skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s very wholesome (or, naive) of you to think that developers will give users the choice for a less predatory payment gateway out of the goodness of their hearts, but that’s not going to happen.

Making it harder for users to cancel their recurring payment is a feature, it’s customer retention, the only choice you’ll have is whether a given site or payment processor is so egregious that you will forego use of the service entirely rather than take the risk.
Palm... I just remember, as a 12-year old, being fascinated by my older cousin's Palm Pilot Professional. The thought that you could have a tiny computer in your pocket, with all sorts of programs, read articles and books, play games... Two years later I would buy my beautiful Palm Vx, while staying in Montana as a foreign exchange student (and be made fun of because of it by my farmer American father hahah). I actually though Graffitti was extremely intuitive and I was able to write faster on the palm device than with a pen on paper. I think I read five or six books on that tiny screen as well - and I thought it was great.

Different times.
Contact your representatives. Every message they get about a project or program, they assume that there are 1000 (or some proportion more) who support it but didn't write in.
See my other comment about auto-scaling. Adjusting difficulty for PoW is trivial. Have the server crank up the challenge if it's getting more traffic than normal.
There's been plenty of discussion on the Texas law, as indeed there has been on trans issues and the other bait they use. I'm much more interested in focusing on stories nobody else is covering, and "a bunch of low-effort trolls convince hundreds of thousands that people are gathering on reddit to plan bounty hunting" is a fascinating story that nobody was covering. Sorry it wasn't to your liking, but it's a story I think people should hear.
I can think of one niche use case; Houdini is a Linux/Unix native 3D graphics software which I would prefer to work with in a Linux environment, but on Windows to be alongside all the other applications in my workflow. I imagine there is software in other fields with similar situations.

Note there is nothing wrong with the Windows version of Houdini, it's just Linux is more suitable for it.
> Apple must [...] allow apps to link out to third-party payment systems.

> Apple [must not] be compelled to allow third-party app stores or alternative third-party payment systems inside the app itself

It sounds like Apple cannot legally sanction a developer account when their apps open their own self-hosted payment page in a WebView instead of going-through iOS' IAP system - while Apple is under no obligation to allow iOS's IAP system to use a different payment back-end.

...shat's the effective difference here, as far as a regular punter's experience is concerned, though?
for those who were equally confused about that random assortment of words: they're vape machines, apparently
CAPTCHA are meant to exclude computers.
PoW does not do this at all. This is completely missing the point.

An attacker can easily an cheaply generate way more PoW than a legitimate user by optimizing their system.

This is just an "unskippable" delay timer not a CAPTCHA!
slavery is legal, but it is regulated, somewhat.
Just tell the admin to copy/paste it to another location
Black Hole Triggers a Premature Supernova
For your limited use case, ffmpeg / VLC wrapped in a small .sh or .bat script may have been an option?

VLC can understand ONVIF RTSP and tile the video's into a mosaic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-S4LMePVk

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Make_a_mosaic/

Id love to try lazarus one day all the same
The up arrow works in sqlplus on Windows.

A java remake called SQLcmd fixes some of the other problems.

Forms? Didn't that go out of support?
Casing doesn’t matter for Powershell commands, but it certainly Improves readability. Aliases certainly help when typing commands, too.

I haven’t had startup speed issues with Powershell Core, but when I do, it’s usually because of commands in my profile (which it tells you about).
Yeah. After I read everything more carefully, TripIt which I use is more in the vein of keeping track of business trips than pre-planning. Which I mostly don’t need software for especially for personal trips.
A ⊆ B does not imply A = B.
Oh hey, cool to see my article here. If anyone has questions or wants further details on anything, I'm happy to stick around this thread for a bit. I've paid altogether too much attention to this saga; glad it's going to some use.
> penis-swastika

Well, my curiosity quickly led to the discovery that penises and swastikas have a large overlap with furries, by the way of the Rule34 site. Which finally made me realize that furries are probably the catch-all category on Rule34: making another ‘rule 34’ pic? well just slap furries on it, and you got that audience covered at almost no additional cost. The same way as incest titles are everywhere in porn, since it costs nothing to phrase every single title that way regardless of actual content.
i'm wondering who defines "false and misleading" these days, is there like an official arbiter of truth
Iirc there was an actual tip line, so nonzero. The content was very obvious satire though
Can you share a link to the public consultation? I’d like to respond as well.
I strongly disagree. A person who loves to read pop sci physics will be much better at writing clear sentences about physics than a physicist, but the physicist will for sure have a better understanding of physics.

The world is very complex and almost nothing in it can accurately be summarised in a short piece of writing. Being able to making decent summaries is useful but it doesn't show mastery of the subject nor does being unable to do so show lack of mastery. Rather many masters feels that the summaries are woefully inaccurate and therefore be unable to write them while many amateurs will make very clear summaries of fields they understand nothing about.
You don't have to type capitals, and you have aliases just as terse and understandable (?) as standard unix commands: gci, iwr, ri, etc. So you don't have to type them if you don't want to. The

But if you forget, it's nice to have them. And for commands at the margin of your memory they're entirely discoverable (including the aliases).

It's not necessarily obvious when you start, but it's actually super useful to be able to use and re-use all your skills for selecting and filtering data. Being able to 'get-alias | where definition -like *item' is a great way to discover the terse aliases for file operations, for example.
This article completely misses context behind the name Indra for a group attacking Iran.

In Vedic Hindu texts, and in Zoroastrian texts, a great battle among Devas[1] and Asuras (Ahuras)[2] is described. In the Vedic Hindu version, the Devas won, but for some reason decided to emigrate to India. In the Zoroastrian version, the Asuras won and kicked the Devas out of Persia.

Indra was the king of the Devas. The word Deva eventually came to mean God in Sanskrit and Indra became the King of gods and God of thunder and rain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra#Origins
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahura_Mazda
They cut "red tape" where there isn't any - actually it will be another set of regulation for companies to follow. Then they put tons of red tape where it hurts. E.g. IR35 changes that basically killed independent IT consultant market and raising taxes. Seems like they want to create regulatory capture and safe haven for giants like Facebook and at the same time ensure it has no competition.
Interesting, but say good by to consistency across platforms.

The whole reason electron was created is because using a random unknown browser on the OS has random results.
This brings back memories.

One--how much I liked my TX. (One of the first little devises you could get on the internet with. I was a Goodguy's Liquidation sale. They had 500 Halo 2 Collector's editions for $5.00/piece. I needed the price on ebay. Everyone had a dumb phone. I went to a closed public library, and logged on with no password. I saw a high of 50 bucks. Went back and bought them all. I thought I had a upper hand in pricing stuff at auctions, etc. A year later, and it seemed like everyone had a smart phone.

two--dissapointment over how this company was mismanaged to the ground.
What do you mean, "you'd like"? Why can't you do that now?
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Also, not everyone can be vaccinated. Even now, no one under 13 years old is vaccinated.

It would be interesting if argenine supplementation reduced impact on those affected by side effects of vaccination. I don't know of any progress predicting who is (most) likely to experience side effects, or how severe they will be. Argenine supplementation is at worst perfectly safe, and cheap.

We should be able to discuss side effects, anyway, and try to eliminate them, without hysteria.
Can you give some examples for illegal stuff?
Okay righty there you got it. You just said why many people would find the phrase sexist (you actually say most people)

> “ In fact, most people don't even mean kimono when they say kimono, they mean a vaguely asiatic thin robe, pretty popular in the 80s”

The difficulty in understanding how most people would react to the phrase appears to be because you’re judging it based on your understanding of the term, not on what you yourself said is the general public’s understanding.
I use Windy fairly regularly for military flight planning. Nice tool to get an idea of when to launch to hit a timeline/TOT.
Yup, same here in Italy.

The infuriating thing is that some american users think that since they have to endure crappy banking then everybody else on the planet must also be enduring the same thing, and that's not the case.

I must explicitly approve any direct debit subscription before it can withdraw money from my balance and I can kill a subscription from my home banking (I'm an Unicredit customer btw).

That's actually how I made sure my gym subscription was terminated for good.
Stanford research: Apple HQ moving to Austin
Very nice. Wish there was a demo.

This project is also cool: https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/greenhouse

A reverse proxy that lets you split the "public-visible focal point" part of a web server from the "Holds a lot of private data and runs code" part. So the latter can run in someone's living room.
Ask HN: What Is Personal Information?
I have a bunch of data that I am moving around and I need the PII (personally identifiable information) to be compliant with a bunch if laws: GDPR, CCPA, Russia, Brazil, etc

So, what do you consider PII? How do you react it for Data Residency?
There is no way to prevent people from optimizing PoW for spamming.

Generating 1MM units of PoW will always be more efficient than 1MM people generating each 1 unit of PoW.

Optimization always works better at scale. Therefore an attacker always has the upper hand.

PoW is absolutely useless as a CAPTCHA and doesn't even do what C.A.P.T.C.H.A. says.
Groups like this are very important to have around for the rest of us to periodically recalibrate our bull@#$% detectors against.

That people whose professional reputation and livelihood it is to keep well-calibrated fell for this, is leagues more dangerous than these jokesters themselves. Sad!
They were great devices. Functional, and well made. It's a shame how managment ran that company into the ground.
It isn't clear to me if they need to allow third-party payments on the iPhone or they need to allow third-party payments in the App Store. I suspect Apple is less likely to do the former (as presumably that means sideloading) but the latter is great news for open source developers that are getting kicked off app stores for donation links or even webpages in various app stores (Apple isn't the only one guilty of this).
Oracle support is always good when escalated.

Without escalation, sometimes tickets bounce between groups.

I filed a ticket on getting sqlplus to work in a chroot, and finally figured it out myself with strace. I didn't think it warranted escalation.
It's still the case that 80% of the population of the Spartan state was slaves. That's what's relevant to this conversation; the rest is just sophistry.
Ada arrays are actual types, they're bounds-checked, the language provides some niceties for indexing, and Ravenscar and SPARK are available. You're going to have less issues with Ada in that case than you are with just about any other language out there.
This takes me back to my /b/ trollarmy days

Any stickam and gaia trolls here?

That was so funny lol

It is so funny to read this, tempting not to jump in, roflcopter
I may not understand properly what you are saying but here in the UK you can have regular payment on your credit/debit card. Except for Utilities, basically all my recurring payments just happen like that. Netflix does not require a Direct Debit, neither does a variety of service, including Apple iCloud.

Although you can chargeback those payment, that's not really a cancellation. It's a last recourse type of stuff. I'm still subscribed and liable for whatever charge I have incurred. If I want to cancel Netflix or iCloud, I need to go there. So sure, if the payment fails your account will eventually be suspended but not necessarily cancelled.

Even Direct Debit are like that. I cancelled my Electricity DD by accident, but I still received the bill in the mail (at the time) and the electricity wasn't just cut.

Also in the UK, Paypal will allow to setting up subscription. Similarly you can cancel the subscription, but it is not a cancellation of the service. You need to go to whatever setup the subscription and unsubscribe there.

Apple system is a centralised cancellation of the service first, the fact that the payment are stopped is a consequence of cancelling the service. Not the other way around as with all the systems I listed.
More attention should be paid to teaching what a model is, is good for, and assumptions; but in general, it is a good approach.

For example, a high school student won't have the quantum mechanics background for more advanced models and will never use them.
Another fun scenario to consider: if you could hop in a time machine and show these pictures to your favorite historical figure with occult interests (Pythagoras, Plato, Newton, John Dee), they wouldn't be surprised at all. "Oh yeah, we've known about that one FOREVER!"
It's excess pulse duration coupled with insufficient current. Capacitors can dump all their energy almost instantly (on the order of 1000s of amperes), but transformers are much more current-limited due to their design.
It's analogous to using a press vs a hammer.
Interesting. Could you provide such an argument?
Is there any doubt but that this is _the_ motivating factor for these companies? They employ all sorts of dark patterns to charge customers on the sly and make cancelling recurring payments as difficult and painful as possible, but at least if they want to sell on the lucrative iOS market they can't do this at the moment.

This is their business model, they've already shown they'll stop at nothing to put these practices in place, obviously this is just the next step in pushing it further.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

It’s not called yellow because of the reason you’re thinking.
Java has a few options...

AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) probably not recommended for new projects

Swing

JavaFX

SWT https://www.eclipse.org/swt/ Unlike the others that draw their own widgets and don't use the OS components SWT uses the native platform controls
It's not the car manufacturers lobby, it's the car dealership lobby. Manufacturers generally don't own the dealerships which is what makes Tesla unique here. If all car manufacturers started selling direct, the dealerships would all be out of business.
I would compare building MSIX or APPX to building an apt or rpm package on Linux - that's the next step after building the actual executables, which is what Zig covers.
They are to vape machines as grey poupon is to mustard.
The story does not make sense to me either. Google’s HR should surely know better than to get involved in a labor issue at company they contracted with and claiming are not google employees.
The nice thing about math is that once you reach a certain level, self-assessment becomes extremely reliable. From that point on you can learn math on your own without worry!

The key is to always have some concrete procedure available to check the results of what you studied. If you are solving a system of equations, the concrete procedure is to check if your answer actually solves those equations. If you are taking a derivative, the concrete procedure is to numerically compute the expression (f(x+h) - f(x))/h for a really small value of h, and check if it is approximately the same as your computed value of f'(x). If you are integrating a function, the concrete procedure is to take the derivative of your answer and see if you got the original function back, or to numerically compute a Riemann sum.

If you are writing a proof... that is harder to verify on your own, but there are still ways to do it. You could think of a particular example and follow the steps of the proof in that particular situation and see if they work as advertised. You could try to rephrase the proof as a method for doing computations, and check that the method of doing computations gives correct results. You could attempt to transcribe the proof into a formal language, or even all the way to an interactive theorem prover. (Of course, someone who can successfully use an interactive theorem prover probably doesn't need advice on verifying proofs - they aren't very usable pieces of software yet.)

When learning a new area of math, your first question should be: how do I concretely check whether basic claims people are making are true or not? For this you need to know a few examples that illustrate different behaviors that can occur, and you need to understand these examples like the back of your hand. You also need at least one reliable method of concretely computing with whatever objects are being studied. The moment you don't feel like the subject is grounded in something concrete anymore, stop, try to find some examples, look for another book, maybe just put the topic to the side and study something else.
I use them for forensic timeline analysis. Colour code certain results, and then you can sort them in various ways to tease out connections.
The infamously dodgy "link".
But this cuts both ways — you are exposing your own biases in believing it’s obvious satire. I hold the prior that most people writing on the internet are not doing it merely to get a rise out of liberals. I have also known men who became violent and angry when a women they had sex with decided to get an abortion. What’s different about this Reddit post? What’s supposed to indicate to me that it’s obviously in jest? Genuinely asking.
I'm with you until your last line. An "unbiased" press I think was a pretty unusual and brief development in the mid 20th century. I have no problem with a partisan press that wears its heart on its sleeve and states its objectives in the masthead: I'm perfectly capable of reading critically, and noting what's omitted as much as what's covered, and I'll know which alternative periodical to seek out for the other side of the story. The pretension to neutrality, to me, seems to result in less information overall.
I once wanted to buy Minecraft but it wouldn't take a prepaid card, not through paypal either, but paying another paypal with my paypal then using the 2nd paypal with the balance worked. I wonder if that "exploit" is still around and why it was ever necessary.
That’s not really it though, HN like most websites are 100% HN once your inside their walled garden. That’s the normal situation, nobody complains because McDonalds happy meals only contain toys sourced by McDonalds. In the past it’s only monopolies where companies dominate positions gave them leverage that was an issue, otherwise consumer choice was upfront and that worked.

Xbox, iOS, and Windows are platforms that also provide basic utility where third parties are part of the basic product. It’s by owning a platform they gain some control over that relationship between consumers and those other companies. Such complex relationships aren’t completely new, malls are gatekeepers for the stores within. But, such relations are normally heavily regulated.
It's strange that the screen shown by attackers is in Arabic and not Farsi. This would be something like hacking computers in the US and having the screen show the message in French, but even less intelligible.

Even weirder that the hackers chose a Hindu god as their mascot. If they chose it as a reference to the indo-iranian split that took place 3500 years ago, the reference is sort of misplaced as the recent conflicts in the region have to do with the Gulf states and the West, not with Hinduism.

It's infuriating - use your own religious imagery to represent your politics, not someone else's. But hey, it wouldn't be the first time a Hindu symbol was co-opted by a political group that has nothing to do with the religion.
Can't more than one thing be important at any one time?
libui has bindings for many languages but might be too immature for complex needs https://github.com/andlabs/libui
It runs on a quantum AI blockchain and has recently been rewritten in rust /s
> Powershell has mv and cp but they don't work the same way or have the same flags.

The better idea would not be to try running bash scripts in it, that won't work. The idea would be to use Powershell for your scripts on all three platforms, where Move-Item and Copy-Item do work the same.

In Powershell 'mv' and 'cp' are aliases to Powershell commands, which is why they behave differently. As a Unix Powershell user, I don't want or like that, so I remove them. Scripts can always spell things the canonical way and so be guaranteed of the correct behavior.

There's a huge caveat to this, but it's no less true for Python or any other language, and that is that lots of platform differences are semantic and not addressable by any shell. In my experience you run into these "other factors" pretty quick, but in the domain of build scripts, they might not matter much.
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#{"subreddit":"TXbount... See the posts there if you want. A few were removed by the mods for being too obvious, but in general it was not subtle. u/cry_for_me_fatty and u/cats_like_my_cum, etc. the comments or post histories would make clear to anyone of even mild discernment that it’s not real.
Not only that, but Valve is bizarrely happy with developers selling games on their own website, or even competitor platforms, and then providing Steam keys for free. As a consumer it is amazing.
Probably HR did the math how to protect the company. A legal case is bad for reputation and might inspire others. Paying quietly is cheap.
Legislation is mostly performance art there.
You can also see some more rdrama handiwork in the fatuous "/r/transpets", where they pretend to perform gender reassignment surgery on their animal companions.
In your first post above, you claim open office doesn't work for you, since you need confidential meetings and then would need to be away from open plan anyway. This is asinine reasoning, as your phoning and meetings would disrupt everybody around you doing knowledge work. If it's not you, then it's all the other people. With open plan, there's in fact less collaboration, as there's less space. Even pairing makes too much noise. This, while gossiping and all the other distractions are much worse than in an office. So it's a failure on all accounts, which research do confirm.

This second post is a bit unfairly judged. We all know LoC don't matter. In fact, your point of someone doing irrelevant work is spot on. You know what would help? Actual technical leadership, being included, having a say and a tight feedback loop.

That would require actually seeing people, collaboration and building an organization. Exactly the opposite of the past 20 years tear-down of workplace culture.