skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm not a lawyer, but that seems like it is open to too much interpretation. I feel like these laws only hurt the little guy. I can't even imagine all of that data that companies pass through third parties, like analytics services. It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

Fortunately, I don't have to do deal with it any time soon since I don't do currently do business in the EU.
Same thing on desktop.
What are people doing?

With my UK small business hat on: Sometimes, it is just easier and cheaper to build it yourself than to rely on an outsourced service that doesn't do exactly what you need.

We have a database table of VAT rates per country with starting dates when they come into effect. All customer accounts are tied to a specific country, so all payments or subscriptions for an account can look up the current rate from the database and apply tax as necessary.

All successful payments (one-off or recurring) are recorded in our DB, triggered by webhooks from the various payment services we use. The DB records include all the tax information that applied at the time of the payment, including things like country and proof-of-location as required under EU VAT rules, and also including generating a sequential ID for each payment to comply with the rules there. This is also the point at which we do any necessary currency conversion calculations, and we then generate and send customers an email automatically with all the same details.

A little scripting looks up the necessary sales and tax figures from the database for the various VAT returns we are required to file for UK and for other EU customers.

The significant limitations are mostly around keeping that VAT rates table up-to-date (I know of no acceptable automated method for doing this, so we just have to review the information manually at frequent intervals) and around handling money repaid (refunds, or if we do ever get a chargeback or similar). As far as I'm aware, none of the automated services is even close to getting these things right either, so we're still no worse off having to do a few things by hand in these relatively rare situations.

Setting that lot up was a decent chunk of work, particularly all the hassle around EU VAT, which we had to retrofit in at least one case I can recall. However, it's certainly achievable for an average developer within a few days.
Apparently ownership stakes under 25% are not reported, which could be used by persons of any means to hide ownership. It’s a weird loophole that has nothing to do with the wealthy vs the little guy. It’s available to anyone willing to fill out a bunch of paperwork.
The music community. This may not be what you're looking for, your question leaves the type of idea open. Not the music community of the internet, which is mediocre at best, but of actual professional and semi-pro players.

Musicians are driven, obsessed with subtlety and novel ideas, and highly opinionated. This results in intense and vibrant conversation. The community lacks the BS that plagues tech as it's apparent from a few minutes of playing whether someone is worth their salt.

Critique is built into the fabric of musical training. All professional musicians I know take and give constructive criticism in rehearsal and casual settings.
I have only played with Pony briefly, because library ecosystem is not there, yet, for me. But the type system, and especially the reference capability system was beautiful, once I had gotten over the first local maximum of the learning curve.

I have been spoiled by too many languages with rich standard libraries and third-party library ecosystems, but if Pony gets enough traction to catch up, it is a language I would absolutely love to use. Just think about it - you can have massive concurrency going on, with mutable state, and yet, if it compiles, all is well. It is too good to be true, yet it is here.
Yup, that's essentially how the system works.

One reason that can work in the US is because there is so much money slopping around in the system from high interchange/network fees. An issuing financial institution may bear most of the risk of fraudulent transactions, but the revenue of interchange fees is easily 10x that of fraud.

So, there are aligned incentives to keep the system secure which ends up being friendly to the individual consumer, but it comes at a cost because consumers bear this cost in the form of opaque fees in everything they buy.
There was always unrest, true,
though it was no exception for the time considering its size. Either way the colonialists did nothing to help the situation but were focused on milking the cash cow. https://youtu.be/f7CW7S0zxv4
FWIW, that comment was written before the option to control the path beep uses was added. Without the option to control the path, the potential race is only exploitable by somebody who can write to /dev, in which case that person is already root.
Anyone else getting flashbacks to that "Infinite Detail" Vaporware/Propagandaware with this?
"Exciting New Graphics Technology!", light on technical details and heavy on marketing speak.
You sure about those TOS requirements? Last I checked all you needed was a separate website providing equivalent service. If you charged for a subscription on the website, and you have an app too, then the user should be able to use your app since they've already paid the subscription.
A 1.4% tax on endowment income is consider being hard hit?
Finland joins Startup Visa club
In C# you have Winforms, WPF versions x,y, z.... and now UWA stuff.

And with Xamarin, a slew of other ways.

Not that less confusing.
> > mandatory training and licensing

> I don't think this is reasonable or politically feasible.

I agree that it's not politically feasible, but am curious as to why you don't think it's a reasonable requirement. No one reasonably complains against people have to complete a training course in order to get a driver's license (or to the requirement of a license itself). Both activities require a proper understanding of operation and safety, and operation and safety failures of both can easily result in severe injury and death. Ignoring the political issues around this, I'm entirely baffled how the idea of this requirement could be considered unreasonable.

> > restrictions on ammo purchases

> Not sure what good this would do in reducing gun deaths. You would be hitting target shooter pretty hard for not much gain.

In the recent Las Vegas shooting, the shooter reportedly fired several hundreds of rounds. Presumably if he had been legally limited to owning, say 50 or 100 rounds (more than enough for self defense in the home, and sufficient for most hunting outings), fewer injuries and deaths would have occurred.

I will grant the argument that mass shootings are by far the smallest percentage of gun deaths; you only need a single round to commit suicide or for a child to accidentally shoot him/herself, or a few rounds to kill your family, so this sort of limit wouldn't help there.

Regarding target shooters, I think we can easily make an exception for ammo purchased and used at a licensed gun range, as long as the ammo purchased for target use does not leave the gun range. (Shoot it or lose it, basically.)

But I think at the end of the day the question is "what can reduce unlawful harm without putting an undue burden on lawful use?" ... and I think ammo purchase/ownership limits pass that test.

> > restrictions on ... magazine size

> I don't see how this would be very helpful and always strikes me as something advocated for by people who don't understand guns very much. It's part of why you see such opposition to it.

Perhaps not, and I'll admit I'm certainly no gun expert. But a reload or magazine swap isn't instant, and in the case where a shooter is actively engaged with law enforcement, having to pause to reload after (say) 10 rounds instead of 50 could easily mean fewer deaths. Again, if I apply the test I suggest above, I think it passes.

I'll also admit that I personally do not believe in the need or fundamental "right" of private firearm ownership. I'd be fine with a repeal of the 2nd Amendment with an explicit directive to allow the individual states to make their own gun laws, and would be fine if my state banned private gun ownership entirely... so I'm comfortable with many more restrictions than probably most people are. I have no interest in owning a gun and find the vast majority of the reasons people use to argue for gun ownership to be entirely disingenuous. At the end of the day, aside from minor exceptions, the only real reason is "I think they're cool and fun and I and just want one". Which is totally fair and legitimate, and I wish more people would admit that's the real reason they support private gun ownership.
This is the most recent useful data I could find on short notice: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-pay-users-nearly-double-in-2...

Between Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay (which I believe recently got rebranded as just Google Pay), Apple Pay is ahead in userbase numbers by a considerable margin — perhaps not as much now as a year ago, but I doubt it was overtaken.
> I don't hear anyone calling for sanctions on Iran

The US president? Israel? The new US national security adviser to the president? An enormous number of existing sanctions currently imposed by the US, EU, and UN?
Maybe a more intrusive setting would be something like a polygraph. The subject would be first tested to ensure that the training worked to a high accuracy level (like the polygraph baseline measurement). You could tell to some extent whether the subject was cooperating with this training because you could see the resulting accuracy rates, and maybe continue the training until they improved, or else declare the subject to have failed to cooperate with the test.

Probably, as with an present-day polygraph, people could specifically train themselves to produce inaccurate results, but also presumably most people wouldn't have done so.

On the other hand, I don't know what level of language this system operates at so I don't know if you're detecting phonemes, words, phoneme features (like +voice/-voice), or what. This seems significant for understanding how usable it would be for "mind reading" if the subject's thoughts included many words that hadn't been individually trained. If you're just detecting conditions that you've already trained for, it doesn't seem like there's really anything new here (from the mind-reading point of view, as opposed to the UI point of view) compared to existing biofeedback or polygraph systems because you're mainly just detecting when a known physiological state is or isn't re-elicited, which is something the earlier systems could already do.

Edit: other commenters said they can only distinguish about 20 words, so presumably the technology has a long way to go before it would be relevant to semi-adversarial mind reading.
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What's wrong with the iMac for development? $2500 for a quad core 3.44Ghz Core I5 with 32GB of RAM would make a nice development machine.

If you need more power for $2900 you can get a Core I7 4.2Ghz quad core with the same specs.

I'm not a Mac fanboy by any stretch of the imagination - I haven't bought a Mac in 12 years but I want to get away from Windows and don't want to futz with Linux. Getting an iMac would allow me to develop for iOS, Android, Windows, and give me a real Unix environment.

You can do .Net Core with a Mac. I am a Windows developer now, and will probably stick with .Net, but especially for hosted solutions, using Linux is a lot cheaper for deployment.
It's because the code was written on classic Mac OS, which used CR newlines rather than the LF or CRLF styles used today.
This Toilet Vaporizes Poop to Solve Sanitation Problems
You don't even have to look as far as Saudi Arabia to raise similar questions. The Koch brothers are MIT graduates and huge donors. For a similar discussion of the ethics of MIT's acceptance of their money, see: https://www.quora.com/How-could-MIT-have-received-a-grant-fo...
If you click on the "raw" view it will render properly in the browser.

You might also need to force your browser to display with "Western" text encoding (that's what it's called in Firefox, not sure about other browsers).
At least until the three seashells come along.
The card brands are dropping the signature requirement for EMV transactions in the US this month.

https://cardconnect.com/company/blog/no-more-signing-for-pur...
Viewing the raw file, at least in Chrome on OSX shows line breaks.
+1 for italy
A promise not to touch data is not a deletion. If you can recreate the private data from backups, you did not comply with the deletion request.
It's unfair that your comment is downvoted because it's spot on.

Hiding code, obfuscating language, fudging data, all are symptoms of the same problem: of being interested in getting paper on cv instead of doing research.

There are many circumstances that can put even a good scientist in a situation where he/she has to do this but that's not a good argument for not sharing the code.
I for one found the bad suggestions to outnumber the good ones by a large margin, to be honest.
I bought my house at 27 years of age and my mortgage is ~$1000 per month. That was by working remotely, mostly for Bay Area companies but also others, from a low-cost town in Washington state. I'm sure that it's easier to find new and better jobs when you have a physical presence near a major software hub. The extra difficulty in job-hunting has not outweighed the benefits of affordable housing so far. Living off savings between jobs is easier when you spend under $2000/month on necessities.
That's up to the processor you (the merchant) sign up with, just like anything else. Apple takes 0.15% and that comes out of the card issuing bank's end.[1]

Quick 101 on how card fees work generally:

Card issuer banks (Citibank, Chase, Bank of America, etc.) contract with a card network (VISA, MC, etc.) and earn a standard fee schedule called Interchange (it's public, you can look it up, typically 1.x-2.x% depending on the card type). This is the bulk of where the card fees go, and often funds card rewards and benefits.

Meanwhile merchants contract with processors (e.g. Chase Paymentech, Heartland, First Data, Square, etc. etc.) who interface with all the card networks, marking up those interchange fees with their own margins. The processors may set up merchants with equipment, or maybe a third party POS vendor does that. But most fundamentally processors are responsible for any merchant-related fraud on the network.

That is why processor markups and merchant vetting procedures can vary -- and why Apple would never take the place of the processor. It's merchant-specific work and involves financially vouching for them. The less vetting the processor does (Square, Stripe), the higher the markup. The more vetting, the close to interchange the fee is going to be.

[1] https://www.digitaltransactions.net/apple-pay-no-charge-for-...
I wouldn't touch the current slate of MacBooks. I prefer the Dell 2-n-1s - either business line or bought from the Microsoft store to avoid the bloatware.

The only Macs worth buying now are the iMacs.
I can’t believe Github’s renderer fails on ^M.
What is the car supposed to do? Have robot arms that force your hands? It will actually slow down and stop if you continue not holding the wheel.
Pony is an actor based language. You have to have at least one actor. Effectively, the answer is no. You could write "single-threaded" Pony code but it's not something you would do.

Pony is designed to make something hard- writing efficient, safe, concurrent code- easy. Anything you make something that is hard easier, you are invariably going to make some other things less easy, perhaps even difficult.
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Everything is relative but it’s much more dangerous than assembling iPhones. And it is one of the reasons why whenever Foxcon is hiring the applicant lines are so long.
This is good thinking, and mostly overlaps with what I've tried to do a few times, so I would love to see it finally happen somehow.

For example, the Newton storage system I worked on at Apple 1990-1996 was based on separating organization from storage so we could have multiple (tag and/or hierarchy) organization systems. That eventually became the "soup" system in the shipping Newton OS, where objects were retrieved by content rather than hierarchy.

More recently, I spent some painful years working on Microsoft's WinFS, which had a ton of overlap with the principles here, and demonstrates just how hard it is to go from some nice principles that all seem like the Right Thing to an actual successful adopted implementation of the principles.
We need a nice succinct term for projects that are purely marketing and exist only to scam money out of venture capitalists.
An approach I find interesting is the [Perkeep](https://perkeep.org/) or Google Drive model for post hierarchy.

Storing all files as objects and then indexing..

An interesting indexer for images would be one that groups objects by faces recognized or exif data(camera model, GPS location, lens, date, etc) Google Drive does this.

Perkeep can deal with tags, span devices, deal with permissions. Check out HN user @bradfitz
I wonder if Microsoft would be willing to take another shot at WinFS? It would have met most of the requirements. But the project bogged down and never shipped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
Bit quick on the slippery slope are you?

Whatever makes you say something so absurd?
Let me guess...as a merchant you are pretty much doomed if Apple doesn't like you. I find the blockchain payments way better for both merchant and buyer. No more 3 digits secret codes.
Definitely can't come close to a good burger.

But way better than a McDonald's beef patty.
Then they should not let that person do live trades.
I follow the van dwelling scene a bit (got a site in the space: https://vanspiration.com) - it seems that many beforehand overstate the need for a toilet. Those moving a fair bit amongst urban areas often make-do with public or business toilets and go months without needing to use their in-van solution. Those out in the bush are digging holes.

Many will typically have a pee bottle, and then a bucket double-lined with plastic bags and filled with dirt or cat litter. There are contoured lids that fit over common bucket sizes and make something of a seat.

There are loads of cassette-type portable toilets too.
If they invested it at all wisely, they should have made at least 5% over the past year.

When I was at Dartmouth during the great recession a decade ago, they were gloating that they were nevertheless still making gains on the endowment, as the rest of the world crashed.
No need to turn it into a blackhat's roadmap.

Having anybody else being able to enumerate portions of your infrastructure is not good.
Hmm. "Subjective experience" doesn't feel the same to me as "imagination," but they're related I suppose. My experience of the world is real, as you would probably categorize yours. Invisible and unexplainable, not at all...see the many suggestions on this page. "Unprovable"; 1) if you've experienced it directly, your proof is there but it's limited to one person, 2) all mathematical systems break down when pushed to a limit (Godel's incompleteness theorem, the necessity of different physics/math under different conditions, etc.); we're talking about a way to encompass all of these things while adhering to a concise definition, it's hard.

I actually think these academic discussions of "what is god precisely" and "how does it work" only really sway a small subset of people. IMO it's "try these techniques out for yourself and decide for yourself," not "surely this explanation of the entirety of existence will sway you!" I'm with you, I don't think there's a formal text definition of god that ever would have convinced me to "believe." Either you have a notion of a higher power or unitive/connective force and have experienced it, or you haven't and you're working with the evidence you've got (math, the Bible, whatever). Take a few psychedelics or do a bunch of meditation and you'll end up feeling like most practitioners do, which is that you have a strong ineffable experience that doesn't translate well into words. Or don't! God's just a made-up word anyway for an aspect of the universe / human experience that we have a hard time defining (one of my definitions).
I've had both the Beyond Burger (at Veggie Grill, a vegetarian restaurant) and the Impossible Burger (at an actual burger restaurant).

I was extremely disappointed with the Beyond Burger-- it had a weird taste and I personally did not think it tasted anywhere remotely near real meat. It was oversalted, but I've heard some other people complain it's because the patty is already very salty and restaurants add more salt. It also might be a function of the fact that this was a vegetarian place and I don't think they're used to cooking burgers.

The Impossible Burger I was much more impressed with-- it still wouldn't fool me at all and I wouldn't quite replace beef with it yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing if they can improve it just slightly. For me, it doesn't have to taste exactly like beef before I would eat it over traditional burgers, it just needs to be a little closer. I would also like to try it somewhere that doesn't put as many fixings on it to taste the patty in a more pure form, since my burger was some miso-seaweed thing with strong flavors that could have been masking the patty (perhaps intentionally).
I'm a member of the Pony core team. Library and ecosystem definitely needs.. well, more. Lots more. That isn't going to happen without folks like you who like the language becoming part of the ecosystem and contributing. I encourage you to join in, we are happy to get more help!
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