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This is why your grocery store partners with an ATM network to let you take out extra cash at the POS. As long as you're paying the fee, they'll do whatever they can to trade you cash for a digital deposit into their bank account.

This is not universal.

Where I currently live, and where I lived five years ago, supermarkets charge a fee (50¢ here, 25¢ where I used to live) to take out cash at the POS, because the card transaction cost more than handling cash.

There was a lot of "Are you sure?" prompts on the screen because the supermarkets (both big chains) didn't want the burden of the plastic transaction.

I've seen it stated a lot in technology forums that "cash is more expensive for merchants than cards," but I've never seen that spelled out from any source other than the card companies.

Every low-margin business I patronize, from the garden centers, to the convenience stores, to the antique stores all either offer a discount for cash, or charge a fee to use plastic.

Just last week, a woman who's run an antiques store for 35 years told me that card fees were going to put her out of business, and she practically begged me to go down the street to my bank to get cash for my purchase.
Not just passenger rail, but light rail.

I'd think that upgrading disused tracks to that level is cheaper than a full restoration to some level capable of supporting mainline-capable engines.

In any case, so-called interurbans were (AFAICT) the regional/intercity buses of their day.
I agree, which is why merchants should be allowed to charge different prices for different card operators and for cash.
Not everyone works in large slow beraucratic companies though.

You may have side projects as well.

Also there's tools that are borderline personal, some I use or used: Quokka.js, GitKraken, GitHub Copilot.
> Teslas do not "disable themselves"; it's done by Tesla HQ

That’s the same thing. If the owner isn’t disabling the car, then it is disabling itself.
I can easily taste the difference between food cooked with olive oil and natural oils as long as it's a relatively mild dish with a limited number of flavors (which is the appropriate use case).

It's so weird to me when people act like neutral oil has no applications. Olive oil can be good without neutral oils having to be bad. They're just good for different things.
Also doesn't need to be decentralized or an existing crypto currency to solve those issues.

For example, central banks are exploring smart contracts for international payments. https://www.bis.org/press/p240403.htm
Two things:

1) Terraform is making Zero carbon fuels, not sequestering into the ground (the purple on the graph, not the orange)

2) I don't think it's accurate to say "each dollar invested" gets the same 100x results. The graph seems to show that wind, solar, nuclear, and electric all taper off in how much CO2 they offset. It looks once you are spending $100/T, you literally can't make any more of an impact with solar or wind. Once you get to spending $250/T (what it currently costs for Terraform to do it, for real), Zero carbon fuels looks like it has the same 1 GTon impact as onshore solar and wind combined.

Finally, "electricity and heat production" (i.e, what solar and wind can help with) accounts for just 25% of GHG emissions. Transportation and industry (excluding electricity used by industry) together account for more than 35% of emissions. Many industrial processes can't simply "use electricity". The only way to get emissions down is to provide a like-for-like substitute - no one can afford to completely redesign their factory or chemical plant, but they could probably afford to pay more for NG as prices for syngas fall to closer to FF NG. There is no silver bullet.

We need every single innovation available.
they already knew and have known for a while is why. Putting my name out there actually makes me safer because i have very real associations with the DoD that can be confirmed.

- P4x
The poor/low-FICO scorers are either A) not getting accepted into credit card programs, B) paying higher interest rates, or C)not able to make their payments in full each month.

Compared to another individual that can put all their purchases on a rewards card and pay off their balance every month.

The pricing point isn’t that complicated either. Nearly every business accepts credit card and can’t avoid the higher credit card fees that pay out to reward programs.
Can I include this as LICENSE.mpeg in the root directory of my projects instead of a text file?
I finished the GART this summer. 69 days, ~3800 miles, started in Washington DC at the Capital Building moving East to Wast.

The difference between riding the completed sections (not dealing with auto-traffic), and the various road (dirt,gravel,asphalt,HWY) sections to connect the various trails had me in very different mental spaces - and although that may seem obvious, it was something entirely profound to experience. It really adds to the realization of how ambitious this project is, and I think solidified the worth/value I have of the endeavor being completing. (It’s estimated at something like 60% completed.)
Go through to the state pages and click "Download Route Analysis" to see PDFs of exactly where they're planning for it to go. It's a long-term project, putting it mildly, but good luck to them.
> Two thirds of the merchants surveyed reported no change or didn't know the change in their debit costs post-regulation. One fourth actually reported an increase in debit costs
> That doesn’t prove that the arabs were driven away by Jews though.

Given that the region was majority Arab, and that Israel was never going to be a majority Arab nation, the only logical possibility is that Israeli authorities always intended to drive out a large number of Palestinian Arabs from their land. That the Arabs realized this and opposed the formation of a state that would drive them out is not that surprising.

> As we’ve discussed Arabs tried to destroy Israel 3 times and lost. If you have a response to this historical fact then post it, otherwise it’s fairly clear who is causing misery to the arab Palestinians.

Even if the ultimate fault for their current state lied entirely with Arab leaders (which it doesn't) that doesn't change one iota the fact that it is Israel forcing Palestinians in Gaza to live in an open-air prison (as UN rapporteurs call it) for the past 60 years, and currently committing genocide against them. And you forget that it's even Israeli officials supporting Hamas as the rulers of Gaza, as Netanyahu has bragged.

> The starvation is another myth. You can look up obesity statistics in Gaza to confirm this yourself. Or watch videos posted by Gazans enjoying their open markets posted every day, or other Gazans throwing away their rations because they don’t like M&Ms. Like the nakba or the MrFAFO videos a huge amount of what you see is simply fake.

I don't need to look at propaganda videos or cherry picked social media. Serious news organizations and the UN have been investigating this, and unanimously discuss the fact that Gaza is very close to starvation and that rations are nowhere near enough. Even Israeli officials actually acknowledge that there is not enough aid going into Gaza (though of course they don't admit their role in making sure of this).
Ours contains a Banana Splits reference: https://www.wireshark.org/404.html
This answers the question in the literal sense, but I'm nonetheless surprised (as a relative outsider to the world of high-speed signalling).

"just double the frequency" isn't something we're used to seeing elsewhere these days (e.g. CPU clock speeds for the last couple of decades). What are the fundamental technological advances that allow them to do so? Or in other words, what stopped from from achieving this in the previous generation?
> At its core, Tipi is designed to be easy to use and accessible for everyone

> This guide will help you install Tipi on your server. Make sure your server is secured and you have followed basic security practices before installing Tipi. (e.g. firewall, ssh keys, root access, etc.)

I love to see efforts like this, please keep it up.

But expecting users to learn everything necessary to run a secure server is simply not going to achieve the stated goal of being accessible to everyone.

We need something like an app that you can install on your laptop from the Windows store, with a quick OAuth flow to handle all networking through a service like Cloudflare Tunnel, and automatic updates and backups of all apps.
I recently read A Wizard of Earthsea, and it took me a really long time to get through. Here's what I noted down after reading it:

I can see why (and how) this book is important and good, but it just took me so much active effort to keep reading it.
Orphan Processes in Linux
Hamas and PIJ re-entered the hospital by land. The tunnels in and around the hospital have been destroyed. The IDF was able to kill and arrest the terrorists in the hospital pretty quickly, with no civilian deaths in the process. It was a major success. Sure it would be better if they never re-entered the hospital, but I think pockets of insurgency and re-emergence are probably to be expected.

Hamas's ability to hold onto these places when they re-take them though is far diminished. Their tunnel network is in very poor shape, their weapons supply is surely being depleted, and thousands of their fighters are dead or arrested. They're going to fight to the bitter end (they're insane suicidal terrorists after all), but they are not as strong as they were when the war started. They are scattered, disorganized, and isolated.
Not sure if this company also ran into this issue, but the engineers at my startup absolutely hated the Firebase UI for querying. Genuinely could not fathom how product designers could put together such a poor experience. Needless to say we did our own migration after 1 year to MySQL after
Thanks, I did not know that. My point was more that German authorities and their privatized successors are so stuck in their paper based processes, that even when you book via a reseller app (line SNCF) they'll have to send paper per mail.
I associate PPPoE with dial up modems. What is the use case of this today? Also, PPPoE has been around for a quarter century: why hasn't FreeBSD delivered on it? And how is a single thread not enough to fill a broadband pipe?

So many questions.

So DSL and maybe Fiber services. Ok, but ISPs provide or endorse some device to deal with the wire. At that point you're free to firewall your ordinary ethernet traffic with whatever you wish, no PPPoE involved, no?
Make your website look like this: https://curl.se/
And not like this: https://www.databricks.com/
I assume you're working in a big company? In small company as a dev I have almost all the decision power regarding which software to choose, at the end I just need to justify the cost to management.
When this happened in my area, what the team did was resort to lobbying (legal bribery) to get officials to force the citizenry to pay for the damned thing.
oh i knew haha. It was just made very real by angus and he told me the attack vectors to watch out for. I’m not a gun guy, which is why he told me to get some. Which I did.

-P4x
Show HN: Perfect Pitch – Guessing Musical Note as Game (Educational)
I've created a web app (no sign up or download required, completely free) that helps people develop their ability to identify different musical notes. I hope you all enjoy this!
I'd forgotten that some Debian folks tried the exactly opposite for a while, a FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland: https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
Why the ground planes are on layer 2 and 6 instead of 1 and 6 ?

Naively, as someone who doesn't have high frequency PCB design experience, I would have placed my grounds to form a shield and put my voltage plane on layer 3 or 4. I am sure that there is a good reason behind that choice but I don't see it.
Not if tax is on land value (excluding value of buildings) The supply curve is usually vertical so price is fixed by demand.

I do not know whether this system exists anywhere, but it is possible.
should add that it might not be a requirement at every location, but the last one I rented at it was. Plus side they did make sure the car was fully charged when I rented it at least.
Show HN: Gemcompat, an open source db of undocumented rails incompatibilities
TLDR: We created an open database of every gem version that’s silently incompatible with Rails.
How to watch the solar eclipse on Twitch via NASA, Fortnite, and Minecraft
The the 1980s the deduction for mortgage interest would have been significant, I suspect most people itemized then. And the huge standard deductions we have now are a fairly recent tax change.
30M Heist
>I don't get why you're being so hostile.

Where am I hostile?

>and I would say worse than average depreciation is a pretty big con

Depreciation accurately reflects current market demand. People need to take a good look at this and learn valuable lessons.

If demand for Tesla dropped then it's Tesla's problem. If demand for EVs dropped maybe it's time to reflect on why it dropped.
If you rent cars frequently, consider getting a credit card that includes free collision damage waiver and loss-of-use coverage for rental cars.

The coverage you buy from the rental company is a massive rip-off, that's why credit cards can offer it for free as a perquisite.
Lcevc
This makes zero sense to me, and I am a huge proponent of the defense of Ukraine.

This system has zero applicability in Ukraine.
I think Kia and Hyundai are dealing with reputation damage after their cars were so easy to steal for a couple years.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/04/business/hyundai-kia-thefts-i...
My god, not having enough on site fast chargers for both charging the fleet and reassuring renters that if nothing else they can come back to the airport and top up is really stupid
Israel never prohibited any factories. They have cars, computers, and a powerful army with ballistic munition know-how that’s rare. They could have smuggled in anything. Who said there are no X-ray machines in Gaza? Gaza had many hospitals before October 7th, ironically probably more than Israel itself.

So what Gazans did after the disengagement:
1. Electing Hamas into power
2. Ceasing having elections, instead opting for a Taliban style religious Islamist rule
3. Arming themselves to the teeth
4. Routinely shooting missiles, mortars and RPGs into Israeli civilians

They could have chosen to go on many paths.
IT still might not want you to follow the link.

* Other users might have, instead, an incompetently secured browser that they think is locked down on their work devices. It is hard for IT to distinguish between you and them.

* If the URL is personalized, it tells the attacker that the address is active. This is probably pretty limited help to the attacker. But it might tell them if your company emails follow a particular format, right?
AmEx has worked hard to keep their home turf around New York City friendly to their cards.
It's an April Fool's joke.

"jwt NETGATE 3 days ago
@johnpoz said in Serious ....:
I don't recall them doing things before about April fools
we (I) did, back in 2017 https://www.netgate.com/blog/building-a-behemoth-router
I even pointed to it in today's."

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/187100/serious/6?_=171214303...
> Simplest solution is to use local atomic clocks. And then calculate Earth time when needed.

Which is exactly what OP was suggesting, everyone else went off on a tangent.
Coding Principles for HTML Emails
Isn't there some kind of common threshold for higher management approval, like five hundred bucks, that enterprise software sales try to slip under ?
The software that I've seen advertised and then introduced myself to corporate environments is software that I can play with at home first. I'm not going to go through hassle of the purchasing department if I don't have extremely high confidence it'll be solve real problems and be worth the effort.

I have multiple cases where there's software I know works, but I don't know if it works for my situation. Not being able to test it means that we're going with the default "safe" option, which is almost always someone else.
For the FDA "working towards" could take several years.

The FDA knew since at least 2019 that baby food sold in the US (Gerber, Beech-Nut, Parent’s Choice, Earth’s Best Organic, etc.) contains dangerous levels of heavy metals but they did nothing about it at all until they were shamed by media attention which triggered an investigation from the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy who then put out a couple of damning reports.

To this day Americans continue to spoon-feed poison into the mouths of their infant children, and the FDA has yet to even set action levels which would tell companies how much poison is too much. They keep pushing back their timeline and right now they think they might have just the first of several needed action levels finalized at the end of this year. (https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/clo...).

It's not like they only drag their feet when it comes to poisoned babies either, they also fail to act on reports of dangerous or unlawful clinical trial practices (https://www.science.org/content/article/fda-s-own-documents-...)

I don't know if it's regulatory capture, bribes, a lack of funding/support from government, or incompetence but we really need a strong FDA that actually does their job.
Love that John Carpenter wrote the music.
From what I've seen the most desirable vehicles on used car lots are former rentals. Maybe slightly behind cars that fell off of a lease. There's always the stories about people who rent cars so they can thrash them in street races or whatnot, but really most rentals are for businesspeople who need to get around a city for a bit. The companies usually try to keep up on the basic maintenance items as well, which is not always the case for used cars. You get a fairly new car with higher than average but not crazy miles for a decent price.

These Teslas should also qualify for the $4000 used EV tax credit as well, which could make them quite an affordable option.
I am still looking forward to have the same range of choices in Vercel Functions as in other serveless cloud environments, specially since they seem to build up on top of AWS Lambda and AWS Linux containers.

Right now it is hope the community offerings are good enough, or create a build image from scratch myself.

Not really "developer experience that is impossible to beat".
I think the conversation around this would be much more advanced if the Commons Clause-like non-commercial clauses were accepted as legitimate open-source approaches.

A non-commercial clause basically guarantees that corporations can't hijack OSS projects or they can't pressure the maintainers to the point of burnout.

And similarly, OSS projects who explicitly allow commercial usage could point to their licence and require financial support before fixing issues/merging PRs from interested companies.
> In the case of a human studying, a person puts in effort and gets rewarded for their efforts.

When someone needs something composed, they don't learn how to write music. They pay someone else the bare minimum, e.g. a few bucks on fiverr. The person will spend the least possible amount of effort to try to make their life go around with the little money they got.

When you then use an AI model, the work done for those five bucks is replaced by work done for almost free.

Neither the person you would hire or the AI credited those who created the material they trained on.
Also true for Australia! When they regulated interchange, merchants did not pass the savings on to consumers.[1]

[1] https://laweconcenter.org/resources/the-effects-of-price-con...
Incredible work. Crazy that this could be done by a single person. Stick it on a rotating pedestal and you've got a planar radar detector. Add some tilt and then it's not much different than aircraft/weather radar I suppose.

The cost (in $LOCAL_CURRENCY, or $570 according to another comment) isn't great but I can only imagine how many hours this took.

Given a proper budget, the sky is the limit.

Anyone know how .mil aircraft would interpret being tracked by a 6 GHz radar build by a civilian(yes I am aware that his estimated max distance is 1200m, assume he increased that by a factor of 10 with larger antennas or something)?
You almost can; just put in the same cost of 20 miles' worth of petrol in electricity and the thing will go for ages.
See also the recent HN discussion around an article on how the Ultraviolet Catastrophe could not have been what drove Planck to his radiation law.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345618
Digital Ocean have hosted Postgres databases located in Europe.
It would take me just as long to get my phone out of my pocket as it would to get my wallet out. Plus a lot of machines have tap pay now if your card supports it.
That's not universally true, both battery chemistries are in use and still being sold new (I believe the smaller batteries are using the new "100% safe" chemistry, while the long range variants are using the "keep the charge around 70-80%" chemistry.)

The car will alert you if it's not safe to charge frequently to 100% when you set the charge limit.
Holy hell this.

If more software companies put effort in documentation, web environments in the browser were is it possible to try the tools, provide many and good examples they would instantly push themselves way ahead of the competition.
I heard one time someone make the the distinction between 'big E' Embedded and 'little e' embedded. Little e is classic embedded where you need some computation next to inputs. That's generally where you see talk of real time. Then there's big E where you have devices that you aren't really supposed to interact with via a keyboard, screen, or shell prompt for the most part, but have closer to server compute, like storage appliances or high end car head units.
First comment I see that addresses this. This is a big part of accepting and paying cash. Tax evation. From both sides.
Quite interesting. I've had one encounter with such a credit card, which I only used for making a rather large payment over the course of four months without having to pay interest. To me, that was the attraction, not having to adjust my monthly budgeting much and also not having to dip into savings. My bank would have said 'yeah, lol, you pay our 8% interest if you want a loan you could actually cash out at any time'.

Where I live credit cards are still relatively uncommon, most cards in use are debit, and from the article it seems they have a simpler scheme behind them. The idea to have a 'book-buyers credit card' seems quite foreign, though I think some people have gas-station-related cards.
Readers beware that, like most random testing/imaging, this can lead you down an expensive road with no resolution in sight. Liver markers are frequently elevated, non-symptomatic and with no obvious cause in healthy individuals. It starts with blood tests and progresses to imaging and invasive biopsy.

I suggest finding a good doctor instead and letting them manage the frequency and depth of testing like this. Many chronic liver diseases aren’t curable or even satisfactorily treatable. Losing weight, watching carb intake, and avoiding alcohol are the big preventative measures.
100%. If you've ever found yourself buying something (a rather likely event, in most lifetimes) the goods most likely didn't just magically end up in your cart (virtual or real) and you made the purchase. Somehow you ended up looking at that product in particular, and made the decision to buy it. You may not think about all the steps that occurred along the way as marketing, but they are. Whether that be how the results showed up on the search engine or the shelves in a store, to the names and descriptions that let you know what it is and what you'll get out of it, and so on.

Marketing is a massive discipline, it isn't just the cringy ads we see all the time. As with many things in life, you don't tend to notice those who are doing it well, just those who are doing it poorly.