skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. By most standards the PRC is stuck in the middle income trap.

To paraphrase an earlier comment I wrote sometime back:

Chinese household median income is around $4,700-4,800 in 2021, with massive disparities between First world comparable regions such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin, and rust belt regions like Wuhan [0]. Even the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has noted that 600 million Chinese earn less that $140/month [1].

[0] http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202201/t2022011...

[1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1189968.shtml
This is something that has been widely known, but forbidden to talk about, for months.

What changed to make it not a banning offense to mention?
Even when the country gov is hostile to USG, the citizens will still use USD. Citizens use cash, USD notes - not USD bank accounts. No bank accounts are involved. The relations between USG and the local gov bears no consequence to the use of cash. I saw through civil wars in the 1990s, and did not see a single use of gold for anything. The next big state fiat was used for everything. Sorry for the downer.
I think it is more likely that TSMC is diversifying away from building only in Taiwan. They have the expertise. Apple's expertise is engineering, design, and marketing.

They don't own their own factories because that is not their expertise, and they probably don't want to bring that in house.
I wouldn't say that's a huge downside as in theory prices should be that little bit lower
That fear isn't irrational at all (at least, it wasn't). About 20 years ago, I had a debit card number stolen and my account was cleared out. It took about a month to get resolved an, in that time, I had some very unpleasant conversations with quite a few people including my landlord about my inability to pay my bills. In the grand scheme, I suppose it didn't harm me--but it was an extremely unpleasant situation to deal with.

Since then, I've only used a debit card very sparingly and usually more as an ATM card in the event I need cash.
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I'm implying it's not possible not to have an human in the mix, not currently and I don't see it possible in the future. The manners in which it would be (or at least I think, with real 2FA, passkeys, et cetera) are not a common sight for most people yet. I would be fine with username+password+second factor, backup keys and that's it, if you lose them it's game over, but only as opt-in (I'd love it and toggle it for every service), or you'll quickly notice most people will lose their data eventually, so you may still need human interaction for the majority of the user base.

The not-so-interim solution, or really what should've been done since a long time ago, is to develop a common procedure that companies that provide certain services (network operators in particular, since the SMS 2FA industry addiction is not going away anytime soon) or generally have a sizeable amount of users must enforce, no asking for internal ticketry for somebody else or the likes. All of these instances should be stored, trackable internally for law enforcement purposes in case of fraud or stolen identity for a determined amount of time. Right now it's just a mess, some must legally ask for ID and yada yada but all SIM hijacks prove it's not strict enough. That's just how I see it, so I'd like to read how you would implement something that would work best and apply to everybody and OP's mother.
I had the impression, only centralized stablecoins had issues in the last crash.

DAI is doing pretty well.
Um.. `dockerTools`/`ociTools`?

https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#chap-images
How about automated filling options....
And in India they have UPI which is similar in the use of QR codes, but facilitates interbank p2p payments
I did not know we could do exec in ssh config so I learnt something new today!

However, I also have a similar setup but for my SDN I use Twingate which lets me re-route DNS when its connected so all I need to do is the equivalent of defining

*.lan

as a resource in the UI and then I can reach it no matter when I'm connected via SDN or not.
This seems like a good overview - sounds like there are still some big caveats: https://constantinecannon.com/antitrust-group/payments/devel...

The no-surcharge terms are plainly anticompetive and should have been reigned in a long time ago. But customers get really mad about extra fees and think it's the merchant that is ripping them off and not Visa/Mastercard.
Yes of course, but everyone should consider what future employers see, it may not always be reasonable or logical so the best choice is to keep something like this to yourself unless explicitly asked
I bought things CoD in the days when eBay still did that (90s). The postman would come to your door with the CoD bill and you'd hand over a cashier's check to them, then they'd give you the package.
I thought it had been updated? Either way I agree with what you wrote. I think author also had some problems with FreeBSD's code of conduct; make of that what you will.
Lower fees matter most for low-margin businesses. If your business has 5% margins, then taking your payment processing fees from 3% to 1% is transformative for your profits.

The reality is that most low-margin B2C businesses are brick and mortar service-based businesses, such as restaurants. And, therein lies the problem for Paypal and for crypto payments: The low-margin businesses that care about CC fees are not early-adopters of payment networks. Restaurants can't conceivably introduce a non-traditional payment network as their exclusive provider.
It's pretty crazy how some people think all speech is protected or that running software is somehow protected by the same laws that protect speech.
Cities are PACKED with young single people. They (and the poor) are the only ones who didn't move out during the pandemic.
Debit card interchange for big bank debt cards is 0.05%. Sites/stores/apps don't offer debit cards discounts except gas stations. Big merchants offer their own payments/credit cards for up to 5% cash back, they aren't going to switch.

FedNow will get adoption as a replacement for ACH / Check writing. Paying bills and getting paid. Instant deposits of paychecks will a big benefit to a lot people living paycheck to paycheck. It will displace a bunch of Zelle market share.
> Considering printers at same size provides ~3000 pages, that's good.

They used to sell a 6000 page cartridge as their low end offering in this class of printers. This is what's its like to be a boiled frog.
It's Bitcoin by every metric you can name: users, trust, fees, hashrate, price, market cap, security, exchange support, merchant acceptance, codebase quality, developer talent. Regardless of your subjective opinion of whether it's the same as it's own whitepaper based on whatever nonsense you've read from Roger Ver or whoever. BCH still has transaction mallebility because it was born out of greed of miners who did't want to activate segwit.

Can you point me to any evidence of it not having 100% uptime since the fork? Or have you fell for another lie just like "one node taking down the lightning network"

Blockspace is scarce and valuable, and that's the way it has to be to be decentralised. And yes they can use it, on the layer 2 lightning network. It works great, I use it all the time, for pennies in fees even when there's a mempool queue.
Why would they? They identified the best semiconductor manufacturer, and gave them so much business they basically do whatever Apple wants, and prioritize their capacity over everyone else.
The guy who thought that it was a good idea to put volume controls on touchscreen needs a spanking. It baffles me that some companies still think this is a good idea.
Yes, payment for “cash/collect on delivery” is made on delivery rather than in advance. If the goods are not paid for, they are returned to the retailer.

American page:

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Collect-on-Delivery

Canadian page:

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/kb/sen...
> But now, the Internet and associated technologies are the single greatest medium of centralized control ever.

I strongly disagree with this assessment. The internet currently facilitates enormous amounts of black market trading in virtually every country in the world. The internet facilitates the only information exchange that can provide privacy guarantees between parties, again in virtually any part of the world. The internet has facilitated coordinating terrorist attacks against the most well funded military powers in the world alongside facilitating sharing cat memes. You can trade digital goods with extreme convenience regardless of centralized sanctions that may otherwise prohibit such trades.

I think you're mistakenly looking at centralized powers utilizing the internet to further their reach to incorrectly surmise that people have less ability today to act outside of the will of centralized planners, which in my opinion, is undeniably, demonstrably false.
I don't think anyone disagrees with you in terms of the value of credit cards, the issue is whether their fees are worth it. Their huge profit margins, as well as how they previously fought tooth and nail against, for example, allowing merchants to levy a credit card surcharge, suggest that their duopoly position is allowing them to charge exorbitant amounts for their services.
I don't like the ability for arbitrary app/store/sites to be able to pull/push money directly from my bank account. The credit card companies provide a nice buffer between my wallet and the payee.

I could see it being useful for interbank transfers and for bank to billing (e.g. credit cards, etc.)
Yeah, I have no issue with my Model Y.
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Being able to make a transaction does not mean you are not subject to them, just that you found a workaround and probably earned yourself a spot on a list. They can still take your freedom
That's just business logistics, though, and the company is free to form relationships with other distributors if it so wishes. At the end of the day, the Dr. Pepper company is marketing and earning the lion's share of the margin for their product.
me: do an experiment.
you: no, that's not science!
I had the opportunity to taste this berry where I live (French Polynesia) and indeed very surprised by its powerful sweetening effect. It looks like an under-exploited potential to me.
Not surprised. In germany its common practice for the police to monitor people based on ethnicity for instance, indiscriminately of wether they committed crime or not. A thing of the past one should think.
You're right, I misread it in my haste. So, NYC

>Cook rare beef to at least 130°F

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/business/food-operators/food-s...

I realize it says temporary, but you can check the full guidelines where it says that 130°F is only permitted if you cook it for 112 minutes.
Why so skeptical of Deloitte's climate prediction and so confident in your population one?
Why would I use credit card at all? Sure it does help when traveling but not much use for it otherwise
A house without a major renovation will slowly depreciate yet housing prices in mid to major cities continue rising.
Yes, that's why American people are so dumbed down nowadays, intentionally by some people who happened to share this ideology.
That does sound nice; most cars I've driven this side of the century annoy me with pointless "eco" gauges and infotainment screens that just serve to distract.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Hence why the Miata Is Always The Answer.
The ramifications might not be so great, code is still not law
> Pretty much all banks use mainframes to do batch processing. "SFTP runs the world"

This isn't an anachronism. Batched net settlement is inherently cheaper than real-time gross settlement.

Canonical example: if I send you $10, then you send me $5 and I send you $2, in net settlement, there is a single $7 transaction; with RTGS there are three transactions of $17. The first system not only has lower transaction costs, it also scales better on account of needing less capital. TL; DR If there is a real-time settlement system, it is always possible to build a net settlement system on top of it that's cheaper (albeit slower).
> That's the hallmark of a nation state that has previously been exploiting these, but since decided - for whatever reason - that the vulns have become too risky to leave undisclosed to the vendor.

I think it just means the person doesn’t want to be named.
Generally those types of deals require either parking six figures out liquid assets at the issuing bank and/or paying high annual fees (which of course favor the biggest spenders who amortize the cost over lots of volume). Either way the current system definitely favors the rich over the middle class.
> there's zero point subsidizing demand for something when supply in inelastic.

Agree, but that also means cutting those subsidies will not affect supply either. Minimal impact and politically difficult...
But it doesn’t mean fiat is in fact backed by mortgages.
No it isn't. People with nothing to lose and living in poverty while seeing their democratic neighbors prospering are harder to control. People with education, jobs, and families - something to lose - are easier to control. How many Tienanmen Squares has China had since Asian and Western democracies opened their markets and enriched China.
> To stay focus, I've tried to work in coffee shops

This always puzzled me. The most quiet place to work is usually ones' house/flat. And even if your place is not that quiet, I bet coffee shops are way noiser.
Our 2009 Honda Fit has a gloriously button-face radio with a giant knob that's primarily for volume, but can serve a few other (and harder to access) functions. It's absolutely the easiest radio to use, kind of like a FIsher Price toy.

The Fit was redesigned with a touchscreen for 2015. ONe of the biggest owner complaints was lack of a a volume knob for the audio system. In 2018, Honda responded with a mid model change that added a knob. I have a 2018 with Android Auto, with a side array of fixed buttons (Home, Back, Menu) that have proved useful when underway and making split-second decisions (need to see map right now for instance).

The Fit's HVAC system is delightfully simple: Fan, Temp, and a mechanical lever for fresh/recirc. We would have liked dual zone controls and the dozen-speed fan control in higher models instead of just 4 speeds, but also I'm old enough to remember car air conditioners with 3 speeds (1964 Impala, for example). To me even the 4 speeds still seems like something of an upgrade.

Sadly the HR-V with its increased weight, cost, and height siphoned off sales from what was an already anemic sales performance for the poorly marketed Fit.
It was dropped in the US in 2021. The Jazz (the moniker for the Fit in most places) continues to be available in sales territories when people still buy cars.
Most of those tough rules emerged well after the boom in Chinese manufacturing. It's not required for achieving what they did.
Purely anecdotal but I remember buying 16pz packs of bacon for 1-2 dollars (in a large California city) for awhile, then this phenomenon called "Epic Meal Time" came about and Denny's was making bacon milkshakes and the Internet zeitgeist collectively went "lmao BACON!!" and soon after I was paying 4 dollars per pound. Supply and demand, maybe, sure. In my opinion, it was just demand and marketing.

NOW it's supply and demand, though.
Why are you trying to go back to Terminal.app?
Every lightning channel update is a valid Bitcoin transaction that can be broadcast at any time by either party for final settlement. Lightning is absolutely Bitcoin. You can use the lightning network as very cheap fiat rails if you don't want to deal with Bitcoin or it's volatility. Look at LN/Taro.
Debit card?

Consumers already have a choice that has lower interchange fees to merchants (but also has way less chargeback protections) and that’s a debit card.
Thank you it's novel to see someone get my point - perhaps could be better phrased but the point still remains
What is inherently valuable about any one of those examples?
Most of this isn’t that mysterious in practice. Apply whatever you know about how supermarkets, bars, and other cash accepting businesses operate. Then add in the fact that yes, drivers would occasionally get robbed, it was a risk of the business and priced in much like shoplifting is for a supermarket.
Just from top of my head:

Why not connect to a Raspberry pi or an Orange Pi zero and share it via CUPS? CUPS will make it a mDNS enabled, "driverless" printer, which can be used from any device (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and your toaster)?

If you want wireless, don't use OrangePi Zero (1) though. Its wireless is not supported well under Linux.
I believe already some 2 decades ago Bill Gates said that the biggest failure in software is the lack of productivity gains in software development.

Just to cherry pick a dramatized example. In the late 90s, one of my first programming experiences was in Delphi. It's a very visual way to program. You drag and drop a UI together from standardized elements. You could data bind things like input fields to a data source. You'd double click a button and it takes you to the already created "onclick" event where you do the actual coding. In a way, this is still similar to how you can "program" Microsoft Access today.

In this same period (I was in a computer science study) I was moaning to my teacher how tricky programming in C was. I made tiny memory management errors crashing the entire PC, with zero debug output.

His words: "Don't worry. By the time you get to work, you'll just do modeling".

Now I work on the web. It's been 30 years since Delphi and instead of productivity gains, we've taken steps in the opposite direction. There is no standardized UI library. JavaScript has no standard library. There's no single unified architecture. There's no standard tool chain. It's all very low level after which we stitch together fragile semi-abstractions.

I know it's an imperfect comparison, but I hope it gets the point across. It's all far too low level and fragile.

This doesn't just hurt productivity, also accessibility. It's simply not beginner friendly.
> Turns out capacitive touchscreens were a great fit for cell phones

Sure. However removing the physical buttons on cellphones was a pretty big loss that the touchscreens do not make up for.
Then leave your phone at home?
The legal question could be "did providing liquidity to the service, by your participation, aid and abet sanctioned entities?"

How do you know that you did not transact with a sanctioned entity? (and by proxy did do something wrong)
So why does China refuse to sell land to its citizens and only leases?
Author here. I remember the Apple III well, we nearly bought one for my mother's Real Estate brokerage. Ended up with a fairly vanilla Intel-based PC.

Whew!

But thank you for the correction on "Apple continued to invest..."
that's the thing; businesses don't want to have to rely on the court system to get refunds.

the x% CC processing fee is essentially fraud/non-payment insurance
Appreciate the gotcha, nearly as fun to post as pedantry. I only made the same mistake OP did, however.

The actual point still stands. If you're going to take a dig at a legal system, country, or culture, don't try to back up your point with an example from a different one.

Scotland is not England legally or culturally, and the scots will be the first to make that point clear.
PayPal is a joke when it comes to addressing fraud, it's completely hit or miss on both sides. My younger brother got scammed out of like $100 trying to order a chair from a furniture website that turned out to be some guy in China scamming people. The "online store" only accepts Paypal and when checking out, instead of the usual PayPal process is directs you to a page that's already completely filled out to send the correct amount as a personal friends and family transaction. He realized something was up literally minutes after completing the transaction when he saw that the email confirmation listed a random Chinese email address and saw it sent as a friends and family transaction and immediately called PayPal support and they basically told him to get bent and refused to reverse the transaction, because they don't offer any guarantees or protection on personal transactions, completely refusing to address the fact that this guy is scamming people using their platform.

He had to do a chargeback with his credit card company and got his money back that way, but of course PayPal banned his account in response.
why are these olderly people not writing their passwords in a notebook ?
> Typed global variables will be great

What purpose do you see for typed global variables? I'm sure they'll be useful for interfacing with external ABIs, OS interfaces, or hardware; but I'm not sure the added complexity will be worth it in the end, as these use cases seem rare. For one, it'll now be more difficult for newbies to understand they shouldn't use global variables in packages unless absolutely necessary.
Many more such cases [0], but Excel and spreadsheets in general also save businesses $$$$$, which explains their pervasiveness. Calculations take a long time and are easier for a human to mess up, which is why the initial spreadsheets were so popular as to drive the adoption of the personal computer in general [1]. The gulf between Excel and Python is pretty obvious, but there recently there have been few with their sights set on it, as most programmers looking to improve programming do so from their own experienced vantage point.

[0] http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/10/a-spreadsheet-way-of-knowledge...
Wow, just checked and Pi 3 is over 100€, and Pi 4 over 200€.

What happened? I remember buying a Pi 3B+ in 2019 for less than 50€.
My guess is charge backs are probably a US/Canada thing. Many countries have credit cards without the protections. It happens to work in the US because there is a credit score system, high volumes and most people play by the rules.
Apparently Oki stopped selling printers to the the Americas this year :(

https://www.oki.com/us/printing/
Just like the “you should take a finance class” means nothing. Especially considering that anyone who has taken a couple of such classes understands that insider trading is a very contentious topic among economists.
I wasn’t able to find much info on it. I went around compared all the printers i could find then compared the third party ink options for the ones i was interested.

i’m still experimenting with ink mixing. decent results so far. the thing is there are so many ways to go about it with 8 base ink options available.