skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, it wasn't even so much the money as it was I had to plan and then do some (sometimes fairly time-consuming) meal prep. There are things I can buy either locally or keep in the freezer that are good and are far less time to prepare.

But I agree with your basic point. More than a meal at McDonald's is probably a lot to many people.
How will you tell which ones are made by real humans, and which ones are AI generated?

And regardless, which have real content when the reviews and ads are also generated?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39219573
Is this related to the other sega toys? The website is vintage so seems independent?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Toys
On the other hand he also put Usual Suspects on that list (he argues the plot is too complicated). Can't disagree more.
And I thought ice-nine was bad…
If becquerel why not microfortnight? (about a second)
You actually hit the nail on the head re: gift giving.
I stumbled upon this years ago with family more..

If you want to gift anything nice to family who is more scarcity mindset, you absolutely HAVE to talk up the deal/discount you got, or how you paid for it with points that were going to expire, or something. It's also better if the thing you are gifting has opaque pricing / is somewhat custom or uncommon so they can't just google the price.

Anyway.. everything turns into sales/marketing sometimes!
For me, it's code review that makes me write in a maintainable style. It's the team that's responsible for a code base and objections are raised whenever anyone thinks that they'll struggle to understand this or that line. We also enforce consistency. Yes, you _can_ choose any character for quoting lists, but for the love of Pete, you _will_ follow how it's done in every other case (in that file, at least).

I'll miss you qw//, but I was out-voted. :(
What effort/sacrifice was expelled? Flipping through the paper with a pair of scissors? You didn't even need to buy the paper as the coupons were ignored by the majority of those that did buy the paper and would just toss the coupons. It took no more effort than what people expend doom scrolling the socials.
> That's a better way to install things, but it's not the only way that installation is done

It’s by far the most common. Most people just buy Hue lightbulbs and an hub to use with their existing home setup, which involves physical light switches still being present.

> Pushing closer to tin-foil hat territory…

For lights specifically: If this is a threat model that worries you, it’s quite easy to setup something like home assistant.io with zigbee lights.

Your repudiation appears to be about centralized services, not about “smart” devices as a general concept.
Yes, and it’s a good idea to not trust bottled water as well. You could have some grandpa in Nevada having his own ideas how « Real water » should taste. And then its gets grandfathered and sold at WholeFoods.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/jury-awards-229m-to-v...
Agreed. Anything by Oracle is an automatic hard nope.
How Quora died
Douglas Adams said this thing about how you should never consider how
utterly improbable it is that miraculously complex things keep
working, because suddenly they won't. I mean, if you woke up each day
and pondered the intricacies of cellular mitochondia and your own
endocrine system... the anxiety would be crippling.

After 50 odd years of computing which began soldering my own from TTL
chips and transistors in the 1980s I find the only way to navigate
current levels of abstraction is to join the kids in their kind of
optimistic, faith-based wishful thinking, just let go and float above
it all.

But every now and again something goes wrong and absolutely nobody but
people like you and I can even imagine what it might be.

More terrifying is meeting people with very inflated job titles, in
positions of enormous wealth, power and responsibility, whose
knowledge of even the most elementary physics and logic is absent.
They're actually kind of proud of that, and positively celebrate
ignorance all the "things they don't need to know". Part of me finds
that insulting and disrespectful.
That coupled with the crazy cashback deals that were on offer from referral sites..

I cleared double that, but doubt it would work these days.
Oh, I didn't comment on the Pkl, just on the status quo. My bad for not making that clear.

"Enough" is the keyword here, time will tell I guess.
Scot here! Especially since the advent of Apple and Google Pay, more and more people use cashless payments - with our phones always on our person these days, it's very convenient.

There are still some holdouts though - it's only recently I've started to see taxis that routinely accept card payments, and without a ludicrous extra processing fee.

I've travelled a lot, and I'd say Norway, Sweden and Denmark are all way ahead of Scotland in terms of cashless.
It sounds like you're still upset about the truckers protest in Ottawa in February 2022.
This was what made me understand the voice-activated stuff too. I hadn’t appreciated, until hanging around with more people enduring the indignities of aging, how even trivial physical tasks become ordeals.
https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning/Tb418f4ccd5...

They explain it here, but it is basically not needed though they wanted to take advantage of rusts features.
I for one really like it. It really feels to me like the right way to do this sort of thing.

By default, it's offline, so no privacy worries. Secondly, it works really well for me. It really does suggest what I'm about to write more often than not.
I'm convinced it's attacked by bad-actors because there are few sites that respect the user as much as Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia
Though they weren't a flash in the pan thing. It's true that their allure for marketing was that a lot of people priced the rebate in and then never mailed for it or violated some term/condition. But they were commonplace for a long time.
note very quickly with support staff and training not to injure themselves...
They are, but both were born out universities not companies, so I’m not sure how this goes against my statement.
My house cost $240 to clean. Handing around fat envelopes like a wise guy is a macho dream but not practical.
Good example, but in the case of PHP, emitting the ending tag is completely acceptable by the standard and is a common best practice as well, especially if your final content in the file is PHP code and not, for example, HTML.

I think what the you're suggesting is more like stretching the rules and perhaps going outside of the standard a little, but in a way that most implementations would be able to handle.
"are easily disproven by a quick read of the article". Some people don't have the room to trust that it will always and flawless not do those things from their security needs. You're right most people don't care and probably won't be affected, but the "probably" is not acceptable for everyone.

It didn't need to be bundled and Jetbrains had to provide awkward "delete these files on your system" for the people who genuinely couldn't live with the situation because the uninstall part was bugged.
Well the main reason to entertain it is that that's how science works -- something isn't false until proven, it's unknown until studied. It's worth studying because if it's true we'd like to know it.

Now is there any plausibility whatsoever? To my mind it definitely wouldn't be the weirdest scientific discovery of the last 20 years. Many of these chemicals are endocrine disruptors meaning they affect hormones. Some of these are so prevalent that we get exposed to them in-utero. And obviously sex hormones when the body is developing can impact one's development [1].

Some of these chemicals are essentially inescapable in our everyday life (BPA is even in the air at this point) but often at very low doses. So we don't know any direct link, but there's a lot we don't know.

1 - https://divisionofresearch.kaiserpermanente.org/in-utero-exp...
It's very fun to get angry at appliance makers - but if they actually made the appliances that we think they should, they would go broke because nobody (except a few of us) would buy them. This is how these newer "smart" appliances started taking over in the first place.

As evidence, check out some of the manufacturers that do make higher-quality dumb appliances, like Subzero and Speed Queen and notice how little consumer market share they have. Of course they are more expensive, but that's where the supply and demand curve cross. But where people like business owners WILL pay more for quality and longevity, they do have a major share of the commercial market.
We transitioned from Vue v0.14 to v2 to v3 without all that much code churn. Most of the work was a couple third-party components that got abandoned in the 2 —> 3 switch.

A couple major version upgrades in a decade seems reasonable.
> I really don't like cash and am happy to see it basically dead in the country.

That's fine for you but some of us need to buy illegal drugs.
Your mention of Futamura Projections was a nice reminder of how very mathy/theoretical foundations underpin Nice Things in high-level languages, like Hindley–Milner inspired type systems and modern optimizing compilers targeting SSA form. Value Lattices in Cue [1], another config programmable configuration language, also fall into this bucket.

[1]: https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/
This plugin is 'bundled' which means it can't be uninstalled. There are examples of widely used plugins supported by JetBrains that are not bundled, for example IdeaVim. They could suggest installing AI plugin as part of install/upgrade process, but not bundle it, like they do for IdeaVim. In that case everyone would be happy.
Seeing as Rust came out of Mozilla I would think supporting it in their email client would be fairly reasonable even without this push!
Plan9 is certainly unique and opinionated. Nextstep/Openstep/WindowMaker and RiscOS are two others that come to mind.
Folk Computer
I truly can’t figure out the rationale behind the idea that Mozilla is doing the same bad stuff as Microsoft and Google.

Pocket and the other related stuff I don’t want is so easy to disable.

And unlike Google, Firefox ships with reasonable web privacy defaults and doesn’t stoop to nerfing content blockers.

I swear, people expect Mozilla to be perfect to the point of wishing them out of business when they’re basically our last hope for a non-commercial web browser and engine. Nothing they are doing is anywhere near the same realm of sneaky or annoying in comparison.
Yeah it sucks. I can't quite put my finger on it, but is seems like giving up every transaction to the government and corps. That seems like a terrible terrible thing just for a little bit more convenience. I have some bit of hope though, it seems like Gen Z is seeing that "tech fixes everything" is bullshit and see to be enjoying less materialistic and "gotta get the latest/greatest". Millennials were likewise less materialistic than Gen X. Hopefully people come around to using tech where it makes sense and use it less in those areas that are detrimental to quality of life and where simple solutions work just fine.
Reminded me of tables.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4CuJm_lws
> want to disable the JetBrains AI... not the one I'm already paying for.

If you’re not paying for it, it’s not on. You can also disable the entire plugin from plugin settings if you want.
I use Linux and I’ll know I will be crucified for saying it… but Outlook’s base UI is just better and I might reconsider TB when I can make it look even remotely like Outlook.

It’s not big things. It’s spacing, fonts, choice of pictograms and their locations. Some is opinion, and some is just functionally better.

In fact, I stand by that if I were them, I would be pushing as hard as possible for an Outlook Theme for people just coming in or back. Office 365 is too common to ignore - considering the native Exchange support post here.
I was referring to the fact that they had to stop new _paid_ subscriptions because they weren’t able to deploy enough resources.
The mind. It is a curios thing.
Jetbrains took bit unsettling turn in recent years.

* Push for new "modern" UI which hides half of the functionality

* Spaces went away from their usual pricing model - even if you self host you have to pay reccuring fee or it doesn't work.

* In Youtrack you pay for maintenance/updates as before, but service desk addon is again hard subscription for no good reason.

* AI is yet another subscription - in this case it's understandable, but further normalises paying each month.

Seems like their old, reasonable management had their bodies stolen by ghosts of VC bros.
I find RPM specs to be pretty frustrating. Easy cases like packaging GNU Hello is fine, but things get out of control really fast once you fall off the happy path. RPM specs are based simple text substitution. It lacks the flexibility to make adjustments to the build, the power to build good abstractions, and comes with all the same drawbacks of the C preprocessor. On top of that, documentation is lacking for basic macros, language ecosystem support is spotty and scattered across various obscure projects, and SCL packaging is a complete nightmare. The whole design seems dated compared to other solutions.
That’s such a misrepresentation. The credit card fees exist because customers get benefits like delivery insurance, return insurance, holiday insurance, cashback, free credit, etc. If you just want to transfer bits you can do that for next to no fees (in Europe, where digital payments without consumer protections are common).
> firefox's tree style tabs still kinda requires that you keep the top tabs for some uses.

Hm, I've been using Tree Style Tabs for many years without the top tabs visible and I've never needed them back.
I used a lot that movie as an analogy during covid, when we were told that all borders were closed and it was impossible to travel, but the few friends who actually showed up at airports were surprised to see the whole thing functioning normally and be a rather nice experience (no lines). That was 2020 of course. 2021 was a different story.
You're right but also keep in mind that companies do make decisions like that with thought or are contractually bound by the work they do for this, e.g. defense work, proprietary secrets that if they got out would far exceed the cost of the requirements
> Telling people they need to use a less convenient payment method only to keep it alive for an emergency also seems doomed to fail.

Who said that? Certainly not me

Personally, I'm not advocating for cash. I just think it's stupid to brag about eliminating cash while putting all your savings and trust in a fragile system and infrastructure . There's nothing revolutionary about that.

People should have options and backups.
This is excellent, frankly. Lately I haven't been super keen on Thunderbird's move away from plugins (seriously, different colored accounts should be trivially easy and apparently no.)

But given the garbage pile experience that is "Outlook on the Web" (and the fact that I have been forced into it at work) -- yeah, if this works that'll be an easy donation.
People "waste" time on lots of things. But, yes, coupon-clipping and redemption is a certain amount of effort and I'm not going to bother unless it hits a fairly high threshold for something I'd have bought anyway.
“Safe” by the EPA’s standards
The primary error in your reasoning is that you assume that I'm some kind of empowered slave holder. But that's not true.

In fact, all of my ancestors that I know of are peasants, some of them serfdom peasants, most of them surely the Soviet XX century selfdom "kolkhoz peasants".

So whatever the ethnic minorities there were in the Soviet Union and preceding Russian Empire, a) I don't owe them anything, b) I would suggest them to cry me a river, and c) I will be offended by any unfounded accusations towards Russians.

As I have shown two answers below, my opponent cannot get his facts straight and is proud of it.

Now, I don't know who are you and when you've checked your own privileges the last time. Maybe you had actual slave owners between your ancestors, and now spend time lecturing dumb Eastern Europeans how they should treat each other.
> It lifts up everyone a little bit; most people a lot;

No, it doesn't. It helps the people who are lucky enough to already have one foot in the race. But that's not remotely everyone.

> directly addresses both hunger and cancer through better internet, more research, a bigger economy, connected tractors.

Perhaps, although that's not really "directly". But then you're saying that we need to allow multi-billionaires in order to have things like Starlink. How about we stop ISPs from being stingy with their money and suddenly we don't need to rely on one rich person to save us from the other rich people? You seem to think that if the government takes some control/wealth out of the hands of these people, we're suddenly going to have stagnation. I don't see why it has to be all-or-nothing; we don't have to implement scary, spooky communism. You know what I think is even better than having Starlink? If we had Starlink and we didn't have exploitative, ruthless businesses that led to needing to have Starlink as it is now. It would just be the new technology that Comcast or Verizon made, without the weird "Elon Musk will save us all" fanfare.
The old Kenmore was probably built by Whirlpool in a US factory. GE cafe is a rebranded Haier fridge from a Chinese factory.

We bought a Samsung (would have preferred LG) fridge 4 years ago and have not needed a single repair. But it is pretty bare bones — French door and in freezer ice maker — no water dispenser or door controls.
> Who is to say that this does not change one day?

Surely that can be said of any software - even those without any current AI stub functionality?
I would not want PG&E (northern CA power company) in charge of any more infrastructure in California. They already have shown incompetence by shifting maintenance funds into bonuses instead of actual infrastructure maintenance.
I dislike react and liked vue. However I’m on the svelte bandwagon now, which is similar to vue but improved. Basically sveltekit makes a lot of opinionated decisions for you but those are all good places to have opinions.
There is now. That was not there day 1
I'm not sure I've the best antibot solution, but it's handled through some crawler options exposed to the user. Out of the box, I use a (fast) http crawler with my app's user-agent. It is not at all resilient to antibot. I direct users who are encountering issues to first try a user-agent override, and if that doesn't work, to next enable javascript crawling (think headless chrome), which is slower and heavier, but clears up a lot of issues. I don't have a strategy for aggressive antibot (captcha/etc.) other than to tell the customer to dial it back on their website.

Edit: I've seen antibot SAAS providers, which claim to provide workarounds at a cost. You route traffic through their network, and they have teams that are constantly tweaking things to keep the requests working, much like scrapers adapting to website redesigns. It would be a treadmill to do on your own. There more info on this at https://substack.thewebscraping.club/ In my case, selling single-user perpetual licenses, it doesn't make sense.
Simon Wardley would like a word…in his model this is the natural order of things. As technology matures and standardized and a new generation of tools is built on top of new abstractions, and the details of that tech no longer need to be understood in order to use it.

Subjects and skills that were requisite basics a generation* ago, become advanced, under the hood topics for specialists. The next generation of people need different skills in the day to day.

This post is a great account of what that feels like from the inside, from the perspective of the newer generation learning these (now) ‘advanced’ topics.

(Funnily enough, I don’t (yet) see anyone commenting "real men write assembler" - a skill that has long ago moved from required by all developers to super-specialized and not particularly useful to most people.)

*I am using the word generation in the broadest sense as it relates to cycles of technology
Is that needed because the compiler accesses some higher privileged APIs?
Thomas Riker was mentioned again in the animated show Star Trek Below Decks, when one of the characters gets doubled by a transporter accident.
One of the happier things I’ve done for myself lately, at the advice of this forum, was to get a rock-solid, dumb, black-and-white Brother laser printer. It sits there and just does its job and I never have to think about it.

Does anyone have any tips as to the white-goods equivalents? Fridge, freezer, laundry machines, that kind of thing?
just like security it's a spectrum and not a 0 or 1. I could live on cash right now if I wanted to, so it isn't 90%. If the government stops issue it and issues debit cards only or allows banks to do it then that becomes impossible. The government could always come to your house and disappear you or trump up some charges and throw you in prison indefinitely, even in the USA, so that's not really an argument
Ah with gambling the business model is very different. You just need to be fishing for whales. Somebody can't be a 1000x or even 100x customer on Uber compared to the median. Somebody can easily be a 1000x gambler
Outlook has had the better mail UI since the late 90s at least, and I'm saying that as a committed (ding) Gnus user.
No particular reason that "land line" phones need wired service though. My office uses 5G service for internet and ATA VOIP adapters for the phones. The experience of using the phones is exactly the same as when they were on traditional copper circuits provided by the phone company 10 years ago.
Not from the US or Europe, but I buy fresh bread and store it frozen. It comes back quite well.
Nah, there is more than 1 bucket here. There are the poor people, who actually need the coupon to afford it, but they are not usually the problem. The problem is the stingy people. They'll complain the most, try to get refunds the most etc.
Blah blah blah, if they can get it they should. Whatever, I'd rather not have their business, I'll take the 80% of people that are happy.
Maybe this is pedantry, but opendime isn't really one-time use. It's designed to be passed between people many times and spent on-chain once. There's also satscard (from the same company) which has 10 unique "slots" so can be spent on-chain multiple times.

>offline equivalents are more fragile and can’t be used for the same use cases as cash, and anonymity continues to lag physical cash

OK, no argument there.
Can't they use LTSC or some group policy to avoid such a massive time waste across the whole company?

Which is kind of absurd one must do this, especially for 'Pro' editions.
I think this example is a great example of a benefit of telemetry. If your telemetry tells you that a _very large number of people_ are using it, and you have complaints from a number of people who have _never used it_ (or disabled telemetry), that tells you there's value in what you're doing.

Some people will never be happy, e.g.

> We live in the age where open source package managers and build tools come with built-in, opt-out invasive telemetry, and I'm talking bona fide OSS, not something by Microsoft. It's reasonable to assume that the plugin is, or at some point will be, phoning home, until proven otherwise.

That's a false equivalence to OP's point - there's a _stark_ different between telemetry and phoning home with training data.
The fact that my example is not really true is a stronger argument against you, not weaker.
The likelihood of a mouse button tactile feedback not matching what the computer actually sensed is much lower than the likelihood of a camera not picking up your pinch-touch gesture.
No, but devices have strict regulations and paperwork intended to keep people safe.

Keeping people safe when it comes to software means first and foremost having good security.