skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If anybody has alternative to Stripe please reply here, been with Stripe for almost 7 years and looking to bounce.

I still use what everyone used before Stripe: a "merchant account" from an ISO/MSP of a bank. Google "interchange plus merchant account" to find a hundred options. You pay some fixed markup over interchange rates set by the card networks, as low as 0.05% + $0.21 to charge a debit or check card for example. Quite a bit of savings over Stripe for most card mixes...

I used to recommend Spreedly to go with that, a payment gateway agnostic credit card vault so you can take your customers with you if you switch merchant accounts or payment gateways in the future, but they turned toxic over the years. Seemingly only care about enterprise customers, their sales/support team I've interacted with are useless, and they raised my subscription rate by over 30x without an ounce of empathy. I'm still trying to find time to replace them.
>> The First Amendment protects both GitHub’s right to host that code, and Professor Green’s right to publish (here republish) it on GitHub

The first part's maybe true, the second part is bullshit.
I was sort of hedging my bets there w.r.t government services. Granted, it is comparatively less prevalent in private sector services.
Even if the industrial revolution came with a trend towards urbanization and away from peasant farming, if we're talking about people's happiness, the difference between being coerced off the land by enclosure vs being drawn towards economic opportunities in the city seems like an important distinction.

I'm curious -- how can you be so confident in making broad statements about "actual wellbeing" today vs the early modern period? I would have thought at a minimum, a smaller proportion of the population being literate, plus actual costs of paper, ink, light, etc would mean there would be just a lot fewer records of subjective experience of lower class people from the early modern period. And you know ... whose happiness counts? I'd have further expected that half the population having drastically greater liberty today than in the early modern period ought to substantially improve some people's subjective wellbeing even without considering material possessions. Same for the move away from child labor, or child corporal punishment.

I'm guessing no one has 15th century survey data of peasants being asked "on a scale from 1 meaning 'strongly disagree' to 7 meaning 'strongly agree', how would you rate the sentence 'I am happy most days'". And I'm in no way trying to disregard or minimize the possibility that just a different way of living made people better off at some points in the past. But I also think we risk romanticizing or projecting onto past populations.
Some really good points in here.
Ask HN: Which top brand cars can prevent any attachment of explosive means?
Which top brand cars can prevent any attachment of explosive device/mean or at least alarm anyone nearby such the attachment/presence the best?
You get clean wallets that do not have any connection with the dirty ones.

You are free to use the proceedings even if we know for a fact that the originating wallet had proceedings of illegal activities.

The crime has been washed.
Midjourney creates the most compelling images by far, so far.
The Lingua Franca Coordination Language
How likely is Pakistan to fail?

They have nukes.
Looks like this is a link to an issue of a newsletter and it's divided into sections.
“Best Usenet thread:

Follow-ups to "Global Warning" in dozens of Usenet groups”

Would be interesting to see the discussions from 30 years ago.
Turn Figma into Mmorpg
Figma recently released its widget API, unlocking a new class of apps. I have my popcorns ready for a disruption to the low-code/no-code app builders as well as social collaboration apps like gather.down
There, trivially, aren't enough software engineers on the planet to assign one to every incoming support inquiry.
> A year post-batch and I find my default state is much more ambitious than before.

But you no longer have a choice right? Now that you're VC funded you're expected to hit that 1000x valuation?
This is common sense.

When the government was handing out money indiscriminately to everyone right after Covid, we just put the money in the bank. That helped us. But it didn’t stimulate the economy. When they gave the same amount of money to some people we knew that lost their jobs, they spent it on necessities - helping the economy.

Giving money to people who will spend it obviously helps everyone. But there have been plenty of studies showing that people will hurt themselves financially even if it will help other people. Especially if it helps “them”.
That's not the only issue with NSFW; the larger problem is when you don't ask for it and get it anyway. Especially because this model is not particularly good at it and you'll get body horror.
Then we'll have to come up with a new month name, which will cause all sorts of bikesheding.
I think OP is being ironic..
Person that has worked on the defensive side of Money Laundering here.

The Tornado Cash sanction has been fascinating to watch and my key takeaway has been that there are two camps: that TC is a Money Laundering service or a Privacy service. Both are talking past each other, when it can in fact be both. Each camp see the service as their primary concern and consider the other camp as an unintended secondary.

I am seeing a lot of bad takes. "Money laundering requires all three aspects" particularly irks me because you can just point to KYC regulations to disprove that.
"Code is just code" is another, but that is just because the code isn't why someone would be sanctioned or arrested. In the same way that The Pirate Bay was just code, its is how complicit they were in the offence that will get them.

Ultimately, the dichotomy feels like a problem unique to public blockchains, and will only be solved with a ZK L1 chain, whatever that looks like. The solution would require the blockchain equivalent of end-to-end encryption, one where intermediaries have zero knowledge but doesn't require co-mingling of dirty and clean money.

While I think money laundering is a more serious crime than piracy (at least the predicate offenses can be). Watch this play out like Megaupload, never ending legal issues for the first parties, and a technical solution like Mega.
Shooting in full sun at midday is great if it's bone chilling cold, and you've got a polarizing filter to get those deep, deeeeeeep sky blues, assuming your fingers still work.

Otherwise, keep the polarizer, enjoy the warmer weather, and focus on landscapes and things where the harsh shadows don't matter as much.

Of course, the best days for mid-day shooting are when it's overcast, and the entire sky is a softbox.

The two golden hours per day are your best bet for nice colors when the sky is clear.
Death Hugged :)
First, if this is who I think it might be, sorry to hear about your recent family tragedy. Certainly it makes sense to shop around for a quality car if the disease may be catching!

Getting back to topic, it might be easier to find aftermarket sensors than it is to find cars that come thus equipped.

Good luck to you.
The primary historical sources contradict your opinion. Racism was a part of it, certainly. The other part and the reason for much of the racism was excessive violence and crime. Here’s another book from the era which documents this, note the top review:

https://www.amazon.com/school-ten-year-destruction-Franklin-...

>Of course caucasians would be a victim of ~90% of interracial crime, those are the general population demographics in most places that are not urban in the US.

Do you understand that this number includes urban areas?
574MVA / 138kV = 4160A.
Id do the opposite, Id build the new json stuff on top of the firebase api.
> Cancelbot wars. As spamming and the spam-killing cancelbots become more widespread, people will find their Usenet News messages canceled by someone who simply doesn't like them. Cancelbot software will spread, as people begin editing out opposing views and unfriendly ideas.

Prescient. This is automoderator on Reddit to a T.
How do you propose they do that without breaking TLS?
There's so many good quotes in this but this might be my favorite:

> The amount of WWW and Gopher data traversing the backbone means that poor little folks who want to do something as backwards as telnet are out of luck: The arteries of the Internet are clogged with the cholesterol from the information equivalent of a burger, fries, and shake. I know the Internet isn't just for research anymore, but do you suppose copying megabytes of GIFs of weather maps or naked girls could be done during non-prime time? This was the year that Internet traffic truly exceeded capacity.
Those are shared but... Tauri is using less than 80 megs, Electron is using 143 for the main process alone, so it doesn't really make a difference. Tauri is way lighter
> Anyone have their own cure for a hangover the following day after drinking heavily?

A run. 45-60 minutes usually does the trick for me. I bring an electrolyte drink with me. It sucks, it's painful, by the nideay point I'm usually feeling pretty much normal.

That said, it's been a while since I woke up with a hangover. Having young kids, for me anyway, has been a great deterrent for drinking too much. They (correctly) don't give a shit if you're hungover, they're waking you up early I matter what.
Born in the US and lived in many different states over many decades and I’ve never heard any reporter or crime documentary use “call” as a synonym for “email”, or “send a letter”, or “file a complaint”.

To “call on” someone, maybe. But this says “call the cops”.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but anytime I’ve heard anyone say they “called the cops”, they dialed them via phone.
If you sell $160000 worth of crack for green paper bills that nobody knows are connected to drugs, you cannot buy a Ferrari. The IRS will come knocking and ask where you got the cash. First you would need to launder the money.

If you sell 100 ETH worth of crack and send it through Tornado Cash, you cannot buy a Ferrari. The IRS will come knocking and ask where you got the cash. First you would need to launder the money.
Genuine question — what is work-life balance like in YC? Is it possible to maintain a decent work schedule or are you essentially sacrificing that to be in YC (or start the company in general)?
do you plan on being bombed? mercedes guard is a good option if you have the money.
Turborepo – Build System for JavaScript and TypeScript Codebases
On the other hand we'll have a whole 13'th month, which will afford us many bonus Fridays the thirteenth.
Used excavators are popular construction machines. They are used in many industries including mining, landscaping, and demolition. Excavators allow you to move large amounts of dirt easily and efficiently. They can be either new or used but each option has its pros and cons.
Sybil attack on Spotify!
Since both Spotify and Grubhub have a digital layer, actors can multiply endlessly!

Is the only solution to retreat to campfire songs and home cooking?
Since it seems hugged to death: https://archive.ph/6pjS1
Archive Link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180721080441/https://www.mattr...
You could take a photography class? They're fun.
There was plenty of unlawful activity done using Tornado cash.

For example the money stolen in the Axie Infinity hack was lauded through Tornado Cash.
On their website go to Customers->Marketplace and it looks like you can buy it there.
> solution would require the blockchain equivalent of end-to-end encryption, one where intermediaries have zero knowledge but doesn't require co-mingling of dirty and clean money

How would you draft a statutory safe harbor for GitHubs and Coinbases when it comes to handling mixers as well as the wallets connected to them?
>>if English is your mother tongue

"mother or preferred"

-- I don't disagree with your basic point, but I like to be included :). There's a Lot of us around whose native / mother tongue is not English, but we prefer it for computing tasks (and frequently gaming / movies / entertainment too - Forums are littered with folks complaining of having to "enjoy" a horrible localized version of something, instead of the original English)
I know a lot about the Omaha area.
Their web viewer is atrocious. I tried our work subscription and gave up
> A single kitchen operating under many names to increase its algorithmic “surface area”; another shape of things to come.

I find this infuriating. There's one dominican restaurant in my city that's listed on DoorDash, Grubhub and UberEats under over 20 different names with different subsets of their menu. All of these duplicate listings for the same place make it harder to search or browse the actual restaurant options in the area. Any time I come across a restaurant that looks worth trying out, I have to look up the address to see if it actually exists, or if it's just IHOP masquerading as a burger bar.
I don't mess with druids.
Looks like that's true for some machines, they've got a $50-$100 discount across the board for some machines like the XPS 15, which makes the first year free. Without that, it's normally (for each year of the warranty):

1. $50
2. $100
3. $250
4. $400

So really pretty good for 2 years. I guess they are slightly more worried about it making it to year 4, though.

1. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/serviceselection/xn9520cto03...
> That janky script you put together during the outage -- the one that uses expect(1) and 'ssh -t -t' -- now is the foundation of the entire team's toolchest.

The only thing that separates tactical from strategic in an enterprise setting is time.

Due to my frustrations with various constraints with running things in parallel (and my complete ignorance of GNU parallel), I wrote a script that does similar work in Perl (with some added custom features we needed). Against all my expectations, 16 years later, that script is still being used (unmodified).

> There's nothing wrong with Perl

Indeed.
Exactly. If they wanted to challenge the government, they could have self hosted. This is an activist play at Microsoft. Nothing more, nothing less.
It has been very easy, I have had no complaints.
They manage ok to censor that type of activity on their approved platforms, and block platforms that don’t comply.

Their dystopian control is rather successful so far.
Thanks for the context, I was unaware.
but this has flavours that taste similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

I agree that law enforcement and gov't would want to prevent money laundering. They targeting individuals involved in money laundering is right and just - as long as it is done within the confines of the law.

However, the code does not break the law, in the same way that a gun does not kill. It's the person.

So the code should be freely available.

If it turns out that everyone in society ends up using the code to "break the law", then the law needs to be revised.
Also hugged to death at the moment: https://archive.ph/NtapO
In the “Release Radar” generated for me last week, there was a 40 second song consisting of rhythmic mechanical noises with a strange title and album art of an alien head. I didn’t like it at all. I think it was recommended to me because the publisher listed its artist as “Fanny Mendelssohn” — a classical composer whose work I definitely enjoy and have probably pressed “Like” a few times on — even though the song had nothing to do with her.

You’d think, she shouldn’t be releasing any new works, you know, on account of being long-deceased and all. Therefore Spotify could block releases claiming her as an artist. Unfortunately, there are new renditions of her work being performed, recorded and published regularly, by many different groups. All of them have the right (perhaps even an ethical duty) to put Fanny Mendelssohn as one of the artists. These are works I’d like to hear, so Spotify’s recommendation algorithms are on the right track.

How on earth can Spotify distinguish real Fanny from fake Fanny?
People continue to flock to new, free, targeted ads powered platforms. Look at the enormous growth of TikTok in the US; it has exploded well after the discussion on targeted advertising entered the American zeitgeist (Cambridge Analytica happened in 2018). In light of this, I don't think you can argue that Americans would have chosen something different if they knew more about targeted ads -- they are still, to this day, choosing to join free targeted ad platforms because they like using apps with that business model even when the app is effectively controlled by a foreign power.

I appreciate your kind words. I think people tend to be pretty myopic about targeted ads ("I don't like them/find them creepy") and fail to reason about all the positive things they are getting because of them, and as a consequence they fail to suggest alternatives that are actually better for the general population.

I think it's sad, because a huge amount of good for humanity has come out of Google search and other Google products being free to access while generating enough revenue to truly innovate for 20+ years. It didn't have to be this way, and one can easily imagine a world where Google was paywalled behind institution licenses, limiting its access to only powerful companies and wealthy universities. That world would be so much worse for all of us, and it was avoided because Google found the ads business model. People are now attacking that model but aren't suggesting truly viable alternatives (Google's biz dev is hard at work trying to crack this nut as well).
That doesn't sound right with compounding
I cant find my favourite music. Can we add new entries?
Wait, who blocks UDP? I've worked many different angles of the technology world and never heard of anyone blocking something so ubiquitous.
Does it really do SSB reasonably well? The reviews remind me a bit of my HRD-737 which doesn't "have" SSB, but that doesn't always seem to stop its wide-open receiver. :-) If the general experience of using the radio is similar at all I'd hesitate to pull the trigger at the price. Not that it wouldn't be fun to play with!

Around the same price point I would tend to go with the PL-368 for example...
I listened to the playlist and it's definitely the same song over and over again with slight tweaks. Imagine finding dozens of blogs where posts are all the same, but with very slight changes to vocabulary used in each blog.
If we go by health outcomes, I recall reading a paper that found two lows in the modern period of Western Europe, going by height, tooth decay, etc: the first around 1800, and the second around 1900. The first is explicable by the looming Malthusian pressures of the time, since industrialization had only just kicked off.

The second is rather more interesting. By the mid-19th century railroads had connected Europe enough to ensure access to food. People were eating reasonably nutritious fare around 1860-1870.

So what happened? The second industrial revolution also saw the processed foods revolution. Waves of canned, baked, dried, and sugared products descended upon the markets for the first time. They were cheap and tasted good, so people made them staples, not knowing how sick it would make them or their kids. And all the while intensified industry was adding more pollutants, people were smoking more, and the automobile and leaded fuel was just coming on the scene. Thus, the average Edwardian Englishman was quite a bit worse off than his Victorian parents in some measures.

And...it's been 150 years and while we definitely know the risks of this status quo better, we're still dealing with the consequences. The promise of consumerism is always that engaging with the market will make a better life, and countless critiques have been written of this idea. As you say, we don't really know if we're happier. But we can point to material well-being and make educated guesses.
That place is down the road from me. I did a photo essay of it, about 13 years ago.

I saw Alan Ginsberg in Brentwood, back around the turn of the century.

The reason he was there, was because his mother had been hospitalized in Pilgrim State (another huge mental asylum -still partly open), and he had been doing some kind of memorial.
https://www.amazon.com/Scuse-While-Kiss-This-Guy/dp/06715012...
Wow, I feel more retro than most in this post. I grew up on, and really love Omega Race!
The size of the enclosed section is much bigger. A large section of code has an small well-defined interface.

What you get with typing and interfaces is that all the code has an interface. Small sections of code have a large badly-defined interface.

The main reason people are using typing in Python is to support large Monorepos. Because everything is typed in them, all the code in the repository depends on all the other code in a spaghete dependency graph.

This results in the following issues:

* Small code changes lead to hour long unit test runs since most of the unit tests need to be rerun for every change.

* It's impossible to update the Python version since all the Python code needs to be updated at the same time.

* Long check-in times for changes running MyPy over 100k lines of code.

* Maintainability issues since code can't be updated without knock on effects all over the codebase.

Okay, so what are the benefits of using types in Python:

* On average MyPy type checking will catch 1 bug per developer per year, which wouldn't of being caught normally.

* It makes people who previously coded in statically typed languages feel more familar with the code.

Basically, if you look at the Pros vs Cons, you should ditch the typing checking. It's a net negative to the codebase.
And this is why the semantic web will never work.
During the last “fall back” event I experienced the 1 o’clock hour three times since I randomly happened to cross a time zone at exactly 2:00am…or maybe 1:00am?

The worst part was I had an appointment at 02:00, somewhere where they won’t let you in if you show up too early, in the other time zone and hadn’t had to deal with daylight savings time for a good long while having lived in Arizona where they don’t deal with such silliness. Trying to figure out what time to leave to time my arrival was very difficult.
> There's not much that's bad on the Net

Given the EFF email address, I think that's probably a quote from the same Mike Godwin of "Godwin's Law" fame. In other words, somebody who would have known what he was talking about. It'd be unimaginable for any informed person to say that about today's internet.

I'm not sure how much of that was that life was just better in the 90s when there were few real problems in the world, how much of it is due to the internet becoming more popular and how much of it is due to certain platforms that are designed in a way that encourages their users to act badly. If we could take the internet back to 1990s levels of interactivity but with everybody still having a web browser in their pocket, would things be better or is today's internet worse because society as a whole is worse?
> Mypy catches bugs

100% yes. It’s much better than the examples would lead you to believe. Mypy catches stuff like:

def f(arg: Optional[Object]):
arg.method() # type error
if arg is not None:
arg.method() # ok

It’s half the goodness of what you’d get from a well-typed language like Haskell or Rust but with the ability to say “trust me on this” and disable type checks for a line or two. Honestly I wish go tooling checked for nil pointer use as well as mypy unwraps optional values. Every time I add type hints and use mypy I find bugs. I would never make the case that type hints are better than a strongly typed language (especially with pattern matching), but it’s a great balance when writing python.
Exactly. We are already there to subsist on basic human needs for food and shelter on < 10 hours work per week. But the human need to keep uplifting our lives will ensure we're always in the rat race desiring to settle in California or Hawaii