skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Caucuses are very much part of the primaries

This is a disconnect on jargon. Primaries mean elections. Caucuses are an alternative to primaries. Both primaries and elections constitute the process by which American parties select delegates for their party conventions. The whole delegate-selection and convention assemblage is loosely referred to as the "primary" in the popular press.
In addition to reflow, described elsewhere, imagine having to design PDfs in a zillion sizes so it looks good on everything from an iPhone SE up to an iPad Pro (or iMac, for that matter).
Revolut offers this. I can create virtual cards and one-time-use cards.
Where’s my perks?

Lounge access?
Hotel discounts?

No reason for me to switch from my AMEX or Costco card for puny Apple points.

Unless I missed something.
Why don't you turn around and request in a polite manner never to be tapped on the shoulder again?
I use borgbackup to a NAS on the LAN. I then use rclone to copy the repositories to a Google Drive that happens to be unlimited because of the subscription of my previous university. :-) Luckily my account persisted when I left the uni.
The "making it simpler" for users is definitely only an excuse for Mozilla to not pay for the servers anymore. Kinda disappointed as uploading was a dry useful way to share in, high quality screenshots. I can't fathom that it would've cost then much to keep the platform running
The cool thing about the latest iteration of PoS terminals is that they enable contactless transactions over £30 if paying by Apple Pay (and possibly GPay too, unsure). I've paid >£30 Tesco shopping sprees using Apple Pay without any issue.
First of all phones were big, then they got small, then big. And now small again. People are so fickle.
Yes. I'm so sick of businesses relying on people not cancelling to exist, and thereby making their calcellation process as time consuming and obtuse as possible to reduce consumers chances of cancelling.

Consumers should be able to just NOT pay for a service, and then it's on the service-provider to turn off the customer's access.

I can't tell you the amount of services I've past up on simply because I don't want to (potentially) deal with an awful cancellation process, and then go through the hassle of charging back on my CC. It's just not worth the time -- and they know it and depend on it -- which is frankly disgusting. Invest some time in a better product...
"who said they are?" is the problem here. Better to err on the side of caution.
> Just allow me to create as many 'virtual' credit cards from a single card and that's enough.

What? Apple Pay does this. Oh they don't expose the numbers to you, but they use a virtual card at time of purchase.
"Do as I say, not as I do!"
His concept of AI seems to be more AGI in the sense of abstract reasoning and creative problem solving applied to problems in one domain where the AI can then accumulate the lessons learned and apply them to another domain. As opposed to the current reality which is mainly stringing classifiers together.

I work as a consultant, and I get these sort of questions from my clients all the time. "Can't we just load the (unlabeled) data into the AI solution and just have it 'figure things out' without training it?" "Can't we take the model that we already trained (on one very narrow domain) and use it (on some completely different domain) without going through all that again?" People want unsupervised transfer learning with a whole lot of a priori knowledge baked into it.
The apple cash card is basically a prepaid Discover debit card.
You know, when she told me that it weirded me out too. I was like... HOW!!??

I remember growing up in school we always had computers in the classroom and computer literacy programs. It must have meant that at all the schools she attended in Japan
growing up they didn't have that. Else there's no way that'd be possible.

Just mildly fascinating. Totally not what I expected. So when the minister in charge of the stuff says he hasn't touched a computer, I can believe it.
It’s probably changing, I think, but American Express is also one of the worst credit cards you could try to use in Germany. Mastercard and Visa are much more widely accepted.
So many people (including doctors) seem to be set on the idea that serotonin makes you happy and therefore is the solution to depression. This is only half true, and not in the way that most think. Serotonin (if high) makes you numb [1]. But that might be the lesser of two evils when it comes to depression [2], which is why it’s become popular as a mechanism to treat it. It not a solution, it’s just masking the underlying problem by replacing one set of symptoms with another.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989833/

[2] - https://www.health.harvard.edu/depression/is-your-antidepres...
The dedupe in Borg is downright magical. I know I lose some space by keeping my hosts in separate repositories, but even then, I get insane space savings.
I think all their announcements are going to be good for developers / their ecosystem. So it's probably positive they are getting some love, and hopefully some increased revenue too
I’m not sure that Apple is making money off of the credit card besides the usual merchant fees it gets from using Apple Pay. It seems like it is just another branded card run by Goldman Sachs.
They create a virtual card for each and every purchase automatically.

No need to do that manually.
Air traffic controllers wear a small in the ear style headphone, and only in one ear. It was far easier to wear ATC headset than headphones all day. Plus I usually took a 30 min break every two hours so I didn't need to wear it all day.
all of those have pretty big caveats. Citi seems the closest to straight 2% assuming you pay off your balance all the time, I didn't notice any limits on how you get your 2%. But they do have late payment fees.

PenFed you have to be active duty military to qualify for 2%... Fidelity you have to put your 2% (not going to call it "cash") into a Fidelity product, no balance credits.
It doesn't work at all outside the USA. I think it may be a long time before they go abroad.
That is exactly what the parent was saying. They would not consider a financial product that bypasses the major payment processors (Visa/MC) unless it has similar customer protections built in.
Not really. The far edge of our perception can be at lightspeed, but then everything closer would remain slower. So night wont suddenly become dark. We will first loose distant galaxies, but 99.9999 of starlight comes from our own galaxy. By the time that is moving away at lightspeed, the view will be the least of our concerns.
Yes Apple pay and Google pay do work with all contactless payment terminals, however your card may not. If the business does not accept Amex for example, using Apple Pay or Google Pay will not work unless you pick a different card.
Not allowing you to carry a balance makes the card less flexible, since it takes away the ability to use the card to finance items you can't afford to pay in full right now.

At least in the US, charge cards also (historically) charged higher fees to retailers, so a lot of stores wouldn't accept them.
I saw it posted on the now-defunct https://www.reddit.com/r/untrusted/ :-)
It seems to me that Apple can offer reduced fees due to the fact that they'll have less fraud as a result of requiring touch/face ID for every purchase.

While interesting, it doesn't come close to solving what I feel is the largest problem with cards in the US today -- interchange fees.
Did you try Citi cards? I've been using one for years and I think at most I had about 15 virtual account numbers on it (but I do try to keep things tidy generally).
Privacy.com?
tl;dw;
apple news+ (news subscription app for $9.99 / month)
apple card (credit card by apple backed by master card/goldman sachs)
apple arcade (gaming subscription with 100+ exclusive games, pricing TBD)
apple tv channels (all in streaming app having channels like hbo and starz, priced individually per channel)
apple tv+ (service that will carry Apple produced content)
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Apple finally enters TV streaming space with new Apple TV+ service
It is totally ok to post sources under the first submission in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19484808
Interesting to compare with large cities in ancient history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through...), e.g. if we did the graphics for 3500BC - 2800BC, Uruk would be have been continually number 1.

Sad thing is that, except for a few, many of these cities are gone: "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
I find it sad that other commenters are attacking you because they don't understand that you just stated your reveled preferences, and those are shared by mostly every other person.
I've heard of services that offer this, but perhaps they don't work as well as they say they do.
NFC payments are virtually on par with chip card payments in Switzerland, and it seems better every day in the US. I wouldn't say it's a replacement, particularly if you travel to one of many other countries, but Samsung Pay is very universal in my daily life.
how exactly would you expect that to work?

Yes we will give you a card... your credit limit is $0.
Charges interest but no late fees.

FWIW late fees are a big revenue source for existing card issuers.
> I understand Target will be following soon.

Target has already deployed Apple Pay in NC at least.

I only recently bought an iPhone, but I was pleasantly surprised by the number of merchants that accepted Apple Pay.
That does beg the interesting question that if you don't feel depressed, are you really depressed?
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/25/apple-arcade-is-apples-new....
IMO those kinds of things come out as less financial benefit than just getting cash back. The exception is for people who travel quite a bit.

For me personally, getting ~2% cash back on every purchase would be better than a moderate discount when I actually need to stay at a hotel.

Just depends on your situation.
Apple Unveils Apple Arcade Subscription Service for iOS, Mac, Apple TV Games
So I live 1.75 hours from a major city, not in a tech hub of any sorts, pretty typical sleepy Northeast town and use my Apple pay at the local Cumberland Farms, Stop & Shop and about a half dozen less regular shops. Once you start looking for it, you'd be surprised at how many places offer. I've never "seen" anyone else using it, but I'm in the position to "see" only a few minutes each week as I'm waiting in line.
Well they are reputed to be involved in drug trafficking with other groups outside Japan, but they maintain control over foreign gang activity inside Japan.

Edit: just to clarify, Yakuza is not a single group. There are big differences between the various units. Many of them don’t touch drug trade, some are involved in human trafficking, and others seem to be mainly symbolic.
Does their data remain though? If it does then your data would still be in danger of hackers if said business got attacked, etc. Aren't businesses supposed to treat customer data as liabilities now?

Some consumers would want complete removal of their data after deciding not to continue paying for service.
[dup] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19484808
That's true, and personally, I hope it continues. However, there are some significant new features that have already been approved that are being worked on right now. e.g., Specialization, const generics and generic associated types. Each of these is somewhat significant in that they might alter how one might write some kinds of code today. But generally, they open new doors by adding more expressiveness to the type system.
Fee structure is likely better for Apple when not using the standard visa/mc rail.
Generally, yes, at least in the US. There are exceptions; some chains have decided not to support Apple Pay, for example. But the contactless symbol generally means any kind of contactless payment system is accepted, including Apple Pay.
mechanical does not have to be noisy though. I swear by mechanical keyboards and own quite a few. MX blues, which are quite loud, I wouldn't take to an office.

Matias Quiet Click / Brown switches (with o-rings) are not all that loud. Or the 'topre' switches which are not really 'mechanical' but already feel a lot better than standard membrane can be an option.
He didn't say it doesn't have value, he said it has been mostly debunked. There is still value in its analysis, despite there being serious issues with a lot of his work
I don't have a lot of respect for Japanese police. It seems they while away their time inventing entrapment scenarios, arresting people for pranks, apparently, and measuring car accidents for hours on end, but don't do a damn thing when something serious is going on. For example, there have been several cases in the news over the years where women go to the police to complain that they are being stalked, only to have the police do nothing. Far too often, the woman ends up raped, assaulted, or dead.

The most famous case of the police being a bunch of bumbling idiots (or at least the one that haunts my mind the most) is that of Junko Furuta (which happened right after I first went to Japan in 1989). She was kidnapped, raped by over 100 men, held captive in the house of her abductor, and tortured to death over a period of 44 days. Around the two-week mark of her ordeal, someone told the police they thought a girl was being held against her will in the house. When the police showed up, the perpetrator told them, there's nobody in our house, and the police said that was good enough for them and left. Fuckers! Those two officers were fired, but that isn't an isolated case. Police not doing anything and people being injured or losing their lives seems to happen far more than it should in Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

The 30th anniversary of Junk Furuta's death is next week, on April 2nd. ALL of her perpetrators are roaming free in Japan.
lending money helps people unlock activity they want to do today, but can only afford tomorrow. E.g. live in a house, or have a car to commute.

Even short-term loans can provide very helpful liquidity to folks facing a cash crunch.

Why is that not adding value?
That is one alternative hypothesis. The reality may be even more complex than that. We don't really understand these brain systems and of course they're all tangled up in feedback loops with each other.

I do wonder though if it does make you numb if that isn't always bad. For some people depression might be related to an excess of sensitivity or some past trauma. Numbing that a bit might help them move past it and might be beneficial to their healing. Of course this might not be the case for people whose depression has some other source and it might not be the case for continuing treatment. It's possible that some people might benefit from taking certain drugs for a period of time but not forever.

It's all quite complex, individual, and not yet anywhere close to fully understood.
Capital One provides this through a nifty chrome extension. Works great.
Normally the term I hear is “finite, but unbounded”, but I suppose it’s hard to grok that either.

I also really wonder what is the universe “inside of”? Like why is spacetime here in the first place?

I agree that our explanation must be impoverished compared to the true nature of nature. It really boggles my mind. I enjoy the public physics lectures scattered around YouTube, but it all still leaves me realizing how limited our understanding is compared to the mundane goings ons of our universe. Our current understanding is that we’ll never communicate with distant galaxies, meaning there’s likely a trillion inhabited worlds full of beings we will never know.
Opposite for me. FaceID makes the activation so much quicker.
Digital textbooks aren't going to catch on. The problem is that it is more profitable for publishers to have DRM, so there are legal barriers.

The one digital textbook I rented this year is terrible. It is done through a website with a custom Javascript book viewer that is total garbage.
Yup.

"in agreement with studies in network science"

Attention economy -> preferential attachment -> winner takes all.

It's just math.

--

"power law distribution"

Every market will lead to a dominant first place, runner up second, distant third, and everyone else. (Roughly)

For a long while now, markets have been consolidating (local -> regional -> national -> global).

So now instead of multiple markets with their own champions, we have a handful of markets with respectively fewer champions.

It's just math.

--

"freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies"

Nice quote. Thanks. Nicely compliments Kevin Phillip's formulation of wealth vs democracy.

Without deliberate, aggressive redistribution, accelerating inequity is inevitable.

It's just math.
The rewards are special because they aren’t obtuse. You can use the rewards to pay on your credit card and you can use the physical credit cards anywhere.
You don’t just need technology penetration. You also neeed consistently working devices that inspire confidence to customers that they’ll work.

How often have you done this dance:

1. Notice the POS reader has an icon on it that vaguely indicates it supports some kind of NFC payment.

2. Pull out your phone and wave it around the reader.

3. No response from reader. Do I need to press something on my phone?

4. Still no response. The cashier and other customers in line are looking at you like you are wasting everyone’s time with your high tech crap.

5. Sheepishly put your phone in your pocket, pull out an actual card, and mutter something about “I guess it’s not working today...” to the cashier.

Have this awkward experience enough times and you’ll just abandon NFC payments entirely. Stores should not be allowed to indicate that their systems support NFC if their reader doesn’t work.
Most "Clinical *" diagnoses are predicated on "causes problems for you or others", so probably not. Unless somebody else feels you're depressed and is really convincing.
> polar is more a document manager than just a document viewer.

It's both.. you just add the doc and double click it and you view it in polar in our PDF viewer.
Well, perhaps I'm making too fine a distinction, it wouldn't be the first time.

I believe in AlphaZero etc the deep neural net component was used to identify moves with a high probability of leading to a winning board position. That's a good example of a problem we used to think would require inference or reasonging but that can, after all, be solved by classification.

Although that's not to say that the same problems can't be solved by inference, plus powerful computation. That remains to be seen.

Edit: Maybe I shouldn't have called it "dumb" classification; that sounds dismissive. There's no doubt that neural net classifiers are impressive in what they do. I mean it to say that they have no understading of their domain, or ability to reason etc.
That should not necessarily be attributed to increasing serotonin though. Sunlight increases a lot of things - endorphins, hormones, nitric oxide, etc.
"This job isn't for you."
"This job _is_ for me, I make a lot of money doing it."
What they described was card tokenization via the existing EMV standard for contactless payments.

* Tokenization is using a unique per-device credit card. These are generated by the payment network, so Mastercard knows who is making the payment.
* EMV includes per-transaction tokens.

At no point did Apple say anything the prevents MasterCard from tracking your purchases. MasterCard shares this data with the credit networks, and the credit networks sell this data to third parties.
>by wandering down to their office and knocking

FWIW, all the places I've worked that had offices in whole or in part had a culture in which everyone left their door open unless they didn't want to be disturbed for some reason. Collaborating was never an issue. If everyone always kept their doors shut, I think I would have found that hindered communication, esp. pre-IM.
I didn't notice, but you're right, it really does!
BofA still offers this but it's a shameful desktop-only tiny popup that only works with flash. They call it shopsafe.
"The article is a lot more accurate than I would have expected from a mainstream publication like Atlantic."

Well, I would hasten to point out that the article was written in 1981 (which might not have been appended to the HN title when you wrote your comment).

But yes, were this written in the last decade I would have been shocked (in a good way) at the quality of the article.
Yet another way in which Apple is undercutting developers and preventing them from profiting in a space where Apple wants to make money.
I can recommend Kubernetes the right way [0] as a way to get started with your own k8s setup from scratch in a controlled manner.

0: https://github.com/amimof/kubernetes-the-right-way/blob/mast...
Fond (YC W12) Is Hiring Customer Success Manager in Portland
I wonder , is it possible to offer it throughout europe with a single bank partner, or will they have to have a partner in every country.
> And can one prevent ddos using iptables?

No, but you can minimize the impact or effectiveness of the attack. This is a long topic however. Probably better suited to a blog post or a youtube video.
This looks good, and competitively priced too! What's the backend cloud storage?
Right, so it's a bootstrapping question. If this was your long term goal, you'd right now be working on reusable rockets that you'd soon be using at cost to send up large quantities of infrastructure (cough cough Blue Origin and Space X, Space X being further along and openly talking about Starlink). Next step is mining asteroids for stuff like platinum and dropping it down to earth. Step after that is manufacturing with those raw materials in micro G. Now you have a complete manufacturing chain without gravity wells, and ostensibly a multi trillion dollar company.
It's an Epilogue. Paul of Tarsus is St Paul the author of many letters in the New Testament of the Bible. The text is from Romans 7:15-24. Verse 25 says "Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
I use PayPal for subscriptions only. It has a nice dashboard that lets me see, monitor, and cancel subscriptions with the click of a button. No dark patterns. I dont have to find the email I used. I don't have to answer any questions. It just works.
I think you have to give them your bank #. so i'd assume its bad for similar reasons a debit card is bad. but i'd like to hear more from people that used it.

also i doubt you'd get any spending points.. which is kind of a big perk
There are some companies I will NEVER voluntarily do business with.

Goldman Sachs is among them.
what would you like to see in this new news outlet?
So?

In my case the choice was use student loan money to pay for living expenses (which were extremely meager) while in college or not go to college at all. It was part of my educational investment.

It was totally worth it, the loans are long paid off, and the investment has paid untold dividends in the form of a salary I wouldn't have the chance at if I didn't go to school.