skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India UPI was proposed and implemented by the Central Bank and provides a fantastic example of a low-to-zero cost option of intra-bank money transfer which is bank and vendor neutral. Google recently recommended the model to the Fed[1].

However, what NYS is proposing is distinct from an open payment system. This is a closed parallel system of exchange which serves as both a bank account and a payment system. I don't get how this will be better than providing low-cost bank accounts to the unbanked and then providing an easy payment system on top.

Or perhaps requiring banks in NYS to provide free accounts to those whose income is below a certain threshold. Certainly another way to bell the cat rather than creating an alt-currency and a ledger.

[1] https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/can-indias-upi-becom...

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As somebody who really likes Airpods, I think they look ridiculous, but they work so darn well that the looks are totally irrelvant.
Article for those interested: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/david-broo...
I hold the old view that justice is a source of strength rather than something bought independent of it.

There is honor even among thieves. For example, a just group of thieves splits the bounty and return to steal together again as a team with improved skill, trust and cohesion. Sure they are scoundrels to their community, but they are just with each other. If they weren't, they'd in-fight and become weaker. This is true of militias and painfully obvious when two groups of forces lose faith, trust and a sense of justice with each other.

So I think justice is a virtue, and I think it's safe to say virtue is a source of strength.
Perhaps along these lines, when considering compression, there is a tradeoff of sorts between the size of the compressed result and the size of the decompressor. If I get to choose the decompressor for a file, the answer to the question of how small I can make the compressed file is "all the way" (i.e. zero bits).

It seems likely that the amount of information in the DNA "decompressor" (in mammals, the mother and her environment) dwarfs the amount actually present in the DNA itself.
Currently, Samsung is offering two models of The Wall, or rather the individual panels that make up The Wall, the IW008J and the IW008R. While Samsung doesn't list prices for these panels online, other resellers are listing the modules for $16 to $23 thousand dollars each.

These individual modules measure 31.75 x 17.86 inches, but have an individual resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. In order to enjoy the same 3840 x 2160 resolution you'll get on a standard 4K TV, you'll need to buy 16 of these panels, to set up in a 4 x 4 configuration that measures 146 inches diagonally.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/samsung-the-wall-tv-release-dat...
Yup, that is the idea. Obviously it would be less useful than standard headphones for a HN reader, but the mass market may disagree.

For example, to use the parent cliche, my sister got my father AirPods this Christmas despite me saying it is probably a bad idea. And it has gone unused because he doesn't grok Bluetooth even in the simplified AirPod way (also, his iPhone is too old to support it natively). But if I gave him a pair of headphones and said "press this button, it will play Van Morrison and Sly Stone", he would use it in a heartbeat.
> We in Shenzhen call what's going on recently as "Dubaisation" of the city.

How does this compare to Beijing and Shanghai I wonder? I'd have to imagine all the top Chinese cities, with their absurd real estate prices, are seeing similar

You could make similar analogies to top American cities too of course
If you ask most (Han) Chinese, the thing they prize the most is stability.

Nearly every change in political system, or power struggle, has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese for the past two centuries. The current post-Deng CPC model, for all its faults, does have peaceful transitions of power.

It remains to be seen whether or not today's wealthier China would also consider economic stability to be just as important.
All AirPods have dual microphones (one in each ear). AirPods Pro let you toggle between noise cancelling and active ambient mixing.
Are not some of the worst abuses at AAA studios?
What's confusing about it? It's built on threads and mutexes, not unlike golang with its goroutines and mutexes. The main difference is that Java will be getting green threads soon, which will allow the user to spawn hundreds of thousands of them if he/she wants to.
"In comments... Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data. "

It's not that you can't make a post discussing astroturfing on HN or that you can't point out astroturfing to someone that can actually do something about it it's that you aren't supposed to just respond to an article that you think it's astroturfing as that helps nobody even if it is or isn't actually astroturfing.
Every power dynamic is inherently unbalanced and unfair to at least some degree, but I agree you want it to be as fair as possible as often as possible.

I'd much rather see greater employee ownership in companies though rather than unions. Union and management negotiations are often a zero sum game. A win for one side is a loss for the other. And in between you can have damaging strikes or a breakdown in relationships. It's an us vs. them mentality, which isn't great for teamwork.

Employee ownership however aligns everyone's interests in the growth and profitability of the company. It puts everyone in the company on the same team and creates and us vs. them mentality with the competition instead which seems like healthy capitalism.
Sorry, to clarify, I’m not asking what percentage of clients were vulnerable in this case. I’m asking what the threshold is, beyond which you would consider the possibility that the issue was with the broader spec/ecosystem rather than the individual tools.
>bargain bin laptops with shitty 1080 displays

The era of shitty 1366x768 displays is finally over.
https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service

To replace the batteries:
$50 each airpod, $50 for the charging case
> 1. You're doing a great job. Keep at it.

>2. You're doing terribly. We are going to start a paper trail to fire you (aka performance improvement plan).

This is exactly why I only rate myself 4 or 5 out of 5 on any review I ever have. Normally I'm a quiet, humble person and maybe a little self-effacing. But in performance reviews, I'm always a stellar employee. I learned a long time ago that an honest, uncompromising self evaluation is little more than a signed admission of guilt. If I could remain silent I would, but if I have to document myself with the disadvantage of not knowing the context it's being sent into, I'm not going to give any other party leverage against me. And putting every employee in that position habitually is a recipe for a dehumanizing and demoralizing interaction
> I feel like every gadget being in one is gonna start breaking down now

The smartphone has a huge advantage: you only need to have 1 device in your pocket to do everything. Not having to go get something from another room may not seem like a big deal but I think it really is. (Or I am just lazy.)
The millions of people want reliability. They want something that just works.

Wires don't just work when they get tangled or broken.

Wireless doesn't just work when it runs out of batteries, gets glitches/interference, or is hassle to pair.

Apple was able to tip the 'just works' balance through good engineering.
Are the cartoons and classifieds even remotely comparable to news stories in how they're formatted? Like, maybe I'm missing something here, but usually the latter is clearly done in an 'ad' format, and the former is literally a different medium.

Both types of Buzzfeed stories are formatted as news articles with text and images. More of the latter for the non news ones, but still, a much more similar style.
Apple infamously has high margins on its hardware.

If we were to consider that, the comparison is guaranteed to be dramatically worse (in the favor of Apple).

Shopify, Snapchat and Spotify have yet to earn a single net dollar in profit. They're all still losing money as of their most recent quarters. And their lifetime losses are epic to say the least. Twitter also may still be negative for its lifetime, given its very substantial past losses.

If Apple has even modest 10% margins on the Airpods (it's more likely to be 2x to 3x that), it's at least a billion a year in profit right now. That's probably more than Spotify could earn on its zero margin business even if you gave them $20 billion in sales.
The smaller is the junction area, the more current goes through it. If you want to produce more photons with smaller area, you will inevitably run into that.

Those LED displays you can get in retail are nowhere close in die size to what microled is. Those conventional 1080P led displays with <1mm pitch already demonstrate very visible burnins. There is one in a hotel nearby that is only 4 moths old, and I can already distinguish an imprint from the brand logo, they seem to have unknowingly ran it on maximum brightness though.
> My manager admit that I was not given any power or opportunity to demonstrate my leadership skills.

You don't have to be given a leadership role to demonstrate leadership skills. Were you not involved in any conversations the entire time?
>First, unit sales of AirPods have significant room to grow from here. 110 million AirPods have been sold since they launched, while Apple’s installed base of iPhones is 900 million. That means almost all iPhone users are still either using wired earphones or none at all.

I use $15 bluetooth earbuds cause I don't want to worry about losing them.
Boeing, in reversal, will recommend simulator training for 737 Max pilots
There's a number of youtube videos and probably written reviews which explain why: It just never lived up to the hype, in multiple ways. People have different experiences and lots end up with unusable amounts of lag. The first people on Stadia had to actually buy hardware too, so these are people who were already a little bit invested.
> Sony for example was unable to parlay its Walkman dominance into similar positions with new devices.

Sony WF-1000XM3 are a popular in-ear Bluetooth headphones with noise cancelling. 80 EUR cheaper than Apple Airpods Pro.
That’s the theory but frankly the syntax is so cumbersome, irregular and needs so many googling for "easy" things like conditional, substring, etc. that I now use a real programming language if a script needs to be anything more than a list of commands without any logic (besides variables substitution).
It's "Yomura Corporation"
The Pebble? Still no decent replacement for it.
I think what parent poster means was that for people who don't know better "neural networks === AI". For people who now a bit more, there is bunch of other stuff than just neural networks, and neural networks are not some god sent solution for AI.
Send an email to info@ycombinator.com
Did you create your personal configuration? When you do, their server should be detecting the geolocation of your IP and assign the nearest ones (what you see at "DNS Servers") to that configuration like how CDN works. You can also check the assigned region at https://ipv4.dns.nextdns.io/ping.
Google does these promotions all over, to get more Home’s into... homes.

We got a free one with our YouTube Premium subscription, another free one with our Spotify Family Plan, and another free one from our ISP (though I’m not sure if that was paid for by google or the ISP).
Link doesn't work for me. Interested in any correlation between airpod use and making more money than Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify combined.... why does that even matter in this case? Do airpods read twitter feeds to you :D ?
I am of course not debating that AirPods are successful. However,

- If one random sales estimate is $6 billion and the other is $12 billion, it is clear that there isn't enough information out there, or something else is amiss. This isn't just a margin of error difference, and would completely change the graph in the parent article.

- There is nothing useful to be taken away from comparing its sales numbers against a bunch of SaaS companies. Here's a better idea - put it on a graph along with sales of Echo, Fire TV, Philips Hue, Chromecast, Roku, Ring, Tile, Duracell AA Battery, GoPro etc.
Every iPhone since the 8 has had a strip of glue holding the battery down. They aren't intended to be serviced, especially not by users.
Also his autobiography is pretty readable and worth reading if you want to know more about his personal life.
> Let me give you and example of what I got at Google: [...] Solving this problem optimally with only what you remember from undergrad algo courses is impossible. You either need to have a knack for these types of challenges or solve enough of them to identify a solution pattern.

I have never tried to solve such problems before, but wouldn't it be enough to convert the string into a set of chars, then into an array of chars, sort it, and return it as a string?
lol, as a Chinese I can say that most people here do not want to overthrow the government in disruptive ways. We can see both the good and bad things the government is doing. As for the bad thing, every government has issues, the main issue is whether the people and government itself can see them, and fix them. I would say that the system has enabled the people to change the government in the way the people want, and have the government enact on policies that benefit the people and hear people's demands. The process is different but nonetheless, through the past 30 years, the government through its actions demonstrated it is working for the people. Chinese people are not stupid, if its a rouge state up top we will overthrow it. The society will not be this stable. And no, if there is discontent, no amount of police and oppression is able to prevent a civil unrest.
> If you're 43, you should know what you want to do.

LOL no. I'm 43. And I change my plan more now as I get older. Probably as I am less scared to change and no longer live paycheck-to-paycheck. The kids act like a small anchor to prevent me from going backpacking for a year but otherwise feel free to change my mind all the time.

Granted I have some friends/ex-colleagues at my age who knew what they would be doing until they retire. But they knew that when they joined some medium-to-big corp at 25-30 and never left.

But I also have more and more people my age (35-45) who change radically what they do as perhaps it is a midlife crisis or just realised they can afford to change now or need to before it is too late. I am not sure it ever is too late.

True, 25-years-old-me thought 35+ me would be a settled dad in a big corp and go fishing each weekend. And it turned out 36-years-old-me old left big corp to oscillate between startups and contracting and hacking each weekend instead.
Most phones are 10 minutes to replace the battery, or 30 mins if you've never done it before.

I think that's about the right tradeoff for something that will be done once every 2 years.
The science behind MakerDAO (MKR) is based on basic microeconomics
In order to support the DAI price, the system also needs to increase its stability fee, which is the cost of borrowing DAI with collateral or generating DAI through the protocol. “This way it’s kind of a balancing act, where these rates keep changing as long as DAI is not trading close to $1 and then, as they change, they push it in the direction of $1.” This is how DAI has managed to stay stable and pegged to the US dollar for more than two years.

The science behind MakerDAO is based on basic microeconomics and applied in a novel way with blockchain.“What I found when I designed the MakerDAO protocol is that, on the one hand we need to draw on these basic concepts in microeconomics like supply and demand, and the fact that if you increase demand for a stablecoin, that should drive the price up. You want to increase demand for the stablecoin when the price is below $1. Similarly, if you decrease supply by making it more difficult to generate the coin or make it more expensive to borrow, that will push the price up. You can also do the opposite: if the price of the stablecoin is too high, you can actually decrease demand or you can increase supply.” Christensen argues there’s also some parallels with biochemistry.

“You can really compare it to homeostasis,” he says. “If the stablecoin deviates away from $1, there needs to be a response that then brings it back in line and then cuts off the response, so it goes back to $1 and then there’s no more change in the rates and the system.”

Read full article: https://cryptographicasset.com/makerdao-ceo-theres-going-to-be-a-new-wave-of-innovation-thats-difficult-to-predict/
Facebook executive argues digital ads got Trump elected
> If you're currently using a drone to fly over downtown LA illegally and take shots, why in the world would you put identifying information on it?

Because the proposed regulations make it illegal to sell drones that don't identify themselves.
Wtf aha, citation needed!
How is SEPA vulnerable to "mistaken payments"?
There is no prosperity to be had until there is rule of law and respect for basic human dignity, among other things that are lacking in the PRC.
A slow reply... but I didn't read that article, I was assuming it was the same one from this pilot's testimony on joe rogen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ

The pilot was saying that the ship had been picking up unknown objects on radar for a while before that experience.
> Growth in the first three quarters of 6.6% was substantially down on the same period last year, and a lot slower than the first six months of this year.

Is it really that hard to include the growth rate for the previous period? Without that, it's impossible to put the "strain" into any kind of context.

> Indeed, the implication is that the economy barely grew at all between July and September.

How about a graph showing monthly growth rates?

> News that Shenzhen is losing steam has seemed more ominous because it is home to some of the country’s most dynamic companies and newest industries. ...

I'm not inclined to trust the anecdotes in the rest of the piece given that the author hasn't done basic numerical and visualization legwork.
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https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=151069089605712&w=2
you can delete arandom and srandom

Edit: better link
This is a good point, but also consider the proportion of the global population who have the opportunity to become inventors is hopefully going to grow over the next century. As a result, the absolute number of inventors may grow faster than by just growing the overall population size.
> Why are they worried about the location of the control station?

So that the cops can find the guy who's buzzing the airport runway with his drone.
You know absolutely nothing about how I do or do not inconvenience myself, it's your comparison that is nonsense. But if you can't understand why overpopulation is a huge problem, then there is no reason to continue this discussion.
Boeing Backs Simulator Training for 737 Max Pilots in Reversal
Tesla Cybertruck as it currently stands will flop in Europe, as the design is unsafe.
Crop dusters, paraplanes, paragliders, kite flyers, and amateur rocket enthusiasts are all going to be mighty disappointed if that airspace is “given away”.
I've wondered if Sony's music ownership interests played a large role in losing that market due to their fear of piracy.
You didn't really define what you meant with "fatal flaws". You just claimed that git didn't have them.

But if your Subversion example is one of those fatal flaws, then I just link to his example of Git usage that probably happens more often than we want to admit https://xkcd.com/1597/

Using your tool wrong is not a fatal flaw of the tool.
They don't. They exist all over and work fine.
> And running a business isn't exactly easy. If it was so easy to generate $1.6M off of a $300k employee, you'd be flooded with other companies willing to pay higher and higher salaries. It's really, difficult and rare.

This logic is completely flawed. In-fact reality is almost the complete opposite. The difficulty of running a business is inversely proportional to your moat, and the first to market has a much easier path in almost every sector of the tech industry.

Facebook doesn't have competitors offering more compensation because they're in a sector with an enormous barrier to entry. It's got fuck all to do with how good their competitors are, and even less to do with how "difficult" it is for them to run their business.
Ask HN: Advice on single-member LLC for consulting or SaaS business?
Disclaimer: I will not, and you should not, use information in this thread to make decisions. This only serves a starting point for getting information, not a replacement for, legal and tax advice.

With that out of the way, how do you, as a single-member LLC run your SaaS or consulting business? I’m trying to compile information on how to bill clients (give EIN or SSN), how to do accounting, or any crucial tips you have for running a software related LLC.

Any and all tips are appreciated!
I'm not sure what you're referring to. The JVM itself will support green threads, which means that any existing blocking libraries can be called from said green threads and they will become asynchronous. The runtime will take care of multiplexing the green threads on hardware threads when an IO operation takes place for instance. It's pretty much transparent to the user.
A USB bootloader and a standard footprint with a line of addon shields. 10 years ago, the only choices I saw were to buy an uno or get a pic and somehow figure out how to program it with crazy dongles and things. It was an easy choice.
> peaceful transitions of power

Didn't Xi Jinping declare himself president for life?
There are repair shops for 'most consumers'. They do great work, but even they can't fix an Airpod.
Yeah. That's pretty frustrating. I always try to make sure that I have at least one card that doesn't have foreign transaction fees and I stick to that card I'm out of the country.
I can't make sense of what you're saying. See the page I linked in my previous post for an example of what we're talking about: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html

#define maxint(a,b) \
({int _a = (a), _b = (b); _a > _b ? _a : _b; })

>Note that introducing variable declarations (as we do in maxint) can cause variable shadowing [...] this example using maxint will not [produce correct results]:

int _a = 1, _b = 2, c;
c = maxint (_a, _b);
$750,000 is a lot of money, but seeing as some people will act on emails without signature, and that you would effectively have to invest that amount up front in order to attempt this attack on 15 individuals, and then hope that at least one falls for it just to make it even, I can't really see this being a viable attack vector. Maybe if the cost goes down significantly to the $100-$1000 range it might be something you would see in the wild.
>always free, by the law

Actually, the law is that SEPA transfers cannot cost more than a national transfer.

National transfers happen to typically be free.
> Beijing and Shanghai

Beijing and Shanghai had relatively little industry to begin with. They don't have to "battle" the phenomenon to survive, their economies, and people lives will not crash from that.
The government (in the US) does not have the resources to go after everyone...

In point of fact, since Snowden's revelations we know not only that the USA state actually does have the resources to monitor everyone, but also that it does so. Furthermore, the state is not a monolith. While it may not be in the interest of the state as a whole to capriciously victimize individual humans, it is often in the interest of particular officers and organizations that comprise the state to do so. Cf. "parallel construction".