skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would bet money on the opposite happening: The Fed is not going to release a social app that interrupts the network effects of all of those systems. Zelle may be the one that has the most to worry about, because it is partnered with big banks and powers a lot of their transfer systems.

PayPal, Venmo, etc. will all start to use FedNow in the backend to provide for a better product experience and charge the same fee, but spend less on settlement.

These are better payment rails, not the wholesale replacement of how people send money to each other in the USA.
This program is mostly (entirely?) aimed at using your battery storage during peak demand times - not power outages. That's why they can pay so high, because they bill hundreds or thousands of times more than the normal rate to really high electric consumers during these peak peak times
I'm not a politician or a soldier, i'm not taking position

I use the literal term of what's happening between China/Taiwan, that's it

Objectivity is what drive me, there is no winner if it is built on lies and manipulations
I find it interesting that SayCan is in the public eye a lot now, considering it's already obsolete. Inner Monologue is built on top of SayCan and is more robust to many of SayCan's failure cases.
Dude, cars have been safe and modern for like 20 years now.
Philosophy would be a great name for a boat
University student makes $110M trading meme stock favourite Bed Bath and Beyond
> Yes, the cause of all human on human suffering since the dawn of time is greed

Nah, greed is distant #2. #1 is idiocy
> The US government will never be permitted

Then why don't corporations regulate the government, instead of it being the other way around? Why did the minimum corporate tax rate just go up to 15%? Why is there any corporate tax at all? The US government pushes companies around anytime they see fit. They're a superpower with the world's most powerful military, the FBI, CIA, NSA, and dozens of prominent regulatory agencies that control every aspect of the US economy.

When they decided to go after Google, guess what happened? The founders of Google immediately ran away in fear. They promptly resigned simultaneously and shrank from view. They knew what would happen and they got out in front of it.

When they went after Microsoft, guess what happened? Bill Gates resigned from leading the company that he founded and had been in charge of for a quarter century. The most powerful, richest private citizen in the US gave up control over one of the world's most powerful corporations.

The feds are drastically more powerful than any private citizens or corporations. Corporations are run by people, and people are very easy to target and easy to break, especially when you have powers of an epic scale central government.

Even a company the size of Apple is barely a spec to the US Government (a government which is currently engaged with Ukraine in smashing the supposed #2 military, Russia, using just a modest flex of its weapons and capabilities). Only China's government comes close to rivaling the US Government for power, corporations are a joke by comparison.

If the feds want to implement an instant payment system, then that's exactly what they'll do, whether Visa or PayPal likes it or not.
Yes, we evolved to eat meat, just not so much :o)
Definitely. All you have to do is look at American military intelligence's insistence on using SCIFs for viewing and working with sensitive electronic (and physical, but for more boring reasons) documentation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_inform...

They know it's important to limit what kind of emissions make it from your equipment to the outside world because they've successfully used exactly these techniques in the past to extract information from others.
Windmills projected to kill 20k golden eagles by 2050
I need to clone their voices on FakeYou.com and give this person API access. This is a great concept. It needs audio to sell it.
related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32504567 ? Where there's already conversation
Thank you for sharing this. In terms of common garment fabrics, what kind of fabrics can't be laser cut.
> The language you're writing in has next to no meaningful impact on long term maintenance.

I disagree.

If you abandon a large block of code for a year, then come back to it, depending on the language, it may be difficult to grok what the code was doing and how it worked.

If it's Java, the tendency to create 100 levels of abstraction make it hard to reason about. If it's Python without type annotations, then your IDE may not be able to determine the types of variables, so it's difficult to determine what can be done with an object.

If it's Perl, then God help you. May He have mercy on your soul.
Pretty much all of the Roman Empire.
Two more examples:

The context dependent buttons on old feature phones

The red/green/yellow/blue buttons on old TV remotes for Teletext
Minneapolis is well on its way.
> We're working on various ideas for offline-sync, but the Realtime server will be central to whatever implementation we land on.

Are you also working on optimistic updates (which may be related to offline-sync)?
Maybe they should.

Find 1,000 half decent devs. Fund them for 1 year at 50K or so, with promise of 60% of company. Sprinkle over decent marketeers / designer / product mgrs.

Cost is now 50M USD + change.

Get to 10K MRR and its 120K pa, maybe 20-30K profit.

Does it matter which ones are just paying back their investment over two years, and the 1/1000 that might be a unicorn?

I just don't think VCs are playing the odds.
But how much do you want to pay for bugs?

Things change. You change the code in response. What broke? Without the tests, you don't know.

"Things change" include "you fixed a bug". Bug fixes can create new bugs (the only study I am familiar with says 20-50% probability). Did your bug fix break anything else? How do you know? With good test coverage, you just run the tests. (Yes, the tests are never complete enough. They can be complete enough that they give fairly high confidence, and they can be complete enough to point out a surprising number of bugs.)

Does that make you pay "at least twice"? No. It makes you pay, yes, but you get a large amount of value back in terms of actually working code.
Some of this may be related to system volume signing, in which cryptographic signatures for the entire system volume are recomputed following an update. The entire filesystem tree is re-hashed recursively. Once the signatures are recomputed, the signatures are checked at each boot (which goes much faster, of course), and if verification fails, the system declines to start up.

More info:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/signed-system-volum...
Lisp machines weren't slow. The initial CADR machines around 1980 could run simple integer and maths code around as fast as the VAX/780, a very fast minicomputer costing ~$50,000 (processor only!) that was released around the same time.

And yet Lisp machines were slow. I chalk that up to a proto-Common Lisp system, with 1970s compilation techniques, being just too much. Millions of lines of code of a fully dynamic software environment with a GUI debugger that let you step into any part of the system including the OS and lowest runtime layers and edit it live -- crammed into a couple megabytes and a couple MIPS. Of course it was slow.
>and disconnect from the grid.

Pretty simple for the awful, awful power companies to do some lobbying to not allow this - just make it so that if you have solar, you're required to have active electric service to your house, even if you're not an active account holder to any power company. I have heard there's parts of Mexico that do this - you're not allowed to run your house on only solar, you're required to be hooked up to the grid and you can only sell your solar back to the grid, it can't be used directly to power your home. So you're forced to sell at a certain rate and then buy it back at a certain rate.
Doesn't this assume that you're advancing a state machine from some known initial state? If you are in the middle of a navigation and you are interrupted, in order to figure out what to do next you need to recover context. The more your muscle memory remembers the sequence ( 1 -> 2 -> 2 -> 3/4 for raising/lowering the fan speed ) the less you'll be able to access it consciously and the more you'll have to look at the options to figure out what to do.

The lack of tactile feedback on touchscreens is an issue when using it, but I'm not convinced that it's any better or worse for partial-attention tasks. For full attention tasks (e.g. navigating a settings menu) it's far superior to a button-based approach.
I always think of the quote from the potter episode of Community, as the main character imagines what his mom's words of advice are:
"Jeff, you're a normal person. There's nothing very special about you at all. You're going to be great at a few things, but really crappy at more. And that takes a lot of the pressure off, so you can live a full, happy life. "
Imagine Microsoft charging 30% of sales for every Windows app developer.

Actually, if this were to happen back in the days, we would have everyone on Linux Desktop already...
Most project don't have the budget not to rewrite the code.
did you look into fauandb (https://fauna.com/) ?

if so and you used it, what was you experience running fauna in CF workers?
> But how can a humble person accomplish something extraordinary? At some point, you gotta have faith in what you're doing, despite all the opposition.

Humility means accurate self-assessment. People will argue this point, I suppose, conflating humility with meekness (and meekness with weakness), but I think a distinction is both correct and worthwhile.

Therefore, humble people can accomplish extraordinary things as well as (or better than) anyone, perhaps because of their accurate self assessments. This leads to interconnection (I'm good at X, not at Y) and complementarity: I strengthen what is weak in you and vice versa, and we develop in partnership in a way that could not be done separately.
Realtime uses logical replication, and from your link it looks like it should work with Timescale (although not recommended):

> Using logical replication with TimescaleDB is not recommended, as it requires schema synchronization between the primary and replica nodes and replicating partition root tables, which are not currently supported.

As long as logical replication is supported, this won't be an issue for Realtime because the purpose is to receive data changes (which come in a JSON format) and the end-user doesn't need to persist schema modifications.

> but couldn't get it working

If you send me some error logs, I can take a look or forward to one of the team.

> support Postgres streaming replication

This is the first time I've heard it requested - I don't think it's something we'd do unless there was a good reason and strong demand. If we were to do any work in this direction we'd prefer to try contribute DDL streaming to PostgreSQL's logical streaming. We've been thinking about this for a while (Michel has built metagration - https://github.com/michelp/metagration which has prompted a few ideas for core patches)
This is fingerprinting across different identities which is a form of discovery. It’s why I have separate ssh keys for work and personal projects in the first place to better avoid associations across different online identities (with the full understanding that if I’m targeted I’m already against attack vectors that require much more sophisticated defenses). Firstly, for work projects I can give up my private key to my employer as I leave and I won’t care because it was only ever used for work and it would be some reassurance to my colleagues that they can at least access the stuff I used to have access to.
What? How do you solve computing problems without a neural network? Surely such a thing is not possible.
> When only a single person alone is responsible for thousands of ballots, who do you expect to catch it?

We catch voter fraud all the time in the US. Part of the reason we know it's not a big issue is that we catch so many people in a given year. If you read up on the multiple rounds of recounts and audits Arizona or Pennsylvania did this last federal election, I think you would have a lot of respect for the people who designed these systems to withstand the scrutiny of endless lawsuits.

> It would take hundreds of independent fraud instances to change a single seat. These security guaranties do not exist in the US.

It sounds like you are getting bad information about US elections from second hand sources. Anyone who actually takes the time to analyze their local election would probably come to the same conclusion you do about yours. They are remarkably transparent and well audited.

That does not stop bad actors from using endless speculation to try to undermine people's faith in elections. But I can attest that I would trust our local elections as much as anywhere else's in the world.
https://www.energy.gov/fecm/articles/netl-releases-carbon-ca...

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https://github.com/CCSI-Toolset/
It would seem from the article here [0] that pricing for FedNow is $25/mo per routing number (which generally means per bank not per account, since many accounts at a bank share the same routing number) and about $0.05 per credit transaction. Not sure how that will be passed thru in costs from the bank(s) or if they will absorb what seems to be a small cost?

"The service will include a $25 monthly participation fee for every routing transit number enrolling in the service. Then there will be a $0.045 per credit transfer and one cent for a RFP message to be paid by the requestor."

And a routing transit number is a 9 digit number that identifies the bank, not the variable number that identifies each individual account [1]

"A routing transit number is a nine-digit number used to identify a bank or financial institution when clearing funds for electronic transfers or processing checks in the United States. A routing transit number is also used in online banking and clearinghouses for financial transactions. Only federally chartered and state-chartered banks that are eligible to maintain an account at a Federal Reserve Bank are issued routing transit numbers. "

[0] https://www.pymnts.com/news/faster-payments/2022/fed-release...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/routing_transit_number....
Nikola Tesla had claimed that a resonance oscillator that he had built was capable of causing earthquakes.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%27s_oscillator

Even though MythBusters team tried to replicate this in one of their episodes and concluded the claim to be false, the OP shows that resonance is a real problem with spinning disks.
Yes: engines have shortcuts associated with them. So the shortcut for Google, for example, is g. If you type something in, press enter, then just press g, it will forward your search to Google.

You can tell what shortcut an engine has by the underlined letter (or the letter in square brackets).

I'll add in a prompt.
Former PayPal employee here.

In truth, you got the best possible experience and it's good that you reported it. Ultimately, what would happen internally is that we'd detect this malicious use and cancel the invoices so it's not possible for the scammer to continue to collect on them--but we couldn't "claw back" the emails that had already gone out. The email looked legit because it was an email from PayPal about a real invoice.

I don't know if they should be more proactive in their communication with folks in this situation and it's been over a year since I left; but, this is not a new issue at all and it's something we would contend with from time to time while I was there.
It may have been their first time in a non-Kosher butcher. Ukraine used to have very large Jewish enclaves.
No mention of Algebraic Semiotics on the ncatlab wiki, which is sort of the standard venue for these things. There is an article on Goguen but it is short and does not really discuss this work.

The categorical structure seems simple enough that it has probably been described already under some other name, though.
> You don't need a notification broker unless you want to run non-free garbage.

Face reality: most of what the utter majority of the people on this planet use is proprietary and ffs purity bikeshedding won't lead to any success.

> Well written apps will just service the socket they get data from just fine.

The utter majority of providers use CGNAT with extremely short keepalive times for cost saving, the worst I've seen was some crap MVNO dumping connections after ten seconds idling. That means your usual phone will have 20-50 apps that all have to send keepalive data all the time meaning the modem never goes asleep and drains your battery, vs one centralized notification broker that even shoddy MVNOs configure to be exempt from frequent connection drops.

> Already the Pinephone works well enough for people who are used to desktop Linux (sans the hardware issues with the modem.)

So... like what, 3% of users given Desktop Linux market share? LOL the only ones used to Linux on desktop are either forced to do so by their employer or are utter masochists willing to overlook catastrophic flaws for the sake of purity.
Ok, so WA had 38% turnout for a primary so what? The whole point is that you need to compare it to other states to make any sense of the data.

Arkansas had <26% (457,856 votes / 1,762,024 registered voters) [1].

38% is looking pretty good.

[1]: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/AR/112731/web.28556...
how does this affect users exactly?
Can you give one concrete example that leads through every generalization you just made? Since this post is about Neumann, that would be a good start.
I was trying, clumsily, to bring to mind the differences between Smalltalk’s object/message model and the class/method model of Python, etc.
> While your waiting for your fraud process to finish, you don't have money in the bank.

In many circumstances, banks are required to either resolve the issue quickly or provisionally credit you in case of disputes. Fraud liability is also limited by regulation, in addition to card scheme rules and bank policies:

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/what-is-regulation-e/

> Also culturally in the USA it's a common feeling that debit is not as good or the consequences are more dire with debit cards and fraud.

I suspect that it's primarily that: Common knowledge with a lot of truth to it, but not entirely up to date and correct in many instances. Germany obviously has a lot of that as well, but with very different axioms leaving to very different outcomes in terms of guidance and behavior ("only cash is real money", "debt is bad/a moral failure" etc.)

> Card companies decided that the friction & support burden that PIN entry gives is not worth the revenue decrease vs. the cost of fraud AFAIK.

The problem is that due to market dynamics (leaving aside card scheme rules for the moment), it's really not up to individual banks to change that. The first bank to introduce a PIN on their credit card would lose a lot of purchases to their competitors due to convenience, forgotten PINs etc.

In Europe, it took heavy regulation to get banks to use 3DS – the dynamics there in terms of a first-mover disadvantage were very similar, and the existing (significant!) financial incentives were not enough.

> IMO I want push permissioned payments and not have this basically auth-free pull system of payments, but that wont happen for a long time. Subscriptions should be a subscription request send to a card, you approve in your bank app and then you can cancel unilaterally on your side on you app. None of this pull crap. Same with tap to pay.

The various stakeholders (card schemes, regulators, banks) are well aware of that customer demand. This industry is one full of legacy technology, and it'll take a while, but I think we'll get there eventually.
For the unaware delphi packers are somewhat popular with malware authors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32512433

I definately have to make this more clear! Thanks for the feedback
The observation about the focus on unit tests is well-made. I think it's a crucial problem that stems from very good tools for unit testing and developers that are very familiar with these tools. It's then very simple to discard anything that isn't covered by these great tools.

But here's an anecdote that explains why you'd always want integration tests (other anecdotes for other test paradigms probably also exist): imagine a modern subway train. That train is highly automated but, for safety reasons, still requires a driver. The train has two important safety features:

1. The train won't leave a station unless the driver gives their OK.
2. The train won't leave the station unless all doors are closed.

The following happened during testing: The driver gives the OK to leave the station. The train doesn't start because a door is still open. The driver leaves the train and finds one door blocked. After the driver removes the blockage the door closes and the train departs. Now driverless.

I think it's crucial to view integration tests as unit tests on a different level: You need to test services, programs, and subsystems as well as your classes, methods, or modules.
What?! TIL, thanks.
Is this just a wrapper around GPT-3?
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I should have been more clear - when I say "working on", it means "debating internally what would be the best long-term strategy" (from a technical POV).

But yes, optimistic updates is one of the requirements. In the meantime, if you need something great, I can recommend Replicache and WatermelonDB - both are excellent.
dragsters and muscle cars are somewhat disjoint sets.
Well, I was 13 in the 90s, so that part also applies. :-)

Microsoft had a stranglehold on the computing industry in the 1990s due to its near-monopoly on PC operating systems. Their software was also much lower quality, which led to widespread hatred of the company among computer geeks. Hence the derisive dollar sign.

2010s Microsoft was a shadow of its former self, so I think any usage of the dollar sign then is more of a holdover from the 90s than anything else.
Not sure where you got your definition for leftists. The left as I know it has been fighting for universal healthcare, increasing minimum wages, increase unionization of labor, better child care benefits, increased funding for schools and public services, increase on capital gains tax and fighting climate change. They also fight for providing equal treatment for minorities and women. If one only cares about supports" LGBTQIAP+ rights and not the other issues, they are probably log cabin republicans.
You're weird if the possession of any amount of money actually solves a problem. I bring this up because I got advice long ago that if you think you need more money to be happy:

1. What you really want is what you can do with that money.

2. There's usually an alternative way to get nearly equal enjoyment for far less money.
The Indian Reserve Bank (RBI) and NPCI introduced UPI (Unified Payment Interface) back in 2016, similar to FedNow. This potentially disrupted the business and product that Paytm (similar to Venmo) offered.

Interestingly, NPCI also allowed third-party apps to integrate UPI payments directly into their app. Users could use both the Paytm wallet and UPI for transactions. These apps that integrated UPI saw a huge rise in daily usage and volume of transactions, which was ultimately beneficial for them (they could channel promotional coupons/offers through the apps). UPI was generally preferred over online wallets as the medium of payment because of direct bank-to-bank transactions.

So if the Fed does something similar, might just be a win-win.
This is unfortunately the kind of cultural aversion to "night owl" sleep patterns that I'm talking about. People were sleeping at different times of day even in the absence of electric artifical light.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40568997
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