skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That window between the last two steps is a killer. PayPal Checkout supports iDeal, and I get complaints about how PayPal took their money, but their account (on my system) was never setup...because I never got the money/notification from PayPal! It drives me nuts.

PayPal seems to refund them after a certain period of time automatically, but it takes a while. Naturally, the customer is anxious and mad at me, and not likely to risk checking out again.
You are both right, because you are talking about very different parts of the development cycle.

When you are coming up with product ideas users have no idea what they want. When you show the user what they really want though they can see many useful improvements that can take you from "great idea but useless in the real world" to "great idea that I can't wait to use". You have to go through both phases, first figure out what the users really want and deliver, second figure out what else the user needs in order to make it useful. You learn different levels of detail from the different parts, both are critical.
NASA completed another study in 2012, with a vastly cheaper and more practical design enabled by new technologies. Here's a description: https://space.nss.org/sps-alpha-a-novel-approach-to-space-so...

and the study itself: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2011_Practi...

A book-length treatment of modern SPS designs is The Case for Space Solar Power. It has detailed cost figures but was written before SpaceX had accomplished much, estimating a cost at gigawatt scale of 15 cents/kWh. I plugged in Starship launch costs and it came to 4 cents/kWh, which is not bad for 24/7 clean power without storage.
Chat-GPT is quite capable of doing some "reasoning", but assume for a second it's not, and all it does is to search for human-written solutions and adapt them a little to your question. That alone is incredibly helpful.
A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
Yes, most surveys around religion are based on self-reporting, not investigation. This is true of most "X% of Americans are Y" statistics.
I agree, though I suspect HN is going to be a tough crowd :)
Applying the heuristics of physical interaction to online interaction is usually fraught with issues. But if we are taking the physical analogy, as a model for online interaction then I would point out that people have a range of options before calling the cops and getting a restraining order. For starters, they can simply walk away. You can definitely ignore someone in physical space: we don't expect congress people to listen to everyone heckling them in a restaurant.
I wish iDeal was accepted more widely. Stripe/Mollie/Adyen et al support it but it has enabled explicitly. This is especially annoying for Shopify stores.

I don't know what the hangup is (maybe it needs to be reported to the Dutch government since it's obviously coming from a NL national?).

Until then, we'll have to keep using a low limit credit card or Paypal for many online purchases.
A real pain point with IPv6 is being unable to make subnets smaller than /64. So much wasted space and hassle to get more than one network going.
It doesn't seem clear how a company can have liability to have 'safe shelter' from tornados in a warehouse.

Can you explain?
I vouched because I agree.

My grandparent is 70. Cooking is what keeps him alive
"Christian" refers to a belief system, not a morality score.
Congress is more republican than the general public due to Americas electoral system.

Hilary Clinton had the majority vote yet lost from Trump.

It sounds bad, but it forces us not just focus on the huge coastal mega cities, but also on the mostly empty blue collar inland.
This is not about the origin per se but more about the making of clothing in ancient times an I am sure you will find it interesting : https://acoup.blog/2021/03/05/collections-clothing-how-did-t...
The company sounds like Gemplus / Gemalto :)

Yes, there is no reason to believe that the chip+pin is a technical issue, it's mostly business / political with lot of (financial) interests under.

Often policies like that are decided because of lobbying:

some people found large niches on how to make money, and they try to convince others to not change their habits even if the new system would benefit the masses (like the situation with the imperial system).
You feel like that because you want to be successful like them. It's a normal feeling. I'd be weirded out by someone who doesn't have it. Virtual hug.

We're all just strangers on the internet, but I feel just like you do. It does discourage me. I've cried. I've been angry against people who have tried to help me out of pure altruism. It's hell. People who are lucky enough not to experience this will never understand what's like to have a mental breakdown on a Friday Night at 8pm, in which you question your entire life, while people your age are having the time of their lives partying and drinking.

No matter what you do, keep on trying. That's what I do. There are other things in life who make it worth living besides a salary and a career. Again, virtual hug.
Where does the expectation come from to make a claim and then tell other people to prove it for you?
Tailscale is a centralized service that your whole network is exposed to. I'm using them but if you're self-hosting for security or privacy reasons, that's probably not what you'd want as they or someone who compromises them would essentially own your network and it doesn't get much more critical than that. You can monitor and harden your infrastructure against that, but that's no longer easy. If you trust Tailscale with all your traffic, including from/to your notes app, I guess you could just as well trust a SaaS notes solution with a good track record and support for exports/backups.
Nearly 25,000 Twitter users pay to subscribe to Elon Musk's exclusive tweets
> Moving away from programming had an incredibly positive effect on my life. Almost everything that used to be awkward for me is easy now because of that one choice. Especially socialization, communication, speaking in public and with confidence, interpersonal skills in general.

I realize that you are possibly rationalizing and grieving a loss, ie employing a "sour grapes" perspective, but programming is not an inexorable obstacle to interpersonal skills. On the contrary, it can be—and has been for the gross bulk of my career—a highly social activity not unlike relating anecdotes at cocktail party while playing the piano. It's a true shame, and pet peeve, that coders are painted all with the brush of introversion, seclusion, isolation and singular, misanthropic focus.
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> Why?

Because I value my privacy, period.

> If everything works as it is supposed to then the only result is a better product.

After 20+ years in the industry, I've never once seen this to be the case. I can't think of a single product that used telemetry that I'd consider to be of high quality. It has always been a sign that there's no captian on the ship though.

> It may not work correctly, and there's some risk there, but it's pretty low risk.

I'm unwilling to take on any risk to prop up a poorly run product team.
Isn't the point of the article that 'operational rigour' implies a certain, significant, degree of unpleasantness?
I'm okay with them entering a market. They do their stuff well.

What I'm very much not okay with is that they don't play by their own rules. They're the only company that can provide the services iCloud provides. Their apps regularly get capabilities that no other app can have.

Platform advantage is a big problem that needs regulation. I hope that the Digital Markets Act is an attempt at this, but I worry that it won't go far enough and not touch the areas where I think it's the most needed.

Come on regulators, start treating Apple like Microsoft. If you can force Microsoft to unbundle IE and Teams, why can't you make Apple unbundle iCloud? They're a monopoly on their platform and their platform is the only option many users have (for a variety of reasons).
> Buying something and buying a right to use it are two different things. If somebody told me that they are selling me a house and then I discover that I only got the right to live in it, I would be pissed off.

Probably a bad example - lots of property deals are structured as purchasing the 'leasehold' where you only get the right to live in it and do not own the physical property/land.

Most times when people buy an apartment/flat for example, you aren't actually buying an apartment, you are buying a right to rent an apartment.

This is very common in the UK, and does happen in the USA too (e.g. in New York).

This is distinct from buying a freehold property where you are buying the land and structure, rather than just buying a right to rent for a particular term.
Microwave beams are attenuated in heavy rain. Typically, the beam is not going through heavy rain.

The 60% over a kilometer is not due to atmospheric absorption, it's due to losses at the transmitter and receiver (and beam spread exceeding the size of the receiver.) If microwaves lost 40% of their energy in a kilometer radar would have a hard time working.

Millimeter waves are more strongly absorbed in clear air, so they are not as good for this use case. They may be good for powering aircraft.
Creating mesmerising kinetic art furniture with Sisyphus
GUI toolkits are like MS Word... as the saying goes, everybody only uses 10% but everyone uses a different 10%. This is one of the major things that makes it so hard to have a truly world-class widget set. Making "a" widget set is easy. Making a great one is staggeringly enormous.
Thanks for this reminder about Pieter Hintjens.
I have been greatly influenced by his writing, including his use of Alice & Bob, in "a protocol for dying" !
So witty, so clever - such a tragic loss.
You can go 100x faster using SIMD on the CPU, instead of doing the linear algebra by hand, then another order of magnitude or two on the GPU.
Might be worth adding a "complete widget" flag to areweguiyet.com but I'm fairly sure that's just an invitation to bickering about the definition of "complete" :P
I'm surprised IBM didn't cut deeper and sooner. Still sad to see. RH is a big contributor to FLOSS, so I hope they continue.
You don't yield, but neither do you understand antitrust law.

Apple has no monopoly. Apple is not abusing its market dominance. It doesn't have enough of the market to come CLOSE to the kinds of chicanery that has typically generated antitrust interest from DOJ. Think back to Microsoft in the 1990s, or read up on it if it was before your time. They had a stranglehold on computing. You literally couldn't buy a PC without paying for a Windows license, even if you didn't want it.

All this grousing about Apple's closed platform is just grousing. If you want what Apple has built in their garden, work to make YOUR garden better. Most people use something else.
When I was a kid, my parents hated that I was passionate about "cheap mindless video games".

Guess who's become a successful software engineer and happy human as a result?

Don't dismiss what your kids are into because you don't understand it. Their peers will, and their peers will give them money for it.
When Sabine Hossenfelder and Sean Caroll agree on something, I pay attention.

I do take some humility there. We have stunningly brilliant contrarians who would be the first to dismantle dark matter on the public stage, and instead they tell us, “no, it’s a real thing. We just haven’t seen it in a lab on earth much yet.”

Now if Eric Weinstein started saying dark matter is actually the consequence of a massively egocentric MOND, and everyone else is a WIMP, I might start believing that too ;)
Study suggests stress levels stay the same with or without deadlines
>Also, I see more people leaving the Apple ecosystem right now for the inverse reason.

This is not accurate and is anecdotal at best: https://archive.is/r6PbO
I'm not. I think everyone gets more conversions if they focus on great content and the user experience rather than using cheap, rinky-ding methods.
a) Why does it matter?

b) Why is it okay if Apple does that?

c) Why don't you de-google an Android phone, plenty of OSs to choose from?

d) You know that Google owns thousands of patents, including several key Motorola Mobile patents so you're paying Google even when you buy an iPhone?