skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just a small reminder of how convoluted the process of buyer and merchant payments has become.

It used to be simple:

- buyer hands the money to the merchant.

- merchant verifies monetary value. If monetary value is valid then merchant gives buyer the item. Otherwise, tells them to piss off/get bent.

- buyer walks away with item

But major credit/debit card processors (visa, mc, amex) had to insert their hands into the pockets of every buyer and merchant to get their 3-5% cut on each transaction.

Now it’s a much more complicated process that happens more “seamlessly”:

- buyer presents debit or credit card

- merchant checks if debit or credit card is accepted by their payment processor —> if not accepted, tell buyer present diff card or “get bent”

- merchant swipes/taps/keys-in card information and attempts to process the transaction. A decision is typically reached within less than <1 second —> if declined, try again. If further declined, tell buyer card declined. Buyer insists it’s good and to run it again. Merchant runs it again, it’s successfully processed (wtf?). If not, tell buyer to get bent.

- buyer walks away with the item

In the background, in order to accept debit and credit cards the merchant had to sign a deal with the devil and pick one of the many payment processors. Merchant could have gone with his bank’s processor but turns out the merchant doesn’t have the right paperwork or lacks the revenue to qualify for a “premium” account. So the merchant looks elsewhere and finds a promising payment processor elsewhere but fails to read the fine print. In addition to the 3-5% fee charged by the major CC networks, the processor will take a 5 cent transaction fee to process, in addition to a 1 cent “inter network” processing fee. ALSO, the “free” equipment that’s provided to your business has a $50 month maintenance fee in perpetuity. On the flip side, if you transact 100K per month, they will cut the transaction fees by 25%, oh how generous!

Oh did I forget to mention that some cards have “premium” fees? So if a buyer presents a “black card”, the merchant is then charged by the bank issuing the card another fee. Sometimes it’s included in the payment processing terms but this is YMMV. So as a consumer, if you ever wonder why the small business takes “visa” but not your “chase ultra sapphire pearl max black” card with visa logo. That’s why.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t end there.

(2 days later) buyer that bought that item actually stole/cloned the credit card and the actual credit card owner initiated a dispute.

Merchant has now been charged a $25 dispute fee and is now in the resolution process. If bank and/or credit card processor rules in consumers favor, merchant loses $25 in addition to the cost of the item(s).

At the end of the day, merchants get fucked. Merchants pass on costs to consumers/buyers. Buyers get fucked with increased cost of goods.

Only winners are the useless middlemen.
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_qgnhOEwg
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Explore This Fascinating Map of Medieval Europe in 1444
Repurposing your question in your direction.
I am not sure that fish(like very small anchovy) is in grade to effectively feed humans.
> For those who know better, what is your current bet for a JavaScript (or TypeScript for that matter) framework that will last the next 15 years? Is Svelte on the list?*

I don't know "better", but FWIW I just went through this same exercise and landed on TypeScript and Vue, with Vite as my build system. Vue is 9 years old (vs. React's 10), and I'm reasonably sure that I'm not going to need to learn a new front-end framework before 2040 unless I want to.

I think the jury's still out on whether Svelte will be around that long, although I'm rooting for it. IMHO, the key will be the ecosystem that grows (or doesn't) around it.
We have refugee camps now. FEMA trailers and whatnot for hurricanes and earthquakes and for the Mexican border.

So I expect we’ll continue to have them.

But we won’t have the kind of camps they had in Jordan that had millions of refugees from Syria or something.

So I think we’ll have “normal” refugee camps that help place thousands of people. But not “end of the world” style camps with the population of Mississippi.

People seem to be catastrophizing what’s going to be a different future into something much worse than it likely will be.
people keep mixing the service and the software it seems.
Pingpongmap.net
This is why layering is so nice. I have the arrow keys mapped to their vim locations and it’s been a game-changer
This article has some data on the historical height of Wimbledon champions: https://www.topendsports.com/sport/tennis/anthropometry-wimb...

Height has risen over time, although the rise is far more pronounced for women than for men.

Perhaps most interesting though is the apparent decrease in height variance from the 1990s onwards. Before that, you had a mix of relatively tall and relatively short champions. But from 1990 onwards, which would seem to coincide with the decline of wooden rackets and the rise of the modern power game, you stopped seeing any champions below 180cm.

It's also worth considering that, even if height confers a significant advantage, its impact is limited by the normal distribution of height in the overall population. Assuming that A) you still need to have exceptional tennis playing ability to become a champion and B) exceptional tennis playing ability is very rare and not correlated with height, then you would expect rather more exceptional players of average height than exceptional players of significantly above average height.

So even if height provided an advantage with no meaningful upper limit, you still might not expect champions of 7'0" because there are just no players with such an unlikely combination of extreme height and extreme ability. You might instead expect a statistical sweet spot where the populations of players with both attributes is large enough that the overlap is where most champions sit.
don't see Big Booze having to serve any sort of penalty for addiction treatment, I know a lot more addicts of alcohol than whatever drug is illegal.

Jail shouldn't be a business, there shouldn't be an incentive to send people to jail. We want to prevent police, judges, prosecutors from profiting from the kickbacks they might get if they can manage to find ways to send more people to jail.
Win9x didn't use MS-DOS for filesystem access, while all versions of Win3 except for 3.11 for Workgroups did use MS-DOS for filesystem access. As a result, when you booted up Win95, MS-DOS didn't matter at all except as the second stage boot loader.
How dare you profane the contributions of a literal god of AI!
I guarantee, the answer is "no experience".
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/08/28/there-are-s...

It's been strange/scary to see weapons of war running the same open-source software as flying toys that I've played with myself (the Betaflight HUD is clearly visible in some of the footage from Ukrainian drones). I guess there's always been a concern that somebody would weaponise a consumer/hobbyist drone, but that concern has been more about the potential for terrorism rather than their use in a major war.
> And if those creators were instead to try to introduce legislation, the AI companies would risk losing access to content from small creators without the means to sue too.

this is the point of a class action suit isn't it?

if it turns out training isn't fair use then Microsoft/Google/OpenAI will suddenly have class action suits for billions if not trillions of damages against them

($150,000 damages per willful infringement, after all)
It is, but also because it's grabbing something with fixed orientation to the disk, it also means that the disc is exactly aligned with the spindle every time, and so the index pulse can be generated from a cheap electromagnetic sensor on the spindle instead of requiring an optical sensor.

However, it seems you might actually be right in practice. I think early 3.5" definitely did this, but while googling to determine what orientation of the hole triggers the index pulse came up with nothing, except a few patents about how you can fake an index pulse by using a timer and a speed sensor instead.

So maybe because almost nothing was actually using the index pulse anymore when 3.5" drives were introduced because almost every modern system (for the time) had settled on soft-sectoring, it's entirely possible that I've always been mistaken and there's never been a standardised index pulse for 3.5" drives between different drives relative to the "start of the track".

I guess this might explain why even though the Amiga allowed you to read the INDEX signal, it actually didn't use it and instead read a whole track at once starting when it saw a particular sync word.
Selective empathy is a sign that you're not in a good place. Maybe you should join a program. Definitely talk to someone about wanting to hurt people. That isn't good.
There's a big difference between adding types - which is essentially a linter - and semantic changes to the language.
No, it wasn't. That was only a joke by Shapely [1]:

> Pickering’s successor as director, Harlow Shapley, jokingly quantified the work in terms of the number of ‘kilo-girl hours’ it would take

Pickering himself was teased for having a "harem".

What is true is that there were a lot of human computers, and most of them were girls. I think Feynman, as you would expect from him, played a role in organizing some computer girls for the Manhattan project [2]:

> So we set up this room with girls in it. Each one had a Marchant. But she was the multiplier, and she was the adder, and this one cubed, and we had index cards, and all she did was cube this number and send it to the next one.

> We went through our cycle this way until we got all the bugs out. Well, it turned out that the speed at which we were able to do it was a hell of a lot faster than the other way, where every single person did all the steps. We got speed with this system that was the predicted speed for the IBM machine. The only difference is that the IBM machines didn't get tired and could work three shifts. But the girls got tired after a while.

[1]: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/an-astronomical-feat/

[2]: https://www.f.waseda.jp/sidoli/Feynman_2003.pdf#page=15
Not the same thing, but I remember all the site visits from Mr Roger's Neighborhood, even 40yrs later! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Rogers%27_Neighborhood
That post describes "something followed by a colon is a label in certain contexts", so you need to extrapolate a tiny bit to realize that "$:" is a label, even if the post doesn't explicitly enumerate all possible labels.
... and the character design.
Texts were copied even before the printing press.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright for more information.
Reaction: If you need a cool topic for your Philosophy 407 term paper, or the click-bait articles you're writing for the web, then gushing about the murky morality of "AI" weapons of war is a great decision.

Vs. back in reality - consider the morality of the large and numerous marine minefields which both sides laid in WWI. (1914 to 1918.) Mines with no brains at all - they'd just blow up if a ship got too close. Regardless of "one of our ships" vs. "one of their ships" vs. "innocent civilian fishermen" vs. "the war ended 10 years ago" vs. whatever. Or WWI battlefield interactions of innocent civilians with either brainless artillery shells, or with hurried/angry/fatigued/hastily-trained/etc. soldiers who'd seen plenty of their comrades killed and were not interested in exposing themselves to enemy fire to be extra-sure that every seeming enemy soldier they shot at was really what they first guessed.
Presumably that’s up to governments in different jurisdictions. If Lockheed wants to sell weaponry to France, presumably it’s okay. If they want to sell it to Iran they’re subject to restrictions.
Yet.

The wider context window and better tooling are all being worked on.
It's great that the US emissions are improving, but I'm very sceptical about them reaching Chinese levels even within a decade, and arguing for improvements elsewhere while doing really badly appears very hypocritical to me (expecially with the cumulative emissions in mind when talking about nations like India).

I believe the main problem with climate change policy in the west is simply that voters in general don't really want to sacrifice anything for climate change mitigations, and without significant sacrifices government is very limited in what can be achieved...
Go CLI to calculate total media duraton in directories
Azmena let's you show total duration of media files in directories and sub-directories.
It's a bit more apparent if we use Coke's Christian name, 'Coca-Cola', and take a second to break it down. Coca-Cola implies a cola made from coca. Which is pretty much what it is. Coca farming is kind of a big deal and soft drinks aren't the only thing you can make from the coca plant. And while Coca-Cola does use leaf extract that has had the cocaine removed from it, this is less a "seedless watermelon" situation and more of a "decaffeinated coffee" situation.

So basically, Coca-Cola is kind of orthogonal to Colombian drug cartels.
> I'm not a racist, sexist, terrible, or bad person. Why do I have to be forced to be surveilled and monitored like this […]

I am not a racist, sexist, terrible or bad person, either. Why should I be forced to listen to that shit?

While I’m a huge proponent of privacy and against surveillance at scale, the truth is, neither of us are forced to do anything here. We can both turn off VoIP in these games.
Whether someone is a criminal or not doing this work is besides the point. The person is being punished for the crime through incarceration. Having to serve as a slave in that system should be illegal.

This is btw also common practice in Germany and France. Prisoners who want access to sports, more than 1 shower a week, a TV/radio, etc ... are only able to do so when taking part in prison work.

Edit: And whether one is allowed to work, and how soon, also depends on whether one gets along with the guards. Work also decides if one can afford to fuel a nicotine or caffeine addiction - if not you have to go beg the Russians, Albanians or whoever runs that racket etc to add it to your tab that you can later pay off with interest ...

Edit-2: what most don't seem to grasp is that a large percentage point of those inside are usually on the streets in cold countries and rather get locked up than freeze to death. Another sizable percentage are refugees escaping conflict zones and that fell through the cracks of a system that should have given them ptsd treatment. Not everyone inside is there because they deserve doing time.
This just suggests that one board has an undiagnosed issue?
Is there some other insight I’m missing?
So you are cool with private industry making millions on the back of “captive” slave labor markets for $1 an hour?
Depends how you count. Per design we already use >7nm for way more things because older processes are cheaper. But per $ (and perhaps also in volume) the leading-edge processes get the lions share.
> LOTS of people write because they just want to share.

You just gave up the "for a living" group, who arguably produce overall better content (of course there are exceptions), and focused on hobbyists. I'd call that a self-defeat.
I have an Uncle that served in the infantry division. I view that generation as a ruined group of kids that came back to the US and did the best they could. I also maybe over personalizing the issue.

I simply mean that facing the worst of humanity buys people extra space to exist in my dealings with them.

I believe we all have the same privacy rights. Some of us get the right to be eccentric in uncomfortable ways to a certain extent.
I love his philosophy and style, particularly in his various PBS series. He teaches you not just to cook different dishes, but how to gracefully cook several at once in a reasonable weeknight dinner timeframe. The way he’s relaxed about quantities and substitutions and focuses on making things the way he likes them versus how they’re “supposed to be made” completely changed my approach to the kitchen and gave me a fundamental ease with cooking. And I love the “waste not, want not” philosophy!
I tried using it 2 years ago on a mid complexity webapp and it blew up in my face as soon as things got a little more complex. The hidden mechanics of everything made it absolutely horrible to debug. Including some serverside rendering issues in the svelte code base at the time. The pain wasn't worth it in the end. I'm probably never gonna touch svelte again without having to.
Similar experience with preact.
It works till it doesn't.
Homeschooling only works when the parents are educated. Pre-industrial homeschooling only occurred in wealthy families, or perhaps learning a trade - the closest most people got to an education was what they were told in church. Modern western homeschooling is the result of state-directed schooling bringing the average person up to the level of education of an 18th century nobleman.

Itinerant children in Europe are not getting anything like the education of an American child who's well-to-do parents decided to homeschool them. The boys learn the family trades and the girls learn to look after the household. Parents often have poor literacy and numeracy and are not capable of or interested in providing an academic education.

Whether or not that's enough is up to you, but the opportunities of children raised without anything resembling a modern schooling in today's society are limited. The failure to provide adequate education to the children of itinerant communities is a huge driving factor of their continued poverty.
No, nothing survives pedophiles. Although Jitsi won't admit it directly, it has been strongly hinted CSAM is the reason for the change.
Maybe in some cases, but I’ve found the context of the original answer to be important.

Usually the original answer has some responses attached either clarifying something important or outlining why this approach is bad and linking to a better answer.

With GPT you only get one answer Saïd with complete confidence.
One challenge is that we are a status seeking species.

We fly to a remote beach because the one nearby is just as comfortable but won't make the same waves when we post a selfie on Facebook. We buy houses and cars to show how far we've gone instead of just for the sake of staying dry and warm and getting around. For the fifty years of the Cold War, we had a corporate sector that channeled our status seeking in ways that would keep the assembly lines running, the same assembly lines that could be retooled in hours to restart the Arsenal of Democracy in case of war. The result was consumerism as we know it.

The case of Greta Thunberg throws it into relief. She has imposed a lot of restrictions on herself, but as she frequently points out, she remains very comfortable. But, we can't magically drive 8 billion people to copy a single person's disinterest in status seeking when that disinterest is caused by a brain pathology. What we have to do is rechannel that status seeking drive into directions that help the issue instead of worsening it.
A number of cities have "open house" weekends where public and private buildings and infrastructure that is generally closed off is temporarily made open to the public. I've always hoped that these weekends would be expanded to include both manufacturing facilities and many of the utilities that are essential to our lives. I've been fortunate enough to have visited some of these facilities (as an adult) and have both always learned something and gained a greater appreciation of the role technology (non-IT) plays in our lives. In short, practical site visits are a fantastic idea that I'm sure my younger self would have enjoyed tremendously.
React Hooks might as well be another framework than React Components, even if it's backwards compatible. If anything, it's proven unstable.

My advice is - if you want something that will be stable for 15 years, look for something that has already been stable for 15 years.
I'd imagine that the UV light also changes things.
An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve
I don’t really like that prison labor is used for consumer products.

However if prisoners would like to be part of voluntary labor units that do outdoor work like tree plants, reservoir digs, and other public good/infrastructure building that would be useful and not competitive to private firms.

I’m not sure i care at all about “prison jobs” that require them to clean dishes, prepare their own food, or wash their own clothes. That is a boohoo complaint to me.
Some states like Texas don't even pay inmates for work.
Business leadership requires unpopular decisions
I guess detecting technolgy with AI will take much more resource and it costs more, technolgy can be detected through simple footprints, and if you want to detect BE technolgy from texts you can get a set of keywords and search for them with some specific keywords or you can use nmap to detect few backend technologies(web servers).

check wappalyzer.
React is one of the few popular libraries well known for it's lack of opinion. Every React project is different and it's hard to consolidate developers on how things should be done. If you want common ground you'd go for Angular. React is the exact opposite of common ground.
Have you never seen the outcome of a class action? They’re all slaps in the wrist, less than speeding tickets, and the action members get like a free hotdog or red bull as compensation if they’re lucky
In plumbing one is metallic the other can be either.

In networking a pipe is a metaphor for a circuit. We have fat pipes into HQ. Saying you have fat tubes would seem odd.
Recently I've really liked Vue's composition API. The whole business of refs, emits being the only thing you need is really nice. Not too much to learn. JSX is there too - the old Vue API was simply a non starter for me.
Amazing that it took a few weeks to realize she could take pictures of her screen.

Good old analog loophole to DLP (and copyright protection [except when it comes to duplicating dollar bills]).
Shouldn't be the only solution one, sure. But it's still a great thing to have built in to the browser itself... and it should be built in; extensions are inherently dangerous as bad actors are known to offer to buy popular extensions in order to insert malware, sell adspace, or collect browsing data.
On Kagi (International) I got these results on the first page:

First result: Joe Biden

Further down: Bernie Sanders, Marianne Williamsson, Hillary Clinton

Further down: Article: "Google hides campaign sites of Trump, RFK Jr. and other Republican candidates"

Further down: Ron DeSantis

Between these results there are several links with lists of all candidates.
Starting from 1996 we had ChipKnip in the Netherlands. When it came out you could already pay with debitcards in most shops. The added benefit was that it was suited for small purchases and worked in places without a phoneline, like the bus.
One problem is that if you break or lose the card your money will be gone. I remeber that when I was a child more then once I broke my card and had to tape it togheter in aome wild fashion in order to use my money.
Seems like there might be an analog here to battery technology... we're trying to develop anode/cathodes with higher surface areas via nanostructures.
I want an easy way to see new posts/comments since a given timestamp (last visit, or one that I enter.) Highlight these 'new' ones in a specific color.
95% of what I know about cooking came from Kenji. I love the scientific approach he takes when explaining why things work.
> Having to serve as a slave in that system should be illegal.

Good luck with that. Legal slavery is literally codified into our bill of rights.
But then shouldn't the government get the profits instead of a private entity?