skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those of you concerned about the "antitrust" aspect here, the specter of Apple controlling everything... Keep in mind that Apple has had a partnership-based branded credit card for years: the Barclaycard Visa with Apple Rewards. There is nothing fundamentally new in Apple offering a credit card.

What's new here is they're tightly integrating it with Apple Wallet and in some aspects driving a better deal (like eliminating fees and points and data brokering). Overall I would characterize their offering as a "competitive" rewards card. But what's really distinctive here is the elegant Apple-designed UI around managing your spending and interest charges and rewards, which looks exceptional.

The other really clever thing is how they've leveraged the iPhone to improve the security of the backwards-compatible physical card. For non-ApplePay e-commerce they can rotate the CSC/CVV number you look up on your phone (since it's not printed on the card). And they can just reach out to you through iOS with suspicious transaction notifications and strongly re-authenticate you, instead of relying on antiquated robocalls.

One question I have is whether the card will have a stripe on it or just a chip. Traditionally merchants would be liable for fraudulent swipes without properly-checked signatures. If the signatureless card supports swipes, presumably Goldman Sachs would need to take on that liability now. Maybe that explains why rewards are 1% on physical card transactions instead of 2%.
Sounds familiar to my modern ears. I wonder who Barnum would be today?
my local Sees Candies don't have a chip reader and only accept swipes for some reason
Apple News is available right now, but Apple TV+ doesn't launch until the fall. I'm unsure what the existing TV app does as far as privacy (and a quick search isn't turning up much), but I imagine as the launch of Apple TV+ nears we'll hear more about the privacy aspect of things.

I am indeed curious what the current TV app shares on an Apple TV, though.
My Grandpa was a smart man, so I’m sure he would have had some specific advice for this situation. The best I can add is that my Grandpa was a big believer in meeting people and forming his own opinion.
FTC clearly states merchants can offer discounts for cash other payment methods:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/new...

>A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discount or another incentive for using a certain method of payment, as long as you offer it to all your customers and disclose the offer clearly and conspicuously.
Funny that their internal tool wouldn't have a workflow that kept the app id. Googlers doing error prone swivel chair correlation is kind of sad.
If you are running a business on Twitter, I don't see a big issue with having a phone number connected to that Twitter account. It doesn't strike me as unreasonable.
In that case, how does one get access to the external world?
No, the EFI demo uses no runtime at all
Very astute comment about external motivation versus internal motivation. The fact that someone else is depending on me will spur me to push through a task, particularly if it is for someone close to me (e.g. my daughter). However, in a small percentage of cases for work clients, I can experience mental resistance, almost like a internal rebellion, that will cause me to procrastinate. Happens even if the client is very nice and I like them, which makes me feel all the more guilty. Luckily, it is not the norm, or I would be out of a job pretty quickly.
Hmm, I should create a way to do that. My tentative plan had been to email the folks who had left comments on the bill.harding.blog post when I had news to report. But then I posted this update this morning without mailing them, so that plan didn't work very well. I think this might just be the kind of thing we have to hope HN will continue to upvote when updates get posted? Or check back at bill.harding.blog in the next few months. Since it looks like there should be enough devs to get started, that implies I'll be posting another update within the next quarter at least.
if they're banking on a large percentage being online transactions, then the 1% could be covered or exceeded. Additionally, if they even break even on `transaction fees - cash back` then they make money on interest whenever someone can't/doesn't pay in full every month
Celeste is mentioned in the article.
I actually think your suggestions are perfectly compatible with a charitable interpretation of this article.

> Instead of: "Hey HN, I just wrote a badass new streaming protocol" and linking to the github source, specifically mention your concerns about continuing to rely on TCP for video streaming and the buffering lag it induces, link to a blog-ish thing which links to your source but frames a number of questions or doubts you have around your project if you, indeed, are at a loss and want to turn to the internet as a whole to try and solve them.

That sounds exactly like an example of Dan's suggestion to "tell a story."
ASUS does sign stuff. The problem here is that they won't revoke the compromised certificates...
???

Of course it's about the money.

I'm not the CFO at Twitter or anything, but even I can see that spam and propaganda cost those guys a lot of money. The number of advertisers who stop paying Twitter because of spam will be orders of magnitude larger than the number of advertisers who stop using Twitter because of phone numbers.
They already do. Apple TV app happily shows me Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc etc content for me to watch. Their suggestions on things to watch also include content only accessible from those services. My Netflix and Hulu (and HBO and others) are even billed to me via iTunes too, so this isn’t a huge shift in reality. Almost everything but the more polished UI (and not needing to wait on the provider’s app to load, looking at you Hulu with your terribly slow app) is available today in fact.
> I've done it before.

It depends on the matter of scale. Some folks either don't understand how things work, or are just bad at math. That's where the problems start for people.
How to sell a massacre: NRA's playbook, revealed
Actually, the 2080ti is around the same price as the 1080ti, if you can find one.
An introduction to the beginning of motion capture technology
I use okular on gnome when I absolutely need to annotate the PDF, I could not find other alternatives. okular is heavy and slow but it gets the job done when it's needed. I hope calibre can support annotations one day for the file formats it supports.

99% of the time I use evince to read PDFs though.
I think you know what I mean.
In scientific computing, the number 130TB doesn't tell you much. The header figure in the article (https://www.spe.org/media/filer_public/e3/31/e331595a-7594-4...) could be made of 130TB volumetric geometry and scalar field data, (in this case miserably) downsampled before rendering.
First TV Image of Mars (Hand Colored)
Hey there. Imo you are far more condescending than I ever was, it is possible though that you missed the point. Let me explain.

The parent I was replying to said this:

> Python has all the bells and whistles you need to build large code bases,

but you do need to get organized, no language can really do that for you and attempts at forcing you to do it give rise to 'factory factory' nonsense

I have a problem with this statement which I hoped to convey by satire (but obviously failed).

The argument being put forth by OP is that python's lack of static compile time typing makes it hard to build large code bases. This is a legitimate argument supported by several whitepaper research papers conducted by well known and trusted entities. The parent I replied to countered this with "but you do need to get organized", but neglected to specify any details about the said organization.

Obviously I have a problem with this because the statement is utterly meaningless.

You can make this type of statement about literally every language. I picked assembler to demonstrate this point. Also, it is low effort jab against Java programmers, as if they are clueless about organization.

> Assembler has all the bells and whistles you need to build large code bases, but you do need to get organized, no language can really do that for you and attempts at forcing you to do it give rise to 'factory factory' nonsense.

That statement is equally applies here. Assembler obviously has all the bells and whistles you need to build a large code base, given that it's turing complete and that people have in fact built large code bases with it.

So in summary, the parent I was responding to:

1. Made a vague statement that can be applied to any language.

2. Made a low effort snarky remark about Java developers without providing any support/proof.

3. Said you need to get organized in order to write large code bases in python, provided no further details on the organization.

4. Contained no useful information at all that can actually be applied and used to write software in python or any other language.

5. Tried to counter a legitimate, research supported position with a vague meaningless statement.

I think given all that the satire was warranted.
This is bit of hypothetical, but does some sort of pki-like scheme exist that would allow me to hold a certificate (of sorts) from an authority that I could use to prove myself to an service, but also simultaneously would not leak any information about me to that service? Similarly service a and service b should not be able to link accounts behind my back. Sounds like a interesting crypto problem
When much of the problem are people getting opioids directly from the pharmacy what good is detecting it in the mail?
Are you due for a sabbatical

Not to detract from your advice, but what's with that question? Virtually no engineer has a job that offers sabbaticals. Even the companies that family used to don't anymore.

I don't doubt someone will chime in and say "my job offers me a sabbatical", but they're in the extreme minority.

You might as well ask, "does you job offer free massages? If so, I recommend you go for the shiatsu"
Sargon of Akkad told a group of white neo-nazis they were a bunch of "n-words," ironically, in the context of accusing them of having the same poor behavior they attempt to associate with black people. If you're familiar with the entire rest of his body of work, he is a vehement liberal in opposition of any such identity politics. He said this on somebody else's channel, not only off of Patreon, but off of his YouTube account altogether.

But all that being said, it's all irrelevant. Let's say he said the n-word maliciously and was a racist, is it the role of MasterCard to prevent that person from being able to pay for a burrito? To get a paycheck from their legal employment? Why can't the expectation be that MasterCard is neutral up until the point of legality? There is a really bad authoritarian trend on the left wing to go after absolutely every neutral cog in the machine. If Reddit doesn't ban /r/The_Donald, Reddit is right wing. If Twitter doesn't ban TERFs, Twitter is right wing. Now payments? Are we going to get mad at the government for letting Been Shapiro drive on their neutral roads?
American Truck Simulator:

https://youtu.be/AzOiYfL7l7Q

Just me, my rig, and the open road.
Okay, I see. Thanks for the feedback!
No?

I'm not clear on what the real point of this question is - twitter is a terrible platform to use for actual communication. Their sorting by "relevance" can cause recent messages to get lost in the shuffle and randomly mess with your visibility. It may be you're considering twitter as a business in which to coordinate product sales, but I'll assume it's for customer relations management, many companies that have a twitter account for CS stuff also offer email, messanger (of some sort) and phone if you have an issue you need to resolve due to the fact that platform just isn't well suited for business - the network effect of it is surprisingly low (a _lot_ of people aren't on or don't regularly use twitter), it is semi-public which may violate your business concerns and... you're handing the keys to your reputation to the third party that has acted poorly in the past.

If you check out youtubers talking about youtubers (I have no specific example on hand) they tend to complain endlessly about how the trending algorithms can drive thousands of potential viewers toward or away from their channel for no particular reason - there the network effect is strong enough that they don't have an option though, if your business is streaming a show then YouTube offers a much richer starting viewer base.

I guess my assumption is, if your business doesn't force you to use a particular social media platform exclusively then... use some other communication method per preference?

I'm really just confused by the question though - these things are not the same and twitter is simply not as important as the place your money lives (and I think pretty much everyone would agree? Maybe I'm getting too old)
The only people I’ve ever heard of seeking these out are environmentalists referred to as “valve turners”, and that is exactly what they do they do. They turn the valve to the OFF position, and many of them do prison time for it.
An Open Letter from the NYC React Community
But why use C# at all if your target has actual options?
https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/hea...

Naturopathy (like most pseudo sciences) thrives on taking things undiagnosed and giving concrete answers. There likely isn't a person out there that wouldn't test positive for heavy metal poisoning. Go retest with a different naturopath. I'm almost certain you'll still test positive (even though they likely gave you a bunch of vitamins and herbs to cure your poisoning).

> Fatigue, insomnia, and a host of other symptoms are fairly common and not easy to spot as a part of a bigger problem.

Fatigue and insomnia are depression symptoms. I'm not a doctor, but have you considered talking to a therapist?
This wasn't my experience. Where my family doctor and other practitioners ignored my thoughts and refused to get me tested out of personal skepticism, my ND listened to me and provided appropriate means of testing.

At no point was I suggested sketchy ancient 'healing' methods.
I don't like this for today's Twitter, but it is mildly interesting to consider that once upon a time Twitter's main ui was SMS based.
Commenting on the video of the event in 7 minutes:

1. Apple News was announced again? I think it was already released wasn't it? Still not interested though. No matter how much "AI" they use to make recommendations.

2. Being forced to have an iPhone to have a credit card that seems like any other card sounds like a terrible idea. Plus where I live we already have multiple apps and services that allows me to create an infinite amount of cards and transfer money with zero fees.

3. The single game subscription seems interesting, specially the part where they say they can also be played offline. I wonder how they do that. I don't play games anymore, still, interesting, wouldn't mind trying it.

4. tv.channels looks like other similar services, and they seem to imply you can only use their app on smart TVs and their devices, which is a big no-no. Still, if with good shows and price competitive...
It also happened to me. Signed up using an Outlook webmail account, residential IP, Firefox with Incognito Mode and Ghostery.

Once your account is disabled, the ability to delete (oops, I meant deactivate) your account is gone. I emailed support to delete my account since I am now unable to do so, and instead they re-enabled the account.
Have a Thinkpad X1 yoga, can confirm that this test works on Windows 10 but does not on standard Ubuntu linux. It's something which annoys me regularly, but one get's used with it, especially if one doesn't sit in front of a Mac daily ;-)
We've given the article a narrower title above, based on its actual content.
I saw a YouTube review of one of the smaller Mikrotik switches and they found if you used the router features the throughput dropped significantly (like over 8Gbps as a "dumb" switch down to 3Gbps with some routing enabled), the same could be true for the larger ones.

The Netgear's spec PDF includes some more detail about the hardware, the XS716T has 600 MHz Cortex-A9 Single Core, 512MB RAM 8MB SPI + 256MB NAND FLASH, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to make a comparison or have a sense of whether that's enough. I can see that the MikroTik has a 800MHz dual core Marvell Prestera 98DX8216 (a 32-bit ARMv7 processor) with 1GB RAM and 16GB flash storage. Of course, the software running on that hardware is also crucial; many Android phones have better hardware specs than iPhones yet the iPhones soundly out-perform them at many tasks.

https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/switches/SmartSwitc...
Most people miss the point that for a rewards card to pay you. You have to pay off the balance every month. And missing that by even a single month at 10%-21% interest that you get charged. You are more then likely to loose money even with the rewards.
Thanks. One level above your link is I think the best explanation:

https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp

"no-runtime is a rather pointless sample that demonstrates how to write code in C# that is directly runnable without a runtime. C# has value types and you can p/invoke into an unmanaged memory allocator, so you can do things with this, but you're so severily limited it's rather pointless. But Hello world ends up being about 4-5 kB native EXE, so that's rather cool.

with-runtime is something that can be actually useful. This includes the full managed and unmanaged runtime - GC, exception handling, and interface dispatch all work. Test.CoreLib used as the class library here is the same Test.CoreLib that you can find in the CoreRT repo. Don't look for things like Object.ToString() because being compatible with .NET is not the point. This sample comes down to about 400 kB, most of which is the C runtime library.

efi-no-runtime is an EFI boot application that lets you run C# on bare metal, without an OS. Similar restrictions to the no-runtime sample apply. Making a version of this sample with a runtime would require some porting work on the runtime side."
In terms of just rewards, is this card competitive with current offerings?

3% on Apple products is great. However, I only buy a new product once every half, minus Apple TV subscription.

The 2% cashback is only on purchases made through Apple Pay. I already carry the Citi Double Cash card, which does this.
Caffeine also has all of the listed effects.
But my suggestions actually offered a story indicating what was wrong in a (hopefully it was sort of off the cuff) clear manner. I found the article to be lacking a clear demonstration of what was wrong and specifically actually lacking a clear solution.

What I stated above wasn't what I read in the article, it was my proposed solution to what I discerned the issue to be.
"Turns out that phone numbers, whilst also subject to flux, have better long-term congruence to identity"

That isn't what I saw in the Verizon store today while I was disputing a charge on my bill ($10 trade-in on an account that never had a trade-in device at all?) Many people were changing their numbers.

To boot, I'm sure there are plenty of burner phones in use out there, I have six of my own with plenty of rollover minutes/texts.
Does anybody know how difficult these problems are to solve once you've already calculated the relevant kernel?

Let's say I had that kernel stored in a database, is it just a matrix multiplication or two to calculate the solution? If so, doesn't that kind of invalidate the idea that this is a bottleneck problem that requires a speed-up? Especially once you take into account read/write speeds on the physical structure?

I guess my point here is the correct benchmark is pre-memoized code. I'd be interested how it performs against that benchmark.
The same is an efficient email anti-spam technique (greylisting). Except that you get all your emails delayed by 20min-5h, which will not make any user happy.
Here is a Google research paper on how adding the phone number verification will affect the cost of bot user account on black markets:

static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/43134.pdf
Maybe I don't? Because that's what I thought you meant.

I thought you meant Twitter is trying to put the squeeze on the spammers and propaganda ministers because they will lose advertisers if they can't?

Did you mean something else?
Ask HN: Looking for Article
Hi,

I recall reading about a developper who found an old bug in what appeared to be a really simple sort function in Javascript.

The article mentions how the author couldn’t believe this was the doing of the language, but his own.

He then goes through the process of troubleshooting until he finally just asks the maintainers if about the error.

The maintainers then reply with “yeah, it’s a bug - thanks!”.

Does anyone recall the story? It is a great example of how troubleshooting and logic can help identify issues... and that _sometimes_ you aren’t crazy.

Cheers!
Maybe I worded that wrong. In OCaml and other strict languages, `let (rec) a = a` doesn't make sense, because `a` doesn't have a value when you are defining it to be itself. When I write `let a = a` in Haskell, what happens is that `a` is set to a thunk whose code pointer points to its own evaluation code. When the thunk gets forced, it tries to evaluate itself.

Doing my research, I was wrong about the "nonterminating computation" part; when the thunk gets forced, it gets marked as a "black hole," detecting the infinite recursion in this case.
You've done what you can to terminate the business relationship. Any further contact from them is CAN-SPAM territory and you should get a lawyer.
> If businesses can collectively bid for performance from private networks

You realize this is exactly what net neutrality prohibits?
> Well, so here's the other side of the coin-- nobody actually has any idea what's definitely safe.

I'm going to disagree with that. I think there is a great deal of information available on what is and is not safe, available to those who will look. I think it is a gross overstatement that nobody has any idea what's definitely safe. Is that data perfect? No. But the data I'm able to find seems to have been workable so far.

> Do you trust that because the EPA has put a number on a chemical that it can't be wrong?

> Why don't you guess what percent of the time when the EPA calls an exposure level safe does it go back and change its
mind and decide it wasn't safe after all?

Nope, I don't blindly trust the EPA, they've been wrong in the past, and they're going to be discovered to have been wrong here in the future, because like you and I, they are fallible humans, and sometimes shit slips through. However, I am willing to look at the data available and evaluate for myself whether the declaration of safe or not (and to what degree) is correct, and what to do about it.

> Also, why are you confident the EPA knows all the long-term biological and cross-generational effects of all these chemicals when nobody can decided yet if coffee is good for me?

I'm not necessarily, and I think you misrepresent my point above to insinuate that I do. My protest with the original article is that it is thin on data. That someone is worried about pesticide residues on food is not immediately actionable data for me absent other data which the article lacks. Absent said data, I'm going to stick to my currently successful MO of washing my produce before use, and not worrying about it until given a convincing reason to do so.
Guess that means old legacy bot accounts just got a whole lot more valuable.
> [ZA] got our first commercial ISP in 1993.

Interesting 'doc' from the Internet Society on the effort from a few years ago on Internet exchange points (IXPs):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFv-9iPwwLE