skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rando: "Gud, why's there no video player installed? How do I get to play my video player?"

Gud: "Just use the operating system's package manager."

Rando: "What's that? How do I find it?"

Gud explains what it is and how to find it.

Rando: "Wow, finally found it. What do I do next?"

Gud: "You search for a video player. Try [...]."

Rando: "I can't find it. This sucks. Why is there no video player installed by default? Makes no fucking sense."

Two hours later you've managed to achieve installation.

Rando: "I don't like this player. I want a different one."

Yeah. No. A video player should be installed by default.

Period.
Is there an intuitive explanation of why shrinkage of a material is beneficial for superconductivity. Naive question, particles physicist by training.
Anecdotally: this has never happened to me despite owning a whole bunch of laptops over the past 25 years or so.
What jurisdiction are you in?

That might affect the advice you get.
Stripe's problem is that they make it look like anyone can accept payments with just an API integration, but the financial system does not work like that for many complicated reasons. As long as you call them up, get an account manager, and build that trust like any business relationship, you'll be fine. The issues come if you sign up in the same way that a bad actor would, in the lowest-touch way.
>what are we supposed to do

Eat the loss on the 10 payments, find another payment processor and move on. Anything else is a waste of time, even if they reactivate you are you going to trust that they don't just drop you again? Move on.
Another implementation:

https://github.com/karlgluck/ThresholdJS

This is a very straightforward encoding of a single 256-bit number.
You're trying to convince a bunch of people that think

curl | sudo sh

with random scripts off the internet is perfectly okay.
> Congress authorizes say 10T to spend. Over the next years the president spends 7T and then the coffers run empty

I'm not sure what to understand by politicians "agreeing 10T of spending" if everyone involved knows the financing has a hard stop at 7T.

That's not agreeing 10T, that's agreeing 7T. Plus a 3T wishlist.
I think it's more that the last 10% is very hard, and often times not worth it. People love to cry about not having documentation, but when it exists they complain about quality, and when quality docs exist, nobody reads them.

That's just documentation. The same can be argued for things like code quality and unit testing... not integration testing tho ;)
Does every Stripe customer have an account manager or is that something where, like AWS, you only get one of those if you have enough volume/spend on the platform?
We desperately need a browser plugin that gardens search results to exclude websites that use dark patterns and allows a user to add a dark pattern website to the globally-shared list. Like ublock origin but for different categories of shady crap like content farms, AI-generated blogs, "product comparison" sites that slant results to the highest bidder, Cloudflare "checking your browser for security" sites, etc.

SEO experts and conversion seekers need to become very afraid of their sites getting on that list.

Of course then the problem becomes vetting the people who add sites to the list and making sure they're not just trying to shitcan their competitors. And ensuring that the maker of the plugin doesn't sell out and take $$$ to remove a site from the list.

If those problems could be solved I'd pay $5/month for such a signal-to-noise improver for search results.
I said that, but you can disable it.

Can you explain your comment? Is it forcing me to use crypto and I'm not aware of it? Am I mining?
Another side of availability is that they'll make changes to the model without warning, which alters the results of the prompts you already have written. Developing against their API is developing against a moving target.
I'm not sure Square or Braintree or anyone else is much different in this regard
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Don't know when you last tried a Linux distro but most Linux distro's come with a video player out of the box and have done for the better part of the last 10 years at the very least
they regularly declared the US was their primary enemy well before invading Ukraine, and actively leveraged aggressive information and political influence operations to destabilize the US

there is no "making enemies for the next war" -- they were always enemies
I propose Fastest Fourier Transform in the South by Southwest (FFTSXSW).
This is just what the internet needs, thank you
3 is far too small.
Chrome browser could soon be decoupled from ChromeOS in favor of Lacros
Some people are stuck due to driver support. As streaming has been growing, ElGato has zero official support for Linux. I solved this by relegating Windows to a tiny 1 liter PC after enough Windows anti-patterns.
At Harvard, legacy admissions was about a third total of all admissions each year.
The danger of being a small client. Companies like Stripe and many others are perfectly content with having a few false positives in their algorithms. So what if they accidentally ban 0.1% of their customers if they're stopping 99% of the fraud? They're happy with that. If they mess up with a large client, they'll have the account manager fix it. If they mess up with a small client, the lost revenue is small. They just don't have the incentive to do a better job. I've seen this mentality at a few companies and I don't see much hope for changing it.
That would make sense if the talk about getting rid of legacy admissions only started in the last month. But it pretty obviously hasn't, it's been a discussion topic for as long as I can remember.

I'll grant that it's being talked about more but even that is hardly surprising: affirmative action was struck down because it was deemed unfair to give some applications a boost over other applicants. Yet legacy admissions is exactly that and continues. It's hypocrisy and I don't think it's particularly surprising people point it out.
Inspiration for this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pDUO-epfg
Looks like its being used for a crypto site. Dipsway.com
Honestly I don’t find those kind of comments particularly valuable on HN. It derails the topic from a meaningful discussion and the whole thing devolves into a Reddit troll fest. All you need to do is glimpse at the replies it spawned to confirm it. This is why I assume it was heavily downvoted.
Not here. A ride that costs me 18-20 with Uber will be a 40-50 taxi ride.
I'm in the same boat. Right now I combine work and study. It's not so easy but I found writing service at https://www.phdresearchproposal.org/ to help me with my writings. Such reputable writing services often have professional writers who are experienced in crafting research proposals. They can offer their expertise in structuring the proposal, choosing appropriate language, and ensuring that it meets academic standards. They often hep me with my writings.
For what it's worth, I've found that I almost always want to put the label tag after the input tag. That enables me to select and style the label based on the input state via CSS pseudoclasses.
I would add that they also do not reduce CO2 or human suffering very much. Ford is switching to hybrid instead of full EV and people are going to eat it up. Had they presented hybrid options when building a truck I would have bought one already. For some reason they have been sandbagging the option but are now slated to go full hog.

EV battery weight is the killer. Nevermind the charging issues.
> Microsoft is not to be trusted

Has this not been a truism for at least a couple of decades now?
Sure, but the article, backed by a study[1], is rather trying to make the opposite point—that attendance (or really admittance, i.e., permission to attend) is often directly attributable to higher earnings by the family of the admitted:

> By comparing two groups of waitlisted students — those who are admitted to Ivy-Plus universities and those who are rejected — they note that the successful are much more likely to reach the top 1% of the income distribution, attend an elite graduate school and work for a prestigious firm[...] One in six students at Ivy League schools has parents in the top 1% of the income distribution. This is not just because the children of the rich are more likely to apply to elite colleges. Nor is it because the children of the rich have higher academic scores than middle class applicants: Children from the top 1% of the income distribution (more than $611,000) are 55% more likely to secure admission than a typical middle-class applicant with the same SAT or ACT scores, and children from the top 0.1 percent are more than twice as likely to get in. It is because elite colleges deliberately discriminate in favor of the rich.

Neither chickens nor eggs need be harmed to see that this prima facie has something wrong with it.

1. <https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/C...>
I do, and I teach it. It's a lot of ridiculous garbage.

I think an aggressive defense of e.g. what "reader mode" does is incredibly important, to the point that I'd support e.g. legislation.
It seems like many caves have a rich history of exploitation and shenanigans. I heard similar stories about other larger cave systems that I’ve been able to visit.
I've argued before that the "useless majors and departments" are useful for general studies, and general studies are good for everyone. Filler prereqs are a part of all of the college concept of creating a well rounded individual. In addition, the dorm life of college is a great half way step towards living by yourself. You generally hang out with people who in many cases will become your life's best friends.

I used to feel that way strongly. All of this made sense when most people could go to a state school and earn their way through with little or no loans. Today being a well rounded student with some great friends and a bit of independent living at a state school is likely to still saddle you with a 6 figure loan.

So even though I really thing the above is the right way for people to pursue an education / career after high school, it simply makes little sense for a lot of students. To the end I'd really like to see more institutions like WGU that allow you to get through school a lot more cheaply by doing everything remotely and measuring outcomes rather than measuring grades and the number of classes you took. And somehow we need to convince employers that colleges like WGU are the best alternative for a lot of really talented potential employees.
The kind of people who can get into an Ivy League university would probably outperform the other group even without ever actually going to the university: statistically (stereotypically?), they come from a rich and stable background, have strong network of rich and influential friends and acquaintances already, have access to capital, they don't color outside the lines, and when they do, they know how to cover their a.. legally speaking, and of course, they are probably not dumb, either.

Yes, going to these universities probably makes some difference, but it probably doesn't explain all the difference, so if you take poor but talented kids and have them go to these universities, I expect the salary difference is much smaller.
What. There are no proofs of convergence for many of the most popular NN optimization algos. IIRC Adam is known not to converge in some cases.

The bitter lesson is that Messy AI is better able to cope with Messy World Problems than Neat AI (by light-years at this point), not that it can hack Neat Problems.
My pain threshold was crossed this past week when Edge added a Bing search bar to the middle of the Windows desktop. Even though the default search bar 4 inches away already searches Bing, and the Weather applet by the clock now has sensationalist news forced into it.
> the paper that introduced austerity to the world

This is complete nonsense. The paper was published in 2010.

The principle of fiscal austerity for EU member states was enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 (Article 104) and the accompanying Protocol No 20 on the excessive deficit procedure. [1]

> The reference values referred to in Article 104(2) of this Treaty are:

> — 3 % for the ratio of the planned or actual government deficit to gross domestic product at market prices;

> — 60 % for the ratio of government debt to gross domestic product at market prices.

In fact R&R cite the Maastricht Treaty as the source of the 60% magic number in their paper!

These numbers were basically pulled out of thin air by a French civil servant in 1981. [2]

That is how government policy is actually decided. Not based on an academic paper published 20–30 years after the fact.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tec_1997/oj

[2] https://openeuropeblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-archives-st...
Yes, but it's fuzzy.
Airports and taxis here have agreements where the airport gives them a fixed location in front of the exit. Just makes my point about the taxi mafia.

But then, does that happen anywhere else but airports and maybe some places downtown where the taxi mafia colluded with city officials as well?
You certainly don't need to be big, even with AWS. I worked for a startup that was putting low volume through Stripe for a long time and we had one. You might have to "sell" yourself a bit, talk about plans, roadmap, future growth, but I think it's entirely reasonable for a pre-revenue company to get one.

Even if you don't get an account manager in some formal sense, going through a sales call and having them be aware of you is only going to help the process and increase the trust.
The worst US bridges are getting fixed
I tend to think this emphasis on 'systems' programming is over-blown. This emphasis seemed to be more a marketing focus to draw in C programmers.

But Rust can do a lot more than just systems level programming.

Especially with running on WASM, I'd think it would eventually grow to doing a lot of 'user facing' apps.
After the Bomb
7B or 70B?
Imagine you are buying some coal from a dude and that dude settles with getting an IOU note from you.

Later on, you decide you no longer have to honor that IOU debt because you no longer like what that dude does with other people. You've also put that coal to a good use. A win-win for you.
> Congress only makes just-in-time decisions

Do they have to do it like that, or is that just how it's done?

How about in parallel with the budget they also discuss the debt ceiling? Get the finance in place, then agree how to spend what money they've agreed they can raise? Apologies in advance if that suggestion is completely ignorant and/or completely crazy :)
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Maybe the problem is that the egos are too small--if they REALLY had an ego, they'd build a massive monument to their own memory, like the Great Pyramid or the Taj Mahal, and it'd become forever celebrated as a monumental human achievement.
>> If you turn the complexity curve of debloating and custom Windows ROMs about 90 degrees, it's the same as the backwards bend Windows users are doing to avoid jumping to something easier like Linux Mint.

Let me know when Linux is running games that have Easy Anti Cheat or stuff from Blizzard. It's the day I will ditch my windows gaming rig. Until then, kindly STFU.
Well just shove a missle up someone's ass if it gets too bad. I'm not worried.
“Controlled” is a strong word considering that there is no master key that can just misuse all the tokens secretly the way that FTX or Celsius did. Everyone gets their own key, to move their tokens.

Even if Ethereum comes to be controlled by a few people, their incentives are not to kill the value of their own ecosystem (unless they are a state actor, or if all Ethereum tokens are somehow bought out completely by Elon Musk lol). And the only way the blockchain can get screwed is by miners ALL agreeing to refuse to mint new blocks. Or miners could re-order transactions within a block, which they already do. That’s it.

Now you could say that the dollar reserves of USDC are controlled by one company, and I agree. Even though USDC is run by Circle which is a regulated company that can pay out with no slippage to your bank account, and receive dollars the same way. They are one step away from banks and may even get insurance and reinsurance similar to FDIC.

But you may still not want to see one company be the gateway. That’s why we started the Intercoin project, to make a truly decentralized ecosystem including decentralizing the gateways too (just like the Internet is).

But for today, it’s already no different than any bank in the Free Banking Era, which is how the United States did almost all of its money all the way before the greenback. As long as the music is on and the musical chairs are moving, your $500 in tokens that you use for your consumer purchases is safe.
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> It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate.

No, it isn't. There's some people out there stuck down in a conspiracy hole, but there is no real debate.
Can you help me understand the utility of Daisy UI? Seems like it's the good old classes+stylesheet with extra steps (tailwind)
the best thing i learned from a seasoned professional serial entrepreneur, was that the only way people create successful businesses is by flouting or finding loopholes in taxes
No doubt that the reform isn’t perfect, but this is such a poor, confused attempt at creating a story of causality (or even correlation).
I've already addressed all your points previously.
>"for most Europeans their lives are often decided when they born."

I'd absolutely love more details on this...do you have any sources?
Also, what makes 'most'? 51%?
In Europe, it's easier for someone from the 20th percentile of income to break into the 80th percentile of income. The type of social mobility GP seems to be talking about is escaping the "working class" into the modern equivalent of the aristocratic class (8 figure net worth).
From https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses

Looks like there's a bunch of stuff that might opinably fit, depending on who those 10 clients were or what your company does.

- Regulated industries such as: Financial products and services / Investment and brokerage services
- Money transmitters, currency exchange services and other money services businesses
- Neobanks / challenger banks
- Other financial institutions
- Credit card and identity theft protection services
- Other age restricted goods or services
- Virtual and cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and mining services
- Sale of stored value or credits maintained, accepted and issued by anyone other than the seller
- Businesses where sellers get their revenue both from selling items and from signing up new sellers
- When you sign up for Stripe Issuing, you share with Stripe the location of your business, the physical address of your beneficial owners, and the jurisdiction in which your business is registered. Stripe requires that the physical location of your business, its jurisdiction of registration, and the physical address of at least one of your beneficial owners all match. Furthermore, you must use Issuing cards primarily in the same jurisdiction
- Use of Stripe's services for any dealings, engagement, or sale of goods/services linked directly or indirectly with jurisdictions Stripe has deemed high risk, such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk Regions, or persons Stripe has deemed high risk, such as those individuals or entities named to a restricted person or party list of the U.S., United Kingdom, European Union or United Nations, including the sanctions lists maintained by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control or the Denied Persons List or Entity List maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce, is prohibited. Additionally, it is prohibited to use Stripe's products and services to directly or indirectly export, reexport, sell, or supply accounting, trust and corporate formation, management consulting services, architecture services or engineering services to any person located in Russia. Further, it is prohibited to use Stripe’s products and services directly or indirectly related to any goods prohibited by law (e.g. luxury goods) from Russia.

From a cursory search of email, name, company... I find it plausible that something above might've matched. Or maybe it's a matter of who those 10 clients were, and where they're located. Iran? Cuba? Crimea? Russia? That might do it.

Maybe your competitor also matches, which might be ground for -- if Stripe doesn't want that kind of business on their platform -- for shooting them off, too.

Or maybe it's not a matter of the business type, but of where the clients reside.

Unfortunately only Stripe could help here. :/
We have. This is acceptable for some clients, but not for others. Both groups, however, prefer maintaining complete control over their data, given the chance.

Edit: plus, my personal view is that local LLMs are the future. They've already caught up to GPT-3.5 (based on my testing); and they continue to evolve rapidly. Makes sense to focus our limited resources on riding that wave.

OpenAI won't go away, but neither will they remain the first choice (or only choice!) for most use-cases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUPhsFoniw

Be careful with real engineering. Many speculate he's doing paid content between this and spinlaunch.
>I mean speedrunning the Linux situation itself. Start with a minimal system and get yourself to the point where you can do something meaningful (like reading cat pictures on Reddit).

So basically an Arch or Gentoo install speedrun. I'm pretty sure I've already seen those on Youtube.
StarCraft 2 and WoW ran great before Blizzard made the launcher not work. On the plus side, I mercifully no longer want to play the mediocre games of that horrible (soon to be owned by Microsoft like Bethesda? kekw) company. :D By being so unbelievably scummy and shitty for the last few years (aligning exactly with my shift to Linux), Blizzard and Bethesda have gone from my favorite game companies to my most hated, which is awful kind of them for eliminating the dilemma of dual booting.
Whoops, that's completely inaccurate. I think I had misread the last updated in F-Droid when I installed it on my new phone. That does have the v0.118.0 like the repo does. So you are totally right, thanks for the correction! I'm glad it's not as bad as I originally thought.
IMHO payment processing is an 'essential service', and processors should be required to provide service to any lawful customer, regardless of their preferences.
Suggestion:

- it might help to list what your business is, and

- to provide your work email as contact (not your person gmail).