skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exploring the best affiliate marketing programs is essential for anyone looking to monetize their online presence effectively.

The best affiliate marketing programs offer lucrative opportunities to earn commissions by promoting products and services from reputable brands.

These programs provide a range of benefits, including high commission rates, reliable tracking systems, and a diverse selection of products to promote.

By joining the best affiliate marketing programs, you can tap into a vast network of merchants and leverage your audience to generate significant income.

Whether you're a seasoned affiliate marketer or just starting out, identifying the best affiliate marketing programs can greatly enhance your earning potential and help you build a successful online business.

The Best Affiliate Marketing Programs: Your Guide to Lucrative Online Earnings in 2024
In today’s ever-evolving digital world, affiliate marketing has emerged as one of the most lucrative ways to make money online.

By promoting other companies' products or services and earning a commission for sales or leads generated, affiliate marketing offers an excellent opportunity for both beginners and seasoned professionals.

With countless programs available, choosing the best affiliate marketing programs can be daunting.

This guide will explore top-tier affiliate programs, what makes them stand out, and how you can succeed in this field.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing strategy where an individual, known as an affiliate, promotes products or services offered by a business.

When a sale is made or a lead is generated through the affiliate's marketing efforts, they earn a commission.

This method allows businesses to expand their reach while affiliates earn money without the need to create their own products.

Many individuals have found success by selecting the best affiliate marketing programs that align with their niche, interests, and audience.

Success in affiliate marketing depends largely on understanding your audience and selecting programs that offer attractive commissions and reliable payouts.

Top Affiliate Marketing Programs for 2024
Finding the best affiliate marketing program is crucial for maximizing your earning potential. Here’s a curated list of the most profitable programs available:
That's the interchange (i.e. what the issuing bank earns), not Visa's fees.

Visa charges both the acquiring and the issuing bank on top of that; that's then called "scheme fees".

The issuers pays these out of the interchange; the acquirer charges the merchant for them, so they end up paying a bit more than the figure you've quoted.
There are billions of dollars of unnecessary interchange fees being paid and in play, so while there might be consumer hesitancy, there are overriding forces.

Every major US cellular carrier requires you to pay with ACH now if you want your autopay discount, for example. Little economic nudges work. Surcharge the credit cards and let customers self select to payment rails based on their needs.

(FedNow has a closed loop fraud management system, and Reg E likely applies: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/100...)
> This will eliminate most of the types of 'fraud' where thieves or scammers charge a card in an unauthorized way, because cryptocurrency does not require giving away credentials with that capability.

Please get back to us when the cryptocurrency ecosystem has a lower rate of fraud than the mainstream ecosystem. Until then it looks like you've just traded each episode of one kind of fraud for twenty episodes of another kind.

> If you want to add middlemen as companies built on the cryptocurrency, you can and for some things they might be useful.

Moxie's article on why centralization is inevitable resonated with me [0], and all the evidence I've seen suggests that crypto is just as vulnerable to it as anything else. The middlemen who are initially optional inevitably become a core part of the ecosystem that you can't get away from. See Gmail. The decision you get when building an ecosystem isn't whether there will be middlemen, it's whether to plan around them or not.

[0] https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
Attempt to sell a product titled “Essential Disney®” or a service titled “Enterprise Outlook®” and it’s not going to go well for you.
Most are viable, but Bambu filament really takes all guesswork out of the process.

We do most of our bulk purchasing through MatterHackers, but I buy my own filament through the Bambu store.
When my father started working at the St. Lucie nuclear power plant in ~1988 they had just gotten rid of a shipment of tape dispensers that arrived too hot to be kept on site.
They've worded it just as they intended imho (ignoring the confusion over fork aspect) as it's how to ensure that they're still in charge & to prevent anything derivative as they really don't like that based on prior experience with them.

It's also mostly about getting that lovely free dev work because with oh so many capable devs out there they're just going to be clamouring to want to give up anything where possible to be able to work on this along with trying to appear to be doing good. Even though they've halted development at least 3 times I'm aware off & ditched a number of dev teams under their 11yr tenure of ownership.
Fred Astaire as Alfred E. Neuman:
In 1959, Fred Astaire danced on television with the odd choice of wearing a mask of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzpuGXd1lA

Makeup and prosthetics expert John Chambers checks the fit on an Alfred E. Neuman mask he made for a television special in 1959. The man behind the mask is Fred Astaire.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/uuturm/makeu...

Disturbing Alfred E. Neuman Cameo / Worst Movie Ending from Up The Academy (1980): Eek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71kJbWWOkY
DOJ Sues Visa for Locking Out Rival Payment Platforms
I believe this is at least part of the explanation. Although there might have been some further developments in the 100 years since this was published

Oleic acid on water forms a film one
molecule deep, in which the hydrocarbon chains stand vertically on the water surface
with the COOH groups in contact with the water.

Acetic acid is readily soluble in water because the COOH group has a strong
secondary valence by which it combines with water. Oleic acid is not soluble because
the affinity of the hydrocarbon chains for water is less than their affinity for each other.
When oleic acid is placed on water the acid spreads upon the water because by so doing
the COOH can dissolve in the water without separating the hydrocarbon chains from
each other.

When the surface on which the acid spreads is sufficiently large the double bond
in the hydrocarbon chain is also drawn down on to the water surface, so that the area
occupied is much greater than in the case of the saturated fatty acids.

Oils which do not contain active groups, as for example pure paraffin oil, do not
spread upon the surface of water

https://zenodo.org/records/1429064
i am using https://jsonhero.io/ for a time and happy with it. but i will definitely check this out too.
I thought reading closed-source code is a very bad idea, as if you wind up writing something similar, then you're possibly guilty of copyright infringement. If you have one team look at the design, catalog the features, and describe how it works in detail, then you can have another team implement it, and you're on legally much better ground (unless patents):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design
> We’re getting FedNow (eventually)

It’s technically live [1].

[1] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organi...
You didn't read the article, it _specifically_ mentions JPL's proposal for the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope concept "nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (J.P.L.) is also exploring the idea of a radio-wave detector, the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (L.C.R.T.), inside a 1.3-kilometre-wide moon crater."

https://www.nasa.gov/general/lunar-crater-radio-telescope-lc...
I personally know Raffi, he was my roommate in college. If ever there was a CEO you wanted to back (or someone to help you buy a home), he is it. Some highlights:

-Not from a wealthy background, he got where he is due to hard work.

-Paid his share of the rent by trading stocks.

-He bought a used SUV off of Craigslist and negotiated the price down by almost 90%, afterwards the seller smiled and said something akin to "the balls on this guy!"

-Double majored in electrical engineering and economics in college.

-Worked at the US Patent Office reviewing video card patents, well before cryptocurrency, bitcoin mining, or AI.

-He built his own desk using woodworking skills.

-Studied contract law and has closed some multi-million dollar deals for other startups. He quit this high-paying, stable job to start Modern Realty.

-Has his own number of AirBnb properties.

Raffi has the very unusual combination of street smarts, book smarts and salesmanship.
This discusses tradeoffs, optimizations, evaluations, proxying, etc.

I also appreciate a comment from Eric Drummond, which lists out what this type of embedding search might support: "There are 16 kinds of search-y things in Quora (web UI)..."
> Crypto scammers hack OpenAI's press account on X

Haha. Blockchain against AI.

Scammers against scammers. /s
For well capitalized and advised players, here's an idea of how things actually work[1][2].

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089423
Well, that's an interesting point. Have I committed a cultural taboo by posting a video of him here? I assumed HN was a place that talked about the content of a discussion, regardless of their opinion on the person running the interview. Have I misinterpreted this?

Personally, I don't find myself not watching the content of someone just because they say things I disagree with or the world has tried to cancel them. Every now and then I'll watch Peterson's podcast if he's interviewing someone I'm interested in hearing from, but it's not like he takes up a large part of my attention.

I'm still a little bit taken aback that I'm here on HN having to account for merely posting a YouTube link.
https://archive.is/fXSL2
Votes are a fickle thing. I’ll upvote ya
+1 for GameMaker, though I used it about 20 years ago as a kid. I don't know how well its developed since then.
My Camera Will Never Overheat Again [video]
Add:

https://www.diffchecker.com/tJ29tGIn/

Oh ... and the downvotes here must be due to Automattic employees - just as the downvotes /u/photomatt for on /r/wordpress were due to WPEngine employees.
Does anyone know why WP engine doesn't actually support multiple post revisions by default? I worked with WordPress significantly quite a while ago and found it to be an absolute dumpster fire of a codebase. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if running a scalable WP host required tamping down on some things.
I’d argue against this. If the tool is too difficult, kids often lose interest. So it can have an adverse effect.

As much as I’d want to teach my 11 year old kid Unreal Engine, it’s not realistic. Pun not intended.
CompuServe was my first experience connecting to the online world. I remember the "free parts" and the "per minute charge" parts. Young me thought that if I stayed in the "per minute charge" areas less than 60 seconds, it was free. It was not, and dad raised his eyebrows at the bill I generated that month.
The robustness principle dates to RFC 761 from January 1980, not 1974, making it only 44 years ago. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc761#section-2.10

The citations I gave you were ones I knew existed. I know there was criticism in the early 2000s because we were debating it back then, but I don't have those citations handy.

Checking now, the Wikipedia entries points to criticism in RFC 3117, from 2001, at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3117 :

> Counter-intuitively, Postel's robustness principle ("be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept") often leads to deployment problems.

That's why I knew to question was 'until recently' was supposed to me.
They don't give permission, so the lack of definition doesn't really matter.

If they were trying to grant a narrow permission and then enjoin someone they thought was outside of their definition, it would matter (But they just aren't giving permission to distribute modified versions).
Not having any middleman at all is a non-starter if buyer and seller don't know each other yet. (Note that any form of escrow service, even if "on-chain" or "trustless", is a middleman, whether overt or covert.)

Bootstrapping trust is a hard problem and arguably by definition requires some middlemen, some of the time.
You wish.

This is a about Pirate IPTV , it's more likely the US will adapt this approach by finding a legal loop hole to do so.
>This is actually a bad example because C style decls are provably, objectively, bad. They make parsing harder and once the types are non-trivial, they are absurdly hard to read and write. The case in point being non-trivial function pointers in C. The syntax for declaring a function pointer of a type that returns a function pointer is hidious.

The example is good, I just dont understand why you focused on compiler performance or developer experience. It doesnt imply program's performance.

We were talking purely about performance/energy eff of generated binary, not other RELEVANT things like developer experience/low compilation times because it is outside the scope of this discussion.

Yes, C++ is poorly designed language, but point that syntax (letters) don't imply language's performance stands. The result is up to the implementation: compiler, runtime/vm, std libs, etc.
> If I create a fork of a public repo on GH, I require a license to distribute it because a public repo can be forked or downloaded by anyone

Why?

The users that clone or fork your fork of the original repository are covered by the original repository's "license" GitHub grants itself, not yours.
>Why would you want to install an old version of ruff?

Because something else in your project is broken by the new version.
For anyone else coming along reading this thread, in searching for Brexit's impact, I see mention that while a sharp recession and many of the doom-and-gloom style predictions didn't happen, it _absolutely_ has had a negative impact on the economy, and that it's expected that the effects are long-term and will continue.

I do think it's potentially fair to say that some of those effects aren't relevant for this particular article or discussion, due to the recency. The movement around it didn't arise out of nothing, after all.
Fixing Insta360’s propensity for overheating in a home machine shop.
I think it tends to push to the extremes. Either it provides an incentive structure that retains knowledgable salespeople and provides a huge customer benefit, or it winds up being toxic for both the employees and customers.
Automatic Reference Counting
NotebookLM from Google: Virtual Research Assistant
You have the choice to not own a smartphone.
Discussion (160 points, 2 hours ago, 103 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639635
I still lament the loss of Flash. It’s ability to get in there and as a single user do everything from design to animation to code front end and back end was enormously flexible and easy for creatively engaging and creating. It fit the “bicycle of the mind” concept.

As far as I know, no single tool has replicated that kind of freedom. For rapid prototypes that one could actually iteratively build on top of top make a full application it was amazing.

I know about the issues and why it isn’t secure etc etc, but in terms of you could interact with it to create we are still at a loss.
Have you tried RPG Maker? It’s really fun. I remember using it as a kid. It’s focused on turn based combat.
> One thing that was particularly valuable was ensuring ensuring every proposal came with a "alternatives" section (called "competitors" in the NABC model). We also made sure that every proposal included "do nothing" as one of the alternatives, to provide an anchor for a discussion about what would happen if we simply didn't take on the problem at all (or stuck with whatever imperfect solution we were currently using)

(from <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623388>, January 3, 2021)

In that vein, what is the point of the Social Web Foundation? What if it didn't exist? What is the Social Web Foundation going to do that wouldn't get done if things just kept going the way they already are/were without it?
> it's not just the document that has been stolen but very well your identity as seen by society

Yes, and that's also very wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15346081 (the article link died, but it's still available at https://medium.com/securitybytes/quick-one-stop-calling-it-i...)

> but because your entire social identity has been taken away from you.

I totally agree with all you say, factually - yea, if the state decides I no longer exist, I'm pretty much fucked, pardon my language.

Except that - if we use correct terms - I don't lose my identity, I lose authorization because my credentials are revoked (or erased) and so no one formally or legally recognizes me anymore.

The identity is still there, though. Even the "social identity" - if we look at the original social identity theory, if I get it right, it's a self-concept, derived from one's own perceived membership in some social group. The social identity will be only "lost" (or, rather, transformed into something different) when I mentally process the erasure and stop believing I'm a part of the society I used to be a part of, and maybe start living and associating with somewhere else. Which is going to happen pretty quick in the outlined scenario, of course. But even though the factual outcome is the same - the semantics are whole lot different. And I believe that's really important.

Not using the correct terms is exactly the issue that irks me so much. If we start believing (most people already do) that "identity" is something that is provided to us by society, that our passports are our identities, it gradually leads us to decisions that we wouldn't have made otherwise, because things sound okay - but they only do because the language was perverted in a way to make them sound so.
It really depended on the era and what area you were in. After the breakup of the Bell System, flat-rate areas (Zone 1 calling) spread across the RBOCs, but ultimately that still meant that metropolitan areas tended to benefit more than rural areas. The SF Bay Area was a prime example of this where the East Bay arguably had one of the best LATAs around that could reach dozens of bulletin boards.

Hopefully more Fidonet archives turn up in the coming years so people can understand what things were like back then. Ditto Compuserve... which, if I understand correctly, a large collection of documents relating thereto was acquired by the Internet Archive and awaits processing.
Galilean Moons and Determination of Longitude
Article title: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review ... were you trying to deep link to a subsection?
Maplibre works fine, there is even a plugin so you can use it in Leaflet. And it's a well maintained project.

The other one is Mapbox GL from which Maplibre was forked. But you only use that with their tiles now.
Sorry for the time loss! It's a PC browser app
Unfortunately, you've not contributed much to furthering any knowledge here since it's all just speculation in a mocking and demeaning tone. I was slightly excited to see a lengthy response, hoping for some substantiated counter-arguments, but it appears to have just enraged you to the point of using very visceral and divisive language. Unfortunate.

For what it's worth, I am a Christian and your choice of words come across as highly offensive. Contrary to your belief, I have no interest in inserting myself into your life. I'm apolitical at best and gave up on politics a long time ago.

To respond to at least one point, I believe the point that she was making was a lack of awareness of the method of death. Her point has nothing to do with how people die of cancer, but that people agreeing to MAID did not have all of the necessary information to make that decision due to this being omitted. I'm happy to see some counter-evidence that she's lying and all of this is made up.
Dispute resolution, for non-fraud disputes, is completely orthogonal with fraud that happens due to insecure cardholder authentication.

What if the seller goes bankrupt after accepting payment, but before shipping an order? What if they're an outright scammer? What if the buyer says they are, but the real scammer is the buyer?

Somebody's got to figure all of that stuff out. The established card schemes provide a framework for that. It's flawed, it's taking a ton of automated and manual resources, nobody in their right mind would rebuild the same thing if given the opportunity from scratch, but it's there and it kind of works. That's a lot better than what crypto has to offer.
Ive heard good things about gamemaker, as well as RPGmaker. there was one I used to mess around with as a kid I think it was one of those two but cant quite recall. pretty sure it was something maker though. The important thing is to think about the process of making the game. getting the concept together, making a story..
Truly. God bless the maintainers and we couldn't do it without them, but I cannot imagine myself sitting down on the weekend to do maintenance on a 20yo disk partition utility or something.
OK, an absurdly well-equipped home machine shop.
clicked into the thread just to see if ppl mentioned tymnet and telenet

what up fellow olds
They do better on web stuff, and dynamic languages.
We are already seeing the shift in practice. The changes went into effect just over a month ago (August 17th).
Get some outcry and no superbugs, not a bad deal, huh? I mean this has a potential to be another covid-19, but much worse.
1993 SNL skit about Prince Charles turning himself into a tampon, featuring a cameo appearance by Mick Jagger delivering a package containing Prince Charles to Lady Camilla:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrzj_oMZ7c

A skit like that could have never aired on live TV without Mad Magazine paving the way in print.
The one subtitled "A glyph of a human and animal interacting" looks like the human is holding a long spear that didn't get outlined
I see, perhaps with Gemini because the model is larger it takes longer to generate the completions. I would expect with a larger model it would perform better on larger codebases. It sounds like for you, it's faster to work on a smaller model with shorter more accurate completions rather than letting the model guess what you're trying to write.
I don’t think the modern Democratic Party the same pro-worker, anti-corporate greed version a lot of us grew up with. Don’t take this as an endorsement for Trump mind you. Hardly. Democrats still have basic human rights on their side.

Corporate greed and military spending aren’t up for debate though. We can bicker about guns and immigration policy all we want but some topics aren’t even on the table for discussion.
I tried it briefly and didn't like it. On the other hand, I found Gemini pro better than sonnet or 4o at some more complex coding tasks (using continue.dev)
It is what I am using, so by default, yes!
Nice try, Matt.

In all seriousness, if this whole thing is about some false marketing claim from WPE, then call them out specifically on that in a tweet or something. Why does it deserve the "scorched earth nuclear approach", which equates to blackmailing them into giving you millions to prevent you from disparaging them in all media outlets? The claims Matt made go far beyond WPE not contributing to WP development as much as they say they do.

This corporate mudslinging paints WP.com in a much worse light than WPE. IANAL but I think there's a case here for a defamation lawsuit at the very least, if not for outright blackmailing.