skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US Federal Reserve is implementing Instant Payments in 2023 [1]. The system is already in beta testing [2], and its development is ahead of schedule [3], going live a full year earlier than first projected. Fintech sees the writing on the wall with Paypal moving into crypto and brokerage services, and Visa attempting to acquire Plaid to move away from payments. Payment revenue is going to (rightfully so) plummet as the Fed fixes antiquated plumbing and drags the US into the 21st century (54 other countries already have instant payment systems [4]).

One would expect banks and the Fed to eventually adopt similar infra that Europe is (per this submission), where card infra can use these Instant Payment ("FedNow") rails for C2C, C2B, and B2B payments (although, eventually, everyone will move to QR codes a la China; Zelle is beta testing QR code support for instant payments on their network [5]).

US payments currently suck, but I wanted to share that progress is being.

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/31/fednow-the-federa...

[2] https://www.pymnts.com/news/faster-payments/2021/five-banks-...

[3] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/blog/u...

[4] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/instan...

[5] https://www.zellepay.com/support/how-do-i-use-zelle-qr-code
Perhaps their accountants saw how much of their budget was eaten up by bandwidth costs and concluded they couldn't stay afloat without donations.
> Most people hear “tor” and they immediately think of illegal, shady stuff.

To be fair, the US intelligence community created it for (what is, from the perspective of the governments in whose juridiction the actions were to be carried out, at least) extremely illegal, shady stuff, and relies on lots of people using it, including for other illegal, shady stuff, to make use for and concealment of the kind of illegal, shady stuff it is meant for effective.

So, that’s exactly what people should think. All other use is incidental and supportive of the primary purpose.
Here in Sardinia I've never seen so many vans, camper and motorhomes like this summer. People are scared of covid and that's the best way to practice social distancing without renouncing to a long awaited holiday. I think it's a great way to explore less mainstream places. The RV market (even for vintage caravans from the 80s) is going crazy.
Funny then the Ford calls it Co-Pilot. There are many names that companies use, the idea that they all call it cruise control is just non-sense.

And Tesla also doesn't call it 'full self driving autopilot'. They simply call it Autopilot.
EU is surely for taxes. But the US tech companies try to avoid this as much as possible.

+ The fines are for breaches/violations/abuse and they are way too low to have any significant social impact.

Eg. for the fine of today, Facebook when they acquired WhatsApp:

> Facebook told the commission that it was not able to link the accounts of Facebook users and WhatsApp users.

....

Personally, I think the fines are way too low. Companies are not above the governement.
If you've found the book but it isn't available you can search all your other cards by touching the two color card icon on the search result. It then searches for that book across your cards. Not an easily discoverable feature but its amazing when you find it. I only know about it b/c the app's ui choices didn't always make sense so I went through the tutorial hoping it explained something else.
Both of those work with the Vivoactive 4.
It's chaos enough that anyone thinks Pi Day is interesting.

1. Calendar dates are usually Big Endian, except in the US and a few other places.

2. 3.14 is not the value of pi in the decimal system. It is an approximation.

3. As it is, the updated Gregorian calendar is arbitrarily chosen.

4. The decimal system that gives significance to pi's approximate value is arbitrarily chosen.

Yes, I am a treat at parties.
The simulator is based on an applet that's been around for a very long time. The CRT display is simply hacked onto it.
I'm going to take a stance here and state my disappointment towards the NH crowd whenever China comes up as a subject. Instead of looking at it through engineering eyes, and debating the benefits and / or drawbacks, so far I see only accusations towards China and apologies for the US & EU model.

I believe the tax model is outdated in globalism as tax avoidance can be practiced to no end, and the 'fines' EU model that someone was mentioning can hamper innovation and scare companies into doing business elsewhere.

While I do believe China has its faults, I also believe this method could unlock investment money that would be directed by actual professionals in a corporate environment rather than be lost in bureaucracy. If anything, I am interested in how it's going to be implemented and what the results will be.
>if autonomous driving can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept that crashes will occur

This argument ignores the reality of driving: by being a competent, attentive, careful driver you can avoid many classes of accident. Crashes are all about fault, and as a safe driver you can avoid most at-fault accidents. You get to avoid all the self-inflicted damage of drunk/incapacitated driving, unsafe driving for weather conditions, extreme speeding / reckless driving, etc. You still have to deal with the externalities of those, but some fraction of the time you can notice and anticipate these people on the road and stay away. Not always of course, so that still leaves some number of deaths per mile, but I'd bet that threshold is way lower than the "save one life" bar. So if you're a good driver, autonomous cars at the "current death rate" safety bar would make you less safe.

What you get by ignoring this and using the current death rate as a bar is a "transfer of deaths": you take all the deaths that were the fault of the driver (driver dies due to being drunk/high, very reckless driving, etc) and transfer them to random innocent people who were not at fault.
Maybe soon, philosophy won't be considered a "difficult/advanced topic". I'm beginning to see more philosophy-oriented classes in high school, which is awesome. I am currently taking Theory of Knowledge, an International Baccalaureate class, as a high school senior. The IB heads hate calling it a philosophy class but it aims to "provide an opportunity for students to reflect on the nature of knowledge, and on how we know what we claim to know" (so, philosophy-oriented). It is compulsory for an IB diploma. This has certainly increased interest in philosophy in IB students and it becomes a favorite class for most students and even IB coordinators. Creating early interest in topics will definitely encourage later interest.
Yeah, I understand. Where I grew up and my parents still live is ~60 mi from the nearest stations, and during the digital transition they all went from high power VHF to UHF and they lost the ability to get anything even with a 40' tower with a rotating antenna.

Still, I've found a lot of people who CAN get signal just grew up on cable and don't really know how to even check for OTA availability or what to do to get it if they have it, so I like to mention it for their benefit.

Not trying to minimize how frustrating it is for folks who can't though.
Cool. Any thoughts on the Apple Watch production being delayed as engineers wrestle with quality issues?
Richard Southwell has published over 50 hours of video lectures on CT:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCTMeyjMKRkoS699U0OJ3...

And he wrote a textbook on CT with Naman Gupta:

https://www.amazon.com/Categories-Toposes-Visualized-Richard...
The principled intellectual wing of the US conservative movement has virtually disappeared. Even those who disagreed with their positions should lament this as a net loss for society as a whole.
Beggars can't be choosers...
There is a bunch of information on how Google does documentation in the book Software Engineering at Google:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/WXTTDwAAQBAJ

One notable practice mentioned in the book is their g3doc system. Documentation is kept in the (google3) repo alongside the things documented. It is encouraged to update the documentation and the code at the same time. This also means the full history of the documentation is available in repo rather than in a separate wiki history.

There is also a system of URL-shortener-esque "go/ links" that allows people to easily link to or jump to documentation. For example, "look at go/foobar". The docs are also exposed in their code search system.
>Drone striking a us citizen

I can’t tell if your joking. Obama definitely was not a conservative, and he actually called a drone strike on a US citizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

However the people right now calling for Orwellian surveillance and restriction of travel are not right wingers.
It's not that surprising - only a couple of the banks around where I work still have traditional counters, though the suburban braches do.
Crew completes spaceship fit check ahead of all-private mission to orbit
That's not how I see it. I see everyone else as being way too uptight & worried about something that's not a problem, or attributing to Electron the faults of Slack. I, like the author, feel like an active defense is necessary. It's time to let these boorish unceasing whinings go on unchallenged.

My bloody daily driver linux laptop is 4gb, and near to 5 years old. Electron poses no challenge whatsoever to me. It has no negative impact on my life. And it's a far far far better far more compelling development environment than the alternatives, of which very few are cross-platform.
What is complicated about wires? Plug-and-go.

Any day I'll trade any complaints about "spaghetti" against blutooth connectivity, having to charge yet another one more device, the possibility of loosing the base media device because you absent-mindedly left it on the subway chair next to you whilst offboarding onto the platform...
I can try. If the result of doing something vs doing nothing is indistinguishable after a certain time, does it matter that it ever happened?
> pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of less than or equal to 250 W, where the output of the motor is cut off when the cyclist stops pedalling and is otherwise progressively reduced and finally cut off before the vehicle speed reaches 25 km/h; (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...)

The key is continuous rated power, which is measured with the temperature-controlled method over 30 minutes (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:42...), and thus it can have a way higher peak-power, and manufacturers have a lot of leeway massaging the system design to formally keep in that limit. So both "there is a 250W limit" and "my bike gives out way more" can be true.
I'm not convinced that the US government is the best example of a body free of corruption and strongarming.
It's really annoying that smaller cars aren't sold in the US. There's always claims that there's no appetite for them, but how do the car companies actually know that if none are on sale and therefore there's no data?

I just leased a Bolt, but likely would have opted for an id.3 if it were available to me. Or any number of other smaller cars.
> we couldn't see germs with a microscope doesn't mean they weren't effective in our lives.

And because we couldn’t see them we misattributed their effects and treated people with bloodletting.
Confidently declaring your understanding of an unseen enemy and applying seemingly-appropriate countermeasures is likely to be harmful.
Very few people know about most of these laws. I’m actually really surprised to see this from a mainstream news source. In general, the Government and the media increasingly hand in hand to control the narratives, keep people distracted from things they don’t want them to know about, and focused on what they want them focused on.

I do get it, people have lives, they’re busy, it’s “out of sight, out of mind”. None of this is in the news. But it’s really quite distressing to see the manipulation working so well and society unknowingly being taken the direction it is.
>"but it was not mandated by the government"

That's not really true, if Twitter decided to ban Biden or a big DNC politician they would get obliterated by antitrust laws in weeks. They just were able to do it to Trump because it agreed with the consensus of current day power.
Related: A video[0] from The Missing Semester, a course by CSAIL MIT, which covers Git in one of it's lectures. Personally, the entire series is a must watch, but if time is limited, the first 20 odd minutes give an absolutely fantastic introduction to Git.

[0]: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/version-control/
> a = 1 if True else 0
Because people are being sold on the notion that knowledge, expertise, science, and technical skills are a kind of authority that serves some vaguely identified 'elite' and therefore are not to be trusted or believed. Charlatans and grifters can then insert themselves as the source of truth.
>Why is it so hard to perform a relative import

I've lost many hours trying to get relative imports to work. It might be the one thing about Python I absolutely hate.

But Node doesn't do this well either, maybe it's just the nature of dynamically typed languages. The two programming languages I enjoy the most would probably be C# and Dart / Flutter. Having types, like real types is essential when projects scale. However I only get to enjoy these programming languages in my spare time.

Personally I think Dart is everything I could ever want in a language. Being able to use types when I need to, and the freedom to use Dynamics when I just don't feel like creating a new class. If you haven't tried Dart yet it's like Java's younger sibling who's easier to get along with.
This isn't really new though, and if you asked your great grandparents instead of your grandparents you might find it's not new at all.

If you look at what happened during the Spanish Flu pandemic, you'll find a lot of similarities to today. There's a reason we have a fair bit of U.S. Supreme Court case-law from the 20s about vaccine mandates and what-not: those matters were very relevant in the 1918-mid20s time frame mainly because of the Spanish Flu.

You might notice that people generally obey rules regardless of whether the rules are reasonable and/or justified. When rules are not reasonable or justified we might say that we have "authoritarian governance", as you put it.

If you ever wonder how people tolerated atrocities in, say, 1930s Germany, the answer is mainly two-fold, that they accepted their government's authority, and/or more importantly that anyways there wasn't anything they could do about it. It's the same today, except that our current governments aren't committing atrocities, though are being heavy-handed (and getting more so every day).

The fact that it is practically impossible for most individuals to do anything impactful about unreasonable rules in a reasonable amount of time is probably the most important factor in acceptance of authoritarian governance. I.e., it may not be acceptance of authoritarian governance as such as much as it is acceptance of one's inability to resist authoritarian governance. The latter looks a lot like the former, especially in cynical or apathetic populations, where the reasoning might go like this:

Q: Why didn't you oppose X 20 years ago?
A: Well, there wasn't anything I could do,
so I did that, nothing.
Q: OK, but why not protest?
A: And lose my job?!

Elections are too infrequent, and the courts move even slower. As well, when it comes to elections, people don't have decent options regarding these issues, so they may continue to vote as they would usually (e.g., partisan ideology).

In other words, I would say it's necessarily that people willingly accept authoritarian governance, but that we can't really tell how much willing acceptance there is versus how much unwilling acceptance there is, and it doesn't really matter what the breakdown is.

Once a government decides to be authoritarian, it's very hard to stop it. Usually in the West we get to vote them out. In the worst case scenario they'll rig elections or simply assume total power, and then it can be decades before a country can return to a normal state. Like Franco's Spain: he had to die before Spain could return to the Estado del Derecho.

FYI, "Estado del Derecho" is a wonderful Spanish legal term of art that refers to all that which we take for granted in the West, and which translates literally to "State of Laws" ("a law" translates to "ley", while "the law" translates to "derecho", but "derecho" is also a translation of "right" as in "rights"). I wish English had such a pithy phrase in common daily use for the same concept. "State of Laws" doesn't quite capture all that "Estado del Derecho" does, as "Estado del Derecho" means, mainly (among other things), Habeas Corpus and Due Process.
If the book isn't found at the library you are on I believe you do have to switch to other libraries until you find it. The most annoying part is when you are entering the title in the search box and it auto-completes the full title but then you issue the search and get back "No results".
The judge's summary judgment has an interesting criticism: "Plaintiffs set forth several arguments that defendants' Locast service does not come within the statutory exemption. For the most part, they present such conflicting characterizations of the facts that they are more suited to trial than a summary disposition." It seems like the judge did not find most of their statements persuasive, but rather than comment further and based on the 2019 hearing, limited himself to the sole determination that expansion of service was nowhere to be found in 17 USC 111. It would have been interesting to read more about what he didn't like about their filings. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.52...

I didn't mind the interruptions when I was a free user, and didn't mind the $5. Unfortunately, the statute as interpreted seems to mean that unless your non-profit retransmission network exists in its entirety in whole cloth from the beginning, it can't be legal. I'm not sure this was intended either. I think the EFF does have some room to appeal.
I think as long as people can't recognise theft of publishing rights, it will be difficult to have any sort of sensible conversation about it.
While that is true, there are also people who don't drink and drive, don't text while driving, don't drive while overly fatigued, etc. So it's reasonable for those people to not want to use a system that's only as good as an "average" driver.
Thinking about this stuff is what prompted my thinking about things like suicide.

The Universe is so vast. So much space, most of it with only the barest wisp of gas. Most of the solar systems we see in the night sky may not have life (we don't know yet). And yet here we are, a rare event in a vast Universe.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do. What you accomplish or did not accomplish. What awards were won or lost, life goals achieved or not.

Everything you can see (including the stars in the sky), everything you have ever heard about will be less than dust at some point in the far future. No statues will survive, no history books, no songs of glory. The stars will wink out, the galaxies red-shift past the point of visibility as they rush away from us. It will eventually be a vast, empty and quiet expanse, as the last of the black holes slowly evaporate.

But right here, right now, you are alive and able to experience the Universe. Yes, you may be in a shitty situation now, but you are still alive and you still have possibilities to experience something wonderful. It won't last, it never lasts, but that isn't the point. We all have to appreciate what we do have, when we have it.

Some people are in truly shitty situations, and legitimately have no way out, with no possible means to create even a little happiness for themselves. But for everyone else thinking of ending things prematurely, I urge you to consider how rare and precious you are. If you can give even a little kindness to someone else, it will have been worth it, because that's all that really matters, on our journey to infinity.
credit cards are used minimally in Europe, cash and debit cars are the overwhelming majority of transactions.

There's no difference in fraud protection between debit and credit cards in Europe, at least on my bank. Fraud is refunded following the same rules.
They usually charge a small monthly fee if you want a credit card. I assume successful fraud is just an operational cost like all the others.
You say this as if having a physical wallet doesn't also have huge downsides in exchange for being physical.

If you drop your wallet and lose it, someone has access to everything you have and any accounts tied to anything in your wallet. If you lose your phone, they get nothing.

If you have a physical card and it's been worn down, it will fail to scan. That's never an issue with digital cards.

Physical wallets have physical limits to how much they can carry without being a giant lump in your clothing. Digital wallets stay the same size no matter what you put in them.

Physical wallets are limited to what you put in them. If you forget a punch card, boarding pass, or ticket, you have no recourse. Digital wallets never lose anything and always have ways to retrieve the passes or cards within them.

We could go on and on but both options have advantages and disadvantages...
You're half-right. It's true that China solves problems china has by clever means that ought be appreciated as engineering successes.

However, China also has problems the communist party of china has created. And I think the "accusations" target this.
Fascinating.

I assume Affinity Client Services would also protest multiple letters, e.g. “lambda lambda lambda”, to keep control over sorority/fraternity names.

Is it actually legal to trademark a class of words in this way? Do they have legal right to prevent me from registering a student organization with a name that consists of three unique greek letters?
Plug and go. And then they tangle. And then the weight of the cable pulls your ears down constantly. And then you have a string of cable all day dangling below your shirt that sometimes gets stuck on things. Thanks but no thanks. Humanity has moved on.
I would think that is the idea of having an enterprise version for. Which they sold.
You are totally right. I forgot about this. I went from the sculpt wireless to the sculpt ergonomic and the non detachable keypad was really annoying for that exact reason.
This sounds great !
Italy has Satispay which has pretty good user penetration, at least among the younger crowd.

Satispay's killer feature is that it's aimed heavily at paying bar and restaurant checks, which is more common than sending money between acquaintances.

So if you share your location with your app, and the restaurant you're in is a Satispay merchant, it will show up automatically as a receiver without the need to scan codes or anything.

I'm sure other countries' payment apps have their own neat little features that others don't. Best case scenario would be for a common infrastructure to be adopted by all of them, and then they can interoperate and compete on feature sets, or even merge.
publishing jupyter notebooks on github?
Well, my laptop is AMD Athlon 3050U with ~3.33GB of ram ("4GB" but shared with GPU). Ripgrep definitely took that long to install last time I installed it. Dual core + ~3GB of ram, I can see 8 minutes being somewhat within reach. perhaps some aggro power throttling as well?