skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One could argue that payment disputes are an artifact of credit cards.

One could, but one would look very silly doing so, since documented payment disputes (in court records, among other places) are much older than credit cards.

> One could argue that payment disputes are an artifact of credit cards.

Yes, there was. Contracts, including sales contracts, where payment was in whole or in part conditioned on delivery or other performance long predate credit cards, as do disputes over whether the good delivery or other performance was provided and whether payment must be made.

As were, on the other hand, contracts where payment came first, and then later disputes over whether delivery or performance would occur and there would be disputes over whether payment made in advance must be refunded.

And, even without payment and delivery being separated in time, you can have payment disputes because whether the goods (or the instruments provided as payment) were as specified may become a dispute after both sides have exchanged and tentatively concluded the trade.

The idea that payment disputes didn’t exist before the fairly recent invention of credit cards is…amusing.
Because you're not allowed to break the encryption to copy it to hdd.
Maybe the US page is different from international versions? I'm viewing it from the UK.
Because the education market, mostly state run, is significantly underfunded and therefore quite careful about how it spends money. It has same basic attributes as social services startups: very fiscally conservative buyers with long lead-time sales, and the business relationship can be cut at any time due to cost or legislative demands.

That translates to a low profit, high cost of sale (due to long resource intensive sales cycles), and volatile post-sale business environment. Each of those is a drag on profits.
Name software that does nearly as good of a job for significantly faster. I think there is a huge difference between software is slow but best and class and a calculator that takes 5s to open.
from your page

The most significant feature of Virgil that is not in other mainstream languages is the concept of initialization time. To avoid the need for a large runtime system that dynamically manages heap memory and performs garbage collection, Virgil does not allow applications to allocate memory from the heap at runtime. Instead, the Virgil compiler allows the application to run initialization routines at compilation time, while the program is being compiled. These initialization routines allow the program to pre-allocate and initialize all data structures that it will need at runtime

Is that basically Swift's ARC?
That feels like pushing the costs onto the customer without actually solving the problems that impede it. Now you've just made it cost money to care about the privacy problems.
The war is showing that Western superpower tech is far in advance of Soviet and post-Soviet tech (in most areas), but that tech can't win all wars. Russia buys drones from Iran which contain parts from many western companies (most of which were manufactured in China), which I think tells you a lot about the relative levels of technology. I doubt the Ukranians would have made it so far with so much relative success without US intelligence and materiel. if we gave them lots more air assets and they used them well, it would give them a huge advantage over Russia, which seems to have somehow lost its air force.

As for Afghanistan, well, of course never get involved in a land war in Asia. But that wasn't a conventional war, and our military is intended to fight conventional wars. Our forces really are not set up to respond to the Taliban.
The government threw a lot of money at that and did direct experimentation, but dig deeper into the weird claims some of those that were adjacent to remote viewing were making/continue to make outside of that and you start getting into that territory. Things like aliens, teleportation, levitation, pyrokinesis, etc.

I remember seeing one document that was about a person claiming to being able to do some kind of teleportation of objects through containers, so the investigators went to see them do it and it appeared that it happened. That's more of a magic show than a real experiment, but because the investigators described what they appeared to see on government letterhead, believers in the paranormal upgraded it to fact instead of field notes.

Same thing happens with reports of UFOs or aliens, their portrayal of evidence of conspiracy rely heavily on twisting testimony, descriptions and appearances in the text into "facts confirmed and approved of by the government."
> If you pass through the lottery you are mostly set for life in US.

This is wrong. I understand why you say this, given the errors in the next quote.

> Even then your H1b lasts a total of 9 yrs, after which you can apply for green card and then get an EAD while waiting for your green card, which basically ensures you can stay in the country and work as long as your green card is processing.

The H-1B is issued for 3 years. You can renew it twice, after which you need to leave the country. If, within those 6 years, you have a green card application filed and have gone past the initial two stages, you can keep renewing your H-1B. But you will not get an EAD while you wait for the green card backlog to clear. Your stay in the country is not guaranteed while you wait. If you lose your job, you will have to leave the country if you don't find another similar job in a few months.
About $868 of that is for "Comprehensive" and "Collision" coverage, if it helps. It's possible it's just me, though. I've crashed my car once, and been hit on my motorcycle. In general, given that, I would assume it's more because of that than in general since I'm obviously a high risk driver. When I set my address from San Jose to San Francisco (I used to store the car at my friend's) it went up $200/yr so that's the SF premium for Geico at least.

How much do you pay?
In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea
Status, Evolution and All That
Even if you were to pay the fee or drive a gas car, or you pay for the 'better' insurance to not be tracked, your movements are still recorded everywhere with ALPR cameras.
Don't forget Wayland!
This has been a problem for years. It's completely overrun a lot of terms' search results.

Honestly, given that ChatGPT produces higher quality output, the next generation of spam blogs will (sadly) probably be an improvement over the sea of crap we have now.
UseChildFormStatus a wrapper for useFormStatus (React 18.3)
I’ve started seeing ads for companies that try to get your data removed from sites and data broker.[1] I don’t know how effective they are but we’ve reached an age where there is a clear market for privacy. That feels very dystopian.

[1] https://incogni.com/
I'm kind of torn on this.

On the one hand, I hate the intrusiveness, that's a huge minus.

On the other hand, commercial drivers are subject to all kinds of perverse business incentives--too many hours driving, poorly maintained fleets, etc.--and if the insurance companies can stamp those out, that's a plus.
Okay I’ll take it

I was curious about why they felt compelled to take the thread that direction when the meaning was clear. They felt CSAM was being minimized when that was a red herring to the discussion.
That is pretty much the case for any legacy industry, not just banking. It's 30% engineering, 70% actually knowing someone who will let your engineers anywhere near the data source.

In some cases regulations like PSD2 give you a "shortcut", but even then it's a sham because in practice the APIs you're given are dysfunctional and you will have to spend significant efforts making up for the shortcomings of the API (in some cases it's insane things like blatantly violating both the specification and even common sense, such as settled bank transactions outright disappearing without a corresponding reversal transaction).
I don't think it is. The distribution of an AI model that was trained on such a huge amount of movie reviews is very close to the human distribution.

At least that's true around the mean. If your application needs to handle long-tail cases, an LLM won't easily give you that. But depending on the application, that may not be necessary. So yeah, sometimes this is a bad idea, but for many applications it may be just fine.
AI is problematic because the cost of producing convincing bullshit is essentially zero now.
I completely agree, and the logical conclusion is that software makes people more productive. This means an effective reduction in the labor cost of output. This efficiency gain creates more demand. We've seen this happening for centuries now, yet every new innovation creates a moral panic around employment for some reason. I get that displacement is a thing, but that's an education issue, not an employment issue.
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Sorry about what happened to you. I can't imagine how that feels.

I would first suggest learning to accept your limitations. This is the hardest thing in the world right now. All you want to do is fix things. You want to find that magic cure and set everything right. Of course, work with your doctors and do everything you reasonably can to improve your situation. But also realize that not accepting these new limitations is doubling up your anguish: once for the medical issue and then again for your reaction to it.

I suffer from working memory issues. It has affected my career, but I still do have a career. There are many useful assistive technologies. Smartphones, smart speakers and so it. It's easy to have reminders come up pretty much anywhere you are. Keep things in your visual field if you need to remember them (sticky notes on the monitor is a trope for a reason). Keep pen and paper (or tablet etc) and use it religiously. It will become second nature.

As for your career situation, you still have a lot of options. You say your chances at for getting into a top university are low. Of course it isn't easy to get into these great universities. And most people aren't dealing with missing 6 months of school!

I'll leave you with one thought:

> I had to drop an A level (further maths), which made my already infitesimal chance of Oxbridge zero

My rather small, rather ordinary school didn't offer further maths as an A-level. I applied and got an offer anyway. Maybe things aren't as dire as you think?
Without having gone myself, it's hard to say if any methods have been sufficient to learn about the past.
They’re doing this! Read about the restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
(https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/operation...). Amazing tech.
I've used both Interac and Pix. Interac feels like fax compared with internet (pix).
Moore’s law never applied to ram and again, you aren’t comparing apples to apples either. There’s a lot of factors that go into building a complete system, so stop trying to apply an old cpu transistor adage to something it was never intended for and maybe you’ll have better success?
I'm sure you could do this in a browser if there was actually desire. A browser may be many levels of abstraction up from a native app but it is still fairly easy to make apps that respond instantly (except maybe startup time). It's amazing how much extra current apps are doing to slow it down.
Plexamp and Wireguard have revolutionized music in my car.
> In an email to The Post on Wednesday, National Geographic spokesperson Chris Albert said staffing changes will not affect the company’s plans to continue publishing a monthly magazine “but rather give us more flexibility to tell different stories and meet our audiences where they are across our many platforms.”

Meet audiences where they are on platforms, with different stories… presumably different from what it’s known for?

Sounds a lot like flushing the remainder of the brand down the same mass-market toilet as everything else, or wanting to dump the whole “property” but not wanting to give up on the last dying gasping pennies of revenue.
The very end of that was cringey but the majority of Sisko and the Bajoran religion was solid and entertaining.

The whole of DS9 season 7 was subpar, including the war plots and the musical stuff. The Pah Wraith stuff was, if anything, the interesting part.
As a Brazilian that moved to Canada, and used both systems. Pix is way more advanced than Interac. The UX is better, the adoption is way higher. I have paid cab drivers in Brazil with Pix, since transfers are instant. It is used by MANY as a substitute for cash. With Interact, there is a time delay sometimes, which makes it not work that well for live payments like this.

There are also more use cases covered. Instead of you having to type all the info of you are paying, they can print out a code for you, with the value/their info. So you can just copy/paste/read qr code. This allows business to use Pix to handle internet payments very easy, during checkout, they just generate a Pix code, that you pay and it confirms your payment in a couple of seconds.

It is also something that the Central Bank of Brazil setup, so there is no profit motif except for fees charged only to business that use it, to cover operating costs. Every single bank that I'm aware of in Brazil quickly implemented it.
Or maybe they could but with terrible performance.
I've been wondering something. Has the PC ever been the majority platform for video games?

It depends on how you define it. I'd define it as having more than half of all game software sales (including DLC, subscriptions, microtransactions, etc.). You could also include hardware spending, but most people bought computers to do other things. You could also use time spent playing games, and in that case, the PC might win because of Solitaire and Minesweeper.

I'd define “PC” as a machine running MS-DOS or Windows. Also, I'd include any machine with a built-in compatibility layer, like the Steam Deck. I wouldn't include other personal computer platforms.

I've been searching the web, but I haven't been able to find the stats on this.
It's bc and dc. [1]

It's only in the latest Mac OSX: Ventura.

[1]: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc
I find that using the Plex native app on my TV works great, a near perfect success rate. Meanwhile chromecasting Plex to a TV works quite poorly and has frequent problems.
Google Maps has a speed trap warning feature. Not sure if it's the same or as good as Waze. But I get a warning about 2-3x per long drive (like 5 hours) and it's decently accurate.
I do think the prevalance and low cost of bots caused this.
That would be problematic when the system is linked to a car and not the driver.
They lied in their permit application trying to cut costs. They should be liable.
Is respect for social contracts really all that's necessary? I don't see it as adversarial, so much as I see it as "normal _and_..." for many vendors.

For instance, even if I could buy a TV and then return it for free, why not return it and charge a fee? Most people are willing to pay the fee, even if they wouldn't return it, so what's the incentive for any vendor to not charge the fee?
> Re: prefix, is the concern that I haven't defined the allowed character set as part of the spec?

It would be great if you add suggestions for compound types (like “article-comment”) in README as OP stated as well.
You can experienced this in pools! 12ft of water adds an extra 1/3 atmosphere of pressure, compressing the gas in your body by 25%. (That's why your ears pop!)

By varying the amount of air in your lungs, you can choose which depth to be neutrally buoyant at. Weirdly fun!
That's incorrect, Canada has literally published data on the question:

"Garnett Picot and Yuri Ostrovsky revealed based on data from 2016 that immigrants are 41.7 per cent more likely than Canadians who were born in Canada to either start a business or be self-employed.[...]Leaving aside self-employment, immigrants were found to be 30 per cent more likely to own a privately-incorporated business that provided jobs for others than were native-born Canadians."

And maybe even more important, from US data:

"Immigrants have started more than half (319 of 582, or 55 per cent) of America’s start-up companies valued at $1 billion or more,"

IIRC among AI related startups the number of immigrant founders or co-founders is even close to two-thirds. Attracting top tier human capital is pretty much North America's greatest advantage.

https://www.immigration.ca/immigrants-start-more-businesses-...
I wonder if they did a black highlight digitally and then printed that, not taking the time to verify that the black was dark enough that it was actually making the text under it unrecoverable.
If you passively accept whatever mass media is spoon-feeding you, you're gonna have a bad time. The good shit is out there but doesn't have the same marketing budget, you have to go looking for it.
It doesn't matter if the intent doesn't seem malicious. And if they had nothing to hide, why weren't they upfront about the data collection? Remember when we thought having all those Facebook "Like" buttons on every website was harmless until we learned the level of which everybody was being tracked without consent?

This is China's typical playbook. Purposely collect data in seemingly harmless ways, or intentionally leave wide open security flaws that they can exploit in the future. And when they get caught it's an "oops sorry, we'll fix it right away".

The worst part is that there is no consequence for this behavior. Google, the EU, and/or FTC should be lodging fines.
Could you explain this a bit more? Do you mean wire bonding to package and/or silicon to interposer? Considering the number of bonds required and the extremely low cost of modern ICs, there's no way to manually bond them besides maybe precision stuff like the hand-trimmed Vishay resistors. The higher end modern chips are also BGA from silicon to interposer, or even directly WLCSP, so there's nothing for humans to do anyway.
Yes. The term James Cameron likes to use regarding catastrophic failures from an implosion is, "meat cloud."

Regarding 9 atmospheres, I've not seen the Mythbusters episode, but I'm assuming that was an attempt to recreate the Byford Dolphin incident?
Neither does some init scripts we had to fix so it's 0:0 on this particular issue.

That issue is actually systemd considering success if config and dependencies are okay and service is started; it doesn't wait to return so it doesn't know whether service "works okay now", because it might exit with error 20ms after start.

Type=notify

fixes that issue but obviously needs support from app themself to signal "I'm up and running now"

Less robust way is to set

Type=forking

then

* if app exited with okay, it is considered running

* if app exited with not okay, you get error on start

but obviously then app need to be of self-forking type.

It's an iffy problem to solve; I guess systemd could have some wait interval to wait for service that might crash some milliseconds after start but that would delay every start unnecesarily
The one I heard was that they had terrible yields until they figured out some guy was opening the packages in transit and hand counting the silicon wafers.
Rupert Murdoch has nothing to do with Disney.
I watched a TikTok length documentary the other day of an Everest climb. It starts at basecamp and 30 seconds later they are doing selfies at the top. I cant' help but feel something was missing:)

FYI: The long lines at the Hilary Step were because someone stopped to play Zelda on their phone.
If TPB would have an "exclude porn" check box, I would like them a lot more. They have check boxes for categories, but then you can only search in one category at a time. I want to search everything EXCEPT porn.
The encryption keys are encrypted using your password.
Its the same as your phone.
Good lord, AI engineers get paid a median salary of $243,500, while non-AI engineers only get paid a median of $166,750, how can it be so much more? Is it because AI jobs are more concentrated in big tech?
Hmm, what? Electric vehicles are part of that supply chain, deeply. They are high tech vehicles, not locally-sourced-and-produced gadgets.

It’s the pot calling the kettle black! If you need it spelled out.
Seems like a new opportunity to me. Companies that could produce generics cheaply.
The data doesn't need to be used now, today, for this purpose. What happens when an insurance company foists a new privacy policy on you, the insured, saying that it'll be using back data that it's collected for new purposes? To my knowledge, there are no laws on the books in the US that prevent that kind of behavior (ex-post-facto only applies to the legal system), and I'd imagine few would change insurance providers because of a privacy policy change.
there is one other way

If you set Type=forking

and the app exits with non-zero code on start then that will get propagated back to systemctl start

but notify is far better option even if requiring extra app support.
I don't think they're doing anything special other than sending incredibly cheap drones and balloons. Nobody is bending the laws of physics or doing anything advanced here.

If you think people are seeing real flying saucers that are defying the laws of physics, I don't know what to tell you.
A vice president in a US company can be anything from 2nd in command down to a low level manager with no real authority.
I'd much rather just show some id then have some random person sifting through so much personal data and reciting it out loud in a crowded place.
TIH was a really good show, relatively realistic, and Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno yet to be topped. :-p
If you know how to convert followers to money, send them your resume.
I find it dubious that people who get good scores on these telematics are actually better drivers or less likely to cause accidents.

I've been stuck behind people doing 40 mph on the entrance ramp trying to merge into a 70 mph interstate. It's terrifying. They get a great rating for their leisurely acceleration, while vehicles on the interstate have to slam on their brakes and swerve to avoid them.
Absolutely, but that air is still an integral part of the foam, right? I think it's fair to say they both compress.

Neoprene is a closed-cell foam. An open-cell foam (like a dish sponge) would not compress as air/water can just flow through.
If nothing else, sysv scripts were conceptually really simple to the point that you look at it and think "oh, it's just a shell script; I could actually just sit down and reimplement the whole system in a weekend". In fact, much of my personal dislike of systemd is that it started getting popular right as I was having that revelation and got to watch a pile of shell scripts that I could just pop open in my editor get replaced with an all-encompassing black box (yes, I know it's open source, but "you could go find the source and try to read C" is not the same as "vi /etc/init.d/foo".
If it’s a monster of insane complexity… what’s GCC?
Massachusetts has a concept of "managed competition" to avoid exactly this: http://www.mass.gov/doc/autoinsuranceexecsummarypdf/download
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And somehow these alien crafts are capable to cross interstellar distances but then crash at a rate higher than our airplanes, unless of course there's a shitload of them flying around here.
What used to be HBO. All those old bosses are gone and now reality show executives are in charge.
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Very little leaked out of the float, since gasoline has lower density than water. And after an expedition they pumped the gas out of the float into storage tanks.
It lets openAI respond with, "I request x data". You may then continue by supplying the response to the data and then openAI picks up where it left off.