skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am unaware of any country where this is true. Many countries have limits on how / when transactions can be recovered but AFAIK there is nowhere where bank transfers are absolutely final with no recourse.
> why aren't we worried about the hops between a website and a user

I asked about this below, apparently it's reasonable and strictly necessary. It's what the user expects. Even though it's technically possible for the infrastructure layer to provide full packet anonymity, until then it's the web developers responsibility. I do not agree with this, but that's my opinion.
That's not really a good counterpoint if the non-insured prices are patently insane. How on Earth is it justifiable for insulin to cost 300 dollars? Here it seems to be around 20-40 euros before the deduction you will get from our national health bureau (which can vary from 0% to 100% depending on your diagnosis and the medication you need.)

On top of the national mandatory health insurance, there's also optional private health insurance and private hospitals and such, but even for those the prices are nowhere near the insane numbers I see whenever US healthcare is discussed, and I frankly can't understand how people aren't revolting over there.
Or in Instagram’s case for me, you read the article and see a strange mess with empty holes today, because your IP address hasn’t logged into any Meta properties in the past year and so Instagram won’t serve you embeds anymore.
I will say that when I say "app", I mean web app. I don't use the phone app, although most of my post is still relevant there. My reasons for that are mainly that I'm at home on my big screen with a real keyboard 99% of the time that I'm ordering pizza and it's just easier.

So the hostility is perhaps less there.
Although it's used for web, music, video, chat...at the end of the day the most important function (in my opinion) is being able to call/receive someone during an urgent situation wherever I may be e.g. my partner, the hospital or emergency services. I could give up all the media but I couldn't give up having a phone, and hence the name iPhone still makes sense to me.
It has a dongle. I quickly checked and I think there are no Logitech mouses that support wired and Bluetooth. I wonder what the reasoning is.
>This is the reason for my strong dislike of online content moving to video. It's way, way harder to skim a video to see if it's decent quality.

It depends on what people mean by "hardware". If the hardware is comparing something like graphics cards, then yes, text content with table of performance numbers and some charts is faster to parse.

But if the hardware is more physical hands-on like mechanical tools, drones, grills, etc, videos of people demonstrating its use and/or reveal the flaws is easier and faster to digest. ("Picture is worth a thousand words.") E.g. a Youtube video comparing a bunch of miter gauges is better than a magazine article that's just text and photos. Text+photos is too static so the reader can't see and hear the slop in bad products that machined are out of tolerance. Conveying that type of quality is more effective in videos.

If you're viewing Youtube on desktop instead of mobile, the fastest way to to skim is to press the keys 1 to 9 on the keyboard which jumps to timeline at 10%, 20%, 30% ... 90%. There's latency for 2160 4k 60ps videos but for lower bandwidth videos, it works well. If the video looks good, press 0 to rewind to the beginning.
In the past poor people generally didn't understand how much they were screwed over by the upper classes. However, it seems that in the US, smart people increasingly end up at the wrong side of the divide, which could mean we're heading for interesting times.
It's funny how we have to wait for real and serious competition before we can get nice things. It took AMD, then Apple, to trounce Intel before we finally started seeing Intel take things seriously, and only now that the electric car trend is really taking off do we start to see real innovations in internal combustion engines.

I have a 1981 Diesel Chevette which can get 50 miles to the gallon when driven at a steady highway speed. If that forty year old fully iron engine can get 50 miles to the gallon in a car that's as aerodynamic as a brick, then why aren't new cars getting 80 miles to the gallon? Is our technology really that shitty? Or is it that the carmakers have marketed performance and "sportiness" to us over efficiency?

They certainly don't want to make engines that can last forty years and 750,000 miles, but that's another issue.

So the real question is this: if we can have 80, 100, 150, perhaps even 200 mile-per-gallon combustion engines, and if we can grow biodiesel from algae and even produce it using processes which pull CO2 from the air, then how much energy and carbon output could we save by not building limited life batteries and by not suffering the waste of electricity transmission and storage?

It's not all one thing or the other, and it never should be, but we've been milking the old internal combustion cash cow for so long we've virtually guaranteed her death, even though evolution of the internal combustion engine would be a net benefit.
There has still been no prosecution of any of the people responsible for this, at any level. Every last one of them knew at the time, all up and down the line, that they were committing crimes that the US has executed people for. Any of them could have refused to participate, knowing they were being invited to commit capital crimes. Instead, they did it eagerly.

I don't think there is any Statute of Limitations on these crimes. We could prosecute them today, or ten years on. If any crime merits execution, this does. No previous assurances of immunity by the "Justice" Department of the time should have any force: they had no legitimate authority to offer any.

The woman who ran this thing got promoted to cabinet level, and even got a movie made to look like she was some sort of hero. She was personally responsible, also, for destroying video evidence of their crimes.

But in the meantime we could at least let this poor guy out of the damn cage.
Your API Is Bad (2014)
exactly, with no-do overs. Everyone hand codes their assembly correctly on the first try right!?!!
Energy use for its own sake is not progress; efficiency and technological results which are measured elsewhere are.
Huh, ok, never experienced that but that is probably just due to you and I going to different sites. I do use FF as my daily non-work driver though.
If the problem is around different insurers paying for different brands, then yes, I think the solution is for the consumer to have the choice of MCO rather than it being tied to the employer. But I'm sure this would create other problems and snarl the system with even more complexity.

That's ignoring the fundamental cosmic absurdity of this entire system, with its pretense to be some kind of competitive private market with the usual benefits of such. When in reality, insurers are just a bunch of hogs at the trough that you're shuffled between as you change employers. The private market does not seem to create any sort of incentive for efficiency or a better consumer experience.
To be fair though, the financial advice my parents generation got was stuff like mutual funds, real estate, and 401ks. Not necessarily "good" advice, but unlikely to leave them worse off than before. From what I gathered from the article, some of the advice on TikTok is stuff like meme stocks, shitcoins, and NFTs - investments which are very likely to bankrupt them.
Software patents are a construct of the legislature that hands out a template for privateers to create liability. I wouldn't want to do anything in the US market.
DDG is "better", not perfect.

When you find it ignoring your quotes, seeing what Google provides for the same search term might be interesting.
It tells you what the sources are. The most commonly used source is the CIA World Factbook. It strikes me as a little unlikely the CIA has a hidden agenda to make US statistics look bad. Anyway, if you're looking at it from a non-IS IP the US isn't the baseline.

Also strikes me as a little unlikely that anyone actually reading the descriptions rather than looking at the colours would prefer Libya to the US on the basis of the stats (sure, that healthcare is really expensive and that prison population is insane, but I'd rather earn 5x as much and live longer than have a smaller carbon footprint)
Uber Eats is just as simple if not simpler. Doesn’t need extensive analysis.
They don't expect themselves to survive if they do not take 30%...

How else will you pay back the VC money and expensive software-engineers, marketing and everything else...

The reality is that using humans to deliver food is expensive. And food is already low margin business...
In that sense, crypto to me is like a consultancy taking a complex, legacy codebase and saying it'll be easier to rewrite it from scratch.

We see how that plays out all the time. Something shiny and new is produced but it completely fails to take into account why the original system was so complex. Given enough time, it becomes just as complex as the old system, if not more complex.
I was going to suggest that too.

Separate metrics files have already been done too (both with TeX in TFM files and Adobe/PostScript fonts in AFM/PFM files), so you wouldn't even have to invent a new file format.

Or you could simply use a regular font with no glyph curve data.

I am a bit disappointed this is not covered in the original post, and that no effort is being put in W3C to make that easy and viable.
Definitely, but it is a result of the mismatch in costs relative to expectations of quality and quantity of healthcare with current supply of doctors and medicines (out of patent).

I am in favor of the US federal government to spend money on R&D for medicines resulting in fewer patented medications resulting in lower cost medications. And also reforming the process to becoming a doctor because obviously people want more doctors. Not necessarily making doctors less qualified, but the whole spend your 20s torturing yourself is unnecessary, along with wasting 4 years on a bachelors.
In Brazil a lot of people moved to use WhatsApp for ordering, which keeps the history and requires the company to use nothing but a free app everyone already has.

At worse the pizza place has to ask for the address again if they're in a rush.

I find it a quite clever solution.
Imagine someone trying to attack you by simply ordering many paid-on-delivery services to your house... man, wouldn't it be great that to order something like that you had to do a bit more validation or proving you say who you are? Oh wait, that's exactly what is happening. (as a side-effect)

I also don't understand the “Large Pizza for Pickup” bit, do you just get a random pizza? What size is 'large'? 25cm? 35cm? 40cm? more? What is on it? Cold fish and milk? Used car oil and yesterday's bread? This all seems to be hyper-personal and while that is fine, it doesn't really mean that everyone wants to order this way. Especially when you simply do not want to call or talk to someone.
There was a 30% drop in March 20202: it just happened to recover quickly once people stopped panicking about the lockdowns. There was no reason why people had to stop panicking though: it could have continued.

Also, in 2018Q4, the S&P 500 drew down by 20%.

Per Adams: DON"T PANIC.
If you have a past knowledge that the generic doesn't work and you also save money by withholding the real treatment, then that seems perverse.
Not to mention I can spend the 15 minutes comparing different places.
I've been able to use the mobile websites for all my pizza establishments.
Restaurants to Customers: Don’t Call Us, We Won’t Call You
To even offer a webb app is in the minority. Even if the actual app is just a webview.

And the user hostility only starts at the surface.
Plättar sounds a bit like Norwegian lapper. E.g.:

https://www.tine.no/oppskrifter/kaker/vafler-og-smakaker/sve...

But my favourite variant is rislapper, where the starting point is cold rice porridge:

https://www.tine.no/oppskrifter/kaker/vafler-og-smakaker/ris...

As a child we'd often have rice porridge one day, and if there were leftovers we'd have rislapper a day or two later.

You can make it in a regular pan, as the mix is thick enough it'll stay together, so just make them small.

(I strongly object, however, to the use of sour cream, jam and pistachio's to serve with them, and wonder what they'd been smoking - I prefer butter and a sprinkling of sugar)
>those at the top are morally bankrupt.

These seniors should vote for and advocate for a more expansive social safety net then.
Those are all vastly more complicated than C. And on top of that you have to learn three instead of just one!

(Imagine trying to learn Rust without experience with C. Oh man.)
> I've worked as a software engineer writing embedded code, at several hardware companies, and nearly all of them see software as just another line item on the BOM, like a bolt or a screw, to make as cheap and quickly as they can. "We need to source 32 screws, 50 resistors, 45 capacitors, a waterproofing gasket, oh, and this 'software' thing. Make some 'software,' and ensure we fasten it to the product at station 25 on the assembly line." That's almost certainly how Vizio thinks of its software.

Yeah to my knowledge that's exactly right, that is how they think about software. In Japan especially, outside of some places like Nintendo, that is how they think.
Good question. In my case, I use the Org file instead of Postman (or some other API client) and I keep it in the same repo with the code.

When I generate the `index.html` from Org, I point it at my local API, so there is never any doubt they are on the same version.
Because email doesn't work that way. Gmail doesn't send the email for a minute. It would be like your boss asking you to send this email and you wait a minute for him to change his mind before you presses send.
Code in the frontend is absolutely not "asking". I'd bet that most of the users have no idea what's going on in their browsers and devices, and those instruments then, in turn, shouldn't prey on this ignorance. I know that this is not how the world works, but a difference is that we could have control over this one.
Cantata – Qt5 Graphical MPD Client
> If Bitcoin suddenly disappeared, no non-cryptocurrency business would be disrupted.

The same could be said about internet in 1995.
Hi, can you please explain how false/0 breaks ILP packages? I'm asking agnostically: I neither disagree nor agree with you. I study ILP, but I can't think of how false/0 would break Aleph, for instance (although truth be told I'm not as experienced with pre-2000 systems). And thanks in advance!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/LOL

A word is a thing people say. If you say irregardless to somebody you're trying to impress, you will fail to.
Not to understand Python. BUT if you need to write high performance code, it helps a lot.
LOL I learned C before Python even existed
Substack gives rise to a literary rebirth
Do ethereum and smart contracts currently have excellent customer service, such that the guy in TFA can get his 500k back?
This is hilarious because I just read a NYT article about restaurants ditching phones.

I submitted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30137434. Among the arguments is hourly wages paid for an inefficient job duty.

If done right, or if you are ok accepting lost business from disgruntled customers, ditching the phone can be a decent idea. I’d like to hobble my work phone by removing voice mail.
Makes me wonder: could artists demand their songs not be played on radio stations that also aired Rush Limbaugh? Or did "ASCAP" and whatever other cartel schemes they had forestall that when they were set up?

What happens when someone decides that its the device at fault, not the streaming service? Is the evil in the stone or in the signs inscribed upon it?
That's not a pancake. That's a banana omlet.
As a visible minority, any such policy has me running for the hills. I'd like to be considered for my skill, because I know that I'll be working with people of a similar cut.

Granted its an archaic notion. Checking out from work, and checking in to DEI is probably a more financially successful endeavor.
Price aside, the biggest problem with American health care system is the administrative black hole at every stage.

Wife was on some serious (and expensive) medical treatment. After many months, the medical provider was at the final stages of the treatment. As usual, the provider needs insurance approval for arcane codes that constitute that segment of the treatment.

Get this, the medical provider applies for approval using a FAX. There is no acknowledgement or online tracking. And the authorization is received back using FAX. What a joke!

My wife didn't hear about the treatment for 3 weeks. Under pressure, she called her insurance. Insurance says, they didn't receive any request for authorization.

Why the fuck didn't the medical provider follow up? Exact question asked by my wife. Medical provider's explanation was that they faxed and were just waiting on insurance. They just sat on their fat bums while the time was running out.

So, wife patiently asked medical provider to apply for authorization again. The provider said they sent another request right away.

Another week later, wife had to call insurance again to find out that they STILL DID NOT receive any request.

Distraught wife asked insurance rep to call the medical provider immediately. Of course the call went to voice mail.

Wife then called the medical provider and left a scathing voicemail, threatening to sue. Only then this system worked miraculously. It still took a day for the medical provider to figure out what was wrong with their fax system. It still required my wife to follow up with insurance asking if they received the authorization request. Then 3 days later, the insurance provider approved the authorization and my wife had to call the medical provider again to confirm that the authorization was received.

All good now? Ohhh Noooo. Now the medical provider placed an order for medication that needs to be shipped from a pharmacy in another state. And they do place it. Now my wife gets a call from the shipping pharmacy to schedule a delivery. The delivery happens after 3 days.

Wife checks the delivery. Oops, it is missing a few items required for treatment. Guess what she needs to do to get the missing items delivered? You guessed it. Have the medical provider do the authorization process ALL OVER AGAIN.

Oh, and every call to the medical provider goes to a voicemail to which they take a minimum of 8 hours to reply and every call to insurance has a 30 min elevator music. Imagine all this 10 times in 3 weeks and that was just one round of shipping and nervousness.

Fuck American Healthcare.
GDPR specifies a different interpretation of events, that takes precedence here: the user chose to visit GDPR-bound site A, and the law requires site A not to compel the user to visit any site B that is not bound by law or treaty to honor GDPR as well.

You’re not wrong that one could logically evolve your interpretation from circumstances, but GDPR’s authors chose not to accept your interpretation as sufficient, and went further than that.
This is also a very cheap solution for merchants: only requires a mobile phone and a free app that almost everyone has in some countries. If push comes to shove, install Signal/Telegram or accept SMS.
Yes, learn C. Then play with the ctypes Python module and invoke your C code from Python.
you can always play around with the simulators

https://falstad.com/circuit/
On a long enough timeline even dynamic languages want static types. Looking at you JS/ Typescript. Yes learning C gives you an appreciation of how types “as simple as” a String in Python is constructed.
Depends on which freedoms a given software author prioritizes.

For authors who want to maximize the freedoms of developers who directly download their software to make and redistribute derivatives and reverse dependencies and to redistribute the whole stack of their application under their choice of license with no obligations other than a notice requirement, yes, MIT and BSD style licenses maximize those freedoms.

For authors who want to maximize the ability of indirect downstream end users of their code, even those who are unaware of the origin of the code running on their system, to make sure they can fix it or have it fixed to remove bugs or better meet their needs, copyleft licenses such as the GPL do better protect those freedoms.

For the user-style freedoms in the above paragraph as applied to direct (rather than indirect) downstream users of the software author, either license is equally protective.

All of these licenses protect software freedoms, but they differ a lot in the details.
The tilde (~) operator is already used for Bitwise NOT[0].

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
It's because a lot of times the doctors know it isn't going to work on the outset. A number of generics don't work exactly the same. You're punishing the patient and questioning the expert simply for the fact that the insurance company (or the government in the case of geriatrics) might save a few dollars.
Sorry to disappoint, but in 1995, almost nobody had any real benefit from email (except maybe some universities). If you think email was mainstream back then, your memory is playing tricks on you.
No, it won't help you better understand Python.

However, for professional development, you should probably learn it anyways before you jump into other lower level languages.

C is the Latin of programming languages, as it's the common root of a flurry of languages, and you see it's influence in a lot of places. Even though it's not exactly "how a computer works," understanding its purpose and problems puts other languages into context.
People can smell desperation and loneliness… I could tell you to find hobbies…but those by itself won’t help. If one walks around thinking negative thoughts and that people don’t like me… it’s self fulfilling…

Thinking positive thoughts and making compliments. Walk around the world with the belief that it’s is a wonderful place and that you have the ability to make friends. You have as much right to be liked and loved as others.
You’re using a different definition of the word invalid.

Obviously the person you replied to meant invalid in the sense of “not intended to receive funds”

It would have been a competent design decision for a system to require some type of initial registration of intent to receive funds for an address in order for a transaction to post.
What is being compared? Because to me it read like a question of choosing 'sans-serif' over 'ui-system-font-sans' or whatever in your CSS. Nothing more than that.
I was getting at, if you didn't have embedded electronics in each light - there could be some arrangement of wiring to control 100 LEDs individually (e.g. a 10x10 grid).
It’s a typo, and should have been “or”. If you don’t believe that, I’m afraid that you are misinformed.
I'm not sure if Uber Eats/DoorDash are starting to force businesses to stop taking phone orders, but the last few times I tried to call and place an order I was told I need to do it from their website (which was an Uber Eats POS).

Which sucks because then you pay the app fees on top of everything.