skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I find myself wondering why Stripe is still in the picture, seems like they're doing the easy part.

We use the above-mentioned things, and they also take care of providing a UI where customers can change their plan, cancel it, download PDF invoices. Upon plan changes, they deal with proration. They send dunning emails for failed charges and cancel the plan after N retries. You can set up coupons, discounts, trials, credit, refunds, welcome emails, etc. through them.
Chinese espionage on college campuses was very much on the government radar in 2012.
You are talking about going above the baseline poverty level, but right now having a child is a strain (not just in poverty, but broadly across the working class as well), when that could at least be made inconsequential to your personal economic situation.
Ah. That meaning of your comment wasn't obvious to me at all.
No data, but it only listens on localhost by default.
Millions of people use Android devices that allow sideloading, and it does not end up a "security nightmare".
How does someone eavesdrop on the session?
Do you have a website? Public policy is an area that seems almost ridiculously unoptimized, so I'm really interested in any organizations that are trying to fix that.

This is the first time I've heard of doing research with the express goal of creating actionable plans, but now that you've brought it up, it seems like that's exactly how policy-focused research should be.
This. I used to have long commutes. I really enjoyed getting scam calls during the commutes and seeing how long I could keep them on. It was completely a game. I look at it that the longer I can occupy them the less time they have to take advantage of someone else.

These people are the lowest of the low, they prey on the senile and ignorant, stealing from them regardless of their economic status. There should be no pity. If I can end the conversation making the scammer regret their life decisions, or at least waste their time, it's a win.
We should start with something simpler, like flatworms. We are far, far away from being able to accurately emulate a complex, social mammal like a cat. I doubt whether researchers can achieve cat equivalence in our lifetimes.
It most likely converted incoming files whenever necessary.
I would dearly love to see it make its way into pfsense, at which point I could reasonably execute on that vision. Right now I'm using both OpenVPN and Wireguard, and I'd rather not be.
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Also:

- Solid waste management and disposal.

- Sewerage systems (New York's came relatively late).

- As the somewhat provocative title of this article suggests, draining of swamps and other means of disease vector control.

- Refrigeration. General food safety improvements.

- Pasteurising milk. That would cut the transmission of TB markedly.

- Indoor plumbing.

- Indoor bathing -- showers and baths.

I haven't seen a breakdown. Laurie Garrett (NYTimes contributor) has long written on public health and epidemics, had a couple of books in the 1990s / early 2000s:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/betrayal-of-trust-the-collaps...

https://www.worldcat.org/title/coming-plague-newly-emerging-...
Sound very supportive!

Let me add:
The parents that brought their kids to these occasions may have a technically background also?
Then these parents know how to use a computer and may have passed this knowledge on, at least the positive attitude towards knowing how it works. Children are interested in what their parents do after all. Children are trained in consuming computers/content on computers, so some (maybe even the majority of what I observed) may have a negative attitude towards learning what computers actually do. After all, consuming rewards them with joy, learning is meh...
Context is super important while reporting such news.

"India, the World's Largest Democracy, Shuts Down the Internet " - False.

"India, the World's Largest Democracy, Shuts Down the Internet in the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan " (they had it blocked for entire state of Jammu and Kashmir) where terror attacks are (were?) a norm, specially in Kashmir
Nice! Is it one of the UniFi ones?
I do it today; your assumption that "it would" is incorrect.

void z(value* x) {
/* preconditions. */
MODEL_ASSERT(valid_value_ptr(x));

/* do operation. */

/* postconditions. */
MODEL_ASSERT(z_postcondition(a, b));
}

In practice:

z(NULL); /* model failure. */
z(&uninitialized_value_on_stack); /* model failure. */

It works, and the model checker runs in seconds.
I accidentally committed an auth file to GitHub
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100% PayPal, despite the horror stories. Why? Micropayment account alongside regular account. A majority of payments are less than US$12, many are US$1 and on the latter I save 23c per transaction over typical rates (PayPal or other processors).

Customers from Turkey, Pakistan and a few other places are not happy (PayPal banned in their territories), but for the most part, few complaints. Ancient key/value pair API continues to work, which is nice.

Hate their website, hate the lack of ways to get reports, particularly on subscriptions.

Could be done so much better (and likely is), but the micropayment account saves me thousands of dollars a year.
Wait, Am I banned or the other person? I'm confused by the wording and context. You replied to me, but warned them in another comment.

Also I don't think I've ever been warned before.
Check your place very carefully for mold.

And/or ease up on the alcohol.

Just a hunch, nothing intended
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I strongly believe that quantum field theory is at the level of tetration or pentation. The others were possible examples. Thanks for the question.
My lack of sleep.
I'm confused. Are you the author or not?
Zipline?
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Or perhaps some decisions are just depressingly sensible given the odds of actually escaping poverty. Having your near dropout 16 year old enter the workforce is perhaps a better bet for their future than letting them drop out and associate with malevolent role models who prey on kids like this.
> He is trying to survive like everyone else.. who the hell am I to sit in the comfy first world and judge?

He doesn't know you from a senile person living in poverty. They'll steal your money regardless of who you are. There's no moral justification for that. They are evil.
We use both Paypal and Stripe for international (worldwide) payments. Most customers seem to prefer Paypal, and Paypal is set up so that we don't have to do anything - we just receive an email on purchase, while we need a server in the middle for Stripe.

Paypal is significantly more expensive. Recurring subscriptions are really bad (the "vintage" UI is stuck circa 1999).

But what's really bad is that at some point, after 5 or 6 years of significant usage, someone calls us once at 4.30 PM, gets no answer, and flags us as "suspicious". At that point, we could not retrieve any money for the account, could not call anyone (you cannot contact the fraud team - we'll call you back), and it started a lengthy (like, a couple of months) process where we were asked a lot of previous information in order to unlock the account. I mean, I understand you may want/need more information, but you talk to us first and then, if you do not receive good answers, you lock the account. Our bank charges per year way less than PayPal and gives us an account who knows who we are, comes visit yearly, and whose mobile number I have.

So, even if we still use Paypal by popular demand, I'd rather not.
How do you become that data provider? You need some scalable way to get all that data, right?
For the re-write?

Simply for the experience. C++ is more in demand right now, as far as I can tell, sorry to say.
Side note: the physical Home button that brought the device into a well-defined state was a godsend for new users. I observed this with both my parents and my grandparents: whenever they got "lost" somewhere, the fact that they could always press that button (and don't have to look for it! it's always in the same place, it's not auto-hide etc) and get to a familiar place, made things a lot easier. Oftentimes they'd use it in lieu of other, faster ways of getting from here to there - but I figured it's more important that they can get there.
Mind if I contact you and ask you questions about this? I’m interested.
Hmm, similar thoughts but less about trust and more about the psychology of personal networks.

I'm interested in what value we place on connecting people in our network. Say you meet two persons in your travels that might benefit from being connected. What value do you place on making this connection? How does it make you feel? Does it have to have an obvious personal utility?

These are the types of questions I would love to investigate further. Maybe they're kinder, calmer tools that we can build for this specific purpose.
This is pretty amazing!

Does anyone know of anything similar for PHP?
Sorry but absolutely no pity for these scum
nothing to be ashamed of!
The sheer scale of it--and the fact that a lot of it was done in cash, behind the university's back--certainly make it look suspect.
Both these expressions return the same result in both C# and JavaScript:

0.1 + 0.1 == 0.2; //= true

0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3; //= false

It's not the language, it's https://floating-point-gui.de
As some of the other responses mention, this is an insanely complex problem...as evidenced by the large number of businesses in this space. In your eyes, what are the best flight search engines at the moment? Aside from https://www.beatthatflight.com.au of course ;)
> Every time there's larger refactoring work in FF that affects Thunderbird.

Okay, that's scary. It's like a one half of a conjoined twin trying to remove the other half from their lives. Mozilla started transitioning Thunderbird out of their umbrella while TB is still highly dependent on Firefox code. Yeah, scary.

Maybe we need a successor to Thunderbird? Something that's not tied to Firefox so much? Because it seems like we can't trust Mozilla and however many unpaid/underpaid volunteers to maintain it well enough.
Would passing a legislation which requires these gateway carriers to verify the billing addresses of their customers through their banks(IRS scammers) force these companies to filter out most of them ?
I still buy physical books and print stuff out
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This video has nothing to do with Javascript. It's the correct implementation of floating point arithmetic, and would behave the same in any language. If you want 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3, you should use decimal, not floating point - regardless of the language.
I believe you are misinterpreting the sentiment. Everyone is pissed off at his dishonesty, not where and who he worked for. Rather than openly disclose his collaborations, as you and your many colleagues do, he was actively trying to cover them up, putting greed ahead of science.
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Real time event sources - https://github.com/todsac/eventsources
I want this for annotating drone footage that our customers post to YT so that I can have slack conversations with support and engineering more precisely.
Both. Nifty-ness feels somehow fun, or rather enjoyable to watch. Functionally this solves a very small but ever-present issue with using vim; perhaps most importantly, the animation is sufficiently fast to be actually unobtrusive, a very rare feat for most such UX changes, and absolutely vital to it's potential to be useful.

It is perhaps the single most impressive text editing visual design change I've ever seen (maybe second to kakoune's verb-noun reordering allowing selection-before-editing visualization). But while most such changes are functional but dull (eg sublime multiline editting), I can confidently say I like looking at this thing go (and the utility is minor, but obvious and good)...
That's so true. The question is if kids learn the tools to understand what computers do when needing self-study later.
The article and many of the responses here to it sadly reflect the casual agist narrative that was long present but especially in the last few years has become more prevalent. It is not a productive model to reason from unless division is your goal.

You will find computer literate in each generation, just as you will find the majority in each case completely oblivious to and uninterested in acquiring the knowledge to understand and troubleshoot non trivial issues.
Do you need to deal a lot with captchas?
I KNOW for a first-person fact that Comcast periodically calls their broadband customers, at least their business customers, just to "check in and make sure you are happy," etc.
At least it's BSD-licensed.
Painting portraits is not that difficult. Hell, you can literally smear paint on a canvas, even without brush. There's plenty of vids on YouTube showing it.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1240056/downl...
I really miss the consistency of CUA and its derivatives (the original Mac and Windows desktop UX). It may have not been the most ergonomic, but it was extremely discoverable thanks to the menus, and it was very consistent: you only had to learn a few simple principles, and then apply them everywhere - and it scaled nicely from Notepad to Excel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
I'm the lead author of Ardour, a cross-platform open source DAW. Just last night, I was helping out a user who was having issues (eventually traced to their AMD graphics stack). Their session wasn't particularly large - about 1 hour of recorded spoken word and some backing music. The whole data set came to 6.5GB ... non-trivial for "cloud-based" anything, even today.

Yes, there are ways to be clever about this stuff, but for "real music making" the typical size of the data involved makes cloud-based collaboration less immediately appealling than you might imagine.
Congratulations to Jason, super cool!

- pHreak
I ran a trail 100K last fall and my Watch survived the almost 13.5 hours. Granted, I was carrying my iPhone with me and wearing a chest strap HRM, so a lot of the work was offloaded. But still — I was impressed.

I’ve also run a road marathon with the watch without the phone.

The downside is if you’re using the Workouts app, then your data is silo’d. The upsides is that the data is local and encrypted.
As far as I understand it, that's not the general rule.

This is hardly a authoritative citation, but it cites a number of authority and comports with my understanding as someone whose name ends in `s`:

"Nearly all authorities agree that if you want to make a possessive out of a singular noun like Kansas that ends in an s, you need to add ’s at the end. Just call it “Ross’s Rule.”"

https://www.legalwritingpro.com/articles/feeling-possessive/
Building a modern headless commerce platform with the focus of developers, and making it fast, and easy to get started.

It might not be as impressive as some of the comments, but it does seem like something the market is needing.
I second the approach, although not in terms of physics engine or world model but models that hold metadata about how an abstraction affect another one. When all the abstractions and their relationships could be mapped out or inferred, the models would start making better sense.
Yep. DO is industry-blacklisted by the consortium of online content providers who collude on VPN ip-ranges. BBC, Netflix, Sky all are blocking it.
You have no idea how happy that makes me. I appreciate the kind words :)
I find it amazing what you can do with old gear. Phones I've used for bluetooth update stations, where a bit of code can read sensors and send emails with the readings (on WiFi). Or small 'stick up' displays where you use the web page widget in Android and just re-read the same web page over and over again.

I used a number of laptops as servers because of the built in battery backup. Less useful when they don't have on board ethernet since USB ethernet can be flakey. Opening them up to disconnect the display backlight insures they don't try to run themselves down by turning on the screen.

I've given away a number of machines to young people who wanted to learn programming and computers but their parents both wouldn't trust them with the "family" computer and they likely could not afford (or know how) to get a free one. Back before WeirdStuff closed in the Bay Area I had an after school activity that would be to take a few students to there and build a machine out of parts, limit $20. Put together some really interesting machines that we would install Linux on and be off and running.

Also have salvaged parts to make things, like PC power supplies to make a benchtop power supply.
I just learned about tailscale today on twitter. Here's the tweet from the founder https://twitter.com/davidcrawshaw/status/1222203472461926401...

Looks really promising
I use WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux and it is just simply beautiful.

THANK YOU Jason for writing it and to everyone else who has contributed code, testing, money, whatever.

I believe WireGuard will become the most widely used VPN above IPsec and OpenVPN. There will still be use cases for them (especially IPsec) but both will lose marketshare dramatically.
Because there is no built in support to create expression trees from query expressions, your library is forced to re-implement common query patterns with a custom API. The result is not as clean as C#. And there is some loss of type-safety (The 'SUM' in the groupBy() example).

An alternative approach could be to parse real JS expressions using babel (at runtime) - essentially giving you the same flexibility as C#.

So you could allow users to write:

typedKnex.query(User).where(u => u.id > 100 && u.city === "Calicut")
How do you lower the costs when the market is being successfully cornered? The people striking down housing density bills are the people who stand to profit the most from their actions. The market can't be trusted to be benevolent and leave money on the table.

There needs to be a large scale public working class housing build, taking profit margin out of the equation. The market hasn't built new working class housing stock since the roll out of suburbia nearly a century ago, and can't be expected to do so anytime soon if it stands to amass profit from the status quo.
Well that is an interesting take. You might take a look at the Charles W. Lieber's photo and bio. He appears to be a white American. The wikipedia page doesn't say he wasn't born in China but still.

It seems like Lieber took his actions for money. If you are going to look at everyone potentially willing to sell out for money, you'll be doing a lot of looking.
Definitely bad at the business end; the CFO got fired after Missing Link bombed, and Netflix is in Portland now taking their talent. https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/06/laika-splits-wit...
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>The piezo, driven by a single memory-mapped register, could be controlled with minimal code (and most importantly, no function calls).

This is why I miss working with C in embedded.
I miss Google Chat. I miss using it on any platform I wanted. Those were the days. Back when xmpp was in full swing.
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You’d have to ask the original author for clarification on what their argument is.

My interpretation of the argument is that labor markets are heavily driven by economic incentive. I can’t say I’ve seen much data to the contrary.
It’s free given sufficiently small values of 5
The talks about China as a serious geopolitical rival go back a while longer than 2012, but even so, if he was completely unaware of any potential conflict of interest then he obviously could have disclosed this funding.

The fact that he hid it I think makes very clear that he was aware of the problematic nature of taking that money.
The head of Windows and Office used to joke at the all hands meetings about making 120% of the company’s profits.
I believe the original article is bad, but not simply for the reasons you state.

It's rather part of a tired genre of "kids these days" articles where modern technology has somehow poisoned them beyond comprehension. In fact, kids tend to do things in a pragmatic and rational way, and it is on the author to appreciate what they are and are not savvy about.

The typical pattern around new technology in my own life(30's Millenial) is that even within the generation you get people who develop a specialty, and their counterparts who learn to be good at asking for assistance. And intergenerationally the pattern magnifies as you get more and more dependencies on the group of true experts, and there's often a gap in the training of the next group - "no careers in this".

People perhaps 30 years older than me - the Boomers - would have come of age in the mid 70's, right as semiconductor ICs really started making waves. The probable focus of their attention with respect to technology would not necessarily be "computing" but "electronics," since so many consumer electronics suddenly became possible. But as consumers they would want service and support, and so the nature of the sales around this stuff was to promise that they could use the device in a very basic way and have someone take care of them if it broke.

The Gen X and cusp Millenial crowd, on the other hand, grew up with the devices ambiently around them and little marketing dialogue(what dialogue they had would be diverted towards toys and games consoles). Their incentive was to figure out enough to fix some yard sale or dumpster find; and modern notions of computer hacking derive from that romanticization. But the reality for many folks in these generations is that they can only be self-reliant in so many ways. It takes unusual persistence to reverse engineer your computer starting from nothing or only the most basic kind of information, and yet that is often the kind of story heard from people who "got into computers" around this tine.

As you get to the more Internet-connected era, it gets a lot easier to get directed to some kind of help or guidance, and that made for a substantial generational shift, although a lot of my memories of programmers on the early Internet is of the most arrogant, ego-centic types anxiously blasting anyone who dared challenge them. The word "toxic" had no parlance yet.

I believe the main challenge that is faced by the younger crowd now is what happens once the brightly paved road to knowledge drops off - there are lots of "friendly" 10-minute video tutorials for everything, but often the conceptual depth is missing, and so you have a cycle of learning and relearning with more rigor, while it would be more common in the past to jump from self-experiment straight to academia, simply because all the knowledge really was centralized there.
I'd say kids born in the late 90s missed that discussion by a bit. When you hit the teenage years we were already smartphone era which pretty much was the end of it.
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Why would you want that?

The USA is our long time ally. Yes, I can roll things off the top of my head where they’ve stitched us up but I can also do the same for areas where mutual cooperation with the US has greatly helped us.

That’s everything from military cooperation during the Cold War to the original Human Genome project.

I can’t easily do that with China. I can point to the constant cyber attacks coming from China or their closed markets but I can’t think of many ways China cooperates with us.

Perhaps I’ve missed some examples and someone could enlighten me where China has acted in the UK’s interest?
What is a "mud person"?