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I remember reading about micropayments in the 1990's. I thought "this is inevitable." It wasn't then.

In the fat decade I've been on HN, I've seen micropayment a few times each year. Because people think it is inevitable.

I've realized that the simple problem is accounting overhead. There are fixed costs to processing a payment. Most of them are potentially very small. But some are not. Like chargebacks. And lawsuits (because it's money).

Assuming they are evenly distributed independent of transaction size -- a dubious assumption because if transactions are small it takes more transactions to make money from fraud -- the percentage of revenue that goes into soft overhead of chargebacks and lawsuits is larger.

There's a general principle here.

There's more money in doing business with people who have lots of money. VRBO has lots of money for ads. You can make more money doing business with them than trying to get money from people bothered by ads.

Good luck.
Right, or at least that's how I had understood it. High market saturation and competition in some niche means that even if you can provide the best product, it will likely be only marginally better, which means the market need is largely satisfied. If you look for niches that aren't highly competitive, but neglected, that is an opportunity to provide a good deal of unmet value.
I can't believe I haven't thought of that!

I'm using a pair of TPLinks to feed a wifi router on the opposite side of my house. The outlets are definitely on opposite phases, but the powerline adapters still work reasonably well. (~80Mbps). Now I'm realizing I should probably swap a couple of circuits and improve that connection.
Pythagoras probably didn’t exist.
I have some work to do on the README. I will show the output better. The difficulty with showing the output only is that it does not capture the coloring. Maybe I will show the output, or add a picture, or have an animated gif. Maybe all three.
> I'm asking a serious question because it seems that their renewables just aren't cutting it.

Right, renewables don't cut it, and they won't without magnitudes more investment. However, notice that France doesn't have these problems.

We cannot keep planning to use weather-dependent energy sources when our climate is rapidly changing in unpredictable ways.
The board of Facebook consists of Americans. They are helping a hostile foreign power ( Facebook).
I wouldn't say the homeschooled people I have encountered were "stunted" but definitely "different enough to not gel smoothly with the rest of society." They kind of just run in totally different circles: They socialize but with a totaly disjoint set of kids. All their friends are from their church and they don't know anyone in public school, their parents take them to totally different movies (Christian movies, no Marvel superheroes), listen to totally different music. Can't talk sports with them because they literally can't name a football team. No culture overlap at all. Totally siloed off in their own world.

Maybe these traits are specific to Christian homeschoolers and not homeschoolers in general, but frankly I have never met someone who was homeschooled because of secular, rather than religious reasons.
What's your preferred alternative for medium to large teams?
I can't find that data, but I doubt that a couple of minimum wage lunch ladies and a school nurse are why our schools have to cost twice as much as everywhere else. Other nations provide transportation as well, all of Europe doesn't live in areas with public transit, despite that perception.

As for sports, if sports aren't moving the needle academically then we shouldn't be funding them. If other nations priotized education over sport, and got better results we should learn from them.

Just throwing more money at probably won't do anything, what is likely is that they will double down on the strategies that aren't working.
Diesel too?
Curiously, I don't have that experience at all. I'll play Backyardigans videos to watch with the baby ~4 times per week and nothing of the sort ever shows up in my recommended feed. I can't understand the reports of sub-par recommendation experience on YouTube. Maybe my behavior is somewhat different -- I tap "watch this later" a lot (and rarely do).
It is odd to you because you have never had to live paycheck to paycheck. Many people are barely getting to the next pay day so that extra $70 the first week means less food that week.
Much more direct to put a carbon tax on the energy used to power the datacenters. Some datacenters are on hydro power, and some are on coal. Penalize the coal

Charging for bandwidth doesn't align incentives to solve the problem
This is the reason why people hate “green solutions”.

You blame the cloud but you want to tax bandwidth. As if I can’t upload a tiny bit of code that uses tons of compute. And again to “protect privacy” - as if exporting personal data takes a non-negligible amount of traffic compared to Netflix/BitTorrent.

The only way that taxing externalities makes sense, is taxing at the source. If cloud “takes too much energy” then tax energy! And make it revenue neutral otherwise you’re just incentivising the government to increase taxes and waste even more money/resources.
>Is the mempool logged?

Yes. For instance on etherscan there's a "Confirmed within x secs" indicator, which is "Estimated duration between time First Seen and included in block".
> Well...that's still just a type.

By this argument I might as well call everything a 'thing' since everything is still just a thing.

Different names for subclasses of things that already have names is useful.

I get this discussion with people who don't like the word 'transpiler' because they reason it's just another compiler. Yeah nobody's denying that - it's a subclass of compiler with a specific name.
Twin that with repeater attacks from people that leave their keys close to their door (like many people do) to unlock by proximity and that’s how a lot of newer cars are stolen.
Yeah, I've been meaning to instrument my time to see how it's being spent on a more granular level. I do keep logs and notes from my daily work and tasks currently though. So I know when I started on what and when it was finished.

But to answer your question, I don't think it's just the feeling of finishing a task. Yesterday, I woke up and felt well rested. I stretched, made breakfast and had some introspection time, started grabbing tasks one at a time from my side project and finishing them. Then I picked up a book that I've been reading and read for 2 hours and I also finished some random chores.

This morning, I woke up and I cant get out of the bed (this is not just Monday effect, I've felted on other days). I don't know if this exhaustion is because of being too excited last night from all I've done and not being able to have a good night sleep, or just I've exhausted myself yesterday and don't feel like doing anything today. Or I would have felt this way anyways.

I do think though the ground work is done on the less productive days in terms of restoration. My girlfriend got a dog about 10 months ago, and I can see the same behavior in the dog. She runs around and exhausts herself on a hike one day and then just sunbathes and chills the next day. It seems like our hunter gatherer ancestors behaved the same way.
Fair enough, I will try to improve.

The last thing I will say, in light of guidelines like "Assume Good Faith" and "avoid Political/flamebait"... submissions like this do not seem to be in that spirit.

Guidelines also ask not to make comments, and instead flag content... except the flag button was removed... so it seems like a rock and a hard place?
> Are all of these just sensationalist?

Yes
> Somehow nobody seems to feel a need to justify why would we make any changes* to in-person schooling.

Here in Canada we responded more aggressively than most parts of the USA. While we never had a lockdown that ordered us into our homes in most of the country, we generally shut nearly everything non-essential besides health, food, supply chain, etc. towards the start and then started re-opening various businesses and facilities. Schools and daycares (private and public) closed in March 2020 along with most workplaces.

That justification seems self-explanatory enough. We intended (and still intend) to contain the virus from doing too much damage too quickly until we're all vaccinated. (The vast majority of Canadians have still not been exposed to the virus because of our more drastic reaction. In terms of the virus alone, we did control it better because of it.)

So at that point, it became a question of when and how to re-open under conditions that would prevent the spread of COVID-19 sufficiently. That includes in the schools. I supported the lockdowns in March 2020. But we seem to be unable to navigate the discussion into the next phase of living with this. We cannot sacrifice child education, and the more of us are vaccinated and less likely to get ill, the more compelling the argument to resume truly normal education becomes. (In person education re-opened in September 2021 here in Ontario, but the doomsayers are already calling for closures, and many students are remote.)
Well, my comment was less about Vietel being private, since it’s neither, it’s owned by well connected people in the government. My comment was more about the opportunity for corruption. At least if a company I private there is (or can be) a separation in decision making which reduces the risk of people lining their own pockets with someone else’s money.
Keeping extra gas in the tank (aka filling up all the way) is like keeping a savings account - many people can't afford it. Depending on the country, the tank size and the price of gas, you can easily be looking at $100 for a tank vs. just keeping a bit in there to get around.
This just points out one of the more amazing things about the reMarkable 2 is just how hackable it is. I have never had to do this level of surgery on mine but I do enjoy the community support for interesting scripts and such.
I forgot about equations!

Obsidian sadly still only really supports the typical Mathjax stuff, so I can't do really cool and advanced LaTeX like I would if I were using Pandoc or something, but sadly I feel like really good equation support is still something that most note-centric apps care a lot about.
>but I often find all these boards to be kind of overloaded and so busy with animations, sounds and flashing lights

No, i think you're quite right - especially tables that don't have a "real world counterpart" often don't make a lot of sense to me, rules wise and also, have way too much going on, too many gimmicks etc...

Real world emulations on the other hand most of the time have really well thought out gameplay and lots and lots of replay value.

I miss the days being able to go to an arcade or some random pub and play a few balls...
That's true, I forgot about Citus.
> Services handling recurring payments need to compulsorily have a cancel button.

Provided on the card provider end.
This is a great answer. Thank you.

So in these situations how do you tell apart electrons from one source compared to another? In the article they mention how the LHC collides particles at a rate of "40 million times each second". I can imagine there are a lot of electrons and other particles flying around from other collisions. What makes an electron discernible between one type of particle and another?
How to choose the best desktop-as-a-service solution
No naps during the day. I just let go of my notions about how much sleep was enough, and started going to bed when I was tired and getting out of bed when I wake up. I do not use an alarm to wake up, and I do not get tired during the day, so I think I've settled on an adequate sleep schedule for my body.
There's a web site that provides debit cards with a $ limit, so you set up the subscription on the card and simply fail to fund the card when the subscription expires.

Can't remember the name of it, though.
It's also potentially risky. What if a big mining pool, upon noticing the huge fee mined by another miner/pool, decides not to mine on top of that block, but in competition with that block in hope of snagging the fee for itself?
I WANNA QUIT THE GYM!
Reading this article, I feel as though the author doesn't deeply understand git.

git works on blobs of data, not files, and not lines of text. It doesn't just happen to also work on binary files- that's all it works on.

Now, if the author is suggesting that git-diff ought to have a language specific mode that parses changed files as ASTs to compare, now I'm interested. Let's do that. I'll help!

But git does not need to change how it works for that to happen. Git does not even need git-diff to exist to serve it's main purpose.
Of course individually they consume less, when talking about the mass and big numbers, ultra wealthy are a statistical anomaly.
I think what India did here helps customers. Ofcourse, it may not help service providers. Anyway, customers should decide on the payment. If the customer doesn't pay, company should stop the service.
Keep in mind I was quoting the whole review, that last bit about hawaiian-shirt is not my comment, it's in the review for anyone who might be offended.
Not much different from other sources, Europe is not resource/energy rich like the US.
Have a good example? I mean, the demand for relatively vacuous consumer goods was pretty strong in communist countries as well.
I'm upset that there are children who depend on the school environment for food.

And it isnt even a small number of children at that.
Is this even still possible? Since EIP-1559 miners like ethermine stopped including their own tx for 'free' presumably because you cant pick and choose anymore.
That makes sense, especially since there is an epistemological issue with being able to say something is 'bricked'... there would be no way to distinguish between "I don't know how to fix it" and "No one knows how to fix it"
Well, energy prices rising would affect cloud providers and their costs, which would be passed on to their clients, which would be passed on to the end user eventually.

You tried to make a point, but your example failed.

I see what you're saying: The parent is being glib in your case, not realizing that a blanket increase on energy prices would hit the working class much harder than those with the privilege of staying home or making more money.
Sounds like a good "awesome" page on github.
Are they the one who's going to choose the miner?
> We have solutions right now to get rid of coal, atom etc completely in a couple of years,

No we do not. Renewable energy is unreliable and unsuitable for base load generation. Until we can figure out how to store weeks worth of energy, nuclear is the only clean option for base load.

> You don't know if that place on earth will still be there or in the middle of an ocean in the time the waste is till toxic.

We do have a pretty good idea, and to the extent that we don't, it's climate change. Pretty ironic to use climate change as a reason to forestall nuclear considering it's our best shot at mitigating climate change pending a renewable energy storage miracle.
First of all, the linked gist doesn't provide any new information. It states "See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer." then proceeds to say nothing on that topic.

Putting all that aside. I've used the conventional commit format in many of my projects. So far, I've found that without a tool to handle the format for me, I am simply too lazy to sustain that format for more than a few days.

Also, there become situations where your commits contain new code for multiple features that are all related. Or, there are times when I am simply committing code before completing a feature just in case I want to roll something back.

In these cases, there often isn't a good "type" that optimally covers the full scope of what is occurring.

It seems that many of the things we do as programmers are just superfluous ways of "making things easier" or "more organized" that ultimately just waste time and result in unfinished projects.
This is great! It would be nice to have the rules implemented as an interception layer on top of the MX records, so the "catch-all" parts could be redirected to an upstream mail server.
If you’ve spent your money on gas, you can no longer choose to use it on surprise expenses and forgo driving. Money is more liquid than gas, it turns out.
Serializing structured data into ASCII streams makes it very hard to then deserialize and re-structure.

Plain text might be the lowest common denominator for Unix/shell tools, but we can do far far better in how structured data is exchanged, which would make it much easier to programmatically manipulate & process.
Oh, sure! See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_i... for more details about the quotas and what you can have them increased to.

Still, that doesn't fix the problem - it just defers it. For example, you can ask that the maximum number of managed policies on a user gets bumped from 10 to 20. That sounds like a lot, but if you want to use AWS-managed policies like to set up least-access privileges, you'll be using lots of them like "CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess" and "AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess". If you use more than 20 services, the problem's still going to bite you.
I didn't understand Cassandra/Scylla until I realized that it's basically a k/v store that lets you append data to existing keys. If your storage needs fit that domain, then I can vouch for Scylla being amazing to work with.
Instead of bring the public schools up to the level of private schools the solution is to get rid of private schools? That seems utterly ridiculous. If private schools do better than public schools should emulate them instead of banning the competition.

I am reminded of the Rush song The Trees

> Now there’s no more Oak oppression. For they passed a noble law. And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw
In fact Youtube for a long time was running on MySQL with a tiny service called "vitess" on top of it to handle (Sharding/partitioning) automatically.

I dont know if they are still using Vitess or migrated to Google other relational Database "Spanner"
I'm not defending Jira but I heard someone once say that Jira is ugly cause it's a mirror and you're a corporate process
A similar approach has been tried by using the micro mirrors arrays from projectors:

https://lighton.ai/publications/

They use the mirrors to do random projections very rapidly, and collecting the results on a CMOS receptor. Somehow the projection help tackle high-dimensional data.

Intro to how the math would be done at the beginning, meat of the device details at 20:10 :
https://youtu.be/0QtY4_UJF0w

Funny how you can do a mathematical projection using a projector!
From what I've read, NYT and others do follow it but only for those with a California address in their system.
I've been a software engineer for the better part of a decade now. My areas of focus during that time have been NLP, messaging, teaching, politics, and now data analysis and processing around criminal justice.
Still infinitely preferable (even if the number was accurate) to poisoning earth's current inhabitants by burning coal .
> Heck, just saying "thank you" or "you look nice" or paying some other compliment to a fellow human at the right time and place might actually be something that really mattered although you may never wind up realizing it.

It has happened twice in my life that something someone said -- just in my earshot, not even directed at me -- has caused me to make a major change in my life that was very much for the better. The people that uttered the words will never know the serious impact they had on me.

I often wonder if it has happened that something I was saying was overheard and had a similar impact on someone else. I hope so.
And how do you get G(X) from (X, G(X) ^ Y), then? (I assume you meant "your irreversible function is G(x)"?) That sounds like "you can find a reversible component in an irreversible calculation", which is probably true, but maybe practically meaningless: You were yourself talking about "an exponential increase in space", but if I understood this Landauer limit thingy correctly, this also gives you an exponential limit in power dissipated.
I think this is common all around the world. For example, the more my teams get close to money and regulations the more we have to use words of our own language. It would be pointless trying to invent a translation of very precise legal words for concepts that exist only in our own country.
I’m in the same boat. Due to security restrictions of my employer I can’t use cloud services to store work related stuff. I was really bummed when I discovered that a lot of the interesting features of my RM2 require their cloud service. I’ve dug through the GitHub repos of RM2 hacks and open source tools that are available, but it still feels like I’m missing out.
Isnt it still single-user only? Are you a one-man accounting team?
Half-life and danger from the emitted radiation are inversely correlated. Decay is the thing that emits radiation, so if that takes forever, it's not emitting much per second.
Am I wrong to say that it's not fair to say they banned all forms of recurring charges? I thought that most of the new regs were around informing the person about to be charged that it is coming and better handling for making the charges stop.
Startups implement Scrum or nothing, but the FAANGs each have an existing unique process with a cargo-cult veneer of Scrum on top.

All Scrum really means at a big co is an extra morning meeting that penalizes both people who like to work late and parents who need to get their kids to school. Plus you may occasionally hear the word "sprint" but it doesn't mean anything as you can be given an urgent task or have a feature cancelled at any time.
Over stimulation is the problem. You think you can drink one beer or two, but at the end you can't control the need to drink a third more. You know that you can only have one or two cigarrete a day but at the end you can't.
Sometimes handling addiction is not about reasoning. And is even worse if you are a kid which don't have the maturity to understand addiction. I think the same about the parent post. Teach them about addiction, explain to them "you see this phone? You will be addicted by it, so until you are an adult I will protect you from this."
You’re replying to someone stating what others have told them, not making an assertion based on something they ‘know’. Did you reply to the wrong comment perhaps?
You’re unhappy people aren’t forced to live like it’s 1850? How about we have alternative energy that can satisfy CO2 concerns and provide the current standards of living we all enjoy first.
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What is needed is registrars keeping track of documents and writing summaries etc. I blame the 'savings' on secretaries for many of the modern corporate worlds problems. A tell tail of that the top brass them-self don't believe secretaries are not needed, is that they them-self have them. It is just engineering that can't have them - pushing any bigger engineering org. into chaos.
I've lived in LA and it is 100% true. You don't get good Chinese food in the city, or even in Chinatown, it is 20 miles east in Monterey Park. If you want great Vietnamese food, it is 20 miles south in Westminster. Tell me where you think locals hang out in LA and I'll show you the chains that have displaced the smaller businesses. Especially true as Covid shutdowns have hammered smaller businesses. I was just in NYC and Soho which at one point was an interesting part of town, is now dominated by chains. Uniqlo, Nike, Sephora, Sketchers, Ray-Ban. It is a suburban strip mall with better architecture. Do you get better Chinese food in Manhattan or Flushing?

The largest cities are almost entirely void of most chains

241 Starbucks in NYC, and they aren't all there to serve locals.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/306896/cities-with-the-l...