skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they can charge the arbitrary amount of damage you do to the car to your credit card and then it’s your problem.

Credit cards have limits, too, just the same as debit cards.

Again, let's look at the last time I rented: you can't do what you're suggesting, as such a charge would be (instantly) declined.

> They can’t do that with a debit card if you don’t have enough in the account, it will reject.

Ironically, it is more likely to decline on the credit card we gave them, than on the debit card we were trying to give them; the limit on the debit card is higher (since it's backed by cash, and not credit…)

> they can charge the arbitrary amount of damage you do to the car

(This would have been a specific violation of the contract we had with them, as the car was insured with them. But I do understand some people insure through their personal auto, but even there, the matter is going to need to be settled via the insurance.)
> Typically CC companies don't allow for merchants to have discounts for stuff like paying in cash (although some businesses may anyways...) so customers paying in cash essentially pay extra.

Cash discounts have always been permitted in merchant agreements.

What was forbidden until a couple of years ago was credit surcharges however that restriction was removed in 2013. Unless forbidden by state law they're allowed everywhere in the US.
> It's extremely difficult for parents to stop their children, especially early teens from using social media.

I'm trying to decide whether it's "extremely easy" or "extremely difficult" for parents to stop their children from having a cell phone. One the one hand, all you have to do is not spend money and not buy a phone, easy. And yet, almost every kid has a cell phone, so evidently it is hard for parents to say no.

This law will put social media in the same situation. It will be "extremely easy" for parents to simply not give permission, but, like cell phones, I think most kids will end up having social media accounts anyway.
Merchant definitely needed to be able to adjust price depending on the fees.

Visa and Mastercard are mentionned, but Amex is also egregious to the point some merchant hide the support (bo amex logo or sticker anywhere) to only server customers who insist on using an Amex.

With more latitude, I Think everyone wins: the merchant can set amex prices 4% or more higher, customers get to decide if they really want to pay extra, and everyone else has cheaper prices [0]

And I'd personally still pay for the convenience tax to use a Visa/Mastercard card TBH.

[0] even if prices stays the same, more money going to the merchant would still be a win in my book. It's the actual entity providing me something, and arguably I'm choosing to pay them and am fine with them staying in business.
I can't believe we're not having this discussion.

The driving example is a bit disingenuous because, in the US at least, driving isn't conceptualized as a "right" - it's formulated as a privilege. The drinking example is closer, but that's the right to self-determination. I don't suspect that you believe children have zero self-determination, nor do I suspect that you believe that one person's right to vote should be based on everyone in a particular class.

It would be unconscionable to say, "Women shouldn't be allowed to vote because some women can't make good decisions." I simply extend the same unconscionablity to children.
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Google contacts does.
That can be done with ending the command with something like “; exit 0”
Have you considered the possibility that the things that people like could be influenced by the corporate machine?
I'm working on a "low code" web app that helps developers build web apps (not marketing or blogs or e-commerce sites). Create your data models in the app and get an API, a database (or connect your own), and a Next.js app with all of the scaffolding, models, forms, validation, API calls, policies, access and authorization, etc. ready for you to use and customize.
The vast majority of humanity is Poor Brain and therefore actual money is what matters.
Not a fan of these credit card fees, especially where certain cards have higher merchant fees, but cash handling has its own fees such as bank per-deposit fees, leakage, and additional labor costs. According to Gemini, accepting credit cards has lower total\hidden fees and other benefits...

>Compared to cash, credit card transactions generally come with lower hidden fees for businesses. Here's a breakdown:

>Credit Card Processing Fees: There are fees associated with credit card transactions, typically a percentage of the sale amount paid by the business to the credit card processor. However, these fees are often lower than the cumulative hidden costs of handling cash.

>Faster Transactions: Credit card transactions are quicker than cash transactions, reducing checkout lines and improving customer experience. This translates to lower labor costs for the business.

>Reduced Risk: The risk of theft and loss is significantly lower with credit cards. Chargebacks (when a customer disputes a credit card transaction) can be an issue, but these are typically manageable compared to stolen cash.

>Improved Sales Tracking: Credit card transactions provide a clear digital record of sales, simplifying bookkeeping and reconciliation for the business.

>Potential for Increased Sales: Offering credit cards allows customers to make larger purchases they might not have enough cash for, potentially increasing sales for the business.
For those who don't know - one year after launch.

Meanwhile Nvidia will go as far as to back port Hopper support to CUDA 11.8 so it "just runs" the day of launch with everything you already have.
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You just had a large discussion on this project a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600810

You can repost after a year (with some leeway) but weeks is too soon for HN, take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html under 'repost'
Yes, we have noticed traders just want to make more deals, and operators require their information to be accurate.

We are trying to develop super sleek and intuitive tools built to help traders update their ERP systems using LLMs and generative AI to better format their data.

We hope to prove that operators can actually get more accurate data into their systems faster because we provide tools for data entry that make it a breeze to get accurate data.

Additionally, we're trying to help our customers expand their businesses as well. As operations are generally their bottleneck, traders may not expand into business sectors because they are turned off by the overhead required to manage the operations.
Why should companies be forced to help parents supervise their own children? It's ironic that DeSantis is all about parental freedom yet wants to turn the companies into a nanny.
Been doing this software thing for a bit now… while what you say is true in that it is possible in some rare cases, I think it’s a bit of a straw man exception. Code is, in the general sense, unfortunately never complete, regardless of how complete it seems in its context.

The issue is that the context is always changing. It is almost like suggesting there is an evolutionarily perfect organism. At best, one suited perfectly well to the current context can exist, but that perfect suitability falls off the second the environment changes. And the environment always changes.

I totally get the sentiment, but I think the idea that any code is ever complete is unfortunately just not a realistic one to apply outside of select and narrow contexts.
… you don't need to care about credit if you accept cold, hard cash.

(Even still, I don't think "has credit card" is a good proxy for credit worthiness.)
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Agreed, GIMP is powerful and just one UI refresh away from being a true alternative for many.
Nice.

I enjoyed this:

https://simonowen.com/spectrum/augmentinel/

Maybe not as nice visuals, but it emulates the Original Spectrum port but transplants it in a VR capable renderer and adds David Whittakers Amiga soundtrack.

Interestingly, the game mechanics is as if it was made for VR.
> Handing your key over to a 3rd party defeats that.

Hmm... if Google went rogue, wouldn't everyone's Android phone basically be pwnt whether they had some dev's signing key or not?
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Trying to keep it "realistic" in the sense of how the structures are set up (bank reporting regulations, offshore companies, shell companies etc) but I'm optimizing for fun. It's an isometric Transport Tycoon-styled game but instead of building physical infrastructure you create financial connections between nodes like drug op -> cash business -> bank -> offshore company -> real estate investment.

This has been my design bible so far https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/money-la...
Either not enough resolution to tweak some nuance or too many rotations needed for a wide swing. Perhaps rotaries with 256+ increments per rotation exist, but I think most are much lower. A sample I just checked seems to have 64 per turn, pleasantly surprised but still not really there yet. The 128 values of a legacy MIDI CC are typically over 270 degrees I think.
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> for perfectly legitimate reasons.

Could you elaborate?
I suspect that individuals in either group will be dead in around a century. Might as well enjoy the time you've got, whatever that means to you.
I'd perform undignified sex acts on camera for supported Linux and Android versions. I'd pay too if that helps. I think lot of Linux developer-creatives would.

I love Inkscape and GIMP but they desperately need domestic competition.

What I didn't manage to read was are they buying Serif or buying this from Serif?
Thanks for your message!

That's an interesting question; this was a small challenge for some reasons.

1. Since this is my first project, I wanted to ship something clean but fast (scope down to one feature).

2. I initially wanted to use some APIs. TLDR: Goodreads closed its API on December 8th, 2020. OpenLibrary was not bad, but the data required to be more consistent. Google Books API was alright, but I would have also curated manually in the end, and sometimes some info could have been better. Maybe it's a personal feeling, but it's hard to have a good books API out there (probably due to Amazon owning Goodreads and making sure it's hard for competitors to have good data as they do).

3. I knew it'd be complex to satisfy everyone with the recommendations, but I can do my best. My best is to ensure that what is recommended is included, even if it's a small amount, and that the recommendation is well rated by the community (e.g., on Goodreads).

4. Then, I realized (again) that we're in the age of AI, and I could leverage that (at least for a 1st release and see how it goes). Based on that, I tried different prompts with many criteria until I found one I liked. By doing this, I could ensure the quality of what was curated.

If it evolves in the future, this will definitely need improvement. But, for a first release, it does the trick!

I hope it answers your question!
> Of course, there will always be someone who has it way worse or lives inside an underdeveloped region

It's not "someone". It's the majority of the world's population. 150 years ago, it was all of the world's population, including the rich people.

Was everyone severely traumatized back then?
Well, yeah. I can go without the opinions of any underrepresented group. (A lot of theoretical computer science work in my field was done by pseudonymous children, but it's not like I need that to live.) Doesn't mean they can go without me hearing what they have to say.
Having worked in many, many menial jobs, i can tell you that there is definitely the general tendency to think that we were being abused in all of them.

Perhaps you can try working at a mcdonalds or something or as a janitor for a while, see how you feel about your employers or the institution that is employing you.
Weird way to defend a company that did exactly that.

October 2014
Tesla starts equipping Model S sedans with hardware that can automate some steering, braking, and acceleration functions. Although the software is not yet active, it calls the feature Autopilot. -Consumer Reports

Autopilot, how it's sold, does not equate to "tech demo" in any circumstance, context or scenario. It's marketing garbage to sell more cars by mislabeling a feature that may exist a decade later.

Now that we're a decade later, it's still not what it was promised, but ok!
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Broad Outages on Render.com
Woke up to an email that our server was down which is very unusual.
The world was given a pretty short time frame to adapt. Now the script kiddies will unleash the hell.
It was blocked off the shortly after the ship pilots sent their mayday signal and declared an emergency, giving the traffic that was on the bridge time to make it through.

Most (all?) of the people on the bridge were contractors repairing potholes.

> I wonder if it makes sense to protect bridges with pylons like they have in front of buildings to stop cars and trucks.

They're called "dolphins" and some bridges do have them.
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I am trying to self-learn software development.

I have already cleared my CS50 Python & Cisco Python. Using VSCode for CS50.

I am now doing CS50 web development.

I have windows 10 OS.
I have downloaded WSL, Ubuntu, python.
Can someone please guide me how to setup an IDE on my laptop?

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(I am a solo founder with 12 years of export experience, trying to build software for this business)
It might be easier to think about as the difference between perfection and practical improvements. Right now 100% of Excel users are at risk of silent data corruption. The proposed change would allow people to reliably prevent this category of corruption for all of the documents they create and over time that’d become a majority in their field.

This would also offer the path for changing the default over time to safe by default. There will be more spreadsheets created in the future than exist now.
Our first few customers are agriculture based. Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa and more things like this that have similar distribution supply chains.

We believe we have the tools and expertise to expand to energy and metal in the future. They are much different, but we believe with the tools we have developed, they can be repurposed quickly to support a wide range of commodities.
And the only time that matters is when one of them is spending money.
> You're making that claim.

No, that is literally your claim combined with the claim of the original poster.

In your first post you claimed you "had" to use it. Now you say it's optional?
Emergency steering gear is required on every commercial vessel and is regularly tested. We will have to wait for the investigation to see what actually happened.
But where is the puck going?
Is there not a privacy-respecting font-host besides google? A lot of privacy/ad focused extensions will block these.
Across most of the world, Mastercard/Visa has used various threat tactics to basically tell merchants that if they charge a card fee they'll get banned from mastercard/visa.

Obviously for most businesses, thats a death knell, so most capitulate.

And the few places with competing payment methods (eg. Kaspi in Kazakhstan), Mastercard/Visa have ~zero fees, and sometimes even negative fees (eg. "special offer, you get half price use of the subway if you have a mastercard")
If they do not want to provide recommendations, they can opt for placing ads in content similar to AdSense in a blog or video.

I hope you know the difference between recommendations and ad placements.
Sorry, indeed it's been about the other library. However, these issues are connected: dtolnay is a co-owner of yaml-rust too, so either way without him YAML in Rust has a https://xkcd.com/2347 problem.
There's an entire section about KASLR in the blogpost linked on the repository.
You can drive without an adult at 16 everywhere in the US. No minimum age to own a long gun either I believe.
Why would a driver think a ship's horn was signaling them?
> But really if we don't want accidents like this to happen the ship should have redundancy. A 10,000 TEU container ship is one of the largest and heaviest moving structures ever created by man. Why is it acceptable that it is driven by exactly one engine powering one screw in front of one rudder?

Perhaps because we have a whole lot of them going and a very low frequency of events like this.

Maybe there's some lighter weight interventions we could do that would further halve the risk of something like this happening that are less costly than fully redundant engine and drive.

They're supposed to have emergency steering gear. Why didn't it work? Maybe ships should have an auxiliary genset running while near land.
I'm with you. At work, we have to distribute reports to clients and that often happens through Word. It can be amazingly frustrating being forced to use a tool simply because it's the more accessible one. But that's the way it is. Not everybody is going to have the experience or the wherewithal to deal with compiling and debugging Latex.

I just need a simple object/document model that I can interact with in python to generate the Word documents. I've found that there are a lot of undesirable nuances with the VBA object model.
Artifact may not be shutting down after all
> The Model 2 arcade hardware cost over $15,000 when new in 1993. Look at those Model 1 and Model 2, that's some serious silicon.

That's an even bigger miss on Sega's part then.

Having such kit out in the field, should have given Sega good insight into the "what's hot, and what's not" for (near-future) gaming needs.

Which features are essential, what's low hanging fruit, what's nice to have but (too) expensive, performance <-> quality <-> complexity tradeoffs, etc.

Besides having hardware & existing titles to test-run along the lines of "what if we cut this down to... how would it look?"

Not saying Sega should have built a cut-down version of their arcade systems! But those could have provided good guidance & inspiration.
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We're posting the latest updates at https://status.render.com. Databases are taking longer to recover but we're on it.
> AMD most likely has some sort of buffer overflow or deadlock in their GPU drivers that is causing difficult to diagnose problems. It is very unlikely that the silicon itself is broken when it works fine for playing video games and it also works fine when your GPU is one of the few officially supported by ROCm

Thank you for sharing your opinion. My experience writing GPU device drivers was different.

Drivers are relatively simple compared to the underlying hardware and the hardware programming interface between the two reflects that. As a result of that, driver developers spend a ton of their time chasing down hardware bugs. Drivers are also intrinsically simpler to debug, not just because they are smaller but also because you often have better tools to inspect what is going on.

Another factor to consider is that software bugs are fixed, while hardware bugs are most often worked around in software. This is done out of necessity, because the process of spinning a new hardware revision is extraordinarily expensive and avoided at all cost.

But again, it's just how things went down in my personal experience and yours may be different.
>the deals they allow through credit cards are more like loss leaders

Au contraire, it's more and more common for airlines' sales of milage/point blocks to CC-issuing banks to be the most important bottom-line contributor, with the value for milage program deals exceeding the rest of the airline's operations and assets altogether:
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-b...
[2]https://airlinegeeks.com/2021/12/17/here-s-why-airline-loyal...
[3]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-31/airlines-...
>poor people tend to be much better with money than rich people.

This does not pass the sniff test. Lets see your statistics?
We have had this thought was well. It's tough to go into a vertical with software because you end up with tools that make it easier to get an edge, and then why not just trade yourself?

Generally, we just enjoy building software and it suits our personalities better. But we do believe that it is a good benchmark for our product to think, "could we use our tools to have a better edge in the market if we were a trade house."

Great question!
Is there a company that doesn't think about profit?
> it's still overwhelmingly a force for good in a world that's becoming increasingly autocratic.

The two people who hold the record for most votes received in a US presidential election¹ are Joe Biden in first and Donald Trump in second. They set those records in the same election, which was the last one.

Donald Trump has said he wants to be a dictator, and plenty of his supporters have said on tape that they want that outcome.

Did you also miss the worldwide ripple effect after Trump won the first time where the autocrats came out of the woodwork and start winning elections and gaining more power in government in several countries?

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
It's not really hard to see why though. Software which only real saving grace is a better license model than the bigger fish gets bought by another bigger fish to ultimately, most likely, get put in the same license model.
We use our own fusion model in the transcription pipeline for intent understanding from encoded audio, but most of the rewriting tasks like "Turn this into a list" call out to fine-tunes of GPT-4. It's a combination.

The fusion model is similar to the architecture described here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13289
From one dyslexic to another, who never got the option to even use a computer in school or college and instead was forced to write out everything long-hand, thank you so much for this.

I use voice-to-text in the workshop and when taking notes and reviewing a PR. And all the current options are pretty much what you would expect. More focused on accuracy, which is usually quite poor, which, to paraphrase, "It's Erin with an E. Oh for **s sake, Erin. ERIN! E. R. I. N. <pause> N. I said N. Eh-rin. Fine. Whatever." so anything that can improve on that experience will be immensely helpful.

Looking forward to seeing where you go with this, and I hope at some point you make a native desktop application.
To be clear, I'm not trying to suggest an ulterior motive on the part of DeSantis or the Florida legislature. But effectively requiring a government ID to exercise free speech on the internet damages individual liberty (again, of adults) regardless of whether that's an intended effect or not.
The same go for cars. I was hit by a car which was already slowing down but over ran the line and hit me. The car couldn't have been going more than 10 mph but it was enough force to fracture my knee (the fracture type is also colloquially known as a bumper fracture).
Same guy?

https://lwn.net/Articles/882397/