skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certain cards are very popular with certain demographics.

I would not do something as stupid using cards to discriminate pricing.

Now of course, we live in a society where the courts would never actually make that link, so you can argue I'd be a bad leader leaving money on the table like that...

But I'd say that's more a problem with our system than anything.
In NZ, car insurance companies openly use location, gender and age in pricing.

Men under 25 pay the highest premiums due to their repeated statistically demonstrated tendency to take far more risks and accordingly have far more serious accidents.

(And good luck getting full insurance if you're male, under 25 and own a vehicle with a turbo.)

Likewise, women 30+ get lower premiums than men because while they have more fender benders, they have far less serious crashes - and our insurance companies proudly advertise to women on that basis.

And your car premium will vary based on your location's car theft rates, although how you store your car (garage vs. driveway vs. street parking) and installed antitheft devices will reduce it.

However, race based pricing is very much not a thing.

It probably could be, as a proxy for socio-economic status, as the indigenous people of NZ are over-represented in all negative socio-economic indicators, thanks to colonisation followed by about a century of government policy, some deliberate (e.g., Tohunga Suppression Act 1907), some accidental (Manpower Act 1944).

And poor young men are even more at risk of serious accident than other young men.

That said, as no insurer will pay out if your car didn't have a current warrant of fitness (proof that your car meets minimum safety regulations), or current registration (just a tax, used to fund road maintenance and our no-fault accident insurance scheme), that effectively discriminates against poor people anyway.

Incidentally, NZ doesn't have compulsory third party insurance.

And I strongly support that - making it compulsory only benefits insurance companies by reducing their risk (which they aren't compelled to pass on to customers as lower premiums), and because once something is mandatory, you can charge far more than is fair, and people can't respond like a rational market would by just not buying your service.
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A similar project I've been using for working with DAWs (audio recording / real-time effects) is https://xanmod.org/

Not sure how it compares to liquorix, but xanmod allowed me to go from 60ms+ to <10ms in pipewire latency.
https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxbook.pdf
I can think of a lot of things worse. Full war between Russia and NATO. Nuclear bombs going off. Hell, even if Russia decides it cares less about civilian deaths and damage in Ukraine.

Things can always be worse.
Tinder is so extremely effective that it's almost certainly underpriced at all of these levels purely because of perception. I only had gold once and bought a couple of boosts but for over two months I would fill my calendar with 2-4 dates a week at something close to Spotify sub ($20/mo iirc).

There is no other way to meet women this efficiently. And it was a lot of fun, too. It took out all the slog out of dating. It would be a steal at $100/mo.
Ignored Warnings: How NATO Expansion Led to the Current Ukraine Tragedy
Why would i lie? I'm pretty sure they also use my destinations to asses my income and factor that into how much i'm willing to pay for a ride
> I'm tired of having random garbage glyphs show up because I'm not using the latest electron based terminal that uses mono-spaced web-fonts.

It doesn't take a Electron based terminal. iTerm2 on OS X supports emoji, and Terminal.app mostly does. Terminator on Linux supports them. (& which is based on VTE, so I sort of presume all VTE-based terminals do.) None of which are Electron based. (& I can understand not wanting that.)

(Not to imply that a NO_EMOJI might have other merits.)
Code, by Charles Petzold. It came to me at exactly the right time, and broke through the biggest conceptual barrier I’d had until that point; how do you actually go from logic gates to general purpose computing? Having Petzold walk you up the ladder of abstraction, never missing a link, really got me over the hump of treating all that complexity as a black box. On a meta level it gave me confidence to go approach apparently impossible things with an open mind and dig deep enough that you see how the “magic” works.
As in: Oof, that's a big gain. But commenters above don't seem to think so, perhaps my sentiment is naive.
The Kalman filter: helping chickens cross the road
I purchased the fingerworks gesture keyboard insert for my TiBook. It was amazing. I remember thinking it was the future of all laptop input devices. While I'm glad it resurfaced as the iOS input device, I am super bummed I still don't have that keyboard on my MacBook. That thing was incredible.
Huh, I seem to have the opposite problem in that our CI doesn't emulate a terminal. (It should… but alas.) We're even moving to Github Actions, and that also doesn't.
That's kind of judgmental to say how they should or shouldn't feel about it yeah? You don't generally just decide to feel that way about something that used to be a big part of your life, and you also don't undo feeling that way on a whim.

And nothing about the experience they described centered on the quality of the games, so it also doesn't feel relevant that this one is apparently particularly good.
I'm starting to learn CS all over again at the old age of 40, and had the pleasure to rediscover mathematics thanks to:

- Discrete Mathematics with Applications, by Susanna Epp, or

- Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, by Kenneth Rosen (both have the same content, choose the style that you prefer), and

- Concrete Mathematics, by our lord and savior Donald Knuth.

I don't plan on reading TAOCP anymore as I would be dead by the time I finish reading everything else, but those introductory books are very good for beginners.
one of my favorite examples of fruitful redundancy is Cliff Stoll noticing a 75 cent discrepancy between two different accounting logs that let to the discovery of an intruder in the Lawrence Berkeley Lab network.

https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona...
to go with that article, the best advice for picking different shades of the same hue is to work in HSL color space rather than trying to use RGB. You'll sit there all day trying and failing to find colors that match in RGB.
I'm pretty sure it is more than that. I mentioned in a comment below this one that they probably use my destinations as a proxy to asses my income and how much I'm willing to pay for a ride
No.

The answer is no.

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." -- Alan Perlis

The way you handle a problem is affected by the languages you speak. An elixir programmer would think in functions and modules and gen-servers. A rails dev would think in objects and jobs.

It's not so much a favourite language thing. I mean english isn't my fav spoken language. It's the one I grew up using and thinking in.

When I started working in Ruby/Rails I wrote c++ code with ruby syntax. When years later, I wrote Elixir, it "sounded" like ruby. (still does really).

There is no way to know the full stack. Not really. One can have a working knowledge of it, (and that's awesome in start up mode), but really knowing an element of the stack takes study. Honestly it cheapens us to say otherwise.
Not sure anyone involved would accept the prices Norway charges for alcohol.
I seem to remember articles from lots of sources, I believe Stratechery was one, about a decade ago advocating for this kind of pricing scheme of using analytics to figure out the price that people will pay and charging them that. A lot of the examples was based on income level which of course made me think, hey here I've struggled all my life to get into the middle class and now they want to change up how you pay for things so at the end of the month I can buy the same amount of things and have as much left over as when I was poor.

Anyway I am against it, find it immoral, and think the EU should have some regulations forbidding it.
I heard Brandon Sanderson talk once and I was like "wow, this is one of the most organized writers I've ever heard of."

I suspect his organization, methodology, and work style are partially responsible for his success.

I kind of wish we had been able to lock Sanderson in a room with George RR Martin to finish Song of Ice and Fire before Game of Thrones went past the novels.
Is that related to this [0] Python library? If not, is it something one can run locally or is it purely an AWS product?

0: https://textract.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
They don't need to, for most women liking someone would probably result in a match.
The intelligence was leaked so that the world would know that the invasion was pre-planned by Russia, rather than some organic response to some act by Ukraine. And I think it was very successful at that.

Historically when something like this happened, it was always hard to understand who really started a violent confrontation. In this case, the US has been successful at showing that the invasion was pre-meditated.
cordial behaviour of Russian soldiers

Did you see those tanks rolling over civilian cars trying to escape?

There are no massed artillery barrages

Did they not show on your channels, or what is your requirement for 'massed'?
This problem was solved using the TERM environment variable, and it will just work when people use terminfo (and libraries that use it, such as ncurses).

The problem is when people use explicit escape codes in their code rather than using libraries that solved this problem all the way back in the 80's.

Yes, I'm somewhat grumpy about this because far too many times I have found log files filled with escape codes, or colours that are absolutely unreadable when using a terminal with white background.
An efficient market isn't necessarily the goal of human life, and a free market can be "bad." Nothing substantive to contribute to a detailed discussion otherwise, but keep this in mind.
This is a very myopic view of the situation. Russia has been preparing and strategically planning exactly for such a scenario to unfold for over a decade.

They have created their own domestic equivalent of SWIFT (called SPFS) which went live in 2017 and which is connected to a handful of foreign banks including a few in Germany and in Switzerland. Whilst it is not as great, SPFS works. China has created their own SWIFT equeivalent (CIPS), and it is likely that Russia will cut over to CIPS soon and start funneling USD and EUR into China either to convert the foreign currency reserves into the Chinese yuan or simply use the Chinese financial system as a bypass / proxy.

Some years back the Putin goverenment had also forced Visa and Mastercard to make the Russian branch of their networks fully self-reliant and operational even if the financial link to the global payment networks is severed. Which means that domestically issued Visa and Mastercard cards will continue to operate domestically. They also have their own payment network operated by the major commercial bank albeit the uptake is not as great compared to Visa and MC.

Yes, there will be inflation and a financial chaos but they are prepared and are dug in deep. There will be a mayhem but it might also end up being short lived or have a fairly limited impact – we don't know yet.

> I think the world should push for this.

It is irresponsible to make such statements. Global peace has not looked so fragile and so close to turning into an irreparable mess. West is not playing its card right at the moment by continuously imposing more and more sanctions, by moving NATO troops into bordering countries and not even attempting to offer/signal its willingness to start any negotiation talks. West has fallen into the exact trap Putin had set up for it to justify the current situation and stir up cheap domestic populism and support his «see, they have ganged up on us like we have been telling you all along» rhetoric. Putin's long game is unclear but if he is resolute on the doomsday scenario or if he starts feeling cornered with no escape hatch anywhere near him, what would happen next would happen for all of us, and it would be terrible.

West can't continue to impose sanctions endlessly whilst also continuing to villify and demonise an agonising bear without attempting any currently viable alternatives. People from all sides, with no exceptions, have to start making every single attempt to get everyone to sit down around the table and talk. All parties need to start talking to each other to resolve their differences and compromise. Only talking can avert a much bigger disaster.
But what language would you write it in.

I started a contracting job a few years ago where they were transition the team from Java to Rails. Every bit of the code "tasted" like java.

What a rails dev would do in 2 lines took them a full page of code. (No fault of theirs-- they were all excellent devs)
California-based app Premise battles accusations of helping Russian military
How did you know it ended up on hacker news?
The play between the West and China is not so direct it is more played indirectly. So US/EU will not ask/impose China something nor China will support Rusia against US/EU directly. Everything will happen indirectly and none of these two sides will risk the chance of a direct question where the answear could be NO thus making them act directly => collapsing global economy.

So if China wants to support Occident they will do it indirect and the same will go for US/EU: they will not ask China directly to ban Russia but more suggest that China should not be very active to support Russia.
I’m always baffled at how HackerNews, the cabal of woke devs who regularly turn up their pince-nezed noses at the unergonomic design choices of other companies, has such a hard to read layout itself [on mobile].

The tap targets for voting buttons etc. verge on the need for an electron microscope, you get punished with photons for daring to read in a dark room, and you can’t even use Reader Mode.

Hire a fucking UX person you guys.
Remember when it was fringe to think that the government was spying on everyone before Snowden came out?
I never realized how much time it took me to get good at those games. I had a period of dominating every game in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but playing any such game now sees me losing every single round.

I’ve had a period of the same with League of Legends more recently, and I especially appreciate that those games take a maximum of 1 hour, but even that is now 10 years in the past.

I think I am content to stick with mostly factory games, and no competitive games now.
Yes, I like your last line. If a language is well documented you can pick it up in no time if you know the timeless concepts of programming in general.
Your legal case would pretty fast turn into bizarre hate speech:

”They’re charging people using the costco mastercard more!”

”Yeah, and?”

”Well, everyone knows that the jews love costco, and you can’t discriminate against an ethnic minority!”
I'm guessing you didn't read the whole article before dropping a link to lifecoach without annotation...
> Then you have to around and around with them on the right design because they always take the easiest route to green first, rather than the right fix.

Hahaha this sounds like a side effect of test driven development.
Clojure is absolutely niche. The only non-niche languages are COBOL, Fortran, C, C++, Python, Java, Javascript, Go.
My first-hand experience and conventional scientific-consensus is that diet matters, not only for longevity of life but also for quality of life.

My Dad is addicted to sugary drinks and his feet are already showing signs of pre-diabetic nerve damage and he has lost lots of weight while his fraternal twin, who isn't addicted to sugary drinks has no such nerve problems.

The role of diet and genes can actually be tested on identical twins or studied that way and pretty sure any such study will show diet matters for quality of life and length of life.

The grandparent poster said something like "Conventional wisdom on Diet is wrong" is so vague to the point of almost being meaningless.

No one is disputing that genes matter but to draw a logical line from Buffet saying "hamburgers and oreo are not that bad" to "conventional wisdom on diet is wrong" is a mega-leap in logic which the grandparent poster should apply for the Olympics.

Mcdonalds food (in moderation) is not that unhealthy actually, but the grandparent poster is so vague I'm not sure maybe he is actually saying the same thing. My interpretation of his vague comment is that he is saying diet doesn't matter when it comes to health when there is overwhelming evidence of the perils of excess sugar and over-eating to health.
Is it possible that since multiple users requested a ride with the same source and destination that it triggered "surge" pricing?
fwiw facebook does have a free dating component.

though you don’t have to pay for tinder, and certainly not to have success.
There's a long history of other countries deciding that your country still owes them money, and that they're entitled to collect.

In Mexico, for example, Benito Juarez's faction won a civil war, and then refused to pay the debt run up by the enemy faction. The French, who loaned the money, didn't care, and invaded Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Ju%C3%A1rez#Ju%C3%A1rez...

When Venezuela defaulted on its debt in 1902, Germany sent a fleet to blockade its port, demanding that Venezuela pay customs duties on every good that passed through the port until the debt was repaid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_of_1902%E2%8...

Countries have been forced to repay debts that maybe they didn't deserve, and penalized in extremely severe ways when they didn't pay.

You could imagine the U.S. and Europe lending Ukraine a ton of money right now, and then claiming that it becomes Russia's debt if Ukraine is conquered, and seizing assets to force repayment. It would be a pretty crazy thing to do, but hey, the 21st century is already chill so whatever.
Amazingly, my 2014 iPad Mini lasts longer on standby than my 2018 iPad Pro. Even with all optional stuff turned off (and no cellular antenna), the new Pro lasts about 2 weeks, while the old Mini lasts a month.

I'm not sure, but I think the difference is that the old iPad can't update to iPadOS, which has worse standby performance. It's pretty frustrating to pick up the Pro after a week of standby and find the battery half depleted.
The feature parity minimizes how much better the iPhone was, even at launch when it was clearly rough around the edges. It’s like comparing a 1988 Hyundai with a Tesla Model S. The features are all the same: 4 doors, 4 seats, steering wheel, brake and gas pedals. But the experiences couldn’t be more different.
Considering their size, their pricing is probably also based on data. They probably know scaringly well how big the ”risk” of you finding love is, and can price services accordingly
> a majority of Americans at the time believed the war was just

At least not a majority of elected Democrats.
The workers.
It depends on the app, personally I prefer non-colorised UI of mc to the colorised UI. Elsewhere I used the colorised version.
That's not a good argument. In fact, that's a bad argument
I just looked at your comment history. It's quite obvious what and who you represent so whataboutism and other discourse steering techniques are more than expected.

Yes, Russian trolls are present even here; we just shouldn't feed them.
I’m wealthy enough to pay for these kinds of services, but never tried them, as I find sex with women who just want me for my money boring / a haggle between the amount of money a girl wants to extract from me vs the amount of sex I want to have with her. The more I experienced this, the more I realized that it’s better to do 2 hours of sports a day (1 hour running and 1 hour gym, while dieting).

The Jeff Bezos / Leonardo DiCaprio scene clearly shows that money can’t buy sexual attraction.
I've notified people I know when they end up on HN. Also, maybe some analytics thing?
I didn't take any issue with it, in fact i had already wishlisted this game based just on the article, even though the article had next to nothing to do with the game itself, in my view.
> And you may want to use tolls as a friction point to reduce the number of undesirable or less profitable men.

May as well just ban the sub-180 midgets who are wasting their time. Then charge a premium for having a choice pool of candidates for the other half.
Well, unfortunately, yes? The EU can fund and field a military if they so please.

And with recent events, they might want to.
How short are peoples memories theses days? Just a month ago Biden was literally telling the world that Russia would likely invade and it was front page news. Now people act like it is a shock and conspiracy theory.

January 19th,

>Biden said a full-scale invasion would be “the most consequential thing that’s happened in the world in terms of war and peace since World War Two”, with the risk of spilling outside Ukraine’s borders, and “could get out of hand”. He said that Russia would prevail militarily in an invasion but would suffer heavy casualties. “This is not all just a cakewalk for Russia militarily,” he said, noting the military aid the US has provided recently. “They’ll pay a stiff price, immediately, short-term, medium-term and long-term if they do it.”

This is the same day Russia gave its last and final request for US assurance that it would vote no to Ukrainian NATO membership.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/russia-could-a...
Ukraine Conflict Update 9
Putin might have just kick-started Europe’s green energy revolution
The comment is about the display layer. Yes [almost] all computer languages are Turing complete; the distinction is about the level at which they produce drawing instructions. Some simply set particular bits in memory that cause pixels to light up. That's essentially how the original Mac worked. More abstract is producing instructions to "draw a rectangle" or "rotate all future lines by 20 degrees." That's the "display list" approach and it's more flexible than manipulating raw pixels.

More flexible still is producing commands that can contain loops like Postscript. Now we're in tricky territory, because it's easy to make a mistake that e.g. produces an infinite loop and the whole display locks up. And it's much harder to reason about such things as the update rate of the drawing process because the drawing commands are themselves Turing complete.

This doesn't matter when you're merely printing because there is no refresh. Not so with an interactive display. That's why the "Display" in "Display Postscript" was a big deal.
This is not how it works for the majority of people. Not saying it doesn’t reward winners handsomely, but not everyone is a winner
I got a text from a friend saying he had seen a post on the HN front page from a site with my name. He wasn't even sure it was my site.

I hadn't spoken to him in around a year so it was actually a nice way to start a little chat :)