skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the long run, a company that wastes money on purchases will be beaten in the market by a company that isn't so wasteful. Marketing and sales is not wasteful, but actually creates profit.
Discord can automate it; and their membership is worldwide, encompassing a radically wider network effect.

Ejection from Willowdale Odd Fellows does not keep you out of Springfield Odd Fellows.
Why is it still possible to commit so much fraud with credit cards? Where is the second factor for CC use online or some other more secure way?

When I use my VISA chip and pin credit card online I sometimes depending on merchant/amount/etc have to approve the transaction via the credit card app. Should this be the defacto standard?
If only the blockchain were powered by crypto users’ endless supply of confirmation bias.
Yeah, I had a trouble with Wise (formerly transferwise), with a rather large payment. The annoying thing was they delayed the payment of the 10% deposit, I sent the contract, approved, and then a month later they held up the balance as well.

I still love them. That issue aside they allow me to have a personal and business account in multiple currencies, and don't screw me on the exchange rates.
The SNCF is currently the only operator of regional train lines in France, but it's the regions that decide what lines are run and on what budget. They also own or lease the trains. The rails are indeed owned by SNCF Réseau.
- "In 2022, we don't want to go faster"

Yes we do!

- "the goal instead is high speed trains that accommodate more people"

No; we want legroom.

- "...while consuming less energy"

We don't want that either. Isn't your electricity nuclear power anyway? What's the problem with consuming too much clean energy? You're in direct competition with airline travel, so every bit of increased consumer attractiveness is a *net social benefit* with regards to climate change. What exactly is the hangup?

Smells like cost-cutting MBA's shoving through unpopular changes, with a sugarcoating of social responsibility. This future sucks. I want my atomic flying cars back.
I was just looking into this today. iOS shows a decimal separator (a comma in the Netherlands) with `inputmode=decimal` and none for `inputmode=numeric`.
You can try it out here: https://output.jsbin.com/necuzoj
yes, we've just moved the fire very far away.

"And if you were alive around the year 1900, you’d probably equate modern tech with electricity, much the way we today equate modern tech with computers, smart phones and the internet. Edison and Tesla were their Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The idea of powering transportation with a fiery engine dated back to the earliest locomotives almost 100 years earlier, which would seem about as modern to a person in 1900 as black-and-white silent films seem to us today. By 1900, you weren’t supposed to have to deal with how the energy sausage is really made anymore—the burning fire happened in some remote generator now, allowing consumers to only have to interact with the silent, clean, convenient magical butler—electricity."

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-li...
Same here. I’ve never found a vector editing tool to be as intuitive as Animate/Flash.
In US political vernacular, RCV == IRV. This is just a case of terminology getting warped, but it is what it is.
Heads up, then, it's the de-facto standard in UX / UI design these days. There are alternatives, but this is the go-to tool people are training on, using at work, etc. It's not some unknown tool that's being saved by Adobe out of obscurity.
I was working on a project to insert a billion rows in SQLite under a minute, batching the inserts made it crazy fast compared to individual transactions.

link: https://avi.im/blag/2021/fast-sqlite-inserts/
The overwhelming majority of stories I hear about paypal fucking over businesses are about benign transactions.

I don't think your judgmental paranoia is founded.
This is the first I've heard about a "no-YC policy for SaaS" outside of my own employer (after three back-to-back horrible experiences) but glad to see it's catching on.

As executives and purchasing managers get more tech-aware I think we're going to see an increase in due diligence into who is running companies, who their investors are, what other companies they've invested in, etc. Brands like YC will end up getting punished (and all their portfolio companies, by extension) for the bad actors.
wait, so why does Coinbase "own" a wallet with all its users ETH in it? Who really "owns" the coins held on Coinbase?
Buying your own products inflates revenue figures (and is therefore pretty much prohibited in listed companies). Many investors don't like it either.

Sure, you can do it, but you'll have to forever have a note in your accounts package saying 'this revenue isn't actual revenue'.

It really upsets those who want the accounts to match up to the cent at the end of the year...
> it's not very comforting to hear "you don't need Discord son, in my day we didn't have Discord and we wrote to our pen pals. I'm sure you'll make some new friends."

>it's not very comforting

That's the problem. Your comfort doesn't matter. If you want comfort, go buy a hammock. If you want to boss companies around with overreaching regulations, then get into politics.

The fact is, companies can do what they want (within existing regulations). "They should" or "They shouldn't" arguments are outside of both of our control.
Maybe?

Sure, mutating data sets might be a useful use case. But, inserting thousands of items at once one at a time in a tight loop, then asking for all of them is testing an unusual use case in my opinion.

My point was that we're comparing apples and oranges. By default, I think, Python's dbm implementation doesn't do any sort of transaction or even sync after every insert, where as SQLite does have a pretty hefty atomic guarantee after each INSERT, so they're quite different actions.
I can't wait for the frictions to loosen and this effect to work IN THE OPPOSITE direction. Workers in mostly wealthy country are taking advantage of a cost of living arbitrage, but soon employers will figure out they can take advantage of cost-of-worker arbitrage, meaning there is some local in the foreign country your current employee is in who could also probably do the job but for a fraction of the amount of money.
> If you hold them to account, you pay a stiff penalty on the other end being denied access to the services they monopolize.

Looks like they've already paid that penalty
PNG format has a space for arbitrary metadata. Fireworks stored their proprietary save format inside this, and also rendered the file to flat PNG on save, meaning that you could preview fireworks files in anything that could read PNGs (although the file size would be huge).
The winner here isn't the Condorcet winner, true. But in an FPTP election it seems likely the same result would occur so it's at least not worse than the 'default' US system in this case.

(Palin beats Begich in a one-winner Republican primary, given that she had more of the votes cast for the two R candidates which is ~= the votes cast in a primary with only Republican voters, then loses to Peltola in the general by 51.4 to 48.6.)

It might be that non-transferable votes as a result of preference failures would change this a bit, of course.
Entropy is like Mundo -- it goes where it pleases.
How to make exclusive or mandatory locks in Kubernetes
Small and effective way to lock resources in k8s.
Isn't that what cryptocurrency is?
I wonder how many fewer of these they would sell if the PCIe card edge were blank rather than covered in useless pins.
Ok, I was working under the impression that one must drive around the circle. If that requirement isn't there and it just changes how we work out who goes when then I can see that expansion wouldn't be necessary.
Stripe advises against that (I'm not saying it makes sense)

"Do not use real card details. Testing in live mode using real payment method details is prohibited by the Stripe Services Agreement. Use your test API keys and the card numbers below."

https://stripe.com/docs/testing
As a current software engineer at Adobe, I was really disappointed when I got the internal email announcing this this morning. It's reminiscent of Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior in the early 00s. Figma is the better product and Adobe knows it - but instead of using that to light a fire under them and work harder to create a better product, Adobe just used its deep pockets to make the problem go away. I was already planning on leaving the company for other reasons but this is the nail in the coffin for me.
I 3d scanned the Khufu Pyramid interior for the Giza Project this summer for education about Giza: https://giza.mused.org/en/guided/266/inside-the-great-pyrami...

Partly because it's what our users most wanted to know about--but partly also because there's been so much miseducation about the site. At least everyone can explore for themselves now.
Admittedly havent followed Sweden politics in a long time.

Guess they had an election 3 days ago where this right-wing party increased their popular vote by 3% compared to previous election. So basically not-news. Doesnt seem like any major changes to their electorate.

>Sweden election: How an ex neo-Nazi movement became kingmakers

>More than one in five Swedes voted for the radical anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) party in elections on Sunday.

What a tremendously biased article. How absolutely embarrassing for the BBC to publish this.

>It is a watershed moment for a party founded by Nazi sympathisers, shunned for decades by the mainstream - and now on the cusp of playing a kingmaking role in a country better known for its stable and predictable politics.

All these swedish nazis...

Let's discuss what happened.

In 2013 Sweden opened the gates for Arab spring immigration. Applause for Sweden for trying to help. They brought in significant number of people. Which for a country not that experienced with large immigration they weren't prepared.

You have the not-nazis socialists who did win this election a couple days ago saying only months ago: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-pm-says-integra...

You also have a bit of a rape problem in Sweden: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764

Sweden used to be the rape capital of the world only a few years ago. There's a clear problem here that needs to be addressed.

Calling politicians who are trying to fix the situation a bunch of nazis isn't going to help the situation at all.
This is how an auto insurance company I used to work for wrote policies. They didn’t underwrite them until there was a claim and then they would rescind the policy and deny the claim when they found a “material misrepresentation”. They called it underwriting on the back end.
Right, but who's got all that and an easy API and SDK? i.e. if you were willing to trade off higher fees for safety and slowness of ramping up in a compliance sense, but you do want quick dev ramp-up, who do you use?
Just to provide more info.

There's quite a few now, something like 33 countries with these visas. The terms tend to vary. I took advantage of the first one, the Barbados digital nomad visa which they created to work around the loss of tourism due to COVID. Since most taxes in Barbados are sales taxes and they have a peg to the US dollar it has worked well for them in terms of foreign currency reserves and supporting the tourist industry during the pandemic.

Other countries like Costa Rica require visa holders to pay local income tax which is fair enough while others don't or have a reduced rate.

I'm unsure of the overall morality of it but it can be done legally through the correct pathways as I have been doing.

I don't like that people will just do it on tourist visas instead though which I'd guess is the bulk of the objection to it.
Maybe it's time for governments to stop relying on income taxes so much, and instead really on land/property taxes for the bulk of their revenue. Sales taxes are regressive, but there are ways to keep them from hurting lower income folks as much.
It serves as a reminder that we don't need billionaires to have nice things. Any company could be organized this way; the fact that they are not is a misfeature of our systems past and present.

In fact, you could reorganize every company to be like this, today, but you would encounter a whole lot of angry billionaires and the people they train to be angry on their behalf.
Re: cannabis, it's federally illegal and you can get into serious legal trouble for facilitating payments. There have been several attempts to write legislation to fix this so state-legal cannabis operations don't have to work entirely with cash, but none have passed yet.

Re: porn, the issue is its sky-high chargeback rates.
Most people don’t even read the original bitcoin whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

In between a blog post and a book. I think it’s a good starting (and ending lol) point.
Yet another bill from CA that furthers big tech monopoly agenda.
I was burned by Adobe for the last time a few years ago. Since then, I avoid them like the plague. I loved Figma, but now I will be searching for an alternative. Adobe ruins everything they acquire, and its only a matter of time before Figma follows suit.
I was curious what that looked like and turns out there are videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fqruVDrjs

Pretty cool!
I wonder how much you’re being caught by protections set up against bad actors.

Bad actors have massive incentive to try all sorts of insanely advance schemes to ensure their cash flow (I saw this both at MP3.com and Zynga early days). As a company, Stripe has massive incentive to stop them. If you stop 95% of bad actors and cause .01% of good actors to get caught up in the enforcement, that’s a net win for the company. If I was running Stripe, you’d be an acceptable casualty.

Of course to you, you’re not an acceptable casualty and this is a shitty situation. The advice in this thread about having multiple processors you can switch between is a technical and financial headache for you to implement, but it’s really your best bet.

I’m sorry you’re going through this, I hope it works out, but the tough love call here is you are an acceptable casualty and need to plan accordingly.
One thing that maybe is just wooshing over my head, but how does persistence fit into this, at least as best practices?

The way I understand this tool from the docs, is that a request is duplicated to go to the baseline service A as well as service A' -- so service A on `main` branch is actually serving the up to date code, while service A' has modifications that developers can quickly see either work or blow up. What happens if the change is a DB write change? Do both A and A' point to a primary prod DB and if A' changes something in that results in bugged data, wouldn't that screw up prod data? How do I go about accounting for that? Or am I just entirely misunderstanding the point of this tool?

EDIT: I think I just bumped into my own answer within the docs -- "Sandbox Resources." I see so far you have Mysql/Maria, SQS, and Rabbit plugins. What's next on the roadmap? Kafka/PgSQL soonish? :)
XD was actually their Sketch competitor. What makes Figma remarkable is the ability to use it on the web. I wonder if Adobe will keep this aspect.
Thanks for sharing the link I'll look into it soon.
The problem is that my real HN account is my actual name. It'd be like 2 clicks to figure out what my business is.
Ranked choice voting is a complete scam, obscured by complexity.

I would never live anywhere that has it.
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Even in SF that was straight up solicitation for a bribe.
It's been a long time since I've worked in eCommerce but at my last ecom role we used two payment processors and simply stored the card data with both for every customer, and the relevant IDs in the customer record in the database. Whenever anything got charged we'd check which processor we were supposed to use and off we went.

Yes this has an increased cost if your processor charges by number of customers, but I don't think that's particularly common - these two were just revenue + monthly fee.
There will probably be some really interesting network effects with this. Since a lot of the other PoW coins that are ETH-hardware compatiable have low volume, I think we're going to very rapidly see the profitably of mining these go way down (to the point of going negative in some cases) as all these extra miners suddenly start mining these coins, but this takes time. So in other words, I would expect the real global energy usage reduction to happen weeks or months after the merge since it will take a while for all the altcoins to get overmined.
One could advocate for the adoption of Smith-IRV. It's easy to explain (it's the same as IRV, we just filter it down to the Smith set first waves hand) and it satisfies the Condorcet criterion.

(I really like this framing BTW, separating the concepts of the Smith set and the tie-breaking process).
> people hated them for going subscription with the tools that used to be desktop, but they absolutely adore figma that has never been anything but subscription

I think a big part of it is exactly that, that Figma's value proposition as a subscription was always clear from the beginning, that it's not just a design tool but a real-time, collaborative design environment. Sketch was always the better choice for solo, side-project work, because it was a one-off purchase with no need for a cloud component (its more recent direction to try to become a cloud-first service has unfortunately only served to highlight its shortcomings versus Figma).

Creative Suite never had a value proposition as a subscription apart from becoming a predictable cost center for businesses. Tacking on an inferior version of Dropbox, making the whole suite subscription-only, and calling it Creative Cloud did a pretty decent job of alienating those who didn't fall into that "predictable cost center" market.
> Isn't your electricity nuclear power anyway? What's the problem with consuming too much clean energy?

According to a 2019 poll, 69% of French people believe that nuclear "contributes to producing CO2 and climate change". (34% answered "a lot", 35% "a little", 13% "not really", 17% "no")

Source: https://www.bva-group.com/sondages/francais-nucleaire-sondag...
I really love PiKVM! I use it for my personal colo'd boxes and it's a real treat over normal remote management solutions.

That said I'm not sure what BliKVM really provides me beyond more limitations on where I can put it and one less PCIe slot available on the motherboard. I was expecting something more smart NIC like where the PCIe bus is actually used to communicate with the host too - or maybe the better description was wishing for :).
But you're essentially arguing that Willowdale Odd Fellows shouldn't be able to choose their membership, that everyone has a right to join the meetings.
There are genetic factors too.

Some people smoke, drink, eat junk food and never exercise and have excellent blood pressure and never get fat. Others can't keep in shape without tremendous efforts. Equality is for human rights, but nature doesn't care.
You could say the same for Python/Ruby/Javascript or most high-level languages that rely on a VM.
There is truth in this. That's why I can perform a lot better on puzzles, where it is known that there is a winning combination, so I can spend 15 minutes (or more) figuring it out. Can't spend that type of energy all game.
You will be interested in the OpenElections github account:

https://github.com/openelections
I think we should just all be fotographed nude when we turn 18 and have it posted publicly online. Problem solved, no more blackmail and no one cares if your nudes leak. /s
It's always been paid pre-order (though I think it used to be 6k instead)
I am not so versed in security and data protection. Can anyone tell me if it makes sense or not? Thanks
I honestly miss Adobe from 10 - 15 years ago. It feels like they were a product company back then, as opposed to an upsell-advertising company (they are now). I don't use their products a lot these days, but when I do; I am always surprised by the slowness & bloat.

I'm not too sure why the Figma people decided this was a good idea - but makes me grateful for Affinity & Sketch still being available.
What these abbreviations mean? IMF is not even googleable. This is so annoying
This looks great. I currently use Sortable.js via Vuedraggable but I was never a big fan: https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/

I came across Shopify's recently which has an amazing website: https://shopify.github.io/draggable/

In Firefox I noticed some flickering when dragging a lower item to the top edge of the black box on this page: https://www.dflex.dev/demo/lists/asymmetric/ it might need some debouncing or something since it appears to be repeatedly redordering when it's in right on the edge/border (might not be a standard usecase but it was noticeable).
The Alaska data shows that this is not the case. For instance, if Palin had dropped out, Begich would have won. Palin pulled enough votes from Begich in the first round that Begich was eliminated, even though he would have beaten Peltola in the final.

Almost all Palin voters would have preferred Begich to Peltola, so they could have gotten a better result by lying about their preferences and strategically voting for Begich as their first choice. Expressing their views honestly resulted in a worse outcome than if they had expressed their views dishonestly.

Among voting nerds this failure mode is referred to as "favorite betrayal" -- https://electowiki.org/wiki/Favorite_betrayal_criterion
I was reading about this in Vancouver and Toronto. From what I read, the foreign buyer taxes did indeed massively decrease foreign real estate investment, but it's not at all clear that it actually lowered home prices, or even slowed down home price growth. Not what I expected or hoped to see (as I live in SF and would advocate for something similar here if it worked).
> But at least they're honest about it.

They're really not though, insofar as they're framing "not caring" as "not political". It's very political to not care that you're handing money to someone who's anti-abortion (or pro-abortion) because it will get you some other thing, other issues be damned.

If they framed that as not caring that would be one thing, but framing it as "not political" assumes a level of abject stupidity in the people they're making that claim to that I'm disinclined to play along with.
It will screw up your knees
> it’s against the law for them to tip a customer off that their account is being or might be investigated for suspicious activity

What law do you think forbids this? In my experience running global payments through multiple rails, on an OFAC/risk ping you typically get a request for enhanced due diligence, which normally looks to the payee like “send me a picture of your drivers license”.

The most common result is that O Bin Laden (matching the OFAC list) is actually Oscar bin Laden; with further info you disambiguate the payee from the OFAC listed entity and are allowed to transact.

I have never encountered a reg that says you are obliged to ghost your customer.
What about it is a scam?
How can I learn this? It's a dream job for me. I tinker with bikes endlessly and I've lost all my hair in tech.
I heard most of the city used to be very foggy for months on end. But now most of the city is sunny all year round before noon till early afternoon (about 11am-3pm) except maybe parts of outer sunset and outer richmond. In Bayview, fog doesn't even usually roll in until after 10pm (except in July)
> I right-click it and open it with mpv

That's a super neat feature - where does it come from? uMatrix?
To me this is a bit sad, as walking fast is for me associated with being stressed and in a rush. Walking slowly allows me to be fully mindful, to feel my body, and to experience the world around me without being lost in thought. It took a bit training but can be very pleasant. I haven’t managed to achieve these things when walking fast.