skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a matter-of-fact statement. Observational life will show you that we don't call out the fact that we arbitrage labor. Tim Cook doesn't tell customers that Apple keeps prices attractive enough by utilizing cheap Asian labor. It is tasteless.

If you find my statements to be "us-versus-them," that's your opinion, but I would find no fault in what these people are doing if they were Americans versus Ukrainians. I find fault in how immature the business approach is.

I acknowledge that I am not being nice. Neither is building a business, arbitraging labor and calling it awesome that you can exploit workers globally. But you suggest to me that you believe otherwise. Is that not a fair opinion? Besides, you call my comments nationalistic when they are clearly not.

A nationalistic comment would be, "Western culture is superior because we do not..." versus an observational statement which is "In western culture we do not..."

However, it's a common theme here that posters, versus commenters, have favoritism preemptively due to the good faith guideline. So, believe me, I'm well aware of them.

But if I posted an article here that wasn't nice, you would, by these guidelines, expect me to just be nice, and yet that's not how the world works, and plenty of posters here call out things all the time. It's a strange dynamic to assume otherwise.
Oh we are measuring productivity correctly.

How much more productive is an software engineer that uses Rust compared to one that uses, say, C/C++? That is to say, do I need fewer software engineers to deliver the same product if they use Rust rather than another language?

If the answer is "not really", then Rust does not increase productivity (I don't know the answer, btw).

In general, I don't think that software as a tool made much difference to people's productivity in the last 20 years or so. The boost enabled by internet connectivity was probably over by ~2005.

Since then not much has happened. Uber, Deliveroo, etc. are great for consumers but they don't increase the productivity of drivers: Drivers cannot drive faster or service more customers per hour, really, these are bounded by physical constraints.
I've been trying to shift to contactless payments recently, and my anecdotal experience has been the opposite: mom-and-pop shops usually have some kind of terminal from a dedicated payments company (verifone, square, etc) that's been updated in the last few years, while big behemoths (e.g. Lowe's, Fedex, USPS) are the holdouts clinging to bespoke antiquated payments hardware.
I was just playing Total Annihilation last night! It's kind of amazing coming back to this game after so many years. A lot of the aspect of the game actually aged really well. I was able to bump up the resolution to fit a modern wide screen monitor using a few registry changes. The game still looks great and on a modern CPU it absolutely flies even with 1,500 units per player.

The scale of the game has never been replicated by any other game/series as far as I know. There is so little micromanagement. It's almost half economy planning and half strategy. Once you have enough energy production and MOHO metal makers, the economy can basically scale infinitely. I basically just queue up my factories with the different unit types and automate their orders to patrol certain areas and watch the mini-map to see how the front line is shifting.
bad form replying to myself, but this just occurred to me..

Given you sound fairly young, what about powering thru say 3 years with your partner to build a nest egg. Then both taking (perhaps lower paying) jobs that you enjoy, giving your nest egg time to grow - that way, you'd have the satisfaction of doing something you enjoy, and the option to retire whenever...
Firefox on a Surface Pro deals with it just fine.
Independent of the question around TSMC they are still affected as:

- Shortages and price hikes caused by various effect are not limit to the GPU chiplet but also most other parts on the GPU.

- Especially it also affects the RAM they are using, which can be a big deal wrt. pricing and availability.
This is just not true. It is even less true for readers that support contactless payment.
Is "medallion" a requirement for this search? I think a lot of cities that use this system merely call them licenses. I'm not sure that whether you call the system one of medallions or one of licenses makes them qualitatively different if the principle is that a) only a limited number can ever be issued creating artificial scarcity; b) that scarcity and resulting high cost create a protected group of suppliers; c) the city has a financial interest and even duty to shield the market from competitors and innovation.
Turkey offered to guard the Kabul airport back in June
Biden’s Handling of Afghanistan Pullout Draws Bipartisan Criticism
> "* It maintains my distance from the car in front and my speed while keeping me in my lane, so my brain no longer has to worry about those mundane things.*"

Ive been driving for 25 years, cars, trucks, trailers, standard and auto transmissions, and I have never once thought to myself "I'd be such a better diver if I didn't have to pay attention to my speed, lane keeping or following distance" Why? Because those mundane things are already on autopilot in my brain.

Posts like yours are so absurd to met that I cant help but think shill.
Music, both listening and performing, has been one of the few things in life that really fills me with joy and gives me the strongest (positive) emotions.

If I had gotten a music degree, I could have probably been a decent composer and a better instrumentalist; so I might have been able to make a living. Or at least I probably wouldn't have gotten enough early higher paying jobs that I trapped myself in that money cycle.
In my area (Minneapolis), Costco is the only fuel station I've seen with actual tap to pay (and it handles the Costco membership check as well).
Most amtrak fares are comparable to airfare these days honestly. If you can't afford airfare you end up on a greyhound, not the amtrak.
In recent years, I've had more transactions using the embossed numbers than I've had using the magnetic stripe. I've had a few taxis in various countries dig out and use one of the slide-across carbon-paper impression machines, once they got through the second or third round of "are you sure you won't pay with cash?". I've had fewer cases of "our chip reader doesn't work, please swipe the card instead".
Exploring NFT Economies: Creators, Collectors, & Collection Sizes
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>This is bizarre but, I at least, in the UK wouldn't consider 'Ford' an American brand

I think a lot of people are missing what you mean by the above. Ford has been in Britain and Ireland for a century. Multiple generations have driven Fords and have worked at the Dagenham plant and at the former Cork plant, built aircraft engines during WW2 there. Ford's raises were used to determine raises for other industries (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent#Ford_nego...>); that's how much Ford was seen as a "native" company. The 2010 film Made in Dagenham (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Dagenham>), about a notable strike in British labor history, is called that because it occurred at the Ford plant.
> No, it's never the same.

You're right, but of course the nature of emulation is that it can actually be better in a lot of ways. More power efficient than original hardware, no cartridges or discs, no composite or NTSC artifacting[0], save states, networked multiplayer, automated translation,
etc.

> There will always be glitches.

It is at least theoretically possible to build a perfect emulator. Practically, though, we are already so close that it is more than good enough[1] and fake it for the rest if anyone cares.

> KiwiFarms murdered the person who could bring emulation within spitting distance of real hardware.

Yeah, that was horrible and tragic without even connecting it to emulation and those fuckwits can die and rot in hell.

[0] Ok, that one being better is debatable since the art was designed with that in mind. Of course, there's always shaders.

[1] With the exception of a few systems, like my beloved Saturn.
> A nice and very sharp 8" stainless steel spike on the steering wheel facing the driver.

Didn't we have those in the 50s and 60s? Maybe not sharp, but collapsable steering columns are a significant improvement to survivability.
Yup. The extra furniture we got was either from craigslist (ie: international student leaving country, has 24 hours to get rid of everything) or used items from the school itself (ie: classy dumpster diving). I went to a very elite school but almost no one wanted to show off how much money mommy and daddy had.
Like that promotional scene in Wayne's World (1992) where they show off the blatant commercialism as criticism (but the product placements were probably just as effective).
When I was over there I constantly got confused around the tipping system and how some bars keep a tab open for you (by take your card and putting it in a little book at the back and then you pay/tip at the end)

I didn't trust that so I ended up just signing the receipt and adding the tip to the bottom and keeping my card in my wallet. Needless to say I think the bar staff got a lot of tips that night!
that's not irrationality, that's decision-making under uncertainty, which is the norm, not the exception. probabilities are dynamic, information is imperfect, and so decision-making must incorporate that uncertainty.

the sunk cost fallacy is simply considering existing loss when deciding on continued investment (in time, money and other resources), when you should only consider future cost for future benefit. it's thinking erroneously that existing loss is not already locked in, that it's salvageable somehow. but no, it's already lost.

in a project with continuously updating probabilities of success, and under imperfect information, the go-or-no-go decision should only be based on the likelihood of future gains exceeding future losses, not future+existing losses.

in this framework, persistence would be having credible evidence (e.g., non-public information), not just belief, of the likelihood of future net gain relative to opportunity cost. it'd be irrational to be persistent simply on belief rather than credible information and probability estimation.
So, you make repeated insinuations in your comment history about the "authenticity" of 9/11.

Perhaps you could share with the class what you believe is inauthentic about 9/11?
There's also a fundamental difference in the population between these places that might have somethingn to do with it.
One would think that with "autopilot" there would be a limit to speed and an increased "caution distance" the vehicle maintains with everything.

I also think there should be dedicated lanes for self driving cars..

A very good friend of mine was a sensor engineer at google working on virtual sensors that interacted with hand gestures in the air... and is now a pre-eminent sensor engineer for a large japanese company everyone has heard of...

We drove from the bay to nprthern california in his tesla and it was terrifying how much trust he put into that car. I got car sick and ended up throwing up out the window...

Knowing what I know of machines working in tech since 1995 -- I would trust SHIT for self-driving just yet.
I would have been very surprised if we exceeded 500, although I was getting my ass kicked, so I might be underestimating.
When I see this comment, I can't help but think that this is the thinking that sent Americans into these messes the first place. Ordering drone and air strikes is easy, you have to answer what's next. But you can't. The reality is that their sons will pick up weapons instead and are even more convinced in their ideas.
WePay and Alipay have their dual in CashApp and Venmo. The only difference being that Alipay has a lot more institutional support, ie. you can scan your QR code at the grocery store - not the case with Venmo (yet).
Milner08's comment isn't saying that Ford isn't an American company. It's saying that in Britain, Ford was so accepted for so long that it became "one of our own". That's a compliment. See my other comment.
I dunno, I've had plenty of instances where swiping a card doesn't work. Sometimes I'd have to put a plastic bag around the card and _then_ swipe it.
That is just part of the story.

CUDA wiped out OpenCL, because it went polyglot as of version 3.0, while insisting that everyone should write in a C dialect.

They also provide great graphical debugging tools and libraries.

Khronos waited too long to introduce SPIR, and in traditional Khronos fashion, waited for the partners to provide the tooling.

One could blame NVidia, but it isn't as the competition has done a better job.
I really doubt that banks will pass on the savings onto the consumer of fraud mitigation once EMV is fully implemented.
Sign up bonuses. I don't buy stuff to resell, but will do things like refuse direct billing for insurance.
Then why does it take the sales person at Macy's 15 minutes to look up my order before giving up and just giving me a refund for a poorly fitting sweater I brought back?
She would get baby-related ads.
US has energy independance due to Fracking so it's pulling out and leaving behind all sorts of toys while handing the Taliban a political victory. China is dependant on ME energy imports and Russia due to its collapsing demographics only cares about taking the Carpathanian mountains and a chunk of Turkey to have a defensible border.

The Chinese need to take Taiwan to break out of the first island chain to secure energy Imports, but even if they take Taiwan this year or next, they now have to deal with a Taliban 3-5 years down the road that have American training and arms and all of whom have experience fighting Americans for the last 20 years. So if they take Taiwan they'll end in a direct conflict with Japan, Indonesia and India while the world shifts it supply chain to India whom has healthier demographics than China, and even if China manages to maintain its energy supply chain, it has to deal with disruption in the middle east and has to ship troops over to fight an arguably better equipped and more experienced adversary.

Should be interesting to see how this one plays out.
It's bad compared to what? If you have one system that needs to iterate through A and B and another that need to iterate through B and C, what is a more ideal system?
It could be a case of implicit vs explicit knowledge. In the context of evolved culture beliefs, the foophobia may serve some real purpose, even if most/all of the enculturated individuals can't explicitly state what the real purpose is.

It could be that, like dietary restrictions to reduce the spread of disease, the foophobia is no longer needed, but keep Chesterton's fence in mind before you say it's unneeded.
I thought it was kind of funny that the author said Taxi companies are only one app away from feature parity with Uber. That is a pretty important feature that they aren't likely to develop quickly if they haven't been bothered to do it already. Not a fan of uber, but the taxi experience is pretty unreliable and bad and will get worse if uber fails and taxis have another monopoly.
https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/main/LICENSE

I'm pretty sure Anki is FOSS, though perhaps you just don't like the AGPL?
"Industrial Complex" isn't really accurate. That phrase generally denotes an industry that has become intermixed with government & regulatory bodies complete with their own lobbying groups to solidify regulatory capture.

A large segment of the home decor market being targeted at dorm living doesn't really qualify. Here's a list of commonly considered industrial complexes [0], and dorm living doesn't really fit among them. All of them significantly intersect with laws and regulations. I'm not sure that Celebrity and Hot Take should be on that list, but they at least are very influential on public opinion on a range of topics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_complex
What I like about the gas station ones, at least where I am, is that they use Zero insertion force contacts instead of brush contacts, so they won’t wear out the connector or your card. You can hear the machine click up and down as it engages.
America still has military bases in Japan and Germany.
Not much to it. No sawing required other than the length. 6 4x4 vertical posts in a 3 by 2 configuration. A skirt around the top of 2x4s, and another 1/3 up from the ground. A 2x4 connecting the center posts at top and bottom. Then just plank the top, and plank 1/3 up to make a shelf. Drill & bolt.

Don't tighten the bolts until it is all together. Then set it in place and let it settle all the posts firmly on the floor, then tighten.

I left it au natural because I like the look and feel of sawn wood.

Hope you like yours as much as I like mine.
Ask HN: Is there a real alternative to Android/iOS?
Hello everyone,
I am wondering if there is a reliable alternative to Android or iOS. I would like to improve my privacy and share less data with 3rd parties.

I was thinking about buying a KaiOS phone, but it seems that the performance are very low and the platform seems to have lot of limitations.

What do you guys suggest?
About what exactly? Voting in favour of the Iraq/Afghanistan war?

Well of course it's flagged here because there is no defense about it 20 years ago and no defense about what it going on now.

Looks like 'The Atlantic' has some war hungry Biden cheerleaders to spin and pump up this trash article as if he is doing something competent.

Now the terrorists have taken over Kabul. What an absolute failure from Biden who has done nothing to stop it.
Reminds me of this kind of thing:

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/09/13/wide-residential-stre...

I was first introduced to "wide streets in neighborhoods are more dangerous than narrow" on HN years ago. (I don't think it was the linked article, but that was the first one that came up just now after a search :P )

Since having read that, I've actually noticed how true this is, at least to me anecdotally. When I'm driving in a neighborhood with crowded streets, I can't bring myself to go over 15MPH, much less over the speed limit (typically 25 in neighborhoods in the US).

Wide streets give a sense of security. So I feel like people are less likely to pay attention going around bends, parked cars, etc, than if they didn't have that sense of security.
Do mobile devices work? The Target here does not accept Apple Pay…
Note that the CC number / expiration date are not used for contactless payment, and should not be enough to make a payment online.
I have never had to use the mag stripe, ever. Failures happen sometimes with the chip as you mention, but it usually works on the second try.
Why wouldn’t everywhere be supporting contactless payments by this point?

And that’s not me being snippy, because perplexingly, Mariano’s, a grocery store chain in Chicago owned by Kroger’s, does not support NFC payments. (I assume Kroger’s stores proper don’t either.) You have to swipe, use the chip, or use the dedicated Kroger Pay app to scan a QR code to use your digital wallet. (Yes, really. Took them forever to even support chips instead of magstripes.)

I have absolutely no idea why they do this. Is there a higher interchange fee for contactless? Kroger’s isn’t some mom-and-pop convenience store—they’re the largest supermarket company by revenue.
Real-world demo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.dev...
While I agree this is definitely a thing, it would be a mistake to swing too far in the other direction and view any texts sharing a subject as roughly equivalent.

I've experienced the '3rd text' phenomenon, but I could also point to specific features affecting the wide variance in math text effectiveness.

And this book is a pretty good example of exactly that: it has specific unique features allowing it to fulfill its promise of being an effective 'translation' guide for a programmers to a bunch of otherwise typically implicit ideas relating to methods or foundational concepts in mathematics that can be extremely difficult stumbling blocks for the self-taught.

IMO a good strategy: take people's glowing praise about particular texts with a grain of salt—but, if specific beneficial features can be pointed out, which would be advantageous to you as a learner, know that can mean striking gold sometimes (in terms of not wasting time).
That's awesome. Says a lot about your friend. Don't let this tidbit of knowledge you earned ruin your relationship, absolutely not worth it.
Because it is a point about free speech in the USA (facebook being a US company), not availability of the book in other countries.
> I believe them more than I believe MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, etc.

Why?

Is there some objective reason you believe them more, or is it just that they tell you the things that feel right to you?

Speaking purely for myself, I find Greenwald and Taibbi to be every bit as slanted and shrill as any other source of media, they're just slanted in a different direction.

Should they be included as part of an overall media diet that, on balance, gives you a more rounded view of current events?

Perhaps.

Should they be believed to the exclusion of other media sources? If you're asking me, absolutely not. That's no better than subsisting on a diet solely of Fox or the Times.
From Wikipedia:

• Spring (application), an E-commerce platform

• Spring (game engine), an open-source RTS engine

• Spring (operating system), an experimental operating system from Sun Microsystems

• SPRING, a GIS and remote-sensing image-processing system with an object-oriented data-model

• Spring Framework, an application-framework for the Java platform

Spring Framework (what I think of when I hear Spring in a computing context) is 5 years older according to Wikipedia.
This article is a nice reminder that I don't use Instagram and never will.
The worst thing about Plaid is the alternatives to Plaid that I've never heard of

There is no secure way to "connect your bank account" in an app. No matter how fancy it looks, or what logo they put up, you are really just giving your username and password to a random person. A random person who may or may not be malicious, but is absolutely a giant target for malicious people.

As for the rebuttals, be nice if there was a way for users to to verify.
For those abroad, even the notion of tipping can be absurd. Using that notion as a point of support for a payment system the levies fraud responsibilities onto the merchant and is very easy to circumvent, and the reason most other places moved to chip+pin, or contactless a long time ago is even more amusing.

I understand what you're saying, and how its locally relevant, but from the outside looking in the US is a long way behind on keeping up with the tech in this space.
Do you do all of them? Or just like Chase Reserve and Amex Plat.
Everything you move in, you have to move out 9 months later, even if it's just to the nearest dumpster. That includes the stuff you accumulate during those 9 months. Best to keep it minimal.
There's an old Irish expression which is appropriate here:

"He was in my shite".
Right; I wasn't playing grammar gotcha. I use my laptop for non-work activities, and I guess I do so sincerely. Do people use their laptops or desktops for non-work activities somehow insincerely?
What’s his name?
> Plaid would retain access to their credentials and use them to mine, aggregate and then sell users’ financial transaction data to third parties (including to the fintech apps that use its services) for purposes unrelated to the plaintiffs’ use of the fintech payment apps. [1]

This is allegedly from the lawsuit. I can see your perspective — that it made sense to settle because of the privacy accusation, but you still deny the other accusations. I understand that perspective, though as I'm sure you can understand, it's hard to know for sure based on the allegations and the settlement.

[1] https://newmedialaw.proskauer.com/2021/05/11/plaid-federal-e...