skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe he means that most of those things come from the credit card networks or the issuing banks.

Many of these charges can vary quite a bit from transaction to transaction. My understanding is that really high volume merchants (e.g., Apple or Amazon) can get processing that just passes through all of those things to them. Each individual transaction might involve scores of very small fees.

At the other end of thing, you have processors that work like the way Braintree originally worked. They would look at all those little fees in aggregate across all the transactions they were processing, and sorted the transactions into two bins based on total cost for the transaction.

They then charged the merchant a fixed rate for each transaction depending on which bin it fell into. From the merchants point of view, then, if you did 100 transactions each would incur fees of either X% or Y%, and the percentage that got charged X% would be about the same every month.

There are processors who are kind of in-between. The have an X% that rolls up most of the numerous underlying fees, but do expose you do some of those fees. Here some examples I've seen on a bill from such a processor.

For Discover cards, there was an "authorization request fee" of $0.0025, a "data transmission fee" also $0.0025, a "data usage fee" of $0.0185, an AVS fee of $0.02, an "authorization fee" of $0.20, an "assessment/sponsorship" charge of 0.12%, and an everything else of 2.48%.

MasterCard had fees ofr NABU, AVS, and authorization of $0.0195, $0.02, and $0.20. Their percentage fees were for acquirer license, digtal enablement, assessment/sponsorship, cross border, global acquirer support, and the everything else bucket. These were 0.0055%, 0.01%, 0.12%, 0.6%, 0.85%, and 2.33%.

VISA had fees for variable debit, variable credit, AVS, transaction integrity, and authorization, of $0.0155, $0.0195, $0.02, $0.10, and $0.20. Percantage fees were CR product assessment, assessment/sponsorship, international acquiring, international service, and the everything else bucket. 0.02%, 0.11%, 0.45%, 0.8%, and 2.316%.
> HN should force comment on down-vote

This is actually a great idea
Looks nice.

But upon starting it up I lost all windows decorations (KDE), had to restart my session and lost the things I was working on in my terminals.

How can launching an app cripples the whole desktop ? (not that this have anything to do with the app to me, it's a plasma thing)

First thing I look for was support for vim keybinding, could neovim be used as the backend editor ?
It's a joke, lighten up
One nice benefit of framework restrictions is standardization. For example a Django developer can jump into a lot of Django projects and instantly know a lot about them. Things like the builtin admin are often very similar between projects. This can ease onboarding a great deal, to everyone's benefit.
> The Case for Space Solar Power by John Mankins

Wired ran a story featuring him last year:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-solar-power-on-a-rain...

The main news in it was this:

https://www.robins.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/19980...
But again, so what? I mean, on one hand I totally agree with you. But on the other it doesn't change the fact that, societally, the risk-reward profile of things like finance and advertising are much better than other "bigger" pursuits.

I mean, as many others have pointed out, Musk had to get rich first in the finance world before he could get enough F.U. money to indulge his real passions.
One of the most effective defenses is Vitamin D, which is free if you go outside on a sunny day. Bonus fresh air. Dark-skinned people may benefit from (cheap) supplements, depending on location.

A disproportionate number of US/UK severe cases are dark-skinned people. Have you seen research into the cause?

Sadly, Vitamin D does not have a pharma marketing budget to convince people that they would be hosed without expensive, emerging, and relatively unproven designer drugs OR addressing Vitamin D deficiency in northern climates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23119949
This article cites two of them and goes into some of the places where Damore made unjustified leaps in logic.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-...

Here is another that is more detailed but doesn't talk mention individual scientist opinions

https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-google-memo-what-does-the-r...
What costs? Im talking about Google Stadia or Nvidia Now(?), which is paid by the users, not the gaming-company. If anything, the gaming-Company might even get paid from the cloud-provider for enforcing usage of the cloud.
Tesla Threatens to Pull Out of California over County’s Shutdown
There are over 100 vaccines in development, several have completed phase 1 trials, and one is actually in production already so it will be available when it completes phase 3.

We didn't need vaccines for SARS or MERS because they were both gone pretty quickly and the number of affected individuals was never high enough to warrant completing the expensive testing required to get approval for a vaccine.
They dislike their Acers a lot and instead prefers time spent on phone or looking away through window.
While the most likely source of the 1918 flu was a pig in the US, that is by no means definitively proven. Other possibilities remain. We'll probably never know for sure.
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From the tweets manipulating stock prices to the name of his kid, claims of forsaking possessions, false claims about constitutional guarantees of limitless freedom, to the flagrant disregard for the health and safety of his employees, I can't help but wonder if Musk has had some medical event that is imparing his cognition.

He once seemed to be the savoir of humanity but these days he just seems like the typical angry CEO looking to manipulate things to his advantage.
I'm cautious about approaching culture war threads, but I have to ask this question:

What is your definition of "neoliberalism?" To my understanding, it is a center-left economic ideology that promotes globalization, free trade, and cooperation between nations as a way to lift up the poor. Neoliberals might be critical of some of the policies that you point out (e.g. free college) due to implementation concerns.

However, isn't this orthogonal to one's attitude to culture war controversies? At least from my experience lurking r/neoliberal, the people there seem reasonable and don't seem to be the overzealous "outrage culture" types, but they perceive that "neoliberal" has become a negative label associated with center-left people who disagree with say, some of the policies proposed by Sanders.

I'm usually apprehensive about getting involved in these culture war threads; please understand that I'm not advocating for any political position, I just want to understand what "neoliberalism" means from your point of view.
This is correct. I’ve been removed from three casinos for counting. First time: two men in suits came over, made me leave the table, walked me over to cash out and said I couldn’t come back again. The other two times I was only banned from table games. These three were in San Diego. I do know people who have been roughed up at Indian casinos in rural states, though.
Of the five largest tech companies only 1 has created a mono repo in git after Google and Facebook chose mercurial and started proving it out. I think it’s less about what the project was designed for and the communities ability to appreciate the challenges facing these large companies. You can tell from the post because all the feedback is “have you tried doing something totally different” rather than “that’s an interesting scaling challenge - how can we make git perform better at scale? what are the properties we’d have to trade off? how do we manage that tension or is this really fundamentally incompatible and if so clearly communicating why it’s incompatible with the project’s goals”.

At a technical level I believe both Google and Facebook engineers make core changes to mercurial when they need to so I don’t think that’s the root philosophical difference.
> When the UK said "we're using different models" they should have been publishing those models, among with the facts they were relying on, published a list of all people who had input to that decision and the context.

Everything should be published (it isn't), and nothing should be censored, without good reason (not the case today). That so few people seem to realize this is mind boggling to me. But then, it's human nature, so it shouldn't be surprising.

> How to progress? I don't see a way, politicians have enough of the population in their thrall (eg using media manipulation) to sustain the current system. Two things that may help are to have bodies parallel to government adopted ones, like UK's SAGE but excluding the politicians, and have media that will report direct from those bodies to the people rather than via a filter of politicisation. Maybe then enough people can get onboard to bit-by-bit elect trustworthy officials interested in government for the good of the people.

This idea, and others like it, seem like a very plausible way out of this mess. I really see no other way.

But how much effort, in man-hours, is being expended in this direction, as compared to, oh I don't know, people having the same arguments year after year, in thread after thread?
> having my own domain makes me look like a complete nerd to my friends.

...yes, of course; why else would you do it? ;)

I'm semi-kidding; there are very real practical benefits, but I really do run email through my own domain, at least in part, because it sends a message.
A 0.1% chance of death is not the only consequence of infection. As someone in a similar position to you, I'm far more concerned about permanent lung damage or other long term health impacts than death.
Seems like is is trying to get same restrictions as other places in California. And elsewhere.
Then please enlighten me what frontend questions you ask in your interviews.

By the way, only 1 out of 10 frontend developers can answer what the event loop is, according to my experience.
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Ummm, money?
I was considering open pose for a project until I reviewed the license.

And by the way, why doesn't github make the license available in Mobile mode? It's the first thing I look at when considering an ostensibly open source project
already did. the bit about twitter and blizzard were 2 examples. you can google (pun intended) to search for more examples
Zero in humans. There are vaccines for specific coronaviruses (coronavirii?) in dogs and pigs.
After recent statements, I am surprised that the board has not decided to remove him, immediately.
IDEs come and go, Emacs stays.

Turbo Pascal (wayyy back) was quite impressive (then), Visual Age for Java much more so some fifteen years later. IntelliJ is alright (prefer it over Eclipse, which somehow managed to lose the smart features of its predecessor). Haven't tried VS Code yet, but from the videos I've seen, it seems quite handy.

I stick with Emacs for two reasons: familiarity and SLIME (the next best thing to a LISP Machine ;-}
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126517
> Any tips for speed?

If you don't already have one get a good ergonomic keyboard. I recently switched to an ergodox ortholinear layout and it immediately exposed my bad typing habits. The split hand layout saves my neck and shoulders and my working posture has noticeably improved. Took about a month to get back to 80 wpm and don't feel like I've plateaued yet trying to get to 125 wpm.

I had a Judo coach who used to scream "Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." In practice sessions focus on not making any mistakes & using only the correct fingers to strike keys. It can be hard to resist the temptation to start hammering as fast as you can in practice but slowing down once in a while can greatly improve muscle memory.

I use https://www.keybr.com/ to track stats, practice limited or different key sets, it also supports non qwerty layouts for stretching your comfort zone. For touch typing practice it displays a real-time keylogger map so you can auto-correct your finger positioning without looking at the keyboard, if you've got a fancy keyboard (Shout out Arts and Crafts HN) you can hook up the firmware to do the same.
Those definitions work here as well. There's the occasional outlier where you'll get fiber for a competitive price, but 50mbps is usually what you'll be able to get in a large city. Next up is 16/2.4, which most Germans can get. In rural areas, it's 6 or 3mbps, but if you're unlucky, you can also be stuck on that speed in a major city.

This has been getting somewhat better by cable providers getting in on the action, but they have their own sets of challenges, like CGNAT, shared bandwidth and generally problematic contracts & customer service.
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There was a huge surge in the UK for alcohol-based hand sanitiser, the price shot up, and despite that pretty soon you couldn't get it anywhere. People were stealing it out of hospitals.

I went round the corner to a hardware shop and bought 2 litres of methylated spirits for a tenner. Mixed it 3 parts meths to 1 part water, bingo.
For example, at my work, I create windows (WPF & WinForms) apps with Visual Studio. I usually have at least 2 instances of VS open, each using 1-2gb of ram. Combine that with Outlook, Slack and some more programs, and you are really feel everything slow down.

It's not that the system is unusable, it is just really slow, and that really hurts usability.
> Vaccines are unlikely to work or be scalable

Can you back that up with some kind of science? There are >100 in development and several are done with phase 1. Hell, one is already entering production in anticipation of final approval later this year.

Short term, we'll probably rely heavily on plasma.
Did you read that? In particular, see the Hughes vs Pair quote:

"A cause of action for intentional inﬂiction of emotional distress exists when there is ‘(1) extreme and outrageous conduct by the defendant with the intention of causing, or reckless disregard of the probability of causing, emotional distress; (2) the plaintiff’s suffering severe or extreme emotional distress; and (3) actual and proximate causation of the emotional distress by the defendant’s outrageous conduct.’ A defendant’s conduct is ‘outrageous’ when it is so
‘extreme as to exceed all bounds of that usually tolerated in a civilized community.’ And the defendant’s conduct must be ‘intended to inﬂict injury or engaged in with the realization that injury will result.'"

Quoting somebody's actual words is in no way "outrageous" under that standard. People in civilized communities quote what other people say all the time. And even if the didn't, the first amendment strongly protects political speech, and quoting somebody else's political speech is pretty obviously part of that.
Absolutely, as long as you are careful and there isn't any sign or other markings put up to tell you otherwise.

Walk and bike path (gang og sykkelsti) we often call them. One major disadvantage though if you are biking fast is that everytime you have to cross the road you have to yield or walk as cars (technically) don't have to yield for bikes[0]. That's the reason I pointed out that bike was going uphill, slowly. I get it that when someone is traveling at 30-40 km/t they shouldn't have to stop every 50m.

[0]: Although of course that does not mean you will get away with it. A good friend of mine was more or less run into by a bike crossing. He had right-of-way but police still fined him something along the lines of 6000NOK.
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That's what a Side-Project should look like, curious to see the blog post !
If the Acer needs replacing after two years, and the Mac after five, you're still ahead, asuming a similar speced Acer is available for a similar price in the future.
They can't, he has enough equity to veto all and any board decisions.
Parity of Zero
Could you please show me your source for the claim that they asked him for feedback?
Mechanical engineers also play a large role in power generation
I love posts like this that remind me that I'm on HN and that HN can solve world problems based on assumptions.
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> I don't necessarily think there is a good solution, either - I just mean to say that people who do that, even if they are well-meaning, are behaving unethically. That's because they believe in their own perspective with 100% probability, but that's obviously unreasonable from a Bayesian perspective. If they accounted for even a small probability that they are wrong then their behavior would change dramatically.

Completely agree, but I believe this behaviour applies to 90%+ of those who express confident opinions on the matters of the day, and downvote anyone who dares question those opinions when they can't put together a convincing argument for their strong assertions.

Some evidence for the frequency of this behaviour exists, we could have insight into it, but I suspect we shall choose to not discuss such things. Only downvote them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_humility

https://behavioralscientist.org/epistemic-humility-coronavir...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wisdom/

(These links are not directed at you personally, just to be clear).
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Lines of code are the wrong metric and turning dev environments isn't going to get you to type faster. If you're happy with VS code on OS X with zero customization, more power to you :) The "obsessively optimized setup" isn't the results of a single week-long binge, which may lessen how obsessive that seems. A setting here or there, after a few years, results in a comfortable dev environment. The comfort of this environment extends the ability to make code happen.

Coding is, as you've noted, rarely about typing speed. The larger a program gets, the longer the files get, the more spread out across different files and directories it gets. (Consider yourself very lucky if the programs you work on can fit entirely inside your working memory! Others have bigger programs to work on, or differently shaped working memory) Being able to find "that thing you saw that one time" is paramount. How you find it, is an entirely personal choice, but being able to find it, quickly, and without breaking out of flow state, is the goal. Whether it's by learning VS code (which has a expansive collection of settings and extensions to "obsessively" tune), or by installing ag. (And yes, for the obsessive, the merits of ag vs ripgrep/other is a fun rabbit hole to fall into.)

Still, between from when you start coding, to when you share the diff with anybody, coding is an intensely private activity (that some choose to share with others). As such, whatever works. If trying to open a file while traversing a tree view is distracting enough that it takes couple tries, and you don't mind taking a couple times, great. If I've got my dev env setup to so I can open the file from the command line where I've already got the filename, that's cool too. If I want to learn VS code's command bar syntax so I can open it from there, that also works. And if you can open that file first try, while simultaneously navigating a stream of code, good for you.

End of the day, comparing "just as much work done" with two independent variables (the configuration, and the person using the setup) and no control, is as foolish as managers trying to quantify programmer output by counting lines of code.
I’m not concerned about being offended or what one should or shouldn’t say. But in general saying I don’t find saying those kinds of sweeping statements to be very constructive, including the positive example.
The disease-induced herd immunity level for Covid-19 is lower than the classical
> 90% of mistaken identity shootings of off-duty police by police between 1982 and 2010 were shootings of black or hispanic officers.

That's an interesting statistic. Can I have the source? (This is a genuine question, I'm not trying to cast doubt on what you said.)
Maybe. Two very reassuring things happened right after 9/11, though: (1) cockpit doors were seriously reinforced, and (2) everyone realized that if there was a on-board threat, the only rational response would be "Let's roll". Some might also include TSA changes on that list.

COVID-19 is different. We're having an extended period of time to realize that we simply don't need to fly anywhere. And that airplanes always were flying petri dishes and that that sometimes matters a lot.

I'm older that most here, and it's somewhat difficult to imagine ever getting on a plane again. It's always been sort of marginal, and now it just looks like a loser.

If we actually achieve confirmed herd immunity, perhaps I will feel different.
It also enables free moving of talent between companies that only further allows great companies to be built. It’s very hard to build a high-tech company in Tulsa, say, if the total numbers of available superstars are low.

Tesla building HQ in Silicon Valley enabled it to get types of people he never would have otherwise. Few are leaving Google to go to GM, for example.
Probably as high a percentage as his supporters. Trying to deflect criticism by saying people hadn’t read it was a common way to avoid critically thinking about it, and it became comical when people were making very specific comments which clearly indicated familiarity. I remember someone writing a very detailed critique of the way it was oversold it as based on science despite misrepresenting the scientific consensus[1], and even then you could easily find people saying that the reason she didn’t agree with him was that she hadn’t read it or that buzzfeed published the text first without charts, even when she was discussing the original studies he was claiming as support.

1. https://medium.com/@tweetingmouse/the-truth-has-got-its-boot...
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Alibaba has been pushing the envelope pretty heavily in this area. I've heard of them using their FPGA instance for memcachedb instances, and video transcoding instances.
Unless it's cargo. Cheaper than "normal air" / faster than sea shipping is a reasonable niche.
I've been there once, but had some language barrier issues (I visited at a weird time of day and as far as I know I was the only guest). Maybe you know: what's going on upstairs? Is that also part of the cafe or a private area?
I kept my old laptop (used to be win7, now Ubuntu) since my printer only support USB printing. Other than that you can keep it for side projects within your LAN =)
Authentic Contrarians vs. Consensus Contrarians
>Can Elon even make unilateral and rash decisions like this?

Investors almost certainly knew what they were signing up for, so, "yes" would be the answer.

How Tesla ends is not yet written, but even enterprises with steady, conservative hands on the reins have sputtered.