skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live outside NA/Europe. Here's how I use, and often have no choice but to use, PayPal:

1] As of Oct '22, PayPal's the only gateway that enables me to pay for Hetzner hosting and Medium.

On paper, both support credit cards and they worked fine till '21. But some bureaucratic craziness over banking and data sovereignty rules here really messed up credit card and recurring payments. Now they work with some gateways but not with others. I can't use my CC directly with Hetzner but I can use that same credit card through PayPal.

2] I subscribe to some newsletters published by people living in N. America. PayPal's the only option they provide.

3] I sometimes write or code freelance for US clients. PayPal's the only way to get payments from most of them. Some even have policies that say don't write for us if you can't receive PayPal payments in your country.

My impression of the global payments ecosystem is that it's a precarious system held up by bubble gum and shoe strings. There's no transparency, too much bureaucracy, and often no customer support. It always feels like I'm just one step away from being totally excluded from the world and my livelihood and hobbies cut short overnight.

Considering the images of its founders, it's ironic that the much-hated PayPal has been the only one that's worked consistently over 2 decades and made efforts to remain inclusive. They even stuck through some unfair regulatory bullying a few years ago when it seemed like they may permanently exit my country.

I know from discussions that people in other countries in the global South have it much worse. Probably, many are already excluded completely. I don't see the ecosystem as a whole doing anything to be more inclusive.

If people in the payment ecosystem are laughing at PayPal, you should probably know that I think all of you are even worse.
I edited this for readability while maintaining as much of the style as possible. If doing that was offensive or not socially correct I can remove it.

***

I am Michael Cao. I am from Viet Nam. I suffered from polio and became disabled when I was one year old.

When the covid-19 pandemic hit the world, all people suffered a lot. My Canadian friend and I 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 a minimum (only spend 9.99$ per year for domain). I kept my job at American company in Viet Nam and my cofounder continued working at a Bank of Canada. We spent our free time implementing and marketing our products.

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

In 2020, we had a pain point in Viet Nam because health official required to do contact tracing when people went to events, churches, schools so we scratched our own itches and developed a QR Code Attendance addon: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/qr_code_attenda.... After that, we provided 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 are continuing to work on QR Code and barcode solutions. Our startup has survived and thrived during Covid-19 while a lot of startups have failed miserably. Our business model is 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 our main jobs. A financial recession is coming and a lot of pain is ahead. We highly recommend that most founders keep their jobs and reduce spending as much as possible for a while during early stage of their startup. Also, I would like to encourage disabled people and older people to escape their comfort zones 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.
What if I just take a super hot shower every day?
Why not? Why do we need people going there? There is so much empty space in Colorado, just go anywhere else.
Thank you for your confidence!

I agree with everything you have said, but I think it won't matter, for three reasons:

1) The switch to structured programming still happened, even with the performance hit. The advantages were so large that the performance hit didn't matter. I think the same will happen will happen with structured concurrency because I think the advantages are also that much larger.

2) The performance of structured concurrency can be improved with many techniques, including thread pools (to reuse threads).

3) If structured concurrency starts to take off (and I argue that it is), then system software will be optimized for that case. For example, Linux's clone() syscall might be optimized for the "create thread" use case. I think other OS's would do the same.

Nevertheless, you are completely right.
Except Tim Berners-Lee
Iran Protesters Circumvent Internet Disruptions
Good unit of measurement, that last one.
But they're pronounced very differently! I can understand the confusion with their/they're. This one? Not so much.
EV in China is heavily, I mean very heavily, subsidized in China.

Keep in mind I'm not saying EV can't be as cheap, but China isn't the best example.
> your experience versus mine

It is not how it works. A single counter-example is enough to refute your point.

For simplicity (just the essence), imagine, you said: "I've never saw a white crow" (your experience) and I said: "I saw a white crow" (my experience). The conclusion that combines both: there are white crows.
> Those cars effectively built the suburbs

Streetcars built the suburbs, then cars of the 40s and 50s expanded that. Model T and A proved the performance of cars, but they were still largely toys for the wealthy or workhorses. Not necessarily white collar workers commuting to the office.

Plus, suburbs didn't come into full force until after WWII in the US. Show me the massive amount of suburbs which were founded in the 1920s or earlier which were only accessible by car.
Good point. But there’s not one such paradigm ruling the whole process of developing Linux. I guess we actually could say there are competing paradigms.
Keeping legacy code around is a choice.
Thanks. I am happy that my post could help founders and startups at some points.
I just thought it was an amusing little break between more in-depth HN articles.
VW was able to detect when an emissions test was being done, so there may be ways to detect this as well. E.g. by the unusually fast rate at which votes are being cast, or if this "seizure" involves moving the machine, reconnecting power to it, or any other kind of abnormal interaction.

Why make things so complicated when manual counting works perfectly well??

With auditing being so difficult, you're not even saving any labor.
How do you merge multiple versions of data using tensorboard? Or what other tool handles that for you?

What's the case for handling code and data separately? In my experience, the primary motivation for using such a tool are easy reproducibility through easy tracking of code, hyperparams, and data. It's not obvious to me how that goal would be advanced by tracking code and data separately.
Yeah, I moved to a relatively small town. Almost everything is within walking distance. Two pharmacies, two banks, and a grocery store and some other stores and a couple restaurants about a block away. Urgent care, doctor, veterinarian and hospital a couple of blocks further. Downtown, with its theater and restaurants and bars etc. is about a nice leisurely 20 minute walk.

People in suburbia could have this too if they just zoned for it. Take out the stupid strip malls and stroads and put the businesses where the people are and vice-versa. Get some actual neighborhoods and communities again.

Well out in rural areas is a bit of a different matter. Some people will need cars.

But with proper town development and decent public transit, something like 80% of people who aren't way out in rural areas wouldn't need cars except for vacation/road trips. That's not some far-fetched sci-fi idea. It just needs politics to properly utilize what we've had for a long time.
Great job! Really inspiring.
Earlier this year.
Crypto needs an out of band method of establishing trust which is the big difference. You can safely buy, well anything, with PayPal G&S and be as sure as one can be that no matter unscrupulous the seller you will be made whole.

The product they’re selling is insurance and peace of mind to buyers and increased sales because of that to sellers.

Anything you invent that does this will become PayPal even if it’s backed by crypto.
> No permissions model

That "No" (sort of) went out the window as soon as you were running a BBS on that thing. :)
Is it well designed? It seems ok but not clear how well thought out it is.
The Ukrainians will increasingly be in the mode of having to hold territory while Russia would probably be willing to call it a victory if they level the place and make it uninhabitable for anyone, so I wouldn't assume they'll even bother aiming much.

And let's say we do strike back with cruise missiles - it's unlikely to trigger Putin being overthrown. In fact, it may even convince some people on the fence that it really has been a war with the US for the survival of Russia all along. He has to retaliate so as not to appear weak, how can he reach an American target, even just an overseas base? I'm honestly not sure.

The scenario where his nuke draws one in return is just as messy with the out that it's so utterly shocking that it forces both sides to confront the fact that no one wants a nuclear war.

I really think China holds all the cards here - if they seriously threatened to cut Russia off over nukes, I don't think any get dropped. If they make wishy washy statements, there's a real chance they do.
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There is essentially zero chance that Linux will still be in development 50 years from now, never mind 5000.

We might have strong AI by then, and surely one of its first tasks (assuming it doesn't wipe out humanity) would be to redesign our entire information technology stack from the ground up, which would make any software built by humans instantly obsolete.

But even if that somehow doesn't happen, I fully expect an operating system to emerge in the next few decades that is built around a formally verifiable safety and security model. Once it is production ready, it will dominate the market soon afterwards. The stakes associated with information technology are ever-increasing, and relying on a system written in a language where "off by one" can mean "privilege escalation" isn't sustainable in the long term.
So by "investors" you meant "people who bought Dogecoin thinking it would be a good investment".

Personally that sounds more like Elon Musk has allegedly harmed gamblers.
It appears yellow if your eyes are adjusted to the color of the blue sky.
You are just buying a license; the difference is that the DVD/VHS license let you watch the movie whenever you wanted, wherever you wanted, as long as you had the physical copy (though subject to region restrictions in the case of DVD).

With streaming services, you're buying a license that gives the rightsholder the ability to take it away from you at any time they want. I'm not sure how this is even legal; it gives all the power to the rightsholder.
I agree putting resources towards known things you like is quite narrowing your experiences. Well, defining „things you like“ as few top choices.

But given next-to-infinite opportunities these days, it's easy to have rather wide range of experiences and don't have much resources left for even more opportunities.

That brings one more issue, depth vs width. Given how many options we have, it's not possible to go for both depth and width at the same time. In many cases going into depth open up many experiences that you can't access floating on the surface.

For example, I'm deep into outdoors endurance sports, cycling/hiking/etc. I did limit width a lot by not trying yoga or scuba diving or motorcycling. However, going into depth with outdoors endurance stuff opened up another layer of experiences like overnight skiing trip in -20c or doing solo 24h mtb race.

On one hand, skiing is skiing and cycling is cycling and there's not much novelty beyond 10km. On the other hand, built up stamina, skills and technical knowledge allows to expand into 3rd experiences' dimension.

As for the „gotta go“, that may depend on a person a lot. I'm not a people guy and I need a lot of solo time to recharge. I did skip many social events in exchange of a silent night of Civ or coding. I know it would have been great experiences. But I doubt I'd be able to enjoy them. Social time tolerance is one more limiting resource I guess...
Congratulations on your success. I hope you reach a point in revenue when you can quit your day jobs.
Text2audio is impressive, but I wanna see dance2audio. Just need a million dollars in funding to pay for cameras and dancers.
What you're describing is the programming version of approximation. It's understood that it has a margin of error due to the approximation.

What you're claiming here is that if you check enough inputs you've proven it correct, and what I'm telling you is that's not the case.

The fact is, nothing has been proven, the wording on the webpage itself is more honest (no known bugs and a suite of automated tests).

To verify a program is correct is a much stronger claim than what is even on the website. And that requires restricting the input or solving the halting problem.
It doesn't really work. I just tried "Vincent Van Gogh, and the images have absolutely nothing to do with his style. Same for Gaugin.

If it doesn't work for such famous painters, hard to trust it for the other ones.
It's a nuanced question, given the fact that toxicity depends on many characteristics: method of exposure, dose to body weight, bioaccumulation, etc.

For a substance that needs to be ingested in high doses for an average human (even a small child) over an extended period of time, what's the harm of having a contaminated park?

You have relatively infrequent exposure, and you likely don't eat / drink from the area. That's a helluva lot safer than living in a "less-polluted" industrial site, but where you could build up toxic exposure over time.
Well it's priorities, no? If you spend the time to get the code right, you're not spending time validating your business or talking to customers. And indeed "getting your code right" is a very common excuse to not ship.
…that’s an interesting behavior
Feel the power of the Manifest v3
They do so as individuals and school employees not as union members, they do have to follow curriculum as well and I do agree that they should leave their biased political views at the door of the school, this applies to consrvative teachers as well. Parents should raise kids, not teachers.
> A better automatic appeltizer will change the world in a more meaningful way than a humanoid robot.

Is this a joke? An actually functional humanoid robot would be able to be dropped into basically any factory in the world and do a job that most humans agree sucks. And you think that is less impactful than building an expensive and very specific tool for a specific job that humans are already not doing very much?
Hello Hans Maier!
The orbit of Didymoon around around its primary is about 4in/s or 10cm/s. Wolfram gives its comparison to the speed of a garden snail.

They are hoping to see a change in its velocity of a fraction of a mm/s.

https://youtu.be/U0nZvOm3bNs?t=415

It is a small value, but its a measurable fraction of the the velocity of its orbit around the primary (about 12h).

They know the momentum that the impacter had. They had an estimate of the mass of Didymoon and its velocity. They are interested in how much of that momentum was transfered to Didymoon and how much was carried away from ejecta.
Your criteria for fencing an area off appears to based upon radiation hazard.

I take it then you are also in favour of fencing off all the red areas in the USofA radon risk map also?

It would seem to be inconsistent if you were not in favour.

https://www.nationalradondefense.com/radon-information/radon...
Yep, a VPN baked into a browser like this is literally Microsoft stealing the network routes from your ISP, who is probably too embarrassed to complain that what’s happening is they are taking that sweet, sweet data with them. It’s like high-fructose corn syrup for targeted advertising imho. Who’s selling?
Google Chrome Upcoming Extension Platform Renders Ad-Block Useless
I think the argument is more that this tool by virtue of being easily accessible creates more malicious actors. Similar to how most people wouldn't steal a locked bike, but a larger portion would steal an unlocked one. It isn't that much harder to steal a locked bike vs an unlocked one, but the threshold is just a tiny bit higher so more people will attempt it. Conversely this tool lowers the threshold for stalking, so more people, who otherwise wouldn't, will use it maliciously. That isn't the fault of the tool or its developers, but it is something to be aware of when building any tool. When you release it, it may get abused by people for bad purposes.
Entirely depends on your point of view of a "perfect world" and the realism of that. I'd love to just have transporters entirely powered by 100% renewable energy capable to send me anywhere at light speed, but that's not the world we live in.

Does a "perfect world" imply me missing birthdays? Does it imply me missing lunch with close friends? Does it imply me not taking a job outside the local bus line? Does it imply me not visiting a dying relative? If I'm limited to either entirely public transit or a vehicle which can barely do 10 miles at 30mph then yes, I'll miss many of these things.
PayPal covers countries not touched by the list you gave, or by almost any payment system. Venmo is 100% owned by PayPal.
I use Udemy a few times a year. The instructors are terribly under-paid, and the content is typically very high quality but low depth. It's great for picking up a new skill to a useful degree and getting you ready to continue learning more in-depth material elsewhere.

Eg, great for learning a technology or programming language, but often not great for advanced features of that language.

Whenever you can, use one of the instructors coupon codes prior to buying a course, otherwise the instructors only get about 27% of the money [1] (or less if it's on mobile due to app stores), which is why I decided to not make a game-programming course a couple of years ago.

[1] https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229605008-Instru...
You can have futures with "real threads" as well, futures are merely an abstraction to getting "output" of a thread in a non-blocking fashion.
As someone who enjoys both kpop and western pop I feel there's definitely something that about kpop that creates a more intense fandom, but it's not easy to put one's finger on why exactly. One reason might be that in the western music industry there's more of an assumption that the product is the music whereas in kpop the artist is the product. Kpop artists put out a lot of material that makes you feel close to them and makes them relatable. I'd say that the culture of Korean media is more intimate in general. Kpop stars appear on a lot of tv shows where they just play games, share stories, spend time with at their home, work, coffee shop, restaurant. If you have a favorite western pop star you might see them on a talk show or read their Twitter feed, but it doesn't really feel like you're spending personal time with them week after week.
Thanks for sharing this talk. Looks like Pranav is the founder of Two.ai: https://www.two.ai/about
"Whatever they left there" is the most terrifying part of a lot of these long term sites.

Without documentation, and as GP mentioned, you can scour the site as much as you want... and easily miss a single buried barrel of god-knows-what, that only the guy who tossed it off the truck knows was there (if even they knew), until it finally rusts through or is punctured.

Ironically, leaking or unsealed waste sites are probably safer, because it pervades the environment, is more easily detectable, and doesn't have sudden failure modes.
Maier is only #34 in Germany, Meyer is #6, and mine, Wagner, is at #7 ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_surnam...
Related: https://www.styluslabs.com/
Yeah this article is a nothingburger of Intel still aspiring to software margins. I wish they could just own it and be happy to make cool reference designs and go back to winning at hardware.
The only thing surer than debates on the internet eventually leading to nazi comparisons is that some commenter will then cite godwins law.

It’s actually godwins second law of nature. how pertinent nazis are to the topic is not relevant, Godwin’s law will be brought up and very often inappropriately as even Godwin himself has noted.

“Godwin's law itself can be applied mistakenly or abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, when fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate.[12]”

“Godwin himself has also criticized the overapplication of the law, claiming that it does not articulate a fallacy, but rather is intended to reduce the frequency of inappropriate and hyperbolic comparisons“
The first SEM video shows a small-omega shaped scallop in the blade after it cut the hair. It is indeed a shame this is only visible in the final handful of frames before the video loops.

For me though it didn’t detract too much from the awe. What an incredible result.
For anyone evaluating electron alternatives you might also check out Wails[1] which similarly gives you Go<->JS/TS interop.

Not sure how it compares to this project, but I've enjoyed working with auto-generated TS types to interact with a Go backend.

[1]: https://wails.io/
I believe that was just a potential. Perhaps they’re referring to: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/td-bank-freezes-two-a...
May be the mean average, but in these large companies a high proportion of employees seem to be working on moonshots or speculative projects.

So some care should be taken talking about the economic value produced by each individual -- reading HN gives the impression that many high salaried employees don't consider that theirs may actually be zero.
I'm still amazed that chemical weapons weren't used in a widespread way during world war 2 (compared to, say, world war 1). Several of the nations involved in that war were fighting a war of extermination against somebody, and almost every other war crime you can imagine was commonplace.

World War 1 must have really scarred everybody.
Keep going! Inspiring read - how did you meet your cofounder?
> With Windows, there isn't an equivalent ad-free option.

You're right, the closest we have is ReactOS which doesn't have enough interest (although understandably so).
They also like to re-order your pending transactions within a certain time windows to maximize bounce fees.

(If you don't explicitly have overdrafting off, so that it would just fail your transaction instead of letting it go through. The default setting may have changed in the last decade due to law but I remember these scenarios vividly)

$0 balance

+$20

-$1

-$1

-$1

Within a day or two of each other won't necessarily be positive $17 balance.

It could easily become:

$0 balance

-$1 (overdraft fee $40)

-$1 (overdraft fee $40)

-$1 (overdraft fee $40)

+$20

= negative $103 balance

Banks make a lot of money doing this to poor people.
The financial class is full of super-predatory behavior.
No it's not "corrosive".

You are somehow deciding that collaboration is needed and wanted by every maintainer.

That's your (wrong) assumption.