skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have never seen a website offer SEPA direct debit and for good reason - that would be ripe for fraud; they can usually be reversed.

I have seen plenty of those. Including amazon.

> For manual transfers, not only would you need their account number, but you would need the amount and transaction code and to manually enter those in your bank's app. Then, you have to manually return to the store's website to see if it succeeded.

That is a minor difference in my book. Fundamentally it's still a payment method and online. And it's not like credit cards are frictionless either, their verification has become more complex over the years too, redirecting you through various steps and requiring additional authentication.
Also Santana had a song named after Toussaint but I don't think lyrics are describing anything about the actual person.
> so why bother?

maybe 10% is enticing for those who create botnets
Forcing someone to install a native app not only lets the maker of the app siphon the users web browsing data, it also allows them to siphon all data from their machine, including bank details, passwords etc, and often opens security vulnerabilities that allow people who aren’t the app maker to do the same.
There is a lot to unpack in your post, but I get the gist.

You are free to use SQLite on Wasm, in your browser, you break no one and no one breaks you.

Wasm was designed well from a spec and community perspective, Google matured and Mozilla matured and in the end all the browser vendors go together and designed something that lots of folks can implement w/o multimillion dollar development efforts.

You know, I have written web apps that use SQLite and Lua running in the browser. They shouldn't be included inside the browser and nor should browser vendors have to worry about it.
I'm switching jobs and i want to go backpacking for a year, so yeah. If you don't have a SO and don't plan to go "socialize" in the short term this is not a bad idea imo.
Is Ambiguity Trap defined somewhere?
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ILL (or regional equivalents) are useful.

Though LibGen + Gutenberg + Archive.org are increasingly preferable, especially for obscure interests.
Everything in them was way overpriced last time I checked ~7yrs ago, probably due to low sales volume. I'm sure it's even worse now. No way I'm buying a lump of dead trees for $30 when it's $7 for the ebook unless it's something I'm really into having a collector's item for or something.

Maybe if browsing experiences are valuable, we can eventually start making websites have showrooms in VR. Too bad there's no smell-o-vision for the paper smell.
To your point, there was an Ask HN thread yesterday where someone was asking for a simpler alternative to git. They kept messing up their repository when using git and they were ready to give up.

The responses were basically a) “git is the de facto standard. You can try mercurial but you’ll be missing out on a lot”, which is sadly true or b) “it’s not that bad, just really study the underlying data structures and git will get easier”.

I think the attitude of the second point is one of the reasons why writing software for a living can be so frustrating. Even the tool that saves and tracks changes in your work requires a non trivial amount of cognitive load to use correctly. It’s death by a thousand cuts. Sure, tool X isn’t rocket science but it’s also one of 20 tools I use and if it’s giving me trouble it can make the process of shipping software so frustrating.
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Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
You think it's a good option? Basically sacrifice any sense of your own place, put all dating on hold etc for a lot of savings and healthy living.
Do you mind sharing which town? Or which part of the world / U.S.? I’m just curious where you dislike so much...
Here is the list of apps blocked by the government:
1. TikTok
2. Shareit
3. Kwai
4. UC Browser
5. Baidu map
6. Shein
7. Clash of Kings
8. DU battery saver
9. Helo
10. Likee
11. YouCam makeup
12. Mi Community
13. CM Browers
14. Virus Cleaner
15. APUS Browser
16. ROMWE
17. Club Factory
18. Newsdog
19. Beutry Plus
20. WeChat
21. UC News
22. QQ Mail
23. Weibo
24. Xender
25. QQ Music
26. QQ Newsfeed
27. Bigo Live
28. SelfieCity
29. Mail Master
30. Parallel Space
31. Mi Video Call – Xiaomi
32. WeSync
33. ES File Explorer
34. Viva Video – QU Video Inc
35. Meitu
36. Vigo Video
37. New Video Status
38. DU Recorder
39. Vault- Hide
40. Cache Cleaner DU App studio
41. DU Cleaner
42. DU Browser
43. Hago Play With New Friends
44. Cam Scanner
45. Clean Master – Cheetah Mobile
46. Wonder Camera
47. Photo Wonder
48. QQ Player
49. We Meet
50. Sweet Selfie
51. Baidu Translate
52. Vmate
53. QQ International
54. QQ Security Center
55. QQ Launcher
56. U Video
> totally unreliable info, but interesting.

How is this "unreliable"?

Native benchmarks wouldn't be very interesting, since this is the same processor we see in the iPad Pro. What's interesting is how Apple will handle the transition from Intel to ARM, so measuring Rosetta's virtualization capabilities is absolutely what we should be focused on until we actually get access to genuine Apple Silicon desktop chips.
Both.

I hate my hometown (even though most of my old time friends live here, I can go to any bar/restaurant and I am treated like family), but the town, the overall people here, the layout, I just hate it.

As for my parents, I love them, but both me and my father know that we can't be together for long. I moved back with them during lockdown to help them out, but god, the day I got out of there seemed like I won the lottery.

(Again, I love my parents, but our personalities are so different that it is impossible to live in close proximity)
From my reading of several articles, some have raised the question that Brexit will be a potential path-setter for other dissatisfied EU members (for whatever reason), but the general tone has been that it's unlikely.

So the EU probably isn't facing an existential crisis due to Brexit but it's significant enough to raise those questions.
I'm the exact opposite.

I hate it when sites use their local time, instead of just using UTC everywhere. I got accustomed to using UTC ~25 years ago.

At worst, it'll take you two seconds to open up a terminal and run

$ date -u

if you can't handle the conversion "internally".
Thank the American media for their unrelenting sensationalism, that drives them on their neverending quest to find bigger and better words to describe meaningless events. Once a word is too "lit", it's discarded and the next one comes along.
Yeah I just don't see the point. Things have started to open up in NYC but it's just not the same.
Ask HN: The best books / resources for wanna-be software architects?
Hi,
I am a software engineer and I would like to become software architect. I am looking for the best books / resources about this topic.
Could you please share your propositions?
If you ever been in a similar situation in the past, please feel free to share your tips, experiences etc.
Thank you!
Well, why shouldn't you store tomatoes in the fridge?
you may find Bandcamp addresses some of the of issues you outline above. I do what I refer to as bandcamping: sort by new releases, filter for physical media and major genre. start flipping through everything and be pleasantly surprised. my reasoning on the physical media part is that it raises the barrier to entry enough that you're browsing things someone believed in enough to put on tape or vinyl.

the fact that Bandcamp seems to be the best payout to artists as well as free unlimited ad-free streaming and drm-free downloads of your library makes it really attractive compared to other options.
I love the animation you used to get in say Mythbusters - where it would explain fairly complex "what's going on" with what looked like quick and simple animation.

I don't want to learn that cos it's my love but because it looks a useful tool.

But ... what animation tools did they use? How hard is it actually? how does one start at that simple
levels?
I don't follow this line of thinking at all.

If you're questioning whether they're trustworthy, you should be going out of your way to avoid installing their native app, preferring a web-based solution instead.

> By installing Chrome I do not intend on giving up every last bit of privacy and control over my computer, they just want to trick me into doing so by stuffing functionality into web APIs that should never have been web APIs in the first place.

Is Chrome really so bad about accidentally granting privileges (webcam, say) to websites?

Perhaps there's a more privacy-oriented browser that lacks such functionality entirely? Sounds like a good idea, come to think of it.
> It ultimately ends in total polarization," illustrates co-author David Garcia

Actually, I think it's more likely to end with violent conflict between the groups.

The horsheshoe theory simply won't die[1]. At this point in time the extremes have more in common with one another than they do with the center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#:~:text=In%20....
I think that REST is the language of your API. Just like in a regular PL you normally have just a handful of verbs, as I said in my first answer, so to in REST you only need a few verbs.

Of course, you then build up functionality over those base verbs, just like in a program. But your programming language doesn't have a verb for each function you might want to write. It just has the base 'call' verb.
OTOH if you have location tracking on for Google Maps it will know if you're driving and will alert you of problems a couple of kms down the road (accidents, construction, etc). This has been helpful in a number of occasions while not using directions.
Use search rather than recommendations.

CSS extensions (Stylus) and uBlock origin's element blocker can remove YT's recommendations entirely. That (along with. nuking comments) is a tremendous UX boost.
Well if you assume the basis set of things you can be good at is arbitrarily chosen. But I think the point was to define things" based on how skills are broken up in society. It's certainly much easier to learn them this way. You probably can't find many books or college classes in "public speaking in Mathematics", to help you become the best at this specialized focus, but it's easy to independently study these two specializations.
India bans TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps over security concerns
Quibi should have been premium content that was displayed on other channels that already have viewers payment information.
I'm not the one shitting on people whose life is a struggle but are the wrong skin color to get empathy from you.
Yes, the USPS offers a service for it:

https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm
Likewise. I'm highly guilty of tsundoku,[1] but I can just never find the time to read everything I want :(

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
A lot of customers are probably very happy to pay a monthly fee just to avoid having their DVD wear out while the movie is “in the vault”. Children play these things like 10 times per day.
Switching jobs after the backpacking trip? No working during the trip? Sounds like a good time.

Yeah that's the only downside... basically zero dating that whole time. But save a ton, reevaluate things... I'm leaning towards it being worth it.
Ermesinde, Porto, Portugal. You probably never in your life heard of it :) Most people in Portugal also don't except for a sketch in an old stupid comedy show that put it on the map because 'Ermesinde was the town of the hot bitches' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uv7y1dtxUk )
I lost 50k Chrome extension users after adding required permissions
I moved to Veracruz, Mexico partly to save money, partly to learn Spanish. I pay $75/mo for a room in a fully furnished apartment.
Well enough they keep coming out with them every year.
I think this post is meant to be a joke.
I also have a lease in NYC set to expire in September and plan not to renew it in favor of moving back home to Colorado. My hope is I'll be able to find remote work and pay off my student loans in one year while COVID blows over. No reason to pay exorbitant rent prices in a city where I cant take advantage of any of the benefits bc of the lockdown. I'm thinking this will be a nice retreat into nature.
The idea behind Chernoff faces (or using faces for data visualization) seems good: we humans are very good at distinguishing faces, so we can quickly find groups and outliers if the data is encoded with a face.

But we have to be careful with this. Changing facial expressions is not the same as increasing the height of a barplot, we're relating features with expressions and the visualization might express things that you don't want.

There is a very famous example for this in "Life in Los Angeles" (1977) by Eugene Turner [1]. Maybe you can infer the data well but in the end this just ends up being a map of angry black people. The choice of features and how to visualize them is clearly racist.

[1] https://mapdesign.icaci.org/2014/12/mapcarte-353365-life-in-...
As a counter anecdote, I did the same thing and I love the experience.

The difference is I bought a house nearby. It's actually been really nice, but I've always loved small towns and hated the city.
> killed thousands, mostly fellow blacks

Freedom is not free, that's a given.

Based on past experience in understanding other cultures as an outsider, i am pretty sure there is something else for disliking Mandela which can only be explained by a person from within who understands the different sections of the South Africa. Can someone shed light on this ? The above argument is very weak.
Glad to see India understanding the threat to national security posed by these apps. I would like to see the US do the same.
I will probably be doing that. Because of corona, I lost my job. In my case, I was living as an expat. Now I'm waiting for an offer from another company. If it's not good enough, then I will move back and take a year off to try new things like working remotely.

I don't want to work at a place that I don't really like, especially when I am living alone in abroad and there's a high risk of second wave coming. I guess it's time to take a break and focus on myself and my family.
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Which is probably why he should be singularly blaming the product. I'm sat at home. I don't want to watch video on my phone while sitting on the couch with my 60 inch television right there.

(To be honest this is just one of the pile of problems of the product/service)
Not sure where he's getting his numbers from, but check out: DNSSEC validation, by country from APNIC https://stats.labs.apnic.net/dnssec
I moved into my parent’s house for a spell several years ago to save money for a down payment. (Married, one kid, brought the au pair with us, lol.) These days, my parents live about 10 minutes away and we sleep over a couple of weekends a month. If we didn’t already live out in the exurbs near them we would have moved in with them during COVID.

Living closely with family is routine outside the US and is only considered “lame” in a handful of developed countries.
Yeah I hear you there, that would be a big one for me. I have a lot of mental constraints around my parents. Not at ease doing things I like to do without my parents always trying to tone down everything I want to do for work or fun. It's incredibly stressful when they do that because it's always screaming in my face "don't be yourself, be the normal person we want you to be" and I don't think the point of life is to be normal
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Are your parents also in the Bay Area?

Yeah idk I just don't see the draw to the city now... and instead of half-assing it, maybe just moving home and getting a good bike etc is wortwhile.

Basically zero dating options though, so that's the big downside.
Completely agree with this. In fact, I'd say it is the same for a lot of massively overvauled "silicon valley" startups, which actually get little to no funding from the silicon valley ecosystem. A lot of these companies get a fancy-sounding HQ address, hire some engineers from established companies, then go attract investors from other, more traditional industries or foreign countries by selling themselves as the next big tech startup. Theranos is a very famous example of this as well. The company was a joke in the normal SV investment circles since day 1.
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> While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.”

Emphasis mine.
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From the article:

> while it’s too soon to declare the end of Quibi, it’s still worth asking: is the promise of the quick bite already over? And what went so wrong?

it doesn't say "it failed" it says their adoption has collapsed. "it has simply not met early (and very ambitious) targets" is just another way of saying their numbers are bad, which is ... all the article is saying. Doesn't seem even remotely close to warranting a flag.
To be fair, for as long as I worked at Apple, there was one dude who maintained Terminal, and I'm pretty sure it was his side-hobby. Nice guy! Name escapes me at the moment.
Nice are you American? I'm B2 in spanish and would consider doing the same thing.
One might hope that a common enemy (say, a virus with no known vaccine) would act to reduce polarisation in a society.
I would have started by asking what position she was looking for, and if she started all the way at the top like CEO, I’d whittle it down by starting with “don’t you think encouraging your entire class to aim only for the top, that you’ll be setting lots of them up for failure?” And if she didn’t relent, follow it up with “people who are on a CEO track need to know what life is like for those who build their products.” Or ask her whether she’s running a CS or MBA program for a cheeky jab.

You’ll never know if you don’t ask, and there are no stupid questions.
Well, sometimes, the _root cause_ is so bloody obvious. But now you have to figure out how to fix it without breaking everything around and spending a year refactoring.
Great points. I think your points are especially salient given GP's points earlier above:

> There's a whole real-life social network out there, and they definitely aren't inviting the programmers.

Is that really the case? Or is it just the case that they're not inviting the kind of "programmers" that GP knows/is (and for what it's worth, I consider myself an engineer, not a programmer)? For what it's worth, as a 30 year old "just an IC" in tech, I know a lot more HNI individuals and "high status" people (supermodels, executives, musicians, scions) /and/ find it way easier to get meetings with folks in /their/ network if I want to than my peers from university who were just as ambitious as I was and who went into law, management consulting, banking, or academia.

While I wouldn't say my experience is necessarily indicative of the average IC in my field or world, it is certainly not unique; indeed, my managers at previous firms took very similar trajectories. But then again, this is based on my experience in NYC. As the world is changing, I do think there is an increasingly accelerating understanding that the wheels of power are increasingly being seized by technology, and that those who utilize it to do so have the world as their oyster.
> The primitive numerical type that should be used instead of floating point is the rational. Rationals have their own problems (no numeric type is perfect) but their problems are much easier to manage than float's.

Rationals are not algebraic types; you don't support exponentials, radicals, or logarithms. A lot of numerical algorithms require algebraic operations on real numbers to compute their results--for example, computing eigenvalues, or numerical approaches to root finding. If you're going to argue for using symbolic notation, well, closed-form solutions cannot exist for several of the kinds of problems we want to solve.

Another issue is that rationals are fundamentally more expensive to compute than floating point; normalization of rationals requires computing a gcd (not really parallelizable on a bit level, and so can't be done in 1 cycle), while a floating point requires count-leading-0 (which is).

As a case in point, the easiest way to find a solution to a rational linear programming problem is to... solve it in floating-point to find a basis, and then adjust that basis using rational arithmetic (usually finding that the floating-point basis was indeed optimal!). Trying to start with rational arithmetic makes it slower by a factor of ~10000×.
2019-20 flu season: 0.02% total excess deaths in Europe
EuroMOMO tracks mortality statistics from european countries. I went to EuroMOMO.com, and looked at their charts. By adding up the number from 2019 week 40 to 2019 to week 20, which covers the usual flu season, I came up with 100,804 excess deaths. The same period in the 2017-2018 winter season gave me 59,718 excess deaths (the 2018-19 flu season was less deadly).

The population of countries that participate in EuroMOMO is 468 million people. This tells me that the excess death rate this flu season was 0.022%, compared to 0.013% for the 2017-2018 season.

This was a bad season, but not apocalyptic by any means.
Should health agencies take credit for a successful intervention, or is covid-19 just not as deadly as first feared?
I think not, unfortunately. The official git repo hasn't been touched in 2 years. [0] More recently though, a brave functional programming adventurer has been working on a Joy compiler written in Haskell, for what that's worth. [1]

I skimmed the 'overview' page [2] and it looks unusual enough that I might give it a more serious go at some point.

I'm not especially au fait with functional programming, and have only a basic familiarity with Forth, so it's rather alien. Which is of course the appeal.

[0] https://github.com/joy-language/joy-lang.org

[1] https://github.com/owainlewis/joy

[2] http://joy-lang.org/overview-of-joy/
I would say this is true of most retail experiences. It's easy enough to shop for exactly the things that you know you want. It's much harder to do discovery, to find alternatives or to creatively solve problems without 1) seeing options spread in front of you in the way you only get in a physical environment 2) having staff around you can ask. I'm thinking specifically in a hardware store like scenario. I know I have such and such a problem in my house but I'm not a contractor, but I am handy. Having someone right there that I can describe my problem too and how I'm thinking of solving it and having someone with some experience say "oh what you need is xyz, isle 4" is invaluable. You don't get that on amazon.
> The article to me seems to be saying that if you pour your heart and soul into a skill, let's say playing guitar, and after several years despite your best efforts you are still not very good, you probably should not depend on it to support yourself financially. This doesn't preclude you doing it for fun on your own terms.

This is a perfectly sensible point, but it's basically a trivial bit of insight. Indeed, if you can't make a decent living from something then you have to find something different to do. It seemed to me that the article made the point that you should hyper-specialize on the thing that you're 'best' at (from an economic perspective, I guess).

Incidentally I think that if you like smth enough to stick with it for a few years then you'll end up being pretty good at it (although, if the thing itself is not lucrative, you may not be able to make a living from it).
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Yeah all you can do in NYC now is go to the park and get take-out food... not going to socialize heavily since all big events are cancelled.