skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why it was cheap. But why care about storage space inside your TV?
> The new 3.49% is when you choose "old school pay with Paypal".

I don't think this is really old school. This is how most folks use PayPal.

I accept a decent amount of transactions online and I have about a 50 / 50 split between folks paying with Stripe and PayPal. The people who want to use PayPal are using it with the new 3.49% rates method because this is the one where they enter in their PayPal email address to make a payment. Literally 100% of the PayPal transactions I've accepted over the last 3 years are categorized as "PayPal checkout" which is hit by the new rate moving forward.

This is a direct price increase by PayPal for almost everyone accepting payments online through PayPal. From 2.9% + 30c to 3.49% + 49c. It makes them substantially more expensive than Stripe because everyone who pays with PayPal is using their email address not a credit card. It's no longer a no brainer decision to support both on your site back when the rates were the same as Stripe.
greatly appreciate that this could make it to the top of hacker news.
Well, for obvious reasons, the average developer is notoriously bad at knowing the law.
So, I believe in anthropogenic climate change, and I don't doubt that there are areas (California) seeing droughts the likes of which have not been seen in a long time, but...they are throwing a lot of things together here. In central Texas, where I live, the reservoirs are near to full, because we had a lot of rain in May. The problem is a higher than normal abundance of mosquitoes, and the foliage is all growing out of control because they have the water to do so.

We are definitely having issues with power, but that's mostly due to increased population (and other issues related to changing power sources), not from excess heat. Temperatures in central Texas are in the mid 90's, which is not unusual for Texas. There's problems, sure, but not really related to climate change.

When scientists try to link anything that is going wrong currently to anthropogenic climate change, they don't convince more people. If anything, they create more skeptics, because people can tell that they're not getting an objective read on the situation. There are probably scientists who are willing to provide a nuanced, balanced read on things, who would probably say that drought and wildfires in California might be related to climate change, but power shortages in Texas are not. They are not the sort of scientists who get their pictures in The Guardian.
Some "dads" employ other strategies
https://bumpreveal.com/blogs/statistics/genghis-khan-dna-des...
Challenging or questioning your own ingrained ideology can be uncomfortable, regardless of what society thinks. We've all got things we believe very deeply but haven't really questioned, and when we are forced to defend them we tend to get angry. Getting past the anger and actually looking at the idea is usually tough.
In many cases, you'd be making a big mistake not offering Paypal as a payment option in your checkout flow because it increases conversion rate in many industries.

For my business, we split tested only offering credit card checkout versus a credit card AND paypal option. The latter converted ~8% better over a statistically significant sample size. For most businesses, this lift in conversion rate is a huge deal and largely covers the incremental transaction fees.
Again, 99% of people want the default language, annoying them isn't helpful, nor is adding 100 more menu options
Quite an interesting question as well. Looks like SF Chronicle did an article on it [0] and estimates 111,700,000 metric tons released last year (a record year with 4.2 million acres burned).

I don't know how that fits into the overall % the the OP shared, but it'd be good to factor into the plan since it's likely to make things worse.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Cal...
> What is your incentive to do that? I see that as the key. In a company, employees needs an incentive to work together and be constructive. They are not friends.

It all depends on what game you are playing. On one level you can characterize it as zero-sum vs. positive sum, on another level as closed (play once) vs. open ended (keep playing).

When your goal is to keep playing and improving iteratively as a player, it is definitely to the advantage of each player to help their counterpart improve, regardless of who is currently 'winning'.

You can also pose the whole thing as an iterated prisoner's dilemma, where the best overall strategy is tit-for-tat with generosity (default to cooperation as a starting move) and forgiveness (occasionally cooperate even if the other defects).

There are additional iterative loops that could be going on too, like opponent/partner selection even when the game is ostensibly zero-sum (eg. "nobody likes a sore loser"), and finally there is the meta-game of game selection, which can be characterized as 'culture'.
> The second sentence, however, has little support.

Your argumentation doesn't challenge the truth of falsity of the statement, nor does it go towards challenging my conclusion. It seems to assume I've said "there are probably no internal bad actors", when I've said "securing your system against external bad actors will deal with the cases more likely to occur, and will usually be sufficient against the less likely cases".

'X is more likely than Y and preventing X mitigates Y to a tolerable level' is not equal to saying 'Y probably doesn't happen'.

> How many disgruntled people pass through the FAANGs each year? Now add in all the IT positions at the banks.

Obviously the probability increases significantly with the number of employees, but I don't think that switches the probabilities. Still, the most important companies to consider are the companies which, unlike FAANGs, aren't really in a position to make independent judgement about their risk profile, but whose existence depends on their records/data. And even someone with as many employees as the US government probably has more people outside of their employ who want to target them than inside, although surely they always have some of both.

I'm not sure what the relevance of your reference to computer skills is. In order to ransomware a company, as far as I know, you need to buy software off the darkweb and run it from a vulnerable location. I suppose technically that requires computer skills, but it's surely not what you mean. And the companies which are vulnerable to ransomware are not all employers of significant numbers of technically skilled people.

In any case, I don't think even a gratuitous reevaluation of the probabilities significantly changes my conclusion. Even if we assumed the improbable notion that every single company in the word has a disgruntled employee and that there are no external crooks, the process of securing the system against external crooks will make it far more survivable against single internal bad actors, and the effect it has on the employees will be less likely to produce internal bad actors.
So are there some languages that do it? I'm sure the devil is in the details.
I dunno. Working on projects with no tests for me always feels like a complete crapshoot. Any change could have broken some implicit assumption in some module you didn't know depended on it. Even worse is if it's a dynamic language and you don't even have a compiler to do the basic checks.

For things like reproducing bugs, in particular, functional tests plus a debugger have been indispensable in seeing how the code actually behaves.

Sure, production monitoring is nice. But it really only tells you about high level problems, and there are entire classes of bugs, eg. silently corrupted data, which you'll never see there.
Let’s not forget the censorship of the lab leak hypothesis. A few months ago it was a racist theory that constituted thoughtcrime and couldn’t be mentioned, and now the mainstream thinking is that it’s the most likely explanation.
You can absolutely do constructive things in Lean, as long as you use neither the built-in "quot" type nor the three other axioms described in the docs, and then you get a system with all the desired properties I think
It's still a common trope, that the rich are lizards, commonly popularised by David Ike for example
I blame Edward Bernays.
As an EM I handle the two dozen bullshit things that come up each day that none of my ICs care to deal with (usually rightfully so).

Who wants to spend time: writing new job descriptions, interviewing, handling administrative duties, setting expectations with the executive team, working out cross-functional team logistics, making sure people aren't overworked, making sure company and personal career goals align, creating opportunities for training, deflecting insane requests, onboarding new members, purchasing equipment for people, let alone doing technical things like participating in architecture discussions, doing code reviews, pair programming, and as a rare treat maybe actually fix a bug?

My teams tell me I do right by them, and I hope that is true. If I ever went back to being an IC though I'd be thrilled to have a manager willing to shield me from all of this busy-yet-necessary work. As a former engineer I understand the value of being able to keep your head down distraction free.
> I think you are underestimating the severity of climate change. The climate science models are likely too cautious in general with the exception of considering a technological breakthrough to save us.

You have about as much ground as the parent to state this. You’re making an appeal to authority.

> I find it curious that many comments echo similar denials. I never understand what the point is in arguing with science results unless you are working in the field yourself.

I agree. The root issue is that the article and more broadly media discussing science. That should not be happening as well, but it is, so the parents post is warranted.

Science is done by humans who are biased. 99% of people cannnot argue with scientists from first principles, so they’re left with trust which is sorely lacking. They naturally start to investigate on their own. What else can they do?
> immediate, large-scale cutbacks in consumption across the board, with industrial economies bearing the highest burden.

Would that cure be worse than the disease?
It's mainly a list of pirate bay sites and proxies. Why would their inclusion in this blocklist be a reason to avoid them?
> Only permanently whitelist JS that you know for sure isn't a tracker or malware or sketchy.

What’s the whitelist based on? URI? Or file content hash? Because today’s “criticalsitefunctunality.js” is tomorrow’s “upstream got p0wned and there’s a Bitcoin miner in there too now”.

Sites churn so often that “permanently” whitelisting hashes is probably a never ending chore, and you’re unlikely to want to constantly re-inspect minimized JS, so this eventually turns into semi-blind faith.

And permanently whitelisting URIs is pure security theatre; that file could contain anything, next request.
Ebiten now supports Nintendo Switch
> In the case where src fits in dst, it will return a pointer past the NUL byte it placed; otherwise it returns NULL to indicate a truncation.

It is amazing to me how personal these preferences are ;P... like, I'd be much happier with an API that always returns the location of the NUL byte on success; and, if the string gets truncated, then it instead returns dst+len (the address of the byte past the end of the buffer). This allows for chained constructions that provide efficient strcat-style semantics with easy error propagation, such as this example which concatenates three strings (which I honestly hope I got right... I'm giving reasonable odds to Saagar telling me I've coded a buffer overflow by accident somewhere ;P):

char buf[X]; // for any X, even 0!
char *cur = buf;
char *end = buf + sizeof(buf);
cur = strjcpy(cur, str1, end - cur);
cur = strjcpy(cur, str2, end - cur);
cur = strjcpy(cur, str3, end - cur);
if (cur == end) goto fail;
Ask HN: What's your favorite story about Dad?
In honor of Father's Day tomorrow.

If this is inappropriate for HN, please remove, Dang!

In general, I don't spend much time reflecting on the past. Yesterday, a good friend gave me an unexpected gift by asking me this question and giving me occasion to stop and think back. Even better, hearing others reminisce triggered more memories of my own.

So, HN, what is your favorite story about Dad?
My knee-jerk reaction to your statement that you're no longer in contact with your parents was "good!"

There's something about your story that really, deeply fucking bothers me. I think its the part where you're taken from your home in the middle of the night. I can't adequately describe how that makes me feel, and I wonder why. I'm sorry that happened to you.

Regarding the silver lining, as it were, do you think your parents could have arranged another sort of intervention or experience to give you those benefits, with resorting to institutionalized abuse? Would a better sort of "camp" have worked for you?
This is a great insight. Thank you!

Most of the immigration process is simple paperwork as far as I can tell. Certainly simpler than filing US taxes. But as you note it is all in the details, and a good lawyer will know how to ensure applications are successful (and will tell you if you are unlikely to be successful).
Stripe isn't a viable alternative if someone wants to pay using PayPal instead of a credit card. This is especially common for folks who want to make 1 time payments and don't have access to a credit / debit card or simply feel more comfortable using PayPal.

PayPal is a monopoly on accepting payments by email addresses associated to a PayPal account. There is no alternative.
You should notice that the text after the URL still looks like a URL, so there must've been an extra space in the middle of it...

Feel free to burn this comment to the ground, but is this really the level of HN reader nowadays? Can't even notice a spurious space...
Simple question: Canadian interested in working for American companies. Do I need to get pre approval to work via some permit, or does an employer handle it after getting hired? Is it a lottery for the permit?
Another great review from the last couple weeks, by Derek Lowe: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/07/iv...

Same tl;dr. It's possible it works, but the evidence for it is not strong.
I guess you meant this as some kind of checkmate moment, but wildfire emissions are quantified separately, are considered part of the atmospheric carbon cycle, and are 10-100x smaller than human GHG emissions from fossil fuels, depending on the year. In 2019 they were 1.1%.

https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/reports/2000_2018/g...

https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/ca_wildfire_co2_emi...
Avoid the clunker mild-hybrid Jeep is selling right now. It's very complicated, and a temporary patch until they get the all-electric into production. By the time it's fully debugged (it took about 3 years to get the JK right) it will be obsolete.
It's widely available as a generic drug, so no pharma company is going to conduct a large sample clinical study, which costs 10s or 100s of millions. It would have to be a publicly funded clinical trial, of which I haven't really heard of.
I second this. Most people I know, including myself, would much rather have one time purchase.
I think it was commissioned by a company and written by a teen or twentysomething jerk. Raising hackles by throwing N-words around is a favorite pastime of young assholes. Don't think that because 4chan cracked down on that sort of thing that it doesn't still go on in certain communities.
> Why mock people who stand up for this situation on the part of FOSS?

In this case, because they are wrong and the GPL does not say what they think it says.
I get the rationale for using a separate domain for user-generated content, I sort-of get the rationale for an internal corp domain, but seeing material facts disclosed on paypal-corp.com reminds me how limited URL bars are for teaching people not to fall for phishing.
But drug commercials on TV are? I mean, why can't a doctor talk about the benefits of a certain drug with a "but talk to your own doctor first"? How is that any different?
Diamond is notorious in the anthropological community for pushing outdated and debunked theories, and Collapse has some of the worst. I think every case of ecological self-destruction he lists is considered debunked by the mainstream community (certainly, his views on Rapa Nui and Greenland are thoroughly debunked)--indeed, there's an entire book published that's a lengthy critique of his work, titled (fittingly) Questioning Collapse.
Had similar experience in Beppu, Japan. Not only is it at the southern tip oj Kyushu, but also very vulcanic with hot springs everywhere - like, there is actual scolding steam comming out of pavement in some places, specially in the Kanawa district!

At first I wondered why they have those mini fridges in japanese hotel rooms and this is why - only way to get cold water in the summer is t put it into the fridge first! :)
> And obviously any intelligent CPU architect, if they make a CPU that masks the upper bits, they would make the number of bits that gets masked configurable per-process

x86-64 does this by requiring all accesses to be correctly sign-extended, which means that valid virtual addresses are unique and there is full forward compatibility even with an extended virtual address space. The "number of bits that get masked" is a pure system/ABI concern, the CPU support only defines a maximum.
Also highly recommend the book “The Phoenix Project”. It highlights common pitfalls and solutions through a narrative of a character thrown into their first time leading a team.
> telling people to eat less meat [...] does basically nothing to combat climate change

Are you sure?

The main source of deforestation is to use the land for livestock[1], as far as I know the reason is that previously-poor countries are getting rich enough to buy meat (semi-)regularly. Yet you say that eating less meat will do nothing but make you feel good? Seems to me it would help against deforestation if nothing else.

But is deforestation bad in the context of climate change? [2]

> Averaged over 2015—2017, global loss of tropical forests contributed about 4.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year (or about 8-10% of annual human emissions of carbon dioxide).

10% of our current emissions is deforestation?! The change in forest cover, so the extra consumption of meat (not the current consumption)?

Frankly this number seems too high. The source of this source checks out at least[3] and it also seems to match with this .gov site [4] at first glance. But I've spent 20 minutes on finding numbers now, it's someone else's turn. I'd be happy to know if it's wrong.

Until such time, please check your facts before talking to other people about just leaning back and letting someone else solve the problem because your contribution "does nothing in reality". Some things like plugging out chargers when not in use are indeed feel-good. Other things that we all do are not. Each individual contribution is obviously meaningless, but we're not talking about Jesus cutting out his individual meat consumption and thereby saving us all, nor do we all have to play Jesus either. Skip meat one day of the week where you would normally have meat, and you already decrease your consumption by >10%. Or replace half your beef-based meals with poultry, that also saves a shitton of CO2e.

Obviously this is not the only thing we need to do. But let's not put on blindfolds and just continue what we've been doing until now while the rest of the world also wants to start doing that.

[1] "agriculture accounts for around 85% of deforestation worldwide. And while this can mostly be attributed to meat production (beef in particular)" https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-cause...

[2] https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/deforestation/

[3] https://www.wri.org/insights/numbers-value-tropical-forests-...

[4] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
We have to do this again? Hydroxychloroquine was debunked months ago.

"Among patients hospitalized with mild-to-moderate Covid-19, the use of hydroxychloroquine, alone or with azithromycin, did not improve clinical status at 15 days as compared with standard care. (Funded by the Coalition Covid-19 Brazil and EMS Pharma; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04322123. opens in new tab.)"

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2019014

"After high-risk or moderate-risk exposure to Covid-19, hydroxychloroquine did not prevent illness compatible with Covid-19 or confirmed infection when used as postexposure prophylaxis within 4 days after exposure. (Funded by David Baszucki and Jan Ellison Baszucki and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04308668. opens in new tab.)"

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638

"Neither HCQ nor HCQ/AZ shortened the clinical course of outpatients with COVID-19, and HCQ, but not HCQ/AZ, had only a modest effect on SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding. HCQ and HCQ/AZ are not effective therapies for outpatient treatment of SARV-CoV-2 infection."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...

"Among patients hospitalized with Covid-19, those who received hydroxychloroquine did not have a lower incidence of death at 28 days than those who received usual care. (Funded by UK Research and Innovation and National Institute for Health Research and others; RECOVERY ISRCTN number, ISRCTN50189673. opens in new tab; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04381936. opens in new tab.)"

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2022926

Shall we discuss creationism?
>but the vast majority of emissions come from commerce and industry and not consumers.

And what do you think industry/commerce is serving? Consumers.
Honestly, as a macOS power user, I love the new approach Apple is taking with Safari.

More vertical space is a win, especially with those wide screen displays that are getting more popular and lets be honest: Actions like reloading are best done by using keyboard shortcuts anyway, so having a more minimal UI is a win in my book.

The new feature, where Safari’s app chrome changes colour by taking the accent colour of the currently loaded website is just awesome and really brings the website you are currently visiting up one level closer.
1200 years is nothing. The earth is laughing at you.
Indeed, the grim fate of Semmelweis is extreme. But think, for example, of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who fought Big Oil and was executed.

As for paper - I suspect that written letter communication leaves a much smaller footprint than sending emails and printing on demand. However, I have no evidence of this yet.

But https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ has something about the rebound effect exceeding the initial savings.
These reports are so misleading. This is junk malware uploaded on VirusTotal, not something seen in the wild.
The Censored: Bret Weinstein – TK News by Matt Taibbi
Is there any opportunity for interested undergrads to learn about this more (since I doubt we could contribute)?
I think that would be a wonderful thing to implement federally. I believe that one thing most rational people can agree on is that government spending is out of control. Causing there to be fewer pockets for taxes to fill could be very beneficial in the long term, especially if you support social programs to help the less fortunate.
> Has there ever been a large company in IT that didn't turn absolutely evil as soon as the opportunity presented itself?

If turning evil increases shareholder value, it’s their fiduciary duty to do so.
Oh not to mention, this might soon change as eSNI/ECH is adopted! Then the only information being leaked would be the IP address of the server. And with widespread use of CDNs nowadays would make the information collected pretty useless.
Ofcourse that is if your DNS queries are not leaking everything. (which they are! Use DNS-over-HTTPs guys!)
Take a look after June 25th, 2021.