skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Card payments are usually debt also?

Debit card payments are not debt - they're effectively the same as a direct transfer from the user's bank account.

I'm very conflicted about Klarna - on the one hand they do present an easy and (usually) safe way to handle transactions with small retailers to whom I don't necessarily want to share my payment details.

But on the other hand, they use a variety of dark patterns to try to get you to pay:
1. on credit
2. by signing-up for their credit-card

One unfortunate part of their earlier history, was that when you promised to pay with Klarna on a website, and was told you'd receive the invoice, there was a (perceived?) tendency for that invoice to never be sent due to an 'oversight'. When this happens in Sweden, the buyer gets a reminder a few days after the due-date, with a pretty large extra amount to pay.

There were quite a few stories about this in the press at various times [0], and I know quite a few people from Klarna and would tease them about it - which they always strenuously denied - but then it happened to me.

In any case, finding out how this happened is going to be interesting.

[0] in Swedish: https://www.svd.se/mangder-av-klagomal-mot-klarnas-fakturor

DeepL translation:
"Lots of complaints against Klarna invoices.
Klarna, the high-profile IT company, is being criticised by a host of customers. Many say they receive invoices with reminder fees and collection demands directly, without having been reached by an original invoice. The Swedish Consumer Agency is critical of Klarna's invoicing methods for several reasons and is currently investigating whether the company is behaving legally."

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
The best one, of course, is Bret Devereaux's acoup (https://acoup.blog). It's the only one I follow with any regularity. It's a weekly blog focussing on history and sometimes on its interaction with popular media, like GoT or EU4.

Scott Galloway is also a great read. He writes about the digital economy and tech. (https://www.profgalloway.com/)

I also enjoy reading Martin Tournoij's blog whenever he updates it (https://www.arp242.net/). He's the author of goatcounter and writes about tech and sometimes certain social issues in tech.

Vedica Kant and Anmol Maini write about the Indian startup ecosystem at https://www.kuwi.news/ (it's a substack newsletter). I don't read it all the time but certain pieces are pretty good.

And, finally, to plug my own self, I write about health economics, health policy, and systems thinking at Hawk Radius (https://hawkradius.com)
Facebook Lifts Ban on Posts Calling Covid-19 Man-Made
Twitter urges Indian gov't to respect freedom of expression
2500x returns in 14 months - that averages to an astounding 178x returns monthly.

* If this is true * - it sounds like maybe the best return the markets have ever seen which I would imagine would be the luck of investing at the base of the pandemic and enjoying the inflation since then.

[edit]: manners were missing:
* if this is true * - congrats on your run and hopefully those research dollars develop some interesting finds.
I was using a WebRTC feature just yesterday that is listed as supported by Safari in modern versions of iOS all over the web. I can tell you for certain that it is 100% not.
How much do the vocal visually impaired use keyboards like the Braille keyboard shown and how much do they use voice to speech? A lot of people don’t want to talk to their phone, is the same resistance there for someone whose phone is always talking to them?
hahaha I had a PhD defence in 2018 in the UK. Criticisms included:

"I don't trust your maths"
"I don't feel this analysis is right, but I can't describe in what way"
"you are clearly not very knowledgeable"
and many other similar things.

Asking me a question and then before I can open my mouth answering it yourself, and then insulting me for not answering it was the start of the viva defence and it set the tone for the rest.

I was also heavily criticised for not having cited a paper that came out in-between submitting my thesis and the defence, despite this being literally impossible to have done so, and, despite having already had gotten a job in that time, was given limited time to do additional experiments, write whole new chapters, new code, do new experiments, etc. Ended up adding 90 pages of material to the thesis.

In the end I had to quit the job I had just got, because It would have been impossible to not fail my PhD program and keep the job.

Afterword's, in behind closed doors discussions it was revealed that one guy had pushed for almost all of the required extra work deliberately to try to make me fail, because I had done something he could not.
Besides having the HTTP verb in the URL (GET -> /get/), why would you put the id in the query? Why not just use GET /user/1234 instead of duplicating things by using GET /get/user?id=1234 . What does GET /get/user then even return, all users, no user, ...?

Edit: typo
I just noticed the share links below the answers.

Honestly have been blinded to that link for quite some time, expecting it to be above the answer body sort of like github issues are.
Yes, but when the question is whether they’re deliberately giving the impression they’re incompetent to add insult to injury, I’m inclined to assume they’re just plain incompetent.
Let's say I buy a collectible silver coin which is a limited edition emitted by the government or some entity. This has both value in that it's rare, and that it's made of silver and so can appreciate in value over time.

Would it be correct to think of NFTs in the same way, but adding a higher risk associated to it? (the risk of the copy leaking in the public and thus cancelling any benefit of the supposed ownership this NFT blockchain would grant - excluding the possibility of an NFT blockchain becoming some kind of worldwide enforced standard way of verifying ownership...but even then...)
You forgot the jpeg compression level of the picture. At least in android it is fixed at a bad value.
I really like this.
MDN can't be maintained for free after all, it's by far the best resource I've found for web development.

The next time I have a web dev job I'll buy this
I mean, I love the insane GB/sec figures, but does anyone else mostly care about IOPS? These state 1.8M read and 1M write, which sounds quite impressive.
So why do yellow unions' members tolerate their toothlessness?
What the heck are Charter Cities?
The first one yes. The last one could've been Mayo clinic.
I'm not disputing that your freedom is being reduced by the union, it very well might be. I'm disputing that that point proves that there is a net loss of freedom in society: there might be a gain in freedom for other workers, which might be greater or hard to compare than your loss of freedom.
> progressive reforms

You mean nationalize other peoples property then try to starve capitalism of resources. As a liberal I always find it funny when leftists have this magical ability to just forget WHY the States had the containment policy. So yea it was about the human right of private property.
Love this, thanks for sharing. I'm sure I'm not alone in the HN crowd of having fond memories of BW playing days.

The sonic weapon, while accidental, feels similar to tactics used to disrupt concentration and logical thinking. E.g. taunting, trolling, cheese strategies, or your opponent getting tilted from something you didn't intend to annoy them with.

Often think of how keeping a cool head is incredibly important in games like this, specifically for the pros. IdrA comes to mind as a technically gifted player who was often his own worst enemy due to his temper. He never did crack into the top of the pro scene (hard to do as an American in general) but felt like he really held himself back.
It's using the Windows api.
Thats a bit anti-american but okay
No it doesn't and I am sorry you think that. I know some women that climbed the corporate ladder (in big national baks) by sleeping around, and bosses that were proud of it. two people only, and it is still something we don't want to happen and make rules about it as it can backfire for all.

You can say all that you want about working 4 hours on friday night with uber, but here is the thing, Uber has 100% full control over if you will or not work with them. You have 0 control. Bad ratings? Too many drivers? You come from some nationality that is known for 'bad driving' (pick whatever the fuck you want as an excuse). They have 100% the power. You have zero. If they say: 'if even one person gives you less than 5 stars, you are out of here' and you have no recourse whatsoever.

This is what we as a society want to prevent. This unilateral power dynamic. I'm european. I have seen good unions, amazing unions, and very shitty ones. I'm not 100% pro-union, but I believe that there should be mechanisms to protect the ones with no leverage, because if we don't, the less fortunate will just be modern day slaves to big corporations, only the name will be different.
The license board almost certainly treating the case the same way it treats other cases.

I've seen no evidence of this.
Yeah, it sucks. The market is ruthless in exploiting economic disparities. For example, right now 1 USD is valued at 5.31 BRL. A salary of $20k/year is a ridiculous amount of money in my country. It's more than what the vast majority of people make working here. If corporations can exploit something like this, they can effectively reduce the value of their american workers.

The solution in this case is to somehow make companies ignore these economic opportunities. Make them pay immigrants the same salary they'd pay a worker from their own country.
Or in market cap:

865,000,000 - 1997

1,640,000,000,000 - 2021
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The US isn't making the call in this case. Iran signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and is thus prohibited from having nuclear weapons.

https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/
Is deference to supernatural beings present in infancy?
In the future, it'll be exclusive to the CBMF Streaming Network ($7.99/month).

I'm grateful that music didn't end up fragmented into a multitude of walled gardens like video. You can listen to almost all popular music with 2 popular flat-rate services. It could have turned out much, much worse.

Podcasts are the current battleground. I can't predict how that will turn out.
>We could end up in a cyber war aimed at each other's critical infrastructure (which has a real potential to kill people), without ever really deciding we wanted to go to war.

We're already there. Although most of it happens by way of modern day privateering. The Colonial pipeline hack was only possible because of the ability of de facto state sponsored groups like Darkside to exist. As long as there is an implicit guarantee of no consequences for attacking the west, they will continue to escalate.
NFTs remind me of 'buy a star' companies.

You apparently 'bought' a star but anyone can look at it, I imagine that multiple people own the same star and everyone is none the wiser.

I assume this is why NFTs work. Make someone pay for 'exclusivity' (real or not) and then just assume that most people won't look into the details, where the devil is.
Yea, I don't believe the actual opening price was $1.73

Yup, appears it was $18[0]

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/082715/if-yo....
> This is a trash headline and makes it seem like this is unplanned, unannounced / new intel, leaving for a bad reason, and/or he no longer will be involved. Just, wow.

I have no clue where you're getting this from? It states a fact, no emotion or surprise or whatever in there - that's your interpretation.

Unless the submitted HN subject was updated in between you writing this and me reading it. The CNN headline also states the plain fact though.
In Sweden you can ask them to require Mobilt BankID confirmation to every buy, their competitors (like qliro) don't have that yet so Klarna are only half bastards. But they did get a lot of criticism from the Swedish government about the same things you have presented.
Very cool!

Is there a way to put down a grid of raindrops in an area and display their paths from above? It'd be a great way to visualize watersheds.

Another (probably huge?) enhancement might be to calculate and display typical travel times along those routes.

Nice work - keep it up!
Yeah. That is probably the political purpose of it.

The problem as I see it is that you are injecting your own population with anti-science and paranoia. Ultimately this may come back to haunt you.
Has Blue Origin put anything in space yet? Rocketlabs and spacex have regular commercial clients, and even virgin orbital have reached orbit.

(and of course ULA keep launching just like they always did)
> individual action doesn't solve anything either.

I share the sentiment, but I noticed that sometimes I use it as an excuse for not doing what I can within my reach. One benefit I see with individual action is that it's a way to stimulate political change (another one being economical). Plus, it may be contagious and make changes for the next generations. Thus, nothing prevents us from adopting bidirectional planning, i.e., both top-bottom (political, schools, etc.) and bottom-up (individual). It intuitively seems faster than top-bottom only.
See, that’s the problem with cheap, disposable takes that preclude critical thinking. You’ve conflated “tracking” online with the actual privacy-invasive industry the article is talking about. These guys are selling your real private data: your credit card transactions, your phone’s location data, your real name and address, your life events. This industry is very happy that nerds confuse them and Google.
The actual paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89821-0

Abstract:

"Claims to supernatural power have been used as a basis for authority in a wide range of societies, but little is known about developmental origins of the link between supernatural power and worldly authority. Here, we show that 12- to 16-month-old infants expect agents exhibiting counterintuitive capacities to win out in a two-way standoff over a contested resource. Infants watched two agents gain a reward using either physically intuitive or physically counterintuitive methods, the latter involving simple forms of levitation or teleportation. Infants looked longer, indicating surprise, when the physically intuitive agent subsequently outcompeted a physically counterintuitive agent in securing a reward. Control experiments indicated that infants’ expectations were not simply motived by the efficiency of agents in pursuing their goals, but specifically the deployment of counterintuitive capacities. This suggests that the link between supernatural power and worldly authority has early origins in development."
Seeing the (end) effects doesn't matter. Everyone sees pollution directly, whether the simple knowledge that the sea of cars on the freeway in front of them is burning gas, or just seeing litter all over the place. "Pollution" is a tangible thing everyone experiences.

Telling people there is a pollutions epidemic, that is something they can immediately relate too. It doesn't matter that the smoke stack they drive past every day is just water vapor, they hear "pollution epidemic", they see what they interpret as pollution, their brain tells them "yeah, this is real".

Remember this phrasing isn't for educated or knowledgeable people, it's for common folk who don't put much thought into anything.
That is how ownership in a public company works. The more you own, the more control you have. Before you purchase, you will know what percentage you will own and you have to predict if it will be enough to enable you to accomplish your goals. Or you have to make friends with other shareholders.
It's included in the body of the news:

"The company first announced the leadership change as part of its February earnings report, saying Jassy would take over during the fiscal third quarter. Amazon (AMZN) had not previously shared the precise date of the transition. "
> So what? It's 0% interest.

Debt is slavery and so on. Let's not get too hung up on the fact that I dislike it.

> Most e-commerce sites I've used in the past year offer Klarna or some similar service and all of them have been implemented as just another option in a set of radio buttons.

Radio buttons is fine. It's the defaults and "are you sure you don't want to pay with credit?" questions I'm bugged out about. I don't have an issue with them offering it as an option. I've seen it with multiple websites using Klarna for payment handling.
The vast majority of the usage of generics in Rust are as replacements for inheritance or dynamic dispatch. It's not very different structurally.
My hope is that he's off to do something more important: Blue Origin. Good luck!
StackOverflow is one of the most toxic community out there. Asking a question is a miserable experience. Answering a question? Same.

It really seems no one is there to help each other. It's mostly status quo or reputation. Moderators have too much work to do or have serious ego problems (most users call them "StackOverlords"). Or a mix between the two.

One thing I noticed is that other sites of the Stack Exchange Network are doing quite well. Probably they should split up SO, at least with one site for backend related questions and one for frontend, or even for specific frameworks/platforms. But this would also split the value of the site, so I don't think it's gonna happen.

Eventually someone will disrupt the whole network, just like they did with Experts-Exchange.
> Same goes for chosing a name of Jewish orgin (Ahmed Yurlanov) as the alledged sender of the bomb threat.

Ahmed is Arabic, while Yurlanov is a generic Slavic name. I think the intent was to communicate Chechen not Jewish.
But considering how trivially easy it is to just reupload the video, unless they plan to play copyright wack a mole, it will never actually be deleted.
I'm surprised by this model being so consumer focused. I think if they offered some kind of enterprise plan where my team could share and highlight critical sections, configure our official support matrix and such, I'd be willing to pony up a few hundred a year from my budget.
I agree that they're the future.

I disagree that anyone will get 90%. I think we'll see the same frustrating, fractured environment that we already have in video streaming.
There are definitely pros and cons. In many ways it’s like a modern equivalent to IRC rather than Reddit/Forums.
Wow. Thank you for this thorough answer! It will be very helpful for the project I'm working on.
Nooooooo! No more choices!

Seriously.

I've stumbled across various streaming services that look like they have stuff I might like, but I really have more than I need already. And I always forget that because my wife pays for Prime, we have Amazon Prime streaming too.
... as part of the bankruptcy proceedings they sold the technology to a bigger company. A developer improved the application by automating it. It could now send emails to the right departments automatically. The developer entered his own email as a test and was promptly fired by the new software.

Everyone who worked on the machine are now gone, yet it continues to do what it was designed for. That is until I found myself on the path of the machine...

Just kidding, but it would make a great origin story to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645
I still read some of the classics (surprised nobody mentioned them so far) and also a few newer ones:

https://kottke.org/

https://daringfireball.net

https://seths.blog

https://www.freedomain.com/blog/

https://www.cringely.com

https://www.zeldman.com

https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com

http://quirksmode.org/blog/

http://hypercritical.co
I've been enjoying placing a drop right along the divide and seeing which way it goes. For example, up near Lenawee Mountain (aka A-basin). I've also noticed that up there, sometimes there is no route to either ocean. I guess it ends up in a high-alpine catchment and stays on the divide.
I'm interested in links to any examples if you have some because this is a development I haven't heard of, and I am dartley curious
The word "unprecedented" is doing some heavy lifting in this article.
Self Wiking Ice Cweam Cone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
Your other option is W3 which fills their site with ads.

If I could, I'd pay Google 50$ a month directly to disable all of their advertising across all sites which use ad sense.
Luke Smith's article on the 4 causes is great and captures an important idea about what modernism lacks.

if you like melting asphalt (probably the best blog I've ever read) you'll probably also like:

- Venkatesh Rao's https://ribbonfarm.com (it's very much a diamonds-in-the-rough type blog imo)

- the farnam street blog https://fs.blog/ consistently puts out good content

- /sometimes/ lesswrong puts out good ideas when they're not busy modelling spherical cows in a vacuum - https://www.lesswrong.com/

- if you're really into systems theory and don't mind reading strongly management-consultant oriented prose (can't abide it myself but the content is good), https://thesystemsthinker.com/
But... you would. If all elderly people dropped dead right now, deaths per year would plummet for decades.
NFTs, Crypto (or what Crypto has become), and a few other current Internet phenomena give me an overwhelming sense of rot.

Everything is rotting. I'm not sure if it's too much capital, capital on the wrong places, capital and not enough oversight, or whatever, but the Internet as we knew it will be dead and gone without sincere effort. In its place will be a paved over, child safe playground optimized for ad delivery, emotional reactions, and propaganda.
Why are you sharing the photo? Because of the kind of flower? the color? the general organization of the dining room table?

Depending on why you share the photo, you just have to put that so others can understand it too.
> the best advice for the public was (A) wash your hands at frequent intervals, and (B) be careful about how much you touch your face.

Studies have shown very little surface transmission of COVID-19.
Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks
If he could use his free time to kick a few bucks toward completing The Expanse series, that would be great.
I think that this would depend on whether or not the photo has a caption. Captions themselves should strive to answer the five Ws: who, what, when, where, and why.
It often makes sense to delay gratification. Like working with someone who is very well known in the field for little pay, knowing that their backing will give you many more opportunities in the future than a job that pays more now. Same is true of many startups. You make less than you would working for a FAANG company, but the experience and social connections can be worth far more in the future. It's definitely a personal decision
From Motor Control to Team Play in Simulated Humanoid Football
Glad to see they're including content and articles as well. I used to swear by MDN for HTML help, but ever since I bit the bullet and just read the HTML spec I find going directly to the (free) source a far better option. Not to mention there's a developer version of the spec that cuts out the implementor details and lets you focus on developer details.

But now they are competing with free content from Smashing and CSS-Tricks and lessons from a variety of free sources, including Google who has great course content.

I just don't see this saving Mozilla.