skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be because at least some of the cash bypasses the cash register and the tax report.

Edit: alternatively they might not have same profitability requirement as other restaurants, because a cash-only restaurant is perfect front for money laundering.
Boggles my mind that they lacked the foresight to seriously consider whether this was a good move or not. I always considered them extremely developer friendly, but with this latest move, I'm not so sure.
Superionic Water
In this case, Ofsted are playing the role of the Post Office prosecutors making career-limiting decisions based on inadequate or forged evidence.
Elite comment
Seems like a terrible deal. Pay more get non exclusive access. Spotify is just throwing money away
In my experience, WSL2 works like a dream. I have nothing but good things to say about it.

WSL1 was sort of clunky and slow but I feel no difference from using native Linux in WSL2. Plus, the VS Code integration for it is spectacular.
My point was that that is enormously slower than storing a reference to the elements when you create them and setting only the specific attributes which changed. innerHtml string parsing forces the browser to do too much work unless you’re literally changing everything. Each time I’ve replaced that with DOM operations it’s been an order of magnitude or more performance gain - on one project, getting rid of fully-optimized React was 4 orders, but I think they’ve optimized it enough since then that it’s only 1-2.
Thanks for all the comments and stars! This library uses Twitter's internal API to manipulate Twitter.
Do AI-Generated Image/Art Algorithms Plagiarise? [video]
I recently started learning about ai after seeing it everywhere including hearing it from my close relatives.
I had been extremely worried to use it for plagiarism, what do people on HN think about it? This video by a youtuber, makes it quite murky for me to use any AI for my work except asking it some questions. Thanks
Here is how I would inspect schools:

* Collect together a bunch of metrics of each school. Eg. student test scores, parent satisfaction scores, number of police callouts to the school, number of leaks in the school roof. Also include metrics that aren't obviously good/bad: Number of acres of playgrounds, average tenure of staff, etc.

* Gather data of the success of past students, 30-50 years on. For example, employment rate, total earnings, percentage convicted, percentage in good health.

* Build a model to predict success metrics from the school metrics.

* To rate a school, go collect the school metrics, then run through the model to predict future success metrics. That is your rating.

Sure, such an approach has the correlation/causation problem. But this is self-correcting if schools try to optimize their scores as the models are rebuilt each year.
> For the record I don't think it's stupidity, I think deregulation

Corrupt legislation is 100% the problem. You have it completely and hopelessly backwards

https://baltimorebrew.com/2016/10/18/city-set-to-approve-10-...
Do you expect that everyone who uses a database should know all the internals of the data structures stored on disk, journals, ram cache, etc. before they try to do basic SQL? That’s the comparison you’re making: anyone who can’t write a database engine from scratch is mediocre and therefore is lazy.

P.S.
> “developers_, people who are, ostensibly, computer experts”

It’s laughable to me that people have this impression. It’s extremely rare to find a developer who has any knowledge at all on how to do basic computer things like installing an operating system, troubleshooting a network, understanding DNS, or being able to do anything outside of their programming environment.
Reduce it further: strings and maps. Arrays can be represented as a map.
I'm not offended by you enjoying a feature, but I see that feature as a net negative. An R&D budget is more or less a zero sum situation. Money spent developing temperature sensors is money not spent on something else.

Fridge quality today is lousy enough (and warranties + return policies have all but evaporated) that spending money elsewhere would've been a big win. Even if we're not talking reliability, I had to replace a 20 year old fridge with split shelves only to find that this feature is now only available on more expensive, less efficient, less reliable bottom freezer units. Another modern fridge I've dealt with recently (Whirlpool) was just breathtakingly poorly built. It worked, but imagine if Whirlopool had sunk money into QA instead of gizmos.

Presumably your built-in temp sensors are WiFi or bluetooth. What are the chances that's gonna get updated when the next WiFi standard starts to become more common? Will it support the next version of WPA? What happens when the power goes out?

When I had to diagnose a dying LG fridge, I got some cheapie ($20ish) RF temp probes. They're battery powered, the included receiver can set an alarm, and a cheapie software defined radio kit can decode the signals on Linux. I run rechargeable NiCad batteries in them and have moved them from the LG to a couple fridges since. Hands down a way better (and more robust) experience than anything a fridge manufacturer could dream up.

Door open alarms are comparatively much simpler and a good example of a feature with a much smaller inherent downside.

BTW, I'd also add that folks (not necessarily you) championing flashy features are forgetting just how dead nuts simple fridges used be. To the best of my knowledge my current fridge (Frigidaire / Electrolux) has a mechanical timer for the defrost cycle. The LG uses electronic controls to eek out a bit more efficiency. I know which one I'd rather replace.
You can disable the new UI though, and I doubt that will change. Hopefully they understand they'd lose a significant chunk of their userbase if they force the new UI onto their users.

I think the median developer would rather use Eclipse over IntelliJ's new UI if those were the only options. It looks very pretty, but it's just such a pain in the ass to use. It takes an interface that is already so low-contrast and so hard to parse it's bordering on an accessibility problem, and makes all those regrettable design qualities a hundred times worse.

The one good thing that's it does though is convincingly demonstrate the principle that design is primarily about how something functions, and not how it looks.
She says she wants to get in shape but actually she likes visiting new gyms. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Are you saying that if they offer 10% off when you sign up to the newsletter, that will prevent you from buying a product from them at all? Why?
> What baffles me most is that JetBrains didn't realise AI integration makes their product unusable in many companies

At least if they either use the user's code in training OR if it uses any code with unknown provenance.

Microsoft's solution seems to be the best: we take responsibility for the code. But that responsibility comes at a cost.
I am curious, what do you mean with US-style capitalism?

Denmark, and EU by extension, is far from perfect. But I do see less oligarchy-leaning tendencies in the EU vs. the US. and I don't see that this is currently changing, quite the opposite.

My immediate understanding of US capitalism would be an oligarchic type of capitalism where regulation favour those with wealth already.
Get an umbrella policy. They are remarkably inexpensive for what you get.
Because English writers always have American winning nuclear war. So your llm will project that
It is not that hard. Nom is pretty much Chinese word meaning + Chinese word pronunciation.

Though for foreign people it will be a challenge.
Thanks for your comment!
httpx supports both synchronous and asynchronous, which is very useful! Very useful tool.
My understanding is that there is Perl 5 (which is Perl) and a completely separate language known as Raku that was originally supposed to be Perl 6. This happened as Perl 6 took so long (similar to Duke Nukem Forever) that large portions of the Perl community decided it wasn't a realistic upgrade path and the languages had a hard fork.

Perl7 seems to be Perl5 with some changes to the defaults. They can't upgrade to Perl6 as that would be needlessly confusing. If foresight were perfect, Perl6 would have always been a different language name so Perl proper would continue without confusion. The problem was that they had no idea how hard it would be to make Perl6 and thus thought it would be ready in a few years (my understanding) and everyone would upgrade. Raku/Perl6 is SERIOUSLY COOL. I think it just needs a larger community and that's a chicken/egg problem.
You need exactly the same level of software durability for cash handling; see the Post Office scandal, where the computer system was misrecording cash transactions.
It sounds like he already had linux running on the device, it just couldn't control/access everything, which was the ultimate goal of this project. So once you have linux running, even without being able to control everything, you have code execution. It seems like there'd be other ways to get the bootloader out, but I'm not familiar with the project, presumably he did the easiest thing he could do - or most interesting.
You have to install Linux ASAP before you have got used to MS ecosystem or it will be very hard to actually switch the OS with everything you need. And you can not install Linux or your smartphone, this thing is deeply constrained towards making you their slave.
There are many problems with the current oversight system. Neither “less oversight” nor “more oversight” correctly describes the changes one can wish for.

The fundamental goal is not to punish teachers and headmasters/headmistreses. The goal is to ensure good quality and safe education for the students.

If the school is inadequate or even close to it that should never be a surprise to the people working in it. The expectations should have been clear enough that anyone can self-asses themselves. There should be no big surprises during the inspection. That is neither “less” nor “more” oversight, but more predictable oversight.

Furthermore the headteacher was in her position for 13 years. If the problems found were indeed so outrageous to rate the whole school inadequate then shouldn’t she have been inspected earlier and more often? During those 13 years multiple cohorts of students entered the school, studied and then graduated from it. The oversight report alleges during the whole time they attended a school with serious safeguarding issues. Isn’t that really bad? How did the oversight system let that happen? This is in fact asking for not less oversight but for more frequent one.

On the other hand the school managed to turn around in a few short months and become rated “good” from “inadequate”. It is alleged the problems actually were not deep and they were rectified within weeks after the inspection. There were some discrepancies with record keeping and a few protocols needed tightening up. The common understanding is that Ruth would have lost her job when the “inadequate” inspection report is published. Is that the best way to achieve our goal of high quality and safe education system? Wouldn’t it be better if the oversight system gave them an advance warning and time to improve? Absolutely no feedback for 13 years and then suddenly feedback with the most severe consequences is not a way to ensure good outcomes.
> almost certainly couldn't do so with Windows

I was doing it with ZoneAlarm on Windows years before Little Snitch even existed, as far as I can tell. If you want to use a Mac, use a Mac, but it doesn't seem sensible to claim it's superior to other platforms when you don't know about them.
Like how there's an alternative market for dumb tvs, except they're more expensive and have worse screens?
Cash is faster in situations where you tip. You don't need exact change, just cost of service + tip and you can walk away.

I still love using cash in restaurants because the credit card dance adds 10 minutes waiting at an empty table. The server always drops off the check and runs, as if I'll need to think about the 43 dollar bill, getting them back is a whole thing, then waiting for them to return with my card and 3 receipts I don't want is another.

Since I'm in the states, i'm already tipping. I put down a few bills and go about my way. Same for things like pizza delivery, why pay part on credit then tip at the door(because basically no company gives the e-tips to the driver, you're just donating money to the company at that point).
Yeah the figuring it out part feels good sometimes, but since it's rarely the same thing that goes wrong each time then the learning doesn't actually help much. Hence the repair man who supposedly does stuff like this all day frequently not finding the root cause.

Or if it is the same thing each time, that's equally frustrating.
> I cannot turn my lights on because somewhere, potentially thousands of miles away, some datacenters failed, even if those datacenters could, ostensibly, only give me ads and "improvements" and not any core feature.

It appears there's a misunderstanding here. When smart lightbulbs lose internet connection, they still function as regular lightbulbs.

In such cases, you simply revert to the traditional method of turning the light switch on and off manually, instead of using voice commands or an app.
The dev is suprisingly helpful but yeah I agree the wiki is in need of some beefing up w.r.t operations.
This is true in the case of chains that have vms built in, (Not bitcoin, Monero, meme shitcoins) but being “gas” for vms isn’t “inherent” to crypto.

On a kind unrelated note, are there any compelling dapps on eth that aren’t financial tools?

When I was playing around with web3 and dapps in 2020 it seemed like the only dapps around were banking protocols and gambling.
I believe he meant it's such a low number it wouldn't be relevant anyway - same as merging facebook accounts with wifey to not take that space on facebook
What part of the world? In the US at least this experience would only apply to a business owner that was getting absolutely fleeced by their processor.
I live in Florida and found Starlink worked mostly fine in a rain storm (occasional disconnects). This is using their newer portable receiver though, which one did you use?
I thought the same thing with the Godot game engine's GDScript. Aside from a few class-level implementation details (IIRC, it's been a while) it's essentially Python, syntactically. "Ugh... If I'm going to learn a new scripting language it's not going to be application-specific... Oh NM."
The only thing I want is very basic flow control / environment based code blocks and that’s it. I think nginx has a reasonable config language
My fridge is not pretty, but it has been running for 20 years straight with the only hiccups being power outages.

I really do not expect that a newer fridge will last as long. I may try and find something in brushed aluminum off Craigslist which has been sitting in someone's garage since 2000 when this one eventually goes.

I have an aunt who has had a fridge running without issues since about 1962. It is all white ceramic over stainless steel and a thing of beauty.

This is the kind of product engineering modern companies seek to avoid.

I seem to recall a Heinlein novel about inter-dimensional travelers who wanted to take over the world by destroying the economy. The first thing they did was found companies which made products which never wore out (razors and cars).
Haha, Americans with their 2-4% transaction tax, it’s so funny.

No seriously, when I first moved to the Netherlands I was wondering what kind of backwards country wouldn’t let me use a credit card at the grocery store. And that’s when I learned about how crazy it is that credit cards and even American debit cards have such needlessly high transaction fees.
> No wonder people are attracted to flatpak and snap.

And nix.

> Creating a installer for mac, windows and linux is a hell of a work

Nix gets you mac, linux and WSL support.
The only reason I'm using JetBrains at all right now is because Rider is cross platform. With Microsoft announcing the discontinuation of Visual Studio on Mac, I get really tired of the context shifting between Visual Studio at work and Rider at home.

Additionally, are the costs of Visual Studio over Rider. My work pays for my Visual Studio Subscription, which does not allow for personal use. The JetBrains Ultimate sub is affordable for me, but this AI integration has me rethinking this.
How well do invite systems perform, of the style that gmail and other services famously used, where you need an invite to sign up and users get a certain number of invites to hand out? (They do a great job of rate-limiting user acquisition, such as if you want to ramp up slowly for resource reasons. The question is, how's the quality of users obtained through invite systems?)
I was actually thinking about MQTT after I posted this.

I'm leaning towards just allowing the mqtt server you connect to to be changed, so that you can point it at whatever in the future, and all messages are plain text and documented.
The fact that you immediately assume that something doesn't exist because you don't encounter it is insanely presumptuous of you.

The entire reason why small businesses moved away from cash is because its cheaper even taking into account fees. Food trucks, popups, small merchant kiosks. Not needing to take cash means far less overhead.

You're more than welcome to argue the benefits of cash transactions and in most cases I would agree. But you should not miss the truth of the situation.
I work in a bank and cash handling is a major headache in terms of internal control, logistics, reconciliation and AML. It's a large extra cost.

It is much cheaper for the bank and customers to use cards, but where I live the banks own a payment network that does not involve visa and mastercard so the cost is much lower and there is no rent seeking so card use have no fees.

We also have an app for sending "cash" for free to friends, family and businesses that under the hood are just instant bank payments between the accounts.
Really glad it wasn't just me. Genuinely thought someone was trying to make a joke.
Maybe not to an expert level (for some, undoubtedly it is), but it’s eminently possible to have a working knowledge of the stack, from hardware to the nth abstraction.

I’ve recently become interested in how data makes it from {INSERT,SELECT} to the disk, and so set about understanding that. You can read Postgres or MySQL’s source code and use a debugger to understand how it goes through that layer, then strace to follow the base syscalls, then blkparse to watch it go to the device driver. From there, you can experiment with forcing OS page cache drops to see when a “disk read” isn’t really a disk read, and also observe read-ahead behavior. I’ve skipped the device driver layer for now, but beyond that you can also use dd to observe changes to the raw block device. The latter is easier on a simplistic level with a few bytes at a time.

You have to be genuinely interested in this stuff though, because there are precious few companies who are going to pay you to play around like this all day.
I don't see the issue if it can be disabled. Once disabled it is no different from many other features that it contains but are not used. If you don't trust them no point anyway running a closed source program.
supercali ...
You're making an argument which is a variant of "if I'm not doing anything wrong, then I have nothing to hide." Privacy is a worthwhile value in and of itself, not least of which because different people have different notions of what "wrong" is and their conception of "wrong" changes over the course of their life.

An example list of completely legal transactions which you might not want someone in your life knowing about:

a) You don't want your spouse to know that you bought some beers / fast food / pornographic magazines / cigarettes / other vice
b) You don't want your employer to know that you saw a therapist / oncologist / family planning services
c) You don't want your parents to know that you bought contraception
d) You don't want your car insurance provider to know that you purchased a repair from a mechanic (i.e. you don't want your rates increased).

Making payments in cash is making a decision for them not to be entered in some database which may be hacked and sold for profit to someone who values their interests more than your privacy.
It's confusing to think about money as a relative not absolute resource
But wouldn't that follow from Oppenheim's work (or perhaps, somehow, it's vice versa)?

Surely quantized inertia would imply that spacetime was quantized.
Nice acoustic hack. It's also amazing what you can do with a simple
FM/AM radio to perform short range tempest sniffs. No doubt some
amazingly clever tricks can be done with SDR. If it runs code, it
leaks EMR.
Can somebody tell me real use cases they would use this for?

I've seen their usecase documentation entry. And I understand the benefits this could have.

But I think I need some hands-on usecases, to fully grasp why or how I would use this.

Thanks
Canada is bigger than the USA, and is a distinct part of the same continent.

Merely being big isn't a good argument.
Let's give them a choice:

1. Keep supporting landlines;

2. Relax that anywhere symmetric 1Gbps fiber is available for under $60/month; or

3. Leave the service area, transferring existing assets to a municipal authority who can then build and install symmetric 1Gbps fiber to their residents.

Pick one.
You really think that stops MS nagging to store all of your private files on their servers?
Redesign of Tox's Cryptographic Handshake
Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
i've been moving around in the past couple of years, and working at the same time. whilst my current setup isn't the best i could have (more on this later), i try to have the basics that allow me for a better posture, starting with avoiding using the laptop on the couch or bed.

i put my laptop on top of a box - some people use books for this - so the top of the screen is more or less at eye level, and i distance it somewhat (an arm's length) from my eyes/face. i use a trackball (logitech m575) and, because i don't use the laptop's keyboard, i have a bluetooth keyboard (logitech mx mini). try to get a decent chair - one that you feel comfortable in for fairly long periods of time and allows you to sit fairly up straight, comfortably. i favour using a desk or table that's not either too low or too tall, allowing me to rest my arms on it gently and with enough depth that i can rest the arms from my elbows.

i have a ergodox that is, unfortunately, packed a way at the moment. i regret not bring it with me as it'd improve my "ergonomics" immensely.

if you can't get a decent table/desk consider getting something that sits on top of your low kitchen one to get it to a decent height.
Ask HN: Running Untrusted Code as a Service?
Hi, I'm surprised I'm not targeted with Google ads when I ask this question, but I can't find what I'm looking for and so I'm turning here:

I need some way to pass an untrusted shell script (user generated) to a Linux / Windows / Mac environment and get the results. Is there some startup or AWS service that offers this? What I want is AWS with more runtimes and security guarantees...
They make more money from selling servers than they do from selling v4 addresses. There's a limit to how many v4 addresses they can get, so they'll make more money if they can sell servers without v4 addresses -- otherwise the limit on v4 addresses will turn into a limit on the number of servers they can sell.
And they're probably just not comparable restaurants on average.