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Are you joking? The products page is laughable compared to the big cloud providers. Hell, it has "We create custom-fit solutions" on the landing page. If anything screams non-cloud it's that.
I was expecting this about disrupting the MasterCard/Visa duopoly and sure was I disappointed.

All fintech relies on two things: A bank and a payment network (Mastercard/Visa). This makes fintech an inferior product and most fintech I have tried have an abysmal customer service. Also, because fintech does its verification thing over the Internet, it seems that they rely more on their AI to block/ban people than a phone call. Fintech also seems to be more down to lick regulation, banks and mastercard feet at the expense of their customers.

This explosion of credit cards/offers/rewards is hardly innovation. It has already happened with banks (every big store has its own credit card) and it's usually a bad deal for customer as it requires "loyalty" to that brand.

That's it folks. The market has been cornered by a couple guys and it seems the regulatory barriers have been lifted high enough that nobody can enter again. Remember when MasterCard/Visa used to send these cards for free without any KYC whatsoever?
I remember the exact point in my life when I realized how much difference rote memorization makes.

I had the opportunity to write some MC68000 assembly code, at a time which was not too long after having written a complete emulator for it in C. Writing the emulator required me becoming familiar with every single instruction in all of its nuances, and exactly what they all do.

So, having that behind me, I sat down to write this code and it was like wow ... I could just spew the code without having to look anything up. It was so easy!
Obviously there's a spectrum and my personal experience is not representative for the industry as a whole. From the people I've worked with in 2 decades, maybe 2% choose Windows over Unix when given the choice, even when most customers were using Windows. At my current job, I literally know nobody using Windows (>$1B software company with high 3 digit or low 4 digit number of engineers). Not sure why anybody thinks a Windows only policy would be a great idea in this labor market.
That's a good point. If it's like the other Sonos mono speakers, you can (in software) designate them as a stereo pair working together in arbitrary configurations - which would suggest that there may be a way to do it.
Actually, it would be worse than pointless - it would advantage american firms over local ones, since only the local ones would have to obey the privacy laws, thereby allowing US ones to undercut local firms with funds obtained from selling user data.
Maybe you want to make you question more clear, do you mean Tesla with FSD, or only with autopilot, or with autopilot off, or in US highways, More lethal then all cars(old or new, cheap or expensive), motorcycles, trucks. If you compare with other luxury cars with similar safety system you might be disappointed and if you would then be honest ab out safety you would have to stop propagating the fake stats otherwise Tesla shares might fall and lots of suffering will happen for the fans.

If you question was if self driving is safer then humans the answers sr probably no, if it were even close Tesla would have shown the numbers not kepp them hidden.
Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response, fluctuation of the pupil, involuntary dilation of the iris?
It doesn't hurt that the Salt Lake is sadly shrinking currently. So it's even worse than it probably was when they arrived.
I see this kind of thinking a lot. We often focus on the change itself rather than on the systemic response to the change. I used an analogy once to show how I thought about it that went like this, "The only thing Excedrin does is trick your nervous system into not reporting that you have a headache, so it's worthless?" In context people can go from 100% functional to 100% non-functional when gripped with a migrane or severe headache. The meds can mitigate the symptom and they can get stuff done that they wouldn't have gotten done otherwise.

So covering parking lots has a couple of externalizing factors as well. First, it really does mitigate CO2 pollution by replacing fossil fuel power with PV generated power. It also makes customers more willing to spend more time in your store if their car isn't being baked. And finally if it saved you $2M over 25 years, that is $80,000 a year which allows you to hire additional service staff that aren't being paid out of sales margins, and the increased level of service has been shown to both support more sales and higher margins[1].

What I'm trying so illustrate here is that there are additional factors over a straight "saves a bit more than it costs".

[1] There is a wonderful report on how Nordstroms became the most valuable per sq ft store because they focused on service, service, service. I believe it came from the Harvard Business school but it I didn't find it with a quick search of my archived papers.
Unless this is something different I think most people want to generate that information -- "look I'm a trustworthy borrower, give me good credit score!"

Like the credit score system is dumb, sure, but I don't make the rules and playing the game can save me about a hundred thousand bucks off my mortgage.
prices have been going up for years. the standard is gone.
If you talk about YC work at a startup, I can tell you that when hiring from that site that 99% of applicants didn't read our job description and missed to realise that they are not qualified. This leads to candidates not getting a response.
Also this transfer should be handled by a branch of the government - in the US, this would probably be a new Bureau of E-Bucks that sits alongside the Mint and the Bureau of Printing and Engraving as parts of the Department of Treasury.

Running all this transaction infrastructure and dealing with fraud and whatnot costs money, but so does making coins and bills. There's no reason the digital equivalent should be for-profit business aside from "this is how it happened and now the companies occupying this niche have a lot of money to wave at elected officials who could deprive them of their ability to skim a couple percent off of 75% of the transactions in the entire US economy".

"I don't want the government to know what I'm doing with my money" is not a valid objection to this plan unless you can lay out a convincing argument that a couple of entirely for-profit companies knowing what you're doing with your money is any better, and that they will not roll over and provide transaction records the instant the government asks them to.

edit: oh wow it looks like this is finally coming in the next year or two, according to another reply to the parent comment! https://www.moderntreasury.com/learn/what-is-fednow I will be delighted to stop giving the credit card companies a few pennies of every single transaction I make, and return them to their original role of providing a line of credit if I want one.
It's actually extremely easy to distribute something signed so that you're sure it's "authentic", at least that no bits are wrong. Assuming that somewhere in the chain, there exists trust. But it's the same with books, you have no way to know a book is authentic without buying it from a valid store
show me the mrr
MBNA (acquired by bank of america) was doing this in 2001 [0]

0 - https://www.banktech.com/core-systems/mbna-offers-single-use...
As is a fully independent EU alternative.

I support reigning in the NSA, GDPR seems like a weird way to do it. I don't follow the logic.
Actually autopilot seems to be just as safe as driving without it

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/10/28/new-te...
You do know that nobody in US is forcing you to use this site or any other US companies for that matter. You are doing it with your own free fill.

Also, remember the time when Germany decided to go after their own people? How does laws like this help when it comes to situations like that?
I think the concern is complacency, and the inertia that existing security practices leads to security gaps in the future. "However, I don't know one organisation that doesn't have some outdated security guideline that they cling to, e.g. old school password rules and rotations."

Or put another way, humans can't be ready and wary, constantly and indefinitely. At some point, fatigue sets in. People move in and out of the organization. Periodic reviews of security practices don't always catch everything. Why something was implemented was forgotten by institutional memory. And then there's the cost for retraining people.
Well, there is the web browser engine that the SerenityOS folks are making for their OS and IIRC their goal for it is to be advanced enough to be able to visit their Discord using it.
Pretty much every US president from about Fillmore through Andrew Johnson (with the notable and obvious exception of Abraham Lincoln) is widely regarded as being on the short list for worst US president. Admittedly every president in the pre-Civil War period was arguably dealt a pretty bad hand but none of them seriously tried to change course--and, of course, many of them wouldn't have been elected had they tried.
when I worked at a web development company a few years back, they used axios (http library) and I just assumed it was related to Axios (website), like it was made for the website's use and open-sourced. I honestly had no idea they were wholly unrelated.
I think he started much earlier - his blog mentions 2014: https://levels.io/product-hunt-hacker-news-number-one

I agree though, that sometimes you need to "just do it" using the simplest tools out there.
"I’m not a lawyer, but it’s my understanding that the Google v Oracle case established that APIs aren’t protected by copyright."

I'm no lawyer either but I have read the Supreme Court's decision in the case. It doesn't address whether APIs are protected by copyright. The Supreme Court generally makes the most limited ruling needed in order to resolve a case. In this case there were two issues at play.

-Are API's copyrightable?
-If so, was Google's use of the APIs fair use under copyright law as a jury had previously ruled?

In order to make the most limited ruling needed to decide the case the Supreme Court first addressed the fair use question with an assumption that APIs could be copyrighted. The Court decided that Google's use did fall under fair use and so the case could be decided by the fair use question alone. They therefore didn't bother to address the question of whether APIs can be copyrighted.

As it stands right now there is a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in the Oracle case that APIs are copyrightable which until the Supreme Court does address the issue means they are as far as the courts are concerned. Fair use is a case-by-case defense and the Supreme Court's decision doesn't mean that all use of an API is fair use. This is all very much still all up in the air and any use of the headers from the iOS SDK should be concerned about copyright issues.
I agree it is an area that we have probably already reached peak from labour efficiency stand point. Ofc, machines can get slightly bigger and methods slightly more optimised. But there is good reasons to keep a human in loop and near to fix any immediately fixable problems. Or just to fill fertilizer or empty the load.
Crypto-driven GPU crash makes Nvidia miss Q2 projections by $1.4B
Extremely. The Mormons headed west after trying to impose a theocratic dictatorship in Nauvoo, IL. That didn't go well, and their insurrection was put down.

https://www.flatplanet.news/post/mormon-militancy-and-the-co...

This is just the reprise of the earlier effort.
Seems like a decent amount of training data does end up making it into the output - some of those images have a barely legible "shutterstock" white footer in them or something
I think Apple's credit card does something close to this:

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/04/01/apple-card-virtual-...
If the goal was to stop US companies, the EU parliament wouldn't've thought that the US lived up to the requirements of the GDPR. They assumed they did until courts struck it down
It's an interesting aspect of studying history that you can watch time and peace turn a mass murder into a "disgrace" and "scandal" that "taints reputations" but is "understandable in context". Those may be fair and uncontroversial words with 150 years of remove, but would obviously not have gone over well nearer the time of massacre itself.
> Someone could make this as an argument of user-serviceable

I think the opposite, really. Selling overprovisioned hardware, with differentiation between models happening in software happens because they devices are locked down and aren't user serviceable or intended to be modified.

Users upgrading cheaper, over-provisioned, possibly loss-leading hardware to get more expensive functionality means no one would buy the more expensive model, which would drive up the cost of the cheaper one.
What would push the West and Russia to nuclear war?
But critical supply chain components are more frequent than people would like to think. In a period where sea freight becomes less stable, it's not a question of 'what goods can we not live without' but 'what goods can we not live without if delivery isn't stable and regular'?

The U.S. is already losing sea hegemony. This was a key piece that enabled globalization to begin with.
“It’s [a credit card] a way to pay for things that’s a loan, but it doesn’t have to be a loan if you pay it back on time but it can be a loan if you need money in an emergency.”

This seems overly pedantic. It’s still a loan regardless of whether one pays it back within the grace period. A better way to describe it is a 0% interest loan that escalates to a usurious rate once the grace period date is reached.
We call it Voight-Kampff for short.
So I still think your dog example is too complicated. All you need to know is if there's a 4 legged creature walking around. You can probably differentiate a cat from a dog here. You can also probably differentiate a small, medium, or large dog. You don't need to know the exact type for this data to be incredibly useful. Just knowing the size will get you a lot of useful data. It is really easy to over complicate the situation. A little data goes a long way.
From the Wikipedia page that you linked:
"There has been significant controversy in the academic community about the heritability of IQ since research on the issue began in the late nineteenth century"
"explaining the similarity in IQ of closely related persons requires careful study because environmental factors may be correlated with genetic factors."
"The heritability of IQ increases with the child's age and reaches a plateau at 18–20 years old, continuing at that level well into adulthood. However, poor prenatal environment, malnutrition and disease are known to have lifelong deleterious effects"
"Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to have a large hereditary component, it does not follow that disparities in IQ between groups have a genetic basis.[10][11][12][13] The scientific consensus is that genetics does not explain average differences in IQ test performance between racial groups"
And it continues in a similar way, so there is some genetic basis, but at the same time epigenetic factors seem to matter a lot.
Do you mean "liable" instead of "negligent"?
As of now the two things keeping me stuck to Firefox is:

* uBlock Origin (Chrome based browsers don't seem to block ads as good as Firefox, especially on mobile)

* Treestyle Tab

But Firefox is falling way behind when it comes to rendering my bank websites properly, supporting little standards I use like WebSerial/WebUSB...
How is "Thinking is Bets"? Recommend reading it?
In logic, the soundness of a proof in fact has to do with its interpretation in some universe of discourse. To be sound, the argument has to be deductively valid, and its premises have to have true interpretations in the chosen world where it is applied.

Here we have a valid mathematical argument which is unsound in this world, where its assumptions do not hold up.
Interesting logic. Would you say the people have also voted for the war on drugs?
When you've gotten to the point of saying, "well, it's ok to panic in example code" you've already lost the game. Novice programmers learn from example code, and novice programmers are an order of magnitude more common than experienced ones. A programming ecosystem that depends on 9 out of every 10 people being able to intuit that which the other 1 understands is not an ecosystem that's going to produce good code.

Rust is a minefield of bear traps laid by experts, and I fear for the future of our industry if Go and Java programmers are required by some quirk of network effects or first mover advantage or whatever to starting programming (badly) in Rust.
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Have you been approved for the privileged message content intent? Or you just relying on staying < 100 servers?
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Done using Named Entity Recognition (NER) to detect product mentions in Reddit posts and comments.

As a former architecture student, I'm not surprised to see Moleskin as #1.
Oh wow, I just wrote a reply to the parent comment opining that the government should be providing electronic transactions instead of letting a handful of private companies skim a few percent off of every transaction in 75% of the economy. I'm looking forwards to this!

(https://www.moderntreasury.com/learn/what-is-fednow, from your second link, is a description of FedNow that's attempting to explain it with less financial jargon.)
If you're talking about linux an operating system based on unix from bell labs. then it just an operating system created by a European which is based on an operating system created by Americans. without one the other wouldn't exist.
Wow. Great ideas, thanks for sharing. I'd like to see image>text ai so it can explain what it's seeing, for driving, etc...
> Could a Canadian continue to pay their Canadian neighbour for mowing their lawn through tornado or not?

They’d get arrested and lose all their money. So in practice, no.
Yeah no doubt about high percentages in northern utah (I'm originally from Ogden fwiw). Was mostly commenting that it would make sense if Young used this war as a means to migrate people to the true valley (Provo/Orem/etc). Those towns are easily 90%+ LDS. I vaguely remember learning about this in Utah history but it was not characterized in the same light.
I think this point about spiders would be more compelling if we actually saw that some spiders were lazy and some were not, and the lazy ones died and the non lazy ones didn't. The fact is that spiders and birds and whatever animal just generally doesn't have the desire to "lay in bed under the blankets". If nature gave us the desire to do so, doesn't that mean it isn't wrong if we're using nature as a guide?
What do you mean by "vendors submit invoices", exactly? Not sure I see the value.
Maybe if Rust code wasn't so hard to get working at all, then more of it would work correctly (including checking errors instead of giving up and unwrapping).
This is really excellent. A quick one, is there a plan for us to select a particular android device? This would be particularly useful for debugging apps.

Unlike in the IOS world, the Android market is so saturated with devices, you may not know how your app (camera feature for example) will behave on a Tecno phone.
None of those are really "innovative".
That's the reason to have at least some. It's not the reason to have good dust collection.
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My personal experience with IAM is that it makes AWS awful to work with. I honestly wish it was replaced with an service far simpler in design. CloudWatch is similarly obtuse.

I think you have a point with Lambda though I don't use serverless much. How does Knative compare?
> would my new deployment also be sanctioned?

No. But it would be illegal.

Do you think nobody thought of this in the millennia we used cash and commodity money?
> It will not be legal for miners to run/"execute code on behalf of" smart contracts from the sanctioned list, which can be downloaded from the Treasury web site and is updated regularly. This is very akin to how the sanctioned people list works currently.

This has come up in other contexts before, most famously the idea of using OP_RETURN to embed child pornography into the Bitcoin blockchain.

An Ethereum client must download and execute all transactions in each block in order to determine if that block is valid, and thus learn current state of the system. The client can't know if this "illegal" transaction has been executed until it actually executes it. As an operator you don't have any choice, other than simply turning everything off and "rugging" all your customers.

So let's say you're Coinbase. You have billions of dollars of other people's money, innocent people's money, in your custody. If you refuse to process blocks that contain transactions involving sanctioned entities, or that contain illegal child pornography, you destroy those billions of dollars of assets.

You're not going to make billions of dollars of assets unspendable. Not a snowball's chance in hell. You will process those blocks as the protocol requires. Doing otherwise would be as ridiculous as Google turning off its entire search engine merely because some of its automated actions technically violate laws from time to time. It would be like Intel razing a whole semiconductor fab to the ground because it learned that some of the sand used in creating some wafers was sold by a sanctioned country.

There is absolutely no way the US government is going to demand that kind of destruction of value as a matter of compliance.
The investors (generally, abstracting here) in mature-ish assets want a 20%+ gross IRR they can transact on and actually exit so they can return $ to their LPs and therefore get their fat bonuses. Aspiring to reach some arbitrary milestone is likely not on their radar; just doubling revenue might get them there.
It's very difficult to get debt financing if you're running out of cash, and this article is focused on companies that are (at risk of) running out of cash.
I 100% expected this to be a story about long-running Electron apps. I thought "Yeah, that's probably accurate, I don't restart even monthly normally and the Electron apps I run are always open so 10-15 sounds about right".
It doesn't need to be literally their hand through their hair, it just needs to be some action which is easy to perform but complicated to photo-realistically simulate in real time from an arbitrary starting condition. Have them tug on their clothes to see how the fabric moves, have them or a caretaker turn a nearby light on and off such that their illumination changes, etc.
Isn’t this what limited liability corporations help ensure?

People need a way to limit downsides, not have zero downside.

It’s like giving a student a service chance at a test to help ensure they learn the material. But giving them unlimited attempts with no risk doesn’t create the same environment.
Most software engineers are in the income range that will bearing the brunt of the "new" IRS. So, enjoy your audits, this is what you voted for.
It might be more appropriate to consider the computers you currently have in stock, and how you could power them, and swap out parts to keep them running, in the future.

Repair skills are about to become very valuable in many parts of the world where they were previously dismissed due to globalization.
Google just released a tech writing course

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/overview
Meaning without reference in large language models