skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credit card charges for businesses can be considered a marketing expense. Marketing expenses are paid to convince people to do business with you. While some consumers just use credit cards routinely for transactions, others participate in incentive programs (like getting cash back).

Even for people who don't care about the credit card incentive programs, the feeling that the credit card company will take your side in a dispute is itself an incentive to do business with companies you don't know very well.

Consider a traveller shopping in a foreign city, or someone buying things from unknown third parties via Amazon, or buying an app from an unknown vendor in an app store. The customer gets certain reassurances from the credit card / Amazon / app store vendor that certain scams are less likely, though not eliminated. And if you do get a counterfeit you might be able to get a refund just because you say you deserve one.

Yes, ultimately the money comes from consumers, but the same is true of advertising and every other business expense. As a consumer you can often get a discount if you shop places with low overhead and pay with cash, but with perhaps somewhat less assurance that you're not getting ripped off.

Fraud prevention isn't free. The police do some of it, but maybe you want more protection than that?
An alternative solution is to use Linux namespaces to move the Wireguard into a dedicated namespace[1] and use /etc/netns/$NAMESPACE_NAME/resolv.conf for DNS configuration dedicated to that namespace[2]. AFAIK that also plays well with systemd-resolved.

[1]: https://www.wireguard.com/netns/

[2]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip-netns.8.html
GUYS, THIS SNIPPET IS A FAKE. The story didn't happen. Either it‘s just somebody doing it for the lulz, or it's Russian disinfo.
> This is not surprising?

I had assumed most Americans knew the US consisted of 50 states, so their estimates for the population of a single state should have started at 1/50 = 2%. Clearly I was grossly mistaken.
what is ZO?
One problem is that 'diesel outages' on school nights are extremely rare or nonexistent. Maybe deliveries are late or pumps break but it seems like a solved problem. Electric trains are also a solved problem and are hardened from many power outages too.

Whereas some work needs to be done to harden the infrastructure at the school district level to avoid electric bus outages.
This is probably also why both companies give out free licenses to primary and high school students (at least in Australia). It causes a positive feedback loop, where their software (e.g. photoshop) becomes the industry standard because most people have been taught to use it, and it is taught in schools because it is the industry standard.
isn’t this what most companies that make most of their money based on ads do?
You can also move your butt behind, over the rear wheel, to help stay grounded against the force of a strong press of the front brake.
Yes, I know. I'm just being rather cynical at the moment.

Given I'm at 50% work capacity right now, I actually do spend many hours of most days of the week with my children.

I'm not saying there's a recommended maximum of time to spend (24 hours a day seems to be the ideal number recommended by mommy blogs), but after a certain point, I am out of energy to thoughtfully and meaningfully engage with my children.

It really puts into perspective the work childhood educators do on a daily basis, actually.
If only these devices had a clock capable of measuring time to within 1 nanosecond.

If one has such an accurate clock they might be able to accurately plot their position on earth to within 1 ft merely by checking the timed pulses of orbiting satellites.
TCP/IP was standardized in 1983. Nine years later I had an email address. Two years later I had full IP access (telnet, Usenet, ftp, web). I never stopped using it, even though specific protocols like ftp faded away.

In contrast, I bought some cryptos five years ago and dabbled in Solidity too, but there was just nothing to do with it because it’s so clunky and wasteful. I don’t expect to ever touch that stuff again.

That’s obviously anecdotal, but it’s clear by now it’s nothing like the early Internet. That organic buy-in isn’t happening.
The design and structure in that campus building picture is beautiful. Wow.
AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat (2002)
As well as what ISL said, if the universe is toroidial it seems like it's larger than our visible horizon. While images of an individual galaxy might be hard to tell if they are repeated, we can see enough of the structure of the universe that if our visible horizon was much larger than the real value of the universe and there was wrapping going on, we'd see it. This isn't the exact sort of video I'm looking for, but it's close enough to what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyyRwxpHo Everywhere we look we see distinct structures.

It is not a bad thought, though. It may well do some sort of wrapping around, just at a larger scale than we can see. It's an open problem.
"Decentralized systems by nature suffer for slow adoption"

I don't see why that's self-evident. Decentralized applications get fast and wide adoption all the time, e.g. Napster.
Does anyone know the best way to get in touch with NPM and/or GitHub moderation? Regardless of whether this unsourced statement is actually true in any way, what happened here is a trivial NPM ToS violation and the fact that it happened with such intent should be grounds for nuking the account. NPM does not allow any form of malicious code.

I’m all for the fact that I’m not owed anything at all from open source devs, but the open source community can’t survive unless we both adhere to and hold others to adhere to the base ground rule of not sneaking malware into packages. Plus, it’s probably against just about any ToS on the planet, and probably illegal.
You can’t say a social network is objectively better when all of the people you consider to be cool don’t use it.
Ironically a MacBook would be the best hardware Linux could presently run on.

If everything works reliably well, this could be a game changer for Linux.
Do you realize the irony of calling out a troll, while you yourself have presented no evidence?
One should not value the time of operation as much as the total value of science returned. If JWST can engage in science operations for even a year, it will transform our precision understanding of the universe.

This is like switching on the first electron microscope when everyone has only ever had optical microscopes. We will see new and surprising things with unprecedented fidelity. The big question has always been, "will JWST's engineering actually work?" So far, it looks like it is working very well.
There is a safe harbor for business with under 15 employees, but otherwise, yes
Ask HN: How do I learn to deploy a side project?
And we could just eliminate rape if we tried harder, obviously. Why hasn't Abbott eliminated rape in Texas yet?!

Look, I agree we should try harder to reduce crime. But arguing having insurance against fraud is bad and we should instead just try to get rid of crime seems incredibly naive. Sure, there are things which could potentially be done to help reduce fraud, but there will still be fraud. In which case the value from the insurance is still >0 for the victims of said fraud. And a ton of Americans will still be a victim of fraud even if we try harder with technology available today. If we were to move to all Blockchain transactions, those people would have no recourse.
because they're a new account? or for some other reason
I don't understand the logic of claiming that something isn't a bubble because other some other class of assets is even more volatile.

Was the housing bubble a lousy one just because home prices didn't go up 100% per year?

> Some guy on reddit's wallstreetbets recently turned $17k into $600k with amazon call options.

This is just gambling. If you are open to extreme risk, you can make plays like this on anything. It doesn't mean there is or isn't a bubble.
They did say in their generation which could basically mean anything at that point
It's just another choice people can make. If it suits them to denominate their transactions and stores of currency in bitcoin they can, if they wish. If they don't trust pay pal there will be countless other payment processors with varying levels of decentralization to suit whatever needs they have. If they don't like bitcoin they can use dollars, euros, doge whatever.
Thanks, was not aware of these issues
Headsup: The link to Github Action does not work.

The difficult part for me is maintaining the docs over time. I can generate 80% of what theneo does automatically in swagger style. The remaining 20% (manual editing, what your platform offers) is the missing part with my current solution, yet I cannot see how theneo solves updating most of the doc and placing back the manual edits.
Thanks for proving my point just five minutes after my post. What makes it difficult to discuss crypto is that people usually mean bitcoin etc. But that's just a single application.
On top of that, I have access to forests, rivers and a prairie preserve without having to drive, and it is fantastic.

Well, I happen to know most people in rural areas in the US don't have anything like this. Nearly all land in the US is cris-crossed with fences and "out in the country" on average presents one with no place to hike pleasantly anywhere in walking distance to one's private property.

The last time I lived in the country, I could walk along a busy highway to a small graveyard and that was it. Living in-town, Nevada City, I have far more walking options and can see forest, rivers and mountains because having lots of paths helps this place maintain it's tourist town status. Of course, when I lived in Berkeley, CA, I also had lots of walking options, including through forests and hills and that was full "urban" experience.

American rural life is often unhappy for this and other reasons. A lot of people living in rural areas are poor and angry with little interest in despoiled, formerly natural areas they grew up in since they generally descend from workers in extractive industries that have moved on (mining and logging).

So, I remain an advocate of dense, urban living.
Why not ban Saudi for bombing Yemen? Or torture Bush administration and anyone who voted or supported them?
Huh?

There's no law requiring the "made in USA" label on goods made in the USA. US ranchers who don't want to use the label don't have to.

The WTO doesn't like trade barriers, especially US trade barriers, and a strict "made in the US" label is a barrier, so their opposition is a given. If such labels had no effect, WTO might argue against them on principle, but if they did, that would be a reason for WTO to argue against them.
I don’t suspect I’ll intent. But once you’re not playing to the illusion of any sort of long term, other people won’t invest in you as much (peers and managers). Some jobs tolerate this day to day transactional nature well, others not so much.
It was surprising to me to learn that airlines are basically banks

https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/comments/rgkne9/how_a...
From memory, that sunshade needs to be many orders of magnitude bigger than any telescope.

Which probably means it would have to be a "cloud" of millions of smaller shades.
Crypto transactions are no less reversible than ACH or wire transfers. The warm fuzzy feeling you have about ACH is you have a trusted third party intermediary that contractually or legally guarantees they will give you the same amount of currency back under certain conditions. If something goes wrong with that ACH/wire transfer and you don't get your money back, you'll have to sue, just like you would crypto.
I’ve been developing an opinion that it has more to do with propping up commercial real estate and protecting the value of existing investments.
1) Any thoughts on the conflict of interest? Any insider can easily take advantage of a market like this.

2) Is there any element of a decision market here? Are you asking users to just predict, or help you decide? The incentives change a lot in the latter case, since one can get cyclic dependency -- self-fulfilling prophecies.
You are talking about his idea of "the intolerant minority", but it has nothing to do with over- or under-representation of people in certain demographics.

If anything, it is almost the opposite. The idea is that intolerant minorities can get to have their preferences dominate if they are more-or-less evenly dispersed among the larger population.
Maybe they both are, but in different ways, like mocroservices vs a monolith. Some applications are just better on one platform than another, and vice versa.
That’s fair. Perhaps there’s a tendency to lionize the preindustrial era, paleo parenting, that emphasizes maximum amount of time spent.
Googler here, so here's a sample size of one.

1) I personally use Google, because it works for me. I will admit freely that part of this may be that I've gotten used to framing queries such that it works with the search engine that I'm used to using, and that's probably true for many people commenting on HN.

2) Every so often, these posts will inspire me to do my own non-scientific experiments such as using the same query, say, "Dua Lipa Levitating" or "Go modules vs packages" on say, DDG, Bing, and Google. When I did this experiment most reently, I generally find that Bing and Google are both more personally useful for me and DDG is less useful (but as the old latin saying goes, "De gustibus non est disputandum"). I will note that DDG had the more obstrusive advertising at the top of the results (Stubhub and Urban outfitters), and Bing and Google did not have any adds that I could find for that first query.

Given my personal evaluations, it tends to cause me to discount what many of the DDG enthusiasts have to say about DDG being is way better, simply because it doesn't accord with my own quickie experiments. But hey --- maybe it's because they enter in search queries differently than I do.

3) Given the hyperbolic and/or highly emotive nature of some of the comments about "holding users hostage" and complete lack of nuance over "violating users' privacy", again, it causes me to have a hard time taking everything else that rhwy have to say seriously.

4) I sometimes suspect people are remembering the past with rose colored glasses. I remember the search quality of Alta Vista (and with all due respect to the people who worked on Alita Vista and having had friends who worked there), the results were pretty crappy, and Google's results were heads and shoulders above somoe of the other competitors that were available back in the day.

5) All of this is my personal opinion; and users should feel free to use whatever search engine they want, and competition is a good thing.
Its a fairly accurate clone of the Model F77. I think the smaller one's a clone of an F62. There were at least 6 different versions of the Model F of different sizes, including a standalone numpad/macro pad. Its admittedly confusing that its called "model F" when there's more than one model. I think the F77 is believed to be exceedingly rare. Same goes for Model M, there were lots of variations made by IBM.

Here's an article that shows an original F77 that someone was working on restoring. If you're ever looking for information on obscure vintage keyboards and all of their variants, the deskthority wiki and forum is probably the best place to start.

https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=22176

According to Chyrosan (probably the most well known vintage keyboard collector/reviewer) the new ones are one of the only times he's seen a clone have better build quality than the original. The keys do feel very slightly differently but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Some prefer them to the old and vice versa.
It depends on what your side project is/does. If it is in JS, then I'd use a tool like Vercel. If it is any other language and a webapp, look at Heroku. If something else, then do some research.

Do the getting started guide for your language of choice.

Then map the steps you did for that to your app.

Here's the list of devops tasks a PaaS like Heroku can help with: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2312
The DOJ site has some accessibility problems:

- links don't meet WCAG AAA contract guidelines

- focus is not communicated with a reasonable amount of distinction in many cases. Ex: https://imgur.com/a/bcrScWg

Maybe someone should sue them.
I believe that they have achieved diffraction-limited alignment. What about the image suggests that there is more work to do?

The starburst pattern is part of the intrinsic PSF, not a signal of alignment error.
Is this state sponsored? Why isn't Twitter stepping in? It is rarely that easy to steal an entire Twitter account.
Some intuition on #2: the biggest use-case for compound literals is to pass a one-off literal data structure into a function that takes a struct (or array) for input. But most functions you'd do this take arguments in that form because they don't want to pass each field or entry as a parameter, e.g. there might be lots or an unknown number of them, so they take a pointer. So for compound literals to be useful, you kind of have to be able to take an address of one.
Their data mining is far more valuable than a one-off license, I guess.
I had thought poorly of George Soros based on other people's words, before reading all of the comments written thus far in this thread. Watching the video you linked, cemented my notion that Goeorge Soros is being treated as a scapegoat. Thank you for sharing the video, as I had never actually listened to him speak before.

In that video, he seems like a logical and emotional person who can keep emotions in their proper perspective. Everything is nuanced, and he can navigate it. It looks like he has a high emotional IQ and intelligence IQ.

Regarding the last segment of the video that contains an audio clip, it talks about personal development. Personal development can happen in terrible enviornments like the German occupation and Nazi confescation of Jewish assets. He was glad that he developed as opposed to not developing.

It's a little odd that he called it a happy time though, and I am disappointed that he does not believe in God, but that doesn't mean he should be made a scapegoat for unwinding of financial problems started by others.
It would seem to be convenient if https://asahilinux.org/ also worked the same way (serve the script if it's curl, show the page if it's a browser) for those that don't want to remember or use the short URL. If you pop that suggestion in the IRC/Matrix room they very well might make it so.
> They have almost completely forgotten the velocity achievable when a team works together.

Your comment simply assumes that superior "velocity" to exist. Many of us have not seen it. For myself, and many of my fellow engineers in other companies, I found that I'm much more productive in remote settings. Our team's productivity objectively increased after we went remote. Conversations with colleagues shows this to be somewhat common in many other teams and companies.

Maybe your personal in-office experience has shown this fabled "velocity". For many of us it never existed, and instead we experienced constant low-value interruptions leading to inefficient loss of focus, lots of time spent "at work" but not actually working, instead socializing or wasting time in other ways that feel good.
Here, let Jeff Dean explain how it works (and why this is a complex problem that a lot of the naive 'build a better search engine than Google' miss)

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fc32/72302461b74217662085a8...

The original article's description of how Google search signals work doesn't even scratch the surface of all the signals it's using.
Hasn't Google been doing that for over a decade?
Doesn't IBM already own Red Hat? Will AOL make Red Hat and Fedora Linux easier to use?
The US attracts plenty of shady money. Places like Delaware, South Dakota, Nevada, Wyoming create all sorts of opportunities for hijinks.
I really do love the fact that mass deportation and the digital equivalent of building codes are being treated as equivalent. Peak HN.
Which shows how important a seemingly small number of long term unoccupied apartments are.

Another way of looking at 2% vacancy is over 20 years an apartment is vacant less than 5 months. People move, die, go to prison etc, so there is some inherent friction represented in a 98% occupancy rate. Dropping to 1% long term takes more than just higher demand it would require increases in transaction efficiency.
> Bitcoin is also a collectable, with a fixed number of them (21 million) out there to collect.

Bitcoin is fungible, unlike collectibles. There is no value to holding one bitcoin vs another, if "different bitcoins" even makes sense as a concept.

It can also be subdivided, so it is more accurate to say that there are 21 trillion units that will be out there.
How so? Clearly these guys have heard of NTP. They are talking about ns precision systems, not ms.
Applications like Spanner work with nanosecond-level time difference between datacenters. PTP works in microseconds and can even go up to a few milliseconds, making it useless for actual time sensitive use cases.
YT and google.com very pokey here in Austin TX
The big misconception you speak of is being that the requirement is met if a <compiled binary> is released under a FOSS license but that isn't at all what I said. I said the licensing of the <source code> - not of any compiled binaries - is what matters. Swapping <source code> for <compiled binary> of course entirely changes the claim being made. The freedoms afforded by FLOSS licenses necessitate the availability of the source code as a pre-requisite to being met. So one does not meet the terms of the license of the source code if users cannot study/modify it and cannot distribute modified versions of it on account of not being able to modify it due to not being able to access it. Access to the source code in FLOSS licenses is intentional but also a side effect of the freedoms already afforded. There is no 5th freedom requiring the source code to be available because it already must be available in order to meet the requirements of freedoms 2 and 4.

But I'm still entirely wrong.

I'm completely and unequivocally wrong due to two other requirements - both of which actually pertain to the source code and not its licensing. There are in fact two requirements placed upon the source code itself to be considered open source under the OSD or even as free software as the FSF defines it. (1) It may not be deliberately obfuscated. Which makes me wonder if programs written to be deliberately obfuscated are technically not allowed to be considered free-libre or open source software? Such as programs written to compete in IOCCC or if the intent here matters and it's more about releasing obfuscated versions of source code that was not already written to be obfuscated and was made obfuscated with the intent being to prevent others from studying/modifying it. That one I think is a bit of a technicality. (2) The other being that the source code, if not released with the program, must be available in a well-publicized manner at no more than a reasonable cost of distribution/reproduction (ie no charging $1,000 for access to the source code to claim it's "technically available").
> I want to see something that organize the Internet in a more useful way than just plain text search (e.g. what about Youtube-style recommendations for websites, old-school Yahoo-style dictionaries, AI categorization, Dejanews-style search for webforums, a button to filter out everything that requires a login or whatever).

Yes, I would love this. I was recently looking for reviews of a certain woodworking tool. The vast majority of websites googled returned were clearly bot created sites. I came away thinking I wanted a curated list of a few sites actually created by humans.