skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this an extension of epigenics? The idea/study that stressors within the current generation can be passed down, instead of purely genetic combination causing differences in the next generation?
> ACH payments are generally free to end users in the U.S., though a few banks will attempt to monetize them. (Looking at you, Bank of America.)

Stripe also charges for ACH. ACH payments on Stripe cost 0.80%, capped at $5. [1]

https://stripe.com/blog/accept-ach-payments
That looks quite different. According to the article, the key feature of the bullwhip effect is that it goes both too high and too low.
There seems to have been a lot of "let it crash" formerly at Google. My main experience with this has been one of annoyance, e.g:

- An old library we were using for a nice-to-have feature started crashing our server when an ACL change got rolled out. We had to disable and then permanently remove the feature.

- When reusing a server-side component in a client-side service, the implications of crashing are different. When your servers crash at Google it generally gets detected and the binary/config gets automatically rolled back and things restard cleanly. On a systemd service? Not so straightforward. Now you have to rework the component to do proper error handling, or start thinking very carefully about how your package interacts with the rest of the system.

So yeah I guess let-it-crash has its place but that place is not 'everywhere'.
I guess it depends where you're starting from: I find the entire Hashicorp ecosystem much better documented, supported, more stable and generally less of a "rabbit hole" than the continuously shifting and expanding universe of k8s/"CNCF" projects.

Unsurprising because all the Hashicorp stuff is from a single vendor, and there is the risk of lock-in.
I’ve literally never heard of this term and am open to learning more about it but I don't weigh this observation heavily
> "We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours."

More like "we are inclusivist therefore we cannot tolerate intolerance such as yours".
i don't think that the AK-47 was optimized for accuracy. Also there is an upgrade, the AK-74 (almost fifty years old now, OMG)
I need my SUV, but I do wonder what you have that you don't need that we can outlaw without thinking about the consequences.
Wait until you realize unions sometimes are legalized cartels of employees.
begin is a Julia keyword though it.

But yes end closes begin, for, function and while.
If you ask me, the word computer scientist mostly applies to people in academia, and those spend most of their time teaching the same thing every year, or trying to get their papers accepted, and fighting workplace politics instead of doing something practical.

Knowing what something is isn't science, it's just being educated. Figuring out a new type of semiconductor or new sorting algorithm is science, and even that sometimes isn't. Something that I threw together one night that hasn't been peer reviewed isn't science, it's just engineering.

Obligatory SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17
As if there are zero reasons someone should own an SUV.
Yeah, that's where the fun algorithms trying to predict reliability from the set of products you're buying comes in...

It's getting rarer, though. The cost difference is eroding and signing is too slow for supermarket checkout lanes.

The tables have also turned and some retailers now earn money from the banks for supplying their customers with cash (i. e. you pay by card and get an extra x00 in cash).
> The melancholy decline of the semicolon

I blame JavaScript developers. /s
The "paradox" is only that people incorrectly assume that an inclusive society accepts all sort of behaviors.

It is in no way a real paradox.
I will read it later.
I agree on kotlin. It's probably the only language where I feel like the code is practically pseudocode.
Could someone add „2020/12“? I think as dynamically as everything is evolving, adding the month to the year is worth it for pandemic related submissions.
> `Σλ∀φ` is a chore to read for me. These letters only make sense if I've absorbed the author's notation beforehand, like in a math proof.

It's a hell of a lot better than reading `Sigma`, `lambda`, etc. and having to do both the verbose English -> character translation in your head while trying to understand the mathematical form. At the end of the day, you do need to understand the math in order to understand mathematical code, and making it have as few translation steps really helps.
Right. Zero based indexing makes zero sense, unless you explain the underlying technical reason, that it’s an offset relative to a memory pointer (spend a week teaching pointers first!).

It makes sense in certain context (and in languages like C that have a low-level mental model). For scientific computing at a higher level of abstraction where the mental model of a multidimensional array is a tensor, and not a memory offset location, zero-based indices really get in the way
So you can _apply_ for permission to take part in everyday life.

Great. It's a no from me.
Those doors are often on corridors. You don’t want them unexpectedly opening at speed into passing non-bathroom traffic. Conversely, people approaching the door from the inside will be further away as they have their hand out in readiness to pull, will expect the door to open — it’s generally lower risk.
Likewise the other commenter, I really do find the list enlightening. Do you have a specific criticism of the things in the list?

(I am not an aspie myself, but I have a coworker, who is most likely an aspie, as I suspected for several years, and many of the observations from the list do seem to be spot on. And he just threw a tantrum yesterday, because they closed our office again due to COVID, and he really doesn't like working from home, unlike most people. The "parallel play" explanation does really make lot of sense about why he feels that way.)
That's what vaccines are for, no?
0. Start listening to the Huberman Lab Podcast

1. Turn off overhead light at 9pm

2. Wake at the same time each morning and go outside to view natural light.
But then why call it that?
It is worse than the flu, but it isn't that much worse. With vaccines now widely available, people will just have to learn to stop being afraid. Get your annual covid vaccine, bundled with your flu vaccine, and go live your life.
Uninstall apps. Stop crying?
Surface Book 2 - gosh, it has been 3 years since I own this thing and I'm still amazed about the hinge design.

Surface Duo - while it has tons of flaws on the software level, it looks like a sci-fi device because of how slim it is!
So in one way this is scary, because it seems like the virus mutates quickly to escape immune systems that know how to find it - so we need new vaccines periodically.

But aren’t we already used to this? From what I understand the flu vaccine is constantly updated and with multiple strains combined every single year. There’s a committee that already does this for influenza, it doesnt seem like to big deal to add one for covid?
> What I'd like to see is more experimentation with different social and economic models, perhaps in special economic zones, instead of the prevailing notion that everybody must be forced into a particular model, just because a dominant group has decided that this is best.

This happened a lot in the 20th century, and often resulted in a visit from the CIA at the behest of international corporations. The US does not let experiments in political structures play out, it just kills the leaders and replaces them with puppets. See: Chile, attempted in Cuba, and all over Latin America.
Usually that's because the door is in the hallway and you don't want doors swinging out unexpectedly into people walking through a trafficked area.
I suspect this may be in part because many people have a need for something like an SUV to carry children and/or cargo from time to time, but can't justify another vehicle so the SUV or truck doesn't need to be driven all the time.

In my case, I have a pickup truck I need for work, but I don't drive enough outside of work to justify the cost of keeping my smaller car on the road also.
Humans are mortal. Some sooner.

I'm not willing to keep my children in a box their whole life to get my parent live couple of years longer.

I'll probably resort to a lethal force if this will be imposed for the benefit of someone I'm not related with.
You can DEFIANTLY get a volume discount from any credit card processor based on volume. Typical large merchants are paying Interchange Plus at a much lower rate than what's listed on Stripe or Square. Interchange is the rate paid directly to the card issuer and Visa/MC. Plus is paid to the merchant account (Stripe).

The actual itemized fees inside of that Interchange fee are mind boggling.
The 2019 Volt dispensed with the five position climate control dial in favor of three toggle buttons, finally allowing me to select "everything" or "defrost and panel".
Will this thing let me provision a database yet?
> Maybe the situation has gotten better since constexpr was introduced, though.

Since C++11? Yes.

> even something like 'this array must be sorted' encoded fully in types is going to add a lot to your program's length

template< class Cmp, class Array> class Sorted;// The type of your parameter.

I think this could be implemented even in C++03.
Ask HN: What was your experience with chronotherapy?
Has it helped you? How did you do it?
You're not doing interactive development on production. Production is the case where you just build a system image and deploy it without compile times. This is done all of the time, for example with Pumas.
"Or Kurt Vonnegut, who famously advised against their use" is in the article
Because Docker Compose is much simpler and does 90% of what everyone actually needs, but it's uncool, whereas Kubernetes is extremely trendy and does 100% of things that you probably will never need.
> SEPA direct debit is a really really popular thing in Germany. Most utilities prefer (quite understandably) to pull from you instead of waiting for your transfer. Even landlords usually give you an agreement form to pull your rent out of your account.

Landlords benefit from it because it makes it harder for your to lower your rent in case there are issues with the place that warrant it. If they can withdraw the rent directly, you'd have to undo that payment, pay the lowered amount manually etc. which makes it more hassle for you and also increases the risk of screwing up.
This is representing only one quadrant of the predictions × outcomes matrix.

Where are the pessimistic predictions that turned out to be accurate? Where are the optimistic predictions on disruptive tech that did turn out net negative? Where are the nuances?
You framed or as whole society explanation of universal sociological truth of things splitting to two sides down inthe middle.

And in subsequent analysis you completely ignore active and large campaigns to make people distrust vaccines or that covid exists.

> The point of actually doing things to instill confidence is to give few to no reasons for society to fractionate down the middle.

The expectation is that group you dislike for unrelated reasons have to be perfect. The group you like for unrelated reasons is not responsible for anything they say or do.

> do not buy that the extreme anti-vaxxers share the bulk of responsibility here

People believing anti-vaxxers are responsibility of loud anti-vaxxers. There was no magic happening, it was people believing what those said.

> The authorities had a chance to get everyone on board, and they totally blew it.

Large political movements were anti vaccers for political reasons. There was no chance to get everyone on board, when actual politicians and party operatives actively openly and frequently opposed vaccines.

And your analysis completely misses these people.
I don't think they can use jpg directly, that would be a waste of transistors given that the graphics world use other compression formats like etc1, bc, astc and so on.

It is however perfectly possible to decode blocks of JPG on a GPU by using shader code.
> Would it make sense to try to get infected

No. Never.
There is paym in the UK, which works the same way, using phone numbers, but it is not used that much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paym
You can turn any 1 based array into a 0 based array using a wrapper type that just gets inlined away.

Also have a look at https://github.com/giordano/StarWarsArrays.jl
My setup is through a local company who manages taxes, employment rights etc. for me (a professional employer organization) so there's no practical difference compared to being employed locally. Everything is above board and I don't have to file any extra tax returns myself.

From what I understand the premium for the actual company I work for though is around 10% of my salary.
> I'm not sure there is general agreement on HN about 'flags'

Actually, I think there is, at least recently: people flag anything they dislike, they find offensive, they strongly disagree with or simply don't like to see being discussed.
Love that no-buzzword approach (:
When covid-19 first popped up, it seemed the time from sequencing to first trials of vaccinations was in the order of weeks. This mRNA tech is just incredible that way.

Is anyone making and testing new vaccines that address the new variants? One would expect the variants just have a few key protein changes, which could be vaccinated against.

And more importantly, do we see any hope of accelerated timelines for nearly identical vaccines that target slightly different proteins?
Marx was a social scientist, much of his structural analysis of capitalism still plays out accurately today. Given that science is about building predictive models, that makes him a pretty successful scientist.
Maybe the comment changed or I just skim-read it, but I'm not sure I understand now.

Anyway, in the UK billing name & postcode are/can be verified on card payments.

Bank transfers no basically never happen, too manual; exception being something like (Transfer)Wise - you set it up online, then transfer to their account in local currency, they transfer out of their account in another country to your intended recipient account in that local currency.

Direct Debits are a common ~'bank transfer' but recurring way of paying for utilities & subscriptions here though. Can (and these days normally would) be set up online.
https://developers.danskebank.com/ though "Requires a QWAC+QSEAL issued by a QTSP".

(Does any bank anywhere have a truly public API?)
//US Fed plays with interest rates//
That's what central banks are for. That's how they control inflation or make the wheels of economy moving by printing more money. That's literally the reason for their existence, controlling money supply in an economy.
That is indeed fundamental. Thing is, there's that AND there is competition. To overlook either, is to miss something significant.
> are now feeling less inclined to take a “booster shot”

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result" ©

Vaccines are perfect at eradicating certain diseases, just not COVID-19.
You sound like a wacko.
ah found a fellow indonesian! tubruk always have a part in my heart! its like frenchpress with super fine grind
Very true, Java was late in the game in term of SIMD loop optimizations compared to C#.

Oracle engineers did the first implementation for Java 7, more recently it's mostly contributions from Intel, AMD and ARM [1].

[1] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/talks/2019_CodeOne_MTE...
Shouldn't we limit the vaccines for the risk populations in that case? Vaccinating everybody just promotes vaccine resistant variants.
Not that I am really trying, but not avoiding it either. My fear is gone, you know? And I have a mental health comorbidity (but none of the bad ones like diabetes and obesity.) I mean everyone went into hiding after they got the vaccine and then the vaccine wore off. That was the perfect time to gain what should be a broader immunity. Maybe it is like I already had my booster?

There is a lot of talk out there but I know they really do not know how the immune system works, neither do I. But it seems vaccine alone is doing nothing but keeping people alive. So if the vaccine can keep me alive, why avoid the virus?
>family fraud (child and parent disagree with respect to desirability of purchasing the video game; bank backs parent; video game seller loses out),

'Fraud' is not a name for everything a seller doesn't like. This can happen without any bad intent, and the seller lost nothing. And frankly, if a video game seller didn't allow this type of refunding, they'd have much less of a market.
They respond to that update suggestion in their FAQ. Machine learning in particular is just not something they belief every type 1 engineer needs to know.
It is fairly well accepted that RSA is faster than most curve based things for signature verification and your sources support that?

This is all in response to another user who said:

> There is a massive performance difference—not just size, but computation as well.

... and we don't know exactly what they meant by that, but I was pointing out that it was not that simple...

Asymmetrical performance is normally not very important in most systems due to the use of symmetric stuff to do all the heavy lifting. The exception would be if you were doing some sort of forward secrecy scheme that involved forgetting the private key for each and every message. There the speed of ECDHE is helpful vs the slow key generation of RSA. However, the Signal Protocol shows us we can use a hash ratchet for such short cycle forward secrecy schemes so that key generation speed does not have to be a significant issue.
If there are only two people in your dev team then you absolutely wouldn’t be writing OS components as well as web apps regardless of the languages natively supported by the OS.
https://press.opera.com/2006/02/06/opera-integrates-bittorre...
It would absolutely not require that, it only requires that someone's browser is open when you're trying to download, which is likely since most people have their browsers open a lot.
Why Is There “Something” Rather Than “Nothing”?
The person who comes to a Julia discussion and says "so, how's 1-based indexing?" is the same person who walks up to people in the office and goes "so, how's the weather today?" every single day. It's the Smash Mouth Allstar of programming language conversations. The only things interesting about the conversation at this point are the ever more elaborate attempts at semi-comedically changing the topic towards something that's not so overly repeated.
There's two definitions of responsive, both of which are used in this thread.

1. It responds to your actions. Click stuff and it does that and does it quickly.

2. It gives you a different response based on which device you are using. You log on with a mobile device, it gives you a screen suited to mobile.

It doesn't do the latter. I'm on a phone. It might resize screens on a desktop, but doesn't do it for a phone.
It depends on your bank. My Austrian bank charges a ridiculous fee of 8€ for an instant SEPA transfer.
My go to is yellow on lime green
I interviewed with them in 2018 for a position within there industrial gateway/plc group.

There product was neat but certainly not revolutionary, they completely missed the mark on understanding the factory automation and controls space.

They only wanted controls engineers to write in a text based scripting language, and required all data to go to the cloud.

I was perfectly clear with them about why I had concerns for the product and obviously didn’t get the job, though now it appears to be hurried in there products page.

I guess they realized what I told them a few years later.
I'd love to know where you guys are getting these, because every garlic press I get falls apart.
That's the problem with mass psychosis. Everyone starts to behave like a dangerous lunatic.
Ok, but television really did make the world worse. Arguably also the personal automobile.
See Slaughterbots [0] for a dramatization of this scenario.

[0]: https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU
Not entirely. By reducing the amount of time that the virus spends in your body, it has much less time it has to develop a radically different variant (it has to combine many mutations in order to escape vaccination). Alpha and Omicron at least are theorized to have developed in people that hosted the virus for months.
Faster Payments is the law in the UK, normal high street banks have to provide Faster Payments on ordinary current accounts. The banks actually shipped it without a working backend, I don't know if they completed it afterwards but initially it's just trust, Alice's bank tells Bob's bank she sent Bob £100 and Bob's bank do the database update and trust Alice's bank is good for the money later.

Push Payment fraud presumably subsided enormously after they changed the rules so it's interactive. Now you provide account number and name, the banks algorithmically decide if the name you provided is correct and if not tell the sender there is a problem. So push fraudsters need a fake account name and that's harder. Passing KYC checks for some random mule is do-able but good luck persuading the bank your name is Big Corp Electricity so that the push fraud works.
The person you’re claiming is incorrect worked on developing the MRNA vaccines. What are your qualifications?
Exactly. It's a very different phenomenon from group velocity.

Both commonly happen after supply chain disruptions. Bullwhip effect happens over the entire chain, while group velocity happens on a single stage of it.
> Set your rounds on top of the biggest round you can find when splitting.

That's fine advice for someone who wants to burn a campfire for a night. I heat with wood in remote Canada and I estimate I split somewhere between 600 and 800 bucks for a season's supply of firewood. If I had to lift each one of those into the air and balance it (if possible, and it's often not possible) on another piece of wood I'd never get enough split to warm me the whole winter while my back recovers.

I just tip the buck up on the ground and use a dull maul because I don't have time to baby the edge of an axe. Mostly these days I just use a hydraulic splitter because I'm old and grumpy especially when I'm as behind in getting my wood in as I always seem to be.
You make a technically correct, but not very useful statement.

The overall evolutionary path for the virus is most likely to be in the direction of higher infectivity and lower deadliness. Viruses don't tend to replicate in dead hosts, so, a virus that doesn't kill people is fitter evolutionarily than one which does. This means that, while the virus is certainly not going away, the risk eventually will.

This may take a long time, though. It may take decades.

Here is an article from New Scientist that says essentially the same thing, but in more detail: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825868/