skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading the four hour work week years ago, and he said something like refund no questions asked.

Look, amazon offers refunds when people send back a brick instead of a computer and jeff bezos is rich enough to compete in the space race 2.0
Title: s/Religion/Faith/
You think ATT is the worst? Clearly haven’t had the joy of dealing with Frontier (the ISP).
> I tell about UPI to my friends in Western countries, When they tell how easy and seamless Apple Pay has made their payments, they're often surprised that such system exists here […]

Western countries in your statement is probably mainly USA, as most of Europe has been using contactless payment via NFC for many years.

Apple Pay is effectively just using the phone’s NFC chip instead of that embedded in the debit/credit card, although it does bring one advantage: Because the iPhone has its own authentication system, you’re never asked for PIN code when paying with your phone, whereas paying with a debit/credit card will ask for PIN if the amount is above a certain threshold, or if it hasn’t asked for a long time.

I have been using payment apps in Asia, not India, but Apple Pay is definitely more seamless (or NFC enabled cards), as these only require you to hold them near the terminal, whereas a payment app require first being launched, and then either scanning a QR code and confirming, or bringing up your QR code to have the cashier scan it.

Don’t get me wrong: I am very much a fan of the concept of UPI, I am commenting just to clarify that universal payment interface with third party apps is different than NFC enabled payments, where I think it is really the latter, that your friends in Western countries are describing as seamless.
Yep, but Apple and Amazon would face major losses.
I love trying to take photos of the night sky. It’s definitely one of the most challenging forms of photography for me, both technically (getting the right exposure, focus, stacking if required etc) and creatively (it’s actually quite hard to compose an interesting shot with the night sky in a lot of the time - just pointing straight up doesn’t usually make for that interesting a photo). I also find it quite a relaxing experience as you spend a lot of time looking at the stars and waiting for long exposures :)

Unfortunately I live in central London at the minute where there aren’t that many opportunities to take night sky photos (but I did have fun trying to capture the ISS going over the City of London), I would love to live somewhere with darker skies!
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You are wrong on one very important point: NPCI is a non-government entity. It is a not for profit corporation that acts as a conglomeration of banks. The government gets a day in it by 1. owning public sector banks and 2. By regulating it indirectly as RBI (which is itself quite autonomous).

It is more akin to a not for profit VISA than the Fed Reserve.
You might check out Aseprite. It's a a software which binaries are paid, but source code is free and you can just conpile a program for free if you want.
App markets (and so many other rating services) are often so dominated by fake 5-star and toxic 1-star reviews, that I think any rating system needs to take the credibility of the reviewer into account.

Any account that only gives 1 or 5 star reviews, should probably have the value of those reviews reduced. A new account created only to give an extreme review of one product, is probably not too credible. Established accounts that give varied and nuanced reviews are more useful and more valuable.

These considerations should go into the calculation of the final rating, as well as which reviews are featured. That way, I think you can discourage fake or toxic reviews and reduce their impact, and focus more on honest reviews.
Direct link[1] to the change.org petition.

[1] http://chng.it/Zw7QxgwGCS
What a complete waste of human lives, that will only set the scene for an even more horrible war afterwards. For what...
Pretty Much - I seem to remember an Economist article talking about how the 2000's saw some of the largest gains for the middle class globally, with China's middle class being one of the contributing factors.

But you're right, jobs are not zero sum either. They create new jobs, which in turn create other new jobs, and so forth. If they didn't, we'd all pretty much be unemployed except for farmers.
Multiple DCs do not resolve the single-entity issue. Connectivity failures are not the only kind of failures that can happen.

The equivalent for US would be for VISA to have a marketshare of 90% and MasterCard around.

RBI floated a paper recently trying to setup a alternative body to fix this, but this might take ages.
I'm even creating my own audiobooks from ebook text, as a way to consume books not officially available in audiobook!

I haven't tested it much yet but the 'Samantha' voice actually seems listenable and intelligible for long periods.
Mozilla and "respectful to their users" are not two sentences that belong in the same ballpark on the same planet in the same galaxy in the same galactic group. Anytime there's a choice between two options, one giving users more control and one stripping it away, they choose the latter.

It's the same kind of utter disdain I see in the GNOME design.
Definitely. The "premium mediocre" stuff has been on my mind a lot, and I'm sure it's conceptually related. "Downward mobility" is a good term here.
Same for the XMPP based chat app for android, Conversations (although F-droid already provides a compiled package, so users don't really have much incentive to buy the Play Store version).
The brand is dead, which is important for social network apps. Relaunching would peak interest for a few weeks before quickly becoming a second mistake.
To be fair, with most start ups if you say 'this will fail' you're probably right, what, about 4/5 times at least. But you'll never invest in Google, Dropbox, AirBnB or whatever.

Even the smartest VC's hit rates wouldn't be that great (i.e. say 3/4 of their investments make it) even though they make overall by picking the occasional drop box.
It shouldn't if you model it right. A lot of companies do very well with 'open core', which is sort of this. I think there's other successful ones as well.

For instance laravel has a hosted invoicing app: InvoiceNinja, but it's open source too, as in you can host it yourself, just it doesn't have any of the multi-tenant stuff baked in.
sebmarkbage and sebmck are different people.

sebmarkbage is one of the architects of React and a TC39 member. He's known for the Fiber architecture, among other things.

sebmck/kittens wrote 6to5 as a teenager in Australia, eventually landed a job doing JS infra at Facebook, and now works at Discord. He's a founder Babel, Lerna, Yarn, and now Rome.
I've got to admit, that was indeed a surprise. I really hope other DB vendors don't follow Oracle's example into toxic vendorship.
They still aren't certified to do nuclear payloads like RTGs, and when the Mars 2020 contract went out they were only certified to launch the smaller NASA missions
Naive question from someone not the least involved in fish farming: why would this assumption fail? Sounds reasonable. Works with humans, too, btw. See skyscrapers.
The “resolution” is done by forwarding the query to your PSP which forwards it to the NPCI which forwards it to the issuing bank.

The client-PSP is over HTTPS, and the remaining legs are over UPI (which is essentially SOAP+XML) which uses XML signatures.

There are rate-limits built at most ends, and I think most PSPs also cache the resolution.
Wait, C#s type system is turing complete??
Does somebody have an example type that the compiler cannot check?
Microsoft also mismanaged skype. They're an enterprise software company, not B2C.
>or not sufficiently tested

How do you test a policy?
I love all these colorizations, especially videos (easy to find on YT).

One thing I've been wondering about: Is it possible that the ML algo turns the faces into more "modern" faces because it's presumably trained on later color footage?
All entertainment is for dopamine and serotonin. Short form media has just made it more efficient.
Just to clarify, set-up here means that the RBI gave it permission and authority to operate retail payments in India.

It is not controller by the government and is a separate entity that more or less operates as a conglomerate of major banks.
Sebastian started it, and it followed him when he left:

https://romefrontend.dev/blog/2020/08/08/introducing-rome.ht...
Yes, this disturbs me also (I also prefer cash). Unfortunately cash is regarded as "old fashioned" by many.
Yes, it's about confidence levels.

There will always be known differences between staging and production, e.g. service names, networking.

The point about staging is that it lets you run risk-free tests on a set of things, in a way that give you confidence about the things that are the same as production. The fact that a set of things works in staging is never an absolute guarantee that it will work in production.

If you are in the position of needing to ship releases rapidly, and you can't run meaningful tests in the available time, then no, it's not useful.
> It's interesting to see how NASA has been slowly being privatized via these contracts.

It was always my understanding that NASA is a public research institution whose role is to also provide incentives to jump-start areas of the space-based or space-oriented economy. Therefore, one of its main missions is to provide incentives for private companies to conduct research in that domain, such as allowing research programs to be awarded to private companies or consortia including private companies.

ESA works exactly the same way, for instance.
> why haven't we been able to advance on-device processing?

Probably because getting the payloads shipped for server side processing provides a constant stream of training material updates? That's my cynical take, at least.

But there's got to be more. Paraphrasing H.L. Mencken[0], for every complex problem there is an answer that is straightforward, easy to accept - and wrong. I remember how in the late naughties Nokia had an early version of on-device speech recognition: long-press the trigger key and you could call people by uttering out a saved "voice tag". IIRC the feature picked the right entry roughly 1/3 of the time.

For what comes next I'm relying on hearsay, but from what I heard at the time, the feature was originally developed at MIT. Nokia then financed the team to optimise their code and underlying detection model to be ported to ARM and to fit the constrained memory/CPU envelope. Because Nokia definitely had collaboration with MIT at the time, this is at least plausible.

If people are expected to use speech-to-text in real life, it has to work within very strict boundaries. Low latency and high accuracy are table stakes. At least some level of contextual awareness would be nice. As long as predictive text input routinely provides us with meme-worthy failures, I won't expect anything better from (fundamentally noisier) speech inputs. And if server-side processing is the only way to get performance from dismal to somewhat functional, practical applications don't have much of a choice. Plus, you don't have to ship your model to end user devices.

For what it's worth, I dislike voice interfaces. But when they do work, I dislike them less than Byzantine and user-hostile phone menu systems. I guess that qualifies as progress.

0: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/17/solution/

1: https://nokia-e71.helpdoc.net/en/nokia-e71-user-guide/phone/...
Thanks for the correction. Both the cited CNBC and Reuters article made me presume the ByteDance earnings were for TikTok and Douyin combined, but I didn't know about Toutiao. Thanks again. Pity I can't update my post because it's closed for edits.
Amazon does do this now I believe. I've definitely seen products with mostly 5* reviews that have an overall score of like 3*. There's some vague explanation in their help system but they don't go into details unfortunately (for obvious reasons).
I like Nomad, which also uses HCL, but why would you use it for anything else? Serious question, it's not a common choice.
> It is definitely not a perfect system. The problem is society in general accepts this behavior.

The problem is the justice system accept this behaviour. We can not and should not depends on the public opinion in general to determine injustices to happen. That's why we have a justice system after all.
spam and unrelated crap sounds a lot like Google search these days
UPI is extra glue over IMPS, which is definitely more battle-tested.
Yes, but keep your voice down. Nuance scares the man-children.
> didn't look like it had ever been shelled

Ah, that's the "flaw" I couldn't quite point my finger at. Thanks.
1. I managed to do business without taking drugs as long as I can think.

2. I am used to people coming to me for advice and my services. I never needed to advertise etc. so THEY will have to do business else where just as I said.

3. Just because in your opinion (data please) "many business relationships are formed from having some drinks" does not lead to "ALL business relationships are formed from having some drinks". This is a flaw in your logic.

4. If "feeling friendly/chatting/etc." is the reason for you to take drugs then I advice you to do therapy or something else to learn to be friendly, chatty etc. without the need to take drugs. If you need drugs to achieve this all the time this is a clear indicator that you have serious issues.
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DeepSpeech is a lot less accurate and much slower than Facebook's FOSS offering, wav2letter, on equivalent data. If they want something competetive they'll need to drop DeepSpeech, or overhaul it. Common Voice is where the value is.

Like, there's nothing stopping firefox from just using wav2letter. It's BSD-licensed.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter
Unfortunately, in the US, simply not taking debt (minimally a credit card and/or car loans) means that you can be negatively affected in life. Most places won't report that you've been paying your electric bill or rent on time - they'll only report negatives if they hit a threshhold or if you, say, forget a final bill.

Which means that a responsible person, who simply lives within their means and pays bills on time, buying used cars and such, winds up with no credit history. This means that folks might deny an apartment or that you'll pay a higher interest rate on a car loan. You might not get a loan for housing until you build up credit.

Credit was an issue for women specifically at one time because most bills were in their spouse's name - and joint bank accounts were usually "owned" by the husband, so that history wasn't working towards the woman.

I'm not sure if medical debt still counts towards credit scores or not: All you used to need for negative marks was to have an accident and be poor. (I have an uncle that had bankruptcy because of it: He wound up with a 250,000 hospital bill. He only made 30k before and could no longer perform his job)

It is a really crappy system, and I truly wish it were geared more towards folks simply being responsible and living within their means. Or at least minimally, require more of the positives be reported (so a hospital bill will never be negative unless that hospital also reports that folks paid on time).
> Reporting bugs doesn't make someone a bad customer.

Depends on the bug. Complaining about problems with Windows 7 or demanding good performance ancient tablets and netbooks that emulate either 32-bit X86 on ARM or ARM on 32-bit X86 and then complaining loudly in public when these things aren't supported isn't a sign of good customer.
Covid-19 signals the end of the American era
LEA and scaled indexes will be a good choice.
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NEFT now runs on 30 minute batches, and it is 24x7x365. RBI changed it December 2019.

It’s still not real time, but NPCI doesn’t see your transactions :)
> FHA loans are guaranteed by the the federal government. During the next recession if you default on this loan because you no longer want to pay the loan, it will be the rest of us taking the loss, not the bank.

everyone likes socialism when they get paid, no one likes socialism when they have to pay for other people's stuff. This is probably a failure mode.
If your marketplace is for “open core” licensed code it would make sense for you to use that model too.
Here are all of the winning submissions to the IDA's "Capture the Dar" contest:

https://www.darksky.org/winning-submissions-for-capture-the-...
Closure's Achilles' heel is that it's written in Java. It's well-integrated into the stack at Google, but independent JS developers are often skeptical of tools that require more than `npm install`. It's been recently cross-compiler to JavaScript, so it is now available via npm.
Depends on your definition of capitalism. If all companies were worker co-ops and workers had spots equal votes on board, and shares then sure. It'd be a win/win. As it stands, probably not because it doesn't matter how much productivity rises, wages stay stagnant, and that's not how it should work and I'd say it's not healthy for it to work like that.

Better production/productivity should have a upward slope with wages, and gradually wages across all industries go up. That's the only way any of this is sustainable.
And rightly or wrongly you will be outcompeted by places with more risk appetite, until they have a security breach before they are big enough to swallow the cost.
I think I know what you mean, that, historically, there's been a stereotype of "women's magazines", and you were using it as a familiar illustration. I propose that we figure out different illustrations.

We can see similar, if less-recognized, patterns in many publications labeled as for "men", "lifetyle", "health", "technology", "news", etc.

We've been calling them "women's magazines" so long, and I assume that, before I was born, society let magazine publishers frame how we call and think of the magazine, and its implied assertions about women.

Today, with publishing opened up more, and even literal children posturing as broadcast "influencers", that some of the dynamics of publisher as often posturer, manipulator, and exploiter are more transparent to us.

I don't know how to solve this, and it seems to be many different problems. But I'm thinking that one thing we can do about it (and certainly this is far from a novel idea, including in this particular space), is to reject manipulative terms and labels that self-interested parties try to force on us.
The luck was in Gary Kildall missing out on the contract
That's only against overhead shockwaves and states in the article that serious advancements have been made to protect from other types of damage.
When I had an ERP & CRM Reseller business, most customers were reasonable but a significant few were bullies.
I found the best way to deal with them is to be tough back, to say no to unreasonable requests, to charge even more than to other customers and remind them that they are always free to go elsewhere, I had several screaming swearing calls as a result, but the strange thing is, they rarely left and they paid in full.
This only applies if you are selling through a 3rd party platform.

If you are selling directly, enforcing the T&C against scammy customers is much easier.
The default keyboard shortcut wasn't working and it was opening a different extension instead. I went to the voice extension settings and thought it was bad ux how you have to enter the case-sensitive keyboard shortcut names instead of pressing the keys to read the keys.
Any amount of alcohol can cause impairment in any person.
More insight porn from this guy.
a lot of things changed as a consequence. The USA definitely came out on top. A lot of colonies were "liberated". For the most part Europe became democratic (which it clearly wasn’t before)

Are the deaths justified? Of course not. But the world would be very very different.
Care to expand on this? Never heard this opinion before, and I quite liked the one novel of his I've read (The Warden).
The ones from the Russian Empire are much higher resolution (stunning!) than the WW I photos, any idea if this has to do with the original photos themselves, or the scanning process?
I'm in the same position and we haven't built our infrastructure yet.

Did you use a managed service?

Or did you build it slowly and carefully on AWS?

I'm currently stuck between the two options. Managed service seems the easiest way to be HIPAA compliant but I'd rather we managed our own infrastructure on AWS since it gives us more flexibility for stuff like blue green deploys and it would be cheaper.
The ‘-ize’ have it (2012)
I do not need a sales department because my services and products speak for themselves and people want to have them. They come because of reputation and part of this is being sober, punctual, efficient and professional.

I am sad for you when you need to do this and I am happy for myself not to be in this position where one would force me to take drugs to do my job.
This matches with what I've learned as well with digital B2C products. You should fully refund with a very low bar. No questions asked, even.

Assume the customer has a point, even if you don't fully get what the point is. If they are not happy for whatever reason, promptly give them their money back, apologise for the bad experience, and move on.

Furthermore, your customer support should never be defensive; their job is not to protect your company but really side with the customer. Early on, when every dollar counts, it's easy to fall into the trap of trying to argue with the customer to keep their money. Just don't do that, it will annoy the customer and you'll have to refund them anyway.

Yes, some people will take advantage of this, especially with refunds. That's the cost of doing B2C business, perhaps with digital products in particular where it's hard to prove the customer “received value”.

When they say ”the customer is always right”, as cheesy as it sounds, they have a point. And it's not that the customer is always technically correct, but assuming that stance will be better for your business.
I have it hidden on the left so it does not take space. Even though I have shortcuts to open all apps. It is helpful for managing windows when I have many windows of the same app minimized.
> The entire idea of insurance is that it should be priced to take losses into account and break even.

insurance needs to make a profit or there is no incentive for investors to risk the loss of capital or assume the opportunity cost (meaning they could invest elsewhere). The person selling the insurance exchanges gives up a known regular amount to protect themselves against an unpredictable potential loss. The insurer accepts the risk of paying the unpredictable future cost in order to receive known predictable regular income. If the expected value of the transaction is zero then the insurer is essentially risking their capital for nothing.
Nice article. I'd love to see examples of people using slack for personal life. Don't know anyone who does this.
I certainly didn't mean to say that.

Are you saying that people who don't believe in advanced alien tech also do not believe in God? Or am I having a mental breakdown? I'm fairly sure I know what a subset is and its logical implications.
Perhaps it's related to some EU employment law about "career progression"?

Every contract I've signed certainly had such things in there.

Often employers say they'll pay for exams but not allocate study time during your working week.