skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... how do you identify yourself? I mean.. what's stopping me from saying I'm Jeff Bezos and that I'd like to withdraw a million or two?
Haven’t used the magnetic strip in years in Canada.

It just isn’t a thing anymore.
The entire point of going away to college is to learn to live on your own, which includes learning what you need and how to obtain it. Obviously there are some feed forward items your kid needs to land on their feet - like linens, toiletries, a laundry bag, and a mini fridge. But stuffing your kid's dorm room full of all this crap (just look at that lead in picture!) before they're even living there is pure self-centered suffocation on the part of the parents.

The article touches on this slightly ("there’s a bit of helicopter parenting, something I have enough self-awareness to realize"), but seemingly only to create an illusion of self awareness rather than truly examining it as the main factor underlying this whole thing. Seriously, your kids will be fine without your overbearing involvement, despite what the crap making industry wants you to believe.
Not to sound harsh - but its a trade off...You seem to want the money and the job satisfaction/community/work-life balance... Its incredibly hard to get it all. Pick the ones that are most important to you, and let the others sort themselves out.

Sounds like you're only going to make another year or two at you're current job before you're totally fried. So perhaps start looking for new stuff now, and start socking away extra cash in case you want to retire.

P.S. The turnover rate in programming in general is very high. I was surprised the 'average' programmer changes careers after 10 (5?) years. Burnout is real everywhere.
Dumpster diving at the end of the school year was always fantastic. Some of the favorite finds from me and my roommates were:

- Desk chair

- Giant dresser (looked brand new like it had been bought at the beginning of the year and thrown out at the end)

- Still functioning 40" plasma TV

- A suit that had never been worn, still had the pockets stitched closed
I can quickly comment as I was in the same situation not too long ago. I was a semi-quant in a fund in London until recently. I stayed from the intern stage to the very top. I spent my entire time working. I hated London with a passion, it's a cold city where people are cold, the weather is cold and wet, the food is terrible, never made any friends there, you're expected to join the rat race in short. It has a huge impact on you if you don't like because you're reminded of this every day, you may be thinking of other places where life is not like that, that your life is running out getting a paycheck. I'm not sure if this is your experience and I talk for myself, but maybe it is. Also I wouldn't think of things in terms of optimising career/money. These things are only good if you're happy and it doesn't sound like you are.

Here's what I've done: I left (I left far far). Life is too short. Quant skills can be applied in various things, including startups. I would suggest looking at Cambridge because you cannot leave your partner apparently. Cambridge has a bunch of funds, but also has a lot of startups working on interesting projects, you should have a go and visit the place. Things are greener, nicer, people are calmer, and you're 1hr away from your partner. Good luck.
I'm pretty sure the magstripe is already somewhat disabled over here. My debit mastercard refuses to work outside of the European union unless I disable the geo locking in the banking app, and when my chip was broken the readers kept telling me to put the chip in.
I don’t think there will be an AST. https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210814.html: “We will be writing a single-pass compiler for a simple language and immediately output our final output code as soon as our compiler has enough information to do so”

That “as soon as” implies code will be generated before the entire program has been parsed.

Also, for me single-pass implies “no AST”, as you would need at least one pass to construct one, and iterating over an AST counts as another pass for me.
I think some of it is just them not marketing features. I was unaware that my card would do the NFC/no-pin-needed thing until I paid attention to someone in front of me in line one day.
Heh, so much different than my dorm room... So cute and sterile - like the ideas and emotions that would be experienced there I guess.
life is political. So you would have to suppress all communication about life. Show me content and I will show you politics. A video of children playing in a pool: Are they dressed appropiately? Are they playing the right games? Are their surroundings a capitalistic dream without meaning? What about a b-actor soap series? a wikihow on how to make beer? a podcast on how to make vegan yoghurt? an article about curing meat? There are no things unpolitical. life is political.
That's not quite true. The Arc was originally known as the DG2 and is the successor to the DG1. So to say it isn't "remotely related" is a bit misleading, especially since we have very little information on the architecture.
I also wrote a similar one:

http://github.com/dheera/python-termgraphics
Yep, its right up there on the 'corporate-speak' next to "we're taking these alegations very seriously"
I graduated a similar time ago. If you used campus housing, they provided the basics (desk, chair, bed/mattress, wardrobe, and a minifridge), but you could buy extra stuff if you had extra space. I had the same roommate all 4 years, and we collectively spent probably $400 on extra stuff over that time, the most expensive of which was a second-hand couch that cost around $250 that we acquired our third year.
I sometimes keep my credit card near my iPhone. I have wondered about the impact on credit cards of the new MagSafe magnets in iPhones. I guess if there aren't magnetic strips anymore, I won't have to worry about it. OTOH, there won't be any backup if the chip doesn't work, which it doesn't always.
You can request a new card from your bank, you will get it probably within a week. Problems solved.
"You have a PhD in Computer Science, one of the highest academic accomplishments in one of the hottest fields for the last 30-40 years. I want you to know how far ahead you are of people like me who just taught themselves to code and glue web apps together for 6 figures."

I have a Masters and don't make 6 figures. I think the PhD has a smaller pool of positions, especially if you expect to be paid well.
key quotes:

>The treats are made with mouse tissue grown from stem cells in a food-grade bioreactor on a vegan medium

>One of the biggest challenges in cellular agriculture is sustainable, inexpensive media.” Because Animals has developed that very thing — and it’s vegan.
Absolutely not true as a blanket statement. Maybe if the driver monitoring is so lax that you could conceivably trick the car into poorly driving itself, but the system I use, Comma [1], has incredibly strict driver monitoring.

There is absolutely no doubt I'm a safer driver with Comma than without it. I'm still in control, but Comma not only allows me to expend less effort driving (which allows me to stay alert over longer periods of time), but also be much less emotional when driving. I'm pretty convinced that a large percentage of accidents are caused by frustrated or bored drivers doing crazy things that you just don't feel the urge to do with the assistance of self-driving.

1: https://comma.ai/
It's not the launch, it's the landing. NASA specified landing sites that are in permanent shadow as targets. The 'national team' missed that landing in permanent shadow would have to happen in the dark.
Why does it take so long? Where’s the bottleneck?

Where I lived over the last years (two countries in Europe), I don’t even have to use the physical card. I just use contactless payments with the phone. Prior to that, it was contactless with card. Even ATMs work with contactless (not all, yet). Prior to that, it was chip. I honestly don’t even recall the time when the magnetic stripe was needed.

(edit) Think of this: I made an account with one of these neo banks, ordered the card too, and it took me over a year to activate it. I still don’t use it. I just installed the virtual card into the phone’s wallet and used the account like that.
It's nothing wrong if you enjoy the process. From my observation people who are obsessed with idea X usually enjoy it, however weird that looks like for the rest of us.

If you are asking: Do we agree that "The Rich don't penny pinch", I'd say no because I have seen rich people doing that. People who are super rich but struggle with just a very small amount of $ because they simply don't agree that the merchandise/service worth it.
To echo my other comment: my chip broke on my debit card and the card refused to work with magstripe only (and it was broken in a way were the NFC thing also no longer functioned). So not sure if the magstripe has any functionality in the SEPA region based on that experience.
Step 1: Don't be a farmer. Conservation is not about using nature, but the opposite.

Step 2: Plant native plants and then don't touch the land. Ever.
At first, I thought this article was going to be about the industrial complex that's cropped up around college dorm construction and marketing. It's as if schools are in an arms race when it comes to building and selling students on the fanciest dorms.

I recently accompanied a teenager (not my kid) on a campus tour for a big, well-known state school. I think that the parents asked maybe six questions. Two were about whether their kids would be forced to get vaccinated and the remaining four were about the dorms.

Asking about accommodation is absolutely valid, but couldn't someone have also spoken up about, I don't know, academics? The tour guide spent probably 30 minutes talking about dorms and maybe 5 minutes talking about classes and research.

And then we wonder why US college education costs tens of thousands of dollars per year. Sad.
There will still be NFC (on the card and, potentially, your phone). That's what I end up using most often these days anyway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28199067
Sure, but it doesn't solve the worn out card EMV reader problem.
In the US, many POS terminals refuse to use the stripe until there have been 3 failed chip reads.
Note, this is an opinion piece, not journalism
I wonder what the statistics are on gas station pumps in the US for magnetic card versus other methods?
No, it's never the same. There will always be glitches.

KiwiFarms murdered the person who could bring emulation within spitting distance of real hardware. So yeah, now there's even more reason to collect gaming hardware.
NFC (EMV Mode) is partially encrypted and much more secure than magnetic stripe
Signatures are for you, not the card company. This is why I sign with a nonce.
Cognitive Biases Ruin Your Brilliant Idea
My debit cards only work with the chip, although the stripe is physically present, it doesn't contain any data (apparently).
I can't remember ever having paid using the magnetic stripe in Europe since 2010 (having been to Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands, Romania and living in Germany), before I didn't use a credit card at all since it wasn't very popular here.

Honestly curios: where (and when) did you make that observation?
I just got a new credit card recently. There definitely still is the space for signatures in the US. I actually once had a store turn me away because I didn't sign it.
You’re right that I can’t write much (legal, PR team say hello).

The bottom line point is, we don’t sell data and that’s not the main allegation. The main allegation is that people didn’t understand that we were part of the flow of connecting banks to apps. We disagree.

Before 2017, there was a whitelabel experience of Plaid that didn’t say “Plaid”, didn’t have the Plaid logo, etc. We still stand by our belief that our disclosures at the time were more than adequate. But it’s not something we want to have protracted litigation around.

The reality is that our experience today is vastly different (and has been for a while). As for “what meaningful business practice changes could you be making if there's no issue to begin with.” Like most companies, we’re always making improvements to our experience -- today we have a consent pane that makes our role clear, a portal for people to manage their data, etc.
Yea--hooray, it shouid have been done years ago.

I would rather see MasterCard lower their fees, and take 100% liability for stolen numbers/information.
The difference a tiny change in framing can make is amazing: https://www.psychologyofgames.com/2010/03/framing-and-world-...

> In World of Warcraft what they did when they first designed the game was they had an experience system that would, over time, lower the amount of experience you got because [Blizzard] wanted to encourage people to play for like two hours at a time instead of twelve hours at a time. So the longer you played you’d get this experience degradation and then it would bottom out and at that point it would be a fixed rate of experience. And people just hated it.

> And so they went back and [Blizzard’s Rob Pardo] was like all right, basically what we did was we made everything in the game take twice as much experience to achieve as before and then we flipped it. So actually what happens is you start getting 200% experience and eventually it goes back down to 100%. So that effectively now how they spin it is that if you log out for a while you get this 200% boost when you log back in! And then over time it goes away and you just get regular 100% experience. It’s EXACTLY the same as it was before, except NOW everyone is like “Fuck yeah, Blizzard, this is exactly what I want!”
Potentially unpopular opinion, but I think a large part of Katamari Damacy's appeal was it's oddball aesthetic, with a feeling it was kind of intentionally shitty, but executed really well. I think this hasn't aged as well as it deserved because so many indie games ham up the "low quality" aspect of their game now. Whereas KD did it artistically, indie games do it as an excuse for not being better. And for keeping that company, I find KD hasn't aged well.

Good theme song though.
Everyone needs a way to plug in to the world around them. It doesn’t have to be a full time job or even a job at all. But this is something everyone needs.
I had the experience of trying to relearn some math just a few years after first learning it in college and it was similarly much easier to learn it all a second time. I don't think I had a whole bunch of new experience. I think rather there must be some kind of residual understanding, even if it can't all be articulated cold.
I wonder how this scales for almond milk?
There are some reasons it still exists, however, it is no longer required and merchants/POS systems ought to start phasing it out.

In the US, the way we do tip on receipt is a lot more natural if you're asking for a signature. Without a signature, you're just handing someone a tip option, which is awkward with our current way of doing things.

Some merchants opt to keep signature enabled because it gives them a fuzzy feeling and it's a point of closure to a transaction.
How many units did you have at that stage? We're finding games with 8 or more players a side can slow down after an hour; though this is because of the number of units present (often in excess of 4000).
Any entity (individuals or corporate) could use it of course. Rich or not, since Electric vehicles such as buses could be a public form of transportation on these specially adapted roads.
Is it the social situation? Everybody needs enough encouraging, supportive, friendly people in their lives.. and if you have discouraging, apathetic, etc people then you need even more of the former.

This could be the good money + toxic environment deadlock. I guess it's mostly the social environment which discourages you from looking elsewhere. The pay could be better elsewhere, the social environment almost certainly could be better elsewhere.

I recommend that you start interviewing for other positions immediately - maybe 1 per month - just to keep yourself grounded. Your interviewing/networking doesn't imply a decision to make a change, it just informs your decision regardless of if you decide to switch or stay. Interviewing could encourage you to stay where you are, etc.
that sign would be right outside your front door.
Very cool! :D

I also thought about adding color support via ANSI escape sequences, but for this project I decided against using them to keep things simple a widely accessible.
I'm not condoning or condemning, just offering it as a story that explores some of these issues.

In this story, the sterilisation (and complete loss of sexuality) is an inevitable consequence of the treatment, not something forced on you. But only males lose sexuality, while women do not. It sets up some interesting tensions.
It really is mind blowing to me. Especially in a pandemic, why why why require a signature for anything? This is one of the few things that would reduce exposure that we already have a technical solution for. I just don’t understand.
I made that observation from using a loyalty card from a grocery chain that only has a magnetic stripe. ~10 years from the same card now.

(Sorry, this was unclear from the first iteration of the observation.)
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>I honestly don’t even recall the time when the magnetic strip was needed.

for when you fly over to the US and need to use your card
Especially when it's, say, Walmart which has built a business on crowding out competitors in an area — are you really going to spend an extra 40+ minutes driving somewhere else out of spite? The power dynamic here seems quite unbalanced.
Why go as far as usa when it's readily available at libraries and for sale in many many European countries? Even some versions with comments are legal in Germany itself.
Crankery is crankery.

The book you link to talks about mathemathical crankery, but a mathematician would most likely be a non-mathematics crank, as crankery usually requires a lack of / limited understanding of the field and subject. Although there are some strange cases e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Branges_de_Bourcia
Here you go:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00014...

https://psyarxiv.com/nxw2k
That’s just a bit on the mag strip that encodes if your card has a chip present.

You can flip it with a writer and use the magnet strip again if you want.

It’s quicker as one doesn’t have to wait for the Javacard OS on the chip to boot up and handshake. (Ie swipe and walk away vs insert, wait 4 seconds, remove).

Wouldn’t do this on my debit card but it’s fine on credit cards with chargeback protection.
Thanks for the additional clarification :)
Daniel Kahneman has soured on his own System 1/2 theory, plus his original theory discussed bounded rationality and not the kind of objective rationality which fell out of favor in econ literature a long time ago.
I think the magstripe is disabled in my region, I've never managed to use it on any of my cards. I tried testing it out to see if it even was functional. Surely they must work as I've heard quite a few stories of card skimmers...
America. They dragged their heels switching to chips.
The ability to "handle" OOM in userspace, exists for a particular class of software — software that is usually configured to 1. use unbounded and unpredictable amounts of memory, where 2. requests are entirely-sandboxed in their resource usage, but within the software itself, rather than at the OS level.

Basically there's only one kind of software in this class: DBMS software. DBMSes want to be able to try to process ridiculous queries if users ask them to; and then fail in a way that only affects the processing of that query, rather than the stability of the DBMS as a whole. And they also mostly can't afford the overhead of pre-calculating just how ridiculous a query will be, before attempting it; because that calculation often requires effectively 90% of the work involved in actually running the query.

For every other type of software, letting the OS handle the OOM (by killing your process) — and setting up your higher-level inter-process / inter-node architecture to be resilient to that — is the sensible approach.
The only reason I’ve started using my card lately is because Face ID is harder with a mask on.
The code isn't perfect, it's a learning project and still WIP, but you can check the code for a parser for the LOX language ( c-like) from 'Crafting Interpreters' in this project. 'Ast.fs' and 'Parser.fs' should be enough to get an idea of what it's doing.You can also google the grammar of the language which is quite simple:

https://github.com/BazookaMusic/FLOX
Good point. Currently though, if you "z" a page you've closed, it preserves your input. The system isn't perfect, but it prevents any fear of accidental closing.
They are.

But also you come to understand the connection between real world conditions and "km of expected range consumed per real km", which ranges from -0.8 (regen, long downhill, battery ready to receive charge), 1 (flat, 80 kph, 21 degrees outside), and 2 or even 3 (steep uphill with heater or AC on).

Or maybe you do if you're a HN reader... :)
I was interested to use Wayland for its more secure design. Also, X11 is considered abandonware by the maintainers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-...

As long as I was getting started with a new environment I wanted to make a forward-looking choice.

Due to Wayland, Sway does have smoother window resizing with less jank.

One detail I liked about Sway at the time is that it supposed an "include" file directive, allowing you to break up your config file. i3wm has recently adopted that feature from Sway:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-...
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I hope that means Home Depot and Target have to accept tap to pay…
There’s always that old book shop that doesn’t have the latest and greatest yet. And this type of support is typically enforced by contracts; eg if you buy some device that accepts MasterCard, they promise it will be supported for at least 10 years.
BoW is hands down the best opensource game, but it's more like Panzer General / Fantasy General than HoMM.

Wesnoth's Paper-Scissors-Rock-Spock-Lizard combat is actually much better that in Panzer/Fantasy General games.
The USA is a big holdup. I just traveled across the country and there are still filling (petrol) stations where the only card reader is stripe. See also other comments about the stripe being a fallback for chip as chip readers on POS terminals seem to be more fragile than magnetic stripe readers.

FWIW, Contactless is very hit-or-miss for me in the US; about 1/3 the time it just doesn't work at all (even with multiple retries), and that's when the terminal has one. Was picking up something at the corner store the other day, realized I didn't have my wallet and contactless just didn't work with the phone at all for some reason.
>> Conservatives who just a few years ago were praising Trump’s new “America first” attitude and his withdrawal from Iraq are now wailing that Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is the sign of a dying, decaying empire

Loses me when author gets an opening premise so wrong. Conservatives aren't wailing about the withdrawal topically (which is what Trump was advocating for while in office - an end to the "forever wars", remember?), they're wailing about the manner in which it was done, which is to say utterly horribly and shocking to the conscience.
There's not a small part of your psyche that tells you it's ok to drive while tired, or all the way home from that Las Vegas trip because the technology is so good?
> By 2033, no Mastercard credit and debit cards will have magnetic stripes

I wouldn't be surprised if, by 2033, people will be identified using biometrics everywhere, so you can pay with your hand print or face scan.