skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of folks don’t know that merchants pay more for CNP transactions. Why? Well it’s simple, there is no alternative to cards for an online transaction, the issuers have power.

That may be true in many countries, but in India, there are cardless (non-credit/non-debit card) online payments available that are used a lot more than card based payments and are all instantaneous (similar to cards):

* Netbanking (where you're redirected to your bank's site and login to approve a specific payment)

* UPI (Unified Payment Interface), a private consortium [1] managed payment system where anyone can create a user@paymentprovider ID and exchange that as the receiver address instead of complex bank account numbers, branch details, etc. This also allows payment requests from merchants that one can login and approve.

* IMPS (Immediate Payment System), another service by the same private consortium. [1]

* Rupay cards, a local payment network (now recognized in a few other countries) by the same private consortium [1] that's a replacement for Mastercard/Visa/Amex networks.

* Digital wallets by payment providers and "payment banks" that work like wallets and/or allow direct transfers from one's linked bank account, like Paytm, Amazon Pay, Amazon Pay UPI, Google Pay, PhonePe, and many, many more.

* Bank transfers that may take an hour or several minutes, as opposed to the instantaneous ones above, with systems like NEFT (National Electronic Funds Transfer, a batched inter-bank payments settlement system) and RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement, a real time inter-bank settlement system).

Though digital payments are still not huge in percentage terms, the ones above likely handle a lot more volume than Visa and Mastercard do. The government has also pushed for zero MDR (Merchant Discount Rate) on certain payment and transfer options, and made them more attractive to merchants.

The U.S. is comparatively very backward in payment systems, costs and payment speeds.

[1]: The private consortium is called NPCI, which stands for National Payments Corporation of India.
I remember ca 2015-2018 receiving invites from blockchain/coin peddlers on nearly daily basis on LinkedIn. This was then followed with an email pitch for an ICO or some other bull. I researched those companies where I could make a connection between ownership of the company, its shareholders and their location.

If they happened to be in Europe I would thank them for their message and billed them at 100,-- for 1 hrs of administrative effort dealing with their unsolicited message[1]. I attached the smtp headers of the message in the appendix of the invoice and informed them that what they're doing is illegal under the upcoming GDPR. All EU based entities paid except 2, which I sued and won. Despite also reporting every incident to Mailchimp, MC did nothing to shut any of them down. I earned around ~400-500/month until I got bored (and exhausted) and also too busy with other things. Also I stopped getting such messages after GDPR came into effect.

[1] 1 hr seemed a fair price since it was roughly the time I spent on recon work to find the CEO's behind these structures.

edit: some of my favorite "anti-coin-BS" warriors were @cybergibbons on Twitter (security researcher Andrew Tierney from PentestPartners) and Mathew D. Green (among others). They spent a tremendous amount of time trying to educate these kids about the problems in their assumptions. IOTA was on top of this list of BS-coins since they literally insisted that a hash-function does NOT need to be collision resistant (e.g. after their Kerl-function was exposed for this by the crypto-community).
Anything in particular you disagree with or think is an unfair characterization? It all seemed right to me.
Does it matter if they promised updates or not? It's not fit for purpose. Their choices under law are refund, replace or fix.
State observability for the entire stack.
Somewhere between 20 minutes and a few full working days depending on the requirements not stated in the question. Are you trying to gauge how bad developers are at estimates?
Yup. I miss this too. I tried OCR for all my written notes, it just doesn't work.
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EM fields are sensed at different levels by different animals, plants, etc. Arguably the fact that the human brain is so complex and interconnected means that we sense very hardly these fields (like a black box).

No study needed really,this has been known for decades.
basically, because once you start trying multiple hypotheses on the same dataset, the math used to determine "is this conclusion real, or am I just fooling myself" begins to break down.

The statistical significance threshold usually used is p<0.05, meaning that something is (generally, this is beginning to change since the replication crisis) considered to be a real discovery if it has less than a 1/20 chance of being a false positive under the chosen model.

As soon as you start trying multiple hypotheses, then that 1/20 chance of being a false positive begins to become meaningless. If you can just keep rolling d20s until one of them comes up with a critical hit, then you can easily generate false positives that still look very robust.

This is exactly the sort of bad science - p-hacking, fishing expeditions, and the garden of forking paths - that led to the replication crisis. (And that makes sense, as this paper is from 2013, and predates the widespread discovery of the crisis)
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I initially had that internal reaction too, but then realized that the value in CoreOS was the updates. If they're specifically going to stop that, at this point it's like any other never gets updates OS (sure the readonly file system still helps tremendously) - so yes, people should get off ASAP. But the September date ensures that anyone that wants to fork and provide updates some other way, can definitely find the time to do that.
No. If you collect data and then hunt for "significant" results in it you are guaranteed to find spurious results. This is one of the most basic truths of statistics.
> There's so many cases where it's a benefit for map entries to retain order (and none where it's a problem)

Of course there’s a trade off. There has to be.

In this case it prioritizes usage patterns oriented around insertion and enumeration over usage patterns involving repeated removal Or modification of items.

as items are removed, the insertion-ordered index will either fragment, require removal operations to not be constant time, or be implemented using a data structure that has per-item storage overhead (such as a linked list).

also there are two possible, reasonable things for an ordered list to do when you write a new value to an existing key - leave the key in original insertion position, or move it to the end. Whichever one the implementation chooses, people who want the other will need to implement their own key ordering state alongside that which the collection is doing for them.
The shit PBS does for clicks.
The WHO numbers are the CCP numbers. Foreign nationals are not allowed in to confirm.
> Even if 99% are scams, the successes make up for the failures, which appears to be similar odds to normal startups.

Which is exactly why we have accredited investor rules in the first place, to make sure mom and pop don’t lose their shirts to the 99% of hot garbage out there. This proposal is meant to make circumventing those rules easier.

> This author seems extremely unhappy that Bitcoin is about to hit $10,000. The "never-crypto" people are losing their minds...

Uh, I’m not sure you’re old enough to recall 2017 but the author (and I) definitely remember 10K. It’s not anger, it’s disappointment lol
A computer and OS that boots in 100ms. Every user action gives a response in 10ms.
If the history of timekeeping for navigation sounds interesting, check out the book (and movie) “Longitude” by Dava Sobel. It’s an incredible and largely-forgotten story.
The study was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project. nr. 506/11/2121)
> I’d like to see less of it (and fully expect to as the Church continues to grow globally)

Luckily this plague of a religion has stopped growing.
Maybe they were worried about people using an os that no longer gets security updates?
You could respond to me directly and I could clarify my position so there aren't mistaken presumptions.

I'm not religious, yes, about that you would be right. I presume you are religious but it makes no difference. Where you fall off though is in assuming I'm anti-Mormon or anti-Christian. Not at all. I have friends that are religious and respect the right to be so 100%.

This is very different from a church with apocalyptic teachings or teachings that at some point the church will become government or political teaching amassing a 100 billion+ warchest tax free. That is flat out fucking dangerous and wrong should not be permitted. Really no other way to put it. My other comments on this thread clarify my position if you care. I'm not in favor of confiscation.
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> (--edit-- actually it looks like one Brit, I had thought the new cases were related to a separate traveller, but it looks like it was the same guy)

Yes, he was believed to have attended an international business meeting by Servomex: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7977725/Britains-...
The blog post states that the domain was erroneously flagged as belonging to a botnet system by a German law enforcement org, which took control of the domain to "sinkhole" what they assumed was botnet traffic.
Tax dollars.
Do they though? Take a compass out with you next time.

Mine almost always face mostly north or mostly south, now that I'm thinking about it.

And I'm pretty sure the dogs out my apartment window face mostly N/S. Will observe. There's a busy road right there so they might face it some
No licence needed, true, but governments issue press cards for certain privileges peculiar to professional journalists.
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For transactions over those limits, you can break the payments up over several days. Wires are infrequent enough to disregard the fee (real estate transactions or similar).

I don’t know many folks moving more than $3k/day to be honest. I don’t disagree though that Fed ACH modernization efforts need to pick up the pace, as Zelle is a shim until federal payment infra is up to par with Europe.
Build the tools and infrastructure necessary to make FPGA accelerator programming accessible to the average programmer. Moore's Law is mostly dead; we are getting more cores but we are not going to get significantly faster cores in the near future. What will bring us next big jump in computing performance is unclear but FPGA acceleration seems like one of the few promising directions.
Notepad, calculator,... Definitely. I'm almost surprised they removed paint to optional, although WordPad makes a lot of sense.
You don't think it's a bit biased...?

> "The field was literally composed of BS."

> "I think I’ve literally never seen an ICO white paper idea that wasn’t palpable nonsense."
Fun fact: Faraday cages don't block low frequency magnetic fields. But mu metal and active magnetic shielding can :)
> They don't get wealthy from it.

Source/citation? My understanding is that salaries and other financials are not public.
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> Maybe debt, like medicine, should only be allowed to be taken with a prescription?

Isn't it though, really?

The bankers determine your "need" and price it according to the risk of you defaulting -- which would seem to put a kink in TFA's argument since most startups fail, the interest rate would be astronomical if true risks were priced in.
No surprises that shortsightedness pervades the traditional banking sector. These services appeal to people who like to travel, i.e. people who are relatively more well off. Then they hope to upsell other financial products to them.
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Banks don't want to lend to startups because they actually like their loans to be repaid.

VCs don't want to lend to startups because you can't make 100x return on debt.
The sun set/rises East/West. Maybe dogs just don't like looking directly into the sun when they go.
A useful product. It’s a stablecoin. Your wallet is full of them already.
When you say “eternal bash history” how long is that? I thought after some large number it becomes very slow. I’d like to try this if you don’t mind sharing how you did that?
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You can't prevent internet scraping.

The law is stupid and time will prove the legislature bodies wrong.

If you WILLINGLY upload a photo of yourself, expect all consequences.
Privacy/Security laws try to abstract the law of posession to bigger scales,which is impossible in reality.

I expected better from switzerland
It just means somebody paid for those keywords.

When you buy your ad space at Microsoft, you can determine how it shows up at duck-duck-go, which keywords triggers your ad, what region you want it to work etcetera...

(and yes, that is not a typo, you go to microsoft to buy ad space for ddg)
>I admit this is nitpicky, that language is naturally evolving and corporations cannot make rules about how English should be spoken

You said it yourself.
See also Project Sunroof: https://www.google.com/get/sunroof
I think it depends on the dog. Mine circles several times until she has found the perfect spot. Some fosters we had would just throw down wherever. I’ll definitely watch the direction next time.
The thing I love about this story is that it is SUCH a dog thing to do. Dogs would absolutely poop in alignment with earth's magnetic field. They wouldn't need a reason to do it. It's just the kind of thing they'd do.
> rclone is glacially slow, however -- I'd much prefer an rsync/rsnapshot option. :-/

Have you tried tweaking the number of transfers, and the transfer chunk size?
Yep, text file(s). The key is flexibility and putting an effort into something you're going to stick with. A single text file works. Multiple files work. You can accomplish a lot with just the features of the OS, like the window manager, search and shell scripting.

Lots of people like Org mode. I think people who don't like Org mode are partially just overwhelmed. One key is to do as little as you need to and then use the tools available as you find a need for them. One big file works well for that. Or starting with the minimal set of Org mode works well for that. Most people will dive right into the deep and try to incorporate everything right away.

Another trick is just forcing yourself to use something. The most sticky processes I have used were those which came with a job... because I was FORCED. Maybe you should just force yourself to use the tools you have in front of you.

Personally, I like doing small incrementations of my processes and using shell scripts to push those small improvements. If I'm moving slow, then I can back off. If I'm putting everything down to build the most awesome system in like a week or more, then I'm quickly getting myself stuck in a corner.
Thanks! For someone that didn't understand why this was considered p-hacking, that made a whole lot of sense.
That's purely an investment vehicle, not a useful product.
I seem to spend far more time on the deployment of code than I ever used to, more time writing CloudFormation and ansible than the Java backend, python lambdas and static UI that it deploys.

That seems nuts to me. I'm not sure how you fix it without being Amazon/Google. People moan about Terraform too before that gets mentioned.
It's way too late for that, I've been on crowded commuter trains and the London underground earlier this week. I only started feeling under the weather in the last day or so, long after I'd been exposed to a lot of people. I've mostly stayed in the house since then.

Which is another reason I think this is just something else that's going around at the moment, that I've picked up since I'm back (I was also only in Singapore for around 12 hours, and didn't encounter many people other than at the airport, though was there for a day or so a week before that). I'll call 111 and see what they say.
AGI has more to do with cognitive science and computational intelligence than strictly with software engineering but that's a good problem to be solved one day.
They're also turning Notepad into an optional feature
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That’s all fair because crypto is a solution in search of a problem space. When all you’ve got is a bicycle you’re going to try and ride that bad boy everywhere even if it’s not at all appropriate. Blockchain folks are enamored by the technology and have no concept of the problems they’re trying to solve with it so naturally fail.
The article actually sounds pretty alarming to me, no matter what title.
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Jesus makes several truth claims, that if true, are extremely compelling for why someone may want to pay attention today. One of these is His claim to be God. You can either dismiss Jesus as a lunatic, dismiss Jesus as a liar, or accept Jesus for who He claimed to be. If Jesus was merely a good man, He would not have claimed to be God. That is not something good people do.
xkcd explains it better than I can. Basically if you pick p values that give 95% certainty 20 times you're probably going to "discover" at least one falsehood.

https://xkcd.com/882/
...a stablecoin not tied to any major fiat currency with over $600MM of value locked in the contract. That's an extremely successful product by any definition.
They had to open up space for Candy Crush Saga.
We had approximately that in the 1980s. And straight to a programmable shell, too.
the value proposition of companies like ClearviewAI is that they're building an automated system, which is of course why they precisely don't try to pretend to be some kind of private eye detective firm and why they are now on the hook for it.

If the government gets serious it also could simply come knocking on the door and demand a tour.
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They were fishing for anything of apparent statistical significance.
I don't think complaints about lack of individual agency fit with some of these Christian attitudes. eg. Someone violates said precious agency? Turn the other cheek. Concerned about excessive taxation? Render unto Caesar.
> Just need to make sure you don't end up with financers/banks/rating agencies colluding to bundle multiple companies together and sell tranches of the debt (all with a phony A+ rating) to investors/funds...

I imagine that's sarcastic, because that looks a lot like the description of a VC...
Hungary has a pretty big Chinese community mostly in Budapest, plus plenty of Chinese tourists, and I would assume there was a lot travel around the New Year.

If we are guessing about why (and whether) there is no Coronavirus in CE Europe, “no Chinese” is probably not a good guess.
WSJ yesterday looks specifically like escalation, from here
> Much of this thread’s comments are little more than ignorant and bigoted attacks on Mormons and Christians.

Please call out such. I'm sure dang and the mods would prefer to keep bigotry out of HN.

Especially if you are referring to my comments, I would like to be told where my expressions and observations are being perceived as bigotry. I love my currently Mormon family deeply and work hard to not push them away, despite their actions towards me.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/1/18759587/mormon-church-qui...
My boss does this and he is a multitasker who routinely has stuff in eight columns on four monitors. For searching his notes, he basically uses the Windows start menu search funtionality.

He's tried to switch to different Linux distributions but none of them has had a properly functioning indexed search box.
Now are the Candy Crush ads going to be optional?
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The WHO is in a somewhat difficult position if the numbers published by a big member state are questionable. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a degree of diplomacy involved in what the WHO says.

I do realise that this argument could easily be used as a carte-blanche for making completely baseless claims. But I think the best we can do is use many sources and remain somewhat sceptical of all of them - not necessarily in equal measure.
People forget that while sure computers are not climate neutral at the same time all the previous media that were used to sell music were straight up petrolium industry products. Like sure Spotify has a big electric bill however we have solar, and wind, both tapes and records require extremely toxic petrolium industry products and processes.
The Shannon-Nyquist theorem doesn't assume or apply just to sines (that's a gross mischaracterization of the proof and it's implications). It assumes ideal samplers and reconstruction filters can exist, which they can't.

In the real world, ADCs and DACs' inherent filtering, noise, and distortion characteristics are quantifiably superior to any analog storage media and reproduction system.
Surprised to see this on pbs (then again, not) but a great example of anti-science being buoyed by a sea of epistemic uncertainty. Hopefully we'll being hearing more about this study come September at the Ig-Nobel awards, in the category of best p-hacking.
This is Switzerland, not the United States. In Europe at least in many countries journalists do indeed have special privileges and they do have recognised legal status and licenses, usually represented by private/public institutions that oversee ethical standards in the industry and so on. In Germany for example this would be the German Press council, in Sweden it is the Opinionsnämnd etc..

For the love of god can we please stop pretending that every country on the planet is the US.
I was under the assumption WeChat and Alipay use in China for payments were restricted to those with PRC national ID cards (i.e., not foreigners).
How do you find out what exchange rate they use and how it compares to the spot rate? I have cynically assumed that they make money on this (despite claiming “no foreign transaction fee!”) but never knew how to check one company versus another.
People are using it. By definition it is useful.
Thanks but this sounds... above my level of computer competence