skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what is difficult, IMO, is the know whether or not you're seeing news that have been carefully curated for you, with some partisan motive - or if it's just some recommendation algorithm that's serving you stuff it thinks you will like.

I've seen some news sites that will seemingly push (news) content on the front-page that is aligned with the stuff you read most about. So if such a site only pushes, say, immigration crisis news - is it because you have a history of clicking on such articles, or is it some partisan news website that is pushing negative stories regarding immigration?
That's a one sided view of it. Credit cards increase customer spending behavior which benefits merchants. For low end customers, the appeal is access to credit, either long-term or just in between paychecks. For high end customers, the appeal is the rewards and perks they get, and the convenience and safety of payments.

This is why you are most likely to see credit card surcharges for tax payments, court costs, and other non-discretionary charges. Anything that either is optional to pay, or isn't but they really want you to pay now (ex. a debt collector) has every incentive to subsidize the card acceptance fee as it will increase their sales.
Out of all the fun 404 pages, this is the best I've seen
> What would you recommend as an alternative to advertisements?

Not Having Enough Information is the least of anyone’s problems.

> I do think a lot of ads go too far, but I think some form of advertisement is necessary to get new awareness of new brands and products. Otherwise only the pre-established large brands and products will ever get sales, which would lead to a lack of competition and all the negatives that come with that.

This is a very post-hoc rationalization. Given that this isn’t how advertisement was invented and I have seen no evidence that this is how it works in practice, I don’t see a reason to accept it as a premise.

See political advertisement in America. That massively, massively favors the big players, not the little ones. Not only to boost them directly but also by actively smearing the other candidates, which moves the outsider candidates from the category of “never heard of” to “scumbag” in the minds of voters. (If you have no other information you have nothing else to go on.)
That's forcing things into an artificial binary when it's more appropriate to think of it as a spectrum, with unambiguously aligned products (e.g whole foods that improve user health) on the one hand and unambiguously exploitative products (e.g krokodil) on the other.
> whilst allowing for some more recent sofftware package releases in the repositories

That really depends on how the Debian and Ubuntu releases line up.

A lot of the packages in Debian 12 are more current than 22.04, because Debian 12 was released in 2023. That will change this month, because Ubuntu's newest LTS will be from this month.

Debian stable isn't as old on release as it used to be.
People born just after the war in Europe and North America had pretty different degrees of prosperity and struggles to rebuild around them. I just don't think the American sense of the word quite makes sense here.
The CIA is an organization that specializes in destabilizing governments. That's how it's weird.
> Agree but maintaining the infrastructure has a cost someone has to pay

The bank? Keeping money in your account allows the bank to take out credit. Providing digital payments sounds like a reasonable service for a bank to provide. As well as fraud prevention. This is how it works in Europe, most people have debit cards. The insanity is having to take out a loan you don’t need to prove that you’re responsible.
Why are you using sentences other than the template that I showed?

The outcome for "It is very immoral to stab someone with a knife." and "It is very immoral to kill a billion people with a bomb." is very different in scale and kind. What I highlighted is that the means by which a common objective is reached is irrelevant when the objective is inherently immoral.

I hope this helps you understand how language works.
One answer is: It's just annoying. I normally use a credit card. Yes, I can use my debit card and enter a PIN. If it's a discount specifically for cash, I may not have any on me and don't want the change anyway. In any case, it's adding mental overhead to just paying.

(It's usually more like 3% delta which I almost get in cashback anyway but still annoying.)
Gotta be honest that I'm not reading 60 pages at this moment.

But that reads like they're talking about the net effect measuring across FICO scores, but it's not clear that they're talking about the overall cause / if this is a case where some of the poor could in fact choose to use these cards.

Being poor is complex, just not having time (two jobs, etc) often means they don't have time for a lot of things, including shopping for credit cards. I wonder if things like THAT are playing a part.

I don't disagree with the math on the end result, I do think the reason is larger than just say rewards cards, and has to be approached careful.
Merchants pay 3%.
Cardholders borrow from banks, not card payment networks.
Rich people can donate to poor people regardless of the credit card situation.
Just like we're all sad because we don't know the names of the people whose work or interactions influenced Stephen King's writing.
I hate helm. For us, it led to a PITA knowing where values came from. You had to debug logic in the helm charts to know why a value existed in the cluster with no good debugging tools.

We switched to kustomize with tooling around it. It is dead simple to know why a value landed in an environment this way at the expense of yaml proliferation but I would rather have tooling to help us manage that than trying to debug why a value got into production due to an bug in helm logic in the templates. I don’t want to debug service logic and helm templating logic.
Java needs to generates a lot of garbage, whereas C++ does not. Therefore, GC for C++ can be simpler and generate lower overhead than GC for Java.

I'm not interested in the amount of money companies invest in developing garbage collection systems, I'm interested in code performance. Are you aware of any other absolutely zero pause GCs?
What we need is more real competition for NVidia cards at all levels, so rather than avoiding competing with themselves, they are worried about actually competing with the competition.

But capital doesn't want to invest in competition when it can instead invest in a chance at a moat that allows charging monopoly rents.
> by injecting AI into the process, you lose more and more space to express your own personality because AI covers the subtle differences in human expression when art is done in a more manual way.

This is true of every tool used for art. Markers lead to people commonly using the same colors. Paint brushes lead to details appearing to be brushes on. The printing press lead to standardization of typography for textual art. Where is the line between good tools that enable human creativity by making it easier to express things, and bad tools that make it too easy to express things?

> [...] That free expression is lost with AI: you LOSE the individuality and mask it

Are you sure? Have you tested it? I don't agree with that expectation. Different promoting techniques lead to different output styles. Different individuals develop different promoting techniques. Thus, individual style is not lost.

If all of the people drew stick figure style drawings with minimal effort, it would probably be just as difficult as it would be to pair AI generated images with the person who generated it, assuming they put as much effort into generating the image as the people who made the stick figure. If all of the people put just as much effort into generating AI images they liked as the effort of people who made an effort to draw somethinf nice, it would probably be just as easy to pair the AI generated images with the person who made it, as it is to pair drawings with the person who drew it.
M-x consult-head-shake
This is from Feb 28th, but as discussed here 5 days ago[0], a US appeals court blocked this ban.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39875053
The wonders of open source.
I would be shocked if this were the result of deliberate alignment or misalignment from Meta rather than a shortcoming of Meta's current image generator. This is a technical shortcoming, not a political issue. Image generators also have a tendency to draw hands with six fingers and fused limbs.

The Verge should do better than looking to score points in culture war idiocy. This is a non-story.
Really great writeup. Stuff like this dispels the FUD that 'You can not scale WebRTC'. It for sure is harder to scale then static/loss-less content like HTTP. But I have never found it intrinsically harder then other media.

I am heavily biased, but it really feels like an inflection point with WebRTC recently. Seeing Cloudflare put up this post, this morning I talked with a camera vendor about having WHIP support in firmware etc... exciting times for sure!
Exactly. Sure we can do it but the better question is are there any incentives to do any of it ?

The fact that there isn't and that we would have to create one through some sort of government policy should be worrying, especially now that we know that enforcement is in general the government asking a branch of industry to self-regulate... and that's exactly what's happening right now with the natural gas industry and its leaks.
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Agreed! Unexpected and made my morning.
Warsaw as most of the eastern part Poland is still heavily influenced by the post-Soviet mentality. Warsaw is even less diverse than ~380k-headcount Lublin (also eastern part) due to Lublin's universities welcoming international students with relatively cheap living costs for years now.

I live in Poland for 40 years, I'm biased, but I'd say that if you're looking for "western" cities - it's not Warsaw but Gdańsk or Poznań. Warsaw will keep its post-soviet mentality at least until the generation remembering WW2 is alive. Of course younger people may lack exposure to it, but I'm generalising on city/region-level.
Ha! But that was a foreign object getting in the engine. And I guess it failed immediately
Swatch tried unsuccessfully to sell people on this idea back in the late 90s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
The article posits charging as the problem but that's not actually true.

The issue was twofold:
1. Repair cost and parts availability. Fleet damage was more expensive to repair and took longer. That means more of the fleet is offline at any given time and cost to operate is a bit higher.
2. Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation. The cars resale value dropped faster than they anticipated.

Car and RV rental companies have this problem. People don't want to rent ragged out vehicles. In the case of RVs units for rental are built extra cheap so they don't last anyway. The model is get more in rent then you lose in depreciation then dump the vehicle. In the case of RVs they often turnover the entire fleet yearly.

The real killer was no doubt depreciation. That breaks the whole rental car model.
Interchange is regulated in Europe. You would likely run into legal issues if you tried to jack up merchant fees via a novel payment method.

However, even if it were legal, I don’t think this would counter my claim. I’m merely saying that you’d need to match existing rewards schemes in markets where they are established. Introducing them into a new market is an entirely different matter. The system we have today evolved through many decades of negotiation and deal making among merchants, issuers and card networks.

You’re right about consumer protections —- it would be very expensive for a crypto-based system to provide those without an intermediary that can adjudicate and reverse transactions (chargebacks).
For those who remember, weren't these sites actually the origin of the term "Fake News" back in 2016, before you-know-who quickly co-opted the term to use it against actual journalists? Before that, that's what these hastily-erected, phony sites were called.
>they will pay for my GPT/Claude usage.

Without having to even log in — incredible!
That may just be good old-fashioned tax evasion.

(If you pay cash, the business owner can just pocket the money without ever recording the transaction. For digital payments, this is much harder to do undetected.)
Electrify America chargers work like this.
SableDB - Written in Rust, well kind of: RocksDB engine is written entirely in C++
With the caveat that it’s a wired article: I hope this man gains more traction.
I don’t expect to be able to have privacy in the face of a state actor.

I just want the company to keep my data private from other commercial players. Like don’t sell all my data to anyone who asks or use it to create an invasive model to then advertise/manipulate me.

I think it is reasonable to say that Apple is better on that front than Meta or Google.
I wonder if this won't drive a resurgence of demand for live performances - as recording becomes more and more artificial, live performance will mean more. (Or maybe, as a live performer, I'm just wishful thinking here...)
Which my library propose with the very simple concept `as_string_trait` that requires the presence of a method `std::string as_string() const`.

It's good enough for 100% of my use cases.
"point in case" is a funny term. Are you a mathematician or programmer, using "case" in the sense of "branch of a proof", not "matter to be settled"?
>built for business

Yet the license says:

> License: CC-BY-NC

Besides this snark, seems really good from the benchmark and I'm really glad and grateful people are releasing weights :)
pure greed
I understand you want a fully managed PostgreSQL from a major European cloud provider and not having to to an apt install or similar.

Scaleway. https://www.scaleway.com/en/database/

OVH (perhaps do some backups on your own in addition to them). https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/postgresql/

Hetzner doesn’t seem to provide such a service. They do have some managed PostgreSQL databases part of their web hosting service, but I’m not sure they expose them.

Otherwise most contracting companies will gladly "manage" such a database for you.
Thank you for the kind words. I'm also real handsome in person. Just so you know.
That is because I have not given a definition for it. I don't have a specific one in mind.

I just think "100% of surplus value" is a wrong definition, so using that definition to argue that "in a very literal sense, pay can never be enough" is a very flawed argument.

I don't think I need to offer my own definition to claim that, do I? They later said it's subjective, which seems to favor my claim.

Does that clear things up? Is there a reason you thought I was trying to give a definition, and failing? Is there something wrong with my argument?
Sadly. Idk how accurate it is, but I've been using mamavation to check what's in products.
She's sad because she knows the license will be changed to business non compete one in a year.
What are they using now instead of PFAS?
Fastschema: A simple and schema-based headless CMS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...

> In Alberta, Canada, the homes of the Drake Landing Solar Community (in operation since 2007), get 97% of their year-round heat from a district heat system that is supplied by solar heat from solar-thermal panels on garage roofs. This feat – a world record – is enabled by interseasonal heat storage in a large mass of native rock that is under a central park. The thermal exchange occurs via a cluster of 144 boreholes, drilled 37 metres (121 ft) into the earth. Each borehole is 155 mm (6.1 in) in diameter and contains a simple heat exchanger made of small diameter plastic pipe, through which water is circulated. No heat pumps are involved.

That development is 52 homes. They are presumably engineered to be highly energy efficient and it's not a perfect comparison to sand, but it's less than I'd have imagined.
I like PDFs when I trust them, but I’m always a bit wary receiving them from random people. Don’t they support embedded scripting?

I’d like a format that is like PDF, but markup only.
It is definitely twisted. When Apple collect information about you, most response were ( before the current headline ) "Oh I trust Apple so it is totally fine. Because they dont do Ads"
Without Helm or a proper language you might end up parametrizing whole blocks of indented YAML via environments variables and sed.
Do y'all have an alternative? I like it a lot but seeing this thread I'm wondering if it's tunnel vision.
It's like they're calling themselves out.. delicious
To be fair, I doubt I fully understand what is going on fully under the hood. I usually bring this line up when folks lament that we don't have abstractions that fits the instruction set of the computer. Ignoring that many of the abstractions of the computer are orthogonal to isolated instructions, at this point. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72423227/is-a-schedulabl... was a fun read as I was looking for something that would explore some of that for me.
I'm impressed how it managed to extract rhyme from that license.

The software is provided (as is)
without warranty, of any kind
express, or implied.
Where were are, there are no trump-aligned politicians that have any chance of getting in office.

Usually we're highlighting a liberal who what's to fix things for the working class. As opposed to a leftist that wants to control things for the activist class.
Related:

On the same website, there is also apparently the following article:

"Following the Money, from Laundromats to Central Banks"

(by Laura Oliver, September 25, 2023):

https://gijn.org/stories/following-the-money-from-laundromat...

Potentially related:

Wikipedia article on Monetary Policy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy
That is almost certainly one reason and an important one. But as the other commenter to your comment shows, there is a lot more. Protections is a big one. I also personally side that, you need a way for people to interface with their crypto like they do with their current bank and as simple as possible. Normal people don't want to have to juggle around keys. Hell, Im a software engineer and I hate having to keep track of keys. So every time I get a new machine, I create fresh new SSH keys. My SSH keys are disposable to me.
I don't think that the sand units you can install in your home have the ability to store energy across seasons. They are more like hot water heaters; heat when you have solar, but you can use some hot water at night when electricity is more expensive.

So this would be like, in a mild climate, the sun is going to keep your house warm during the day and you are generating some solar. You use the solar to heat up the sand, and then overnight, you recover some of that energy to use for heat. (I think you can get electricity back out of the heated sand as well, but it's like 70% efficient compared to >90% for a lithium battery. So I think the big application is in heating, less for charging your car after you get home from work.)
As a Gen-X, I only heard about Takis a couple of years ago and only because I game.

My kids knew about them for far longer.

That edit was for me and older.
I used to go for random walks just to get some exercise and look around an area.

I mostly did this in central London where everyone is a stranger anyway, but there is nothing suspicious about doing it anywhere.
And they have downtime anyway in the night in most cases where they top up
Google showing AI-generated search answers in UK trial
From https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline :

2024-02-29: On GitHub, @teknoraver sends pull request to stop linking liblzma into libsystemd. It appears that this would have defeated the attack. Kevin Beaumont speculates that knowing this was on the way may have accelerated the attacker’s schedule. @teknoraver commented on HN that the liblzma PR was one in a series of dependency slimming changes for libsystemd; there were two mentions of it in late January.

I think that this is a plausible explanation for a rushed schedule and an actually justified deadline.
LSE philosophy grad applying to hedge funds w average coding experience help
Help request -
Just completed my philosophy degree - political philosophy of technology, logic, economics - that stuff.

I don't have a computer science degree and have rather lacking coding skills, also 23 so worried about what I need to learn.

Anyone got some no bullsh*t advice on what language I should learn? I've heard ARC, C++ because Hull modelling used in Hedge Funds...

As someone who (in hindsight) should have taking CS for A Level (UK school) --- Can someone advise what to learn, (also self learning but I know enough online resources) - and also advise how many hours / difficulty it will involve?

Thank you gods of the YC community
Oh sure, and that's true enough. Working with autoconf[1] is a giant pain for Kids Today weaned on entirely different idioms[2]. And it's the kind of thing you can't really avoid[3] if you're going to be doing work on these traditional Linux packages. And that sucks, and it makes it look like Linux is a weird kingdom filled with dinosaurs. And that sucks because you still have to work in Linux. So you hate the proximate cause.

But the boring truth is that configuration management is just a hard problem and realistically you'd hate it anyway.

[1] Not so much automake/libtool, which are configured by straightforward idioms and mostly harmless.

[2] Though if you've got some C preprocessor fu, it doesn't look quite so alien.

[3] Though it also needs to be pointed out that 90% of the problem autoconf was originally intended to solve (gratuitously incompatible Unix variants) is basically gone now. You either write to straight ISO-C/POSIX if you're doing simple stuff, work through well-established abstraction libraries with fixed APIs, or you include well-known platform headers (Linux or otherwise) for the complicated bits. No more nonsense testing like "Hm... what header do I need for strncat()?"
Sounds like for business, by business.
This notion of devaluing the judiciary just because they don't judge the way you want is precisely how rule of law is eroded and societies eventually wither and die.

If you bothered to read the ruling, you would learn that the EPA specifically exempted ongoing processes as of and after 2015 under Section 5. This obviously exempts Inhance's fluorination process and is in line with Section 5's wording.

You would also learn that the EPA did not include fluorination among its list of things to regulate.

The EPA then cited those regulations under Section 5 to order Inhance to stop their decades-old fluorination process.

That is simply bullshit, that is pulling regulations out of thin air. Note that the court explicitly cites Section 6 is what the EPA should use to regulate PFOA, which the court explicitly says is by itself not wrong.

Any reasonable person should read the ruling and most likely be applauding the court for bringing a misguided executive agency into line, because the United States of America is a country governed by rule of law and the EPA in this instance did not follow due process.
Say you are from a third world country. Your family back home needs money, but a bunch of red tape and fees in the traditional finance system (sending money to a third world country often raises KYC/AML questions and wire transfer fees are high) make it difficult and expensive. Moreover, in some countries with unstable currencies such as Lebanon and Argentina, the banks have to offer government mandated exchange rates that are wildly off the effective rates; there have even been cases where FX deposits were forcibly converted to the local currencies at these unrealistic rates. Rather than go through all this, you can just send BTC and sidestep all the issues.