skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As someone in tech, I've done quite well investing in high quality tech companies like Apple, Netflix, Amazon, and Nvidia over the years.

I feel like I have a number of coworkers who make investments like this, that haven't really been burnt on this because of the bull market. And because they know tech better than most, that's what they focus on, and it becomes a huge sector risk, even though no more than 5 percent is invested in any particular symbol. If five years from now we learn that someone in big tech has been cooking the books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Inc.#Accounting_scandals) that could lead to a sector wide dip for a variety of reasons, far worse than a 5 percent drop.

What it comes down to for individual investors is that diversification is at odds with well researched investing. You just don't have the time to pour over 100 quarterly 10-Qs, build sales forecasts, or predict next year's return on the 10y treasury bond. It can be a fascinating hobby, and while I have a small trading account with the IEM, all my real money goes into VOO/AGG.
I'm sure that's what you would have told me 300 years ago if I claimed we should abolish monarchy and hereditary rule...
I just replied in agreement as a sibling to your question. I live in SF and feel similarly sometimes.
Portland, OR, but I never saw anyone use it in Brooklyn, either. Though NYC is incredibly backwards as far as payment technology goes, and most places strongly prefer cash.

I still get your reaction sometimes, or that look that says "I'm tolerating this, but you're annoying me."
I think I broke the Matrix: https://i.ibb.co/8zGRcNd/Screenshot-20200211-230621-Firefox-...

I erased the lezard but the tail and it grew back very weirdly. How robust is this method?
Maybe it's an opportunity for people who wouldn't otherwise get the chance. I've met lots of young bright folks stuck in mcjobs, sort of at the mercy of circumstance. Maybe trying a coding camp will turn on a lightbulb.

There will be some filtering required.
Thanks for holding the discussion to exact standards. What I meant about the base class constructors is the compiler must generate a derived-class constructor that can unwind the completely constructed base in case the derived class throws, not to mention the ability to destroy constructed subobjects with non-trivial destructors in case one of _their_ constructors throws. When your project decides to outlaw exceptions then none of these events are even possible and the compiler will generate a much more compact and infallible constructor.

As for leaving the scope, you're right again and I was unclear. The problem is you are destroying automatic objects while returning from a scope and one of them throws. Now you have extra code and extra branches for all of that. The extra ways of exiting a scope generally bloat up the program, and the size and complexity of a function can prevent it from being inlined or otherwise optimized by the compiler. These are systemic performance concerns that won't just show up as hot spots on a profile.
> Is it enough for one person to consent or does something magic happen at a particular number or portion?

Nah. We have these things called elections (and representational democracy). In general that mechanism decides how society will progress forward from a political perspective.
I just found out it works at gas stations in Canada where I’d normally have to go inside and have them charge my card and sign for it. It’s made traveling a lot nicer when places support.
Interesting theory, and I'm no expert, but it doesn't feel correct to me. Of course United flies only jets, but it has a variety of regional partner airlines that also fly only regional jets.

In a slightly similar way, FedEx operates only jets but for small cargo routes seems to operate only propeller planes (along with its large FedEx feeder partner feelts)[1]. This could be for a variety of reasons, but it seems most logical (to me) to assume that props are more economical and of course cargo doesn't care about comfort.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_Express#Fleet
Synfig now includes a Lottie exporter: https://www.synfig.org/2019/12/27/whats-coming-to-synfig-1-4...

It is in the 1.3.12 release.

There is also this new tool called enve (Linux only): https://maurycyliebner.github.io/
Chip payments are slower than contactless payments with a card, too.

Contactless payment wasn't Apple's innovation, although maybe you could say that popularizing it in the US was.
Are they positioning themselves to be something of an nvidia shield or raspberry pi running retropi/libreelec competitor?

Do they envision the Atari VCS will become a new platform to develop for? A new paradigm to combine couch gaming/streaming and the mobile market?

Or is it just a cash grab for people with Atari 2600 nostalgia?
It’s quite obvious that he is not.
Long time Safari user as well, primarily for its speed and OSX feature integration (keychain). Made the jump back to Firefox in December and installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript and a video ripper/transcoder.

While entering my passwords into FF and exporting/importing bookmarks was a minor (and brief) annoyance, the utter joy of using a feature rich and secure browser with no ads made it worth the switch, even if I don't have keychain integration.

Give it a go, even just for a week.
The course was uploaded to archive.org and is available at the following link, seems fine. https://archive.org/details/comp3321
My experience is similar - the problem becomes when an event is triggered - where did it come from, oh it was from this event which was from this event and so on.

Where events shine in my experience is in GUI's - the onClick event then does some code. So my rule of thumb is only one level of events and it comes from an external source - user, network etc.
I always rub my phone on card readers like an idiot on the off chance it accepts Apple Pay. When it doesn't work I feel like an idiot for a second then move on. So worth if I go to a particular place often.
Airbnb is pretty shady. Basically hosts can lie and Airbnb won't really help you out. Plus you have to give them a picture. I don't think I will be using them again.
What is your criticism exactly? You quoted the article and said simply, "come on".

IMO this is only validating the criticism the article levels at comment sections like HN's. You have picked out some random sentence and expressed no more than idle disagreement. Maybe I personally wouldn't compare your comment to a turd, but there's not a whole lot of nutritional value in it either.

Perhaps the reason the article expresses this concern in this specific way is because it is warranted. Because people insist on disassembling articles coming from this domain sentence by sentence and posting comments that really don't say anything helpful or sometimes anything at all.
I love Apple Pay for web. It’s seamless compared to Paypal because all you have to do is touch/faceID. It is also ridiculously easy to implement as a developer. If Apple ever goes for the Paypal/Square/Stripe market, they have some very low hanging fruits to pick.
Well done svg animation is really impressive (Sarah Drasners work comes to mind) but i have never felt a pressing need to add it to my professional tool set when considering the time commitment and the fact I’ve never been asked about it in a front end interview
Ask HN: Any pseudosci tricks you can share?
Tricks you've benefited from in any capacity.
Yeh, I’ve used contactless for years in the UK, but it’s limited to transactions under £30. Being able to use your phone and not fumble fir your wallet irrespective of transaction size is really quite nice.
I've worked shift work with only Fridays off before. It was not tangibly worst than having only Sunday off. In fact I would say it was better because dealing with certain government bureaucracies that close down on Sundays was significantly easier. You can't expect the entirety of society to shut down on Sundays so there's always going to be somebody who has to work during that day.
Above all else, work on something that you're truly passionate about. It may take you a while to get there (either by finding the right employer or starting your own company), but it is the single biggest motivator I have found.
I think it might be true on the grounds that credit cards are only king in the US and Latin America, whereas they represent less than 10% of cashless payments in the large markets, namely Asia.

Developed countries have more accessible and cheaper systems, like M-Pesa. In China, you generally just scan a QR code to make a payment. Neither of these systems piggyback on the expensive and slow credit card system.

So, I think this statistic might be as true as it is misleading. Impressive marketshare, just not as big a market.
Microsoft seem to be heavily invested in react native (and possibly election?) as their UI layer.
Doubtful, there's still a wide difference between MacOS and iPadOS, if anything they've diverged more in recent years. The multitasking workflow on iPadOS is flux, and has complexity issues.
Except that push mutates the array in question and concat returns a deep copy. And forEach returns undefined, while map returns an array. If someone claimed they were the same in an interview I doubt they would get hired.
HK and Taiwan are a completely different thing. They are not under the CCP rule. China has been trying to but quite unsuccessfully.
Do you also think Android Pay (or is it Google Pay now?) is a gimmick? I highly suggest trying it. It certainly was a gimmick several years ago when I had to pay for my schoolmate whenever we went out to an incompatible-store because he was too stubborn to bring his wallet with him since he could use Android Pay instead.

Now that gas stations and supermarkets everywhere support it I absolute view it as an essential part of life. I just wish that instead of using NFC technology we had adapted QR code payment systems so that paying at dine-in restaurants wouldn't be awkward.
But there is no gun to their head. Even in China refusing to comply with an order will not give you a death sentence.

Also, being allowed by law does not make stuff automatically justified.
Ada won't help if the requirements are inadequately specified.
This account seems exaggerated. Forced late-term abortions in China were certainly a real thing, and the value of the life of a stranger is on par with that of livestock. However, guns are rarely seen in everyday life in China. This is especially the case with policemen and low-level enforcers. The exception are soldiers on duty, and security for transporting currency. Guns are kept in armories, brought out by specially trained "armed police".
For my own experience, it's this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374570

On heavier sites it's inevitable that it will crash. Years ago Chrome/Chrome Beta also had this problem (the root cause is with the phone hardware/android) but somehow they managed to catch it and not bring down the whole browser app.

I still use it despite the other main drawback (being slower than chrome beta on heavy sites, like say twitter) because I like my uBlock and tab-sync, but every so often I get so annoyed at it that I avoid it for about a month until Chrome even with basic adblocking via Blokada makes me mad enough to switch back.
This would be a more compelling argument if I lived in London ;-)
I've definitely had the last 4 digits printed out on a receipt. While it is conceivable that those were transmitted separately I find that somewhat unlikely.

I believe tokenization is a feature that is ultimately coming, but not quite there yet (and can also be supported by normal cards).

Disclaimer: I take interest in the payment-world, but am by no means an expert and have made the above claims only to the best of my knowledge.

EDIT: It appears the process of generating the device specific card number is already tokenization.

> After the validation, the card network acting as a TSP (Token Service Provider) creates a token (which is called a DAN or a Device Account Number in the context of Apple Pay) and a token key. This DAN is generated using tokenization and is not the actual card number.

[1] suggests that while some cryptography is done for each transaction, the token is the card number and still only unique to the device, not the transaction.

Said cryptography should be according to the EMV standard [2] and is also performed by a normal card (potentially minus the tokenization).

[1] https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-apple-pay-works-under-...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
IMHO, Monero should be shutdown like piracy, malware, and child abuse sites. It's only used at a meaningful scale by criminals.
Contactless is also a security concern on actual cards. It only stores a single number (like the stripe, unlike the chips or phone-based NFC), and it effectively "broadcasts" it in a radius of a couple of inches. Very easy to skim even while it's still in your pocket.
I love the depiction of 'The One'. Thank you. Seems like the person you're often asked to try and prove you are in interviews if you want to be employed. Your publicly available code depended upon by serious people across the world is overridden by your performance in this short high stakes moment we've ginned up. I've tried to do better. It's hard and I've made some bad hiring choices.
It also pressures HDD companies to make better products and appear higher on these lists, which is good for Backblaze.
The U.S. is notoriously behind on this sort of stuff
If you're throwing, performance isn't the concern. You just want to clean up, return your 500 or what not, and get back to a sane state.
I say it's a mess but it isn't a hassle. Targeting .NET standard or .NET core is pretty straight forward and easy.

But the fact that all this exists is a mess and thankfully MS finally has a good plan to clean it up.
Not in Switzerland! Over here pretty much only credit cards work with Apple Pay. I haven't found a single debit card that works with it (other than Revolut, which is only a bank if you squint at it). I assume this is because there is a thing called TWINT [0] here, which covers several payment concepts (peer to peer transfers, point of sale terminals, online) with an equal degree of mediocrity. It's not ubiquitous, fast, or convenient (derp wait while I scan this QR code instead of using NFC). I'd love to be able to use Apple Pay.

[0] https://www.twint.ch/en/
Maybe this is just in my circle of friends, but it seems rather ridiculous to have to worry about splitting bills 'evenly' when we have quick payment apps like Venmo et al. on dial. Especially for an admittedly expensive dinner in some of these examples where price is a concern.
Not to hijack, but I'm really curious to see how this compares with Google Pay adoption and growth rate. Devices capable of Google Pay are likely more prevalent (well, maybe; there could be a lot of old Android devices out there that don't support it), but I wonder if there are similar trends as with the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, where customers of the former are much more likely to spend money.

It would be interesting to possibly make some generalizations about how much money Apple vs. Android users spend in general, even outside their respective app stores. Maybe not useful generalizations, but I'm interested nonetheless.

(I say this as an Android user who loves Google Pay and wishes it were available for web-based payments like Apple Pay is.)
Survey: Climate Change Still Ranks as Low Priority Among Voters
> deep nets will still find the structure in the data

Yes, but in the training data, not in the non-training data! We want the cars to avoid real pedestrians, not only the ones labelled in the training set!

From the paper:

> When trained on a completely random labeling of the true data, neural networks
achieve 0 training error. The test error, of course, is no better than random chance as there is no
correlation between the training labels and the test labels.
That's just a shortcut mechanism though, nothing more.
That's a feature, not a bug. Swerving for potholes can be very dangerous, more dangerous than having undercarriage damage. If a pothole surprises you enough that you have to swerve you were either not paying attention to the road or you are following too close.
My most hated example of gratuitously distracting page decoration is the wriggling jizz scribbles on https://theoutline.com

The worst part is that you can’t get rid the incontinent piss dribbles by whacking the reader mode icon, because the shithead web developers load the whole magazine into one page so reader mode only shows the first article.

The developers of that site deserve to have their faces rubbed in my analogies, assuming that isn’t the kind of thing that gets them off.
It's nice when traveling with an Apple Watch outside the US. I can do transactions without the whole "sigh, I need to find a pen so this American can sign a receipt." (There's a fairly low limit to Apple Pay transactions for US accounts in some places but it's still nice to pick up a few items in a grocery store.)
Other than having to enter the branch number, are there are other restrictions based on where you opened the account in Germany?

I ask because in the UK, each bank branch has a six-digit "sort code", which others will need to know in addition to your account number to transfer you money. However, you can open an account at a branch and never step foot in that branch again afterwards, only ever using other branches. Account numbers are only unique for the same sort code.
Not as good as other attempts at this, their recommendations for names are often misleading
make it virtual - like F35 see-through visor does it. Put a monitor + camera outside + "live" stream
Apple releases code under free licenses because they are required to and do exactly that minimum required.
I hope you don't mind -- to me that sounds like an off-topic example. What you did, was good for you and the others. Whilst the one you replied to, wrote about doing things that would be good for you, but bad for others:

> ... benefit rule-breakers at the expense of everyone else, including the customers
Correct. It felt a bit impolite to moan about it, as I’ve found that once you get established and figure out the system everything else here works very well. That said all the natives that I know don’t exactly love their banks - so it’s ripe for disruption but I feel the market is always gonna be quite limited, due to inertia and size.

Online banking is also _the_ identity service for logging into official and semi official systems here (unless you’re a nerd and want to hook up a smart card reader and your [optional] ID card - which I totally am) and I guess there’s a heap of compliance to deal with to enter this space, which would further limit entry to the market.
you might be interested in howacarworks.com. I stumbled across these videos on youtube earlier this year when I was researching the topic. I was unwilling to pay because it was more for my own curiosity than an actual need to learn but it seemed pretty thorough.
I have no idea if 5% is correct, but worth noting that 1.1% figure is total sales, not including online. The article is about total credit card transaction volume.
There's plenty of memoirs by actual intelligence agents.

The world is a lot more boring than films and far more complicated and difficult to pull off serious operations. The serious operations often merely being inside information about other nation states. Not saving the world from bad guys.

It's mostly just a long series of super paranoid people chasing each other in circles. And in between plenty of useful information being given to leaders, ie before big events to give them an edge or whatnot.

The cold war was the heyday of the outside-the-office spycraft stuff. Today I'm sure it's mostly just countering massive digital campaigns hitting gov agencies, critical infrastructure, and megacorps. Plus the old school agents working within each of those agencies feeding information back to their motherlands.
Nvidia Could Have the ‘MoviePass Effect’ on Video Games
OP never implied he knew everything.
The author makes a side note about getting access to gmail.
aren't there at least a handful of third party services that require access to content of gmail?
They could buy a used Macbook.
> Isn't the purpose of a technical architecture to optimize for the former (assuming engineering is a cost-center)?

The companies that developed these things are employing hundreds or thousands of engineers. So, yeah, they are optimizing for engineering costs when you have thousands of engineers. They are building systems that cannot be fully understood by a single person. If you don't have thousands of engineers, their solutions to their problem won't necessarily be your solution to your problem.

Complex beasts like microservices and event driven architecture are about enabling huge engineering departments to make changes to huge systems without constantly stepping on eachothers toes.

Ignoring headcount, they are actually very inefficient because systems designed like this necessarily has tons of duplicated effort across the organization. Those inefficiencies are made up by reducing the amount of communication required between thousands of people and hundreds of teams to change and maintain the system. But if your department isn't huge then the communication overhead is less than the duplicated effort, which tends to make these designs a poor choice.

These sorts of things usually do not scale down. If you have 1,000 services and 5 engineers there's a 99.999% chance you're doing it wrong. 5 engineers is not even enough employees to manage, monitor, and build the requisite tooling to make efficient use of a system distributed across 1,000 services, much less build and understand the system as a whole.
Fed president Neel Kashkari tears into 'giant garbage dumpster' cryptocurrencies
Electricity is pretty cheap I understand, compared to the rest of the US. Due to hydro and solar?

So, perfect for a place that has lots of air-con and lights.

On my visit there we were amazed that we could swim in near freezing air temp in the huge heated outside pool (more than double the size of an olympic.)

Yes it's an extravagance, but at the same time where else might you get that experience except at natural hot springs locations?
Interesting. Maybe it's a demographic blind spot? I do all of my UK banking on Transferwise, and so have heard of or researched Revolut, N26, Monzo... In fact, I think that both Monzo and Transferwise are UK based, and I've definitely seen their ads in the tubel, know people who work there, etc.

They also offered a solid metal card and lounge-access perks, so I suspect that their core demographic are young-ish "digital nomads". Maybe that's where most of their marketing went to?
I think it is important to clarify that "have clearance" here is effectively meaningless all by itself.
Extinction is forever. We should not understimate the weight of this fact.

Would be like finding a californian dwarf elephant again.
I would advise to be cautious with cast. It can be powerful and mask bugs if you arent careful (ie, type checker said it's ok, so it must be ok!). You may also want to drop a comment if you use it.
That is interesting and counter to my experience. Consider looking in to alternative causes (uninstalling plugins that may not be playing nicely with your particular version, background updates, etc.)
I had dinner with members of the Apple Pay team a year or two back. I asked them, “So, who are your competitors? Google Pay? PayPal?”

They laughed.

“No, we don’t really track them. We have one main competitor. Credit cards. We care about Apple Pay being better, easier and more convenient to use than any of your credit cards.”

And then, finishing dinner, the guy paid with his Apple Watch, using Apple Pay. The waiter was stunned - he’d never seen anything like that before.