skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is the consumer, so he doesn't, because as you pointed out, it's the store that is on the hook for CC "transaction fees", not the consumer.
Just for perspective:

When I hear "Berniebro"..
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I think of gym bros, frat bros, New Jersey residents, surfer "brahs", and not sexism.
> has me looking at adding a powerwall to our PV system

I'm not trying to raise FUD here and am genuinely curious -- would a powerwall-like system have its own set of issues or dangers in the event of nearby fires/evacuations?
I used 43things.com for years. Now I mostly make lists in text files.
Looks pretty!
Probably so. That's where the money for the cash-back comes from, after all...
Haven't actually thought about that. I'm holding out for as long as I can, and I think my 2012 will last me for at least another year. I'm hopeful that with next year's refresh they'll put out a 15" without the touchbar, or just the same 2012 MBP with the new chips and 32G RAM.
Merchants raise prices to compensate. That is why it is "the poor, the un-creditworthy, and the financially illiterate" who ultimately pay.
Im calling BS. We had ‘random projection’ long before anybody started dreaming up use cases for quantum. Seriously, people.

When we realize that ‘quantum’ computing is really just ‘analog’, we’ll see a resurgence in that too.

(Which is great actually, because modern analog computers are stunningly capable. And yes, they are the same thing when you realize that the hardware is exactly the same, and sampling away the noise has the same form as solving for decoherence.)
Even Uber Pool is making traffic congestion worse.

https://jalopnik.com/even-uberpool-is-making-traffic-worse-i...

> Long-term, it's easy to imagine that autonomous vehicles could provide much higher passenger throughput for a given road-area

No this is nonsense. The gains, marginal as they are, would only exist in places like highways outside of cities where you can assume nothing is going to walk out in front of a car.
What books would you recommend as further reading?
Relevant: due to Ohio v. American Express, merchants are generally unable to steer customers from using a particular card. For example if a merchant accepts Visa at all, the merchant has to accept all Visa cards, not selectively choose the lower-fee cards; the merchant also cannot tell the customer to use Discover instead to save costs and only use Visa if that's the customer's only card. This anti-steering provision is originally invented by AmEx and now all four major networks have this requirement. And the SCOTUS just ruled that anti-steering provisions do not violate anti-trust regulations. So the only possible recourse is to outright stop accepting a particular payment network.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1454diff_6579...
In addition to that you can have an arbitrary method run at an interval using the app.timer decorator. You can use this to flush every n seconds. You could also use stream.take to read batches of messages (or wait t seconds, whichever happens first) and write to an external source.
Do you really? Maybe it's country-specific, but in Australia there are no programs which give you that many benefits. Likely the best are the airline points, and even then they don't cover close to the payment processing fee total.
Wal-Mart has had success with forcing debit transactions to withhold merchant fees.
We had over 100 people at our wedding. Our total budget was $2,000 and we went slightly over that. You can save as much money as you want if you're willing to give up having the flashiest high-status stuff. Several guests told me later it was one of the best weddings they'd been to because it wasn't all high-strung and demanding.
>much of the land is good for little else besides growing grass.

From an agricultural standpoint perhaps.
The average profit margin for a mainstream grocer (like Kroger) is 1-2 percent. It's a low-margin, high-volume business.

Said differently, it's exactly the type of business that I'd expect to care deeply about transaction fees.
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I had this feeling a lot. Then I stopped drinking, moved out of my parents house, and started eating healthier. It's only been a month, but just making time for myself and putting my own comfort first, being aware of my own uninterrupted being, made me cool down a little bit. Perhaps it might come crashing back, but at the moment, you have to realize that maybe the feeling you are not good enough might arise because you are doing something you might not do. You feel like you are incomplete because you have created this image you must reach. Perhaps you might not get that job you want, but then you weren't suited for it in the first place. You may cram, you may try to force yourself to do it, but that should be a sign that you aren't doing the right thing. You should learn something because you want to. If you are still a student, then this is unavoidable because the system is designed for competition and there is that #1 spot that someone will naturally fill. If that's not you, that's not an issue. There might be dominance heirarchies, but also the world seems to be complex enough and there seems to be enough people in the world who aren't #1 in anything, but are completely content. The best way to compete is to not compete at all.
The marketplace for your attention was a lot less competitive then. Editors could even feed you true and nuanced reporting, out of a sense of professional obligation, and you had no choice but to sit there and take it.
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> The Phoenix public transport director who hopes that waymo can bring people to the high-capacity bus lines and the lrt has the right idea.

This is a nice hope to have, but so far all the evidence I've seen is that Lyft/Uber competes with public transit, driving down public transit use and making the streets more congested. I would expect autonomous ride hailing would have an even greater effect.
From what I can tell, prior to mid-2017 (which would include most or all of the period that the lawsuit covers) SolarCity's residential products were actually 20-30 year leases rather than outright purchases. Following GAAP accounting rules, the revenue from the lease payments would need to be spread out along the whole length of the contract, so a lot of the fake revenue that they are talking about might actually be anticipated future revenue spread across the next 20-30 years rather than revenue when the sale was made. 50-500 million spread across 25 years would be 2.5-25 million per year, which seems much more reasonable as a proportion of revenue that could potentially be faked.
I don't know, as much as I respect you looking out for the "engineer as savior" bias and the fact that average users may have a distinctly different viewpoint than we do, in this case it seems somewhat disingenuous.

People have spoken time and again about needless auto-playing video clips. About weird, busted scroll hijacks and massive header images. About newsletter beggars which take up the whole screen on every. single. site. About ubiquitous "got it!" cookie disclaimers. About pages that load mountains of extraneous crap while you're trying to read, and reflows the text halfway through the second paragraph, suspiciously at the exact moment you try to tap a link which makes you click an ad instead, which is of course bloated with poison dogshit and offal and immediately crashes the tab. About how every single major site bullies you into downloading an app instead of putting effort into making their mobile site run properly. Instead the mobile site is intentionally crippled to incentivize the adtech-infected app even more, and even the request desktop mode is broken. And of course the mobile app is only a thinly-veiled plot to scrape your phone's guts out like a dead fish and gain every permission possible. If it can run in a browser, I think it should run in a browser. I'm highly suspicious of any app that is really just a website in a tarted-up trojan horse.

Adblockers are perpetually on the rise, as the article says, and other content blockers and filters are also in play now. I have to use outline.com to read most news articles, which is an amazing resource. But I think this popular opinion is warranted. The internet is bloated with malicious bullshit. Everyone got in an arms race with each other and had to do it, despite nobody actually wanting it.

I don't think the devs and designers who made this stuff so ubiquitous are evil, nor are they stupid. They were just caught in a catch-22 as web trends do their fickle thing. They are regular people earnestly doing their best, just like everyone else. Doomed to create camel after camel via feedback from ignorant clients, misread focus groups, neurotic middle management, et cetera. People rarely get to decide or unilaterally invent any of these large-scale trends, they just happen as a herd phenomenon I think. And everyone has to jump on board to remain viable, or at least that's the illusion at the time.
You really can't if the assumption is that the person being transported may not be a licensed and otherwise competent driver.
There are sooooo many companies that offer a "university" - do they make you attend school for 4 years solely, working at most part-time? Just more marketing mumbo jubmo.
Biology neither. Anybody that is telling you that quantum coherence properties are relevant for low energies states at room temperature is frankly uneducated in the matter.
Not really a milestone, but I've been able to somewhat relatively stick to programming a side project. After many ideas, and much anger. I've started working on a little project. Somehow it came together. Using react and python, and it's a cryptocurrency app. This is big because it's the first time where I don't feel the stress, anxiety, or rush. It's just doing it for the sake of doing it. There is potential, but I seem to be going with the flow and it feels good.
it's not unreasonable given the same opportunity cost argument that most people will switch to and prefer autonomous vehicles if they are shown to be inherently safer more predictable drivers. This is a huge risk to long haul truck drivers since those jobs are already long and grueling as it is. Their livelihood is threatened by the fact that robot truck drivers don't sleep. It's not a matter of if it will be replaced but when, since logistics are a huge business and nothing to mess around with.
Last year I got married in Taiwan, I got to pick between Cake Cutting, or a giant pyramid of glasses. I picked cake thinking I get cake.

So come wedding day we have this giant cake next to the stage, we do the cake cutting and we leave.

My best friend at the wedding was shocked I had such a large cake, he was telling people at the table it was huge, my group of friends informed him it was fake, he didn't believe them.

So he got up in front of everyone, nervously walked across the room to inspect the cake, touched it and realised there was dust on the lower pieces and it was hard, then he went to see my father in law to confirm if it was fake or not.

Well it turned out the only real bit was the top bit which was super cheap and not edible, just show for cutting. He was disappointed he wasn't getting cake, after the wedding my wife informed me I wasn't getting cake and I was sad. :(

Apparently this is the norm in Asia.
Ask HN: What was the first side/hobby project you completed?
I'm having a lot of trouble lately learning the technology stacks I want to. I get overwhelmed with what functionality my projects should have or what new technology I should be using that I just give up. I imagine it's some kind of impostor syndrome, since eventually I'd like to use side projects as a way into the dev career I want, but I feel like I can't learn fast enough to keep up with job reqs ("nothing I make is good enough!")

So anyways, I'd feel some relief hearing stories about how you finished your first project (that wasn't directly tied to your job). ETA: "finished" in your own view, of course!
Someone left this comment and apparently deleted it while I was looking for and failing to find citations for actual numbers of lives saved by ambulance, for example. I have redacted their handle, but I want to leave my reply here:

Because people's lives are at stake right now.
Every year 10s of thousands of people die due to cars.

Delaying innovation that would prevent deaths dooms those 10s of thousands of people to death in the future.

You say that as if, clearly, cars never save lives. It's all downside.

Ambulances save lives.

Fire trucks save lives.

Those are the easy, obvious answers. But I would argue that lives are also saved and enhanced by access to jobs, access to better quality food because of our complicated infrastructure, access to better medical care, etc.

You aren't counting when things go right. You are only counting when they go wrong.
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> In this case, if you notice that cat is the bottleneck try fcat (but first try to avoid cat altogether).

"Useless Use of Cat Award" [0] is the canonical text for avoiding unnecessary use of cat, for those who haven't come across it yet.

[0] http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html (2000)
The chances of Apple discontinuing the Mac without maturing iOS is slim. What I am saying is that In the 90s if the Mac wasn’t doing well, Apple was toast and there wasn’t going to be any Mac. Now, Apple’s existence is not dependent on the Mac and Apple can survive and keep producing Macs without the Mac being thier primary revenue generator.

Honestly, it doesn’t take much investment in the Mac to keep it. Apple is already on the path of merging the Mac underpinnings with iOS underpinnings. Any investment in iOS is an investment in the Mac. Intel does a lot of the heavy lifting with chip design and motherboard design.
Do you think of women when you think of those terms or only men? If those terms were used in a dismissive, derogatory way, would you not agree that the term is sexist?
Interesting. The company also owned a semiconductor division which it sold in 2000. Peter Cherry used the proceeds to take the company private and refocus on the switch division. I did not realize that the company was subsequently resold.
> If everyone involved knew the risks, accepted them and moved forward, I'd agree with your premise.

Do you consent to the risks of letting 16 year olds drive? They're high, but you don't get the option.

I understand not agreeing to extremely-risky self-driving cars.

But if they can beat the very lax standards we use to license humans, that should be good enough.

Requiring them to be infinitely more perfect than humans is nonsense. If a car drives you over, do you really care if it was a robot or a human driving? I don't. The most I can ask for is a universal bar. And all the evidence I've seen is that Waymo is meeting that bar.

> For example

People would object because that's a stupid way to test and unrelated to the job of delivering safe water. If you want to talk about real water treatments, we do make tradeoffs!
So you never drive to the mountains or any of the other areas of interest around Seattle? Perhaps you don't but most of the people I know who live in and around West Coast cities do so in no small part because they can get out of the city to very nice locales on the weekend. (Of course, you can get rental cars for that but there's both a time transaction cost and and a literal cost.)
Great job! Thank you for sharing this, will surely contribute to it.
I think that's what a lot of people want, at least in my circle of friends who have the Touchbar and they absolutely hate it, mainly because of the escape key, accidental touches of the touch bar being annoying, and it being a visual distraction (minor issue IMO, unless you work in lowlight conditions a lot).

I wish Apple would go back to the 2012 models and just refresh the internals.
Not just that, I think that having vastly-different keyboards at home vs. at work increases keyboarding errors in at least one of those locations. I have a Model M at home, but an Apple keyboard (I think a model A1243) at work. I'm working on ordering a WASD keyboard with Cherry MX Clear switches, in an attempt to get things more similar (the office environment I'm in doesn't work with the noisy Model M).
Sure but I think the argument is that because those merchant fees are unknowable no one can make intelligent choices around them. The disadvantaged are obviously more impacted but it’s possible that all of us not in credit card employ or shareholder are taxed. A prisoners dilemma sort of thing.

But we are well past my economics understanding.
Besides the various more complicated rewards systems, you can get 2% cash back on a few cards, although 1 or 1.5% is more common. 2% is most of the transaction fee, in some cases more.
Unfortunately most BIOS services are only available in real mode, so it's often necessary to switch back and forth.
For a counter example, I'll say that we've got 3 Bootcamp graduates on our team at work and they've all been very good. They've all moved into languages beyond what they learned in their courses. One has become a major platform contributor and has been a driving force in decisions being made. Another has been working with hardware and system deployment. They're all very driven, I've been quite impressed.

Now the caveat to my statements there are that all three already had degrees, in disparate fields unrelated to CS/CE. It's an example of capable individuals being able to learn practical skills in anything.
Well, I'm not sure what happens to it if your house catches fire - but if your house burns down I don't see how the battery could have made it worse.

So I imagine scenario 1 is your house doesn't catch fire, in which case it's fine, and you have power even if the grid is down, or scenario 2 where your house does catch fire, and maybe the battery contributes to that, but it would burn down either way.

But keep in mind that the 'red flag days' I'm describing where PG&E would cut power are not days where fires are actually burning in the area - just days where fires are more likely to start. They're shutting down their power lines so that if the wind knocks one down it won't start a fire. This is a response to last years devastating fires in Sonoma county, which were believed to have started by downed power lines in high wind and dry conditions.
> Fair enough but these rants on HN about publishers never seem to contain any examples of publications that are both successful and delivering pages that weigh scarcely more than their plain text equivalent.

Examples would be the same publications 10 or 20 years ago. They weren't exactly plain text but they were a lot lighter and the content has not improved measurably in that time.

Here's one from the 70's that's still going: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
Is it any more fake than the tradition?
The problem here is personalized political advertising. This is dangerous. Political advertising should be general so every citizen has the same messaging.

So rather than look for bad actors a cleaner solution is to disable personalized political ads, but that will affect revenue.

There is no way you can ban or even demonize activism and dissent without back-pedalling on nearly every democratic ideal. It's not a matter of slippery slopes, its bad actors manufacturing crisis to demonize dissent.
Years ago I tried this and basically ended up proving that if Pi is random and you are "compressing" random data, on average the start and finish numbers together are at least as long as the numbers you are trying to "compress."
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654574
That person you're talking about, that says autonomous cars are just going to cause deaths and it's okay and we shouldn't try to investigate or improve safety measures or check if regulations were violated? That person doesn't exist.

Accepting that accidents will always happen does not imply you learn nothing and improve nothing.
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I have no stand on "social credit systems" since I don't know enough about them. On the other hand, I really hate people virtue signaling especially with questionable stands just so they could feel morally superior. I'm going to buy tcehy tomorrow just because.
In case anyone's curious, the animated GIF in the header is showing a WASD 6-Key Cherry MX Switch Tester. I've found it useful in trying out the "feel" of different Cherry MX models. It's helped to translate the "key travel vs. force" graphs into the real-world.

It's available at http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/sampler-kit/...

[I'm not affiliated with WASD, and I'm not getting paid for this, although a discount code would be awesome! 8-)]
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A 200 person wedding on a $2000 budget is a remarkable feat.
I've heard similar reports from the IT department at my employer as well. However, on my personal computer (and I've seen similar with a few friends), I've had to have the keyboard repaired 3 times. This makes me suspect there's something that aggravates the issue, or that a lot of people use external keyboards (which a glance around the office suggests is true). The majority of the keys that have failed on my computer have been in the areas that get hot when the processor is under load.
Yes! Visa/Signature/Infinite have different fee schedules, by a large margin.

I was once at a smaller restaurant and they didn't want to take my Amex for fear of fees, little did they know my Visa Infinite had an even higher swipe fee.
Simply documenting people's story has value. I know someone who wrote an autobiography that was basically a chronological description of their life. It wasn't an enjoyable read however it was a largely unvarnished description of their long and varied life.

A large library happily took some copies to go into their archives. First hand descriptions of events are hard to come by. Chances are it will sit unread in their archives for decades but it could one day be interesting source material for someone.
It still fell. Therefore we can conclude the "road strategy" was a failure. (Just kidding.)
Those are the rates paid by the processor to the bank. They're not the rates paid by the business to the processor.

Per VISA's website:

"Merchants do not pay interchange reimbursement fees—merchants negotiate and pay a “merchant discount” to their financial institution that is typically calculated as a percentage per transaction."

https://usa.visa.com/support/small-business/regulations-fees...

It seems logical that VISA doesn't want merchants to be able to determine per-card costs, since this keeps merchants from trying to optimize their fees.
Agreed - Cherry G83 user here -- I've always been a poor typist, and without the feedback from a decent keyboard, my typing is just atrocious. If I have to use a dome-switch board, I'm constantly having to backspace and fix stuff I failed to actuate, or double-keyed.
Either way (whether Wikileaks is compromised, or they have arguably justifiable preferences for/against specific candidates), I think they should no longer be trusted as they have obviously showed bias.
I have the same Bose QC35 and mine don't require playing music to enable cancelling.

Try another pair?
Many small businesses raise their prices to offset credit card processing fees. Because of that, the consumer is paying the fee regardless of whether they pay in cash or with a card.
So why isn't that happening today? I suppose it sort of is with Line and Pool but surely $10-ish per hour for a driver can't make a huge difference for this sort of service--which is quite widely-used in other countries.
Where did the Microsoft tech stack disappear?
Yea, clearly gp has never ventured out into some of this. There are gems here for hiking/backpacking, and preserving wildlife/watersheds, and much more than just feeding cows.