skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, effective processing fees are consistently around 2.9%. The previous comment was basically saying, "hey! whaddya expect! credit card companies do it, so why not!?"

My point is that, actually, no, they don't really. The visa+MC per transaction fees are actually quite low, unless I'm reading that wrong.

Again, this is a complete sidebar to the actual point, which is that banks are just rent-seeking because they can on these loans.
> The only modern web problem that Elixir isn't ideally suited for is heavy number crunching.

I would caveat that in a couple of ways.

First, suppose you have a web app where some requests involve heavy number crunching and others don't. In web frameworks where 1 request ties up 1 OS thread, a burst of heavy requests could gobble up all your available connections. Phoenix would use one cheap BEAM process per request, and the BEAM's preemptive scheduler would ensure that other requests are answered in a timely way and that all the heavy ones continue to make steady progress. So although the heavy requests might be completed more slowly than in another language, the overall system would remain more responsive.

Second, if you have need for heavy computation or data structures that work better with mutability, it's possible to (eg) use Rustler (https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler) to implement that part in Rust. See https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler for a story about doing this.
ProtonMail seems to be on a roll this month. They both released Bridge for Linux [1] and open sourced Bridge [2].

[1] https://protonmail.com/blog/proton-bridge-linux-launch/

[2] https://protonmail.com/blog/bridge-open-source/
Do you have somewhere we can register/watch to be notified ? Also interested here.
https://threader.app/thread/1252581933835575297

This is a super interesting point of view.
Case Study: Industrial AR Isn't a Silver Bullet
It isn't surprising. It is just pointing out the event.
You can't over mail. But each of you could run your own Git server if you wanted to be able to pull.
>I could use this to re-encode my video collection without having to have my main pc running for days/weeks.

h264 is obsolete and h265 is a poor choice anyway. I would wait for AV1 encoding acceleration.
Show HN: React-rainbow-ASCII – A React component to make rainbow ASCII art
Late in life isn't necessarily going to match up with everyone who needs support in this case. The virus hurts the oldest the worst, but I can't see a good rationale for not placing a 0-60 year old on a vent.
Has “Trumpism” Become a Religion?
And a lot of hosts will have been forced to liquidate some of their holdings before then.
This is especially true with studies.

Because it was thought unethical to conduct studies around masks and infectious disease, the evidence was sparse, so the WHO and CDC didn't recommend wearing them. This has directly led to tens of thousands of deaths.
This is not accurate. A "plummet" in value when it comes to the fallen angels that the Fed is purchasing is more like a 10% drop, and even if you treat the difference between the "true" value of the bonds (if the Fed didn't purchase them) and what the Fed pays as a surplus, the aggregate value of all those surpluses is still tiny in the grand scheme of things.
Followup:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...

Surely they wouldn't also spy on their own cloud customers.
Ok. Thank you and good luck with Gleam!
> I suppose it helps to see precisely who is paying for an advertisement, but I don’t think this is actually useful in a real sense.

Think from the perspective of an advertiser. Earlier, an advertiser could pay for any ad anonymously. Now any ad you want to show can be traced back to you. This is a meaningful difference. Even if you as a viewer can't pinpoint the specific person behind an ad, they are not completely anonymous anymore (to Google, to law enforcement that may have a warrant, etc). Of course, this change comes at the cost of a reduction in freedom from the lack of anonymity.
That would screw up my Docker workflow. It would be the end of the road for those of us targetting Linux/x86.
The Hard Work of Conversion
It's not like its some impossible to distinguish thing that people that say things like "5G causes coronavirus" are cranks.

Nuance in these discussions basically flies out the window entirely, and frankly, its stupid.
The article mentioned using bar-coding to run pooled tests - that sounds really interesting. Anyone know if there's a link to a paper on that? The article doesn't link to anything on that unfortunately but that sounds really interesting. I'm trying to visualize how that works with qpcr, where the barcode is attached and where the primers bind (and presuambly after amplification you sanger them to read the barcode?).
funnily enough, apparently Cloudflare did also accept invalid routes, at least from the client-side? https://twitter.com/Benjojo12/status/1251538757595148291 (entire thread is IMHO a good take on this)
It also doesn't solve the issue that ads are trying to address in the first place, which is to promote your business.

If you outright ban ads, they'll come back in a sneaky way, see influencer marketing / product placement in culture (movies mostly) for how it plays out.

It also prevents smaller businesses to compete with the larger ones because the larger ones have much more clout and branding power.

Not that it makes ads perfect, far from it. But at least ads are transparent unlike all the astro-turfing there is out there.
Pennsylvania factory team clocks out after 28 days of live-in work for masks
Apparently this marks the occasion that all of their non-beta apps are now open source.
> MVP could even just be a poll. No need for a "product" or even a demo.

A poll or a demo may be a great step, but it isn't viable, and isn't a product, so it's no kind of MVP.
Rust 1.43
Does anyone have any links that outline the moderation protocols used to implement this type of thing?

I have read about some videos where they talk about using code words to circumvent being flagged. How much of this is human moderated?
Important line from the article

> a practice at odds with the company’s stated policies...

> .. as stated to congress
Not sure if they've fixed anything, but this blog post describes some of the issues: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/13/GitHub-notifications.html
I've been doing IoT stuff for 5+ years now, I am looking forward knowing what is that killing use case that needs the requirements you mention.

Also, are you aware that 5G would require people to pay and wifi is free (and fast enough!)?

I really want to see a specific problem and then look for a solution, not the other way around.
Ok. I have read "first X in two years" as "we would have expected one earlier", but perhaps I'm reading too much into it.
What IP restrictions? Must be different in other orgs. But I've never run into any IP restriction whatsoever.
But this is the sellers choice. They could find other online retail channels.
LQD, a corporate bond ETF, plunged -20%.

It likely would have fallen even further, until the fed decided to intervene and buy corporate bond ETFs.

Now LQD has fully recovered and is back to pre-corona virus levels.

More interesting is the rebound in HYG, another Corp bond ETF, which is 50% BB rating, and the remaining 50% below BB rating. I imagine those will get downgraded and be even worst.

Now what happens when companies can’t meet their debt obligations is that covenants will get triggered and that can mean a whole lot of bad things for corporate debt. Which the federal reserve now holds because nobody else wants it.
Argo GitOps Vulnerabilities
Increased transparency would be having "Advertisement" (no abbreviation) and the advertiser's icon.

Replacing "Ad" with advertiser's icon is simply a method how not to display "Ad". I expect that many icons will not be company logos, but rather something that seems like it would normally appear in a web page: a small arrow, a tiny dot, a thumb-up, etc.

Then the Google will have credible deniability: hey, we didn't make the icon, the advertiser did, blame him. But of course they are the ones who refuses to display "Advertising" clearly.
Stating the obvious I guess. All retailers do this and create their own white-label brands to squeeze profit from well-performing categories.
Target, for instance, is very upfront about it and they have like a gazillion white-label brands that compete in hundreds of categories, which makes it very gray for the customer.

Does anyone really think that any retailer launches a competing product in a category without looking at all their supplier data?

If you want distribution you risk this. The only way to avoid it, it's to do direct to consumer or having a product that is extremely hard to copy.
The vector instructions can't really be farmed out because they can be scattered inline with regular scalar code. A memcopy of a small to medium-sized struct might be compiled into a bunch of 128bit mov for example and then immediately working on that moved struct. If you were to offload that to a different processor waiting on that work to finish would stall the entire pipeline.
Apple: Motorola 68k > IBM PowerPC > Intel x86 > ARM
Microsoft: x86 > x86 > x86 > x86
Coronavirus UPS the Ante for Cyberattacks on Business
How (Not) to Report on Russian Disinformation
I didn't know that. That's very nice!
Cool. But neither the audit nor the repository explains if it's possible to create the APK in a reproducible way. Google Play distributed APKs contain their signatures, so in theory it wouldn't be possible to 1:1 reproduce the distributed ones.

However for F-droid this would allow them to sign their own APKs and provide some additional security guarantees in their supply chain.

Also a bit concerning that there is no tags yet in the repository.
Asset managers are front running the Fed. The Fed hasn’t even bought junk corporate bonds yet. They’ve only signaled that they are willing to do so, which immediately sent the price of junk corporate bond ETFs skyrocketing.

If the Fed steps in to save this market they’ll overpay for debt from companies included in these bond ETFs that will likely go under anyway.

It also creates a moral hazard situation where poor performing companies can raise cheap debt because everyone now thinks the Fed will step in and guarantee it.
here is a detailed look at one particular example:

https://securelist.com/chrome-0-day-exploit-cve-2019-13720-u...
Other than the amount of government money they receive, not particularly. Same thing would happen if we increased deficit spending for education purposes. Schools might bring in more external for mental health, contract out food preparation, provide tablets for all students, etc. Each of those would be a transfer of money from public (taxpayers) to private hands (contractors and companies).

One could argue that investing in a bomb that explodes in another country doesn't create as much economic value as using that same money to invest in the education of an American child.

Eisenhower had some thoughts when he left office [1]:

==This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.==

==Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. ==

[1] https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
There are many businesses who are 100% dependent on Amazon as a platform and Google as an acquisition stream. If you want to break out and sell on your own online platform, you're still dependent on Google, be it through search or advertising.

I would love to hear of consumer facing (B2C) online businesses who are successfully operating without any Google or Amazon dependencies to see if it's even possible in the current online ecosystem.

My hypothesis is that it isn't, and as such Amazon and Google should be broken up. They have close to a functional monopoly on consumers, but I'm putting forward that they also have a functional monopoly on online businesses in commerce.
Is there any possible way we could test for that? I suppose we could look at retrospectives of those who weren't given treatment during triage, but I imagine they probably are given less of the peripheral support as well once the decision has been made.
Apple does this with apps too.
Wi-Fi is getting its biggest upgrade in 20 years
Funny you mentioned the deep state. I remember being perturbed that the email leak from the 2016 race had references to child-sacrifice moloch. Strange times
There's a difference in power consumption. The C4 is 720mA loaded. The RPI4 is an oven.

C4 comes with a large heatsink. Rpi4 doesn't despite the much higher power consumption, forcing you to add one.

My conclusion: The RPI4 is an unreliable, poorly engineered toy (like every other RPI in the past). The C4 is rugged and a good choice to base projects on, like every Odroid has been to date.
YEAH!! Finally. Trying to assemble my own rube goldberg machine for key access is exhausting.
Do you run mysql / MariaDB? That's the one that bites me, 100% of the time. There are other packages that often require "adjustments" but the db makes dist-upgrade a total fail for me.

Not fun with servers, unfortunately.
This article smells of a naive, inexperienced author.

"I hate the accepted industry abbreviation. Use my abbreviation! It's better! Woo I'm so smart and and my opinion is so important."

How about... I hate SLC. Use MVP instead. (Or POC - Proof Of Concept)

"simple loveable complete" Please. Just... please.

This author sounds like another non-technical person trying to insert themselves into an area (technology) where they lack experience.

Simple Entryism.

First they enter a domain, then they want to start making changes, whether they are merited or not, and whether the person is knowledgeable/experienced or not.

So sick of it.

1. Stop trying to tell people what to do, sweetheart.

2. Stop telling me what my customers want-- You don't know me, nor do you know my customers.

3. Stop acting as if you represent anything other than your own inexperienced opinion.

"Love" does not belong in an engineer or business person's vocabulary, when it comes to validating value.

"Love" is subjective and BIASED.

Good decisions are objective, data-oriented, lack bias, and lack emotional attachment.

Please, keep gullible lovey-dovey hippies & "entryists" out of technology.
Unless there is a government identification with photo of a real person associated with the ad, there is no transparency. Shell corporations and complex ownership structures will obscure any attempt at tracking the source otherwise.
Some companies foster cordial relationships with their partners by staying strictly in their lane.

For example, ARM licenses CPU core designs to chip manufacturers, but they don't make their own chips, as doing so would turn their customers into their competitors.

Businesses like contract manufacturers are similar - Foxconn wouldn't start making their own smartphone.

Of course, not every company takes that approach.
Notcurses 1.3.2 Demo “Hypnotize”
Ah, the "freedom" to be shown misleading ads...
Yes, this is a good methodology: we should take the lowest point of a random ETF, extrapolate it out, and use that number in our analysis of the Fed's actions.

edit: they edited their comment extensively after I sent this haha.
Restaurant industry asks Congress for $240B in aid to survive coronavirus
It's a little bit different because Amazon claims to be a marketplace at the same time as curating its own specific product offering. It would be kind of like if a mall required all transactions from independent stores in the mall to go thru the malls servers and then the mall started its own product lines to sell based on that data.
I've heard nice things about the Ricoh GR series for something a little more cumbersome than a phone camera but a lot smaller than a DSLR.
> The next such fallacy is that of testing and contact tracing

That is an odd opinion. Australian and NZ and some other relatively successful countries are well past flattening the curve and have both new cases and active cases rapidly heading towards zero and have only had a small number of deaths.

Most retail is open here. Most schools are open. Lots of job losses in hospitality and tourism with bars and restaurants closed and borders shut. Testing is freely available to anyone with any cold-like symptom at all and I expect that testing will be extended to people with no symptoms at all, probably in teaching, law enforcement and healthcare so we have a sort of early warning system.

We seem to have a reasonable path back to being a productive society while other countries still seem a mess and are only managing to keep their death rates down through massive restrictions. I struggle to understand what the rest of the world is going on about sometimes. Experts have been saying how to deal with a problem like this for a long time. But nobody much seems to have taken them seriously.
American billionaires have gotten $280B richer since the start of the pandemic
Hah, I see it about further killing repair. Now they can add full hardware locked components. You won't even able to exploit software to bypass any hardware locks.

That and hackintoshes are becoming more common. You can't maintain your profit margins if they become too normal.
In addition to the service itself looking good, the single act of making environment the central point of the service, works as agenda setting [1]. Because it's the central point of the service, the jobs are viewed through the lens of their impact on environment.

There's a bigger influence, from doing this kind of smaller things en masse that affects the wider discussion in great proportions.

Just a FYI, that all talk about important things, like environment, is more than needed.

[1] Wikipedia describes agenda setting as something only the big media does, but it is something that happens naturally when we discuss about things. Things that are brought up in discussion are implicitly considered important, as they are worth discussing in the first place. Basically agenda setting theory says that by mentioning important things in discussion, and by reminding the participants of the existence of those things, can help change the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda-setting_theory
> A good aspect of MMT is that it explains how the Treasury spending more than it takes in in taxes means more money is created into the economy than is deleted out of the economy. This is the more important thing to focus on.

This is one of the most absurd claims of the supposedly "descriptive" MMT. Taxation does not delete money from the economy. When the federal government collects taxes, it doesn't take that money and burn it in a giant pit. It turns around and immediately spends that money.

Yes, the federal government does not need your tax dollars. Yes, they technically have the ability to print an infinite amount of dollars. But that doesn't support the claim that taxation removes money from the economy.

> Some of the MMT professors also do a good job explaining how QE (quantitative easing) doesn't create new net financial assets into the system, it just shifts around assets in accounts at the Fed.

This is completely false. The Fed creates new reserves (base money) in order to buy assets.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE
It's a bummer protonmail doesn't support JMAP.
> No doctor can ethically just not even try to save a life.

There's a culture in the US of trying all treatment, even if it's hopeless. That's why "how doctors die" keeps getting discussion on HN. Doctors do not want this for themselves, and they don't really want it for their patients, but they're forced into it by the systems in which they work.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+doctors+die

Some other places don't have that. They have the concept of "a good death". If you're almost certainly going to die then is it better to do so in peace, or would you rather have someone breaking your ribs and maybe puncturing a lung to give you maybe a 1 in 100 chance of living for an extra two weeks?

Talk to your family about how you want to die. Create advance directives ("living wills") and make sure people know where it is.

In the UK this is a useful site:

https://compassionindying.org.uk/making-decisions-and-planni...

https://compassionindying.org.uk/library/
It's turning it into an exokernel.

Check out xok, it had three in kernel virtual machines.

https://github.com/monocasa/exopc/tree/master/sys
"I do think that one of the big problems for PHP is that people who voluntarily do PHP instead of something else are immediately suspect"

I write lots of PHP for work and for most of my personal projects. Learning other languages is just syntax, when you know the core concepts.

I once converted a personal project over to Python 3.X in a couple of weeks and it was much slower and took more memory than the PHP counterpart, so I scrapped it.

"However, most PHP I run into is not modern"

This may be the case for you, but I've worked with lots of companies that built their apps using PHP and most are modern.

"but I can't really imagine doing it myself just because of all the flashbacks to code that parses query parameters and calls the database in the middle of a templated for loop"

I'm sure there were many poor practices with other languages 20+ years ago.

I think many here on HN are living in a bubble where most companies use cool new frameworks and are looked down upon for their stack choices.

I haven't been out of work in the past two decades, and I work almost exclusively with PHP code bases. I suppose I should be happy for all of this language snobbery, because I make a very good living and haven't spent more than a few days between gigs.
They must have some effect, inasmuch as cyclists and motorbike drivers in highly polluted cities like Kathmandu and Delhi wear at least a cloth over their mouths for their own comfort.
In what, geekbench? I'd reserve my judgement until there's some real life benchmark (eg. cinebench).
> Government money doesn’t come from nowhere.

That's actually closer to the truth than your idea.

> It comes from people with a median of around $41k income and $100k net worth for the entire household.

The median federal tax dollar comes from a household making over $200k/year. But marginal spending doesn't actually come from current taxes anyway, it comes (insofar as the concept of the public purse approximates reality, which as MMT observes isn't very much) from borrowing which is repaid by marginal changes to future taxing and spending policy compared to what it would have been without the constraint of that debt. Who that comes from is...obscure and dependent on future elections and policy priorities.