skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> FYI (before misinformation spreads): OP's title is a bit misleading.

Oh sh* am I out $2500? \s

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They didn't have a speech rule, it's a new speech rule.

What would you have titled it?

"$2500 for new speech rule" seems accurate. I could have suggested it's a new "speech rule", but it's not clear what the violation costs would be.
Here is the EVIL,
"{You are...} sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials, (a) ... are objectionable, ... promote misinformation, ... (i) are otherwise unfit for publication.

"...that, in PayPal’s sole discretion..."
[Reordered but from their docs]
The solution there would be something like a 110V 15A outlet at a large portion of the parking spaces and some method for metering and accounting for the delivered power so it can be charged to the tenant. And if they charge a convenience fee like most apartments do for preferential parking then that financial outlay would become a profit center after it was paid off.

I'm sure it'd be more costly for commercial work but a simple home charger infrastructure installation runs around $1k, and that's for a Level 2 (240V) charger. Although that doesn't account for the supplemental meter equipment costs.

A Level 1 charger can recharge say a Nissan Leaf from empty overnight. A single day's drive is far more likely to be at or below 20% of the capacity which is closer to 2hrs. For the average user that would be just fine.

A small number of time-limited slots with Level 2 charger could be provided for convenience, but even just allowing individuals to charge at Level 1 rates while their cars are parked would likely suffice in at least half the cases.

There seems to be this misconception that every EV will eventually need a dedicated fast charger and needs to charge to full capacity in 5 mins. But the reality is that, for a large portion of the driving population, a car tends to sit in place for large amounts of time and a modern 150mi+ range EV rarely get depleted in a day. A Level 1 charger would be more than enough for those people. Especially with public fast chargers available for those unusual situations where you need more charge very quickly.

For those who need more than that, an EV is truly not an ideal vehicle for them.
Homer is safer. He chucks a single rod out on the street in the opening scene, keeping it separate from the rest. At work he is lazy, so by doing nothing, he is not combining rods together.
treesitter / neovim:

different code block indicators styles : https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim#with-...

collapse / expand / navigate between code blocks : https://github.com/stevearc/aerial.nvim

not exactly colorize, but can customize to just show iteration / loop processes : https://github.com/ziontee113/syntax-tree-surfer
Here are few case studies of production users published by SigNoz: https://signoz.io/case-study/
A lot of sellers (especially small sites) use them. I just bought a knitting pattern and the only option was PayPal.

I only use them when I have to; I recently had some money waiting for me. When I tapped “accept the money”, PayPal wanted me to sign up for a crypto account with them (!). Later I noticed that there are two identical “accept money” dialogs. The one to send the money to my bank account was down the page, out of sight.

I wonder how many have been suckered into signing up for a crypto account with PayPal because of this?
It’s mostly because Linux stopped having major release. Linus changes the first number when he finds that the second one is growing too big which apparently means twenty-ish.
> Whereas today, the advantages of writing 02022 are...

Moving the N-digit rollover from 8000 years from now to 98000 years from now, which... isn't.
I like “otherwise unfit for publication” whatever the heck that means.
Interac in Canada is a blessing.
> there is nothing in election law that requires political parties be recognized in elections.

State election law in Illinois and others disagree with you. I already posted Illinois.

Look in your State laws for major/minor party, and they often set some % for the Governor race. I don't like the way it is coded, but that is the current law for the States I have researched.

Political parties get special benefits which encompass keeping down the third parties or minor parties. It's not like a group of randos who play cards and got a bank account to write a check to rent the bingo hall - there are special benefits to the major political parties in the election laws.
At least they got chicken?
> It's only bad from a privacy perspective if you are sharing things you don't want linked together or are sharing things that can be unintentionally linked back to your real life

You must live in a location where you have very little fear of political oppression. If you're an Iranian or something these days the situation is very different.
I hear you and don't exactly disagree, but I don't always agree that a P2P decentralized model is inevitably better served by centralized people making the hard decisions that make good business sense.

There are different incentives in play, and some of them push towards centralization with a profit motive, some of them push towards decentralization with a profit motive and some of them push towards pure decentralization without a profit motive.

Where the crypto space remains a cesspool of failed projects and snake oil it's usually because someone sold one as the other and no one understood (or cared as long as they were in the right part of the pyramid) about it. I'm not 100% sure that Helium didn't have an actual use case that could have made sense for some applications far better than say Verizon doing the same thing.

Whether that was ultimately the intention of the people involved at the core or whether it could have happened in the token/crypto/ponzi/flipper domain, I don't know. I have seen a lot of decentralized models that may have made sense in a certain domain get crushed under the pressure of some people getting rich quick or using a business model for taken speculation.
They say that too on page 13 here

http://www.insor.gov.co/home/wp-content/uploads/filebase/rec...
No, why would you think that? I’m genuinely curious what the thought process is there. Like, tax money doesn’t disappear. It gets spent or given away. Either way it goes straight back into the economy. Does your rent money disappear from the economy when you pay it?
If there's one thing I've learned is that one shouldn't underestimate the sheer speed at which a maturing technology cheapens itself in a drive downmarket.

Cars themselves went from being a rich person's curiosity to mostly-affordable to ubiquitous in the space of 50 years.

Airline travel went from a luxury for the rich to broadly affordable in about ~30 years.

For more recent examples see smartphones - in less than 10 years it's gone from exclusively high-end device to near-universal adoption across the world.

It's often hard to figure out what technologies will stick and what will never resolve fundamental flaws - but once it sticks in the high-end market there is a good bet it will rapidly drive its way down the price scale, at a far faster speed than you might expect.
I was a mobile dev, mostly native iOS and some android/kotlin, for better than 10 years. I still maintain a dozen apps from my days as a full time consultant.

Before consulting I did web dev in early 2000s when the stack was LAMP and JavaScript felt like something that would never mature into anything. Hell, I was in my late teens so the feeling was likely mutual.

All this to say, good god, autolayout and storyboards and stack views. Last Friday I spent TWO HOURS troubleshooting why a UILabel wouldn’t word wrap inside two UIStackViews.

I’m so grateful for electron. It’s allowed me to become an indie dev and embrace/leverage react and the entire JS ecosystem to bootstrap a successful company.

My indie success would never have been possible if it wasn’t for these “inefficient” dev/deployment desktop stacks. And if they allow lowly old me to sell software to thousands of users around the world then they are doing something right. I hate to say it, but they really allow me to be 10x of what I’d be solo on mobile. Electron/React has that much potential when focused on solving a few painful tasks for my end users.
So, at PayPal's sole discretion, they can decide that something I say is "objectionable", and charge me $2500? That's, um... wow.

But courts have sometimes ruled that terms are "unconscionable", even if the user agreed to them. If PayPal starts enforcing this on things that are not clearly over the line, they're going to get sued, and it is not clear that they will win. (They're likely to get sued even if they enforce this on things that are clearly over the line, because this is the US and that's how we roll...)
Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living
I am Michael Cao. I am from Viet Nam. I suffered the polio disease and became disabled when i was one year old.

When covid 19 pandemic hit the world. All people has suffered a lot. I and my friend, Canadian guy, decided to cofound 2HAC Studio because we thought that we need to do something to help people.

We don't want to hire any employees to keep the cost at minimum (only spend 9.99$ per year for domain). I keep my job at American company in Viet Nam and my cofounder also still worked at a Bank of Canada. We spent our free time to implement and marketing our products

We have been developing the Google workspace addons. Out technology stack are App Script, VueJS for addons. Hugo for our website. We hosted our website in Google Cloud. Paypal is our payment system. Tawk for customer support.
All of them are free.

At 2020, we had a pain point in Viet Nam because health official requires to do contact tracing when people went to events, churches, schools so we scratched our own itches and developed QR Code Attendance addon https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/qr_code_attenda... . After that, we provide our addon in G Suite marketplace and a lot of customers used our addon for contact tracing, for example take temperature, name, health status of attendees and give data to health official.

Currently, we continue working on QR Code and barcode solutions. Our startup has survived and thrived during Covid-19 while a lot of startups have failed miserable. Our business model are both subscription and lifetime pricing. We have more than 5 million users for all our Google workspace addons.

We make a decent living but we don’t want to risk to give up the main job. Financial recession is coming and a lot of pain is ahead. We highly recommend that most founders should keep the job and reduce spending as much as possible for a while during early stage of their startup. Also, I would like to encourage disabled people, older people to escape your comfort zone and make changes in the world. All of us could develop outstanding products with open source or very cheap tools.

If you have any questions and feedback, please fell free to contact me and send me an email. Have a great day, everyone.
Answered about 100 times already but I’ll answer again. Senior software engineer doesn’t refer to something you are or a quality inherent to you. It refers to the degree of competence, leadership, and experience you bring to a project and team. If you plan to leave academia remember to leave behind the academic obsession with titles and credentials.
Changing PayPal’s database to blockchain isn’t going change anything and I think people (who aren’t invested in crypto) trust more well known organizations for their finances.
I can totally imagine underdeveloped countries where you’ll find a lot of:
- Used Chinese EVs which costed around 10-15k USD new.
- Used and older upmarket EVs.
- Low speed and low range EVs that cost around 1-2k USD new.
Do you recommend crypto for people who are technically illiterate?
Ya, but new cars last an increasing amount of time with reasonable service costs. So they might be around for awhile.

But no reason not to get an EV. I’m on week 4 and would never dream of going back to an ICE.
Does more automation mean less control? (2021)
There's some story online of the guys behind SICP talking about why they abandoned the traditional lisp-based course for its modern python variant, but the gist of it is that, according to them, the kind of "blank sheet of paper" coding that the book was sorta based on is rarer and rarer these days, and that much more of the work revolves around understanding other people's codebases/ideas and building things on top of other people's software. I think this can also serve as a potential shift that could be considered being "harder" in terms of modern computing... in a world where the ecosystem is pretty barren, walking from the very middle to the edge is pretty easy... the more it evolves, the more challenging that trek is.
... boy I was hoping for Barbara Krueger.
What does the specialization of “IAM Engineer” mean for the industry? Will this be better or worse for engineers currently specializing in IAM?
Access Glitch Worlds in Super Mario Bros via NES Tennis [video]
Ya, your probably right. But your original comment is terribly argued (actually, its not argued at all. Its just stated)
What you're saying doesn't make any sense. Catalytic converters, fuel pumps, and alternators are easy to replace. This doesn't mean that ICE cars just disappear from the road when those components fail.

Anyone with mechanical knowledge, tools, and patience can rebuild an engine or a transmission. It really is not that difficult.

When you have a vehicle with a monolithic conformal battery pack, once you can't buy a new one the car is junk. Unless you just so happen to own a factory you can afford to retool.
Indeed, and as mentioned in this thread, Tauri seems a better alternative:

https://tauri.app/
>Can you use PayPal to raise money for pro-life causes? For a political candidate who supports restricting transgender surgery for children? What about a news outlet that publishes out-of-mainstream opinions?

In case you're reading this and think that you don't have to worry about this because this would only affect the right, keep in mind that as recently as a few decades ago LGBT was considered taboo and talking about it would get you sanctioned in society. If something like this was enacted it would be even harder to change the status quo regardless of the side you're on, and most certainly in a way that hurts minorities.
It's not intended as a fashion accessory. But neither were smartphones.

A co-worker had a Newton in 1994. We all thought it was the dorkiest thing we ever saw - him holding and looking at that thing. Little did we know.
I disagree entirely. As someone with a moderately public persona who is also in the LGBTQ+ community, having tools like this is extremely helpful, both to help me keep a grasp on information about myself and for helping less technically inclined people in my community protect themselves. It's all information that a motivated attacker could find easily with or without the tool, and there are a sufficient number of motivated attackers that any moderately public queer person will, at some point, be doxed and subjected to some level of internet harassment.
We need less concentration of power on the federal level. Quit jamming policy down each other's throats on the federal level.

Power should be distributed closer to constituents.
What happens to the grid when we go all in on EV?
>> Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds

I hadn't realized that before. The link below discusses the reasons why this was done.

https://www.linux.com/news/linux-mark-institute-protecting-l...
These people really need a desert and some robots.
So what are the headline grabbing features?
They typically end up written in such a way that no work can be done if rules are followed
Having left academia (well, industrial research) for industry, I find industry is way more obsessed with titles and credentials than academia seemed to be. But that probably has to do with increased politics in the latter compared to the former.
I’ve always just used Zelle through my bank’s app. For a large number of folks, there is no need to involve Plaid.
Winged Drone Gets Forward Flight Capability
So Steampipe runs alongside? In a separate process?
Honestly, I find that so surprising.

I’m used to Google pulling the rug under their users. They are a B2C company for most of the product they stop. It only somewhat damages their image. Probably not much revenue lost there.

But mismanaging their large business partners seems new. That’s the kind of reputation which can really negatively affect their other B2B products. For it to leak like that in the press, they must really have botched it. Makes you wonder what’s happening at Google.
> It is part of the user agreement you're required to sign in exchange for being allowed to use their service

I don't think such stuff flies in other jurisdictions than the US. Under civil law (ie Europe), what the law dictates defines what you can and cannot do. And contractual agreements can't override that. I very much think that that agreement is not applicable in Europe.
This is why I run Firefox on Android with uBO. It's a different world.
That model has a 18kWh battery. My EV has a 33kWh battery, and a 135 mile epa range, so something seems wrong with the Toyota's 42 mile battery-only range.

My car weighs 3000 lbs and the RAV4 plugin hybrid weighs 4100lbs. Car engines weigh 300-700 lbs, ignoring the gas tank, radiator, exhaust system, etc. Maybe the dead weight from the engine is the issue? Toyota definitely knows its way around a wind tunnel.

Toyota is only charging $2200 for the plug in hybrid upgrade. Why not charge $4400 for a 36 kWh battery, and make the gas engine optional? Presumably the gas engine, exhaust, gas tank and hybrid transmission add over $4400 to the price!

My guess is that Toyota somehow got blindsided by the EV technology transition (despite having a 20 year lead from the Prius), and now they are in damage control mode.
Unfortunately, this is only superficially true.

I have been a long-time Venmo user and have refused to ever link my account through Plaid. Starting a couple years ago, Venmo begin to intermittently claim they "Lost the connection" to my bank and forced me to link via Plaid. I always refused and the problem eventually went away. Now, I cannot send money to anyone via Venmo. It always gives me the same error message and asks me to link via Plaid. Extremely dark pattern.
PayPal owns Venmo since 2012.
Good luck making this stick in Australia. Private entities aren't allowed to levy fines or anything that work like fines.
Yes it is. PayPal owns Venmo.
I wish in general the ‘green’ movement would cease speaking in terms of doomsday scenarios, disasters, and other ultimatums. It’s shown to be extraordinarily counter productive and discredits the _actual_ science needed for useful dialogs.
Ha! I e-mailed this guy back in 2009 to talk about the potential of the tech for blind users (sixth sense could be a fifth for the blind) and he never got back to me. Haven't thought about this in years. Thanks OP!
I can think this is a bad move by Paypal and also think OP's implicit "and thus people working at Paypal should now be harmed for this" as being an insane escalation.
The performance sensitive parts of Emacs are written in C, which would explain why you don’t see a huge difference between Emacs and LW imo
This sounds like the same story as Rocky Flats west of Denver. Same thing, after "Cleanup" it's a (still radioactive) nature preserve and housing development now.
5th Circuit ruling on Texas social media law has tech companies thinking
Sony has the decades of relationships now, but not when the PS1 came out. Which is what I was referring to. (And the original XBox)
Yes. They're a subsidiary.
I am not, but i am ok with executives doing so as individuals.
Conflicting Privacy Preference Signals in the Wild (2021)
You're right. To clarify, what I was trying to imply by "automatic" was just that you will presumably be charged that much regardless of what PayPal's actual damages are. As I see it, it's a punitive fine that they can impose automatically without bothering to calculate actual damages for minor violations of their policies.
Well maybe a trusted third party can make crypto accessible for the masses /s
May I ask a related question? Have you found a good way to do session auth in Django with httpOnly _without_ having to hit the server and see if you get a 403 back? Because it’s httpOnly I cannot know client side if I have a session cookie until I try and fail once.
As I recall from talking to older people, the model 100 with an acoustic coupler was an extremely popular solution for journalists to quickly file stories from remote locations/while traveling. All you needed was the model 100, a payphone, and the coupler.
What's the ast node(s) for a given source code statement/block look like? https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/playground
There's no diesel in the bush either. So how do you refuel a diesel vehicle? You haul it in. How do you think a diesel generator would get into the bush? Haul it in with the diesel. An off-road tanker can carry 40 tonnes of diesel into a camp. A generator doesn't add much to that.

Have you got much experience running an off-road operation at distance?
Maybe words something like this?

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10
I agree and that is why we have build Norse https://github.com/norse/norse an open source deep learning library for neuromorphic computing based on PyTorch. It doesn’t have any commercial backing yet, but we had quite a bit of interest in from other research groups and it predates Lava by quite a bit .
https://rt.wiki.kernel.org
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux
PayPal acting like a monopoly ... but they aren't. Plenty of other choices. Unless you are an ebay business perhaps.
It's darkly ironic that we'll "humanely" euthanize animals in pain without question, but the "humane" option is often unavailable to actual humans.
Some of the pages like this on FSF’s website make no sense to me. I’ve looked at this page several times over the past few years; the only distros I recall being added recently are Guix and PureOS. Dragora is dead, Dynebolic is fossilised, Ututo’s website isn’t even online anymore. Trisquel, Hyperbola, and Parabola are on life support (no disrespect intended to the maintainers). Guix and PureOS are of course projects full of vitality and don’t look to be leaving us any time soon - but that would mean they are the only two highly-active distros that fit the FSF’s definition of a free operating system.

Out of 100s of distributions of (GNU/)Linux are these really the only FSF-approved free ones? - if so, that seems like a problem; if not, why not update the list, or why maintain the list at all?

This is like the list of FSF-approved hardware - in terms of freedom-respecting laptops, you’ve got the Librem, and then you’ve got a bunch of third-party refurbished laptops manufactured 10+ years ago where a skilled hacker was able to flash the firmware. It’s not the FSF’s fault that manufacturers don’t respect user freedom, but it’s still a pretty dire state of affairs, and I question the utility of maintaining lists like this as ‘these are the good ones’ instead of ‘this shows just how much more work is needed’. It’s interesting that these old pieces of hardware can be hacked to respect user freedom (the weekend I spent Librebooting my X200 was a fun project), but I don’t think anyone could honestly suggest most people should run them daily, that’d cripple most users’ needs.
I feel like we are also quietly ignoring their large investment into fully EV vehicles.
And here I thought it meant; convince the stakeholders that the change should be different in a way that it fits the existing system. Shepherding.

I can hear what I want I guess, like most maxims.