skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Overall it's also more of a problem in physical retail, Germans who do a lot of shopping online usually have no issue at all with paying by CC/PayPal, often getting a prepaid CC just for that.

I am living in Germany and I stand by my observation that few people have a credit card. PayPal luckily offers SEPA direct debit, even though many consider PayPal for reasons that are off topic here as "workaround".

> Particularly due to the fact that most "quick" online SEPA payment schemes involve giving a third party access to your banking account [1].

> It's not difficult to see the potential problems here: If Sofortüberweisung ever has a breach, there's the very real possibility that the data could be used to trigger massive amounts of fraudulent money transfers.

Sofortueberweisung is a security nightmare that nobody should use. Just offer SEPA direct debit.
After WWII, the newly created state of Israel offered Albert Einstein to run for president.

Mr. Einstein, being exceptionally bright, declined the offer, saying something like: "I'm but a physicist, and am not qualified in the areas of statesmanship".
I know. The choice of Apple vs. Android is a trade-off, as is the choice of Apple vs. Microsoft/Windows 10. It all depends on what's most important to you and what makes most sense.

For me, at the moment, in my personal life Apple makes more sense. I wish it made more sense at work because Windows 10 drives me nearly crazy, but it doesn't, so I stick with Microsoft's offering for now.
Human Mini-Brains Implanted in Mice Integrated with Their Animal Hosts – Inverse
Where do I specify my second citizenship?
Yeah you do.
> Bitcoin largely was born as a response to financial crisis that nearly wiped out worldwide financial system 10 years ago.

I'm by no means an expert here but this seems... very not true.
No, I'm completely serious about it.

> On each pirated book, the e-book "distributor" (i.e. google play) is doing nothing. They won't be doing any marketing, they won't have any distribution costs: it'll just be as if it were a less popular book than it actually is.

The author knew that, and yet he made voluntarily decision of going into an agreement with them. Disrespecting this agreement is disrespecting this decision and, therefore, the author himself.
> Those apps are making a conscious decision to exclude phones/roms not certified by Google. That's their choice.

Isn’t the entire point of Google’s certification process to encourage app vendors to make that choice?
I checked "Swiss passport" and "Malaysia" and it has less data than passportindex.

visalist.io: "Visa is not required for a certain period, or there is freedom of movement"

https://visalist.io/malaysia/visa-requirements/switzerland

passportindex.org: "visa-free / 90 days"

https://www.passportindex.org/comparebyPassport.php?p1=ch&fl...
Organ donors don't sell their body parts. When you're dead it's kinda hard to make a profit.
> Just like you advice, please be open-minded to the idea that for some people convenience is just one checkbox on the list

Noted, agreed and upvoted. :)

From my experience with these folks, when I complained about the 1st gen Chromecast I had 3 or so years ago, one of them casually told me "Oh, just buy an RPi and install KODI on it, also make sure your TV and HDMI cable support HDMI-CEC. You should be sorted pretty quickly, probably three or four hours".

I had to laugh bitterly when he said that! Back then I was much less healthy compared to now, was constantly exhausted, was struggling with debts and crappy jobs, was trying to heal from a failed and ended marriage -- and in general I had a ton on my plate basically 24/7.

And along comes this guy and casually tells you that you might spend a half working day on a project for home streaming -- and he told it to me while full-well knowing my situation. It was pretty inconsiderate in my eyes.

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It's not even only about putting convenience at the top of your priorities. Sometimes you're just tired. Or have kids constantly demanding attention. Or are trying to heal from stress and burn out (like I am trying now). There are a plethora of VALID reasons why you wouldn't embark on such DIY projects.

And to me, these people easily and off-handedly dismiss them. Which I view as inconsiderate and disrespectful. They are judging things from their own life (which is easier than mine, at least regarding the people I know) and don't give the benefit of the doubt.

But I concende that I might be projecting based on my several such negative experiences. I am not stereotyping all hardware technicians and sysadmins. I also concede that I don't give benefit of the doubt every time. :)

It's just that when things repeat themselves several times, we the humans -- at least I -- tend to try and draw a conclusion.

I admit I could be wrong. Your perspective was appreciated!
This is the financial version of natural selection. I don't feel bad for people losing their money over something that had little purchasing power and was very obviously unstable.
It makes sense in a way. The government wants to make sure they're the ones with the upper hand when it comes to surveillance, rather than China.
Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge
As much as I loved these games growing up, it pains me to admit that the puzzle designs found in most make them objectively not good games.

Dark Seed, for example, has puzzles that must be solved at a certain time on a certain day, and if you miss your chance the game becomes unwinnable without any indication of that fact. Yay.
It would be an apples and oranges comparison to some extent. The Soviets were able to skip some expensive research and production steps that the Americans went through by exploiting intelligence gained from espionage [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project
As I was reading, I kept thinking, he should really look at The Little Typer and Pie. Then that was Section V!

(Really, many of the books in that series do this. The Reasoned Schemer for logic programming, The Little Prover for ACL2-style first-order logic.)
Why does it matter? You can only enter with one passport anyway so just try the two? There's no "combine passports to level up" in the visa world.
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These programs did lead to an assembly line that created thousands of very powerful rockets and the infrastructure to launch them. They just weren’t used for space flight.
I was watching something on youtube recently that brought back memories of the early days of the internet and the campaign to discredit it (it will bring smut directly into your home... it will be all over in 5 years..) and now I see HN users glee with the failure of fellow engineers and entrepreneurs and the same campaign (it's a scam, it will bring drugs directly into your home...).

The bear market has been brutal and some very good teams were caught off guard because they lack to experience and know-how to balance a treasury or keep a startup alive. Many of us here are also equally unqualified to succeed though.

In the aftermath of the 99 crash, Amazon shares were trading for a few dollars and so were many other companies that today are huge monopolies. I believe that many of the blockchain native companies that survive this crash likely have the same growth.
The original link is here: https://theconversation.com/women-have-been-written-out-of-s...
I'm a bit flabbergasted by all the "wow this person just wasted all his free time fixing a nonexistent problem instead of just getting an iPhone" on Hacker News of all places. Yes there's an ideological bent to the whole exercise but that's precisely the kind of passion you need to deep dive into creating your own audio device over a minor annoyance. Yes it's clunky and expensive to maintain but you have to admire the commitment and technical expertise to build a working product from scratch.. It was an entertaining read and I'm sure a good mental jog for the author.
Plant Controls a Robot to Move Itself Towards Light
The above comment is reacting directly to a quote in the article, not jumping to any new conclusions.

“If anyone reads this post I'm sure loads of people will tell me that my problems are all my own making and if only I invested in an iPhone all my problems would go away. Well you know what? APPLE IS A SYMBOL OF PRETENTIOUSNESS AND IGNORANCE - YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS - I DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A TAX TO APPLE TO LISTEN TO MY MUSIC.”
Notes is great as long as you don't use it for email.
The article is behind the paywall, but it can be accessed through Sci-Hub. Some of the most interesting findings:

- 43% respondents did not agree with "Advocacy and research should be kept as separate as possible to protect the objectivity of the research".

- 45% respondents did not agree with "It is plausible that women's greater representation than men in people-oriented professions (social work, nursing, etc.) is due in part to a biological component".

- 31% respondents did agree with "It is not plausible to conclude that gender discrimination in the workplace has disappeared until men and women are (at least roughly) equally represented in virtually all occupational categories."
Maybe, but it generally is. In most scientific disciplines I think you’d find it hard to publish simple replication of someone else’s work. You’d need to add some novel aspect, or extend the work slightly.

For a healthcare replication study, I would guess you be hard pressed to get a replication study published for the same demographic, and same sample size as a previous study.
It's not, it's just a popular and appealing narrative. Bitcoin was in development for at least a few years before the financial crisis, but its developer's own admission.
Yep, I know it helps them recharge. But I find it sad how oblivious they sometimes are that others might be so beat up that they need an almost passive recharge. :(

As for my programming, I actually do some small work outside of work hours on my own enthusiastic basis. But I have to tell you, even this minor 4-5h a week thing took me years of recharging and healing before I felt the passion for the first time in years and years.

(As an aside, we the techies need non-tech hobbies but that's just an opinion.)
So for the record, this comment that was deleted referred to "reservoir nets" and "spiking architectures" as ways researchers should control plasma instability and in a separate comment, the poster claimed to have "said more than I should already". There was also a disparaging comment about fusion researchers.
There are two reasons,

1) Take a closer look at tf.hessian()'s implementation. Notice the tf.while() loop, calculating tf.gradient() for each coordinate of the first gradient? That doesn't happen in parallel! Plus, you need to know about TensorArrays!

2) Per-example gradients means an outside tf.while() loop over each example. Another linear slow down!

The difficulty I refer to is in wrangling conditionals in TF, and the trickiness of obtaining partial derivatives (rather than total derivatives) which JAX makes trivial.

There may be a
No, only for apps that value certified behavior over accessibility. Typically this is payments (high liability for fraud, higher fraud rates from non-certified users), DRM, and multiplayer gaming (prevent cheating).
>I would call "unproven".

Why wouldn't you call it novel? It's only 10 year old technology at this stage.
I wish I shared your optimism.
Just in time. I was planning for a vacation. Thanks.
US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia to water down climate pledge
Show HN: SaaS webframework
Being used by SaaS business owners who would have a fit about evil users if someone posted an app that allowed people to use their service for free. The hypocrisy that tech deserves to be paid but writers and musicians and filmmakers don't is disgraceful. Excuses about publishers being involved or SaaS having stronger protections against unauthorized use than reading or watching or listening don't cut it.

You can want an infinite library of content for free, but know that you are quite literally denying the creators of that library payment each time you enjoy their work for free. Having the skills to pick a lock doesn't authorize you to take away your neighbors livelihood.
nice, however this information is not too hard to get myself. Add Dual nationality/ multi-nationality, and that would actually save me time.

(single nationals can just search for any website, whereas dual nationals would want to search for 2 as they have more options, and if they only have to use your website that saves their time!) :)
The problem with blood donations is it's very expensive or impossible to test if the blood is clean. Therefore they rely on self reporting by the donors.

If blood instead was paid for people would be incentivized to lie, people desperate for cash wouldn't care about the consequences. For example junkies who might have all sorts of shit in their system.
'Perceived' is correct, as the other option was conditional surrender of Japan. But it sounds much nicer, and is better for morale, to say the bombs or an invasion were the only possibilities.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the...

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/debate-over-japanese-...

https://mises.org/library/hiroshima-myth
That sounds like a hardware problem or drivers issue. If it was a software problem, why give up on music when there are other options both free and paid like Reaper, Ableton, etc. which run perfectly fine?

I have not had any of the issues you are complaining about in Logic Pro X, FWIW, on multiple laptops and hardware audio interfaces over ~6 years of use.
It isn't a requirement for you. Fortunately that's now how products are made because really we only need some mosquito nets in Africa and drinking water, everything else is a luxury for someone.
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Bit embarrassing for cryptoenthusiasts to still be insisting their assets are "deflationary" when many of them have lost more value in a year (and far more unpredictably) than the US dollar has since the mid 1970s, including all the financial crises...
Any recommendations for the US? All the circuits I’ve ever made were breadboarded, this could be a fun direction to take.
The thing is the property bubble is predominantly in cities. And those properties are much more rarely mortgaged - its kind of an all or nothing deal if you can outright buy a multi-million dollar condo or not, banks are much less willing to mortgage one.

And there the prices are only going up due to NIMBYism about building for density. There is sea change in our cultural dynamics that is following in the wake of widespread adoption of technology and the Internet - we aren't isolating ourselves on quarter acre copy pasted plots an hour long commute by car from the office, we want to live in 500 square feet of space a few miles by bike or one station away from our office. We marry less, we have less kids, but there is absolutely nobody building anything for this demographic.

In an even more broader context we should be incentivizing people to live as close to peak urbanization because its the optimization of the cost to house and maintain people. People are cheaper for all of society and for nature abroad if they live closer in denser housing with more public infrastructure to support them than to have them living in repeated stick and glue mcmansions on HOA mandated lawns that require a thousand liters of water a year to keep green in the midwest.

We are literally doing the opposite of what we should, and its going to cost economic growth for our entire lives in all likelihood.
And what great enthusiasm with the “!” they have
I'd be interested in that as well. The US program was expensive in part because they were trying to do it as quickly as possible, didn't know exactly what a finished bomb would look like and basically pursued every possible method for isotope separation at massive scale all at once.

A program that just pursued plutonium production and separation to produce implosion devices would presumably be a lot cheaper (though still massively expensive in absolute terms, obv).
I saved up money to buy one of these in college, was amazing, fast, sounded like a well tuned race car :-) Still have some CSCI homework and projects on paper printed on this from my Atari ST.
Ask HN: How do teams work with databases?
In my company we have 4-5 teams, 15-20 databases and 30+ services. When we start working on bigger features it gets harder for us to not break the other services that rely on the same databases.

We've talked about making each database be "recreatable" and spawning a new env. for each long lived feature, however getting to that point might be multi year effort.
We also talked about doing multiple stored procedures for each iteration of the db,
but that would mean we would all have to do a lot of extra work
and that still doesn't guarantee we won't break a lot of services while in development.

So how do you approach database development in your company so you don't break things all the time?

p.s. any books/articles that can help guide us to improve our work are also appreciated.
Scientists develop first honey bee vaccine
This blog post is beautifully written.

The most profound dilemma to me from my own outcome of pain is how "people who haven't lived the specific pain" are calling the shots. How illnesses resulting in physical & psychological pain are handled by treatments tailored by people who haven't experienced the pain. Similar with the allocation of finances and the perception of how one should adapt their outlook on life; based on how outsiders of the experience looking in will decide on what's best. It's comparable to how a victim is so easily coerced & manipulated in a lesser state and when having faith in persons with the status of attempting to help. Personally, I would trade my life in a heart beat for without daily pain and never the experience. Psychologically I can understand why people look to feel grateful for insight or to make people educated about pain. Sadly, I think it's just an irrational attempt in making one try to accept the unfortunate circumstances from the cruel will of the universe.
Is this actually a bug in Android (confirmed by someone else on a different phone) or is it a bug in the implementation by this OEM? I haven't experienced it but I also do not use this writer's particular sound files.

I think the underlying point is very important. It does seem like quality has been sacrificed in many products to shave a few pennies off the BOM. Why should today's portable CD players be substantially worse than the ones available in 1995? I get that they are asking $25 instead of $115. But SONY and Panasonic have left the market, leaving it to the drugstore quality ones, and they don't appear to want to make a product that plays a clear sound.

As far as circuits are concerned, I can't help but notice that a TI TPA6100A2 costs $1.11 at qty 1, and outputs stereo from a 1.6-5.5V single supply drawing a max of 50mw. This would substantially reduce the weight and power draw of his mini amp. A couple rechargable AA batteries would do.
Theres a substantial difference in UX between integrating Java software via decompiling class files and having your community use process of elimination to figure out how everything works vs having an actual public and documented API for it.
When your decision of where you live is based on availability of drugs, I think there might be a serious problem lurking, which you may not even be consciously aware of. Good luck nonetheless.
Seriously, people, do you get paid for this marketing in every topic that doesn't directly concern Apple? You didn't even seem to read the article to understand it.
Wouldn't you just be testing if they read the blog posts?
I don’t understand your side note.

Bitcoin is a payment network, not a distribution network so it would still require technical/manual investment from the author.

From what I’ve heard, there are some decentralized distribution platforms being created on other blockchains, but ignoring those I can’t see a reason to consider a payment network as a solution to a distribution problem - what the author needs is a distribution system that will serve his pdf in exchange for payment, and likely wants to treat payments as an abstraction.

It would be trivial to build a system using Bitcoin or other blockchains that would generate a unique download link to the book, but then the author would have to be tech support for any customer that ran into problems.
Beanie Babies and housing both saw significant bubbles. But housing and the stock market have mechanics that push recovery. Crypto however is closer to the Beanie Babies model where it might come back, but people will continue to hype it either way.
Well, having to manually combine the results in two or more tabs pretty much defeats the purpose of this site, doesn't it?
Bitcoin was the culmination of the engineering work done by Chaum, Wei Dai, Szabo, Finney and a few others but it's launch was marked by the economic crisis and many of its earlier adopters are people who believe that separating money and state will have the same net positive effects that separating state and church had some centuries ago.
Determinism is an interesting question... we exist at a fascinating scale, in between lower orders significantly influenced by non-deterministic forces and higher orders where determinism seems to prevails.

The chemical reactions driving cellular machinery is influenced by quantum randomness, while astronomical scales seem to be entirely deterministic (though chaotic). For example, radioactive decay influences both DNA replication and planetary orbits (via heat-driven plate tectonics)... but it seems that any randomness is washed out by the sheer volume of matter at the planetary scale.

We sit right in between those orders. Our bodies are an interconnected web of non-deterministic cells cooperating to maintain higher-level order and some approximation of determinism. Obviously I can't say with certainty, but I find free will to be more likely than not.
Unless you have a very cheap and very scalable storage solution, that would be a mistake.

France took their grid from zero nuclear to 80% nuclear in two decades. We don't have a comparable example for wind/solar.
Trust your instincts on this. It will probably lead you to investments counter to the mainstream. When I was young I felt much the same way. Result: Multiple paid-for properties and a respectable retirement fund. I never participated in any of the spectacular gains of Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, Bitcoin and so forth. Never bothered me a bit. This approach also let me get bargains when people were leaving markets.
I also have only apps and devices purchased directly from Google. I wonder what makes the difference.
Let me phrase it backwards: how good is aggregate data that throws away outliers in a complex system that isn’t yet fully understood?
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The downside of that is, of course, greater battery consumption. MediaPlayer API will offload music playing to a separate DSP (if available) and that allows the main application processor to go to sleep. There is some nuance here, but that usually significantly reduces battery consumption while playing music with the screen off.
I don't think you're fully aware of the facts (not "propaganda") of nuclear. Old fission reactors are the silent workhorses of our civilization and without them we'd be a much much deeper trouble than we already are. Had previous administrations invested more in fission, climate change would be a much smaller and more manageable problem today.

Nuclear has other advantages over solar as well, such as not requiring the vast amounts of land solar does, sometime which will probably cause more and more problems as the industry grows.
I try to game things by using my limits as source o creativity. Works to an extent.