skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always a bit annoyed by the need for new rules and legislation similar to this.

If consumers aren't willing to risk paying late fees, just don't use credit cards. They are a convenience product at best and a predatory lending mechanism at worst. There are benefits to credit cards, don't get me wrong, but they aren't a must and we can choose to live without them.

Why do we need yet more government intervention to solve this? How does the government actually land on $8 as a universal, reasonable late fee? Do they known what collections actually costs, or should cost, credit card companies? Do they know what every consumer would deem a reasonable fee? And more importantly, do they know that credit card companies won't recoup this amount through some other means, say by slightly higher rates to consumers or merchants?
Is this not normal state-of-affairs on most countries where rivers are part of the storm water system?

In New Zealand where I am, rivers are frequently closed for swimming after very heavy rain. We have separated sewage and storm water but in heavy rain, storm water ends up getting into the sewage system which can overflow. Short of making a sewage system capable of handling the maximum flow (very expensive and not possible for an established city), or preventing any water getting into sewage (tricky to do this in a foolproof manner, as sewage needs to be vented otherwise gases build up and needs to be accessible) not much can be done about it beyond ensuring the sewage system is not overflowing for other reasons such as blockages.
Parenting is so tough to discuss. Nothing is ever a best (or even 'right') answer. I agree with this take, with a "yes, and" -

I worry about apps / video games for children also stunting imagination. Yes, in a game like Minecraft you can build anything out of blocks, or with Photoshop draw anything. However, the entire 'universe of outcomes' is inherently bound to the mind(s) of the developers, compared with a bored kid who's possibilities are limited only by their own imagination. Children are therefore pressed to stretch and practice creativity. Its not a perfect analogy, but I'm reminded of the theme in the Matrix movies of bounded outcomes.

I personally think creativity through raw boredom - rather than directed distraction (especially through digital devices)- is essential to mental development.
I don't answer unknown phone numbers, and no longer use email.

It is heavenly.
This is 100% the way to do it.

It just came so naturally because I’ve used Macs for years. But I’ve noticed on Linux and Windows laptops (even Windows on an Intel MacBook) this approach doesn’t work. I find it so frustrating when I have to use a trackpad with any other OS, I completely understand all those users carrying around a mouse to use with their laptop, and why they look at us like we’re nuts!
Anyone looking to help a VC Fellow on a Bay Area ideation stage non-profit?
For what it's worth, Spacex's next generation rocket burns methane directly, into CO2 which is a less potent greenhouse gas. That means that if solar power is used to create methane from the CO2 in the atmosphere, then the rocket will be carbon neutral. And if waste methane is used (commonly vented to atmosphere because the market is small yet it is expensive to capture) then each launch will actually be a net benefit for reducing atmospheric greenhouse gases.
Does Linux allow you to run your s390x binary on your ARM system? No.

As others have pointed out macOS allowed migration including existing binaries. They have done 3 of these migrations. 68k to PowerPC, PowerPC to x86, and x86 to ARM. Each time, users were allowed to bring along existing binaries and keep using them and each time the binaries from the previous system generally ran as fast or faster on the new system. As far as I am aware, Linux has never done anything like this.
Compare AWS Instance features and pricing
thanks for the advice! i think i'll have an easier time getting a good deal on an M1 but i'll keep an eye out for good M2s
I disagree that the definition is over broad.

The definition is very well written and easy to understand.

The NOVA Food Classification System Simplified:

Category 1: Foods that look like what was pulled out of the ground, off the plant, or off the bone.

Category 2: Category 1 items that have been squeezed, evaporated, boiled, or shaken

Category 3: Things that are made up of things from categories 1 and 2

Category 4: Everything else (this is the ultra-processed category)

Regions where residents who are socioeconomically similar to the US but mainly eat categories 1, 2, and 3 are (was going to say tend to be but it is an absolute) healthier.

Regions where residents eat high proportions of category 4 substances (the US and a growing number of other nations) are obese and sick.

The NOVA Food Classification System https://ecuphysicians.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/78...
El Salvador Bitcoin holdings up 40% in value
Never heard of it, thanks for sharing. Will look into this today.
They used a lot of words to say that
Hey, just offering some feedback as someone who is mildly interested.

- You’re not required to but it would be helpful if you post compensation ranges, especially if you want to attract people in this community

- Offering some description, even vague, of the kinds of projects this role entails would be helpful. The page seems quite bland at the moment.

I recently moved to the DFW area from SF and am interested in developing/contributing to the tech ecosystem here!
Ask HN: X/Twitter account suspended – any tips?
My Twitter / X account got suspended today without further explanation. I am 100% sure that I did not do anything outside their ToS. The appeal was immediately rejected (mail pretty much arrived after I pressed the send button on their website).

What are my options?
Is their AI going awry?
Anyone around with connections that could be helpful?
Unfortunately while this thing helps it doesn't actually conclusively stop any speculation. If I wanted to spy on you via app, I would encrypt the data inside the HTTPS stream and only decrypt it on my server.
or just use chatgpt
The Kickstarter says you can't pit two planes of the same side against each other... Is there something in the maths that stops that (I can't see why there would be, from the main post) or is it purely because the book doesn't have the right art in it?
> [Lindsey Johnson] added, “By normalizing being late on credit card payments, the administration is knowingly putting consumers’ financial health at risk.”

It's interesting that they are not at all concerned about the interest on credit card balance putting consumer' financial health at risk. For consumers at risk, the interest charge is far larger than the late fee itself anyway, which means the late fee is just gravy on top.
Citi is usurious. I once made a mistake in the payment by entering a slightly smaller amount than the balance - I detected the mistake after the due date and sent the remaining balance that day. I was still charged interest for 2 more payment periods, which their CS stated was in the card terms (I confirmed) so she couldn't do anything.
> Is there a shorter version that takes the bull by the horns, and says what it means, instead of dancing around it at length while repeating low status?

There are a significant number of African Americans who have jobs in tech or on Wall St or other high paying or otherwise prestigious occupations. They disproportionately don't use AAVE. AAVE is primarily used by a subset of African Americans that skews poor and are from neighborhoods with bad schools and high crime rates.

It's like giving it text that implies the subject is male or is the blood relative of a crime boss. There is nothing immoral about that but the thing operates on the basis of statistics. What it does is literally called inference.

The way you actually fix this is not by trying to outsmart the numbers. If you speak AAVE you are, statistically, more likely to commit a crime. It can infer that, and if that's the only information you give it, it has no other basis on which to make a determination.

What you need to do is provide it with lots of other information. The more it has, the more accurate it can be, and the weaker any particular input is in determining the result. The more it dilutes the effect of any one thing, including the thing you don't want it considering.

In the optimal case it has all of the information and then always makes perfect determinations. In practice that's hard to achieve, if not impossible, but you can get closer. What you want is accuracy, and the more accurate you get, the less bias you have, by definition.
I like Kagi, and this integration seems useful, but I'm wary of search engines showing "widgets". That is often a slippery slope that incentivizes them to add more features to keep me on their site, instead of leading me towards what I'm looking for.

A search engine should show web results based on my query. That's it. Some summaries and highlights are useful, but show them in the sidebar, and make them optional.

If I need a calculator, I have plenty to choose from, including the Wolphram Alpha site.

If I need an answer to a question, LLMs do a good job at that.

Please don't make the common mistake of making your search engine "useful". My average session on your site should last seconds, which is the time it takes me to see the results, and click on the most relevant one. If you achieve that, you're doing a great job.
You aren't paying interest if you never pay the bill. Late fees create a predictable minimum payment that credit card companies can account for and create incentives for consumers to keep spending more under control. Consumers may not realize or care how much their total debt is growing if they could charge their CC without having to pay a certain amount relative to the total debt.
Interesting, the commenter is from California, is there nothing like this in the US? https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/servi...

In Canada my understanding is that, if a company files for bankruptcy and you’re owed back pay, certainly the first recourse is getting said back pay from whatever assets the company has. But if that stone is bled dry, and employees are still screwed, the government steps in and pays their back pay (up to ~$8.5K). Not a thing in the US?

If it is a thing, the commenter would be smart to hold out for back pay. If they instead accept (almost certainly worthless) stock instead of back pay, they can likely no longer make claims like this if the company goes bankrupt.
Why do they need more than the serial number, though?
It's integrated with winget, but that hasn't caught on much either.
That is the moral of Christopher Alexander's Zen View pattern
tailwindcss -> chokidar -> braces -> fill-range -> to-regex-range -> is-number

is-number was first published 9 years ago, when these kind of micro-packages were in vogue. braces was added as a dependency to chokidar over 6 years ago [1]. And if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't think the average JS dev today is going out and pulling in these deps.

[1] https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/commit/cbdf25563cfff7f...
A more cynical view would be that the government is backed into an economic corner and need an ever growing level of consumer debt to prop up the markets and/or currency.
Fix Mac Mini static screen on wake from sleep by pressing Esc
Intermittently, about once a day, when waking my Mac Mini M2 from sleep, I'll get full screen static instead of the lock screen.

A google search indicates this is a common issue with the HDMI port on the Mac Mini, especially but not exclusive to 1080p DVI.

You can fix it by simply pressing the Esc key to turn off the display. Then pressing any other key will bring up the lock screen as normal.

For reference, I'm using a 1080p DVI monitor. I'm using an HDMI-DVI cable. I've tried 2 cables, a 2m one and a 1.5m one. My screen is too far away to use a 1m cable. Safe mode makes no difference.

This is much more convenient then prior solutions, which include power cycling monitor, unplugging the HDMI, waiting ~20 seconds, or using a USB-C to DVI cable.
> This is how I solved the third problem, by the way: [insert unreadable scribbles of a madman]

when will array enthusiasts understand that having first letter A does not mean the language should be aimed at Aliens?

get over your "code golf" tendencies and start thinking about *readability* - give us long names, give us brackets, give us ASCII and stop pulling everything into a single line in examples - _THEN_ you'll have your first tiny chance of being heard and taken seriously

aim design at common people, not gurus
>However, that doesn't make it okay to continue to perpetuate the idea that AAE is somehow a lesser dialect and that AAE speakers ought to have to mask their accent in the way that an Indian, Brit, or Australian doesn't.

As a Brit living in Britain, I habitually code-switch, because my natural dialect is coded as low-status. If I used my natural dialect in a job interview, it would very clearly communicate one of two things - either I am unwilling to conform to the behavioural norms of a professional workplace, or I lack the linguistic skills to do so.

I cannot pretend to understand the cultural context surrounding AAVE, but the prejudice against my own dialect is broadly rational. Learning to speak in mildly-accented standard English is just one of many shibboleths that signify membership of the professional middle class.
Can we just do something about taxes? People would be able to pay for stuff if the government didn't steal so much of their money.

After the recent few years of inflation middle class is now subject to higher tax brackets than ever, and poverty class is being taxed at almost 30% if you include some states' state tax.

Then there are property taxes which should be abolished, or else landlords just pass them onto renters, which means poverty class now pays the taxes of the rich.
we all know very well it's one flimsy attention layer with a few words just to entertain regulators with their exemplary auto regulation
I don't have perfect solution, but "to avoid being defeated by evil we must become evil ourselves" is not really the point. There are things that are lose-lose, making war worse for both sides. For things like chemical weapons we have treaties banning it, while for conscription all politicians are quiet about while pretending to care about human rights.
2-ball (disk) distribution is kind of interesting in gaming when simulating gun projectile hit locations.

If the circle represents the area in which a simulated projectile will hit, you probably don't want a truly random distribution of points but instead have a bias towards the middle of the circle. A real gun shot multiple times at a fixed target will probably (assuming perfect aim but some variation on every shot) have more shots hit the middle of the pattern than the edges.

Some early Valve shot code actually had a purely random distribution, but at some point an alternate version got written and shared at https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/CShotManipulator

Ironically the biased version is based on a pretty simple method that in fact people sometimes get wrong when they want a truly random point distribution in a circle. Just doing a random radius and theta will lead to a biased distribution. Wolfram Mathworld has a good writeup on it at https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DiskPointPicking.html
Arch largely hated the idea of Manjaro and their users from day one, as it 'goes against the spirit of Arch', whatever that means.

That the team was(still is?, not sure) rather incompetent didn't help things for sure, but certainly didn't cause the rift.
The credit card companies are still free to charge interest at the agreed upon rates, but now they can’t add a $50 fee on top because of what is a banking error for most people (they had the funds but perhaps in a different account from the autopay).

If this change actually affects the companies bottom line, I would imagine we will see a small increase in the interest rates being offered to cover the expense. Realistically though, banks make all of their money from the interest on the cards and the late fees are icing on the already overflowing extravagant cake.
If you are familiar with conventional spectral analysis, there are higher order spectral analysis. For example before feeding data to your machine learning or AI pipeline, you want transform the waveforms (EM, sound, etc) raw data into higher order spectral to provide more features hence better accuracy. You can use the raw data by simply using the scalar values namely amplitude, time and frequency but the accuracy is much better if you can use the higher order analysis of tine-frequency for examples short time Fourier Transform or spectogram (linear time-frequency), wavelet (time-scale) or the non-linear Cohen class (bilinear time-frequency e.g Wigner-Ville) [1].

But if your data is not a waveform but network (road traffic network, Internet network, sensor networks, etc), similarly you probably better off with higher order graph or hypergraph [2]. In this paper it proposed a linear transformation of graph networks using a new windowed graph Fourier Transform analogous to spectogram, but the spectral in graph here is not the waveform spectrum but the eigenvalues for the matrix representation of the graph. There were discussions few months back in HN on higher order graph or hypergraph approach for analyzing big data [3].

[1] Higher-order spectra analysis : a nonlinear signal processing framework:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Higher-order-spectra-a...

[2] Hypergraph:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph

[3] How big data carried graph theory into new dimensions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120497
My first laptop was a Thinkpad and I used the trackpoint exclusively, because the trackpad was so small and awful (this was around 2001). At the time I said something similar, that the trackpoint is the best. Years later, probably around 2007 I got my first MacBook Pro and the trackpad was great. Many years after that got I got work laptop with a trackpoint on it and had a really problem getting used to it again... the trackpad was also bad, so I just used a mouse all the time.

I think the trackpoint can be great, but more adaptation is required and most people aren't willing to go through it.

My dad also ended up with some sort of tendon injury that he attributed to the using the trackpoint on his laptop all day, every day, which I've never experienced, but it has always been in the back of my mind.
Don't forget the Keystone XL cancellation: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-keystone-p...
Waymo robotaxis approved for fared rides in LA
What clues? I listened through an entire song and nothing was presented. Although I also noticed the bug that I could click and drag to see a frame from the movie.

I felt like if I didn't know in the first 5 seconds, I wasn't going to know, and there wasn't anything to do but listen to another 2 minutes of music or close it.
Not the ones I'm thinking of (Mauritania, Arabian gulf nations, old Spanish lady I met on a sidewalk in a Suburban strip mall)

edit to add: all the sex slaves imported into the various countries...
About alternative app marketplaces in the European Union
Tough to judge without any experience. I am sure there were not bullshit jobs. Must be satisfying to see fruits of your labor end to end. Many of us in the cities would not know what that is like.
> Like other repair bills, a number of device categories are exempted, including video game consoles, HVAC and medical gear, solar systems, vehicles, and, very specifically, "Electric toothbrushes."

This is such a silly list. Video game consoles are literally no different from iPhones and contain less sensitive data. If your goal is to create less waste this should be an easy win.

God can you imagine how dangerous the roads would be if you could install aftermarket parts in vehicles /s
More context:

https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-10/20...

https://www.id.me/privacy

https://www.id.me/terms
Out of interest how did you get the rights to stream the music? Cool game just curious if itl stick around.

I would definitely like some sort of “decade” option if at all possible so you can stick to films of a certain era. Some of the older ones I had no ability to guess (which is fine, just would like to weed those out for my own fun).

Also as others stated, some made for the movie tracks would be nice!
If they don't pay the bill why would they pay the late fee?
great!

Be careful. If they're paying attention (and you just buried the needle on HN, so assume they are,) you're about to make some very powerful people very nervous. There will be offers, I predict. Not all of them wholesome.
Did they streamline the konsole context menu yet? Last I looked at my laptop with kde it had like 900 options when I commonly use 3 and due to that are buried. That's my only big complaint with the system, its pretty damn good otherwise.
This article completely misunderstands the users of spreadsheets:

>users of spreadsheets are already thinking in terms of matrices of values

I am pretty sure most users of Excel are not thinking about matrices. They are thinking of rows and columns. Programmers and mathematicians might generalize this to matrices and values, but the users themselves are not thinking about it. This is akin to viewing Tinder as a "human interaction app" and lumping it in with Slack under that abstraction, and not realizing that those are two very different use cases and mindsets of the user.

> The spreadsheet paradigm hides what's important (the formulas) in favor of the superficial (the data)

To most users, the data is what is important in a spreadsheet and the formulas are implementation details.
My go to site for baking recipes is Smitten Kitchen.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asmittenkitchen....

I realize adding `site:...` is probably fucking around. But trust me, her brownie recipes are worth it. :-)
It looks like it's even more now.

Here's a site that tracks it:

https://nayibtracker.com/
Pfl: Python framework for Private Federated Learning simulations
This makes a whole lotta sense till you remember the whole death penalty thing. Now I realize that's why the length seems off.

You're responding as if the issue at hand is whether anyone else also is assigned the death penalty disproportionately.
For me the standard Command position is much more accessible than the standard Control position, no twisting needed — Control is the one that I find my hand having to contort to reach.

Control still gets used fairly often under macOS though, so it needs to be easy to reach, and my solution is to remap Caps Lock to Control which is pretty comfy. If this remap weren’t possible under Linux and Windows too I think I’d go insane using them.
This is definitely uncommon. Startup cash compensation for engineers in SV is about 1/2 of a large tech company's.
> I almost didn't sign up for Kagi because I hadn't yet felt the value and configuring a browser to use Kagi as the default search engine isn't a zero effort task.

It's fairly easy to set up now.
Self explanatory UI is a helluva tall order, but I think my local-first PWA-aspiring software designs are instant, frictionless and, well, local-first and privacy conscious? Check out https://druthers.app with a friend.
Americans' trust in media plummets to historic low: poll (2023)
Computational Supremacy in Quantum Simulation