skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So credit card issuers are pretty sophisticated with regards to this, and many of them track different user personas and use them to dice up their portfolio by archetypes. The "folks like us" archetype is one which is definitely tracked and goes by different names at different places.

I express no strong opinion on whether you personally are contribution margin negative for your issuer. On a portfolio level though, this is extremely well studied and extremely clear: that archetype is staggeringly contribution margin positive. It's actually one of the best performing ones at some issuers, principally because the archetype spends a lot per account, has negligible defaults for non-fraudulent users, and therefore earns lots of interchange at favorable margins.

It is possible, given the design of individual products, that a user with close-to-optimal spending decisions is contribution margin negative on individual products and potentially on all accounts with a particular issuer. People outside the credit card ecosystem believe this is much more common than it actually happens. A lot of thought goes into the design of products to decrease the likelihood of adverse use, cap the damages, and encourage users who are very skilled at gamesmanship to game their way to being contribution positive.
> Even if you switch from a sugary drink to the zero-calorie version of that drink, you'll be doing yourself a favor in the long run; the jury's out on how bad aspartame is for you, but we know very well how bad these quantities of sugar are for you.

this statement is logically incorrect - if the 'jury is out' on aspertame, when it 'reconvenes' it could discover that it is worse for you than HFCS, and so no, in fact, the prophylactic switching that you speak of would in fact be detrimental.

Anecdotally, I feel much worse on 0cal/diet beverages than HFCS equivalent - the 0cal/diet ones seem much more likely to trigger headaches/inflammation in me, though it could be that I don't "think" i need as much food so I actually let the diet drink facillitate bad nutrition which in turn triggers these things ... probably the real 'safe bet' is to switch away from both regular and diet soft drinks, since HFCS also is not good
The vaccine protects you but still allows you to carry and spread a viral load. The mask protects people around you but not yourself but limiting the viral load that you can spread.

By being a vaccinated unmasked person in a crowd of non-vaccinated people, you possibly become a super spreader.
One thing that might be fun to cover: I got in a twitter discussion today about why Europeans don't use credit cards as much as people do in the US. Researching this question and related ones ("why are wire transfers free in Europe but not in the US") are basically impossible to Google, as similar but not actually good results ("the cheapest way to wire money to Europe") drown out any primary resources.
Here's one way to bolster this mathematically just a bit.

If you have a composite number C, you can use C to guarantee factors in larger numbers. If k is a factor of C, Cn + k also has a factor of k.

So, for a "highly-composite" C, you rule out many prime numbers. An easy way to generate these "highly composite" numbers is to multiple the first few primes. For example,

C = 2 * 3 = 6.

* 6n + 0 has factors of 2, 3, 6

* 6n + 1 may be prime (e.g. 7)

* 6n + 2 has factors of 2

* 6n + 3 has factors of 3

* 6n + 4 has factors of 2

* 6n + 5 may be prime (e.g., 17)

I'll call the possibly-prime numbers C-primes. So 6n+1 and 6n+5 are 6-primes. Similarly, we have 6n+0 is a 6-tween, and 6n+2 and 6n+4 are 6-nexts (next to exactly one 6-prime), and 6n+3 is a 6-non (not adjacent to any 6-primes).

So, the 6-tweens have at least 2 factors, the 6-nons have at least 1 factor, and 6-nexts have at least 1 factor.

The number of proper divisors that a number can have is actually bounded fairly tightly [1]. For example, number numbers below 24 have more than 4 divisors; that means the 6-tween behavior predicts _three quarters_ of the divisors a number can have until 24.

[1]: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/the-divisor-bound/

You can use a larger C to get information for longer. For example, C = 2 * 3 * 5 = 30 gives

* 30n + 0 has divisors 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30 -- tween

* 30n + 1 may be prime

* 30n + 2 has divisors 2 -- next

* 30n + 3 has divisors 3

* 30n + 4 has divisors 2

* 30n + 5 has divisors 5

* 30n + 6 has divisors 2, 3, 6 -- next

* 30n + 7 may be prime

* 30n + 8 has divisors 2 -- next

* 30n + 9 has divisors 3

* 30n + 10 has divisors 2, 5, 10 -- next

* 30n + 11 may be prime

* 30n + 12 has divisors 2, 3, 6 -- tween

* 30n + 13 may be prime

* 30n + 14 has divisors 2 -- next

* 30n + 15 has divisors 3, 5, 15

* 30n + 16 has divisors 2 -- next

* 30n + 17 may be prime

* 30n + 18 has divisors 2, 3, 6 -- tween

* 30n + 19 may be prime

* 30n + 20 has divisors 2, 5, 10 -- next

* 30n + 21 has divisors 3

* 30n + 22 has divisors 2 -- next

* 30n + 23 may be prime

* 30n + 24 has divisors 2, 3, 6 -- next

* 30n + 25 has divisors 5

* 30n + 26 has divisors 2

* 30n + 27 has divisors 3

* 30n + 28 has divisors 2 -- next

* 30n + 29 may be prime

So 30-tweens have (7, 3, 3) divisors; 30-nexts have (1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 3) divisors; 30-nons have (1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1) divisors.

The first number to have more than 10 divisors is 120 (with 14), so this predicts 7 of the possible 13 divisors for numbers 30 to 120, all in tween numbers.

This makes the problem somewhat more concrete: why do the numbers that have many common factors with C cluster near the numbers with no common factors of C? But since we can at least observe it for different concrete C, this still does predict something about "all" the primes (though the effect of a particular C fades as the number of possible divisors eventually increases >> num. divisors of C; I posit that you can always generate a larger C to extend the pattern, but I don't know number theory to show it)
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Please show intellectual merit in the government mandate for vaccine which:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

" A person who was fully vaccinated and then had a ‘breakthrough’ Delta infection was almost twice as likely to pass on the virus as someone who was infected with Alpha." ( and i was saying that months ago just based on obvious arithmetic on public data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28081982 and was labeled as anti-vaxxer, i guess now it is me, the journal Nature and the study authors are all anti-vaxxers)

"Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus."

There is nothing wrong or unique about a vaccine being not effective in reducing transmission and spread. We have for example that with a flu vaccine each year. What unique and wrong is the vaccine mandate and enforcement of those failed Covid vaccines which plays right into the hands of the opposition to the vaccines in general which i think would result in a lot of damage down the road.
> From an "unknown risk" perspective, you'd also have to consider that COVID itself could have yet-unknown long-term risks.

That would not factor into a correct analysis: the unknown risks of covid are the same whether or not you get vaccinated (or any other treatment) because by definition the vaccine has not been shown to mitigate the unknown risks.
> We need this to fit on a single floppy.

Giving this a go on my next argument XD
There won't be defined exit criteria. Each state will exit when its people decide the exiting is worth the risk.

Some places will do that earlier than others, and quite a few practically already have.
What a money spinner eh? Coronavirus really is the gift that keeps on giving...
>Even the EU's own website using cookies.

What's the argument here?

>Most users don't care about a session cookie or whatever.

Where did you hear this? Most users don't know what a cookie is.
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Could you share a Haskell compiler that produces output that can execute on a real non-von Neumann/Harvard architecture?
Styleless would be a more apt name.
This is a great idea. Can you write a design doc? Please make sure it's fully fleshed out.
This depends on your concept of how names work. Some people (often dependent on native language of those people) think names should be translated, but to me they're more like a token than other words.

If your name is Xinyi, your name in English is Xinyi, some people would disagree and say your name in English is Joy; whilst xinyi means joy (IIRC) that's not how names [should] work [IMO].

This might relate in part to how we use a lot of foreign language words for names in UK English. Like how Charis (biblical Greek) is a different name to Grace (modern English) but d both derive from the same meaning.

YMMV.
Ok, we've changed to the latter from https://www.iccl.ie/news/online-consent-pop-ups-used-by-goog..., which is currently down. Thanks!
I can't find it right now, but I recall some paper by Ed Fredkin that claimed that measuring fundamental physical constants indicated a 256-bit register could work.

I think the paper was in an IBM in-house technical journal.
Exactly. Everybody is trying to milk it.
I had a very similar situation a year ago. My mom was diagnosed with colon cancer in October 2020, had surgery then, and then went through chemo December - February. I moved from CA to FL to take care of her during the time, and it was extremely tough.

I tried to manage my work while going through it, and negotiated with my manager that I'd be working roughly 50% of my time with the possibility for unexpected days off (my mom had several hospitalizations for transfusions which were unplanned/unexepcted). It wore me out tremendously emotionally, and at the end of it I got a poor performance review for that time period.

I strongly regret not taking "family leave," which if you're in tech your company should offer. If I had taken it, I would have maintained good performance standing in my company as they default you to it if there's insufficient data. Instead, even though my manager was on board with giving me a good performance review, the "bar raisers" decided I hadn't done enough work in that time, and it had knock-on effects on my burnout, because on top of getting back to work normally post-chemo while already being exhausted, I now also had to work extra hard to get out of a bad performance situation.

Additionally, while I did get a good bit of work done during that time, if I had had the time completely free to take care of my mom I would have done a better job taking care of her, and would have had more time to also do self-care, which is extremely important when going through such a difficult time and watching someone you love suffer.

I really wish you the best, I completely understand your situation and you can reach out to me at ryan @ mcafeeryan [dot] com if you want to chat about any of it. It's going to be hard, it's going to suck, and you will get through it.
Pharma doesn't do charity though. Drug risky is very expensive and highly risky. It's risky whether you research a drug for some disease that ten people have in the world, or for a pandemic.

Research related to the pandemic is de-risked by some margin and that alone makes it attractive.
I was curious, and it looks like the metrics for Kansas and Missouri for infections, mask use, hospitalizations/deaths, and social distancing are all pretty similar: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/kans...
We did a similar thing. Early on, our toddler proposed the name Bin-ban for his upcoming sister, and it stuck.

We have a lovely video of the toddler explaining to Grannie a few hours after the birth 'her name is Bin-ban'. 'Oh <long pause>, yes, but she has a real name'.

We called her Bin-ban for a few more weeks until she sort of grew into her 'real' name. That beautiful little original name is a very fond memory for us.
> It was surprising for me to see from the other side how rude the free users are on average compared to the paying users.

In my experience, this also applies to cheap vs expensive projects (consultancy). Customers start to get really pleasant and polite when they are charged at least 100K or something like that for doing some custom software development. They get very demanding when it's below 10K.
The co-founders met each other on Twitter:

https://microfounder.com/blog/cofounder-in-marketing

They are remote co-founders, if you will.
I think the whole thing is tongue in cheek.

You used to program in Pascal, didn't you?
> [Haskell is much more bullet-proof than] IF NATALPLANET == “MARS”

And perhaps there might be something like a Python Enum HOWTO

https://docs.python.org/3.11/howto/enum.html
Qt is not big and is well architected, so you should not have issues with a Qt based DE but you could stop useless services to get more performance. Qt will not eat your CPU or RAM but if you have a very old device you probably want to use some OS designed for that type of hardware or use KDE3
Hi from the Apollo team! We're not abandoning open-source software. Excluding our Federation 2 libraries, nearly all of the 100+ public repositories in the Apollo GitHub organization are MIT-licensed. Our most popular projects, including Apollo Client (Web/iOS/Android), Apollo Server, apollo-rs, and Rover, remain MIT-licensed.

Federation 2, the component of our platform that is licensed under ELv2, is most interesting to large enterprises. Apollo has built a successful business that helps developers at large enterprises adopt a unified graph at scale. These enterprise subscriptions fund the development of important open-source projects like Apollo Client and Apollo Server that benefit the entire graph ecosystem.
I guess the misconception about GDPR and cookies is still around. Presumably it's due to the earlier ePrivacy Directive (aka "cookie law") which I agree is completely stupid, but GDPR covers more than just cookies.

The GDPR mandates that data subjects provide informed consent before you are able to collect and/or process their personal data for non-essential purposes (ads & analytics don't count).

The technical means you use doesn't matter. It can be cookies, but it can also be browser fingerprinting or IP addresses (which you can't deny as the remote server needs to know your IP to communicate with you), or it can even be information you manually enter (such as name & address for payment processing).

A purely technical solution will only cover the black & white case of "provide the data or not", it will not cover more nuanced cases where you need to provide the data for essential purposes (the IP so you can load the website, personal details for payment processing) but do not wish this same data to be used for other, non-essential purposes. A legal solution here is needed and that's what the GDPR is about.
To me, philosophically, A tool by itself isn't inherently good or bad, but the way in which it is applied is. Unfortunately, people couldn't resist the temptation to do evil that large-scale, (relatively) rapid, programmatic identification (faulty or otherwise) of humans enables.
I havent been so rigorous with measuring my diet intake. I have just naturally noticed that the more steak and veggies I eat, the better I feel. My mind feels sharper, and I have more energy. I will add that I do think some keto foods, like cauliflower pizza, dont seem to be that healthy/seem to not have the same noticiable effects as grass fed steak. It could be in my head, but at work I am able to easily complete all my daily tasks in a few hours. Its really opening up my life. I started spending a ton of money on food.
Fantastic news!

Sadly the majority of cookie "consent" banners is still in breach of GDPR.
> explicitly mark which packages can run postinstall scripts

Here's an RFC on exactly that: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/discussions/80
> Look, would you just get off your Be obsession for FIVE MINUTES and talk serious design with us?

I get the rest of the references, but what is a Be obsession? Also the last one is gold
In my experience, about half of the benefit of learning a new language is in better understanding of grammatical structures (eg. cases - English has them too; and tangentially, (foreign) language classes taught me more about English from a grammatical perspective than public school English classes), and about half of it is seeing how languages relate to one another (eg. how so many words and phrases in English - and other languages - are derived from Latin). You could get the former, but I doubt you could get (the same level of) the latter from another language.

Now of course that's vastly simplified and I'm sure there are other mental affects (and numerous benefits to learning live languages), but those are the ones I've noticed, and the effects would definitely be different.
My Windows work laptop has done this a couple times. Hasn't managed to actually kill itself yet, though. A pity.
Building a Quality USB-C Microphone [video]
Good 0 cal drinks to try are: water, coffee, and tea.
This is fantastic. I prototype, and the last thing I want to do is set up and deal with all the nonsense when I need only usually need a few calls to a server to prove out the concept.

Love it.
Wil 3PCD Break the Web? Browsers to Block 3rd party cookies one day in 2023
The major difference between decentralized pyramids and centralized ones is the size.

The bigger the size of a network, the more attractive it is to abusers, while at the same time being more difficult to manage.
This kind of reminded me of how in Rust you can split a slice type into sub-slices, except in that case you are actually allocating space for those sub-slices. This leads me to wonder if this is possible in a zero-cost way using const generics, where you only need to store the pointer to the backing data, and the index range/length is known at compile time, e.g. Slice<T, Start, Length>.
Have you tried any other kind of carbohydrate other than sugar? Perhaps ask your doctor to test if you have mild hypoglycemia.
Awesome. I sincerely wish I found this before I decided to write my own, we definitely would have used it!
Big Pharma will not invest in a research program they know will lose money, even if that money-losing situation is the successful case which saves humanity from extinction.

They will do the work, if the money comes from somewhere else.
If I have an incredibly disruptive solution to this problem I wonder if I could get funding.
Made a program that creates a digitizes real-life chess games live
You say incompetent when most haven't implemented BCP38 iirc
> "A much smaller portion of interchange goes to the credit card processor, to the acquiring bank, and to the credit card network"

That's technically not accurate. Credit card networks do not earn money from interchange [1].

[1] "Visa does not make money from individual transactions." https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-visa-makes-money-understa...
How does Evil person interact with Pirate Bay owners? Does the Pirate Bay knowingly host fraudulent ads in return for a share of the profit?
I'm slightly surprised by your comment. The release seems pretty factual to me? I too am sensitive to overwrought tech organisation prose (privacy/piracy/open source groups/basically anything to do with Assange) but this seemed ok. What about it strikes you as particularly unhinged?

The main word I can find that seems like it might be regarded as over-emotive is "plagued". Is it that kind of thing? [ OTOH, bad GDPR popups are pretty much a scourge... ]

edit: oh I guess the stuff about advertising firms depriving people of their "fundamental rights" is yeah a bit over-wrought...(though privacy is important, at least to me, and I think it's ok for a civil liberties organisation to care a lot about it).
You need to be an accredited investor, aka have a net worth of 1 million dollars or an annual income of 200k+

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092815/how-b...
Very interesting and well thought out write up on a high level. Shame on me for being surprised at the technical clarity of an astrology app I suppose. On a lower level, I’m interested in how they balance the purity of Haskell with the necessity of a server actually persisting state and dealing with IO.
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You're just the kind of person I've been looking?

1)How long have you been in Tokyo?

2)What part of Tokyo do you live and work in?

3) How easy/hard did you personally find establishing a relationship (in the non-romantic sense) with the locals?

4) (If you're an American) How do you handle you're taxes?

5) What were some of the more surprising things about Tokyo that aren't mentioned enough?

6) How easy is it to get out into the countryside?

7) Where does one find expats to hang out with who aren't coworkers?
That would be the obvious move, but my background is so far from finance that I have no earthly idea how I would begin. Open to ideas though for sure!
Cool. Are there any real-world use cases?
Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? (2019)
Vaxxinity S-1
> almost immediately experienced a toxic bro culture

she said that
It's because there are white label credit cards that are extremely easy to setup if you're a business and they're so profitable. Not only does the store get a sale upfront which a customer might not have been able to afford without it, they get additional revenue when folks are slow to repay their bill.
1) I think I was wrong.

2) Thank you.
Definitely agreed!
moderation is not censorship.

punishing someone for breaking the rules - not vague "we reserve the right to fuck you in the ass for any reason or no reason at all" kind of bullshit rules employed by facebook/twitter/reddit/whatever - is not considered censorship even at the kinds of places where people are particularly sensitive to it - for example, people don't accuse moderators of censorship when someone posts porn on 4chan's safe-for-work boards and it then gets deleted.

besides, facebook/twitter/reddit/whatever, despite being centralized and authoritarian services, aren't equipped to combat abuse any better than decentralized entities, the only difference being that instead of blatant low-effort buy-penis-pills spam they are targeted for subtle manipulation at industrial scale.
Depending on the issuer, you might still be net positive as there’s a higher chance you’ll buy other products from them later. Think home loans, brokerage accounts, CDs, etc.
Yea I purposefully made the explore mode keep al the names. Next release I’ll make sure to add a toggle on whether to apply the filters or not because in hindsight this is confusing.
They obviously wouldn't want to just comply with DNT (or any other easy way to opt-out) as they'd be signing their own death certificate.

Instead they exploited the apathy & incompetence of the regulators with their so-called "consent" flow. Considering the GDPR was supposed to be enforced since 2018 and they've made it to 2021 without any consequences I'd say that strategy paid off.
Oh my god, all my managers were terrible people..

Oh my god, I'm a terrible person!!

:)
Fellow T460S-er! Is yours 4gb soldered or 8gb soldered? What ram did you install? I'm always worried about incompatibility with the soldered ram so I never upgraded
>Right - agreed - (you'll get downvoted here though - HN moving towards the reddit orthodoxy model vs the discussion model).

>Its super off-putting

Nothing about any of your comments on this topic has demonstrated you're the least bit interested in having a discussion.
Woah, the real question is what on earth kind of "marketing" did Marko activate? Astronomical switch for them. Would love to read more about the tactics.

This image blows my mind. Basically from 0 to 50,000 uniques in month?! Congrats

https://microfounder.com/storage/posts/originals/sjswkbxufvl...