skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He said: "I can't imagine a situation where everyone either will have a bank account and card suitable to pay and wants to.

>She said: "One of the biggest inequalities of modern tech and the widening gap is digital poverty, because there are people who are very reliant on their digital packages who take for granted their access to the internet.
"There are still a lot of people paying in cash who could be flying under the radar.
"If you do remove one-on-one payments and totally automate there's a group of people unable to use the service properly - or [have to] illegally - because they don't have a choice."

I am so happy to read this. Not everyday you have people caring about these sort of thing. Or May be tech is mostly dominated by Silicon Valley who dont sort of give a damn.

I still think Oyster card performs better than Visa PayWave / Master PayPass or Apple Pay / Google Pay. Although none of them are anywhere near as good as Suica Card in Japan.
Yep that. Lambda is a massive win for me personally. I have some scraping and processing stuff that runs daily. Costs me $0.60 a month to run it even outside of free tier which is less than a cheap DO or linode box and I don’t have to look after the OS.
Try lowering the random_page_cost value; this is the performance cost query planner uses for random reads, which is usually too high if you're using an SSD where random reads are cheap (on disks it's expensive). Just setting it to 1 works well in my case.

This solves many "it does a slow seq scan even though there's an index"-cases.

https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/random_page_cost/

There are some other query planner knobs you can tune as well; the https://postgresqlco.nf site is pretty good.
While this type of behaviour is bad, the fact that the inspectors de facto defraud their own employer by not checking the QR codes seems worse to me. They get paid and can't be bothered?

When I take a train in Czechia with a digital ticket, the conductor always scans the QR code.
Nice setup. I prefer one large monitor over dual displays and a desktop over a laptop. I just don't have any use for the small laptop screen and keep it closed most of the time.
Risk assessment:

"...rate of myocarditis after two shots of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be 162.2 cases per million for healthy boys aged 12 to 15 and 94 cases per million for healthy boys aged 16 to 17. Equivalent rates for girls were 13.4 and 13 cases per million, respectively. At current US infection rates, the risk of a healthy adolescent being taken to hospital with Covid in the next 120 days is about 44 per million"
This comes back to my comment on objectively low impact.

The media outlets cited are Vice and Business insider, the Twitter feed of a science journalist and several subreddits.

This is not convincing anyone of anything they don't want to be convinced of.

It would be like someone thinking they'd struck a blow against academic fraud with the Barnum stunt.

I'm not saying that academic fraud isn't a real problem, but this 'attack' on it is simply pathetic by any objective measure.
I had to choose between eating and paying for tickets. I paid the tickets. Ran out of money, got fined and kicked off several times until payday.

So I thought, fuck this. Treat me like a piece of shit and I'll act like a piece of shit.

I get it, that's how the system works. Well, sometimes I'm sick of playing.

So yeah, stick me in jail. Just don't ever release me, that's a bad idea.
Strange.

I use Web apps on mobile whenever I can.
True, but it can't be beaten for archiving (aka when I might want to keep some content for future reference when the blog is no longer up). It's is the only format that I trust to survive over the next 20 years without shifting its rendering.
Thanks for the reply, that's interesting to know. I'm trying to wrap my head around how PP actually works for people, though I understand that there's a lot of variation.
Transaction id wraparound. Transaction ids are 32 bit and they are used in a ring like manner, so a transaction id can only be reused if there are no open transactions before it. If you (accidentally) keep a transaction open for a long time, then after a while you run out of transaction ids, and it is tough to recover from, because management operations themselves involve creating transactions.
The pitch of how useful AR can be in a professional setting is always about superficial things that are usually non-problems.

Car mechanics can recognize components. It's the easiest part of their trade. And doctors know how organs look like. That's not the kind of information they need. And no heart surgeon would look at getting started tutorial with a patient in front of them. Construction workers would use a proper measurement tool if they need a measurement and their decisions depend on this measurement.

Another assumption about AR which is often wrong is that looking at things is the easiest solution to many problems.

Yes, a cash register worker scans codes all day. No, rotating each and every box to have the code facing you and then moving the head and the upper body to center at the code is not easier than reaching the same code with a hand scanner. Hands are good at reaching things. Neck gets tired. And even a better solution might be transition to RFID, or installing multiple cameras along the belt, or promoting a self service process, none of them require to look at every code.

Loooking at keyboard is not the fastest way to type. Many AR usage scenarios are like suggesting to project key labels on a keyboard through a magic HUD when there are already keyboards with labeled keys and many people using them professionally are blind typists.
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Google maps opening hours are also frequently wrong, at least have been in pandemic time
For me, reliability. Literally I have to futz with it so often. I moved from a Mac recently to a T495 thinkpad with Radeon in it which is supposedly fully supported by Ubuntu. Turns out that depends on what day of the week it is. Constant GPU problems.

I have considered switching back to windows.
From your article, it seems Apple are encouraging nothing of the sort, and in fact recommending the opposite.

> Apple now says users do not need to unlock or hand over their phones for the system to work for airport security.
Was just about to post this https://www.youtube.com/c/BaumgartnerRestoration
That seems like a load of weird and unnecessary generalised judgements.

There’s nothing wrong with people wanting to improve tooling and LSP has ushered in a new era of hybrid approaches where you can use the editor you love but get enhancements to the experience. Tree sitter also provides a new interesting way to interact with code, but the whole ecosystem is in its infancy.

All of this stuff is improving rapidly and personally I’m happy with it now.

I don’t want / need a full IDE and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I think that's what we already have, but nobody uses it like that.
Try IntelliJ Projector. It's awesome.
That was very very early on. Once they were big and Android came along the strategy was turned around.
Suica or any of the FeliCa-based cards in Japan are stunning really, the ecosystem is great. They're super fast, don't require sign-ups and work anywhere in the country nowadays, even in most shops.
Looks like there are several active wildfires around the area.

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2021-09-10..2021...
Just read through the article and was wondering if anybody had experience with migrating from Cypress to Playwright, or Playwright in general?

Before Cypress i was used to working around problems of Selenium/Webdriver. Now it seems with Cypress there are less workarounds but still some problems. The article really talked to me e.g. grouping of tests is a major painpoint IMHO.
Android and iOS specifically are not keen on creating a more powerful browser experience because it hurts their app revenues.

Mobile APIs for apps are fairly modern.

The limited nature of Mobile experience + the more modern APIs and integrated build/deployment/storefronts make those a much easier choice than otherwise on mobile.

Desktop app frameworks are old and complicated, and there aren't very good options for apps in between 'web' and 'major installs'. Desktop UI generally require a lot more component types and layouts, and frankly there is no framework that has conquered that domain very well. Every single desktop UI framework falls quite short.
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Same. Powershell script that collects links from Pinboard and posts them to my blog. It would be massively overkill to run a whole server for that. (And Microsoft charges me about £0.15 per month)
Interesting. I guess the issue with COVID is it’s more contagious than the flu?
> That includes canceling meetings we were invited to with a "nah this can be an email"

I've done this, and it went down really well. Even if you can't cancel the meeting, you can send a single person instead of the whole team. You can also send people back to their desks if their part in the meeting is over. I was also adamant on all meetings having some sort of description and agenda, so that people can tell if it's worth attending or not. That was more difficult.
Apple is the reason. App store greed.
We with our "design and virtue signalling" addiction helped a lot in creation of this monster.
As far as I can remember, the real UI/UX innovation was killed fast. Palm/WebOS.
If it was on a downward trajectory she pointed the nose straight down and went full throttle.

I still remember how mad my then wife was about the childcare fiasco.
OpenELEC’s last release was in 2017, it was a hard fork :).
No, the vast majority of dongles just have a DP-to-HDMI chip
Tell the names of people... that's actually a very good use case for AR!
I found the article really hard to read, the author took a long and convoluted path to expose his ideas.

As for the question that the article raises, there are probably many co-occurring reasons, and a lot of comments make good points. However, one that I couldn't find listed is IMHO performance. I still find web apps (and web sites) to feel really sluggish and slow on everything that is not a top-tier phone. Again, many reasons for this (JavaScript bloat, tracking, intermittent connectivity, ...) but the user experience is just not the same.
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> inhibits the replication in vitro

https://xkcd.com/1217/

FWIW researching it is good and should be encouraged but most quality clinical trials so far like NCT04429711 and NCT04391127 haven't been very promising. Those which do show a statistically significant result have been flawed in one way or another. Hopefully when the Principle Trial reports people will get over it one way or another, but it's not looking promising. It may help somewhat at best, but it's no miracle cure.
Well that 24/7 db server is not going to back up itself and maintain itself when the HW fails or the power goes out. This is not trivial/cheap to assure and maintain. Likewise with hosting your own S3. The value is not in the HW really (and the cloud providers know this when pricing).

I have this setup on AWS and look at "bringing it home" every year but the nightmare of having to assure a good level of availability is not worth the saving of a few extra $1000 per year for us at least. Completely different issues not related to your HW can happen, your office internet simply goes down or power goes out while you're on vacation etc..

At least there is major competition between a lot of cloud providers nowadays so nobody can get away with insane prices anymore. Though, would be cool to see some kind of standardised price comparision metric for medium/high complexity cloud setups. Sort of how you compare grocery prices, you have a standard purchase list.
I remember London public transportation used to be shit and expensive. Disregarding his later downfall, Ken Levingstone did a tremendous job during his tenure as mayor, with Oyster card, introducing the congestion (which subsidises TfL) and convincing the train companies to jump in the scheme as well.

If I remember correctly, one of the reasons public transportation outside london is so poor in comparison is that councils outside London are not allowed to subsidise it the same way London is. They are also forced to use private operators.
Wait, what? All my US cards except for the metal amexes have been contactless for years. All of them also support apple pay.
> It is certainly a victory for junk legalese that you can write an illegal contract, have it ruled illegal, and still enforce it.

From the ruling (page 172):

> In California, “where a single contract provision is invalid, but the balance of the contract is lawful, the invalid provision is severed, and the balance of the contract is enforced.”

In other words, even though the judge found the anti-steering provision of the contract to be illegal, the rest of the contract was still legal and enforceable, and Epic violating the other terms of the contract entitles Apple to damages.
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Sadly "nobody" anywhere uses DP, as in any random TV or projector or cheap monitor you'd encounter uses HDMI. DP only took off for serious monitors.
I don't need a source to express my very own and subjective opinion about how mankind will adapt in the future.

Besides, you did not give any for your own affirmations either.
I didn't even watch the video, I just know the song from Beat Saber. The song's definitely good though.
wait until you're out of v4 and people's stuff breaks due to CGNAT
DisplayLink requires extra drivers, these dongles don’t.
> Well, ARM for one - but despite its incredible importance in the world, ARM isn't all that valuable because of their business-model.

ARM I think fits an attempt to grow while operating within the constraints of the model that you mention above.

I was thinking of Madge Networks - once mentioned in the same breath as a small networking company called Cisco. Of course Madge went with ATM rather than Ethernet, but they also had blue-blooded management and would only hire engineers from Oxbridge (which is naturally going to limit both the outlook of your company and how fast you can grow).
have you seen the cost of v4 recently?
I didn't see anyone in the comments mention Lazarus yet, so i thought that i'd go ahead and do that: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

It's a free IDE for FreePascal and a set of useful packages that work out of the box and give you a "batteries included" development experience, for CLI apps, desktop software and even some simple web development (though admittedly most other languages do web development better). Here's more information about the component libraries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Component_Library and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library

Where it shines in my experience is creating GUIs: making a framework that works atop of the system native functionality and abstracts it away was a really good idea - you get a consistent development experience across the platforms (as long as you don't try doing anything too sophisticated) without having to use a common runtime, like Electron makes you. This results in native looking, snappy and not too resource intensive programs. There's even a gallery of what others have made with it here: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal

There are few other platforms that i'd reach for if i'd want reasonably performant desktop software development in a small runtime and with an easy development experience: maybe the old Java Swing or OpenJFX since those are cross platform. Avalonia for .NET doesn't seem quite as stable yet and using Qt Designer would be a tad complex since i'm not intimately familiar with C++ and enjoy languages with simple memory management.
"hundreds" of concurrent connections isn't really a problem for Postgres.

Several thousands are - at least up until now. V14 will improve this substantially.
If I don't have any iOS device, or an Apple account, can I still send an Apple maps link somehow to friends or family?

In particular, some of my elderly relatives use Apple maps and last time I tried I couldn't figure out a way to send them a maps link to the place I wanted to meet them.
Big discussion, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28485905
>What's changed is just giving developers that flexibility. Ultimately saving them money, they can hire more devs, and make their products hopefully cheaper (and better).

The only ones who can save money on third-party payments are big developers or apps that charge a lot of money. For usual $0.99-2.99 in-app buys, you won't be saving much, in fact, you are likely to pay more. And of course, you have to do VAT, refunds and other things yourself. I just don't see how a small dev is benefiting here. I'd rather pay Apple's 15% and be done with it.
The description here reminded me of

CodeTour https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour

> CodeTour is a Visual Studio Code extension, which allows you to record and playback guided walkthroughs of your codebases.
what is TUI? or what does it mean?
I don't think anything except Visual C# comes close in terms of being able to build GUIs
As for cross platform mobile apps, is there even any RAD tool other than this?

The reason for Delphis lack of popularity now is because the era of the desktop application died around 2012 or so.

Everything is a webpage now, including many mobile apps.
The cost we have paid by using HTML and JS as the way to build apps is not well recognized - everyone only does it because there is no real alternative. The Stockholm syndrome is fully matured.

React/Angular etc are the equivalent of what the VCL was to the crude Win32 API and MFC base. React is as close to RAD as you can get without a visual designer.

If I was going to develop mobile apps that were much more than a CRUD like UI, I'd probably opt for Delphi
Apple is still allowed to take fee during third-party payments. So as developer if you pay 3% to Stripe, now you pay 33% fee.
It's funny you mention tiling because honestly one of the biggest things preventing me from moving to linux full time is the lack of any decent window manager like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone... where I can arbitrarily draw/resize zones and drag and drop/snap windows on to them. Every window manager I've used in Linux, and gnome extension, all try and force you to have non resizable areas, areas of equal proportions, don't support snapping etc. And needed serious foo for moving a window about. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear it
Seems like the right strategy. A chargeback request automatically implies a $25 fee for the merchant if I remember correctly (read this on Braintree long ago). I'd expect any merchant will want to avoid disputes/chargeback requests like the plague.

Take this with a grain of salt, it seems excessive, I should probably have looked it up again :) But there definitely is some kind of strong incentive for merchants to avoid these, not just because it wastes time for them.
Can't edit anymore but after checking up on https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html only `FOREIGN KEY` constraints can get by with a lock below ACCESS EXCLUSIVE. So constraint or column makes no difference to the locking, sadly.
Two third of the visits on my websites are from bots and crawlers
Private companies can, to a large extent, target and accommodate only a subset of the market.

However, a public transport system has to be for everyone. There are legal and political consequences to making it difficult or impossible for certain demographics to use public transport. There's also the fact that the most marginalised in our society are often incredibly reliant on public transport. That's why TfL and other public bodies have to undertake an Equality Impact Assessment for any policy change and take these things very seriously.
> You forgot CPU that's light-years ahead of anything that Qualcomm or Samsung have

That's a relatively recent development.

iOS's lower memory usage compared to Android, however, has been forever.
I was expecting https://youtu.be/ceczKlbuq-Y
That is false. The US absolutely does have contactless credit cards.
Text UI.
It's apps made to be run in a terminal basically.
No, no the author isn't discussing one nuke.

I think you are the one assuming, twice now, not the author...
I did not like brexit (Did not have time to visit most of GB before 2021, Covid did not help). But i think you're right, all those shortages make a labor strike ten times as effective. Imagine homecare worker strikes right now? they can double their pay pretty easely i think. Same for HGV drivers, meat processors etc.

The issue is for small businesses. And the fact that NI was basically forgotten by most of the people voting for brexit (and by those making the remain campaign). The pub owner near my place always talk about the Ballymurphy massacre and how his fvourite cousins died there, i suspect him to be ex-IRA. He tells everyone he went back to vote for brexit to make NI people want to join Ireland, and that the effects were better than expected. Not sure if i believe him, but let's agree that the effect of brexit on northern ireland were not thought out.
I generally feel much more likely to be robbed prior to entering the tube stations (eg walking under Putney bridge).

Once inside I'm conscious of potential pickpockets but no longer expect a mugging as a serious threat.

In contrast NYC and San Francisco's systems felt much more sketchy late at night, think it might've been the reduced staff presence
Paint is all one needs for basic cropping, cut/pasting, highlighting, drawing arrows, superimposing text and basic image manipulation. I think that this level of simplicity is admirable, because it means the application takes a second to boot so it doesn't break your flow when you're trying to get other things done.
I have 2 Mastercards and 1 Visa. Only one of the Mastercards support contactless. The one without foreign transaction fees doesn't. It's also been vary hard to find a chip+pin card (without an annual fee) instead of a chip+signature even though it's been around for what, 20 years now?
"beg" often means "beg for". "This situation begs for the question:" is a completely reasonable way to start a sentence.

Or to go with synonyms. Solicits the question. Entreats the question. These are the literal meanings of the words, and they work fine.
Nope, Nvidia will never let you pass PCIe virtual functions to VMs. They'd rather charge 7x the price for data center GPUs with that capability.
Ha! Tell me about it. :-)

In truth, I don't spend that much time on Zoom calls, and of the few that I have, many are no video, just substitutes for a phone call with better audio quality and the ability to share screens if needed.
VAERS seems somewhat tricky to use, but a quick search showed 232 myocarditis reports among males ages 6-17 in the US. This is likely to be some small fraction of the true number.
> The only snag is for non-U.S. citizens.

As always
It doesnt work if you're the only one, it would have to be the most popular.
Taxpayer funded defined benefit pension funds assume 6% to 8% returns. Non taxpayer funded defined benefit pension funds are required to use high grade corporate bond yield curves, in the 3% to 4% range. Roughly 1% change in the assumption of return on assets results in 15% of change in liabilities.

NY is an outlier in terms of its defined benefit pension governance, but the way most taxpayer funded pensions currently work, they are vehicles for pushing 30%+ of today’s defined benefit costs onto future taxpayers.