skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s often “too much”. You wish it was zoomed out just a bit more, but if you do that it’s a digital zoom on the 1x lens so you lose quality.
This is, as far as I know, only true if you use the business "mode" in venmo. I certainly take in a lot more than $600 in aggregate per year via venmo (passthrough rent), and don't get a 1099-k.
The sentence that implies it's not limited to two wheeled vehicles
It's not a 'real friendship' if you have to pay the other person to stop them ending the relationship. Sounds more like a contract.
praying for an appropriate opinion from the SCOTUS on the asians/harvard case
I think it's generally a good thing, when you look at what rich people do with their money otherwise. There is definitely a risk of what you describe, but there have also been many good things funded this way, and I think on balance it's been strongly positive.
Can I be safe against this if I just put electrical tape over the magnetic stripe on the credit card? Or any other kind of covering.

If I ever actually need it (very rare) I can just pull the tape off.
US person here, I can do this too, but in a limited fashion. In fact the donut shop in my circuit used to be cash-only but eventually relented because of the pandemic.
Light grey text on white background is unreadable, I had to highlight everything manually to see the text. Product offering looks good.
That's pretty close: the private key alone can't prevent replays, since any material generated from just the private key could be recorded and replayed. Instead, the card mixes its private key with a nonce to produce a session key.
> I think the magnetic strip needs to go.

Absolutely. Here in the Netherlands, magstripe payments are disabled by default. Only if you’re travelling outside Europe do you need to enable them manually (through your bank’s app or website).
An obvious path towards crony capitalism, and anyone who thinks differently is a fool.
If this scales up, it can be thought of as "actionable Google search", and if taken to extreme, has the potential to make internet query-able for better or worse
They call it a “gift” but such large donations always come with some strings attached— sometimes social, sometimes economic, sometimes it’s just an implicit IOU. Huge “donations” are the way uber wealthy people covertly wield their soft power.
I've tried it with ING (Europe) but it has low withdrawal limits, like 200e iirc
I had to pay a driver in cash recently. It was the first time I'd used cash since before Covid, and it was crazy to realise that.

I think (in the UK), raising the contactless pay limit, and then all the places that just moved to fully cashless over covid accelerated everything.

I know it's a priveledged position to say it, but contactless is great and I absolutely don't miss cash and coins.
It looks like Loki at least supports using the local filesystem as an object store. I don't know about Parseable.io.

But also, running on your laptop isn't really the intended use case.
I think the issue is you're accepting the funds for a project without their approval and doing with it as you please.

As a product developer wanting to support I would have to make sure all my dependencies accept StackAid before I'd even use it.

As an open source developer I'd be pissed to find out that my project had $1k in funds held by some rando company in my name.
> How does one become “drug addled” if nothing is a problem?

Prescription drugs, used according to the bottle/doctor. Hard drugs mixed in with softer ones. Intentional drugging. Many ways.
I like to use and have my close friends and family use the newest possible iPhones. The reason is that they collect photos and video of each other and in some cases these will be looked at or treasured for years to come.

I have a pal who has a baby coming and I reminded him to make sure he gets his iPhone upgrade program replacement done in time.

My mom's partner, I ask him to keep his updated because these are photos and video of my mom who won't be here forever.

Not only do these devices capture the most consistent, high fidelity data, you almost have to try to screw up having the data automatically backed up.

The cost of keeping the devices updated is relatively low, and the device switch process has improved __every__ year.
New devices require new OS's which get the most attention and latest patches, etc.
Market losers are typically guided into individual responsibility. This is no different.
I don't think any responsible medical researcher would claim this. We honestly don't know what the longer term implications of annual COVID are, and the distribution of deaths strongly suggests that the population of people who would die from covid in the US already did, and the remaining population (with the exception of people entering the risk profile) is not as susceptible to extremely bad outcomes.
"Contactless" is not a noun, and I refuse to allow it to become one without opposition.
Parsing JSON takes more time than IO
> The reason that Tillman is the only person to ever say no to the shakedown is that he isn't a developer, and he doesn't have other properties he wants to build, and he has no interest in maintaining a working relationship with the city.

Sounds to me like the perfect person to expose it for what it is.
> Is this some kind of annoying autoreply for everyone who mentions RMS?

Yes. I remember there was a 4chan Stallman interjector written in Perl. The script would reply to anyone talking about Linux with that text. I can't seem to find that code anymore but I found newer incarnations of the concept such as this Telegram interjector.

https://github.com/perronet/interjection-bot/blob/master/sta...
If you don’t benefit from the upgrades, of course you aren’t excited about them. If you do benefit from them, it’s more exciting.

I was excited when I got the iPhone 13 Pro because of the LiDAR ToF sensor and being able to utilize Apple’s new object capture API. I was also excited to have a zoom lens, as my old phone (iPhone 7) did not have one. These were all things I had a clear use case for, so it makes sense I was excited for the upgrade.

I think it’s okay to not be excited when you don’t have a reason to be. Don’t assume that means you’re old and jaded.
> However, once an account gets the blue check, the owner is free to change the profile pic and display name, and the blue check doesn't go away.

I worked at Twitter and built the verification service. I recalled that this was the case back in 2012. You couldn't change your name or username if you were verified (or if you change one of those, you would lose the checkmark).
You could always erase the stripe with a magnet.
The only thing that has changed in the past couple years is that a few more of the larger gas stations chains have renovated with new chip readers. Most small businesses are switched over.

You can still count on old gas pumps and pay parking kiosks using mag stripes.
Seeing the same thing in readers at the gas pump...Austin and surrounding areas have been hit hard w/ them.
> "I like that you are adding folders as well as tags."

I too appreciate this as well. I personally use folders as top-level categories, and tags to ensure easy search, so each has their valid use case for me.
There are commenters on this very page who count themselves among the “billionaires should not exist” crowd.
the principal's your pal
I wonder if the stripe material would survive.
The Verge also mentioned that Apple goes overboard when it comes to noise reduction lately with their phones. It becomes really obvious when you compare an iPhone 13 with say a Pixel phone and there have been many complaints about it. Instead it looks like they continued to double down with it on the iPhone 14. It's a shame since they have such good hardware and ruin the pics with their photo processing pipeline.
Dick the Birthday Boy: The Legacy Continues [video]
My bet is that long-term, apple will build manufacturing in the US and Europe explicitly, and target government contracts for phones for officials.

A phone fully designed, developed, and assembled in the States with capacity to further lock down is a huge + for three letter agencies.
This is a really important question. I think we first need to figure out what metric has the most impact at scale.

I have no specific numbers for this, but I feel strongly that each byte on the network consumes significantly more power than each byte in the cpu per equivalent unit time.

Sending information across physical distances requires many computers, most of the time. I am not aware of any routers that consume 0 watts of power.

Also, my intuition says that a CPU is faster than I can imagine, so whatever byte we were talking about processing is likely amortized under 1 clock cycle along with 500 others, averaging out to processing times that are infinitesimal.

So, should we worry about how the browser is juggling bytes on the CPU, or how the bytes showed up in the first place?
So I wonder how much that text-mostly website consume without the Ad banner (ie, content blocked).
This chart from CDC shows deaths from all causes:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

It still (just barely) shows part of the 2018 influenza spike, which is pretty similar to where we were at in July (note that the last few weeks on this chart are likely to come up a bit, but from what I've seen they don't rise much once they're 2-3 weeks old).

Now it's always possible that the winter will be just like 2020/21 and 2021/22 winters, in terms of deaths, but I highly doubt it. Anyone who has not either been infected or vaccinated (or both) by now, is almost certainly naturally resistant. There isn't much of an "immunologically naive" population left.

Where we are now is analogous to influenza in 1920, just after the big flupandemic of 1918/19.
I can see how this is annoying, but I think I use the magstripe 1 time per year on average. Although, I could see it being used more often by bartenders and other merchants who take my card.
Or you go somewhere else where you get to work with grownups and non-sociopaths.
It's only surveillance when it's citizens and persons of a country. Any other time it's "surveillance" to calm the big tech companies from reacting in a snow flake fashion.
I think he/she more specifically means assets like land or IP. Those assets, especially land/buildings could become stagnant.
honestly, it's just not worth arguing- some folks are going to be permanently convinced that the case for vaccination is much stronger than it really is. Like I said in other comments: the medical researcher community moved on and no longer believes that vaccines were nearly as effective as originally believed, for any criterion. We certainly aren't ever going to reach ongoing herd immunity so the most reasonable approach now is to identify people at greatest risk and spend more resources protecting them.
Well, that's terrifying. The people who built the ejection seats seem oddly casual about their material sourcing, and "if the damned things would actually work if needed." You're having a very, very bad day if you need the seat, the last thing you want to worry about is if it's going to fail because of counterfeit parts.
Capitalism is designed to increase the ceiling of the human experience. It is also designed to let people fall to the floor of the human experience.

Specifically, if there is a human that cannot participate in capitalism (strong enough, focused enough, educated enough, lucky enough, conforming enough), then capitalism pushes those people to the floor of the human existence.
I think it’s fine because non profits even under C4 grow tax free with a tiny excise tax on investment income (1.39% on realized gains and dividends, I think?)

so for a company with profits being the primary asset, itll grow even quicker, since there are no income taxable shareholders
> it is rare that I agree with 100% of anyone's political positions, including my own

This is my favorite political comment of the year!

I hope you won't mind my stealing it when one of my friends is shocked that we disagree on some political position or another.
> Maybe if they had solicited, “how difficult would this be?” — but that was not asked.

Yes it was. OP asked for a “low hassle” solution, explicitly soliciting low difficulty level.
> Image-to-Prompt

Isn't this called captioning?
> Pythagoras was able to prove his theorem about every triangle in the universe without inspecting every triangle in the universe.

My understanding is that statements about members of infinite sets can be decidable if there exists a method to set up use recoursion/induction to cover all of them. For the set of right triangles, this is relatively straight forward (if we ignore the complexity introduced by real numbers).

For statements on infinite sets where it is not possible to reduce a proof to such recoursion/induction, you quickly end up needing an infinite number of steps to cover all cases, meaning the problem is undeciable/uncomputable.

See the Church-Turing thesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
It's an 85mm equivalent focal length, which is comparatively niche (to 50mm, aka "standard" focal length)

85mm is great for head shots, detail shots, video b-roll, etc. and limiting for general use, unless your style is all about subject isolation, telephoto, compression, etc.

Photographers often fall into categories of focal length usage. Some prefer the 24-35mm/85mm pair and skip "normal". Some shoot mainly 50mm. Landscape photographers often shoot 16-35mm and then 70mm+.

My sweet spot is 50-100mm, which was well served by the dedicated 2x camera (I'm often fine with digital zoom—the artifacts are part of the style).

So, they've made a reasonable choice, but 50mm lovers are left out.
You can shoot RAW and skip all the processing if you think it ruins the picture
I only get cash out for buying drugs.

That's my use case.
The rule here isn't ambiguous, that's the sense of "clearly" I intended.
The Magic of Rituals
I don't know enough about the boosters yet (and nobody does). We'll have a better idea in January after the winter cycle is winding down.
All the more reason to do the things which control population growth (like educate and reduce time burdens on women, reduce child and infant mortality, and redistribute wealth) before the eugenicists start feeling the constraints of a finite world then.
Ask HN: Stuck between stubborn PM and stubborn external team
For the second time in my career, I've found myself in this position and looking for advice...

I just started as a Senior Developer at a new company (you've heard of them).
I'm part of a new project consisting of a dozen teams.
My one job is to implement a small REST API.
Product & management made it a requirement for me to add this new API to an existing back-end service owned by an external team; customers complained they didn't want to integrate with yet another new service.

However, the team that owns this back-end service won't accept my change. They aren't blocking a PR even. Just off the spec, this team decided the API doesn't fit the responsibility of their service. I want to stay anon so let's say their service makes Pizza & I'm supposed to add Spaghetti. Blasphemy to a pizza chef but to our customers, it's all just Italian food.

I understand both sides tbh but I've zero decision making power in my role to unblock this. All I can do is facilitate meetings between PM and the rejecting team but sadly these calls never go anywhere. It's been 3 months of this now. Product/management insist on their vision, this team insists on theirs.

Any advice on how I could move this forward? Am I doing something obviously wrong here?
I wouldn’t do that for ATMs and the such that suck your card inside, for fear it would get stuck.
Well, you could argue there are no apt thresholds at which this is ever justified. That the individual always trump the collective, so individual autonomy and personal choice should never be compromised, even if it could benefit the collective to do so.

And similarly you could say the reverse, the collective should always take priority, and in all cases where even minor benefits are to be found, the collective matters most.
I've been noticing this issue with many smartphones lately, I've been looking at smartphone camera reviews a bunch and none of them look particularly good.
Fair point, agreed I doubt mount_webdav ends up posix compliant.
PTC is a safety system. Describing it as an "autopilot" seems like an exaggeration to me, though I suppose it may automate some tasks that a conductor may have done before. It was also mandated by federal regulation and from everything I ever heard about it, it was done begrudgingly by the railroads as it is expensive and adds complexity and new failure modes. The commuter trains in my area are now frequently delayed due to "PTC issues".
Obscure 1972 Bay Area experiment shaped the ending of Star Wars
The background shows up white? What browser are you using? It's supposed to be black.
Who cares? The improvements here are beyond minuscule. It would affect my life more if Chipotle came out with a new flavor of chicken
The sensor in 2x camera on the older phones was never as nice as the main camera sensor either. It’d be interesting to see a comparison of the optical vs crop cameras for 2x to see if they were able to improve those 12MP at all.
I loved my Pixel 4a. Price point seemed reasonable, battery and camera were both very decent, and I preferred using Android to iOS.

The one downfall was that when I broke my screen this year, the replacement was so costly that I ended up switching to a friend's unused older model iPhone for now. I may still repair it at the end of the year...
I’m thinking specifically about Des Moines and Dallas but you can pick any city in those states.
>in fact it was quite a bit more expensive when introduced.

To the consumer, sure. That’s how Patagonia made their profits. But polyester is not, never has been, and never will be more expensive to produce than wool. The upcharge was a premium on what affluent consumers who wanted a better product could afford.
What ecosystem is simpler?
Probably to remove interference with https://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/askap/index.html
We’re open sourcing our live election night model
Hilarious. Thanks for this.
> my argument is specifically that if you're watching a video and circumvent the ad through technology, that is, since it is

That's your assertion, but what is your reasoning? This is an honest question, because it's not at all clear to me why it should be considered theft.

> your analogy, is also piracy, since by your stance here removing restrictions that might requirement payment is OK even though that too is piracy.

And I have the same question here. Why should that be considered theft?

At worst, it's a violation of terms of service, it seems to me.

> though if you want to be pedantic all adblocking can be considered fraud since you're deceiving the content provider (by blocking ads) for personal gain (not seeing ads).

I disagree that it's fraud, too. I'm not deceiving anybody. And the "personal gain" aspect seems strained to me. "Personal gain" typically means "material gain" -- that is, being materially enriched.
Neither are equivalent to this. In general, the Android ecosystem is far less secure.
Please take care with using the word "Carbon Footprint", it was invented by the advertisement company Ogilvy for a BP public relation disinformation campaign to draw away responsibility from companies and hand it over to individuals in 2005. - Everytime the term is used, someone thinks he can make a difference, while he cannot as long as the fossils are still digged up to,the meat industry grows and grows, concrete is used on bigger and bigger scale each year and so on.

Other than that, good article. Data Transmission should definitely be fueled with low carbon emitting energy sources or avoided if possible. But I'm not sure if 30x 8GB DVDs plus packaging and logistics would be a better way to distribute Call of Duty. Why do all the fun things have a downside? Meh
It says a lot about America that doing things the right way and paying a whopping 0.5% in tax is a "staggering amount of savings" and "least effective".

Imagine the things we could do if more companies cared about giving back to the public good that enabled them to become what they are rather than using legal trickery to ignore the intent of the law.
> MacOSX has a great deal of BSD in it. iOS, maybe not

The XNU kernel is largely the same across its different variants (macOS/iOS/tvOS/watchOS/bridgeOS). The XNU kernel contains a massive chunk of BSD code (originally 4.3BSD, later updated with enhancements from FreeBSD), and most of that code will be there in all variants. The big area in which macOS has much more BSD code than iOS would be user space, since iOS is missing Unix command line tools present in macOS. (Although, you can install them if you jailbreak it, and I assume Apple's internal builds for their own developers would include many of them.)
In my experience, the mom and pop outfits usually have a reasonably modern system from verifone/square/etc that accepts tap to pay; it's the giant behemoths (e.g. USPS or Lowe's) where I'm more likely to encounter antiquated payment tech.
> There is no evidence of fraud since then

absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence ~ NNT

Just because no one found fraud, doesn't mean it isn't there.

I'm optimistic about Charles Hoskinson's project to develop a secure voting system for a country in Africa (Ethiopia?) that is based on Cardano (crypto). But I'll wait for the final product to make the judgement.
> without spending two days configuring it?

TBH, if you have a target on your back, spending two days configuring your phone is a pretty small inconvenience.

On the other hand, if you're applying this without looking deeper into what it covers, what it doesn't, and the linits you'll probably be in trouble sooner than later.
The small number of places with older swipe only terminals. Or when the chip isn't working (Lowes has a stripe reader on the register if the main terminal isn't working; mainly used for gift cards though). And finally, an alert employee might not accept a damaged card.
And sometimes famous blue checks have an id that is unrelated to any name they have been known by, and a display name unrelated to any name they have been known by. I know this because I follow people like this. I know who they are verified to be, but that name is nowhere associated with their account.

Which is why I said that.
> Downloading Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, at 250 GB [1]

The rest of your comment is spot on but in the spirit of similar accuracy it's worth noting that that 250GB on the drive isn't how much is actually transferred.

That said, while I'm sure energy improvements have happened and those numbers aren't correct I do think there's something to consider in the full equation of sheer number of pieces of equipment between you and the server.

If we assumed 1wh per device per GB, that could sometimes be 10-20wh just for routers on your path. That doesn't include switches at the destination, server energy usage, etc. I have no idea what the number actually is on a per GB basis but just using that sample assumption as a way of illustrating that it could add up quite quickly. I suspect in reality it's nowhere near 1wh per device per GB transferred for routers, as even reasonably efficient consumer routers are 5-15W devices.
Bamboo seems to be one of the biggest scam words lately. It doesn't take a ton of thought to realize bamboo doesn't make for soft cloth.

AFAIK, companies just use chemicals to extract cellulose from bamboo, recreating Rayon with a greener name.
Using a 11 pro max, is there any legit reason to upgrade?
I don't really see why this matters when Apple also installs backdoors into their phones and grants nation states the exploits to attack dissidents for any person or group that would need a feature like this, apple is the last company I'd trust to protect me from an authoritarian regime.