skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure not everywhere takes amex but the majority do

Perhaps in the US, but elsewhere around the world Amex is barely ever accepted.

That said this duopoly only really applies to internationally accepted credit cards, lots of countries have alternative payment methods, but these generally don't reach beyond the borders.
Can you do this purely with pressure?. Lift the car off all 4 tires then add a known pressure to all tires, just enough to seal the beads. Then lower the car and measure the pressures again. I'm sure you could get to the ratio of weight distribution for your car. And with the right coefficient for your tire you could probably accurately approximate weight.
But since the retailers can't offer discounts for cash transactions, people who pay with cash are being over charged and subsidizing those fees.
Ah, the classic "the government cannot do a good thing, therefore this must be a bad thing".
> "One problem is that most Apple IDs are tied to an iCloud email address."

Is this really true? I've had Apple IDs for pretty much as long as they've existed, but I've never had an iCloud email. Any email address can be an Apple ID.

(...in fact, early on, it didn't even have to be an email address. I still have one of those old-style Apple IDs.)
I agree, with a caveat - Apple can and does remove apps which are caught stealing data permanently. The App Store and Apple's policies act as a safeguard for users. As far as I know, there is no reliable way to do that for web apps.
Why It’s Not Helpful to Say “I Don’t See Color”
>but there is no verification of identity, trolls can claim anything.

They aren't verifying identity, they are verifying skin color and using the information to then discriminate against their users. A person with verified skin tone and not verified identity can dress themselves in all sorts of lies just as trolls do everywhere on the internet.

>How do you think it feels to be a Black member of a forum and see a White person who is taken in by a White troll pretending to be Black? Conversely, how do you think it feels to be Black and be arguing with someone White who is sure you are a White troll pretending to be Black?

Maybe we should focus on ideas over identity.
While this is informative, it leaves out one big thing. Rule number 1 in the sidebar is "Posts from black people only".

> This sub is intended for exceptionally hilarious and insightful social media posts made by black people. To that end, only post social media content from black people.
I always wonder what people are thinking when they suggest that the US could silence an entire viewpoint through invocation of RICO or FTO designation. If the government could have declared an entire line of thought illegal, don't people think we would have done so numerous times already? We couldn't even ban membership in the actual communist party at the height of the Cold War (not for lack of trying, though).
Decades is a pretty bold claim. It hasn’t yet been 3 decades since the USSR fully dissolved, and that was a bigger territorial loss from the Russian perspective than anything they’ve gained since.

There were active political discussions about bringing Ukraine and Georgia into NATO prior to Russia annexing Crimea; Vice President Biden also gave a few speeches on how Ukraine and Georgia had a right to determine their own political and military futures which was effectively code for “we want them in NATO” without coming right out and saying it. Right now neither country has full sovereign jurisdictional control over their territorial claims so bringing them into NATO is infeasible. No matter what else happens in Ukraine and Georgia from now until the foreseeable future, that’s a geopolitical win for the Russians.
That other popular Java-platform languages exist indeed shows that the Java language is too conservative for some, but that 90% use the Java language shows that its design is in line with what most people want.

And the CLR is about, oh, ten-fifteen years behind OpenJDK in compilation, GC and low-overhead deep profiling and observability. OpenJDK's C2 compiler is pretty much on par with clang in terms of optimisation [1] -- ahead on some, behind on others -- and in terms of sheer innovation and potential, its Graal compiler is probably the biggest breakthrough in compilation of the decade.

[1]: https://youtu.be/0yrBuPiGk8I
> The weight there is different though, in the groups you analyse the violence has historically flown in one direction more than in the other.

I think you are wildly underestimating the violence of a number of non-religious groups: recommended reading includes the reign of terror, Stalin and Khmer Rouge.

... and also non-whites by the way.
"Don't Call Yourself A Programmer" [0] is from 2011. "Do call yourself a programmer" from 2013. The world, especially the world of tech has changed a lot in the past decade. A good advice from 2011 is not necessarily a good advice in 2020. Perhaps" programmer sounds like anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo" was correct at the time, but is no longer true after a decade of software eating the world. Have either of the two authors, or even someone else, written a revisited up-to-date version of this advice?

[0] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
Some content fosters the development of extremists/terrorists.

This type of content does not use the platform in good faith. It's only objective is to trap listeners in a spiral of extremist content, basically brainwashing them. In some cases this even leads to violent acts. E.g. there have been multiple terrorist acts where it was determined that this extremist content played a crucial role in the enabling of the perpetrators.

We typically do not allow direct incentives of violence or concrete threats. I don't think we should should we allow content where we know that it indirectly leads to more violence.
Yes, but you don't like, need that to be, I dunno, a complete programmer or person. Which is how the "cult" (tongue-in-cheek) treats it, and why this person has FOMO.

There are tons of examples of programming wizards and productivity gurus who don't use emacs. And you'll encounter lots of people who can't get shit done but who fiddle endlessly with emacs or vi or whatever configs and believe they have some super efficient direct connection from their brain to their computer.

Some of the best, most productive programmers I know use notepad, and some of the worst use emacs. ymmv.
South Ossetia just like Abkhasia are recognized by Russia as independent countries.
Swine flu strain with human pandemic potential increasingly found in Chinese pig
EXWM or StumpWM+Emacs, since the window managing bits are pretty small compared to other tasks (manipulating text of various sorts) that one would use Emacs for.
Giving everyone access to payment processing means giving platform to unworthy people like misogynists, white supremacists and conservatives as well.

Maybe we are better off with VISA.
Here's the thing, all those corporations you suggest are pulling strings and controlling things do not have a nuclear arsenal or national state security operations. There are material consequences if you do not toe the Chinese party line. As in you can pay for that with your freedom or your life.
Well they "do not" in the same sense inflation is "not" a tax on anyone holding cash, right?

One way or another every fee must be absorbed by someone that pays.
Their leaders may not be well known, but they spend an absolutely massive amount of money promoting their brands. They are extremely recognizable.

Mastercard so much so that the recently removed their name from their logo as its nolonger needed.
Can't tell if satire or not
Hello, I couldn't find anything like this and thought it would be useful, so I spent some time putting it together. Hopefully others find it useful!
I ordered direct from a manufacturer a month ago, order shipped from Shenzhen via Hong Kong to Europe using DHL Express (sellers choice). Total cost including shipping was less than similar offers on Amazon with standard shipping. Package arrived in 6 days (could have been 5 days if it hadn't missed a flight by mere minutes).
No need for an agent, just a reputable seller and parcel delivery service.
In my home are 6 males over 18, me and my 5 sons. Three of us work FT & it's just enough to keep our head above water.

One son just graduated HS & will enter his final year of trade school this fall. His twin is entering his senior year of HS.

During most of the post-2008 recovery (that news orgs endlessly crowed about, especially after 2012) we ate rice, being unable to afford beans or anything else. Some days we ran our of rice.

From my perspective, most of the recovery was limited largely to shareholders & wealthy metro areas.

I don't fault or credit any PotUS for terrible years or less terrible years. I do, however, hold some lingering resentment for news orgs that stayed resolutely out of touch with all but select sq mi of the US. It's hard to not feel they earned whatever oblivion they may find themselves staring into.
Here comes SSSO! I can hardly wait!

Of course, there may be competing SSSO solutions...
The "openness" of the west is being blatantly exploited, and yet for some reason people are still hesitant to call it out for what it is. Almost every significant US internet company is totally blocked in China. Until the US completely blocks WeChat, TikTok, Zoom and so on, China will continue to have a major geopolitical advantage.
This is why Deno is so promising.
Sure that's fair, though I don't know what else you mean by "true free speech"
The spam and trolling is racist, but it's flagged and downvoted to hell immediately. I was responding to someone saying the opposite voting trends exist for racist content.
What’s you’re source on that? You realize 25% of NYC are “survivors” of COVID.
Yes! and then I just sign in once into my single SSO signon!
Forget finance and tech, medical is under the tight grip of Physicians.

Every medical service requires paying a physician. And it's no trivial amount, its a huge expense. Further, any numbers on physicians salaries are horribly skewed because they don't consider specialists "physicians".
>One question is, why did it take until now for these bans to come into effect?

I think a lot of social media sites and platforms really believed that it was bad to try to be arbiters, and that an anything-goes system would go well. The fact that this was the easiest option for them probably played a part in this. I think a lot of platforms and their audiences are increasingly seeing that this position as naively optimistic and not backed up by the results.

>Gray areas are always going to emerge. For example, the popular YouTuber Jenna Marbles came under criticism recently for old videos (years ago) that could be construed as hate speech, or at the very least, mildly racist. Does this justify a ban?

I think rules should be and largely are oriented around whether something encourages bigotry, rather than about whether the creator privately has racist opinions in their head. If no one is sure if something is pushing a racist message, then that's evidence it's not doing it. If it's not doing it effectively but maybe trying, then that might be a gray area. I don't think the existence of gray areas is an argument for the extreme no-judges position.

>These issues are going to be decided by the discretion of humans, many of them with a geographically-concentric worldview (i.e., Silicon Valley).

And choosing to allow and promote racists and peddlers of inflammatory pseudoscience is also a decision made by humans of specific worldviews. There's no clean non-political option.

>A few comments say Stefan Molyneux (again, don't know this guy) is not specifically racist but has white-centric views.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

He pushes misinformation about races and advocates white ethnonationalism: “I don’t view humanity as a single species...” “The whole breeding arena of the species needs to be cleaned the fuck up!” "Screaming 'racism' at people because blacks are collectively less intelligent...is insane." “You cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people." He seems like the textbook example of the sort of person that rules about racism would target. I guess he doesn't literally say the n-word or specifically advocate actively exterminating minorities, just that it might be good if someone did that or at least some segregation.
I rather look at this from a rational pov then moral grandstand from one soap box or another, since I have no dog in this fight.

My thinking is, this would be a good casus belli for India if they have the national ability to develop home grown alternatives.

If you look at the evolution of the Chinese market, one of the key reasons China was able to develop a vast and independent internet ecosystem was its ability to ban the U.S. based groups such as Youtube, Google, facebook all at select political moments. Had the Chinese never done this, there is no way its domestic eco-system would have developed the way it has. At best foreign firms would own a substantial minority share, instead the Chinese firms like Alibaba and Tencent were able to consolidate monopolistic positions at home and then use that as a base to expand outwards into SEA, India and other developing markets, thereby challenging what would otherwise be a U.S. based monopoly on leading information technology.

From a nation building and state capitalist perspective it was actually quite a smart move. At the time, the western content providers were all banned at one point or another based on individual political reasons (Google hacking, arab spring..etc) and while there were political reasons to do so (censor and control the discourse of Chinese popular opinion) there was vast economic benefits down the road. I am sure the high level thinking in policy making in China recognize this "two birds with one stone" aspect.

I suspect India would like to do something similar. Right now the "foreign barbarians" in India are not the technologically more advance American firms like in China's days in the 90's. It's cash rich and state backed Chinese firms (Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Douyin, and the like).

So seizing this as a good excuse to maybe not outright ban (we don't know if the TikTok ban won't be reversed at a later time) but even to throttle and restrict them in the domestic Indian market, provided there are domestic alternatives that can built up would be a good move 10-20 years down the road. Or even better, use the opportunity to shake down and force more technology transfer from the Chinese firms in return for market access. India like China has a sufficiently large population and thereby potential domestic market to pursue this strategy.
This has been a problem for a long time and unfortunately the outrage around the duopoly died out the last time we confronted it, which was in 2010 when Visa/Mastercard blocked Wikileaks (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...).

It is still a problem in 2020. Gab was recently impacted by Visa blacklisting them (https://news.gab.com/2020/06/19/gab-blacklisted-by-visa/) and also drew parallels to the realities of the "social credit score" system used in China (https://news.gab.com/2020/06/26/social-credit-score-is-in-am...). The vagueness of Visa's allegations stood out to me as problematic, given the lack of viable alternatives.

Ultimately, the lack of a provider who acts neutrally is a threat to freedom of speech and expression for all practical intents and purposes.
For a similar example in a different site, see https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...

“In this endeavor, deniers focus on many minor and obscure details and leave out crucial context. It takes them little effort to formulate a wrong assertion, but it takes historians a long time and a lot of words to refute one. Our early attempts to engage on these points have shown that length and nuance do not play well on the internet and do not interest the deniers. The point of JAQing off is not to debate facts. It’s to have an audience hear denialist lies in the first place. Allowing their talking points to stand in public helps sow the seeds of doubt, even if only to one person in 10,000.”
Obviously I'll pay for the help
Nonsense.

Russia can project its military in adjacent regions, for limited times. It has no blue water navy, its air force is at least one generation behind. Its army has crappy logistics (meaning staying power).

The only areas where it competes at all is in missiles, and even that area is debatable. Its vaunted S-300 and S-400 air defence systems are routinely ignored by the Israelis during airstrikes, as are its shorter range systems.

It has no budget to invest in R&D, and when it comes up with even a remotely interesting system, can only try to buy a few units.

The F-35 is superior to any Russian aircraft flying, including the SU-57. The F-22, a 30 year old design, is still far better than anything the Russians have, or will have in squadron numbers before 2030.

The Armada vehicle line is still a joke, and will probably never be produced in numbers due to budget constraints.
> I don't understand how a college survives 75% of their students dropping out like that?

Students pay upfront.
Why should white people tolerate racism against themselves?
I'm really disappointed to see all these brands jump on this train. They're basically arguing for political censorship. I haven't seen ads from these companies myself, but seeing press about them entering the cultural/political/ideological wars makes me less likely to shop from them.
Search has a discovery problem, though—you have to know what you’re looking for. Even if you know, it’s increasingly difficult to locate it via keyword search. And isn’t Google/YouTube search a type of recommendation engine anyways (i.e. results are conditional on your browsing history and other factors)?
Who??? Who sees the US as a "guiding light"? Nobody, that's who. I don't know if you've been paying attention to the news, but the US' reputation is in the toilet. Racism, murder, death. That's not a good model for the world.

>A lot of people are upset about the visa changes,

This is because the US exploited and ruined their countries, and they're desperate to get anywhere they can make some money to support their village. A single worker can support 40+ people on a single IT salary. Contrast this to selfish Americans who just blow the money on something stupid like a boat or a trip to Vegas.
> You got this the other way around. Private property needs force to be upheld.

I don't follow this at all, but I'm willing to listen? How does private property require any more force to uphold compared to any other possible system? Even anarchy, if you want it to stay anarchy requires force if you have defectors.
Remember when yEnc showed up, and discovered that most NNTP servers could actually deal with mostly 8-bit bodies, and it made transferring files that much more efficient?

Good times, indeed!
First of all, are you certain YouTube is blocking content? I am not so convinced. Also, define "most people". I, personally am pro civil liberties and am pro LGBTQ+ rights, however there are vast swaths of the world where LGBTQ+ is not only frowned upon by society but actually illegal at the nation state level.
> that's a different topic than the "punch a Nazi in the face" meme that repeats itself among the Orwellian types who see no problem

Yes it is, indeed. I'd be quite OK with banning subreddits because of repeated use of memes about punching nazis with reference to Trump supporters.

Which subreddits, specifically, did you have in mind? Can you provide links?
> The check on this is that you are now putting an inconvenience on that apps users.

That hasn't stopped Apple from remove apps or preventing updates -- clearly inconveniences on users -- for whatever reasons they want. It has happened and it will happen again.

There is no check on this unless your app's audience is Netflix/Spotify/Facebook huge. If you're just an average developer you can be killed off at any time.
i was just clarifying the poster above lol
One reason is if US.app is allowed on the Chinese market, it will dominate due to massive technology advantage and obliterate any chance of a homegrown industry. Open markets let players who are ahead get further ahead and they don't want to kneecap their own technology industry.
a responsive compiler is different than a fast one. rust has a good responsive solution in rust-analyzer now for ide features.
if you owe a business money, you can pay the debt in cash.
Dynamics of multi-sided marketplaces and the case for the slow startup
When I price it out Jarvis is the same price or more expensive for the same size.
I thought all unicorns had to ship with wings now, standard.. Is a Decacorn a unicorn with ten heads or just ten horns?
Well, why don't they disclose the bitstream format then? This would save the open source community a lot of work that could be used elsewhere.
I'm not seeing a "mainstream-ization of the crypto currencies". A few years ago, quite a few local businesses were experimenting with accepting cryptocurrency payments, and I could buy all kinds of stuff and services using bitcoin. I could order a pizza with bitcoin, I could buy electronics at a major retailer, I could buy plane tickets, I could pay for lunch in a local cafe.

That's not the case any more, by now all these local companies have stopped accepting bitcoin, because after the first hype, the volume simply was not there to make it worth their while. Some people (often the same people!) bought some stuff initially to try it out, but that was it, there was no sustainable mainstream business. It's still usable for some online services targeting the tech crowd, especially where anonymity might be a feature, but for everyday use of paying for physical goods and in-person services there has been the opposite of "mainstream-ization" in my experience; by now the mainstream businesses have tried crypto and found it not useful. There's enough well developed infrastructure and service providers so that mainstream businesses could easily accept cryptocurrencies if they wanted, but they don't, because there's no significant customer demand outside specific niche markets.
It doesn't even work in tech, bro.
Because in that phrase, "tolerance" is not actually defined, or is defined in a way that does not match the common-sense usage of the phrase. It's kind of like how "racism" had to be redefined so that white people couldn't be victims of racism.
American Express is not the answer. Let's not replace bad for worse.
The ability to purely make transactions is trivial - you can just use a debit card. The value of credit cards comes from other factors like fraud protection, SCI compliance, actual credit, etc.
This is where their article lost credibility with me. Their decision to base their sharing and addressing system on email was their mistake, and Apple is just the first to force them to face their mistake.

I don't want to share my spam email with all my friends to get them to share with me. And I don't want to give my primary email to an app that will spam me.

If I want to share something, I'll send a link and the recipient can connect to me that way. I don't need to search them within the app to get in contact, that's useless.

> so when they enter your email address, our systems will believe that you don’t have an account. At that point, you’ll get an email from us asking you to create an account.

This is a trivial part of the problem to solve. Why am I being asked to create an account in an invite email? Why not "log in or create account" and having the link itself be the piece that connects the share to me.
You read "confidently-stated," I immediately read "has a personal vendetta."