skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people who perform these kinds of pranks vastly overestimate the positive reactions they get.

FTA,

> Having sent this out, I fielded a few anxious calls, who laughed uproariously when they realized, and I reset their printers manually afterwards. The people who knew me, knew I was a practical joker, took note of the date, and sent approving replies.

I doubt a single person "laughed uproariously". Most often they probably rolled their eyes and gave a sympathy chuckle. The people who knew he was a "practical joker" understood how much of this guy's ego was tied to his inaner sense of humor and laughed along to get out of the conversation with him.
This isn’t true yet people repeat it anyway.
Cash is not the bonus you think it is. Few have calculated the risk of robbery, (both employee and otherwise) counterfeit money, miscounting, and all the time spent counting and recounting cash. Having been mananger of a fast food in a previous life just my time to count cash was 1% of gross income and the other clerks similar - divided over each customer.
I doubt $1.2 trillion of credit card debt is for healthcare services/products.
At the individual level, leaving 2% or more of cashback and an interest-free loan of at least a month on the table is just a bad economic decision.

At the aggregate level, it of course costs everyone dearly, since the cashback is ultimately just paid for by consumers anyway – minus generous issuer profits.
People are clearly willing to write and publish a book even with no payoff. If you had taxes and subsidies, even more authors would write to the point that most authors can't live off of writing, since clearly they are willing to write enough to flood the supply of books until most authors can't make it.
Tesla is sitting on $200M worth of Cybertruck inventory
Can you run the batch processing on other machines at off-peak hours?
Are we talking about laser, color laser and/or ink printers?
The groups that have focused on “class, gender, [and] ethnic interests” have made much less forward progress compared to groups that have eschewed political approaches. It’s a boat anchor around the neck of individuals in those groups who could otherwise succeed. It yokes individuals to the worst and most hopeless members of whatever group they belong to, dragging them down and holding them back.
The indicator is supposed to be toxic though. I’ve always seen warnings to never reuse that kind.
Even with the same nominal protection, with credit I don't lose anything. With debit the money is missing from my account until the case is resolved.

I know I prefer to only put the bank's money at risk, not my own.
Every study shows that people spend more money when using credit cards than when they pay cash. It helps the merchant.

Cash also has cost - employee theft, risk of getting robbed while taking it to the bank, it takes more time to handle, etc.

If I had a business, I would not accept cash at all.
But the people on r/personalfinance told me to never ever buy anything on a debit card because I can't file chargebacks there! /s
Depending on your breaker panel, the cheapest way to do this is with an interlock kit ($20) designed for your panel type. A low-tech solution that mechanically locks out a designated breaker (usually upper right) unless the main breaker is off.

The breaker that is exclusively locked out when main is on is connected to an outdoor receptacle for the generator cable. When the power goes out, you switch off the main breaker and the interlock now allows you to switch on the generator's breaker. This serves as the backfeed of power into the rest of the circuits from the generator.

The nice thing about this setup is the ability to use all the other breakers to control what loads you want on the generator. Downside is it isn't automatic.
Right but doing it without saying anything is much worse.
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This is like their 3rd or 4th attempt to do encrypted email.
Pick used EV or industrial batteries. This must be much more efficient due to a larger cell size than in laptops.

OTOH used laptop batteries can likely be obtained for effectively zero monetary cost, while used EV or solar backup batteries still cost quite noticeable money per kWh. With laptop batteries, you pay with your time; if you for some reason have an excess supply thereof, or you just enjoy this kind of work as a pastime.
>I wonder if there is a market for secured credit cards with low interest. Maybe backed by a HELOC or stock portfolio.

What's the difference between that and transferring your credit card balance to your HELOC? You don't pay any interest on credit cards within the grace period on your bill, so this only adds marginal convenience
Credit cards offer rewards which are really beneficial to people that properly use them.

In my country, credit cards are safer because they offer better fraud protection mechanisms than debit cards.

Credit cards make it easier to spend money in foreign currencies. I’ve faced issues when trying to pay with a local currency debit card abroad, but I never have faced that issue with a cc. Then, I can just pay my credit card with local currency.

Most of these issues are solvable for sure. But as of today, credit cards are way more reliable than debit cards. At least for me.

I think credit cards do have very valid use cases today.
You could always massively reduce the frontend by not duplicating half the backend business logic in the browser. By not having isolated backend/frontend teams off in their own worlds and only using fancy JS where fancy JS is actually needed.

Server rendering of JS only gets you partially in a better state when the fundamental idea is based around generating a massive amount of JS for the browser.
But once the scam has permeated the system, it's to your advantage to participate, because you pay either way.
On top of protections, rewards, etc., you're gaining the time value of money.

You shouldn't be keeping your savings in the bank, you should be keeping them in investments. When I charge something to my card, it's an average of 45 days until it gets debited from my bank account. That's 45 days that money can be in investments and profitable.

It doesn't matter much over just one or two months (and will be swamped by the direction of the market anyways), but over a lifetime it adds up.

Don't ever pay now when you can pay later, if you can invest your money during that gap.
Volunteer work? Did we read the same article? The author got income and inked a deal with a publishing house - explicitly that means doing it for the money - and the result is a whinging about how sour they feel about the whole thing. The is ain’t Anne Frank’s diary in the slightest.
If you remove credit scores, which are a scam, then credit cards aren’t meaningful products outside of a payment method for low-income users.

Debit cards have the same liability protections, and there are debit cards with cash back as well.
I'm in Europe and still use my Amex for everything I can.

It has no membership fee, I get 0.5% cashback which is free money, and one time a merchant failed to deliver an order and they gave me back my money within like 10 minutes of me raising a dispute

If I had used my debit card with my normal bank it would probably take a week to resolve, and I'd be the one out of pocket in the meantime
Let's delve into this
> That money has to be coming from somewhere

If you read the whole article, you would learn that it is actually coming from you, via the merchant. Which means you are likely paying higher prices. Now you pay the higher prices either way for the most part, so you may as well enjoy the kickback^W rewards.
Is there a mobile story for Tauri? Can you port the rust backend to android or iOS? Since this uses the system web view does this make mobile possible?
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That’s a pretty wild ride. Thanks for sharing. You must have been absolutely terrified when it began again the second time !
Couple of reasons

- Point schemes. Every card has some sort of points system that encourages use. The best programs are often tied to specific products like airlines. Sometimes there are multipliers on specific categories of use like gas or travel. More expensive cards have better points programs.

- Protection. You pay with the bank's money, not yours. This means you have an extra buffer to protect against fraud, and the bank is more incentivized to resolve issues. On the flip side, banks can put pressure on merchants by raising/lowering their transaction rates if they are consistently bad actors.

- Card holder benefits. Often cards have extra things like car insurance for car rentals built into the card. They also give you access to a cash line of credit in emergencies.

- Builds credit. If you don't have other major debts like a mortgage or car loan, your credit score can be low, because the banks rate unknown borrowers as risky. Consistent credit card usage alone can give you a medium-high rating, so when you do need to borrow for a home, you can get a better rate. This is a bit of a racket overall, but its better than a random banker judging you based on their personal bias.

If you pay off your card in full every month, the only cost is the yearly fee, which varies by card, my current one is a mid range card for $50/year. Usually you need to spend a few hundred to thousand a year for the benefits to outweigh the cost. That said, this whole system preys upon those who don't pay every month/don't their card enough to benefit from it.

I was taught credit cards were dangerous, and stayed away from them for years. I'm glad I never racked up debt when I was younger. But as a responsible adult, they are a boon.
No, adding another button does not duplicate the entire underlying libraries used to display said button.
40% do pay off every month. Not a majority but still a large number. We don't have numbers for those who normally pay them off but once in a while miss - that might be significant.
I prefer types over tests everywhere. If I’m passing props to a component and I get a TypeScript error, that’s a test I didn’t need to write or run. I love finding errors like this at compile time instead of at runtime. Just because HTML and CSS are untyped by default doesn’t say anything about whether types are useful for them. Does Nue have any way to protect against those kinds of errors or does some other architectural decision obviate the need for this kind of protection?

I’m not hating on Nue. At first glance, there’s a lot to like here, but I have to disagree on this point.
Increasing the fee for lost disputes seems fine, but the fact that there's a fee for won disputes at all bothers me.
Whats the value to the consumer who already doesn't carry balances? Higher Limits?
Cash isn't necessarily cheaper for merchants. They have to deal with depositing it, there's a risk of theft during transport, employees are more likely to steal it, there are losses from counterfeit money, and it might take longer to process the transaction.
Yup, they did.

The beauty of version control: https://github.com/getomni-ai/benchmark/commit/0544e2a439423...
Tesla won't be able to fix the brand damage while Musk remains at the company.
Sounds like the perfect place to send people when you want to scare people into feigning support for you and to fear you. You know, like a fascist dictator would do.
Is there a "normal" amount of inventory to sit on?

>Used Cybertruck prices are down 55% year over year

It's wild to me folks lined up to buy this thing ... like I can understand enthusiasm for new things and all that but that's a big hit there. And even I think the prices are still high for the used ones in my area.
> These are available on debit cards as well.

The UX for chargeback protection is not quite the same, though.

Say someone commits fraud and charges $1000 to my credit card. All that happens is 1. Some time later, I see the charge on my list of other charges, and 2. My bill is $1000 higher this month, which I dispute. Some time later, the CC company confirms it's fraud and the $1000 (and the interest) disappears from my bill.

Say someone commits fraud and charges $1000 to my debit card attached to my checking account. Between the time the fraud happens and the time the bank confirms its fraud (or otherwise restores the funds per their fraud-reporting policy), my bank account balance is now $1000 lower. Maybe some checks start bouncing. Maybe I needed that $1000 for an upcoming purchase, and it's not available for a short period of time. Yes, the numbers will all eventually be correct, but it's mayhem in the mean time.
You can but while you wait your money is gone, you can't use it. With a credit card it's the bank's money that is missing in the case of fraud or charge back.
Wow, you went down the rabbit-hole, much appreciated!
Do I understand correctly, that your analysis boils down to the money is indeed being pocketed rather than used for equipment or improving anything at all at the university?
> 4% cash back

Which card is this?
It refers to the principle, who didn't flex his power which came as a surprise. The other kid is a gremlin. GP was playing the clueless engineer type who forgets to give thought to who is asking the question and how the answer will be used.
Very cool; and pretty too!
That you think a for profit endeavor is volunteer work! I’m a writer, and as I note above, it’s not that you missed the point of the article and discussion here, you got it and turned it upside down and painted it day glo orange. Either way, it’s bristling.
Sure, she will eventually get 3,750 GBP for a year's work. Compared to living expenses that rounds to zero, but ok its not precisely zero.
The same happens to me.
Apparently, yes, there is movement here:

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions?discussions_...
Using F-keys for the most shortcuts was standard across DOS apps. As far as discoverability, the common UI pattern was to show a single row of function key labels on the bottom of the screen (and update it when the user pressed and held Shift/Ctrl/Alt to allow for combinations), often with an option in settings to hide it once the user has gotten accustomed to the shortcuts.

I don't recall any issues touch typing F-keys, either, especially on typical keyboards from that era which had the entire row split into groups of 4, making it easy to find the right key without ever looking.

I'm not sure what you mean by "much less muscle memory involved" wrt F-keys. I still, to this day, have muscle memory of F2=save from using Norton/Midnight Commander so much.
I truly hope that the common theme of the likes of "JWST Just Found Something Which Should Not Exist" etc will not be augmented by stuff like "we used AI(tm) to figure out X, Y, Z".

The last thing we need is hallucinations fucking up the more grounded astrophysics. I'm not saying that is what is happening, I just worry about stuff like this. AI causing us to bark up the wrong tree, and so forth.
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Show HN: Vibe-saver – a simplified Git for vibe coders to never lose their work
A small and simplified set of commands for vibe coders to leverage version control without getting overwhelmed by the learning curve of git.

Help a new vibe coder out and tell them about us. Or try it for yourself on NPM. =)

Initially, I thought this would be funny, but then I saw all the posts on X and reddit about massive progress lost by a prompt gone awry. I thought about it some more and finally decided to build something.

I've used git myself for well over a decade, and I still remember watching YouTube videos and doing a codeschool course, trying to wrap my head around it in the beginning. If you're working solo on something, that's a big hurdle, especially when the other barriers to entry have gotten so low!

Then there's the fact of how many of us have aliases set up for git anyway. `gca` and `gcmsg "<message>"` save a lot of keystrokes. While I made this for newbs, I find myself actually using `vibe save "<message>"` unironically already.
I think the idea is that nobody is going to be fooled by a B&W $20 bill, so they don't have to print the dots.
What has me slightly puzzled is why there isn’t a sharp pivot towards typed languages for vibe coding.

Would be much easier for the AI/IDE to confirm the code is likely good. Or well better than untyped. The whole rust if it compiles it probably works thing.

Instead it’s all python/JS let LLM write code and pray you don’t hit run time errors on a novel code path

I get that there is more python training data but still seems like the inferior fit for LLM assisted coding
Technological progress does not directly result in posers. As you noted, smartphones allowed anyone to record videos, but I'm yet to see any influencer or YouTuber call themselves a director or cinematographer.

I suspect the wannabees exist in the narrow window when technology has expanded enough for non-professionals, but hasn't seen wide enough adoption that the man on the street will recognize the pretentious self-aggrandizement.
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Throw them in a container with some silica gel.
> React’s ecosystem has devs slapping TypeScript on everything—even CSS—which is overkill

It's actually EXACTLY what they're saying. They're using it as an example of why they don't use Typescript (ie people use React take it too far by using it for React). What does React that have anything to do with not using Typescript?
This blog has a great post on how credit card systems work, and I think it goes a long way to explaining how CC's became so popular in the U.S. in particular:

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-car...

The highlights in my own words:

- Credit cards are a powerful tool that many people do not use correctly. They enable 0% interest loans so long as you pay your balance on time. It's only when you are late on a payment that you pay any interest

- The vast majority of credit card spending is done by people in high income brackets

- Credit card issuers fight to attract those high income bracket spenders. That's because credit card issuers make money on every purchase that's made via interchange fees (effectively a toll paid by merchants). They do this via cashback reward programs.

- It's these interchange fees, not interest penalties, that issuers make most of their money

- The economics of all of this work better in the U.S., because it has more high income spenders compared to other countries

And finally, something that's less well known: the folks at the lower end of the income brackets subsidize all of this. Credit cards, and by extension, their rewards programs, only work when you have enough high income spenders that enable toll collection (interchange fees) from merchants. Merchants respond by raising their average price (subconsciously or otherwise) to compensate. Folks on the high end of the income bracket are able qualify for the lucrative rewards programs. But folks on the lower end cannot.

In effect, the wealthy pay somewhere between 1-2% less on every transaction.
Which debit cards give anywhere near as much cash back as credit cards?
Debit issuers are obliged to provisionally credit any disputed amount within at most 10 business days after the cardholder reporting a problem.

That's of course still worse than not being out the money on a credit card, but it's not the dealbreaker many make it out to be, and could easily be amended by regulators if there was any interest in doing anything about the drag on the economy that are inflated card payment fees.
F# on front page? And popular?

ahhh, Its April Fools?

JK, I love F#. Please get over the hump and be a big language.
I just wonder about the corrosion problems of an aircraft that spends all its time next to the water.

But maybe this kind of thing is made out of materials more like a surfboard than an sr-71.
1. For the consumer, paying off the balance due at the last minute gives you an interest-free loan on your spending for an average of 6 weeks. Let's say you spend $1000 per month. At 5% interest, that saves you about $30 a month.

2. It gives you an itemized list of what you spent.

It reminds me of an article long ago that explained how Amazon could make money selling items at cost. a) they get paid by the customer right away b) they don't pay the vendors for 90 days. Thus, Amazon gets paid interest for 90 days on the volume of business they do, which is very large.

Not many people seem to understand the time value of money, certainly it isn't taught in school. It's not just about mortgage interest rates. It's everything that involves money.
I don't use credit cards for the credit; in fact mine are completely paid for every statement. They are used for the customer protections and other provided "free" benefits. If some scummy or outright scam-y thing is charged to my Amex, I know I will have Amex on my side. If my card is stolen, Amex will refund any fraudulent charges and overnight me a new card; I probably won't get my debit card overnighted, though they will probably refund the fraud. The other thing is credit card points, which are essentially a benefit paid for by credit card processing fees charged to businesses. Many cards also offer access to "private" airport lounges. And other benefits I'm forgetting off the top of my head.

Additionally, having high credit limits, low usage, and older accounts improves credit scores for loans/etc.

No interest is charged if there is no balance carried statement-to-statement, so why bother with silly debit pins and such.

That's how it becomes the default way of payment; it's not really "credit".
If you're actually doing something better and your results actually stack up under scrutiny I don't see the problem.

I think most people get uncomfortable because it's often untrue in marketing. So if it's true (to the best of your knowledge and after outside probing) then by all means.
That’s not volunteer work, that’s being a stupid exploited laborer who voluntarily joined a shitty situation. Am I being obtuse about this? The author is very clear about being sore that people “assume” as a published author she got a great payday. This should’ve been a Facebook post to her family as a way of telling them to stop asking for money, not an indictment of audiences not doing enough.
As a function key lover - what do you hate about keys whose function is to perform a function?