skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...GraalVM Truffle framework... Futurama Projections...

I know it's partly on me for not knowing the domain, but I honestly suspected somebody is trying to make fun of me with some concentrated technobabble.

Especially since I wouldn't expect the topic (configuration languages) to require complex mathematical machinery to work with. Now I have something interesting to dig into.
Isn't it's purpose merely to provide a way to query a git repo's commit history? It helps answer questions like "who has the most commits in the codebase?" and "what times of the day are commits most active?". I don't think it's meant to be anything more than that.
Why is this "preposterous"? I never mentioned privacy, and certainly never claimed bitcoin provides it.

Also, bitcoin never claimed to enable privacy (contrary to monero and zcash). All it ever claimed was to be pseudonymous. It has been crystal clear to anyone in the field that "if people can link your addresses to your person, they know all your transactions". In fact, this has often been presented as a feature (though I personally don't really think it is a good one) in which e.g. all payments to and by a politician or NGO can be transparantly tracked by the public.
You fell for a simple fallecy. The line isn't that cash is used in a major crime. It's that someone in power wants someone in prison.

1. You might not be involved in a major crime but you might be a suspect. Lots of innocent suspects get convicted.

2. You might be a whistleblower. Lots of whistleblowers get framed.

Etc.

"If I've done nothing wrong I have nothing to hide" didn't work out well for Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany.

A lot of the reason many of us want privacy preserved is to prevent a similar path here. Totalitarian governments don't always pop up overnight on a revolution; they often creep up on you.

The creeping process is also often:

1. We'll track X with major checks on privacy; it will only be used for terrorism and child abuse investigations and held in a secure vault

2. We're just doing a better job of sharing / using data we already collect

Neither off those is objectionable, but together, you end up in a distopia.
CUPS was done by Easy Software Products, in 1997. Apple adopted it only in 2002.

Swift is a language entirely in the control of Apple, mainly targeting Apples platforms. With little to no community engagement.

Bonjour is not really cross platform, and not really open source either as it has lots of strings attached to the license and terms one can use it under.

(I wouldn't say that Apple has done "nothing" -- but to credit them for doing much is also a stretch)
> It's like webrings all over again

Fixed that for you.
Shyamalan got good out of it. Usually it's ~5% of the budget for director, but he did write it as well and then some. Hefty fee. Looking through the budget I guess only surprise would be music composer at 4x Deakins' fee; That's interesting. Always weird to see Hollywood sheets like that, they're so inflated in some ways. For example, 50k for someone to run a generator on-set for three months and then also 30k for same generator rental. Or, matte shots/plates 50k apiece, 50k wrap party allowance, DI at 350k (jesus, yet whole of foley was 112k), titles at 160k, 2 AVID machines rental at 270k (even then one could've bought several times over several full systems for that), 20k for MIDI file transfer :P And all that's in 2003 money.
I do not find this particularly interesting because the problem has been solved by several projects already, but this is a programmable configuration file.

i.e. you can write code statements and it transpiles down to other formats
A LOT of projects in the Java world do add new features to java. My favorite is CraC
A few months ago, Australia’s second biggest ISP died for a few hours. Retailers tied to their network were unable to process non-cash transactions.
WHAAAAATTTTT!!!!!

“…thousands were queuing in Nairobi to have their eyeballs scanned as part of the “Worldcoin” project, founded by OpenAI chief Sam Altman. In exchange for handing over their biometric data, some 350,000 Kenyans each received 25 free crypto tokens, worth approximately $50. Those tokens were transferred directly via Kenya’s main mobile payments app, M-Pesa.”

Actually that doesn’t sound so forward thinking when you consider that the UN has been doing since 2016:

“In 2016, the UN World Food Programme trialled a system that issued relief payments through the use of biometrics. Refugees were able to buy items from the supermarket using their biometric data as a credential: all they needed to do was scan their iris to pay for an item. The idea was to improve convenience and prevent fraud. Since that trial, the World Food Programme’s Building Blocks initiative has become the world’s largest humanitarian use of blockchain technology.”
It’s literally the first time I’ve heard anyone saying this about Denmark. I’ve been to a ton of places, including Denmark, and can’t even understand why would you have such opinion. Care to explain?
I think why they did it is to provide a uniform way to access info in already present git repositories. Without it, people probably just come up with ad hoc shell scripts (which can get out of hand when what you're looking for becomes sufficiently complex).
It was ruined for me because we arrived just as it was about to start, were pointed to the wrong screen, and ended up walking in to a viewing in progress just in time to see enough to make the twist obvious...

As much as I've enjoyed many of Shyamalan's movies, the big problem with them is how much hinges on the twist. To this day I feel very little interest in rewatching them because of that.
How did things change after they were bought?
How about "better oversight", "constructive oversight" or "beneficial oversight"? Let's not fall into a trap by restricting the space to a single dimension of quantity.
Systems you want to use in an emergency have a tendency to start failing when you don't exercise them regularly. That's my primary reason for using cash. Privacy is the second. The tactile sense for how much money I spend is the third.
I too know far more people who lost Bitcoin due to mistakes, or negligence or such.

But I also know quite a lot of people who lost a lot of money in the 2018 banking crisis. So I highly doubt your really don't personally know a single person who lost money this way.
You can copy text from a video in macOS.
Because it's basically no resources. If they're not doing it now, they'll be doing it in a few years, and if not banned, selling the data.

It's literally adding a 50 cent camera to a cash register.
1) only if it removes a "janitor" token of nannying the servers. Right now I just have one big server with a big 160TB ZFS pool, but it's running out.

2) No modifications, just new files and the occasional deletion request.

3) Almost just 1 write and 1 read per file, this is a backing storage for the source files, and they are cached in front.

4) Never

5) Files are written only by one other server, and there will be no parallel writes.

6) I pick consistency and as the half, availability.

7) This happened something like 15 years ago with MogileFS and thus scared us away. (Hence the single-server ZFS setup).

8) Reads are public, writes restricted to one other service that may write.
This is such a simplistic conclusion to draw that I can’t help but see it as intentionally dishonest.

Oversight is not a knob that you turn up or down. I speak as someone with experience in this field when I say that education like a lot of other things is complex enough that “overnight”, especially with output suitable for public consumption, is far from trivial to deliver.

Again, I don’t think that you’re arguing in good faith.
Python is able to load Python code at runtime, so one can use Python for configuration. A solution doesn’t need to go looking for problems that are already solved.
The only notable thing about the comment section on the Toyota recall, is that it not filled with apologists crying that people are unfairly highlighting a safety issue.

Of course, Toyota is treated as a real car maker, and they should be scrutinized as such. Recalls are no joke.

But when it's a Tesla recall, the comment section is a shitshow. An odd mix of Musk sycophants, shills that are financially invested in the company, and fanboys that adopted Teslas as a sort of status symbol.

The funny thing is that initially I was neutral on Tesla. I didn't love or hate Elon, and saw Tesla as another US car maker, not more or less special than Ford, GM, etc.

But those people really soured me. If the consumers of those cars are willing to undermine its flaws for ulterior motives, that's one car I'll always refuse to buy.
When distributing LSP servers you need to compile them to the target platform. Afterwards you normally also need an extension or plugin to actually activate the LSP server. So it is possible that there is an LSP server, but they haven’t figured out the distribution yet (sharing binaries? Homebrew?).
I pay for Jetbrains Ultimate every year, and I've been considering boycotting it.

Not because of this AI thing, but because IntelliJ IDEA seems to break more and more things on their WSL + Gradle support every update.

I've filed over 15 issues on YouTrack over the years, and almost half of them are Gradle + WSL related.

The latest IDEA update completely broke it for me. I could no longer even load the projects I was working on.

I am so fed up with the complete lack of QA and testing for this fundamental workflow.
Not using cash means someone gets a cut of a processing fee. Every time, with almost no exceptions.

I’m not down to have rent seeking companies taking a slice of my hard earned money just so I don’t have to manage a few pieces of paper.

You’re generally paying 3-4 percent of every transaction now, as that’s pretty standard for debit cards on businesses, and it doesn’t matter if it’s charged to the card holder or the business, the consumer ultimately pays for it in higher prices. Heck, people pay transaction fees on payments they make the to government because the government won’t take cash.

Do we really need to make not paying invisible fees in everything illegal? Seems crazy.
Exactly. They only have SQL query and a fixed set of tables. No insert, update or changing database structure.
> Firefox for iOS supports keyword and %s url scheme for search engines. I am not sure why extensions are needed in desktop.

So does Firefox desktop...? Extensions aren't needed, just right click on a search field and add it. You can customise placeholders and keywords too
The new soccer stadium in St. Louis is completely cashless. Upon arrival, you attach a form of payment to a scan of your face, then the system tracks you and your purchases throughout the stadium.

No thanks.
The fees of cash are considerable for many businesses. At least where I live returning money to the bank is not free.
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doubt I would use it elsewhere instead of JSON but if this is an indicator that .plist in xcode will go away then I'm all in - .plist is probably one of the worst formats human can work with.
If you're interested, there's now an unofficial community Discord: https://discord.gg/vDhhCT24
This works. I recently used this approach to find baby names on Reddit. I would show GPT a list of articles and ask "list the article IDs among these which appear to be about baby names". Then further show each of those articles and ask "what baby names were mentioned in this post and its replies?".
This is measurably false. Google’s IPv6 adoption graph has noticeable spikes on the weekends when people use their home internet, and decreases during the work week when people go to work: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Adoption is limited by enterprises who are change-averse and already entrenched in ipv4. Residential ISP’s have made much more progress.
There was a similar question a few months ago, here’s what I answered back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38702378

Best of luck!
On the other hand, if you're living in a street with lots of criminal activity and money laundry operations, maybe you think differently about it.
I started exploring the neovim world. It's a bit of work to get started but I'm getting close to realizing the same, or pretty close to, features that I expect. I haven't gotten to renaming, moving methods, etc. yet though.

I started with NvChad (weird name) and have been happy so far. I love to ecosystem of Pycharm Professional, but I have to restart it frequently as it slows down my system. I haven't been able to determine if it's a specific plugin, or just a result of my fairly bland usage patterns.
This is a great summary. Terminal and WSL2 were really nice additions to all of that other cool shit like hyper-v, sandbox, etc. But, I still rather just use Proxmox/Linux...
I give them another decade and maybe they produce a functional equivalent of RPM specs at last.
There were already costs. There were always costs and risks associated with cash handling: armored trucks doing cash collection, risks of money in tills being lost. If it really were a lot cheaper you wouldn’t see businesses clamouring to go cashless.

That’s not to say I think cash should go the way of the dodo, but I don’t think there’s that much difference paying g4s to collect your money vs Mastercard.

IMO the benefits of cash are on the consumer, not the business.
Last I looked, checks had privacy regulations. Most other payment methods don't really. I'm also my bank's customer. For most payment companies, I'm the product.
The comments already mention several alternatives (Minio, Ceph, GarageFS). I think another one, not mentioned yet, is JuiceFS [1]. Found one comparison here [2].

[1] https://juicefs.com/en/

[2] https://dzone.com/articles/seaweedfs-vs-juicefs-in-design-an...
If I visit the Wikipedia page of a film I haven't seen, it's my own fault if I get spoiled. Same difference here.
Bitcoin is still "improving", as tech. I know.

But the community at large, is still crap. Rugpulls, pyramid schemes, bad management, misleading marketing and so on, are more common than not. It's easier to get scammed or grifted than to find a good, solid provider of a service. That's even more true for the cryptocurrency world at large, but even for the "niche" of bitcoin(maximalists) this goes.
Windows 10 (IoT) LTSC 2021. It lets you uninstall Edge with just a right-click. And it doesn't have any 'modern apps' and Store preinstalled.
Take out $10k every few years....
> anonymous ... you might be surprised how much the police can do to trace cash

That is not the point. The point is in the contract - e.g., that you are not accepting to untick a "do not track" flag. That circumvention is always possible is not what matters there.
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Some scenarios I hope you see as obvious:

- you take out cash from an ATM. The machine is loaded with
sequential or logged order of SN that can be matched to withdrawals
and times.

- you take that cash immediately to a vending machine or supermarket
auto-checkout that takes notes. The machine scans all notes it
ingests and can match them to timings and purchase details.

- Even a small shop might have a camera at the till, along with a UV
light frequency used to check for forgeries.

Obviously as the time between withdrawal and re-appearing in a system
grows the strength of the association gets lower, as notes change
hands. But in a serious crime investigation that doesn't matter, it's
a good-enough capability to warrant chasing.
> What is that first link saying? That teachers need LESS oversight? This must be a joke.

Here's what it's saying, literally:

> An Ofsted inspection "contributed" to the death of head teacher Ruth Perry, an inquest has ruled.

> The inspection "lacked fairness, respect and sensitivity" and was at times "rude and intimidating", senior coroner Heidi Connor said.

> Mrs Perry, 53, took her own life in January while waiting for an Ofsted report to be published.

Seems entirely uncontroversial for them to review their practices and nowhere in there is it saying that teachers need less oversight.
What is the use case for this? There are a zillion config languages from toml to yaml to HCL.
I used to write in Perl 20 years ago. It started really nice, with well-structured code.

And then when I learned this and that, the code started to be more concise, to the point of being impossible to understand for the author (me) after a week.

I liked it though and I realize that this is not Perl's fault but mine. Still, giving too much power to less experienced devs without having them unlock some kind of experience badge is dangerous :)
It might also imply that 1 billion+ people also have a bad experience, but can’t do anything about it.
When you deposit money at a commercial bank, and they send the excess cash to the central bank, they do get central bank reserves.

However, that doesn't mean it happens routinely. Most banks probably just send the cash between one another, decided via a clearing house with no central bank middle man. I am only describing the cash handling process here by the way. 99% of the business still operates based on electronic reserves.
Casino atms stock 100s, but they are a special case.
> You can construct a hypothetical where someone gets lucky, and you can construct one where someone has reason to suspect the minerals are there and invests in the land.

You don't even need to construct the scenario where someone with enough capital just buys up as much as possible, knowing they will get lucky with some subset of their property. That's both a modern problem and the plot of Blazing Saddles (yes, I'm choosing that example to focus on how widespread of an issue this has been for centuries).
I wonder why no one has tried setting up a village like in the movie? With all the ills of society it seems worth a try.
I recently switched to neovim for everything that is not csharp programming (rider is still too good)
It’s also the movie industry so this might be their only major gig for the year, making up the bulk of their annual salary.
I believe the point the parent was making is that this isn't a single axes. There are a variety of different types of oversight that can be done on different aspects of schooling.
Rich are getting richer but financial meltdowns happen all the time and then we are all again at the year zero and we shuffle the cards and start playing like nothing happened. In another words, richness does not last forever.
It's not saying that. It's saying that the current oversight is highly flawed and urgently needs changed. You're falsely equating qualitative change to quantitive change.
Wait until these LLMs start eating the garbage they output; training themselves on their own hallucinations. I think soon people will be seeking out verified human-created, human-curated content.
By your logic the currency goes up when the poor get poorer
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Cash is free and easy. Electronic payments add cost and complexity that sometimes results in failure.
1) You can introduce the innovation of spaces, as is used for example in older Japanese video games that had no Kanji

2) If that were a problem oral Japanese would be unintelligible. It is not. Most homonyms can be resolved.

Furthermore, they could adopt a Korean system, where everyone uses a non-Kanji system, but the Kanji are still taught in high school as a type of “Latin”/“Greek” where they draw literally 55% of their vocabulary from.
The mouse button, like most buttons, is "clicky" specifically for tactile feedback.
Died long ago when their mod team banned people who actually used it.
programmable and safe is an oxymoron.
If they did, we wouldn’t know…
The "crypto" world is 99% scams and 1% misguided nonsense, I agree. Wrt bitcoin, there are a lot of extremely talented, honest and trustworthy people working on both the technical side and providing services. Look at the projects and people sponsored by Opensats [1] for some good examples.

I know many people will reflexively disagree with the notion that the bitcoin world isn't entirely made up of bros and scammers.

[1]: https://opensats.org/projects
Here - that being outside of Austin in Texas - I think the root causes for this behavior lie with tax cheats and ineptitude.
Yes, if a million poor people lose $1 each, that has the same effect as one guy losing $1 million.
Fail to see how this is any different than Dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/) other than it produces plists too.
On iphone you can call emergency by just holding both side buttons at the same time.
To NK? I don’t believe the US has an extradition treaty with them. And even if they did, politics would stop any extraditions from moving forward.

Do enough damage though, and the American government will find a reason to stop you if you are destabilizing the US’s diplomatic relations with other countries.
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Lots of people have. From Amish to communes to cults.
> But Word for collaborative work is a nightmare

Why? It has comments, tracking etc. Concurrent edition i impossible, though (even when MS says it is possible). For that Google Docs is great (or some self-hosted systems)
There are three (maybe more?) ways things can be Turing-incomplete:

1. You are limited to N evaluation/reduction steps.

2. The language doesn't include primitives like recursion or loops.

3. You can have recursion or loops, but the language makes you somehow prove that your program will terminate.

I think (1) would be fine, but I don't know any configuration languages that use this approach.

(2) is restrictive/annoying whenever you want to implement any logic in the config language library. Eg. a tool uses a homegrown data format BAML and you need to convert JSON to BAML in the config. Now either you have to write and manually call a preprocessor, or you need to use a patched version of the <config language evaluator> that will have JSON->BAML as a built-in, or you must implement JSON->BAML without loops or recursion. For a more realistic example, imagine that a certain config string has to be HTML-escaped and the config language doesn't provide a built-in for that purpose.

(3) -- you don't want it. There are languages (like Agda) that let you prove things like "this program terminates", but writing those proofs can be harder than writing the program itself.
And yet, when last did you get a 3-4% discount when paying cash? I remember that from the 90s and 00s.

In fact, I have seen some small places ask a 3-4% surcharge for cash payments, because banks don't process cash for free any more.
> I’m not down to have rent seeking companies taking a slice of my hard earned money just so I don’t have to manage a few pieces of paper.

You’re pretending as if there weren’t any costs associated with handling cash. There’s almost always a handling fee if you want to put the cash into an account, which you will need to do if you want to pay people that are somewhere else than you are. If you have larger quantities of cash, you’ll also have to pay for safe transportation of the funds. If you make an honest comparison
When it comes to applications, Android is very different from any Linux distro. Android apps rely almost entirely on Google made additions on top. Something like waydroid could bridge the gap but I don't have first hand experience how good it is.
Damn I’m too used to use it as my ide. There is no comparable alternative for java