jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Because the "security model" of credit cards involves shifting all seller-fraud risk onto the sellers using chargebacks.

This is actually one of the two primary services that credit cards sell themselves on -- mitigating risk, primarily by protecting consumers from fraud, and permitting purchases on credit rather than out of available cash balances -- and its the feature that is most heavily sold to higher-end customers (the you can buy stuff you can't otherwise afford feature is sold more heavily, at least more equally to risk mitigation, to lower-end customers.)
http://whitneymusicbox.org/
It appears they are killing of the person to person payments much like PayPal.

It is good for Amazon because Amazon Payments was not the best service from Amazon, probably had the most non Amazon like experiences within it mainly bad customer service and worse than Paypal fraud false positives. For doing such a good job in all other areas they enter usually, here they made a worse PayPal, exactly the thing they were trying to better.

Stripe is such a better alternative to Amazon (and paypal which Amazon payments was supposed to rival). Amazon payments is now more business to business or person to business and no more person to person payments.
I probably started too many stinks on the Microsoft yammer page related to this. Thanks for finally getting it done.
Effective Executive. I gifted this book to the executives at work. Recommended.
This right here is a great example of why unions are essential. They're the only bargaining chip employees really have.
Resale value is the closest thing to an objective measure we're going to get.

The butterfly keyboard era Macs took a nosedive in this metric, because they were bad computers.

I have what turns out to be the last Intel 16" MacBook Pro which Apple will ever build. I suspect the Intel part of it will make its resale value kind of grim, but the keyboard, speakers, monitor, build quality: all great.

MacBooks traditionally resell at a significant premium, because they're good computers with a long useful life. I expect this will be true for the M-series as well, although it's too soon to know.
It’s true. However there’s a question of what to do about this. You can’t sell a wireless device to someone in Ohio and expect it not to be used in New York City. And certain emergency frequencies might be rarely utilized but very important when used.

That said, I’d like to see more allocation of spectrum for consumer use. It’s very frustrating that cellular companies get more and more spectrum but we can’t feasibly deploy public LTE for example.

Perhaps if the wireless device has GPS and network connectivity we could give the government permission to enable and disable extra frequencies depending on location. Though of course this scheme invites suppression of dissent.
It's not the nuclear option. Put your feelers out, see if you can get a better job that you like the sound of, and then leave.

_That_ is how you effect change when your management and leadership is comfortable with the status quo, and if the colleagues you're fond of are too loyal to the company for their own good, maybe it's the kick in the ass they need.

Beyond that, your mental wellbeing isn't going to withstand the pressure of taking on a burden you don't appreciate so that your colleagues don't have to suffer as much.
>What do the authors mean "too complex to deploy on dedicated hardware"?

It costs time and effort to translate a software function to HDL/FPGA, so it's not always worth doing. For example you could do TCP/IP in hardware, but unless you have particular performance requirements (say HFT) you're probably better off with a soft core and a tested software TCP/IP stack.

Also each feature translated to hardware takes up space in the fabric. When you crunch numbers on an FPGA, it's ideal if you can lay out the entire sequence of operations as one big pipeline, so you can keep throughput as high as possible. Sufficiently long or complex sequences may not translate efficiently to FPGA.
I was talking with someone recently and they recently bought a new electric water heater. I asked why they didn't go with a heat pump option, and they said the dealer told them that heat pump water heaters are basically a "robbing Peter to pay Paul" situation where you end up taking heat you would have added to your house and putting it in your water instead.

I guess in warm climates / seasons that is probably a net benefit, but I've noticed our electric co-op also promotes highly-insulated electric water heaters instead of heat pump water heaters.

Not sure what I think of it all. We have an electric water heater and at first I was grumpy about the relative cost to run relative to natural gas, but I've come to terms with it. It's about the simplest device possible, and that has some value I think.
I'm interested in helping companies with AWS spend on a contract basis - if you spend > $50k/mo in the cloud, I'd like to chat with you.

https://vazor.com/resume.txt
I'd argue that it is still a statement of faith.
Does anyone remember the intermud system ? https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/InterMUD

Back in the day we hooked all our muds together so people could communicate across realities.. things were more open back then.
> I'm genuinely curious if I missed any trends.

Yes, you genuinely missed the trend. When BTC prices cratered awhile back, a lot of miners starting dumping their cards because they couldn't even break even on power consumption / mining costs.

eBay was flooded with cards.
There must be an entry point. After you bought you BTC, you can withdraw it, and use it to pay for things, store privately etc.
The printing press ban probably had a huge impact. It was much easier to spread ideas if you didn’t have to transcribe them by hand.
“Software that is free (as in GNU) is charged for in the App store”

It can be argued that the App Store is incompatible with the GPL for other reasons (in spirit, if not in letter), but selling GPL software is allowed. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMon...:

“Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money? (#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney)

Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)”
Who was that? ^_^ I was a fluffy creator around then, discworld terminology for a visiting mud creator via the old inter-mud system
In the Czech Republic it's the same basically.
Meh. It's ok to assume low number of items and code accordingly. What is not ok is for the company to ignore such a problem for years, instead if detecting and fixing it.
Hey, please edit out swipes like "use your brain" from your HN comments. They only make things worse. I realize that it's frustrating to represent a contrarian/minority position on the internet, but there's really only one way to do it effectively and that is to prevent the frustration from boiling over and stick to neutral information. Otherwise you just give people an additional reason to reject what you're saying, which ends up discrediting whatever truth you're advocating for. I've written about this elsewhere in case it's helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Also, please note this site guideline: Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gilad Bracha's been pushing for languages with optional type systems for some time:

https://www.google.com/webhp?q=bracha+optional+type#safe=off...
I just want to point out that the "entrepreneur" with 20 years career did not just start recently: if it's bad, then it has been a while.

>We did it because there was an inexhaustible quantity of information to be learned about a subject that was dear to us. We used archie and gopher to transfer open source software around and share knowledge. We snuck into computer labs at neighboring universities to get our hands on computers that we otherwise would have no access to.

I've always found the stories of people snucking into computer labs (mostly MIT or near by universities, I believe) of the past inspiring. In a sense, luckily nowadays we don't have to do that anymore. On the other hand, it's unfortunate that you will surely be spending time in jails if you do something like that.

>And there was altruism within the Internet community.

There is this community called "Hacker News", which the head honcho believes that "Mean people fails". So I'd strongly disagree that there is no altruism within the Internet community.
I wasn't snarking, merely asking a question. It's valid to ask whether the Python compiler is working out since the stated goal is "to produce a high-performance Python implementation that can push Python into domains dominated by traditional systems languages like C++."

Since Dropbox has rewritten a chunk of systems in Go it suggests that Pyston isn't working out.
Alexa is highly inaccurate. My website (http://www.ranksignals.com) have Alexa rank 7,000 with 3,500 visits / day while my other websites with higher traffic have far lower Alexa rank.

My other websites have Alexa rank 23,000 with 15k to 20k visits/day and Alexa rank 250k and 5k visits/day.
I think the complaint is just that the approach is in no way as novel as you make it seem.

It can and has been implemented with Varnish and a few lines of VCL (with support of the app as well, of course).

What is "pure varnish" anyways? Proper varnish use always needs a tuned VCL, that's the whole core of the product.

Also, if I might say, I find your edits very handwavey. Please prove why that is impossible in VCL.
With free iOS options it is hard to have a compelling reason to purchase something which is basically a novelty use case.

Although, I do have a Sharkk keyboard for my iPad and using SSH with that is pretty slick. I have yet to link dropbox with one of my cloud servers to enable an edit, save-to-dropbox, server update loop.

The behavior typically is search for "free xyz" first and if I find something that meets my needs then so be it. I wonder if having "lite" versions that have features removed and are offered free would have any impact on their revenue.
Do you bother with a day job now?
Love the bit about the misconception that Mathematics is mainly about utility. I remember reading something about G.H. Hardy (which I can no longer find) in which he said he would get a little bit disappointed if he found that one of his results ended up finding a practical use.
I had the same reaction to the headline, but in this particular article it actually means exponential.

(It does make a leap from computation to intelligence though.)
My experience is the same. When I do get Quora, I do not have to sign up, and it’s usually valuable. I would add that the presence of a Quora result at the top of search-engine results usually indicates that my query is freaking arcane and specific, and Google is doing its best to show me _something_. In other words, it’s not as though Quora results are taking slots away from better results.
Yep, maybe even less, it is also 24/7, rule of the thumb is that for each position 5 (depending on the contract/mansion even 6) people are needed, to cover holidays, leaves, illnesses, etc., in a year there are 8760 hours, and hours worked are rarely more than 1800 or so.
The quick answer to your broader question is that there are multiple ways of slicing how GDP is computed, and yes, economists are aware of them and have thought through the edge-cases as well as being aware of where the measures fall short.

E.g. in your example, see the Value-added approach: https://quickonomics.com/gross-domestic-product-gdp/
The blockchain is indeed fraught with peril. Code review, audits, and bug bounties are an absolute necessity when it comes to smart contracts! Learning in a high stakes situation seems pretty good as long as you have a robust support structure.
The point is that they're mixing the suspect chemicals, no?
It has nothing to do with that. If they were doing this to a Christian minority we still wouldn't be doing anything.

Mutually assured destruction is a powerful force.
I don't think the illegal personal data collection is what gives Google their advantage. They don't necessarily need to abandon their current business model, upholding human rights and respecting the spirit of the law would be enough.
In this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...
Does patchman run scheduled scans to look for uploaded malware or does it hook ModSecurity like ConfigServer eXploit Scanner?
I will delete mine too ;)
I was in Shanghai last month & in previous years bypassing the firewall was not too much of a hassle. When I arrived in Shanghai for the holidays this year my old VPN provider didn't work anymore, plus they added DNS poisoning and bandwidth throttling. I actually upgraded TO StrongVPN, which seems to be one of the affected VPN services now.

My conclusion was that it has become effectively impossible to run a western IT-oriented business from Shanghai. Would be interested in hearing stories of people who DO succeed.

Sad thing is that all the infrastructure is in place: plenty of fast finer in the big cities & the "local", balkanised version of the "internet" works fine.
I'm working on an information security and intelligence startup (name TBD) and am looking for a potential co-founder or early stage team member. Primarily US-based, but everyone is and will likely forever be fully remote.

It's in the very early stages and is not yet incorporated. We're still evaluating different possible business models, but a significant aspect will likely involve attempting to combat certain kinds of cybercrime in a preventative and proactive manner. For example, helping to permanently shutter fraud schemes and to potentially contribute to a sort of chilling effect that may discourage others who are operating similar schemes or who may have been considering starting one.

Please email me at terahertzmammoth at protonmail.com or add me on Discord at terahertz#2015, and please include your HN username and any relevant skills and experience in your initial message. (Formal education or professional experience not necessarily required. Native or exceptionally fluent English speakers preferred.)
Lower upfront capital costs. At a higher level of passengers per hour labor costs of needing one driver per bus start to dominate. 70% of mass transit operating cost in developed countries is staff. A train can have many cars but only one operator. Buses use existing roads and the increased wear of a 35,000 lb vehicle on roads is part of another organization's budget (notice bus stops use concrete instead of asphalt). Methods of improving bus service like more drivers and buses to reduce wait time, and dedicated lanes bring up the cost.
> Regular users won't be impacted by this.

Yet. Next step is to make it opt-out for the "safety" of the public.
If you can run it. I have friends who spent hundreds on ships back in the day, but haven't upgraded their PCs in the meantime. They can no longer run it, as the specs have creeped up along with the features.
In my experience, having a variety of programming languages on your resume is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, it often impresses or makes you more desirable in the eyes of the programmers who do your initial phone screen or whiteboard interview. They like seeing that you're curious and passionate about the field.

If you explore languages that they haven't explored yet, then they might be excited about the chance to learn something from you. If you've explored the same trendy language they're already exploring, then their ego might feel validated by seeing others on the same bandwagon.

Either way, they're probably frustrated by various examples of not having buy-in from management or architects to do various things they'd like with the existing codebase. So they might see you as the right kind of mindset, someone hungry who will be an ally in pushing for improvements.

On the OTHER hand, it will often worry managers and architects. Who have enough stress on their plates dealing with the business stakeholders, and don't want to hire another kid who will throw a temper tantrum when they're not allowed to re-write the entire platform in Rust.

So if you DO decide to put various "personal interest" languages on your resume, then make it a point during phone or F2F interviews to highlight your professional maturity. How you understand the need to balance risk. In other words, that you explore languages on your personal time to make you a better developer, not because you really have an expectation of using Brainfuck on your employer's projects.

Even with that said, by the time you're 5+ years in the industry, I'd be a little wary of putting too much on your resume that isn't genuine professional experience. I include Lisp and F# on my resume just for the occasional conversation-starter... but if I really had a list of 12 hobby languages, then I would probably try to mention that in the interview, rather than listing them all on my printed resume/CV.
How many of those can you fit in a shipping container? It looks like it is rigid, whilst the Ikea ones are flat pack.

Logistics is everything in disaster relief.
- It is closed-source, obfuscated, and untrustworthy overall (https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard).

and Streak is open source?

- The supported (Windows and Mac) versions have obnoxious ads, and the Linux version is buggy and 32-bit-only.

I have the Mac version of Skype, where are the ads?

- Since it’s P2P-ish (which makes sense for audio and video calls), you can’t send a message to someone who’s offline and expect them to be notified (say, via e-mail, which Slack does). Worse, if you go offline, they won’t get it until you’re both on at the same time!

This part is true, it's pretty limited.

- Files shared on Skype don’t last. You have to use an external service.

Skype is more P2P

- There is no permanent archive; logs are client-side and easy to lose. (You can get messages that are a few days old from peers, but there’s a limit – I don’t know exactly where.)

Skype is for encrypted P2P communication.

Why not just use IRC?
How does JDateTime compare with Joda Time? Date and time classes are extremely tricky to get right, and Joda has been working on it for a long time.
You are mostly there. Granted even your json is nicer than soap, but it is very, very far from json.

About the only thing useful in the spec is a separate errors list so that I can easily check if it worked as it should.

Also there is apparently no way to authenticate so you either have to allow everybody to create/alter whatever on your server or nobody. Yikes.
Honestly, that stuff is a lot harder to do than you seem to think it is. My gf has never even bothered separating whites and colors and she's never ruined any article of clothing in the laundry. By contrast, setting up a router is not something you can just feel your way through without _any_ prior knowledge (even prior knowledge unrelated to that specific model). Shit, without prior knowledge you couldn't even get to the router config page.

> Or mixed ammonia and bleach to clean a floor?

The first part of your comment was a reasonable point, but what the hell are you talking about here? You do your laundry using bleach and ammonia....on your floor?
Impossible to make a recommendation without knowing him. Most talented people find a good way through their twenties and he definitely presents as talented.
My HN experience has considerably improved ever since finding out about n-gate.com, especially when it comes to summarizing long threads in a satirical way or if there's a big story I might have missed.
If you drive down home costs in hyper inflated cities in California, where people got legitimate loans on that hyper inflation, who is left holding the bag? Someone has to pay that debt that is now worthless due to decreased inflation, right?

This problem perplexes me, because it seems like it's a runaway train once it gets started.
you can do better with a monolith on a ten-person team, or a 300 person team. Monoliths have their advantages
Find a work as remote contractor or in a startup.
But do frontend only, backend/devops have oncall
To some extent, this is true. I don't feel the need to totally understand gits packing logic or the specific mechanics of the various diff/merge algorithms.

But some knowledge of how/why your tools work the way they do can be very helpful.

Some knowledge of a tools internal working can be fundamental to efficient use of that tool. At the very least it can allow you to understand or derive your useful interactions with that tool rather than simply memorize how it is used.
The point of the article is not an analogy. Git is based on snapshots. Abs diffs are computed from snapshots as needed.

The snapshots are also de-duplicated and compressed, but that is not important.

The article is a good one. And if you spend the time to understand git it gets easier to use.
We wouldn't be having a herd immunity discussion at all if people were rational and got the vaccine when it was made available.
The only assumption made here is ambition, and it is explicitly stated.

An ambitious civilization will figure out a use for whatever amount of harvestable energy is available. Computation, if nothing else. The paper is about upper bounds; whether any civilization can (or wants to) actually reach anywhere near them is another question for another paper.
> There's a difference between the functionality existing and having to implement it yourself.

Well, the functionality (use X and libXaw3D) exists, he doesn't have to implement it himself.
Remember the Netflix Challenge fiasco? It's pretty clear that this problem is either ridiculously hard, or it is fundamentally "unsolvable" (because, perhaps, it depends on highly variable mood).
I'm not sure how people make it to the end of that article without being scared shitless about the future of newspapers.

Newspapers have an incredibly important social function as muckrackers, exposing corruption, explaining politics, and breaking news. Even the New York Times, which is as good of a newspaper as you'll find these days has 'native advertising' which is virtually indistinguishable from regular articles.
It can probably be done but some projects have thousands of issues, thousands of PRs with dozens of comments in every thread.

It doesn't seem like a good idea to make your git repo store all that data.
"Virtually every vaccine ever discovered provides more immunity on first dose, than the incremental gain on subsequent boosters."

Citation needed.
Eventually, but salaries tend to lag inflation. Also would depend how quickly rates went up.
>Top programs like the Flatiron school are NOT a walk in the park. They are intensive, 60-80 hour a week programs with a very low acceptance rate.

As an App Academy graduate, I can confirm this. Pretty much everyone has some prior programming, technical, or engineering experience. Personally, I had gone through most of an Electrical Engineering program.

Good bootcamps aren't something that takes average people and turns them into good developers. They take talented individuals and fills in the missing pieces for being able to contribute professionally.
Indeed it does, but IMHO it could do it more openly (i.e., provide easier access directly from the app itself).