skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, we had an overwhelming majority of Dutch users using iDEAL to a point that we didn't see any decrease in sales when we had our credit card payment gateway down.

I believe you need to sign up with a Dutch acquirer/CPSP to get iDEAL payments sorted out, so there is an entry barrier for many international shops to accept iDEAL payments. This is pretty much the same for other payment providers such as CB, UPI, LankaQR, even AliPay too, so that effort is probably worth it.
It takes time and effort to figure out if someone has robbed you.

And sometimes it may go unnoticed for a while, and it happened to me at least once.
I'll believe it when there's an income-based phase-out, exceptions for multiple homeowners, and tapering with a firm expiration date built into the legislation.

Just because something superficially resembles a good idea, doesn't make it a good idea. See also: corn subsidies.
Sounds like the issue can happen due to high bend in the cable or too many cycles. Given the size of these video cards, placement of the connector and the size of computer cases I don't see why they didn't opt for right angle connectors so there is no bend needed.

edit: Looks like the nvidia designed version has the connector angled front at 45 degrees while the non-nvidia versions in the article don't.
Does it make sense for NewSQL database to run TPC-C?
This is a fraction compared to subsidies to Ukraine ($40+ Billion) and student loan relief ($400+ Billion)
They are absolutely right and I have no idea why they are getting downvoted. Last time this was posted someone linked industry specsheets for all common PC connectors, from 8-pin GPU power plugs, to the good old MOLEX plug, and they all were rated for about ~30 connections in their lifetime.

Edit: there you go, found it - normal bog standard 8-pin PCI-e connector, rated for 30 connections:

https://www.molex.com/webdocs/datasheets/pdf/en-us/045586000...

Edit 2: found the quote from another article too:

WCCFTECH:

"Update: We have confirmed with NVIDIA that the 30-cycle spec for the 16-pin connector is the same as it has been for the past 20+ years. The same 30-cycle spec exists for the standard PCIe/ATX 8-pin connector (aka mini-fit Molex). The same connector is used by AMD and all other GPU vendors too so all of those cards also share a 30-cycle life. So in short, nothing has changed for the RTX 40 GPU series."
Of course. And I get a free OS. Win win
It may the the stress and effort of moving into a new company/team after the comfort of a long term job.

If so, you should probably keep at it. Baby steps and try to find ways to relax in the evenings and weekends.
Go to Aldi. Read the label of the cheapest olive oil you find. It will almost certainly be non-virgin.

For example

https://www.aldi-nord.de/sortiment/nahrungsmittel/saucen-oel...
Oh, indeed. I misremembered then. Seems to be that way in my ancient version already as well.
dnf is annoyingly slow but it's greatly improved via DNF Automatic. I just let it keep itself in sync and apply security updates automatically.

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/automatic.html
Why don't they just advertise a minimum purchase or fee for using a card? You're not supposed to do it but it seems like every small party store/gas station in the US does so.
That's an argument for not adding a TOML writer right now. The correct design isn't obvious so there'd be a risk of a bad design getting locked in.
Yeah, I use Magnet but I find it pretty ridiculous I had to pay a fee just to get some basic window snapping/tiling functionality in my operating system
Seems like you were too successful in chasing them as a child. ;)
I'm not sure that this is the whole story. Analytical Engine of Babbage was designed at 1830. It was not built at the time of course... But the idea was tried again and again unless it made it's way into practical applications. It seems to me that there was a demand. Probably not economics but engineering?
> But right now, we're just talking about acknowledging a problem instead of completely shutting down and crying about how it's not capitalism's fault it's not capitalism's fault it's not capitalism's fault it's not capitalism's fault...

No one is doing this. It seems impossible for you to avoid mischaracterise what's being said, so I think it's best to leave this.
Judging by the voting behavior of their demographic, not at all.
Ask HN: Do you use pointers? Why?
Filled out the whole thing and donated at the end. Made me realize how much benefit I've gotten from Emacs over the years and how little I'd given back. I like that you can donate to maintainers of specific packages -- chose Magit, myself, because it's a major superpower of Emacs for me.

Would like to see a link for current/past results.
Why are they using Telegram's logo as their icon for "Open"?
Yes, we are coming for you. Watch your back, HN user "bakugo".
I sent a support question. Anyway, Google doesn't return any concerning info. It could be just kids... but I asked and with 90% probability, those ain't kids :)

EDIT: Support answered with generic mail on what to do if problems registering device... eh, whatever.
macOS actually has these kinds of permissions. The clipboard is still a free-for-all though. I guess that's harder to lock down because it's more than just a simple option of fully allowing or denying access to the clipboard. You would want to be able to paste to any application even if that application can't read the clipboard whenever it wants, but you'd be adding an extra confirmation on every paste if a user doesn't initiate the paste in a way that the OS knows is secure.
It's odd that confirmation systems like you mention are almost never used in the US for ordering. Seems like that would solve the problem of delivery drivers stealing your food or iPhone.
Are you seriously comparing Java to C++?

One excels at helping you shoot yourself in the foot. The other gets things done…
.io is already so yesteryear.

There is/was .ai for a bit but its less generic.
Federal disaster relief has completely different economic dynamics from backstop, risk-agnostic insurance. I don’t think anyone in this thread is suggesting we don’t give federal aid to Florida.

But to your point, yes we should also stop subsidizing water in the US southwest including California.
"Sense of community" is a commodity to be extracted and exhausted by real estate investors, unless it's undesirable for developers (read: poor rural area or high crime urban area) or already expensive enough to price out newcomers.
I think the question is misleading in the sense that it's way too narrow.

Yes, there are people whose perfectionism correlates with a bunch of other traits which are required for success and perfectionism (as someone recently diagnosed with ADHD, perfectionism to me is nothing else than hyperfocus).

But there are others for whom perfectionism is a detriment because they become inactive, overanalyze or become paralyzed without the ability to delegate.

Phobias are the most extreme form of perfectionism and it leads to people not leaving the home.

So as most often in life, you're looking at a curved distribution, not a deterministic rule or fact.

Yes, there is a top percentile of that curve, but for the rest, perfectionism doesn't correlate with overall success and it most certainly does not cause it in my experience.

The successful individuals I know are super happy to not care about a myriad of things which can go wrong or suboptimal in companies and products. They have the ability to prioritize and for the top 3-5 things, they are perfectionist.
Are there any plans to change Python the language to make it faster? AFAIK most of the slowness comes from dynamic overhead, like object attributes may change or disappear in the middle of a loop and so on.
Yes, that's now what I think happened. Funny that the simpler explanation didn't occur to me when writing the post!

Edited the post to add this.
> Is software getting worse and could we reverse the trend if we tried?

I think part of the problem is that we are focusing on the wrong thing in a lot of areas. Complexity is the real evil most of us suffer from.

Achieving 9 9's is not something you can explicitly set out and do as your primary objective. It is a side-effect of other quality choices made in aggregate.

Looking at a subset of an entire system and asking "is that database resilient to x 9's" and then worrying about that as your new target is how you wind up with something so inherently complex that the effective resiliency is somewhere around a single machine circa 1999.

Instead of looking at every piece of hardware as a potential time bomb, you could start to embrace higher-quality components and arrive back at something that resembles a mainframe again.
Your timeline is off, Netscape Communications created HTTPS in 1994.

So while it became a formal specification in 2000, browsers where already supporting it at the time.
Unpopular opinion:

Everyone from the Engineers who spec'd the missile, to the people that industrialized the manufacture and assembly lines, down to the operators, transporters of the armament.

Basically anyone with a hand in realizing it. Nobody tends to like that way of looking at things. Either because it doesn't put them proximal enough to winning for Queen and Country, or because it removes the luxury of "I just build guidance systems, "it's mot my fault people put them in cruise missiles".

What does this change?

Nothing. People gonna war either way. No amount of shaming, pearl clutching, or accurate laying of blame at someone's feet is going to convince adversarial countries to never go to war or fire munitions in anger.

War is hell. We build exactly what we deserve. We are the architects of our own suffering.
> Some card issuers don't require it done via a phone

And some (looking at you, DBS) toggle seemingly at random between requiring it via SMS or via their mobile app.
The first Google result is: https://www.webtitan.com/blog/massive-malvertising-campaign-...
I have been discouraged to use that form because native English speakers have corrected me that unless I am a British monarch, it would be incorrect language use.
Does the desktop contain programs or documents? You switch from one to other other half way through your second paragraph.

This sounds a bit like a concept that was popular in the 90s, I think it was called document-centric computing. Microsoft's implementation was called OLE and Apple's/IBMs was called OpenDoc.

The idea in these systems was that you don't really work with apps anymore, just generic document canvases into which you can drop arbitrary components. There is also a generic "compound" document format which the components can share in a hierarchical manner, and controls/menus/toolbars appear and disappear on demand.

This vision was somewhat impure on Windows, in that there was no generic document app - instead you were expected to use one of the Office apps as the canvas and then embed objects into those documents. OpenDoc in contrast had a sort of blank canvas system iirc, and if you wanted to work on a word processor document then you started a generic document and dropped a rich text area into it. A bit closer to visual programming than the app-centric model.

Suffice it to say, this model didn't win out. Embedding complex objects into compound documents turned out to have a lot of practical problems, OpenDoc got de-staffed when Jobs came back to Apple and OLE was steadily de-emphasized in Windows development. It was never that popular anyway, and was seen mostly as an exotic feature you had to do if you wanted your app to be embeddable in Word or Excel. The technology lived on somewhat in the form of OCX controls, which were for a time Microsoft's solution for shared libraries that you could use in a visual form designer and across languages.

You could try again but you'd probably want to study those earlier systems to learn why they didn't take off, and bring a new spin to the idea.
I am afraid to be difficult, but postage IS checked. As an example, try sending around drug and you'll get caught.

Government is proposing bills not have messages read by officers (something that not even inside Meta can be done due to EU's Electronic Privacy Directive) but to "scan them": have machineries check for violating content, pretty much as a parcel is put under xrays in the airport to check for bombs or drugs.

The law protects also the right of a company to protect itself against being blamed for misuses of its services, not only individuals' rights.
> we could see a resurgence of magazine approaches in whatever comes next in digital media.

No, this is not happening. I don’t think it will happen because of people’s attention spans and the cost of printing and distribution.

It’s a wishful dream, but I think the time is past. I love magazines and have collected some old issues of Wired that got me into tech. But current magazines are really bad and vapid and cheap.
Show HN: Genre map explorer for Spotify, a literate datavis tool
Hey HN!

A couple of years ago I pondered what a 'non-linear' music application would be like. Rather than playlists being linear lists of tracks, they could branch and fork - a rock playlist could fork into indie rock and post-rock, etc. Listening to a playlist would be akin to a Choose Your Own Adventure - still a guided experience, but with some personal decision making sprinkled in.

I didn't end up building this. Instead I attempted to find a way to synthesise these forking journeys from collections of existing linear playlists.

After building some of the basic visualisations, the explorer further diverged from its original vision and evolved into a playlist 'gardening' tool that I used for splitting, merging, and pruning a range of my existing genre-homogenous playlists.

The feature I find the most useful is the "Playlist smoother" - it minimises the total "genre distance" between artists in a playlist. Artists that are the most similar to each other will often be neighbours in the playlist order.

I'm hoping that some people will find this useful for some of their own music 'gardening' tasks Some disclaimers: the authorisation flow is crap, performance is not amazing and the mobile UX is borderline unusable. Some of this can be attributable to inherent limitations of the Observable platform, and some my poor craftsmanship, so I must apologise.

Enjoy!
Check out page 3-5 of this paper called How Futile are Mindless Assessments of Roundoff in Floating-Point Computation? [0]. It explains what is happening here better than I can and is where I got this example from.

[0]: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf
> Hard to start with a package and float my own changes.

Easy on Gentoo - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches
> but I can’t really see a path forward that works for nudists and non nudists in this context

The very comment thread your comment is in describes a method that would work for both.

> on the sender's side, show a warning before sending that the image appears to be in bad taste and asking for confirmation, then on the receiver's side, hiding the image behind a warning that it may be unwanted and showing two buttons, "show image" and "unmatch".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33326990
Not surprising in an era where housing demand far exceeds housing supply.
Hah. I remember when the M1 Macs came out and so many people were absolutely certain touch screen Macs were coming.
India, Google's largest market by users, orders for third-party payments system
We are very much on the same page. I wrote about it here

https://danielbmarkham.com/outlines-of-a-supercompiler-in-f/

Our industry tends to over-complicate things and get in its own way of making the world a better place. SuperCompilers are a worthwhile effort to fix that. We need more forces for good. Kudos.
Can we start calling Zuckerberg's Meta something else. Zmeta?
The general digital forensic community switched to VeraCrypt for encryption evidence in transit via common carrier. So I agree on this.
I completely agree with the principle that legal entities: businesses and governments should have their use of AI restricted. Facial recognition, for example, is a danger to society.

But the development and proliferation of AI by extralegal entities cannot be stopped. Individuals, foreign researchers, foreign business, etc will keep pushing the frontier of AI forward indefinitely.

AI can be regulated but it cannot be controlled.
My personal mac is old, but the OS is newer than that link.

My current work mac (and all previous work macs back to when my current personal mac was new) have never had the bug you're talking about — install chrome, make default, never get nagged.
I would love to know how these figures compare to revenue's made from albums pre-online streaming.

It used to be the case that albums were the main money maker for artists, and going on tour supported the album sales.

E.G Queen didn't turn a profit on a world tour until something like 1985. However profited hugely on their album sales.

It tends to be the reverse now where most artists do not gain as much from artists, and touring tends to be the money maker, and now the album is to help sell tickets for the tour.
Isn't Outbrain a chumbox company? I'm not sure how much I trust anything "sponsored" by them. Or is this like all those Youtube creators taking money from sketchy VPN companies, and I just need to look past it?
BTW, people assume it's slow because of the safety checks, but that's not the case. `cargo check` runs just the checks, and is pretty fast.

Majority of the time is spent in LLVM, because rustc throws a ton of code at it to clean up. This is being addressed by MIR optimizations (rustc's built-in optimizer working on higher-level code) to remove costly abstractions before they become a pile of low-level code to eliminate.
People can blog about whatever they want. I think people on HN and other platforms often forget: Just because the content ended up here, doesn't mean it was written for here.
This prevents me from buying an iPad mini.

it is incredibly stupid that they did this, but i guess it does force you to buy both an iPad and iPhone?
I wouldn't call the IX/IY instructions an improvement. They were so slow that they've rarely been used in performance-sensitive code (like games), it totally makes sense to drop them in a gaming device.

Same for the block instructions in the ED instruction range, quite convenient, but also very slow. LDI/LDD might have been useful for blitting bytes in unrolled loops, but since (AFAIK) the GB video hardware renders tiles and sprites directly, there's hardly a need for copying lots of bytes around.

The shadow register set wasn't all that useful either except for quickly saving state in interrupt handlers, but the additional registers take up a lot of die space.

On the other hand, the entire block of 256 bit twiddling instructions were obviously deemed important enough to keep them in the Gameboy CPU.
That will stop being a thing after a few rounds of record breaking floods. At some point insurers will withdraw their hands from the whole thing. Government and public support will run out at some point.
A non-standardized, homebrew encryption scheme does not necessarily have to be worse than a standardized algorithm - even though it often is. But if implemented correctly and by someone who knows what they are doing, I'd trust a homebrew algo more than one which has been approved by the west's codebreakers for general use.
> just the cost of industrial society

It's just the cost of favoring corporate profit over the well-being of people. The rhetoric above was invented by the same assholes who convinced us plastic recycling mattered.
True. They are private companies, not Public. I am fine with this.
This is the post I was waiting for. All rebuilt homes will be subject to the post Andrew codes and will be a lot different and more expensive. The new homes compared to the homes that were destroyed is an apples to oranges comparison.
That is not saying much as anything is better than device trees. We can do better.
Fully agree that the 184 series of StGB is not up to date (e.g. that 17 year olds routinely end up in trouble with the law for sending their partners consensual pictures) and the German youth protection law is ridiculous, but the idea that sending someone unsolicited pornography is bad is a good one IMHO.
The 'hype' of docker was greatly reduced about a year ago, need not go into why as its off topic.

The major appeal of docker to me is it's a new/extra layer of security. You can run known vulnerable software inside and when it gets compromised. So what? You lack the tooling to pivot or escape the container.
Right angle connections pointing in which direction? Some PSUs are on the bottom and some are on the top. It would be worse having to connect a right angle and then routing over or around the card to get to the PSU.
Now that Icomplete-vertical is built in I'm not using Vertico any more, if Geiser were built-in (strange that it isn't, considering ob-scheme has deep integration for it) I could probably run Emacs without external packages (though I would really miss consult, embark, and avy).
> I won't go into the excruciating slog of work that was required to open a Dutch bank account as a US Citizen

I keep hearing about these horror stories but I've only actually experienced it once, years ago in mainland China.

I (also a US citizen) moved back to Europe this summer and opened accounts in both DE and NL; I only had to provide my passport, SSN, and proof of address and I was good to go.

Am I just preternaturally lucky, or what?
The introduction of the hybrid interface in Windows 8 was the beginning of the end. The new 'Setup' versus the old Control Panel and how there's some crossover, but not complete. God, they messed things up.

Yeah, I think 7 was the last good version. 8.1 was "sorry for 8.0" but the damage was done and the path forward (wonkily sideways and backwards) was set.
> I’m not sure if to tell my boss, tell the company or how to deal with it, because I can’t afford to loose this job with a family to support.

Looking at this from another angle, you cannot afford to keep this job because you have a family to support. A burnt-out parent is not helpful to their family. You need your energy to truly support them, and if this job is burning you out, then it is not working.

So yes - tell your boss. Tell your company. Either they will work with you and fix the problem, or they won't and you need to find something else. Either way, you are acting on a problem instead of stagnating in burnout. The short-term pain of finding new work is better than the long-term pain of being a burnt-out parent.
Why don’t you tell me what the definition of empathy is, and then go back to the comment that I responded to and show me how it is logically impossible to interpret it as the commenter making the struggle about him/herself, considering all the I’s she used?

For someone who supposedly has empathy, you care very little about how your own words (or those whom you agree with) can be seen in a different light by the simple fact that you don’t know what other people are going through, and people use their own experiences to interpret the meanings of things. Considering how there’s acknowledgement ob my end that maybe the commenter didn’t mean any harm, you’re overacting like your most basic freedoms are being trampled upon, which they aren’t.
It gets "leaked" to a web app that I'm choosing to connect to? Why do I care?
All HN users who are any good at coding should refuse to do non onsite interviews with AWS (and tiktok). Doing this is the only way to stop them from mass spamming us.

This actually works btw. I've had several on-sites with AWS with no phone screen. The perks of a strong profile I guess!