skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are thinking only from the side of a customer, who already has it easy with the existing payment networks.

Merchants factor processing fees in when determining pricing which means the cost ultimately gets passed on to the customer. The merchant would of course like lower transaction fees.

But legitimate merchants also want to comply with consumer protection laws and have happy customers even when unpleasant things like mistaken charges, stolen credentials, etc. happen. There is a real value provided to both buyers and sellers when transactions are regulated and reversible. The payment processor's fee is the cost of that value.

Now, it may be that payment processing is a horrendously inefficient market and the processing fees are much higher than they need to be given the value they provide because of lack of market competition.

However, your product does not appear to compete with other payment processors, because it offers little of the value that they provide.

> The problem that crypto can solve is for the merchants, like TFA. Patreon charges absurd rates because payers are problematic.

Yes, and your product doesn't charge those rates... but nor does it make payers any less problematic. Fraud still happens. People still get their identity stolen, or have their kids grab the phone and buy $10,000 in Robux. It's just that with your product, merchants don't have to care.

You have to wonder what kind of merchants would consider that system a significant win. This sounds like tour company buying a passenger bus and choosing the cheapest bus with no seatbelts or a roof. Hey, it saves them money! But, you know, it's not the best deal for the passengers.
Not enough. Between path limits and "this file is in use by another program" nonsense I regularly ran into while developing on Windows, I switched away and never looked back.
Most statically typed languages compile down to object code which runs in one of the most dynamic runtime environments imaginable. What are the types in the source code but “comments”?
It's cryptographically secure, but the weakest link in any system is mostly likely the people.

The value lies in the network effects and rock solid maths.
Those super powerful microwaves were real. You just need them to be huge and expensive. Turns out 6 seconds vs. 6 minutes doesn’t matter much compared to the unit being the size of a fridge vs. a toaster.
wow, I feel the opposite. 2008-2016 was peak boring for me, then everything got exciting and terrifying - Trump, covid, war, rapid progress in AI, reusable rockets.

you can live a boring life but you don't have to. break the cycle!
Although it's a point of pride that someone did manage to get D understanding the recent Win32 API specification extremely quickly (D is ridiculously good at this kind of metaprogramming), the bindings that actually ship with D at the moment are hand-maintained.
> need to find a State where the Senator votes agains t Green Widgets but the people of the State benefit from the Green Wudget factory?
Then it's easy to convert / lobby / bribe the Senator?

Nope. Find a state where the Senator votes against (or, more likely, ignores) green widgets. Show that their people, specifically likely voters, even better if both in their party (primary) and generally, like them. Commission polls, run ads, show them the data if it exists, and if it doesn’t, credibly measure it.

Most people opt out of this because (a) it’s tedious and unsexy and nobody makes an HBO drama where the protagonists are lobbyists and they don’t win with a massive protest, (b) they think the system is more corrupt than it is because (c) they think their leaders are more aware/plugged in/scheming/competent than they really are. It also doesn’t work for issues that have already polarised. But that is not most issues.
Interesting!

I've never thought of doing commits in submodules. We use them a lot at work but only in a "import a specific revision of this other repo into our repo" sense, if we needed to make changes we would do them in the repo that the submodule points to and then just update the ref that the submodule points to.

What's your use case for making and committing changes inside the submodule tree?
SVD performs poorly for compression in terms of accuracy / compression ratio. As the Bolt paper said, for that, product quantization is the way to go. However, the accuracy trade-off is still pretty big, that's why it is mostly used for coarse similarity recalls (such as faiss or scann).
You're comparing establishing democracy with overthrowing it?
This has been fascinating me recently. I've been trying to implement it as a general 'engine control' solver in the game Space Engineers. It seems to be a perfect tool for the task but actually turning it into working code seems to exceed my skills.
In which case they can use Subversion. Or Dropbox since it essentially offers the same features. I don't think there is anything bad about it, just that it solves different problems.

Older systems like CVS are also still in use, but it appears that none of the old systems really lasted more broadly and aren't useful for the needs of today.
The Tor Project 2020-2021 Annual Report
What do you mean "falsely accusing"? Looks like Xe's blog was correct, V was vaporware back than.

According to this post, it still kinda is.. At least the most interesting parts like unique memory management is 100% vaporware.
"serialization code"?

Maybe it's an issue with Java. In Rust if I add a new field, I just wrap it in an Option.

When de-serialized, old objects have a None, new objects with the field have a Some. When serializing it's just `Some (5)` instead of `5`, if it's an int.

No runtime crashes from nulls, either.
I've actually wondered if we'd be faster to full home automation if you made slight modifications to the home itself to enable more purpose built factory style automation to take over.

- switch to zero wrinkle foldable clothes and use an all in one washer dryer -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gIi4u6NdV0

- self cleaning toilet and bathroom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CCI-ysfFr8

- faux wood tile floors for robot vacuums/mops

- smart oven with food prep subscription - https://www.tovala.com

- grocery delivery service

Really its the self cleaning bathroom that probably isn't all that common just yet. The rest can be done today.
Honestly, quit bitching about a voluntary transaction you’ve agreed to.

“Ooooh. My rent is too high. People should stop renting from Marsid Realty.”
In 50 years, I see gated communities of wealthy people being guarded by fixed mounted automatic AI controlled machine guns, or high powered lasers.

We won't have hugh areas of homlessness because the powers at be will be actively using that Broken the Window Pane theory to harass people to the point they commit suicide.

Technology will advance, but only the wealthy will be able to afford it.

The wealthy capitalists will rely more heavily on Globalism to peddle their wares.

I don't even foresee a chit show like current India. Meaning the wealthy live in ivory towers butted up to absolute slums.

The American wealthy will not stand for that. They don't want to see the squalor.

(In all seriousness, I'm concerned about how America is going to treat the huge spike in homelessness post Covid. I don't like what I'm seeing now. Meaning the powers at be are just harassing the homeless until they move along. I'm embarrassed the way my town of Sausalito made a minor problem of homelessness (Anchorouts whom have been there for over a century), and made the current recipients of a ham handed approach to rid Richardson bay of anyone who is poor much worse. Yes--that last sentance is grammatically terrible, but I'm just to tired to fix it.)
I present "The emotional argument for static typing".

Static typing is good because dynamic typing measurably makes me sad. Therefore I want the company to use static typing.
> That's when they'll be done, right?

If everything goes well and according to plan, yes. But I am not going to make harsh decisions based on best-case scenarios.
These claims about the NYT are popular on the right, but can you substantiate them? Otherwise, it's just like the opinion pieces everywhere.

> The NYT or WP Editorials aren't?

I don't know about the WP, but I gave plenty of examples of the ideological spread of the NYT opinion pages.

> t doesn't matter if you polled 200 articles, because your criteria are debatable

OK, debate them! I think they are rather objective and uncontroversial.
> My take is that only a civilization advanced enough to program their own genome at will would be truly moral. Natural genomes have grown out of a ruthless fight for resources, and we can't truly educate out our natural tendencies.

John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes still speak, even if coached in neo-Darwinian language.

But this is not how Aristotle saw human nature. Humans have to be given habits to live in accordance with reason, but that is their nature. According to him, bad habits ruin humans. And the main source of bad habits is bad laws, so it all depends on the kind of society you are born into.
Show HN: Dream Makers Community – What is your dream and what is stopping you
Hey HN!

Did a website to share what is your dream or what you want, and what is stopping you. That way the community can help you remove the obstacles to make the dream come true or that is the naive approach hehe. Imagine I should add users, a captcha, a mailer, more things, but it is a start. It is built with Rails and plain ERB with Bootstrap and the source code is at: https://github.com/altuzar/dream_makers

It is 100% inspired by the TED Talk by this lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2rG4Dg6xyI

Hope you like it!
How many hours do you, the human, have to spend maintaining the type-checking of that test suite?
Because no other new languages lied that much?
> If you want to build binaries for a distro, build in that distro.

> Compiling on one distro and then expecting it to work on another distro is a foolhardy errand.

This is why Windows, with all its issues, is still relevant in 2022. I got tired of updating my distro and software stopping to work. If you are on happy walled garden land of the main repository you're fine. When you need some specialized software or something that is not being maintained anymore, good luck. And at the end of the day, people just want their work done.

This is why Windows with all bloat, advertising, tracking, security issues (no click RCE in 2022, wtf) STILL is going strong.
Excellent. I'd been using mpv to watch age restricted videos after the embed verification bypass was fixed, but this is much more convenient.
How do you use macOS's quick note feature?
How do you use quick notes?
What's your creative workflow?

or what do you think of this feature?

Let's share!
And then you discover your program can't resolve hostnames because "DNS responses shouldn't be that big".
Interesting, but it's a piece by the POTUS, so we might call that an exception.
There is a whole other world of people who do not live in the EU.
As a former founder, I used to be invited to do "entrepreneurship training" for some senior employees of large corporations. They'd be given training on the basic entrepreneurship stuff (MVP, lean canvas, rapid iteration), and then encouraged to start their own thing for a few months while still on a paycheck.

It was a lot of fun. I sat down with the people we were training for lunch and asked what they thought of it.

They said it was very clever. It was a way to get rid of the senior employees who were around for over 10 years and too expensive to legally fire. It was a way to get them to quit on their own will.
The Simplex method for solving LPs is fundamental to linear programming and is still widely used.

Interior point and barrier at the same thing. Interior point is a worst-case polynomial algorithm, while simplex is worst-case exponential.

Despite this, the simplex algorithm remains competitive on the average case.
Maybe it's more helpful to think of submodules as a convention in .git to manage commit ids of external repos for code your main repo code depends on, with some assumptions (ie. own subdirectory) and porcelain that might or might not match your workflow with respect to how that external code is integrated. It can get tedious if having to deal with submodules of submodules etc., but so would other ways to track ids of transitive deps.
I used the term sloppy when perhaps I should have used the term fluid, that is, it does sound better to say that one character flows into the next as opposed to one character slops into the next. Also, thank you for your posts, I love learning about stuff like this.
Before Patreon people had direct links to donate to them on PayPal. You can still that (or use Stripe, or Ko-Fi, or whatever).

So why do people use Patreon?

The answer to that is why Patreon can charge what they do.
What if you pay via cash or debit card or don't want to cut off a company (like Apple or Google or Amazon) completely? What is your remedy..chargebacks are a last resort. How many can you do before you get cutoff?

Normally chargebacks are for scams or fraud not because something came broken from Amazon.
All it needs to do now is to make some unbelievably pretentious waffle about how it's been perfecting a joke it's entire career only for the joke to turn out to be "What's the deal with poptarts!?".
Last update in March of last year (2021). Appears to have run into issues both in game and for the developer. Still, some fascinating ideas.
I'd guess "by the start of 2023":

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61817647
Market cap is USD_price * Units_in_circulation.

As Tether is supposed to be pegged to the US dollar price, the drop in market cap is a reduction in the # of units in circulation.

People are exchanging Tether back for USD equivalents. Each time this happens, Tether (the company) "burn" the tokens which were in circulation.

This burning is likely done in batch mode on a schedule, which would explain the timing pattern of drops in market cap.

People are likely pulling out of Tether because there has been long ongoing rumors that they don't have enough USD backing their coin, and with recent crashes like Luna and Celsius, who would take the risk of holding a worthless token which might they may not be able to redeem for anything in future?
But the languages that are null-safe all have Option, Optional or Maybe.

So if I do need a null value, I can make the field optional and the type checker will help me figure it all out.
V's documentation is making it clear that it's not a purely functional language, so there should not be any such expectations. It also gives it's interpretation of what a pure function is, which other languages do as well, and there are various opinions about this.

You appear to be unbothered by OCaml describing itself as "mostly pure", whatever such "marketing" truly means, but seem to take strong offense to V. Seems like "mostly pure", in either case, should be equally acceptable or generate equal outrage.
We have an enphase system with a solar array that's a bit under 10x that size. We paid about $60k (ignoring tax credit) in the bay area, and I think we overpaid.

We have about 2.5 watt hours of battery per watt of solar panel, which seems about right around here. (The battery is fully charged by the end of day about 95% of the time.)

Your quote has 6.6 Wh/W, and the PV bit is small, so fixed costs are also biting you.

Edit: we have electric heat, and you probably don't. Our worst case days are cold and cloudy, so perhaps the battery sizing makes sense, though if you want AC at night, you'll want enough solar panels to charge the battery and run the AC.
He looks perfectly rational to me; Maybe it’s rational under an angle that you don’t appreciate, but if, say, he was on your side, maybe you’d clap and say “What a great move! He’s excellent at strategy” to every turnaround he makes.
Do you think it is unfair to point out the lies?
It’s really funny because centi- means both hundredth and hundred. And it’s a doublet of hecto!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centi-
Why do you keep saying "competitors"? Do you really think every V detractor in this thread has their own pocket language they want to shill for at V's expense?

I don't think that's the case. I believe most people just don't like seeing others spreading lies and like when they are refuted.
Bionic Office (2003)
> Politics though is awful and puts sociopaths at an advantage.

That's what the sociopaths want you to think. Look at the most successful people politically, who got the most done - Lincoln, FDR, MLK, etc. They weren't sociopaths. The recent sociopath at the top of the ticket underperformed their own party.
Yes, but apparently that's "segregation". The notion is ridiculous. The gifted programs are open to any New Yorker, even poor first generation immigrants like the Chinese in Flushing, as long as they put in the effort to meeting or exceed the standards.
Even if that infrastructure existed I still think we'd just see more mini-patreon companies rather than some glorious totally asynchronous graph of payments.
When I see a job req out there for traditional desktop GUI skills (C++, Qt, Win32, etc.) it's for a military application or a medical device.
a x b = a if b = 1
When did you begin to notice symptoms? Around 33?
> I wonder if the loud, vitriolic right wingers make it seem like the right thinks as a united, extreme block, when maybe there’s a large, quiet group that is not well represented?

They are all voting for Trump and the Trumpists. How moderate are they?
I like this, im stealing this idea
One thing I do t see many mentioning is the low temp heat pumps currently available are pretty expensive last I checked (think $15k), that’s simply not feasible for most people. We need something in the 4-8k range so the average joe can justify it. Perhaps this new set will be cheaper.
TikTok Migrating US Data to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Even if you bought your rig on credit, you're still on the hook for making those payments regardless whether you have the machine off or on, so the cost of the machine is still a sunk cost.

Therefore, it'd make more sense to keep it running for so long as the machine hadn't been repossessed and the profits from mining outweigh variable costs such as electricity.

Repossession and liquidation can be a slow and costly process and the initial cost of the machine is also a sunk cost from the perspective of the lender and a mass wave of defaults could put their liquidity at risk. So, they have an incentive to make accommodations to the borrowers in order to ensure at least some payments keep flowing.
Many of the ideas in this are better than what we ended up with. I don't see anybody logging into online accounts to use their accoutrements.

This video makes me want to cry.
My best employee quit on the spot I wouldn’t let her go to her college grad
Wow, that's a lot of words thqt can be summarized in one sentence: "We cannot call it Unix because Open Group copyrighted this term, but it inherits from 4.4BSD so I am going to call it Unix"

.. And even such a simple statrment contains error: it's not copyright, it's trademark.
Levitated (Flash based demos, use Ruffle to view)
And how did you conclude that author is "falsely" making any accusation? Is it similar to your last claim (1) that V doesn't have "null" (which has been debunked)?

(1): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31084446
McJWS keeps the hot side hot, and the cold side cold.
I tried doing the DIY HEPA filter because I was poor. It's not much better than just buying a cheap filter that's basically the two put together. It was okay but not too effective.

Getting rid of moss cleared up most of the trouble. And antihistamine (Vitamin E) shots.
You can still design 99% of the bridges in existence today with commercially available software and hardware from 10 years ago.

Why do you want to make a bridge that barely stands?

Instead you want your engineer to:

1. build it cheaply and quickly,

2. maintenance is cheap and non disruptive.

3. probability of unplanned failure is small, eg once in 100,000 years
Apple keynotes we're such an amazing thing that every 6-12 months to this day I remember how much I enjoyed them almost two decades ago.
It's quite an oversight for the writer to not mention even once Ethereum's switch to Proof of Stake, which will shut off all mining in about two months' time.

Any way, it would be nice if, after the switch to PoS, these GPUs could somehow be repurposed to processing nodes for an open and decentralized machine learning application, to rival centralized and closed efforts like OpenAI.
I see i18n and regional/language support going backwards recently, especially in the public cloud, which is very US-centric.

So for example, Azure SQL Database is forced to us-english, “dmy” date formatting, and UTC time zone. This cannot be changed.

Just give up on living outside the US or using local time.
Fair would be to charge the lower of $X or X%.
I agree, but I think much of this was the excitement of watching Jobs. The feeling you got was something else.
I mean it's true
I came across a forum thread for Baja California, where thay have and discuss off-grid air conditioning in a very hot area of Mexico. Interesting discussion.

Air Conditioning Off The Grid:
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=97584
Ground source heat pumps have become popular in the past 10-20 years. Natural gas has historically been cheap enough that replacing it may not be cost-effective if your house is connected to a gas grid. When replacing other heating sources, a ground source heat pump typically pays itself back in 5-10 years.
Well no, because organizing is legally protected.

Keep in mind these legal protections actually made unions weaker, so be careful about what you wish for.
> There are git options for managing these difficulties

This is git in a nutshell. Most defaults are very bad, and so using git from the command line is an exercise in learning which flags to set to achieve a sane workflow.
“Covid could seemingly pass between the floors and walls and the realization even the strongest measures couldn't stop it was terrifying and shocking.”

Yet, masks work?
Well, not quite. Negative liberty is an ill defined concept that descends from the need to santize the religious concept of god-given right.

In reality, anyone exercising their right to property, for example, interferes with anyone else who might want to use it. It is only justifiable insofar as such an interference allows for more positive liberty in general, which is why positive rights are the only ones that actually matter (indeed, the only pure negative rights that don't imply interference in the actions are other are in factr the positive freedom to do what one wants with oneself's body).

While your interpration is the classical liberal (and religious) dogma, generally when people hear free society they understand it as a society where you can reasonably do what you want, not a society where property rights are absolute. And indeed such an interpretation is much more coherent.
I had a similar thought. Plus, if you're reading the text on the internet you might just assume something written weird or poorly is written by somebody whose first language isn't English.
A knife is a lethal weapon. And before you go into how much easier it is to kill someone with an AR15, remember that more people are killed with knives than AR15's.
But it does need a server to collaborate, doesn't it?
I think that was the original purpose of Leetcode and similar. Who knew something spelled "leet" would become such a corporate name?
The author definitely makes that sound impressive, but I don't think humans know how to approach within 1000km of any star without dying.