skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alcohol takes the fun out of socializing when stripped of it you are left with tables, chairs and a room. And company that spits and slurs!

Without alchohol social scenes may be more creative. Karoke. Board games. Social games. Deep conversatiobs. Challenges. Parties like you had as a kid.
Midtown Madness 1 & 2 are most similar to what you are looking for.
Same "brading" as we see on Discord "servers" which basically all run on the company side.

Now there is really no way of verifying what kind of access they do with your personal email data.
Well, not entirely by accident - things like companion planting were very much observable as advantageous for pest control or nutrient efficiency. Think like how carrots and garlic both like being next to radishes, and while carrots thrive with being near peas, garlic suffers. It's quite actionable stuff whether you're deciding the layout and planting sequence of a small kitchen garden or a large plot of land.

I am unsure exactly how much of the biology was understood at the time, but it also wasn't entirely drawn out of thin air. A lot of it was just drawing a bunch of known good practices together as a cohesive design philosophy for how to run a farm.

Spirituality stuff was very in vogue at the time, so it's hard to say if it would have even gotten popular without the cosmic forces type stuff. Even if it was a dubious contribution to the actual mechanics :)
Condenser dryers? Still available in UK and fairly sure most of EU
Insecurity Through Censorship: Vulnerabilities Caused by the Great Firewall
Like always, as the problem is so obvious, the interesting question is why it has not been solved yet ("US neutral global payment alternative for Visa/Mastercard").

There are three problems

- Hometurf competition

- Politics

- Technical skill

But in the case of the EU it is mostly the first. All "local" (read: national) banks have created their own payment standards to compete with Visa/Mastercard. Everyone wants their standard to be adopted, instead of the competitor bank alternatives.

Then there is rollout. Banks are very traditional organisations and cannot think startups how to get adoption. They want adoption through regulation "force everyone to use our system." They cannot get natural adoption. If you want adoption, make system open as possible, take a page from Linux playbook. Give open source terminals and libraries to everyone and you will have adoption.

As discussed in Hacker News before, there are also reasons why the EU lacks top software development skill, which is currently naturally attracted to the US. Not as an individuals, you still get top EU programmers, but as a geographic. This is due to software engineer not being prestigious job in many EU countries.

The step further for this is open ledger, which comes to politics. Even in the EU we are worried that if someone runs this system, the "evil" countries like Hungary will exploit it, suck in all your personal data and sell to Russians.

Only if there were credible neutral open digital ledger.
I’m very curious about this. How do you manipulate flight controls with the headset on? Do you go by feel or is there a matching representation in the virtual world?
Because of security reasons, my web browser cannot write to "Downloads", but "Downloads/a" works.

Because of security reasons, my file manager cannot access "Android/obb" and I need to use a trick with the "Files" app.

In order to improve user experience, the option to directly mount the SD card via USB has been removed. Now I need to physically remove it from the phone because the Android's default way of handling things simply doesn't work when you have more than a handful of files.

BTW SD cards suck on Android, but when you connect them to the cheapest Chinese USB reader and to your PC, then they're magically 10x faster.

It's clear to me that Google pushes business decisions under the disguise of "improvements". I think that removing the audio jack was the symbol of Google moving away from creating a good OS to monetizing their OS. I really wish there was a viable alternative to Android that I could install on any phone.
With SEPA framework Europe does not need any payment card processor anymore, you can settle any payment with instant and free wire transfer through the eurozone. It's not only the bank that are coming after Visa and Mastercard, it's the eurozone.
I definitely have to put X11 (Xwayland) inside https://exaequOS.com for running this version of Basic !
Not really? It's more like saying alcoholics take the fun out of going to a restaurant that happens to have a bar.
You may check: https://github.com/ulisesojeda/sealenv
All of those options are available in Swift, D, C#, F#, Linear Haskell, OCaml with effects.

Only pointing out the ones relevant in 2024, and not the whole CS history.
Yep SOP is to block all ports that I haven’t personally white listed on all my systems.
That's rather patronizing.

I'm not "fascinated" with running barefoot - I do run barefoot when I otherwise would not be running, due to chronic injuries.

And I'm still running when many of my peers no longer run - they complain about their knees or whatever.
I believe it’s already reasonably common to give a person Type 1 diabetes a pancreas transplant if they have another transplant and will therefore be taking immunosuppressants anyway.

It’s true that you wouldn’t do this unless they were already needed, say, a liver transplant.
i think this make sense once you've climbed up a certain amount on the maslow heirarchy of needs. then you can start to make choices about luxuries and must-haves.

for me, it's internet access, a warm bed, 3 nice meals, hot running water and peace and quiet (not living with noisy neighbours).

those are my needs. assuming good health.
That absolutely cannot be true. If a business does not want to be a casino, it doesn't have to be.

I run a pub. We'd never have any gambling (machines or otherwise) in it, and we charge less than most pubs for locally sourced beer/cider.

If you're running your business to extract value from people rather than to create community with them, you're a bad person.
US built cars are automated like crazy, have a lot of experience scaling, and save significantly on shipping costs.
> As a professional gambler (aka farmer)

You guys invented the option so ... yes.
I'm not sure sitting in a comfortable air conditioned cab is all that much effort. It is fun! But as we're on the precipice of it going the way of full automation removing even that minimal effort, just how low effort is your bar?
How can this be a 9.6 when heartbleed was a 7.5, how can it be just 0.4 below the xz thing
Which culture are you implying has a healthy relationship with alcohol?
Good to see simple wiki / confluence alternatives. But confluence is here to stay, with all it's rich features.

I switched jobs and thus move away from confluence to ADO wiki and life is never endingly painful for internal knowledge management!

Either there are 100s of word docx or there's confluence that can be easily queried, with various other capabilities using it's plugins for draw.io and mermaid.js.

Markdown for large tables is just silly and hard to maintain. AsciiDoc is great, but a bit too much for docs that are shared with product teams.
Linux Phone Apps
Sure but security isn’t about being 100% protected which is impossible, but lowering your attack foot print. Unless you have a ton of people hooking to your LAN regularly then this still greatly lowers you chances of getting hit with this particular security flaw by people on the WAN
Cases where we see the absurdity of copyright in its current form. But either we have it for everyone, including OpenAI, or for no one. Or are perhaps some more equal than others before the law?
It could also be argued that they aren't used because not all major compilers implement them.
And you start to wonder, he's just one who got caught. How many more. It sure didn't take long!
Hm, it's probably true that recommendation algorithms do something similar already, training on "human likes" that were influenced by the previous generation. But "human language" is a richer medium to carry information.

I don't think you need to be independent or autonomous to develop a culture. And a lot of human culture was passed down over generations without understanding why it worked. We just imitate the behaviour and rituals from our most successful ancestors or role models.

If new LLMs can access the past generation's knowledge of how to please human evaluators, they will use it. It's not a deliberate decision by an "agent", it's just the best text source to copy from. This is a new feedback loop between generations of assistants, and it bypasses whatever the human designer had in mind. Phrases like "it is always best to ask an expert" will pop up just because you tuned the LLM to sound like a helpful assistant, and that's what helpful assistants sound like in the training data. You'd have to actively steer the new generation away from using their ancestral knowledge.

I guess it comes down to what your definition of "culture" is. There is no targeted teaching of the next generation, for example - but is this a requirement? I agree that talking about "machine culture" right now sounds like a stretch, but now I wonder what pieces are actually missing.
I’ve never had a free SEPA transfer. Where is that a thing?
Not ads in general.

Modern social media that makes and sells ads and panopticon datasets.
I honestly wasn't aware that OpenAI was registered as non-profit, and I assumed it's a normal company with a misleading name.
I follow retractionwatch.

A declining trust in the scientific community.

As academic publishing grapples with its papermill problem, many firms are retracting articles by the dozens, hundreds, or even thousands after discovering foul play.

There really needs to be legal consequences for those so called scientists and publishers who submit fake papers.
I've made solid side income gambling over a number of different games and sports, and I say it should definitely be banned.

It ruins lives, funnels money to terrible people, makes sports worse for everyone, and has no positive impact on society. The benefits of the "freedom" to let manipulation of your lizard brain drain you of your past and future earnings is not worth it.
Result builders aren't macros.
If we can, and it works out to less harm vs benefit than otherwise: Yes. But it turns out we can't for alcohol and cigarettes (except regulation). We fairly much can for workaholics - Norway has laws that stop working overtime except in certain situations, and they actually work fairly well. I don't know if we can for social media, though I see California is trying to stop some of the addictive forms of social media.
I don't really understand your point. Company A is corrupt, the company B and C are corrupt too (and D, E, F,...). We have 3 corrupt companies. Why would here be any problem saying that company A is corrupt? Or from another perspective, why would be A less corrupt if B and C are doing the same thing?

Open Source contributions are there for three reasons. Either the license requires it (Google Fuchsia is a step into avoiding this and keep next generation hardware close source), it is a public relations stunt or they want other software developers work for them for free (which is also lowering the wages for their developers).

Never ever mistake any company that has public stocks doing anything else but earning money for the stock owners. As they didn't buy the stocks to support charity but to earn money, which is the greatest reason why their products are worse deal for their customers on y2y basis.
I'm not arguing about that (I don't buy that either).

I'm saying that there was no change in laws or even in Supreme Court ruling since the block.

Elon Musk though it was unfair the decisions to block the accounts, and now he thinks it's fair. The only person who changed the opinion or ruling here is X.
I won't keep going in circles, but focus on this point:

> Sure, but assuming we remain a democracy, or some approximation of one, we're always going to be a bit schizophrenic in our policies. Any particular administration can try to go in one direction or the other, but they have to be aware that their successor (or the one after) could very well undo all their actions and take the exact opposite course.

The idea that democracies are less stable and predictable doesn't bear out in reality. They are the most stable and predictable forms of government, because they have many checks on their power: Free press, legislatures, competitive elections, etc. expose fraud and incompetence to their disinfectent, sunlight. The rule of law means that officials serve the law and the people, not a person. Putin is not someone you trust to keep their word in a deal with you.

Government by dictators is less stable: They lack the essential things above, and are subject to one person's whim - a person inevitably corrupted by their power. They change power through violence, which makes them even more unstable.

And to circle back after all to the evidence right in front of us: NATO has lasted 90 years so far. The US has greatly expanded and deepened its alliances in East Asia over the last 4 years. Now name an ally China or Russia has. They don't - dictators don't have allies on that level; nobody actually likes their values and wants them to succeed. China and Russia's current relationship is nothing like the US's with NATO;
Send them all to http://www.everythingisterrible.com/

They collect all VHS tapes.
I would like to tack onto this that compared to what it could/should be, our maternal mortality rate is an absolute national shame.
> Also, for whatever reason, European clothes cleaning systems are insanely harsh, and your clothes don't last nearly as long when washed there. I think it's related to the energy efficiency requirements; the dryers are much much hotter (if they are available at all) and the washers have to use miniscule amounts of water so they use a lot more agitating instead, I suppose.

Wait, what? The one time I visited the US and had to use laundromats I could basically thrown away everything I’d worn on that trip because hose washing machines were so harsh.

Back home in Europe, my clothes last years and sometimes even decades.
He is also the maintainer of a web browser whose specification seems to be ‘to leave as little trace as possible in the event of a police raid’, which is pretty suspicious.
Including mixed mode JIT/AOT compilation with PGO feedback, which many still aren't aware of.
Blogs/personal websites can lead to some amazing serendipitous outcomes. Especially true if you're into consulting of any kind.

Browse blogs here https://www.personalwebsites.xyz/
16% of the global population has a disability, according to the World Health Organization. How can we build diagramming web apps to ensure accessibility for everyone? Dive into this important topic, explore the current state of accessibility, enabling technologies, and the role of AI in creating more inclusive experiences.
I'm not sure that's true. The US can't defend an entire Pacific front, obviously, and has a shortage of ships, many of which will be busy doing other things.

Anyway, I was thinking of missiles, which China has many of, and which can reach the US (including from submarines and other ships that can maneuver closer to the US).
Average national salary in the US $60k [1] vs 5k for turkey so closer to 11-12x (the coasts typically pay closer to 70k). So at most unions are costing US built ships to be twice as expensive due to unions and overall higher US wages are responsible for the price difference - difficult to compete on price with people that are willing to work for 1/10th your wage unless you can automate significantly more than them.

[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/business/hr-payroll...
Is climate change a sinister rebranding?

Global warming suffers from "but it rained yesterday" and other misleading small scale variations making people disbelieve.

"More fires, more hurricanes: Climate change" then rebrands it as scary: need to take seriously.
AI is a tool which will be weaponized / monetized to its maximum potential against perceived enemies and for the best profits
Literally every bank to bank transfer in Europe?
Edit: apparently there are some complexities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area (sees Charges)
but personally I've never paid a single cent either
Wero is based on the Dutch IDEAL system. Because the Dutch already have a good system, they are not joining right away, but at a later time.
so, you can eat mentally handicapped / retarded humans then?

<check-mate/>
Meditation, cardio, nutrition, practice, etc.
SEPA payments are not free between different banks in all countries. There can be charges of 4€ within the same country, even for small amounts.
There are countries in the EU which don't even use the Euro, but that doesn't stop business from happening, does it?

Imo, you only need France, NL, Italy and Germany. Maybe Sweden, Spain, Poland and Austria too. Then you've got enough of a market economy to justify needing a separate card processor. I'm surprised they haven't gotten into this earlier. But then again, it's the EU, they're laggards through and through.
I absolutely cannot imagine singing karaoke without alcohol.

Alcohol certainly does not preclude it.
Or, there are a whole lot of sites running honeypots. But it's still probably a very large number.
It has expect[1], a nice tool to automate terminal applications.

Two examples:

- Adding convenience features to the Cisco IOS CLI (e.g., ^D to exit).

- Implementing the back end of a native WPF Windows GUI application that downloads spooled print jobs from a third-party system that only provides remote spooler access through a full-screen interactive terminal application running over ssh. This application also makes use of another nice Tcl feature, its trivially-implemented remote protocol[2].

[1] https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index

[2] http://corex.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/doc/tcllib-1-18/embedded/ww...
Check out Autonomous Racing League https://youtu.be/TPzBH-7ckO0
Can you elaborate on what's TOAST/DETOAST?
And why is it, that winning chances are low? Why do the courts let big tech trample on our rights, but the small man goes to jail or has to pay fines for much much less? And how can this situation be improved?

Hopefully at least in the EU someone will wake up and make better laws or even start applying them to the current situation.
In the EU, IIRC, 2024 is the year that EU starts mandating a bunch of stuff in vehicles (most notably, speed limiter IIUIC).
Swift's long term roadmap is to be usable in all scenarios Apple currently uses C, Objective-C and C++ for, it is even on its official documentation and product description site.

How much it gets there, depends on squizzing juice out of LLVM backend for Swift code.
I expected a way to find out what the heck the system is sending to those disks.
Like per process and what the the Kernel/ZFS is adding.
That sounds like nonsense. How is sepä going to replace my payment card? I haven't seen a single sepa branded payment card around. Visa and MasterCard are all about the cards, SEPA is for money transfers from your bank account and has nothing to do with cards.
Karoke is an alcohol+non alcohol friendlier gig than sitting at a table for 6 hours not even eating :)
Unless you live by yourself in the middle of the woods you never ruin just your life.
UNIX being free beer is the root cause of what we are still trying to fix.
It’s like the main feature of a SEPA transfer, is that it’s free.
> The influencers, the biggest athletes and musicians are marketing it

The government is marketing it.

Public concerts hosted by the municipality will have gambling ads posted all over, sponsored by the latest scam.

Sample size: Alagoas/Pernambuco. Cannot say anything about the gambling ads in the other states.
Excaliber became ineffective in Ukraine after Russia deployed effective jamming.
I've been paying like 0.9eur fixed fee. However often they are free. I don't know what exactly the logic is with the fees. Anyway I wouldn't see it as a suitable method for small retail payments.
Alpaca: Ollama Client for Gnome
They’re certainly going to try.
There’s a real difference between modifying the rules of a sport and rigging/throwing. When you change the rules, you change the competitions. When you rig a sport, you get rid of competition.

Competition is essential to competitive sports (the only ones we could be talking about), so removing competition ruins the sport, independent of the idea of entertainment
Anyway, doing all that just so you don't have to write a regexp has all the hallmarks of overkill. Keep it simple.
Of course. Freedom and all.

My uncle gambled away a successful business, a beautiful house, his family, his friends. In my early memory he was a giant who carried me in the ocean, flying just above the breaking waves. Later on, when I was in elementary school, he lived with us for a bit. Some time later he lived in his Buick. He died alone and with nothing.

In my mind, we all should not allow a man to do that.
Lovely initiative, really.

But they need to change that name, Wero sounds lame.
I just skimmed it, but to my mind and judging only by the few sample texts I red, it seems that it’s really someone who suffers extreme loneliness and try to put "pure logic without conscious will to make suffer anyone" to some extreme reaching thus some bizarre conclusion.

I mean, when I see people making video of themselves stating "ĉiuj nigraj devas morti, vivu Hitler" ("all nigers must die, viva Hitler" in Esperanto) in some easily accessible Telegram channels, it feels like a far harder case of "Ok, this person is really on a wrong track, how can I help steer them to a saner state of mind?".

Also consider this: who is the most dangerous, someone like this person who publish without filter what is in their mind, or some sociopath making political plots through lies all day through promising consensual bullshits and ready to use all forms of violence to achieve their secret egoist goals?
This is coming on the heels of many 'domestic schemes' being deprecated. For example, in The Netherlands, all Maestro cards are being replace by Mastercard debit and Visa debit. The benefit is that bank cards will now work seamlessly internationally.

There's no technical reason why Maestro cards couldn't work internationally (and in fact, Brazil was also using Maestro), as it's just a subscheme of Mastercard, which itself conforms with EMV standards. The E- of EMV stands for 'Europay', a defunct european payment scheme.

The EMV standard is mandated in Europe, precisely to ensure competition of new multi-country schemes is possible, so this is a return to form.
US got Venmo(/paypal) though
Despite the unfortunate name collision (there's only so many puns people can do, I guess), it's a wonderful little wrapper for Ollama with a simple, smooth UI consistent with the rest of GNOME experience.
Changing Data with Confidence and ACID
I often asked myself, and so did just a few days ago, we archive so much of the internet. Just look at how huge the internet archive is, but do we actually need to do that? Why would we need all of that to save "the contents for posterity"?

On the one hand I do believe that there might be some bits which might be nice to have in 50 years, but we generate so incredibly much content and it only gets more. Shouldn't we just get rid of most of it someday? It was fun, it did it's purpose, but it's okay if we forget about it. Sure, now you could argue we did that for a long long time, just look at all the anchient libraries, but our content is exponentially growing. How much trash will we have archived in 50 years?
It sounds good in theory, seeing it Sweden any time soon seems unlikely since our banks got together to do their own thing a long time ago, but we’ll see.

However, I would like to have a word with whoever was responsible for their website (https://wero-wallet.eu), it looks like they’re pushing galaxy gas to kids… not everything has to be overly branded, especially not finance.