skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're conflating two separate things: bank-to-bank person-to-person transfers and Adyen, which is a merchant acquirer. Merchant acquirers and credit networks operate under different terms. Chargebacks exist because there is a demand for them. They exist because customers want them - and yes, even businesses want them. It gives folks the confidence to buy without having to worry about trusting the merchant (because they trust the network to resolve a dispute). It increases average ticket sizes and payment volume. This is a good thing that crypto lacks. Finality isn't actually what you want in most cases.

However it's irrelevant to this conversation because it also doesn't apply to any of the networks I listed. Adyen != FedNow. The systems I listed actually do provide instant settlements - as the money hits your account it's yours to spend.

If for the bank, settlement isn't instant (and that's an if because again for the services I listed I don't believe it to be the case) they can just do what everyone else does and borrow against it for basically no cost while it settles.

Again, this is a solved problem and broadly not an issue.

[edit] Just as I suspected, FedNow settles instantly. [1] And all for the low, low price of $0.045 per payment, and $0.01 per invoice! I know, its pretty unbelievable they found a way to decrement a number in one database while incrementing it in another database without involving a global network of graphics cards, burning down the rainforest and re-inventing the very concept of money. (that is to say, without "going Rube Goldberg on it").

Unlike cards, SEPA does not have an additional authentication layer, such as a CVC check or 3D Secure. Consequently it is important to have good risk management tools in place to offset the threat of fraud.

And this? Literally describes crypto. Because they both offer instant, final settlements without a second factor like a CVC check or 3DS.

[1] https://www.moderntreasury.com/learn/what-is-fednow
Shame, no fenced code blocks.
There's plenty of simple webservers around. I used to use one at school that was a single (likely self-extracting zip) exe file that ran Apache on the given port; the document root was configurable, but defaulted to the relative path ./public_html. I would be surprised if there isn't a project somewhere that's effectively a QT gui to start a Python webserver like this[1], as a single self-contained exe file.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44586441/ddg#44586701
This is why I'm thankful for my rent controlled apartment. No surprises down the road at all with rent increases being capped to something reasonable; as long as I continue holding a job I can pretty much always afford this apartment. Otherwise, rents could surge past what I could afford any day, as wages rarely keep pace with rents.
Finite Gmail Addresses Without '+'
They have some data on this (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p55b.pdf, pages 33-35). Out of 509,917 examinations, 18,988 resulted in a refund. There was $7.0 billion of tax refunded in 2020. For comparison, there was $17.2 billion of additional tax generated with additional recommended and unagreed amounts.
So…

- Not having anyone watch out for you

- Buying slaves/child porn/weapons in countries with a “backwards stance” on them

- You don’t need crypto for that. A lawyer could do it for you.

- See above

- Use any other currency that’s not undergoing hyper inflation
*edited for flagging
Experiments with Style Transfer (2015)
Hello!

I've been working on this project as a quick way to develop competitive web games to be played on any device.

I started by finding a way to abstract away many of the nuances with making a multiplayer game like synchronizing state, matchmaking, scaling servers, ranking system.

The framework lets you focus on gameplay in your server-code by updating the game state stored in JSON format, which is automatically synchronized back to clients. On the client code, you simply react to the changes made to the game state. Going a step further, I then built a simulator as part of the framework that replicates the full platform but is very lightweight for local development.

I want to continue improving the platform, but will need some help from web developers that want to make some games. I am allowing any type of game as long as its turn-based. If you are interested, I'd be happy to help you from start to finish.

You can view our GitHub here: https://github.com/acosgames
I was really referring to the part of your comment about the NSA's ability to intercept the hardware.

It's true that any any software that allows auto-updating can be used to load arbitrary code onto a system, limited only by whatever additional safeguards are in place. In the case of the OS vendor, that can't really be guarded against, but it exists farther up the stack as well. Chrome and Firefox can just as easily load nefarious code onto your computer, limited only by what the OS prevents (which is generally more on a mobile platform, thankfully) and what their own reputation can sustain if they were found doing so.
Agreed. One thing that just occurred to me is that this title does give the author the freedom to entirely dictate the contents of a guide on "how other people should act". Nobody will disagree with the contents since they say it's a personal thing of theirs, though judging by the thread the disagreement the title already instills might be worse.
Here in Norway, the government fills out our tax forms for us with all of the information that has been reported to them by our banks, our employers, etc. It is then our responsibility as tax payers to look over the tax forms, add anything not included, and adding any additional claims for deductions.

By comparison, the needless busywork that the IRS puts the tax payers through is nothing short of ridiculous really. It only serves to waste time and effort, and there is plain and simple no reason whatsoever why the IRS could not do it like Norwegian tax authorities does. Our system here in Norway is not perfect either, but the citizens of the United States, and the US government, would benefit hugely from a tax filing system built to help you file taxes the way that ours does for us.
There is nothing in this post specific to adult education. The same exact issues interfere with exercise, diet, sleep, relationships, career advancement, etc.

In a world where adults are given freedom, the government doesn’t generally take part in motivating them to do anything outside of paying taxes, avoid breaking laws, participation in military conscription. Nearly everything else has always been up to the individual or their social circle to generate motivation.
I recently started an open-source tax solver, partly because I'm not a huge fan of Intuit: https://github.com/habutax/habutax

It isn't perfect since its a young project, but I've attempted to simplify and modularize the process of creating/maintaining forms to allow for that part to be crowd-sourced as much as possible (and I'd love your help!).
Where that money goes is not what’s up for debate.

We have conservatives non-stop calling for “reduced spending” and “tightening the belt” who are all too happy to cut everything they feel “their people” don’t need, but the big ticket items - military, pensions, etc. - are arbitrarily sacrosanct. Well, it’s not actually arbitrary. It’s because they want to hurt “the right people.”

Reduced spending will never be fair to the people on the receiving end.
You can make the exact symmetrical argument if tenants are not allowed to pick landlords (which is what happen in practice). Well, except about rent increase that happens anyways.
> What is important is them knowing how to improve, not how they rank against their peers.

100% agree with this. I don’t see how it’s fundamentally incompatible with grades. If anything, a pre-post grade change, imo, would be the best indicator that they have learned how to improve.

How about this - don’t put limits on the number of times an assignment can be resubmitted. Grade each submission on the same scale. Don’t give the kids the grade right away. Give them the written feedback, talk to them about how they did, ask them if they want to do a resubmit. Once they answer, then reveal the grade. Repeat as many times as the student is motivated to do so.

I love the idea of marrying up evaluation, iteration, objectivity, and not disheartening kids early. The point about iteration and feedback is the best part of the article; I just don’t understand why it requires eliminating graded assignments.
Russians kidnap head of education department in Melitopol, try to force changes
A subset of the type system and standard library has been, but not the whole thing. It’s foundational stuff though so that was really great.
They didn't claim that this happens because of government interference... -_-

It's also not a theory.
Nice! The other day I wanted to do something like this - ended up with docker to have a clean HOME, but bubblewrap might be easier and faster.
It's all well and good to have a library with fast sin/cos/tan functions, but always remember to cheat if you can.

For instance, in a game, it's common to have a gun/spell or whatever that shoots enemies in a cone shape. Like a shotgun or burning hands. One way to code this is to calculate the angle between where you're pointing and the enemies, (using arccos) and if that angle is small enough, apply the damage or whatever.

A better way to do it to take the vector where the shotgun is pointing, and the vector to a candidate enemy is, and take the dot product of those two. Pre-compute the cosine of the angle of effect, and compare the dot product to that -- if the dot product is higher, it's a hit, if it's lower, it's a miss. (you can get away with very rough normalization in a game, for instance using the rqsrt instruction in sse2) You've taken a potentially slow arccos operation and turned it into a fast handful of basic float operations.

Or for instance, you're moving something in a circle over time. You might have something like

float angle = 0
for (...)
angle += 0.01
<something with sin(angle) cos(angle)>

Instead, you might do:

const float sin_dx = sin(0.01)
const float cos_dx = cos(0.01)
float sin_angle = 0
float cos_angle = 1
for (...)
const float new_sin_angle = sin_angle * cos_dx + cos_angle * sin_dx
cos_angle = cos_angle * cos_dx - sin_angle * sin_dx
sin_angle = new_sin_angle

And you've replaced a sin/cos pair with 6 elementary float operations.

And there's the ever popular comparing squares of distances instead of comparing distances, saving yourself a square root.

In general, inner loops should never have a transcendental or exact square root in them. If you think you need it, there's almost always a way to hoist from an inner loop out into an outer loop.
Gah, it's an asymmetric war. I feel like, as programmers, we should be able to leverage automation for individuals to fight back smarter where corpos fight harder.

Might be hard to do without incurring the ire of the state, whose allegiances will probably not lie with the bearded fat man spamming Visa's webforms with the contents of their own emails or whatever.
https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/managing-my-account/up...
Higher-end properties will have fewer problems. However a too-high rent for a given property also means more trouble.

This is similar to the observation that larger species live longer, but larger individuals of a given species live shorter lives.
From the title alone I also assumed some sort of organizational management tooling. I'm not sure how that would be achieved in the context of a code editor, so the actual plugin makes much more sense.
This is an interesting situation for FOSS licenses. AGPL doesn't necessarily prohibit commercial behavior. I think if all the maintainers truly wanted to prevent anyone from commercializing it, you'd go with a source available license like BSL or creative commons.

It's interesting because having a group of disparate humans come together and say "yea, we hate the current thing, let's build something better and not commercialize it" doesn't typically happen. Kudos to you folks!
Does this support Graphql subscriptions as well?
“there is a broad and deep tradition of fighting the government and not going to jail like Navalny.”

Guess the 98% Federal conviction rate isn’t accounted for when talking about the deep tradition of citizens fighting the government.

Personal opinion, all governments are corrupt, including the US
"Weasel words" is a term and it's correctly used here. I don't understand how you think it's "completely wrong"; it's not. It's also not abuse at all to object like that.

And engaging with an argument requires understanding it, and their post is a pretty good way to get an understanding of your actual argument. Unless you mean they needed to engage with your quote independently of what your argument is, which I would disagree with.
The years in which I've had a refund, I have had the amount directly deposited. The years in which I've paid have been through a software portal that supports credit card payment.

I, personally, have no idea what the government's "communications" have been regarding taxes outside of news articles.

Either way, though, this is no competition for a year's worth of massive advertising campaigns.
You're supposed to update the ratios as time passes and the context changes.
Currently don't support any query operators, but yeah it would be very useful. Will add that functionality soon.
If anything, we just need mandated personal finance classes in high school since not everyone has parents/family to teach them.

It would go a long way.
True, but is anyone singing today? Perhaps the headline should have been "The Forgotten Women of [...]" instead. Less ambigious.
> only using a single CPU core

How does it go when you deploy a unikernel on EC2 (or on any IaaS where the hypervisor is managed unlike bare-metal) with multiple cores? Is there a way to start a unikernel per core on a single instance, or are you bound to use single core instance types only?
Almost every criticism above could be applied to the current mainstream financial system too.
Even basic things like window borders, our Windows 10 desktops at work don’t have them and MS app window backgrounds are white. If several windows are overlapped and there’s a small window in the middle somewhere, good luck trying to find the edges to move it. It’s just a sea of white with text scattered about.
And The Guardian has growing anti-American sentiment. Yet they both publish excellent reporting.
It looks to me like they tried to flinch or at least didn't close it like almost everything UX I've seen on the chromium bug site. Pretty impressive given that while gnome is external its not an actual standard of the sort the Posix or RFC networking gangs kick each other in the crotch over. If they aren't publishing formal standards to an outside body that starts picking up independent interested parties, I think they will have more options to go down from their current quality whether or not the current quality is acceptable to critics today.
Yep, you're 100% right.

I was genuinely shocked to learn that slack admins can configure it so that certain folks can read private chats. Once that became known, most of my team offloaded to discord/keybase (at a previous gig with toxic leadership).
> Reminds me of how certain South American indigenous tribes have this very complicated ritual to prepare Cassava. They didn't know it, but it removes cyanide and makes Cassava way safer to consume.

This is basically how a lot of modern experimental science still works. Sort of black/grey box scientific reasoning.

We have better theories, and better instruments for verifying those theories, but in the end? A bunch of people have high failure rates, but one guy's thing always works. You go over and ask that guy why his always works. He shows you his process and you are hopefully able to ape him. This knowledge is crystallized and handed down. Perhaps even formalized and written up if it's important enough, but often not.

There's a word in tech for people who are good at this sort of "grey/black box observe the world and make it work without really knowing why" skillset. That word is hacking.
> Build housing until the median number of applicants for a vacant home becomes 1 or 0. Make landlords desperate again

This is so silly.

Who's going to build these hypothetical housing units? So many that there are more houses than applicants.
I see lots of “google is evil” narrative here… in reality they could add a feature to collect spam flags and still disregard user preferences. It’s just that the data will probably not help them, since adversaries are much more motivated to manipulate it for SEO profit than the average user who is unlikely to repeat that search
> So, naturally, given what may be an unconscious existential dread that one day the world may realise that front-end is more or less solved, front-end developers like to make sure that there's always something new to do, rather than admit that a problem is more or less solved.

Can you really not think of one thing that you couldn't do in the frontend 10 years ago that you can do today? Or that is significantly easier to do today than it used to be? Nothing new or novel or of value has emerged lately? I understand that your comment was intended to be inflammatory, but come on. Use your brain.
No, In Ronin for a while there was no ether (they wanted free transactions) so they had a special rpc endpoint that could accept “free” transactions with gas priced at 0. They still process 4/9 of the transactions on ronin even though they introduced a paid gas now — RON
I think you are right: A city government or business wouldn't do this because they would have to take on the entire cost themselves because they don't have any control over the other end of the more global balance sheet: the rural and suburban areas.

A state-level entity could mandate it as part of construction code for 2 reasons:

1) Even the higher construction-cost apartments would be more financially solvent over the long-run than continuing to subsidize the alternative rural or suburban lifestyles.

2) Having nicer attractive apartment lifestyles would entice more people to move to more sustainable urban areas rather than the environmentally and economically unsustainable rural and suburban areas.
This is where the analogy fails, I think, because it assumes a static market price, or a lack of competition for the tickets. Where the price changes or competition changes availability, we run into the same issues where those who already have power/money are more able to exploit the system than those who have to collude just to have a shot.
> And that is without counting the returns on the investment. British officials reckon that three-quarters of the total cost of the transition to net zero will be offset by benefits such as more efficient transport, and that the state may need to spend only 0.4% of gdp a year over three decades.

That also omits by far the largest return on investment, which is frequently omitted: Preventing the costs of climate change.

People who criticize actions to prevent climate change often talk about the economic impact of those actions. The economic impact of not preventing climate change - in addition to the impact on human life - is usually far greater. The question is not, 'how much does this change cost?', but 'what are the outcomes of our various options?'.
Climate scientists have long been calculating a remaining CO2 budget (that would prevent the worst from happening if humanity didn't go over).
This gives rate of CO2 emissions as kg/s.

Economists surely can come up with some number of USD to be paid for the emission of 1 kg CO2 (by looking at some economic reference numbers) that will effectively render 10,20,...,90%,99% of all different uses of CO2 emitting processes unprofitable or economically infeasible.
Fortunately "Landlords" is not a single entity, so there absolutely is competition.
My understanding is that most Western European get what amounts to a "final bill" for the previous year sometime early on each year. It shows what you owe. If you don't want to contest it, you just pay it and you're done.

The fact that our government has made such a process for fulfilling a legal obligation speaks volumes about the mafia-like nature of our federal government.

I pay lots of property tax where I live. But its just a bill. I can and sometimes do dispute the amount owed. But imagine if each year instead of that process I had to hire an independent team to determine what I owe, make a case for that, then submit that to my local tax authority. That's basically what the IRS does with individuals.
In which country?

Japan in the 1980s was booming and would’ve been magical.

In the US, the 1980s was a sort of economic rebounding
from stagflation and high oil prices of the 1970s.

The crack epidemic, the renewed “war on drugs”, nuclear war (“the day after” was a big deal), blatant racism, terrible American cars, and high interest rates?

I don’t miss those at all.
What's your point though? Does the free file system not work correctly or something?
Didn't know that. I googled 1980s cereal and sure enough: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/70437468476516/
I believe GPT-3 has a transformer-based architecture. So it doesn't recursively ingest it's own output in each iteration. I believe attention-based transformer models have enough complexity to be able to learn what you are talking about on their own.
It'd be nice to see a refutation of his arguments, or at least a recognition of them. As it stands I've just seen two ad hominems in a row and not much else.
Grades are not about equality. Grades are a model of what life will be.

At your job you will be graded based on how well you are able to do the work that is required from you. When you apply for a loan you will be graded and receive a higher or lower interest rate based on how much of a risk you represent. It's imperfect, it's unequal, it discriminates. If you follow the rules you get better outcomes.
This page weirdly freezes my browser every 30 seconds or so. But reloading it you can then move to another section quickly. Strange. But very interesting how these treasure troves keep turning up, some day well into the future people will be ecstatic that someone took the time and made the effort to preserve all of this.
Sorry, but what? Every big C/C++ project is regularly plagued by memory-safety issues. This is a blog post from Chrome where the majority of bugs are memory-safety bugs: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/stable-channel...

This is a project with world-class resources for enforcing memory safety, and yet they regularly encounter this class of bugs.

C and C++ do not provide sufficient tools to prevent memory safety, and this has been demonstrated across basically every project they're used in.
But… you want those trouble free tenants, you need to do your job. Which is a problem for many landlords.

The guy who rents the house next door to mine decided that lawn care was too much work, so he spread and wet leaves for the express purpose of killing the lawn. Winter is over and he is now surprised that his surgeon tenant doesn’t want to live in a house that appears derlict.
I live in a small ~100k city that is a mix of commercial, light industry, and residential. (both apartments and typical suburban-style). We don't operate at a loss, but I do pay > $10k in property taxes. So, people are willing to pay these prices, the model is not unsustainable.
Usually when the solution is "just remember to do X", you've found a bad solution.

Re-approach the problem from a different perspective - companies don't value their customer's privacy enough. What solution can we put in place to force them to care about their customer's privacy? Can we force them?

You have to start there for a worthwhile solution.