skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't sound like it's Apple Card but rather the Apple Store doing the disabling.

He said his Bank Account info had changed and the Auto-Pay to Apple Card failed. He mentions a card decline but that he had available balance, he never mentions that is Apple Card is disabled however and is vague about the specifics surrounding the card.

He bought a Macbook, didn't or wasn't able to fulfill the trade-in, and thus the Apple Store determined he owed the amount they credited for the Trade-In. So when the Apple Store tried to debit his Apple Card for the trade-in amount it failed. The Apple Store then disabled the device purchased and the accounts associated with the purchase.

I have a feeling if you tried to do this with a Pre-Paid Visa or a Debit Account, Apple would still disable the device and accounts.

* Yeah it's just what I said. Apple/Store froze his accounts, not Apple Card.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/03/apple-missed-apple-card...

This will happen to anyone's accounts if they don't fulfill a transaction with Apple Store. It has nothing to do with Apple Pay.

** I also find it strange that he missed an email from Apple telling him he was delinquent on his purchase AND didn't see any emails about an Auto-Pay failure all while waiting for an email from Apple Support about his account being disabled.
you might find vscode to be a great replacement for vim... using the neovim extension you have a pretty much seamless true vim in vscode (with a few rough edges). some other extensions like magit for vscode are gaining functionality and polish coupled with best in class support for language server makes it pretty solid as a replacement.
Someone could build a combined Wayland/X server in the same process like that, but why? The only reason you would need to do that would be to run Wayland clients natively on your X server. IMO if you want to use Wayland it is much easier and more valuable to just port those tools. The hotkey daemons, screenshot tools, and command-line clients are pretty small and not that hard for someone to rewrite as a weekend project, people have done a lot of that already. The harder part is the window managers, but if you're a hard-core window manager author used to doing things the X way then you won't see much reason to switch anyway.
I need to make a conscious effort to stay the hell away whenever this comes up here on hn. It's not the only topic that does this, but it's by far the least productive one, lang wars can at least be educational.
I used to work in a State Capitol, and would occasionally run into confused tourists in strange places, or very much lost. They were always Chinese or German and I’d run into them two or three times a year.

One couple thought they were in Niagara Falls. Another somehow found themselves stuck in a secured employee parking garage. The strangest one was a person on a self guided tour who took a wrong turn and ended up wandering into a very unsafe neighborhood where I parked.

I think the root cause was a badly translated tour book or itinerary. The one of the Germans bought me a beer and definitely had an imperfect understanding of the geography!
There will be a few very intelligent people who will make the improvements while the rest of humanity does... Something. TBD.
"I get referred to as white. I put "white" on job applications and census forms."

So do I. And like every white person I know, if asked about identity, I state my heritage/background. Romanian/Romanian-American/American.

"I face an increasing amount of discrimination, from affirmative action making it harder to get jobs to subtle cultural discrimination like this or seeing stereotypes everywhere."

[Citation needed]. A lot (most?) companies still have issues with diversity because hiring is generally done via word of mouth, and it is likely among white people to have mostly white friends. edit: and as the sibling comment pointed out, there are tangible benefits that come with diverse teams.

(In my own opinion, it is also concerning to equate hires of minority candidates with lesser quality candidates. This is simply unsubstantiated and not true.)

Stereotypes have always existed. They're not appropriate regardless of the identity targeted, and reasonable people are aware of this.

What "cultural discrimination" are you talking about? There is no "white" culture in the first place.

"Imagine saying that to a black person when they were complaining about perceived racism that you disagreed with. "

Good thing I'm not. I'm saying it here because every single time black people talk about identity, white people butt in and go "what about me?". Literally every single time. Black people cannot talk about the issues they face without interjections of "uh hey we face issues too". Except you and I don't face the same discrimination and struggles that Black Americans do, not even close.

"But I and my age group was raised under the ethos that we should judge each other not by the color of our skin, but by the character of our hearts."

Cute story, but we need to acknowledge the real and systemic issues that people face precisely due to their skin color. And that means talking about race and identity, not conveniently ignoring it.
> It is very important that you realize when you pass one of those points.

It. Does. Not. Matter.

You're not going to be the same guy that sets up Facebook's garage server in 2004 and then scales it out to a multiple data center monster it is today.

If you are that guy, then I really feel sorry for you. Something went seriously wrong with your equity (or lack thereof) and you are doing janitor shit when you should be up in the tower with the other C-levels.
Clearly the higher ups were f-bomb-ing idiots. Who does that?
I am looking forward to that radiation detector, better watch out for gamma rays!
Terraform doesn't allow any backends other than the ones built-in. So even if you wanted to provide a "b2" backend, it'd have to be built into to terraform.

Using the S3 backend with B2 should work fine since B2 makes a S3 compatible API available, but its made more difficult because the "Amazon Provider Team" is the one that maintains the "s3" backend for Terraform, and they want to do additional validation that matches AWS's expectations.
> lock people out of all of their Apple services when there's a payment overdue

They did not do this.

He forgot to send them his trade-in and that triggered it. Nothing to do with the card.

It’s kinda outrageous he hasn’t updated the article to indicate this.
Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
I've tried to get into emacs, VS Code, and Sublime (all w/Vi keybindings, of course), but I always seem to find myself back in Vim (or Neovim).
I am in a long marriage,we each have our own money and joint account money. We are both in the same team and can spend our own money. Each person has the same percentage of take-home to spend as an individual.

Work for us, may not work for others.
Why do people need an incentive? Why can't people just raise their kids, maintain their communities and generally just live a simple life?
Netflix doesn't seem to be cutting anyone off here.

They're just forcing 2FA on accounts that meet some kind of threshold of "suspicious" behaviour. There's likely a lot of metrics being used to identify that.
It's for someone with 18 years experience, and Netflix pays all-cash (or lets you choose how much you want to redirect into stock). Total comp at a lot of FANGs is in that ballpark for that level. A high L7 at Google will get about that much, while L8 compensation is $1M+/year.

It also makes me wonder if this phenomena isn't new, but what is new is that we have anonymous verified salary survey sites to share it. I know some folks (friends of my parents, or parents of my friends) who were rainmakers at HP and Cisco. They would always just answer "A lot" when asked how much they made, but they lived in $2-3M+ homes a decade ago, before all the homes in the Bay Area started going for that much.
You just experienced alienation.
This has been a negative feature of our current production system for a long time.

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienation_(Marxism)

Try to find meaning in other parts of your life than labour. I like cooking for friends, growing plants and experiencing other worlds via cinema.
there is going to be a lot of people with back and neck problems. "niche appliance" ?? to me i can't stand the keyboard being right up against a screen what do we do? bend our head down? or lift our arms high? that's going to be very very bad to our bodies. Laptops should only be used in moderation and when they are the only option, but to use it daily that's very bad. Sounds like you work with hipsters who care about superficial stuff more then their health.
Reminds me of a time I was traveling where there was no internet access for two or three months, during which my credit card was compromised, the card was closed, it got declined on 3 or 4 bills, accumulating a couple hundred dollars in late fees and preventing me from paying with a credit card on those services.
No, the hard part is building a good API and user interface that works for everybody. IMO that's mostly why there are a lot of half-finished and inconsistent things like that X11.
I've had several experiences where I attended a tech talk by someone from Uber, and never once did I come away with the impression that the problem they were trying to solve was the kind of thing Fred Brooks had in mind when he coined the term "essential complexity."

That said, volume and velocity aren't the only kinds of scale that technical teams have to grapple with. I've spent enough time at a big organization to understand that Conway's Law costs CPU cycles. Lots of them.
Wow, daring to post this info on the very message board for YC.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/luhn-algorithm.asp
The sarcophagus is Enc_arch(Enc_recip(data)) so unwrapping it off chain isn't useful to them.

The only case it would be useful is if they collude with the recipient. I'm not sure how this procotol disincentives this.
> Is it because public companies can more easily put up corporate ownership as collateral for the loan?

It's because junk debt bonds are much cheaper interest rate wise for rapidly growing public companies as the growth means they are less risky.
Nobody Wants Cancer. But a ‘Big C’ Label Has Surprising Upsides
Make them read ask tom questions and answers. It really helped me understand real world cases.

https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:1000::::::
In a way, isn’t that the hell of modern life? Even if the teller/ phone support cared and was interested in helping and learning, they’d be screwed by their drop in Average Resolution Time. Are we making the world better or are statistics making us more compliant?
I know the original article is going to get shared way more than the follow-up from Apple that actually explains the events:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/03/apple-card-apple-id-unrelated...
Or we need the thing designed by people who don't have their head up their rear. Have you seen the dell XPS with a nosecam? When I got my computer and realised what they've done, i thought the management must have been on crack!
States with Republican governors had highest Covid death rates, study finds
As far as I understand, the UK situation was a court ruling about that an earlier general law should apply for the particular situation of Uber drivers and the other companies are likely to ensure that their situation is different and try to still treat them as contractors.

On the other hand, this is the government explicitly passing a law stating that they are to be treated as employees, so at least technically it's different, and IMHO preferable - clear laws to state what rules apply for a very common specific case that affects very many people, instead of waiting years on court rulings and appeals for each company separately.
It's still more than worrying enough that I will not use Apple Pay because the consequences of something going wrong and having my Apple Dev account locked are _way_ too high.

What if that phone had got lost/stolen in transit, instead of not being sent at all?
> The PoC removed from Github remains available on archive sites. Ars isn’t linking to it or the Medium post until more servers are patched.
yes, i don't understand how people don't notice this... forcing a keyboard to be right up against a screen is not a good idea. Most people don't even need a laptop or use it on a desk mostly anyways, at that point just get a monitor and keyboard/mouse and use it as a desktop and then when you really need to do some remote work you still can.
I'd much rather have nuclear waste safely contained in one spot than distributed into everyone's lungs. The worst case scenario with nuclear waste is that it's distributed around the environment. That's the status quo with fossil fuels. You absolutely do not want to "dilute" nuclear waste into the environment.
as Steve Blank's co-author, I must comment that building a startup is NOT gambling...his and my work and book are often discussed as "applying the scientific metnod to starups..." have a hypothesis, develop a test to prove or disprove it, run the test, read the results, iterate and test again...It is a serious, demanding process that has generated many millions in value for thousands of startups around the world. There is no other process so detailed and granular in its step-by-step process. And luck is at best a trivial influence on startup success...lean methods conceived by steve and in our book are a a far better alternative to the startup casino...
I have a great deal of admiration for someone who managed to succeed despite the obstacles placed in his path.
You don’t have to go to an office, but you have psychological needs that money alone doesn’t solve. Sure you can be rich and lay on the beach all day, but it’s not a very meaningful life. You cannot escape the search for meaning and to find it, you work (even if it’s just for yourself - as a rich person)
We basically have these already, as described by some of the interesting comments on here. It's just a fragmented system instead of being centralized.
How the U.S. Pandemic Response Went Wrong – and What Went Right
Yeah marcan helped hack the Nintendo Wii. See his original talk at 25C3 here [1].

The other guy in the talk [1] is the late Ben 'bushing' Byer. I only knew him from his online work, but it's still very sad that he passed away in 2016 [2]. I'm sure if he was still alive, he'd also continue to be doing great reverse engineering work!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyVuY_S5VcI

[2] https://fail0verflow.com/ben
Do you remember the time Wells Fargo set such high sales targets for its employees that unless they committed fraud, they could not meet it; and then fired those who did not commit fraud and thus fell short of sales targets; and then many of those fired employees found out that they have been essentially blacklisted throughout the entire banking industry, because Wells Fargo had added negative remarks about them to their U5 to justify the firing instead of telling the truth that they were fired because they refused to commit fraud? I sure remember.

The problem with these sorts of backchannel data sharing is that unlike things like credit reports, individuals have little to no access to see what is in their file and dispute it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/business/dealbook/wells-f...
tldr in English: Police obtained from providers the cell phone connection data at the time and place of the illegal protests. Police also obtained from "VKontakte" (Russian Facebook) the phone numbers of the users who visited the page calling for the protests. Now they request the first deputy of Russian Criminal Investigative Agency for help in determining those persons who both visited the page and was at/near the protests.
yea that's a good option, that way you won't damage your body and for short amount of time you can still use your laptop but you should limit it.
Agreed. Would love to hear more technical details. Particularly about the remote managed part, and how the user accesses it.
Tailwind has documentation is the massive difference.
Anyone have any experience with the Backblaze compute partners? I want to put data up on B2, but then I still need to do things with it.
Utility classes are good, don't worry about that. Utility classes are a required part of any good CSS system.

Programming with only utility classes, and patterns like OOCSS and BEM are bad, and we've stopped using these for literally decades.

The more important question is how do these libraries work under the hood, which is both little understood and rarely included in analysis. Breaking out CSS files is critical, any CSS created and inserted by Javascript is unforgivable in production. Focusing on what the libraries do in production is the key. And if your tool needs some special DSL to use native CSS features like @keyframes, don't use that tool. Period.

The author is right in that CSS is 100% a solved problem, and the answer is component scoped CSS with some global utility classes (which can come from Bootstrap or wherever if you choose to use such a framework). There's nothing better, it solves every need, and doesn't come with any of the baggage of other systems.
*2017, would be interesting to see update in post-COVID world
It's a fair write up in that they were unable to diagnose the actual problem with MongoDB. Which leads to one of the problems with the product - it is hard to know what is causing the issue when it has problems.
Biggest void in space is 1B light years across (2007)
Being indexable is my own favorite reason.
Wholesome story. Pretty great how welcoming everyone in the story is.
Using Tailwind does probably establish a floor on the difficulty of quickly diving into a new project (assuming the Tailwind config hasn't been customized too much). That might be great if you're in the position to force your team to switch from unstructured/undisciplined CSS to Tailwind, but not in a position to force your team to use some even more structured approach that supports even better consistency and composability (like a set of components). Granted, Tailwind is probably intended to be used to create a set of components, although a lot of their official messaging (like Tailwind UI) seems to actively work against that approach.
I’m with you on this.

I’ve been working remotely for many years now and I started using laptops initially (thinkpad T series ) so my house didn’t get cluttered with work things mostly and I could waltz into the office. Roll on time and I discovered that laptops are a complete nightmare and I am never using one again.

They are expensive, hot, slow, noisy, fragile, have poor connectivity options, needy, unreliable and terrible for your health.

Also there is no office now thanks to covid so I now work from one location always.

The expensive XPS I’ve just been shipped by my company is another one which persists these problems further. It will never be used as a laptop but as a desktop and a wart I can’t get rid of.

I would be happier with a recycled corp i5 desktop with 32gb of ram and 500gb SSD.

Edit to add that my personal computer is a M1 Mac mini. I include MacBooks in my list of criticism, including the M1 units. I have had numerous really bad experiences with Apple laptops.
And green card holders
Who did I just give my email address to?
> I do have heard the view that it is better not to have more than 1 or 2 credit cards, because it is likely to reduce ones credit ratings

This is, weirdly, backwards. Your credit rating is improved by having lots of available credit (i.e. lots of credit cards), which keeps your utilization percentage low, and by having a very high number of years on your oldest credit accounts.

> and also to avoid the extra card related expenses and charges.

Many cards have no fees.
Baby Talk and Lemur Chatter–But Not Birdsong–Help an Infant’s Brain Develop
Try reading anything that has been modeled using game theory, it's just as bad if not worse.

As an example here (https://i.imgur.com/8Unt5fD.jpg) is a notation table for atomic swaps.
"desktop computer does is to force me to sit at a desk 100% of the time I'm using it" you act like that's a bad thing... when its really the best way to use a computer for large amount of time. Laptops should never be used for long periods unless you want to damage your back and neck.
Saint John, New Brunswick and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador must confuse people too. I never remember which one is which without Googling it.
Having more credit cards/credit is not a bad thing... closing accounts on the other hand can drop your credit rating because your average age of credit goes down.
Some things I could think of, regarding the general form factor and basic ergonomics:

* detachable keyboard (the Olivetti M15 managed this quite well in 1987, compare [1], [2] -- also mind the full-travel keys)

* height adjustable screen (e.g., using an arresting sliding mechanism)

With powerful while minimalistic hardware around, like the M1 chip, we may start to think about the convertible laptop the other way round again. (I.e. the folding workstation as opposed to tablet-like dual use. As the hardware becomes minimalistic, this also provides space for any mechanisms that may provide for basic ergonomic requirements.) Why are we still accepting cowering like this in front of what has become the dominant form factor for a computer as the general posture of work?

[1] https://www.homecomputermuseum.de/sammlung/detailansicht/com...

[2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/simo_81/8151480380

PS: Adjusting the viewing angle would also solve any webcam issues quite naturally.
All this talk of "relationships" overlooks the fact that the "relational" part of an RDMS is the mathematical concept of relations.
I don’t understand how this is associated with Apple Pay: you don’t need Apple’s branded credit card to use Apple Pay. I have an Amex card that I use for everything except buying Apple products.
An unexpected bonus with lenses: Superhuman tolerance against eyes getting irritated when chopping onions.
No, you are not facing discrimination because you are white due to affirmative action (at least in the US). Sorry, it's just not happening.

Under affirmative action laws, it is not legal to hire an unqualified candidate based on race or gender when a qualified candidate is available. Quotas are also not allowed. Affirmative action allows companies to use race or gender as a factor in their hiring process under the assumption that a more diverse workforce will create better outcomes.

So if you are being passed over for jobs, maybe you just aren't quite as qualified as you think. Or maybe it's your negative attitude. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you'll be fine.
"Critics fuming" and the "ignited firestorm" is two people tweeting. I guess the author likes charged language.
How to Install a Queen Bee – (Wildflower Meadows)
It’s more about using established and documented systems vs creating new ones (where you probably don’t have documentation). Even if you do have a home grown solution that is as well documented as tailwind, you are still at a loss because nobody will be familiar with it already.
I think this is "writing too simply", at least for me. PG's essays have hit the sweet spot of delivering the ideas without the words getting in the way. But here, he tried to write even more simply, and destroyed what made his essays attractive. Sure, the words are simple, but the over-simple words are creating an impedance mismatch for delivering the ideas. At least for me.