skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not necessarily accurate

Actually accurate. "Merchant bank" is not the card holder's bank - it is the bank that actually settles transactions with the issuing bank (i.e. your credit card) and then deposits money into the merchant's actual bank account. Money flows through the merchant account. Incidentally, the merchant bank is at risk for fraudulent merchants as they are often advancing money (a few days early) to the merchant in anticipation of settling. Merchant banks can shut down merchants and they also have the power to require the merchants to leave an amount of money on deposit with them to mitigate risk.

> My bank does not offer the ability to reverse transactions or replace funds lost to merchants

Correct. Your bank does not have that power - you have to initiate a chargeback, and that is ultimately handled by the MSP. Incidentally, if you have a credit card, the issuer (often a bank) initiates the chargeback process.
It's not just the political appointees. One pillar of Project 2025 is that OMB will make a rule by which almost any employee of any executive agency can be ruled a "political appointee" and fired and replaced by the president at any time.
> Visa and its smaller rival Mastercard have surged over the past two decades, reaching a combined market cap of roughly $1 trillion.

In the US there actually exists (begins to exist) now a cheaper alternative to credit card payments: FedNow. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow

It's an instantaneous bank transfer, without a credit card company in the middle extracting rents.

For dodgy/disreputable online shops, credit cards will still be better, due to the possibility of chargeback. And of course for actually buying things on credit. But for most regular cases, this shouldn't be necessary.

Systems like FedNow are already highly successful in India (UPI) and several other countries.
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https://visgl.github.io/react-map-gl/ is a react interface to MapLibre
How many of us here could steal 8 billion, do orgies at work, and escape with 2 years of prison?

If the justice department was doing their job, and justice is blind... all of us?
You can try my website, I guarantee you'll be satisfied, haha.
What a weird take. There are just a few emphasized words in the commit message.
In my experience, `zig cc` is great at cross-compiling (which is a hard problem that it solves!) but doesn't actually help with the rest of the problem.

You still have to run cmake/autoconf/meson/whatever else, which is the part that's project-specific and often quite fiddly.
Telling Pakistian they have to correct course if they are to avoid massive human toll is not "mucking around in local politics".
> More than one-third (37%) of business leaders say AI replaced workers in 2023

I just read one CNBC. This can mean whatever because "AI" can mean whatever they want and "business leaders" will get fired for saying we don't have "AI Strategy" . Markets are hostile to any "business leader" who isn't BS-ing that they are replacing jobs with AI.
HTML is rather different because it's authored by people. It's typically (though not always!) a good idea to not be too pedantic about accepting user input if you can. XHTML (served with the correct Content-Type) will completely error out if you made a typo and didn't test carefully enough. Useful in dev cycle? Sure. In production? Less so. "The entire page goes tits up because you used <br> instead of <br />" is just not helpful (and also: needlessly pedantic).

But that doesn't really apply to protocols like TCP. Postel's "law" is best understood in the context of 1980, when TCP had been around for a while but without a real standard, everyone was kind of experimenting, and there were tons of little incompatibilities. In this context, it was reasonable and practical advice.

For a lot of other things though: not so much. "Fail fast" is typically the better approach, which will benefit everyone, especially the people implementing the protocols.

This is also why Sendmail became the de-facto standard around the same time by the way: it was bug-compatible with everything else. Later this become a liability (sendmail.cf!), but originally it was a great feature.
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I started with the World Editor from Warcraft 3 around that age, creating custom maps, gamemodes and spells/abilities. It has scripting capabilities that is somewhere between GUI code and actual code. There's also a lovely community around the World Editor over on https://hiveworkshop.com. Picking the latest custom spell updated as a showcase, if you expand the "Spoiler: Triggers" you can see how the "code" looks like: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/frost-field-v1-0-1.3556...

There are a lot of custom maps in that game that has later become their own standalone games, the most well-known is probably Dota 2 that is the successor to the DotA custom map in Warcraft 3. I hear the Warcraft 3: Reforged update brough Lua support, but the "old" way of using the GUI or JASS is still supported so there is a natural learning path from the simpler GUI code to more advanced JASS or Lua code.
Well, the blog is called Engineers Need Art.

I think your reluctance comes from a different prioritization. The writer is clearly interested in developing their creativity (and are wildly succeeding!). The project is the means to do that. Continuing on a project even after it no longer is the best use of your time is just a type of sunk cost fallacy.
Missouri is about to execute a man even the prosecution believes is innocent
I have no words.
There are several different caucuses within the Democratic Party. Some of them are the pro-corporate types you're referring to. But there is also a Progressive caucus that is pretty pro-worker pro-tax that I think you're missing out on.
Yes, get it from Microsoft Store, it is digitally signed, autoupdates and offers you the best windows experience.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639635
we are talking about paying subscribers.
The second is (and has been) defined independent of length for a while. It's the time it takes for a certain number oscillations of a caesium atom.

The meter was redefined as the distance light travels in a specific time. So you could say that either the meter or the speed of light was redefined to make the speed of light a round constant, but not the second.
I don't remember that part, but I guess it was a good thing I was in school during work hours.
Ask HN: Ever hit a professional goal but felt surprised by your reaction?
Like a lot of us, I think about trying to work for myself, but then I wonder if I'd be happier running marketing AND software dev? Sometimes I think I'd rather be an in-person worker rather than a remote one. I'm interested in hearing some stories of people making big changes and being surprised in both negative and / or positive directions.
The reason floating crypto isn't viable as a domestic currency is it's a taxable capital gains/loss event every transaction, and not directly useful in paying those taxes. A recordkeeping nightmare, intentionally created by the tax masters.
A newer version of the browser does work, so I guess the bug was fixed recently.
Try TIC80
https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80

Very mice, multi programming language support
> AFAIK, you can't view any tweets unless logged in these days

You can view a single tweet, but it won't display a thread for you unless you log in.
Ignoring the huge issue of political will, how much more or less effective would street cars be on these lines, compared to buses?
The Brits used to run the place until 1947 but we were asked to leave.
Meanwhile back in reality: Jack Dorsey being involved from the beginning
Chances increase dramatically if we cooperate in testifying against the perceived "mastermind", as Ms. Ellison did.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639635
I've done my best to optimize it, although there's still room for improvement, but it's quite challenging (but I'll give it a try). The reason is that we're constrained by the browser's UI thread being single-threaded, so almost all online JSON tools will lag or freeze when handling large amounts of data (e.g., over 1MB).
The US financial system discourages mature companies from making the kinds of investments necessary to stay relevant indefinitely. Maybe in a Jack-Welch-free world Sears would have become Amazon, but in our world a mature company has to maximize this quarter's profits, over and above all concerns about the future.
Proof once again that justice at its highest levels in the US is to punish the poor and middle class and slap the rich on their wrists. There are people who have stolen food to eat who have gotten harsher punishments.
> You can just disable secure boot, no? I just got a brand new laptop today, and I could just disable it. I know you can get Linux to work with it, but I can't be arsed to mess about with it and the practical security benefits for me are basically zero.

An imagined conversation:

“Mom, I want to disable secure boot so I can try a free operating system.”

“Oh no you don’t. Security is important.”

This won’t happen to anyone who actually knows what they’re talking about, but it’s having a real impact on the pipeline for getting there. The conversation isn’t as imagined as all that.
If you want to make life difficult for yourself another way, you should try interacting with the Indian bureaucracy without a local mobile phone number.
It's called a plea deal. She helped out the investigation and got other people convicted. She probably would have gotten no sentence at all if the crime hadn't been so bad.

The Judge "believed Ms. Ellison was genuinely remorseful and that her cooperation had been substantial."

The remorseful bit is a very important component here. She didn't commit the crime with the intention of gaming the system later to get away with it.

Personally, I'm okay with this. It's a huge incentive for others involved in a criminal enterprise to do the same thing in the future. It's worth letting one person off lightly to guarantee you get everyone else.
I have no skin in the game, and can't judge the sincerity of her remorse, but 2 years seems astonishingly low, given she was a senior executive of a multi-billion dollar fraud.

Almost makes it worth having a go at one.
You know to look because you see a QT or reply and where the original tweet would be, there's a message about how you can't see the tweet. It's been like that forever.
You've repeatedly been deleting and reposting this flagged comment. That's not a legit way to get around the moderation system here (which includes user flags). We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it any more.
Yes, Versatiles is a nice truly open project! One of the long term plans for OpenFreeMap is to migrate to Shortbread + Versatiles styles.
Add to that list: recyclable (PVC, not so much).
Reminder that Visa isn't really the problem: [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1dyb7t0/whats_going...
Just out of curiosity, what do the orgies have to do with prison time? Are orgies at work illegal?
Amazing.
I wonder if a similatly seamless migration can be obtained leveraging the versioning and branching capabilities of Dolt.
Light sentence compared to Sam. Probably threw him hard under the bus for some leniency.
Neither can an AI.

The whole point of real estate agents is that as a seller I don't trust my house being open to any random buyer.
You can't process a Mastercard transaction over Visanet even if you wanted to:
* The network won't know who to route the BIN range to
* Even if it did, they may not be connected
* Visa and Mastercard, although very similar, put different pieces of data in different places and have different business rules, so you're not necessarily going to have the information you need to process a transaction where you expect to find it nor is your processing of that transaction necessarily acceptable to Visanet.
* Visa doesn't know Mastercard's PEK, so they cannot encrypt the PIN as the issuer would expect it even if they wanted to
* The EMV crypto might not work, although I'm not sure

These are just the problems that occur to me off the top of my head. They are solveable, but it would require a decade-long regulatory commitment with serious weight behind it.
Given the challenges of enforcing strict regulations on emissions, could a market-based approach like a carbon tax be a more effective deterrent for high-emission vehicles and corporate practices?
VictoriaMetrics is still cheaper!
It's because she assisted the prosecution so got a big discount
They don't deserve $6,000, or $60,000 which is 6%!
The official python tutorial is poorly written and hard to understand in several places. How is someone new to the language supposed to learn a language when the official documentation is in such a state?
> UBI-like circumstances for me and my friend group

> during the pandemic

Lol you really think generalizing emotional states from a global lockdown is smart?
There are lots of good suggestions here. My first preference would be pico-8 (already mentioned).

But also I can also suggest another interesting option: GB Studio - https://www.gbstudio.dev It's a quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for game boy. It also supports visual scripting.
I say "click" when I need to hit the right torque setting.
Thank you very much for your feedback! It's very insightful. Are you saying that for local tools, people are more willing to purchase through a one-time buyout rather than a subscription model? Because they feel that a subscription doesn't provide continuous value and thus isn't worth the price?
I drew a comparison between “iterate and fail fast” vs “lots of upfront design” as a personal process, rather than a company’s modus operandi. For instance someone might do 2 or 3 prototypes when tasked with delivering a certain feature in order to explore the problem space.
Yeah the names are confusing here. I actually had to edit my post after I realized I used “MicroLED” when I meant “MiniLED” so I’m not sure if you saw that one. If so, sorry!

For those who are mercifully unfamiliar: MiniLED is different than MicroLED. MiniLED means a backlight panel with more addressable “zones” due to use of smaller and more densely packed LEDs. It’s arguably more of a marketing term for high-resolution LED backlighting, but the impact of this incremental improvement shouldn’t be overlooked - it’s very effective for most applications.

MicroLED on the other hand is like OLED in that each pixel is a single addressable unit that emits its own light, but differs in that it’s essentially using an actual grid of semiconductor-style LEDs, where OLED manufacturing uses something totally different IIRC.
The florid, over-the-top language, tortured metaphors, and complete dearth of substance all reek of ChatGPT. And no mention of the extortion attempt documented in WPEngine's C&D, or the trademark terms that were changed today to try to justify it?
Yes, small files can fit in the metadata, which makes a super big difference when you have 300 million files of 405 bytes each. Also, inode handling is way better compared to ext4.
It’s amazing, one guy did everything completely by himself.
You can Zeno's-paradox-away the distinction between a bathtub and a kitchen sink, but that doesn't make them the same thing.

This sort of argument change how people understand words, and it also doesn't change how lawyers interpret laws nearly as often as people think. It's still fun, though!
Regardless of the sentence, there's only one federal prison for women above low security so she's probably going to end up somewhere cushy with no fences and work release.

SBF on the other hand... https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1av88z5/fir...
Old time ham radio operators know this one.

Answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_signal
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6% of $1M = $60,000
I love this but I approach it a bit differently. I don't think this is a good excuse to write bad or unmaintainable code. Sure some shortcuts are fine but it should be useful for the next person.

Personally I try to use free hosting services so that I don't have to pay to keep it running when I abandon it. (That could be AWS free tier or blockchain or IPFS etc).
Use a public repository so someone else can find it when it's inevitable dropped.
I always make sure to have good documentation so that once it's found anyone can get it running.
It would be $60,000, not $6,000 but they don’t make $60K. They spit the commission, $30K and then there are other people (broker) that get paid out of that amount, call it $20K to the agent in that case, sometimes less if they gave their client a discount (again this happened all the time before the settlement, I know agents that offered .5% off for repeat clients or friends and family and that came wholly out of their cut, so call it $15K in that case).

Even at $60K there are things an agent can do to swing the value of a house that much or more. Maybe you, the seller, will do some/all of those things, maybe you won’t.

Agents are effectively on-call 24/7 (your agent wasn’t? Sorry, see above: not all agents are created equal) and they often work in the off-hours for every other profession (aka nights and weekends).

Here is the thing, /most/ people buying or selling a $1M+ houses are not nickel and dimming. I sure HN has an outsized group of people who disagree, cool, I’ve seen it first hand.

I find it ironic that on a technology forum people are so quick to jump to “agents aren’t worth it” with so many people think the same thing about software developers and/or their quotes for building software.
Not to mention when she gets out of prison she’ll be rich. Who knows how much crypto she has stored away.
It does indeed, if you could squirrel away a few million from nosey prosecutors, do your two years and come out "clean" the other side (assuming it's a federal rap with no possibility of remission for his behavior).
I'm not a huge fan of scratch (for obvious reasons I'm not the target audience!), but my 10 year old can't get enough of it.

Recently we started digging into some of the more "advanced" concepts (basically arrays and functions) and I was surprised how far you could actually get with the system.

I'm trying to move him off scratch on to something text based, but imo for a kid it's hard to go wrong starting with Scratch.
This release will start a new age of UIs, where you don't use screens to interact with computers, but instead use your voice. Textural conversations were fun, but the voice functionality is what makes LLMs useful, because speed of communication is now comparable to what you could accomplish with GUI and at the same time a lot more human friendly. In my opinion one of the most important announcements in recent months. Although we will probably need open source competitior.
To be fair that's true in any country.
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It's coming out of the seller's cut, though.

Houses aren't sold at a fixed price. Buyers all put in bids and the seller chooses the best one.

The amount paid for the house isn't going to be less if there were no agent fees. The buyer is paying the specific price because there are other buyers who would pay slightly less. It isn't like buyers are adding money to their offer because of agent fees, and sellers aren't going to sell the house for less if they didn't have agent fees. The price point is market equilibrium, which means the agent fees come out of the seller's total.

Now, you might try to argue that more sellers would enter the market if sellers made 6% more on selling their house, which would increase supply and decrease price, but that's a big stretch... sellers are usually selling their house for reasons besides making 6 percent more.
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Kiran was instrumental in getting a strong net neutrality regime in India, so he's a pretty effective activist too. (I've met him a couple of times.)
Not necessarily illegal from what I understand; but it easily could contribute to a lawsuit for a hostile work environment, could anger investors, and could maybe cause a lawsuit for allowing the executives to be irresponsibly vulnerable to blackmail or rape allegations.

Besides professionalism, it's just plain stupid. What happens if a participant claims they were pressured into it for the sake of a promotion, or for the sake of not being fired, or for the sake of not losing their visa? The result would be a disaster. This is also so predictable, that maybe an investor could claim legal negligence.
They still have to go on private browsing to be annoying, because blocking still prevents interacting with you.
When you selling any kind of product or service the price you gonna charge will take into account expenses that you have to sell or make this product, e.g. if you sell app in appstore and Apple and other taxes will eat 45% of your app price and you know you will break even at $1 per app profit then definitely you will ask user for $2.
Llama seems to be tricked up by simple puzzles that Gemini does not struggle with, in my experience.
I first got online with CompuServe, on a Vic 20 (22 column screen), in the early 80s. Still have quite positive memories of my time there, before I discovered the local BBS scene and all that came out of that.
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Perhaps, but as I mentioned elsewhere, MM is putting on a master class on how not to resolve such disputes.
botters seemed to take everything as a challenge. The only thing that has changed is that legitimate operators are paying more.
Unemployment benefits and other income-dependent benefits are a strong incentive against working, unless the job pays particularly well. It's common that the effective tax rate for low-paying jobs is 80-90%, if you count lost benefits in addition to taxes. Sometime the rate exceeds 100%. In order to get unemployed people back to work against their own interests, unemployment benefits often come with strict time limits, a lot of surveillance and bureaucracy, and a general loss of dignity.

The "basic" in UBI aims to solve that by changing benefits and taxes. Everyone from the homeless to the billionaires gets the same benefits, while income taxes will make sure that most people won't see any additional money. The differences are only seen by people with low incomes. While the benefits may be a little lower, taking a low-paying job makes much more sense, as your tax rate may be as low as 40%.

Many old-school unions oppose UBI because it makes low-paying jobs more viable. They consider it morally wrong. According to them, if you work full time, the employer should pay you enough that you don't need any government handouts for a dignified live.
Correct, but I meant the performance of generated program.
> the closed component, that is a debugger, is free as well.

Iff you use Microsoft's builds of VS Code. Just like back in 2018.

> At the same time, Rider uses its own homegrown debugger, that works even better and has nice time-travel capability.

So... still useless for the rest of us.
Impressive! Also curious about what Hoodmaps is.
> That's all capitalism does: it builds enclosures, on this case on "intellectual" property and by buying the government to create a monopoly by banning imports and banning Medicare from negotiating prices.

Patents and import restrictions are orthogonal to capitalism as an economic system. They're obviously not the invisible hand of the market, but the actions of the very draconian hand of the government
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