skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would it matter to Visa and Mastercard what SWIFT and India (The central bank? The entire country?) are doing?

They run their own networks and everybody that wants to connect to them has to speak their protocols (which are completely custom btw; it’s out of the question to just swap out one for the other!)

> get schema files and punch your programming button and generate a lot of the necessary code and then do the plumbing and call it a day

Absolutely not. Parsing ISO 8583 is maybe 5% of the complexity of card processing (and that’s being generous). Sorry, but you seem to have absolutely no understanding of an industry you are making confident statements about.
Less charitably, it means you need a competent team?
It's not learned helplessness et al, just a plea to drop the smug elitism if you want people to take you seriously. I actually want nice things, I hate writing brittle systems in languages that offer no meaningful guardrails, and setting up Rube Goldberg contraptions to get a poor approximation of e.g. basic BEAM runtime functionality.

Any success I have had in getting very boring companies to adopt nice things at all has not come from insulting people's intelligence and acting like I'm the smartest person in the room. I despise this kind of elitism that is rampant in certain technical communities. It turns people off like nothing else and serves no purpose other than to stroke your own ego -- it's pointless meanness.
Well, if it ain't a Nazi bar it's certainly the Hotel California. I'd happily delete my account if that were permitted, but it isn't, and I'm sure as hell not going to email the management and say "pretty please".
The Genesis project – 4D generative physics
Recently rejected from W25 YC would love some feedback
Hey HN, I applied to YC last month for W25 but got rejected yesterday. My idea is to create an AI powered online 3D engine. I made a demo for the YC application, and I want to continue with it and apply next year, but would love some feedback. In my rejection letter, they do say that "of the applications we read this batch, yours was in the top 10%" which is giving me hope, but I don't know if it's real or not. Thanks in advance for your time :)
Flying cars are certainly 5-10 years out from today as well.
Thanks. The ideal end game is for the Cybersecurity Fabric to become a de-facto standard for best practice security inside the biggest platforms in the world (Entra, Okta, AWS, Google etc). So individuals can login with Tide (i.e. with their own authority). The protectionism only works until one plucky provider decides to use an open standard and starts winning business from the others... But let's assume that's years down the track, if we're right about that.

For now we're quite happy to provide an alternative for platform developers not bound to the big end of town.

The TideCloak (Keycloak) component does provide for options like federating or synchronizing with other IAMs in greyfield enterprise environments, to stage the integration.
Same. I buy mp3s from bandcamp, and upload them to (currently) Google Music (or whatever they decided to call it now), after backing them up to my hard drive.
> even the Byzantines

They were, though? Adrianople, Yarmoud, Manzikert, Myriokephalon etc. it's just that the empire was extremely resilient and was generally able to recover from disasters which would have led to the collapse of most other states.
While I agree with the point, the word "surviving" doesn't do that point any favours.
Estimate for a house in SF with a typical roof and typical electric bill.

$20k upfront cost.

$4k in savings over 20 years.

That's an implied rate of return of 0.9% annually.

No thanks.
If you take the chromatic scale and then swap every other pair of notes on opposite sides of the circle, it yields the circle of fifths. You'll notice that on the circle of fifths notes that skip a step are a whole tone apart in the chromatic scale.

Although there have been some claims in these comments to the contrary, harmony is particularly mathematical. Symmetry and the breaking of within the integers mod 12 form the foundational principles of harmony.
Yeah, consider I need to go through a 6 month long process to get my company to purchase it.

I need to really love it to do so (and in the one instance I did) I need to have been able to use it in that corporate setting before that point.
Can I reach out to you somehow? My info is in my profile.

>You can also rent a remote desktop, automate its browser (or VM browsers) and send screenshots to your website.

That's great but I've already built all the screenshot stuff out. I'm working on something slightly different.
Important note: TS doesn't let you enable strict mode on per-file basis. Flow allowed that.
> The task is to pick sets of those twelve tones to serve some aesthetic purpose

Aesthetic in the musical or visual sense? The visual aspect is based on the Z12 symmetry and it is pleasant - like all symmetries.

The question is what does the visual experience have to do with the music experience?

The first disconnect with the musical experience is that the 12TET itself is not what people would, e.g., choose to sing in [1].

The second disconnect is that the Greek modes of the major scale are not remotely covering all the scales people enjoy, even adopting a Eurocentric point [2].

[1] https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/41383/do-capable-h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_minor_scale
Take a look:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/e4/6a/dae46a1cf4550e54aa89...
> This brings back memories of the time I almost shortened "thousand kilometres" to "kkm".

For the uninitiated, what's confusing about this? It seems to communicate the intended meaning accurately. Is there some ambiguity here I missed?
There's a Rocksmith mod that allows you to control the menu using the guitar. Also, the Rocksmith USB cable is simply an ADC (with lower latency than most)
Yup, that's the one. Thanks :)
If a customer wants endless elevator music, then I don't think that Spotify is wrong to generate endless elevator music for them. The problem is deception. If you want to listen to human performances, then Spotify should give you choice instead of hoping you don't notice.

Free market means you can vote with your wallet. If you don't, then it says less about markets and more about our stated vs revealed preferences. Maybe we just don't care if real artists go away.
Kick ass. This kind of post is why HN is the best.
They'll say "I want X", but they'll feel they have
to provide a good reason for it to be taken seriously,
e.g. "I want to eat dinner early tonight because it
messes up my sleep when we eat late".

This is really interesting.

On one level this could be a really bad sign (either about the relationship, or just one person's self esteem) where a person can't just want something. They have to "justify" it.

On the other hand, I don't know if that's necessarily bad?

Like, if we always eat dinner at 7ish and now you want to eat at 5pm I feel it's just natural that I'd want to know why? Because we probably had reasons for eating at 7pm, and maybe I want to kind of weigh them against everything else? Because maybe I can't take my lunch break at work until 3pm, so eating dinner at 5pm really sucks for me. etc. etc etc etc

And if two people's desires are
incompatible, both will happily
compromise to find a way to make
them compatible again

Amen, absolutely. Let's say you can't eat at 7.... but I can't eat at 5.

But what is the point of eating together? Is it really the act of forking nutrients into our mouths... or is it spending time together? Maybe we can just chill out and talk at 5pm. You can eat... and I'll just hang out and we can talk about our day or watch some netflix or w/e.

I probably have just always picked shitty partners but in my experience that kinda happy compromise problem-solving attitude seems so rare. kudos to you for that attitude.
Maybe they're learning along the way, albeit risking charges of flip flopping.

This strikes me as a "paradox of tolerance" situation.
So ensuring that each message has a unique payload?
If it’s left anywhere in the open at anytime, you can repossess it legally as well. This happens with auto repossessions all the time. You don’t owe anyone an explanation as it’s yours - just take it if you can do so safely.
Twitter summary: https://xcancel.com/shashj/status/1869405936928030854
The irony is that before types became popular with interpreted languages and modern languages like golang or rust, untyped languages became MORE popular because of formal education.

The reason why is because most formal education curriculums teach C++ which ironically is more error prone and contains error conditions far harder to debug then untyped interpreted languages like python or JavaScript or ruby which were coming into popularity at the time. This is of course despite the fact that C++ has a type system with generics.

Because of this, a lot of people tended to associate typing with something more error prone and harder to work with. It wasn’t until the advent of typescript, golang and rust when people started to get the difference.
So why is Pakistan a “major non NATO ally” of the US? Why was it ever? Pakistan has been a breeding ground for terrorist groups for decades, including giving a safe place for the Taliban to rebuild. In the last couple years it also has looked a lot like a failed state, and it is dangerous for any controlling government of Pakistan to have this capability. This alliance also undermines what could be a much more valuable relationship with India.
i've heard of some business models that install these and have you pay what would be the difference to your electric bill to the company until they pay themselves off, not sure if the panels last long enough to make that work though
> Food bottle slightly cracked and leaked in transit? Keep it and we'll send another.

Hah, I have the opposite experience. My shampoo bottle leaked and filled a bubble wrap. Amazon said, "We'll send a replacement, but you need to return this." After discussing it, I went to the UPS Store for the return. UPS, reasonably, refused to accept it.

Had to debate this for far too long with another customer service person before they would agree that "We don't really want a ziploc bag of shampoo back".
Snow Globe Game
I made this little snow-globe app for fun and to say thank you to our clients. But in the process it became something more interesting.

I worked at LucasArts in the 90's, but I was on the programming side then, not the game design side. Since then I've dabbled in game design, but they were mostly experiments on mathematical models that required optimizing. But this game turned into a game about a feeling that I am delighted by—a metaphor about modern life and the rat-race.

As I mentioned, it started as just a snow globe--a fun e-toy. My colleagues and I made it over a weekend. As I jiggled the snow globe and watched the snow fall gently, I felt the need to smash the globe against the Christmas decorations to cause some havoc. So we added decorations that fell from the sky. Then we added points to be earned and a satisfying >kachunk< sound when you hit one. We liked it and wanted more! We made the game speed up as you go and that felt like a good direction. But pretty soon it was going too fast and it was getting really hectic. I couldn't even see the falling things they were going by so fast. The next day, I just thought this needs some ending. It's too hectic now. Much like my own life, needs some calm--a moment of peace to recover after this chaotic year. So we added that too. (My son is the one who recommended having a time limit to the game).

With tumultuous events in the world like the toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, wars in Ukraine and Palestine, and so many other things, I really like how the game feels like life itself—slow and simple in the beginning when we are young. Then starting to move and get exciting as we become grown ups. Faster and faster but we can handle it. But soon we can't--it's too fast. But finally, the respite we needed — A moment of PEACE. Thank You.
Sorry to be so direct, but you don’t seem to have any idea what you are talking about in this context.

Banks and payment card processing (which is what TFA is about) are basically two different worlds. One switching to a new data interchange format has essentially no consequences to the other.

While I could imagine Visa and Mastercard offering an ISO 20022 interface for new integrations, I’m willing to bet on the majority of volume staying on ISO 8583 for this decade and probably well into the next. They most certainly won’t force anyone to migrate either.
A bit like Inmarsat BGAN, which already exists and starts at around $6 per megabyte with user terminals starting at around $5000.
Doesn’t it make you happy that, if you were a subscriber like I am, you are wasting your token quota trying to convince the model to actually help you?
I can't reply to PKop's reply, so I'll say a few things here.

Immigration in the US and Europe are different issues. Immigration in the US is not why things are expensive in the US, not why crime is any level of issue in the US. Immigrants are not causing the problems this country faces.

To the extent that unchecked immigration/migration is an issue, the solution would be a point-forward policy of harsher denials, shorter stints in judicial review, and enforcement of legal residence on employers like agriculture, hospitality, food service, construction, and other undocumented-worker-prevalent industries.

We had a border bill that was agreed to, then GOP backed out because Donald didn't want something to be achieved during the Biden term. Kind of like how the GOP and Dems hammered out a CR to fund the government, then Musk and his assistant Donald told the GOP to back out of it and shut the government down.

*The GOP doesn't want to fix immigration, they just want people to be mad about it*.

Fucking over undocumented immigrants isn't the way to "make their country stronger and better for their own citizens". We could be talking about better visa programs, legal residence programs, employment verification, stronger stances with other nations on how to deport people back to certain countries in certain circumstances... Mass deportation in the US is lazy at best and hateful at worst.

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Biden and Donald, GOP and Democrats, played a part in the money printing that caused inflation in the past four years. Golly gee whiz, I wonder what happened in 2020 to make that happen across the entire planet? Governments are lurching rightward for a number of reasons, and trying to play like the GOP is innocent in the reasons people are angry is foolish.

Donald won't fix affordability. He won't fix housing. He won't fix access to healthcare. Whatever "fix" occurs with immigration is at the cost of uprooting millions of peaceful members of our society so that some citizens can take joy in others' pain (because it isn't about border security, stop repeating that).

It's fair to be mad at the cost of living right now, but that doesn't make it reasonable to give people a pass for voting for a criminal piece of trash who has no decent "concept of a plan" for anything, and only wants to burn the government to the ground because it's the only thing that's tried to hold him accountable to his actions in his life.
That isn't quite true.

Electricity use is more common in the evening, so west facing panels do really well because they offset demand.

We have an East/West split on our panels and they're excellent for providing instantly useful electricity as opposed to stored electricity.
Yeah no, that's not how any of this works. Just because someone else is holding your bike in their hands does not make it theirs. You're within your rights to take back what's yours.
>After she told me she wanted to be with me for life?

well, as you saw, it wasn't really the case, was it? I don't mean to rub salt into the wound, but she's been fucking that guy long before that conversation with you.

I'm glad to hear that it had all worked out for you in the end. never second-guess your decision to reject that suggestion.
I thought that product was discontinued completely?!? I think new models were said to take at least until early 2026, not sure I'd invest in this without proper playback devices on the market...
Thank you for posting this! It's very helpful. Just want to add a caveat for the reader. While resolution is important, the display technology matters just as much if not more. Pimax Crystal Super, for example uses QLED tech, so its backlit and its color accuracy, contrast will not be in the same ballpark as Apple Vision Pro which uses micro-OLED panels.

A pixel, is not always a pixel. There's more to the story.
> Perhaps the confusion is in the definition of high-order thought? There is an academic definition but I boil it down to "able to think about thinking as, e.g. all social great apes do when they consider social reactions to their actions."

Yes, I think this is it.

But now I am confused why "high-order thought" is termed this way when it doesn't include what we would consider "thinking" but rather "cognition". You don't need to have a "thought" to react to your own mental processes. Surely from the perspective of a human "thoughts" would constitute high-order thinking! Perhaps this is just humans' unique ability of evaluating recursive grammars at work.
In the 1180s the Empire was governed by a French princess (regent for her son) and her late husband was very pro-western/latin. The relations between the Catholic crusader states and the Byzantine empire were also very good and Italian merchants controlled most of its economy.

Then.. an anti-western emperor came to power had all the Latins/Italians in Constantinople massacred (>10% of the population) and things went pretty much downhill from there. It was very rapid, though. There were of course disagreements before the late 12th century but both sides generally acknowledged that they were part of the same Christian word/universal empire (even if they didn't quite agree who was in charge).
> Spotify had long marketed itself as the ultimate platform for discovery—and who was going to get excited about “discovering” a bunch of stock music? Artists had been sold the idea that streaming was the ultimate meritocracy—that the best would rise to the top because users voted by listening. But the PFC program undermined all this.

True, but there is more music than any group of people can ever listen to. Is aggregating blogs like Hype Machine, or reviewing songs like Pitchfork or the New Yorker, any better? The alternatives to collaborative filtering are different shades of nepotism; or, making barriers to entry much, much higher.
For a great documentary on the conversion of fertile agricultural land to suburbs, watch:

The Real Dirt On Farmer John

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Dirt_on_Farmer_John

I'm sure the video is on youboob or some other user exploitation site...
Banana Pi /is/ hardware.

OpwnWRT is one distro that runs on it, apparently. Seems you know even less than I do about it.

https://www.banana-pi.org/en/product-news/557.html
There is also a history book «Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age» by Stephen R. Platt who goes into events preceding the First Opium War (Macartney's mission to Qing's China in 1793) eventually leading up to the cession of Hong Kong island and the fall of the Qing. Whilst it is a history book, the way the events are narrated and how the story is presented make the book read as it were a fiction story (it is not). A great read all around.
Doesn't this mean that AMD will end up doing something similar?
The longer I’m in this industry, the more I find that there are two types of programmers: those who default to writing every program procedurally and those who default to doing so declaratively.

The former like to brag about how quickly they can go from zero to a working solution. The latter brag about how their solutions have fewer bugs, need less maintenance, and are easier to refactor.

I am squarely in the latter camp. I like strong and capable type systems that constrain the space so much that—like you say—the implementation is usually rote. I like DSLs that allow you to describe the solution and have the details implemented for you.

I personally think it’s crazy how much of the industry tends toward the former. Yes there are some domains where going the time from zero to a working product is critical. And there are domains where the most important thing is being able to respond to wildly changing requirements. But so much more of our time and energy is spent maintaining code than writing it in the first place that upfront work like defining and relating types rapidly pays dividends.

I have multiple products in production at $JOB that have survived nearly a decade without requiring active maintenance other than updating dependencies for vulnerabilities. They have had a new version deployed maybe 3-5 times in their service lives and will likely stay around for another five years to come. Being able to build something once and not having to constantly fix it is a superpower.
“never leaves your device(s)” aka “vendor lock-in” :)
I participated as a subject in a research study at Stanford involving race and stereotype threat in the early 2000s. The details are hazy, but the final readout was the distance I put my chair to a group of chairs that students of a particular racial group were supposed to sit. Evidently I put them in a position that was contrary to the effect the researcher was seeking. She intensely asked me a ton of questions about my background and eventually tossed my data point for having lived in a racially diverse area growing up. This wasn't a pre-inclusion criteria, but a possible act of scientific fraud. Huge bummer since there are honest people in every profession, and I imagine a lot of them didn't succeed the way that the fraudsters thrived.
If you want to run an up-to-date version of Docker, look into https://github.com/telnetdoogie/synology-docker/. It is a script that will back up the existing docker binaries and replace them with the latest. (Note the "First Time" upgrade information of switching to the "local" logger from "db").

I have forgotten why I originally wanted to update but I have had no issues with the updated system.
I can’t find the article at the moment, but my recollection is that it has been estimated that each symbol was carried in on a few hundred photons.
This is super cool, but I think your landing page could really benefit from a screenshot of the tool in use...I honestly couldn't tell you what it did just from reading the page.

Also, to build a great landing page, communicate the "Why" as in why I want it as a customer, and less of "what" I'm getting ("AI Insights!", "Hassle Free!"). Tell me why this product will make my business or project better.
That's just the most egregious one I've heard of recently. Look through court filings in any state and you'll find a laundry list of people who have real and valid claims against doctors for malpractice.

The list of preventable birth injuries, surgical mistakes, misdiagnoses, ignoring valid requests for treatment, and just straight up failing to do their basic duties as medical professionals would fill a quarterly encyclopedia in America alone.

What would you suggest people do other than sue?
These sabotage events occurred weeks ago. By now evidence could have been removed. The ship should have just been boarded immediately without asking China first. This late investigation feels a lot like the WHO visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which was over a year delayed because the CCP denied earlier requests for a site visit. In the end that delayed investigation, with questionable representatives like Peter Daszak, went nowhere. I suspect that’ll happen here as well.
Holy scope creep
According to the manual (which I didn't read) of course it is. But something delicate masquerading as brushed stainless steel...