drugs? How’s that working?
Perhaps it implies you're particularly fussy, and the system works for 1 billion+ people.
I gave up immediately and embraced the comfy msedgeredirect
A Cybershow episode with guests talking about unrealistic sterotypes
of females in cybersecurity.
Unfortunately, I don't think the sense of resigned acquiescence among old-school journalists is limited to the religion beat.

Public sensibilities have changed. The fact that public trust in the media has eroded is a product of the public not valuing accurate reporting unless it confirms our biases.

The fact that newspapers have struggled to find a viable business model in the digital age has, of course, accelerated the erosion, but it's not the sole cause.
We're actually (i.e. here in Sweden) having big pre-proposal investigation to determine what can be done to keep cash available, for reasons of anonymity and security against, let's Russian interference with banks or fibre cables.

But I prefer an electronic solution and do not want physical cash. This is of course a slightly risky view, but I believe that it can save us huge amounts of money and strengthen our economy.
How horrible, a slight inconvenience!

I mean, sorry for the sass, but when did it become acceptable to base an argument on slight inconveniences? Being alive is slightly inconvenient most of the time.
Well, to be fair the brick could be wrapped in a copy of the gpl and stallman would be fine. Presumably the requested source code could also be delivered by a second brick.
Ah, yes, thanks for the confirmation, now I think that was one of the reasons why my use of Google Search went from infrequent to negligible in the last years - it wasn't just about DuckDuckGo adding a targeted time search feature longer than a year.
I think your question makes more sense if you broaden the idea of "browsers" a bit.

wget? It barely "supports" html; it has a parser because it can follow links, contrary to e.g. curl, for which "HTML" is just a stream of bytes really.

that tv-thing hanging in the underground or the bus rotating awkward advertisements, local weather and public transport info? It might very well use some minimal rendering engine that only knows barebones of HTML?

this thing in the set-top-box on the TV that gets "broken" HTML from some server and presents the buttons and such? same there.

I presume if you are liberal at what you consider "a browser" it makes sense that several will not support that element.
> I'd like the OpenBSD approach a lot more if the specially privileged syscall library was a language-agnostic library just for syscalls instead of libc.

I think they should split that part of, too. Such a split would better reflect the split of responsibilities between kernel maintainers and libc maintainers.

At the same the effective difference for people using the code is minute.

Any decent linker will strip out unused functions in libraries you link with, so if you currently only use the part of libc that would become “libsyscall”, the end effect would be the same as when “libsyscall” existed.
.noai

is this gonna be some fancy organic label for repos?

Create an empty file named .noai in the root directory of the project.

When this file is present, all AI Assistant features are fully disabled for the project. Even if this project is opened in another IDE, the AI Assistant features will not be available.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.htm...
With cash being the default for thousands of years of history and everything, and card meaning card fees, tracking, tied to a bank, and so on, it totally makes sense.
I haven't used reflog in probably 2-3 months but it's just a small thing to know it doesn't hurt.
Regarding Mr Corbyn's strawberries, if he takes them (or eats them, spoils them etc), is he not then in debt with Aldi? In which case his cash serves as payment of his debt?

I guess you'd be in hot water for the prior act of stealing though
Elections and AI
A Cybershow blog post on the threats to free and fair elections from generative AI
Stat counter also has Linux going from 2.5% in 2021 to 3.8% today: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

(And yes, this excludes ChromeOS and Android)
I've been paying for Pycharm since about 2015, dealing with the memory issues and slowness. This is approaching the hair that broke the camel's back. Any neovim plugin extension recommendations for python or JS?
You're painting awfully broad strokes (Edge is the best for windows) for a very personal preference (vertical tabs).
A tale of two sieves [pdf]
This is Carl Pomerance's award-winning Notices article, referenced in another submission describing an improved quantum factoring algorithm (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39239973)
I disagree but this is an extremely funny insult
I gave up on mine when I learned it was equivalent to type inferencing an F_omega language, and that such a task was Turing unsolvable. It was a bit of a relief because after three years I wasn't getting anywhere on it (unsurprisingly).
Ah, nice, I was wondering how I was going to go about making a global setting filtering out results from the likes Reddit : sounds like exactly what I was looking for, going to try it out, thanks !
Or you make the case that the OS should ship a DNS server. It can handle DNS forwarding and iterative queries anyway (iterative queries as you often need them for dnssec) and the logic for serving DNS responses is ok'ish (DNS name dedup and length restrictions being the biggest complexity issue).

I am not super happy with systemd-resolved but it solves this particular issues. No requirement to use libc, but same (os configurable) behavior for all users.
It was!

The clip I referenced, for anyone who hasn't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxMY77i0q4
The Bank of England destroys between 10-30 billion pounds worth of notes per year (no longer fit for circulation). Sterling has other issuing banks too beyond BoE. I don’t think it’s possible to measure 1m notes going absent by any observable metric.

Even if it were possible, the purchasing power wouldn’t change - you coffee shop wouldn’t reduce their prices but they might adjust staffing levels in an extreme case (not remotely likely to happen with £1mm diff in circulation)
I use Rectangle for this purpose.
Yes. I am sure it’s that simple. I’m sure that there are all downsides and no upsides. This is the first time in history where one technology is a strict superset of a competing technology, from all perspectives. /s

I really don’t know why this snark is necessary.
A better question is do I make everyone else’s dollar worth more for the duration that I hold and don’t spend my dollars
What I like:

- the validation system

- ability to split large configuration files into smaller files and enhance readability (I know Java / Spring Boot apps already have this ability using profiles)

- multiple language support

Wonder if it’s possible to have more complicated validation functions. The example given validates 1 configuration (“port must be greater than 1000”). But there are times when some configuration is valid by itself however in the presence of other configuration the configuration(s) will possibly be ignored.

Given:

- configA

- configB supersedes configA in app

When:

- both configA and configB set in pkl

Then:

- at compile time, should throw a validation error

Criticisms:

- documentation (in typical Apple fashion) appears to be lacking. Couldn’t find anything on the validation system

- missing LSP support

- yet another config language to support/learn
Can't highlight-and-copy on the webpage. It'd be a lot easier to discuss the page if it were easier to quote.

One can't follow the "Terms and Conditions" or "Privacy Policy" links on the page if JavaScript is enabled, but even worse, the inability to highlight and copy extends to the legal agreements as well.
If that would be true, the websites would only support Safari and Chrome. But it's not true and websites work just fine on Firefox - so stop peddling this crap to defend lockout of choice.
I haven’t read it in physical form, but maybe Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made by Andy Hertzfeld?

AFAICT it’s based on the stories from https://folklore.org/, so I ought to be good.

You can see how it looks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMExWOBvmho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_in_the_Valley
A "fun fact" that often astonishes europeans when I tell them: in America, it's even possible (and common?) to get insurance coverage for cases where the other party doesn't have their own insurance cover.
And the purchasing power of any pound still to be printed by the government.
Indeed - to me it seems there are politicians, politicians using populism, populists becoming politicians, and the new class: populists milking politics. That is, populists without political goals entering politics and finding fertile soil.

Admittedly, Boris J. is more of a populist politician that keeps dialing up the populism and down the politics until it's pure populism, while Donald T. is more of a narcissist that took the "normal" path to that point.
I don't really understand your comment.

Generally it's accepted that the value went up because it became more rare as the number of unit went down. 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.
Russian "Enigma" of the XXI сentury: Telegram's сonnection to the Kremlin
State of play January 31,2024 announcements
A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP
>I'm also very concerned about privacy, I'm that sort of HN person - never had a Facebook account, run self-hosted email for 20 years, use Signal for messaging as much as I can, etc. But I don't think cash is a good solution to privacy. I'd rather see laws and (better) cryptocurrencies as the privacy toolkit.

We wont see those. Instead we'll see more enchroachment of privacy - because cash was actually the solution: existing for millenia, trusted, no transaction fees, no monitoring of purchases, non remotely invalidated, not requiring fancy technology to use, works from buying a car to getting some help as a beggar on the streets.

>That at least is illegal here.

Would that ever stopped companies pulling that shit?
Not in the US. There are no laws requiring businesses to do so. Why would employers spend the resources required for such a thing?
Meanwhile Notepad++ has been free for 20 of those.
OK, honest question, have you tried it recently? Have you used a modern lightning wallet?
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kvm&sektion=3&n=1

The aforementioned tools use these interfaces.

Emphasis on most of the sundry information for the live kernel now comes from sysctl, I note the (root only) mem/kmem interface for completeness and rare utilities (eg btsockstat) use it.

Going way back, this is how it all used to work, the more structured interfaces were a 90s thing.
https://github.com/v7unix/v7unix/blob/master/v7/usr/src/cmd/...
Even early Linux used kmem for ps. Not ideal
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-version...
Also why the package is still called procps, for a while it coexisted with kmem-ps.
I'm guessing the idea is that yes, it's disabled now, but if you really didn't want it, you remove it (except for AI, of course, which you can't). If you have it installed, why not keep it up to date, so when you decide you want it you have the latest version?
I assume part of it is that if you accept any cash, you have most of the downsides without any of the upsides (e.g. not having to deposit cash at the bank).
Maybe you want a non deb specific packager. cpack (cmake packager) can generate Windows, OSX, DEB, RPM and simple archives. There is also fpm that doesn't support Windows, but supports plenty of packet managers. And possibly many others.

AppImage, FlatPak and Snap may actually be worse in that regard, because they are like other distros you have to take into account. So now, you may have to do all of them: deb, rpm, flatpak, snap, appimage, tgz, whatever that's on Windows and OSX, maybe a Docker container too, app stores and mobile stuff, and upload to some npm, maven, crate.io,... It makes generic package manager even more important.
> Also, I’d like a button which allowed my kid’s music to be erased from any algorithm that helps chose me music.

Preach.

My “Replay 2020” music is the last yearly replay that’s any good. Because I had my first child in 2021 and everything after that is lullaby music. My “For you” and personal radio station are now saturated with the music I play for my kids, and it’s completely destroying my music discovery. Apple Music really needs to fix this.
Can't wait to replace starlink with a new take on back yard furnaces. This is just a re-marketing of the same socialist ideas that have empirically failed every time.

People with positive inability to create wealth self-appoint to control the people that have demonstrable ability to create wealth. Doing so is the only way for the former to end up in control of wealth, again because they are incapable of generating it themselves.

It's a bit amusing that no one about the commie paradox - the group of people that profess the greatest ability to central plan and redistribute wealth is entirely devoid of individuals with a track record of creating wealth. A reasonable person would expect a strong correlation there.
yes you are right, but i think that who know maybe bing will remove the dalle-3 in future since it is the free version.

I believe it is better to be first rather than to be last.
> Pkl was built using the GraalVM Truffle framework. So it supports runtime compilation using Futamura Projections.

What now?
Or PECL (pronounced Pickle), the old PHP package manager superseded by Composer.
Congratulations on your son becoming a biochemist! A wonderful achievement.

Surely his middle school biology teachers had something to do with it. You should pay them a visit. Maybe ask them how many genders there are and see their faces contort in horror.

Please note that on this, covid, and whatever other such... things.. I offer no opinions of my own. I don't actually care very much about those topics and also, perhaps similarly to you, am put off by the far-(right|left) fanatics obsessed with them.

My peeve is with what it did to good public discourse and good people.

Perhaps if you see it on the faces of your sons teachers, who no doubt have had a rather increasingly stressful job in the not so many years since he left them, and to whom he owes at least a modicum of his no doubt bright future - you will understand my objection to your behavior of drumming out people in this fashion.

> How much more would I rather be reading comments on this than about Bari Weiss? Infinity times more

So do so! Nobody forces you to click on the Bari Weiss stuff.
There is no doubt an evil twilight zone tptacek who flags the other way. And you both think you're great sheriffs clearing the joint from scum.

How much would I rather the thread you linked on daunting papers. How much more would I rather be reading comments on this than "you-are-wrong-about-my-sacred-cow, flagged!" remarks.

In my opinion you should just let people be wrong (see, no snarky air quotes from me! I hope you understand my tone and where I'm coming from) in the covid threads, leave each other alone and it won't boil over to more interesting threads. It's weird adults teach this in kindergarten but on a fancy I so smart forum we can't bring ourselves to rise above.
> All media content is shifting to video, video reigns supreme

...they state, using the medium of text.

I had to retype the quote because apparently they disallow text selection on mobile. Which made me think, I guess if you cripple all other media then maybe video will in fact reign supreme...
"Can't highlight-and-copy on the webpage"

Just like in videos; truly the superior media format...
> Which is neither here, not there. Cash is effectively anonymous for
99% of uses that don't involve "major crime".

Exactly. Almost all cash transactions remain anonymous because
there's no criminal investigation involved.

Most people are honest and just going about their business with friends
and family.

That's how it should be.

A cost bar for tracing is a desirable feature for non-authoritarian
societies.

Digital currency mediated by bank apps, active cards, smartphones or
whatever, makes for "convenience" but also zero cost to spy on people
who are not criminals. And that's a problem.

So maybe it is here. Or there. I'm not sure where you're standing :)
It's great even if you don't
The dh tools have a lot of magic to them. Arguably it works rather well, but figuring out how exactly to build a package correctly is difficult. The documentation is pretty bad, so if you want to do anything slightly different than the standard, your going spelunking in the debian directory of existing packages.

Debian could fix a lot of the troubles with the existing Debian Helper tools by improving the documentation.
maybe it's two years here too then, haven't kept track.
Well, it's not really done, is it? She has to go to the bank and cash the check, right? It's not the end of the world, sure, but it's an extra trip compared with a bank transfer -- with a bank transfer she has the money ready to be used immediately.
I don't know, but offstead things might contain "incidents" with child names and whatnot. Google Docs may not comply with the standards needed. I think the bigger clouds have the security levels, but there may be costs involved. Don't know basically but it might be a deal breaker.