skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like these films, but hate this indie budget math. The way to get to low number is to barter as much as possible and steal the rest. People still put the hours in, but nobody gets paid. Handful of key people get the ip and something for their reel. The rest get taken advance of. It’s like doing an open source project except end result is commercial product licensed to a company. By all means do films for cheap but at least pay people salary or give a piece of the ip.
Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar
X blue checkmarks being forced on journalists who don't want them
Yea im kinda stressed out to get it working for everyone haha. I would have caught that under different conditions. I'm a big e2e tests guy haha
Do you think prices would remain the same if interchange fees doubled?
Plant identification via app enables phenological monitoring
And the effect will be the opposite of the intent - now only students wealthy enough to afford private tutoring or that have a stable enough home environment to self-study can pass AP exams. Wonder what races those students will be?

I'm admittedly talking my own book, having come from the lower end of middle class. I was also the runt of the litter and at the bottom of the social pecking order. Students of all races enjoyed looking down on me to feel better about their own situation.

I retired from working for other people at age 40. I credit gifted/AP courses in 8-12th grade for a significant portion of that. Did my racial background still advantage me? You bet. I had a stable home environment and low crime neighborhood.

Perhaps we should focus on how to offer children stable home environments and low crime neighborhoods.
Nah mate, overhead chargers above each busstop which automatically engage.
I do particularly enjoy Amazon's https://www.amazon.com/404

Someone else mentioned Github which is always funny until you realized you followed a bad link to a repo you were looking for.

Thingiverse has a great one when you can force it to happen: https://www.thingiverse.com/nonexistant404page/designs
The implied meaning (global) is in strong contrast to the actual meaning (restricted to the USA).
At the end of the day, it's mostly a hobby and you either find keeping track of everything and making effective use of rewards worth it or not. Personally, I have a few cards for targeted use but mostly I just take 2% cash back on a free card and figure that's close enough.
Bingo. Also see the "AI" system used by Israel to target "Hamas". "It's not us, it's the AI".
What do you mean by "exclusively" and "government"? Outside of the DoD/US Military (where hardened Linux has quite a few uses), I'm pretty sure the US Federal govt is fairly Microsoft-centric as they offer them the guarantees and concessions needed to sign contracts. It's not that the Fed thinks Windows or Office is better than the open source alternatives, as much as it is that if/when they do fail they have a direct point of contact with strict SLA guarantees to get things fixed and they have full control of all of their software to do so without hindrance.

Local and state govts usually follow suit, as it makes sense that what works for the Fed will work for them. But I've seen plenty of open source softwares being used in various municipal and state offices. LibreOffice and CentOS would probably be the most common alternatives.

So, to answer your question, no it's not exclusively Windows. It's almost exclusively Windows in the Federal govt as there are mandates there, but otherwise it's a hodgepodge of what works/can be afforded throughout all other levels of govt.
I’m seeing restaurants charge a credit card fee as a line item on receipts like a tax, with a percentage. I wish there were real time information what a particular card will cost the merchant, and that fee is what’s charged. The idea most people should subsidize other people’s kickback is obscene.

Also, I’m confused about the federal law flat rate fee on debit cards. I know merchants using Square and report that they’re charged the same fee for debit and credit cards, no discounted rate. For small businesses, I’d like to use my debit card, but not if the payment processor is going to pocket the difference between the discount debit fee and their fee to the merchant, and thus me.
> DWIM

Siri is worse than Cortana in this respect…
That was as horrific a day as the world had seen for a long time.

It's not a war though.

Unfortunately every day in Gaza since has been as horrific, or more horrific.

Indescriminately killing and starving an entire population and destroying the surrounding infrastructure is not warfare.

The actions described in the linked article make this clear.
It's worth watching "Jodorowsky's Dune" if you haven't to see the direct-line connection - Jodorowsky happened to see "Dark Star" playing at a film festival while out in California and wanted whoever did the special effects to come work on his doomed "Dune" adaptation. He hired O'Bannon, who came out and met future Alien collaborators HR Giger and Moebius. It's fair to say Alien would not have happened, (or would not be the Alien we know now), if not for Dark Star.
"’Our tax dollars are paying for that!’... Megan explained"

Yep, about $.01 to generate that image distributed between 7 million tax payers in that state. I love that people are so focused on saving pennies that they don't comprehend the long term issues we are gonna face :)

While I do understand how frustrating it is, about any other argument sounds like it would be better than the monetary one.
I find it quite funny, especially if you realize that something like 90% of the Stable Diffusion model fine-tunes out there are actually made for generating porn or images of females. Go to the website that has the most image generation models to verify this for yourself: https://civitai.com

WARNING don't visit this site on your work computer.

But point being, it is actually kind of hard to find a Stable Diffusion model variant that is fine-tuned to avoid fairly broken generation that comes from the base models but doesn't have female objectification built into its fine-tuning dataset. Especially if you go searching for "Stable Diffusion models" and happen upon that site, since it does have the most models.
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Even then I’m not sure how much it affected the poorer people, since you still had to overcome the standard deduction (lower, sure).

The deduction on mortgage interest now mostly only affects the well-off because the standard deduction for married filing jointly is so high.
> single-app mode

Isn’t that what “guided access” is for?
I guess MS could just find a way to guarantee that any data is only stored in data centers in Europe. It shouldn’t be too complicated and I don’t see how could they be considered to be a foreign cloud then.
Microsoft blew it, says government report on Chinese hacks
not if they're in a different country, and if they're employed as contractors
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There seems to be a split in my area with small businesses, mostly along generational lines.

The ones run by younger people are very credit-card-first, love not dealing with cash, etc. They usually have one of those Stripe iPad things. If you do pay with cash, they'll get a bit flustered because it breaks their flow.

The ones run by older people are either cash-only or try hard to disincentivize customers from using credit cards, sometimes with signs guilting customers about how much money card companies take from businesses.

It really feels like a generational thing depending on what people are used to. The older shop owners remember when cards were a lot more rare, and they've seen their swipe fee expenditure go up over the years. While the younger owners have only ever lived in a credit card oriented world and just bake the swipe fees into their prices from the beginning.
In this context, it’s important to the merchants: They want these customers, so they grit their teeth on the higher interchange fees demanded by the banks. If the banks started handing out these cards to everyone, the merchants would revolt.
Theres the open source Digital (https://github.com/hneemann/Digital) which can run simulations but then export Verilog. If you have an ICE40 based GPU then in theory you can then use open source tools (like apio) to get that onto your FPGA. I've seen some impressive fpga tasks being generated by that.

I'm early in my learning of FPGA and have done nandgame and some other non-HDL circuit learnings. I have gone back and forth if I want to design my project via HDL or via something like Digital. There's not an easy pro/con either way.

For example, everything I've read is that the verilog block diagram tools kinda create isn't behavior, which makes optimization by FPGA compilers hard, because it can't automatically infer optimal feature gate usage if you are giving transistor level HDL vs behavior HDL. Likewise, it's not totally clear if block diagramming tools can facilitate test bench behavior, which I think I want to prevent regressions.
Chemists create 150 new molecules
Not only that, but any person using middle-endian date format is doing it wrong. It's the least rational way to write something! Little-endian at least has the virtue of just being backwards relative to how you write every other number, but middle-endian is just bonkers. (So of course it's the way Americans do it.)
The legislative framework has provisions for banning chemicals regardless of "new use"-ness.

I'm just going to post a link to my comments when this was discussed earlier, because I can't be arsed to rewrite them all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39875212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39875156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876314
NPR's is one of my favorites: https://www.npr.org/404
Deductions also cause people to go temporarily insane - it’s fine paying 5% unnecessarily because I get 2% back on my taxes! Ignore the 3% that is gone forever …
A massively profitable charity towards public works funded exclusively by poor and lower-middle working people who are addicted to waiting for their numbers each week
>More than that is chasing a high via materialistic consumption and pollution.

Yeah that is what we are told by the people who control the information you receive. Live a minimalist life because that's all you need.

There are two sides of philosophy(IMO), those that believe in idealism, and those that believe in realism. I can flip back to Stoic idealism, but there is something real about Humans wanting More.
I have often written my own logging implementations for similar reasons. I think it is pretty difficult to turn the set of features into a generic library because it necessarily is opinionated about multiple aspects of the software architecture that uses it.

Not all formatting is amenable to being pushed to another thread without introducing undesirable concurrency concerns.
Beauty.ai – International Beauty Contest Judged by Artificial Intelligence
But that's not irony. It's also a weird thing to complain about.

It happens in NYC and I know people who come internationally for HOPE. And even if they didn't, are US based attendees also not on planet earth?

The things people try and fet angry about...
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Alternatively, they're just trying to sow doubt in order to later claim it never happened.
It seems some common vendors still charge their standard merchant fee even when the customer uses a debit card. I don’t know why this is permitted. It seems contrary to federal law.
They grow your berries and peaches, but often lack one item: insurance
Homeschooling, obviously.

Your children will get a better education, in far fewer hours, without the commute, without suffering under the prison bitch culture of the public school social heirarchy.

If your child is even just slightly neuroatypical, sending them to public school is child abuse, and you are a bad person, full stop.

You are no different from the guy who drinks a fifth of whiskey and beats the shit out of his kids - you're just keeping your hands clean by outsourcing the beatings to the kids on the playground.
Logging every image generated, using personally identifying photos, adds a big risk with almost zero upside.

The reason not to store the images is right here in front of us.

“Oops we may have generated topless photos of women who submitted their photos, but I can unequivocally state that nobody aside from that person saw the image, if it even existed”
I suspect I've seen that multiple times over the years without ever reading the fine print. Nice.
Did [...] approve ...

Please at least put in the small effort to use correct grammar when posting.
MS also keeps winning because they have billions of dollars to pour into the UX of their Office suite. The FOSS community doesn't spend a lot of money on hiring professional UI designers, and it's "do-ocracy" doesn't handle UI design well because UI design isn't seen as "doing" so much as nitpicking the choices of the programmers who are "doing all the work".

MS bribery is a factor, but if we use it as an excuse to ignore our own faults as a community then we're just screwing ourselves over.
It's not a new JPEG++. It creates old JPEGs, fully 100% compatible.

(Of course JXL is better still.)
I think the article is more referring to privacy of corporations. Not many poor people are setting up shell companies.
I would buy this argument until they advertise it. Everyone knows what the lottery is, there is basically zero reason to do any advertising for it.

Advertising it is encouraging addictive behavior.

I think it is fine that the state runs it, but not the way that many do.

It being a charity doesn't absolve them from bad behavior, plenty of charities have been... controversial.
Exactly. It sounds harsh but those encumbered with usurious credit card debt would be better served by being forbidden from having it at all; but that’s a position strongly fought against on all sides.
There already is legislation for that, the court is ordering EPA to do the right thing and use it instead of trying to be lazy and possibly abusive.

See my previous comments on the matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39875212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39875156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876314
"Hey, maybe don't commit armed robbery and other exploitative acts under the guise of helping your family" equals "banks are my homies"?

You don't need a swim-cap to achieve peak cranial hydrodynamic performance, do you?
The Grandstream GS-HT802 has been working for me, for my fax and analog cordless for 3 years now.
The licensing costs associated with MS products is stupid high. In analyzing the budget for a county, across all departments the line item for MS was ~$322K for just a 3 month span (o365??).

It was the top line item for the quarter, beating out health insurance line related line items.
Ask HN: What would you want in a domain registrar?
That's it! I've built registrars in the past for other companies and an old colleague of mine is thinking about starting one as a lifestyle business. The goal would be to offer solid domain services without scammy dark upsell patterns.

What would be an absolute killer feature set?
> But how far does this go in explaining why merchants "choose" to participate in this program. The obvious answer would seem to be that they get no benefit from the system as it exists but have no real choice, but maybe there is a better answer?

The simple reason why issuers don’t make every card a signature rewards card is that merchants would revolt.

The interchange fee schedule[1] is fascinating. Dozens of categories of merchants with different rates. There is no technical reason for this. Fraud costs are borne by merchants and to some extent processors, but not the issuer banks that receive the interchange fee.

The fee schedule reflects a kind of battle for customers. It’s worth repeating that most of interchange for these higher end cards is passed back to the customer in the form of rewards. Essentially, merchants are willing to pay higher fees to support the cards that higher spending customers prefer.

But there is a limit. We can observe that not all merchants accept AmEx, which has some of the highest interchange rates. If every visa/MC card were a signature card, more merchants would push back.

[1] https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/vis...
> Helm is terrible, except for everything else.

100% .

> I'm really sick of people hating on Kubernetes because it's complicated, sure, but the thing it abstracts is far more complicated. When it comes to orchestrating resources across systems nothing comes close.

Agreed, and it's elegant at the core. It's just A LOT to take in for most developers. It solves a much bigger problem than Heroku did, but most web devs would just need a simple overlay over a managed k8s offering that doesn't expose all the k8s interfaces.
This is just the nature of urban warfare against an terrorist group that is deeply embedded in the civilian population. The tunnels add a huge level of complexity to it.

Israel did themselves no favors by projecting a message early on that they would be able to "destroy" Hamas entirely in a very short amount of time. It was probably inevitable from the beginning that this would be a long, drawn out conflict. Hamas will continue to exist to some extent for quite some time. But the fact remains that their military capabilities are far diminished now, and continue to be futher diminished. That is the essential goal of the war.
No. Guided access doesn’t work well for creating a control panel on a wall. I wanted it to boot into the app with no password.

Guided access is finicky and the failure modes are extremely bad for preventing random people from accessing things they shouldn’t.
It is a difficult question indeed, and it depends also on the following: are we measuring the developments of today by how they will affect the world in 10 years or 100? Most people seem to agree that the latter is the more logical measure, yet we operate as if we are using the former.
I used to love debit cards but one time a business overcharged me and that was money out of my actual bank account that I had to wait several business days to have back.

I also saw that places like gas stations "pre pay" if I select debit, trying to hold $60-$100 from my bank account until the final transaction comes back.

While this hasn't happened to me, I've read that if your debit card is compromised or if a charge back is required, you would have to fight your bank to get your money back and it's a bit easier with credit cards.
I can't claim to have ran the numbers, but I suspect the amount per year of "serious" sci-fi media that was also good from those days is similar, if not lower than today. And today we also get the adventures and horrors and thrillers with scifi dressing as well - some good and some bad like everything else.
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This is actually a lie.

Using a credit card is always cheaper to the merchant, maybe the merchant doesnt realize it but cash is a bad deal like Uber is a bad deal - They money is up front so you never realize the costs.
In the case of user, it is fuel, vehicle wear and tear, and shifting demand.

In the case of cash, it is the cost of counting and keeping the drawer, security, deposits, change, and internal training/theft. Most estimates show it to be ~10-20% of income of a business is wasted. Always less than the cost of credit.

Well...that is...if you didn't do what maybe 50% of small businesses do: Screw the taxpayer. Sure, these credit card companies take 3%. Many small businesses take cash so they can do cash accounting and keep "money in" away from the IRS. They dont report it, they pay workers with it under the table and you, the customer and tax payer, may pay less, but you are getting screwed.
"when we pay too much attention to our tools, rather than how they are developed and deployed, we fail to understand our reality."

Fascinating article. I can see how communication theorist Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" concept is rooted in Stiegler's technics.
Cats for other HTTP status codes can be found (or not found :-)) one level up

https://http.cat
You finally admit that you see the Palestinian people as the enemy.
Seems unlikely that an M365 license that tops our around 50 dollars per month would be more expensive than health insurance.
> would you really say that the car is irrelevant to the situation because people have been crashing for decades?

The tragic irony being that's basically what we did and continue to do.