skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Follow up; I've looked into UPI a bit more.

It's... Interesting.

I think it's basically solving a very widespread and local use case - which is very low value transactions which are normally done in cash. The AVG value of transactions look to be around $2.

Anything of reasonable value (say $10 still tends to be card-based. This makes sense; fees on cards make anything under $5 cost ineffective, plus you need relatively (to the margin) costly hardware. Margin-based street sellers like those in India can't afford the overhead.

Looking at the implementation; it's interesting there is very little shared about fraud (I couldn't find any specific numbers but based on lots of articles it seems widespread).

Low financial literacy coupled with a system that encourages you to enter your PIN in various interfaces probably makes this something you wouldn't allow high value transactions. Hence the continued dominance of card networks.

If is neat though, although it feels like it's quite a local use case.
I am a complete noob when it comes to this stuff, so forgive my ignorance, but doesn't the U.K already have all of these things? Is it a global leader in payments/banking/fintech or is the US just so far behind the rest of the world?
Have you tried this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI. I found it on reddit and it's been absolutely amazing for my back.
Interesting idea, but banks block this. My German bank until recently offered SEPA "instant" bank transfers, which make the cash appear on the receiver's end if both the sending and receiving bank support instant payments, for free. Recently they set the cost of instant payments to 1€ per transaction, without guarantees that it will complete as an instant transaction (depending on the receiver's side). Nobody will pay that money without the guarantee that the service bought is also rendered as such. On the web, waiting until the next clearing window completes, or the next bank business day, is not a payment option and has impact on the supply chain (when the merchant is confident enough to start the shipping process depends on if he has payment guarantee or not).
Except that it is all in our heads, ultimately. Pain is a sensation in our brains, based on inputs from everything else. That "everything else" is often our physical nerves, but can also be everything else going on in our heads. If someone needs to meld the idea of psych-driven pain with physical pain, trying to deny that they come together in our heads can backfire. It is more important to focus on what we even mean by pain being "real", and that it being in our heads does not invalidate it in the slightest. It is real, and there are more paths to recovery to explore.
One possible saving grace for this design is that mechanical sliding doors/panels are "traditional" in Japan - ie: tradional architecture makes use of sliding doors - often without clear "handles".

See eg: https://youtu.be/MfQkeIf2IjA
Imagine it was Verizon Music, Verizon News and Verizon TV+ that came pre-installed. Would you feel the same then? A big selling point of Apple products has been the lack of bloatware found in other platforms.
> Remember to never press the big green button

Is that one that automatically opens the door, or one which automatically starts a full wash of the entire toilet cabinet's interior?
Pomplamoose would like a word:
https://medium.com/@jackconte/pomplamoose-2014-tour-profits-...

These concerts were roughly 300-500 person venues. And it looks like they did a good job filling them up.

And they lost money. So, not only was their salary not $100/hr, it was, in fact, negative dollars per hour.
Nagarjuna said some apparently-odd things. Startling statements like that can be used to help gain realisation of emptiness (rather like koans). He used reasoning to attack conceptual thought.
I only read non-HTML mail.

The rest get deleted.
If terraform crashes during apply, it leaves behind an inconsistent state by design: The lock is still set, and some resources which were created already are not yet in the statefile. Trying to re-run terraform after a crash during apply will generally lead to an error: Even if the lock is removed, resources may still conflict if they already exist.

In contrast, when a kubernetes controller or operator crashes, it can be expected to continue seamlessly where it left off.

It is easier to write kubernetes controllers that are able to continue seamlessly then to write terraform providers that do so, because of the granularity of the persistence of the state machine. Terraform locks the remote state, then applies all resources in the current root module, then unlocks the remote state again. In contrast, kubernetes operators can granularly update individual objects after each API call that is performed.
If Julia had wanted to be taken seriously then it shouldn't have dropped the ball at the very first hurdle by having 1-based array indexing.
Plus if it was back of the car, it is more ligtweight.

Moreover, that tire surface is much bigger and by part rests outside of material bounds.
Most VPS providers don't have VPCs ( private network for all your VPS), or flow logs, and charge you for extra public IPs.
Ask HN: Should I spend the next two years learning Magento 2?
Long story short, I'm eligible to join a state funded program on web/e-commerce development. It features over a thousand hours of training (and internship), over half of them being about the Magento 2 platform. It wouldn't cost me anything but it's a major commitment time-wise. It seems an interesting opportunity but I worry about overspecialization. Despite dabbling in programming and being on HN for 8 years, I don't come from a technical background so I can't fully understand the reliability of the platform and the future payoff of such training. I asked around my trusted dev friends irl, but I'd like to hear the opinion of HN users as well, especially the ones who had to deal with Magento 2.
Why? The boiling water disinfects the device when you make your coffee, no sweat.

Think of it as home-made kopi luwak.
More likely the original file is saved in the browser cache. That's why it loads faster when you reload the page, and slower when you do a full reload by holding down shift. In Firefox you can see the files with about:cache, and find them in ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/e1wkkyx3.default/cache2/entries/ or similar (they have weird names with no extension, but the file command will identify them, in their original format). In Chrome they're packed into files with metadata like the URL at the start. You can extract the original file by looking at a file in the cache folder [1] and snipping the header off (you can guess where it is by looking at the file contents with xxd or a hex editor).

More info (and link to a Windows viewer tool) here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6133490/how-can-i-read-c...

[1] For me on Linux, Chrome's is ~/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/
Not just casual payments.

I bought concert tickets last week, for almost 1000DKK (130€). I'd already entered my phone number, so paying by MobilePay was faster and easier. I usually use this if I have the option.

To use it, I pressed the MobilePay button on the website, pressed continue since my phone number is already present and correct. I unlocked my phone, and there was a notification waiting for me, with the amount and recipient stated. Fingerprint and swipe to approve.

I didn't need to type in any card details, or authenticate within the web browser. A 1000kr debit or credit card purchase would require me to enter my 20+ digit bank password, then do a similar process to unlock the phone for 2FA.
The reason is labor costs are 100x different between, for example, Indonesia vs US/EU.
Still, calling people like Warren Buffet or Steve Jobs (none of them inherited wealth) "slaves" severely misses the point.
Thanks! Do you know why IBM did it this way, as opposed to implementing the security part fully in hardware? Or perhaps do you have some pointers or keywords I could use to search for?
"Nirvana" means extinction - the same word is used to refer to snuffing out a candle. I learned the fourth Noble Truth as "Nirvana is bliss"; but I never figured out how to unpack that.
As an aspie myself, quite a few of these are accurate, but a number of them are just plain apologism. For example, Empathy (and pragmatism!) allows face-saving, but from an informational point-of-view, it contaminates the database and aspies are more dedicated to keeping the record clear and accurate. If you are an aspie or are good friends with one, you know this is in no way a dedication to objectivity, because it ends at our own skin. We are not good at accepting criticism, especially valid and accurate criticism. We feel humiliation very, oftentimes unreasonably, strongly.

Being different from most people does not mean all our differences are disabilities, but at the same time it also doesn't mean none of them are. Stop romanticizing it and recognize that explanations are not excuses for being an asshole. We are not tragically misunderstood ubermensch and the world would not be a better place if everyone was like us.
They were answering this statement:

> Relational database seem to be a crazily overengineered solution in search of a problem

Why would an answer to that need to mention Kafka consumers?
Both. In few countries the industry managed to convince people that healthy food, especially vegetables, should be more expensive.

Secondly, in some countries there are food deserts or a small selection of healthy food among a lot of unhealthy one (e.g. stuffed with oil, sugar, fats etc)

Finally, the ratio of carbohydrate-to-vitamins is increasing in many foods due to artificial selection and increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
Is this any different than Popper’s paradox of tolerance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance#Discussio...
Average wealth in the usa is already around half a million. Average wealth for 50 year olds is already around a million.
"normal people"
> One Sentence Summary: Three mutations allowed SARS-CoV-2 to evade the polyclonal antibody response of a highly neutralizing COVID-19 convalescent plasma.

What is “the polyclonal antibody response of a highly neutralizing COVID-19 convalescent plasma” in less technical terms?
I don't think you need something really sophisticated. The true value from public transport comes from predictability.

Having a bus take a known route through important routes that allow you get to a stop and board a bus within <10 minutes without even having to know what time it is is really important for people to start relying on the bus system.

With that, even if the public transport takes slightly longer, not having to actively drive (in traffic) and find parking makes it much better. Now you use the time to read/think/mindlessly scroll through your phone on your way, or even be a bit dizzy on the way back.

I think that adding buses is not enough to reduce car traffic. Probably car-oriented cities are already organized in a way
that driving is "needed" often. Cities with public transport make walking amenable, often fun and relaxing.
Yep, I did use an EUR account. You may be right about the lack of proper implementation.
It is all about scale and efficiency. Get a massive ship and fill it with stuff move over weeks over sea. Compare cost per unit there to transporting single unit from let's say next town...

Sea freight is massively efficient per unit/distance. So it is no wonder it is cheap.
The ring/silent switch on an iPhone.
It just works.
That’ll be (part of) why doors often also have a similarly designed ‘kick plate’ on the bottom edge
Neither Postbank, N26, nor the 2 Sparkasse branches I’ve been a customer of ever showed me anything for approval, so I guess it’s not very common.
Yes, understanding each line is critical. I run a CMS that houses millions legal documents for thousands of organizations. A prior dev put in a reset that took away padding from P tags, so we have all these documents that have been built of the years with no layout difference between a soft return and a hard return. Which means they all have extra P tags between each actual paragraph, and at this point we can't even change our CSS without instigating reformatting of millions of documents. And legal authors do not like that one bit. So it stays because our data is more important than our CSS. But it also annoys.

I pointed this out to them all when I first joined, and they said, "But CSS resets are good ideas."

So yes - please take the time to understand what your CSS does, especially when working with tags that format text, as it can have subtle (and not so subtle) impacts on data created in a UI with unwise CSS reset choices.
It is often different in women.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-it-s-diffe...
I read the book after a recommendation on this site in fact. It was eye opening to say the least how conditions like ADHD, PTSD, childhood trauma, anxiety and depression have both psychological and physiological effects. Some of which are surmountable (trauma in adult hood) whereas early childhood trauma can leave long term physical changes to the brain and body making it something that has to be managed.

The first 2/3 of the book is very illuminating the last 1/3 a little polemic on healthcare policy and funding.

Enlightening book all in all.
The Black Lotus app [0] is an incredible help to deal with mental issues related to stress, anxiety and lack of focus/mindfulness.

Personally, I have used it twice successfully to come out of sudden mental anxiety I found brewing in myself.

Thoughts are also a form of energy – if they don't get channelized or remain unspent in your subconscious/unconscious, they can create mental problems. Meditation and related activities, prescribed as part of the RARE framework of this app, help in cleaning these otherwise overlooked corners of our mind.

0: https://www.blacklotus.app/
Why ban higher priced vehicles first? If it's only about the environment you should ban by level of emissions.
Just enjoy the show!
Your pattern is normal when you do not need to create a large number of threads.

When you have enough work for a very large number of threads, there are 2 main styles to do it.

Both styles avoid creating an excessive number of active threads in comparison with the number of available cores, because that can reduce the performance a lot.

One style is to have a permanent pool of working threads and to use some means of communication between threads to know when any thread has finished its current job, to give a new piece of work to that thread. This is also done in the simplest way with some kind of waiting for any of multiple events in the dispatching thread, where the event is that some thread has signaled the end of its job.

This style is appropriate for environments where thread creation and destruction is expensive, like Windows.

When the thread creation and destruction is cheap and also the indvidual pieces of work are relatively large, requiring an execution time much greater than the thread creation/deletion time, a second style of programming is much simpler.

You just create one thread for each piece of work, until you reach the limit for the maximum number of active threads. Then you wait until any thread terminates and then you create a new thread for the next piece of work. When there is no more work, you wait until all threads terminate.

In conclusion, any kind of work where you could launch an arbitrarily high number of parallel threads needs to wait for any of a group of events.

For all problems with limited parallelism, where you can create only few threads, you do not need this feature, but my work was always about problems where I could launch much more threads than the available hardware cores, where some kind of wait for multiple events is mandatory.
I think the term "pandemic of the unvaccinated" is commonly misunderstood.

What most people think it means is a pandemic that only ravages and evolves among the unvaccinated. This is not what it means however.

What "pandemic of the unvaccinated" means instead is that the unvaccinated population is the key driver for the ongoing spread of the virus. The pandemic however will still infect all people be carried around by all people and evolve in all people. The unvaccinated are just the fuel that starts the fire. If you vaccinate everybody quick and early you can have it like e.g. Israel.
cars used to be so well designed. you never had to look down at a screen to see what was going on, it was just there, at your finger tips. You could tell what gear you were in, if the handbrake, lights, indicators were on/off or virtually anything without taking your eyes off the road for even a second. The interface had evolved with everything being exactly where it ought to be. When you changed it it made a reassuring clunk so that you knew. Now it seems like everyone is reconfiguring the keymappings on a 90s flight simulator while they're driving.
You can totally "download" the image in your RAM by right clicking / long pressing -> "copy image" or equivalent in most browsers. It's just not going to be a byte by byte identical file, and may be in a different format, e.g. you get a public.tiff on the clipboard when you copy an image from Chrome or Safari on macOS, even if the source image is an image/svg+xml.
Relevant discussion on a similar previously posted article (also more recent than this one) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25861769
> what I missing that makes this better?

The main part is that you unscrew the filter piece, so you can just push out the puck of coffee then rinse / dry through the tube. This makes them much easier to clean and dry than a french press where you have to send a jet of water through the bottom in case you had a bit too much coffee, then need an implement to actually reach the bottom of the device. Also makes it easier to throw the grounds into a dedicated (or semi-dedicated e.g. organics, composting) bin without the additional rinsing water.

The second draw is that it's paper-filtered by default, there are metal filters but the paper filters mean way cleaner cups (less residue going through). This also provides a wider and more flexible grind-range.

The third draw is that you filter directly into your mug, or bottle (if the mouth is wide enough), and can e.g. filter onto ice cubes for iced coffee, so less option for miss-pouring and mess.

The fourth draw is it's all plastic so it travels really well, and because the plunger is hollow you can stow things into the plunger (e.g. many hand grinder will fit), so it also makes for a nice travel / hiking device.
OP I know you have put effort into organizing and collating this content but I need to be frank with you. This guy is a crackpot passing off his personal speculation and extrapolation as fact and the content here is on the same level as autism mommy blogs. The content perpetuates many stereotypes and was clearly not written with any level of empathy for autistic people.

A better model for autistic people to understand their interpersonal problems is Milton's "double empathy problem." You can read more here: https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.FTR2.25042020.58
One cool related thing is that (I believe) modern graphics cards (even Intel) can store and use JPG blocks directly from GPU memory, so it's not necessarily beneficial in the long term to convert to RGBA in advance. Though I think no modern browser actually does this, especially given how power-cheap decoding jpeg (with SIMD) already is and how likely it is that gpu bugs would interfere.
While I am by no means an expert, the implication of the article is "worldwide all bank transactions do not include enough metadata not enough auth security to make them machine processable, and while you can usually guess, that's either a liability or manual process(or both).

Basically across the globe, finance will benefit from the sort of basic metadata an undergraduate would put in their first draft.
We use both, but I much prefer docker-compose, because systemd scatters deployment files in system directories, which makes them a bit of a pain to find and backup. Not sure if we're doing it wrong.

docker-compose is just one folder per service, much more practical.
The most important theme of this story is the unbridled corruption that started with the landfill decades before it became a mall. The impact from this site affects the local community that government officials in Ohio could not care enough to represent (read as poor and minority). Then the corruption that allowed the mall project to go ahead. After all that has happened it is still not condemned and designated as a superfund site. Now developers still want to repurpose the site and the government officials in Ohio are not blocking this. Ohio, have you no pride?

Ignore the pedantic trolling over what was sinking: the land or the buildings. It is meaningless.
For me, it's a VirtualBox VM with full RAM and CPU allocation and Manjaro Xfce inside it, full screen. :)
I remember using Linux around 2005-2006 (SUSE Community edition) and it was stable enough even though I had drivers issues with certain things like Ethernet.
It sounds like you just want to live downtown. Commuting and all it entails is a side of humanity I'd rather not see again. Waking up and seeing people in terrible moods going to jobs they hate. Micromanagement, pestering, time wasted on useless conversations.

I think if you look at it at just the surface level it does seem like a step backwards. In really there's a reason so many companies switched to it, it wasn't because they're secret operatives trying to plug us up to nutritus-3000 to maximize our LOC, it's because of reduced friction for the worker.

I think a lot of people forget about terrible managers as well, with WFH the surface area of harm a bad manager can cause you is limited which can immediately make a terrible office job into a tolerable remote one.
Not much of this applies to the UK. Faster Payments are almost ubiquitous here, and Authorized Push Payment fraud is a huge problem.
Someone got their resume pushed...
Not for me: I always forget to enable it again.

I would love a "on silence for next 1/2/3 hours" button which then automatically reenables ring again.
I don't really understand why you'd do that though, do you not rinse the press after every use? Just stow it with the pieces separated unless it's in "travel mode" no?
In Southeast Asia, bank transfers as payment are part of the norm.

On our platform much more than half of all payments use bank transfers.

For Malaysia specifically this is facilitated by a nation-wide provider in which all banks must participate.

Because of that payment gateways can just integrate with that provider and not with individual banks.

The maximum fees are also set by the government. Transfers must be free for GIRO clearing and are very low for instant clearing and have been required to be waived since before covid.

The result of this is exceedingly positive in my opinion.

For instance one bank has a QR code that you can print (which contains basically just the account number) and you can pay in shops by scanning it. But besides that for random other things people will accept bank transfers. For instance, plumbers, AC repair, etc typically only take cash but in my experience will accept a bank transfer.
Omicron shares many key mutations of Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta and others
"convalescent plasma" is blood plasma from a person who has recovered from a disease and is thus rich in the antibody response they generated to recover from it.

It's been used in Ebola outbreaks as a "hail mary" to cure people - it's also one of the more absurdly easy things to do - pretty much just take a blood sample, spin out the platelets and inject the plasma left behind (clinically you can be a lot more careful, but its one of the weirdest effective "primitive" treatments you can do).
This is such a non-issue and I'm tired of reading a version of this comment in any thread where Julia is mentioned.