skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite impressive, although inconclusive... Apple Pay currently accounts for 5% of credit card payments (from article), but, more importantly, this does not include non-card transactions like WeChat!

Still, I think that Apples deep ecosystem integration will ultimately allow them to make a really compelling payments platform. The existing work on the Apple Card is surprisingly compelling. By just offering some basic, but fun bookkeeping (the colors changing on the digital card and a list of purchases), Apple has already made a product many of my peers want to use.

I expect peer to peer payments to get more attention and some "Apple Health for Money" product to come out in the medium term future.
LSP just says that derived classes should behave similar to their base classes.

class Base {
virtual int size() { return size_; }
...
class Derived : public Base {
virtual int size() { return rand(); }
...

Here we see an issue. Derived is overriding Base's size method, which has a straightforward implementation, with something wild. If a Derived is sent to a method expecting Base-like behavior, something bad is going to happen.

Derived should act like a Base with slightly different implementation details. This is all LSP is. It's a fancy phrase for a very simple concept.
If he just remembered to take a photograph of the photograph and only share that version, he’d have been all set :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13771 doesn't make it clear what the longer-term effects were.
Wasabi does not allow you to use unlimited bandwidth. Your egress is supposed to stay close to your total ingress. So if you are uploading assets that will be access more than a few times in the first month, I think you will be out of spec for wasabi.
5% at the moment seems like an incredibly high number to me, at least in the US. I looked it up here, where the stats say a different number: https://www.pymnts.com/apple-pay-adoption/

Also latest is about 51% of merchants have compatible equipment.

1.1% of sales is apple pay. Also usage numbers have gone down from 2018 to 2019. Seems like a puff piece to me?
I think the developer of this needs to do something though - it says "Unknown Publisher". Surely that can be fixed.
The whole magazine is great. I have a subscription and love the long form articles and stories
I use Arq on two macs and it works very well with B2.
> doesn't just about any AST implementation allow recovering the source text up to whitespace

That's correct. Especially for parsers used in IDEs you most definitely care about exact locations of everything, including whitespace.
I used an animated SVG to explain backpropagation: https://blog.chewxy.com/2016/12/06/a-direct-way-of-understan...

It was A LOT of work
I find myself using these systems more as well. Publix, Kroger, and Walmart all have respective apps where you can scan a QR code on the screen (for both non-self-checkout and self-checkout) and pay using a card on file. Although, I think I use them only because they've chosen to not support Apple Pay and other mobile payment providers.
In the US it's usually 'insert card into reader, then wait 30-90 seconds'. I don't know where the delay comes from, but Apple Pay is usually faster for me.
I'd totally believe that. It makes a good deal of sense.
Specific? Yes ,but it's a ton of sites. The site devs basically give up on firefox.
Now what happens when new or STL throws something?
My knee-jerk is to be upset because the risk factor of a poorly functioning pedestrian classifier is obviously higher than something like a sentiment analyzer, but at the same time, this dataset is just for educational purposes, right? Is Udacity actively recommending people use this in production settings?
I mean we have like 2 millions of line of python code written for lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Redshift etc using boto3. So if AWS dies, it's not like data backup will save my startup. We're dead.
What about syth arpeggiators? Essentially it allows you to push one key on a keyboard and the computer plays notes and chords according to an algorithmic sequence. These are used heavily in pop and EDM music.
>It's called a "web application", and you can write them in a variety of languages, including compiled ones

Could you post a link on how to?

This sounds like it would solve my problem
Not a book, but if you're looking to learn modern SQL in a hands-on way, I created Mastery with SQL (masterywithsql.com) specifically because I was frustrated with traditional SQL (and PostgreSQL) content that's lacking in high quality and challenging exercises.

Mastery with SQL has over 150 exercises, ranging from easy to very difficult, where you're primarily working with a single database and trying to answer interesting questions about a business (which months saw the highest revenue, best sales employee, most watched movie, find missing records, etc.).

I spent an enormous amount of time working on the exercises for this course (more than the actual content itself) and people who take the course consistently tell me working through the problems helped them learn SQL more deeply than they've learned anywhere else.
What does the rest of the world want to do with this? Europe doesn't care for >2% transaction fees, and to people in China used to the convenience of sending money around with WeChat, this whole credit card number business must look positively ancient.

Plastic cards and P(iece)O(f)S(hit) terminals with a RJ45 connector? No man, you just scan this QR code here.
Lobbying the state to limit the marriage rights of same sex couples is imposing their religious beliefs on same sex couples.
The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival (1977) [pdf]
> when I log in I use the branch number of where we opened the account? Why? Who gives a shit about that? I certainly don't. But the bank does, for some unfathomable reason.

In the US and Canada, you’ll have a home branch too. Usually it doesn’t come up in anything day-to-day.

State laws for one thing may apply to accounts opened in a particular state.

But if a bank merges or gets acquired, or fails, and some branches get sold/divested, and not necessarily to one party.

One could find themselves a customer of a bank that is no longer local to them.

Here’s a merger that had a divesture:

https://www.bauerfinancial.com/2019/12/09/its-truist-theres-...
I'm confused, I thought Bitcoin XT was the one following the white paper. Or maybe it was Bitcoin classic. Or Bitcoin unlimited. But Bitcoin Cash was supposed to be the true one. Or BSV as you're saying. Or it was of course Bitcoin Gold.

I guess a requirement for being the one following the white paper is to take part of a fork with the Bitcoin "Core" chain.
To my understanding commercial software licenses can effectively enforced globally as long as you have reach of the local justice system. So need lawyers to represent you and so on.

If the financial loss isn’t big enough to warrant a global license compliance scheme then I don’t see the source code would be that valuable (in a general commercial contex).

But I don’t think any form of software that is distributed to end users can be fully secured from unlicensed use. You always need a legal recourse if you actually want to stop unlicensed use.

The very-small niche where you can’t afford lawyers but want to force license compliance maybe isn’t a niche you can actually serve through a sound business.

So, rather than seek for automated technical compliance solutions (they don’t really exist without the physical lawyer component) maybe you should find the biggest market you can serve, use the most productive tool for the job and try to make sure unlicensed use can be noticed.
Maybe it is a windows thing, when browing sites on non-work/non-productivity sites on Linux I have no issues but then again that's a different set of tasks
Huawei using law enforcement backdoors to access U.S. networks
> It rolls a new number every time I use it,

Are you positive about this?

When I used Apple Pay (in Germany) I always got the same card number. It was my understanding that the number is generated when you add a card to Wallet and is unique to your device, but not transaction.

EDIT: The Apple support site [1] claims the following:

> Full card numbers aren’t stored on the device or on Apple Pay servers. Instead, a unique Device Account Number is created, encrypted, and then stored in the Secure Element.

I believe this aligns with my understanding.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/credit-debit-prepai...
Interesting. I've observed the opposite, with VS 2017 often being unbearably slow in comparison as the codebase gets large. But I can appreciate that you may be experiencing the opposite. I highly recommend filing issues, especially if you can do so with a specific, reproducible problems. Those tend to get resolved quite quickly.
Please dont! Very very few scientists can use twitter for scientific discussions, they are interesting, technically capable, and are already there. Do not encourage scientists to slide down the road of self-promotion, as most people on twitter do.

I hate how much time academic institutions and PIs are investing in social media, curating facebook pages, twitter pages, a linked pages yadda yadda. It's mostly scientists chasing publicity so they can add another blog/newspaper article bullet to their CV so they can get more funding. I sincerely hope funding bodies start banning those publicity bullet points from CVs during evaluations.
I think it's unethical. It's very similar to all of the paid content garbage that's saturated Google over the last few years.

Is his app really the best option in that product space?

I know most people around here will applaud the effort as clever, but I think it's the type of tactic that's ruining the internet. Nothing gets published without some marketing related alterior motive.
Huh. I never got into gaming. Except that my life has become more and more LARP.

So yeah, I get it. Of course there'd be computers in games.

But once you have an OS in a game, why not just run a VM? Or would that use too many resources?
Same here, this article is worth it for cast alone. I also have the same experience as you, it's sometimes wrong but nothing an ignore won't fix, and the bugs it's found have saved me lots of time.
From that thread:

> Can we declare that GNOME Shell doesn't have themes, and prevent people from posting screenshots of GNOME Shell with a modified theme or with a modified top panel?

o_O
This is similar to asking Apple if you can summon Alexa instead Siri on iOS. Not going to happen.
I understand what you are saying here. But... I am having trouble determining the implication.

It seems like you are saying that an EDA is only useful when no one has to understand the system in its entirety? That can't possibly be useful can it?

The implication is that an EDA is inappropriate if I have a system with 1000 services and 5 engineers, but amazing if I have 500 engineers? Isn't the purpose of a technical architecture to optimize for the former (assuming engineering is a cost-center)?

The former (small-scale) version you describe is really just an optimization for the latter (large-scale) version you describe a la "We have simplified our systems so much that we no longer need as many engineers to maintain it".

In a way, your comment serves to substantiate the point of its parent in that it asserts that choosing an EDA requires more engineers per service.

I must be misunderstanding your point.
Time to start talking about breaking up Apple.

And what a wonderful thing that would be.
A spy agency is necessary for the USA to compete on the world stage. Though, it's operations should be significantly limited.

The CIA is a disaster that needs to be dismantled.
You must have a low threshold for “pretty sure”, because there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest this. Also, it’s open source. Also, the author recommended bitlocker as a replacement. Also, the authors may not even be American (the original author of E4M wasn’t). Doesn’t really add up.
Shell and Exxon have the same.
I honestly love Apple Pay, but I don't use it super often because it makes me self-conscious. I feel like a bit of a dick for some reason. If you try to do something "weird" and it doesn't work, people get annoyed, or it feels like an imposition. Even when it works, people sometimes make some kind of comment. Relatedly, it's unpredictable whether it will work or not. It usually does, as long as the card machine says you can "tap", but sometimes it doesn't.

This would all be better if I ever saw anyone else use it, but I don't.

Edit: wanted to add that here in Portland, we have the special Apple Pay transit wallet for the bus, which is amazing! I only infrequently take the bus, and it's so nice to never worry about whether I have exact change for the fare.
Doesn't Go have panic-recover which is basically the same deal?
Samsung Dex is this. I can dock my phone and get a desktop experience. I have Visual Studio Code running now (though code-server[1]) and Ubuntu userland (via Termux/Andronix). Plus all other Android apps running in detached windows.

It's unfortunately not even as useful as it sounds but it is a start. I'm still at the early stages of setting it up for real work.

[2] https://github.com/cdr/code-server
How is that remotely similar?
30-90 seconds is a big exaggeration. Using chip without a pin number takes at most 5 seconds, and using a pin only increases the wait for the duration it takes to enter the code.
1,400 percent growth in interview demand for AR/VR engineers in the past year
Optimization for yourself / "quick bucks" doesn't work for the client. There is no reliable fast path to greater wealth, it will always take putting in more, and higher quality effort than your peers / competitors.

This is why getting to the (partial) freedom to choose when & what to work on takes time. You have to earn (in terms of trust) your way there.

It's more than technical skills too. You will do better with non-tech skills in sales, relation, and expectation management.
IMHO, chip and pin is quite good in Canada.

But yes, I too use Apple Pay whenever possible. I feel like I'm doing my small part to drag the industry forward. (Though my secret hope is that Visa and Mastercard get replaced with something else. Hopefully that's easier to do after their intermediated by Apple Pay)
SwiftUI Online Playground
I generally think you have several levels of architecture.you might go vertical at the high level and then delegate each slice to more junior architects who do different things in their slice. Of course this depends on the size of the project too.
I just started diving into i3 a few weeks ago. This is using a VMWare Fusion VM and Fedora 31. So I'm not fully evaluating things like volume, brightness, but battery/charging indicators work. Most of the instructions I followed were ~4 years old and worked almost out of the box. A few minor things have changed, like most people have switched from Compton to Picom, but the old packages are still there and work (unless you need newer features/bugfixes).

Windows seem to work as expected. Dialogs/pop ups show up as floating windows, but everything else worked well as a tiled window. Fullscreen worked fine. I haven't used a wide variety of apps. Mostly a few browsers and terminals, but I was doing some Qt dev in it, so I was playing a bit with windowing.

> Is it now easy to set up a launcher/start bar...That work both when I click on them and via keys...

From what I've seen of i3, all of the status bars are text printed from a separate program that gets executed periodically. This makes it very flexible and with things like font-awesome you can have emoji and icons, but afaik you can't click or have pop ups. Other tiling WMs, like AwesomeWM, will do this.
To be fair, I can remember when it was 3 days in the U.K. and it only changed because the government put its foot down and stipulated that 2 hours should be the limit for most transactions
BTW, I'm not sure why more people don't do this, honestly. Savings amount, investment return, and expenses-per-time-period are the three absolute requirements you need to be able to project if you can successfully retire without going into debt. Beyond that it's about being accurate, and for that you have to measure. You can't just say "oh I'll probably make 7%", or "Oh, a million bucks should be enough."
Also Portland, Oregon - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207958

Chicago and Miami are likely to follow suit since they already support Fitbit Pay (disclaimer: my employer, but I don't speak for them) - https://www.fitbit.com/us/technology/fitbit-pay/banks
You should revisit your concept of what Europe likes. Even in Berlin, the cash-only capital of Europe, I almost never use cash anymore.
Could also consider externalizing the stack http://wiki.c2.com/?ExternalizeTheStack
They’re claiming 5% of global card transactions, that surely can’t be true, there are quite a few developed countries where iPhones are not that common, and countries where other contactless payment systems are already widespread. And what about middle income and poor countries?
Places like the EU put strict limits on processing fees, making perks like Apple Card's 2% cashback non-viable.
One tricky part of this is you'd need to reeducate users that contactless credit cards can also get charged -- so if you put a Clipper and a credit card in a wallet, you need to be careful to not accidentally pay twice.

Vancouver just enabled this on their transit system, and they had posters all over warning people to not swipe their whole wallet over the readers like they were used to doing.
Yikes. So much for failing fast.
As Boring project nears halfway point, public needs to know more
Baidu at AAAI 2020: NLP, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision
And Apply Pay in London is even better as you don't even need to authenticate the payment.

https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-pay/transport/
I believe OP means it generate a new payment token that's sent over for each purchase
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/2030/
That is a very interesting position. For your own sake I do hope you dial down the level of hyperbole. Also I disagree with everything you said.
That's an interesting viewpoint. Where do you live? I would imagine you live somewhere that is not along the coastline in the USA.

The only time I have ever run into any kind of social friction (percieved or actual) it was only around the time that it had just rolled out and everyone would groan and say stuff like "yeah, it says we do apple pay but it wont work"

But after those initial bumps it is really prevalent and easy to use. I never feel like I am inconveniencing anyone.
Exactly. PayWave and PayPass are both a decade old, and I'm already on my second contactless card.
I thought that you had a fixed number, but Apple generates some kind of unique code, which is sent to the terminal. I.e., the terminal doesn't see your actual number.
It's basically JIT compiled with special entitlements
Yeah these devices did check some boxes for various features and capabilities, and as a late 90s tech geek I wanted one badly because they were clearly 'the future', but the fit & finish in the UX just wasn't there for breakout success. That was largely a function of the state of hardware.

I also had a pseudo-iPhone experience with my Treo in 2005-07, with an add-on bluetooth GPS and various apps for MP3s etc. It did the job in a way, but it was clunky, and the web experience was subpar to say the least. But it was a sign of things to come.
I'm in the U.S., and 2 of my 4 credit cards support contactless. One is Costco VISA, the other Discover.
Pytorch Website Is Down
Both the discussion forums and downloads are not working

https://discuss.pytorch.org/
http://download.pytorch.org/models/resnet50-19c8e357.pth
I think some of the US POS systems still use dial-up to talk to banks, so O(minutes) is not uncommon.

(For example, the Clipper card machine...)
Wait until you see the rather nifty charity billboards that you can donate by waving your phone at them. Saw a photo of one on a bus shelter in the UK
I've gradually started getting over my similar feeling-like-a-dick sentiments. I definitely always have the worry that it's not going to work (Google Pay for me here, though), and occasionally I'll fumble to hold my phone in exactly the right way for the particular card reader I'm presented with. I still also feel like if I hand a card to a cashier, and it isn't working right, I implicitly blame the store or their equipment, where if I can't get Google Pay to work, I blame myself, and then feel bad for wasting other people's time.
Do you not have frequent one-on-ones and regular conversations with your remote employees? How do you learn about their motivations, goals, current situation, or changes?

If you’re trying to replace human interactions and relationships with your employees with single question surveys, you’re going to miss out on all the important context.

Getting good output isn’t about rushing as fast to a goal as possible and not taking time to make sure things are going well. It’s about setting goals that are measurable, coming up with hypothesis about how to get there, and checking in regularly with an objective lens to see if you’re on track or if there’s a better approach.
Inside the walled garden only Apple plays with the ball.
Looking for feedback – hTime: a new clock for remote workers
I'd love to hear your thoughts/feedback on a product I'm working on that helps remote team across the globe.

I'm building a new clock that eliminates time zone calculations to simplify scheduling & communicating time globally for remote workers. So no PDT, CET, nor UTC +2 -7 is needed anymore. It's an extended clock concept utilizing a new UTC, a UTC that rotates with you according to you location on Earth. The clock knows where you are in the globe and adjusts itself for you. This unifies the reading of time everywhere. Thus, time zone math can be eliminated.

Other solutions out there couldn't help me, unfortunately. Almost all of them work by stacking different times zone together, which doesn't really solve the problem from the roots. Calculations are still needed in many use cases, which makes no sense. There should be one language of time everywhere, a global time. It's there and is called UTC, but the problem is that it's not integrated in our daily life. This clock does that.

The idea is to have a unified time zone that works for all locations on earth by using the same time system we all know (24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds) and adding on top of it a rotating UTC layer as the global time. This layer is presented in alphabet. The reason for that is to distinguish the local time in numbers form the global one in letters.

If you're interested, check it out on https://thehtime.com, and here is an 8-min-read on the idea and the motivation https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/introducing-solutions-to-solve-the-mess-of-time-zones-cdf44a7ee4ae

Would love to hear your thoughts, thanks!
I'm learning standup comedy. That is a great joke.
The article states that the ISA aligns Lambda with the student - but I thought I read that they generally sell off the ISA, meaning they no longer have that alignment....
I wish I shared your certainty but ours is the age of the rent seeker. They don't care about 'Good.' They want to get paid and if there is any remotely feasible way to impose themselves they will, tradition be damned.