skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oracle buying Sun?

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

Has more real value ever been destroyed in the service of paper value?

Arguably yes, though I am including DEC in this equation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq#Acquisition_by_Hewlett-...
I've been using plantuml to write mindmaps in markdown notation. Pretty nifty
I have an adobe subscription, I never heard of Figma. I am sure their product is great, but it is a niche product. Figma is not worth 20B as a standalone company. Adobe will integrate Figma’s technology into Adobe’s suite of products and will make it available to the masses. I say it is a good thing that Adobe is acquiring Figma.

Change is hard; As a Figma consumer you are probably uncomfortable with the change, but Adobe acquiring is better than Figma going shutting down due to lack of mass adoption.
I walk a lot, and I walk briskly, but my diet is ... not great. When they take my bp at the doctors they are always like 'wow your BP is so good'. and I'm like really? are you sure? I guess the walking and doing so briskly helps a lot.
It'd be nice if the people installing roundabouts in the United States could stop their habit of splitting lanes of traffic into multiple lanes, each with different rules for which direction you can exit with about 20 feet of notice before you enter.
it's a weird market segment. the inside of a computer is not a great place to put a DAC, due to the EMI from all the other components. an audio enthusiast is going to strongly prefer running optical or USB to an external DAC/amp. a non-enthusiast is likely to be happy with whatever comes with their motherboard. it's hard to imagine a scenario that actually makes sense for a high-end audio card, but I'm sure some people buy them anyway.
A long term memory is nice. But we see such similar things get exploited. Like how people will get a high seller rating on Amazon selling one product, and then switch it out for a lesser product while keeping the old seller/product ratings. So the user looks at the seller and product ratings over the past year, but at the point and time they choose to buy, they are going to be burned and the bad seller makes off with the money.
HN reads like grumpy old tech and finance guys in Dockers pants and Alligator t-shirts stuck in 2000.
I've taken to looking at "RCV" as the UI/interface, which can then have multiple implementations; IRV being only one of them. Condorcet would be another implementation. (Of course, many IRV adherents would object to this interpretation.) I think it's fundamentally dishonest to take a term like "ranked choice voting" and insist that it means IRV and IRV only.
There is no such thing. High risk means high transaction costs, high underwriting costs, and lots of insurance/legal/compliance work.

Your best bet is to pay the slightly higher fees by going directly through your actual bank.
Big, is bigger than small.

The number of people who have died from the virus after shots were introduced, that were supposed to stop people from contracting the virus, let alone dying from it, is bigger than the smaller number of people who died from the virus before the shots were introduced.

Do you find this an important data point?
Do you think it is enough to win the prize?
Do you want to co-author with me?
Where should we publish?
RCV != IRV.

Everyone is reporting this as a failure of Ranked Choice Voting, but it's actually a failure of Instant Runoff Voting. There are other, better, more reliable Ranked Choice alternatives, and any serious expert in voting systems would tell you that IRV has as many weird failures as FPTP.

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ is a good overview of different methods.
In the Salesforce example, it's modifying database contents. Suppose the model misunderstands your request and modifies data in an unintended way (e.g. adding garbage data or, worse, deleting data). What's the recovery plan?
Because I commute by bicycle it's a non-expendable part of my day, that's the main benefit. There's no slacking off; rain or shine I bike.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32853080.
I used to beta test for them. A few months back I took at look at the current version of Audition to see what I'd been missing out on since the days of CS6 nearly a decade ago.

Three things have changed. It now includes one third-party plugin (that anyone could purchase) offering an alternative volume meter - the equivalent of a slightly different color histogram for photo/video software. It offers some new presets with friendlier names, for a feature that already existed. And they unified version numbers with other products. EDIT: Also some bug fixes, but poorly documented and tbh pretty rare edge cases. I still use CS6 in production and bugs are not a source of worry.

That's it. Anyone who has been paying a subscription for this has been getting ripped off wholesale. The product is great - but it was great before Adobe acquired it (when it used to be called CoolEdit) and Adobe actually removed functionality from it along the way, like dumping MIDI support because they didn't want to cater to musicians.

Any designers/engineers that understand or use the product left long ago. A standout example of this in their playlists feature - you can select a bunch of marked regions in a waveform or project and add them to a separate list, where you can rearrange their playback order freely - very useful if you are structuring a radio program or a podcast. Except...once you've found an arrangement you like, you can't do anything else with it. You can't render the audio to a new file, generate a new project, export it, save the list to a text file, or copy it to the clipboard, or anything else. They started building it 10 years ago and then never bothered to finish it.

I don't really think of Adobe as a software company any more. They're IP landlords who spend the bare minimum on integration and maintenance of their properties while continuously jacking up the rent.
I share your concern about managing solutions.
I only know AWS API gateway but I can tell you the features it offers are very limited compare to Foss solutions
> Many government functions (unemployment, DMV appointment scheduling, etc) can not be accessed from any place but the internet.

I agree with this. There are many government functions which need the internet to be able to use. But getting banned from Discord does not prevent me from accessing a government website. Getting banned from Gmail does not prevent me from sending or receiving an email from the government. Getting banned from WhatsApp does not prevent me from calling 911.

You practically do need an ISP to use the internet, often (in the US) your choice of ISP is very limited, and I do support common carrier regulations on ISPs. Maybe this will change with more wireless connectivity options becoming available to the broader public, but as it stands you normally don't have much of a choice which ISP will service your home.

But Gmail isn't an ISP. Facebook is not an ISP. You can still use the internet without having to log into Facebook. You didn't need an Instagram account to write this comment. Tiktok could ban me and I'd still be able to send emails to the government. I'd still be able to schedule a DMV appointment even if Spotify cancels my account.

If McDonald's banned me from their establishments I would not go hungry. You're essentially arguing I'd starve if they did. McDonald's makes up 24% of all fast food establishments, they're the largest player in the space. Clearly I would have a hard time ever eating without it. There's other providers out there! There are other places to get food other than McDonald's! You don't need a Gmail account to receive email!

And yes, you literally did just suggest that I needed a Gmail account to receive emails from the government. I regularly receive emails from the government to an address unrelated to Gmail.
> "Your account posted content that sexualized individuals under the age of 18, or was involved in servers dedicated to such unacceptable content". I've never done this.

You shared furry porn picturing subjects of a questionable age, didn't you?
I ran into an annoying limitation of number inputs. I want to create an input where users can step up or down by 0.5 at a time. And I want to make it so that if the number starts out as something that does not divide by 0.5, clicking the step buttons will first round up or down to the nearest multiple of 0.5. Well tough luck, that's not possible. If the number input starts with the value 0.01 and a step of 0.5, then 0.0 and 0.5 are not valid inputs, -0.49 and 0.51 are. And if I instead change the step to 0.01 to make sure 0.0 and 0.5 even become valid inputs, then the steps are super small and inconvenient for my use case, basically forcing the user to type the number instead of using the step buttons.
> I don’t know the way around this, but I do think it’s good that power is not centralized in one governmental structure, even if that structure is Democratic

If your assertion is that nobody should wield nation-scale power, then I agree, and welcome to anarchism!

If your assertion is that billionaires are an effective check on governmental power, I'm... not seeing it. Particularly given how much power billionaires have to influence the government itself.
That was dang cool. Thx
I was about to gripe about trains in the US, but it looks like Amtrak is buying models that look pretty similar to these ones for the next generation of Acela trains[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avelia_Liberty
If you're going to talk about vote counting systems, please consult this interactive blog post:

https://ncase.me/ballot/

And the HN discussion surrounding it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30847133

[Unfortunately, while you can test ranked choice voting systems against each other directly using examples, you can't really test them against cardinal voting systems because the ballots aren't the same. At best, you use statistical models to compare them.]
If the community really cares, raise some money and buy it back from them.
Not a frontend dev or designer, but I've seen people doing amazing things with Figma and it seemed loved all around. Counting the days for Adobe to completely wreck it.
Oh man, this is a lot of fun

"Tamil language" to "Republican Party (United States)"
Time: 95.330 Seconds

Number of links visited: 9

The path you took:
[ "Tamil language", "Indian subcontinent", "United Nations geoscheme for Asia", "United Nations", "Member states of the United Nations", "United States", "List of states and territories of the United States", "Alabama", "Alabama Republican Party", "Republican Party (United States)" ]
Godot 4 Beta 1
The big reason for these kind of "extreme" tests is that they help you verify the models and simulations you've done. If your model breaks down at -40f, you want to know that, and figure out why, what that means for the actual material, what that means for the specs you promise, and what that means for the product.

It also can be useful if these extreme test are better at revealing manufacturing defects. Maybe you literally only want the most perfect 1% of steel coming out of the foundry to actually be used, because you believe that will make a better submarine. In that case, sure maybe -100f is overkill for the specific application but you have to remember these objects are literally designed to have explosives near them. Being EXTREMELY GOOD at resisting brittleness literally will save sailors lives when it comes to close calls from depth charges.
display_cc_form_that_handles_cc_data_so_we_do_not_have_to() {
which_one = random_number(3)
switch which_one {
case 1:
display_authorizedotnet_form()
break
case 2:
display_stripe_form()
break
default:
display_paypal_form()
}
}

Plus the same integration work for each one that you'd have to do anyway (which may be little or none if you're using a platform that integrates all of them via plugins or settings or whatever)

Like maybe don't literally randomize it request-by-request, but that's how you'd be ready to use multiple processors, and you could do something a little more complex to, say, rotate which one you're on every Wednesday, or whatever. Or just have it ready so a one-line code change or config toggle switches which one you're on (that's only worse because if something's not used frequently in prod, there's a good chance it doesn't actually work, even if it once did)
> upend the local economy

Are the governments really that upset with illegal immigrants that (typically) don't commit crimes (aside from immigration/taxes) and spend (by local standards) crazy amounts of money in the local economy?
-Peak Horse: How and Why Oil and the New Machines will Erase the Carbon Footprint of Our Noblest Beast
has never been anything but subscription

Because that's not the same as a bait-and-switch, and because they provided value to subscribers in the form of continuous innovation.
I think the part you missed is he's using Stripe Connect and its 35% of the merchants through him that lost the ability to process cards?
> You have no idea about life, to be honest.

Fuck you buddy. You have no idea what I've done, what I've staked, what I won or lost, who I protect or what any of this means to me.

You're trying to justify keeping people out of your successes whilst complaining that they don't support you (and your business). How could they possibly deliver at the level you're expecting without the reward? Why bother?
However it was revealed not long ago that a lot of the third party cookie consent forms used by the majority of sites don't actually have any effect when you interact with them... i.e they tracked everything whether you consented to it or not, I think it was a combination of negligence (incomplete software) and betting on the fact that the vast majority of people just hit accept due to dark patterns that make it extremely inconvenient to do otherwise.

I think using uBlock etc is more likely to result in preventing tracking through blocking known urls and code etc compared to hiding consent forms... I know it's far from infallible but currently most trackers don't bother going to extremes if you block them.
That they have wealth outsized compared to the local economy could have distortionary effects.

One of the biggest examples would be in real estate, where foreigners could be comparatively very wealthy compared to locals, and can thus out compete locals and dramatically raise the price of real estate.

This is why some jurisdictions that found that the amount of properties being purchased by foreigners was becoming startling have brought in foreign buyer taxes to try to even out the distortions in the economy and make it more fair for those who earn their incomes in the local economy.
> What happens if there is a network partition that lasts for longer than 6 minutes?

With less than 2/3 of the total stake active on a single partition, that partition stops finalizing transactions, meaning that the chain explicitly stops guaranteeing that it's canonical.

Notably, slashing cannot result from a partition, only from malicious validator behavior.

> Which two of the diverging blockchains get to slash the other one and take all their stake?

For a partition, which is not a slashable offense, there is no slashing. The minority partition stakers suffer inactivity leak on the majority chain, meaning that they very slowly (at first) start losing their stake until the majority partition has 2/3 stake again. It's not a big penalty like slashing, unless the chain remains in a degenerate state for many hours or days.

On the other hand, a slashing rules offender (attacker) gets slashed on all chain forks. The conflicting signed block from one gets included on all others for a bounty. This means that every staker must vote for only one fork at a time, which means the network can eventually determine which fork is canonical because it was voted for the most.
I mean yes, shame on them for not charging themselves $1 or something in production, but still, it's insane for Stripe to have no indication on the dashboard that you're not actually able to charge real cards real money.
Name a blog post that has stuck with you because you learned something useful. Could you search for it and find it easily? Now do the same for an HN comment.
The part where they said everything was fine and then re-locked so much a week later is completely unacceptable even if the business does violate the TOS.
It is a hard lesson with an expensive solution.

I agree with you, as you grow, you have to diversify. However, services like Stripe Connect are more difficult and time consuming to replicate. Stripe connect handles the processing of many different accounts and handles skimming the commissions and then depositing the proceeds into the individual bank accounts of your users after doing some cursory KYC. This service is of course not compatible with similar services offered by other processors, so you will have to write all the handling logic and integrate with the KYC providers and possibly separate ACH deposit providers on your own.

In other words, there is a lot of lock-in with services like Stripe Connect.
Whether this is a "failure" of course is a matter of opinion.

Observation: contingent preference is a valid concept; the "problem" for Condorcet is that it is reductionist.

Among other things this means that it is not a given that you can compare percentages as shown.

Now... how to vote for our voting system of preference?!
I was under the impression that when they said "This is a fraction of the amount I put back into the grid", it implied that they are generating their own electricity to use for this, most likely from solar panels.

This is an assumption though, they could be running a large diesel generator for all we know.
People outside of HN are more likely to click on and read a link to a blog post than a link to a random HN comment.

A blog post also feels more trustworthy than a random social media site comment.

Shocking, I know.
“envoy” is another popular option and they are building a gateway solution for API/inbound traffic https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway
You think stripe and PayPal are not keen to control the flow of information and business success?
I don't think we'll ever get flying cars the way people imagine them.

To stay in the air, you either need to push a lot of air down (like a helicopter or drone), or have wings and push a lot of air backwards (like an airplane).

The former allows you to hover, but is incredibly loud. The latter allows gliding, but requires a runway for takeoff/landing, not to mention a lot of lateral space for wings.

Unless we have a breakthrough discovery and find a way to create lift without requiring either speed or moving a ton of air, the sci-fi visions of flying cars will remain fiction.
I have no experience with any of these but maybe this helps: https://apisix.apache.org/blog/2022/07/30/why-we-need-apache...
I've found the trick for these - unless a more obvious/direct path exists (eg. you get two somewhat related topics) is to try and find the Nazis first. I tried to go from Arabic to Science/Mathematics but that didn't pan out so pivoted to the Nazis which were only 3 degrees of separation away.

----

"Grammatical tense" to "Scientific method"
Time: 150.046 Seconds

Number of links visited: 9

The path you took:
[ "Grammatical tense", "Arabic", "List of languages by total number of speakers", "Language shift", "Anti-German sentiment", "World War I", "Nazism", "Pseudoscience", "Science", "Scientific method" ]
Thanks Edwin for reaching out. I’m on mobile right now, but I’ll email you tomorrow.
Another study found that anonymizing resumes actually hurt minority candidates. [1] This is because the companies were trying hard to help people with minority sounding names and no longer could.

Anonymizing seems like an appropriate way to handle layoffs as well. It may be hard to do because some managers know the people involved. But they could force all decisions to be justified and externally reviewed by others who don't know the demographics.

No one would have had a problem if they described a rigorous process of anonymizing the layoff decisions. It swings the pendulum too far to go full on anti-racist. Others point out it's also illegal.

1: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/case-study/unintended-effec...
My uncle (Army aviator) retired some years ago as a chief warrant officer with a ton of hours in Hueys, starting with a couple tours in Vietnam. He likes to say that the flight crew from the last B-52 landed at Davis-Monthan will be flown back to their cars in a UH-1. He might be right.

Relating his time in the aircraft in VN, he said there was little to compare with skimming the rice paddies with the doors removed, periodically going up a bit to clear water buffalo, carrying a load of beer for the guys in a firebase. He mostly flew medevac slicks in combat. Gotta save those boys.
Thank you! First I hear about either of those, but definitely interesting. Are there paid / hosted versions of lago? after a sub-par experience trying to switch to ChargeBee I'm looking for alternatives, but struggle to find something that fits our needs.
a fun one I've found is that the Samsung keyboard on Android won't let you input negative numbers... they just omitted (-) entirely from the layout.
>it really seems like there needs to be a way to force companies to actually be direct, accessible, and reactive in cases like this

That's what SLAs/contracts are for.
You’re totally right, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard RCV being called more consensus-oriented. Just that it makes it less harmful for third party candidates to participate in elections since they won’t play spoiler in the same way (Ralph Nader). I think the success of RCV just has to do with its relative simplicity compared to other alternative voting methods.

Even leading up to this election, I saw some mainstream coverage of the fact that the election would come down to who finished 3rd. i.e. if Palin got eliminated in the first round, most of her votes would’ve gone to Begich and he probably would’ve won. Doesn’t speak well for RCV that it can come down to such a slim margin, but I still think RCV > FPTP for the third party reason above.
I don't understand the focus on Condorcet- In a 3 party election run via IRV, the winner may represent the most conforming combination of positions of the people, but may not be the Condorcet winner. Therefore, Condorcet is not as aligned with best possible outcomes as IRV is. We've already learned that FPTP (which IS a Condorcet vote, quite directly) is suboptimal.
I’d probably use Stripe first if I built another FinTech. But it’s important to know that it’s viable to build your own ACH integration too. It took about a month of my engineering time to wire this all up for my last startup. (Not including contract time from the business side).

As a backup plan I’d suggest talking to a bank like SVB to see if you can set that up. (It’s always nice to have a warm standby payment rail if your business depends on it, though it’s really annoying to set up fully.)

For context the SVB integration is sending a NACHA file over sftp, you could do this manually for a single batch using the Python ACH library in an afternoon.

Yes, now you need to hold account/routing info, and collect PII like SSN/TIN. This makes infosec more expensive. But not as bad an option as going out of business.

On the plus side you can turn around debits much faster, use same-day ACH, and pay a few cents per transaction.

(If you need help on scoping/implementing this I happen to be available for consulting right now.)
use of Java has declined over the years. that's a sign.
I think it has come the time for the internet community to start calculating customer service as an integral part of the quality of the service, I understand this post is about generating momentum and having the issue analysed by them sooner but its became silly to have to post on forums in order to get support, if a company sucks in terms of support, just look for something else