skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all you, along with a few others, misunderstood the goal of the scheduler. I note in the post that it's primarily for async execution. See a previous comment of mine on how a fork-join optimized thread pool which hooks into the scheduler to wait for the other-forked side and run the poll-loop inline is ideal for a fork-join case, and why I'm intentionally not benchmarking that. Given rayon::join actually does this, i'd be curious to see the results of that vs Java's ForkJoinPool on your machine to see if the optimizations match up.

Second, parallel quicksort isn't a bad benchmark, and it does scale enough to stress-test the spawning and joining aspects of the scheduler. Keep in mind, the best thing to scale AFAIK is one that is embarrassingly parallel and takes enough time to offset the cost of any scheduler overhead and contention. Again, this thread pool is optimized to execute small tasks. To that, there are indeed better benchmarks but quicksort with small-size optimization is one that is most widely understood.

Finally, you're in the game of trying to invalidate others work due to novelty, lack of understanding on your part, and generalizations on culture. I'm here to learn about cool scheduler designs. Would appreciate if you would contribute in that aspect instead of the former.
So the USA is a totalitarian state then because people flout the laws on speeding and jaywalking in front of the police all the time.
We (the public) have known about FORCEDENTRY for 6 months. That time was spent analyzing and understanding the exploit. It does seem like a long time for such a public zero-click affecting 100s of millions of users.
There's also a Stage 2 proposal for adding a pipe operator to JS[1]

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
Medium term I think this political will will change as fewer an fewer people Can afford housing
For the downvoter, I tried to create a PR :)
Like another commenter said, think about your payment processor like another thing which needs redundancy. Have another one prepared - braintree or whatever.
Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Motorola Baby Monitors
Ive had an experience with an Ombudsman in the UK. I was stuck in a loop with a major broadband provider in the UK who were giving me the run around. I contacted the ombudsman and within 14 days of my first email the company resolved the issue, (after 4 months of back and forth before that). Despite being non binding, the moment they were involved my problem was resolved.
There are quite a few cafes and restaurants near us that have closed or reduced their opening hours. Our nearest farm shop has removed what used to be a thriving cafe.

I get the impression a lot of these service businesses just won't be viable in a higher wage economy.
Number of Firefox users is dropping, not just Firefox market share.
No. I'm talking about whether it's bullshit. Scam is not the same as bullshit.

I guess Americans use the word bullshit differently to the rest of the English speaking world? Or something else?

If one were to speak bullshit, they'd be doing exactly what I just wrote. No money is involved.
Ransomware obviously only works if people are paying. Just stop that and it will go away.

Oh, and of course make sure it can't happen in the beginning.
I'm talking specifically about this type of card: https://justuseapp.com/privacy-card

That looks like it definitely allows transactions.
I'm not aware of any manufacturer who allows bootloader unlocking without also displaying a warning screen every time the phone boots up.

Example: https://www.thecustomdroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ho...
Are you willing to work 80 hours a week?

Or is the assumption that since you are extremely efficient, you can squeeze in all the work demands of two fulltime positions into 40 hours per week?
Scikit-Learn is great, and, reading the documentation for other 3rd party ML packages and seeing the words "Scikit-learn API" is even better.
I saw this, and even though my thing is nowhere near what OP is doing, the amount of what-ifs going through my mind right now is causing undue concern. My SaaS is a podcast host, what if someone I'm hosting says something "wrong" in their show description and Stripe's algo doesn't like it?

Edit: There's a lot on my mind right now, editing to stop for a moment and say thank you, your comment is somewhat reassuring which is what I think your intention was.
1. I find the title misleading

2. Stripe did not say "someone asked for a dispute"

3. Stripe banned your app for not being low-risk. And why not? They have the right to decide for themselves

To me, Stripe is showing an outstanding support overall. You can even ping anyone on Twitter or send an email, and they respond.

I really don't understand why so many HN users are so freaked out.

And yeah, it's not a great case of support by Stripe right here. But guess what, thy don't care about you anymore, so they'll dedicate their time to existing/potential clients.
Reminds me of my childhood in Eeastern Europe, where people were getting divorced (only on papers) in order to buy another aprtment :)
Ask HN: Alternative Payment System for SMBs
I've been researching a new payment system designed to compete with credit cards designed to do two things:

(1) Remove the 'deadweight loss' in credit card fees
(2) Outperform the incentive structure of all credit cards for their users

Venmo solves (1), but fails to address (2) because it doesn't properly incentivize users like credit cards offering cash back, and isn't perceived to be a legitimate form of payment for business.

My researched approach is to charge the same processing fee as credit card companies of around 3%, but rather offer an instant discount of the order at the merchant, rather than a points system. What this does is:

(1) Outperforms the reward system of any other payment system
(2) Incentivizes consumers to spend more at SMB because they are getting a discount
(3) Allows SMBs to pass on their fees to save the customer money
(4) Creates instant gratification to the consumer

Because mobile pay is such a nominal percent of transactions, merchants would be given a small RFID sticker that could be appended to their existing POS or elsewhere and consumers would be given tap to pay embedded fabs synced to a mobile app to process transactions like credit cards. Fabs would not have numbers to avoid theft and would just have RFID embedded chips like YubiKey.

The payment system works the same way as Venmo. (I.e. uses the fee-less transaction technology in the way that payments are processed)

If anyone has ideas, open to hearing them below, or anyone interested in pursuing this research.

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Notes
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There are of course other incentives with credit cards such as the chargeback capability and financing. However, it's been cited 86% of chargebacks are 'friendly fraud', which further incentivizes SMBs and disincentivizes at-risk users. Financing may be outsourced and points charged for the rights to do so.
any tips on how you learned it. I've never been able to get it right
Yeah tbh I don't know why syntax commenting isn't more common; when I wrote a language with s-exprs one of the earliest things I did was add a comment form to comment out an expression. And _especially_ in s-exprs it's almost trivial to add! Really don't understand why we don't see it more.
I think it's funny how some of these bureaus take themselves too seriously. ISIL probably doesn't care much about the new ATF headquarters, it's not a cultural landmark.
I think they will wait for the furlough scheme to unwind in the next three or so months before making any moves.
>I expect most people who cook a lot just know "how much is enough",

It depends on what one is making of course, but most people who cook (and, especially, bake) a lot absolutely measure things.
UK has excellent rural areas so although that might help in America keep in mind it hasn't helped in the UK.
I'd recommend the Stereolabs camera. It's a very versatile piece of hardware, quite mature in development from what I've been able to tell so far, and has a great SDK. Doesn't have lidar as far as I know but fills the same niche.
Nikon’s Small World
No, I’m suggesting it’s easy to criticize when you aren’t immediately benefiting.
I might be wrong, but I thought he was factoring in all the equipment he bought in that first year in that calculation? So next year you wouldn't have that cost.
That's the old system.

People would come in, live on site and be feed on site, work hard for 3 months (maybe moving sites as demand came and went) then leave and go back home.

The 3 months of hard work and bad conditions was worth it because of the buying power the wages had comparatively back home.

UK people simply wont put up with that because they have to use the wages in the UK.
That's not what people voted for in 2016.
Hey, the blog post says we incorporated in the U.S from abroad. We did that with FirstBase.io.

Concerning the cards, we do KYC before the cards are issued and we submit same to Stripe. In extreme cases, we ask for users Govt-issued IDs. Our service might be anonymous to the outside facing world but our users are not anonymous to us and Stripe.
If such snowden like person wants to use such a device, wouldn't he be able to change to lineage os or whatever knowing full well he is now the master of the device or is there malware that persists still ?
Because as others have already explained, that's not what that phrasing suggests. "If you were/you would" suggests that it's a purely theoretical perspective and thus strongly implies "you aren't".

"If you were British..." and "If you are British..." have very different subtext.
That building looks ridiculous for its intended purpose, even at first glance. I guess people just love a good tale, told by a charismatic speaker.
Does the law have a safeguard to prevent someone becoming stateless?
What are the “l” and “m” binary files?

I observe that the core index.html file is only 13k big, but the game depends on two binary blob datafiles: “l” and “m” in the same directory, making the binary total size 22782 bytes (13,472 bytes in a .tar.xz file for the entire website with game).

It’s still impressive, but it’s a little bigger than 13Kib.
Completely agree with the points in this piece. Regret minimisation for the perceived future regrets in a teenager's mind is going to be very different to that of someone in their mid twenties.

It needs to be calibrated with the best estimates of one's future regrets. E.g. when I am 40, I will regret not having children. Therefore I should get my life in order during my late twenties and early thirties to avoid this future regret.
True - but other aspects of your running costs (electricity, gas, rent, etc) will not increase, as I don't believe they depend on cheap labour.

Interestingly (can't find the reference right now), I've read that the high cost of labour in the UK contributed to the push for mechanisation of farming, which resulted in the industrial revolution (something we have all benefited from). In China, labour costs were (are?) so low that there was no reason to invent a farming machine, when you could pay a peasant to do the job for less.

So if this runs long term, we will see further automation of farming?
Remember when buildings complexes had multiple entrances ? It is increasingly rare nowadays. Using private but publicly accessible ground as thoroughfare is on the way out too. Fences go up everywhere - though 9/11 is only one part of that security paranoia... My apartment building in La Defense is the only one left on our street with a single layer of access control - two is most common and three is the standard nowadays (and when I was a child, in the early 80's, there was none and it was normal). I don't want my city to feel like a compartmented facility.
Stripe acting up has been issues for a long time now.
The latter — each edge is parallel to one of three coordinate axes (X, Y, Z), which forces angles between different edges and surfaces to be multiples of 90 degrees. They don't need to be on a grid, just parallel to one.

One way in which this simplifies things, for example, is checking whether two boxes overlap: They do so exactly when there is an overlap on each axis. (E.g. you look at them from the front, side, and top, and there is no gap between them. This test wouldn't be sufficient if they could be rotated arbitrarily.)

The original Quake levels make use of this: a lot of things have an invisible axis-aligned bounding box (i.e. a cuboid just large enough to contain them) around them. Before checking for an exact intersection, the much cheaper test for the AABBs is performed first. This is useful even when only one of the objects tested is approximated in this way; the other one could be a bounding cylinder around a player/enemy, or a surface in the level geometry.
Discourse avatars point to a page with a .png extension regardless of what the actual file is (jpg, gif, or svg). Parsing file headers should not be a dangerous operation and in my opinion is the right thing to do.
Not if their wages grow in line with the increases.
As a consumer, do you trust cryptocurrencies to get you a refund if the seller fails to deliver the product you've ordered?
Sure, but your LineageOS only works because Google is forcing manufacturers to pass CTS tests (which ensure that all Android devices are actually compatible with your apps).

If that disappears, you'll end up with apps that only work on Samsung Androids and your LineageOS will stop being compatible. We're essentially going back to horrorshow of SymbianOS, where different Symbian devices weren't compatible between themselves because the OEMs kept fscking up.

(Heck, in early Android versions Samsung tended to break core APIs all the time and caused a lot of churn on developer side to workaround their per-device fsckups. Having to import phones from half a world away so you could see why the video recorder hardcrashes when you call an API is NOT FUN.).
There's RPI, I guess
In the short term, sure, the domestic workers get higher wages, but in the long term it just incentivizes fruits to be imported directly from Eastern Europe instead.
What we need is control on the bootloader, with the ability to unlock, load our own keys, and relock.

We also need to clean-up the mess with all those "partitions" (some of them with critical informations e.g. calibration, IMEI, etc) so that only one partition would have all those static information (reasonably protected against overwrite, e.g. colocated with bootloader and device-tree). We should be able to re-partition the storage (like we do on PC) without bricking the device...
That is fair, I suppose, but why use a different DNS server than the default for your home network? I still think there's something fundamentally wrong with a DNS configuration that breaks Windows connectivity tests.

I do hope you're using something encrypted. Plain DNS can be redirected and manipulated quite trivially.
Real Estate! That'll be the only valuable thing in such an economy.
Marketing is selling a product.

Bullshit is selling a lie.

Both are very inefficient and lazy ways to generate interest.
That's my initial assumption. I'm curious if this is common behavior to have two integrations, or if it is prohibited by the TOS.
John from Stripe here. Very sorry about this -- looking into it now.
Sure but that's fun for the future, for the current situation on the labor market that does not matter at all.
ITimed: Cache Attacks on the Apple A10 Fusion SoC [pdf]
No, locked bootloader's are the stuff of nightmares. Much rather be able to scratch all memory on the device and reinstall.

Perhaps what I mean is "locked bootloaders at POS". Selling them locked should be illegal, but locking them yourself with your own key should be trivial.
Privacy cards means the cards protect the user's real cards not their identity.

If you have ever been hacked or cannot cancel a renegade subscription, you would quickly grasp the need for Privacy cards.
Or paying more
I don't particularly care. It's still absolutely grotesque that a government can revoke citizenship of any citizen whatsoever due to information they do not have any obligation to share with said citizen. The right to defend oneself against alledged infractions is the cornerstone to the rule of law, and that requires knowing what those infractions are.

This is the product of a power-tripping authoritarian government unchecked by a disgustingly apathetic citizenry who, so long as they have the ability to fire up a BBQ and crack a beer over the footy aftter spending the day fishing, will not give one shit about what rights the government strips away.

It's hard to describe how apathetic the average Aussie voter is. The political discourse here is squalid. It's the same reason why digital rights are under such an onslaught.

Disclaimer: am Aussie.
The relevant applications are written in memory-unsafe languages. For an application of meaningful complexity, it is virtually impossible to actually write a safe program in C or C++ and even more impossible to maintain that safety. The code doing the sanitization is itself attackable and the process of sanitizing complex media is very complicated.
Hell no.

RIM's approach worked well when the tech wasn't there yet for a pocket-sized device to run an actual mail client. To get the "full" Blackberry experience, there was a Blackberry Enterprise Server between your device and your actual mail server.

Once we started getting devices that could run straight-up IMAP clients, the biggest appeal of the platform was compromised.

I had moments early in the glass-rectangle era when I thought I missed a physical keyboard, and I definitely had physical keyboard devices that I enjoyed on at least a hardware level through about 2009 or 2010, but the overall functionality of a modern glass-rectangle far and away exceeds what I ever got out of a RIM device.
The assumption here is that a senior engineer with ~10 years of experience doing "junior" tasks does not need 40h/week to accomplish his tasks. Probably only half of that. In practice, however, things can get a bit more complicated; what's described above is just pure theory.

Example:

- Junior task: we need a new http GET endpoint to retrieve the list of attendees for a given meeting. The input and output looks as follows... No pagination is needed. Everything should be already setup, you just need to add the code that does the retrieval. Estimated time: X story points (let's say 1 or 2 days)

vs.

- Senior task: we need to setup the new X microservice. Please, setup auth and use this template the infra team is providing (some Terraform+GitLab ci/cd templates that sometimes do not work as defined). Add monitoring, and implement one useful http endpoint so that junior engineers can just take it as an example and can add more endpoints themselves. Also, if the service goes down on a Sunday morning, guess who's going to be on-call? Not the junior engineer. Estimated time: Y story points (let's say 3 or 4 days).

Now, I would need 1h to implement the junior task (tests included!) and I would probably ace it (if not, the hell I have been doing for 10 years?). For the senior task: all I see is complication down the rabbit hole (e.g., why are we using k8s for this? The templates do not work in some scenarios, who can help me improve them? I like to spend Sunday mornings with my kids, btw.
imo it is rude to ask for schematics, the experience in open source hardware is that the only people who use it are the vendors who copy it verbatim and then compete on price, while adding nothing. Even the bootloader is a big ask.
Bandwidth is the bottleneck not disk space. I fear that a lot of projects are moving to layer 2 too late. Layer 2 makes bitcoin so much more usable that as a result more hobbyists are running L1 nodes.
a "floating building" is a BOAT, and an unmaintained boat is a WRECK, both of which are items having known failure modes and known short lifetimes.

How much money went down that hole? Would it have had a more positive impact if you'd taken it and spread it around the area's kids in cash?
At this time where there are shortage of chips across the globe, isn't it a good idea to increase production and diversify the verticals? Any experts here who can put in some thoughts?
memorise the ingredients list on the shampoo bottle, at least that's what I do when I forget to take my phone to the bathroom.
I routinely go entire drives without touching the brakes at all. Have you ever test driven a Tesla before?
If you fancy annoying people go to a UK subreddit and claim Brexit was about workers rights, workers compensation and was humanitarian issue to help those most in need.

Hilarious results will follow.
> and Douglas Crockford insight on that JS has closure and function as first class citizen

«Insight» is like «RTFM»? :)
The engagement on this makes me think this is a problem worth reverse-disrupting.
Edwin from Stripe here. (OP, I've just sent you an email and we can talk more over there—I'm terribly sorry for the trouble.) I can't get into too many specifics about an individual business publicly, but unauthorized charges have high potential to be disputed in the near future—and while Stripe itself doesn't have a dispute threshold, the card networks require businesses to keep disputes low.

Although that email in the post was admittedly a template, a human did review the transaction activity and actively sent the email. We're digging more into exactly what happened here to prevent the confusion from happening again. Over the past few weeks, we've been overhauling how we work with businesses in situations like these and are rolling out some meaningful improvements soon.
Okay, appreciate the apology.
Ask HN: What's your early stage productivity stack?
Hey there, we are a slowly growing startup and now are thinking about how to bring our currently fragmented productivity (personal gmail etc.) setup to the next level.

Some of my thinking revolves around:

- G Suite is great for docs, but I don't want to trust Google with our email and calendars

- Dropbox is great, but has no calender/mail functionality

- MS is ok, but G Docs is so much better for collaborating

What do you guys use? Is there any best practice we could follow?
Over the last two weeks it seems like there's been a runaway bandwagon of people who have never been to Australia somehow getting it into their heads that it's a totalitarian state. Mainly, this has been based on sensationalist and biased reporting, in a vicious cycle.

Of course we have a vain and ineffectual government and some overreach on privacy laws. But it's bizarre how the internet has decided that Australia is now a police state - we have all the same liberties that normal Western democracies have. For the majority of the pandemic there were essentially zero restrictions in place, and now there are temporary lockdown in place until vaccination targets are hit. What's the alternative, kill 1 in 490 of the population like other countries have?

The online hysteria over Australia has to stop, it's not rooted in reality.
Sure! https://podcastindex.social
>I'd be tackling housing prices.

The government has absolutely no desire to do that. Their voter base is predominantly home owners who think of their house as an asset that should only go up in value.
People intentionally speed in front of the police? I certainly slow down whenever I see one and make a habit of not passing one.
Chess has the element of combat but not of athleticism of a sport. Regarding combat, it is arguably more of a sport than golf, figure skating, or gymnastics, where you do not try to thwart your competitors. Part of what makes sports such as tennis, football, or basketball interesting is how each player or teams adapts its play based on the strengths and weaknesses of the other side. That happens in chess, too.
Imagine engineering teams from different civilizations trying to collaborate to the precision of a few atoms :) That's a sci-fi I'd watch.