skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as the frontend sends the card details only directly back to the PCI compliant service's servers, you are fine. This can still be done if your frontend is server rendered -- the data isn't there yet when you server render the form.

What I believe you can't do is have your own frontend send the data in the form to your own backend, then forward on to the other service from there. Once the plaintext card details touch your servers you have to be PCI compliant, even if you aren't storing them.

If you absolutely can't do the former on your frontend, eg because you don't want to use JS or something similar, then you can use services like Stripe checkout where they host the frontend on a URL you redirect to from your app, etc.
> Well, if the overclocking part is true, shrug. Not that it's great, but it's also not completely unexpected for bad things to happen when you OC.

IIRC the core issue is that some motherboards loaded EXPO overclocking profile (basically, overclocking parameters for memory that are written on memory stick for "guranteed", "tested" OC performance) and caused overvoltage of CPU.

I don't remember if they found whether that's mobo reading profile wrong and burning up CPU or just some RAM sticks coming with too optimistic profile and mobo doing "well, I trust you, here are extra volts".

The wild part is that it is AMD tech (Untel has similiar equivalent in XMP), yet it also voids warranty as any other overclock
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MVCC and optimistic concurrency control are very pleasant to work with for anyone who spent a decade with manually locking SQL databases. It takes the human error and developer mistakes away from the process, or protect against it. You can still slow down your queries with deadlocks, but at least you cannot corrupt your data by accident.

Though, any other optimistic concurrency control scheme can be better, but PostgreSQL was at the right place at the right time when people started to leave from MySQL.
Because not all people are interested in making video games? If one is, surely it's not hard to find out which parts of math you need for it.
>It's economic. People are having kids because they can support them.

That's one factor, but there is also a huge additional psychological component to people feeling like they can support children.

The higher a family income, the fewer children they have. This tracks every more strongly with your family income as a child. People who were raised in poverty have more children, independent of their current income.

In short, more money you have or had as a child, the the fewer children you will have.

The general consensus is that this has to do with feelings of financial readiness. People who grew up with less money are less scared of raising children without everything money can provide.
> model license prohibits commercial use

I thought that at first, but I think it only prohibits commercial use that breaks regional copyright or privacy laws.
Oh please. They advertise their performance based on using things like EXPO. It's insanely anti-consumer for them to turn around and say "if you want to reach the performance we sold you this CPU on, you need to turn in this feature that voids your warranty and could potentially blow up your CPU". I don't understand why you're defending them here.
Congrats Meta! And I called it that all the fuss last quarter was just FUD :)
I think investors don't care about this and past results because they are forward-looking, it looks like the optimistic guidance for Q2 is helping with the stock price.
The video is about Amazon Ring cameras taking away promised functionality post-purchase, and demanding a subscription fee to enable it. You also cannot tell the cameras to connect to your own server to self-host that functionality.
It’s obviously not disingenuous to try to figure out if something is true. Otherwise, you can just believe whatever makes you feel good about yourself or angry at the right other people.
Also, as another small signal in that vein, WhatsApp cloud api, which used to be effectively free for SMBs, now jumped to 50$/month for us basically over night (ironically making it more expensive than sms).

Granted, for most running businesses that's not enough to move the needle but I wonder how many other such levers meta has pulled now and how much it's gonna cost them down the line. When you are in super lean mode you might just not integrate it on day one now.

And then some of those just won't, ever.
That seems expected. They are very late in the cycle of the current Quest 2 headset and there have been no major game releases for months. Quest 3 with a new stable of launch titles is likely less than 6 months away.

Other moves have been suggesting that Meta will draw down their investment in VR, likely due to not hitting the product market fit in Social and Social-Business they were hoping for. Games will probably remain a focus while the tech matures to the point where AR applications can take off (or Apple proves theres a market).
The leading fabs have a closer relationship with TSMC that gets them working machines sooner and deeper knowledge transfer from staff. Plus what others have written.
I use this Firefox extension to get 1.10 or 1.15 speed on Youtube: https://github.com/WaldiPL/playbackSpeed
Yes. They even said on the last call they are intentionally rolling our reels slower than they could. So reels is a massive engagement and impression success that isn’t even fully exploited
Should you also not use any skills you gained at your previous employer at your new employer? Not to mention any techniques you learned about that may help your current employer? Would doing so be "talking about company internals"?

So how do you ever get a better job than entry level, if you aren't willing to use the knowledge you gained at prior jobs in new jobs?
In the article it said that apparently in some cases excess voltage damaged the temperature sensor which caused chip to not register overheating and just ask VRM for more power
It is a game console with no new games.
I have such mixed feelings on this.

I was laid off last month from a startup, and finding a new job is as difficult as you'd expect these days. So any signs of strength in the tech sector is encouraging.

On the other hand, AFAICT Facebook really is bad for most people*, and I'd like that company in particular to fail.

* I recognize that I could be wrong about this.
Shareholders can get rid of Bobby Kotick and do all kinds of other leadership changes and it's not going to fix some of the problems that some of us were hopeful for.

Microsoft has shown some resolve when it comes to supporting games in spaces that aren't absolute gold mines, specifically in the Real Time Strategy (RTS) genre. They are publishers of Age of Empires, which all things considered is a drop in the bucket when revenue wise, yet it still is allowed to exist. Blizzard (via Activision) mostly exploits or kills all of it's "less-than" products, which increasingly is almost everything when compared to the behemoths like Call of Duty and Candy Crush.

It was probably a bit of wishful thinking, but some of us were actually excited that Microsoft would get access to some of the games that don't get supported very well while the customer base is literally holding their wallets out asking to pay to support the game. For example, Heroes of the Storm does have a dedicated following and we're ready to pay $10/mo or something similar to help support the game, but it's literally spent the last three years patching after every time it runs because it's broken. It still plays fine, but it eats gigabytes per month of bandwidth all because nobody cares enough to modify an XML file or something.

The same is true of Diablo II: Resurrected. It's a great game, but we can't pay for extra stash tabs which in the ARPG genre is kind of the go-to monetization strategy these days. Everyone would be fine paying $5 for a few stash tabs and it would be a good way to support ongoing development and maybe pave the way to getting the long awaited "Act 6" content everyone would love or even just allow the team to spend a bit more time adding more end-game meta content.
We have a need to upsert millions of records in Rails on an ongoing basis (weekly). Biggest problem we ran into was attempting to use Sidekiq and using too many workers each making smallish inserts. You don't run out of connections in that case - PG cannot handle that many parallel inserts into the same table(s).

After discussing with a friend that frequently works with large data sets, he suggested that single very large upserts/inserts (50k to 100k) records would be handled much better by Postgresql, and they were.

Our final setup still has all those Sidekiq workers, but they dump the records as JSON blobs into Kafka. From there a single consumer pulls them out and buffers. Once it has 50k, it dumps them all in a single ActiveRecord Upsert. Its been working very well for us for a while now.
The Quest headsets are pretty popular. Not a billion dollar market yet though.
It lets you synthesize views that you didn’t take with the camera.

I am into making stereograms and this sort of technology would help, for instance maybe the separation of my two cameras is more or less than I wanted so I could make up the views I really wanted.
gnome is a good option for a lot of users.

i also find it annoying, and don’t use it. this is fine.

i’m glad gnome continues to thrive. it is for great good.
For YouTube, I definitely recommend NewPipe.
“Every word in the text can be used to help create the image.”
Yes but it is extremely risky for the business if Stripe or Paypal is its only processor. If for whatever reason your account is flagged by the processor, you wouldn't be able to accept payments
Are those teachers in middle class well to do schools?

I don't know if inserting teacher discretion is a "good idea" in cases where we're talking about "equity" - it could just as easily result in some students being graded worse/better with no respect to the work done.
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This is why I keep coming back to Netflix. It's a simple process to subscribe or unsubscribe. I don't find enough interesting content to fill 12 months of use but I love that I can watch for a couple months, go away for the summer, and then pick it up again as the days get colder and darker from my sofa with just a remote or a click of the trackpad.
>The binary was not setuid, but was only executable (not readable) by the user used.

Ah, then ptrace/gdb could have been used to dump it out as well :). Looks like a fun CTF, too bad I was too busy for bsides this year..
EU agrees to world’s largest green fuels mandate for aviation
If somebody made a post talking about a "home-made floppy disk" and I clicked on it only to discover it was a flash drive, I'd be a little annoyed, sure.

If a post said "hobbyist makes a land-line phone using modern components" but it was actually a cell-phone case shaped like a Bell handset, again, annoying.

The headline is actively misleading. That's all.
Ish. I'm not convinced this new way will be better, but I'm open enough to the idea that it is worth a try and I'd like to see strong studies on it.

Note that I do not know if said studies already exist. If they do, I'm curious to read them; but I'm not clear on how to find studies of note.

I'll also ack that the latest story on phonics that was going around last week has me in a fairly antagonistic view to things. And that is its own form of unhealthy right now. :(
Real estate sales of unused office space?

I kid, I kid.
I’m guessing I’m not the only one who’s been waiting for the Quest 3.
You can test this. Stratify users into groups with varying ad load and watch retention metrics. There's a bunch of 2nd-order effects that are hard to control, but you don't get to be a business doing billions in revenue without fine-grained understanding here.
Oculus Quest 2 headset is almost three years old and it's hard to recommend to others. They also raised prices for it, while competitors released better headsets.

Plus, Meta alienated a lot of early supporters by pushing the Facebook account instead of Oculus one; by making BeatSaber with custom songs miserable; by slowly shutting down Echo Arena VR and many other stupid things.

They might still come around, their technonogical momentum is real.
Perhaps read a bit about reels from the last earnings, they are eating tiktoks lunch and generating massive engagement.

You are trying to fit the facts to your own narrative, which unfortunately isn’t correct.
He filed a claim he legitimately considered valid, and persisted when told (by the target if his claim, not a court) that his claim was invalid. Then as retribution for persisting, the target of his claim invoiced him.

That's retribution aimed at creating a chilling effect and they deserve every bit of criticism they are getting here and more.

If they want to use this as a test case to redefine copyright law to mean something favorable to their shareholders, fine. Good luck to them.

But attempting to intimidate your adversary with fines is just totally uncool. (And, frankly, a stupid strategy.)
Depending on the task.

When you are trying to solve a crime, you only know that the murderer was a nurse, it's very important to assume a valid p(murderer|gender) as well as p(gender|nurse).

On the other hand, leaking p(gender|nurse) into a candidate scoring algorithm would be a no-no.

What people seem to ask for is very interesting actually. To both learn the underlying statistics AND learn not to use it explicitly in speech at the same time. Assuming next token prediction is the learned function, these two feel a bit contradictory.
They do report active users and other metrics related to “users getting fed up and not coming back”.
The question no one is asking, how much money are they saving by kicking out the moochers? I'm not surprised if a significant number of Netflix users are sharing their accounts with others. If this move ends up saving them money, then... sucks, but it's understandable. The big problem here is they've trained users they can get away with this until recently, hence all the complaints.
Generally a enterprise that is not profitable is using more resources than the value it creates and as a result the economy is better off if it goes under.

This isn't just "things only deserve to exist if it makes someone money" this is "our system systemically discourages wasteful use of resources".

Actors and such need to be paid. Their labor is a scare resource so if they are doing something that's not worth more than their time, they should generally be doing something else. If we all behaved otherwise society would slowly die as wealth got consumed to zero instead of increased with time.
I'm not suggesting people shouldn't post thoughts and opinions. This is about whether a personal desire to self-express, should override their explicit prior commitment/promise not to do so.
They will. That’s basically what their new policy is blocking.
I won’t run any apps over 480 KB unfortunately.
I assume it's Quest sales. Devices and apps.
It is an interesting question. A brief look yields this nugget.

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Hi! I'm the author, excited to find this post here. I am working furiously on a new version of the book, if you want to see it in progress there is a preview site here: https://nature-of-code-2nd-edition.netlify.app/

More: https://github.com/nature-of-code/noc-book-2023
show me the demo
Is this an ad? this read like 'promoted content' tbh.

Do anybody else have an insight on the product?

(and to the author: sorry if it isn't, i might be too jaded. If this isn't an ad you are very good at selling)
I think it was a love2shop card. One of those that is valid at multiple retailers.
500 KB + Tens of millions of lines of code of a browser + a bunch of backend code.

Want a lean Slack alternative? Use IRC. Want a fancy Slack alternative? Use Matrix.
> The decline started at the end of the '50s, with the biggest drops happening in 1963-64 and plunging all of the way through the 60s.

How exactly does this contradict what I wrote? The birth rate did start its decline in the 1950's, and the sexual revolution started later and progressed slower in Canada. Your link also supports my argument.

There's also a lot more data that backs my argument. For one thing, birthrate declines are happening in places where the sexual revolution didn't happen.

This sounds like mental gymnastics as a futile attempt to preserve an anti-immigration narrative.

Going on a tangent, the only way to make ending Canada's immigration rate would work is if Canada can end its socialist programs like health care and social security. Even a lot of self identifying conservatives will balk at ending those entitlements. You can't have it both ways.
I’ve wanted to build something very similar for quite a while.
Mind dropping me an email?

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The Meta Quest has an install base of 10,000,000+ users, along with surprisingly high-profile software releases (I think Resident Evil 4's VR remake was this year).

It's not a blockbuster industry quite yet, but something's happening. If nothing else, releasing a bunch of digital VR content isn't untenable for a FAANG business.
This thread is confusing to me. I am in the US and I use Uber. I’ve never had this experience. Every time I use Uber, I see one transaction per ride, and depending on when I remember (or see the prompt) to tip, that may or may not be another single transaction.

Edit: s/threat/thread
Oh yeah, revolutionary insights are very important for the advancement of knowledge and the elimination of wrong ideas. But as you wrote, this was the work of a thesis, not a random commenter from another field.
Looks great, taking a look and favoriting.

(Only feedback I can think of is that it would be great to have a few diagrams... like from excalidraw or something. Am largely a visual learner.)
First Republic may not survive, even after two multibillion-dollar bailouts
I suppose this is Rogers' plan to make their service not miserably terrible in remote areas?

There are other companies such as Telus that have great coverage in rural areas, presumably because they're the ancestor of state owned BC Tel and have access to that great infrastructure.

So Rogers was faced with either having to duplicate the infrastructure that Telus already had, or do some innovative deal like this to bypass having to do that.

It all suggests that this is being done the wrong way, with great waste and cost, that all this infrastructure is a basic utility that should be done once by a state owned monopoly that is available for all to use, and several individual mobile phone companies can use it and pay for its upkeep.
> money for two houses

> no money for separate accounts for family members
What blows my mind about this case, isn't so much the fact they ganked this poor guy over a couple pounds of lettuce, but that they convicted him on so little. We're not even talking beyond a reasonable doubt. Maybe not even a preponderance of evidence. They seriously killed him based on evidence that would barely fly in a traffic ticket case where I come from.

Gonna add a mental note to stay away from Singapore, where all it takes is a couple dudes pointing their fingers at you to make you dead.
I'm working on a project to increase the supply of IPv4 addresses, and people often complain that attempting to do so undermines confidence in (or, allegedly, the pressure to adopt) IPv6, thereby harming the IPv6 transition.

I don't think we could possibly be anywhere near the top of the things harming the transition when we regularly encounter people actively encouraging others not to use IPv6 for either security or convenience reasons!
If they want to run proprietary software, they have to deal with the consequences of running proprietary software.
Metaverse has already been deprioritized, and Meta is shifting to generative AI [0].

I was always a huge skeptic of the Metaverse conceptually, but it was a moonshot project (and I'll be the first to admit, skeptics are often proven wrong with moonshots). The problem is you can never have a successful moonshot if it can't survive a few bad quarters.

I mean the actual Apollo program took 8 years to achieve its goal of getting humans on the moon.

0. https://qz.com/meta-layoffs-2023-jobs-metaverse-ai-185019657...
> They are technically open source. It's just that the model license prohibits commercial use and the code license prohibits bypassing the filters.

Your second sentence contradicts the first. Prohibiting commercial use and prohibiting modification are each in and of themselves mutually exclusive being being "technically open source" (let alone both at the same time).
Sometimes I think that at the end of the day a lot of the goals in terms of helping the most disadvantaged kids are capacity constrained simply by % of hours in school out of the year. I mean you're already covering 2 out of 3 meals per day, and in places like NYC the free meals continue through summer when school is out of session.

Kids spend ~7hrs/day, ~180 days/year in school.
Deducting 8hrs/day sleep, kids spend 22% of their awake time in school.
Aggressive 3hrs/day before&after school programs gets that up to.. 30%.
Add a 30hr/week x 10week summer program and we are at.. 35%.
Add a half day weekend program while school is in session and you barely hit 37%.

For a middle/upper middle class kid, they go home to a structured enough environment, get food, shelter, attention and discipline. So the other 70-89% of the time is neutral to beneficial.

For disadvantaged kids, their home life may be mayhem and actively detrimental to their development. I'm not sure what you can do with 20-30% of their hours to counteract the other 70-80%.

I'd wager most of the marginal improvement you can get is less about making the in-classroom hours X% better, but, sadly, minimizing the % of hours spent in troubled households. So focussing more on redirection of after hours & weekends to Boys&Girls Club, academic clubs, in-school after school programs, mentorship, etc.

This is of course much more expensive, and morally, potentially brings in problematic conflict between the state & parents, etc... in terms of who is ultimately responsible for raising a child. The number of dollars & hours to substitute a stable household is staggering, and the parents may not ultimately want it.
Here for an improved version: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
This doesn't really solve a problem anyone had that fixed location Starlink and Rogers' LTE network didn't solve already, and I would rather have bought a non-Rogers account, as the telcos here are oligarchs. Post pandemic, high speed in rural areas has been great for working from home, and bringing some new money into dying towns, but from a conservation perspective, I think the deal is an environmental disaster.

Even though I'm sure it's nice for people to be able to post selfies from national parks, it will also exacerbate a growing tension between rural residents and the increasing number of tourists who mainly loiter in their cars and beside the road, have tailgates on peoples lawns, tresspass, and make a general nuissance of themselves - as distinct from hikers, campers, and trippers who are there to appreciate remote areas instead of merely using them as a platform for their instagram photos.
url seems messed up, should be:

https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/eu-agrees-to-w...
META... the only tech stock that I averaged down that has returned 50%, among sea of losers (Asana, Palantir, Paypal) :-(