jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I've only just gotten used to the slide-it-in-the-slot kind.

I always called this "chip". My UK friends called it "chip-and-pin" in 2012. But yeah, no idea what the technical or widely-accepted colloquial terms are.

> Not knowing for sure is why I never try, and just stick the card in the slot

Yeah, for some reason the UX for contactless is terrible. Sometimes something will show four evenly-spaced green lights (and sometimes they're blue--in any case, why does that mean "contactless"?) but often those lights don't appear until you attempt a tap-to-pay and then they might be delayed by several seconds. And even then, occasionally the hardware malfunctions and can't actually handle tap-to-pay. These hardware failures seemed to be way more common in the early days, but now almost everything does support tap-to-pay--you just often can't tell until you try which is just the dumbest thing ever.

> I think I've paid with my phone one time ever. For some reason I can't bring myself to trust it to work 100% of the time so I can leave my cards at home

I definitely do it as a last resort, but I've done it a few times (e.g., if I forget my wallet). Mostly on iOS I'm often trying to pay quickly and I try to activate the contactless payment but I'll end up turning my phone off or I'll try to bring up my card before my phone is close enough. The uncertainty always makes me feel way more anxious than it should and it's just less stress to use a card (cards also don't run out of batteries).
I never understood why ITF-8 did not use the much simpler encoding of:

- 0xxxxxxx -> 7 bits, ASCII compatible (same as UTF-8)
- 10xxxxxx -> 6 bits, more bits to come
- 11xxxxxx -> final 6 bits.

It has multiple benefits:

- It encodes more bits per octet: 7, 12, 18, 24 vs 7, 11, 16, 21 for UTF-8
- It is easily extensible for more bits.
- Such extra bits extension is backward compatible for reasonable implementations.

The last point is key: UTF-8 would need to invent a new prefix to go beyond 21 bits. Old software would not know the new prefix and what to do with it. With the simpler scheme, they could potentially work out of the box up to at least 30 bits (that's a billion code points, much more than the mere million of 21 bits).

The
If I had to guess this will reuse their Apple Pay Merchant IDs, or at least I'm really hoping that's the case. If so any iOS dev that sets that up could use this (and has a payment processor to work with).
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act covers any unauthorized access regardless of how the credentials were obtained or... magically guessed.
It’s FedRAMP authorized at the moderate baseline. That requires implementation of a pretty sizable and stringent set of security controls, continuous monitoring, and more. I’d say it’s probably a bit more secure than their commercial offering, but that likely depends on your opinion of the control catalog’s requirements and compliance does not always equal secure.
I wonder what it makes out of green ideas sleep furiously.
It doesn't actually require awe-inspiring commitment and dramatic personal sacrifice, and such grand gestures would likely end up unsustainable. I just suspect that the ideas themselves will tend to sound really hoity toity and holier than thou, which isn't helpful in persuasion. Case in point- I was deliberately trying to avoid that, and it appears I failed badly.

(Edit: reading my first post, it's definitely the case that I did not make the connection here explicit- the rejection isn't merely 'oh no I can't handle the TRUTH', but more like, 'ugh, these guys'. A big part of it is social in nature, stacked on top of the underlying problem of asking too much.)

A huge part of EA is driven by analysis of effectiveness. If I want to be effective, I have to figure out how to be effective. If someone provides a valuable insight on how to be more effective, it's not a rejection of my ethical outlook, but rather useful information.
One account so password changes are synced, things like network profiles/wifi passwords or certain Windows settings sync, clipboard can sync, Microsoft apps inherit the system login. Probably some other stuff I haven't noticed since I last looked at it.

I use local myself but I think its decently useful stuff to most people.
Well there are (at least) two issues you're glossing over here:

1) Toxic workplace behavior is measurable, you can simply measure the wage premium paid by the so-called "toxic" employers or managers.

2) Bro culture may contribute to business success. I don't like that kind of 'culture', but it may help foster improved productivity in certain industries, and the lawsuits may just be a cost of doing business that's worth paying. Again, this isn't how I live my life, but it is conceivable that this is a workable model.
If it is posted from Iran how can it be under US export laws?
Even if you are right, adults and teenagers still sync around dinner time, they still sync around social activities, etc.
The point is that this may be good for a developing nation, but it's not a solution you should want for a developed nation. The parent comment identifies lowering labor costs as a solution to develop US manufacturing.
After annexation, a number of sanctions were put in place against Crimea as a whole. Visa and MasterCard stopped processing payments, eBay and Amazon stopped shipping, Upwork blocked freelancers with Crimean addresses. Some of the sanctions were lifted months to years later, but I am wondering how this must have made the average citizen of the annexed region feel in meantime.
I seem to recall that there was a Silicon Valley startup that did this a couple of decades ago, probably with the two circuit version. A neighbor of mine at the time was one of the principals. IIRC they failed to get traction because of manufacturing costs in spite of the improved efficiency. But it was quite a while ago and the details have faded into the mist.
Sure. If someone took the time to write a book about what s/he thinks, and I don't mean teaching some subject (including their experiences in the subject), or writing some other fiction other non-fiction, but rather some semi-informed garbage providing only their opinion ("What I Think About ...", "Everything I Believe", or "My Autobiography"), then s/he is a substantial amount of time on a throwaway work. This is different than responding with opinion on HN, etc. because it isn't a discussion where they might actually engage someone else; it is a one-way conversation. Now if they wrote a wise work of art and is marketed correctly or widely popular, I might reconsider, but that probably isn't the case. I don't want someone who wrote a book like that and flaunting it in conversation working for me, because unless they are applying to a position as an editorialist, I don't want to read their diatribe emails or listen to soliloquies about their feelings on various subjects while at work, I want them to get their work done.

Why is a resume that shows understanding of the business important? Because it shows that they are focused on what is important to the work and relaying that information, rather than their opinion.
They were exempted from serving in the military on the basis that they're "religiously observant". That excludes using a computer on sabbath and eating in non-kosher restaurants.
Lie exposed → Exemption revoked.
People who don't eat meat regularly lose an enzyme they need to properly digest meat. When I find that I've accidentally consumed something with chicken broth in it, I am physically ill during digestion. Therefore, I ask whether a soup or a risotto is made with a meat broth, because it's not worth me getting ill over.

Chicken broth is used in too many places as "instant flavour" where water would do just as well, or a mushroom broth. There's no reason for it, and the chefs I spoke with in Italy were horrified by the use of chicken broth in making a risotto.

I choose not to have anything with gelatin in it, because it's a useless filler, especially to yogurt. If you really need to thicken yogurt because you're reducing the milk's fat content, use agar or pectin.

(I am ova-lacto vegetarian, although I reduce my lacto because I'm mildly milk intolerant, more's the pity.)
The problem with the kids in the private schools is that they are taught to memorize a procedure to attain an answer to a pre-constructed question. For them it's different to ask if x is 3.56 and y is 4, what is the product of x times y, in contrast to asking them to multiply a the 3.56 per item cost of four burgers.

In my opinion the problem is not what is taught or how, but the direction teaching as a whole has always had. It's fine to teach kids that the product of x and y is z, as long as you've also spent time explaining the actual uses something might have in the children's life. Kids and teenagers always say "Why do I have to study this if it has no use in real life?", and it's the school's and teacher's job to teach this children that they're wrong.
From the research paper linked from the article, here are how the kids scored in different contexts:

calculating prices in the street 98%
solving word problems on an exam 74%
solving abstract problems on an exam 34%

This would suggest that applying concepts is more important, physical context less so.

Mind you, this is an extremely difficult experiment to carry out scientifically and is open to many interpretations. I would at least want to see it reproduced before giving it much consideration.
I am with you, bought it 9 hours ago.
I just checked my invoice now and the content indeed modified from "startup plan" into "basic plan".
for the record, when I buy it, it was still "startup plan" and it still showed me that i bought 500k points in startup plan.
I hope someone from mixpanel can answer this, i think it is very wrong to change invoice content like this.

my email: admin1 at poshtech com
> App stores have been on PC for decades at this point and the government isn't regulating them.

The government also hasn’t been regulating App stores on mobile until now and yet this is exactly what Epic and others are lobbying for.

Forcing a company to allow App stores is a form of regulation in itself.

In past decades, Apps were not a focus of government interest in the way they now are.

Governments will inevitably take an increasing interest in how software distribution plays a part in fraud, disinformation, cybercrime, and espionage, which decades ago were nascent.

The mobile industry has self-organized around restricted platforms curated stores as a solution to these problems.

App stores are commercial platforms with liability for what they sell. We’re already seeing increasing political pressure on stores from government.

The government can’t force the installation of new app stores without regulating what kind of App stores are allowed.
It is the author of this article who, despite claiming to have taught a course on XML, seems to misunderstand XML.

I think one of the persons who best understood XML was Erik Naggum, or at least few have explained it so eloquently:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML
The Play button doesn't work for me under Safari 15.2 on OS X.
I don't think defenders realize how much more testing is needed for this technology.
The same way you avoid getting sucked into anything - go in knowing how much time and effort you're willing to expend and cut your losses when you hit the limit.
The message implies that everyone HAS TO have their sense of purpose. But it's absolutely fine not to have any meaning and just live your life.
I had an experience with BritBox a few years ago where I signed up for a trial with a Revolut card on an account that had zero or very little balance. (I only did this once, so I wasn't abusing multiple trials.) When the trial expired, they decided to overdraft me (it showed up as a "delayed transaction" in Revolut, which was completely invisible to me beforehand, only a $0 authorization charge was shown). And when I went on the website, there was only an option to "restart your subscription", no option to cancel it and prevent future charges. Since I didn't want to risk being charged again to try to restart it first and then cancel, I ended up contacting support to cancel. At least they didn't try to convince me to stay though.
I think proponents underestimate how much testing is needed to make such a system actually safe.

edit: FSD is clearly still alpha; ive seen it steer towards on coming traffic, and almost cut off large vehicles but for human intervention.
Not a bug! There are three specific words it’s looking for. I will find a way to make that more explicit.
That could be true, but given that few systems cannot be compromised by a determined attacker with resources, it seems worth thinking through what happens if a fleet of these is controlled remotely by people with bad intent.
Sounds kinda like the bigger issue where they were removing features on delivered vehicles. I don't have the link in front of me but there was a reddit thread about I believe Y models where customers were getting delivered vehicles without the passenger lumbar even though it was a listed feature on purchase. I know they have done it on other things as well. Common problem across all modern tech companies, the ability to communicate is not present.
That link is missing a trailing period by the way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....

Edit: huh? I pasted it in with the period and it gets removed. Do trailing periods get removed because it thinks it's the end of a sentence?

Anyway, this redirects to the right URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v_Oracle
Design and implementation starts at page 9.
The case against this here is fascinating. It’s basically a bunch of people who will likely never be able to afford their own beaches cheering on a billionaire as he takes the beach they currently have access to away from them because “freedom.” Yeah Mr Khosla, you take my beach! Wooo! You’re right, I shouldnt be allowed on there, I am the rif-raf after all.

This is basically the problem in a nutshell: people voting against their own interests because one day they may be rich (they won’t though, probably, because if everyone was rich nobody would be) and when they get there they want their own beach too. So they give their beach away to the wealthiest, and now nobody but Vinod has a beach. If instead they just agreed to share the beach they’d all have it now, but of course that’s un-American, apparently.
"Tech" is a proxy for low marginal production cost per customer, i.e. moon potential. If you want to get risk-tolerant investors excited, first convince them you're Tech. The rest of the investors will jump on board when it looks like you're winning.
You can get a sense of it just by looking at the classic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation...

Look for penguin image in ECB mode. Encryption without randomness reveals the patterns! That image is highly educational and makes you think.
On Mobile:

Look at font rendering. Chrome is really good. FF is a mixed bag, and generally a slower experience. The speed is secondary though. Fitting things onto a page nicely is king.

Bonus points for more / better text flow on zoom no matter what the site specifies. Again, on mobile.

On desktop, I just need to migrate some more things and I'll switch back. Never really left, but Chrome did end up getting 90 percent of my browsing.
Eterminal.
Most of the data that I've found suggests that dark text on a light background is measurably more legible than the reverse. This effect is increased for people with astigmatism -- which is about half the population, so that's not insignificant.

There's a lot of pushback I've seen when studies like that get cited: they're old, they weren't about programmers, etc. And, maybe, but even though we're staring at LCD panels now rather than CRTs, light is light light and vision is vision. It's not about how much light is "shining into your eyes" as much as it is about visual acuity, and it's at least worth trying light mode and just... turning down the brightness on your monitor a little. Also, turning up the ambient light in the room. If your environment is so dark that the backlighting on your keyboard is visible, then you've tacitly designed your environment to make light mode blinding and uncomfortable, so you're not really giving it a fair shake.

I'd like to see studies about whether alternating between dark and light mode occasionally will help prevent your eyes from getting tired as quickly; my suspicion is yes, because it certainly does feel that way to me. But a lot of things that seem intuitively true don't stand up to scrutiny.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21636583
Not sure what you mean by “super placebo”? Doesn’t seem right at all. The reason why these drugs are more effective in combination with therapy is because they, speaking from personal experience, “unlock” your mind in a way that can be conducive to objective self-examination.
Also, the pharmaceutical effect of any given amount depends on body weight and various other factors. So the exact amount needed for a particular trip level is different from person to person.
> >synchronizing chats between clients,

> The Carbons XEP is now fairly widely supported and does exactly this

I'll add MAM (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html) for messages you didn't receive because one of your resources was offline, which Conversations does, along with at least Gajim.

> The centralized system of push notifactions on Android and iOS is not yet supported

It's coming (http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html)
Sure with that kind of short term thinking we will never get anywhere. It is far to early to call the investment a failure, in relative timescales it would be like calling a new school a failure because it had a bad first day.
Agreed, but you should at least try out the non-traditional route before dismissing it, especially since he's already got a blog and decent search traffic. eg. No, no downloads here - just a 4.95 javascript e-book with a couple chapters for free.
Ah, I wasn't sure they did this, I've never used Xobni. I think they just get them from your emails (it looks like they have access to them), but I'll look into it more as it could solve this problem, thank you.
The correct political solution is for the FCC to open up larger swaths of spectrum for unlicensed use (call it WiFi on steroids).

You mean like this?

http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db1130...
How is it that we went through at least 40 years of incorrect diet advice without controlled studies giving us accurate and science based broad understanding of what actually made sense?

Politics is only distantly interested in truth and widely interested in lobby parties.
Sometimes it's impeccable execution, sometimes is perfect strategy or exquisite timing, and yet, sometimes, it's like winning the lottery. Some people/companies, for reasons that defy logic, get incredibly lucky.
Year-end inventory clearance sale?
http://www.firearmstactical.com/pdf/fbi-hwfe.pdf

Here's a PDF analyzing the effectiveness of firearms. It was written in 1989 so it is a bit out of date. Perhaps someone with more experience with firearms can check to see if the article is still relevant.

It does confirm that "Even if the heart is instantly destroyed, there is sufficient oxygen in the brain to support full and complete voluntary action for 10-15 seconds".
OH. Good point.
Revisit The Mythical Man-Month.

Having multiple developers and a manager means the project is going to get bogged down in meetings and communication.

Sure, he may be slightly cheaper than hiring a UI guy and a backend guy and a product manager, but I bet he's actually faster, too (at least in some situations).
Thats more than what most people can expect on their epitaph, though.
A good person can still be "wrong" (for any given definition of it). Feinstein is wrong about AirBnB, and Conway is wrong about torture. I was a big fan of Christopher Hitchens' yet I think on balance he was wrong about the Iraq war.

For me, the main objection to torture is not that it often yields unreliable intel, or that innocents end up getting tortured to death, or that it produces more terrorists - all of which are true. I recognize torture sometimes saves lives, and I'm not unsympathetic to the emotion that it carries a somewhat satisfying vengeance component against an enemy who, in their own words, values death more than we value life. Yet my objection is about what effect torture has on us as a society. It's a plague on our house.
This point of view was used in a recent HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904089 .
Whether it's rows vs. columns is just a matter of definition, depending on whether you want to propagate the state by left multiplication or right multiplication. The typical definition (in the context of Markov chains) has the rows summing to one. But how to do it is up to the author of the page. Just be consistent.

In my own coursework, that matrix is called a "stochastic matrix", btw, not a "Markov matrix", but again, it's just definitional and not of interest in a simple article like this.

My main point is that summing to one is what you want, and summing to zero is crazy.
x2go is really nice, and is free software: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/start

Like GP I am using an older desktop, OpenBox+ROX Filer, basically the same desktop I was using in 1999. Very fast over remote, maximally fast locally. Doubt I'll ever change.
Android has already switched to GPLed OpenJDK for the Java classes in question. This was about the Android versions from before that switch over.
> We used to use Bentley, but they've got unethical business practices

Go on. I'm curious now.
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picking one of the hardest hit areas in the world doesn't set a lower boundary on IFR.
The UDM Pro does allow it. I've got one, and all of the cloud stuff is disabled.
There's no reason for disabled people to be taking Ubers. Drivers are not trained nor willing to handle disabled passengers in many cases. They often have smaller vehicles for economy/poverty reasons that not equipped to carry wheelchairs and the like. Service animals are similarly not wanted, because the driver needs to be made whole if they have an 'accident' in the vehicle. The uber cleaning fee does not even come close to the amount of lost time and money that comes when these things happen.

Medicare/medicaid should be covering these people's cost of transportation, the cost should not be forced onto random kids driving uber for side money who are wholly untrained in how to deal with a disabled persons needs.
Which is also a useless statement without knowing the lower threshold for measurement.

There certainly exists an amount of lead that's safe. One molecule won't harm you. Two won't either. But where the limit is nobody knows. And nobody will know for a long time because current trends in lead exposure are rife with confounding factors (i.e. poverty) and the proliferation of statements like "no safe level" dis-incentivize research (finding a number won't matter if nobody cares about your number because "there's no safe level).