skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, all of the other payment processors have settled on somewhere between 2-4% fees to handle fraud. See PayPal.

So either Patreon has an order of magnitude more fraud going on or is massively wasteful in its business operations. Probably both.
Maybe there is also possibility that the restrictions in the referenda are not the ones that they intended. At least this is my experience of many policies.
Yes, yes, yes the Princeton study.

But I don't think I made any such assumption.
The belief that crypto eliminates fraud is pure myth. It dramatically increase the chance of fraud for customers, and for honest merchants, there is still a risk of fraud.
usbc is the one good thing about the ive years. everything else was a step away from usability for power users.
Do you have more than me?

Then you're rich and I'm not.

This is how almost every single human being alive right now or alive in the past thinks. I have a lifelong friend who through a combination of luck, hard work, and being a legitimate genius is now wealthy ($10,000,000+ net worth and climbing).

However, he and his wife insist they are not 'rich'.

If you own a penthouse in a 30 story condominium and a lake house on the Great Lakes and haven't flown less than first / business class in the past 10 years, you're rich by any nation's standard.
Ironically, it's the city where construction is the hardest to get permission for.
In nearby Philadelphia, it rarely gets that cold, and not for extended periods of time, but when it does, we bust out blankets and space heaters to make up the difference.
Yes, when banks issue mortgages, they create money. When a non-bank (you, for instance) issues a mortgage, new money isn't created. When counting how much money there is, you count the bank balances, not the mortgages.
Spray foam is expensive, but it pays for itself pretty easily. You can diy drywall hanging simply enough so you’re really just paying for the foam and someone to plaster, you can paint yourself.

A cheaper option is rigid foam with canned spray foam around the perimeter.
How is it “stable”? It’s based on open source software and they are trying to make money on hosting and support. Unfortunately, the three large cloud providers (including the one I work for) are taking the open source distribution and hosting it, providing support and integrating it with other services.
FWIW I think GP has a point, a lot of this stuff just bleeds into normal Internet slang. Despite what the news would say, I don't expect any rando posting pepe memes in a discord to be a hardcore /pol/ dweeb.
Ah ok that makes sense. Thanks!
> Do you apply these same arguments to other moral hazards like pollution?

No, it's not in the same category. Pollution is a cost that is imposed on an uninvolved third party.

I do however apply the same argument to things like gambling, fast food, video games, traditional media, etc.
Exercise: Based on the above discussion, why should squaring an n-digit number be faster than multiplying 2 different n-digit numbers?
There's nothing static about processing payments and providing support.
Having seen the code for a couple of "intelligent assistant" features: Yeah, basically a bunch of "if" statements. (The IA for the Apple Newton was a ton of special cases. It was clever, but certainly not 'intelligent').

Thus, the technology of AI has improved from a sea of spaghetti code that no human can understand, to a bunch of neural net weights that no human can understand. I love the march of progress. :-)
On mobile, you also get that stupid video on the middle of the page attached at the top once scrolling by. And you can't tap it away. Just, why?
Obnoxious, and most importantly incorrect. It is certainly not the case that the sole thing driving crypto prices is tether.
Can you please justify the "churn" stated in the article about a worker needing to see a medical professional due to an infected tooth, then shortly getting fired one week after the event automatically with zero conversations between him and his superior?

Mind you this is a worker that was meeting all the bullshit metrics Amazon foisted upon him. His only mistake was being human and needing to see a dentist.

I should ask you this yourself, do you have any decency?
are there actual numbers for this?
> THink about it: when is the last time any of you read a user manual for an OS?

Literally yesterday.
Pro tip - always wait until the money is in your bank account!
I doubt the kind of person who's initiating chargebacks on patreon donations is going to go to small claims court to claw back their $10 donation.
i think the problem is that most people try to follow the recursions in their head which is hard.

the biggest lesson regarding recursion is that if you're lucky enough to have your problem fit with tco (or have guarantees your problem is small enough), it's actually way simpler to both write and verify. write the base case, write the inductive step, translate to code, done. no hard reasoning about the code required because math. fact and fib demonstrate this nicely.

would prefer if programming languages offered a recursive decorator that would cause compilation or linting failures if tco isn't possible though.
Every time I hear someone talk about "the elites", I immediately think "bat shit crazy" person.

If such a thing as "the elites" exists, you can be sure they are as fractured as any other part of humanity. Put two people in a room, and they will likely disagree on a variety of things. Put a group of people in a room, and good luck with consensus.

And these 'elites' are supposedly world wide, drawn from all countries, religions, cultures, languages which exist.

Yeah. Sure. They all have a plan, work together, etc, etc.

If consensus and action was that easy, then the poor would work together, and remake the world their own.
That’s the other lesson - don’t use poetry or metaphors to express your self because they will inevitably be twisted to suit the corporate interests and not yours.
"ulfheim" is an old domain name that I've had for decades; there's a little explanation on my home page but the short version is that it's from an old BBS handle.

Unfortunately a few years ago a racist hate group also started using the name for their own purposes. Today I've started the process of moving all my hosts to a new domain name, xargs.org .
It depends on what they mean by this:

> The prototype delivers 100% heating at 5°F at double the efficiency, and 70% to 80% heating at -5°F and -10°F. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory validated the performance and efficiency of Lennox’s prototype.

Usually when people talk about efficiency of heat pumps they are comparing to electrical resistance heating (which is 100% efficient). If that's what they mean then they are saying 200% efficient at 5℉, which is not as good as Mitsubishi, which is better than 200% at 0℉.

But in the first paragraph they say:

> The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that American heat pump manufacturer Lennox International became the first partner in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge to develop a next-generation electric heat pump that can more effectively heat homes in northern climates relative to today’s models.

It could be that they are stating efficiency compared to current heat pumps, not compared to resistance heating, in which case they would be claiming quite a bit higher efficiency than Mitsubishi, which would certainly justify calling it a breakthrough.

Another possibility is that what they could be claiming as the breakthrough is the 100% heating at 5℉ part. The Mitsubishi cold weather heat pumps start losing capacity below 23℉, falling from 100% at 23℉ to 76% at -13℉.

I don't think that would be as big a breakthrough as double the efficiency of current heat pumps, because it wouldn't make it so heat pumps are feasible in climates too cold for Mitsubishi. But it would make it so that in places you can use a heat pump you might not need as big of a heat pump with the new technology as you would need with a Mitsubishi. That could lower up front cost making converting from something else to a heat pump more feasible for many.
The first two do not seem different for polling vs. voting in a referenda.
> And pretty much everyone in the world (except those with central air) needs a couple of air conditioners now.

Absolutely not. Where I live we had 34°Ctoday but I would still never buy an A/C unit, which will ruin your health (heat/cold shock, bad air moisture levels, ...), waste immense amounts of energy and makes leaving the house a pain as the rest of the world becomes uncomfortable. Most of my friends here earn very well but I can't think of anyone that would see a reason to buy one. Live with the temperature and adjust - like the famous Iberian or Mexican siesta, where you simply accept that midday are low energy hours.

But even beyond this, the reason for A/C use is just bad architecture and city design. More trees in the streets can lower the temperature in the street itself and nearby residences easily by 1-2 degree. Less absorbing surfaces (asphalt, stone sidewalks, ...) make another difference.

And as regards the houses, there are plenty of ways for passive and energy efficient buildings that keep cool. In the middle east they have built self-cooling houses for centuries.

And in all this, even if you are stuck with bad streets and architecture, you can simply adapt, use efficient ways to keep cool (a fan can work wonders) and drink warm rather than iced drinks and your circulatory system will thank you as you don't switch regularly get shocked with 10-15° differences and you will sweat much less.
I wonder if the ideas used here can make low temperature geothermal systems more efficient. An example is the 760 kW system at Chena Hot Springs, 50 miles east of Fairbanks, Alaska. The system there uses hot water from said springs to generate power using repurposed refrigeration technology.
> How well this does this work for Amazon?

Not so well. Some teams have a high threshold for hiring, some don't, but overall it's been going down because it becomes more and more difficult to find new employees.
Probably 10s
I just duckwent[1] an image search for "frens" and got four Pepes in the first 30 results.

The same search on Google gives me pretty much nothing but Pepes - only 7 images in the first 30 results are not Pepes. Google is pretty convinced "fren" is an alt-right signifier.

1: I am proposing "duckwent" as the past tense for "duckduckgo".
Now compare the battery life and LCD quality.
I think adventure games are poised for a renaissance with VR and oculus quest. in a way its like whats old is suddenly becoming new again.
> It's unfortunate that there are so many cultures where widespread
cheating is condoned, if not outright encouraged. They may be able
to fool their teachers, but how much comfort will that be when the
bridges are collapsing, the pipelines are exploding, the wind
turbines are breaking apart, and all the other activities that
ultimately report to reality and not some human superior who can be
bluffed become impossible to continue?

You're so right. But let me add some other feelings, so as not to
sound like a racist or that British universities are some "great white
hope" to overseas students. This had little to do with them being
Indian. It's a generational thing. In all cultures we teach young
people to game systems. Right from the get go they learn that if they
can buy powerful tools, systems and access then that's fair game.
They're just doing what they've been rewarded for their whole lives
and want to make a better life. To them it's not cheating. I am the
anachronistic throwback here I think.
I think you are attaching a lot of connotations on to a word. Simply by labeling a group of people does not suggest that this group "all have a plan, work together" or will not disagree or be fractured.

Prefer steelmen over strawmen.
> Security tokens would need to follow the same securities laws as centralized solutions

Which securities laws? I'm imagining you are talking about the US as this site is very Silicon Valley centric but not every company is based in the US and there are over a hundred different jurisdictions in the world. US laws aren't the end all be all and the way things are going they might be even less relevant in the future.

We are living in an incredibly global society and there is currently no global governance layer that covers global public goods and digital-only projects. We'll likely develop something in the future but today there are entrepreneurs creating applications and projects at the species level that have no defined state owner and it wouldn't make sense to assign them one.
I always ran into issues when switching branches, merging or rebasing. And then you have to figure out what’s going on. If you’re not used to work with submodules, that’s the moment where you have to learn it. And a lot of people get overwhelmed then.
Mainstream economics including people like the Fed have been substantially more worried about deflation than inflation for the last 5-10 years. Many thought that inflation was dead forever and that their biggest problem was that they couldn't print money fast enough over the longterm to avoid a deflationary bust.

It's hard to understate the degree to which fed economists didn't see this coming.
The thing that only happened once on Earth and that's a prerequisite to developing complex life forms is not endosymbiosis, it's life going multi-cellular. They are not the same thing.

Endosymbiosis is not identical with going multi-cellular, and it seems that all but perhaps one of the known instances of endosymbiosis didn't play any role in us going multi-cellular anyway. In fact this article makes the case that it may not have been critical at all.
I presume the title is related to the list of most frequently used letters in English, etaoinSHRDLUcmwfgypbvkjxqz?
Legal workers who choose jobs off the books do so because they get a better deal out of the situation. They’re not being forced to work for under minimum wage, like many undocumented workers are.

Legal immigrants are not picking lettuce for $4/hr off the books. They’re working at their cousins store making legal wages off the books.
Very nice overview of the Voyager program.

I love the words from the President included on the spacecraft:
“We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.”
East German (GDR) here, born early 1970s.

Let's go through OPs list one by one:

> Don't forget making and mending your own clothes

Not making, or not a lot, but some. Mending, definitely.

> washing them by hand

No, we had a washing machine.

> beating rugs outdoors by hand

Yes! We did that regularly.

> Harvesting

We had the garden in front of the house and an extra one a little further away. We had veggies and fruit in both, lots of it and great variety. And it tasted great. And it was A LOT of work. We also regularly went into the forests for mushrooms and berries and also spent a lot of effort on preserving food for winter.

> chopping firewood

I did that as a kid, a lot, and it was fun! I managed to never hurt myself somehow.

> managing coal.

Yes! We got coal every year, unloaded in front of the house blocking the street for the neighbors, so I, after coming back from school, had to start asap to put it into buckets and slowly move that large mountain of black dirt behind the house into storage. I must have gotten a lot of coal dust into my lungs. It only stopped after reunification when we got natural gas and central heating, which was not an option to buy anywhere in the GDR.

We had our own house. On the other hand, he (in)famous concrete dwellings of the East Bloc, which East Germany had more and more of too to solve the housing crisis that lastet I think well into the 1970s or even the early 1980s, had central heating from the (extremely dirty) coal power plant of the (very large) local chemical factory. Still, even those living in that kind of housing often also still had a garden nearby usually used to grow fruit and vegetables to supplant what could be bought in the stores.
When a device is powered off it shouldn't be relaying info unless there is another device fitted that can do that. I'd check for any fittings on the device that is extraordinary.

For pagerduty normally you have to give location permissions. If you remove those they can't track you if it even asks for it in first place. Hope this helps.
This is a pre-published article from the July 2022 magazine
Notice that today you can download all the raw data sent by the voyagers and create your own mosaics and false color composites (each image was taken with a separate multispectral filter). This is a very beautiful and inspiring project for tech students.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/science/data-access/
> software better than the low low bar set by everyone else

as a former Mac user, I think Mac software is kinda great on ways other systems cannot keep up: constant upgrades, function over form without sacrificing form, when an old/surpassed API is deprecated, community reacts very fast.

But Apple software and especially MacOS?

Not really.
You are thinking only from the side of a customer, who already has it easy with the existing payment networks.

If you are a customer that wants to make a transaction that can be reversed, you go for the credit card. If the value of the transaction is not high enough for you to care (micropayments) or if you rather lose some money but not give away your data, you go for crypto.

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

(Edit: once again, the anti-crypto crowd decides to downvote reflexively and ignore everyone that brings legitimate use cases. Why is it so hard to at the very least consider the point that others are trying to make?)
Git submodules aren't bad in that they're buggy, they do what the documentation suggests.

I think they're difficult to use, because it breaks my mental model of how I expect a repository to work. It creates a new level of abstraction for figuring out how everything is related, and what commands you need to be able to keep things in sync (as opposed to just a normal pull/branch/push flow). It creates a whole new layer to the way your VCS works the consumer needs to understand.

The two alternatives are

1. Have a bunch of repositories with an understanding of what an expected file structure is, ala ./projects/repo_1, ./projects/repo_2. You have a master repo with a readme instructing people on how to set it up. In theory, there's a disadvantage here in that it puts more work on the end user to manually set that up, but the advantage is there's a simpler understanding of how everything works together.

2. A mono repo. If you absolutely want all of the files to be linked together in a large repo, why not just put them in the same repo, rather than forking everything out across many repos. You lose a little flexibility in being able to mix and match branches, but nothing a good cherry-pick when needed can't fix.

Either of these strategies solve the same problem sub-modules are usually used to solve, without creating a more burdensome mental model, in my opinion. So the question becomes why use them and add more to understand, if there are simpler patterns to use instead.
I’d say it gets more constructed and less evolved the further up the hierarchy of civilisation we get. A merchant of 1320 had relatively few laws to contend with, a corner shop in 2020 could not function without many layers of engineered rules for the people who provide them with the services they are themselves required to use due to other engineered rules for the benefit of their customers.
The whole crazy WEF conspiracy movement won't shut up about "the elites", so forgive me if I immediately draw the crazy vibe when mentioned.
not quite as extreme, but today I made a text-post only subreddit for discussion of [English] football topics, without the distractions of pictures and videos or news, if that interests anybeing
Any sources of info on good heat pumps in the European market? I just moved to Spain and am casually looking at options.
This kind of capricious firing to meet a target gets around, I’ve heard about this from people I interviewed multiple times. I don’t mind a hire fast fire fast mentality if it’s getting rid of people that don’t fit, but it has to be justified and should be obvious to the team members. From what this tweet roll claims, and I’ve heard directly, it’s not. You can be a great engineer and get the axe, or you can be put on focus to keep you with a team or manager you don’t enjoy.
For me, this means Amazon recruiting emails go right to the bin.
In summer 2020 local investment advisors were running radio ads with the phrase “worried about inflation? Talk to us”.

It was pretty obvious what was about to happen!
Not once we invent time travel in a few decades.
The security model seems to be "terrible UX defaults that you turn to unsafe defaults instead."

You end up with a lot of gotchas instead of them just working.

The mental model of juggling multiple repos in a non-atomic way also violates the rule of least astonishment. Working with read only submodules smooths this part out at least.

GUI support is slowly getting better at least.
It’s only begun to swing towards usefulness.

We got a decade or more to enjoy this time of “doing things right”
The "secret sauce" of the increased efficiency is that they're using thermoacoustics, which previously had been a technology used in one-off applications with a large budget (e.g. the James Webb telescope uses it to stay cool). Prior to now there were no manufacturers providing the technology to be widely available at scale.
I tend to prefer some of the more 'flat' modern designs in many ways, but I do think people are too binary about the skeuomorphic stuff. They could have modernised the design and still kept some of the useful skeuomorphic cues.

I think what pushed people away from the skeuomorphic stuff is that it feels like the aesthetics can become to feel dated quicker? But I don't think that necessarily needs to be the case.

Like skeuomorphic design in itself isn't 'dated', but the aesthetics chosen can be.
I just wish MacBooks had something like HPs half height expanding Ethernet jacks.
I don't doubt that what you're describing is real, I'm just skeptical that this is unique or has much to do with Facebook, advertisement or "the algorithm tm" in particular.

Thirty years ago your mom would likely be listening to talk radio, if that's the kind of media diet she's looking for. There's lots of deep reasons why people consume what they consume, I just think it's wrong to attribute a lot of agency to these platforms.

It's actually comforting to think that twitter, FB etc are destroying discourse when in reality it's people on the sites, out of their own volition, or through (lack of) education, socialization, etc.
I can't say. That would identify the students and that's unfair.

But, a technical subject that could be assessed in other, better ways
[1], and for which written essays are rather easy to template and do
keyword bingo to get a bare pass.

[1] Making the professor read 100 essays is a cheap option.
There are certainly thousands that pay very well. "Very well" is way broader than just Amazon-level rates. I don't think OP suggested specifically "same or better"?
Actually the presence of an active, neurodivergent figurehead for eth is a more existential risk than anything on btc's end.
Sanders wins if the dems hadn’t cleared the field for Hillary. Not sure about eliminating superdelegates but I think you’re right on that.