skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a bunch of different things you're listing there, but none of them are really accurate:

* Most merchants love Interac, it's far cheaper than credit for them.

* Interac hasn't been "debit only" in a meaningful sense in some years, various banks now issue debit cards with Visa/MC fallback for international/online use.

* The last few years has seen a proliferation of banks offering free Interac etransfers. There's no reason anyone now needs to pay for etransfers or for a bank account.
Does anyone use "Cherry switches" as a generic term?
(lawyer here, but i don't make a living at it so i have no care :P)

Empirically, they are in fact scalable.

The number of contracts litigated in the situation you are talking, as a percentage of overall contracts in those situations, is ridiculously small.

(choose any metric, in fact, and you'll see they've scaled just fine)

Meanwhile, the thinking you are espousing turns out to be pretty much impossible in practice even if you wanted it to be so. I get the desire by engineers, and even the desire in some forms of contracts. But in the general case, in fact, it makes it much much worse than we have now. In one case, you have a judge looking at the spirit of the contract and making some reasonable decision about what should happen.

In the other, you have to have completed the often impossible task of thinking and codifying every edge case and possibility. If you get it wrong, too bad, so sad.

I know which i'd want.

One of the reasons we have judges in the first place is because the desire to codify all possibilities is not achievable. It's not a thing we sanely have achieved in thousands of years of law, contracts, etc.

The idea that because we are now expressing it in a bytecoded language and not words, it will suddenly become possible to achieve, seems incredibly wrong headed, because the language was never the problem.
The contracts you can effectively express this way were never a problem from the language perspective. It definitely makes them more automatic, but making these contracts more automatic is basically "meh" on the innovation scale[1].

[1] Though i'm not crazy and certainly believe there are many many billions of dollars to be had in doing this.
50% of land is uninhabited
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> To the merchant, and the processor, they're both Visa Signature cards

"Visa Signature" is a marketing term. In fact, two cards with the same perks and branding could have different fees. There are something like 300 kinds of interchange fees that are always being negotiated between lots and lots of parties.

The one example I know is tied to the WaMu-Wells Fargo merger. WaMu's cards were rebranded as Wells Fargo products. But old interchange agreements remained. So two identical-looking cards, with identical perks, would swipe differently for a merchant. The only clue to the customer would be the different bank identification numbers (the first few digits of a card).
It doesn't look bad at all.

Dome home: most rooms will have 2 or 3 flat walls with 1 or 2 right-angle corners, so put rectangular furniture there.

Classrooms and library at the proposed school: the size of the room dwarfs the size of the furniture, so the problem is much like complaining that the letter "O" can not be made from square pixels. Somehow, we get our letter "O".
But most driving in America is suburban. So if Waymo builds something that only works in the suburbs (and just literally pulls over and tells you to get out if it approaches a city boundary) that's still a bonkers market.
The internet is a shared, unregulated resource which is spoiled by individual actors selfishly following their interest of making money through ads.

It is rational for each commercial website to use advertising, and tracking and other crap. As the parent said, those people aren't idiots.

But in the end they are still ruining the internet for all of us.
Peak stellar speed observed as "nearly 3% the speed of light":

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05825-3

which appears to be rounded up from actual 2.55% value:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2_(star)#May_2018_pericentre_...
Banks could innovate here. Such as offering credit accounts shared by store cards. That would simplify billing and account management. The concept of credit accounts and store cards could be completely separated. Signing up for a new store card would be just pointing it to an existing credit account.
Just give him a job on the railroad already.
Absolutely not!

There is way too much "wiggle room" when you deal with multiple nationalities, different cultures, foreign languages, jurisdictions... The only thing that is rock solid and predictable is contract written in programming code.

But I am not saying that current implementations are best.

(disclosure: I worked on ethereum related tech)
In New Zealand we have a similar network, EFTPOS. It’s not mandated by law and business could (but don’t) opt to only accept credit cards. However since it has no per-transaction fees for either party in most cases (some low-volume personal and business accounts have per-transaction fees) it’s reached near total market penetration.

To be clear it’s not a single network, there are two networks that fully interoperate.

Unfortunately we don’t have any regulation on credit card fees, so both credit cards go up to 2% and debit cards take over 1%. This has made the banks (who own the largest EFTPOS provider) reluctant to upgrade the system to support contactless and online transactions, both of which are possible with the technology.
"Topre is mechanical"

https://i.redd.it/f5yvlfm16ab01.png
Well.. you might be. This article just says who to sheet it home to.
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> that oriental Chineese soup is made by third generation americans that look like asians

Huh, okay, this is a genuinely new kind of racism to me.
If the moon is made of cheese, then 1=2. What does non-physical even mean?
Got married in Taiwan > Norm in Asia.

That's a huge jump mate.
That's sort of tautological. "Any" and type assertions are designed as the escape hatch of the type system. If you're trying to develop type safe typescript you obviously won't use those. The followup question is for typed code (excluding usage of any or type assertions) does typescript have an unsound type system? Afaik the answer is no.
British chips, cooked twice to make them extra soggy. Frites are cooked twice for a different reason.
As an external observer, I must say we are going to fast in an unorganized fashion! Software is eating the world and swallowing more than it can chew.

Businesses have monetized the web in so much unsustainable way that we have to introspect to clear our shit. What would have gone wrong if the general public still got good high quality old print media while the otherwise tech savvy worked patiently to make a better web? What would have gone wrong if the web remained just a portal to share textual information, while the other people did what they had been doing traditionally?
This is awesome! I've been near a few of these spots. However, some, at least, of their data is out of date.

For the Adirondack High Peaks complex, much of the Tahawus Tract, which bounds the circle on the southeast side, has been officially part of the wilderness area for five or so years now. I used to work at the main visitor's center in the area, and now work remote from about two miles from the northern edge of the complex. I'd say that adds roughly a mile to the radius here, but it could be a little less.

Also, in the near future, the bounds of the complex will change drastically at the southeast edge. The Boreas Ponds tract has been acquired by the state, and while it hasn't yet been officially designated as wilderness, when it is, it will connect the High Peaks to the Dix Mountain Wilderness, making the overall complex -- already the largest in the northeast -- something like 20% larger. But it won't stop it being a crazy shape.
Temporal literally said that the internet is the "commons" and your counter is that companies and protocols aren't the commons.

You're just being purposefully obtuse, this is not hard to understand, assuming ones paycheck doesn't depend on not understanding it.
Has anyone tried putting LIDAR in a human-driven car? It seems like a heads-up display with a 3D image of your surroundings would improve safety even for human drivers (plus it would look really cool).
Yep, it was a side project, I'm living in a Eastern Europe (where avg. salaries are less than $500/mo), so ~$800/mo was a good additional income for me. It probably would not worth it if you're living in US/EU.
How to win against startups with strong technical teams
I am thinking about building a startup in a cutting edge AI/B2B space but I am worried because some of the competition is led by very strong technical people. I would like to hear stories of startups that have won against other companies with stronger academic/technical pedigree and what factors led to them overcoming their competitions' strong academic leadership.
Harvard Business Review and the other ivory tower guys never focus on the true loss of creativity and innovation, political B.S. Just today was talking to two clients in Shanghai about the deleterious effects of horrible, bullying, management in 2 educational companies here. And then senior management can't figure out why their company doesn't grow.
I wish there were a way to give per-feature permissions to apps, instead of just a "yes or no" for the whole app. For instance, I could approve this app to access the internet, but not to get my contact list or calendar.
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Yep. Our wetware seems to do OK job with nothing more just a couple of suboptimal optical sensors.
Every large infrastructure project, such as bridges etc has an expected number of death. We know this and accept this is a sacrifice we can live with. Self driving cars should be seen as no different. And once it is safer than human drivers it will pay back those lives.
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He can contact me if he is interested in Hieratic OCR.
For that matter, there's higher flat cashback percentages available if you are paying an annual fee and funneling the majority of your spend through that card. Specifically, the Alliant Cashback Visa Signature is at 2.5% with a $59 annual fee.
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>You assume the human mind is only as powerful as a Turing machine, which is just conjecture.

Given the lack of any proposals for how, even in theory, hypercomputation might be achieved in a physical system, and the lack of any empirical indication that humans are capable of hypercomputation, I would say it's much more than a conjecture. At the very least, it's an incredibly likely conjecture.

> For example, what does this program do when given input another_program?

It prints "program halts." if another_program halts, and prints "program does not halt." otherwise. I understand exactly what this program does, even though I can't tell you its output for an arbitrary input. And if I want to translate the above sentence into Spanish, I don't have to come anywhere near solving the halting problem to do so.

Consider the following program which does not involve the halting problem:

function (targetDigest)
i = new BigInt(0);
while(true) {
if (sha1(i.toBytes()) == targetDigest) {
print(i.toBinary());
}
i = i.plus(1);
}
}

What does this program do when given targetDigest? It prints out the shortest bit string whose SHA-1 is that targetDigest. I obviously can't tell you what specific answer it will output for a given input, but it would be absurd to say that I don't understand the program.

But even if you can come up with sentences that require one to solve the halting problem to translate (and I'm still not convinced such sentences exist), it's another thing entirely to claim that those sentences come up in practice. This is a red herring when it comes to the feasibility of machine translation, because a good translator doesn't need to be able to cope with every valid sentence. It merely needs to cope with the set of sentences that humans actually care about.
Ideally, we would be able to provide modern financial services backed by first world institutions to underdeveloped countries. An example of this came through a podcast I listen to [1].

For the most part, I am skeptical of cryptocurrencies since they need to solve stability and identity first before tackling credit. An additional problem might also be usability; private-public key pairs should be abstracted away to the end user. As for donation systems, I don't think they have the same network effect as credit systems.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/07/492988779/epis...
Plenty of places charge no fee for Amex. Usually bigger ones like Woolworths, Coles, David Jones, etc.

I use it whenever I can (for the frequent flyer rewards), and I expect quite a lot of people do since they do billions in revenue over here (but unfortunately have managed to pay no tax in Australia for several years according to investigative journalist Michael West [1]).

1. https://www.michaelwest.com.au/american-express-pays-no-tax-...
Had one for years.
I only ever use the port for power.

The screen is amazing, innards slow and I love it for the purpose I purchased it for.
"Visa Signature" is used in the interchange fee schedule [1] to set the price. It's not just a marketing term (though obviously that, too).

If you look at the four columns in section C, there are four rates. Signature Preferred, Signature, Traditional, and "All Other".

If I sign up for merchant card processing, and select a plan that varies the rate I pay based on card, then I'm given a fee schedule like this [2]. The holographic logo on the card matters. If it says "Visa Signature", then I pay that rate. Regardless of how the customer's issuing bank decides to perk their cardholder.

[1] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/J4nvi7v.jpg
If you are interested in SICP, I'd definitely agree with the recommendation on that page to watch the videos.

The SICP book reads like an old maths textbook (not surprisingly) and is written to accompany the course, so just reading the book without watching the lectures is unnecessarily hard work.
>The practice is currently illegal under most circumstances in Britain.

why? i mean i understand when for example explosives or highly maiming (while not very efficient at actually catching) types of hooks, spears, etc. are banned, or nets. What is wrong with tickling?
I think that GP has an issue with the implication that the publisher is in a position of power to allow this behaviour in the first place and could also possibly deny it.
Firstly, the building is in China, so Australian electricity pricing doesn’t matter :-)

Also, from the article: ”That's fine, but that's wrong. According to this site, the waterfall has a power requirement of 185 kWatts.”

⇒ your estimates are off by a factor of about 18. It’s (ballpark) $50, 3500, 350 m².

However, that ”this site” talks about ”four 185-kilowatt pumps” (https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/27846/and-finally-35...) ⇒ assuming all four pumps are fully active all the time, multiply the above by 4.

Finally, from the same page:

”The electricity bill for just one hour of operation is a whopping 800 yuan (£89), he added.

“That’s why we don’t switch on the waterfall every day – only for special festivities in the city,” he said.”
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A minor correction:

> This was the time when SpaceX successfully launched and landed its satellites at sea.

They didn't launch any of their own satellites, and they haven't landed any satellites at all :). I suppose the right word here would be "rockets".
That's only the announcement that they will be scanned?
Oh, I used to use Amex here myself, but no-fee Amex acceptance really is limited to the thousand pound gorillas who can extract the best rates for themselves. Then the banks gutted consumer earning rates and I got tired of swapping between Amex and Visa in Google Pay, so I changed to a Visa with slow but steady points everywhere.
Open source rover plans from NASA
Maybe you can try to see VR high-altitude bounce
> There's a very low bar for them to pass to have their driving privileges revoked if they prove themselves to be a danger.

Robot privileges can be revoked too.

> Society necessitates that people drive. Society does not necessitate that Company X gets autonomous vehicles on the roads by target date Y so that their investors are happy.

Society necessitates that people use cars to get places. You can 1:1 replace human driving hours with autonomous driving hours.

>> Requiring them to be infinitely more perfect than humans is nonsense.

> Who is proposing this?

Anyone who says that self-driving deaths are 'unacceptable' is requiring self-driving cars to be infinitely more perfect than humans.

> Do you apply this accident causation blindness universally? Do you care if a person that hits you was drunk or lacked a driver's license vs driving diligently and licensed?

Being drunk alters your ability to drive. They would be under the bar.

If someone lacks a license but would have qualified, I guess I don't really care.

> Some people might object to allowing unproven autonomous vehicles onto the street as stupid, but choose not to use that word in effort to have a respectful discussion.

All drivers are unproven at first.
Strong technical teams can get stuck solving the wrong problem, or building a more general/elegant solution than is truly necessary for the problem at hand. This is particularly likely to affect teams with a lot of folks from academia.

But if you don't have any particular edge in this space, why do you want to get into it? Why would customers buy from you rather than the other teams?
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"I don't think there is anything wrong with user agents downloading resources (like images and stylesheets) linked to by an html document."

Neither do I. For some websites, this is both necessary and appropriate.

However, in cases where the user does not want/need these resources, or where she does not trust the provider, I do not think there is anything wrong with not downloading images, stylesheets, unnecessary scripts, fonts, spyware, advertisements, etc.
love the ignorant downvotes. I wrote the chrome GPU subsystem. if you have evidence that I'm wrong post it. otherwise your just spreading FUD
Part of the reason is that new tech is always expensive and unreliable, so only the privileged individuals have money to burn on costly and risky experiments.
Some human behavior is more naturally modelled in QT than classical probability theory.¹ The major difference between quantum and classical is that you can have incompatible variables which don't have a shared probability space. Nothing to do with physics.

Also, with natural units Plank's constant is 2π, so it does show up a lot.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.00418.pdf
US users can map caps lock to esc an be fine with it, but pretty much the rest of the world uses more characters than english does. Many people use caps lock as a switch to the local keyboard layout. This way you can get the best of both worlds.
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I have an American Express Blue Cash Preferred, with a $95 fee, and a Fidelity Rewards Visa, with no fee.

The AX card rebates 6% on groceries, 3% on gas, and 1% on everything else. The Visa pays 2% on everything else. No silly quarterly schedules on changing categories of spending.

Therefore, groceries and gas go on the AX Blue, and everything else goes on the Visa (which used to be an AX card, oops, AXP!). And, of course, both cards get paid off in full every month.

If you travel for business a lot, there are a dizzying assortment of deals. But I no longer do, so the above seems optimal for me.
This is one example. I gave a counterexample. Usually, branding matches to card type. But not always. The question was can they be charged differently, and the answer is yes.
You're paying in time. Depending on what you're hourly rate is at the 5th replacement you could have just bought a new one.
Absolutely spot on.

Code by itself can capture the letter of the law but never the spirit.

On a broader, it seems to me the worship of paper and other proxies like code is borne out of weakness: that is, our fear of our own human nature.

We see the animal within ourselves and the world, and so we run away.
Yes, well, I can imagine that under the assumption that people loose "faith" in Bitcoin, it's still possible to assign a "value" to the Bitcoin network, e.g. the hardware that makes it (miners and nodes) -- I wouldn't count the electricity usage as part of its value, though. But the point is that holding units of Bitcoin, i.e. knowing the secrets that allow spending them, does not give any rights on those hardware assets, so the value of the network cannot provide a lower bound to the value of Bitcoin units, in the same way that industrial or jewelry usages of gold does give it a lower valuation bound.
But are they allowed to charge a surcharge to a customer for using a particular card?
Does preventing 10 deaths not justify 1?

Does preventing 1.1 deaths not justify 1?

You misunderstand or are misrepresenting my position: sometimes lives invested are worth it in lives saved.

Edit: fwiw I'm not in the field of automous vehicles.
It would work in Germany as well. Though we have more generic names for this, the people interested in mechanical keyboards do understand and use Cherry Switches.

> Similarly for "Kleenex", "Q-tip", "Xerox", all of which are known by they generic names in Denmark and, AFAIK, the rest of Europe

Germany: Kleenex are Tempos (a different brand), Q-tips are Q-tips, Xerox are the generic Kopierer, no one would use that brand name here.
This approach is very similar to a AAAI18 paper [1] that also finds a binary representation ("plannable representation") using VAEs and performs planning algorithms, but the difference is that they included some experiments for continuous abstract states.
I personally prefer VAEs because GANs are hard to train.

[1] arxiv.org/abs/1705.00154
I'm familiar with Mojave Road. Are you saying that there active cattle ranches out there still today? I really had no idea, I had thought they had all shut down by now...
> That's a huge jump mate.

I live in Singapore and after speaking to people about this, I'm told its the norm, at-least in Taiwan, China, Singapore, Vietnam.
I'm a rule follower, and it sometimes gets me into trouble in exactly the situation above. Say there is a merge and a long solid white line before the two lanes are supposed to mix. I always wait until legal to do change lanes, but often I have cars behind me jump the white line into the lane I want to get into, making it difficult for me to get into that lane.

Here's an analogy: Hey, here's a great life-hack. The next time you are in a movie theater, stand up to get a better view. The people who are sitting behind you might complain, but they are simply chumps for not standing up too.