skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only respond to the part of your question that is coherent to
me. The "how would that work?" part feels ill-formed and something
I've already answered.

But "Why would crime become constant?" is very interesting. For that
we turn to "criminology" [0,1]. Roughly, there are three "layers",
biological, psychological and sociological. All of these are either
fixed, or very slow and hard to change.

Indeed the biggest factors in "how much crime there is" are laws and
reporting, how visible the crime is. Obviously we could make crime
disappear overnight by declaring all behaviours legal. Really, the
justice system can only absorb and respond to what the underlying
social and economic conditions set.

Most crimes are resource motivated [2]. Violent crime makes headlines,
ruins lives, changes votes and is generally undesirable. "Soft" crimes
are less visible and have less impact, especially when they are
against actors that are so immensely wealthy they do not even care
(for example big-tech companies that see huge fines as simply the cost
of doing business as usual)

When we have a fixed pool of criminal potential (set by these
structural conditions), which would you choose as a new criminal
entering the "market"?

And not surprisingly, Pew Research polls showed "violent and property
crimes declined by 51% and 54%, respectively, between 1993 and 2018."

Therefore the hypothesis I was curious about was whether Removing the
opportunity for cyber crime (via better security) would have the
unintended side effect of shifting crime back into physical robbery
and theft with its attendant violence.

What do you think?

[0] https://www.britannica.com/science/criminology/Major-concept...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminology

[2] https://online.maryville.edu/blog/types-of-crimes/
Honestly you are just describing to me more exciting features. The correlations with potential illnesses, etc. Have all of your data piped into single location to use AI to improve your health.
Apple Vision Pro: Remote Work Review [video]
Yeah, I carry a small wallet and pretty much never use phone pay. I'm taking something out of my pocket in either case and there's never a question whether my credit card will work or not.
"It's not the same situation as back then. 1. They don't have the same browser market share at all."

That's essentially irrelevant because (a) Microsoft complied with the Court's ruling and allowed other browsers to be installed without hindrance, that's not the situation now; (b) you're painting a picture as if Microsoft was disadvantaged by the situation now and thus it's unfair to impose such restrictions again this time. To that I'd add that in case you haven't noticed Microsoft has just passed three trillion in value, it's only second to Apple in achieving this milestone. Thus the changed situation hasn't disadvantaged it one iota.

I'd maintain that Microsoft has only managed this incredible feat because throughout its 48-year life it has consistently used unacceptable, bullyboy monopolistic practices at every opportunity.

Essentially, Microsoft's growth has been at the expence of competitors who haven't had the size and finacial power to stand up to its market dominance no matter how good their products were. Such bad behavior has screwed both the market and product development for everyone—small and medium-sized developers, hardware manufacturers and end users. Just about the only entity that hasn't been screwed by its unacceptable business practices is Microsoft itself.

The most significant reason for Microsoft's unfettered growth is that the regulators have been asleep at the wheel for decades—no doubt encouraged to 'sleep' by millions plowed into lobbying.

On the matter of Mozilla, I'm certainly not an apologist for the company, in fact over the years I've been very critical of Mozilla including here on HN. Yes, the dominance of Chrome from that other monopolist Google has had a lot to do with Firefox's downfall, but that said Mozilla has been shooting itself in the foot for decades. Why and how is pretty obvious and well known so I won't debate that here.
The first and last pages are nothing more than a test of how much toner the printer can hold.
Why assume it's a greenfield project? I would think most open source software that comes out of companies have lived internally for a while before going public?
Movie goers buy individual tickets which makes a huge difference vs radio. Unpopular movies get booted from theaters very quickly where unpopular songs can stick around on the radio indefinitely.

And it doesn’t matter how connected you are, movie flops quickly kill careers.
'Replacing notes from memory' is not ideal but it's far removed from 'make up evidence' used in the headline.
With cash, they can only do it to everybody at once or not at all. With a number in a bank's database, they can selectively expropriate people based on any criterion with as little effort as between zero (in the case of tacit understanding) and a dozen (if they have to remind the banks that a tax audit is technically overdue or something) phone calls.
Lesspipe, lessopen, less filters, and some related concepts take everyones most favourite pager, less, and make it even more less than it already was.

This includes the ability to use less on compressed files, word processing files, spreadsheets, CSVs, HTML documents, PDFs, and more. Not always successfully, but often useful, especially when shell / terminal / console access is all you have.

Inspired by a recent HN comment thread: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39228864>
Does this support fancy symbols in bare identifiers? Even the huge reference page is blank on that, and the only working links to grammar are to the ANTLR website, but even if they did work, the grammar is also blank as it simply references an internal grammar function

And there doesn't seem to be any online playground to test
> it's so intrusive and obnoxious

Hm. I didn't know there was an installed-per-default assistant. Maybe it's disabled if your workplace uses Copilot?

I use Rider, WebStorm, Datagrip, CLion (and occasionally Android Studio) and haven't had this thing thrown in my face yet. The "new UI" can go diaf though.
> Plus cash is just so much more convient and faster.

There are many reasons I'm not anti-cash, but I am really struggling to think of a single example of this specific statement being true. Just acquiring cash at all means I have to take time out of my day, repeatedly, to make withdrawals. Then I have to carry it securely (as well as the cards I need to get hold of more), which is annoying at the best of times and pretty much impossible when I'm out running, say. Handing cash to a merchant means they need to figure out change, and eventually I end up carrying a bunch of coins and they are even slower to spend than notes. Boarding buses was so much slower when each person paid in cash. Paying for a beer or meal needed the staff to take the money back to the till and return with change. When going abroad I need to use notes and coins I'm unfamiliar with. Honestly, when is cash faster?
Of course they will. Why shouldn’t they?
How often does their IT fail? Outsourced to Crapita or Fooljitsu by any chance?

With Google Docs/Office 365 the last time I lost a full document is years ago now.

I am old enough to have stored my laptop in the fridge when writing my PhD thesis, to keep the fault rate down. However, that is when hard drives where still mechanical, and online backups not a common thing.
I really really really would think that Bitcoin fills this exact need.

There's a lot wrong with the cryptocurrency world and with Bitcoin specifically. So much wrong, that I'm afraid we closed the one way out of government and corporate-controlled "digital money" and all the risks that comes with. But maybe it never was a good "way out" in the first place: maybe there never was a way out at all.

I keep hoping the grifters and scammers and marketeers move on to the next hypetrain (metaverse, ai) allowing the bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to be salvaged and become the way out again. But that hope is diminishing.
Python would be a terrible choice for this.

* It's been dragged into static typing kicking and screaming.

* You import the whole Python infrastructure/packaging catastrophe.

* It's not sandboxed.

If you wanted something Python-like you would you Starlark.
That's wild. Here in the UK, tradespeople usually have a card reader, or some accept bank transfers.
Goal: Embeddable array programming language with a bytecode interpreter in Go
As a speaker (or at least writer) of English which uses the Latin alphabet and that has extensive borrowings from Latin and French, how connected do you consider yourself to the Canterbury Tales, to Beowulf, and to Cicero?
Farewell, after 20 years: Why we did what we did
The lack of fast free digital money transfer infrastructure in the U.S. is something that seems crazy to anyone in the EU.

Every EU country (and the UK) has had fast free digital bank transfers for decades now. Here in the UK we pay all “casual” services like cleaners, dog walkers etc via a simple, quick bank transfer. It’s great, I don’t need to keep cash, and person providing the services has the money in their account, ready to spend, about 500ms after I tap the “send” button on my phone.

I can see how cheques are convenient for purchasers, but for suppliers they’re a bit of nightmare, as they need physically deliver the cheque to cash it. Then wait for it to clear, and also take on all the risk of it bouncing. All of that just goes away with proper digital money transfer technologies.
Yes, I read that. It is underpinning the 3-2-1 rule, 3 backups, on 2 different mediums (where zfs can be one of the two), one off-site.

I think it makes sense and thank you for the sensible reminder.
The problem is that (2) goes away by just putting your head in the sand, while (1) is what you're confronted with no matter how much you try to not think about it.
>They did fine for many years without mobile phones, cars, aircraft and computers... your point is irrelevant.

Nah, rather it's the comparison that is off.

Without cars, for example, transportation was slow and constrainted, affecting commerce, work, and lots of other things. Whether good or bad (since there are negatives too) the introduction of the car was a huge change.

Network connected fridges? The incovenience they solve is so rare and small that most people don't give a damn about, not to mention the incovenience from their assorted crappy controls, the privacy issues, and other such factors, can be even higher and more constant.

Might as well compare the invention of fire with the Shake Weight.
600 million ($)?

They've got ~$6000 (?) million from Google over the years. In a total distortion of reality Edge is the downfall of Firefox, not the reason they spent $6000M for 3% market share because they made every mistake they could make. Everyone else would be belly up already, but $600M/year makes it hard to die.

The fact that new browsers are popping up left and right (like Floorp) should tell Mozilla there seems to be demand for something that isn't FF.

(Written from FF with Tab Center Reborn as a vertical tab)
"the safest position ... cosleeping with our baby"

Also, it really depends on what they mean by baby. An infant: probably shouldn't cosleep. A baby older than two to four months: probably fine if you have a large enough bed or side bed and take the proper precautions such as enough space for the baby, a flat surface with no sheets bunched up, no pillows or anything that can fall on them, etc. Some cultures promote sleep sharing yet have lower instances of SIDS than the U.S., and it's perhaps not clear how the studies arrived at it being so unsafe. Plus, as a parent, you are quite aware of the baby's presence. I think parents probably sleep worse during cosleeping, but the baby sleeps and bonds better.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/21/6012896...
I don't see why I should give a corporation information about all my payments. I already carry a phone with me, that's enough to spy on where I am, they don't need to know what I do or who I do it with. Privacy is a right, not a privilege, I don't see why I should just throw it away for a little convenience.
Because it doesn't solve any problem that anyone has? Bank transfers and card payments are easy, fast and already widespread, at least everywhere except for the US.
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3303-the-...

>"Okay, this Linux on Phones thing ... but it has no apps, right?"

The Play Store has millions of apps for Linux on phones. People who think this more likely don't realize that Android uses the Linux kernel than those who are unaware that Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch have dedicated app stores.
Do you know how?
I think what's required is electronic cash, something like a CBDC with an electronically transferable, partially anonymous system that still allows offline payments if case the central computers get knocked out.

GNU Taler satisfies one half of these constraints (cashlikeness + taxability). The Swedish e-krona pilot also has a token based component to allow offline payments.
I moved to Sweden ~2.5 years ago and I can count the number of times I've used cash on one hand.

It's definitely less private, but the convenience is unmatched. Honestly, I don't even know what the modern Swedish notes look like now!
I can imagine the answer if I were in their shoes. Say I already have something working as a plugin (or know how to make plugins vs. learning from scratch about implementing LSP), I'd rather have this out there as soon as possible and add more tooling/language support in subsequent releases.
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I believe once we go fully cashless, we'll regret it and wish we could go back.

I can barely enjoy a full day without being required to bring my phone / debit card with me because the register does not accept cash.
Yeah, but that can't be the reason, right? If healthcare is so cheap, then claims should never be getting close to the limit unless there's a fatality (wrongful death) or permanent disability. Both of those are very rare, about half the rate as in the US and diffused by tens of thousands of drivers. So it still doesn't make sense to me that the cost would be much higher.
Today the JS devroom if way too full and the sound in the container devroom makes it very hard to understand the speakers :/ Everyone is very nice and helpful though
If a card supports tapping and you have 1 card in a thin wallet, could you tap your wallet in the same way you could tap your phone?
Will mega-constellations damage earth's magnetic field?
Not exactly a great piece of cinema, but a veru enjoyable one. Not exactly a parody of an action movie, but one that took itself only as seriously as necessary.

Carl Weathers was great in everything he did, and being a football star/action hero type made his surprising sense of humor and egolessness that much more effective. He was the anti-Steven Seagal, in a way.
yep, especially because a lot of people use debit cards that only work when online.

and yes, even on small markets merchants charge with a handheld terminal.
"Only" 2 percent.
Bitcoin mining should be illegal.

And usage probably too, because otherwise miners would just move to country without good eco regulations. And eco damage would be just spread across all population.
>They literally increased the purchasing power of each remaining pound by doing so.

Did they. Notes aren't a limited resource and they can still be considered in the cashflow
> great examples for why this naming scheme makes a lot of sense

Great example when doing according to the letter just makes more stupid. Sure, in English (which one, btw? US English? UK English? Global Universal English?) it's commonly named such, but you are reading that article on the site what poses itself as encyclopedia, more so as encyclopedia which strictly relies on other documentation for the article texts and data. Anyone sane would just add a remark at the start of the article about usage of that name in English, because that's quite important thing all and all.

But not only there are no such remark, but those people actively refuse to add one.

And finally, in the article:

>> The Kalashnikov Museum (also called the AK-47 museum) opened on 4 November 2004 in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic

.. but it's not called 'AK-47 museum'! It's 'The Kalashnikov Museum and Exhibition Complex of Small Arms'!

So they just blatantly 'renamed' the museum to fit their shenanigans, completely ignoring their own principles of encyclopedia.

https://en.museum-mtk.ru/
There’s a documentary called “ watch the K foundation burn a million quid” well worth watching.
I can barely enjoy a full day without being required to bring cash because the vendor does not accept card.

(Not actually true since basically everyone accepts card in the UK, but it illustrates that your point makes no sense.)
>I just don't understand why you'd make that decision on a greenfield project today, especially if LSP support is planned at all?

How about if the LSP doesn't cut it for the kind of they IDE support they want to offer?
"Well-Known Secrets"... funny...
Was there something you particularly disagreed with, other than the
gender and skin colour of the author?
I’m still peeved that they don’t follow that guideline for the Sears Tower, and instead call it the “Willis Tower”. Just because the signage was changed doesn’t mean anybody actually calls it that.
The two reasons I never want an ice-dispenser, is that one, it's rediculously expensive. I would never pay hundreds of euro's for a standalone machine that makes ice: for that price I'll gladly keep fiddling with trays in the freezer or just drink my drinks without ice. Why pay that markup when it's embedded?

And second, it's the single point of failure of the entire fridge. Everything else, from the rubbers to the pump will last longer and be easily repairable. I'm convinced it's mainly there because producers of fridges know it obsoletes the entire fridge faster. That without these fragile "addons" the machine might just last for years or decades. During which this family does not buy a new one.
Yeah, I usually carry some cash in local currency. But I often end up with coins I can't be bothered to figure out or with a ziplock bag of currency I ultimately never end up using in a drawer at home. And, if I were really stuck in a place that unexpectedly required me to use cash for everything I almost certainly wouldn't have enough with me.
Obligatory Neuromancer (1984) reference:

His total assets were quickly converted to New Yen, a fat sheaf of the old paper currency that circulated endlessly through the closed circuit of the world's black markets like the seashells of the Trobriand islanders. It was difficult to transact legitimate business with cash in the Sprawl; in Japan, it was already illegal.

I am fairly convinced that using cash will slowly be labeled as a "criminal" activity and gradually shamed into non-use by regular people.
Who knows, maybe this is the good timeline and "money goes the way of the dinosaurs" so we get to enjoy a Star Trek-like future.
Depends probably on how extensive and detailed the notes are. And the big problem seems to be that they are hiding the fact that those notes were from memory.
900k stars, galaxies and black holes revealed in most detailed X-ray map
Sweden also has pretty public tax income records.
MIT and IBM Find Clever AI Ways Around Brute-Force Math
> Being able to do it is not the same as actually doing it.

You could have smart devices similarly only react or go to active mode when you press a button on your watch etc.

> The rest of your argument, sorry but I can not respond without feeling angry. It just feels like the rationalizations of a selfish, too-clever-by-half neomaniac.

Okay, I agree that your words can describe me well, but what do you think the end game for humans or tech is? Why do we exist here? Are we just here to reproduce over and over again with no change? And if there's always change, aren't you curious what will happen in the future?
'Missing link' that created water in our solar system discovered
Apple's Vision Pro Is Trying to Solve a Nearly Unsolvable Problem
That's a new one. Genuine question, why do you prefer using cash instead of using a phone or card?
> Yes it is. The Y axis is "Percentage of Steam users".

"% of desktops amongst Steam users" is significantly different from "% of desktops".
> I can barely enjoy a full day without being required to bring my phone / debit card with me because the register does not accept cash.

Buy somewhere else (if humanly possible), and tell this to the vendor who doesn't want to accept cash.
>Plus cash is just so much more convient and faster.

You mentioned "puritanism and censorship" as your main issue with cards (and I assume with other digital payment systems), but to the best of my knowledge that's only an issue with online payments, for which cash isn't really possible at all. Unless you feel that sending bills in an envelope to some postal address you see on a website to be fast and convenient.
GAO: National cybersecurity plans lack performance measures and estimated costs
Dark patterns are certainly evil. I don't think they help the company in the long run.

However, I just went on a sort of browser deep dive for the best browser on windows and came away, surprisingly, with edge.

The requirements were vertical tabs, keep my chrome extensions, and got out of my way.

Brave, firefox, chrome, and vivaldi all had issues that couldn't be resolved in the UI. For example, firefox's tree style tabs still kinda requires that you keep the top tabs for some uses.

I didn't even consider edge at first. The rewards/shopping/bingwhatever integrations were disqualifiers. But apparently, you can disable all of them fairly quickly.

The pdf viewer is also better than chrome's with extended options.

I guess I also must admit the benefit of not fighting windows because I'm doing what they want.

We'll see if their next forced update reverts to their awful defaults but for now, I'm happy with it. At least until arc browser is available.

It's a real shame that Microsoft is so schizophrenia here. If they were to respect their customers, they would gain far more than they would lose.

The dev-focused arm seems to understand long term customer goodwill but the OS/browser team does not.