skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More issues with ISOs than PayFacs. I can speak to one platform (a PayFac) that seemed to bat 1.000 here: Tilled. Not only did they seem to have no issue with migrating low risk clients but they likewise migrated dozens of mid/high risk firms without a single rejection from Tilled themselves or refusal from Stripe to provide the requested data.

Conversely, if you’re anything but the most plain jane business, I would avoid transitioning from Stripe to Gravity like the plague. I watched them reject a candy company and a knitting goods business that were both reputable, over a decade in business each, and never had an abnormal spike in sales or questionable products on offer. Gravity either couldn’t get Stripe data transferred or properly integrated and ended up turning away both businesses (while blaming them for noncompliance).
Yeah, this is the way. Still much less comfortable than a physical button, but not a great issue for power users either.
Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850
Ask HN: What would the world look like if ChatGPT was free and self-hostable
I can imagine the positive things that we saw with Stable Diffusion vs DALL·E.

But I can also imagine the negative. For example, content marketing spam sites would be 1000x'ed within a week.

Let's jump forward a generation of GPT and it improves more. Facts are now 98% correct. If the ChatGPT 2 model and weights were released in the open, it seems possible that the economic/workforce disruption could be on the tragic side, since UBI does not exist.

Disinformation campaigns would get much more insidious.

Generally speaking, the signal to noise ratio on the net would become even worse.

Dare I say here that maybe it's not the worst thing in the world that OpenAI is operating the way it is?

Why am I wrong? Any other thoughts on this topic?
As you know, domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google. Last year, I bought the http://forum.dev domain for one of our projects. When I tried to renew it this year, I was faced with a renewal price of $850 instead of the normal price of $12.

Since I looked at it in Turkish Lira, I thought at first that Google made a mistake when converting the currency, but it turns out that was not the case. Apparently, they are renewing generic domains like the one I own for $850 under the name Premium domain.

I could understand if I were to buy this domain from scratch, but I have been the owner of hundreds of domains for almost 20 years and I have never faced anything like this before. Once again, I realized that it is foolish to trust Google on any matter. Thank you, Google.
The University of California Is Also a Landlord
This is a great example of why I frequent HN. The vast range of users makes this site so rich.
> it's coming off as extremely dismissive of people with significant knowledge of the industry.

Nah, it's coming off as dismissive of people who haven't used a product.
I'm trying to get into this. Have a ton of ideas for apps that I know I would myself find useful, just don't know if they would ever be noticed by anyone else but me. any tips?
It’s a closed toll road with two lane one way traffic but without markings. Overtaking only on the left, after overtake one should go back to the right. There’s no such thing as racing line. There are a couple of speed limits: 70kph by the exit in Breidscheid and 120kph on the Döttinger Höhe, before exit to the Touristenfahrten car park (going down to 50kph right before the exit).

During Terroristenfahrten, regular traffic rules of a two lane single direction road apply.
Birds and little critters to be relocated to affordable housing in San Marcos.

But seriously why can't we just start building more net-zero natural gas plants that take up 1/100 of the land area? This is insane.
How is it different than…?

const { data } = useSWR<MyDataType>(“/my/data”)
My co-worker did just that, but at a much higher latitude(49°) than Texas - he couldn't be arsed with building racks for the panels himself and having people do it for him would cost too much in his view.

While the panels are indeed cheap this, along with the DIY wood gas combined heat and power generator, are measures taken for energy security, not profit.
The rxs were $4-5k a pop so we couldn’t let the clinics lose anything. I came with an idea of putting nfc stickers on the boxes and then we distributed android small form factor tablets with a mobile app I wrote to all the clinics. They would use those and check in/out of inventory and recording an administration was all done through touching the box to the tablet. Now I have the connections and know how to apply that to a much larger audience. At the time I was just like “this is pretty cool right?” with no idea of how much money the setup was worth to other industries. (This was like 8 years ago or so)
If you lend someone your wallet so they can buy milk, and they go on a buying spree with your credit card, that’s still a crime.

You can blame the person handing out the wallet for being naive, but ultimately the bad actor is the other.
Yeah i did a multi level nested one once including else clauses, and it didnt actually assign to anything, only side effects. Felt clever at the time.

But it was completely incomprehensible and unmaintainable. So got replaced by me later.
The Teamsters union, who represent a big chunk of the truckers in the US, have lobbied against Tesla's self-driving truck efforts in the past.[^1]

I'll be interested to see if the Teamsters intensify their opposition to Tesla with these now hitting the streets -- even if they're lacking any self-driving abilities.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/business/dealbook/teamste...
Java Usage Keeps Climbing, According to New Survey
Just wanted to add that archive.* works OK with NextDNS, which both Firefox and Chrome allow you to select as a DNS provider for DNS-over-HTTPS.
I wonder what people use to replace these libraries? Are there well written websocket libs out there?
Worker cooperatives are legal and there are some around today. There's nothing stopping workers from owning the fruits of their own labor. Yet most workers choose not to join or start cooperatives, and instead prefer wage labor. Why is that?

It seems that most workers prioritize a steady wage without the risk of being an owner. And it's difficult for worker cooperatives in capital-intensive industries to attract outside investors; investors who put in significant amounts of money quite rationally want some control over the enterprise rather than leaving the decisions up to workers.

One of the most prominent examples of employee ownership was with United Airlines. Employees gained majority ownership in 1994. That kind of worked for a while but ultimately failed, ironically partly due to labor union disputes. It seems the workers had trouble deciding how to share the fruits of their labor.
omg. A comprehension for side effects only. That’s so horrible I wish I could see it. :)
That's going to be rough to maintain as they update Next/React if this thing lasts for any reasonable period of time. No tests written at all either.
> Re cleaning, they have a cute little robot

Ever cleaned dried bird droppings off a windshield? I'd be pretty surprised if solar-farm Roomba was up to it.
Silvergate: From tiny local lender to bank behind the crypto boom
“Tall, wearing three earrings and a metal plate in his head, availing himself of profanity of a kind that would make an Algerian camel driver blush, Zack Zipperman, Ph.D. has for the past 26 years, in his windowless laboratory at MIT, been teaching white mice to dance the cha-cha-cha, with interesting results for those who can't comprehend why men born after 1942 never carry handkerchiefs.” - parody of Gladwell’s writing by Joseph Epstein: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/jack-out-...
> why they cant dig some kind of trench or mound to put them on at least

Just use the rack then, it's exactly the same result.
I think learning a language at a young age likely sets up some brain development for language learning in the future. Brains remain plastic even through adulthood, but I definitely feel like whatever language I am studying tends to fill “Language Slot 2,” if you will, which exists because of an atrocious 12 year long present-tense-only public school Spanish program.

Results from learning a language in an immersive environment are going to be greater and more justify the time spent. However, it can definitely be rewarding otherwise if cramming before a vacation or even just to remember how to clumsily pronounce “l'esprit d'escalier.”
Seems like the takedown was reversed, and the offending patches appear to be gone.
If you don’t mind sharing, what do the advance and royalty terms look like for a first time author? And how many copies does it take to “break even” on the advance?
Ah that's fair. I was only considering serializing native types (for which there are much better options).
> Look at McLaren F1 driver seating position [1] probably the best car ever made in terms of maneuverability, control and command of the road.

How often does a F1 driver stop at a mandatory weigh station and need to hand over paperwork for his load?

In case you are unaware, this is actually rather common for truck drivers. All along the highway systems there are mandatory truck stop weigh stations.

I'd say the points he raises are valid, while your comparison to the "f1" is meaningless.
Translation: We already accomplished our goal of killing (efficient, effective) ad blockers and we really don't feel like doing the rest of the work. Have fun with the results!
I actually went back to re-read. I see the first complaint is about looking ahead / overtaking. Fair enough, I don't know the thought there.
wtf "You can't learn to code by watching videos" -> "Solution (..) I create short highly-focused videos that make learning to code addicting." hard pass
They're getting quite a lot more output per acre, by being able to use more panels.
That’s just one of the many jobs they posted during the development of semi. They also have “real” drivers that put a ton of hours shuttling Tesla cargo from NV to CA and vise versa.

Not to mention the author is from the EU. Trucking in the U.S is vastly different. I drove in both regions during my time in the USAF.

In your honest opinion. Do you think they just developed the semi without gathering/soliciting feedback from real truck drivers?
‘Too big for a single mind’ review: The quantum physics crowd
The entire meta-point of MV3 is, ostensibly for consumer protection, to prevent extension authors from dynamically executing code that has not been reviewed by Google’s review process, as well as from executing code synchronously to choose to block a network request. Of course, userscripts are dynamic code not delivered as part of the extension itself. And so are effective ad blockers - when one side of an arms race is fundamentally limited from running code, it becomes open season for the other. The conflict of interest left a foul taste in many people’s mouths.
even worse: Rasberry crazy ants
Well, empathy, social issues, etc, may or may not cause an inconvenience…
Then don't buy cars with touchscreens. Some (most) people do want new features added to their devices.
From my experience, yes. I did about an hour a day total - 20 minutes on waking, 20 minutes at lunch, and 20 minutes before I go to sleep. 3 years ago, I didn't know a lick of Spanish. Now when I go, I can be a translator for my friends. It's not great, and I trip over my pronunciation a lot, but it's functional.

As to the context of article, I'm also in the group that thinks the latest Duolingo updates are the worst to come to the platform since it's inception. It's beyond awful and I honestly despise it. I frequently went back to areas I felt myself getting rusty at, and practiced those. The new "pathway" has broke that method completely. It's impossible to see previous course content clearly, essentially forcing you through poor UX design to take the next step on the pathway instead, like you're playing Candy Crush. The update spurned me to give up on my 500+ day streak and cancel my subscription over the Summer. I haven't used the app in the last 5 months.

I'm lucky enough to live in Oxford, which is renowned so having some great evening language classes. I've signed up to my first semester starting in January which I'm very much looking forward to. If it wasn't for Duolingo, any interest in furthering my language skills would not exist. I guess it's a silver lining that an awful update to my favorite app by incompetent product management and executive decisions forced me to finally peruse a formal education in Spanish. I just wish it was a amenable break-up.
Michel Thomas gave me a very solid understanding of basic spoken French in approximately two hours, and it has stuck for decades. However, my pronunciation is atrocious (as is his.)
Alternatively you can run a DAW like SunVox on just about any smart device made in the last two decades from Windows CE and Palm to modern Android and iOS devices, as well as Linux, Mac, and Windows.

In most cases this is probably way more flexible, fully featured, easy to use, and cheaper than involving a Pi.

My current set up is a MIDI controller connected to an otherwise junk and unloved 2-in-1 laptop/tablet running Ubuntu Studio. Pretty low latency and SunVox is literally made for touchscreens and slow hardware. I love it!
Software consulting. You’d be surprised how many little businesses out there have a need for custom software. I make about $60-70k/year in my spare time (maybe 10 hours/week) doing everything from adding features to legacy products, building brand new applications and even simply conducting technical interviews. It’s also pretty nice to work on something besides the usual thing at work, experiment with new/different tech and also get paid handsomely for it.
I have a roughly 600 day streak in Spanish, having started with no background, and I am quite pleased with the progress given how little time I dedicate to it each day.

My only issue with Duolingo is that I wish there was somewhere to get much more formal information on the grammatical rules. Their inclusion currently is really poorly executed, haphazardly located in certain lessons as if random. I’d love if I could get specific lessons on demand for anything I am struggling with.

Also, it is really annoying how sometimes it gives you the translation after you are done and other times it just says “Great!” Or something similar, so if you are slightly unsure of something you don’t always get the actual translation to help clarify.
fxtentacle, I remember chatting with you briefly earlier this year about all the projects you had worked on, and you didn't even mention this one. You are one interesting dude.
I wonder if it's a combination of phones, car centric city design with wide stroads, and automatic transmissions. The latter two make driving very easy and boring, with long waiting periods at red lights, high speed between the lights, and you can keep your phone in one hand all along because there's no stick to shift. No wonder people are not looking at the road.
> I suppose Google gets a tiny bit of credit for not jamming MV3 through and leaving developers with the bill

They will try again in a year, and there will be less opposition (because people get tired of fighting etc.), and this will happen
Followers of Krashen know that it's sensible input that results in language acquisition. Duolingo gamifies the frequency of sensible input. Therefore Duolingo will work if frequently and consistently used. Fluent is an outdated term. It probably takes about six months to achieve any lasting result. Illusion of progress is impossible to prove or disprove probably.
A) "The web" is not some unified thing so having a certain web technology come and go is categorically different than a language deprecating features.

B) I wouldn't exactly hold up "the web" and Windows as shining examples of things are going great. Even just using Windows you can see the complexity escaping control, for example there's 3 separate ways in which to change volume for sound devices on windows. Each one with a different UI and found in a different place. To say nothing of attempting to develop on it. As for the web, companies like Mighty[0], whose whole shtick is "the web and the browser you need are too bloated and slow in order to run on your actual machine. The obvious solution is to add another layer and run that browser in a virtual server and pipe the screen back to you", are getting backed and people see as a "solution". This is madness.

C) > There's other ways to keep the working set of complexity in check without losing compatibility (eg linters, modernizers, or profiles)

That's a "solution" only in so far as you don't consider all of those things are yet another layer of complexity that we're adding on.

[0]: https://www.mightyapp.com
I don't follow the logic. Why would this reduce the rate of settlement?
How much payout is worth silence for the next generation? Im not speaking about Apple specifically but all agreements like this are worse for everyone except the stock holder right? Companies are people (in the US) so its good for one slice of society I guess.
I wonder how well this would run a raytracer, aren't those pretty branchy?
This is a great example of where the buyer is different from the user, and the design was focused on the buyer.

Tesla focused on reducing operating costs and down time for these trucks with features like stronger, possibly break-proof, windows.

In truck fleets, do the drivers care about these things?

I'm sure some of these issues will be addressed in future versions, but for now, Tesla is focused on selling to fleets that will buy hundreds of trucks for their drivers, not the business where the trucker is the owner.
To add, the adoption of state grade-level standards essentially disallows option 1 regardless of what the teacher believes is best.
> You can’t learn to write code by watching videos

> Solution: I made a bunch of (better?) videos that teach you how to code.

I’m not sure I understand this logic.
"jack tar, which refers to the old habit of smearing your breeches with that sticky, liquid-repellent substance in a primitive effort at waterproofing."

Huh?

Tarring refers to treating hemp rope with tar to prevent it from rotting. Hemp rope rots from the inside, so it looks fine until it breaks. Thus the switch to manila (sometimes called "manila hemp", but it's really a species of banana) and then to synthetics. This is covered in both Two Years before the Mast and Moby Dick, as well as Wikipedia.

Wind-era sailors spent a lot of sea time on rope maintenance. Hence the name.
> This is true for a single panel. But the amount of sunlight which hits an acre of land is constant. If the land is 100% covered with panels, the panels will collect 100% of the available sunlight.

That is not true from my understanding. The increased solar angle of incidence effects how much of the energy reflects back into the sky. Having more panels next to it without a gap won't change that. Yes you can fit more panels in the same area without putting them on an angle but they will be quite a bit less efficient because more light will be reflecting back up per sqft of panel which is what matters cost wise.
With the ground covered, evaporation is greatly reduced, so the soil stays moist. Water is a good heat conductor.

Having the underlayer for your roof solar tiles be full of water is considered undesirable by most permit-issuing authorities, so roof tiles must use air cooling.
Google, ChatGPT and the Challenge of Accuracy
> "Drivers sits in the middle. This makes overtaking or looking ahead more difficult.

> This one seems like the worst one of all these criticisms.

Seems like it would be a feature if the driver couldn't see over cars and trucks. Maybe they would actually keep to a safer distance.
True true. And after they learn to walk you got about two weeks and the learn how to run and then you’re chasing them for 5 years. Mine are 13 and 10 and it’s pretty nice atm. The 10 year old still thinks I hang the moon and the 13 year old is just enough of a smart ass to make me laugh.
To me, the nested format of comments is the issue. In a flat format like a forum, people are forced to stay on a main line of conversation, with occasional tangents using quotes or new threads. In the HN style, everyone peels away into their own little side discussions, which themselves generate side discussions. It's almost like socialization at a party, and it's encouraged by the heirarchical structure. A detailed one-on-one conversation rapidly runs off to the right side, which discourages it.
HN will hate this, but I was curious about web3/crypto and wanted to build something to understand how it all worked. This was inspired by moxie's post [1] (don't echo other people's opinion because you see them repeatedly, rather build something and make your own opinion).

Ended up being a very interesting project which also led to earnings around 10eth (~12k today). Took around 2 months. https://blockchainsmokers.xyz

[1] https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
I don't think it works on Twitch...
It's such an odd valuation. It's neither high enough to reflect imputed exclusivity which would put in $100,000 class nor low enough to reflect some real world cost.

It appears purpose designed to exclude only the low end indie and freemium developer.
I don't see MySpace as a failure. It had its time and place and remained relevant for surprisingly long time after Facebook took their crown with MySpace Music.
Definitely love me some Will Prowse. I bought one of the LiPo batteries he recommends for my campervan and have been super happy with it.
But really, the prospect of breaking support for the innumerable applications that use V2 and will never be updated seems to be the worst idea Ive seen in decades.

I still struggle to believe it, but everytime I read something on this "V3 migration" that sounds like exactly what they plan..

This isnt like IE6 either, where every user was desperate for the apps they were forced to use to die, it seems the only people that really want this change is google.

Apologies in advance if Im wrong, the only reason I care is I keep hearing "google plans to break lots of stuff with no clear need to do so."
The author conflates generators with generator expressions[1]. He's correct in that generator expressions lazily evaluate and lists don't, but actual generators are a much more powerful construct - they're functions which use the `yield` keyword. They're most frequently used as iterators, but they can also communicate with the outside state via receiving values (`x = yield y`), being explicitly closed with `.close()`, or having an exception raised at the yield point with `.throw()`.

They're so powerful in fact, that asyncio is implemented under the hood with a lot of generator cleverness. You rarely see it, but the `__await__` dunder method which powers `await` is just a synchronous function which returns a generator.

Generator expressions are useful for when there's memory constraints that preclude using a list comprehension, but list comprehensions are actually faster because of cPython's internal optimizations.

[0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0255/
[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0289/
Physical buttons are far harder to produce and, once made, are set in stone until the car is recycled. Touch controls can be reprogrammed, updated, improved, etc, mixed with voice input, etc. Far more possibilities for improvement.
You have to take your eyes off the road for multiple seconds to turn the defogger/defroster on, as one example. Maybe there are studies to back it up too, but intuitively, this seems unsafe compared to turning a knob that you don't have to look at.
Code coverage for your AWK programs
Fairly well, Intel's Embree raytracing kernels have support for Xeon Phi, although going more than 8-wide with incoherent rays (i.e. pathtracing) starts to require more and more sorting to batch things up for decent utilisation...