skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>not compensated for the hard work they do

Really? Their SO pays for the mortgage that puts a roof over their head. Their SO pays for the groceries (i.e. food on the table). Their SO pays for the gas they use, the electricity they use, the internet they use, and so on. While this isn't the case for single stay at home mothers, to say "IT'S UNPAID LABOR" is just incorrect.
No, their job is to collect payments as well as detect and prevent fraud and expedite chargebacks and refunds.

https://stripe.com/radar

If I’m paying Stripe for Radar, and there are needed chargebacks, it’s Stripe’s issue, not mine.
Is the sentiment that the system is working or at least improving in the right ways?
what's the point? risk free interest on a rolling 28-day buffer is less than a chequing account, which is essentially zero. I guess it's a good PR & signaling move but I think it's more important that you focus on reducing the % or length of the reserve.
Great question! We could also use a deleter, set up when we create the object, but thats often too early to know what parameters to pass into the destructor.

In some cases, you do know the destruction parameters up-front, and there I would agree that a deleter is great.

Sometimes you can't know the parameters up front, so can't easily get them into the deleter when you initialize. The call-once std::function and the future are good examples: These both take parameters which you might not know until later on. If you already know the values of a future when you're creating it, it probably wouldn't be a future.

future.~resolve(resultOfSomeAsynchronousCalculation);
1. A Sturmgewehr doesnt' trigger police intervention. I see sometimes people carrying the military assault rifle on a bike or in the tram. Probably tourists/foreigners are shocked but no Swiss would call the police.
3. Not really. Swiss are generally responsible people but the truth is nobody checks this. In Germany, the police comes and checks if you store it in a weapon safe. I have guns and nobody has showed up. However, I store the ammunition in a safe.

In Switzerland, people are properly trained. My father showed me how to use guns (he was a border guard), went to a club and I did military service. It's not as easy as in the US to get a gun (i.e. without paper) but if you take the time and do the paper work, have a clean record you can get a gun without a problem.
The case that comes to mind for me was a very close friend who faced a disease with one in five odds of long-term survival, three decades ago.

They were among the other four.

I've monitored progress on medical knowledge and treatment of the condition over the ensuing decades. What I've learned is that:

- It's now possible to directly detect the genetic marker of the condition. We have improved detection and precision of Dx.

- The actual therapy ... is effectively unchanged. The chemo and radiation therapies they'd received were essentially unchanged over the preceding two decades, and were based on chemicals and mechanisms already in use in the 1950s (though dosing, quality, and side-effects mitigation are somewhat improved).

- The compounds themselves date to World War One, poison gas, and human experiments now considered crimes against humanity. History is interesting....

- These treatments remain largely unchanged in the decades since my friend's death. And five-year mortality for the condition remains about 80%.

That's the science: fifty to seventy years of effectively no progress. Not for want of trying.

From a point of view of assuaging Past Me that we'd pursued and received not only the best of all possible treatment, but hadn't missed out on any late-breaking developments, this information is comforting. Operating in the ultimate domain of uncertainty, of what the future might bring, we'd made the best decisions.

And yet at the time, in an era pre-dating the Web (though I did at the time have access to the pre-Web Internet), "helpful" people offerred various "nontraditional" therapies, the most frequent revolving around "laetrile" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin#Laetrile), acyanide-based compound repeatedly demonstrated to have no therapeutic effectiveness, and multiple risks, since the 1960s. Despite this, treatment "clinics" had sprung up, notably in the Caribbean and in Mexico, offering the "treatment", at a steep fee. (Actor Steve McQueen is among those who'd fallen prey to the scam.)

I ran interference for those closer to my friend by intercepting, assessing, and discarding any such literature. In the heat of fear, uncertainty, confusion, doubt, and guilt that are the hallmarks of dealing with grave illness, adding more useless malicious and fraudulent bullshit to the informational mix would have been actively harmful, both medically for the patient and psychologically for them and all caregivers.

And I remain glad I did.
In general, lower code complexity results in fewer bugs and security problems, less code implies lower resource usage, so you could run the system with a smaller main memory, a slower CPU or lower power/energy consumption. In addition, if you plan to target real-time applications, setting up Linux to guarantee your real-time constraints is not trivial.

All of this is not that relevant for running Smalltalk-80 on the Pi, since Smalltalk was running happily on 16-bit machines with one or a few MBs of RAM.

So I guess the ultimate reason for doing this is "it can be done" - for the fun of hacking :-).
Or - make them pay for their training costs if they leave.
Referencing Ken Rockwell for photo advice is pretty funny. If you don't know his reputation, just look at his photos and judge for yourself. That said, his gear reviews are useful.

As for editing for brightness, contrast, ...: All digital images are edited. You either let the camera manage levels & color ("straight out of camera") or you do it.
Or they could just terminate your merchant account and put you on the MATCH list for excessive chargebacks.

This -is- being nice and empathetic for a payment processor.
An AI graphic designer convinced clients it was human
Was going to say maybe more of those cars exist, but that shouldn't affect failure rate as a percentage.
I write big complicated applications and I write all my frameworks myself. (I'm a one person team) It is very much doable. You can check out my frameworks at: gamepipeline.org
My company has processed just under $1 million on Stripe and honestly the only complaint I've ever had is the customer service. You send an email with a problem/question and you get a response from someone. But there is no ability to talk to that same person again...I've literally ended up in months-long email chains where I just have to explain my problem over and over to a new person each time. Edwin, since it sounds like you're reading this, it would be great if Stripe could address this generally (or my issue specifically!).
Visual Diff and Commenting for Notebooks
BLM and other activists already flagged the post. Wnder how long will it survive to be on the visible list.

One of the best ideas I have seen here on HN lately. Good job who came up with it. I wish you success, but don't get your hopes up in today's political climate.
Heavy metals from open-pit mining can spread up to 30 kilometers away
Forgive me if I am wrong or ignorant, but wouldn’t this design be very weak since all the weight of the items in the pocket falls onto one seam? Most pants anchor the pocket bag to the waist, which is much more durable.
alright, so who pays when the lawsuit goes through? Taxes? How do we get it from the guilty department's budget?
TLDR: Mormanism is a very missionary-driven religion. Success in MLM's requires a similar missionary-style dynamic. Therefore Mormanism is fertile ground for MLM's.
A cross compiler is easy enough to set up with clang too (just specify the -target command line option).

I just think that when starting out in kernel development, you're likely going to be dealing with linker scripts for likely the first time. It's been a while since I tried rust for this, but C generates pretty clean object files, so the linker scripts from the OSDev wiki can often be copied verbatim.
You might investigate alternatives as well - for small volume clients I could see the bookkeeping cost increase being more than the value of received interest.
I'm not even going to read the comments. These pockets meet my needs. Where can I buy the pants?
Where can Stripe earn reasonable amounts of short-term interest without risk to the principal?
> Someone perfectly reasonable could think better safety nets and less inequality is a worthy trade-off for less growth

Except California also has among the highest levels of income inequality and highest cost-of-living adjusted poverty rates in the entire country: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio...

It's not just about potentially different priorities about growth versus safety nets. It's also a question of whether you believe that you should double down on the policies that have made California and New York among the hardest places to live for the middle and lower middle class.

In places like California and York, so much money meant to go to "better safety nets and less inequality" actually goes to providing secure middle class lifestyles for college educated white people. California, for example, is drowning in teacher pension debt despite having some of the highest state taxes in the country. But over 60% of California teachers are white, in a state where just 23% of schoolchildren are white. So when people look at white-hispanic test score gaps (California having among the largest gaps in the country), and vote for more education funding, the actual impact on reducing inequity is extremely attenuated. Likewise, on housing policy, people act very concerned about it in New York and California, but how much money and legislative effort goes to actually providing housing for people who need it, versus paying salaries for college-educated administrators and bureaucrats, versus propping up housing prices in middle/upper middle class racially segregated neighborhoods?

I'll note that LA teachers are demanding that as a condition for schools reopening, charter schools be shut down: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-26/citing-c.... Charter schools are, of course, a policy that's supported by the majority of the black and hispanic people that actually have kids in the school districts. (White Democrats are the only group where a majority oppose charter schools and vouchers.) This is a really telling illustration of what the real priorities are.

If, for the taxes Californians and New Yorkers pay, they actually got a robust safety net, good schools, and good transit, I imagine that a lot fewer people would leave.
Konkordanz is very important in Switzerland. A few years ago the SVP - the biggest party by active membership in Switzerland - proclaimed to act as an opposition party from that point forth.

They where thoroughly ridiculed; there is no place for an opposition party in Switzerland, since all the major parties are part of the Executive Directorate, where the seven seats of the directorate are apportioned vaguely proportional to voter share (although there's a log of haggling involved and you need to get the minor parties to agree to chip in, since the Directorate is confirmed by the Parliament).

I do also think that it would be helpful to adopt similar power-sharing directorates instead of presidential systems where one party dominates and the other parties try to sabotage everything they do. Switzerland's system involves a lot of bickering and can be slow sometimes, but I do think it better than the back-and-forth of presidential democracies.
Since this thread is about what happened after someone got cancer and the treatments they followed are you saying your strategy for treating cancer is just not to get it?
Twitter’s Giant Bitcoin Scam Was a Dumb Con, but Security Failings Are Real
Before Stripe and Braintree, requiring a reserve was common for a lot of merchant accounts to manage risk for new companies with no history. Sometimes they'd require an up-front reserve payment or accrual reserve (like 10% until desired reserve was met). The most reasonable is a rolling reserve (like Stripe is doing) where they hold the money a bit longer in case of chargebacks or other issues.
We were told to shut up and put away our guns because these things could never happen...
Meh. I am finding myself enjoying simpler calendars. It's a cute gimmick for like, playing with. But I prefer simpler for things I have to use all the time.
I don't think so. Why do we have conscious experience, rather than nothing? Why are the 'lights on'?

This is a profound question. I don't think it's unreasonable to say it's up there with Why is there something rather than nothing? In a very real sense, nothing matters except consciousness, after all.
I started this discussion about Marxism-Leninism because I believe that Marxist-Leninist countries invariably turn brutal, for various reasons (and you seem to basically agree with me). That being the case, Chomsky should have assumed from the beginning that reports that Cambodia was brutal were probably accurate, and I assume he didn't because he has some mistaken ideological beliefs. And that being the case people should not be defending him.

I think this is part of a much larger problem. I think everyone should have an understanding of Marxism-Leninism and what is right or wrong about it. One of many reasons everyone needs to understand Marxism-Leninism is that China continues to be considerably influenced by it.

I am in my 70's, and it used to be a fair amount of the population had this understanding, but nowadays very few people do. This has happened partly because the left, both pro-and anti-communist, has basically stopped explaining it to people. One consequence is mistakenly defending people like Chomsky when they go wrong due to poor ideological understanding.

I think there are various reasons the left has stopped explaining Marxism-Leninism, but I think it is very unfortunate and am angry at them for this, and I take every opportunity to explain it, and in fact I am planning on someday writing an article on it.

Let me add it's nice to talk to someone who understands these issues far better than most people do.
Covid-19 Infections on the Rise in Kids and Teens as Schools Consider Reopening
Core data and swift itself. I've heard from ex apple workers that some team even use their own uikit-like components (table views, scroll views, etc).
We're at the point where the larger Republican establishment either needs to repudiate and remove this anti-American wannabe dictator, or they're going to find themselves at the guillotine alongside him. Our society cannot take another 6 months of economic destruction, brazen totalitarianism, and weaponized ignorance.
My understanding is that this is acceptable practice. There's a lot of luck to a post reaching critical mass on HN, so if you happen to get lost in the noise, you can try again. Trying three times does not feel at all egregious to me. As long as you don't delete old submissions to hide what you're doing, I think that's in line with HN's rules.

One notable difference is that today is a weekend, which means there's less traffic on HN but also less competition to reach the front page.
It seems like most of these startups are not succeeding though innovation rather they are "just" executing well. '“the consumerization of enterprise.”' ?
Your loading page size is 449.8 MB [1]

Please put that in your title.

[1]: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5cd8c1fc83000000
There may be cases of spontaneous remission. Effectively, that is the non-treatment control group.
for memory the tech already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ballooning

you could bill based on how much has/hasn't been ballooned out

CPU: AWS already have burstable instance types, which bill you more for usage if exceed your quota: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstabl...
Sure, I could use the CF APIs… but to do what? AFAICT with a quick look over the documentation, there isn't any way to tail a log of changes being made to the zone. (You can export the entire thing in BIND format, though, the example in the docs has several errors in it that make me wonder how well that would work.) (The idea with zone xfers is that it is at least semi-standardized, whereas CF's API, while useful, is not.)

Then I'm stuck with a bunch of bad questions about how often to poll, and whether CF's rate limits would support any reasonably quick poll interval.

(The big problem is that we have other tooling that relies on being able to update DNS, the big one being ACME for certificate renewal. The changes it makes to CF would need to be rapidly replicated out to the nameserver.)

(Nothing in the post really strikes me as particular to CF, either. I think I could easily replace everything I've said here with "Route 53" and end up in the same bucket, maybe plus or minus zone xfers working.)
Disclosure: I work at AWS on building cloud infrastructure

There is some information about Python optimization, especially for data science type applications, in our getting started guide: https://github.com/aws/aws-graviton-gettting-started/blob/ma...
Here are some references to quick COVID-19 tests:

"Blood test detects positive COVID-19 result in 20 minutes" - https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-blood-positive-covid-...

"Fresno health clinic offering rapid COVID-19 tests that give results in minutes" - https://abc30.com/fresno-county-coronavirus-covid-19-everyda...

"15-minute COVID-19 test proves accurate at confirming infection" - https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/05/08/15-minute-COVID-1...

"New rapid COVID-19 test approved by FDA, results in as little as 15 minutes" - https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/video/new-rapid-covid-19-te...

"A new COVID-19 test can return results in 5 minutes" - https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/28/21197944/coronavirus-test...
It is quite impressive, and slightly unreal, the variety of articles which get HN readers worked up.

But, truth be told, I enjoy these threads where I absolutely have no opinion and can look, sometimes in amusement but mostly in wonderment, at all sides of the debates.

Keep the passion strong, fellow readers.
"Journalists"? You mean that antifa lawyer group? Eff them, eff antifa, and I hope they all get what's justifiably coming to em.
> Stripe doesn't gain anything or do anything with this buffer. We don't earn interest.

I find that hard to believe. Otherwise Stripe is leaving money on the table and I doubt their MBAs would allow that.
This is a nice looking apartment!

Some perspective on the costs that look "scary" for the people outside of the USA. I'll share some personal data based on my 20 years since moving here. I have started with $60K and now I am making close to $250K. All this time I was living in a median cost area (one of the top 20 US cities, east coast).

My average effective tax rate over the last 20 years is 19.6% (this includes federal, state, social security and medicare taxes)

My average medical expenses for a family of four are at 3.6% of my gross salary (includes health/rx/dental/vision insurance premiums and out of pocket expenses)

I've paid cash for my oldest child's education at top 10 public university - ~1.5% of my earning over the last 20 years. I am expecting to pay similar cash amount for my other child.

We live in a 4000 sqft McMansion near the best public schools in the state. My mortgage is ~$820 at 2.5% APR

It does look like your effective tax rate is 31-35%, which is more than my all-inclusive rate of ~24.7%
So I live in Utah been here for most of my life and been involved in the Utah start up scene, and quite frankly I've been wondering why Utah has been at the top of more tech hub lists. The fact of the matter is you have a very edicated population with two major universities a younger population and a government that looks favorably on business. I'm surprised it took anyone this long to notice. I think there are two factors that work against the traditional SV perception in Utah.

Both of them stem from teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( of which I am a member) the first is the emphasis on families. A commonly heard refrain is "no success can compensate for failure in the home", this emphasis on family doesn't always meld well with eh working 80-100 hours a week, FAANG obsession mentality that is caricatured as part of being an SV startup.

The second is also another teaching of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that counsels it's memebers to avoid excessive debt. Whereas the entire SV startup mentality is get as much VC as you can and blow through it as quick as you can to fuel growth hopong you can claw your way out later. As data point on this until a while back I was working at ones of Utah's biggest, hottest most profitable startups as one of the first employees. The CEO didn't take out a bunch of business loans or get VC, he had owned quite a bit of property and liquidated it all to start the company.

Now the objection will be that everyone in Utah isn't a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, however the culture still is pretty pervasive.

That being said there are exceptions to every rule and things are changing. But most importantly.

There are too dang many of you coming to Utah and filling up my mountains and desert stay out find somewhere else live.
Within some consciousness, anyway. There might be others out there.
I think they are referring to his well-know islamophobia
Maybe these Portlanders should stop trying to burn down the federal courthouse.
Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
This one involved strategic executive shuffling, secretive organization policy changes, shell companies, and over a billion dollars initial investment. They were probably right in the middle of it. Especially considering the thing they were buying for $1B is likely actually worth $2B+.

The crazy thing is that this is probably all within the confines of the law.
I think there's a typo in the final screenshot. It looks like your original code outputs "RM" (maybe "real mode" or "hello Rust" in a different language?), but the example source seems like it should output "HR."

That or I'm very confused.
@jpesal:

Perhaps it is easier to understand looking at another topic. For example I like soccer, but if I post something about soccer it will be flagged 99% of the time. (The exceptions seams to be the Super Bowl, I blame USA centrism.)

Some post about some tech related to sport may get better traction here, like augmented reality to determine where each player was, or some algorithm to predict the results in a big championship.

It's not common that literature stories get traction,but there are exemptions from time to time, mostly some kind of science fiction. (Post about a famous author or book may get more traction.)
This thread could just as easily been titled: "an example of how powerful cognitive biases are." People come to believe many things and believe them, in the face of contradicting evidence, even to the point where the belief kills them.
Is there any indication that the poster is paying for Radar? It doesn't seem like it.
Doom on Hundreds of CPU Cores
It will turn out the way everything else turns out in the age of fruit fly attention spans and everyone trapped in arms races for that attention - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
If you had a link confirming B, I would be interested. To the first point: more bromoform will also be released in the environment if we deliberately cultivate large quantities of the kelp that produce it. A quick search doesn't show it as a greenhouse gas. It can deplete stratospheric ozone, but it is very short lived in the atmosphere.