skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no need to "insert" most smart cards nowadays are NFC and most smartphones have a reader built-in in their battery so all you need is just flipping the "book cover" to allow reading, even without extracting it. On a desktop having a small usb flat reader or one built-in in the keyboard (common two decades ago in various setup, for contact based smart cards back then) or one aside the touchpad area in a laptop could provide the desktop part.

I use it normally to declare my taxes for instance, with a small desktop card reader (ReinerSCT CyberJack) as a "security device" in Firefox to authenticate for instance, just putting the card on the reader, open firefox going to the relevant website, click on eIDAS login, entering the national ID card PIN and being in. A pin for all public sector services, no apps needed, no regular password changes and so on.
They're nothing like utilities and it makes no sense to treat them that way.

Instead the u.s. needs laws that protect user digital rights, and all companies should have to adhere to those laws, not just big ones.
> I am usually in awe when solving even basic issues like how much RAM and HDD is free starts with write this command into Terminal.

Can you elaborate on what you think is wrong with this? When you type the command into the terminal, do you get what you need?
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Where is my OpenAPI?
>can't wrap my head around why people got so comfortable with allowing companies to charge their credit cards whenever they want, how much they want and how long they want..

So, you hate payment methods not subscriptions
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I mostly agree with you. I think there is one thing you are hand waving a bit though. When you bought version X, you could use that forever if that was sufficient and your cost basis and value proposition to upgrade was known and you could personally amortize it. The problem now is that the subscription can jump from a reasonable $5/month to $40/month for literally no reason. You have sunk time adapting to their tooling and have no ability to just do the one thing you started out doing. Sure, you can switch to another tool but that has a different cost and lots of them have moved to similar models. These kinds of subscriptions can really feel like a bait and switch. The example you cite above sucked more for people who needed each new raw format for camera Z but was great for all the people who didn't care.
Just because they are both class one doesn't mean they are on the same level quantitatively.

Also red meat doesn't cause addiction. I don't feel like I crave red meat if I've just been eating chicken and fish for the whole week.
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The description: "no dependencies."

The first line: "import numpy as np"
Don't get me started on crappy cancerous operating systems that grow like an out-of-control tumor but happen to have the Linux kernel attached as an appendage.
If we are lucky, people will be able to thrive as animals again alongside AI once it achieves Earth-level intelligence.
In addition healthier people could be wealthier.
There should be market share limits on providing identity and currency, or those should just be handled to the government (like they used to be).

Similarly, big vertically integrated computing platforms should be broken up (in-house applications should have exactly the same access to APIs documentation, support, etc, as third party ones).
Only after the fact though.

Affinity are saying they won't switch everyone to subscriptions, that perpetual licensing will always be an option, and they don't yet have a subscription model.
Who Is in Charge of Postgres?
That normal user will not type anything into Terminal.
> you can sign up to each service with a unique email address, e.g. <microsoft>@<your-domain.com>, which makes it easy to see if any services ever sold your address.

Pro tip on this, use gibberish if you want a true canary. I know it's tempting to use microsoft@ or ms@ or msft@ etc, but companies are getting smarter about selling emails and filter those out.
Flashbacks? It’s 2024 and Emacs is still single threaded
Some people forget that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
I don't think that would help in this case: being regulated as a US public utility would still embargo Gaza and treat contact with it as radioactive.
If technology becomes necessary to participate in society, and if we cede control of that technology to unaccountable dystopian hypercorporations like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, then we're setting ourselves up for disaster.
If you're in a country sanctioned by country X, then you shouldn't use products from companies in country X. It's common sense.
I fear y'all (or I) may be dancing a bit too deeply into hypothetical here...

The idempotent version of this function doesn't blindly write. Most of Ansible, for example, is Python code doing 'state machines' or whatever - checking if changes are needed and facilitating if so.

Where y'all assume one function is, actually, an entire script/library. Perhaps I'm fooled by party tricks?

Beyond all of this, the disk full example is nebulous. On Linux (at least)... if you open an existing file for writing, the space it is using is reserved. Writing the same data back out should always be possible... just kind of silly.

It brings about the risk of corruption in transit; connectors faulty or what-have-we. Physical failure like this isn't something we can expect software to handle/resolve IMO. Wargames and gremlins combined!

To truly tie all this together I think we have to consider atomicity
I'm frustrated by someone reaching the conclusion that there can ever be a "best database". I spent several hours today writing a bash script that jammed CSV files into sqlite3 and ran some queries on them. Using postgres for this would have been insane, and I can imagine writing the exact opposite of this article if I had tried to do so: "It stores everything all over the place! There's no easily configurable in-memory storage option! All the docs and packages expect you to be running it as a service! Running my script takes an entire ansible playbook just to set things up! Why the hell is there a user table already? This thing uses hundreds of megs of memory at rest sometimes!"

Sqlite is not just for embedded data stores. However, it makes trade-offs to achieve ease of use and performance on certain workloads. If it tried to be postgres then it would be an inferior competitor; instead, it is an alternative that suits some use cases better and others worse. If you're trying to build a web app that can be deployed and backed up as two files, an executable and a db, then you'll probably want sqlite. If you're trying not to shoot yourself in the foot with "oh god why can't I do a full outer join and why are all the dates weird" then use postgres.

I imagine programmers would also find cockroachdb frustrating compared to postgres, if they didn't benefit from anything it offered and used it anyway.
That could have a huge chilling effect on start ups, indi devs, and hobbyists
It's not anti-net zero, it's not wanting to freeze to death.

You can't just brush aside the way that actually works that easily.
Smoking is supposed to be a risk factor so who knows.
Regulations are why Microsoft is banning users who call Gaza.

The real solution here is to use Signal (or something like it).

And I don't mean to criticize Microsoft or regulations. Microsoft is faced with an impossible task here, I assume they're doing the best they can.
I used to disagree with this. Recent conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine (regardless of who you side with) made me change my mind.

How is it that some rich Californian CEO with their own bias and agenda can decide to shut off service to entire groups of people in an active war zone? These decisions could cost people their lives! That's insane.
Arguably, I think exercise should be #1. EDIT: Assuming they are ordered, otherwise ignore me.

Cancer is about 20% of your chance of death. Intuitively exercise helps with many things on this list. The other (roughly) 25% is cardiovascular/cerebrovascular events. For that, the best thing you can do is exercise. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18264323

Then there's COVID (12), alzheimer + diabetes (6) and a smattering of "other causes" https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db492-tables.pdf#4

For a less trite list with really solid scientific backing, try the book Outlive.
> It's anything with a "social" component that's the problem.

This would include Hacker News, Discord, online forums, any video game...
That wording sounds like the decision was made in Israel and not the US.

I would guess the shutdown requests came from Israeli security services. Thus it is final and not appealable and can also the reasoning can not be revealed.
To be fair, traditionally 95% of digital content has zero amount of typographical finesse and simply uses whatever is available in the local standard keyboard layout. Even the use of em and n dashes is a big deal.
It has R&D centers and local business centers. Skype is not in Israel and there's no reason for a VoIP solution to route through a country local facility. The "complete siege" ended ages ago. Israel provides power, food etc.
If you are in Europe and this happens to you, the GDPR gives you at least a partial solution: they don't have to give you your account back, but at least they have to provide you access to a backup of your data.

NOYB has a list of what your rights are [1] and "My Data Done Right" [2] provides a handy tool for finding out who to contact and how.

[1] https://noyb.eu/en/exercise-your-rights

[2] https://www.mydatadoneright.eu/
> Jetbrains quite literally did everything right

The problem I have with Jetbrains is that they do continuity discounts. If I cancel my subscription because I don't need it for the job I'm doing the next year, I will lose my 40% continuity discount and have to pay a lot more after re-subscribing. So I let my subscription continue for that period instead, but that also doesn't feel right.

I don't know if it counts as a dark pattern but I don't particularly like it.
I had the same idea sometime ago.

Not sure if you can say that it was over engineered or not but I used the following:

* Frontend framework : Next.js / React (Functional components with React Hooks)

* Rendering : Static Site Generation

* Programming language : Typescript

* CI/CD : Github actions

* Unit test : jest

* Design : SASS / Responsive design

* Data validation : AJV / JSON Schema / Joi

* Infrastructure : Cloudflare pages / Terraform

* Package management: Yarn

* Linting & Formatting : ESLint / StyleLint / Prettier

* Pattern matching : ts-pattern

* CSS framework : react-bootstrap

* Monorepo : nx

* PDF generation : jspdf

* Contact form : web3forms

* Captcha : hCaptcha

I am quite happy with the final output : https://www.remikeat.com

It would pull the data from

https://data.remikeat.com/resume.en.json

https://data.remikeat.com/resume.jp.json

https://data.remikeat.com/resume.fr.json

So I can just update the JSON and the webpage will update itself.

Also as the PDF is generated locally, the PDF also get updated automatically.

And I didn't know there was a JSON standard for resume. Maybe, I should migrate the format I designed to this open standard.

Ultimately, I wanted to add a portfolio section, where I would show some of my projects like

https://stackl.remikeat.com which is a stack language interpreter written in Ocaml and compiled to js with js_of_ocaml.
Got laid off February of last year. Was hired 7 months later at a job I worked at during my undergrad, for much lower pay. It beats being unemployed.

Considering going into the electrician trade while coding as a consultant/freelancer. I have ADHD (combined type), and find I much prefer working doing something a bit more physical. My previous and current jobs are both remote, which has posed some challenges despite the flexibility. Would much rather a hybrid or in-person experience at this point.
> It's anything with a "social" component that's the problem.

Yeah, playgrounds suck!

To be fair, a lot of the stuff my son watches seems fairly benign in terms of influence.
You all miss the obvious correlations.

A society with prosperity but lacking athletic, artistic and intellectual pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.

That's what current generations are. 90% of people have enough to meet needs, and no meaningful purpose in life apart from scrolling tiktok, constant stream of sexualized and otherwise glorified (money, aesthetics) material. The popular culture also glorifies temporary pleasures (drugs, drinking, sexual promiscuity).

Just look at average teenager, their lives revolve around celebrities and these habits. They're lookist, superficial and shallow AF. Of course they will lose mental health thinking about looks and comparing with some photoshopped instagram celebrity.

No wonder they don't have enough stability to sustain ups and downs in life when they lack a purpose, and centered their lives around these hedonistic pleasures.
Also, several types of preventable cancer are caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Get vaccinated for it. Although this virus is primarily associated with cervical cancer, men should be vaccinated for it as well since it can cause penile, oral, anal, and other cancers.
Thanks! I am a fan of seeing one page CVs.
Here, here! Certainly seems that way with some of them. There’s obviously a lot of great people there, but even the good ones may have had to “fake it” or conform to fit in. It seems overall they’d be hiring “club members”, and as Major Kusanagi says: Over specialization leads to death.

Probably had little to do with it in practice, but I’m wondering how much that poverty of diverse thinking, and conformity led to the much discussed 9/11 intelligence failures.

I’m reminded of this scene about the Mossad's (probably fictional) "Jury of the 10th Man" in World War Z: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-McSoaxaAdQ

Which itself is kind of ironic given the also much discussed 10/7 intelligence failures.

Perhaps this is a scourge that to some degree plagues all the world’s cleared jobs…
If I have to change one character, but the autoformatter reformats the whole file instead... that is a problem. My actual change will be lost in the formatting changes. And who says that I want to reformat anyway?

EDIT: I usually work on projects with a long history. File endings, tab/spaces, etc. are usually all over the place, and we haven't touched actual code yet. I usually have no authority and time to fix formatting issues, especially in "miscellaneous" files like yaml. And the PRs in most places I'd worked at are rejected if they contain something other than what is relevant to the topic of the PR. And then there is the issue of the hidden change, when you reformat a 1000 line long file, and also make an actual change - this will be very easy to overlook.

And finally, I might be using another tool for 99% of the editing (I use IDEA), yet sometimes I just want to edit a file quickly, outside this tool. So I do have an autoformatting setup in IDEA, should that mean that I can't use another editor for quick changes?
Privacy.com was free last I checked.
I’m sorry but I remember quite recently when 3d printing was promised to do this and it failed miserably. Mostly made a lot of figurines. And a few specific use cases where it shines. Just as one would expect from a Gartner hype cycle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

We are currently in one for AI.
Do you have research that shows that? What I've read is that there was no real evidence of that.
Not the parent but if your boss is telling you you should come to the office tomorrow and the next week, she has a reason - maybe their boss told her to tighten the procedure? So out of respect to her you tell her yes, and come to the office tomorrow, and maybe even next week. But out of respect to yourself, you ignore these stupid, completely baseless, arbitrary rules that even your bosses don't follow in the long term.
>Your desire to handle that all in-house by organic, corn-fed, English-as-their-first-language meat-bags is lovely but you'd be bankrupt in a week.

This sentiment is, in essence, the problem. It's perfectly logical for this trend of distancing customers from their , as you put it, "all in-house by organic, corn-fed, English-as-their-first-language-meat-bags" when you start with the core concept that the _only_ purpose of a company is to earn capital.
So what? Do they pretend to filter all military and fraudulent uses on a equal basis with a public international ethical agenda openly shared and where every human out there is treated equally for the greatest good of all?
Not in the US at least for those companies, but the world is a big place and this other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935323 mentioned places like Gambia and Burkina Faso... It just makes sense to outsource local delivery to companies that are better connected locally.
But this is the _default_ setting. If you want autoformat on save, that's perfectly fine. Just do not make it default. I can't think of any other editor that does this.
To get enough vitamin D you need ~10 minutes a day[1] in direct sunlight with 25% skin exposed.

> In spring and summer, 25 percent of the body (the hands, face, neck and arms) is exposed to the sun, and in these seasons, about 8 to 10 minutes of sun exposure at noon produces the recommended amount of vitamin D.

[1] https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/ask-the-doctors-roun...
There's definitely a genetic component but it would be interesting if those environmental factors impacted prevalence or severity.

Autoimmune disorders in general might be worse/more common in countries where kids grow up in clean environments. There's already some discussion on this with regard to allergies that I think has some credibility.
I wish Finder would have Enter working as Enter and not as Rename.
> Probably 100x less likely to cause fatality for specific kids.

FWIW, that's ridiculous. If a popular car showed a 100x increase in fatalities for some common demographic, that would show up in the data. Sites like HN would be away in "Teen Boy Killer" Tesla articles. It's not.

I won't speak to the anecdata, clearly some kids want to drive fast. But speed on regular roads is limited by the roads, not the car. A Corolla or Outback is no less capable of reaching those speeds, its just takes 3-4 seconds longer to do it. That's the kind of delta that, sure, might show up in the data if you look hard (it's a solid hypothesis), but 100x is nonsense.
Jetbrains only “did it right” because there was huge community outcry about their move to pure subscription so they moved to the “if you subscribe for X amount of time you get to keep the last version you had when you stop subscribing”.

Props to them for listening to the community but question whether they should be the gold standard given it is still a compromise position.
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It says "Sorry, the file is absent :("
My dad's ISP did exactly what you say is impossible. It was a small ISP in Salt Lake City (xmission, if anyone cares). They had actual humans answering the phone, and no bankruptcies.
Great, the only reason I started using this on my work Mac was because the Linux version was coming + I would be able to use this at home on Linux.
It isn't just Skype, their hotmail accounts were also disabled. Many local countries definitely do have authority over services provided in their countries.

I would guess these shutdown orders came from Israeli security services and then were routed though Microsoft Israel to be enacted.

> The "complete siege" ended ages ago. Israel provides power, food etc.

Sure, whatever you say.
Now go get trillions from billionaires.
> And unlimited feel-good content encourages a runaway desire for more, making reality boring.

Agree, and a big and non-obvious part of this is that we've invested "all" of our resources in technology and profit oriented goals, rather than in things that make mainstream day to day life in our communities pleasant and non-boring, for all people.

The physical runtime we are in supports a massive diversity of gameplay and outcomes, unfortunately we've somehow "chosen" a model of governance that constantly makes poor choices.

This could be fixed, but we've been trained to worship the very thing that is ruining life here on Earth. To me, this is quite a hilarious situation, it is like living in a sitcom.

I wonder why reality works this way but we are not able to change it. Maybe being not able to talk about it (skilfully) is part of the problem.
A guy goes to his doctor and when the doctor asks if he has any questions he asks the doctor, "Doc, what do I have to do to live to 100?"

"Well," the doctor says "you have to quit smoking."

"No problem, I don't smoke" the guys says.

"And no drugs."

"OK, no problem, what else?" the guys says

"You have to exercise five times a week."

The guy pauses for a moment and says, "Anything else?"

"No processed foods or fast food. And no alcohol. Stay out of the sun and always get a good night's sleep."

Looking irritated the guy says, "And if I do all that I'll definitely live to be 100?"

"Well, no" says the doc, "But it'll feel like it."
Higher education? You think the world runs on the output of higher education?

It's all about incentives and the incentive is to make money.

PE firms, investors, the founder, the employee with stock options.
The world runs on making money and subscription businesses are one hell of a cash cow.
> Regulations are why Microsoft is banning users who call Gaza.

That sounds an awful lot like simply being a Palestinian is being criminalized.
> Microsoft has an infuriating habit of doing this; its not just a one-off. They routinely lockout international github users and feign innocent compliance when caught.

Two Iranian co-workers have gone through some Kafkaesque bullshit with Github blocking them, even though both are living in Europe for more than a decade they got flagged and had their accounts suspended, taking months to re-activate them.
The school my son used to attend wanted to be hi tech (I guess) and gave all kids iPads with all textbooks and assignments provided this way. You don't need a study or aversion to technology to realize how bad they are for this purpose. The screen is small, constrained and low fidelity compared to a paper text book. It also (by default, as provisioned) turns off every ~5s to save battery life which is incredibly annoying. It is just objectively worse than paper.
Doesn't seem that taxes are the deciding factor seing as how little the government cares about tax dodging done by corporations and the rich.
I recently purchased/sold a home so I went through this a few times now. The warranties, title search, etc direct mail people are annoying.

However, the actual ads for moving companies was great. I just got a stack of 30 moving company post cards, sorted it out by gut feeling basically, and started calling. It was a lot more efficient than google search.
Maybe.

I'm a parent (in the US). My kids got cellphone a bit before Middle School (so they could connect with outgoing Elementary friends) and better navigate NYC subways etc.

It is not perfect - but I am not one of those parents I see in the subway or on a flight that gives an iPad to their one year old. That type of parent scares me.
My decision on SQLite vs Postgres is usually something like fixed and variable costs. For each little thing, Postgres is typically nicer to use. But the fixed cost of standing up and maintaining a dedicated database is high enough that I rarely need to go that route. (Hosted services just make that fixed cost into explicit $) And now with litestream, the server-side story has gotten nicer for SQLite, so I expect the percentage of time I need pg to continue to drop.