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Felt really difficult to follow this article into any takeaways about the payments industry, it could be that I am just dumb though. Had to plug it into chatgpt to effectively get "it is challenging to use Visa's overall revenue growth as a straightforward indicator of broader economic health."
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>Your opposing a tax cut does not make it a "scam".

The scam part comes from how the tax cut was marketed to Americans
It is probably worth noting that great technical employees aren't necessarily obsessed with tech in their day to day life, and don't necessarily follow the community online like a hawk. So while it's definitely worth posting job listings on Hacker News or sponsoring meetups, it's also worth noting that you'll still need to post on more traditional job boards to catch applicants that aren't all that interested in the social side of things.
> There is a recurring pattern where companies fight any kind of worker representation and unionization as hard as they can, paint vivid doomsday scenarios why it's actually bad for workers - and create the impression that it is futile because the company will never "play along" and just sabotage forever or even close locations etc.

Ex- used to work at Target. Watching anti-union videos was part of onboarding and quite regularly required at store meetings.
The impression I have is that right now, this war is seen as existential for both Russia, Ukraine, and several EU states.

For Ukraine, they need to win by such a severe margin that Russia doesn't even think to lick its wounds, rebuild its strength, and try again.

For Russia… well, it's really about Putin. And he dares not show any sign of weakness, which would include ceding the "loss" of the territory which he has officially claimed to recognise as part of Russia.

The EU has several ex-Soviet and ex-Warsaw-pact states which openly regard a Russian victory to be an existential threat (as in "we're next"); this would remain the case regardless of what happens with NATO. But NATO does also exist, and even if the USA leaves the UK has a significant arms industry that would come in addition to that of also-EU members like France.

I don't think China cares beyond the degree to which it might take focus away from whatever it is they want to do. They seem to be quite content to rapidly ramp up their industrial capacity and general economic output, be the world's factory and hypermarket.

The west collectively is, I think, worried about escalation precisely because of the nuclear option. Our leaders want Russia to leave Ukraine in peace and recognise its sovereignty, while also itself remaining stable as it does so… which I don't think is possible, but I'd like it to be (and what do I know anyway, I'm software engineering, not international geopolitics).

Personally I suspect that the Russia nuclear arsenal is in a bad state: the main armed forces at the start of the invasion were terrible because they weren't expecting to not need to have to do more than show up, and similar logic applies to nukes.

But!

1) One small nuke is enough for a high-altitude EMP to cause severe issues.

2) I wouldn't want to risk an entire country on a dice roll.
LLMs are great at non-mechanical application
Interesting article, but I got cognitively tripped by the improper use of "deduct". In context, I believe the author wanted "deduce".

The big takeaway I got is that it was a mistake to let corporations set up electronic money. The US government let a few corporations set up and conduct electronic money transactions, so not only do we as a society have to pay for our money, we have to do this article's type of kremlinology to understand data we should have open and free access to.
Disclaimer: I'm no expert, just an enthusiast.

For me, the feeling of being well-designed or expertly crafted is what sets the array languages apart. Learning one concept often (intuitively, for me at least) extends to many other parts of the language.

For example, in Q the comma operator concatenates arrays:

q) 1 2 , 3 4 5 // returns 1 2 3 4 5

...but it also merges dictionaries (duplicated key `x gets the new value):

q) (`a`b`c!1 2 3),`c`d!4 5
a| 1
b| 2
c| 4
d| 5

...and also joins tables by row. Sure this is "just" operator overloading, but it's so deeply ingrained in the language it doesn't feel jarring or bolted-on like in other languages.

Building a program is less about crafting bespoke abstractions and more about using the existing building blocks, which leads to a semantic uniformity that's rare to find in other languages. Or at least, it's easier to get your job done using only built-in features and not have to resort to custom abstractions.
tl;dr: They acquired an app called Onavo, with 10 million customers, and used it to install a CA certiticate thus allowing them to act as a MITM proxy.
The README tells me mechanically what swim does but even with the example it’s quite abstract and I don’t know why I would choose to build with swim, what it’s similar to, or what it’s especially good at.

I think with frameworks you should make the value proposition very clear otherwise it’s a tall ask for someone to adopt a way of building. Versus a library which is easy to drop into existing software to solve a specific, scoped task.

I guess a bunch of what I’m looking for is discussed in the main repo of your project, but even there it’s a bit heavy on the “what” and too light on the “why” for me. This is a deep framework. I work on a realtime reactive app and am currently building stateful services on Kafka + Typescript + SQLite, so I think I’m squarely in your target customer demographic.

It’s not until I found the website that the value proposition is clearly described. I encourage you to copy-paste the headline of your website to all the components of your framework, so it’s easier for a casually interested person on HN to grok what it’s all about.

EDIT: there’s like a 1% chance I actually do convert, since I realize I could run my existing Typescript business logic in a Rust agent via Deno… perhaps the scattered documentation hunt on a Sunday is good marketing strategy after all.
> There are already some limitations on birthright citizenship, for example we do not grant it to children born to diplomats visiting the USA.

That's largely because the US is a signatory of the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations. Children of foreign diplomats born in the United States are not automatically granted citizenship because they are not considered subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
> anyone who disagrees with me is a nazi and they all wear a thor hammer
> im speaking for every dane thats not a nazi

99% of all danes, sure bro..

> long winded paragraph about how vikings were angels

absolutely reddit brained
You also can use the fact that for any distribution, the median is never further than 1SD away from the mean.
That’s essentially what adding decoupling capacitance to a circuit does. All of this is going to be limited by the fact that without extra switching logic the entire circuit wants to be the same voltage, once your fast source drains enough, circuit voltage will start dropping and the source will begin sinking current as things balance.
The only EU border I know of that has a 24/7 checkpoint with gunned police is Germany Austria. And that is going on for years now. Nowhere else did I ever see a border here with permanent (and constantly heavy armed) checks.

Also I live in Switzerland an no border is controlled permanently, generally I only was controlled once many years ago.
> Studying humans properly is nigh-on impossible.

This is why I find the proclamation that "correlation != causation" so annoying. Of course it doesn't, but we cannot make a causative study of humans!
They don’t allow it, but you can work around it fairly easily. You have to order a programmable fiber sfp from AliExpress. ATT doesn’t enforce 802.1x auth of the hardware in my area any more so all I had to do was clone my modems serial number to the sfp.
That’s so infuriating. But, while the people in your story sound dumb, they still sound way more technically literate than 95% of society. Azure is blue, AWS is followed by OME.

Teach a 60 year old industrial powertrain salesman to use Linux and to redevelop their 20 year old business software for a different platform.

Also explain why it’s worth spending food, house, and truck money on it.

Finally, local IT companies are often incompetent. You get entire towns worth of government and business managed by a handful of complacent, incompetent local IT companies. This is a ridiculously common scenario. It totally sucks, and it’s just how it is.
There is no takeaway. It just says it is growing and seem like it will continue to grow, even tho day-by-day reality is clear that Visa (and mastercard) is losing marketshare in many places to national payment services and fintechs.
Much of US government debt is US social security debt, which is going to be drawn down over the next decade and a half.
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They don't want to hire someone who knows Pandas specifically. They want someone who can identify this technology, learn it and then possibly implement it. And more importantly - someone who can do the same when the situation calls for some other technology. This is the crux imo.
I feel like this is what Gemini is gonna end up doing longer term right? How can it act on complex tasks that aren't as simple as the ones shown? Have you implemented function calling to achieve these feats. btw?
I wonder where the interlocking corporate directorships plays in the pricing market place. I assume the original assessment that these interlocks are to coordinate price fixing for entire markets through out the world is correct. Obviously, computers, AI and Machine Learning makes this more efficient and easier to hide.
I think these people that come up with these schemes should be hung.

Interlocking directorates among the major U.S. corporations
https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/AA00024067/00001
"The results were immediate and substantial. Within just two weeks, Yesterday's Domains saw their revenue triple."

That's the project of one of the authors (https://x.com/mjhcodes/status/1816156147428048941). How does "Our team jumped into action." apply when it's one's own project?

For $69 USD/month I'd expect 20 minutes of a seasoned senior SaaS professional's time. The page lists a dozens of tasks they can work on. Either they're massively underselling themselves or it's some kind of marketing ploy to find founders with underperforming products and later sell them something else (for example ask for shares of the company).

A pricing of $1000 USD/month for 10h/week or such would fit better. That might exclude those early SaaS project which don't have much revenue yet but I think $69 is too low to be believable.
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It's a conspiracy!!!!
What a small world. I was just looking for wallpapers/ paintings of Tonsberg landscapes/seascapes yesterday. Off topic but didnt Edvard Munch have a summer house there and thus a lot of his settings are there? I'm from the States but I got to visit Tonsberg a few times when I worked in Norway Lovely little town that I hope I can visit again!

More topically, I encountered a lot of the latter group in Southern Norway and quite a few people from Sweden that were obsessed with Viking culture in a way that came off as Masculine cope.
>in many cases, to have to go to a different store to get a bottle of wine

Package stores where I grew up in NE were basically adjacent to grocery stores - not a huge deal honestly.
Visa hops are a normal, and usually accepted, thing tho. Ex. Thailand it's only 60 days. People still spend much longer there with short stops trough cheap AirAsia flights
Wouldn't it take a very powerful force to be able to simulate such complex substance and energy interaction?

And why would anybody want to simulate what it takes for this, to end up like it is now?

Surely a more harmonious and uplifting scenario could have been devised.

Doesn't seem like there's really anybody testing these simulations before deployment, or it might be more convincing ;)
Make an account...Wait 4 months for the correct subject to come along....
I'm actually willing to be more charitable than that. For many homeowners, less restricted zoning and construction would actually increase the value of the land by more than it would decrease the value of the dwelling (imagine converting a few single family homes into a multi-story apartment building, that's a _much_ more valuable use of the land). So, at least in some cases, it isn't entirely about their own personal enrichment. Lots of people do have honest desires to not see the "character" of the neighborhood change.

Now, I personally think that A) a static neighborhood is a slowly dying neighborhood and B) when almost every neighborhood acts this way the cumulative negative effects on society quickly become profound, but I can at least understand why, and can see the impulse as not an entirely selfish one. It's just naive and short sighted.
Good terrain generation is not trivial, either at world scale or down at eye level. The straightforward approach yields what you see in the article, a craggy heightmap which looks like almost nothing in reality and isn't particularly interesting to explore.

Dwarf Fortress for example starts with basic midpoint displacement but then does a lot of custom massaging.
People forget that the economy is not about money, it's about stuff - the goods and services that add (economic) value to our lives: food, shelter, video games, medical treatments, shoes, etc.

The problem isn't the deficit - it's the spending. When the government spends money, it takes people away from whatever other economic activity that person would be doing, and consumes their labor in service of the government instead. This reduces economic productivity, and we all end up with less stuff as a result.

The key is to focus on productivity in terms of stuff (not money) - everything else takes care of itself.

This is important because focusing on money and the deficit often inspire solutions that attempt to solve those problems, but at the cost of hurting productivity. Higher taxes, for example. Raising taxes may (arguably) raise revenue and reduce the deficit - but may well also reduce productivity. That would be bad.
How big was the bill? Was it much higher than estimated?
And Greece could go insolvent periodically to reset.

Can’t do a reset on a currency that isn’t yours.
What is the advantage of booze in grocery stores?
True; but the UK had at least three advantages: Huge post-war economic growth, a high export market (rebuilding Europe takes material) boosted by US aid to those countries, and the Bretton-Woods system made negotiating the debt easier by ironically relying on the stability of the US dollar.

The US would not have any of those advantages. There's not a more stable dollar alternative to look to, there's not an obvious ludicrous economic boom on the horizon, the export market's probably not growing that much, and US taxes don't have much headway to go up before being counterproductive and stalling growth (if they haven't already been doing so). Stalled growth results in less tax revenue, defeating the point of the tax increase.

In a nutshell, the UK was partially saved by the US and countries rebuilding themselves. The US has no savior.
I’ve never heard a mathematician object to the use of the phrase ‘bigger than’ to refer to the relation >.
I'm on FF, and it works for me. :shrug:
Great write up on all these procedural techniques in the web, really helpful.

If anyone is interested in a WIP procedural RPG level editor, check out https://github.com/gamedevgrunt/3D-Action-RPG-JavaScript
Right. PBMs and insurance make large profits, and that is additive to that of the manufacturers. I wonder what the total cost to patients of the drug is.
I discovered this yesterday night. I made a post on r/cyberpunk asking how come we don't have almost no modern day cyberpunk medias, and except for a few things nothing really came close to what i thought we would think of a cyberpunk future (for me, it would be similar to mirror's edge catalyst glossy distopic corporate world). Eventually to answer to a guy i started looking for postcyberpunk on reddit and i found a post that linked to this essay, but it was not available anymore on its website. so i had to time machine it.

It was a very and eyes opening read to me, because at least i found someone who agrees that we lack modern day cyberpunk medias. I envision it as something very fake and happy, everyone living in debt (but with the latest tech), clean cities and so on... it's a shame we don't have much of it. That's just my idea of course. Nothing would change with different esthetic but the same anti corpos and anti authoritarian themes

i don't know whether you play games, but cloudpunk - despite having the classic rainy days and neon esthetic - is a very nice walking simulator that doesn't rely too much on tropes and feels fresh, at least to me. There is humor, but it's not the oh you got the nerd reference humor, it's almost always a bitter humor, and i didn't find it shallow by any means, even if it's just a game and it's not questioning about the sense of life itself. it's just a city crushing its people, and you just want to do your job of delivering parcels, but of course the plot will become intertwined with something much bigger than that
> ...repealing jus soli and all the other racist dogwhistles.

Australia did the exact thing. Switch from Jus Soli to Jus Sanguinis. Some Jus Sanguinis countries have switched to some hybrid system that allows legal immigrants to get citizenship at birth.
What I've ways felt was a major advantage for Raspberry Pi compared to all of the other SBCs is that the Pi actually got regular updates. Maybe other SBC manufacturers started doing that too since I first got my hands on a Pi, but it definitely didn't use to be the case.

The ECS Liva would cost me €200 (€278 when avoiding webshops that look like scams) without memory. An RPi5B is €88. I don't think I'll get more than twice the use out of an ECS Liva if all I want to run is Pihole.

And remember, the point of the Raspberry Pi was not to bring a cheap, high performance computer to prototypers. It was created to aid schools in teaching kids about computers. They've changed their tune ever since just about everyone with a computer project started buying out their reserves, but making things easy for professionals was not part of the plan from the start.

If you have cheap access to better computers, make good use of that! I still find the RPi to be competitive for cheap, low-power compute, though.
> But some things will never change

> Try to show another way, but you stayin' in the dope game

> Now tell me, what's a mother to do?

> Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you

> You gotta operate the easy way

> "I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way

> Sellin' crack to the kids.

> "I gotta get paid," well hey—

> but that's the way it is.

(Tupac - Changes)
Yes, and then no.

> But is used to connect ideas that contrast.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/but

The way it's phrased puts "sees itself as a force of good" in contrast with "is bad".

"Is bad" doesn't make sense to be in contrast with "sees itself as...". It's more likely that it's "good [through influence/military]" in contrast with "bad [in CO2]".

Alternatively, perhaps it was meant as "(sees itself as) bad [in CO2]" but that's not much of an argument about anything.
>Apple has decent salaries for what it is

That's the thing. I dont know of any Apple Retail in the world that pays below average to their industry counterparts. And benefits are decent as well.
I assume most people would find a dominant dissonant. A V7 is difficult to figure out. A V9 sounds better.

To say blues doesnt sound dissonant sounds more like only adding the relative minor b5. Or British blues rock.
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One of these with Emulation Station should make a fantastic retro gaming machine! I'm using an Rpi 4 as one at present, but for sure it would be better with much more CPU power.
I wonder if this butts up against the fourth and fifteenth amendments, which touch on due process and justice not being delayed unnecessarily.

Randomness introduces inefficiency which implies delay
Comes from same origin. Both are "deduction".
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“Facebook Research” was the Onavo codebase, under a different name, signed by Facebook’s Enterprise certificate.
May be they're just little cautious
I think nationalism/ white supremacy are more so the issue. While they might not be Nazis, and in fact a lot of them really don't like Germans, I personally encountered a lot of the Scandanavian White purity types. They often use ancient Scandinavian history as a source of pride and to justify that type of superiorty. In fact I often tell people that Sweden and Norway have the most closeted racist society I've been exposed to. This is saying a lot considering I'm American!
Various linguists have done reconstructions of what PIE might have sounded like from projecting back through the descendent languages. There are several examples on YouTube.

Obviously none of them are 100% accurate but they may capture some of the feel of the language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCI4Y8VneP0
Yes completely agree. This is one of the things that PyBaMM doesn't do for you out of the box. I could have extended the article in many ways to cover all the optimizations you could do both with the physical battery or the model. Thanks for sharing the text book. I think my point which I should have stated more clearly was that maybe for smaller design spaces this might not be a bad approach but with batteries the space is huge. I co-authored a paper on optimally reaching the Pareto front using the and problem as an example actually. may be interesting reading for anyone else coming to this area. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062... Happy to share the pdf with anyone who wants to read the whole thing
I've visited the France Italy border near Menton fairly regularly over many years. Pre EU there were border controls then with the 'border free europe' they disappear completely for a while. Now they are back in a partial way because there were loads of African and similar illegal immigrants and none of the countries really want them so the French set up controls to try to stop them crossing from Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft gives some numbers:

> For a comparison with ground transportation - much slower and with shorter range than air travel - a Volvo bus 9700 averages 0.41 L/100 km (570 mpg‑US) per seat for 63 seats.[113] In highway travel an average auto has the potential for 1.61 L/100 km (146 mpg‑US)[114] per seat (assuming 4 seats) and for a 5-seat 2014 Toyota Prius, 0.98 L/100 km (240 mpg‑US).

and a Airbus A320neo has a fuel efficiency per seat of 1.94 L/100 km (121 mpg‑US)

It all depends on the load factor.
> even tho day-by-day reality is clear that Visa (and mastercard) is losing marketshare in many places to fintechs.

Do you have any evidence for that at all? The majority of fintechs I can think of (at least the ones that provide cards, either debit or credit) do so on the Visa or MC payment rails.