skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sooo.... if I have an Amazon account that is also an AWS account.

I can pay with Visa on AWS, but not Amazon?

And if I close the Amazon account, it will close the AWS account?

I only really use AWS for S3, and if Cloudflare get R2 into my hands soon it does appear that Amazon will have finally done that which de-Amazons me... made it impossible to pay them. If the choice is "Change bank" or "Change shop"... one of these has far lower friction.
How is this even worth it to MS?

Do they really expect people who go through the effort of installing a third party browser and setting it as default to switch back to Edge because of the grand experience they had with it when Windows opened some help article in it?

How much money do they make of the 0.000001% of users who do the above?

How much money do they lose because of the reputation damage and increased regulator attention because of it?

I cannot think of any scenario where, money wise, this is a net positive for MS.
That’s not how CSS box shadows are generated. They only need to take into account the dimensions of the rectangle and the corner radius, which opens up for a lot of optimization.
>It’s really hard to be a Catholic, or a Christian, and not lean left.

The political and cultural juggernaut that is the American Christian right would disagree.

>I say this as an Atheist, that these ideas are pretty clever for a guy who lived 20 centuries ago.

Every religion teaches the same basic social principles in some way or another. Jesus didn't invent any of it.
Building a Discord stage channel clone with NextJS and 100ms
Amex has gone the lower-fee route on some cards in recent years. Visa, with Visa Signature, may be going the other way.
Not the idea of Ivermectin as prophylactic is stupid, but believing this is the case, as many people clearly do, in my opinion merits that verdict.

Beyond the social media hype there is almost no rational reason to believe that. I even have a problem with writing "almost no", because I don't really trust what I've seen in that regard on face value.
Why wait? Why not take ivermectin as a precautionary therapeutic given it is well tolerated with low risk of side effects?

There's a chasm between the epistemic question of "does this drug really work?" and the pragmatic question of "does a risk-reward analysis under uncertainty say that I should take this mostly safe drug that might slightly reduce my covid severity?"

FWIW, I wouldn't take ivermectin either as a prophylactic or therapeutic, the evidence just isn't strong enough, but I don't really fault anyone that would add it into the stack of treatments upon a diagnosis in the hopes of a small net benefit.
Emacs' feature of being a platform for Lisp is really something that needs to be restated again and again.

You can do practically anything to text or other objects. If you can think of it, I'm pretty sure that Emacs can accomplish that for you. Any transform, file action, font changes, etc etc.

Example, this auto-saves a given file. In this case, whenever I archive an org-mode subtree, the archive file is auto-saved:

435 │ ;; The `save-some-buffers` function can run silently, and it also accepts a
436 │ ;; function argument to predicate whether a buffer is saved or not.
437 │ ;; This predicate simply says "save the buffer's file if it's the notes archive
438 │ ;; file"
439 │ (defun redacted/save-notes-archive-file ()
440 │ (interactive)
441 │ (save-some-buffers 'no-confirm (lambda ()
442 │ (equal buffer-file-name
443 │ (expand-file-name redacted/notes-archive-file)))))
444 │
445 │ ;; Finally, the newly-defined function can advise the archive function. So,
446 │ ;; after a subtree in org is archived, the archive file will be automatically saved.
447 │ (advice-add 'org-archive-subtree :after #'redacted/save-notes-archive-file)
This in particular seems to blatantly fly in the face of the precedent which was established by the earlier anti-trust judgements against them.

It almost seems as if they believe anti-trust has been effectively killed between then and now, and they're ready to poke the bear to verify that it's dead.
There's been a lot of talk about how newspapers are dying because nobody wants to pay for digital subscriptions. I think this industry seriously gets to blame themselves for this. I've tried subscribing to a couple of magazines back in the days and with every one of them it was a living nightmare to get out of the subscriptions. Once ending the subscription one even started sending what looked like regular invoices with due date in red and everything, but if you read the fine print at the bottom of the page it just said that "this is to start a subscription, if you are not interested ignore this mail".

Generally I don't have a problem paying for culture, and I also like reading both news papers and magazines but now days I always buy them at the local news stand. I've got enough proof that newspapers and magazines can't handle the trust with personal information and payment details.

I've also always admired journalists and the craft of good investigative journalism. It's sad that these creatives are stuck with the most hostile sales people in probably any industry (except maybe phone companies).
NatWest have recently informed me that my Visa Debit card will be changing over to Mastercard Debit at the end of the year.

Feels like a lot of places are shunning Visa at the moment.

Other than getting a new card number (which some could say is a GOOD thing) switching from Visa to Mastercard in the UK has hardly any impact as 99% of places accept both.
Are you joking? Russian spies are killing people right now. Former «Vympel», now «Alpha», entered Ukraine recently, and they started to collect money for their covert operation by murdering of innocent families. They are trying to kill me since 2008, because I searched/found their agent «24». USSR starved to death 7 million adults (number accepted by RF State Duma on 02.04.2008) and 23 million children (still not accepted by RF).
UTM: Run Virtual Machines on iOS
Show HN: I made Paper Website – Start a tiny website from your notebook
You don’t have to wait for them to agree that your subscription is cancelled. When I call I tell them I’m cancelling and they’re no longer authorized to charge my card. If they don’t stop the charges, then it’s much easier to talk to my own credit card company and do a charge-back.
Likely just because they can. Any opposition is to be dealt with maximum response.
> it shows such complete lack of confidence in their product.

It can also show complete and utter overconfidence. "The only reason people would want to unsubscribe is by accident. We're doing people a favor when making it as hard as possible to make that mistake."
Perks on credit cards in the UK are almost non existent because the fees are so low compared to he US. Historically the EU regulated to crush credit card transaction fees.

That said, I do get annual cashback of 1% on one of my cards.
Oh don't get me started with the EC card shenanigans - I've had so many problems in Munich with shops demanding an EC card as the only form of card accepted.

Drives me crazy that in some cases it's either that (which is unavailable to non German residents) or cash....
As a user, when I write a search query as a space-separated list of n words, I expect to see documents which contain all of those words (or synonyms). I absolutely don't want to see documents which contain only n-1 of the specified words. I know exactly what I want, and the reason I've added the last word to the query is that there were too many generic, boring, irrelevant results without it.
I remember Nokia's MWS and if memory serves me it was powered by Apache and Python Server Pages (PSP). I thought it was crazy to port those things to mobile but somebody (reiner-keuchel.de IIRC) ported almost all open source tools to Windows Mobile long before Nokia.
Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted.

I hate C as a language, but I think it makes for a great API. Any language under the sun can bind to C. To bind to Rust or C++, you'd need to basically be a Rust/C++ compiler. From that perspective, I don't have a problem with having a Rust library with a C interface, except it might be harder to maintain for distros. gcc/g++ are everywhere at least.
Can I give you a call bark? DogPhone lets pets ring their owners
Anything that edges you closer to an optimum health state is also beneficial to a certain degree to avoid corona infection.

So zinc and vitamine D which enhance and modulate the immune system are recommended.

It's not as clearcut as you make it seem. The current vaccines lose their effectiveness over time and are significantly less effective against the delta variant to start with.
Why? Like from the user perspective, why? Did Ballmer have anything to do with this decision?
Same with the UK subscription craft beer service, beer52.com [1]. Subscribe easily with a few clicks, but they make you call during office hours and endure 10+ minutes on hold to cancel.

Sadly in the UK I guess we won't get the benefit of any new EU legislation to address this.

[1] https://ibb.co/r4LfK5F
What is this I hear about a new Microsoft?
What I like about Haskell is that it is unashamedly a language for programming language research, by programming language researchers. "This change needs to happens because otherwise the mathematics don't work out" would never fly in golang or Ruby if it broke backwards compatibility, but happens regularly in Haskell.

This has a couple of effects:

- It does make it harder to maintain code for businesses, since keeping up with language updates means that you will have to do relatively more maintenance work to keep up with these breaking changes.

- It slowly makes the core libraries more and more elegant over time and this paves the way for new advances in eg type systems and whatnot. Linear types would have been way harder to add if the existing system had been (even more) a giant mess of hacks to maintain backwards compatibility 20 years back.

- The ease of writing GHC extensions makes it so that it is relatively easy to extend the base language in some way and back out if it doesn't turn out to work. This makes experimentation way cheaper than if every core language change has to be "permanent".

These changes combined mean that Haskell itself will probably never be a mainstream language for business applications, and that is fine. Because many (most?) programming language implementors have had some exposure to Haskell in university and because they all speak to one another on conferences etc, many of the ideas first explored by Haskell (and its predecessors in academia) are "leaking out" if they are good (like list comprehensions in Python or type classes in Rust) and they don't get taken over if they turn out to have been mistakes (like lazy I/O). The true value of Haskell is having a language in which to experiment
with new concepts, so they can be proven useful (or not) before they make their way into the wild.
> Never owned a credit card, don't have the slightest wish to do so.

Bizarrely, never owning a credit card will negatively impact your credit rating.
> WHO recommends against remdesivir. FDA and IMOH promote it as a wonderdrug. Who would you trust?

My GP.
Yeah, thankfully it doesn't appear to have quite the same rabid haters in the uk as in the us. We didn't stick rigidly to one particular approach, I kind of took inspiration from them and figured out something that worked for each of my kids. The end result is that they have slept really well ever since and bed times are pretty easy in our house. And to top it off we as parents have more energy because we get good sleep and have time to get things done in the evening.
LA’s Staples Center will be renamed ‘Crypto.com Arena’
I live in Intellij, it has it's own minor warts but it's a superpower compared to anything else I've used.

It covers everything (code, inspections, docker, database layer, seamless multilanguage support).
PMs are metrics optimizers. Microsoft must have a few of those working on Windows 11.
UK here, I use credit card for almost everything:

1. (As everyone says) consumer protection. I can dispute a charge to a CC and am not standing out the cash (unlike debit)

2. Debit transactions don't have any inherent limit. The bank might flag a very large transaction but once a debit transaction is underway it can't be stopped. I had > £10k stolen from my online account via a debit transaction and though the bank made good, still, bad taste.

3. Most important if you are young - using (and paying off) credit card will improve your credit score which helps you when you do need the credit.

4. Delayed payment. Even when you clear your debt every month you're still getting the benefit of 30 days free credit on your purchases. In our current savings-rate environment this is somewhat moot but anyone who travels for work or has significant work expenses that they have to wait to get reimbursed for will find this a major feature. Lending your employer money really sucks.

5. Rewards cards. These have gone crappy over the last decade but if you are in a role where you have significant work expenses or where you put most of your expenditure through the CC it can be worthwhile to hunt around for and switch cards for deals. Spending £1000 at Amazon/year on a debit card will get you exactly £0 in rewards. Even 1% cashback would be worth having.

The only downside to CC's I see is that some people can't trust themselves with credit - they'll spend up to their limit and get into a spiral of debt. If you don't do that, they're better than debit cards in my opinion.
Fun fact: The Guardian's owner has £1 billion in assets.
Why you need these skills? Thinking out of the box and complementing others: to hire a specialist is the fastest way to do it.

To get the skills for yourself is a different matter: hire a specialist for a day and go through a basic app deployment, workflow and notes for a day. Complement with the basics tutorial to avoid gaps, try your skills on a real environment.

But such infrastructure skills are no joke and mistakes are expensive so I would recommend to take your time learning about it.
There is a series of Google-created Kubernetes/GKE courses on Coursera that include hands-on labs where you get to try stuff on GKE without paying usage fees.

The course content is a bit wanting (it sometimes feels more like an advert for GCP products than a course), but if you watch the videos that look relevant and do the labs, I think you’ll get something out of it. Coursera does cost money but has a free trial.
Nobody in their right mind would have predicted before the pandemic that some of the most developed countries in the world will have some of the highest death counts.
I fear this will be deeply ingrained in the social consciousness and lead to further divisiveness down the line.
Let's hope Haskell never becomes commercially successful then :-)
>Emacs continually being changed, any setup that works will eventually stop working

Any specific example of Emacs being changed to break your workflow?
Lost VAT revenue is not due to mom-and-pop shops offering a discount under the table. The vast majority of lost VAT revenue is due to organized VAT carousel frauds, also knows as missing trader fraud, where an organized groups of 10-20 people siphons tens of millions into their pockets through reimbursements of fictitious trades. It's one of the most lucrative fraud schemes there is, but if caught and convicted, the sentences are usually comparable to that of murderers. If not caught, the accomplices frequently try to assassinate each other in a sort of a sick tournament-style elimination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud
Yeah but if it's baked into the audio file then it's the creator pushing ads onto you. It has nothing to do with Spotify or am I missing something?
Perhaps they were confused about the association between projects as well.
What if you meet a woman who makes approximately the same (or more) to take the financial risk off the table. Would that change your mind?

Choosing someone with comparable earning power might lead to a more interesting partner anyway
But most of them aren't sound. Those that aren't are still weak evidence and not really block-buster. Also, "there are no real downsides" is misinformation. If you let on that you are an expert when you aren't, and say "I reviewed them" then that's misinformation. Some is in the gray area, but even the gray area actually causes the kind of harm these policies try to prevent.

I can't speak for Youtube, but that's my take.
I don't think it's too difficult to understand.. they want a supported method to open their own apps using their own browser, guaranteeing any QA done on those apps will cover any potential onslaught of bug/support workload due to third party browsers.

I'd prefer it if these things opened in Firefox, but I can just as easily see how from an engineering perspective they want this mechanism and are willing to defend it. From that perspective, Firefox is intentionally fucking around with OS internals in a way that could create costs for their support org.

(edit: please don't shoot the messenger. I'm an affected user too)
Hm. I assumed that the "telemetry" they were talking about was on their own servers (measuring uploads, downloads, etc.) but given that it was introduced after the Microsoft acquisition, is this telemetry actually client-side, like the telemetry[1] they put in the .NET Core dev tools?

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093
To be fair, Xsplit (closed source) was the one that was there as streaming got established, though OBS has taken over these days by being better and free (as in beer - though also being open source obviously helped get there).
That will not generate a visually pleasing shadow, though.
Just don't NAT again, but simply firewall. That's what I do. Luckily the days of routers crashing when there are more than 15 TCP sessions are over, even with the cheap ISP routers. But Wifi usually still sucks with those, plus security concerns, so I like to isolate it from the rest of my network with OpenWRT.
If "onboard gyro and compass" means something to you substantially different from an IMU+EKF system, it makes me wonder what century you are talking about.

My comment was about tagging pixel column data with non-optical measurements. Spewing alphabet soup fails to add clarity, and does not even make you look smarter.

Given adequate bandwidth, EKF can be better applied at the receiver, where more computational power is available.
Radius of bowling ball: 12 cm [1]
Mass of black hole with radius 10cm: 0.00004062 Sun Mass [2]
0.00004062 Sun Mass in kilograms: 8.124E+25 [3]

That's significantly more than 10 times the mass of the Earth. Even a grape-sized black hole would be more massive than Earth. Highly unlikely to be such a massive object, hithertofore undetected. The most massive object expected would be smaller than the Moon, which for a black hole would be the size of a human ovum.

[1] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2009/MarwaElfar.shtml
[2] https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/schwarzschild-radius
[3] https://www.unitconverters.net/weight-and-mass/sun-s-mass-to-kilogram.htm
It is very much worth it or they won't make it so hard.
https://backlinko.com/bing-users
>Microsoft generated $8.53 billion in search advertising revenue in the 2021 fiscal year.
Hey opx9,

I do apologise if my use of the word "we" caused anger. At the same time I'm happy you took the time to respond—it seems you're passionate about this point so I want to know more.

Why do you say it's a small group? It seems to me it's a pretty large group across the West.

Then, you claim it's biological traits. Does that mean everybody has them?

Finally, what's the alternative? How could one get unstuck? Or maybe a better question would be: what are the traits of those that are not part of the group that has these traits?
Well obviously they lose telemetry when you leave the ms ecosystem, so the user journey has effectively ended at that point /s

> things like password autofill in a lot of the MS auth flows (which appear to be web-based, as far as I can tell) just don’t work

Cynically I could believe this is partly by design. If they manage to get you into edge often enough, sooner or later you'll set up your workflows in edge as well out of annoyance. Maintaining two separate browser environments is a burden, and sooner or later a lot of people will give up and stick to the browser you have to use in many cases.
Charlottesville labeled 86 percent of students as gifted
Yeah so I was thinking about this...

Vim has more users than Emacs and lately neovim gained a lot of traction; they managed to coordinate the community on a direction, ask for money, fund a new generation of programmers to learn the codebase and update it to be async and use a different script engine.

Emacs has had several efforts at replacing elisp or rewriting the core in rust or what have you... But they've never been able to budge the local maximum nor coordinate the community on the new direction. Actually, I believe guix is the new emacs because..

Neovim has succeeded in retiring vimscript for lua and from there a community is emerging around fennel (a powerful lisp that compiles to lua). This is the beginning of a very interesting answer to emacs which is growing fresh from old roots and there seems to be a lot of people eager to build tools with these tools.

Although I tend to think the brand value of vim and Emacs is worth a lot I'm starting to see a lot of new editor projects that look somewhat appealing but until the packaging and configuration management gets at least an order of magnitude easier I'm reluctant to spend time with these things.
I can confirm this is supposed to be the same in Spain. Implementation varies across industries, of course.
Cash management is not free.

Unless a business is extremely small, extremely low margin or doesn’t want an electronic record of the transaction most businesses prefer not to deal with cash.

So you are back to a payments network. Those are very hard to bootstrap and are not free to run.
Such a broken system.....

I have to spend everything on a credit card, then when i get home from shopping 45 minutes later go and pay it off using a debt card.

Its so unfriendly for the consumer.
If you pick a language designed by someone who explicitly hates tooling, then you are bound to suffer from the lack of good tooling.
It makes perfect sense because people already implement it that way. As the document says:

>Use this new feature wherever services already have a ‘none’ checkbox.
I agree. And we should also apply this ethic to even more important things society withholds from people as an act of violence: housing, food, etc.
I recall reading historical threads and being surprised at animosity towards FPComplete and some of the efforts they were making to standardize changes to make Haskell more commercially viable. At the time I thought being upset by that was absurd, but over time I guess I sort of understood the sentiment.
I mean rock solid as in being able to edit buffers with very different contents of half a million characters, every day for decades without crashing. I wouldn't call what you describe fragile. It sounds more like a typical learning experience. You did something, Emacs obeyed and then you who didn't like what you just did :). There is a market for restricting choice, so you are clearly not alone!

But I don't think that the Emacs learning curve should be exaggerated, either. If you start it up and follow the instructions, you very quickly become productive. What gets people into trouble is usually when they expect Emacs to be like software X which they already know, so they don't read what's on the screen and kind of skip the introduction. And then they get frustrated when they find out that Emacs is Emacs. I'm not saying that's you, or that it is stupid, impatient etc. or whatever. I'm just saying that I've seen it quite a few times.