skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: different countries have different cultures. Not every country shares the Silicon Valley prudishness. Not every country shares the overwhelming respect for copyright either. Yet, Apple not only reviews apps on technical merits, they also review the service itself, if your app is for a service. If the service allows something Apple doesn't like (for example NSFW content, or pirated music), Apple will reject your perfectly fine app and force you to change your terms of service if you want any iOS presence at all. That's absolutely bonkers.

I'm Russian. We're fine with porn on the internet and we pirate everything. The company I worked at had these problems incessantly. They once rejected our app saying, I'm not kidding, "we opened the video section, typed 'porn' into the search field, and naked people came up, this is not allowed under App Store Review Guidelines™". You typed "porn" into search. What did you expect, Karen? Cat videos?
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If you have a credit card that charges no foreign exchange fee, could you overpay your credit card (i.e., leave a balance in your favor on the card), then withdraw cash at foreign ATM machines, thereby avoiding both forex fees and credit card interest?

The terms & conditions on my credit card sound like it should work (I shouldn’t be charged interest if I have a credit balance), but I’ve never tried it.

Failing that idea, do you have any tips for frequent American travellers on how to get foreign cash without paying excessive conversion fees?
More than just that, what about the parents?

My dad’s reaction to me having suicidal thoughts was say I was being ungrateful. It wasn’t until my thirties I was diagnosed bipolar.

Some of that story is on my blog. https://kayode.co/blog/4106/living-with-psychosis/
Atmospheric C02 Rebounds as Global Pollution Rates Approach Pre-Covid Levels
The question is: what are the alternatives?

I was recently modernizing a system administration script, and I ended up rewriting in in Go. And yes, I hated Go's error handling every time. So why Go? Because this was the best available option.

I had to talk to AWS, so I needed a language supported by SDK (https://aws.amazon.com/tools/). Existing app was in Python and too slow, so Ruby, PHP, node.js etc.. would not work either. This leaves C++, Go, Java, .NET.

We have a lot of C++ code, but the compilation times are very long, and the proper build system is tedious to set up. And I am not willing to start thinking about pointer types unless I have to.

Java requires dependencies to run, and is really not suitable for system administration tools given it seems to need JNI for anything slightly advanced. Plus I don't want to write .sh launchers for each my application, nor learn about finer details of memory management.

I just don't know anything about .NET -- I've heard that nowadays, you can run it on Linux and don't have to install Visual Studio to develop for it, but I assume I'll be a second-class citizen if I use it like this, and it probably needs runtime anyway.

This only leaves Go, so with Go I went. I was impressed with compilation speed, with the vendoring support, and with the fact that I can just "go run" any app without writing any build files.

I would love to experiment with D or Zig or some other system-ish languages, but they are just too risky for work stuff... I want something used by hundreds of thousands of people so that all the common bugs are caught and fixed.

----

So, did I chose to use Go because "Google pushing for it so aggressively"? On one hand, Google was not involved in my decision. On the other hand, Google definitely helped Go's adoption when they hired and paid all the Go authors, so that the language started with good stdlib, documentation and examples.
>It is very clear that most merchants earn more from people using credit cards more often, otherwise there is no reason they would try to dissuade or offset it by adding a premium for using credit cards.

Can you elaborate? IME merchants do NOT want people to use credit cards; transaction fees eat into the sale price. I remember a time when some electronics stores would explicitly advertise a cash discount, so as to avoid the transaction fees. I once worked in a bar that accepted every major credit card, save American Express, because of their several-points-higher transaction fee. The premium is added to offset this.

How is it very clear that most merchants earn more?
In brief, coronaviruses make all their proteins as one long chain and then cut it up into the appropriate pieces to form the proteins (spike etc). 3CL protease is the cutting machine and Paxlovid inhibits that.
It's Orca specific.

A bang in this context triggers the character one coordinate down and the one coordinate right of the bang character - which is '*' - and deletes itself after one tick.

I may have remembered some details wrong, it's been a while.
They're testifying as expert witnesses, being brought in to be informative to the jury, not as first-hand witnesses to the law suit matter. In theory such experts should be objective and not have a bias towards either defendant or the plaintiff.
>What I want to know: did they have to fill in their time reports in 8+ systems, one worse than the other?

OMG, I do not miss filling out three fucking timesheets as a salaried employee.

One via MS Access, which was believe it or not, the least painful. One on fucking paper, because why shouldn't programmers use paper for timesheets? And last, but definitely not least one via PHONE. Where you have to enter your employee number and hours via a fucking PHONE KEYPAD. Oh, and they would nag a company of 250,000 to do it early so that the accounting team of like 5 could go home on time on Friday.

One of the many reasons I don't miss that job.
Unfortunately, it's the opposite.

Anti-Vaxx people seem to absolutely love non-vax treatments.

I don't know if the rationalization is sound, but I'm not sure it's really that.

The anti-vaxx stigma pre-COVID I think has had it's toll.

The notion of 'government pushing you to take something' as well.

Whereas, 'you get sick, you take a pill' is an easy concept.

My fear is that a lot of people won't bother with a vax if they think there's a 'cure'.
GP stated that "the consequence of not taking it is death", which is demonstrably false, and specifically what I was referring to.

Also, the current mortality rate overall in the USA for Covid is less than 0.1% - in fact it's less than 0.02%. 46M confirmed cases, and 751k deaths (not all confirmed to be caused by COVID)...
Im making that at least for graph editing:

https://www.knotend.com

Its a general purpose DAG/flowchart editor completely optimized for keyboard shortcuts. No need to touch the mouse almost ever. Like excalidraw you can use a basic version immediately, no account. I recommend watching the 1min video and checking out the keyboard shortcuts menu because its a bit different from other flowchart editors.

1min tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPR0samb194
This is about Windows gaming. No gamers ran macOS a decade ago
There's gotta be some way to programmatically determine it, right? It may not be portable. It may require some system calls or something, but there's gotta be a way, right?
Thats awesome !

Technically the onboarding takes 5 minutes - since we work with webhooks, and we just need a callback url from you ! You receive a PUSH whenever an activity is generated.
The card issuer doesn’t pay the merchant for a while, so it’s the merchant who is essentially paying the actual debt interest for a few months. Ask the owner of any small business where you use your card how long it takes for them to actually see the money.
> plus whatever liquidity risk they take on by ignoring all security standards introduced since the magstripe?

The card networks told merchants they are risking losing any and all chargeback for non chip purchases a few years ago. If a merchant is taking mag stripe still, that is their risk.

> If you think you are winning on rewards, you might also believe you can win long-term playing in a casino.

I am definitely earning more via cash back rewards than I am paying in fees. A 2% cash back card which can be had for free, gets you pretty close. At 5% cash back, you’re clearly earning more than however much prices are inflated to pay for the card processor fees.

And at the end of the day, I don’t have the option of paying 5% less at most places. So any percent cash back is a win.
> Don't they only make money off the initial sale?

In some cases there may be a royalty to the original artist on resale. But even if there isn't, just as with dividend-free stock offerings, the existence of a resale market means that the artist (or company) can expect to receive more money from the initial sale since buyers have the prospect of recuperating some of their initial expense by reselling the NFTs (or shares) later.
Company of Heroes

Its a real time strategy game set in WW2 and there are lots of different ways to tackle games and different factions as well.
> decentralized reputation through cert validation?

Certs are pretty dang centralized.

Also, Your second sentence needs a bit more fleshing out because it doesn't follow.
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>I'd say Germany is leading in "middle tech"

Relevant:

How Does Germany Do It?

>Manufacturing accounts for nearly 21% of the German economy", compared with 13% for US and 12% for UK. "While other industrialized nations have buckled under Asian competition, Germany has increased exports to China and the rest of Asia.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/5jeps2/how_does...>
wouldn't you just account the COW pages against the parent until they are copied?

kicking the can down the road means there isn't any longer a reasonable correction (failing the allocation), but instead we get to drive around randomly trying to find something to kill.

this is particularly annoying if you are running a service. there is no hope for it to recover - for example by flushing a cache. instead the OS looks around - sees this fat process just sitting there, and .. good news, we have plenty of memory now.
Actually not quite - it still needs to be economically attractive in order for it to be a viable product in an energy marketplace that is already deploying @ scale zero carbon generation.
Marketing can help, but if people don’t love your product enough to tell others about it, then it’s going to be hard to get traction.
I lost my mother a few years ago to an abrupt cancer diagnosis. Just being by her side every hour I could was all that mattered in the end. I went to work, kept eating and being present for my wife etc to honor the life and love that she gave me even though it all felt impossibly difficult. I think of her every day but somehow have no real regrets about her passing.

Chapter 96 in Ministry for the Future oddly summarizes and validates my experience almost perfectly, for whatever that's worth.

We all don't really know eachother but HN is a community and clearly its here for you.
Reducing this quote mentioned elsewhere:

> PF-07321332 is designed to block the activity of [a specific] enzyme that the coronavirus needs to replicate. Co-administration with a low dose of ritonavir helps slow [the breakdown] of PF-07321332 in order for it to remain active in the body for longer periods of time at higher concentrations to help combat the virus.

It's a two-part drug. PF-07321332 is the new and shiny thing that impairs a crucial enzyme for the virus, while the pre-existing drug ritonavir lets PF-07321332 last longer, making it more clinically useful.

That's my take on it.
Mozilla's latest bundle has 148 root CAs in it: https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozilla/IncludedCACert...

So "decentralized" in the sense that there are more than one, but it's not some hierarchy-less free for all where anyone can attest to their own identity and trustworthiness and the network just automatically accepts that.
I used to disable overcommit, but I ran into a bunch of compilers that would crash because of it despite having 30GiB of free (as reported by free(1) ) memory available.
It is sad and unfortunately needed. You will note they stopped this study at the first “interim analysis”. One of the really important reasons such interim analyses are done is precisely to stop a trial when it so obviously works. They then switch anyone in the placebo group to the real drug.

It is difficult to overstate just how much thought and argument has gone into clinical trial design in the last half century. It may seem detached and unfeeling, but basically every step is carefully considered compassion, ethics, and a desire for unambiguous causal truth of drug effectiveness.
Unpopular opinion but this is complete pseudoscience. Starting with the notion that the most complex thing in the universe, someone's intelligence (ie high dimensionality), can be simplified down to a single number.

This study is cursed by circularity. The only thing IQ tests are good for is testing is how you perform on sterile, academic tests which unfortunately underpin our current education system. Even then it explains at best between 2 and 13% of the performance in some tasks. No measure that fails 80–95% of the time should be treated seriously.

But let's assume IQ is an accurate gauge of someone's intelligence - why do some countries have an average IQ of 70? Are we seriously going to assume that entire countries are filled with people that could be classified as having an intellectual disability in the US? Clearly there's more going on here.

Not to mention the effect of IQ they found is smaller than the difference between IQ tests for the same individual. It's a shame that epidemiological psychology get's treated as anything remotely resembling science.

Edit: Small changes for cohesion.
I agree with you, I like my tools to just work. I last changed my windows manager when I started using wifi regularly over a decade ago.

Vim 8 broke this philosophy though - it changed defaults and broke workflows - changing how search works by default, breaking copy-paste by including some mouse support so when I click a line, it moves the cursor.

These aren't security improvements, these aren't transparent improvements (like allowing arrow keys as well as hjkl was way back), and they're not even odd workflows like xkcd.com/1172. Search is presumably one of the most used functions in vim, and I'm sure that clicking and highlighting text to copy into a different application isn't unusual. Changing the default behaviour is a choice that the developers made, presumably to "make vim better". I don't want vim "better", I want it stable, if I wanted "better" I'd use something that redesigns itself every 5 years.

What's worst though, is while I can adjust my workflow to automatically copy a fixed .vimrc onto any machine I ssh to, it leaves me wondering "what will change next". It's unsettling.
That doesn't make it any better at predicting anything.
Well, there’s not any one simple answer to the question - there’s no one killer feature, it’s more about a bunch of different tiny QoL features that work really seamlessly without any setup. Apple apps and devices all integrate really nicely with eachother in small but noticable ways.

You can probably get close with Linux using a bunch of different apps, services and tinkering, but with Apple, it’s all quite effortless.
could you point to an example of your actual consent form? i could not find any.
That's right - some "safe" coding standards like MISRA C go as far as forbidding use of malloc() without explicit justification.

If you still need dynamic allocation, you might choose to have a custom allocator working from a fixed-size pool or arena created in code (possibly itself carved out of RAM with malloc(), but importantly only once at first setup, where you have a better guarantee that the allocation will succeed).
KDE can be configured to run with pretty minimal overhead, but it takes quite a bit of knowledge about how the DE works. After disabling the fancy compositor effects though, I think I'm comfortable saying that it's more responsive than my i3wm setup on a 13-year-old x201. Not a knock against i3, as it's a much better tiling WM than KDE ever will be, but I really think the resource requirements aren't the far off from one another.
I pooped and scooped the poop said the Malloy to me be free. Along came the scoop and scoop it went. Free it did. In the bucket it tumbled for the others to enjoy.
> It's a cool problem to tackle but it is just an arms race.

Plus, it's one you're going to lose. I was once asked at an All-Hands why we don't defend ourselves against bots even more vigorously.

My answer was: "Because I don't know how to build a publically available website that I could not scrape myself if I really wanted to."
Bitcoin Is a Keynesian Beauty Contest in an Irrational Market
The answer is that you kind of can't. You're at the mercy of the OS to give you accurate information, and malloc as an interface isn't set up to distinguish between virtual memory and "actual" memory. We could imagine a separate interface that would allow the OS to communicate this distinction (or hacks like you allude to), but I don't know of any standard approach.
LibreOffice 7.3 supports Klingon language
> How is it very clear that most merchants earn more?

Because they do not offer discounts for cash/debit, and they also do not charge a fee for using credit card.

As I showed in my post, legally, merchants are clear to advertise higher prices for credit card users. The fact that they do not means they do not want to dissuade credit card use. From there, it follows that since businesses are interested in earning more money, that if they do not want to dissuade credit card use, then they must be earning more money (or at least breaking even) due to people using credit cards.

People spend more money when they use credit cards than debit/cash. Note that my above post specified “most merchants”, not all merchants. Obviously, some merchants do benefit from dissuading credit card use, such as the examples I gave, or many gas stations and small restaurants or convenience stores.
I'm less good at poker than many people's model of me predicts. (Probably juuuuuust about good enough to do 2/5 profitably in Vegas, though I mostly play tournaments because they're more fun for me.)
Slack had Dropbox-type comments on HN when launched
but it is. either stay under the radar or just stop gathering data that you dont need.
> ads should be entirely disallowed from everywhere, except for catalogues, printed and online.

I've been saying this for a few years now, but that's only part of a Terminal Solution[tm].

I wouldn't disallow online ads, because done sensibly (https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/no-stalking.html) they could happily coexist with everything else. Here's the more heretic take: make the core EU take the universal one - any and all data on an individual is ALWAYS the property of the person in question. No exceptions. Any third part storing a copy of it is merely a guardian of the data, not its owner. Then require for every single use of that data to compensate the individual.[ß] That flips the incentives, because all of a sudden every data processing round costs you real money that you have to pay out. Not in amortised compute costs, but in actual payouts.

In a strange twist, the sums themselves don't need to be particularly large. The sheer overhead of requiring accurate accounting, auditable records, and all the extra back-office operations to make it possible to repay people at a global scale is expensive enough to transform the practice of hoarding personal information from an asset into a liability with capital L.

In other words: if you want to advertise to me, you need to pay me for the privilege of wasting my time, my bandwidth, my electricity and my screen real estate. Through the nose, if needed.

ß: I'm willing to make an exception to legal hard requirements. But unless you're a government conducting their necessary activities, you pay.
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Yes, that's why I'm leaning more toward the Atari ST than linux. It has a gui, is not too complex to understand, has educational games, tools, nice small painting applications.

Anecdotally, I started at 3 years old with a Thomson MO5 which I guess is pretty much the equivalent of a Sinclair or a BBC. It didn't have a mouse but had a pen. I could boot into my games directly and I know I only really got into doing logo and then basic around 5 years old (which I guess corresponds to the age when I started to be able to read).
I initially had the same thought, but I came to a different conclusion because the presence of an install script is not a given for most packages.

For example, if I installed a command line arguments parser and it claimed to require running a setup script, I would immediately be very suspicious.

For a huge package like TypeScript, I'd probably just immediately let the script run and trust Microsoft to not publish malware (and NPM to not change the package contents).
That's exactly what fractional reserve banking is.
Anecdotally, hearing from doctors working in COVID wards, they consist almost entirely of anti-vaxxers who are now seeking (and receiving) treatments only recently approved. So while not everyone will take this, I think probably many would once they have symptoms.

That said, this does work better it seems if taken early, before the anti-vax sentiment may have worn off. Hard to say.

What it does signal is really the "end of the pandemic". We have both a vaccine (now approved for kids) and a cure. That sounds like it to me.
"f cannot be a factor of n+1 or n-1"

You are mostly just restating Euclid's proof that there are an infinite number of primes.
I'm well aware of that, and given how long I am on HN you can assume that I'm aware how the comment system here works.
The content of your website reminded me this service: https://linkkle.com/ demo page: https://linkkle.com/paul
Certs are certainly decentralized. You can create your own root, share them, etc. There a several highly trusted roots that are chosen by OS makers, not centralized. Some roots are quite big but what part is centralized?

Chain of trust is a decentralized reputation protocol and we use it frequently and effectively.
A better hardware architecture for running a gui with some real-time requirements is often to move the real-time stuff into a separate microprocessor entirely. I’ve run into some tricky problems trying to do both on the same core, as you have zero control over when the UI will suddenly start consuming more resources, and it becomes a game of whack-a-mole to keep your ui responsive without overtaxing your event loop. I think this is one reason TI put a Cortex M processor on die with the AM335X. It enables you to offload your real-time logic onto a separate processor and dedicate hardware control to that so the main application processor could focus on rendering and responding to user inputs.
My mom was given 1-3 months to live. Now after one year, she is currently the healthiest woman in hospice care. Hang in there, anything can happen.
Also anecdotal but seen this confirmed by others:
Cutting out seed oils and eating more saturated fat (butter) lessens sugar/carb cravings by a lot and makes cutting out both of those toxins easier.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StopEatingSeedOils/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaturatedFat/
Plant obsessions are not the same thing as a passion for plants