skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Likely" because for the scenarios/markets where international payments work poorly there's no "actual numbers" in this situation, the pricing is highly dependent on circumstances, the specific institutions involved, the currencies involved (there may be multiple, and for some countries a currency conversion may be mandatory), the payment scheme involved (depending on the country/bank pair there likely will be multiple payment channels with different price/speed/reliability tradeoffs) and who is paying (which affects a lot the prices you may get). For such deals the sending institution will generally refuse to quote a fixed generic price, because the price will be different depending on all kinds of factors that, in some cases, will be revealed only after the payment is delivered or returned.

An bank payment from Nigeria to Peru might reasonably cost $20-$100, and I wouldn't be that surprised if in a particular situation it would come out to $10 or $300 (like, making a typo in some field of a non-validated foreign payment, or having an unclear tax situation on the goods for which the payment is held - that can easily cause e.g. a $100 extra unexpected processing fee for the payment). Also, you may get amount-proportional fees, and a 0.5% fee can potentially be huge for larger payments. On the other hand of the comparison there is also significant variability for the extra costs of the cryptocurrency payment - as the original question stated, including the cost and exchange rate variation of buying crypto for fiat in the sending country and selling crypto in the receiving country.

So it's likely but not certain that it's more expensive than an equivalent crypto payment + the to-crypto and from-crypto conversion, it depends on unknowable circumstances, and the variability and unpredictability of such fees is a big drawback on those types of international payments - unlike e.g. the intra-EU case where the fees would be predictable and low - perhaps zero, depending on your bank.
> The principle claim of this essay is that groups never change their viewpoints.

Actually the principal claim is that "a group will never admit they were wrong." I think I agree with both claims.
It wasn't my job to tell anyone (although he found out and simply got other jobs for them to do). I wasn't even a dev back then but a journalist that took an interest in anything that involved computers.
I wonder whether Apple will also win in the EU, China, and Russia.
That's the case for other countries too but they still manage to do better
It’s not radically better for founders, who often have larger opportunity cost than rank and file.

This is just the harsh reality of venture backed startups.
Eureka Manifesto
Very cool. I had no idea that the diameter of Jupiter was a mere fraction of the distance of the moon from earth!
>China simply invested more in their people than USA it seems.

when you say "invested more in their people"? what do you mean?

if we are talking about education. both country offer free education to its people. College education are not compulsory and free in both countries
or you can let a country have multiple billionaires so that they can fund these projects with their own money and compete within themselves, take more risks and compress the timelines of frontier-conquering and innovation.

But, we want a large bureaucratic organization (by design), extremely risk-averse(by design), extremely slow(by design), having only one shots (by design) to do this for us
Elon Musk, short on cash, keeps borrowing as Tesla stock surges (2020)
Re 1) this is very odd. Why wouldn't they have short 12 page print and full version if someone is more interested as a download?
One alternative would be to have a public works department which does the work itself. It would hire people, plan, write specs, buy or lease equipment, buy materials, do the work.

That, however, would be socialism, so it can't be done, even though it's done on a smaller scale in every US city for issues starting at road repair and going on up.
So Paddle's IAP service might not be available in the US?

https://paddle.com/platform/in-app-purchase/
Nice! Where is the music from? It feels very familiar... isn't it from Kerbal Space Program?
> I think we’ll eventually find that folks who just got vaccinated and went about life like normal probably caused more spread than folks who didn’t

Why do you believe this? What evidence do you have to ignore the overwhelming conclusions of all the experts actually studying the disease and the vaccine? The idea that vaccinations cause more spread has in fact been studied on the COVID vaccine and on others. It’s generally not true for most vaccines, why do you think it’s true for this one?

Why are you talking about spread and not also hospitalizations and fatalities? The vaccine considerably lessens the risk of dying. Even if the spread rate were to increase a little (which I don’t really buy), but the risk decreases by an order of magnitude, isn’t a lower total death rate a social net benefit?

How many people have died of COVID to date? How many people have died of COVID vaccines so far? Seriously, please find and compare those two numbers.

Tyranny is defined in many dictionaries. It’s not my opinion, the word has a specific meaning. You haven’t answered the question of why a vaccine mandate should be considered tyranny, or how it compares to any other case of action mandated by law, or personal freedoms limited by law, of which we have many.

It would be lovely if anti-vaxxers were distancing and wearing masks, but that seems like a fantasy to me. How many anti-vaxxers really are wearing masks and taking all other precautions? There seems to be a lot of data that there’s a large correlation and significant overlap between people who are anti-vax and anti-mask and anti-lockdown. We had the chance to stop COVID spread, and we bungled it by politicizing the solutions, people are screaming tyranny over mask mandates and social distancing mandates too.
I prefer a simple paper towel dispenser or if you want to be more sustainable one with a reusable cloth towel "ribbon". But yeah the Dyson driers are better than the heated blowers.
Make sure to post something here when you have a prototype, I'm not exactly sure what you're building, but anything that's out of the ordinary is always of interest to me.

I'm considering taking off a few months myself to finish my side projects.
FinTech Super Apps
Hello HN! I made a FinTech app called BankShift, with a great team.

I am Looking for responses around super financial apps. e.g. What banking services would you look to build in an all-in-one-app?

Background:

BankShift has a subscription based model that showcases one login, one app, one, easy-to-use money movement experience. We're also starting to help people save money by finding better terms while gaining credit visibility.

I feel this is the future of banking. However, I have been wrong many times before. :)

Thank you in advance for your time.
I was thinking about trading commission to convert XLM to EUR. Those are 0.1%. Withdrawing via SEPA was €1.0~1.5, but I see that's suspended now. If you were transferring €1000~1500, that would have been 0.1%.

Withdrawing to GBP is only £0.5.
how about keeping always 50 meters away from any road? it is the safest way to avoid a car accident
"The writing staff held three Ph.D.s, seven master's degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard University. Series writer Patric M. Verrone stated, "we were easily the most overeducated cartoon writers in history"." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama#Writing
My pet theory: because this is not a priority?

The NY ex-governor Cuomo. He's not without dark spots, but a lot of infrastructure projects have been running during his time in the office: Moynihan hall train, LIRR double-track to Ronkonkoma and so on.

Nevertheless, it was decided that moral qualities of the governor are more important than his ability to push projects to completion.

So nope, Mr. Cuomo, you're not perfect. Get out. And there is a queue of smart, nice, efficient and highly moral people lined up outside to become NY governors.
>* Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own…

That is definitely not true for me. I actually feel responsibility if it's not my money, while I can let myself off the hook for any personal indiscretion far too easily.
Sounds like those would provide rather biased samples because changing your DNS server from whatever you get from your ISP via DHCP is something that approximately no normal person would ever do.
I think the link's supposed to be in the text but the repo is here: https://github.com/prl-julia/julia-type-stability There's a PDF there explaining how to get started with it and repro the graphs but it shouldn't be too hard to utilize it for the purpose you mention. We never got around to writing that kind of docs (for package developers) properly unfortunately. Feel free to open issues against the repo if you have troubles using it!
I avoid communicating with HN completely and this is an account I just created to respond to you.

> Let's say I found a way to bring back the number of dislikes of YT videos. Knowing that some YT devs are on the platform, I'd be reluctant to share it so that they won't know about it [0] and ruin the already-ruined YT experience. It shouldn't be like this, I know. But I've lost hope in the well-intentions of some devs in the industry. I thought we were supposed to have each other's back, but apparently money makes people do anything.

Think you are blaming the wrong people here. Developers do not decide what will be done/removed in an app like YT, managers do. Of course they do it for the money (or some personal thing).

Sure there is people upholding solidarity as a principle and support you but there will always we those who play zero sum games (see Watzlawick) and those who really don't know better than to offend others being insensitive.

> ... watched a YT tutorial to sharpen your skills? Now w/o the dislikes count, all devs have a much harder time filtering useless videos.

Only very specific topics and most of the time I have to find out if the approach taken in the video (still) works either way. On a personal note: I prefer learning new stuff from other people (not only devs), by reading the documentation and get some hands on experience. YT feels like it's making me unproductive because it seeks attention too much and also a lot of people there are behaving in a very annoying way (because they seek attention, too and because they want to make money).

The reason I don't communicate with HN (anymore) is the strong US-centric view which in my opinion is prevalent here and it's just not my community because I don't share much with them (believes, lifestyle etc.). It is a news aggregator for me and the comments let me know what (rich) people in the US think about those headlines.
Neat! How often do you update this?
It's worse falling into the state of mind that no matter what you do, you're insignificant and will be forgotten, and your existence in the cosmic scale means nothing.

OTOH, it's liberating, because you know your life is yours to live, it doesn't belong to history, or some nebulous legacy. Enjoy your life, good and bad, because it's the only one you'll ever have.

The odds lucking out as a human were slim, as most lives here are microscopic and are not conscious enough to understand living.
FAA Statement on 5G
https://m.imgur.com/fBUKx
Seriously, Read the two sentences immediately after the sentence you got your number from in the Wikipedia page you referred. Earliest estimates go back further.
mmm haven't seen Apophysis fractal art in a long time!
Wasn't this intentional (i.e. systematic destruction of records, and suppression of use) ?
Reminds me of Kuhn's idea of Paradigm Shift.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
I thought they had a browser toolbar/extension which they use to collect data from a very very small subset of internet users, which is probably incredibly biased to a certain audience. (e.g. boomers who don't know how to not install random toolbars when downloading stuff).
> And if you buy a Tesla with those features second-hand, Tesla can disable them until you pay them.

Everything I've seen says this is not the case. As I understand it, the story in the news about "something like this" was misleading. The car went through a dealer and was sold certified pre-owned; and it was sold as not having those features. It turns out they forgot the disable those features. I you buy one from a third party that already paid for the feature, it stays with the car.

At least, that's the understanding I was left with.
Pen-side test for bovine respiratory disease may reduce antibiotic use
> However, some NTFs include the IP rights.

Which surely exists separately from the blockchain in conventional contract law?

An NFT can't "include" IP rights. A notice on a website where you buy it might have a grant of contract rights.

Once again - the blockchain adds nothing or very little in return for a ton of technical complexity.
This is a Human Challenge Trial: have vaccinated participants exposed to either covid or placebo (rhinovirus)! There are heavy ethical dilemmas here, even when using young and healthy candidates. IIRC there was one Human Challenge Study being run in the UK, though they've been awfully quiet for months.
Unfortunately that’s not how they behave at all. See some of the references posted by others in other comments. Intuition doesn’t really work at all here.
The "skinnable" aesthetics of a bygone era. Does anyone remember the sonique player in the age of Winamp 1.x?
> Copyright affects a lot more people that the vanishingly few who are lucky enough to experience instant success.

Right, that's why we're trying to find ways to limit the damage it does to everybody else.

The GPL-vs.-BSD flamewar you're trying to start is only mildly relevant. The various BSD and Apache contributors aren't campaigning against the use of their code by Apple and Microsoft, either. The point is that there's nothing wrong with going out and making derivative works of other people's creative work; it's how all creative work is done.
Is it strange google has avoided China for so long?
> They can deduct the depreciation of a property from their taxable income even if the money they used to buy the place was borrowed from a bank and the property is the only asset on the line for the loan. If they buy a building worth $50 million, putting $10 million down and borrowing the rest, they can still deduct $50 million from their personal taxes over time, even though they’ve put much less of their own money into the project.

Thank you Congress for giving us this gift!
Stroustrup is brilliant. Even his books on C++ are well written. The problem is that C++ treats humans as smart, whereas a language like Rust treats humans as fallible. This is probably the most important and impactful paradigm shift in language design in the last few decades. Make a language for when people are weak.
Launching the 2021 State of Rust Survey
Unequivocally yes. The transitive property of logic is closed over the space of originating accountability for organizational behavior.

(Math speak for given )

A the government
B a firm
C somebody else

If A tells B to do something to C, it is the same as A trying to do the thing to C.

If A can't do something to C already, applying pressure to B in return for anything; even a momentary dopamine hit for making someone else's life easier; then that becomes a quid pro quo.

Which is also forbidden.

The problem and gray area is around indirect coercion of action.

A to B: You know, there's regulatory stuff on the Legislative schedule. If C just happened to have X happen, it's possible that could get shelved/go more favorably than if it didn't.

In reality though, humans are emotional creatures, so it is really easy to fall into doing that quid pro quo without realizing it. People generally want to help. Sometimes both sides realize that the appearance of QPQ will be there regardless, so screw it, just do what let's you sleep at night.

Formally though, official procedure should be interpreted with the transitive property in mind. Failure to do so merely delegates working the mechanisms of tyranny to private Enterprise.

No Citizen in a polis governed of, by, and for the People has any right to infringe on anything they justifiably could not in an official capacity.

It's all theater otherwise.
This is one of the key points. The US isn't just spread-out but oriented to solving it's problem by spreading out more. And this paradigm has effectively become unsustainable.

However, that's not the only factor at play here. Part of thing that makes spreading out the population look like a reasonable strategy is the mess involved in building in existing cities. A lot here is "soft" corruption - local government treats public grants as candy to give out to their friends and particular processes described in the article are just ways to do this.
You weren’t alone!
You are forgetting about manufacturing.

While China is indeed an important and huge market for sales... approximately 100% of Apple's products are manufactured in China (save some tiny fraction that are assembled in India or Texas).

Every iPhone sold everywhere worldwide (except the few assembled in India) comes from China.

Apple cannot exist without China. Full stop.
So I'm guessing on W10 w/o GPU acceleration, using WSL/WSL2 with GUI apps is pretty terrible? I'd mostly just be using my GUI for running programs I'm actually writing, so I'm wondering how much of a problem this would be for me.
Apple Publishes Open Source Code of macOS/iOS on GitHub
Exactly this. It will also reduce unnecessary requests on their servers.
I didn't mean to imply that you should disregard human rights, only that when you look at it from a strictly strategic point of view, it aligns with the strategy that Apple follows in many other areas. See for example buying full chip lines, entire display supply, even for the gigantic windows they use at the Apple stores.
How I Fixed a Memory Leak in Expose.sh, My Node.js App
That's clever. I'd suggest an improvement. When a sat has initial speed, show its small local reference frame, so we'd see that it always moves forward in its own reference frame, but the frame happens to be pulled to Earth.
Looks like the mother of all pivots.

They could kickstart funding their new initiative through their themselves.
Also don't know how search works there, but the cross-reference functionality is powered by an open-source Kythe project: https://kythe.io/
I know this would never happen, but I wish companies would just default to not doing business in China, unless they are able to sell their product, uncompromised. I wouldn't mind legislation to that effect, though I'm sure that would come with a ton of unintended consequences.

If China (and similar repressive regimes) wants these sorts of products with onerous restrictions built in, they should have to build them themselves.

Of course, I do recognize that this is perhaps somewhat hypocritical: the OFAC list in the US comes to mind (which makes it illegal for US entities to do business with entities in certain "bad" countries). I'm reminded of GitHub's fight to allow people from Iran to use GitHub. I get the purpose of sanctions on Iran, but hurting regular Iranian citizens with these sorts of bans does nothing to punish or put pressure on the people who are actually the targets of sanctions.
> They stretch and compress space along axes perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

Is it possible to compress space?
If it _had_ lead paint. Could have been scraped and repainted later.
I'm still working through the paper—reading your group's Julia papers is always a great treat—thank you for this one and all of them. Looking at the definition of "type groundedness" it seemed to me that perhaps the definition should require that "every expression’s type depends only on the argument types" rather than only variables. I haven't gotten to the proof parts, but this was just a thing that struck me early on.
UK dumped EU, which didn't asked for country dissolution, not sure it would agree to join USA...
> because when I am in a shell I don't want to spend days typing out and tabbing forever trying to write some quick one liner command I'll never look at again.

Even without the hyperbole you have a comically exaggerated idea of how long it takes to write quick one-liners in PowerShell. For me personally, it helps a lot that I don't have to look up cryptic three-letter command names, obtuse switches, or the precise sed incantation to glue things together.
I believe my point was that a modern torpedo hitting a ship is a very high kill probability (mobility or other), being it is guided and explosive.

I would say a missile is more similar to a torpedo. We can look to the Falklands as to how dangerous missiles are against ships. This isn't your grandfathers WWII torpedo.

There is only one other case of an anti-ship missile I can think of off hand, in Desert Storm when a Silkworm was shot at a fleet and shot down with a SeaRAM(?) I think.

I am surprised at the downvotes, but I guess also not. Either way, the information is out there. I agree with the article in that military software is generally awful, but I'm guessing it is not easy to innovate.
I would personally like to see less indexing of duplicate files! There are many things I’ve searched for which return 100s of results from independent checkin-uploads of big libraries like the Android SDK. It would be great if results were filtered by file similarity regardless of git history (if that is in fact the issue).
Indeed - my personal experience of this was at my business - I would admit my and our mistakes to the extent that the perception became that I was the source of all of our failures.

My partner was and is a person who is never wrong, never fails, never makes a mistake - it’s always someone else who stymied his ambitions, or circumstance, or just bad luck. Never an error.

I left, after a decade. It was partly of my own volition, but the moment I voiced the possibility he, and our investor, couldn’t show me the door quickly enough.

Now, here’s the rub.

I’ve been gone for nearly six years. In that time their revenue has fallen by 80%, their core product has been axed, and I am still the scapegoat.

Even when they ultimately fail completely, which they will, and soon, as none of the issues I identified have been addressed, I am certain that they will go down crying “damn you, madaxe_again”.

Reality, commercial or not, is purely a matter of perception.
Yes, and specifically in this case no keywords have been added to the Go language at all since its 1.0 release (I just checked the 1.0.1 spec and there are still 25 keywords). Even the addition of generics coming soon in 1.18 will add no new keywords (though it will add a new token, "~").
I think in-sourcing management expertise to the public agencies would save a lot of money. Management consultants are expensive and their incentives are in conflict with public projects.
Bitcoin's self-proclaimed inventor largely prevails in trial over $54B
that this is an extreme oversimplification of the Xinjiang issue should be obvious given the fact that other Muslim Chinese minorities like the Hui in China enjoy relative religious freedom. (in fact the issue is assimilation into China's ruling class, not religion per se). In fact inter-Muslim wars in China itself have a long history between different Islamic groups. Also of course the (lack of) response from the Muslim world in general to the Uyghur situation should make clear that the situation is somewhat more complicated.