skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stripe has been known to lock user funds for little to no reason other than vague TOS reasons and you just end up contacting the CEO of Stripe or some Stripe employees here on HN just to unlock your account and release your funds. It's very bizarre but such a immediate cancellation for vague reasons in the TOS is unacceptable and it continues to happen.

The simple solution is to use multiple payment gateways. It makes zero sense to go all in on one payment gateway even if it is the HN darling. Some were even more unlucky and waited many months for Stripe to unlock their money in their account which over that time it almost killed their business.

If that fails, your absolute last resort is to accept payment using cryptocurrencies.
>Has this been proven in humans?

Seems like it but it still might not be worth it:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/12/acc-does-calorie-restr...
The neighboring New Orleans city council just unbanned facial recognition as well.
Maybe hydrogen fuel cells can do it better. FCEVs retain more of their range in winter conditions and are faster to refuel:

https://cte.tv/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Four-Season-Analys...
Even in a utilitarian framework, there is more to consider besides outcomes, such as costs.

Examples of costs could be be the reoccurring monetary cost for the rest of your life, and being dependent on the supply of medicine to maintain your health.

Additionally, there are personal advantages to being an individual that is capable of doing and regularly practices "hard things".
Newsblur has been suckless for years.
In ~2020 there were about ~67k software engineers at Amazon (aka had access to the source-control posix group), so unless you don't want Amazon to exist anymore I don't think that's plausible.
Are they also engaged and interested in the work at Amazon?
Flutes are more affordable and easier to get a nice tone out of than clarinets or tubas.
Thanks for the thoughts!

> Can an equivalent length of available-size blades be welded together (maybe trimming the ends first, if they lack teeth)?

I don't think so, these blades are very narrow and thin -- 0.2mm x 0.3mm cross section at the spine -- and I'm pretty sure a weld would not hold and if it did, you'd still have to grind it down flush. And I'd guess the joint would also fatigue which is an issue since the blade needs to get wound/unwound repeatedly during cutting. Also, I think the heat of the weld would probably effect the already hardened steel.

> I wonder what the required blade tension would be

The tension on existing scroll saws is 10 - 20 lbs for blades of this size.

> how machine will maintain tension on the blade

The blade gets unwound off a spool which maintains the tension through a torque motor.

> I wonder why the blade needs to be so long.

Minimum usable length is ~10m, but I figure if you can make 10, you can make 50. The longer the blade, the longer you can cut before you have to rewind. And the longer the blade lasts before the teeth are dull and needing to be replaced
Both parties treating the transaction as simply a business transaction is a good thing for society.

Pretending that there is some value to "loyalty" in a vendor/customer relationship is silly, and only hurts you.

Job hopping is a good thing for price discovery, and keeps wages for skilled workers going up as inflation eats away at them. Layoffs in downturns are an expected consequence of workers getting more expensive (ie capturing more of their economic value in their paychecks).
Interesting to see a lot of deeper concepts-focused people in here. I'm the opposite. I have to start from on-demand or nothing will stick. I work best when I can tinker first, then dig deep and get explanations for things I actually observed, roadblocks I encountered, etc.
Is this gossiping?
Is it still aiming for being a distributed OS?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230104231721/https://www.nytim...
> Everyone is addicted to food - what you're describing sounds like a great way to set yourself up for failure.

as someone who has to be reminded to eat by their significant other or family lest I fall ill, from a long-line of people with the same trait, no -- not everyone is addicted to food.

I enjoy food, I consume food, but it doesn't produce any level of compulsion like an addiction does.
> If layoffs keep piling up higher and deeper

To put the current situation in perspective, the last unemployment rate reading was 3.7%, a level so low that it was never hit in the entire period 1970-2018.
As to your last point, designers of range extenders are obviously aware of this and handle it automatically. It'll chose to kick on occasionally even if the batter is nearly full.
235M records of Twitter users and their email addresses leaked
>if you are serious about dieting you wouldn't set yourself up for such temptation

But that's the point. You live in a world full of this stuff and a huge portion of people do not have the option to setup the world in such a manner they can avoid temptations being around them.

People that fail to quit smoking have the biggest problem when other smokers offer them cigs. And smokers are a 'small' portion of the population, we all eat. That's why we came up with things like bupropion and varenicline so people can quit smoking. Most people tried and failed to quit smoking multiple times.
Any more info on this form wrapper for Laravel?
> people that have never actually been fat. "I did it and I lost 15 pounds

Also people who have never had an older metabolism. It's different. I was also skinny despite eating a ton and hardly exercising when I was 25. Everyone I know over about 30 can identify when their metabolism suddenly changed. Diet (and to a lesser extent exercise) advice from those who haven't hit their own wall yet is worthless for those who have. Those people need to stop over-generalizing their (limited) experience as universal truth.
The person you're responding to is wrong.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Maybe they have me confused with someone else, maybe they're referring to the person who brought Alexander's flirtations with racial supremacy up on the first place ('tweren't I), or maybe they've concluded that not looking warmly on Alexander's claims of being "doxxed" by the NYT equates to believing he's a white supremacist. But, as you can see: Alexander is not a topic I find myself talking about all that much about on HN.

Regardless: the mail is right there for all of us to read, and I reach the obvious conclusions having read it. I'm not as interested in Scott Alexander's moral failings as I am in other people's feeble defenses of HBD-ism; unlike Alexander, HBD is generally problematic, and does tend to demand a response.

Finally: if you go looking through the 'dang comment archives, you'll find that we're not supposed to be litigating our posting histories or trying to dig up dirt on thread participants at all. Instead of replying to that comment warmly, you might have instead considered flagging it. I have trouble with this rule too --- there's a person on HN who fervently believes authenticated encryption is a bad thing, and I have a hard time not bringing that up in every cryptography thread they're in --- so I'm certainly not high-horsing you about it. At any rate, though: I'm right about the authenticated encryption thing, and whoever that rando is upthread, they're not right about me.
FTC seems to be down right now, but The Archive has it already:

http://web.archive.org/web/20230104170101/https://www.ftc.go...
I am well aware of what you're saying and was before this comment. The smoker data is not applicable to obesity. Smokers die younger, but do not have extended and sustainably increased healthcare costs over their entire life span. They also don't have as many negative externalities such as simply consuming more resources; even gasoline and jet fuel consumption is increased due to obese passengers.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25443387/
> you'd excuse their behavior saying there are plenty of other guys out there they could go with instead.

Where was I excusing it? I was simply laying out the market reality. If you want to say certain classes of professions "deserve" less or more money, then shouldn't we expand this discussion to all professions (teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc.)? No one is really saying they deserve less, but rather that this is the market reality.

If gaming devs want to unionize then that's their prerogative.
NGL this response doesn't give me much confidence in the UI design.

Back when I used to be a chef, my most important tool was a Chef's knife. The Wusthoff and Henkles and rando knockoff knives might look pretty similar, but I could tell just by looking at it if the spine side of the tang was a bit too short and would give my index finger blisters, for example. It didn't have to be perfect, but it had to work for me.

As a full-time developer, I was working with text editors just as many hours per day as I worked with my chef's knife. Using a text editor that doesn't meld with the way I do things is incredibly frustrating. I do most of my dev work in Unreal Engine these days so a nice, performant editor that was as smooth as other paid editors would get my greenbacks.
Is it true there are plenty of places in the world that don't have an epidemic of obesity?

My belief is Japan doesn't have as much of an obesity problem.

Sure, I'd love a drug that lets me eat more calories and not get fat but I'd also love it if we some how managed to stop eating so many cookies, donuts, potato-chips, sugary sodas, giant portion meals, etc.... I'd also love it if we designed more areas to be walkable and bikeable.

I lived ~15 years in Japan. I never missed owning car because the country is designed not to need a car. I also spent a year in Europe and Singapore and again, never missed owning car for the same reasons.

Let me also add that in Japan, at least in big cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, you are almost always 1-2 minutes away from junk food. You can walk to a convenience store and find whole aisles of pastries, chips, ice cream, candies, etc and yet somehow the Japanese manage not to pig out.

Similarly there are bakeries all over full of donuts, etc...

Somethings that help are the portions are often smaller. Certainly for potato chips most bags in Japan are 1/3th the size of the average bag in the USA. Similarly cookies are small and come in small portions vs the USA where pretty much any supermarket sells cookies in packages of 20 to 40 cookies and each cookie is giant 300-500 calories each.

I guess this is one of those, we're not going to get people to stop eating too much so we have to find another solution? I can just imagine once I get this drug I'll start eating more because I can and companies will ramp up the portion sizes even more.... TACO TIME!!!!!
What sanctions against the police and compensation for the wrongly arrested is available for such egregious lack of diligence?
Just because you don’t understand the knob doesn’t mean it’s voodoo or proprietary. LMs of every kind can incorporate temperature into their next-token inference and it’s a common term when describing models like these:

https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/32477/what-is-the-tem...
"A detective took the algorithm at face value "

Good lord, can we get any more sappy?
It’s not what you ask for, but one thing you can buy is diamond wire used for cutting large blocks of stone. For example https://www.dexpan.com/collections/diamond-wire has 100ft wires, and they sell a hydraulic crimper. To me that suggests it is possible to connect two of these to get that 50m length.

That is a lot thicker than what you ask for (about 1 cm², compared to your 0.0012 cm², so about 800 times as thick) and more flexible.

Unless you’re cutting a very weak material, I would think that thickness is as good as unavoidable. If you pull at one end of a 50m saw, and, say, 25m of it grips the thing being cut, would the fairly small pin through the end of the blade that you pull on be strong enough to not break? Or are you going to move the blade very slowly through the thing being cut? Alternatively, maybe you want fewer teeth, to decrease the maximum force needed to pull this blade through whatever you’re trying to cut?
You know, if you go back and talk to any serf back in the day and I'm pretty sure that a very large percentage of them would want to be or lord or king themselves.
What if the city added batteries instead of plows? Have recharging stations that swapped batteries. Requires building the plows around hot swappable batteries and a station with some fixed hydraulics that can drop them in and out. Requires a bit of redundancy by having multiple stations to swap batteries and something like forklifts to drag them around and charge the spent batteries. Probably not a good consumer solution, but this is an industry, so industrial solutions would work fine.
I guess this is a new target for the anti-woke axe grinding - corporate CFO's. Never thought I'd see it honestly.

I think it's an interesting synthesis of the corporate-skeptical populist ideology with the non-white skeptical racialist ideology, so I guess we should be expecting far more of this in the next two years. Thankfully, I think most people this is just kinda weird culture war BS.
“Having done that (and lacking cash to buy Photoshop), he downloaded an open-source knockoff.”
Anyone wanna bet it’s GIMP?
> No one else seems to be confused

you refer to "the author's revisionist history", sangnoir's comment in response says "the author also falsely claimed...", but these are referring to two different authors.

> the poster of that link seems to agree with the author of the core article

he literally wrote "While Chris is crisp about the problem and the consequences of not solving it, he doesn't have answers for why Google and Apple act the way they do" and proceeds to give a different history and background.

> but to be fair I didn't even remember that the HN post went to a tweet... or toot

so...you were confused.
His statement on Ukraine was quite something to behold. He condemned Putin's invasion in exactly 7 words - "I condemn Vladimir's Putin invasion of Ukraine".

And then immediately proceeded to condemn US interventions "in 40 nations" and "many studies finding that US is culpable for an unfathomable number of civilians deaths". Of course, his life dream is to interview Putin (as stated a few times on Rogan).

https://youtu.be/jRQAG77ifzE?t=120
Ask HN: Suggestions to find a remote entry level Embedded or firmware engineer?
I have an associates degree in digital electronics and mcu and a lot of experience making prototypes of electronics products.

I know C/C++ (mid maybe? or junior+), electronics, CAD and 3d Modeling, etc

I dont live in the US and I have many colleges that work remotely but they are software developers, I want to start working on firmware or embedded so I can work remotely.

Any suggestions would be much appriciated it
I think the main problem AS has is you can accomplish a whole lot with Automator, and now Shortcuts.
Its not "Alex Fridman"
Most of the benchmarks I'm familiar with are M1/M2 vs Zen3. I don't think people have comprehensively tested Zen4 yet.

Zen3 was 7nm for sure. So AMD Zen3 ~4mm^2 on 7nm is ~364 million transistors, while Apple's ~5mm^2 on 5nm is ~856 million transistors (https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/File:5nm_densities.svg).

With M1/M2 in the ~5mm^2 area or so, I definitely argue that Zen3 cores are 1/2 the size of M1/M2 cores, transistor-for-transistor.

Its a fat core. Maybe it will work thanks to how advanced processes are getting. Maybe this will encourage others (ie: Intel) to experiment with larger cores as well. Its hard for me to say, but I do welcome the benchmarks.
Would love for the table columns to be sortable
Responded to another welding comment, I am pretty sure its a no-go, but thanks for the thought!

> Is this a one-off/prototype-type project?

It is a prototype but I'd be looking for ~10 blades to start and then 100+ from there
Have you tried iwlwifi?
Is it because it's actually riddle with bugs or just that most devs built on top of features only available on Chrome?
Because it does not 'understand' what 'backwards' means.
Many parts of a Christmas tree are edible
Well, I think it depends on the project itself. If they are asking for money, then they probably need money!

See: https://liberapay.org (and also patreon.com has a number of projects)

The idea is that people that can give would give, and those that can't won't. And who can give can also choose how much they think the project is valuable and how much maintenance it needs. Hopefully that would be covering the needs of the developers at a fair salary. It would be nice if open source projects were more transparent about this as well: "I need X/month to reach a fair salary and good maintenance, and could expand, hire devs and add functionality for Y/month." (milestones in patreon partially fulfill that role).

The problem is when there are others that rely on the work as well. How much should each give, such that the system would be fair? From a theoretical perspective, I think the money should be always coming from the source with the lowest marginal counterfactual return. That is, the organizations who have funds going to investors and other orgs with the lowest ROI should instead divert those funds to [something else], where [something else] is OSS in this case, until an equilibrium is reached and everywhere is operating at equal and optimal ROI. In practice things are not so easy. And this analysis (and financial analysis) tends to only value economic ROI, where we should be thinking of social ROI as well as environmental ROI.

But to give a rule of thumb, for now, I think it would be reasonable to pay

(a) if it is less than a % of the (internal) project cost: a % of the budget of the OSS project, depending on how valuable it is internally (say, 50% if their budget is low, or just 1% if their budget is high);

(b) a % of the (internal) project cost otherwise (e.g. at most 5% of project cost).

Ideally there would be some kind of system or framework to streamline this sort of evaluation and allocation to the devs.

I actually think a whole complementary economic system (i.e. enhancing capitalism or socialism) should be developed around this idea. We should be paying whomever is providing value to society, according to their needs to provide this value (and also give them a good life of course! -- and provide a reward/incentive to do valuable things, even ones that don't currently have an incentive). So some kind of organizations, that could be tied to companies or governments too, would be responsible for evaluating on a reasonably objective basis which projects need money and then allocating it (sort of as an outsourcing of the resource allocation job to specialized entities). But meanwhile individual and voluntary giving is basically that without outsourcing. I try to do this personally through Effective Altruism (which is essentially just that: give effectively) and giving what I can to Open Source and other impactful causes.
A lot of people would consider FreeBSD 5.x a horrible release (especially given how rock solid 4.x was), and things not stabilizing again until 8.x (many years later).

Some would argue that in hindsight, Matt was correct at the time for the fork - from a technical standpoint.
I'm not sure on the cheating ring or other cases, but for the one I witnessed it was blatantly sharing each others exams + answers during the busy "turn in your exams" moment of a crowded auditorium.

One East Asian student I talked to said it was a cultural difference, cheating in academics just wasn't considered that big a deal and very common in competitive districts (international students from China or India for instance, or competition at top high schools like Thomas Jefferson). Basically "everyone does it and if you don't you'll be left behind".

It was a top 20 school but not ivy. Have always heard "public ivy" and it competes for "top public university", near or topping the list most years.
"Some cities and states have put clamps in recent years on police use of facial recognition. But several, including New Orleans, have since backed off amid a rise in crime."
https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/109632790982933562
I just avoid Python and any job descriptions that contain it. It's never been a good experience for me, whether as an end user or a developer. It's nice that they may have ironed out their issues, but I've been done a long time ago. There's nothing Python does I can't do better with some other toolchain.
> We are seeing a bit of a market downturn - but it hasn’t hit Amazon pocketbook now, has it? Are they in danger of running out of money? What happened to “people are our most important resource”?

Companies plan for where the market is going, not last quarter’s results. It’s fully clear to everyone that the economy has shifted dramatically. They are adjusting as appropriate.

Also, these people will be laid off with severance. They were compensated toward the top of market (considering all tech companies) while they were employed. They have Amazon on their resume, which makes future job easier than average. I’m really not concerned about laid off (with severance) FAANG employees relative to the people earning literally 1/10th their comp who are losing jobs without severance.

> people started treating companies they way companies treating people and we are starting to see the results - quiet quitting, oft bemoaned lack of loyalty, job hopping, etc.

I really don’t think this is an appropriate comparison. The whole “quiet quitting” thing isn’t going to hurt companies like Amazon because they’ll just PIP the person out and replace them with the tens of thousands of qualified people wanting to get hired at Amazon and do good work. When some “quiet quits” it’s usually their peers who pay the price because the absentee coworker isn’t get their part of the team project done. Makes more work for everyone else, makes groups projects late, and potentially brings down performance reviews of people depending on their work to get their own work done. It’s not fair to write “quiet quitting” off as only affecting the company, because the company is going to be fine. It’s the coworkers who bear the brunt.

(Source: Had some “quiet quit” team members over my career, suffered greatly during those times)
Ok, so we are all covered with poo water. Now what?
Large volcanic outburst on discovered on Jupiter's moon Io
> Will the AI voices be able to...uh...do voices?

Anything you can imagine, public figures included. (Example: https://fakeyou.com/)
The victim can sue the city and make tax payers pay. Often, the police can claim qualified immunity and avoid consequences.
How many programmers use linked lists? I just use the list type in python, it's just "list" not a "linked list". I don't have to deal with individual nodes or pointers.

I don't have learn sorting algorithms, I just use list.sort or sorted.
In the future, you'll get 15 minutes of human interaction... And it'll feel like an eternity!
This is all built in very nicely to https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter - Though they could use a blazing red link to an example rules file.
From Lincoln, but not living there anymore.
> He described Reid, who is Black, as a spitting facial image of a man caught on camera in June entering numbers from a stolen credit card at the register of Second Act on Metairie Road.

I'm not surprised unfortunately. I wish more research was done before rolling this out, especially on biases, but lawmakers don't care. Hard to believe this is not intentional, it's perfectly in line with the current system.

> Differences, such as a mole on Reid’s face prompted JPSO to rescind the warrant, said Calogero. He estimated a 40-pound difference between Reid and the purse thief he saw in surveillance footage. The culprit’s “flabby arms” were a clear tell, he said.

Sitting in jail for a week waiting for them to verify his identity based on "flabby arms". Disgusting.