skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the value proposition of a zero interest/no fee buy now pay later scheme? Is it just reaming folks who miss a payment? A loss leader getting more users into the Wallet ecosystem?
Have you never worked a service job in your life? This is absolutely common.

The sheer ignorance of this comment is astounding.
Learning Take Five on alto sax when I was 15 or so was part of what solidified my love for the instrument. Such a recognizable and timeless song; it's often my go-to suggestion for people unfamiliar with jazz.
I'll add some nuance here and its possibly a separate debate on its significance but according to that data, total firearm deaths surpass vehicle deaths but if you look at the split between homicide suicide its like 60-40 homicide-suicide. We would be talking about motor vehicle deaths a lot differently if half that number were kids stealing their parents keys to run into a wall at 100mph.

Here is another bit from the NEJM using CDC data from 2016: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1804754

Whats interesting is that the gun deaths were higher in 2016 than they are now (roughly 2900). What this suggests is that firearms becoming the leading cause of deaths is not because of a rise in firearm deaths but because the number of vehicle deaths have been dropping off as well - which should be evident based on how little people drove over the last few years.

Edit: also alarming that the per capita rate is increasing as overall gun deaths are still on the decline. That can't be good (if our youth population is declining that rapidly).
When my friends have problems, I help them.

I volunteer my time to refurbish computers that were headed to e-waste for free distribution to struggling families.

I vote, especially focusing on local elections and measures.

I just don't think paying attention to news media is doing people any favors. It's kind of telling to me that you've compared not consuming news media to literally excusing genocide. That's how entrenched this industry is in our society...

I'm sorry you choose to spend your time sniffing farts. You could take the attention you gave news media and give it to your wife that is stressed out from you going to the bar. Maybe you'd want to sniff your own farts less then?
Most of the problem is wholesale swaps of products - not minor edits. Allow minor edits, but prevent wholesale swapping of content/categories/descriptions/etc.

Limiting edits, showing product history, or removing reviews on edit (or some threshold of content change) would be an easy place to start.
Elegant, yes. Realistic ... uh ...
It's only true as long as the content owner play with it.

The day the content owner stop wanting to license their catalog, the platforms die. The majors let themselves go into that trap because they failed at finding a viable digital model and the streaming platform showed them a way to keep making some money. Show them a better model that works and they will follow the money.

In 2017, the classical music market was shrinking but still worth half a billion a year with 50% of that still being physical sales. I'm still convinced there was a market to capture.

For classical, streaming is not an option: most content on streaming services are old (albeit often great) records from the past coming from the majors catalog (which they don't care much about). That's 4 or 5 catalog. All the independents rejected the model because they can't make any money there.

Streaming is the death of the classical recording industry. Simply. There is no money in streaming. The sad part is that the average classical music consumer has generally a lot of disposable income available but no way to spend it on a good modern product, in a way that support that industry.

I don't know much about it, but it's probably true of Jazz too.
His brother seems to have implied Jeff Thomas struggled with mental health issues for a long time. What is with the articles fixation on Peter Thiel here?
Apple using its cash surplus to slowly become a bank.
I also thought that I would quickly refuse a lifetime deal and already refused. But after 3 weeks I decided to temporarily return them, since there was not a single sale of a subscription, and the extra money will not interfere with me now.
Me too. If they had done this before the acquisition, I would have supported this and paid. Musk's behaviour made me leave Twitter for good a few months ago though.
I didn't know that neon supports using S3 as cold storage. That's seriously amazing. How does that work with indexes and queries? It's there a single index which will always grow and stored on disk or is the index split?
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Yep. I don't care if they change some filler words/fix some mistakes/clarify details.

I care about the title, description, and photos being entirely replaced while reviews stick around.
> jazz
> Without any lyrics

Have you ever heard of Ella Fitzgerald?
I asked you repeatedly to provide a physical explanation for any observation such as global surface temperatures, glacier time series photos, sea ice reduction, etc. So far you provide none.

And I'm not attacking the messenger because you seem to have no message. You are only being a contrarian claiming the data doesn't exist to begin with.

So yeah, whatever man.
That means you shouldn't have ordered it in the first place? I gave up on needless consumerism when I got an amazon package, didn't bother opening it, forgot what it was, and it just sat in my closet.
Yes, we are working on this at the moment. Since we control storage we will be implementing this at the storage level.

From there we are thinking to expose <project_id>.read.neon.tech and <project_id>.write.neon.tech and for read queries route traffic to the local replica.

It's not set in stone yet, but that's the gist of it.
That is some serious optimization. Nice!

The article ends with the statement that you are pretty much done here for now. Would optimizing your TLS termination not maybe offer some more ways to speed this up? Or is that also already fully optimized?

I did not realize before that your approach with Websockets actually meant that there was no application/client side pooling of connections. What made you choose this approach over an HTTP API (as for example PlanetScale did) anyway?
It's not trivial, but it's very, very feasible.

Consider that Amazon already does a lot of manual review. They do manual review of individual transactions if a customer is unhappy. The scale of that is enormous compared to this.

They also already do some manual review of product listings. (Every product listing page has a "Report incorrect product information" link.)

Adding this kind of manual review is surely a drop in the bucket if labor costs are the issue.
It might have more to do with the cryptocurrency space appearing more than a little shady than any sort of inconsistency.
Is there any evidence of any attempt to get this approved and the union pushed back? Why speculate that its the union's doing?
It’s hacker news. An engineering audience is going to have an opinion. The author can learn from the feedback. By all means, it would be rude to criticize OP for his design choices but most of what I see doesn’t fit that category.

For the record I agree that his accomplishment with this project is impressive.
I will never understand this obsession Americans have with debt.
Well, if nothing may be this might prove that libertarians also have a heart
The downvotes prove you right.
"Today, even saying “big data” is like exhibiting the millennial pause – you date yourself as soon as you open your mouth.

So what happened? Where did it go?"

Adam Bellemare answers what big data is, its evolution, and how it influenced the shift to modern cloud services and data streaming at scale.
One one hand this seems like a good thing, though it's really just a band-aid for what a low-quality bargain bin amazon has become. I see other comments about being able to dig into reviews by seller and whatnot. I don't want to have to do research like that to buy normal consumer crap. Some might, and that's cool, but I'm sad that any semblance of a curated experience is gone and it's basically just a street corner bazaar where you can't trust anything.

It's interesting to me that amazon, facebook and google, (netflix I'm on the fence about and apple no) have practiced a kind of scorched earth capitalism where they made a lot of money and presumably continue to, but effectively destroyed the environment they operate in. I think most agree that google has hollowed out search into an SEO optimized ad-filled content farm wasteland. Amazon is doing exactly the same thing with retail, they're the biggest name and they've basically created this layer of garbage as the base layer of e-commerce.
> Apple Pay users can split purchases into four payments with zero interest and no fees

What's the business model for all these BNPL companies if they have zero fees and zero APR?

Are they counting on some % of users requiring extensions?

Are they getting a % of transaction value as fees?
Most architecture look complicated when include everything. He includes the load balancer. It would look simpler as VM but then all the complexity is the things running on VM.

Also, much of the complexity is from pulling from data sources. Lots of apps are just the web site and database, but weather app needs the complexity. I bet EventBridge has some important purpose.
Give them time, it’s not like they can afford to hire capable people.
> I enter my initials, since that's what actually on my credit card and is what I always use when making payments with it, but they don't accept it

They (or probably just the form) don't like dots and/or too few characters in the field.

As sibling says you can actually enter anything you want in the "CARDHOLDER NAME" field 99% of times. For years I type "$BANK NAME" or "$BANKNAME CARD" (note the space) there and I never been denied.
HNNotify.io (YC S23) anyone?
If it's the first option, it's probably cause it's preferred by customers. It doesn't do anything good for the seller. Little Snitch in particular has credit card on the LHS and PayPal to the right, which kinda suggests PayPal being secondary.
"Yes, hello, I'd like to renew my subscription to Terrorist Weekly. Oh, you take Venmo? Great!"
So what’s an Alep?
Unless I misunderstand, this is federated - each instance stores data related to its user, and fetches from other instances the data it's interested in (from other users the user is following.)

It also doesn't do much to address the reasons users in federated systems tend to congregate around large(r) servers, like discoverability and reliability.

It's a neat PoC but I think the communication needs some work.
How do you access it in the backcountry?
This could be a really interesting experiment in Open Source Architecture. The design is currently.... complicated. I wonder what kind of process we could use to unpack and map out the entire architecture, such that average contributors could make "PRs" about changes to the architecture, in order to slowly simplify and improve the architecture over time.

I am imagining a process that involves programmatic architectural diagrams, graphs, estimates of resources, DAGs, documentation, links to source code, etc. Almost like a sub-project, where the architecture itself becomes a project. The end result of that project could tell you rough estimates of cost, performance, complexity, and let you visualize changes. And of course it would become the "map" by which you discover pieces of the system, the place all new devs start to learn about the system or find documentation.

(I am not saying the author's system needs to change, I'm just speculating about how to organize a collaborative effort, if change was wanted)
Why would you ask starbucks management this question? Ask a worker how comfortable they feel asking for time off, ask them what the process is when they're sick.

I've been one so here let me just tell you. You have to call up your coworkers on their days off and beg them to cover you. You promise or call in favors, you convince someone to give up time with their family or skip class or to work a double shift for you. If you can't get anyone to do it you work sick.

If you can't get it covered and actually don't go to work the manager will work the shift and hold it against you forever. They can fire you for it the first time and they really might, it all depends on your relationship with them. At the very least your relationship, whatever it was, is badly damaged. They make the schedule so I hope you don't need consistent hours, or a specific day off for class or anything.
Frankly, this is a lie. The only ones going for kids were anti trans activists - because attacking trans kids is easier.

This has nothing to do what trans activists done or not done. This was about conservatives needing an ennemy and feeling disgust over trans people existing.
>Bloody puritans.

Is OpenAi Puritans, or is the credit card processing industry that loves to ban users from Adult related services from using their financial networks?
Imagine if all of these are carefully annotated and digitally imaged and assembled into a museum object corpus for searching but also for training some large multimodal models.
Need... STUFF!
Love the idea! Have experienced some of the pain points of working with Airtable myself. Keep building :)
Who advised McK for this? Bain or BCG?
You gave it an example where inferring the semantics you were after was basically a crapshoot. It’s not going to do well under those conditions. Nor will a random human who lacks insight into what specifically you are after. Did you want all the bazzes that are at the end of lines? The bazzes that follow bars? Who knows?

Try giving it examples where the data provides context cues.
>> Having no KYC process is "building useful stuff"?

> It is the payments are in XMR.

If you mean Monero, isn't that just asking for trouble? As in, you'd be supporting a cryptocurrency that has a history of often being used for illicit purposes (as many unfortunately are), with no KYC processes in place, non-compliance for which has historically resulted in some pretty hefty fines by the powers that be as well: https://shuftipro.com/blog/record-breaking-fines-on-banks-fo...

Assuming that the protocol/platform works out and assuming that you don't attract the attention of neither nefarious individuals, nor regulatory bodies, nor media that would lead to one or both of the former, it would probably be fine, but that's a lot of "if"s.

It makes me feel dirty that nowadays the choice is between large orgs that can ban you and kill your business with a (possibly automated) wave of their finger, and between oftentimes shady platforms, using which is just asking for trouble.
Increasing sales by reducing the obstacle of not having all of the money now.
> I don't see anything reasonable in turning perfectly good hardware into e-waste.

Nobody's doing that. There's a free upgrade from both Windows 7 and Windows 8 to Windows 10, and the hardware specs from MS are the same for all three OS's. For anyone who doesn't want to install Windows 10 on their devices, Steam is officially supported on Ubuntu. If you want to continue to play games on your windows 7 device, you have the option to download those games right now, and archive them in whatever way you see fit to continue to play them on your device.

> If I buy something digital, it should be available for as long as the company that sold to me exists.

Hard disagree here. You spending $20 on something doesn't entitle you to a perpetual access to a version of something under your terms. You have the option to access the game still on your hardware.
Did you even open the web page before posting this comment? The answer is very clearly written in the page.
I'm not an iOS expert; I've talked to my colleagues who have iPhones and iPads and they indicated "it happens". Quick Google search indicates my experience is hardly unique. Different people with different apps may have different experience and I don't know what the median experience is.

To be fair, it also obviously happens on Android, and every other platform, though for me on Android it was far more common that device itself stops getting new OS updates and new devices might not run old apps. I was caught by surprise that what seemed to me a small OS security patch or whatever, had an unanticipated and immediate effect on already installed apps.

I have no idea if "Automatic OS updates" was the default setting or if I clicked it at some point when I got the new iPad. I will take the responsibility for that choice, obviously, but my point was that "You can run old apps indefinitely on existing hardware" is not perfect advice.
It is? Why???
In the case of BNP Paribas, 10 times that.
They might know you probably won't want it, but they're hoping you'll click yes or accept without thinking, haha
Any plans to introduce a way to connect to a Neon database without making it publicly accessible via the internet?
But the future is longer than a few decades, so why extend the mistake further?
Nor is it inevitable. I have never run across a corrupt volume in TM.
No, I mean that users should choose whether they use lazy cloning or immutable references when sharing arguments, just like you have the choice for several pointer types in Rust. I don't think compilers should make that decision, since I like to have full control over my program's runtime costs. When compiling a language like Haskell to HVM, we can just use references by default, and lazy cloning could be opt-in (using some newtype or similar).
I found this video to be a good explainer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JaMRpcDrQ&pp=ygUbQnV5IG5vIHB...

It seems like many of them act like credit cards and charge the merchant a percentage, since they “drive consumption” and encourage people to buy stuff. Of course, this fee will likely be added into the price that all consumers pay, so as these get bigger, we all will be subsidizing interest free loans to people in the form of 1%-3% higher prices. Much like credit cards are today.
I grew up in eastern europe and I've been drinking lattes since I was little. (though I didn't know they were called lattes until much later, milk was just part of coffee for me) My Silvia steams a few lattes every day. ymmv

Reading the rest of this thread it seems like I should look into moving to Australia for broader coffee compatibility with my peers.
This too is one of my favorite songs, but in a slightly different style:

https://youtu.be/rbt78buj80Q
The OP is rather salacious. It belongs on the cover of a supermarket stand publication. I'm not sure it belongs on HN.
They blocked my account and now the only way I can pay my balance down on Paypal credit is over the phone.
Acronym finder suggests "advanced laser eye protection". Google leads to some american military contract https://www.gentexcorp.com/gentex-awarded-navy-contract-for-...

>Proven to be scalable to visor applications, the laser protective filter in the Gentex spectacles utilize the latest, most advanced laser eye protection materials developed for and tested by both the NAVAIR and USAF/AFRL advanced technology development and demonstrator programs.
That seems like exactly the kind of hair-splitting shenanigans that management would undertake to attempt to strike back at the union stores.

Sure, they're only withholding the convenience from the customers, but how much real impact does this have on the tips given? I know I've personally had to forego giving tips before due to lack of cash.
dissolution of state through parametrization
Of course… “This app is not available in your country or region.”

Silly me, why would I ever think something like that spplies to me.

> Available worldwide, wherever Apple Music is offered, excluding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey.

??? Why are Japan and Taiwan listed together with a bunch of terrorist states?
I'm talking about using Git over SSH (a protocol it and all of the Git hosts support). You can do this right now:

git clone git@github.com:Chanzhaoyu/chatgpt-web.git

And it will use SSH, no web browser involved: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco...
I love how detailed the notification management on Android can be
Combine this with "lies spread faster than truth," and you can see why advancements in communication technology proceed periods of social upheaval, at least until inoculating social technologies are developed to moderate the synergy of these two effects.
While agree with your premise usually, this article was actually pretty concise compared to most of what I try to read online these days.
You should not admire artists, but I'm sad for you that art is just a product for you, and not a source of your own expression. Some people naturally gravitate to a subservient, non-creative position.
One can argue that OpenAI's success is due to techno-magic and not the CEO's genious. Unlike MS
The storage works at the page level. Pageservers provide low latency reads and safekeepers low latency writes. Then we move cold data to S3. Think about safekeepers + S3 being the system of record for most recent + historical data. And pageservers is a scratch space for updating data and service reads. Pages are also on compute nodes.

The problem that S3 doesn't love small files. So we organize pages in LSM trees on the pageservers and offload layers to S3.
Considering Thiel is likely going through a difficult personal time given the situation, this article seems of questionable ethical value, at least in its place here on HN.
Not at all. Laws has to be compatible with universal laws, international treaties/laws such as UN Geneva Convention and for Italy also the EU laws. Along many other conditions such as arbitrariness.
That's the one use case that I think almost everyone agrees is valid, so it may be that people react that way because it isn't really educating anyone. It just feels more like evangelism.

Just speculating. I'll never downvote or argue against anyone pointing out that use case, personally.
It's amazing how naive people can be while simultaneously parading around as a founding member of a neo-enlightenment movement.
I've gone back to ebay for commodities/non-name brand. So far, prices are better, shipping is faster, returns are easier, and fakes aren't an issue.
You're a mind-reader!

We currently have a notebooks UI (e.g., https://sourcegraph.com/notebooks/Tm90ZWJvb2s6MTg1NA==), but the plan is to roll Cody into this and make it a super rich UI for learning/understanding anything and everything about code
It was after but like for CentOS Stream the writing had been on the wall long enough; both rwmj and I are in the virtualization team.

There was hardly any new feature between RHV 4.3 (early 2019) and 4.4 (2020, last non-maintenance release) and there literally wasn't time for IBM to say anything about RHV 4.4, considering that feature work for 4.4 would have started before the acquisition (July 2019).
I see no hate, just a critique.

("Architecture astronauts" don't argue for simpler architectures, but instead want to build general, solves-everything kind of overengineered monsters. I don't see this in the critiques)
I've never found the govt provided API's all that difficult.
I really hope someone releases a smart plug that works over this. Cellular-enabled smart plugs are a total racket, and being able to control devices beyond wifi range can be really useful.
There is no legal repercussion in the US for the T-Mobile to allow that text, or even a text with implicit references to illegal activity.
Feels like Apple is more and more seduced/mesmerized by the opportunity to provide random consumer services that promise large revenues. Why add yet another new product to your portfolio when you're still struggling so much with software quality?