skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Almost everybody writing about credit cards on the Internet receives some sort of spiff if you sign up after clicking through tagged links in their material.

This is something that really can't be said loud enough. The vast majority of credit card content on the Internet is just shilling for referral money. Like almost all of it. There's so much money in this space, and most people have no idea.

That's why Doctor of Credit is the only site I'll ever visit/use - https://www.doctorofcredit.com/were-removing-all-credit-card...

About a decade ago I found some blog about credit card rewards and signed up for their mailing list. The owner of the blog emailed me directly saying how he's going to "guide me through the process" and was pushing me to sign up for certain credit cards for sign up bonuses and wanted to know if I had any questions. He was acting like he was a friend just trying to guide me. I was a little taken aback but replied I was going to spend a large amount of money soon and I wanted to earn a sign up bonus for it and I found a sign up bonus that was comparable to what he was pushing on me from Navy Federal. I asked what he thought of it. He said it was no good and I needed to use the cards he was pushing for XYZ reason, blah,blah,blah. It was so fucking sketchy, I stopped responding, unsubbed from the mailing list, and sent all his emails in the trash. Never visited the blog again.

I didn't realize until later how much money he stood to earn from me using his sign up links and the only thing wrong with Navy Federal offer was it wouldn't earn him anything.

I ended up becoming really familiar with the major credits after that.
Good thing browser aren't able to display content of random unvetted third parties in exchange for money on any website you visit too :)

Adblock is a security measure at this point.
Question for everyone ITT: what would you use as an alternative to Helm for parameterizing kubernetes manifests? Also, how do you handle the secrets that need to go in the yaml?

Previosly I used Terraform for this but am starting a new project and would like to avoid TF for management of actual k8s resources, despite it having some advantages.
> Can the government also pursue Inhance for the cost of damages incurred by the continued use of PFAS based on new science?

That's up to a judge, and if necessary, the supreme court.

Lotta people don't give enough credit to a system that has been around longer than most others in the world. There's a reason why everyone bets on the USA, there are contingencies for contingencies for contingencies. If it's important enough it will get done.

On the flip side, imagine if a crony in the EPA could arbitrarily ban products from companies that didn't donate enough to a certain political party.
A lot of that depends on how you value the flights (a lot of the benefit comes from being able to do international business class one way with points very easily, but those tickets being very expensive in cash), but it is pretty straightforward if you both optimize the earning, optimize the spend, and optimize the points programs.

To give you an example, a business class ticket from Seattle to Taipei with EVA (a very nice airline) is about $8000 round trip or $6000 one way. You can book it for 75,000 Aeroplan points one way. That is 1-2 credit card signups.

But Aeroplan also lets you have a stopover in the middle of a trip and lets you string together up to 6 flights and only pay based on the distance.

So you could do Seattle, do a layover in Taipei, have a stopover in Manila, stay a day in Singapore, and then land in Darwin Australia for 92,500. Which is closer to 2 credit cards, but still easily achievable in a month or two. But the value of that trip when I did something similar was closer to $12,000. Prices out at around $9000 for my test dates for the flights I did.

Now, you need to take many trips a year to do that as a single individual (which I am), but the referral streams for credit card signups are also very powerful, so get a Player 2 as it is called, and you can easily get 20-30% more on your signup bonuses and each person can also do the bonus.

And that is just business class. Once you start getting into First Class redemptions (hard to do, but the serious people manage it), the value can easily be the equivalent of a 12K for a simple round trip, yet alone stacking First Class products as many programs let you do.

Some of the pricing is also probably last minute. Points costs fall last minute, but cash prices rise. That boosts your cost per point, or CPP as we call it.
It plays out this way because anything anyone buys with a credit card, reward card or not, ends up costing 2-3% more than it would otherwise have, because of interchange fees. If you have a rewards card, the CC issuer turns around and gives you, say, half of that back (1% cashback on everything) and keeps the rest. It's kind of like a tax break that you only qualify for if your credit score is above a certain threshold, but you have to pay into regardless of income/credit score.
I can give discounts to customers however I want to, thank you. As long as the customer knows what card they are going to use, they know exactly what the cost will be. I am all for posting sales tax rates as well as any transaction processing fees at the door, too, though.
Sorry for the confusion there, but I bought that up as a point that their rulings have been so bad that even the current, extremely partial SC, has been forced by the politics of the situation to slap down their rulings. It’s as if your own friends tell you you’ve gone a bit too far.
Financial freedom with tech money: my open source journey and guide
I think it's not said often enough that LLMs hadn't solved translation problem or anything: we only got a new tool, and it is not a perfect universal everything tool.

- classical MTs: just jarring, "every work and without slack produce blunt child lift"
- pre-LLM AI MT: most natural, but drops expressions that it's not sure about: "We choose to visit in this decennial and it's not easy."
- LLM: too US English centric, dry, and weighing flows over content too much: "Is it one obsolete-aesthetic word? So scary to say that."

All these are useful, just none are panacea to translation problem(including humans).
> Starting from the event that Able attacked Baker without mentioning the reasons or the context clearly portrays Baker as not having done anything to provoke such an attack.

Adding at "step zero" with that information in would not change my argument at all. The relative righteousness of the two sides has nothing to do with strategy selection. For the purposes of this abstract argument, it's unnecessary fluff.
To clarify, the stereotypical person who'd be likely to be selling saffron is likely a trader/merchant who's been at it for decades. Such people are excellent at business but often struggle with technology (no offense meant, you don't need to be good at tech to be a good/nice person). I wouldn't except this kind of person to know what a # does for headings.

(It's possible they asked some younger kid/nephew for help - again speaking from experience as I've seen this trend a lot as an Asian myself - and younger gens would likely know how to use a hashtag/pound, but younger gens are generally quite decent with English too. Again, this is in general - of course there are exceptions which this article appears to be.)
This doesn't even need to be a hypothetical. We know that the attacked currently do not need to do this, because they don't. Darwin's law is very much in effect for scams of all types.
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The benefit for the customer is getting 2% back when prices are only 1.5% higher than they would be “otherwise” because of cash and debit payments.

The disadvantage to the customer is increased spending because of how easy it is, which probably far outweighs the 2%.
> There's been very little new in computing since the arpanet was invented.

Now there's a hot take!

I suppose for this assertion to work, you'd have to consider Arpanet orders-of-magnitude more sophisticated an advancement than modern gaming, blockchain, VR, LLMs with fully integrated real-time image processing... all just minor increments?
Learning patterns doesn't get you a court-viable record of what they steal over multiple visits to push them over a specific money threshold.

So the most the gait-tracking computer can do is alert that a flagged person might have entered and needs to be strongly identified in some other way. But if loss prevention already knows them on sight then that system is minimally useful.
Do they account for the different interchange rates on different classes of cards within a processing network? Not every merchant will want to be that granular, but I think it is worth it for big ticket items.
There was a study by the Federal Reserve that came to the conclusion last year that rewards cards is basically a money transfer of ~$15 billion from poor to rich per year. Discussion on Hacker News about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34492502
There is absolutely no equivalence between Ukraine and Gaza, in fact, it is disguising to suggest as much.
My experience disagrees with this analysis. Everyone in leadership has enough of a seasoning of cynicism and sociopathy to trivially evade the common filter for transactionality.
There are all kinds of fancy container OS distros and such, but if you just want to get going, just go with good old ubuntu or debian.
Runtipi: Docker-based home server management
Recently it took off (and I do mean recently: post covid).

You have ex-crypto/dropship bros who turned to sport betting to make 'millions'. basically they're rolled by the apps for half their bets, their winnings are the payment, and their balance is always positive since their EV is 1.60 (when normal customers EV is .80).

That, plus advertising on college sports (including 'free bets'), it is really a big thing, even for 30yo+ people to be fair.
OK, so stop me.

OK, so you also disagree with the Fourth Geneva Convention, then? You'd be fine with Syria joining forces with Hezbollah and iraqi militias to take Golan and north of Israel by force and expelling or subduing through apartheid whatever population they come across? I have a feeling that e.g. the small groups of circassians that still exist and live in northern Israel might disagree with you and prefer another international legal order.

I don't think it's made to appease "Western Hamas supporters". They've clarified that the enemy is zionists, which is a much larger group than "the Jews", as the previous charter put it. Some, like you, seem to interpret "the Jews" in the old text as 'all the jews in the world', while Hamas leaders have said that they meant the jews of Israel. Ahmed Yassin has said, on camera, that his movement doesn't have a problem with jews, but with occupiers, and that if a muslim stole his land he would resist that too.

A problem with your interpretation is that many palestinians aren't aware that there are jews elsewhere in the world, or that zionism is a predominantly christian project rather than a jewish one, so when they are refering to 'the jews' one needs to figure out whether they mean israeli jews or jews in general.

Has the UN demanded that Poland and France do so? Are Poland and France states imposing apartheid on germans, or have they ethnically cleansed these areas?

Kinda weird racist remark about arabs being inherently genocidal at the end there. Maybe edit it and make it less weird?
Debian is a popular choice, as is Ubuntu Server LTS. I've chosen Ubuntu Server LTS as my base. It's a nice compromise between the rock solid stability of Debian, whilst allowing for some more recent sofftware package releases in the repositories.

If you'd like to dive in more as a newbie to self hosted docker containers for personal software, check out https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/containers-101/

These guys package popular software projects in a reliable format, and they have some good guides to get started.
But if the pressure of hydrogen was the same as the partial pressure of hydrogen before, wouldn't it be the same? I mean, if the materials could stand that partial pressure, why wouldn't they be able to stand that pressure in the absence of CO?

Unless of course that actually took it below atmospheric pressure so all the forces went in the opposite direction.
He has written about it before, but listening to the podcast, the most interesting part for me that led to the Freund's discovery is that the hotspot had no debugging symbols attached to it. In free software, trying to hide something actually makes it stick out more.

I wonder if a subsequent, more sophisticated attack could add some bogus debugging symbols to better hide its track.
Can confirm:

We're spinning up a local newspaper site that covers the crime, decay and the hope filled people that are correcting the problems. The local incumbent paper refuses to cover any of it.

Of course, this is considered right-wing.
I like contactless just because for some reason, my cards always get beat up and the chips become problematic on my cards after about a year. They just sit in my wallet. But half the time I go to pay with my card, I have to dip twice because the first time, the chip reader always says it is unable to read the chip.

I've also had issues at Walmart where I know some lanes to flat out avoid because the chip readers will always reject my card for unable to read the chip. With my phone, this isn't an issue. Even if I get a new card, wait 8-12 months and its the same problem again.
And that's Tesla. I don't even have to use a payment card, I just pull up and plug in. No drama, no fuss.
The article mentions NewsGuard rated these outlets. It is important to note that the former CIA director, Michael Hayden, is involved. Maybe NewsGuard is legitimate, but having a CIA director on the board is very weird.
> Can I take this a step further and say that advertising is the true problem here? I tend to think most things should be legal, but advertising most things should be banned.

Yes.

Advertisement is in practice predatory. Predatory psychology. It’s not a symmetrical exchange of want-information vs. has-information. It preys on us.

And I don’t think lotteries are particularly bad. They sell daydreaming and one-in-ten-million chances. Not a bad thing for anyone in moderation. Not that last part: all other vice sellers (candy, other unhealthy food, tobacco, alcohol) have no better arguments for their existence.
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I'm not.

Please show me.
Quantization and CPU mode and hybrid mode where the model is split between CPU and GPU exist and work well for LLMs, but in the end more VRAM is a massive quality of life improvement for running (and probably more for training, which has higher RAM needs and forbwhich quantization isn't useful, AFAIK) them, even ifbyou technically can do them on CPU alone or hybrid with no/lower VRAM requirements.
I use helm for parametrization, so I'd be happy to hear alternatives.

For secrets I'm a big fan of https://external-secrets.io/latest/ paired with a cloud vault, which allowed me to offload secret production/maintainance to the resource teams.

I tried using TF to manage kube manifests, I hated it all around and moved away immediately, so I agree with you.
> perhaps others can hide it better

Precisely. Compartmentalization is a critical skill at the executive level. You cannot simply let every emotion play out on your face and expect to not be an open book.
That's why you need an extensible serialization system: to handle data that isn't copyable or whose copies would require memory allocation.
Also, it works mentioning that kvrocks is more mature and supports many more commands than what SableDb currently supports
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I did some rookie testing between KVRocks and sableDB using Redis Benchmark

KVRocks

PING_INLINE: 171821.30 requests per second, p50=0.183 msec
PING_MBULK: 173310.22 requests per second, p50=0.191 msec
SET: 115074.80 requests per second, p50=0.399 msec
GET: 163398.70 requests per second, p50=0.271 msec
INCR: 110741.97 requests per second, p50=0.415 msec
LPUSH: 89847.26 requests per second, p50=0.487 msec
RPUSH: 94428.70 requests per second, p50=0.487 msec
LPOP: 86880.97 requests per second, p50=0.535 msec
RPOP: 88339.23 requests per second, p50=0.527 msec

SableDB

PING_INLINE: 90744.10 requests per second, p50=0.279 msec
PING_MBULK: 90826.52 requests per second, p50=0.279 msec
SET: 85763.29 requests per second, p50=0.311 msec
GET: 87336.24 requests per second, p50=0.295 msec
INCR: 68775.79 requests per second, p50=0.663 msec
LPUSH: 36589.83 requests per second, p50=1.031 msec
RPUSH: 38299.50 requests per second, p50=1.135 msec
LPOP: 38051.75 requests per second, p50=1.191 msec
RPOP: 37383.18 requests per second, p50=1.143 msec

KVRocks seems faster but certainly not a bad start
https://app.suno.ai/song/1dc75742-0e0e-4d5a-97b6-d00b9cffc2f... or https://app.suno.ai/song/19b86cb0-3f4a-4ed4-9aae-c9c2604321f...

And the overproduced version: https://app.suno.ai/song/1e0bf4e2-7850-4401-85db-799a763f732...
Bloomberg’s old ‘guy yeeting the monitor’ one. Sadly missed.
Debian is the simplest option I think. It's easy to install and use, and there are lots of guides that are Debian focused out there.
One of my bigger concerns with AI is its potential to spread misinformation, but does anyone know of folks using the models for detecting it? I'm not into the AI hype but I feel that's one area that has some potential benefit.
Agreed. 99% of the time I hear horror stories of disgruntled kube folks it is actually Helm that they are upset about not kube itself. I avoid Helm at all costs.
I'm not sure what are you asking, is the question "what do I need on a fresh system to start running containers"? In which case all you need is to install the docker packages from the repositories in the distro of your choice (Debian Stable is a good starter for servers). Or are you asking what do you base your docker container on?
define weird?
Someone has to be the advocate for the thing the government is trying to regulate/ban, we have an adversarial court/justice/law system in this country. Of course the party with the most to lose is going to be the one on the side of against it and of course that party is going to stop advocating when they no longer have that interest.

It's a good thing that people with something to lose can influence the government and make their voices heard. It's the job of the regulators to take that information and correctly weigh it against the interests of the people they represent. The problem is and has always been the regulators.

You're painting Dupont as the bad guy for advocating for themselves while giving a pass (passively) to the people who are supposed to be advocating for us.
Perhaps we can go beyond "disable" and have the ability to DELETE all application code related to Siri?

Similar to Microsoft having to separate/unbundle their web browser from their operating system.
It's the main reason my dad (who isn't an academic but does work on R&D in the aerospace industry) won't touch LibreOffice. He's constantly bothering people to see if he can use one of their Office licenses because he hates the LibreOffice equation editor.

My handwriting is completely illegible, even to myself most of the time, so ever since I was a teenager I would type out all my homework, including math homework, so I've developed pretty strong opinions on math formatting. I've gotten good enough with TeX that I don't really have anything I can't easily do, but my dad has, for reasons kind of unknown to me, has had a strong aversion to learning LaTeX, despite the fact that I have offered dozens of times to teach him, so he just sticks with MS Office.
> And even then it's more hatred of M4 than it is anything in autoconf per se.

To be fair, M4 is rather…special. And when you add that in a Makefile template with shell thrown into the mix it gets _very_ hairy.
I got told multiple times that such a combination tree is a shit idea. Firstly that genes get "diluted" and the resulting fruits aren't good. Then that the earliest variety will consume the most of available resources and any later fruit will not get a chance to grow. How good are your apples?
Switzerland's "Fiber Optic Dispute"
>> Is the moving-sand approach fundamentally desirable thing (I can't imagine why) or is it just a simplification for the proof of concept?

I suspect this is about operating temperatures. If you run pipes through the thermal mass then you will be slowly heating/cooling the entire mass. That means the temp will be constantly changing and would basically never be at optimum. But by withdrawing small amounts of sand to be cooled/heated separately, the bulk can remain at an optimum. Only the removed sand is cooled. So your tank of "hot" sand remains at the same temperature until the last bit of hot sand is gone, rather than it slowly cooling as you withdraw heat from the bulk. That no doubt makes thermal transfer more efficient and predictable.
That fail to detect even whether they're having white wine or red wine.*
Web/cloud tech is usually at the complete opposite of the software development spectrum from where C++ shines.

I thought they invented Go for these things?
And I'm sure a skilled editor could already edit out those tells.
And the line for your responsibility is where exactly? You want to be personally responsible for every single dependency you pull in, every piece of hardware between you and the end user? This is a farcial suggestion.

> They were creating and distributing porn

Unless they specifically trained their own model to do this - which they obviously didn't - this is just a bug. If we all got fired any time a bug happened, society would grind to a standstill. Shit happens, move on. What's important are intentions and taking reasonable precautions.
Also a song about him https://www.allmusic.com/song/henry-darger-mt0054857381
> Of course, this is considered right-wing.

In what way? You stated something generic without really explaining it. For example, maybe at the end of all your articles you have an advertisement for Trump? That's effectively what this pink slime does.
> Storage capacity hasn't been relevant for over a decade.

> Besides, we foolishly replaced "use shared modules to save storage space" with "build multi-gigabyte docker images because it's the only way to reliably launch a simple program without crashing on startup".

But... you just said it still is :) By two orders of magnitude now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/404
To be equally fair, in certain cases the non-licensing costs of Microsoft software are higher than the FOSS equivalent.

In fact, I'd argue that in some cases these are higher. A good example of this is that piece of shit that is Microsoft Teams - both the horrid security flaws and the ways it keeps breaking. I've used FOSS equivalents and they have a smaller attack surface and are more reliable.

They also play all sorts of user-hostile tricks that make vendor lock in possible, and this often has an underappreciated impact on delivery.
This is such a terrible take. In any market with Chicken or Egg problem, someone needs to move first. Sure, they could have been more conservative in their approach (easy to see in hindsight), but to say they jumped in "without thinking" is pure nonsense.
All debit cards can be run as credit (if they have a visa/mc logo on them at least) and many merchants/customers don’t know/don’t care.