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Ask HN: How to counter articles/videos hoarding?
Hi HN,

I am a heavy Obsidian user. And part of that is having a running "Reading List", "Videos to watch list" etc.

A thing I have noticed is that once these hit over ~ 30 items, they become so big as to become useless.

I think in an ideal scenario, I'd like to maintain a list of ~10-20 items that I can peruse and pick something appropriate to read/watch when I have free time.

Please suggest a system/process to figure out how to maintain a manageable list that's not overwhelming enough to be useless.
AI and the Infinite Tail of Content
Be glad there are ATMs. I'm old enough to remember getting cash involved checks and bank tellers--assuming you had an account with a local bank because otherwise it was more complicated.
Take a look at this figure[0] from "The Neuroscience of Memory: Implications for the Courtroom"

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...
"I believe once we go fully cashless, we'll regret it and wish we could go back."

The major stores would be a problem, but on an individual basis I would bet many people would switch to silver or gold if cash were truly eliminated.
Benjamin Franklin — 'Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.'

Same for convenience

What liberty? The ability to make transactions without a centralized and/or permissioned finance system
Seriously, wasn’t the RT manipulation all over the news?

https://www.vulture.com/article/rotten-tomatoes-movie-rating...
This is increasingly difficult, at least in Western Europe, without it being a significant imposition. I've had several instances where, despite absolutely no signage or indication anywhere outside the business, inside the business, or on the menu, I've waited in a queue, ordered something, and only when I'm ready to pay been told that the, eg, coffee shop won't accept cash. I've also been to several restaurants, especially in London, where despite officially accepting cash, attempting to pay in cash will result in the staff returning and asking you not to if at all possible: it appears that the staff at those restaurants are not actually allowed to handle cash payments themselves, and have to have management handle them directly.

While it's not clear that these behaviours are legal, it does not appear that there is any enforcement.
Not that I know of, and you actually have to go out of your way to turn the Wifi on and connect. They have indicator lights that are off.

And it's not like they're TVs, I doubt they'd be able to show me any add on their 7-segment displays. So I'm not sure what would be the benefit of trying to connect to a network and let LG know that I've washed some clothes.
If it’s written in the law then it is. Depends where you live.
I live in a middle-income country and it's now not unusual to see beggars with card machines at the red light.
FYI: lately there has been very interesting univariate time series forecasting work mostly by Albert Gu using state space models.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00396
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.00396.pdf
The rate of violent crimes against people is low, but higher that you may feel by reading the newspapers. There is lots of crime, but typically not violent against other people. Having you home break-in is relatively common.
Ladybird browser update (January 2024) [video]
I, too, am interested in your views on the last 2 questions, since your views, not chatGPT's, are what informed the design. Part of learning from others' designs [0] is understanding what the designers think about their own design, and how they came about it.

Would you mind elaborating on them? HN gives a lot of space, and I'm confident you can find a way to summarize without running out, or sounding dismissive (which is what the response kind of sounds like now).

0 – https://aosabook.org/en/
The amount of problems I've had with JSON in my career makes me think almost anything could be better than it. There's so many weird edge cases in the JSON spec that you can hit that it just becomes endless levels of hair pulling.
have you worked with ide native extensions?
while LSP is useful, his expressiveness and power and integration is limited.
By what, 0.00001%? I think the quoted sentence is obviously talking about the symbolic power of money – and burning a million pounds certainly has a lot of that.
From https://pkl-lang.org/blog/introducing-pkl.html#editor-suppor...:

"We are also releasing two other plugins: our VS Code plugin, and our neovim plugin. Today, these plugins only provide basic editing features like syntax highlighting and code folding."
"But honestly, having to know the ins and outs just to use something isn't really practical."

This is why we have buffer overflows...
> high social trust.

With the rise of ML, and people salivating over the data inherent in currency flow, I suspect that trust may soon go the way of the dodo.

In the US, anything that makes money tends to get helped along. Regulators look the other way (until some knucklehead starts stealing from rich people), and even the lowest-level employees become "stans" of their bosses.

I am a believer in the promise of socialism, but, like communism, it's something that works on paper, but people screw it up.

Capitalism works. It does that, because it is completely in line with human behavior. Human behavior is pretty awful, when we don't have external restraints, so unrestrained capitalism is pretty awful.

Despite that cynical stance, I do have hope for the future. It will almost certainly make me uncomfortable, when it comes (as my own generation did, for my predecessors), but I think we'll prevail.
It's fairly common:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy

> Over 150 national constitutions mention the right to privacy.

Not the US, but:

> In the US, privacy and associated rights have been determined via court cases and the protections have been established through laws.

Privacy is not a privilege, it is a right.
> What is that first link saying? That teachers need LESS oversight? This must be a joke.

Are you suggesting this is a binary decision, where the only options is choosing "more oversight" or "less oversight"?
The Canada trucker protests are proof that the government can easily stop transfers even if they can't size the actual asset (which I would like to point out, they technically cannot legally do that with bank account either).

The whole thing is just postulating about a hypothetical then getting mad when it's completely wrong.

The "You cant stop our unstoppable money" to "it's disgusting that you have the power to stop our unstoppable money" pipeline
Transactions through credit cards and similar are not anonymous. Having third parties track your daily activities is beyond dystopian.
Apologies if this is too much of a spoiler, but you might be a bit surprised by how the film's immediate sequel plays out.

Edit: And considering when it was made and who made it, a happy ending was by no means guaranteed. Compare and contrast with the endings of Silent Running or American Graffiti.
Hey, do you remember where this setting is?
Sure, I guess? A roofless car seems like a really dumb idea.
Crypto is mostly useful in the absence of good financial infrastructure in your country. Otherwise the risk premium makes no sense.
Start writing and offer to write for free or a small fee for other popular outlets. Here is a bit of a parallel. About 15-17 years ago, someone approached me and offered to write technical articles for free for my blog (my blog was hot at that time). I got him to write but I also agreed to pay him - not high but pretty decent and way better than most writers here in India at that time.

He got noticed, got a lot more work, hustled hard, and is now a pretty big shot in a mega-corporation. His writings on my blog was not the only and most significant but it did played a major role in his career.

Try it out. Just start writing, offer to write, contribute elsewhere first.
Would it raise the value of the currency if the central bank didn't know this stash was destroyed? It seems like this pile of cash would still be considered to be "in circulation" until the central bank declared it to not be.
Everyone's internal ipv4 setup "works" right up to the point you need to join to another internal network and have overlapping subnets.

Or until you want you network segment to grow beyond a few thousand hosts.

Or until....

It's always tradeoffs. The complexities of IPv6 (and in some cases, the simplicity) at least comes after learning about what they got wrong in v4.
A programming language should not be so hard it takes multiple attempts.

Rust is ultimately doomed to stay small for this reason.

In programming, anything that can be done more simply WILL be done more simply by some competitor. This will be the fate of Rust.
On the rare occasions I use them--mostly when traveling--I've noticed some ATMs offering a choice of denominations. But it was certainly true historically that ATMs tended to spit out bills in denominations that were at least at the high end of what people used for day to day transactions.
No mention of Xcode support that I can find.
Battery voltage does not accurately reflect capacity. Only a load test will determine battery health. Much like a body of water can be silted up and shallow, a battery will accumulate internal damage that prevents it from providing sufficient power while under load.

The new battery may not have arrived fully charged. If it has been installed for a little while and given a chance to charge fully you should measure a voltage greater than 12.6. (disconnect battery and let it rest a few minutes before testing). If the voltage is below 12.6 you might have gotten a dud. Do a load test on the UPS to see how long it can power something like a 100 watt incandescent bulb.
Really think Luke’s paternal heritage would have been a better example :)
It's not vendors but governments that are pushing for this.
That's only an issue as long as you need fiat.
This is a great idea. I agree, the watermark thing is quite annoying.
You can absolutely disable it. I did when I first saw it.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.htm...
I'm so happy I switched to neovim at the end of 2022, just in time to avoid feeling angry but powerless with hyped-driven decisions from whatever company I depend on for my tools
Why so many plagiarists are in denial about what they did wrong
I was talking to a guy years and years back and my dad said to ask him about when he played in the NFL. Older guy. He lights up and says: “now this was back before anyone got paid anything to play football. We weren’t making anything but it was fun and we were allowed to hit real hard. I had a friend on the team who said ‘man I’m getting out of here… I’m gonna be an actor.’ Well, we’re all just a bunch meatheads but he was the only good looking guy… couple of years later I’m watching some boxing movie and there he is as Apollo Creed in Rocky”
> Wikipedia is not perfect, but their process is quite mature and robust.

Wikipedia's processes are anything but. It almost feels like it's less mature now than it was 10 years ago. I've seen this with other communities where people move on and the only people left are disproportionately made up of mediocre Peter principle-proving folks who see it as a comfortable and insular hobby where seniority/tenure trumps everything else.
Can You Trust Your Phone?
I guess you mean Futamura projections?
Up to and including. Right?

..

ಠ_ಠ

Right?
I think the ongoing banking crisis in Lebanon (similarly in Egypt and maybe elsewhere too) where there are restrictions on people's access to their deposits or making international transactions should be on everyone's mind when talking about eliminating cash.

The downside of going cashless aren't hypothetical or as far-fetched as people think. The whole society can be put on hold overnight. We can see this happening in front of us.

Using whatever payment method for convenience in itself is fine. But, eliminating cash as medium, without providing a better alternative, one that can still work in disasters where power or network is down, is wild.
90k-year-old human footprints found on Moroccan beach
So how does Pkl compare to Nix or Dhall?
So.. the USA failed 50 times instead of 1? Not sure how that's supposed to be an excuse for anything.
https://archive.is/OyebG
It's probably suggesting that oversight which is made public as a one word rating like "inadequate" is not a good way to fix problems in a school, since the exact same experienced teachers and principals you'd need to turn a school around are the most likely to avoid an "inadequate" school.

Presumably this feels even more unfair if the computer eats the inspectors' homework.
This just screams to have an "einstein" (aperiodic monotile) tiling
Could well be that the kind of oversight that teachers are getting in the current system is counterproductive to the stated goals of said oversight.
Good podcast about the KLF: https://thenonsensebazaar.com/listen/119-the-klf/
The ATMs I use use the least number of bills for the amount you asked. If they have lower denominations, I sometimes make two withdrawals in order to avoid the larger bills.
Indeed, but memory is fine, then why take notes at all?

I think the point is that if the inspector only finds out by chance that the notes were not committed then they might have to make it up from memory in a day or week, it just isn't reliable.

Why not double account, why not have a separate (software?) dictaphone and write notes? If one is lost, there's the other.
Noticed that as well... I guess not even Apple wants to use it anymore, oh my...
There are two fallacies I frequently feel the need to debunk in this
discussion.

- Cash is anonymous

- Cash is an "old" or "low" technology.

When a serious crime is committed you might be surprised how much the
police can do to trace cash. Serial numbers in and out of ATMs and
shops are tracked, and frequently your face is captured by cameras in
stores, ATMs and vending machines.

Modern cash is high technology. Look at a UK or European note
already. Holograms, nano-technology, advanced materials
science... It's well past the point of being worth forging, and it is
likely that future banknotes will use einks, embedded printable
passive electronics to do all of the things people hope or fear of
purely digital cash, such as time-out, store variable value, and be
more traceable.

The function cash really performs is a resilience buffer for person to
person transactions that works independently of electrical power and
Internet. Smart people at the top are never going to let that slide,
because it would be national security suicide and practically inviting
civil unrest.

Cash, in evolving forms is here to stay, but it may not have all the
properties we think it has and defend it for.
And there are internet providers there https://go.silverrapid.com/internet/
(Couldn’t edit my previous sibling comment as it is out of the edit period)

> We owe a bit more than 1 year's GDP.

> Most families that own a house owe substantially more than 1 year's income.

Minor nitpick: A country’s income is not the GDP but rather the tax revenue collection. The US federal tax revenue is around $4.5T as of last year, which is just about 20% of the US’s GDP.
it is dangerous to assume that the US culture is the default culture.

social trust is not a new thing in Scandinavia. it has been a part of the society for centuries.

Denmark is arguably also more capitalistic than the US. the median wealth is almost double that of the US. hence the Danish system, despite some of the world's highest taxes, easier allow people to build wealth.
The heatsink cools the LM7805 power regulator, not the CPU. In the original 48k Spectrum, the heatsink was internal.
Not OP but, regardless of why we exist here, change is not always good.

Change simply means that something becomes something else. It isn't inherently good.

For example, now I walk with both legs, but if a car hits me, I might stay on a wheelchair for some time, which is change, but not a welcome one. Before you say "this is a strawman argument", think about technologies like "cloud seeding", which are supposed to enforce specific weather conditions by spraying certain substances in the air (not clear on the details). This sounds like a cool idea, but is it, when some studies suggest this is dangerous for the environment? Shouldn't we (as humans) think about the effects before embracing change?

So, to me, change can be good or bad (or, often, a combination). If the goal of human life was change, it should probably be "change for good". Which is complicated - what is good and what is bad? Who gets to decide? Can I know in advance? What if something is eventually to be bad, can we get back? But that's how life is, no matter the end goal: complicated.
And so is writing a check and leaving it on the counter--especially for a service that is somewhat predictable but actually isn't on a set schedule. She texts me that she's coming next week, I write a check and leave it on the counter, done.
The Rise and Fall of Ben Armstrong a.k.a. BitBoy (A Popular Crypto YouTuber)
And at the same time borrowing the name and file ending of Pythons object serialization protocol.
>When a serious crime is committed you might be surprised how much the police can do to trace cash. Serial numbers in and out of ATMs and shops are tracked, and frequently your face is captured by cameras in stores, ATMs and vending machines.

Which is neither here, not there. Cash is effectively anonymous for 99% of uses that don't involve "major crime". Your buying something is not logged anywhere, for example.
LSPs in vscode suck
> Serial numbers in and out of ATMs and shops are tracked

Is this true? When I buy something from my local gas station is there a system in place tracking every serial number exchanged on the cash?
There's occasional talk in Japan for dumping Kanji in favor of Hiragana and Katakana only but Kanji makes it easier to read the written word:
1) Japanese doesn't use spaces between words (and the language is structured in a way to make it difficult to decide what is a 'word') - you'll sometimes see signs in Japan that use Katakana spellings for some words that aren't normally katakanized.
2) Japanese would have a TON of homographs if they got rid of Kanji, so determining which word is harder even with some context.
it's often useful to have that line dump to a voicemail in the off chance that someone important did happen to call.

it's also useful to own the line you claim to own in the off chance of a verification of some sort.
I wish people named more tech products after popular media instead of common words. Would make it equally hard to web search, but at least it would be funny for non-techies to listen to
In England at least, those behaviours are legal, without a doubt [0][1]

I'm not aware of a law that requires them to clearly sign post which payment methods they accept. I think there are various laws in other places in Europe though. I'm definitely all for that

They're taking on the risk of spoilage by not putting in any effort to make you aware before ordering - and hoping you'll just pay by card due to the sunk time cost. Shady but not illegal AFAIK.

[0] https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/what-are-the-rules-on-p...

[1] https://fullfact.org/online/legal-tender-cash-in-shops/
Or GNU poke (https://www.gnu.org/software/poke/) source files which are called "pickles".
Lets be honest, bitcoin is not usable for every day transactions.
They are not middle class by any metric. They may feel overextended, but that can happen at any income level, and (as in this case) is often due to the spending side of the equation.
Not new at all. Many people feel that way. Lots of good arguments too.
The status quo is "the same amount of oversight". And this article seems to say that since a teacher killed herself for getting "bad grades" then we should have less oversight.
I think privacy crypto will be big if cash goes away.
The central bank's knowledge isn't relevant in any way. The value of the currency goes up because the willingness of people to spend it went down. You can't spend money that doesn't exist, so this effect will occur regardless of anyone's knowledge of anything.
The other day, I paid cash at the local Chinese-American place, and the owner said "thank you for using cash, it helps small businesses", which took me by surprise. So I asked how much card processors charge, and she went on a bit of a rant, listing processing fees for everything from regular debit cards* charging 3-4% to rewards credit cards being around 7% to special international or world credit cards charging something like 17%. And most of them have a very narrow window to correct or void the transaction. With such rent-seeking behavior by banks, I very much understand wanting to keep cash around.

* Debit cards charged as debit, by entering a PIN. Some terminals allow you to "bypass PIN" and/or automatically charge debit cards as credit. I don't know, it's shady.
And yet Rust was the fastest growing language on GitHub last year according to the 2023 review.

Ideally it would be easy to learn a language… but the claim that it’s ‘doomed’ if not does not appear to align with data.

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-the-state-of-open-source-and-...
I'm a small user— only about 250,000 objects in storage and a lot of those cold storage behind Cloudflare, but I've been using SeaweedFS for years.

I think since v0.7— I was always intrigued by Facebook's Haystack.

SeaweedFS been super reliable, efficient, and trouble free.
Yes, it's so weird how that 7 MHz thing ran a perfectly usable graphical environment with a command line shell within the GUI and all.

I had to wait another nine years for that to come to Windows in Windows 95.

At least as impressive (now in hindsight that I understand the added effort that comes with this) was drivers were fairly plentyful and I could buy a random HP printer and just start printing documents. It just worked. Besides the printer of course. Inkjet printers in the early nineties were no joke.
It's a great example of someone thoughtlessly dumping energy into a system in a way that (a) frustrates the people working towards the same thing you are and (b) leaves those you oppose unscathed. I.e. not just annoyingly unproductive but outright counterproductive.

> You seem open to the discussion of aesthetic concerns

I am not. That's why the questions I asked were targeted at crafting a way to sidestep/neuter the aesthetics debate entirely and rendering opposition moot.
Amelia Didn't Know Radio (1993)
Damn you autocomplete! This happens all the time :D
ngn/k implementation of an earley parser
Good question I suppose in need of clarification. Regardless I think not being able to comment or report an observation in a thread you're seeing a certain pattern on is problematic, and suppresses conversation of otherwise legitimate observations and concerns; where better to discuss an issue than where observations are being made?

I think the rule being put in place was because it was happening so much, which should be seen as a strong signal that there is a problem. But rather than fixing the problem or attempting to perhaps through experimentation, it's suppressed as much as possible so then the conservative status quo can continue at whatever externalized costs the people bringing it up have.

E.g. We should all know by now there are bad actors out there, even individual people, who maybe develop a grudge against a single user - and are more likely technically skilled enough to create and maintain a handful fo "real user" accounts on HN that would go undetected with whatever (if there are any) measures may be in place - who then may target one specific user; or industrial complexes who may have bot nets of 1000s or even 10,000s (or more) users to go relatively undetected, who then suppress certain types of comments if certain topics are mentioned, etc.