skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the state of social sciences, I'm not sure we know much of anything. Certainly not much that can be repeated easily and often.

Strange how people in one hacker news thread can internalize the sorry state of the scientific method in psychology and sociology, but then in another thread start making absolute claims, as if the issue was settled science (always aligning with their personal biases).
I believe Visa and Mastercard are feeling threatened perhaps?

For both UnionPay and Alipay are huge in Asia, various banks replacing Visa/MC as primary choice for credit/debit cards and mobile payments in a majority of shops.

Europe seems to be next from what I've noticed, their brands showing up here and there in shops.

But I think this might be a good thing, we need more competition in that area.
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It only made worse by the extent of the hustle. E.g., hustling someone for a fraction of their assets is better than taking all of their assets.
I suppose, but that seems like a natural consequence of C#'s desire to move the language "forward" in terms of implementing new features (such as switch expressions or non-nullable reference types) while also maintaining backwards compatibility (for example, you can still use the non-generic "ICollection" interface if you want to). Just a different set of priorities.
Imo one key point is missing: Don't give users the option authenticate via Google or Facebook. While it may be convenient at signup, it creates an unneeded dependency and confusion if you forget how you log into a certain site.
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American Express also launched a discount prpgram for merchants, to make pricing comparable to Visa/Mastercard. If you have little volume, its easy to qualify.
I suspect a big reason for this is that merchant agreements prevent you from directly passing on the cost of cards to customers. So if you accept Visa, MasterCard, and payment form X (where X could be cash, bitcoin, Venmo, whatever), the price you charge customers is the actual price you want to set plus the Visa/MasterCard fees, even if they pay with form X.

One way a disruptor could tackle this is by providing all (or even almost all) of those fees as cash back - giving everyone 2.5% cash back regardless of their creditworthiness / ability to get a sweet rewards card would be very popular. But then you'd probably want to not do that at merchants that aren't accepting traditional credit cards, and I'm not sure how customers would feel about this.
All of that seems good and necessary - given that the median net effective rent is still over $3k/month in Manhattan, and that there's apparently room to profitably continue building, it sounds like things are headed in the right direction.
Meh, if you have $100b, is your life really going to change if you lose half of it or more?

No.
It provides an opening for dgg users or a smaller search engine. Google has to cover all users which means not everyone will be happy.
Well that's the argument, isn't it? Collaboration doesn't mean necessarily mean being in sync or following suit. When there's a hegemony then a level of collaboration might still exist, but if the interests don't align with the dominant party they can just go ahead anyway and more or less force others to fall in line – e.g. EME. Even if everyone syncs up, it's not necessarily good collaboration. Conversely, the dominant party can choose to just ignore other's contributions and ideas if their interests don't align, effectively making those contributions largely pointless.

Whether or not you agree is one thing, but I hope my point is clearer now anyways. :o)
The article gives an example of an individual who may not have deserved to be on the list. By stating "No person would be on BOLO without credible cause", they are using a circular logical fallacy (begging the question?) to dismiss any possibility that there may be mistakes made in managing that list.
I preferred allinone.com instead. Comedy to see different iframes of search knowledge.
That’s important. I find it funny[1] when you get the “email does not exist” error on a password reset page.

[1] by “funny” I mean not funny
Lots of dev tools do this with github, too. The idea of a web-wide sso is a bad one.
Which is exactly why we build an experiment first, to find potential issues before shipping.

If you do see a page that you think might break and you're on Chrome newer than 74.0.3706.0, try turning on chrome://flags#enable-text-fragment-anchor and giving it a try. If something looks out of place, that would be extremely useful data for us. File a bug either at

https://github.com/bokand/ScrollToTextFragment/issues

or

https://crbug.com/new
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looks like it's the react version of https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera... ?

edit:
nvm, it's listed in the readme as inspiration
The cost could go to a specific credit card fee paid by the customer only when they use credit cards, but the merchant agreements typically prohibit you from doing that. You're paying the price whether or not you're getting the convenience.

(I've seen a few small merchants tackle this by offering a cash discount as a subtraction from the regular price, for instance. But I'm not sure even that is contractually permitted.)
Yep. In many places in the world, the internet is Facebook/WhatsApp/YouTube and whatever portal each of your apps allows you to peer into.
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> On that particular aspect: all Facebook employees (and I believe interns) when they write on Messenger to other employees have an on-screen reminder that their conversations are considered work product and can be monitored or reviewed. At least, that was the case when I was there, I can’t think it has changed.

Do Facebook employees have separate Facebook accounts for work? My impression was that they don't, but I could be wrong.

If they're forced to use their "personal" account for work-related functions, I think that raises all kinds of privacy concerns that probably should negate the principle that employer ownership authorizes monitoring.
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Something should be done about this. These companies have a criminal monopoly by forcing out their competitors.

If you have ever ran a small business and seen the obscene amounts these companies make; you would be outraged too.
Hey! I think part of it is that I've worked up to this level over several years and have just always been very active. I get 8 hours of sleep every night and eat a relatively healthy diet - that is I hit my recommended proteins and fats, I don't overeat often, and I generally avoid processed foods.

I think it was mostly just building up to this point of adapting to the schedule. Also, unless I'm training explicitly for some type of competition, I try to not go more than 80% of my max heart rate during most workouts, usually sticking around 70-75%, so I'm not dying everyday.

For lifting, I generally follow a program pretty similar to 5-3-1, which doesn't really have you max out very often (it's extremely gradual, but I've made noticeable lift gains over time).

If I really feel like crap, I just take a rest day or do some mobility work.
Sure, if the product doesn't fit your need then either build your own chromecast or use different product. I personally do not want to build my own so I'm perfectly okay with the trade off.
> Also, go to church.

It's this attitude why I don't want to: using imperatives in places that abhor imperatives, as if non-churchgoes are stray children, lacking the facilities to guide themselves through life.

That, and widespread child molestation.
Probably depends on what degree your country’s laws are caught up and how much tax you’d be avoiding.

IE: the IRS is probably into such schemes and taxes are generally lower.

Not so in a lot of EU countries.

I doubt yachts are given much thought by the German or Austrian tax authorities.
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Wow, this reminds me of writing a very similar engine in the mid 90s after learning about ray-casting (and playing Doom of course). There was a very good book which covered the whole process called "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus", which I would have killed for at the time!
For posterity (I actually needed to install this today):

You need to install zsh-autosuggestions by installing the package from your distribution (Debian, Arch) and source it, or just run:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

in zsh and do exec zsh.
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I should clarify, this is about 5-6 days. I realize I said everyday but meant that generally. I'm very consistent M-F, and typically Saturdays unless I'm travelling. I always rest on Sunday.
No. The price of housing is not determined by the builder. Like any good its price is driven by what people are willing to pay. Here in SF, even 230 square foot studios are considered "luxury housing" because the shortage of housing is that extreme. Any new construction commands a premium over old housing. In effect, restrictions on building more "luxury housing" restricts the construction of most new housing even if it is high density.

Building more housing, and giving incentives to build as much housing as possible is indeed a complete solution.
Which also implies there's nowhere to travel in this case.
How do you get to verbatim mode?
Isn't it nice to grow older?

Tim Larkin gave a tech talk at google about violence as a tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvFjcJbtG4A. Looks like it wasn't well attended.
China is definitely a cautionary tale that just building extra housing, even absolutely absurd amounts of extra housing to the tune of tens of millions of extra unused units, isn't enough to address the affordability in housing crises.

The problem in China, like pretty much everywhere else, is treating housing as a "surefire" speculative investment that is always increasing in price.
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yes, and I was a website devops during that time.

that's my desktop in wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)
If they felt threatened, wouldn't it make sense to lower fees to make their service more appealing to retailers?
I need to dig up the code, but over the course of a week on the train rides to and from work, I built a very simple ray-caster in Pico-8 on the Pocket Chip. It was especially fun since I had figured out the math for it on my own (which, in fairness, isn't terribly complex with even a high-school understanding of Trigonometry).

I had enough fun with it that I think it might become my new "trying out a new programming language" test, since it was easy enough to get done quickly, but difficult enough to where I had to actually learn the language.
You don't have to be sheltered to think it's rude. This feels like an attack, please stop.
It still doesn't always respect the quotes.
> "It is not economical to build them" strikes me as a pretty crazy position to take.

Why, no matter what resources you allocate financially, if you have X dollars, you can do more and sooner with X building renewable sources than if you split it between renewables and nuclear.
I wonder why they aren't just using TLS and pinning certificates? I suppose they probably do, but furthermore want to ensure that they control the resolution of other services (e.g. Netflix) for the device.
The situation in Europe is generally better because EU legislation (Interchange Fee Regulation) has limited the fees that payment processors can charge. That regulation also requires more transparency and is supposed to promote alternative payment systems by limiting lock in.

As always, Europe is too fragmented, and slower to adopt new tech, for one of these app based solutions to gain wide spread adoption quickly, though.
It's all open source. See fleen.org for my github.

The vibrating round thing. The "Whelmer". It's these randomly generated moving fuzzy rings. Moving in or out. Intersecting.

The sound isn't so much gotten from a sampling of the visuals as a sampling of the same data that the visuals also sample. That data being a big array of integers, basically.

To see it properly you really should download a high-quality video and watch it projected big (like 6' tall) with good speakers.

Here's a nice one : https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...
They target the top because the regulatory environment is such that it’s too costly to target middle and lower range properties. In places like Houston, there are tons of “normal” places being built. With land prices in places like New York and requirements to subsidize “affordable” units within the building, that necessarily means the market rate apartments have to be much more expensive to compensate. In Houston, there is no such thing as “affordable” set-asides because their isn’t a need for it. Houston also doesn’t set aside thousands of acres of prime land as “open space preserves” like they do in the Bay Area, further constricting available land. We can debate the quality of life value of “open space;” it would be a fair debate, but you can’t have lots of available but politically unbuildable land while simultaneously lamenting the lack of affordable housing.
Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents' aggression
> Why not? And what, exactly, defines "too many"?

I think Scala was innovating in this respect before Kotlin ate its lunch (it may still be).

You could use Scala as everything between Java++ and Haskell--. Developers proficient in Java++ often had a difficult time understanding code written in Haskell--.
People bring all kinds of crazy things to coffee shops. I saw someone set up a full-on painting kit, with a big palette, tubes of paint, and a full-sized easel.

I believe at one time TPUG members (https://www.tpug.ca) would bring their PETs to Starbucks for meetings. I know I've banged out work on a TRS-80 Model 100 at Coffee Bean.
>DNS over HTTPS is going to cause a shitload more problems than it solves.

Oh, absolutely. What I wonder is if people don't notice this, or they do but believe Google is right in pushing fundamental internet design decisions that prioritize Google's incidental access to surveillance data over a high quality and resilient network for everyone.
This is an incredibly generous reading of the situation that, as far as I can tell, has no basis in reality. Google is circumventing how the internet works at pretty basic level by not respecting users' DNS preferences in favor of their own.
Raising rates from 2.5% is a pretty great indicator of monopoly power, and a good target for startup disruption.
For meltdown (spectre v3, iirc) It's not so much sharing memory as sharing address space. Processes have different page tables. Threads within a process share page tables.

For spectre v1 and v2, right now (on existing hardware) mostly nothing separates threads from processes. In the future, process isolation is a good candidate for designing hardware + system software such that different processes are isolated (via partitioning the caches, etc).

You probably still want threads within a process to share cache hits.
You also need that, and I was addressing the point that someone can’t build a unicorn tech company with a bargain basement remote development team. Look at the MVPs for Google, Dropbox, Apple, even Facebook and ask yourself whether you could replace the founding team of rockstar engineers with some contractors from Timbuktu who do not share the same passion, qualifications, or in-person presence.

It's surprising how poorly the Eric Ries mentality applies in practice to the top success stories of the Valley. How many pre-validated customers wanted the Apple I (a hodgepodge circuit board)? Who would've told you they needed to use something like Facebook? Who needs an "operating system" for a niche "personal" computer? Starting a top tech company by definition can't be formulaic. It's more about the vision -- and only people with better "eyesight" can see and realize the future.
Submitter note: I changed "adolescents' aggressive behaviour" to "adolescents' aggression" because the former wouldn't fit. I hope that's okay.
Haha, I saw people using it in WebWorkers, no nothing prevents them from using it on the back-end.

One Lambda per component would be interesting tho, haha.
I know this comment is a joke, but this is actually how react was created. Facebook made a templating language in php called xhp (https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction) and some people at fb developed react as a natural extension to xhp but in JavaScript.
You're getting some flak for your comment, and I guess I'm responding because I don't think you deserve it, so I'm willing to take flak too because the idea is pretty on point, at least in a tangential sort of way.

There is nothing particularly special or sacred about humanity other than that we happen to belong to that group. If we die out, we die out. The universe goes on just as it will after you as an individual perish, just as it has for everyone who came before you, every species that did, even the stars that went nova creating the elements necessary for you to exist. And whether by the heat death of the universe or simply the inevitability of minuscule probabilities occurring on an infinite timeline, our species is doomed anyway.

Should we care about the possibility of human extinction? Absolutely. But should we be willing to go to even the most extreme lengths, say by wiping out the rest of life on earth, to preserve it? I don't think so. I don't believe that ensuring your survival by contributing to creating a world you don't want to live in is a meaningful exercise.

Like I said, this is a bit tangential since as far as I know no one is suggesting atrocities as a solution to the many threats we face, I just see this idea of human survival as being the highest priority in the universe often enough to want to offer a dissenting opinion.
Keep in mind that the EOS ecosystem extends far beyond downloading a CLI client/etc. EOS Lynx[1] is a wonderful example of a decentralized wallet that has abstracted layers away to the point where it looks/feels/acts like a "regular people" iOS app

[1] https://eoslynx.com/
I just don't get the perspective that says, it's OK for someone to be 10 times as wealthy as I am, but no one should be 100 times as wealthy as I am, but it's OK for me to be 1000 times as wealthy as some other people.
I feel like the actual, underlying issue worth bringing to the standards body is: how do we address arbitrary content on a web page, even when it moves around or changes over time? Aside from these neat Chrome links, this would enable some super interesting features, such as the ability to add persistent and shareable annotations to webpages.
It is funny how trends shift.

A few years ago there was a glutton of articles telling us that we cannot do authentication correction, and to just offer single-sign-on via Facebook/Google instead.

Now everyone is back to doing their own home-grown, and Facebook/Google authentication is seen as bloat.
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Nuclear power plants are also regional solutions that requires specific geography....
> So what is happening when someone tosses out their religious context? They are essentially saying "I understand this organism perfectly, I know its strengths and weaknesses, and I know better than the process of natural selection as to what is a better way of living."

This is a totally unjustified assertion. When have you ever met an atheist who thinks they know how everything works?

Contrast that with a common experience: you meet a person who is absolutely certain that a guy in the Middle East was born to a virgin, and he later was resurrected.
Maybe? A well-ran local utility is likely to do a better job then a poorly-ran large one.

Unfortunately, how well a business runs is not always correlated with size.
Tell that to china https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19171099

They have something like 65 MILLION excess, unused apartments, almost exclusively targeting the luxury market (because they are created and valued as investment first, housing second), and they still have extreme affordability issues.

Building more housing is absolutely not a complete solution.
I built www.writegreen.org in 2011, specifically to channel my own energy and angst around this topic to drive policy change (don't change your lightbulbs, change your laws). Unfortunately, the realities of having a family to feed kept me from fully promoting and developing it. Would be great to get feedback and partner with others looking to make a dent on this problem.
That's because, when you give something to someone else, it's not yours any more. This isn't rocket science. Same goes with copyright: if you give your creation away to someone else, it's not yours any more, it's theirs. The simple answer is to not give ownership away to someone if you want to put it in the public domain, or otherwise do something with it that this other party wouldn't agree to.

If you give your car away to someone else, why would you be mad that you can't just use it at random times?
So the question is, when you broke a vase can you glue it back to the previous state - and the answer is yes. The more exact state you'd like to achieve the more effort it will require. But having the same state again doesn't mean you've travelled in time, but only that somehow the same state occur one more time (or better to say once again ;) ).
"The system should not allow a loop to be introduced. Obviously. But, it happened, and it'll happen again given enough time, so what else?"

The algorithm to detect a cycle is pretty simple. Why not prevent them?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection
I think there's a place for a nationalised network or some sort of not-for-profit org.

Seems silly to rest such an important part of society in the hands of a few private orgs. Or maybe even empowering banks to better compete (as long as we don't end up with 50 different networks).
Meanwhile europe phases in instant inter-bank transfers, had direct debit for years (now standardized via SEPA) and paying via wire transfer (to any bank, via IBAN) has always been an option.
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I believe that this approach also used to work with the Chromecast.
> It only made worse by the extent of the hustle. E.g., hustling someone for a fraction of their assets is better than taking all of their assets.

No.

It's pretty clear that it's worse to hustle a poor person out of 85% of their assets, and have them wind up homeless under a bridge, than it is to hustle a rich person out of 85% of their assets, and have them wind up living a comfortable upper-middle-class life. Both these scenarios involve the same "fraction of [personal] assets," which shows that some simple numerical comparison doesn't properly capture the essence of what we're talking about.
From wikipedia: the Heartbleed bug was introduced into OpenSSL in 2012 and publicly disclosed in April 2014.

The Morris worm was released in 1988.

People are prone to make logical errors and to overlook stuff, even when they are aware of the risks. Thinking is hard, and every little bit of help is useful, either from peers or from tools.

Do not take what zeroname wrote as an insult. He simply pointed out the mistake you made (indeed, it does not follow what you wrote - it may be possible, and probable, but it does not follow automatically).

You can look at all this as a peer review, just not for code, but for thought/logic argumentation.
This is a Matt Levine column. The first section talks about Bloomberg launching their first ranking of hedge fund managers.

The list is ordered by income and topped by the usual suspects. But as Levine discusses, this is interesting because Bloomberg breaks out income from management fees and income from investment returns.
> Also, go to church.

I do go to church (of sorts). My church meetings are organized on meetup.com, developer mailing lists, and tech conferences.